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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23
MANY AWARDS E
TO Al CLUB MEMBERS

Around 1000 All club men,
bers will receive awards this
autumn starting with county
prizes in the ninth annual All
Meat Animal Project contest,
conducted by the extension
services of the various states.
Particulars may be obtained of
local club leaders.
A watch fob with a gold en-
blem of achievement will be
awarded in every county of the
United States to the club mem-
Der whose record in livestock
projects is designated as out
standing by the county agent.
Records of county champions
in this state will be judged for
state honors in the state club
leaders, office previous to No
vember l. The winner will COM
pete with other state cham
pions in his extension division
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23
Sage and Soil
By Mrs. Pdul Schdller

Last week I spoke of the
sheep wagon and herder that
rounded out that grand picture
of open spaces. From the time
I was a little girl, I have al
ways felt that we We're too
slow to sing the praises Of the
men who shepherd our sheep.
To begin with, how many
people at average wage are en-
trusted with the tangible prop
erty that 1000 head of sheep
represent.
Did you ever see a sinking
dog at the door Of a sheep wa
gon? Never! That speaks a hun
red per cent for the herds
man. AS a rule these men are
kind and firm and perhaps have
habits that for the most part
come from trying to live down
the sins of their forefathers.
Being a mere human, I can
overlook q tragedy of this kind
to find men of the sort 1 can
describe to you here.
There was dad" who gave
me a lovely porcelain hatchet
with blue ships painted on the
blade when I was seven. he
gave it to me one evening when
nv father had punished me
severely for some small mis-
demeanor that failed to fit his
measurements of standards.
Many a fine day of story-tell-
ino and make believe were mine
with Dad" at the helm.
Alabama Bob had been q
promising young law student
from a prominent southern
family. He was a fine Judge OF
stock and range conditions, and
above all of doge. True, he
spent long periods of inebrla-
ton. but there wasn't a range
man who wasn't ready to hire
him and his dog Sonny Boy,
"a hundred and twenty-five dol
lar Australian Shepherd.
Later, when Alabama BOD
was taken away, Tony, a man
who had studied to be an orth-
odox priest, fell heir to the dog.
It took him a week to convince
Sonny Boy that he was his mas
ter. Today Tony is a wealthy
man in money, nature, books
and music.
Then there were Dan and
Pete, who also had many splen-
did qualities.
Somehow as I recall these
shepherds, they bring to my
mind the picture I like best
of all: Our Savior, with the
lamb on his arm.
I went on the trip with Rob-
ert Ye1ioNtail Sunday. Surely
as the clouds kiss those hills,
they leave just a little bit of
heaven
The youngsters are learning
that those little round things
called dollars come through
hard labor.
Summer, I find, is a warm
hearted maiden.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23

for a Chicago trip. Three of the
highest rating trip winners will
be awarded cash college schol-
arShips of $500, 5000 and 500.
No fee or obligation of any
kind is required of contestants
except that they be bona fide
All club members carrying
on livestock projects.
In nine years $40 boys have
won gold watches as state pri-
yes, 81 boys and one girl have
received trips to the national
All club congress and Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition, and
$4,000 in college scholarships
have gone to national winners.
These awards are annually
accepted by the state extension
service from Thomas E. Wilson,
as valued incentives to boys to
master problems of successful
production, marketing and exhi-
bition, and develop superior
herds and flocks to help them
through college or start farm
ing for themselves.
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Decker News

