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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
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News Items Taken from Files 4
The Plentyweod Herald 4
20 YEARS AGO

The past few days have been very windy. The
farmers in the fields are probably wishing for a head
gear to protect the face from the dust.
John H. Davis is doing a big stunt of farming on
the reservation this summer. He has one of the best
farms on the reservation.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Helgeson of Madoc spent
Sunday in this city with relatives. They made the trip
by auto.
An amusement club has been organized at Out
look, and over $500 has been subscribed to the fund
and more is in sight.
Several of Bainvilles prominent business men
were in town on business yesterday. Among those we
noted were w. F. (Buffalo) Rhea, William Powers
and Attorney Grant Blackwell.
BY implication today the supreme court in up
Ten men who had been arrested at Poplar Sun
day morning for having burglarzed a number of
stores at that city, were brought Friday to Plenty
wood by Sheriff Bennett and placed in the county
jail.
Germany is fighting with sheer desperation to
hold back the Allies on the western front, and while
the strain Of this bitter struggle is telling on both
sides the indications are not lacking that Germany
is getting the worst of 1t.
holding the constitutionality of the special act Of the
fifteenth assembly creating Carter county out of the
southern part of Fallon, rules that the general law
for the creation of new counties is a dead letter. The
decision also means that Wheatland county will be
created.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
The Band Roundup

II can be said that the Northeastern Montana
Band Roundup held in Plentywood last Saturday was
the greatest event ever sponsored in the city.
To the Plentywood Lions club. the sponsors, to
leaders of the 16 organizations participating, and the
600 young and old musicians participating. and all
others who had a part in making it a success. The
Herald extends heartiest CONGRATULATIONS.
The day of inspiring music and entertainment,
the many concerts. the colorful parade and massed
concert which was proclaimed the best rendered in
this section. will long be remembered. and as the last
muscal notes faded with the dying day, brentwood
laid plans for another such event to be held a year
from now.
Ii is hard to estimate the good resulting from
such a gathering as that which took place Saturday.
The awe-inspiring sight of 600 musicians in an am
phitheatre ready for concert and the thrilling spec
tacle when the hundreds responded to the baton of
the guest conductor left a lasting impression on many
thousand listeners.
The precision in which the days festivities fol-
lowed schedule was a commendable achievement. At
no time was a delay in the program evidenced. Band
directors played an important part in carrying out
this end of the program. They were prepared to pre-
sent their units when the time came.
MANY a boy and girl in saturdays regalia
wouldn't have traded places with the Grand Duke
or Duchess of Euramia. The worlds gold could not
possibly buy the p%roudness of many a parent or rela-
tive of those boys and girls.
One thing was plainly demonstrated Saturday.
Music is taking an important and prominent place in
Northeastern Montana and Western North Dakota
towns. A few years ago bands were not numerous.
Larger towns may have boosted organizations but
there were not many. Today practically every COM
munity has a band, from the smallest hamlet to the
biggest cities. and festivals such as there are an i'm
portant factor in its stimulus.
Everything considered it was a grand day. Com
munities represented with bands can we'll be proud of
the showing that they made. They did themselves
proud With fine renditions, conduct and training.
Congratulations again, northeastern Montana
and western North Dakota musicians, leaders and
townspeople. Plentywood enjoyed being your host.
Come again. Your participation made it the success
full DAYS that it was!
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
TAKE THE PROFIT
OUT OF WAR

My friend Admiral Samuel Nc
Gowan was purchasing agent for the
Navy during the World War.
He saw something of the fine
idealism and sacrifice which war
calls forth. But he saw. also. how
greed and pr%oiteering and the bas-
est sort of foolishness. wrap them
selves in the cloak of patriotism and
proceed cold-bloodedly to exploit the
public necessity.
He suggests a plan for prevention
that would entirely remove the pres
ent premium on war and in its stead
impose a very heavy penalty.
cannot see how any intelligent
patriotic person can object to that
proposal. If we had the sense and
courage to write 1t into the Consti-
tuition at ono we should destroy
war propaganda. for no one would
be so foolish as to spend money on
propaganda when no money could
possibly be made from war.
The Stiffness of war, under mod
ern conditions of destructiveness, is
almost as appalling as its horror.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
SUPPOSED TRUTHS

