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Evening star., 1938-11-19
Shooting Stors
Bu Phildnder Johnson
Well Meaning.

wen WcHHII1K.
He meant we'll, but he didn't know,
Oh, words of deep pathetic woe!
He caught a hornet wandering by;
He thought it was a butterfly.
Live wires he would boldly test
Because they looked just like the rest;
He'd trust mule and walk behind
Because it looked so meek and kind;
A toadstool he would pluck with care.
Fate always played him curious tricks,
He had passion for gold bricks.
And yet his heart was very kind;
Exceeding active was his mind,
And still his troubles seemed to grow.
He meant we'll, but he didn't know.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Pedestrian Control Called
Needless and UnwiSe.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Pedestrian traffic control, urged at
time when the director of traffic is rec
ommending an increase in the speed
limit from % to Is miles an hour, appar-
emily is not designed SO much to save
pedestrians from mishap as it is to speed
up the movement of vehicles.
It has come to be recognized that most
accidents are due to unseemly haste in
driving. The traffic director has ven-
tured the opinion the flow of traffic
would be seriously retarded if vehicles
were prevented from making turns while
pedestrians crossed on the green light.
Pedestrian traffic control would seri-
ously retard the progress of walkers. 1t
would take person afoot much longer
to walk from point to point If he were
required to stop at every intersection
when the traffic light was red. His exas-
peration at the delay might cause him
to "see red" in more ways than one, and
it is likely the sponsors of such a regu-
lation would find themselves "in the
red," too.
The streets OF Washington are
thronged with pedestrians going to and
from their places of business. A pedes-
trian walking 40 blocks and interrupted
half a minute at each intersection would
take 20 minutes longer to make the trip
afoot than is now required.
Washington streets are not so thickly
infested with moving vehicles that there
is no opportunity to slip safely across
the street on the red signal. When
traffic becomes so thick there are no
gaps in the line of moving vehicles pedes-
trians will be automatically controlled
and regulation of walkers will not be
needed
Pedestrians should be permitted to
exercise their own judgment as to when
Pedestrians who cross the street at other
points than intersections maintain 1t is
safer than at corners where they are be-
set by turning vehicles. Statistics show
more accidents occur at intersections
than In the middle of the block
The attempt to foist pedestrian traffic
control upon walkers Is another effort to
increase motor vehicle monopoly Of the
streets.
Many pedestrians will not cross the
street upon coming to an intersection
where the light is green because Of the
danger of the signal suddenly turning
red before they can reach the other side
of the thoroughfare. Such walkers wait
for the signal to become green again
before they will venture to cross.
Evidently 1t should Be, instilled In ve-
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Prophetic Words Of
Robert Emmet Cited.

Apropos of the motion picture, Dawn
Over Ireland" soon to be shown here,
history carries us back to 4 time l40
years when the gallant "men of 98,"
famed in song and story, were struggling
for Irish freedom. The illustrious Robert
Emmet in the delivery Of his classical
last speech seems to have been touched
with the gift of prophecy. He said:
when my country takes her place
among the nations of the earth then
and not till then let my epitaph be
written" MICHAEL T. HOBAN.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Thomas jefferson Memorial