Decker community expert
enced another soaking rain.
Friday afternoon. Although hail
ell IN some parts no damage
was reported, and all in all
1t was good for the growing
crops and range, which are
looking good-better than they
have for some years. The COM
munity is looking forward to
good harvest this fall.
Vincent Miller, who has bean
employed by Gordon Hanson
near M~etetsee, Wyo., returned
home Friday and is visiting at
the home OF his aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. O.. A. Miller.
Mrs. Doll Lane and Mrs. Ray
mond Helton and infant dau-
glitter, Janet, visited at TIE
home of Mrs. Lanes parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Armstrong,
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. Milligan of the relief Of
ficeS in Hardin, was a business
caller in the Decker community
Tuesday.
Cricket poisoning was begun
in the community this week.
In. some places the pests are
quite thick. L. H. Taylor is head
of the cricket gang in the COM
munity.
R. T. Sullivan and Mr.. Muir
ply, of the water board en-
gineers at the Tongue River
Dam, left Wednesday for FL
zada, Montana, where they are
to work on a project.
Frank Bowman OF the WPA
employment service at Billings
was a business caller here the
first part of the week.
Mrs. Eileen Helton and chill
dren visited Thursday at the
James Armstrong home.
Mr.. Wanderly of the Mont
gomery-Ward store in Sheridan
was a business caller in the
community Monday.
Robert Helton was in the nei-
ghborhood visiting relatives this
week.
Among the Deckerites in
Sheridan this week were: Mrs.
Eileen Helton, Miss Edna Mae
Helton, MI. and Mrs. Dudley
Techner and children, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Armstrong and fam
lily, Jimmy and Everett, Powers,
Mr. and Mrs Ray Sawyer, MIR.
and Mrs. Doll Lane, and Mr..
and Mrs. John Buckley.
The regular meeting of the
school board for this district
was held Monday at Squirrel
creek. Bids for the new school
clerk were opened and the low
est bid was entered by Mrs.
W. T. Raglan. However the clerk
already in office, Mrs. Lois
Hamilton, offered to take a low
er wage, and although she en-
tered no bid was given the job
for the coming year. Teachers
were also selected for the COM
ing term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Massaro
and family of Acme, Wyo., Mrs.
Rookie Carbone and children,
D. Carbone and Dominic Car
bone were guests Sunday at
the Primo Bartot home.
Mrs. Shumaker and son Vic
tor of Dayton, visited Sunday
at the home of their daughter,
and sister, Mrs. Starr Nash.
Miss Evelyn Woods of Sher-
idan, and Miss Shirley Schu-
bert of Lodge Grass are visit
ing at the home of their grand
mother, Mrs. O. A. Miller.
Marvin Kenneth, who has
been employed near Hardin re-
turned to the community this
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23
EDITORIAL

