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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-26

which Will be given the news through
the League. undoubtedly a propagan-
da agency for big business. Very pro
badly the lawyers will be those re-
ceiving payment from some of the
larger corporations that have been
fighting everything in the nature Of
reform, and If this is true, the public
should understand just what their
opinion is worth.
President Roosevelt is probably on
his trip to the Pacific a. this is read.
He will stop at Boulder Dam and Wis
it the California Exposition at San
Diego, probably take a cruiser trip in
the Pacific and come home via the
canal. Later. he will pay a visit to
VicePresident Garner in Texas, al
though this may come as a seperate
journey. Public attention will be keen
to hear what he has to say and polit-
ical leaders will watch anxiously to
see il there r any definite signs to
guile their future action.
Constitutional day was generally
observed last week, with many
speeches throughout the country
lauding the ancient document Of our
liberties. Republicans were especial
ly prominent in paying homage to
the sanctity OF the Constitution, igur
ing that, if amendment Of its terms
is to be a campaign issue next fall
this is a good time to build up res.
pect and regard for 1t. Interest at
tached to a declaration by Secretary
OF Commerce Roper indicating that
the organic charter Is a living nee
hanism" and taken by some as a to-
ken that amendments may be pro
posed by the administration although
none were specifically suggested.
The death of Senator Long is gen
orally regarded as a blow to those
who expected a strong third party
movement and by most observers as
a break" for the President. That
the Louisiana legislator possessed an
abundance Of brains has been amply
testified to and his fertile strategy
was expected to be a source OF con-
slant annoyance to the administers
ton, even il not a real menace. No
other leader is available just now
for the leftist wing and that fringe
seems to .be somewhat silenced al
though anything can happen in the
next twelve months.
In fact, most Republican leaders
are now convinced that the fight will
be straightout, with the two old par
ties presenting a clearcut cleavage
between conservative support of the
Constitution and the proposed rea'
lignment of social and economic for
ces. Talk Of revolt In the South by
constitutional Democrats will con
tinue to be heard and there will be
leaders but when the voting comes
the chances are rather slim. Unless
the administration makes a SHARP
turn to the right, In placating conser
vative opposition. the lineup will
| stand.
The twO-thirds rule Of the Dem
ocratic party, which requires d sue
cessful candidate to get tw~o-thirds Of
the delegates under his flag, is in fol
a fight next year. In previous oonven'
lions, the to abolish the rule
which prevented the nomination o.
Champ Clark in 1912, has been con
fused with the probable effect such
a change would have on particular
candidates Whether it will be aban
doned or not remains to be seen, but
certainly a strong pressure from the
administration might bring it about
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-26
$1,000 Corpses

In the eighteen months that ended June 20, 1885,
81. 200 persons met death in motor crashes in this coun-
try. More than 100000 were injured.
The bare statistics, thought provoking as they are,
cannot give an adequate picture OF the horror Of major
automobile accidents. Figures cannot express broken
bodies-crushed skulls-oblterated
oatures-decapitated bodies-and all the rest OF the
results of fatal motor car crashes. Nor can one fig
ures picture the tragedy Of parentless children and
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-26
LIVED WITHOUT STOMACH

Springfield, Ill.-Ferdinand Wag-
goner died at 103 years, after living
43 years with an artificial stomach.
Silver tubes replaced the organ shot
away accidentiy in 1871.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-26
RACES IN STREET ALBAzE

Baltimore, Md.-Covered with blaz-
ing pitch, after an explosion, Pete
Cortez. AZ, raced down the street In
flames. He was caught by a police /.
man, who tore off his clothes and
saved his life.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-26
HOUSE 2oe A OLD

