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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-20
DON CARLOS CIRCUS IN
CITY
All-Day Show on Hardin Streets
During Which Stores Will
Put on Sales.

Thousands of tickets have been
given out by the various mer-
chants and business men of Har-
din, the past week, giving the re-
ciplents free admission to the
Don Carlos circus-a show STAR
ring 20-odd monkeys, a dozen or
more ponies and a score or more
of trained dogs-Which will be
held on the streets of Hardin to-
morrow-Saturday, Sept. 81.
Don Carlos, the veteran Show
man, and Mrs. Carlos are putting
on this show in cooperation with
the merchants of Hardin, each of
whom will make a special offer
ing of choice merchandise at an
attractive price. This will be a
good time to lay in a supply of
merchandise at the special prices
to be offered, and at the same
time be entertained throughout
the day by the circus features.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-20

Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mayor were
in Hardin, Tuesday, and left at
the Tribune Herald Office a Guer-
ney's Mastodon Radio watermelon
and a couple of Honeyrock cante-
loupes, grown O. their irrigated
farm in the Little Horn valley,
Just below the Custer battlefield.
They are ar!ong the most delicious
articles in his line the office
force ever clapped their lips upon
a n d Mr.. and Mrs. MAYORS
thoughtfulness is appreciated.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-20

DR.. R. w. Bernhardt. a federal
veterinary from Enderlin, N. D.,
while in this section on federal
business. stopped in Hardin, Mon
dav night, to visit bis old-time
friend, DR.. l.. H. Labbitt.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-20

Mrs. B. J. Kleinhesselink left
Saturday for Great Falls to visit
relatives.
Evening star., 1935-01-25
A Good Job.

The Commissioners and the COM
munity have good reason to be pleased
with the thorough job In snow re-
moval accomplished in the past two
days. The snowstorm this year was
worse than any of those last year, but
the city has experienced far less in
convenience. One explanation is that
laboring men on the relief rolls we're
given work which the storm would
otherwise have prevented. Another
lies in the careful plans made under
the direction of Sanitary Engineer
Gordon. And there will be general
agreement with Commissioner Hazen's
statement that the elimination of all
night parking on the main highways
has already justified itself as a part
of any snow-removal plan. Snow was
pushed by the ploughs all the way to
the curb. and on some of the buster
streets remarkable progress was made
in hauling it away. Hitherto the great
difficulty has been that the snow was
piled only as far as the line of parked
cars and there left in drifts, which
narrowed the traffic lanes.
The gratifying part of the business
was the advance planning at the Dis
trict Building and the fact that the
authorities knew what they were to do
and did it, in happy contrast with
some of the uncertainties and lack of
action in the past.
Evening star., 1935-01-25
Millions for Subway
And for Auto Garages
To the Editor of The Star:

To the EDITOR OF Inc STAR
The other day I read an article in
your splendid paper where certain
member is introducing a bill in Con-
gress for many millions for a subway
to be built in Washington to solve
the traffic problems. Then the next
day I read where a Congresswoman
is introducing a bill to spend scme
more millions for the Government to
build garages to store cars at a rea-
sonahle rate. There are plenty of
garages in Washington for these cars
if only they would pass a law and
make them put their cars into ga
RACES. Then see how many cars are
left to be put up and perhaps build
more garages. The garage where I
store my car must hold at least 100
or more cars and the manager told
me he has only IS cars in it and
that this snowstorm did not bring him
in one extra car for storage. In
front of my home there have been
cars parked for three days and some
cars on other streets have been
parked there since Saturday. We
have an 18-hour parking law. Please,
why don't the city do something about
this parking on the streets as what
is the use of paying taxes for a
home and storage for a garage when
you can never get near your own
home to park your car for an hour
or two. What is the matter with
our city officials? Do the good people
Of this city have to contend with
this horrible abuse of the pavements
in front of their homes forever?
-. JAMES N. GALLAGHER.
Evening star., 1935-01-25

