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VOLUME XI WISDOM, MONTANA, THURSDAY. MARCH 8. 1923. NUMBER 21 Stagnation Conserves? BIG IDAHO RANCHER TO MILK Political agitation is again coming to the front regarding the natural resources of the West, and an at tempt is being made to block their development by the cry of \conser vation.” ' Under the present Oil and Min eral Land Leasing bill and the Fed eral Water Power Act, both of which were passed less than three years ago as constructive measures in the public interest, more develop ment has taken place in the West than would ever have been possible under the stagnation policy, luisr named \conservatiou which previ ously prevailed. The best act ever drawn may need amendment, and while these acts may not be perfect it would be folly to tamper with them in such a manner as to crip ple the progressive industrial policy they have made possible under gov eminent co-operation and supervi sion. A program allowing development of the great latent resources of the West does not mean a policy that turns over to private interests, with out restriction, the heritage of eith er the states in question or the rights of future generations A con structive national policy toward theae resources does mean, however, that it is possible to effaft legisla tion which will allow development so much needed by the present gen eratlon, while at the same time government rights are fully protect ed, as well as the interests of future generations The East has been misled by >hu cry of politicians who kuow lit t ie 01 lu ll ing of the West but who think the word \conservation\ sounds good and will get them votes Why don'* they tell the people that the goMi’iment owns 8 5 per cent of all till undeveloped water power of the \ e et ? Why don 't they t ell the peo pie that no private interests can gain title to this other than for a lease pe :od of t>0 years, at the end of wh'Ch lime the government may take the development over itself or extend the lease, as it sees fit? Why don't they tell the people that government oil lands are so pro tented that leases granted return to tile government millions of dollars annually when oil is discovered, and when dry holes are sunk the govern ment stands none of the loss? Why don't the politicians tell you that the greatest hydro-electric de velopment in the world today is tak ing place in the West, with the re sult that in a few short years there is every probability that ail the transportation lines west of the Rockies will he operated i|y elec tricity? Why don't the so-called “conser vationists\ tel! the wonderful saving this will mean in railroad equipment now tied up in coal caia; why don't they tell you the vast quantities of eoal this will gave, and thelabor that will thus be released for other useful occupations? Why don’t they tefl you the benefits the fanner will derive that can come only with elec trical development? Why don't they tell you the advantages that will com« from the proposed har nessing of the Colorado river, which will irrigate and make habitable sev eral millions of acres of land that now lies waste in a half dosen states Why do the politicians ten yon this is merely & Western problem? Why don’t they tell yon this is a na tional problem in which the East hag more at stake than the West for the simple reason that from the West come« food and raw materials that make possible living and employ ment in the East? Why don't the politicians tell the people that the West mast be developed in order to furnish an outlet hi the fatare for the overflow population of the East? Preaching serriee next Sunday Why don't they ten yen that every h 11, in the Tope school house water tew s t y a given paint *t S : M p m John W Sonok, at his place near Baker, is effecting a radical change in the conduct of bis ranching opera tons and is turnng his chief atentio,n to dairy farming. He has iu the past run an exceptionally fine beet herd, utilizing the public range, and keeping on his ranch a few sheep and swine. Now he is branching out, intending to keep dairy stock and aimiug to milk about 40 head of cows on an average all the time. He already has 15 milkers aud within the last few days has bought 17 ad ditional—having gotten four from Mrs. King's Jersey herd, 11 from Bill Ogilvie and three from Frank Harris. The King cows are pure Jer seys and the balance are Durham and Jersey grades. He intends to break enough heifers so that he can milk 40 head all summer; and, having plenty of the very best green pasture, will be properly equipped to do this under most favorable con ditions He also has other stock which, by having an abundance of hay, he is well able to carry Next Saturday he will ship a carload of fat steers and expects to go with them to the market He kept 17 brood sows* over winter and will be able, with good luck, to market a car of hogs this fall And he has 40 sheep on the ranch to clean up weed patches and do the browsing in underbrush districts He has drawn plans for an immense new barn to be erected within the coming cummer