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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORD,

An ardent young sciestist completed
a long series of experiments only to
find that the result he sought to
achieve simply could o be produced.
Imagine his mental distress when he
learned that the identical experiments
had been carried through in another
university some years befoe. If he had
known about this previous attempt he
could have saved two years hard
work.
He said; There ought to be a care
full record of the failures as we'll as the
successes in scientific research. Some
institution should maintain a grave
yard where the young scientist could
go ard find a record of every research
that has proved no good"
If this would be a good thing in
science it would be even more useful
IN buslness-and in craftsmanship. In
business we seem to learn so little
from the past. We go through the same
vicious circle of optimism, expansion,
initiation, collapse. depression and de-
spair.
There is hardly a single detail of the
economic experience Of the past seven
fNNAn thHA No.AlOl Et IldtSlltQ III TIC
record of every description since the
industrial system began. Yet the hui.
man mind refuses dumbly to remem
Der. Each fresh burst of prosperity is
hailed as a New Era and each bust
IS regarded as something %unpreced-
ented and irreparable.
So with craftsmanship. If you read
the history of the Roman Emperor
Diocletian you will learn that practic-
ally ell the measures of modern gov
eminent were tried out in his day
with results that are sad to remember.
France tried most of them after the
collapse of the Mississippi Bubble and
England hurried them onto the statute
books when the South Sea company
collapsed.
All this information is in the Con-
gressional Library, but unfortunately
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17

vices may marry a foreigner withou,
the State Departments consent. Nearly
200 American diplomatic and consular
officials have married foreigners in the
past four or five years.
The purpose of the regulation is tc
prevent the development of too SYM
pathetic an international point of view
on the part of the men who are sent
abroad to represent the United States
in foreign countries. They must have
no relationships which could possibly
keep them from dealing with every
situation from a strictly American
viewpoint.
The Speakership
Present indications are that the new
Congress will be organized with the
Southern Democrats in complete con-
trol. The battle for the speakership ii,
which the North and East are lined uL
behind Congressman O'Connor Of New
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
ADHESIONS, SOMETIMES
VERY REAL

Many of my lady patients have had,
at one time or another, an operation
for disease within the abdominal cav
ity. Removal of tumors, diseased ovar-
les or appendices-these operations in,
volve exploration within the body, and
frequently leave after the most skilled
surgery-adhesions.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
WITH OTHER EDITORS
From the Declaration of Principles, adopted by the
National Association of Manufacturers

1pO co~s~No~ Va
Under our industrial system wages have been raised,
working hours lowered and living standards at the same
time have greatly advanced. This has been made possible
by improved methods in manufacturing, in agriculture
and in the service industries. We believe this improve
ment will continue under the American system Of free
enterprise and that wage and hour changes will be made
as the improved production methods make them pos
sible. Should arbitrary reduction of working hours limit
necessary production, the unavoidable increasing cost
will reduce the consumer purchasing power we desire to
enlarge.
We dedicate ourselves to further improve methods
to the end that the advance may continue both in work
ing conditions and in living standards.
No equitable yardstick has yet been developed by
which to fix nationally industrial hours and wages, since
economic factors vary in different parts of the country.
xxx
When people imagine evil about you, don't bother
yourself; when you imagine it about them, get busy on
yourself
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
DR1LERs SEARCH o GAS AT POPLAR


George Lofthus of Wolf Point, salesman for the Ne
York Life Insurance company, placed Seth out of 9-2t
agents in sales during the first nine months period
1886.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
CULBERTSON THEATRE TO BE
GIRL SUFFERS INJURIES WHEN

