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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
Scenes of Carnage

A writer in a recent issue of American Mercury
presented a new and interesting view of the automobile
accident problem. He observed that, in the light of pre-
sent-day conditions, it is not remarkable that $4,000
persons are being killed in traffic accidents annually
but that it is remarkable that the number is not several
times as great.
In the average state, almost anyone not completely
crippled can obtain a license to drive a car, irrespective
of his ability, responsibility, intelligence or judgment. If
he chooses, he can operate a car that belongs by rights
in the junk heap-a car with an inaudible horn, feeble
or glazing lights, uncertain brakes, and a steering gear
affected with ST. Vitus dance. If he drives that car in a
dangerous manner, cutting curves, weaving in and out
Of traffic, and giving her the gun whenever possible,
the chances are that he will escape arrest-and that if
he is arrested, he will be assessed a relatively small fine
and permitted to go right on driving. When the newt
able finally occurs, ard someone is killed or injured be-
cause Of his recklessness or incompetence. he may have
a harder time getting out of the mess-but that will
not bring a dead person to Life.
If any progress is to be made in reducing the hor-
rible toll of accident deaths and injuries, stringent me-
thods must be adopted. Traffic codes must be modern
lied and enforced with the utmost strictness and impair
TALLY. Much higher qualifications for the issuance of
drivers licenses must be established. And the unsafe
automobile, as well as the unsafe driver, must be ban
ished from the road. Otherwise, Americas streets and
highways will continue to be scenes of carnage.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
GET OUT IN THE SUNSHINE

In these bright spring and summer
days, few people stop TO think what
wonderful values are for us in the
warmth and light Of the sun-rays. Sci
enc has it that possibly radium makes
up a part of the suns luminous body.
Were it not for this great solar. dy-
namo, humanity would fade from the
earth like flowers cut from their
stems.
Various rays have been isolated,
resulting from an analysis Of light in
nature. The ultraviolet, an element
of sunlight, is concentrated in appar-
atus used by the specialist. Perhaps
the "infra-red" is the most valuable
of the reproduced heat rays and it is
within reach of the ordinary family.
A red-hot iron liberates ~infra-red rays,
valuable in treating all deep, inflam-
matory conditions.
Light heat is more beneficial in most
conditions than dark heat, such as hot
packs, poultices, and hot-water bags.
Light and heat together set the micro
scopic particles of tissue into rapid
vibration. This serves to scatter" vio-
lently corgested areas, which may be
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
Rain Relieves Our Crops

Rain came. For it, Sheridan county's people give
their blessings.
With crop prospects hanging in the balance, follow
ing weeks of dry, hot weather-hot winds licking reserve
moisture with %parching rapidity, Sheridan county's fate
for another crop year was undecided.
Although crops in tins section were not suffering
from lack of moisture to as great extent as other parts
of eastern Montana, the continued dry weather, with no
indications of moisture, brought anxiety. Farmers cannot
easily forget the strange pranks Nature has played for
six years. Continued drouth has caused that anxiety.
After being kicked about, punnmeled and prosecuted
by drouth after drouth, farmers in this section have had
a right 10 that anxiety. Would this year be a REPETITION
of the past drouth periods? Would another blow by Ma
ture again shatter the hopes of an honest, hard working
people TO whom nature had dealt unkindly?
Monday morning all of Sheridan county looked at
the world with a brighter outlook. Succulent rains in
four hours changed the setting after weeks of anxious
waiting and speculation.
Rain which came Sunday night brought smiles to
haggard and worried souls.
The battle is far from being won, but rain renewed
hope.
Nature was kind. The blessed life blood was show
cred with profound abundance.
Sheridan county people are thankful.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
Which Is Right or Wrong9

