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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-07-21
BY Dorothy Lee Stevenson

children, Billy ana Marjorie
motored to Billings last Thurs
| day to transact business.
Miss h.al:an knutson is
spending a week visiting at the
| home of Miss Mable Sugar
Beets" Holley.
The Lodge Grass Merchants
were defeated Sunday on the
local ball diamond by the
Lamedeer Indians II to IL.
Miss Frances Westwood re-
turned Friday evening from
Burlington, Wyo., where she
spent two weeks visiting with
Miss Evlyn Gromley.
Clifton Green spent the week
end on business in Custer, Jol-
let and Billings.
Mrs. o. L. Matthews was hos
tess at a crlbbage party at
her home last Friday evening.
: The Young Married Women S
club was entertained at the
home of MI. and Mrs. Clifford
Clanin Wednesday evening. Ia
bleS were laid for eighteen, Mrs.
Carl Meister taking high hon
orS for the women, and A. G.
WestWood, Jr., receiving higa
honorS for the men.
Miss Frances WestWood spent
the week end in Billings as
a guest of Miss Betty Laramour.
Miss WestWood also received
medical attention for some dis
placed vertabrae.
Mrs. Datus Chandler and
Mrs. Eva Knapp entertained at
a delicious luncheon for the
Ladies Aid society last Thurs
day afternoon.
Bob Miller was in town from
Lodge Grass creek on Monday
campaigning and reports that
no one was home, that Lodge
Grass was we'll represented at
the Sheridan rodeo. P. S. Billie
Miller is in town every. day.
MI and Mrs. Harold Suth-
erland, now of Toluca, Mont,
formerly of Lodge Grass are the
parents of a daughter, born
Sunday, morning at the Hardin
hospital.
Miss Marjorie Given was a
caller at Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Longs home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Stevens
were in town Monday on bus
mess.
Mrs. George Cooley has spent
the past week visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Lynde
of Lodge Grass.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Brockway
and daughter, Violet, and Miss
Pearl Baker motored to Hardin
Monday on business.
Gene Matthews and Miss
Penelope Calverts were callers
In Sheridan last Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. Dominic Stevens
of Lodge Grass creek attended
to business in town Monday of
this week.
: Mrs. Clayton Clanln and son,
Douglas, and Mrs. A. B. Hub
bard and daughter, Beverly, at
tended the rodeo parade in
Sheridan Monday.
DR.. w. A. Petzoldt was a
caller in Sheridan Monday of
! this week.
Phil Spear was in Lodge
Grass Monday attending to bus
mess matters.
A. M. Stevenson, Sam Stew
enson and son, Albert, were in
Sheridan Monday to attend the
rodeo.
Tony Yarlott spent the week
end visiting relatives and
friends.
Junior Westwood, Mrs. A. G.
WestWood, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Brockway, John Rice, Bill
Lyndes, Mrs. Ted Baker, Mrs.
A. M. Stevenson, Miss Marjorie
Given and Dorothy Lee Steven
son were among those who at
tended the funeral of Orville
Ross Monday.
Albert Lobdell spent the week
end visiting his parents in st.
Xavier.
Mrs. Letitia Sharp reports
that her daughter, Elaine, is
doing nicely in the Sheridan
! h0Snito1 I1,t will 10 &la,a e..
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-07-21

There will be 40, 900 miles of
hard-surfaced highways in The
West by February ID, 1889, OPP
ening date of the Worlds Fair
of the West on Treasure Island.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-08

7LlE FIERY RicHARP AuQLS TIE
AUSTRIAN CHAMPION. AlALteNRCDE.
DOWN TIE SLOPE TAE OTHER
AUSTRIAN KNIGHTS FALL BACK 80.
Evening star., 1938-08-31

the spirit Of q man, . woman or q child.
Any group will respond to environmental
improvement.
OF course, there is confusion the while
the work proceeds. The business of re-
construction cannot be carried forward
without disturbing the house from cellar
to garret. Normal routine is broken,
necessarily. The average carpenter,
painter or paperhanger does not willfully
turn chaos loose, yet temporary disar-
rangements are imperative. The ensuing
serenity, therefore, is all the more appre-
ciated. Conn pletion Of the work signifies
the return Of domestic order very pleas
ant to experience. Then, the family may
relax from tension, indulge the natural
impulse to rest from turmoil. The "old"
house is new" again, and everybody is
grateful. If the ordeal has been ex-
hausting, 1t also paradoxically has been
stimulating.
Not often, perhaps, are such thoughts
put into words Yet there can be little
question about their existence in the
minds and in the hearts of thousands.
The common reaction might be sum-
married in the verdict that 1T is great
fun to have a new home without having
to move =
Evening star., 1938-08-31
Purge Setback.