Two fractures in her jaw, severe cuts ar
suffered by Miss Ann Fertile, %, of Roun
Of an attack by an unidentified man in ar
gov last week. Miss Fertile was not foun'
utes after the attack. Glasgow police are
vestigation.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
Ru(E
+ SM4&

u law makers seldom visit the Lii
brary.
They should be compelled to spend
at least a day a month in it, and there
should be a Permanent Committee OF
Congress called The Committee ON
Things That Sound Good but Won,
Work"
I'LL TELL YOU HOW TO WRITE
Emerson in his diary says: II have
heard that the engineers in locomot-
ives grow nervously vigilant with ev-
cry year on the road, until the en-
ployment is intolerable to them; and,
| think, writing is more and more a
terror to old scribes."
A famous American novelist was
asked: Does writing novels get easier
as you get older" He looked horror
struck. Easier" he moaned, easier.
Every book is a life and death strug-
gle, and whenever | have finished ono
| say to myself: That's the last. I'm
TOO old. | never can do it again." But
he keeps on with the battle, and his
books are still best sellers.
Irwin Cobb remarked that writing
is a job which no human being will
undertake unless driven to it by dire
necessity. He says a writer never
writes for fun.
Most old scribes agree that the hard
est part of writing is getting started
If one will sit down doggedly, put q
sheet of paper in the typewriter and
| begin TO write anything, even a letter
to the home folks, it starts the blood
moving through the brain and work
can go forward. But the writer who
walks around the room, picks up the
newspaper Or fuses with any distrac-
ton, is lost.
There are some days, of course,
when you just can't write, and there is
TO use to try. The only thing to do
then is to put on your hat and go out
and get your hair cut, or sneak off to
the circus. Tomorrow the words will
come.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-12-17
POPLAR PAPER KEEPS PRINTING CONTRACT

The Poplar Standard, official Roosevelt county pubica-
ton, was awarded the two-year printing contract for
that county at the county commissioners meeting at Wolf
Point last week. Bids were entered by the Standard, Wolf
Point Herald and Roosevelt County News, the latter pub
lished at Wolf Point BY Joe Dolin, former Sheridan coun-
ty newspaperman.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-24
Washington-Most Beautiful of Capitals
By WILLIAM c. UTIEY

W THEN the Supreme Court of w s last session Sin''t ln the e"asr captol tei
 building in the early days of June, the event was an important one in the history of American government.
 The nations highest judicial body. than whom there Is none whomer" when it comes to interpreting the law of the land, performed its last official function in the "borrowed" quarters 1t had occupied for three-fourths of a century. When the October session begins Mir. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and his eight associates will move into the magnificent S10,OOO,OO0 editce of white marble that has been built for them and them alone in the shadow of Capitol hill
 It will mark the first time that we
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man gladiator standing sentry, on the other a mother and her child with sheaf of wheat in the background.
 All documents which enter here get their last glimpse of sunlight and their last breath of "outside" air as the doors close upon them. Inside they are fumigated; there are no windows in the building: all light is artificial and all air is mechanically condi- toned to preserve the life of the archives.
 As slick and severely nodded as the department it houses Is the new build ing of the Department of Justice, across from the National Archives building. It is temple of aluminium. Nearly S450,000 worth of the light weight metal has been used in its con- struction. This same metal would have cost SS50O0OO in the days when the aluminium cap was placed on the Washington monument in 1884. Doors, elevators, bas-relief casts, stair rail-. ings, window frames and lighting fix lures are of aluminium, and there is a large fountain of the same metal.
 Home of the "G" Men.
 The building is of limestone and granite, and the architectural keynote is Greek. Visitors in throngs already are ogling through its two miles of corridors, for the recent nationwide ri ct ariy,, Io "G" men as tough gentlemen who don't stop to fool, but shoot criminals first and ask questions afterward. The 'G" man is rapidly usurpng the gangster's place as a romantic figure and his headquarters are Mecca for the curious.
 Across the street, where the liar vey's Oyster house used to tickle Abraham Lincoln's prairie appetite, is the new home of the Bureau of Inter- nal Revenue, one of the largest of them all and nearing completion. It is so large that the visitor has to get his bearings from a charted map in the lobby.
 Other members of the new Triangle are the Post Office department build ing, which is headquarters for the activity of a personnel that has ex- banded from 32,320 to 237 600, and the Labor department building, enriched | by the artistic fruits of the Public Works of Art projects.
 At the base of the Triangle Is the 
 colossus of them all, the new Com merce Department building. Into 1t went 2,OOO carloads of Hoosier lime stone, 15O tons of Connecticut granite i,40O tons of marble from Missouri and Vermont, and more stone from Minne- sota, Colorado and Georgia. The 13,- 900 concrete piles used to support the structure would almost stretch from Chicago to Milwaukee.
 In this giant edifice are stored and compiled all of the endless records the Department of Commerce keeps, and constantly renews, concerning al most anything you could possibly think of-travel, invention, harbors, trade statistics and a host of other and re lated subjects. Also here Is the worlds largest camera-fOr reproducing maps and the records of the millions Of patents that have been issued.
 These are only the important few of the many new buildings which are transforming Washington into a mod ern Rome and Athens combined with many new wonders and beauties that are not even hinted at in classic his, tory.
 c Western Newspaper Union.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-24

