Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-08-25
This Week
b. ARTHUR BRISBANE
League Breaking Up
Why Gen. Wood Travels
viii Rogers Ranch
Lille Farming Profit

The important world news, yet to
have official confirmation. announces
the retirement of Germany. Italy and
Japan from the League of Nations
That would leave In the league only
Two great nations of Europe: Eng
Land and France
This is not our affair, for we are
bIessedIy out and shall never be
pushed into the league.
But with the three nations out OF
the big Five" the league will feel
like a eentipede minus seventy-two
legs
Europe will find itself preparing
for war. as In 1914, with no central
gathering place, even for talking
about peace.
Japan feels that the league inter-
ferps in exclusively Asiatic matters
Germany feels that she has been bad
~ treated
Italy resents too much advice, and
being ciassed as q child. mentally.
by the two big nations that really
are the league. II Japan, Italy and
Germany get out. that will begin a
new European chapter.
Add to the list of important and
Intelligent people now In California
Gen Robert f. Wood. now travelling
through this western country by air
plane General Wood. a West Point
err, was for several years In charge
of government work on the Panama
canal Now he is president of Sears
Hoebuck and has been visiting his
distributing departments and retail
stores throughout the West. His an
swer to the question. Are you study
inc and correcting mistaken methods
i'm -FOUR branch offices7" should In
terest business mem NO." said he. i
am not looking for weakness In u
branches / am finding out by visit
ing these branches what is the mat
ter with us at headquarters II any
part of a mans body doesn't work
well. you know something Is wrong
in his head Ii branches In a big
organization don't work well, that
shows something wrong, not with the
branches. but with headquarters BY
visiting our branches | find what Is
the matter with my own methods and
with headquarters generally"
VIII Rogers career reminds you
that we waste sympathy On the poor
red men, supposed to have been de-
prived OF his lands. his horses and
his position In America Two Amer
leans. well Known. are descended from
Poor L1o-~ One, Mr.. Curtis. Ia Vice
President OF the United States. The
other. VIII Rogers. has avenged his
Indian ancestors BY getting together
fsfty Of the finest horses-hunters and
poIo ponies in this country. also un-
told areas OF the most valuable real
estate in America He would not
care 10 have you say how many mil
lions that real estate is worth
Air. Rogers always has some n
thing that interests him violently.
lust now it In the fact that two Irish
men i'm the OIympics, DIR. Pat OCal-
Iagfan and Robert Tisdale. have. by
their prowess, won more honor q
glory i'm the games than all the rest
OF the British empire put together
This writing follows d swift return
"trip Ito the writer's alfalfa ranch at
Hodge on the Mojave desert. 124 miles
10 the east and 1000 feet up in the
air. Farmers may be comforted by
news that the finest quality Of baled
alfalfa hay, with blue flowers still In
the hay and NOT a weed In a carload.
sells T. O. b. Hodge for S. per ton.
Under irrigation 100000 pounds OF
water are required TO grow a ton OF
alfalfa and much electricity to pump
the water. so that alfalfa growing just
now is profitable for everybody but
The rover
General conditions and the fact that
Los Angeles daIrymen have been hav-
ing n milk war cutting the price to
three cents a quart, have not improved
the farmers lot
Won can buy good hay, a little
eoarser. i'm the Imperial valley for 80
n ton Trucks and trailers that haul
the hay run day and night. two men
ON eaet truck one sleeps while the
other drives Both work. loading and
unloading One man remarked cheer
fulIv that he had not had his shoes
on In ten days. Men work for a living
In these times many would be glad
to work for their board. here as In
many other states
Coming west. passing the biggest
-pea-<annIng factory In the world. just
east or Ogden. in Utah. yon learn that
ordinary workers. formerly paid 90
and 10 cents an hour. now get IL
cents nm hour. $50 for u ten-h0ur