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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05

and weather in caves, having developed
the art of making fire and of cooking
food, of fashioning crude weapons and
tools, still ate human prey caught in
battle.
Find Many Ornaments
Many hand-fashioned ornaments
have been found In the eight-foot level.
There Is an amulet of bone, highly
polished and exquisitely carved. There
is part of a necklace made of narrow
strips Of thong, meticulously braided
and strung with shells. These are sea
shells and must have come from the
Pacific. But how they got to the far
distant, inland cave in central Mon
tana is as yet, only matter Of sur
mise. All through the bed Of matted
grass are well preserved roots Of the
native wild turnip, which served as a
salad to accompany the Indians bison
dinners.
On the plains, down below the mouth
of the cave, many holes, both big and
small, have been discovered, Just a few
feet below the present earth's surface.
The holes are filled with foreign rocks
which bear evidence Of having been
heated. In the smaller holes the In
dams cooked their food. The larger
holes, dug into the sides of the coulees,
were covered with grass and layers of
soil, and doubtless served as warm
beds on which to sleep.
All these recent discoveries are i'm
portant for the biologists tell us that
this cave is, to their knowledge, the
only place In the west where ancient
Indian relics have been preserved. Us
ually the redmen were plains people
and the history of their primeval life,
left upon the plains, has been utterly
destroyed by moisture. But the cave,
dipping far back into the butte, has,
through the years, been kept dry and
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05


BY ELMO
They said their names were
] Charles May and Frank DAILY.
! They lived the Life of Reilly"
while it lasted. For two gladstone
weeks they were lavish hosts to all
who patrOnized their hOstelry In
Livingston, back In September,
1892 The two men had drifted into
town in late August that year, clad
In seedy garments, apparently
emerging from a period of life as
knights Of the Road" dependent
upon handouts for subsistence. But
they had personality and persuasive
conversational ability.
The old Livingston hotel, fully
equipped but not operating, gave them
an idea. With glib tongues as their
only capital, they secured control Of
the hotel, and arranged credit with
local merchants to begin their careers
as public hosts.
They were hail fellows well met
among the city's diners-out. Every
diner had champagne and a cigar
urged upon him with the compliments
of the management They appealed,
too, to the single men of the city who
didn't particularly care to whom they
paid their weekly room rent, just so
the surroundings were congenial. Most
of the roomers paid week or month
in advance.
Business Doomed
After few days, business was as
Stunning boom proportions. A few late
tourists for Yellowstone park stopped
at the hotel overnight, and were so
impressed with the apparent integrity
of the management that they deposited
several hundreds of dollars for safe
keeping until they should be ready to
return to eastern homes.
On the second Saturday Of their
hotel venture May and DAILY had a
large number Of dodgers distributed
over the city announcing a gala ball
in the hotel dining room that evening
During the day they strolled into
Henry Franks clothing emporium and
laid in new wardrobeS. They had al
ready arranged for the city's leading
cab man to drive all guests to and from
the ball at hotel expense.
AS guests began to appear for the
evenings gaiety, May and DAILY, CARRIED
In modish Prince Alberts, flowing |
cravats and cleaning linen, were per-
feet hosts, welcoming cordially each /
group Of guests. During the evening |
talk was about the two |
splendid men who had come to the |
,ity and their appreciation Of this /
avish hospitality-at so much per
lance; the men were destined to be
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
PAR0LE COMPACT

Montana has entered into a compact with
"a other states by which prisoners paroled
from penal institutions Of any member state
may be taken by other member states with
wanted for breaking parole. A three-man
commission named to supervise Montana s
activities under the compact consists Of W.
and parole board Emory ReuterdahI secre-
tary in the governors office, and Theodore
R BerRstrom. warden Of the state penitentiary.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
mann. EflR NEEnY