Signor Mussolini, after all, is not en-
tirely unwilling to share responsibility
for Italy's destinies.
While in general no significance is
attached to II Duce's latest moves on
his cabinet chessboard, the removal
of Signor Guido Jung from the min
istry of finance attracts some atten-
ton. It was that italian statesman
who conferred with President RooSe-
velt in Washington in 1888, when
European government spokesmen came
to this country to discuss the impend-
ing London Economic Conference, of
ill-starred fame. Signor Jung has
favored the stabilization of the lira at
the present rate of exchange and
urged the balancing of the budget.
His retirement from Office would in
dicate that Mussolini does not think
the time is ripe for either of those
recourses.
But whoever comes or goes in the
Roman cabinet, the dominating figure
and personality of II Duce remain
"ueber alles," invincible and unchal-
lengeable, in the cooperative" state
into which he has now converted Italy.
Fascism is completing its thirteenth
year. There is no indication what
ever that the anniversary carries with
it any of the ominous significance
commonly associated with that num-
ber.
AS far as Italy is concerned, there
seems, on the contrary, to be cumula-
tive evidence of the soundness of Mus
solini's boast that "the world of doc
trines against which Fascism rose is
now far away and obliterated even in
memory"
Evening star., 1935-01-25
The Duce's Cabinet.

There are cabinet changes in Italy
occasionally, but never anything that
could be dignified as a cabinet crisis.
On Thursday in Rome there was a
grand shift in portfolios, whereby
Premier Mussolini ousted six minis
tiers in order to give as many new
Fascist figures their chance at govern
ment, but II Duce remains the major
ity in his cabinet. He holds seven
of its posts, including the key min
istries of foreign affairs, the army,
the navy, aviation, colonies, interior
and reconstruction. The six posts
which the Fascist chieftain sees fit to
intrust to subordinates are the minis
tries of public works, agriculture, edu-
cation, justice, finance and communi-
cations. They are important depart
nents Of the government. so that
Evening star., 1935-01-25
Saar Decision Interpreted
AS Evidence of German Unity

is accepted without dissent" says the
Newark Evening News. The Hartford
Courant, however, declares: They
cannot, in any way, be regarded as
having given their confluence to Herr
Hitler. On the contrary, in their
hearts they remain as opposed to his
regime as they always have been, and
any proclamations issuing from Berlin
claiming the vote in the Saar to DEM
onstrate the prestige of the Nazis
should be heavily discounted"
Prior to Hitler's rise to power"
says the Portland Oregonian, there
was no question whatever as to the
plebiscite vote The people were
faithful to the Reich and wanted to
return to it at the first moment. 1t
was anticipated that when the vote
came, it would be carried through
without the least international COM
plication. But then appeared Hitler
and well-enough could not be let
alone. A flood of propaganda was
started that served no other purpose
than to align Saarlander against
Saarlander, and stir the dogs of war;"
Evening star., 1935-01-25
Rock Creek Pollution.

