The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 14, 1917, Page 14

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When they express them- selves, as we hope to see them do, they are likely to do all the uplifting that will be necessary. They are likely to uplift the rest of us, too.” ALL THE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT IT The Little Country Theater idea, only three years old, appears to have taken the country by storm. There has been a little country theater es- tablished in Porto Rico, another in Canada. Letters asking about the plan pour in upon Arvold from such widely separated points as Ireland, South Africa, Nicaragua and the Philippines. One of the most promising signs, though, is the way the theater move- ment is being taken up in the North- west, and particularly in the rural districts of North Dakota. A few of the communities, such as Amenia, have gone ahead and established am- bitious theaters of their own. In more cases, however, consolidated schools and existing town halls are being fitted up for auditoriums and home talent plays. Sometimes plays of local origin are being given. Sometimes arrangements and stage settings necessarily are primitive. One young man, after witnessing sev- eral performances at the college Little Country Theater, went home and stag- ed a successful home talent play in the empty hayloft of a large barn. The stage was made of old barn floor planks. The draw curtain was a bin- der cloth. Ten barn lanterns hung on a piece of fence wire furnished the border lights. Branches of trees were used as a background on the stage. Planks resting on old boxes and saw- horses served for seats and the or- clestra was a victrola. The proceeds from the play provided uniforms and ~equipment for a country baseball team. THEY WRITE HIM ABOUT THEIR WORK A teacher, writing Mr. Arvold about an original play that had been pro- duced, said: “I am sending you a copy of tha comedy. The little German song is one we learned from a phonograph, so the music may not be correct, but with a little improvising can be used. ' The lines are funny, not funny -enough to produce a roar, but they are remems bered and spoken of long afterwarda. ‘T liked our arrangement of lights, ‘We had only lanterns. We hung four in a row, one below the other, and had one on the floor at the side opposite from the dressingroom, which was curs tained off, and one held by the man who pulled the curtain on the. other . side. There was no light near the audience, except at the organ.” It is these testimonials of ‘the head« way that the movement is making in the country, in giving the farmers ene couragement toward self expression, that interest Arvold, even more than the flattering national attention that the Little Country Theater has receive ed and the letters from England, Porte Rico, Nicaragua and the Philippines. [ SERVES HIS NEIGHBORS f — John Sheer Mr. Sheer lives at Fessenden, N. Dy’ and has long been an ardent worker in the Nonpartisan League. He gave valuable help in reorganizing the northern portion of Wells county. 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LARSON, Litchville, N. D. I read in the Leader that somebody said They were gonna put Townley in jail, And Bowen should die from a crack in the head. And the big heart of Randall should fail. And Howard and Bowman and silver-tongued Ed ‘Would soon be breaking up rocks, And then the Nonpartisan League would be dead— Locked up in a satin-lined box. Oh, Gee! I was scared, and the tears that I shed; How I shivered and muttered and swore! 4 could see the Old Gang hover over my head, Their dirty hands covered with gore. And I pored over History’s time-yellowed page " And searched through the annals of crime, Way back from Lucretia Borgia’s age -And up to our present-day time. But nary a case nor a precedent found, Since the dawn of democracy’s day, That would fetter or bind any men of our kind Till the people had had their full say. I was wearied, for I had been .chasing the drag ' Since the sunlight had made its first peep; My gumbo-filled eyelids had started to sag, And soon I had dropped fast asleep. But e’en as I slept I ceaselessly dreamed— A vision was passed through my brain— I stood in a courtroom and round me, it seemed, The lawyers had'started to train. . Their oily-mouthed speeches vibrated with grief, Ah, sad to relate, but they wept! It hurt them to do it, but they’d get this “thief” And put him where others were kept. Alone in a corner sat Townley so brave, And not even bowing his head, But when they were done the jury looked grave, And “Guilty” the word that they said. The. judge rapped for order and silenced the horde, And carefully clearing his throat “You're sentenced,” he said, “to ride home in a Ford, For stealing the wolf-shepherd’s goat.”