White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-01-14
Benton Pomona
BY Entertained
Vale Grange
M. M. MoULTON OF KENNEWICK
DELIVERS MAIN ADDRESS
AT EVENING SESSION
BY County Agent E. c. Durdle

SATURDAY, january 9, for the annual
meeting and installation of all grange
officers for Pomona and sllbordinates
of the county. This was one OF the
best meetings ever held, with large
attendance, a good program and con-
siderable interest shown throughout
the installing officer and the entire
ceremony of installation was credit
to both him and the Grange Mrs
Ruth Simmilink had charge of the
tableaus and they certainly were
worked up to high state of perfection
and were responsible for deeper APP
probation of the Grange and it's teach
ings
The program was in charge of Mrs
j. G. Swayze and was both varied and
interesting. The principal speaker of
the evening was Mark Moulton of
Kennewick. Mr.. Moulton chose as his
topic Leadership" stressing the nee
essity of leadership and independent
thought on the part of every Individual.
He stressed the fact that we always
have had leadership and always will
and that if we are not satisfied with
the leadership which we have that
then it is our right and privilege and
duty through independent thinking
and action to select the type of leader
that we want. This holds true for
the individual the small group and
the large organization.
Mr.. Moulton stressed the fact that
we, in the development of political
leadership have three general types,
the politician, who is self-seeking; the
one who believes in seeing the govern
ment in business, and the leader who,
like Washington, Jefferson and Alex
ander Hamilton, in the early days of
this country were leaders Of that fine
high type who had nothing of the self
seeking interests at tsaart III the de-
'velopment and laying down Of funda-
mentals in the establishment of gov
eminent for the masses. Unquestion-
ably there is group in our leadership
in our country today which includes
business groups of one sort and an
other as well as farming groups. Mr..
Moulton did not say that this type of
group leadership was Of the wrong kind
but emphasized the fact here again
that leadership of the group along
right lines were essential to the fur
thering of program which will carry
on for any group.
Mr.. Moulton made the statement
that no individual was qualified to go
to the polls and vote for any individ-
ual or any question unless he or she
had given independent thought to the
qualifications Of that person or mea-
sure and voted at least on the basis
Of results of study given to the quail
fications of the individual or measure.
There never was time when it was
so important to think individually.
There is no condition now existing
. which cannot be improved upon just
the same as many conditions of the
past have been vastly improved upon.
Mr.. Moulton especially emphasized
primary elections and the need of some
better method than the present pri-
mary law for the election of those to
fill public offices. He pointed out
clearly that the primary law was much
better than the old caucus system but
that our primary law required no more
than that man put his name before
the public as candidate for office
would not at all assure us of the type
of leadership which is really needed.
leadership for these offices should
be selected in the same way that lead
ers in every organization, as the
Grange, for instance, are selected, be-
cause they have shown qualifications
which make them real leaders, He
expressed the hope that an organiza-
ton like the Grange legislative COM
nittee might give some thought to
this weakness in our present system.
Mr.. Moulton's discussion was very
well received and sounds note which
unquestionably is much needed at this
time.
The balance of the lecture hour in
cluded the following numbers:
Brief talk-Mrs. Couch who was in
itiated into the Grange in 1873.
Song-Tiny Lampson.
Reading-Arvilla Luke.
Drill-Vale Drill team.
Solo-"O Little Mother Of Nine
and Memories" by Mrs. Ross of the
Vale Grange, accompanied by Mrs.
Earl Jones'
Skit-"Hunting Husband" by Lo-
Gust Grove, in which the part of the
maiden lady was taken by Miss Ness,
the groom by Gilbert Clodfelter, the
book agent by Bud Larkin and the
maid by Ruth Bechtol.
Orchestra-Locust Grove. Mrs. Wood
en-, piano; Lucille Heberline, from
please turn to page A.