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Plentywood herald., 1937-12-23
Nilliston Visitors

Williston Visitors
Visitors in Williston the first of
the week were Mrs. Erma Thinner
man and Eugene Zimmerman. They
were accompanied as far as Balm
Vile by Walter Rasmussen who
went from there to Sidney where
he will operate Reminder" pub
lished by Lauris Beigh. of Plenty
wood. and who plans oleave with
in the next few days for Florida.
Dinner Guests Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. John Vardsveen
were dinner guests at the DR.. Ben
SON home Friday evening.
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses were issued to
the following by the Clerk of Court
Carl Peterson: Gordon Forester
and Edna Ellingson. Broomhead,
Sask.; Arthur Larson and Erlene
Jones. Bengough, Sask.
Here From Poplar
Peter and Percy Moe were here
from Poplar Monday on business
pertaining TO the state planning
board.
Here From Ninot
Messrs. Goodwin and Bruce, West
land Oil company officials from Min
OF. n D., were business callers in
/ Plentywood the first of the week.
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-23

Visits Here
IA week end guest in plentywood
was Grover Smith of Lambert, who
visited at the Martin Nelson home
Mr.. Smith is an instructor in the
Lambert schools.
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-23
viii Visit Here

VIII = MI FVTV
Frank Zimmerman and Frank
Nickerson arrived Tuesday from
Haugan, Mont, to spend the Christ
mas season with their parents in
Plentywood.
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-23
Home For Holidays

Arnold Peterson is home to spenC
the Christmas holidays with his par
ents in Plentywood
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-23
Buys Apartments

Buys Apartments
\ report from Kalispell says tha
Grant Bakewell. former PlentywooC
attorney. has purchased an apart
ment house and hotel in that city
Mr.. and Mrs. Bakewell left Plenty
wood about six weeks ago.
Evening star., 1937-06-13
TRADE
AIDED BY i. S. BUYING
Lowering of Tariff Barriers by Recip'
rocal Treaties Also Good Rusi-
ness, Figures Show.

That this situation, and not alone
the depression, was in great part
responsible for the losses suffered by
the United States in the South Ameri-
can market was eloQuently confirmed
by the totally different figures of 1884,
the first year in which the State
Department openly embarked OH a
policy of liberal trade and commercial
reciprocity. That year, the circum-
stances having changed and the
United States having increased It's
purchases OF South American raw
materials Is per cent, this country
not only recaptured the leadership in
the South American market. but the
percentage in its gains was almost
twice as large as that OF all other
Suppliers Of the Southern continent.
Whereas the 10 South American
republics increased their total imports
that year % per cent. their purchases
in the United States increased Al per
cent. On the other hand, their i'm
ports from Great Britain, which had
held first place the year before, in
creased only 18 per cent The same
was true of South American imports
from Germany, France and Italy,
which increased slightly in comparison
with the gains made by the United
States.
Argentina's imports from the United
States grew four times faster than the
country'S total import trade, Chile'S
and Uruguay's twice as fast as their
respective total imports, and EcuadOr's
imports from the United States in
creased lib per cent in that first year
Of new commercial deal for Latin
America. All in all, l3 per cent
increase in orders for South American
products brought a Al per cent in
crease in sales of United States goods
to the South American countries.
U. 5. Purchases Aid.
Ii Is true that the steady improve
meht Of business in general through
out the world, with a renewal OF
purchasing power and of the demand
for imported merchandise, must be
taken into consideration to under
stand the recovery in inter- American
trade which began in 1884 and has
continued since, but that does not
explain the wide differences in the
gains which correspond to the various
major powers competing for the South
American market. The depreciation
of the dollar has also been adduced as
favoring the position OF the United
States, but that advantage was also
shared by its nearest rival, for the
pound has also deprecated.
The most reasonable explanation of
the remarkable comeback of inter-
American trade, which began stimuli
taneously with the application OF
Secretary Hulls reciprocal trade pro-
gram, is the substantial increase in
United States purchases of South
American raw materials, which created
dollar exchange with which South
Americans could buy In the northern
market. Once again, the truth of
that theory is demonstrated now by
the figures just given out for the year
1886: Imports from South America
augmented 8 per cent, but exports
to South America increased Is per
cent. 1t has been clear, for some time,
that the Hull liberal commercial pro-
gram was good politics, in the
furtherance Of inter-American friend
ship. 1t should become equally clear,
now, that It "a also good business.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-06-13
Europe Watches Probe
OF Secret of Death

