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Op THE INDEPENDENT MO a. 0 00 N A. 'Erri ice wa ay in- ol- ht lit le, re, d. no o . d , F. th of of a M. d- ng s - n, rk e- ur ty n - e; Sr ef it A Continuation of the Moccasin Dispatch Old Ssries Vol. IX, No. 13 MOCCASIN, JUDITH BASIN courrri. MONTANA, THURSDAY, MAY 8 r 1924 New Series Vol. IV, No,1,8 \When Interest Is Lacking Good -Will Will Soon Vacillate and Flag\ By PAUL SCOTT MOWSER, in \Our Foreign Affairs.* / T IS our duty anti our interest to accept frankly that place of pre- eminence in the world to which circumstances and oar own gather- ing energies have led us. Strong in our traditional pollcies, neither cringing nor bullying, neither meddling nor standing aloof, let us look to our interests wherever we may find them, and co-operate, as inter- est and good -will may dictate, with other peoples for the better ordering and more solid organization of that larger world in which we live. Policies whose foundations art sunk, not in the firm rock of national Interest but in such ideologies as prejudice, unjustified fear, sentimental affections or hatreds, the spi,it of reform or crusade, the sense of moral superiority, are built upon quicksand. \It is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind,\ wrote Washington to congress, \that no nation is to be trusted further than it is bound by its own interest, and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.\ This is to sty that, while sentiment is fickle, and betrays, interest is a true and faithful counselor; that nations which act upon interest are sure of them- selves and may be depended upon by others, whereas nations acting upon sentiment are of a changing mind, hard to understand and harder still to . co-operate with. . . . Where interest is lacking, good -will will soon vaeillate and flag; and without good -will no covenant is worth the parch- ment it is printed on, for the signatories will always find side doors out of their engagements, and will convince themselves that, in escaping so, their action has been wholly just and right. He who endeavors, therefore, to set up internationalism on pillars of ideology does the cause of peace and understanding among nations a great disservice, for his effort will be more likely to embitter than to reconcile. The true internationalist is he who is ever making analyses in terms of national interest, and who searches to discover those points, ever more mimerous in our modern world, at which the diverse interests of diverse peoples converge. There Are Several Main Reasons Why the Men ,Pull Out and Leave Home By MISS EDITH MASSEE, Family Welfare Ass'n. There are several main causes why men leave home. Pay checks don't go as far as they used to. The man remonstrates,gets mad and pulls out. The family may have increased. Costs may be higher, but the man doesn't understand; and when conditions become unbearable off he Low Lack of understanding on the part of the wife makes it worse. There is a cue where a smile, coming out of the difficulties of the home, would go a long way to straighten out matters. It ie then our business to put the family on a budget to show the Inman how to make a dollar go as far as possible, to spend the money wisely. We bring the man home, bring his money back into the house, and then work to have conditions better inside the home for the family. Another same is the \Eck wife.\ We care for the woman, give her hospital or medical attention if necessary, clean up the house and the chil- dren and try to make the place more attractive to the man. Back of all is the necessity of human understanding. We always find that where the woman is good-natured, where she is inclined to smile a bit, there is less inclination on the part of the man to quit and run. \Some Womerr in Every Age Drartk Liquor, a Few Even Enjoyed a Smoker—\ By DR. CHARLES J. SMITH. President Roanoke College. Some women in every age drank liquor, a few even enjoyed a smoke, many of them threw away their honor, bet the world has never known the turning loose of such an army of hard -drinking, cigarette -puffing, licen- tious Amazons as walk our streets and invade our campuses today. There are three things in college social life that bother us most— drinking, dancing and social impurity. We are prone to take them too seriously, especially if our college is a church institution. They exist in the world everywhere, and. I have personally known them to exist in our . own theological seminaries. What can we do when the daughters of the so-called \best people\ come out attired scantily