have ever seen all three departments of our government-legislat execu- tive and judicial-in homes of their own.
 It will be the climax to the far flung architectural and building pro. gram that is making-has made-Wash- ington, D. C., the real show place among world capitals. The new Supreme court building, the additions to the Library of Congress, the new and al- ready famous Washington triangle and other building projects will, when all of them are completed, make the beautiful city on the banks of the Potomac unique.
 The Supreme court went about its business of getting ready to move in a manner unceremonious, to say the least. Although a large crowd filled the old chamber in the Capitol building on that final day, there were no trum- pet blasts and no weeps. Perhaps that was because the court is not unaccus- toned to moving. having been sort of kicked around from pillar to post, from cellar to sitting room, since the nation was born.
 Deciding to move, the court opened up the family bureau-in fact quite few bureauS-and threw out a few things 1t allowed might just as well be kissed good-by. Nobody in the family wanted them-all nine justices turned thumbs down. MIRA, they felt, was bad for their Constitution.
 As Breckinridee Said.
 Right there would have been a great spot for the words that Vice President John Cabell Breckinrdge spoke as the thirty-fifth senate moved out of those same quarters to let the Supreme court come In on January A. 1859.
 We leave this chamber, bearing with us, unimpaired, the Constitution we received from our forefathers,' he said.
 The Supreme court bore away the Constitution in just that state, but made no speeches about it. The court had preserved that Constitution after sitting in many places. It had been in New York and in Philadelphia's Independence hall. It first moved into the Capitol building in 1900. It was in the basement then, and there John Marshall established the right of the court to void all laws passed by con gross which do not abide by the Con- stitutiOn. It was there that Justice Fancy delivered the courts opinion In the famed Dred Scott case. The re- cent decision against the New Deal has been regarded quite as important.
 When the British burned the Cap itol building in 1914, the Supreme court was obliged to meet In the home of the clerk of the court at 206 Penn sylyania avenue, S. F. In 1919 it moved into room on the ground floor, va cated by the senate, which took up quarters directly above this room. The Supreme court again followed the sen. ate in 1859, when that body moved again. The court retained those quar- ters until the end of this last session.
 Worth Waiting For.
 If the court had to wait long time for a home of its own, it's members will tell you the wait was worth it. The majestic columns of its new white marble building rise against the green background of grass and trees in an architectural beauty surpassed no- where in the wonder capital city of the world Facing the Capitol, 1t occu- pies a site that has been, in the order named, that of hotel for the men
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who earlier governed the nation. the Library of Congress, and Civil war prison.
 Solidarity and security are the i'm mediate impressions the visitor gleans from the building. Sentinels at the head of the steps are two 45-ton mar ble blocks, among the largest ever brought to Washington. Beyond eight COrinthan columns, 511a feet high, are great bronze doors which weigh 5000 pounds each. A hall lined by 36 columns, each hewn from a single block of stone, leads to the justices chamber which, at their own request, was made only GO per cent larger than the old chamber in the Capitol
 Still further on are the private offices of the justices, paneled in oak. There are also offices for the attorney general and solicitor general. In the cOurtyards are garages, and elsewhere are the alr-conditioning plant which keeps the brow of justice cool, dining rooms and library space for the 379,- t-O NUluultS Ol tIe ldW.
 Also facing the Capitol-and across the street from the Supreme court excavations are under way for an ad dition which will nearly double it's size. It is already the largest library in the world, by far, with nearly 10,000,000 pieces.
 The Federal Triangle.
 But below Capitol hill, half way along Pennsylvania avenue from the ambitious part of the new Washing ton. It is the Federal Triangle, built on the former site of the old Central Market ground which in the early days was merely a swamp.
 On the tip of the triangle, which Is eight blocks long and through whose 20 miles of corridors 17,700 govern ment workers already pass in the ad- ministraton of their daily duties, Is the National Archives building, man. made Gibraltar designed to withstand the ravages of time. It is the first safe and fitting citadel to hold the records of the nation, many of them yelowed with the centuries that have passed It WAS built "to last forever"
 It's foundation is "scow" of rein forced concrete, five feet thick. This Is set on 5000 concrete piles which vary in length from 15 to B feet. Should the waters of the Potomac swell with flood, the scow would not go sailing, for down in its center are two electric pumps and steam tur- bine which automatically keep the water at constant level. In the most severe emergency imaginable, the steam turbine would go to work with almost power enough to pump out the whole Potomac river.
 To find the eternal stone to protect l the documents of our patriots, the builders of the National Archives building went to the granite quarries of Chelmsford, Mass, and opened up an entirely new and gigantic bed of | limestone near Bedford Ind. From 1 Bedford they cut two great limestone blocks of 12O tons apiece and, finding they would have to reinforce bridges and enlarge tunnels all the way to Washington, they cut them down to % tons each. When they arrived at the | Capital there was no conveyance big and strong enough to transport them to their destination, so they were shaved down again to 60 tons each. The two blocks now stand guard al the main entrance. On one of then has been sculptured the figure of a RO
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-02

