Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-01-24

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the written word but with the spoken.
If somebody had a dictaphone on us all
the time and then we had to sit and
listen to il all run of every night or ey-
cry month. or every year. | bet that
would break us from shooting of so
much. We had a great illustration OF
that out here in California during the
late election. This fellow Sinclair had
written an awful lot of stuff in his life.
Well they would go back among his
writings and reprint things that he had
said. tMaby ii was only one OF the char
acters in one of his books that was made
to say that thing. but as he was the au-
thor OF il. why naturally he come in for
the blame).
Well hat had an awful lot to do with
beating him. for a lot OF those things
sounded mighty cuckoo. but on the
other hand if he had had the means OF
publicity. thai is the papers to do II
with, and mad been able to have every
one OF the papers who printed what he
Sdlu lldDN III pos III ia btth va ~
go back over their editorials and reprint
what they had said. he would have had
them hollering quit. | sure would hate
TO be running for something and have
somebody dig back through old papers
and confront me with all the nut things
that have shown my ignorance on.
You see conditions and events change
so fast, that what is passable today. is
redicilous tomorrow. Look at Mr. Roose-
welt. He started in with an idea of a bal
anced budget, and said that was what
he would hold out for. But look at he
thing now. But conditions are different.
and he dident know this thing was going
to be among us so long. The MIA.
looked like a good bet at the time. but
part OF it, in fact maby over half OF it
have proven to be 0 practical. II all
had the right idea. but we are still just
too selfish to see that exactly the right
thing is done for the good OF everybody.
doubt very much If Civilization $50
called has helped generosity. | bet the
old ave man would divide his raw meat
with you as quick as one of us will ask
a down and out to 60 in and have a meal
with us. Those old boys or girls would
rip OFF a wolf skin b~reechclout and give
you half OF 1t. quicker than a Ph.D.
would slip you his umberrella. Civiliza-
ton hasent done much but make you
wash your teeth. and those days eating
and gnawing on bones and meat, made
tooth paste unnecessarily.
Civilization MS taught us to eat with
a fork. but even now if nobody is around
we use our fingers In those days people
fought for food an, in self defense. Now.
adays we have diplomats work on wars
for years before arranging them. That's
so that when its over nobody will know
what they we're lighting for. We lost
thousands, and spent billions, and you
could hand a sheet OF paper to n mil
ion different people and tell EN- to write
down what the last war was for, and the
only answers that will be alike will be
D if | know.
So that's what 0 call Civilization
Civilization is nothing but acquiring
comforts for ourselvs. when in those
days they were so hard they dident neeC
EN-. We will strive TO put in another
bath. when maby our neighbors can
even put in an extra loaf of bread.
No our Civilization is not so hot. Poo
Mr. Roosevelt has tried to right some O