This state has received rs carloads Of food
stuffs from the federal surplus commodities
corporation since the first Of the year, ac-
cording to Administrator I N. Brandjord OF
the state public welfare commission. The
shipments included apples, dried apricots.
oranges, dried peas, pears, rice and lard sub
stitute. All have been distributed to the needy
Of the state.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
WATER LOB BIDS

The state water conservation board will
receive bids on the construction Of the Ne
vada creek project on March f. on the West
Fork of the Bitter Root project on March
10 and on the Upper Musselshell and Sidney
pumping projects on March II.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
10 RETMBURSE COUNTIES

Counties are entitled to reimbursement Tor
the cost of board Of prisoners in highway
patrol cases upon proper claim therefor be-
ing filed with the highway patrol, according
to an opinion delivered by the attorney gen.
eral at the request of the state examiners
office
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05

A. country hotel In Spain displays tho
notice: Don't go to bed without re-
moving your clothes"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05

Fort Benton place and went elsewhere.
He afterwards lived in Helena for a
time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
OIL for
Troubled Waters

IN EVERY industrial field, plant super
u intendents and management executives
turn TO the SOcOny-Vacuum Oil Company
with its 20 years. experience whenever a
fabrication problem, great or small, threat
ems TO disrupt operating schedules.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
srArE RECETvEs BONDS

The state land commission has received
deposit OF 100000 in Butte school bonds.
The bonds were purchased by the state land
department some time back and represent
payment Of $4,000 on the new Butte public
high school building and Of $4,000 on the
$50. 900 stadium for the school
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-03-05
Knights of the Road Enjoyed Life of Reilly

Arrived in Park County City Clad In
Seedy Garments and Were Depend
emit Upon Handouts for Sustenance;
Opened Hotel for Spectacular Run.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
THE BIGGEST DANGER
FROM MEXICAN OIL

Not many Americans will weep any
thing bet crocodile tears at the Mexican
appropriation Of foreign oil holdings i'm
Mexico. Too many Americans think that
Is the business purely of the oil compa-
nies.
We doubt seriously whether United
States suspension of Mexican silver pur-
chases was made because American oil
interests in Mexico lost their holdings
there. There is a deeper, greater danger
inherent in the Mexican situation. we
believe, that fully justifies the action of
our government
Several days ago this column express
ed curiosity whether some foreign na-
tion might not have maneuvered the Mex
lean oil grab. Then came the news that
a Japanese company had assured MeXi-
co of market, and we commented here
that our earlier curiosity might have
been we'll founded. Therefore it is graft
flying TO find this item in the United
States News, weekly newspaper pub
lished in Washington, devoted entirely
10 the behind-the-scenes picture of ma
tional administration;
Suspicion that Japanese had a hand
in the appropriation by Mexico of Amer
can oil properties is being expressed by
persons in touch with naval affairs"
Supposing these suspicious are well
grounded, there is cause for alarm.
II would not be alarming that Ameri-
can oil interests have lost their Mexican
footholds 1t would not be alarming
that Japanese representatives had pro-
vided market for the Mexican oil. 1t
would not be alarming, even. that Japan
has obtained steady supply of oil for
her war machine. None of these things,
normally would be of vital interest to
the United States merely on their own
account. Theoretically they should not
concern us because we are not vitally
interested in japanese aggression on
the other side of the world.
But to transport the Mexican oil to
Japan, that nation must build shipping
points in Mexico. 1t is easy to include
drydocks. fueling stations and like auxi-
liaries in such shipping points And such
auyiliaries need no change whatsoever
10 become naval bases. Japan builds her
instruments of peacetime commerce
with an eve to wartime use. She can be
expected to follow that plan if she builds
shipping points in Mexico.
Japanese naval base facilities on the
North American continent provide all
the reason anyone could ask for Wrin-
king of official brows at Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
Ell CENTRO'S CITY
BUILDING CAMPAIGN