Having proved to their satisfa ction
that man and beast are charged with
electricity, two scientists in London are
attracting the attention Of great minds
OF Europe by seeking to learn where
the electricity goes at death
The men, whose names are with
held because of medical etiquette, are
prominent South African doctor
and a famous English engineer.
After five years experiments with
elaborate equipment in London
laboratory, they declare that every
human is born with a definite elec-
trio charge, which vanishes at death.
An average human charge, they de-
clare. is 500 volts, male babies having
a higher charge than female. but
the female could catch up and pass
the male according to their charac-
teriStics.
AS electricity is energy, 1t cannot
disappear, they hold, and they are now
trying to find what becomes Of it at
death.
Evening star., 1937-06-13
CIVIL SERVICE PROGRESS
is DIR. WHITES RECORD
Commissioner Leaves Office With Two
Important Developments to
His Credit.

are limited to college graduates.
The initial one was held two wear,
ago. Nearly 5000 applicants took it.
More than 5000 were accepted and
placed on the register" AS re-.
suit, some 1900 were brought into
Government service without political
pull at the minimum wage" Of $500
year.
Last year another examination was
held. The old register was torn up
and many who were on 1t vino hadn't
received appointments took the exam.
nation again. This time there were
$4,000, some 5000 Of whom hit the
register.
Department Heads Won Over.
The examination was a decided in.
noVation. Departmental heads usually
nave to play with Congress. They
nave to trade jobs for appropriations,
But they we're soon won over 10 III.
new plan when they saw the tvpe Of
men 1t gave them. However. thesa
ofllclals didn't see it until the COM
missioner helped them He brought
the departmental heads and the Civil
Service Commission closer together,
But DR.. White didn't stop there He
knew that the junior appointees would
not stay IN Government 1rvice un-
less advancement were possible. So
When the American University s,Ig-
eeSteo a plan for ''in-service" train
ing, courses for Government EMPLOYEES
IN their own line, he co-operated 10
the 1ull. Last year 1900 Federal
workers attended this school. De-
partment heads took up the idea and
helped interested employees take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to learn
while they earned
Leonard White lets himself be quoted
as saying that, unless the present
civil service is strengthened, the whole
government will fail. That sounds
alarmist for New Englander But
ne doesn't spend his time in .oundin,
alarms. He has strengthened the
service. He knows that more along
this line can and, he feels sure, Will
be done
Graduate Course to Him.
AS DR.. White turned the kew IN his
once door at l pm. yesterday for the
last time, he felt. he said. verv much
as II he were completing his second
Postgraduate course.
MY education has been improved ="
he said with smile. with these three
years in Washington"
NOW ne returns to the University
OF Chicago to continue his research
and teaching. His job will be yerv
much like the one that is going on
across the midway in the university's
great medical school Here young men
are taught not to heal the sick, but
10 learn those things about the art OF
Hippocrates which they can pass on
TO their busy practicing colleagues
who haven't time or facilities for pure
science
A few Of DR.. Whites students un-
doubtedly will take part in public life,
but most will carry his teaching for
ward to increase the usable KNOWLEDGE
Of Government administrat ton. From
time to time both he and thev NAV
dof their academic gowns to improve
their education" and, likewise, offer
the knowledge OF the expert and the
dlsinterested scientist to the political
world to help raise the standard of
service rendered by the pubIcs hired
men.
tCopyriRht, 1877
Evening star., 1937-06-13
By the Associated Press.