Winthrop, Mass.-A two and a half
story structure, built in 1887, and In
habited by Lewis Cobb, is thought to
be one Of the oldest homes in the ma
ton.
Evening star., 1935-02-08

the Civil Service Reform League, the
inclusion of a civil service amend
ment in the work-relief bill will be
made IF Congress sees fit to accept
the amendment" The fate of the
OMahoney bill and of the Logan bill
is similarly conditioned. In setting
up the emergency agencies Congress
has not seen fit" to apply the merit
system and has on more than one
occasion decisively voted down the
merit system in favor of the spoils
system. Patronage demands have
seldom been as fierce as during the
period of the depression. and after
twelve years of Republican rule the
attitude of Congress has been easily
explained and in some quarters even
regarded as defensible.
Less easy to explain has been the
passive acceptance by the taxpayers of
moves in the direction of a return to
the spoils system. The merit system
is maintained for their protection. and
if it is weakened by the attacks of
spoilsmen the taxpayers foot the bill.
1t would seem that if the President is
desirous of extending the merit system
to the employees who must administer
the gigantic expenditures of the money
to be made available through the
work-relief bill, an appeal from him to
Congress on the basis of the savings
to be accomplished through the added
efficiency and other safeguards of the
merit system would be effective. Surely
it is not too much to ask of Congress
that the men and women to be en-
ployed in the expenditure of nearly
five billion dollars be chosen on the
basis of merit, instead of Grass political
favoritism.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
County Mergers.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Although county mergers have been
few since Tennessee made the first
one Is years ago under peculiar con-
ditions. Robert M. Paige, secretary Of
the Government Research Association,
thinks the movement is gaining i'm
petus He cites proposals pending to re-
duce the number in Mississippi to 81,
in Missouri to 40, in Arkansas to Is, in
Oklahoma to 20, in Georgia to Al
and in Tennessee to 13.
Governor Ehringhaus OF North
Carolina promises a sincere effort to
consolidate the hundred counties Of
that State. The local government bill
throughout the United States IS
So 600 900 600, a matter which certain
ly should give as much concern to the
average citizen as Federal expenditures
do This s8,OOO,0O0,000 is raised by
direct taxes on classes which can
stand the outlay least.
Probably the obstruction Of selhsh
and political interests would be invlll-
nerable to direct attack. Reorganiz-
alton of counties under self-govern-
ment charters, however. may under
mine their security.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Promised Pacific Air Route
Foreseen As Future Marvel

ness" advises the San Jose CCalifD
Mercury Herald will be particularly
benefited. for China is already becom-
ing air-conscious, while American
planes are being used, and American
aviators are expected to train Chinese
flyers" The Yakima (Wash) Morn
ing Herald holds that 'it would be
highly fitting if it we're the flight Of
Col. Lindbergh which should finally
pave the way for regular over-ocean
commercial air lines"
las preparations go forward" re-
marks the Long Beach (CalifD Press
Telegram. interesting rumors are
heard of plans for coastwise seaplane
route between San Diego and Seattle,
Connection by seaplane between ports
in South America was established years
ago. Air routes over both land and
water have done much to overcome
lack of rail transportation and infre-
quent steamship service in the Latin
republics. One particular advantage
of seaplane use is pointed out in the
ability of such craft to reach terminals
near the heart of the community
served. Large areas Of terra firma are
not required for runways."
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Sees No Danger in
Poll on Military Duty
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star;
The writer of Polling Young
America on Military Attitudes" which
appeared in The Stars letter column
on February 90, seems acutely per-
turbed over the likelihood that the
Literary Digest poll indicating a lack
of militaristic etiquette in American
college students will be watched
closely by foreign powers" What a
scathing pity that portion of Ameri-
can youth has the moral intelligence
to say that it resents compulsory in
struction in the gentle art OF man
slaughter! Mind you, I am holding
no brief for the sudden dissolution
of the Army. I am merely repeating
the very obvious truth that a steady
expansion of enforced military train
ing and the intellectual effort to out
grow barbarism, to become more civil
lied, are two elements that will curdle
in any society.
I marvel that Mr.. Sewald should
fear that our mere "muddle-m minded,
half-baked college students would
ever merit the attention OF observers
abroad. For readers in general are a
bit slow nowadays in succumbing to
hit-and-miss public opinion, and they
might jolly well pass on to the more
strictly high-brow wisdom Of the
county politician or the travelling sales
man. Incidentally, the Digest results
register the sentiment of a picked
group of American colleges. Unless
we are so mentally unstable as to deny
that there is some object in higher
education, this recent vote should bear
a gram or two of significance.
And may ask why 1t IS so innately
unsound to permit young America"
to publish its military attitudes when
it Is young America" who will foot
the bill II there is another war?
BETTY AISTERLUND.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
A Sales Tax Lesson.

