Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-01-04

MT. ROOSEVELT naC
Just been elected by some unearthlv
majority. | forgot how much. Lots OF
toiKs felt Ike It might have been bet.
ter II Mr. Hoover had resigned and
turned the Office oves on or about tho
hrst. as 1t will be from now on Thai
"ouid nave given the new President a
cnance to get his pans started ten
weeks earlier. Had the bank holiday
oeen called ten weeks earlier vou
would have saved ten weeks OF eontin.
uance closings. In fact some OF the
oanks ought to have been closed before
they opened.
wen there wasent q thing could be-
aone, or that could happen In January
OF f~ebruary. as naturally the old Adj
hinistration couldent put over any,
thing. They had been d~isscredited at
Inc polls. So January and February
were q total loss as LAT as action. Com
gress was In session, but thew were
Just bidding each other goodbye. for
u was a sad old bunch MANY an old
timer that had been In those old halls
Ior years. and did his best. was ousted.
Lots OF cases the voters dident know
what they were getting In his place.
but they dident care. They just wanted
something else.
90 January and February were null
u void. But brother when March
came. things begin to pop. Mr. Roosa-
welt was sworn In about eleven A. NJ.
ahd before lunch he had every bank In
the land shut. He called Congress I'm
extra session while he was having his
desert Tor lunch. Well from then on
you got to think fast as to what han
pened, (I cant remember eitherl hut
Just about everything that we had
never thought OF happened. First
thing he had to do was to get the bank
ers out OF hook.
Inis brings us III about June. and
they had an Economic Conference In
London. (but we better let that dronl
All can remember was that William
Allen White went over and wrote
ABOUT 1t. That's about the best thing I'm
It. Vel | guess the delegates came
nack' ! don't know whether they did
or not. for we cant remember who they
were.
Ihat brings us up to July and Au-
gust Right along In there somewhere
Congress adjourned Ii 1t interests you
! an look 1t up and ind you the exact
date. No? All right we will 20 ahead.
In there somewhere we went
on the gold. | like t. forgot that. as 1t
interest me al the time. or since
either. All 1 can remember In
England and France were broken.
hearted, SO 1t must hale been the right
ming. And say walt a minute. the
MIA came In therv sOmepiace too.
the scare over imitation. That has
'een q daily dozen since we dived OH
he gold Then we we're supposed to
20 washed up IL we dident stabilize the
Iollar. You conldeni have 4 thermom-
ter dollar. Well here Ii is going into
mother year. and we still don't know
Is value An Englishman wont give us
'ut sixty cents for one, but then an
lnglishman has no use for 1t. | would
ut know what to do with one OF hjs
ounds either.
AS Fall crept on us. prohibition
rept or OF us We were allowed to
ell liquor: but nobody knew by whom
was to be sold.
And say. we don't want to forget
Roosevelt picked up a micro
cope one day and locked at something,
nd sure enough IL was Russia. We
scognized EN-. but we haven't yet been
cry intimate.
NOW these and a million OF other
nportant things have happened this
Isl year. Now WI got 1t down let's add