1t was good news to anyone interested
in the prosperity of Ell Centre that the
city council Wednesday sold 20 tax titles
To property in the city with the under
standing that purchasers will start con-
struction of new homes within 90 days.
One block of eight lots in a $4,000 re-
stricted area were transferred in move
that will result in at least $4,000 worth
of new construction.
Since the city began its sale of tax
titles for small sums, thousands of dol
lars have been spent in building. We'd
nesday's wholesale action by the council
will result in added'thousands spent for
materials, labor and fixtures.
And the property will be back ON the
tax rolls, actively bearing its share of
the cost Of city government.
If it had not been for this city pro-
gram, we are inclined to believe build
ing would be far behind its present posi-
ton in Ell Centre. Much of our recent
progress we owe to it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
Well | Il.
Says
Bob Burns


I'll admit that some of these ac-
tors out here are pretty good, but
if you want'a see some real actin
around the studios, you wanta
watch some of these high priced
writer's. When they know they're
bein' watched, they sit. swayin'
back and forth with their faces
buried i'm their hands, actin like
a genius and they do fool the
bosses pretty well.
But the other night. at home,
one of 'em forgot where he was
and started to do his thinking
act" when his three year old boy
says Daddy, a penny for your
thoughts" The writer looked up at
his wife and says Our kids pretty
smart for a three year4-old". His
wife says "Well. there's nothin' so
smart about 1.-THE cIlild just does
not appreciate the value of money
yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
London Daily Herald)

Labor does not rule out negotiations with the
Fascist Powers at any time But realism recog-
nizeS the fact that there is time for conces-
sions and a time for firmneSs. And such con-
cessions as it may be found equity demands can
be made only if they are accompanied by a
willingness on both sides to honor their pledges.
That willingness does not exist at this mo-
ment on the part of the Fascist countries 1t
does not exist because they have been given
cause TO believe that they secure what they
want by force or the threat of force -.
The only way to secure peace is to make it
clear now beyond all doubt that the sanctity
of treaties must be accepted and guaranteed
Then We will negotiate. But not before.
Only in that way is peace possible. Mr.. Cham
berlain will not take that way He is committed
now to the opposite road At its end lies war
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
SENATOR MINTON'S
MISTAKE
he washington Daily Ncwsl

You have the right to tell members OF Con
gress how you think they should vote on pubic
issues
You have the right to urge other people to
write to members of Congress. That, in effect
is circulating petition, and the right to petition
is guaranteed by the Constitution.
The Senate Lobby Committee is making a
serious mistake when it attempts to browoeat
citizens who have exercised this right in leglu-
mate manner. Sen. Minton of Indiana, the chair
man, and Sen. Schwelenbach OF Washington,
the other member. are both supporters OF the
administrations government reorganization bill
But it is not their business TO prosecute, or per-
Secute. people who oppose the bill.
The right to lobby can be abused. When in
tereStS that would get special benefit from the
passage or defeat of a measure organize cam
paign to flood Congress with demands for the
action they want. that is wrong. II was to expose
such abuses that the Lobby Committee was Gre
ated.
But officials of the National Committee to
Uphold Constitutional Government against whom
Sen. Mnton is now directing his fire. could not
benefit specially by defeat of the reorganization
bill
Whether they are right or wrong in believing
that the general interest would be served by de
feating the bill makes no difference. 1t is en-
trey proper for them to print literature and
write letters trying to convert other citizens to
the same belief and urging other citizens to
ask congressman to oppose the bill.
Even the most benevolent administration needs
opposition. Indeed, il is not only the right but
of the highest duties of citizenship to oppose
an administration measure that appears danger
Gus. And an administration which permits its
supporters to intimidate its opponents will create
grave doubts of its benevoenee.
Some of the methods used in behalf of the
reorganization bill seem to us to need inveStiga-
ton. The threats that state whose senator
opposes the bill will lose WPA projects, the
promises that senators who support the bill won't
have their pet bureaus reorganized, the use of
patr/nage and political presSure-all these are
lobbying of the most pernicouS kind And the
people who do it stand to benefit specially if
the bill passes.
We don't expect Sen. Minton to investigate
these charges. But we think he should abandon
the line his committee is now following. The
tactics he is using mean simply this: That citi-
zens who organize to oppose administration meas
ures will be put the spot" by the Lobby
Committee. their private records will be sub
penaed. their private lives investigated their
regulations "Smeared."
Those tactics don't belong in America.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
Bruce Cation Says
= Science Makes Up for Mans Mistakes