How many times we have pounced
upon supposed truths-only to find
out, after more exhaustive study and
experiment-that we were wrong.
For instance | have preached for
years that the pipe-smoker may
bring himself a lip-cancer by long
frequent massage with a pipe-stem.
Now, a careful thinker observes that
tobacco has little influence in caus-
ing cancer: in other words, any sort
of stick would cause cancer of the
lip just as quickly. used in the same
way. No, mama. I'm not trying to
encourage the use of tobacco, I'm
just telling Grand-dad not to chew
any sort of stick as a habit.
1t is known that an exposed cor
set-stay may bring to light a cancer
of the breast. No tobacco about that,
but it is a villain, just the same.
And, a fine medical writer tells
US that blood-pressure Is not per-
manently made worse by tea or cof-
fee or even salt. That more folks
die from lack of chlordies than from
excess of them. That the INTELLl-
GENT use of these things never does
harm.
Another thing we learn: If indis-
posed, go at once to your good fam
lily physician. don't seek him as a
last resort, but as a very first and
best aid in trouble. 1t will pay you.
We know now that meats are not
deadly poison to the human or
ganism. To be a vegetarian" is to
be a faddist-and, all faddists are
skating on thin ice. Nevertheless a
inicky, evanescent public will do as
it pleases, with my full consent.
One of my own very satisfactory
conclusions is, good common horse
sense is a qualification to be proud
Of.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
RICH HAVE CAUSE TO WORRY


A young man. who is vice-presi-
dent of a New York bank told me
that he dined recently AT a fashion
able resort.
rich" he said. They were older
people. many of them retired. They
we're shaking in their boots. They
are afraid there will be a social up
heaval and that their money will be
taken away
| told him | thought these people
had a right TO worry.
The social order will not be oyer-
turned" | said. mo- will people like
your friends be stripped of their pos
sessions. But | do believe that the
rich will be poorer and the poor
will have a degree of comfort and
security that they have never pos
sessed before. And this will be bet
ter for everybody"
In saying this. am taking a po-
sition which is contrary to my own
selfish interests. for. while | am not
and never shall be rich, | have an
age. If taxes are higher, mine will
income that is much above the aver
90 VI with the rest.
But shouldn't they? What have
done to deserve as much | get out
OF life?
If / have used intelligence, it is
not greatly to my credit. | happened
10 have been born into a home OF
culture. | was sent to college, and
my expenses were paid.
Many rich people, who are wor-
ried. for fear they will have to bear
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
The Future Is at Stake