In putting on the Rodeo here
tomorrow and Saturday the
American Legion is doing a fine
service to the business houses
and people of Hardin. Business
firms will undoubtedly increase
their sales, while the money
earned from the rodeo will be
donated to organizations and
youth programs in Hardin SUCH
as the American Legion baseball
team.
We as business men can slow
our appreciation in one way,
that is by closing our places
of business from l to 5 anu at
tend the show.
The Chamber of Commerce
has endorsed the plan of clos
ing the stores on rodeo days,
so let's fall in line and cooper
ate.
We took a short tour with
county Extension agent G. w.
G~ustafson Monday to view the
work being done by the cricket
control crews with the oiling
6 I'D tin barriers on the Two Leg
gin ditch. Great work is being
done in controlling the pests as
was proven by the punches OF
dead crickets killed by the oil
on the water and the traps.
It was our first close up OF
the war being waged against the
cursed anabruS purpurescenS,
and though they had nearly all
reiterated to the high grass dur
ing the heat of the day we could
see that crops on the north side
of the ditch would be short lived
If the pests were allowed to cross
the ditch.
"A few days ago we saw some
tourists from Massachusetts go
through Hardin. A MaSSachus-
.etts car gong through Hardin
is not an uncommon occurrence,
out when they have skis tied on
the back of their car and the
thermometer is crowding IS de-
grees that is an equine of a
different hue. The travellers
'Here unQOuDLeQry going 10 10
some skiing up in the noun
tains, but we will wager our
bottom dollar that those SKIS
caused a lot of comment be-
tween here and Massachusetts,.
- o -
While we are on tie subject
of tourists, just one word more.
The tourist season is getting
into full swing and great num-
bers of foreign cars are passing
through our city daily. We owe
it to Hardin and the tourists
to be friendly and courteous to
them. I
Filling stations and reStaur-
ants will come in closer COIL
tact with the travellers than
most of us, but we as individuals
will have a chance to answer
questions. If we treat them corr
teously they will always say a
good word for Hardin and its
people.
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tEH-. -AL=IE tEE-l-EEA
In this column readers of the
Tribune : Herald may express
their opinions on any matter
of general interest. Amy person
who wishes to sign a fictitious
name must send their correct
name and address to the editor
for reference. Such names will
be kept confidential unless it is
necessary to make them public.
Dear Public: .
There was a bond election
June ID, 1888. We, the people
whose children need that school
lost. Thanks to providence there
IS gong to be another school
bond election July Z.
It has been discovered that
a great many taxpayers were
not informed about the issue.
In one instance the polls were
not opened. There were Others
informed and at opened polls
who politely did not vote. And
it ralned!
Mr.. Business Man of Hardin,
Grow Agency and st. Xavier
Most OF you are taxpayers. May
I suggest to you that school
taxes are the incest boomerang
that I know of.
The pleasure of doing bust
ness with nice, young intelll-
gent people is the result of
education. Just one more year
of crowded conditions will make
a mark that will take years to
wipe out.
There were a great many fail
ures, too many, in our schools
this spring. 1t was not because
the teachers were bad Or in
competent, nor the Superintend-
ent neglectful, nor was it the
school board. It was the people
who failed to realize that the
school population would treble
last year .
This is just the beginning.
The living quarters have doub-
led in the last year. This is due
to a business enterprise that
has come into the county and
is erecting dwellings for work
ers with no margin OF gam.
Surely the least we can DO
to cooperate is to give our sup
port at the coming bond lection,
for a bigger and better school
so that the few people will not
give up in sheer disgust and
leave this vast acreage to blue
stem and vitality hurt the mil
lion and a half enterprise we
point to with so much pride;
an institution that puts bread
and butter on our tables and
that enables more people to
come and build a community
founded on that tangible quail
ity called character.
Our children are forced by
law to attend little cracker box
structures, which are fire haz-.
ards far greater than we care
to admit. They are forced to
drink from the common water
bucket in winter and to use
outdoor toilets. I know of one
case where over 100 used two
of these for the year OF 1887
SO.
What are we, as taxpayers
and neighbors, that we expect
first class citizens to grow out
of crowded, unSanitary condi-
lions such as these?
Please show your face. Come
out and vote one way or the
other, July 7, 1888.
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Sunday on the home field and
were defeated decisively, with q,
score Of 20 to 6 in the Lodge.
Grass teams favor. The Tongue
River team, newly started and.
still unorganized, was no match.
for the Lodge Grass players.
One slight injury occurred dur.
ing the game. D. Waddle, Lodge.
Grass pitcher, had to be re-
placed during the game.
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week.
Louie Brandt Of Hardin Wis
tied with Lawrence Helton Sum
day.
Leo Helton, who is driving a
caterpillar tractor on a con-
%struction job near Fly Inn, was
home for a short visit over
the weekend.
The Tongue River dam base
ball team played Lodge Grass,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23

Swimmers of the Olympic
Club circled Treasure Island i'll
a four-man relay race, finish
ing the three and a half nile
competition in one hour, twen-
ty-one minutes, forty three and
five-tenths seconds.
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one seems to offer an explana-
ton.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Rep.
Dave E. Satterfield, Jr., of Vir-
ginia: Thirty years ago no one
had heard about a floor under
wages nor a ceiling above hours;
10 WPA case worker was out
looking for clients; no National
Youth Administration was Of
fering a college education on
easy terms. The only alphabet
ical arrangement we knew any
thing about was the old Abe
Lincoln 'RHOD,' which meant
root hog or die"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23

W JAMES PREsToN

Congressional probing is a
continuous process in the Ma
tional Capital, but seldom have
there been as many ~investiga-
tons during adjournment as
there will be this summer. At
least a dozen inquiries are to
be conducted by the groups re-
manning behind, spending ap-
proximately 81, 100000 between
now and November elections.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-06-23