in clothing, but abundantly in paint; with a bottle of liquor, not on the hip, but in the handbag; dance as voluptuously as possible in order to be attractive enough to be spoken about every other step, so as to appear popular, call for frequent intermissions to give them opportunity to quench their thirst from the bottle, and With the man of their choice engage in violent petting parties in the luxurious retreat of a big limousine? Two Popultr, Symbols of America: the Statue of Liberty and Uncle Sam By RALPH BARTON PERRY, in Century Magazine., There are two popular symbols of America. One is Columbia en- throned, or the Statue of Liberty enlightening the world. America, so symbolized, is a modern replica of Juno, whose chief concern it was to look after other people's morals. Juno was the Olympian prude, a model matron and self-appointed censor. It is to OW credit, however, that we have felt the need of another symboL While the Statue of Liberty embodies our conscious rectitude and inspires our laudatory and exemplary nationalism, Uncle Sam, thank God, is not a statue. He is so constituted that he could not by any stretch of the imagination'oceupy a pedestal.. He could not hold the pose with- out feeling ridiculous. He is hearty and fraternal, impulsive and generous, and, above all, unselfconscious. He has a kind of instinctive wisdom by which he anticipates and disarms the laughter of the world by laughing premptly at himself. It is Uncle Sam who feeds the hungry tramp at the back floor, while the Statue drbiberty reads him a lecture from the porch. It was Uncle SRM who went to Prance in 1917 and to Russia in 1919, while the Statue 91 Liberty remained at homt—on its pedestaL Christianity Lacking in Education of Child An article in a recent 'issue of the Literary Digat shows as a result of a series of tests, that more than half of the American school children will, under temp- tation, cheat, lie and steal. This is startling. It shows the teach- ing of underlying Christian. prin- ciples—now largely neglected—is an essential that ought to become , a part of ever.v public school curriculum. It shows that honest thinking and honest doing with absence of deceit . and trickery, re- fusal to yield good character to the whisperings of dishooest gain or dishonest advantage, should be carefully inculcated from the time a child enters the kindergarten until he is graduated from the high school. Then he would be better fortified to meet and sur- mount evil temptations that beset his pathway in later life. Members of the school board in a certain town met at the capi- tal city to look over the field of prospective superintendents and, teachers, recently, and expressed themselves as willing to pay the head of their school $1,000 a year more than the standard salary if they could find a man who would, twelve months of the year, radiate Christian principles. They said they did not want a nambypamby person, but one who was four- square, deeply imbued with the ideas of correct living and correct dealing, and one who clearly un- derstands the difference between right and wrong and who has the capacity to lead kindly and cour- ageously along right lines. This does not mean that a christian is not at the head of the average school. It means that the teach- ing of Christian principles has not been required, but that its need is pressing for attention and that there is a growing demand for school leaders who can and will make impartation of the principles of right living an important con- sideration in the public school's educational system. Teaching of religion has not been allowed in the schools main- ly because of conflicting beliefs over non -essentials. Protestants, Catholics and Jews do not agree on unimportant dogmas. Differ- ent protestant denominations de not agree. But all agree on the vital principles of Christianity and are working in the same di- rection. There is no good reason why any religious organization should frown on carefully guard- ed and systematic instruction in Christian principles—common hon- esty, square dealing, more of the Golden Rule, an effort to mini- mize deceit and self-seeking at the cost of character. On Christian principles, civilization rests and according to such principles civi- lization will advance quickly or slowly, or not at all. How one believes in baptism, or how one interprets Jonah's experience with the whale is not so important as how one exemplifies Christian principles in his daily thinking and daily conduct. Making de velopment of these principles a part of the school curriculum would materialle help, according to a growing belief.