Viewed from any angle, the decisive
victory of Senator Cotton Ed" Smith in
the South Carolina Democratic primary
is distinct setback for the Roosevelt
purge. Further than that, the triumph
Of the veteran Senate conservative can
offer little comfort to the more leftish
New Dealers whose legislative ambitions
have been rejected by the majority of
the South Carolina electorate.
1t will be said that the vote was not a
direct test OF the Presidents prestige
since he did not ask specifically for the
defeat of Senator Smith, and did not
enter the State to campaign against him.
That Is true, but there is still no gain
saying the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt clearly
indicated his preference for Gov. Olin
+ D. Johnston, the defeated candidate, and
sought by every means short of direct
Intervention to encompass the defeat Of
the incumbent Senator.
Mr.. Roosevelt put himself squarely on
record when, in discussing the primary.
he told reporters: "One Of these candi-
dates thinks in terms Of the past and
governs his actions accordingly. The
other thinks in terms OF 1898 and l948
and 1858 as we'll" That was an implied
plea for the nomination of Gov. Johnston
from which the President cannot now
escape.
The significance of the Smith victory
cannot be fully grasped without bearing
IN mind the campaign promises of the
candidates. Gov. Johnston sought the
nomination as one hundred per cent
New Dealer, promising to support the
Roosevelt legislative program, whatever
1t might be. Senator Smith claimed to
have supported eighty per cent OF the
Presidents program in the past and said
he would support it in the future except
when to do so will be in direct conflict
with what consider the best interests of
South Carolina"
On the hasis of those pledges, it can
only be inferred that the South Carolina
Democrats want their representatives in
the Senate to be the agents of the State,
not merely "yes men" for the President.
That, after all, is the fundamental issue
underlying the purge. The President
with commendable frankness, has made
1t clear that he wants a subservient Con-
gress, but on that issue the people of one
Democratic State have refused to 20
along with him.
The voting in California, where Senator
McAdoo is seeking denomination with the
strong Endorsement of Mr.. Roosevelt.
must also be disheartening to the New
Deal. The early returns show Senator
McAdoo trailing Sheridan Downey.
former counsel for Dr. Francis E. Town
sends old-age pension plan. Although
Senator McAdoo has campaigned as a
supporter Of the President, the New Deal
is not the important issue in that State.
Mr.. Downey based his hope of victory.
on pension plan under which all Cali
fornia jobless over fifty years of age
would receive thirty dollars a week in
scrip. The only conclusion that can be
drawn from the early voting is that an
impressive number of Californians are
still hoping to get something for nothing.
Evening star., 1938-08-31
The 5'New" House.

No human dwelling place ever is too
old to be renovated. Houses are suscep-
tible of rejuvenation. Many people know
that. They practice rational philosophy
Of protection for their properties. One
result is the maintenance, sometimes
even the enhancement of the economic
value of their investments. The market
worth of real estate rises when even
theoretically minor improvements are
effected.
But something more important than
physical or financial advantage is in
volved in the repair and redecoration of
q home. The family enjoys the fresh
ened atmosphere. Its members feel the
influence Of their frightened surround
ings. The cleanliness, the Identification,
the restored dignity Of their little world
these are realities. factual in character,
definitely compelling in connotation with
Evening star., 1938-08-31
Concern Over Character
Of Population Voiced.

To the Editor OF The Star:
IN A brief Associated Press article from
Washington, D. c., the National Re-
sources Committee is quoted as saying
there is no reason for worrying about
the prospect of future stationary or
even declining population.
This view might be correct If one
thought only of the total population and
not at all about the character of the
population: if the changes would affect
all elements alike: If one had no pride
of family. ancestry, creed. culture, or
ideals. The birth rate should unques-
tionably be controlled and limited among
the unfit and the irresponsible. But an
appalling decline of the birth rate has
begun among the older American stocks.
In thousands of families there are only
one or two, and in many cases no chill
dren. The tendency is spreading rapidly
and threatens to become general except
among the comparatively few who see
the danger. When it is realized that an
average of at least three births is needed
for stationary population and that the
one-child family cuts down the number
more than so per cent, it is evident that
HhIly 1dlIllly lines WOulO De weakened or
become extinct.
There is, thus, very real cause for
worry unless the tendency can be i'm
mediately checked The young married
people must be urged to have at least
two or three children, even though auto
mobiles, travel and other expenses must
be subordinated and even though the
Government, as in some other countries,
must in some cases give the parents as
Sistance to rear the children.
CYRUS H. ESHLEMAN.
Lakewood, Ohio.
Evening star., 1938-08-31