Inere Deen as many mVeStlga-
tons during adjournment as
there will be this summer. At
least a dozen inquiries are to
be conducted by the groups re-
manning behind, spending ap-
proximately 81, 900, 900 between
now and November elections.
In the months ahead there
will be staged a wide range of
Investigations by Congressional
groups. They will delve into
varied fields of business, gcy-
ernment and politics. Their
work is significant because their
findings and recommendations
will be the basis for many legis-
lative proposals at the next SEES
sion of the Congress-.
Largest and most spectacular
of summer inquiries will be the
half million dollar probe of So
called "monopolies." Whether it
is to be a genuinely constructive
probe of all phases of the prob
lem or is merely to be a stage
for more anti-buSineSS fireworks
displays is the question on the
minds of the Capitals neWSpa-
per corps and other obserers.
Spokesman for industry have
gone on record as favoring a
Study of the monopoly prob
lem but urge that it be broad
enough to include all "monop-
olies." In that event, the present
monopoly of government in the
field of taxation and regulation
and the monopolistic dominance
of some labor unions over the
freedom of workers should not
be overlooked, they feel.
Citizenship in this free land of
ours-the richest in the world
from the standpoint of living
standards, wealth and resources
lis still worth $40, government
officials have decided after con-
siderable elaboration. Therefore,
they have spiked q move to low
er the fees on naturalization
papers.
The price" for admission to
this stronghold of Democracy
has varied considerably in re-
cent years. It went from Sc TO
$50 in boom days and then
dopped to $40 in 1884. It's worth
many times that, we'd say.
incidentally, the foreign-born
Americans are coming in for
attention under the new pump
printing spending programme
WPA is teaching them Aesop's
famous Fables" as part Of its
work! ~.
And here's another pump that
is being primed by WPA: It has
allotted nearly 100000 for men
to count the trees in a mid
western city!
Even government, it seems,
has its seasonal peaks and val
leys." A seasonal pickup" is
the reason given by the gov
eminent for the recent increase
in the number of government
employees. An increase of g.
BAT is reported for the month
of April, bringing the total num-
Der of persons on the federal
payroll to a new all time peak
of 826, 81
And what season" is it? No
The Washington times., 1938-02-12
The Tax-DOdging Instinct

Still itching is the recent decision Of the Circuit
Court of Appeals at New Orleans that Georgia State
colleges do not have to pay Federal amusement taxes
on their football game admission receipts.
The courts reasoning quaint, naive and beside
the point 1t reasoned that athletics has gone hand
in hand with education since the days Of the ancient
Creeks that therefore football is necessary State
function when State college INDUCES in it. and hence
not taxable by the Federal Government; and that
though there may have been some professionalism IN
college football at one time, that condition has
been largely eliminated. Take time out for a sncker
at that last one though it's far wide of the point.
The point is that football is an amusement, and
hence should pay amusement taxes just theaters,
MOVIES crchses, prize fights and other amusements
do. The four State colleges trying to dodge Fed
eral amusements taxes-Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota,
West Virgnia-are swnishly trying to get out of
paying tax which in all right and justice they should
pay. And they doing pretty well in their tax
lodging effort up to
But the tax lodging instinct is not confined to State
college officials We're all afflicted with it. Breathes
there with soul pure that he will not gyp
M;11;ono. the tax collectors out of some tax he
knows he should pay, if he get away
0''''O"S with it? We doubt it; would even lay
small bet on it.
This universal swinish instinct has piled up some
notable achievements in our democracy, where Con-
gressmen and Senators fear the voters and where
pressure groups organize to play on that fear-and
where courts frequently line up the side of privilege
against the general welfare.
A multitude of activities coming under the general
head of philanthropy pay income taxes.
The biggest single tax-dodging device of all is the
tax-exempt public security the Federal state city,
county special district bond.
We can't go unloading and more of the
taxes on old Joe Doakes without making Joe blow up
sometime He won't stand it forever What we need
is a revised and simpfied tax system, under which
every income will pay the proper tax for its sze with
the exemption racket tossed bodily over the side
The Washington times., 1938-02-12
His Prayer