or fall with loom to house and properly qare for his milk herd He is now delivering cream to the Salmon cieamery and hopes that the mar ket for Hits product as well as for all other ranch stuff will be good dur ng 1923—Salmon Herald There’s room for a lot of comment iut we prefer to \let it soak in\ for the present Mr Snook is pretty well known, by reputation at least, n the Big Hole—and he has to haul his cream a lot further than any of our ranchers have to; or else ship t by rail, and that field Is open to the Big Hole. EXPECTING THE IMPOHS1BLE \May the possible happen\ was a prayer put into the mouth of a de vout Moslem in a story read by a contributor to a Tariff publication which comes to our desk A great many people, some of them in the BifjkHole, are evidently expecting the inipossible to happen There are men iit this valley who paid more for eom# of their land than it is worth today—or ever will be worth unless action is taken in the right direction. A million-dollar advertising cam paign is being inaugurated by the railways extending into the Pacific Northwest and every community is asked, aye, urged, to set forth its claims so that the railway advertis ing bureaus can attractively state a series of facts to the prospective homeseeker. Some time ago at a meeting of the Big Hole Basin Stockmens assoeia tion a committee wa sappointed to ascertain how many of oar ranchers are willing to part with a portion of their holdings, and at-what price. A meeting along these lines was held at Jackson.. President George Par sons and Secretary Quist of the asso ciation, accompanied by some of the Wisdom business men, attended this meeting. The secretary ordered The News to print & blank form upon which to record the data secured by this committee—and that’s all! Where, 0 where, is the old-time pep of this community ? Are we go ing to fight against fate, or aft idly by and watch Inferior districts profit by our negligence? Come on, boys, let’s go! CHUTWAH NOTES that ft te dm M ? la v m i of “poîfüeaa ee®*erv*tieu\ ~ w & ~ m a r n m m w m m s which mesas «tfitaatfew of 1 r A s servie es the following Sunday at W M mb , *:W p. m. TMs wfH he a tie w m f c i service. Those who W l*t«w te* t a w «esírew of «he «fecrefe h r M t n e r L eri I s m d a t e ; «Sm á o s e who _ R U D E R U R A L R H Y M E S NOBODY bbVES THB DENTIST I’m linked to grief with no relief, to misery apprenticed; because, forsooth, 1 have a \tooth that calls me to the dentist. Though I’m s décent, kindly man and he a worthy wight, I hope he fall* and breaks a leg that I may win respite. In vain, ia. vain my wicked wish, in vain is all my sorrow; he will a&L^utip or bust a hip, and I must go tomorrow. Kids need ¿ood milk with garden truck and fruit to build up teeth.. They ought to brush the same iu front, in back and underneath. But I, alas, in younger days refused each healthful stunt, and when 1 had bad teeth behlud I chewed my food in front. If all my teeth went back on me I did not .sit and squall, but picked out soft aud Juicy food and did not chew at all. My teeth would crunch up big beef bones, with nice rich marrow freighted; if 1 had sought the dentist then and had them nickle-plated. Alas, my milk teeth dropped too soon, aiid when 1 got my molars they suffered from my careless ways and soon wwewre aching holers. My father should have grabbed my hair, he should have put on blinder, then dragged me to the dentist’s chair and thus preserved my grinders O, you who have the welfare of kids upon your hearts, I pray you scorn not dentists nor shun their useful arts. 0, let them fill the baby teeth and keep them iu the gum, to hold the Htle jaws in shape until the others come. Behold the kids within whose mouth Doc Jones has never pawed; they all have bum, black, snuggly teem; they all are wupperjawed. —BOB ADAMS ! Ì i I ! ! i EAST l-’OX SCHOOL NOTES The percentage of attendance dur ing February was 100 The following pupils were neither tardy nor absent during the month Alma, Hester, Helen Olsen, Grace, ldella, Dorothy and Charlie Ousted Stories of Washington’s and Lin coln's birthdays have been complet ed and sent to Miss Roe, county «u- penntendenl. * Alma Olsen ranked highest in spelling stars and four received the same highest average. Virginia Ousted, Josephine Quig ley, Charlie Olsen and Hubert Bus bey were February visitors Josephine Quigley conducted an YANK INGENUITY BEATS TURK Celebrated \Yankee ingenuity\ and determination have scored again —this time against the designs of the unspeakable Turk \ Every one of the 200,000 orphans under the care of the Near East relief—ehil then whose lives have been saved by help given by the people of this and other sections of this state, In co-operation with other states of the Union—is now safe from molesta tion in the anti-Christian crusades of Asia Minor, which have shocked the world Americans \bought\ the lives of these children when they were starv ing and freezing and homeless, and it was Americans who accomplished the feat of protecting that \invest interesting spelling match at which\ merit” by getting them out of the Alma Olsen proved winner The Pearl 1 Smith spelling font*** is in full swing, each pupil striving for the 100 mark Mr Faulkner of Wisdom left us a nice pile of sawed wood Alec Peterson and Charlie Olsen selected four nice poles for swings which will lie put up in the spring. Charlie Olsen has been repairing broken parts in the school house. Virginia Ifusted visited us Valen tine's day and asked if the valen tines would be passed when the hands go shut, past three. death haunted area of war and mas- et - t - t uw A er the r e r j nowea wt tVi«Vr worst enemies, seemingly gone mad with frenzied hatred for Christians Twenty thousand of these orphan wards of the Near East Relief have been taken out of the interior of Turkey since the massacre of Chris tians and the burning (tif JB6.000 Christian homes at Smyrna a few weeks ago This is the report given out by Barclay Acheson, the associ ate general secretary of the Near East Relief during a visit last Hester, don't whisper Teacher any more. Hester low voice Charlie Is the teacher in? Alma: You don't think he'd working this way, do you? week at Northwestern headquarters meaning quarter ^is fi,l(:lety b* Spokane. “Two Americans of the Near East Relief field lost their lives trans porting these orphans to new places Jof safety,\ said Mr Acheson “Th-ou- I was just talking in a sands of little beys and girls had to 'walk as far as five hundred miles Much of the trip was through moun tain passes and blinding winter e terms, but today every child is safe With continued American aid, we be 1 will continue to train these children for self-support and for leadership in agriculture, industry, home-mak ing and government so they will be Dorothy. I am going to clean oat ^ ¡ g j0 reyj ve an(j redeem the Near East nations now blasted and left dead by war, oppression and perse cution, M W’inans, Near East Relief. Helen : W’here are the two'bright est pupils in school? Grace: In teacher's eyes. my desk Hester: Why? Dorothy: So I'll grow up to be a clean housekeeper. Teaeher: Embalming preserves a dead person’s body. Helen: Will their souls go heaven if that is done? DEMOLAY CHAPTER to JACKSON NEWS NOTES Mrs. Henry Olsen gave a ehlekea dinner Friday for Mr». Johnson asá Mrs Kramer. The Ladies Aid will gire a card party (509) next Saturday for the benefit of the Children’s Home at Helena. A good program has been arranged and the festivities include a pfe social; wherefore all members are expected to being a pie or two. Bob Wpody sustained a fractured skull throngh sot neddent last was takes to a Sctte bos ■ad ft is expected he « t i Melita chapter of the order of De- Molay was formally Instititnted at Masonic temple Monday night, 27 boys befBg received info the organi sation. St. Omar eoramandery of the Knights Templar Is sponsor for the Mefita chapter and a committee of Templars was in charge of- the to- t,tails tie® ceremonies and the con fer! ing of the two degrees of DeMo- lty Monday evening. This is an order for the sons of Masons, and yoaths recommended and sponsored by Ma sons, who are at least 19 years of age bet net old enough to join the Masonic fraternity yet. Thor# are t l chapters of DeMolay In the those a t BHBags, Bette, he « tlldriacstos haring kindreds ed 'hers. Of the 27 m s i M Masons initiated 1 m m Riji SGMr I m 'pHrPP GROWING BETTER EVERY DAY Listening to gossip, which does not mean that the only gossip to be heard comes from the gathering of two or more women, for a sa matter of fact there is just as much gossip in the billiard room and the business office as at a bridge party or pink tea, it would seem that our high school girts and boys, as well as ail of the young generation, are going to the bad on high speed. This newspaper does not believe such to be the case nor are we disciples of the theory that we are growing be ter day by day in every way. People are always eager tor some mysterious reason, to find fault in others. They gladly pounce ou an occasional error by a doctor. They forget the thousands, even millions of cases where the doctors did not make a mistake You see this psychological price pie illustrated in the popular notion that we are living in an age of crime We read that 10,000 Americans are murdered a year—and foiget that about 110 million others are not murdered Then we read that a doz en big holdups have been staged, aud we nml our heads aud discuss the crime wave, forgetting the mil lions of cases where people daily go about their business without being molested for money A few school girls, intoxicated by their emotions, commit depredations Promptly the public talks about the \flappers\ aud decides that the mod era girl Is a grave problem Trouble is, we usually hear only of the evil There's a thousand times more good rlian evil in the world Let's watch for the good and give tt some of the publicity ruslo mary to crime The boys and girls of today are no different than the boys aud girts of 60 or 70 years ago it Is true they are wiser and farther advanced In the line of education, tint there Is a