you'd hardly believe M If I should
mention the number of months"
"And yet" Mary said, her eyes shin
ing, I'VE were happily married practic-
ally from the BEGINNING"
That depends" said Norman, mock
ruefully, "on what you mean by 'prac-
tically.' Those first SO hours or there
about, on the boat to Florida, that you
spent in the stateroom crying most of
the time-wouldn't let me come neal
YOU"
"Just how much did you want to
come anywhere near me?" Mary was
indignant. And if I haven't made that
vo 90 d 1;g54g ! d I was 90 only a4 i joking; And
where near you. In fact, Frank" Nor
man turned to me IF Mary had tried
to pretend she really loved me in those
first hours of coming around to face
the cold fact of just what we had done
in getting married I think it would have
been more than I could have borne"
Norman, you see," Mary explained,
was still in love with that other girl.
He was doing homage to her memory.
On top of that, to have had me offer
him a love which he couldn't return
well, Norman is such a fine character
tia 1t would have been maddening to
0uI NtdIy Is So line, norman AaSC-
ened to supply, that she could not
pretend a love she didn't feel. So after
that dawned on me something else be-
gan to dawn, too"
Does that mean the mutual admir-
alton society is about to take a recess?"
I inquired. IT mean, is something about
to happen?"
Something is" Norman assured me.
What happened was this. It began to
dawn on me that, if luck we're with
me- Mary might conceiyably turn out
to be exactly the kind of person 1
needed, now that I'd lost the person I'd
wanted. She might not suit as a wife,
perhaps, but she might make good,
pleasant, undermining company, at
least for a while. Do you see?"
And I presume that was what final
ly brought you around to falling in love
with Mary months later; you found
you needed her?"
Norman hesitated. Mary cut in de-
cisively, Quite the contrary. That was
what started me toward finally loving
Norman"
"O-?"
CTo Be Continued)
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only ONE OUT OF 81
GLACIER PARK fires
SCORED HIGH DAMAGE