IF LINCOLN WERE AMONG US TODAY, on this
/ his birthday he would offer up this most simple
prayer: "God, have mercy and give US understand
ing" And if God fit to grant this prayer, and
to help humans in their weakness and their wander
ing all mans problems would fall away before that
one great blessing: Understanding. That quality
was the soul of Lincons greatness 1t is the great
need of the world today.
Abraham Lincoln was President of this nation be-
fore, during and after our between the States,
called the Civil War.
Hell hath no fury" to match the fierce bitterness of
hate within family within nation. You that in
SPANS civil today: Cities ruthlessy bombed women
Tbo E,rv of and children blasted to bits, and all
to "demoralize the enemy"
CtCH war Your grandfathers saw the
thing in own Civil War; when Sherman marched
through Georgia." burning and destroying everything
in his path, to "demoralze the enemy"
You see the same cruelty in the Far East today when
Orientas battle Orientals until ankles are washed in
blood.
At time when there is so little of mercy or under
standing among men, there is inspired guidance in read
ing again the simple pleas of rockfaced Lincoln, whose
heart and sympathy surpassed that of many mother
How he prayed for understanding within this wartorn
nation:
with malice toward none; with charity for all; with
frmness in the right God gives to the right,
let US strive to bind up the wounds of nation,
to for him who shall have borne the battle and for
his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve
and cherish just and lasting ourselves,
and with all nations"
The deep truth of that plea is Of greater significance
today when you consider that there few nations
uv1J D. in which leader would feel
~ inclined to express such sentiment
CGtIed weak before his people-it would be called
"weak and womanish."
And you could count upon the fingers of wounded
hand the nations in which would dare stand up
and close speech with the simple words that Lincoln
used to punctuate his immortal Gettysburg address, de-
livered upon the bloodest battlefield of civil
Read though you have read it before his re-
sounding prayer
&c. that this nation, under Cod shall have
birth of freedom and that government Of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth"
The Washington times., 1938-02-12
Defends D. A. r.

Included in your Letters to
the Editor column was one
capped "Dislikes D. A. r." Do
you really think this letter
showed the writer had thought
out his arguments before he
picked his pen for malicious at
tacking? He is most assuredly
not well up on his subject.
The D. A. r., as is well known,
is made up Of the members OF
the group Of descendants Of
those men who took an active
part in the war for American
independence.
OF course, the large number
Of men who fought in this war
were the farmers, undesirableS
of other countries and profes.
sional suckers-of-wealth. Most
certainly they were not the Wash
ingtons, FranklinS, Morses and
Smiths, who were wealthy, up
per-clasS gentry. There were so
few of these members Of the
elite that if they all had had
children they still would not
make up the large number Of
members of the present order
going under the title Of the
D. A. r.
These women, the majority Of
whom are descendants of the
aforementioned group, would
have labor's good at heart and
rightly so since they are trying
to carry out the work started
by their ancestors.
They have inaugurated many
reforms for the betterment of
labor.
The bridges and teas Of these
women are given the publicity,
but their continual struggle for
the advancement Of labor, edu-
cation, perpetuation Of Ameri-
can ideals are left in the dark.
The Washington times., 1938-02-12

crowned Emperor OF India
A fascinating place is Delhi,
holding allure for the traveller
and for the lover of history, art
or architecture. Here stones
and relics tell the story of seven
successive cities, while nearby
is the eighth Delhi at Shahjaha-
nabad, a splendid seat Of i'm
perial government. But it is the
ancient cities that fascinate
the visitor, considering that
modern Delhi dates back to
1898.
Through Kashmir gate there
is the road to Muttra, and due
south are the lofty walls Of the
fort and palace of Shah Jahan.
Built during the years 1640-8, it
is one of the loveliest gems Of
oriental architecture, having in
it the Diwan-i-Am, the great
Durbar hall and the hall of
special audience with its pea
cock throne.
Shah Jahan believed in dis