Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-24
GETTING DOWN TO
BkASSTACKS
"GO WEST, YOUNG MAN"

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scrambled compendium, together
with the Mrs, placed our fate in
the monumental engineering feat
of Jim Hill, set our faces toward
the setting sun, and started our
first real vacation trip we've had
in Is years last Saturday. Destina-
tion-Los Angeles, the big Rose
Bowl football game on New Years
day, and back through Kansas to
.ay a short visit to a lonely little
mother-seein' things and ex-
changing greetings with a few
good friends along the way.
AT the outset, We'll have to ad-
nit there wasn't much to make one
yearn for a warmer cline, except
for a desire to see things away
from home. With our open winter
and unusually moderate tempera-
lures thus far. one could hardly
wish for anything better in the way
of weather. And as we sped west
ward across the broad plains Of
Montana, nothing gave stronger
evidence of the value of the open
winter with the absence of snow
than the hundreds of fat white
faces still grazing on open ranges.
In fact, o until reaching Glacier
Park was there enough snow to
drive stock off the grazing fields to
stored stocks of feed.
Hard to realize it was less than
a week before Christmas with wa
ter running on highways as we
rounded the sharp curves. through
tho fnurnrinn pnakfnc limo c1n-
cession of snow sheds might bet
ter be called water sheds" and
none of the lakes or bodies of wa
ter yet frozen over. One old-timer
told us there was less snow
through the Park at this time of
year than had been known for
many seasons. Only for a stretch
of some fifty miles beginning at
Browning, did we find snow of suf-
ficient depth to bring %snowplows
into use on the fine new Glacier
Bolton highway and bring sleds in
to use on the side roads. More
attractive than snow through this
region were the thousands of tow
ering sentinels Of charred and bar
rem spires that gave mute evidence
of the widespread destruction
through this great wooded region
before the army of fire fighters
were able to bring the raging
flames unuer control. Lateness or
remoteness of the fires could be
Judged by replacement of new
growth already showing up OF
countless baby pines.
One need go no farther than
one of our modern trains to see
human nature at it's worst or best.
Here's the little fellow with a
t%urned-up nose that crabs at every
thing the railroad offers or doesn't
offer. Accommodations they should
nave and don't, with that "how-
Observation-Disclosures air that makes
one wonder if he's been anywhere
at all. Then you look about you
and find that race, color, creed
size or age doesn't determine the
mark Of a gentleman or lady. Here
are two sisters from some Catholic
school in Minnesota, gracious for
every little act of kindness from
any one around them and whose
faces somehow radiate lovliness
and a devoted life. Here's two
little girls, not yet ten sweet as
sugar cane" who show what
GOOD lob some attentive mother die
at teaching them to be little ladies
even at homeland they were
simply being Eat home now Back
in that corner in the diner sat 9
member of the Mongolian race
who, when subjects of Uncle San
occupied the table with him, dem.
onstrated the culture and refine
ment which had been written or
his face by cordially engaging then
in conversation.
The band was even at the sta
ton to meet us in Seattle, Wash
ington's biggest city! Or maybe
they we're there to make the de
p~arture of 81 Washington Univer'
sity "Huskies' more portentous
Anyhow, we were happy to get oul
initial glimpse of n of the teams
we expect to see in action at the
Rose Bowl New Years day-ano
the one well be pulling for. W.
NAV have to adopt the role of "Ont
Eyed Connolly" however, as gu
tickets for the big classic. beins
dispatched to us by airmail, are
down in the lost plane in Utah
But, tickets or no tickets, were
going to see that game.
Signs of Christmas. With all this
absence of snow and sub-zero wea'
Their. can it be possible that Christ
mas is only five days away? Here
are the ~indisputable signs: crowded
trains bearing students and other:
to their distant homes for the holl
day vacation period; hundreds o.
Christmas trees in stores anC
shops for sale, with many alread!
appearing in the windows of the
humblest and most pretentiou'
homes; a choir of 26 in the FRS
Baptist church in Seattle singint
beautiful Christmas carols In
service sent out over the ethel
waves from-even if old-one o
the city's most beautiful and com
modious houses of worship; tn
pastor of the same church usin'
for his sermonette to the child
rem the beautiful Christmas legen'
which told of how the reindeer be
came the inseparable servants o
SAINT Claus: listening to the al
uovs haautjfnl and familiar strain