the average man may be getting
his food from "soil-less farms.
Such farms would employ chemical
tanks, in which food plants show
phenomenal growth,
With the coming OF soil-less
farms, it won't make any differ
ence whether we're living on bed
rock or not. The crops will still
be raised, Necessity for the annual
plowing will be eliminated, how
ever, and the land can be given
a new cover of grass and trees.
Dust storms and serious erosion
can't occur where the earth is
thus protected.
Speaking before the New York
Railroad Club, G.. Edward Pendray,
science writer and past president
of the American Rocket Society,
told also of the possibilities of a
world in which harmful bacteria
will have vanished, in which men
will wear clothes of fireproof arti-
ficial fabrics made from cellulose
or spun glass and occupy houses
lighted. heated, cooled, humidified
and air-cleaned automatically the
year round by electricity.
All these things may come about
by 1863 according to Mr.. Pendray's
summary of the research activities
now going on in laboratories thru
out the country.
There are more wonders. By 1868
the average mans library may
consist of small SpoolS of film
each representing complete book
which will be read with the aid
of a projection machine smaller
than typewriter. BY that time
scientists will probably be smash
ling the atom to smithereens, thus
opening the way to miracles
scarcely imagined today.
Weather reports will be based
OH rocket soundings of the upper
atmosphere and there will be at
tempts to shoot an automatically
controlled rocket carrying mail
and express across the Atlantic.
There is of course the very good
chance that man won't witness all
these wonders within even $50
years. But the fact remains that
science has kept pretty well on top
of things and gives evidence OF
continuing to be able to make up
for such mistakes as Hnericas
waste of her natural resources.
Mao oti,,,o l,nnauar 1nII6 con-
demnation of such abuse by the
ordinary citizen is we'll in order
and may be almost as valuable as
the more constructive contributions
on the part of science.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31

lens that Owen ID. Young WreStles
with could even hope to come as
near to perfection as that porter
did.
Owen d. Youngs words OF APP
probation did four things:
/. They made the porter happy
?. And because they made the
porter happy they also gave Owen
d. Young a feeling of satisfaction.
3. They inspired the porter to
want to continue to do a splendid
job.
4. They impressed me so much
that I have set them down in this
column.
AS a result. I hope that people
reading these lines down III Texas
and Tennessee and out in Cali
fOrnia and up in Canada will be
moved to give a few extra words
of appreciation tomorrow.
Let's all use Owen d. Young S
philosophy tomorrow. Let's try
it out for Just one day. If it
works, why not drop me line
and tell me precisely what the
other person said and what hap
pened? I won't use your name but
I may want to use part OF your
letter in this column.
visited DR.. John Kellogg's
Sanitarium at Battle Greek some
time ago After showing me over
his plant, he took me to his home,
and most of the time talked about
his hobby which is collecting the
coins of all the Roman emperors,
coins that were buried for CEN
turies in Rome and in northern
Africa He gave me coin that
was issued during the reign of
Constantine, and he gave me a
bean that had lain in the tomb of
one of the Incas for three thou
sand years.
For years | was sales man
ager of one of the largest shoe
manufacturers in the world.
finished high school. but I never
working for me who had graduated
attended college. But l had a man
from two colleges. He knew ten
times as much as I knew. He was
positively brilliant. Yet he earned
only half as much as I earned.
Why? Because he irritated people.
He couldn't win friends He could
not win cooperation. He knew all
about Greek and higher mathe-
matics, but he didn't know people.
We tried to change him but We
couldn't.
Then he asked, Why don't COL
legeS train men in the art Of deal
ing with people?'
Why don't they? ! have often
wondered myself.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
Famous Sayings