Inconsistency seems to be the rule, rather than ex-
ception, in the political world.
A perfect example is provided when pending Fed
eral better-housing plans are compared with proposed
fair trade practices legislation in the Robinson Patman
Bill.
The housing plan is designed to standardize homes
much as automobiles are standardized, cut cost of ma
terials and reduce the amount of labor required for
erecting a home. 1t is estimated that a standardized
house could be built for about $1,000 which would be
equal in size and quality to houses now costing $1,000.
The Robinson Patman Bill, on the other hand, would
outlaw trade practices which have been developed 10
reduce the cost Of producing and selling all manner Of
merchandise and foods. 1t would either cause higher
prices to the consumer, or prevent reductions that could
otherwise be made. Its effect would be to reduce the
pubics purchasing power.
Apparently some of our lawmakers think that it is
proper to build and sell houses on an efficient mass-pro-
duction basis that will give the buyer more for his mo-
ney-but that it is improper to produce and sell mer-
chandise and food in the same way. More consistency
should be applied to the business of l~aw-making before
more laws are passed.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
The State Liquor Stores

1t is apparent that the voters of Montana are to be
asked to vote on the question of liquor distribution in
the state at the election next November. Referendum
petitions are being filed seeking to permit the sale of
hard liquor by the drink in private places.
This is nothing more nor less than the old saloon.
Do we want this relic of barbarous ages returned to
Montana in 1887? If we do not, it would be very well to
start fighting the battle right now-or else. There are
selfish interests that do want its return and enough pc
titioners are signing to put the question on the ballots.
The present state liquor system may not be ideal but
we think that few will dispute that it is immeasurably
superior to the old saloon with all its inherent evils.
Those who desire distilled liquors can now obtain
them in the original packages at state stores and must
drink them elsewhere. The state gets the ~profit-and
that of course is what the selfish interests are most con-
cerned in. They want to cut in on those very fat profits.
But we submit the state should retain these profits.
If we throw those profits into private hands, taxes
are going to be increased in Montana-and greatly in
creased.
Many suggestions have been made about changing
the liquor store setup but we believe that all of them
should be scrutnized with a doubling eye because the
present system has worked pretty well on the whole and
to change it is likely to substitute something worse
Dawson County Review.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
@S5}{% i! E1S !!!,
~JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, MD.

painful to the point of agony. The in
fra-red ray is used almost daily in my
o~ffice--and with satisfactory results.
Then there is a difference in dry
leat, as in lamp treatments-and in
moist heat, as in hot water packs APP
,lied to the body. Light reaches deep
n, and with more lasting effects
There is very little, even temporary,
elief in hot wet packs. But all these
methods are worth study in the fam
ily. They afford a means of relief out
side of the realm Of drugs.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11

FRANK PARKER N ~
SIOCkBRiDOt xxx M
QUEEN

QUEEN 800. arrives
l saw the biggest ship ever built
come into New York Harbor on her
first voyage, the other day. | have seen
all Of the other big ships of the past
forty years and travelled on some of
them, but the Queen Mary is the
biggest and the fastest of them all.
A great deal has been said and
printed to the effect that big ships in
the thousand-fo class are unecon-
omical. They cost a lot to build, of
course. The Queen Mary cost about
S5O,OOO,O 900. But shipping experts tell
me hat with full loads of cargo
ard passengers, these big ships are
more profitable 10 operate than small
er ones.
| would like to see our own country
build a ship as big as the Queen
Mary
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
WORKS ON CHURCH; KILLED

Kenosha, Wis.-Taking a day off
from work to assist in building the
four Square Gospel Church cost Gus
ak Toxin his life. He fell from a scat
fold, broke his back and died.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
r channel

There are very few seaports in the
world into which ships of the size Of
the Queen Mary" the 'Normandie'
and the great German and Italian lin
ers can enter, From the ocean up to
her dock, the Queen Mary" had Only
five feet of water under her keel, most
Of the way. She would not have had
hat much-would not have been able
10 enter New York at all-if it had not
been for the foresight of a New York
merchant named Ambrose, to whose
memory a monument was unveiled at
the Battery the day the Queen Mary"
arrived.
Mr.. Ambrose devoted much of his
life to urging the dredging of a deep,
straight channel from the sea into
New York Bay. Following the old bed
of the Hudson River, the Ambrose
channel, 40 feet deep at low tide, is all
that has kept New York from yielding
its supremacy as a seaport to Boston.
The Erie Canal, which gave an easy
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
STOLE TO PAY HONEST DEBTS