The future of the great plains of the west is at
stake.
Black billiards.. insistent. provoking drouths
with immense damage continue to sap the fertility of
the soil and steal from hardy people a livelihood in a
nation rated the greatest on the globe.
1t is time for action. The sooner concerted, more
extensive and sound planning is made. the quicker
this great expanse of territory which is capable of
production will regain its standing as the breadbasket
of the North American continent.
Cautiously has the nation considered the vests
problems. The great plains area is already past the
experimental stage and the areas future salvation is
already known.
Data complied since 1868 tells us that the west
ern plains have always been subjected to recurring
cycles of deficient rainfall, and will in all probability
continue to do so and the drouth of the past seven or
eight years is nothing but a recurrence of what has
come in similar periods in the past.
History has plainly showed us that we cannot de-
pend on nature to consistently bring forth succulent
rains. Virgin ground has been broken and titled with
out sound planning and black billiards. in choking
dust clouds have come forth as the result.
Abandon the west? Tear up the ties and rails,
abandon villages, dismantle elevators, depopulate the
area, giving over once more to the coyotes and the
prairie dogs? No, never. The west is not going to be
vacated. The people are here to stay. They will keep
on trying.
Each year the situation has grown more acute
and these people need help.
Action for the west!
ORR IRRIGATION: Dam up every stream and
spring that engineers say is capable of producing wa
ter for irrigation. Assist farmers in developing water
resources on a large scale-one hundred times larger
than the program now under way.
Attack the black billiards..
Shelterbelts for every farm. Stop the unwanton de-
struction of the vests rich, fertile soil. Blanket the
farming west with these shelterbelts. Continue with
strip-farming, cover crops, and other methods now
practiced to combat soil blowing, but on a bigger
scale. Give farmers financial aid to construct shelter
belts Of trees and shrubs.
EXPERIMENT: Speed up experiment with seeds
which may be more adaptable and drouth-resistant
Experiment with semi-arid grasses. Keep seeking for
wheats and other cereals of high resistance to drouth
and satisfactory in all other respects.
FARM FINANCE: Encourage on a larger scale
sound farm finance and farm management. Many
failures have occurred because of the judgment and
business capacity of many farmers rather than the
productivity of the soil have failed, statistics over a
25year period show.
such a program the nation would build for the fu-
ttre. The past eight years Of adverse conditions In the
nations breadbasket have now cost billions of dollars
In loss Of production, loans and tearing away of the
soil. 1t can be conservatively estimated at half the
national debt!
Would it not be a sound national investment
then, to put this area ON a productive and sure basis?
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-05-20
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BARTON
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a larger burden in the future. have
had all these advantages, plus the
added advantage of inherited
wealth. When they grumble they
give me a pain.
Surely, we who have had the best
luck in this country are going to be
wise enough TO recognize it and to
assum cheerfully our full share of
the load.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
WOMEN AND TIME

From time immemorial husbands
have complained of the long time it took
their wives to dress; men have observed
that women did not heed the flight of
time, but carried on seemingly intermin-
able telephone conversations without real
izing how long they talked, and so on.
This apparent lack of regard for time
by the fair sex has been the course of end
less comment-often profane. But now
it has all been explained, thanks to modern
psychology.
Exhaustive tests conducted at Johns
Hopkins University show that women just
naturally can't helpeit. They don't realize
the meaning of "tempus fugit.''
These tests developed the fact that
women on an average estimate the time it
takes them to perform given task at
about one-half the actual time required.
DR.. Isabel Stewart who conducted the
tests. which were made with 1904 stu
dents, both men and women, said
Men estimate more accurately. The
inaccuracies of women imply that time
really seems shorter to women than to
men,
Which recalls the joke of a para
grapher who wrote: Married men do
not live longer; it just seems longer"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Pressure is moderately high this
morning over southeastern dis
tricts and northward into the
western Lake region, Nashville,
Tenn, 1920 inches; while low
pressure areas, central over the
far Northeast, the northern Plains
and north Pacific States, over
spread most of the remainder of
the country, Eastport, Me-. and
Boston, Mass, 1888 inches, Huron
S. d., 1854 inches, and Seattle,
Wash, 29.78 inches. Light to
moderate snow has occurred dur
ing the last "a hours in northeast
ern districts, and there has SO
been precipitation in portions OF
the northern Plains, Rocky Noun
tan States and Plateau reg on,
Phoenix, Ariz., reporting a heavy
rainfall of la inches. Tempera-
lures continue below normal over
the eastern portion of the country,
with light frost on the Gnlf coast
from New Orleans GROUND to Tam
pa, and heavy frost in northeast
ern Florida, while readings are
generally above normaI--1est Of
the Mississippi Valley.
Il. 5. kENNEDY,
Official in Charge
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
MAKE KEY WEST INVITING

