The Glacier reporter., 1963-06-20
a MINUTE
WITH MI

provoking motto. Anu so u Is
for more than one reason.
In glancing over The Mon
tana Post. the official news
letter of The Montana Historical
Society. we noted an article
titled. North American Animals
In Miniature Sculpture" This
In itself is nothing new or
hardly worth a second glance
unless ones eye happened to
catch the phrase. Hungarian
horn Louis Paul Jones. distin-
guishcd taxidermist and sculp-
tor
We read on to absorb the full
story and this is what We
learned: The Montana HistOr-
lcal Society. with a membership
or choice OF 4 hundred Montana
born artists and sculptOrs. has
recently made an exclusive ar
rangement with the Hungarian
born sculptor for distributor
ship of his repcrtOry of
miniature casts. ranging in
price from $1,000 to $4,000.
Little wonder. thought, that
this Is the land of opportunity
We don't deny the fact that
everyone IS entitled 10 make a
living. American born or other
wise. nor do we object 10 the
Societies securing the best
sculptor TO do the job for them
but we do not agree that
MIR Jonas is the best man for
the Job or. that the Society did
the right thing in initiating an
exclusive distributOrship with
out first contracting the home
grown sculptOrs.
From the pictures shown in
the newsletter. we certainly
would not hesitate TO say that
we know Of al least a dozen
Montana sculptOrs who produce
more life-like miniature ]
don't think Mr.. Jonas special
compounded ceramic clay-latex
will help the scUl2tOr's hand
20 produce anv better miniature
than those produced by our
own Bob SERVER.
II is almost inCOnCeivable that
our own State Historical Society
would subscribe to such breech
Of ethics. and. it is no wonder
that Montana art work far out
lives the fame and fortune Of its
creators.
With the thousands Of years
that have Iapsed from the time
of Adam and Eve, many things
have changed greatly. and many
new things have com" into being
but. the relationship between
man and woman appears to.
have changed but little.
We still find hat woman IS
chasing man this time,
around the solar system, which.
of course. Adam never knew
existed or the poor guy would
probably have gone into orbit
n that early date Thus the
reprCduct!O1 line. and all things
related. would probably h ave
been much different than OF
today
Next. presume. il will be a
first to see what couple sets up
housekeeping in a spacehouse,
and who will be the tirsi-born
out Of the realms OF gravity.
Well. let's leave that To Rus
slams. We just amt Interested,
although we must admit that a
Let OF US oldsters did a little
courtin' on something less than
a mOonbeam, or possibly a shoe
string.
No. il may not be in the too
far distant nor could il be a
great stretch Of ones imagina-
ton to see the beiterhalf
coming home 10 be greeted at
the door by his loving wife who
might say The rJast isn't quite
done, dear. 81 il you want to
zip over to Saturn and bring
back some Of that RussiOn vcdka,
We can have appetizer before we
eat" Or. Where have you
been all day? over on Venus
chidding with those two-headed
blondes"
Il looks as il the Presidents
Civil Rights legislation is going
10 have mighty tough shedding.
Who or what is right, we viii
not venture TO say-but il is
obvious that Mr. Kennedy can no
longer depend on the southern
support for many OF his pro
posals on which he has put the
Must" label
II seems that he Is going too
far. and expecting a little too
much. in proposing that private
businesses must open their
doors 10 whoever knocks on
them. II an individual, footing
his own bills and obligated to no
one particularly the govern
ment. is forced by government