cupations not affording them enough, are
able to keep more or less fit by such
walking as they can get in and around
a big city.
Doctors make walking a part Of many
treatments for variety of diseases.
They plot their treatments in regard
to medicine, general hygiene and walk
ing, the latter as the third ingredient, of
no less Importance than the others.
Those who Slight the doctors orders
IN this respect are doing their best to
short-change themselves. He planned
the treatment as whole, and any leav-
ing out of an ingredient makes the treat
ment ineffective to greater degree than
one might suppose.
X ***
City walking requires technique all
its own.
The growth of Washington in the last
eight years has made whole new way
Of walking imperative.
No longer can one stroll across streets
without looking or worrying.
Oh of course, many still do 1t. but
motorists and many pedestrians regard
them as fools.
If one is to- get real benefit and pleas
ure from city and suburban walking any
more, it will be necessary to find out how
to walk under the conditions which face
us, and then to get them down to the
point where they are more or less au-
tomato.
This procedure takes the worry out of
modern walking, and puts the sport al
most back to where it was before the
worry began.
1t is still possible to go around with
ease, If one will keep in mind the one
big rule:
Take your time.
Walking in a hurry is simply sue
plunging ones self forward not back
ward, in a mad scramble, inimical alike
to body mind and spirit.
BY taking ones time, waiting at cor
ners, looking up and down, getting a
clear way along roads without sidewalks,
and observing the ordinary rules of
caution, walk in city or country may
be made pleasurable even today.
**
We still refer, let US insist, to plain
walking, not hiking.
HIKES are for people with thick hides,
who don't mind brambles, scrambles or
mosquitoes-or even poison ivy.
They laugh at poison ivy. sometimes
out of the wrong corner of the MOUTH
They demand mountains, nothing less
They want to brag next day.
Plain, ordinary, everyday walkers SIM
ply walk to get somewhere. They may
feel glow of elation afterWard. but they
know they cannot aStound their friends
by telling them they walked all of 10
blocks.
So they simply walk to get where they
are going, and at the same time get
little exercise. and more elation of mind
and spirit, since they are doing what
God Almighty meant for them to do.
Il done done what you told me to do
says the old spiritual. All pedestrians
may sing that
Evening star., 1938-08-31
Plea for Understanding
OF Puerto Ricans.

To the Editor OF The Star:
y EADING the letter of Mr.. c. Thomas
was great satisfaction to me.
AS the Report of the Puerto Rico
Commission of June IA, 1884, states on
page 7: 1T must be borne in mind that
Puerto Rico is headed toward a major
social catastrophe, which can hardly be
postponed for more than 20 years unless
something fundamental is accomplished.
The issue, therefore, is as between the
possible loss of several millions to Amer
ican exporters and the practical GER
tainty of social chaos in Puerto Rico.
Quite independent of the fact that such
chaos would entail much greater eco
nomc loss to the United States, but
purely as problem in responsibility and
humanity, there can be little doubt as to
how the American people would wish
such an issue to be decided or as to how
a high order of American craftsmanship,
once convinced OF its reality. will
decide it,"
In nearly 40 years of American occu-
patton of the island only the problems
OF bread and butter and light education
have been attended to; the soul of those
people, who have entirely different points
of view from the American people, still
remains n-Americanized. With feed
ing, cleaning. clothing and education Of
the upper class, we have not reached
the heart OF those people, my people.
They differ from us in everything
language, traditions, religion.
The fact that there have been several
disturbances and outbreaks does not
prove that they are antl-Amerlcan; IN
that case it would be correct to state
that the people right here among us are
anti-American because they kidnap our
neighbors' children. You will find wrong
doings everywhere in the world. 1t can
not be denied that some Of my Puerto
Ricans, without bullets or terrorism, de-
sire our independence. Now, can any
real American throw a stone at them
because they wish liberty like our own
forefathers did? 1t would be really
un-American procedure. That it will be
impractical at present, and unfair to
them I am positive. If we have not
taught those people, 100000 of them
in 40 years how to be Americans and 60
to the polls to settle their political dis
putes, we shall be responsible for them,
and our American spirit should be iii
show you how so that later on the Il
told you so" can be justified.
The responsibility rests with us, and
the United States cannot shun it. We
went to war to get those people, my peo-
pie, and we are responsible to the world
and to God if we have failed to teach
them the real spirit of the Constitution
Of the United States.
Our percentage of criminality, as Mr..
Thomas says, is very small. Why advo-
cate now for capital punishment to sup
press this small percentage? Has the
United States, where capital punish
ment exists in most Of the States, sup
pressed kidnapping and gangsterism? And
yet, dare say, there is no country in
the world like our own U. S. A.
ALICE ESTEVA WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1938-08-31
The Municipal Center.