From the New York Sun.
A Brooklyn manufacturer lost a
100000 order because one OF his
regular customers would not pay
sales tax of $4,000, which would have
been added to the bill. The product
was to be used by the purchaser in
his own business and not resold, and
so was within the scope of retail
sales tax. The buyer placed his order
in New Jersey. and as the goods will
reach New York in interstate COM
merce no sales tax may be imposed
on them.
AS direct consequence Of the local
sales tax affecting this transaction
Brooklyn workmen lost a chance of
employment, for labor is large factor
in the product Of this manufacturer.
Two hundred men were deprived Of
earnings of $1,000 each. or 400 men
of $500 each. Many instances Of loss
Of business through the operation OF
the sales tax have been reported to
Chairman Grover Whalen of the Com
mittee of Business Men named by Con-
troller Taylor to assist him in the pre-
liminary administration of the tax.
A tax on transit fares void have avoid,
ed these obstacles to recovery.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Handwriting on the Wall.

Another British parliamentary by
election has gone against the Con-
servative- dominated National" gov
ernment. headed by Prime Minister
Ramsay Macdonald. and once again
House of Commons seat long Sc
curely in Tory possession passes into
the hands of the Labor party. The
result of this weeks contest in Waver-
tree marks the fifteenth successive
Labor victory over the Conservatives
in forty-nine by-elections since the
present National" government took
Office in 1881. 1t rekindles in high
degree opposition hopes that in the
general election, scheduled to take
place some time in 1885, Tory power
can be broken and the government
recaptured either by Labor or by the
Socialists in coalition with the Lloyd
George Liberals, who have just taken
to the warpath with their new deal
program.
Special circumstances led to the
latest Conservative upset at the polls,
and in them that incorrigibly stormy
petrol of British politics, winston
Churchill, who has won many party
colors in his time, was the avenging
force. Mr. Churchill is in bitter con-
flict with the Conservative leader,
Stanley Baldwin, on the issue of home
rule for India. Churchill has been
thwarted in every attempt to obstruct
the Indian program. Thereupon, in
unabashed revenge, Winston" de-
cided to have his son Randolph,
chip of the old block, contest Waver-
tree as an independent Conservative"
against the regular government Con-
servative candidate Young Churchill
was not elected. but he amasSed TO-
000-odd votes, which so heavily cut
into the normal Tory vote that the
Labor candidate won by substantial
plurality. 1t was a striking and ON
inous triumph for Churchill's die
hard Tories.
The Macdonald government threw
its best speakers into the Wavertree
campaign. 1t relied. in addition, upon
the cabinets current moves for Euro
pean peace and upon new concessions
in unemployment relief, but the
Churchill intervention dashed Tory
hopes. The Conservatives now face
the danger that "Winston's" faction
will be able to force them into COM
promises in every by-election between
now and the general election. Wa
vertree thus may turn out to be hand
writing on the wall that bodies no
good for the Baldwin Macdonald
regime. even though it is sustained
for the moment by overwhelming par
liamentary strength.
With foes like Lloyd George, VIM
ston Churchill and Viscount Snowden
and the militant Labor party barking
at their heels, and with rising tide
of social discomfort over unemploy-
ment, the forces now in control in
Downing street are confronted by
distress, if not disaster.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