~ ERLIN (P). - The famous
* "goose-step," introduced by
Frederick the Great some 200
years ago for Prussion soldiers
as they paraded by the reviewing
stand, may be doomed if certain in
f1uences in the nazified army have
their way.
Not without a struggle, however.
There are ardent defenders even in the
Nazi Army of the time-honored leg
throwing ceremony.
Also, the public seems to enjoy it
thoroughly when the marching COL
umns' whether Of the army, the navy
or the air force. suddenly on command
change their regular marching step
into one Of stiffly throwing the foot
and leg forward and upward at an
angle Of 80 degrees.
Objects to Cavalry Use.
The first military organ to take up
the cry for the abolition Of the goose
step was the Militaer-W -Wochenblatt.
Maj. Won Schlieben, in a signed arti-
Gle, found fault with the goose step
in so far as it was practiced by mem
bers of the cavalry.
"A cavalryman's efficiency depends
upon how he can handle his horse"
Won Schlieben wrote. The activity
OF the muscles is, for the soldier on
horse, quite different from that in
voked when he goose-steps In fact,
the strongly developed muscles in
leg drilled for goose-stepping are a
hindrance for the proper handling Of
a horse"
Besides. Won Schlieben finds. SOL
dierly confidence is not enhanced if
the cavalryman finds that he cannot
do as we'll at goose-stepping as the in
fantryman does. He concludes it
should be abolished or at least greatly
modified for the cavalry.
In a subsequent issue of the Mill
taer-Wochenblatt. the editor, Gen
Wetzell, retired, goes a step further.
Won Schliebens suggestion, he finds,
has the one fault that 1t does not
draw the final and logical conclusion.
The complete abolition of the goose.
step.
Finds Little Aid.
Defenders Of the goose step argue
its alleged value for training in
marching. 1t is my belief that our
practice marches. our cross-country
runs, and good care Of the feet do Just
as much for developing our ability to
march. At any rate. nobody can prove
definitely that this ability is enhanced
by the goose-step
For the modern infantryman the
goose-step is waste OF time and a
ballast which he doesn't need in time
Of war. The time now consumed in
learning it had better be spent on
arms practice"
The opposite point Of view is taken
by DR.. Ernest Meier, writing in an
other military organ, the Wehrfront.
There's nothing 50 conducive to
merging ones own personality and fit-
Evening star., 1937-06-13
BY H. r. BAUKHAGE.

BY H. X. BAUKHAGE.
TODAY is the day for all good
Republicans to get up and ap-
plaud DR.. Leonard D. White,
Il commissioner Of civil service,
as he leaves the marble lobbies of
Washington to take back his regular
job at the University OF Chicago, a
professorship in public administra-
ton.
Not that White is a politician Far
from it. But his ancestors have voted
the Republican ticket ever since the
first one. Peregrine White, born on
the Mayflower, was started in that
direction.
DR.. White, OF course, can't help
such politics. as he may have stored
in his vest pocket. In fact. his Job
Is fighting what is laughingly called
Farleyism, whether 1t wears Demo-
cratic shirt-tail or a Republican frock
coat.
Two Big Achievements.
Reorganization may be debated by
the most rotund OF orators, but DR..
White, like the Weevil in the biscuit.
or one might say the worm in the
political plum, has done two of the
biggest things to boost the merit sys-
tenn in Government that have been
accomplished since these cross eyes
have viewed the Washington scene.
Here they are:
He inaugurated the junior civil serv-
Ice examination.
He helped develop "in-servce"
training
People talk a lot about the inefi-
cheney Of Government, the spoils sys-
tenn that spoils the system, ct ALA. ad
absurdam. But they don't do much
about it.
White Has.
Leonard White, pioneer like his an
cestors, has done something about it.
He was the first man TO teach gov
ernmental administration in a uni
verslty. In other words. he was the
first to spread the idea that knowing
friend Of friend OF a Congress-
man wasn't the prime requisite for
holding Government Job.
DR.. White was appointed to the
CIVIL Service Commission as the tech
nlclan. He was the Republican re-
quired by law. But he decided that
he'd get further by asserting than dis
sentlng. He had no idea of submit
ting minority reports and then going
back TO his golf.
He knew his civil servants. He'd
studied them where they bloom like
a rose-England Not in a class room.
Nor in library There were not many
books on the subject-he had to write
his own. In gathering material he
went right out and rubbed elbows
with the bottom OF the rungers. who
are organized into something very like
labor unicn, to the top rungers with
high hats and spats.
Studied Here Then.
Then he came back home and
watched the nearest thing We have
to the British system: City manage
ment. He observed it in operation
from Portland, Me, to Pasadena,
Calf.
After this. he went to the Univer-
slty OF Chicago to pass on what he
had learned. He now returns to his
chair there, leaving behind him in
Washington enduring contributions to
governmental efficiency.
The f1rst-the junior examinations
Evening star., 1937-06-13
German Goose Step May Be Doomed
After 200 Years of Army Practice

ting oneself into the community spirit
as goose e-stepping. DR.. Meier claims.
The Goose-step is more than
mere manifestation of bodily strength"
the journal observes. 1T demands
strongest concentration of the will and
unconditional subordination of indi-
viduality to the community spirit of
the troop"
Evening star., 1937-06-13
Great Rabbi MOurned
Bv Eastern EurOne

Death Of Lezer Spire, one Of the
be known rabbis in Eastern Europe,
has cnused great mourning in his city,
Musov. I'D throughout that part Of
Czechoslov ia.
He had an enormous following. A
private synagogue was attached to his
residence and crowds Of pilgrims as
sembled In front OF 1t at all times
Of the day and night. He also had
great political influence and privileges.
Evening star., 1937-06-13