For some time the prophets of
doom have been shouting their say
about our fast-vanishing soil which.
it seems, is being snatched from
under the very soles of our shoes
by such things as dust storms and
erosion. The situation is indeed
something to view with alarm and
the worrying is time will spent.
But now scientists come forth
with the news that within 25 years
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
News Behind
the News
The Day Has Passed
Americans in MesicO
Nv RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON These are not
the carefree old days of Coolidge
prosperity when enforcement oil
Mexican oil laws on American
companies meant blood-curdllng
howls from the State Department.
and even the threat of war.
Bv no mere coincidence, Under
secretary of State Summer WelleS
made speech last December
which contains the answer to the
question of what this government
intends to do about MeXicos eX-
preparation of American oil prop
critics said to be worth $250,O0O,-
600.
THE day has passed" said
Welles. when a citizen OF the
United States acquiring property
in another American republic can
undertake to maintain that, be-
cause of his citizenship, his person
and property are free from the
Jurisdiction of the laws and of the
courts of the other American re-
public where he lives, and that he
is supported in such contention by
his own government.
"On the other hand, should his
property be subject to condemna-
ton by due process of law, he Is,
of course. entitled to demand fair
compensation therefor. and in that
contention he will be supported by
this government. ="
So the State Department is
pledged to demand fair compen-
sation." Mexican officials already
have proposed negotiations to
agree on indemnity.
Washington officials are some
what bothered, however, by the
question of what Mexico, aSsum-
ing entire good faith in this COM
pensation matter, expects to use
for money.
Other annoying facts are that
indemnity negotiations might drag
on for years and that Mexico may
have internal troubles meanwhile.
The Mexican appropriation law.
enforced on the allegation that oil
companies had defied an arbitral
wage award, calls for indemnity
payment within 10 years.
President CardenaS is regarded
by high Americans officials as
probably the most honest, sincere
president Mexico has had, and en-
tirely devoted to the interests of
the Mexican people. But he is not
shreWd in his international rela-
tionShips, it is believed, and radi-
cal advisers are thought to have
given him bad advice in the oil
matter.
CardenaS is likely to have trou-
BILE with his own people if Mexico
can't market the oil and derive
income therefrom. It's doubted
here that Mexico can sell the oil
and get a profitable price. since
she has no outlets.
Despite brave promises from the
left" Cardenas government to sell
only to democratic nations, Of
ficials susupect that if it sticks to
its present policy it will have to
sell chiefly-and cheaply-to Ger
many, Italy and Japan.
The issue is headache for all
concerned and no State Depart
ment official yet ventures to pre-
dict how it will be determined.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
Other Editors Say
Oakland Trihune)

Austria has had its troubles. Perhaps it may
be bettered economcally-if We leave out the
prosecuted minorites-but already it has lost its
richest claims to distinction. A Vienna without
city within a new Germany Hitler may remove
its character: its old independent gaiety and
charm. Some other center will surely give to
society that which Vienna did before it
ordered to conform TO the pattern within the
mind of its overlords Vienna. as the world knows
it. is dying. 1t has acclaimed a conqueror and
it may be realizing today that it has lost some
thing which may never be regained.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-31
lRedIands Facts

The citrus industries of California will view
with considerable concern the ruling of the Ma
tonal Labor Relations board on a dispute in
volving North Whittier Heights Citrus associa-
tion at Puente 1t would seem only step from
packing house to farm operations, with dictator
like orders as to what cooperatives and growers
alike have TO say about their enterprises
We have looked with horror upon results of die
tator rule in Europe. There is justifable fear
that ali American industry may tumble into
the same abyss