acquainted with the genus they are
strictly matter of fact.
Many persons, evidently, do ask
themselves such questions.
Many seem to act upon them, even
If they never ask themselves such
things outright.
There is the gentleman who Is for
ever looking for some one to talk to,
some one he can query as to the
latest developments Of the day.
There is the taciturn man who is
just the opposite, and who forever
squelches the friendly fellow.
The latter ventures a remark as to
the weather.
The taciturn man does not hear
him.
The friendly man waits a block or
two, then repeats his remark.
This time the unfriendly fellow
looks at him, and makes some sort of
noise in his throat. It is his way of
saying. Fellow, who are you?"
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Between these two, the man friendly
by nature, and the man unfriendly by
nature. there is never any ground of
meeting.
Their basic PHILOSOPHERS of life are
so different that neither understands
the other. The desire of the un-
friendly man for silence in his prog
ress down town is interpreted as
huge unfriendliness by the other. The
desire Of the latter for comradeship,
even with the unknown, is held by
the unfriendly actor to be an insult
ferable intrusion.
No doubt each side to this silent
controversy would be a little better
off If he would try to see the other
to stick to his own Interpretation.
Voice quality, or timber, Is always
an interesting thing, no matter where
one studies it.
Some difficulties are interpossd. In
public vehicles. but often enough two
speakers will talk so loudly, because
of the other noise, that their voices
are heard easily by persons sitting
near them.
Then not only the content of their
talk interests, but often the quality
Of their voices.
1t is not very often, truly enough,
that really fine voices are heard any
where
The speaking voices Of most per-
sons are nothing to brag about.
Probably this is because Of lack Of
training The drawback to elocution,
old-style; public speaking, new style,
is that it tends to introduce a self
conscious something or other in some,
not all, of its practitioners.
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Occasionally one listens to a pas
Senger who has both sense and dis
cretion.
Obviously the speaker knows what
he is talking about.
In a world filled with persons who
often do not know exactly what they
are talking about. 1t is a vast pleas
sure, indeed. to run across some one,
though he be a stranger, and re-
main so. who quite evidently knows
his subject.
His words Of quiet wisdom exalt an
ordinary bus ride.
He gives facts, fancies, to stick in
the memory for days, maybe years.
The quality of his voice attracts
most. however. Evidently the man
is an actor, and good one.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Will Congress "See Fit?

There are encouraging signs that
the administration is preparing to
practice what it has not too vigorously
preached on the subject of merit
system extension in the Federal serv-
ice. The O'Mahoney bill to put post
masters under the classified civil
service, the Logan bill to extend the
merit system to the many thousands
of New Deal positions filled without
regard to civil service and, as i'm
portant as any of them, the Presi-
dents proposed amendment to the
work-relief bill which would utilize
existing registers of the Civil Service
Commission to fill positions created
under this measure constitute welcome
evidence of q move in the right direc-
ton.
As the President has informed II
Eliot Kaplan, executive secretary OF
Evening star., 1935-02-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Davis is an incorrigible optimist. He
still radiateS hope that enlightened
self-interest will yet bring the nations
together in an agreement to ease the
burden of military and naval eStab-
lishments. Foreign Relations Com
mittee members we're especially in
tereSted in Mr.. Davis account Of
the unsuccessful Anglo-American-
japanese conversations in London.
He continues to think { naval agree
ment is within the realm of ac-
complishment in time to avoid a re-
newal of costly competition.
Speaking of the Foreign Relations
Committee. nothing is more illustra-
tive of the "deliberative" character
of the United States Senate than the
leisurely manner in which it considers
international treaties. The commit
tee still has before it. awaiting final
action, the world copyright conven-
ton signed at Rome on JunI 2, 1928;
the general treaty of inter-American
arbitration and conciliation among
the 81 American republics, signed at
Washington on January S, 1929, and
the international convention for pro-
motion of safety of life at sea. signed
at London on May 81. 1929.
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President Roosevelt pays timely
tribute to Canada n clarifying the
unique system of joint border con-
troll now in effective operation be-
tween the Dominion and the United
States for the suppression of boot
leg alcohol. Before long Washington
will be negotiating with the Ottawa
government in connection with both
a tariff reciprocity treaty and an
amended St Lawrence waterway
pact. It is hoped at the White
House that the same spirit Of broth
erly love will prevail on those oc-
casions as is evidenced by the COM
plete Canadian-American harmony
in apprehending liquor smugglers.
One of the most vivid descriptions
of Mussolini and his policies ever
heard in this country has just been
given by Augusta RoSso, Italian Am
baSsador to the United States, in an
address at Columbia University in
New York. The Fascist diplomatic
representative at Washington is thus
quoted: 1.-The concept of Mussolini
respecting the problem Of European
war has been misunderstood and
distorted. It is folly to believe that
Mussolini is not against war or that
he desires it. He himself has under
gone the experience of war. seen its
horrors, suffered its hardships, its
bodily wounds. But Mussolini is a
man of courage, who doesn't live in
the clouds and who is not afraid Of
meeting reality face to face, even
when it Is ugly. No one can reproach
him for playing politics like an
ostrich. When he looks around and
sees the world as it is his sane
realism. based on a sense of history,
does not permit him to ignore the
fact that there exist potential dan
gers, and even threats"
Here's a sample of what Pennington
has done. From New Jersey comes
the story that a third-grade pupil
in Paterson, asked to name the Gov
ernor Of the State in a recent ex-
animation, wrote: "Hauptmann." It
was just little mix-up in the name
Of Gov. Hoffman.
tCopyright 1881
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Traffic Safety Only
With Slower Motors
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Traffic commissioners in all our
cities have admitted defeat in trying
to solve the problem of lessening the
death list caused by automobiles.
Does one have to possess the intelli-
gence of a Philadelphia lawyer to
understand that no automobile can
very well kill a person while not in
motion?
Is the same intelligence required
to know that car going ten miles an
hour would kill very few and a car
going thirty miles an hour would kill
more and car going fifty miles an
hour would kill still more?
1t looks to me as if the human race
wants death, but if it does not want
death caused by cars, then the an
Swer must be no cars made to run
faster than, say, twenty-five miles
per hour except for special purposes,
such as police, doctors. mail, etc.
Within every town and city limit
speed not to exceed ten miles per hour.
II by progressing We are decaying,
then why not go back fifty years and
have security and peace once more?
JAMES LAWRENCE.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
First Bible Concordance
Was Published i'm 1897
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
In your issue of February l the
following appears on your editorial
page: @. When was comprehensive
concordance Of the Bible first pub
lished? A. In 1765."
The first land still the standard)
concordance, of course, was that Of
Alexander Cruden; and in the Me
morial of him which is prefxed to
the Complete Concordance pub
lished by Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd,
which I have in my library, it is
stated that 1.-The first edition was
published in 1887" That was nearly
a generation before the date you name,
and nearly two centuries ago. 1t is
almost time for the bicentennial.
CHARLES S. LOBINGIER.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Being a Father.