OF commercial reciprocity. let him
look up the figures published by
4 the Commerce Department with
reference to 1886 totals OF the inteT
American trade. Against an increase
OF nine per cent in United States
purchases from the South American
countries there was, in the course Of
last year, an increase OF Is per cent
in the sale OF United States products
to the nations south Of Panama.
For period Of several years. and
until very recently. the United States
had not only lost the leadership in the
South American market but, COM
paratively speaking, had suffered more
than any other large supplier OF the
Southern hemisphere. While the de-
crease in South Americas total import
trade during the world depression
amounted to IS per cent, imports from
the United States decreased 81 per
cent. And even after the worst OF the
depression was over and business
began to improve, the total import
trade Of South America increased 27
per cent in 1888, but imports from the
United States increased only Is per
cent. In that same period imports
from Great Britain increased 80 per
cent and large gains were also an
nounced by German and japanese
exporters.
Complained OF Tariffs.
Clearly, there was something else
than the general business decline,
brought about by the depression, to
account for this unprecedented fall of
inter-American trade to a level in
ferior even to that of pre-war days.
The slogan made popular by the
Argentines, Buy from those who buy
from u.s." gives the best clue to the
situation.
The South Americans had COM
plaited for years against the highly
protective, almost prohibitory tariff
walls which were in favor, until not
long ago, in the United States. They
had criticized the lack of interest of
their Northern neighbors in removing
artificial barriers to trade. They had,
moreover, resented the high-handed-
ness and the paternalistic tone in
which they were usually addressed by
the representatives of United States
interests, sometimes with the backing
OF the State Department. When the
Hawley-Smoot act went into effect,
few years ago, formal representations
reached Washington from more than
one South American capital And in
the month which followed the South
Americans lost no opportunity to de-
nounce the unilateral trade tactics of
the United States, in the press, in Dip
lomatic speeches and in international
conferences. Two Of the latter which
were held in this city. the convention
Of the International Chamber of
Commerce and the Fourth Commercial
Pan American Conference, gave Wash
ington oficials taste OF the reaction
which their commercial policies were
precipitating.
1t was not at all surprising. there
fore, that when the emergencies Of
the depression gave them a chance to
readjust their commercial trends, the
South Americans should have turned
in the direction OF those countries
which promised them markets for
their own natural products The
advantages Of reciprocity were too
palpably stressed by the. necessities
Of the economic crisis.
Evening star., 1937-06-13
Lost Cantata Found
In South Africa

In farm house near Capetogn,
South Africa, the Union Cantata,"
composed by Henri ten Brink, has
come to light. 1t was produced for
the first and only time in Pretoria
many years ago.
The libretto was written by the
poet, Jan Cellers. Recently C. B. Lin
der wanted to reproduce it at Jo-
hannesburg, but all trace of it had
been lost He asked the widow Of
the composer to make a search. She
found it in an old locked chest.
Evening star., 1937-06-13

most consist ent producer OF co
Ontario, On June l9, 1884, his party
swept into power in the Province,
and thus he became premier Of On
tarlo.
CONSERVATION is a very mild term
to apply to Ontario's and indeed ali
of Canada's reaction to Hepburns
stand on the social and ceremonial
side of political life in Toronto. which
Is the seat Of the Ontario government
Each province has, in addition to its
complement of elected politicians
lieutenant governor chosen on advice
of his ministers" by the King as di-
rect representative of his ma jesty in
that province, just as the Governor
General is his direct representative in
Ottawa. Hepburn has no objection
to this representation. and no inten-
tion OF abolishing it. He again merely
Evening star., 1937-06-13

years in Ottawa did Hepburn ever
darken the door of Government House
in Ottawa except for the legally rec
essary swearing-in ceremony Il vas
just consistent" said he Il don't
believe in spending the taxpayers
money on parties and other forms OF
entertaining to which by the nature
Of things only very small number
OF the taxpayers can ever 60
Yes, this stand produced conster-
nation in Ottawa at the time. though
in mild form, because Mr Hepburn
was very young man and not yet
very important in his party He WAS
the Liberals bad boy in the House.
turned loose on all occasions to marry
rich, Conservative Richard Bedford
Bennett. Not until 1880 did Hepburn
become leader OF the Liberal parry in
Evening star., 1937-06-13
BY GASTON NERVAL.