While a record breaking total Of 81
forest fires broke out in Glacier na-
tional park during the summer, only
one blaze attained major proportions,
according to T. E. Whitcraft. chief
ranger.
The previous record for forest fires
In the park was 80, in 1929. The five
year average is "a.
although this one fire burned over
about 5000 acres in an important scenic
area, the other 66 hlazes did no Sc
riouS damage to the 975 900 acres in
the park" Whitcraft states.
The disastrous fire was swept out
Of control last Aug. 80 and 81 by high
winds and destroyed buildings In the
Many Glacier hotel colony, routing
guests from the main hotel during the
night and blocking traffic for q time
over picturesque Going-to-the-Sun
Whitcraft reports SO of the park
fires this year were caused by light
ming; Is by careless smokers; one by
camper; by sparks from an incin-
orator and n by a wrecked auto that
burned.
Sixty Of the 81 fires, he said, were
controlled before they burned a quar-
ter Of an acre Of timber. -Four fires
destroyed less than 10 acres and three,
more than 10 acres. The latter three
were all lightning started. Whitcraft
said.
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Mary shrugged her shoulders.

Mary shrugged her shoulders.
20 I suppose they were," she said.
II suppose most people are. But what
dlfterence does that make-just being
IN love when you're married."
vb Are y we v I thought, to get some
Talking rather against tradition
aren't you?" I prodded.
The love is all tradition, you mean?"
said Mary.
Yes. The good old American and
British tradition that nothing else
matters if q man and a woman love
each other. Love is All, and the World
We'll Lost with capital letters, and I
hope I'm not scrambling my quotations,
AS opposed, of course, to the European
tradition that nothing else matters if
only the happy couple are going to
nave enough money to keep them from
belng a burden to their relatives-and
II they. aren't, a marriage just doesn't
taxi place, in Europe. Anyway, we're
the real romanticists of the world, we
and the English.
If that wouldn't keep the discussion
moving I didn't know what would.
Sometimes I think" said Norman,
raising his voice at the wheel, that we
and the English are the real idiots of
the world, too, as regards marriage"
Dared I say, We'll, Norman, you and
Mary ought to know something about
it, considering the way you both felt
on your double rebound wedding day?"
Mary said, I'VE certainly are idiots.
Why, Norman and L"
She paused, suddenly reticent, and
my heart sank. But Norman came to
the rescue.
1.-THE Europeans haven't all the wis
dom on the subject, either, he said.
sometimes I think they're not a bit
more sensible than we are-putting
and-property footing. Why, suppose
Mary and L"
But here Norman paused. It was the
second tug at my hook. Something told
me the time had come to strike. and
strike hard.
DO you care to tell me all about
yourselves, you two" I inquired in a
tone as fortnight as I could COM
mand, land how it came about that
that manifestly loveless marriage of
yours turned out SO well? Or do you
prefer to snub me as I doubtless de-
question??"
Curiosity, habitually INDUCED, must
bring one plenty of rebuffs. But I have
a Suspicion mat IL also brings plenty
of interesting experiences. My friends
reserve broke down, and both Of them
laughed.
"Well, I can tell you one thing
Norman began; but here he reached
his own driveway and there was much
business of putting the car away and
settling ourselves in chairs on the sun
lit lawn before he could resume. CAT
this point I should like to say that if
some of the talk I am about to record
sounds SNUG, I am sorry but can not
help it. I merely set it down as ac-
curately as I can remember it, as a
report of facts from two persons who
were happily married and believed they
knew the reason. It didn't sound SNUG
as I listened to it,.
What Norman finally said was: IT
can tell you this, at least: that it was
SO long before Mary and I fell in love
really in love with each other-that
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(To Be Continued

CIVIL WAR VET HEARS TAPS
Capt. w. D. White, 93-year-old COM
mander and sole member of the local
William Mckinley Post G.. A. R. and
one Of the two surviving civil war vet
Grams of Billings, died recently from
infirmities due to his advanced age
and a gangrenouS infection.
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REUBEN MAURY is an editorial

REUBEN MAURY is an editorial
svvitey on a Neav York newspaper.
He has urittex q number of short
stories and articles for leading Ameri-
can magazines. Born in Butte, Mon
tana. he attended school in that city
and va graduated from the Uni0er-
s;ty of Virginia. Proetieed haO for
three years in Butte before ne oeeame
q nezUsPaperman.