Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-05-18
GETTING DOWN 10
BRASSTACKS"
Y LICKED LAND
tBy Tom Moodiel

It's something to live in Never
Licked Land. That is an area that
may roughly be defined rs the
Northwestern part Of North Dakota
and northeastern Montana. A lot OF
things have happened 10 Never Lick
ed Land in the last two years. but
here we are going into another
spring season still trying. and on
the whole quite cheerful. Last Fri
day the Herald enjoyed an automo-
bile ride through a large portion of
Williams, MountraiI. Burke and
Renville counties. Nobody needs to
tell you this land has been through
things. The physical evidences Of III
are MI around you. There is appar-
emily less spring blowing than in n
good many years . North Of Stanley
through the kennfare hills country
snow still lay several feet deep in
the bitches. Reads were rough.
Sloughs in the prairie were filled
with water. Wild ducks were wing
ing everywhere. On fence posts
along the roadway meadow larks
sangs their eyensong. A farmer
fixing a wire fence cheerfully gave
directions about the road. He said it
wasn't bad. ii You just stuck to it.
He was whistiing "A Shanty in Ola
Shanty Town" as he went ahead
with his mending. That was n kind
OF an Arkansas traveller answer. but
it made you grin. Something of the
spirit of this country was in that
answer.
In a little country newspaper Of
flee visited the editor looked worn
and tired. He said he was working
16 to is hours a day. He worked
until he was tired and then quit. He
insisted we are coming ont all right.
A farm woman came i'm and traded
him two good looking dressed chick
ems OH subscriptions. She said they
liked the paper, couldn't get along
without it. The editor looked cheer
ed He said he didn't have the heart
to stop the paper for people like
that. So he just cut down expenses. |
worked a little harder and kept on
sending IT. They'll pay when they
get it," he declared. i've been
through something like this before"
For such folks as this man. and the
woman who liked the paper so well
she chased the chickens around the
yard to get n couple to turn In on
subscription Never Licked Land
should hold some special reward |
They are holding things together in
items like this. They may not know
they are working together. But they
are There was more honest appre-
citation of a lot of hard work in
those two chickens for the editor
than from the average business men
Of his town for his paper. That's
hard to take. bur IA lot of North Da-
kota and Montana editors in the
smaller towns are taking it.
Around a little school house over
In the hills a lot of farm folks were
gathering in the dusk. Perhaps Geo.
Bernard Shaw would have had
something 70 say about them that
would have been kind. but would
have carried a sting for those more
fortunate. He's got a keen mind and
a sharp tongue. In Renyille county
they have not had a cent OF relief
money from the Reconstruction Fl
nance Corporation They have taken
care Of their people and their coun-
ty is In as good condition financial
ly as any place In the northwest.
They have been through three tough
years, but everybody In the county
seat was interested In new home
stead land opening for entry In the