Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-06-25

es that would be loosed by organized rebellion.
There is plentiful evidence in these times thai
the people are thinking. The deepest thinker does not
make the loudest noise. Usually he is the most determ-
ined man. Many more of the people are thinking than
are talking.
The man who most loudly calls the attention of
the people to their misfortunes seldom has anything
sanely constructive to offer them. The appeal to pref
udice is not the road to reason. All over the
world and especially in this favored land humankind
looks for leadership. Its spirit is more chastened and
thoughtful than blindly unreasonable. And out of that
condition will come great good to all of humankind.
Men will be better and more thoughtful neighbors when
this depression is ended.
In this section we are especially fortunate in the
spirit with which we are meeting it. The man who
tells his stricken neighbor today that his fellow Amer
leans are not interested in him, and deeply interested,
is not well advised. Human charity is not dead. That
sense Of justice which is inherent in every man is not
dead. No one is going to be permitted to starve, espec-
tally in this big and bountiful blessed west. We have
had so much of individual freedom, so much of actual
prosperity that it is difficult for us to properly judge
situations like the present.
We are gradually shaping ourselves for one of
the grandest getting ~togethers any people has ever had.
There is evidence of that in the frank talk of these
times. 1t is both in the spirit in which it is given and
the spirit in which it is received. We shall come out of
this a bigger people more nearly approaching the true
brotherhood of man than any people that has ever liv-
ed. And we shall win by the medium of the ballot. not
by the medium of the bullet.
We still have blessings I'VE forget. Our living
standards, even in these times, are higher by far than
were those of the signers of the Declaration of indie
%pendence, just as the standards of that time were above
those of the signers of the bill Of rights. Life is pro-
grss and occasional adversely is one of the mileposts
in the steady climb mankind is making to better things.
These times are hard. But hard as they are, how many
things all of US have to be grateful for. The Individual
may get a fair measure of this by comparing his con-
dition now with his condition 20 years ago in most cas-
es. There are exceptions. of course. The future will find
Americans more thoughtful of one another's interests,
more charitable toward one another, more honestly and
deeply interested in one another and trying more con-
constructively than ever before to solve their mutual
problems. We are about to go forward, all together. We
shall look back some time upon this depression and we
shall esteem it one of the truly great periods in our
national history for the lessons that come out of it.
1t is time to make the best of things as they
are, cheerfully and uncomplainingly, with charity to-
ward all and malice toward none. This spirit is growing
the beginning of a new scheme of human relations.
We must help those who have struggled long
against odds. We must get at it. We must cease quar-
reling over irrelevant matters, and passing the buck.
1t is every mans job today, who is able, to take honest
concern for his less fortunate neighbor. In times like
this political issues become piffle and political panaceas
may easily be evaluated for what they are, plain bun
combe. There is an actual issue of human welfare. 1t is
greater than any political issue of this time and it is
every mans business. The politicians may devise as
they will. The fact is that the people are seeing this
situation in that light and that it is a great day for the
United States of America.