difference In environment The home, as some of us knew it, lias gone. It has become in many in Stits Industrial Review Eureka has the only plant In the world which manufactures rnucuc acid, The concern, now producing at a ratetom 1,250,000 pounds per year, will double its output in the next 12 months Shelby: Boc petroleum well on the Liberty dome In estimated to be a 10-barrel produce. i’opla: Moe than$12.000 in cream checks cashed in seven months in Roosevelt county. Great Falla: Development of the Kevin-Sunburst field resumed. It is estimated that the u-orth field will produce 8 6,400.000 barrels. Great Fulls: Circle Oil company organized to drill on 10.000 acres of teases held on the UoosebUl struc ture iu Liberty county. Kalispell Approxiiuiately two million acres of timberland in nmth- we.stern Montana were protected from fire the past reason at a cost of 7 mills per acre. Shelby Work on a large supply house of the National Supply com pany started Lewialuwi. Fifteen weilla to he drilled by the llomestake Explora tion company Great aFlle Archland Refining plans to build a refinery apartment stances only a place to eat. and steep Restore the home as ft'W # kITT B* century ago and you will find that the hoys and girls will take pride and pleasure in spending their even ings at home.—The Silver State LODGES <'ONNOLIDATE Wisdom and Jackson Odd Fellows lodges have consolidated, Jackson absorbing the Wisdom lodge Dis trirt Deputy Grand Master Roy Ford of Jackgon with Nolle Grand Joe Kramer and M C Jackson of the Jackson lodge, came down last Thursday night and took over the (barter, paraphernalia and equip ment of the Wisdom lodge This consolidation carries with it a one-third Interest in the post-office building erected jointly by Golden Link lodge No 21 I () () F and (''has J Bell Mr Bell was made custodian of the hail and it is ex peeled the anterooms wilt be rernov ed and the lodge room converted into a place for public meetings and dances. It is admirably situated for such purposes, easy of access, being spacious, well lighted and ventilated < AT<mVG CABARET SPIRIT Wisem i* agog with the cabaret spirit. Ladies of the Library associ ation are working diligently that their friends and-patroni may not be disappointed Saturday night, and it's dollars to doughnuts they won't. This sort of entertainment, while very popular In other localities, is unknown In Wisdom. Nevertheless wheat Wisdom ladies \puFl off\ any thing in the way of an entertain ment we all know it's going to be good; and the cabaret Saturday night, which Is given for the purpose of raising funds to pay for reined rims the Community building, will prove tee exception to the ml«. t E MORSE BITS BULLS J E MoraC Denton Oliver sad Lou Heyrwp visited the U—U ranch last week m i trove away 27 Shorthorn halls m i tfi o< the ten* «Mi the company he re llt-lona A modern house is to he huiit Kalispell I,umber , shipments how a big gain, 10,000 cars sent to market last year, which ts an in crease of 3 000 ears over the previ- ii!« year Missoula is planning u new waU-r plan! Helena ships loo cars potatoes Gala la Showing of oil and gas (n the Heck petroleum well is proving good Winnetl Many rigs are ready to start testing Flatwillnw next spring llmlowtou Durand irrigation pro ject Is to reclaim 20,000 acres of land at a cost of «44 20 an acre .G reat Fall».. IZiUHiO Jiakl fur uua 2lb acre Kevin tract, Shelby is to have a brick plant to tie equipped to handle 4n,(inn dry pressed and re pressed bricks daily II will cost 160,000 anil will employ steadily 25 men Shelby Dakota Montana company planning to drill six wells Lewistown Gasoline car to Mur ritsin is now in service Baker Absoroka -Florence ready is ready to spud In Head driller and crew on the ground Montana cattle's condition is re ported loo per cent normal Great Falls Plans for the im provement of the Alezar theater building, involving an expenditure of 120 . 001 ), under w-ay Helena. With the opening of spring thes greatest amount of street improvement work in the history of Helena will he taken up Shelby Well to be drilled within the city limits Helena- Total oil transported through pipe lines from aCt Creek arid Kevin Sunburst fields of Mon tana during 1922 w-as 2,138.854 barrels. Hobson: Steel corporation plans to develop western iron ore. Shelby: Four refineries distribut ed through the Kevin Snnlm-rs-t field to be huiit. Great Falls: Construction of 25 miles of double track ft) be built be tween Java and Nyat-k on the Kalls- pelf division of the Great Northern started. Contractor Knudsen has finished the work of remodeling the Commu nity building and ft presents an in viting appearance. The auditorium extends east and west ia the bald ing, giving good seating capacity, a stage occupies the east end of the room, and the kitchen has been lo cated at the north end of rhe build ing. A serving window has belli built In. which will prove a feeding a crowd. Mrs. L T Durand returned Mon day night with her little sen horn at ~ wl vsmwr-mr. \fritf* hi “wS «write! e s tendi** « a i a * f t If* « t e