Austin. Texas.-Answering a ques-
ionai,c Of the State board of pardons
as to the cause of their crimes, one
prisoner said he stole to pay his hon
est debts
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11

and safe water-route between the
Hudson River and the newly opened
regions of the West, more than 100
years ago, started New York on its
way to becoming the nations largest
city. Up to then Philadelphia and Bos-
ton were both larger. The Ambrose
Channel has enabled New York to
hold first place
SCRAPPING ...... of ships
Some day they will scrap the
Queen Mary" The great "Mauretan-
ia" has just been junked, ard the giant
Majestic" is on her way to the ship
breakers. In the past 20 years a dozen
giants of the ocean have been broken
up, because it no longer paid to run
them.
Our own 'Leviathan," which was
the German built "Vaterland" before
the War, a sister-ship of the "Beren-
gaia" is due for the scrap yards before
long. The "Leviathan," however, has
earned her keep since the United
States Government took her over as a
prize of war in 1917. She carried more
than 5000 American soldiers every
voyage to France during the war, and
the boys of the Rainbow Division still
have an affection for the old Levi
Nathan" as they nicknamed her.
SIZE $3.50. 1858 miracle
The biggest ship afloat before the
Queen Mary was the German-built
Majestic" 915 feet long. The Queen
Mary is 1O3 feet longer than that.
But n years ago, in 1858, British ship
builders in one Jump launched a ship
that was nearly twice as long as the
biggest then afloat. The jump from
the Persia 500 feet, to the Great
Eastern" 6SS feet, was as much of a
miracle then as it would have been
today had the Queen Mary" been
1900 feet long.
The Great Eastern was regarded
as the Eighth Wonder of the World,
but she was too awkward and too
slow to be profitable. After a few voy-
ages between Liverpool and Boston,
and a brief experience in laying the
first transatlantic cable, she wound
up her career ingloriously, for many
years as a floating hotel anchored off
an English coast resort. and then as a
coal hulk in the harbor of Gibraltar,
and finally was scrapped for old metal.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
DO o
News Items Taken from Files of
The Plentywood Herald of
20 YEARS AGO

Work was started on the Plentywood Milling Com
pany's building yesterday morning The place is to be
remodeled and an addition built on the back.
The Hudson and Crawford drug store will open for
business the first part of the week. 1t is a real nifty
store with elegant furniture and fixtures.
About 400 local fans expect to go to Westby Sunday
to take in the great ball game to be played between that
town and Plentywood
Mrs. Kielstrup left last week for Minneapolis where
she will spend a few weeks visiting with relatives and
friends.
The Fas 1-ationaI Bank building is receiving a
fresh coat C. Faint this week. Ed Belanski is doing the
work.
The House of Representatives was thrown into a
turmoil when Congressman Mann, of Illinois, made an
announcement that Justice Hughes had been selected
as the Republican presidential candidate.
Harry Martin shipped his blowing outfit down from
Scobey last Friday where he has been breaking land
for the past month. He says that Scobey is a live town
and that from the amount of land broke in that vicinity
indications are fine for another good crop year.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
COMPANIES WILL LEAVE FOR GUARD CAMP

National guard companies of this territory will entrain
next Friday for the annual encampment of regiment at
Helena. Only companies in the extreme northeastern
part of the state will travel by train. Companies nearer
to the camp will make the trip by truck. Over 1000 en-
listed men and officers, commanded by Colonel E. H
Williams, will take part in the two weeks period of
military and recreational activities.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
CUIBERTsON TEACHERS ARE MARRIED

A double ceremony was performed by Rev. Fir. Barry of
Culbertson last week, uniting in marriage Miss Thelma
Hyatt and Miss Evelyn LaCasse, Culbertson teachers. to
Bert Soppe of Culbertson, and Lowell Steiner, Sheridan,
Mont, respectively. Misses Hyatt and LaCasse have been
members of the Culbertson grade school faculty for the
past two years.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
RUMoRs HAVE o,BRIEN AS POSTMASTER

The wise boys in the Sidney vicinity say Sheriff Ted"
OBrien, Richland county sheriff for many years, will be
the next postmaster at that city. The rumor is cur
rent that OBren has already received the appointment
which will be welcome news to the candidates for
sheriff there, all of whom have failed the past several
years to wrest the office of sheriff from him.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11