The Star, traditionally devoted to
the preservation and the enhance
ment of the natural beauty of the
Nations Capital, learned with pro-
found regret as result of President
Roosevelt's final pronouncerent on
the subject, that the Jefferson Me-
mortal must come into being on an
unsuitable site at excessive cost and
that certain cherry trees of the Tidal
Basin, between Lightweight and two
hundred of them, must be destroyed
or removed and transplanted to ac-
commodate the memorial.
Since long before the birth of a
majority of its present generation of
readers, The Star has fought to pro-
tect the parks of Washington. 1t
has been consistent in its opposition
to the riverside location of the mon
ument to the third President. 1t has
argued against Wanton or unneces-
sary destruction of any tree within
the borders of the District.
1t should be remembered in this
connection that expert authorities
have from the first been consulted
in the interest of a wise solution of
the problem. The Star has not at
tempted to dictate to Congress or to
the Memorial Committee or to the
Commission of Fine Arts or to the Ma
tional Park and Planning Commits
sion or to any other official or official
body charged with ultimate response
tility. It has carefully refrained
from setting itself up in judgment of
those charged with the decision. Up
to the last it had hoped that they
would provide an appropriate site
for the Jefferson Memorial and pre-
serve the cherry trees in the place
which they have adorned.
Now the subject is closed. There
is no use in further debating it.
The enthusiastic popular opposi-
ton to the riverside location and the
unnecessary destruction of trees has
not, however, been entirely fruitless.
1t helped to bring about a modifica-
ton Of the original plan as to site, as
to size and cost of the memorial and
as to extent of tree destruction. Op-
position to the new site on the south
side of the Tidal Basin, though it has
failed to prevent the construction OF
the memorial at site unsuitable
and at cost unnecessary, will, The
Star believes, result in the destruc-
ton of a minimum of trees, the re-
moval and transplanting of max
imum, and the planting in compen-
sation for the trees now to be de-
stroyed OF a greater number on
conspicuous and appropriate loca-
ton elsewhere in Potomac Park And
after endurance for many months
during the construction period of the
ugly Disagreement of one of the
Capitals most attractive show-spots,
The Star hopes that in landscaping
the environment of the memorial
many more trees will be planted, and
that from the chaos of the immediate
future beautiful memorial build
ing will arise-a great monument to
a great man-to the attractiveness
of which as a work of art nature
will add her own magic touch in the
creation, in landscaping around that
monument, of natural loveliness
which will eventually obliterate the
bitterness of the recent controversy
Evening star., 1938-11-19

Constance Talmadge, former silent
film star, is suing her third husband
for divorce Whoever gave this lady
her first name may have had a
prophetic sense of humor.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

Traffic instruction is being given
out in Chicago to youngsters in kid
die cars. Some adult motorists ought
to be denoted to just such foot-poW-
ered vehicles.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
WaSteful Suggestion.

"The day is passed when the farmer is
represented as man who sits on fence
and chews a wisp of hay"
Il should say sol" answered Farmer
Cornstossel. 'I'd like to see mans
folks allowing him to chew up anything
as valuable as hay is getting to bel"
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Grateful.

II love my country passing we'll"
The offlceholder cried with glee;
II ought to love it, truth to tell,
Since it has been so good to me-"
Evening star., 1938-11-19
OverStayed.

Il am surprised that you should seek
the honor of a presidential nomination.
why shouldn't II" inquired Senator
Sorghum.
Because you are a newcomer in the
field. You have not been before the
public long enough"
"Well, there's one thing you want to
remember. A man who stays before the
public too long is very likely to get be-
hind the times
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Millions of Miles.

Some day perchance we'll talk with Mar
tian men,
And yet no earthly need this project
teaches.
Why go as far for conversation when
We're just recovering from the cam
paign speeches?
Evening star., 1938-11-19

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Don't be too trustful of man." said
Uncle Eben, "jes because his talk is pleas
ant. De music on bod ship sounds
good. but 1t ain nigh a. important as do
blowi9. q . fog horn" =
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''Some men," said Hi Ho, the sage of
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were paid for breathing they would choke
to death trying to cheat
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Evening star., 1938-11-19

O. Is syphilis modern disease?-R.
S. D.
A. DR.. Charles S. Butler in his "Syph-
Ills Sive Morbus Humanus' traces syph-
Ills to the earliest recorded writings.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

@. Who was Seneca?-J. M. H.
A. He was a stole philosopher who
lived from 4 BIC. TO IS AID. Born at
Cordoba, Spain, he grew up in Rome
where he became prominent and aroused
the jealousy of Nero. who ordered him to
commit suicide. He left AZ books of
essays and tragedies.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