The interest manifested by the Sem
ate District Committee in the elm
ination of pollution from Rock Greek
is gratifying and the Commissioners
will, of course, follow the committees
informal suggestion of sounding out
the Public Works Administration on
the possibility of aid in undertaking
this desirable project.
Progress has already been made,
through Secretary Ickes' grant of
$4,000, in beginning an engineering
survey of the problem which will pro-
duce estimates of cost and other de-
tails. The engineers now engaged in
this work have already been furnished
data gathered in the past by the local
authorities, as well as by the engineers
who made the survey for the sewage
disposal plant. This latter survey
pointed out that Rock Creek and
Piney Branch are objectionably pol
luted," and that the source of pollu-
ton is found within the District
through discharge of storm sewage
and through the sewage continuously
discharged into Rock Greek from
Maryland. Much of the valley is
beautiful national park and such pol
luton is highly Objectionable" said
the report.
There is some irony in the fact that
the District has borrowed money to
build a disposal plant which will
properly treat sewage flowing into the
Potomac and partially remove pollu-
ton Of the river below Washington,
while the even more Objectionable
conditions caused within the District
by pollution of Rock Greek and Piney
Branch are permitted to remain. The
removal of pollution from the Poto-
mac should be an ultimate objective,
of course, and completion of the dis
posal plant now to be built with bor-
rowed money is a preliminary step in
that direction that will have to be
taken some day. But the Rock Creek
publication is even more important.
The existing pollution of a stream
which is one of the most valuable as
sets of Rock Creek Park, making it
unfit even for wading, is more than
Objectionable. 1t Is little short of dis
graceful.
The Senate committees suggestion
was that removing the pollution in
Rock Greek might appropriately ac-
company the construction of the river
sewage disposal plant. The cost of the
latter has been cut in half, and the
District has not been granted the full
extent of loans which Congress au-
thorized from the P. W. A. A large
part of the cost of sewer work in Rock
Greek could be done with money saved
through notifications of the original
plans for the disposal plant. What
ever financial arrangements might be
made, however, would, of course,
recognize the joint responsibility of
the National Government in the un-
dertaking.
Evening star., 1935-01-25
darlington House" "

There appears welcome by-product
of the campaign now under way and,
it is hoped, fast approaching success
full elimination to restore Stratford
Hall, ancestral home of the Lee family
in Westmoreland County, Va, as a
debt-free memorial to the great Con-
federate leader. In news accounts of
the various stages of the drive there
occur in both text and headlines fire.
quent and proper use of the phrases
the ''Lee Mansion" the "old Lee home
stead and similar descriptive titles.
This usage, it is hoped and expected,
will put an end to erroneous references
to Arlington House." just across the
Potomac from Washington, as the
Lee Mansion"
This ancient and honorable planta-
ton manor house was never that. It
was begun and named. Arlington
House" before Robert E. Lee was born.
1t is Arlington House today and was
never properly anything else. It was
inherited as life tenant by Mary Ann
Randolph Gusts Lee, wife of Col. Rob-
ert E. Lee, U. S. A., from her father,
George Washington Parke Curtis.
True, her distinguished husband re-
sided there from time to time during
and in the intervals between his tours
of duty before the Civil War. It was
perfectly natural that this should be
so. His father-in-law's and, later, his
wifes commodious home was a splen-
did place to rear his growing family.
But it no more became the "Lee Man.
sion" when he married its subsequent
owner than Windsor Castle became
Victim Castle when Queen Victoria
married her consort.
Governmental agencies having to do
Evening star., 1935-01-25
Income From Liquor
Licenses Is Not s'Net''
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Do you not think the statement in
The Star of January II, taken from
that days report of the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. that the
District revenues during the past year
were increased by Sl,297, 1883 as q
result of legaliZation of the sale of al
coholic beverages last January" and
also This money went into the gen.
eral revenues of the District" are very
misleading to the public and the Dis
trict taxpayers?
No one thinks of stating the returns
of business proposition by quoting
the money paid into its treasury and
ignoring the cost of conducting the
busineSs-including also the liabilities
arising from it!
Not word was said about the cost
of maintaining the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board-including salaries of
its various members and the salaries
of the inspectors who watch out for
violations Of the liquor law and its
regulation-of which violations there
were 113 as reported by the chief in
oPNSOOA w "cIC IeNOhCuIs
Neither was mention made of the cost
of collecting the $561 ,O45 SO in license
fees, or the expense of investigating
all applications for licenses, and also
of collecting the liquor tax of $729,-
053.24. Also the cost of the clerical
force to handle this tremendous
amount of business was not re-
ferred to.
All these expenses, and many more,
connected with governmental supervi-
sion Of legalized liquor must be de-
Quoted before one can honestly say
that the Districts income has been
boosted by legalized liquor TO the
amount of 1927, 1883.
Is it not within the rights Of the
people in the District to ask for an
itemized, sworn statement of all Gov
ernment expenses incident to legalized
sale of alcoholic beverages in the Dis
trict?
Account must also be taken of in
creased police force and care of fam
lilies made destitute through alcoholic
drinking, and medical attention for
them. Then there is the expense to
individuals injured by automobile ec-
cidents resulting from carelessness
after Just a few drinks, also the
enormous loss in moral and spiritual
and physical values. which no one can
estimate. GEORGIA ROBERTSON.
Evening star., 1935-01-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC BILLIAM VILE.

