University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939 University of Montana Publications 5-1928 The Frontier, May 1928 Harold G. Merriam Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/frontier Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Merriam, Harold G., "The Frontier, May 1928" (1928). The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939. 24. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/frontier/24 This Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Montana Publications at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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(m) “ First of the Northern Transcontinentals'' The Writer’s Robust Virtues Every locality has its own inevitable and destined writers. Somethin 1 they are born there, grow up there, and go away—but all their writing forevi j smacks of that soil, has the tang of its speech. All the impressions that wei I taken In unconsciously in the formative years of childhood or adolescence fkr I out at the pen’s point. No landscapes seen afterward can dim in the mini the picture of those mountain-tops. No flowers will be as real as those picke J in boyhood’s woods. No bird-songs will come back in the creative memory ei j cept those heard at dawn in early years. But some writers belong to a place in which they were not born. The I find it in later years, by accident, or drawn there by some odd sympathy. Bu j having seen it, they fall in love with it, and it is theirs. Its shapes and colors j its air and sky, the characteristic manners of that region, fulfil some deep nee , of theirs. The men and women, their ways of life and of love, take hold o: | the imagination, and stories are dreamed and written that could only happej here. So it has been that fishing-village, desert, tropic island, have found thei \ writers more than once. The Northwest has its writers of both kinds, and both are authentic. Th | place knows its own, and takes them to its heart, opens its secrets to them j lures them on with the spell of its past, teaches them its stories, makes then j its children, gives them its own robust virtues, its own gusto and generosit; j and daring. First is the land, and out of it comes the literature. It springy from the soil, humbly at first, then beautifully. But no matter how sweet am' strange its later blossoming, it must have its roots deep in the ground am, nourish itself with rain and sunlight, feed on common things, and be a pan of that spot of earth which it celebrates and adorns. FLOYD DELL. BOARD OF EDITORS Editor................................................................................................... H akolp 6 . Merriam Assistant Editors...............................Grace Stone Coates and B bassil F itzgeraix Contributing Editors...................................... L ew Sarett and Frank B. L inderman Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor; business communications to Thomas W. Duncan, Business Manager; subscriptions to the Circulation Man­ ager, Ernest Lake, at the State University of Montana, Missoula. VOL. VIII, NO. 3 Copyright, 1928, by H. G. Merriam MAY, 1928 Published in November, January, ___________________March, and M a y . ________________________________ — ________ Application of entry as second-class matter is pending._____________ The next number of The Frontier will be issued in November. 146 THE FRONTIER >> A MAGAZINE OF THE NORTHWEST </ ‘The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, hut wherever a man fronts a fart.”— T horeatt. Three Poems By Ethel Romig Fuller. I. Peter Schatt A C h r o n ic le Peter Schatt came West, when West was new, Staked out a claim, foursquare and true; Lived there alone, homesteaded it, Then unlike others, didn’t quit, But added to his holdings till His lands included all Schatt’s hill. He built great barns and a log house Beneath the fragrant cedar boughs; And sent “ outside” for a hausfrau, A team of Percherons, a cow; He laid a road and surfaced it With stone hauled from Schatt’s gravel p it; He felled the forest, blasted stumps, Cut alder and vinemaple clumps, Grubbed out the rampant poison oak— The slashings made a mighty smoke! And as the ground was cleared and bare, Set row on row of fruit trees there. (No better prunes than Schatt’s are known!) Then as his ten fine sons were grown He deeded each a fertile plot— So generous was Peter Schatt!— To plant to walnuts, grain or what. And to his daughters was as fair— For when each wed, she had her share. As for the children they begot There was a tract for every tot— A double tract for those named Schatt! He built a school and saw it fill 147 THE FRONTIER With youngsters born upon Schatt’s Hill; And, this the undiverging rule, Schatt’s schoolma ’ams only taught Schatt’s school. He was the law. An erring Schatt Was evicted and forgot. He raised a place for worship, too— A family to every pew— A church that ell-wise might be pieced Out as the tribe of Schatt increased; An edifice with bell and spire, Schatts in the pulpit, in the choir And on their knees to lieber Gott, (Who is to blame them if they thought In lineaments He was a Schatt t) Still even Schatts are not immortal; The patriarch died (but with a chortle!) That, with the grave, was nowise stopped The root and branch of Peter Schatt.