@. How much money did Herbert
Hoover receive for his speech at Hartford,
Conn. ?-W. j. H.
A. The Republican Nationaf Commit
tee says that Mr.. Hoover receives no
compensation for his political speeches
and defrays all of his own expenses.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

disposal, it has provided jobs for some but
not for all. Countless unemployed are sorely
stinted or confronting outright starvation;
and even more are deprived of the opportu-
nifty to engage in socially useful labor.
Congress will shortly consider appropria-
tons for the 1889 fiscal year, and the c. I. O..
has already estimated the absolute minimum
which will be necessary for the unemployed,
if the government is to meet its responsible
ity.
Through Chairman John l.. Lewis, the c.
l. o. has called upon Congress to provide
this minimum. 1t asks for an appropriation
for the coming fiscal year of SO 5000, 000, 600
to provide an average of $780, 900 useful jobs
for the unemployed.
In calling for this minimum appropriation,
the c. l. o. also emphasizes that there should
be no pauperizing of the unemployed; and
that they should be given work On socially
useful projects such as housing, slum clear
ance, flood control, building of schools and
hospitals, and the like.
Every member of Congress shares in the
responsibility Of government to meet the
present unemployment crisis in an adequate
and constructive manner. And every mem
Der of organized labor and the public owes
it to himself and his country to see that his
representatives do not overlook this obliga-
ton.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
Federal Aid for Schools

The Advisory Committee on Education APP
pointed by President Roosevelt in 1886 has
made a report which the President has trans
mitted to Congress. Briefly, it recommends
more federal aid to states in the matter of
schools; aid starting at $70,0OO,OOO in 1899
and rising to $199, 000,0 900 a year in 1914. 1t
is particularly urged that the federal gov
eminent should not try to dictate the exact
use of this money, but should leave the states
all the latitude possible.
Six general purposes are set out, with a
recommended grant for each: General aid
to elementary and secondary education, i'm
proved preparation for teachers, construc-
ton of school buildings to help r%eorganiza-
ton of school districts, administration of state
departments of education, adult education,
and library service for rural districts.
1t is a program which would make ten
million boys and girls throw up their hats
and cheer-if they knew about it. 1t would
help all schools, especially country schools.
The committee points out that the farmers
of this country have more children to edu-
cate and fewer dollars for the purpose than
city jewellers have. 1t notes that rural schools
were hardest hit of all in the depression. 1t
directs attention to the astounding differ
ences in chances for schooling in different
parts of the country; and it holds that only
a federal grant can iron out these differences.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
Child Labor

Despite all the informationS we have Of
the evil consequences of child labor and our
realization that poverty in families is the
easy road to injustice to children through
labor in the immature years, we still lack
federal law safeguarding the children of our
free nation. Legislative experience dem
onstrated the need of federal amendment.
Up to the current year % states have ratified
the joint resolution adopted by Congress in
1924 and submitted to the states for action.
Eight more states must ratify the amend
ment to make it effective.
Last spring the American Institute of
Public Opinion conducted a nationwide poll
which showed rs per cent in favor of %ratifica-
ton of the federal amendment. There is no
question about the desirability of protecting
minors in their right to opportunity for edu-
cation and physical development.
Children are still permitted to work in
commercialized agriculture, in street trades,
in hotels, restaurants, l~aundries, garages,
offices, in home industries" canneries, fac
tories, etc. Children work in the tiff mines
Of Missouri. Ninety per cent Of children Of
THINNING families when IA or Is were work.
ing instead of attending schools. Of Sc chill
dren studied by the National Child Labor
Committee one-half had begun work before
II years old.
Industrial home work has been growing in
rural communities in recent years. Work is
sent out from the factory to be done at piece
rates. One child, 1912 years, made lamp
shades at 80 cents a dozen-working after
school hours until 10 or 10: 80 school nights,
and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
Three children 10 years old were found
crocheting hats for not more than go cents
a dozen. In the South some children are
employed in lumber mills and helping with
turpentine.
All of this goes on when millions of adults
are unable to find jobs, making the exploita-
ton of children unnecessary as we'll as I'M
just. We owe to the children and ourselves
to take the necessary federal action to pro-
tect all.
Labor looks to the New York Legislature
to lead towards final ratification of the Child
Labor Amendment.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
Congress Must Act