Recent events in the House of Rep
resentatives, disclosing militant Dem
ocratic insurgency in connection with
the s4,880, 900 900 work relief bill, re-
veal condition which the New Deal
leadership has long apprehended-
that its unwieldy House majority
might easily prove an embarrassment
of riches and churn up exactly such
a situation as the one that just gave
Speaker Byrns, Appropriations Chair
man Buchanan and other leaders a
few new gray hairs. The wrangle
over work relief is foretaste of what
may happen when social security,
bonus, imitation and other measures
become actual bones of contention.
There are plenty of party dependables
and parliamentary recourSeS at the
leadership's disposal to keep the sit
uation in hand on critical occasions,
but it's now evident that there's no
lack of independence and combative-
ness among House Democrats and that
impressive numbers of them are ready
to show their teeth in an emergency.
X X
Over at the State Department
there's a clerk named George Thomas
who has earned the reputation of
being q wizard because of his un-
canny ability to remember the details
of public documents, the originals
of which are stored in the law Sec
tion of Secretary Hull's bailiwick.
About three months ago Mr.. Thomas
was put in special charge of execu-
tive orders. then piling out of the
White House at a record-breaking
rate. He was told that his job was
to learn and remember all there was
to know about them-to become, in
other words, a walking file. Today
he has at his tongues tip the con-
tents of 400 executive orders. If you
give him the number of an order
he can tell you what it's about.
If you tell him what it's about he
can give you the number-an with
out relying upon anything but his
cardvindex memory.
X X X X
Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, who
scampered around the White House
as a boy when his father, William
Howard Taft, was President, has
taken the warpath against the New
Deal patronage system. Addressing
the National Republican Club the
other night in New York, he raised
the question whether the political
employment policy" is going to govern
the spending of the Roosevelt S4,000,-
100000 work relief fund and whether
''the spoils system is to provide Sc
curity for the Democratic party"
Young Mr.. Taft, who made a political
reputation in Cincinnati through his
successful fight against G. o. P.
bosses and job holders, receives grow
ing consideration as one of the COM
ing hopefuls of the Republican party.
He's still on the sunny side of 40.
~
When Gen. John j. Pershing was
American military attache at Toxic
In 1905-06 he had In his service
bright young Japanese, who volun-
teered, in return for a modest stipend
and the opportunity to learn English,
to make himself generally useful to
the American officer. His name was
Koki Hirota, and he Is now foreign
minister of Japan.
(Copyright. 1935)
Evening star., 1935-01-25