Being a father is glorious fun.
Those who never have had the ex-
perience may not be impressed with
its possibilities, but the point need
not be argued with those more for
tunate men who know its significance
from personal acquaintance with its
values.
Literature, a brief survey shows,
brims with the tributes which fathers
have paid to their infant sons and
daughters, manifestations OF their un-
selfish devotion to the little lives they
have brought into being. John Dry
den, for example, understood the psy-
Geological relation perfectly and
proved his comprehension Of it when
he wrote:
His cares we're eased with intervals
of bliss;
His little children, climbing for a kiss,
Welcome their fathers late return
al IllRI1t.
And Lord Byron exuberantly bore
witness to the same appreciation in
the lines:
Look! How he laughs and stretches
out his arms,
And opens wide his blue eyes upon
thine,
70 hail his father; while hts little
form
Flutters as wing'd with Joy. Talk not
of paine
The childless cherubs well might
envy thee
The pleasures Of a parent!
Robert Southey, no less inspired,
echoed the sentiment in the express
sion:
Call not that man wretched who.
Evening star., 1935-02-08

whatever ills he suffers, has q child
to love.
Charles Lamb, lord Tennyson, Long
fellow and Lowell. all employed their
genius to the same purpose; and
Charles Dickens, "the Children's
Apostle" summed up the central
doctrine Of his faith in the stanza:
They are idols of hearts and of house
holds;
They are angels Of God in disguise:
His sunlight stin sleeps in their tresses;
His glory still CLEANS in their eyes
Oh, those truants from home and from
heaven.
They have made me more manly
and mild,
And know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom Of God to child.
Less gifted individuals nave felt the
same emotions, struggled more or less
vainly to render them articulate. The
fact is that father love is one of the
things which makes the world go
round. And the rewards are COM
mensurate-smiles, the touch of tiny
hands. mere glances of recognition.
The average father asks no more. He
Is content with a certain curious glow
which he feels in his heart. Times
may be out of joint, the business of
surviving may be strenuous, but when
the day is done he is free to enjoy his
privilege Of fatherhood. and that is a
correction for all his troubles. The
bystanding philosopher records judg-
ment to the effect that. next to being
a mother, there is no greater victory
in human annals than that Of being q
father.