When a man is thrown out of work, the
country suffers a double economic loss. 1t is
deprived of the products which this worker
could be producing, and it is deprived Of the
purchasing power put into motion when he
spends his wages.
Such losses can be estimated in dollars and
cents, but no figures can tell the extent of
the social loss involved in the impoverish-
ment of this Individual and his family. Nor
is there any measure of the misery and frus-
tration which the unemployed worker him
self experiences.
The total loss, both to the country and to
himself, in the unemployment Of a single
worker is a terrible one. But when this loss
is multiplied Is million times, as it is today,
the result is not only appalling-it is a des-
perate national crisis.
In such a crisis, when private industry has
failed to provide employment, it is the OBJ
vious duty Of the government to step in and
see that work is provided for every single
unemployed person-so that his right to life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness may be
preserved, and so that he may contribute his
share to the whole country's welfare.
This duty the government has so far failed
to perform. With inadequate funds at it's
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

Another great U. S. housing need:
A floor below which wages can't
fall and a ceiling above which hours
can't rise.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

from the man-made desert.
The crimes against our rivers have
changed clear streams, filled with
life, into open sewers, a danger to
health.
Floods that sweep to destruction
life and property and untold wealth
in rich soil have followed our strip
ping of forests and ravaging of the
grasslands.
A great deal has been done in
various ways to halt these crimes.
State conservation departments, in
recent years, have done wonderful
work, Federal agencies have also
accomplished splendid results.
Meanwhile, up and down the
country, almost every organization,
from the Boy Scouts to the Fed
Grated Women's Clubs; from the
Camp Fire Girls to the American
Legion, has come out strong for
WllAlilG lSobOl oblOlA'
The National Wildlife Federation
was formed to let all organizations
unite in their work for wildlife.
Union of Forces
Farmers, sportsmen, boys, girls
everybody in the United States who
belongs to any sort of club or group
interested in the outdoors-are in
vited to join hands with the help of
the Federation.
The Federation's job is to keep all
of us informed as to what is going
on throughout the country that af-
fects wildlife. To show what the
Federation can do, let me tell you
of a typical problem. There is a
great wilderness park, a region for
the camper, the nature lover, the
camera enthusiast, the canoe cruiser
to enjoy-your wilderness and mine
and for all Americans of the future
But there is a fortune to be made
from lumber, if only streams can
be damned in this wilderness, if
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Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

buffalo extended for miles in all
directions on the western plains,
countless thousands of magnificent
animals that were completely wiped
out as the white man moved across
the continent.
Wild pigeons flew north and south
across the United States each spring
and fall in such numbers that they
darkened the skies. Carloads Of
birds were caught on the nesting
grounds and shipped to the market.
A few stuffed passenger pigeons in
museums are all that we have left.
A few buffalo in ZOOS and parks.
The cheapest food for man is fish,
and one of the very best. Half a
century ago the supply Of fish along
coasts and in the Great Lakes
seemed absolutely unlimited.
Today, a great many of our most
valuable commercial fish are almost
gone. The Great Lakes are nearly
empty of whitefish. The salmon of
the Pacific Coast are in grave
danger.
Civilized man has committed
many crimes against the earth and
the waters that fed him. Let us
look at some of these crimes.
Drainage Crimes
Lakes and marshlands support
many kinds of life that is valuable
to man, including fur-bearing ami
mails, game fish, wildfowl and a host
of interesting species that add great
ly to the attraction of the out-of-
doors. Drainage schemes in many
parts of the country have changed
lakes and marshes into sun-baked
flats. Sometimes fire has started in
the dry boys and burned for months
until all the fertile soil was gone.
Sometimes the dried lakes and
marshes have blown away in dust
storms. Poor farmers that mort
gagged their land to help pay for
drainage have had to move away
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
Prison Labor Barred
From Slate Building
Anaconda and Powell County
Unions Gratified Over Action
of State Examiners.

