Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-01-19
Scrambled Eggs
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tom Noodle, in The Williston Herald)

tom Noodle. in The Williston Herald)
Montana Communists invaded Williams county
last Saturday to give county officials their views of
what should be done about a relief situation that is
the subject Of general concern by no means confined
70 our Communist friends, who are perhaps the least
resourceful in getting something done about IL Of any
Of the groups or interests moving toward its solution.
The Sheridan county agitators. speaking In the
Williston court room, while s~cathingly berating the
Red Cross and ali other relief agencies, took full Gre
dit for the relief money expended in Sheridan county
the past few months, referring to it often as the re-
lief that We" got and the way WI" had 1t ad-
ministered, 1T isa well established fact that COMMIT
mist leaders played a very small part In the aid ex-
tended the people of Sheridan county, and had even
less to do with its administration.
In these times we can afford to be most toler-
ant toward our Communists. They are embittered, not
without some Justification, and usually led by social
misffts more conspicuous for their incoherencies than
any consistent logic they bring to the solution Of rec
ognized social problems. They are in fact good for
stimulating the tagging interest of certain types Of
social slackers in problems that are really Of great
moment.
The Communist vocabulary has in it several
fonr-dolar words One of them is misery" Another
that flows ~trippingly from the tongue is struggle"
1t is an Inconsistency, however, for men who never
work themselves to claim the right to dwell upon or
advance proposals to mitigate the working class
The bosses Of course are always fair targets. They
have been since the Pharoahs drove the slaves In
Egypt.
Those Of the slightest charitable tendencies,
however, will hope that the natural law for which
Mr.. Charles H., Taylor goes back only as far as Black
stone to find authority, is never relentlessly opera
tive in his individual case. Mr.. Taylor is incoherent.
He has a~sything but dignity and is p~itifully lacking
i'll refinement either in speech or appearance. With
little respect for himself or others his address is ty-
pical OF the rabble- rouser appealing to the mob or to
unfortunate people distracted by extraordinary times.
If sincere, he lacks the ability to carry conviction,
even with a situation made to- order" as is the pres
et for expOnnding his theories, always accomplished
with reactions which include considerable perspira-
tion about the neck.
Cur Communists are a revolutionary party who
want war. Throughout all time and Iii every social
state we have had such men. They are most effective
rabble rousers. They will hold up the horrors Of war
with ONE haHd Jnd beckon for 1t with the other.
When they are sincere their courage is admir-
able. In That field they set n mark for the rest OF So
ciefy to strive for.
Upper Missouri country, may perhaps be Justified ON
the theory that 1t takes a fair amount Of scrambled
eggs to make an omelet. These gentlemen are the
scrambled eggs OF a movement that may or may not
go far, depending on the ability Of more resourceful
and coherent leadership to do the tasks that are most
evidently before it In the name of common Justice. 49,
Speaking Of misery" And admitting that we