A great gap in the housing program
for the District Government has been
filled by the Public Works Admnistra-
ton by its decision to advance a fund
OF S5,7OO000 for construction of addi-
tlonal units Of the Municipal Center.
Comp7etion of this long planned de-
velopment now will be pushed ahead at
a gratifying pace
1t seems to be case in which patience
has its reward. The site for the new
home for the city's administration
buildings was selected nearly a decade
ago. Purchase of the needed land was
started back in 1880. The District to
date has spent nearly 100000 on the
site.
Need for new municipal housing de-
veloped when the Federal Government
planned the immense Government Tri-
angle project, which envisioned the raz-
ing Of the present District Building and
construction of new Federal building
there. At first new group of munich
pal buildings costing from $25, 900 900 to
100000 was discussed, but this since
has been whitfield down more in keeping
with municipal needs.
Then followed long period of talk
about the new civic center, its size, cost
and details. But even a casual survey
of the present District establishment
will convince most taxpayers of the need
of new District headquarters. Various
units Of the municipal government have
been crowded out Of the District Build
ing and placed in scattered sites, some
Of them in ancient. makeshift housing.
Service to the public consequently suffers.
Evening star., 1938-08-31
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,
Walking down the winding road in
the sunshine Is not so fine In the sum-

Walking down the winding road in
the sunshine is not so fine In the sum-
mer
1t will be better from now on.
1t has been too hot for the past two
months, when pedestrianism was more
OF duty than pleasure.
People who can do SO owe 1t both to
themselves and others to walk, in this
becoming lost art in the cities.
They find that the example is helpful.
1t shows those in cars that some folks
walk because they want to.
The walking here referred to is not
hiking, but simply the sort done to get
where one is going
There is big difference, of course.
The necessity of moving the legs over
the ground long ago went out of city
living. Some have succumbed so thor
oughly that they will not walk even so
little as two blocks.
Many have to make themselves walk,
as If they were convalescing, before they
are able to do a stretch no longer than
a quarter of mile.
They have been sufferers, although
they did not realize it; they have been
ailing for long time, and now are able
to walk again.
This is a mental disease, above all. 1t
springs from too great subservience of
the mind to the twin ideas of invention
and progress.
George Washington led as full life
as most, and he had no modern inven-
tions. In all fairness it must be ad-
mitted that had he lived today no doubt
he would have had them all.
Also it must be admitted that he had
the very latest form Of transportation
of his day-the carriage, which he often
used in trips to Fredericksburg
They say he went out High street,
now Wisconsin avenue, through old
Georgetown, then as now proud of its
differences from Washington.
1t is interesting to think of him sit
ting at radio or turning on an electric
light. or watching the busting of Mount
Vernon with vacuum cleaner.
Despite his use of horseback and car
riages, Gen. Washington was a great
walker. He learned as young surveyor
that the legs are most useful. They can
take you places.
The cult Of walking should be built up
today as sort of protest against auto
mobilitis, as well as for all the benefits
it ever had.
No doubt there are vastly many more
persons today in need Of the general con-
stitutional exercise which exercise af-
fords than ever before in history.
Probably the only period in which the
necessity for enforced walking was the
same was just prior to the French Revo-
luton, and then it applied only to the
small band constituting the court and
its hangerS-on.
They took carriages.
X X X
Today many persons who find 1t dlfil-
cult TO take exercise" their ordinary oc-
Evening star., 1938-08-31
Secretary Roper's Concern
Over Credit Draws Reply.
To the Editor of :