—Taken from the Moore Independent. •••• Local and Otherwise Items of Passing Interest from I Here, There and Everywhere. •••••••• .MEN. Sun& • is Mothers' Day. Twent days more and you can go \a -fish / 71 . Mrs. H. I). Thomas was on the I sick list the past two weeks. C. M. Strawman of Lewistown was a visitor here last Thursday and Friday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Brown on Sunday morning, May 4, a baby girl. A. L. George of Kolin was a visitor Tuesday at the H. D. Thomas home. Dora Faris was at Stanford last Thursday and Friday, taking the teachers' examination. We have a lot of All -Story mag- azines that we will be glad to give anyone for the asking. The Ladies Aid . met this after- noon with Mrs. L. A. Thompson, at the Kruckeberg ranch. Mrs. R. B. Thompson returned to Lewistown last evening after a visit at the Jackson home. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Hill and two children were visitors in Lew- istown Saturday afternoen. E. G. DeBusk and family are back from a winter spent in Cali- fornia, arriving here yesterday. H. M. Hill of near Bozemen was a guest at the D. A. Hill home over Sunday and Monday. Dochstetter of Lewistown was here during the week, look- ing after his farm interests north- west of town. Wm. Brownlee returned Friday from a business trip to Fessenden, N. D. Ile reports conditions there as rather unsatisfactory. Miss Alice Eveland left Satur- day en route to Bandon, Oregon, where she will be employed as of- fice girl and stenographer. , Meals and lunches at the Tourist Cafe. Also home -baked bread and pies on sa —Mrs. A. leOlm- stead, Proprietress. Adv. 7tf Second installment of 1923 taxes now (:iae and payable and must be paid by May 31, that day inclu- sive. Penalty and interest then attaches. D. 0. Holt returned Saturday from a business trip to Crookston, Minn. He was accompanied by a real estate man from Plummer, that state. Pasture for horses or cattle, or both. 1600 acres of good grass; running water year 'round. —F. F. Eaton, 10 1-2 miles northeast of Moccasin. 22-2tp Moccasin is again without a barber. H. L. Teeter, who con- ducted a shop here the past year, is at present . assisting with the spring work on the Ferry farm. N. F. Woodward,,,,who has gone through a long and serious illness from pleureepheumonia dating from early last winter, has been up and about a week or more and is gradually regaining strength. M. Hogan and son, James, left yesterday morning by auto for Kevin to look for employment in the oil fields. Mrs. Hogan ac- companied the men to Great Falls for a brief visit with her daugh- ter, Mrs. C. E. Harris. Peter Neilsen has leased the former B. E. Blackman home place and will move onto it as soon as he completes seeding a spring crop on the Bowlus farm east of town. We understand that Mr. Black- man has leased a farm in the vi- cinity of Hobson. Mrs. C. H. ' ° Taylor, who some weeks ago returned from an ex- tended stay in North Dakota and underwent a major operation in a hospital. in Lewistown, joined her husband here. last Thursday morn- ing. Mr. Taylor is again enjoy- ing home life in the Joe Brown cottage. Charles E. Porter, one of the pioneers of this section and holder some years ago of extensive acre- age east of town and since has dabbled in most everything and been almost everywhere in the northwest, visited in Moccasin an hour or two Sunday while on his wee to Hobson. He had been in Lewistown some time. His fami- ly is now in Spokane, after spend- ing the winter in southern Cali- fornia, Independent Quits • Plant to Be Moved Boom! Bang!! The bomb, set to a slow -burning fuse, has ex- ploded! With this issue, The In- dependent ceases to exist. Plant, type, etc., will be packed for re- moval to some other point and if our plans do not miscarry will be merged with a larger outfit in the -western part of the state. Last summer and fall, following a rutneus over school affairs, and which fuss became more or less distorted and exaggerated as it circulated about town and com- munity, we, as everyone else did, expressed our verbal opinion —a privilege every citizen is sup- posed to enjoy. Through this and differences in personal opinions as to seeing everything pertaining to the town, community and school in the big way adopted some years ago by the few would-be dictators, the idea was concocted by one or more of these persons, inflamed by the high-sounding ideals (1) of the Ku Klux Klan which had taken root here, to put the The Inde- pendent out of business and with- out giving us a chance to affirm, deny or say one word in defense, or even trying to find out if the accusations were true or made out of whole cloth. Their cry was: 'Burdick is out to 'bust' the Moc- casin schools!