Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-04-29

One champion of the air waves who
has not only gained worldwide rec
ognition, but always seems to have
a real message. is the Reverend
Harry Emerson Fosdick, who each
Sunday afternoon conducts his "ves-
per service over a nationwide
hookup. Filled with inspiration, al
ways most carefully organized, there
never seems to be a sermon of this
renowned Baptist clergyman that
fails to leave a listener with some
thought that makes him feel he is
just a little better for having heard
it.
Last Sundays Vesper sermon was
especially impressive, and as Mr..
Fosdick spoke on the text, Keeping
Faith in a Rapidly Changing
World and although he was talk
ing of religious faith, our thoughts
turned to the man who keeps faith
with his country in such a field of
varied creeds and political doctrines
such as we are faced with today.
Tribute was paid by n writer to
the man "who could keep his head
while all about him was losing
theirs" AS we are continually con-
fronted with new kinds of "schisms'
from day to day; as we read prop
uganda aimed only at a determine
ton to disrupt Jul form of govern
ment through the spread and fer
m~entation of discomfort among
workers, with the final goal of rev.
olution and complete overthrow of
democracy; as we hear of strikes, Of
class legislation, of religious fanat-
icism, or of hopeful CD preparation
for actual warfare-then it is that
We should revere with deepest trib-
ute that citizen, man or woman, who
"keeps the faith, that man or
woman who clings tenaciously to the
conviction that in America is found
the finest government and the finest
people in all the world. THAT
FAITH is worth keeping.
Speaking of keeping faith,
wouldn't it be a splendid thing if
there were just some way that all
the petty, despicable graft could be
kept out of our political life. If only
a man could keep faith with the
oath he takes when indicted into
office-I don't think there's an Of
fetal oath in the country from the
smallest to the largest office that
doesn't have the word "honest" in
it some place-if he could only keep
himself removed from any transac-
tion bearing any faint of dishonesty,
there'd be a lot less explaining to
do, and we'd all be a happier peo-
pie. But of course that's hoping for
too much. Just so long as we have
human nature to deal with, we'll
have human weaknesses to combat,
and cannot hope for any Utopian
condition such as a graft-free gov
eminent.
Honesty is the best policy" is
not just a nice-sounding phrase for
platitude. 1t is a policy doctrine
that pays the best dividends in
building any business. County print
ing contracts have long been a bone
of contention for opposing political
factions in Montana. They have at
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able spot on which disappointed pol
iticians could vent their spleen. In
all these, just as in the conduct of
any office, if the public printer had
dealt honestly with the people, if
he had kept the faith, he had no.
thing to fear from the attacks of his
opponents, no matter how bitter
they may have become.
Right now there is a big squabble
over a printing contract affecting
two of our closest neighboring
counties. To read one side of the
argument it would seem that IN Of
ficsal printer has grossly violated
and misused the terms of his con-
tract by making unlawful, exhorbit-
ant charges. No one has the right to
pass judgment on this or any case of
similar character without first
knowing the facts and conditions
surrounding both sides. In this par
ticular cas- we have had faith in
individuals representing both sides.
Both cannot be right. But again the
whole question simply resolves it
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cple-if the printer against whom
irregularities are charged, has dealt
honestly in strict accordance with
the law, he has absolutely nothing to
fear. That is his present contention.
Only when evidence is brought into
the open will there now be a posi-
bility of full v%indication of that po-
sition.
In %suspending publication last
week, the Redstone Review wrote
another chapter, not only in the
newspaper history Of this section,
but in the development and slow but
steady transition of the entire area.
The Redstone Review, for "a years,
recorded the happenings of its local
community. 1t was n of the real
pioneer papers of this territory and
from 1918 until his death in 1885
Frank Sherry identified himself with
the paper as its editor. He, with his
paper, saw a once-thriving village
surrender its growth and develop
ment to economic depression coup
led with modern highway construc-
ton bringing lesser distance be-
tween important trade centers.
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So, endeavoring to carry on after
her fathers death, decision to cease
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