An estimated crowd of 5000 persons attended the annual
bard festival at Willston last Friday. Eight bands of
this section and many floats participated in a parade to
start the days festivities. The band members were ban
quoted in the evening and a massed band concert, under
the baton of Prof j. A. Holvik, Concordia college, ended
the event.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11
PETITIONS CIRCULATED IN TERRITORY

Petitions seeking a referendum on the state liquor law,
to remove the handling of liquor from the direct super
vision OF the state, and a petition which would bring tic
a vote taxing of chain stores were circulated in this part
of Montana last week. Receipts from the chain store act
would go to an old age pension fund.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-06-11

TRAAsoh VIEW ~
Cleveland (or Ph'ladelph'a)
Showing now enterprism3
hostelerys met He problem
Of housing He convention
VISITORS Ard delegates
(sound effects o%m,iged
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-13
Puerto Rico Shows
Population Boost

SAN JUAN, P. .R.-Puerto
Rico'S population growth has
risen during the depression from
the 1.6 per cent yearly for the
decade ended in 1880 to Is per
cent for the last five-year period,
according to figures given out
by Leon e. TrueSdell of the
United Census Bureau for Puerto
Rico.
The islands population at the
end Of 1885 was 1,722,994, an
increase of 179,081 since 1880.
San Juan's population showed a
1871 per cent gain, from 114,715
TO 1861
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-13
DICTATORSHIP
CHARGED BY
M'LE0D

Charges that the Roosevelt adj
mtnlstration is attempting to
thwart dissemination of informa
ton on Government fiscal and so
clal programs in an effort to estab
hSh q New Deal dictatorship"
were made last night by RepreSen'
tative Mcleod (R.), Of Michigan
Only the militant stand of the
nations newspapers has blocked
the "dictatorial trend Of the New
Deal" Mcleod declared in radio
address.
News Suppression
He cited specific cases of what
ne said were examples Of news
suppression. He declared:
The Washington bureaucratS
are fast assuming the airs Of alb
solute autOcratS. What is being
done by the peoples Govern
ment with the peoples money
10 becoming more and more Of
. mystery.
News services are the very
foundation pillars that link an
enlightened public opinion to
the structure Of our Govern
ment. They constitute the
9urest safeguard for every fun.
damental right Of citizenship.
when we find someone chip
Ding 1T these pillars Of infOrma-
ton, trying to color, to diStOrt,
or to suppress facts, we find some
one who does not believe in the
right Of the people to possess
the knowledge upon which self
government Is built. In foreign
lands public knowledge is limited
privilege. In our country it still
remains an inalienable right"
GIVES EXAMPLE
In the past three years the coun-
try has seen evidences Of "deStruc-
tive activities" Of Government Of
1icials who do not believe taxpay-
ers have q right to know the
TRUTH" Mcleod charged. AS an
example Of news suppression" I'M
der the New Deal" Mcleod said:
Because Of his firsthand
knowledge, Gen. johnson Ha-
good was requested by q con-
gresSiOnal committee to give his
opinion on Federal relief spend
ing. He gave the committee his
honest views on q policy that
made IL almost impossible for
him to secure funds for essential
repairs while the supply Of
money was plentiful for needless
garden walks and other frills.
His subsequent persecution by
Mr.. Roosevelt for telling the
truth Is well known to all"
:. MANTLE OF SECRECY
Continuing Mcleod declared:
"The whole mantle Of secrecy
and suspicious aversion to le-
climate requests for inf0rma-
ton which hangs like a pail over
Washington today is so utterly
alien 10 every American pfinci-
pie that 1t is difficult to realize
that It exists even when con-
frOnted with the undeniable
proofs.
''WhO Is there today, however,
except q select little cOterie Of
New Deal leaders who can tell
what Is being done with the two
billion dollars Of the peoples
money which was turned over to
the Secretary Of the Treasury to
manipulate as he sees fit for sta
bilizatiOn purposes.
eff the present trend Is al
lowed to continue, freedom Of
the press, freedom Of speech
and every other freedom guaran-
teed by the Constitution will be.
come 0 hollow mOckery. The sit
latiOn calls for q vigorous and
continuous cOunterattack on Of
ficial threats against the peoples
right In knnw"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-13
TRIAL EXAMINATION
Moy IA

