Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-12-29


Cal have arleady mentioned
the transparent f~lattery OF senator
Schnitzler in which the Producers
News INDUCED during the winter or
1928 1899. This case was so SICK
eningly obvious that no comment
seems necessary.
tbl About three years z the
Producers News printed a series OF
articles by "A Dagmar Farmer
consisting mostly OF INSTRUMENTATION
about county road building and ON
tanning various attacks upon the
county commissioners. a frlend OF
one OF the commissioners wrote 10
the Producers News rebuking the
Iagnar farmer. defending h coun
ty board. and speaking in a flatter-
ing manner Of Commissioner Anker.
IT happened that the Producers
News, already nj odds with the oth-
err TWO commissioners, was itself en-
gagged In 4 systematic effort TO win
Anker's support by means OF copius
rIatterv. Therefore 1t resented what
II considered uncalled-for interior
enee on the part of d third person,
and promptly jumped this person
with both feet, while redoubling It's
saccharine attentions to Mr.. Anker.
Said the Producers News, in eff
feet: Hands off, Mr.. Outsider! Ii
there ii any profit TO get out OF
flattering d county commissioner,
we are going TO get It. and If any
unauthorized flatterer tried to mus
Gle In ON our racket, he will be tax
en- for il ride in the columns OF the
Producers News
tc9 Whenever the Producers News
II net engaged in flattering anyone
else for he profit there is In 1t, 1t
engages II flattering the farmers
for the .rofit there is In that. Its
staff have learned by long expert
ence that the average farmer Is Pc
c~uliarIy vulnerable to flattery, n
they lave accordingly made 1t their
business TO master every known or
movable method of using this con-
yenient weapon. Sometimes they
WELD 1t csufely, slapping John Far
mer on the back, ehucking him I'M
der the chin. and loudly assuring
him that he is noble, generous, viz
lie very good-looking, and the faith
er of the huskiest bunch OF young
STEERS this side of the Mississippi.
Sometimes they do it subtly, inviting
him to membership in committees
and councils, mentioning him for
the nomination for justice of the
peace. or asking him-with tongue
in cheek-if he would, under vague
" stated circumstances, be willing
to run for sheriff. Again, they do II
by warmly defending him from en-
emies who do not exist, and by issu-
ing resounding answers to insults
which are not insulting.
During the county agent rumpus
last spring they saw an opportunity
To install themselves in the farmers
good graces by this latter method.
Jack Bennett wrote a letter In
which he stated that many Of our
farmers are like kids
which was neither more nor less
than the truth. If there was an in
suit contained in the statement. !
should say that it vas an insult to
children rather than to farmers.
Cerainly there are a dignity and a
charm in all childish things which
are emphatically lacking in the self
eentered antics and nfehensile atti-
tudes of the farmer who allows
Charlie Taylor to do his thinking.
Take note that Jack Bennett did not
speak of MI the farmers, as the Pro-
dncers News pretended. he said
many Of u farmers are like
kids.v-a fact which any men
tally mature farmer win himself
quite readily admit,-what Is more,
n fact which no one knows better
than the staff of the Producers News
knows it. for they have been taking
advantage of 1t for years. Never
theIess the Producers News had to
have a naroxysm about 1t. 1.-THE far
mers of the county thank you for
your insult, Jacki' it prattled melo-
dramatically and very childishly.
Id Some "poet" (who, incident
ally. knows nothing about poetry
wrote a set OF verses in which III
reds were denominated "this big
bunch of trash" Immediately the
Producers News bristled. The Herald
it roared in its most righteously fe-
rocious manner, had said that the
farmers of Sheridan county were a
big bunch Of trash! What blasphe-
my. HeIl's belIsi Something must
be done about this. and at once! De-
fend the Soviet Union!
What the Producers News, In Its
revivalist frenzy, overlooked, was