TO the Eoltof OF Ine star:
MAY be permitted few lines to ex-
press profound hope that secre-
tary Ropers attitude Of determination
to preserve democracy as against the
trend to defeatism by careful and de-
termined study of the problems of dis
tribution, as given us in The Stars Radio
Forum, may be permitted to dominate
future liberal" legislation? Mr.. Roper's
contention that "the failure to provide
the means for carrying on the exchange
Of what men want is the only circum-
stance which depriyes them from work.
ing in pursuits that bring them satis-
faction" naturally suggests that our
difficulties arise through the medium of
exchange. Indeed, his concern over
credit" impels the presentation of the
following from the pen Of a business
expert, Prof. Slichter of Harvard, in
his book, Toward Stability:
Indeed, II we we're living in a cash
economy and desired for some strange
reason to make an economy highly sus-
ceptible to violent fluctuations, we could
scarcely do better than to invent the
present credit system"
ALDEN A. POTTER.
Evening star., 1938-08-31

The regular appropriation act for the
District for this fiscal year carries
sum Of 100000 for starting Of construc-
ton Of the first unit of the Municipal
Center, having an authorized cost of
$l,50O000. This is to house the Police,
Fire and Tratic Departments.
-Four years ago the Commissioners
sought ?. w. A. advance of several
million dollars for this purpose, but
nothing was then forthcoming. This
year the city heads applied for an ad-
vance of $3.50, 900 toward expansion of
the center development Much to the
surprise Of most observers, the P. w. A.
has increased this advance to $500 900.
50 as to provide suitable administrative
of'ices to allow concentration OF District
activities in one location" q
This is eminently desirable. The crux
of the matter lies in the facts that the
District eventually must provide such
quarters anyway, that the unexpectedly
large advance will hasten tremendously
the completion of the project, and that
OF the total advance the District will
receive an outright grant of $2,565 900
and will have period of "a years in
which to repay the remaining $3,135 900.
Loans and grants for new municipal
government housing may not have quite
the same public appeal as grants of
funds for schools and hospitals, but
here is case of definitely ascertainable
need, and commendation and apprecia-
ton has been won by the P. w. A., the
District Commissioners and others hav-
ing part In the plan.
Evening star., 1938-08-31

Roosevelt became enthroned is worthy
OF mention, and that is the banking bill
of Senator Glass, which had former
President Hoovers approval and might
have been acted upon and averted the
later financial troubles democratically
manipulated to give Hoover black eye.
The balance of legislation under the
popular Roosevelt has simply been the
manipulation Of the taxpayers money
over to the P. w. A. workers to hold them
in line to trip future elections.
We shouldn't blame Mr.. Roosevelt al
together. Did he not 90 back on about
all of his first campaign promises, except
the liquor batting? P. F.. SKINNER.
Evening star., 1938-08-31
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Oyercauti0uS.

OvercautiOus.
Listen, Mister Weather Man,
Just prophesyings glib,
You are not George Washington,
Who cannot tell fib.
We are tired of hearing stories
OF the suns terrific glow;
So can't you sort OF stretch a point
And tell us of the snow?
Why can't you twist the news around
And make 1t kind of gay?
Just prophesy a blizzard now
And take it back next day.
There's not SO much depending on
The promising you do;
So make it easy as you can
And not so dreadful true!
Evening star., 1938-08-31

The Secretary Of War declares that
much must be done before we can con-
slider our Army well modernized. Official
estimates have always been depicting,
even when calculations covering several
years have been under consideration by
men who may be obliged to undertake
war with arms, but persistently hope in
winning with the weapons of peace.
Evening star., 1938-08-31
Replies to Communication
On Roosevelt Popularity.

To the Editor Of The STAR
T AM highly elated to read the letter
of Frank S. Flynn, entitled. Seeks
Reason for Roosevelt's Popularity" Mr..
Flynn says he has never been able to
find any one thing he has done for the
people Neither have I, but understand
the one thing that has befuddled SO
many in thinking F. D. r. is 'the most
humane President we've had" It's SIM
ply the bringing back of liquor. which
was we'll on the way out.
The Roosevelt popularity comes not
from the heart, but from the pocketbook.
Though he has never shown any real
craftsmanship, 1t must be admitted he's
some skipper when it comes to p. w.
A-ing out Government funds sufdcient
to swing an election-right or wrong.
Only one bill passed since President