On Thursday, May IA, be-
ginning at 6:40 p. M, the
Mount Pleasant School for
Secretaries, TivOi Bldg, 14th
st. and Park Rd., will con-
duct another complete trial
examination for . limited
number of Civil Service ap-
pIicantS for stenOgrapher
and typist examinations.
The examination lasts 315
hours and the material is
similar to that used I'm
former Civil Service exam
nations. For a nominal fee
all papers will be carefully
grade d according to Civil
Service standards and re-
turned by m al Monday.
Telephone Columbia 5000 for
reservation before 6 p. m.
Thursday.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-18
Telephony Continues Scientific
Research Child . DIR. Jewett

Modern telephony, which enables all
but about Z per cent of the total estl-
mated 35O00,000 telephones on the
globe to be connected with any Bell
system telephone, is the child of organ
lied scientific research, according to
DR.. Frank B. Jewett, vice president
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, and president of the
Fell Telephone Laboratories. Writing
in the Bell Telephone Quarterly, DR..
Jewett thinks that scientific research
is destined to continue in this status
for many years to come. Without VEN
turing, he says, on the unsafe ground
Of speculation IS to what further re-
search in fundamental science may
produce, it is known by telephone
scientists that there are still great
v.stas Of possibility for scientific re-
search in the field of telephony and
its sister services.
News Dissemination
Scientific research has developed
radio telephony so that ocean barriers
to speech have been destroyed, and
likewise communication made possible
to and between ships, airplanes, and
all moving vehicles. 1t has developed
radio broadcast and initiated a great
NV industry in the realm of dis
so.ninating news, music, and enter
t..inment. 1t has made possible the
'-:rltaneous transmission of host of
mountaineering messages over the
simple circuit which before it's advent
carried but a single message and that
but poorly. Finally, it has made pos
si5le the interconnect;on of all these
services and in addition has given
l. nth to a great new industry where
sight and sound are joined for the
edifcation ard education of the public.
Bell Laboratories
DR.. Jewett says the Bell Telephone
laboratories has built up great or
gcnization of scientifically trained
r.en competent to contribute new
knowledge Of a fundamental character
to attack eXpeditiously and efficiently
any problem which presents itself and
with a demonstrative capacity to pro-
duce results far exceeding the eX-
penditure Of time, effort and money
required in t,:c;r production. 1t is
true, he says, IS it has been for many
years past that each advance in the
art of telephony ovens the way to yet
other advances. How far it will be
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-18

as half a mile in a minute just in
their up and down strokes. And so
it goes! Why, in some cars, even
bearing pressures have been doubled!
what. does this mean? 1t means
that motor oil is working like it never
worked before. And it means that
motorists must buy their oil with far
more care than heretofore!
eve recommend Sunoco Motor Oil
because it gives four way protection
and because this fact has been proved.
Mr.. Louis Chevrolet, the famous au-
tomobile designer, personally drove d
Chevrolet car more than five thous-
and miles on less than four quarts of
Sunoco Oil just to prove the safe lub-
rication afforded by this oil. When
the motor was tested and taken apart
at the end Of the run, Sunoco Motor
Oils four way protection was proved
by these facts: first, the motor devel
oped full power. Second, there was
no knocking. Third, no hard carbon
was apparent. Fourth, even the clos
est micrometer measurements failed
to reveal anything but the slightest
indications of wear!"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-09-18
MODERN AUTOS
SHOW BIG GAIN
IN RIDING EASE

"Drive a car that is six or seven
years DID," say Mr.. R. Wier, Jr., Sun
Oil Company's district manager, "and
then step from it into one of today's
latest models and repeat the course
then, for the first time you will real
ly appreciate the tremendous strides
which have been made by the automo-
tive industry in the past few years.
"Road speeds have increased by
twenty or twenty-five percent. Motors
are as much as thirty-five percent
faster than six years ago. Horsepow-
er is said to have advanced some
lightweight percent in some cases. In
today's cars pistons travel as much