OF one thing there Ncan be little
doubt. There will be heavy influx of
visitors next season, most of whom will
receive their first impressions of Key West
as a place to visit. or in which to reside.
1t is to be sincerely hoped that self
interest, if not civic pride. will induce US
to do what every competent house-keeper
does when company is expected clean
L M sa bashaHs
as For those who lack the Intelligence
to perceive where their interests lie, or
for those to whom civic pride is an I'M
known quantity, we must depend upon the
strong and competent powers of the city
and state health authorities to remedy
some of the more disgraceful conditions
existing in places to which the public is
certain to co. and from which, as condi-
tons are today, they will come away with
the feeling that Key West is lacking in
the required refinements of civilization
Unsightly and unsanitary conditions
can nullify all the results of the best pub
licity that we can send out. Much of the
popularity of st. Petersburg is due to the
fact that one feels that it is clean city
We have climate, unequalled in the
United States. We have attractions for the
yachtsman and sportsman equally UNI
equalled. We are basing our belief, in a
prosperous future upon our ability to at
tract and retain the favorable considera-
ton of the finest type of winter visitor and
resident.
We are inviting the elite of the ma
ton, people who regard sanitation and
cleanliness as something necessary to their
comfort and well-being.
1t will be very much to our interest
to see to it that before they come. our
house is put in order
1t is true that for the present, as COM
pared with other cities, we have some dis
advantages, but these can be largely over
come by a studied application to hoes,
brooms and scrubbing brushes.
We need sacrifice none of the pic
turesque features to which Key West owes
so much of its charm; but we can dispense
with tremendous number of unsightly
items. Moreover; we must.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
HARD TO STOP

With 2,162,0O0 individuals on relief
rolls, at cost estimated to- average Sos
a month, the government serne weeks~ago
began policy of slashingthe Ralla
The fifst reaction came from tfie gov
errors of six States, who descended upon
Washington to informs the President that
their commonwealth Counties and cities
were overburdened with sdirecti relief costs
and unable to stand the added cost of pro
viding for those to be dropped by the
WPA.
The reduction has been postponed
pending further study of the situation.
Meanwhile, it appears that it will be con-
siderably more difficult to cease taking
care of the individuals on relief than it
was to start paying them. Incidentally
the balanced budget will recede bit fur
Their in the distance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Baltimore produces women so fasy
ffHaliaa thal even royalty suecumbs TO
iheH charms. Wally Simpson captured
the heaFs II = hing who was so enamored
ihai - ahdicaied IN order TO make her his
SITS. Anaiher Baltimore belle. Betty Pat
lsrsan. married Napoleon's brother,
1erume b.lnaparte, king Of Westphala.
80 these romances do not end as they do
- story books they generally collapse,
ieaslnw calls establishment and sorrow in
their aake.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Ten years ago this column had the
following comment: Why do you sup
peee larle sam has so much less trouble
falisetlne hts taxes IN Key West than do
lhe euuHlg and eityG" II seems property
aNneFa haven't changed much in the past
lFeaat - years, ard will probably not
ehsaRe much Ia the next decade or even
sEHft So years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
WEATHER FORECAST
9TH TAO 5. M, Thursday

TIL 7:30 p. M, Thursday
Key West and Vicinity: Fair
tonight and Thursday; warmer to-
night; gnetle to moderate easter
" winds.
florida: Fair and not quite SO
cold with light scattered frost in
extreme north portion tonight;
Thursday fair, warmer in north
and central portions.
jacksonville to Florida Straits:
Gent e to moderate northeast
winds, becoming east and south
esst, and fan, weather tonight and
Thursday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

y seems % man up tree that when
eeKtmen 81 down aud refuse to work,
lheN automatically discharge themselves,
sd - discharged employees certainly
80 ~ fiaht - occupy a property, and if
fhe# -. tbs are intruders. and as such
aaalfel - prosecution. This seems to be
: - aaa4ls conclusion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

une q the best Of the n. r. A.-days'
fafles has a. do with a Southern grocer
ehe. finding that the wages of his delivery
A#ss wese g. be fixed at $500 a week
ahHss shat b. had been paying. instituted
e 800 tine Cor every morning they came
laie @and Il sou aren't late six mornings
IS he week. 500 are fired"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