The long -winded story-teller Is in
a class by himself.
Unfortunately. it Is a large class.
A few words and details are never
as good to its members as many words
and many details.
They know nothing Of the art of
concise presentation, the little tale
from the everyday life which is told
and over with.
They want to string it out.
1t is this process Of elaboration
which tends to bore the listener. With
the best will in the world, the latter
begins to fidget.
Will the man never get to the
point?
Give us the very short story, such
as the one an enthusiast sprung upon
a few the other morning.
THE civil service asked the fol-
lowing question" he asserted.
The question was: Name ii ami
mails of the Arctic circle"
The answer, supposed to have been
given by an acute and aspiring candi-
date for a job. was as follows:
Six polar bears and five wolves Vi
He had answered the question.
Now, that is good little story. OF
the everyday variety, with sufficient
point to it, better in the telling than
the reading.
Its chief charm, however. is that 1t
Is soon over.
Stories which require too much
elaboration never hit the spot as well.
There is not one average story-teller
in ten, however, who confines his out
put to the short ones. No, when he
gets something of a reputation as a
teller of tales, of Stories" as they are
vaguely. designated, he finds it in
cumbent upon him to stretch them
out.
This is the usual procedure. Every
one has encountered the semi-pro-
fesSional joker, the wag who appreci-
ates a good story, and who rather
fancies that he can tell it just a lit
tie better than the next man.
OlLeH enough lIllS ID IIuc.
He does possess the faculty, not
given to every one, of offering mar
rative, usually ending with the IA
nous point, so that it takes on some
of the quality of well-written tale.
Where the written story so often
differs from the oral is in the number
of words required to get to the afore-
mentioned point"
1t is so easy in conversation to use
a great many more words than are
necessary, SO that the mind of the
listener begins to waver long before
the story is over.
The expert, of course. can do a
great deal, in himself, to keep the at
tention.
There are natural born story
tellers,' seldom women, most often
men, who have the knack of keeping
the attention of listeners.
1t will be found that most of them
are not rapid-fire takers, by any
means, but usually plscid-speaking
men who have an air of authority
about them.
No doubt it Is this latter which
makes their lengthy narratives worth
listening to, even when they bore
some or all of the audience.
X X 4
The spoken narrative, less than the
written, can stand a superf1uity Of
detail.
When q reader is going along with
a writer he will forgive few extra
words if they flow along both in
thought and construction. Brevity
Evening star., 1935-01-25
What Would Be Effect of
Initiation on Annuities?
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
If thisy country were to enter a
period of imitation what would be the
effect upon insurance and bank an
nuities? This is a very proper
question.
Income from annuity or life in
surance contracts: In both cases pay
ments must be made from guaranty
funds, commonly called reserves, built
up over long period OF years for
that particular purpose.
Unless wise investments are made
by building up a guaranty fund (re-
Serve) consisting Of securities which
produce income, contracts cannot be
in prices and this IL turn makes
money less valuable
One of our economists has put it
clearly as follows: If prices rise so
that the owner of an investment fund
has to pay twice as much for goods
and services which he wishes to buy,
his fund Is worth half as much as it
would have been had the rise in prices
! not taken place. He is in precisely
the same position as If the price
level had not changed and he had
lost half his fund
The value of an investment fund
to its owner depends upon its pur-
chasing power, and imitation, by rais-
ing prices, destroys purchasing power.
The investment problem presented
by the possibility of imitation is an
extremely difficult one for most in
vestors to handle. 1t is an attack
from the source to which the in
veStor is accustomed to look for pro-
lection, the State. The process is a
deceptive one because it is slow
| one and its effects at first appear
slight The development of imitation
is usually marked by temporary halts
which deceive many into the belief
that it is ended. 1t is a slow burn
ing disease, but in the end it may
destroy the investor.
All holders of either bank or in
surance annuity contracts are vitality
interested in the purchasing power of
their annuities. This means they are
vitally interested in imitation. The
devastating effects of imitation in Ger
many and Austria after the war are
matters of record and tell their own
story. The story is tragic in the
extreme.
1 quote the following from one of
the most prominent of American
economists. Prof. Edwin w. KEN
merer of Princeton:
Federal Reserve Bank notes (un-
der the emergency banking act of
March, 1889 are inconvertible and
there is no maximum limit placed
upon their issue Since the law places
no limit upon the amount of Gov
ernment debt which the National
Government may issue and sell to
Federal Reserve Banks for these Fed
eral Reserve Bank notes. there is no
measurable limit TO the possible issue
of these notes"
All things considered, these Federal
Reserve Bank notes are probably the
weakest link III our monetary chain.
CHARLES HENRY CUTLER.