\ A review of the financial crisis that has been ap- proaching for several years and has about reached the climax and a visit to the county treasurer's office will show the average dis- cerning mind that the school sys- tem everywhere is drifting rapid- ly to bankruptcy. Forthwith, a meeting of a part of the business men and others of w the communiev,ho were either members of the K. K. K. or sympathizers as a matter of policy, met in secret sessions and con- cocted the scheme to withdraw their advertising and force others to withdraw their support from The Independent; in fact, institu- ted criminal boycott. Consequent- ly, as the issue of The Independ- ent of August 30, 1923, was in the postoffice we received written withdrawals of patronage from the following: Moccasin State Bank, by L. V. Jackson; G. W. Ball, D. (.). Holt, A. C. Scott, C. W. Hutchison, H. L. Teeter and Postmaster H. D. Thomas. A few days later, H. A. Ashcraft advised us personally of the stand he felt obligated to take in ac- cordance with the scheme, and likewise did the Montana Lumber Co., by their manager A. E. Lewis. The latter, who was not included in the secret meetings, was \waited upon\ by a commit- tee with H. L. Teeter as spokes- man and advised that if he did not take the prescribed course he would be \next\, or words to that effect. (Since then, members of the Klan have attempted to have Mr. Lewis removed by approach- ing the company with the tale that he (Lewis) was \too intimate with Burdick.\ This is only one of several sneaking, underhand at- tempts of the klan to frarns44 . P something on those not favorable to that organization, if it can .be called such. In justice to Mr. Lewis, we must say that be treat- ed with us in a fair and square manner and it was mainly at our suggestion that the company's pa- tronage was withdrawn. Through the International Harvester Co. of Billings and their selling agency, the M. L. & II. Co., we have en- joyed since a nice bit of business. There were several other in- dividuals that took active part in the above deal; four of whom are \carpet baggers\ with nothing but their personal effects and with no interest here exceet their jobs. One of these has goee to other fields. Hence, by the removal of what little local advertising patronage The Independent enjoyed, the bunch felt sure that the editor and sole owner who is not, nor was, under financial obligations to any one, would either crawl to them or quit. We did neither, and have since gotten by without as- sistance from the klan and its sympathizers (only where the Moccasin State Bank could not help_ itself as regards the law governing the publication of bank statements, and such other print- ing as it wanted in a hurry.) With the continued prospect of a fair share of leeal publications and some outside advertising con- tracts, we could continue to get by indefinitely—but in view of our plans for the future we be- lieve the game is not worth the candle. While, in a measure, we may have talked too much with others with the same or si-nilar ideas and these have since turned hypocrites and knifed us in the back; and, perhaps, too, we were not as lib- eral with that \beautiful sunshine\ as we might have been on various occasions, we contend that the trumped-up charges that we '`were out to break the school\ are un- true, malicious and unjust—the works of a spiteful clique. To thole, who think we have erred in our judgment and con- duct of The Dispatch during the more than seven years and Our conduct of The Indpendent dur- ing past three years, we ask: Who of you, has not erred! We make no apologies. We believe our judgment is as sound as that of anyone else and in time our contentions, in part at least, will be sustained. We have done and said what we thought was for the best and accord no one the right to choose our opinions, our as- sociates, nor to make lick -spittle of us. Frank Schmall and wife, who some weeks ago left here to per- mit Mrs. Schmidl to undergo an examination and operation at the Mayo hospital, Rochester, Minn., will not return to Montana. Their personal effects were recently for- warded to Iron Mountain, Mich., where they are to make their fu- ture home. Cash Specials, Saturday May 10th Good Coffee . ' . • . 35c pound Judith Basin Breakfast Food, 2 lbs., 17c Gallon Blackberries or Loganberries, 75c Gallon DeLuxe Plums . • . • . 80c Miner Bros., Benchland