7 F ANY one still doubts the benefits
OF commercial reciprocity. let him
look up the figures published by
The Washington times., 1937-10-11
SALVATION ARMY
AIDE IDENTIFIES
AMNESIA VICTIM
Memory Returns When
Man Is Told Name

NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y, Oct.
II (C.TP.S0-New Rochelle's
Man without A Memory" )" remem'
bered today.
A Salvation Army lieutenant in
New York city recognized a pic
ture in a newspaper Of the dis
tinguished old gentleman with the
long grey goatee who walked into
New Rochelle police headquarters
Friday and announced he didn't
know who he was.
CLERK AT HOTEL
"That's Lauthar Nohtan," the
Salvation Army officer told
police. Hes been a clerk down
at the Memorial Mems Hotel on
the Bowery."
When asked about that, Louthar
Nohtan remembered - recalling
everything now-everything up to
Friday.
my father was an American
Indian. He was killed in the
Civil War. My mother was
Indian and Irish. Her name
was Emmett. I was brought up
in the tribe. AS a child I saw
the Usage massacre in Kansas
in 1870. I was 10 years old
then. I'm II now.
WAS LECTURER
IT was brought up as an In.
dian medicine man. My name
means Lone Star. When I got
older I broke away from the
tribe and travelled with Indian
medicine shows. used to direct
the war dances. After that I
was a lecturer. I could still lee
ture but nobody wants to hear
about Indians any more"
He said his chief worry now was
making a living. He has tried tc
obtain an old-age pension, but he
thought his Indian blood was
stumbling block. Officials decided
they would keep Nohtan in Grass.
lands Hospital until his future is
a little clearer.
The Washington times., 1937-10-11
|. Q. Questions
Nv SHIRLEY SPENCER

BY Sk1khAEG SEENCG6
This Is q general quiz on
U. s. Government. Score ten
for correct checking, filling in
blank, or answer Of question.
/. What are the proceedings
for impeachment Of Federal Of
ficers?
2. No Treaty between the
United States and any foreign
country is valid unless approved
by the vote Of two-thirds Of the
Senate. True. False.
8. What is a caucus?
4. What is a protocol?
5. Presidential appointments
of ambassadors, m inisterS,
judges, heads Of departments
and other superior officers must
be confirmed by the -
8. When the Constitution first
began functioning Congress ere
ated departments.
Z. The individual heads Of the
executive departments form o
body called the Cabinet. There
are now departments.
8. What was the "Kttchen
Cabinet?"
9. A Representative Of the
Congress Of U. 8. must be at
least 81, IS, or 80 (years Of age).
10. The President has not
the power to grant q pardon in
cases Of impeachment. True.
False.
ANSWERS on Page 16)
The Washington times., 1937-10-11
Cripple Guilty
In Mothers Death

LOS ANGELES, Oct. II U.N.S0.
William McKibbon, whose legs are
paralyzed, was under conviction to-
day Of manslaughter in the death
of his aged mother. A jury found
him guilty after hearing testimony
that McKibbon slapped his mother
in q quarrel over a wheel chair
and that she died soon after.
The Washington times., 1937-10-11
LOcusts Block
.. Nicaragua Cars

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. IL.
Lecusts have arrived in such great
numbers that the sun Is obscured.
Road traffic has been impeded
near La Luz and Ell Domingo, 10
miles from Managua. Automobile
drivers were advised to use chains
in certain sections because the
cars became stuck in the mangled
mass of insects.
The Washington times., 1937-10-11
Tri-State Board
On Water Created

Creation Of Q tri-State water
commission, under a compact
signed by Minnesota and North
and South Dakota, to carry out a
program for full use and control
of water in the Northwest's Red
River Valley, was announced last
night by the National Resources
Committee.
The Washington times., 1937-10-11
Swell Wife
Buddy Pays Tribute
To Our Mary

PHILADELPHI HIA, Oct. II.
Marriage to Americas sweetheart
Is great fun"
And the collective girl friend OF
the nation makes a swell wife"
Thus with a smile did handsome
Charles Buddy" Rogers report on
his marital life when he reached
Philadelphia. He arrived with his
wife, the former Mary Pickford,
for a theatrical engagement.
The Washington times., 1937-10-11

The Newest Title in United States
ROyalty-Queen Of the Trout Friers.
Read about this new kind Of beauty
Oregon lake. The article, with photo
graphs Of her royal higness and the
pretty members Of her court, is in
the American Weekly, the magazine
Verald.TinneS.