Labor of Anaconda and Deer
Lodge scored two big victories Fri
day, March 18, when the state board
of examiners investigated the
charges of unnecessary brutality
brought against the guards at Warm
Springs insane asylum and the pro-
test of organized labor against the
use of convict labor in the erection
of the new license plate building at
the state prison in Deer Lodge.
The investigation at Warm Springs
substantiated the charges made by
the Mill and Smeltermen's Union of
Anaconda and Anaconda's Central
Labor Council that the guards had
beaten n of the patients I'M
necessarily, and that the patient
was also confined in the criminal
insane building not because that was
the proper place for him but be-
cause the attendants wanted to pun
ish him. 1t was found he was an
epileptic and not insane and that
the attendants were not obeying
regulations, inasmuch -as no clubs
are permitted to be used on any
patient. The boy was struck with
a club and cut, and later given a
black eye after he was h~andcuffed.
Two guards were discharged by
Superintendent Dunn Of the asylum.
Organized labor of Anaconda
rendered a distinct service to the
state in asking Attorney General
Freebourn to force the investiga-
ton and the thorough manner in
which it was conducted deserves the
thanks of all the citizens of the state
as it not only served its purpose in
exposing the practice of brutality in
the state asylum, but also served as
a warning that such practices must
stop. In addition to the investiga-
ton into the cruel attack by the
guards, the feeding Of the inmates
was also considered. We believe
this question deserves careful at
tention at all times and the questions
asked Of those in charge brought out
facts that show the need of better
meals for the inmates. Enforcement
Of the eight-hour day was also de-
manded and the entire board of
examiners agreed to recommend to
the next session of the legislature
the necessary appropriations to pro-
vide for the additional guards and
attendants necessary, the buildings
necessary to house the required
number, and additional buildings for
Galen as there is too long a waiting
list with patients getting worse and
in danger of death from tuberculosis
because of the inadequate facilities
at Galen to provide prompt treat
ment of patients.
The prompt action of Anaconda
Central Labor Council and Deer
Lodge unions resulted in securing
from the board of examiners the
promise that the license plate build
ing would be erected by union labor
instead of by convict labor. Other
convict labor problems, such as con
victs driving trucks, and mimeo-
graphing the automobile registra-
ton list, were mentioned and labor
hopes to correct these abuses.
Organized labor was well and ably
represented by large delegations at
both meetings.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
W|LDL!FE WEEK CALLS
FOR UNITED EFFORT
Waste Of Natures Outdoor
Wealth Can Only Be Stopped
by Cooperation.

When we speak of the earth from
which comes every mouthful of food
that we eat, we speak of a really
thin layer of fertile soil-the topsoil.
This topsoil together with water and
sunlight are necessary to the green
plants that make animal life pos
sible.
when the topsoil goes, nan goes"
said Theodore Roosevelt, the first
president to warn this country that
its wealth of wildlife could not be
spent forever, without thought of
the future.
There probably isn't anyone with
a heart and a mind who isn't sick
ened by the destruction of wildlife.
Yet the destruction has continued
until many kinds of animals are
gone forever, many others are very
scarce, and many parts of the coun-
try are unfit for life of any kind.
cause OF Tragedy
The reason for this terrible waste
of life is not that wicked people
have banded together to ruin the
country. The reason is thoughtless-
ness, the cause of so much tragedy
in this world.
America was SO rich in wildlife
that our pioneers simply couldn't
imagine the time when there could
be any lack of fish and game and
forests and marshland. 1t is hard
for us to realize what the wilderness
was like, in its abundance of living
creatures. There are old men who
can still remember when herds of
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

MILWAUKEE,. - (FP) - Detailed
testimony of efforts made to herd
Wisconsin hello girls" into the In
dependent Union of Telephone Oper-
ators vas given at a labor board
hearing here into charges of unfair
labor practices filed against the Wis
consin Telephone Co. by the Init.
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.