II the preparation for war aud the
almament programs continue ALI over the
eoHld. us will ali be IN II. and back to
bafbaFism when tribe was constantly
aakifa warfare against tribe, and the
sister iaak the spells.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

e. Mater and Sewerage.
nfsaxes b remplste Road 10 Main
lad
N2am Pert
T. hatsis and Apartments.
HaaAi4ta Pavilion
q Angsft- lnua and STA.
Consolation u County and City
&aNasuHents.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Elliott Roosevelt says his father and
~ brother James are handling all the
peilsses for the family. Why slight
msagbNfg
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

The aiclaioFial Must" and the per-
emHioFF "Now" are preeminent in the
sasasulafY 81 President Roosevelt Neither
alloWs ans time 10 think. SO necessary to
iht satisfactory solution Of grave national
pfehienas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Today's Horoscope

Today endows with keen intui-
ton and the native will go forward
with confidence in his own deduc-
tions. Obstacles and opposition will
be surmounted and friends, attract
ed by good VII, will render assist
ance. Dangerous journeys are
probable.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
OrnSIrup

''TO children an angel of mercy" Where
directions are followed. 1T NEVER
FAILS. Deepite scarcity aud enormous
cost of SANTONIN. 1t contains full dose.
Stood sixty years test. Sold everywhars
or by mall. 50c a bottle.
Est. C. A. Voorhees. IL. D.. PhiIedeIphia
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Lieutenant George Wilcox, sup
ply corps United StatesNavy, will
leave Key West within the next
few days having received orders
detaching him from service at
the local navy yard, and assigning
him to duty on the U.S S, S.
OMAHA, flagship of the destroyer
squadron. He has been stationed
here for the past two years and
he and Mrs. Wilcox have made a
wide circle OF friends who will
regret their leaving.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

capital and Immediately after ar
rival secured a marriage license
from Judge Hugh Gum, and went
to the Rectory of St. Paups
church where they married, Rev.
c. Brookins officiating. The new
ly weds left this morning on the
Governor Cobb for Havana.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

What II Ne should get Supreme
teuFs hat Would declare the Constitution
antanaf ItaligualR
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17
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Today's Birthdays

Pierce Butter Of Minnesota, As
soc:ate Justice Of the Y. s. SUI
preme Court, born u Dakota Co.,
Mimi, II years ago.
Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries Of
Washington. D. c., retired, born
at Debello, Wis, 81 years ago.
/ Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. (''Bobby
'Jones') Of Atlanta, Ca, golf
champion, born in Atlanta, 35
years ago.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Of New
York City, born in Hungary, 65
years ago.
William H. Moran, ex-ehief of
the U. S. Secret Service, born 70
years ago.
Prof. Paul E. Green of the
University of North Carolina, phil
osopher, noted author, born al
Ellington, N. c., 43 years ago.
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KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

Key West parents and children
are responding almost unanimous
ly to the drive to stamp out diph-
liberia here, local and state health
officials show. In the high school
there are only three children who
have not agreed to take the Schick
test which will determine whether
or not they need the incubation
against the disease. One OF them
is deferred by religious beliefs,
leaving only two who are too ner-
vous or Indifferent to take it.
Parents Of the Harris School are
returning requests for incubation
in almost large numbers at the
high school, it was reported to-
day. At this school request blanks
were sent to 500 parents and $40
of these have already been re-
turned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Wilbur d. Steele of Hamburg,
Conn, noted author, born at
Greensboro, N. c., 81 years ago,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-17

Seven hundred pounds of fish
caught on one trip, and four ex-
cellent tarpon weighing FROM, 30,
to rs pounds, constituted a one
day catch of party which went
out yesterday. In the party were
Mr.. and Mrs. James Snowden who
are here for few days on their
yacht the Sea Horse. Captain
Fred Demeritt had the visitors out
on his fishing boat Edna yester-
day and the record haul was made
during the day 1t is said that
this is the record catch for party
fishing this season.