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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-24

The Montana supreme court
ruled the state board of public
welfare acted within its legal rights
in cutting old age assistance pay
ments during April, May and
June. The court divided, 3 to 2.
Associate Justice S. v. Stewart
wrote the majority opinion, which
was concurred in by Associate Ius-
tice c. F. Morris and Chief JUS
tice Howard A. Johnson. Associ-
ate Justice c. F. Morris and Chief
Justice Howard A. johnson. Associate
Justices A. H. Angstman and Left
Erickson dissented
The cuts we're made the welfare
board said. because Of lack of funds.
The average old age assistance pay
mentS before the cuts were ordered
were S20.55 a month. The average June
payment was si70l.
The suit TO compel the board to
maintain payments at the higher level
was instituted by Mrs. Mary J. Dean
Of Butte.
Mrs. Dean contended even though
there was a shortage Of money ap-
propriated the welfare board had no
discretion, but its legal duty was to
make the higher payments as long as
the money lasted. Then additional
funds could be had by the state board
Of examiners finding an emergency
and issuing anticipation warrants, she
asserted.
The court, in the majority opinion,
said.
The state board having been given
50 much TO operate on, and no more,
tTDFN 90 a -
to adopt a policy which would best
subserve the cause Of old age assistance
within the means furnished for that
purpose
Whether it would be wiser for 1t to
pay fun quotas and prematurely ex-
pend most, II not all, Of the entire
fund appropriated for the given period,
Or whether the needy aged now quail
lied to receive payments. and the ever
number OF prospective re-
cipients who may qualify later, would
De more equitably and effectively as
sisted by the general reduction plan
naugurated by the board Is solely a
question of administrative discretion
Iested exclusively with the board and
IS administrator
IF a general policy OF reduction Is
" the board deemed necessary for the
Of the state and county
II Is its function and duty
imposed by the legislature to make
UGH reductions. 1t is not our province
o interfere with the discretionary ac-
ions Of the state board where 1t APP
ears that 1t is acting within the scope
I its authority"
No Unforeseen Emergency
The majority opinion also held the
nswer to Mrs. Deans contention that
n emergency should be declared us
hat no unforeseen or unanticipated
mergency has arisen"
Associate Justice Erickson. in dissent
1g. set for the opinion that it was
he clear legal duty OF the state well
ire board to make payments as orig
lally set by the county board, and
lat the state board had no authority
} make a blanket cut.
Justice Angstman concurred In the
LsSenting opinion, saying:
Had the legislature appropriated
ore money than was needed TO pay
le awards of recipients and had the
ate board arbitrarily increased each
ward so as TO use all Of the money
the members of the court
no go to make up the majority In this
Lse would certainly have to hold that
e state board has not that authority"
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-24

1 had been not to see from the be-
ginning that that was a real life"
"Ah, well, I had to make money"
he reminded her. II never wanted
It on a small scale"
We'll, you have made your money,
you have plenty now" she said dis
passionately. Why not pull out and
do what you want TO do?"
(To Be Continued
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-24
Farms Wanted

~~~~4~~SN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~-~~e~~s~~~~~~~O~N~sN~
FARMS WANTED. With the compile
ton Of Fort Peck dam, hundreds Of farmers
viii be obliged TO move from their Missouri
bottom lands and will be looking for new To-
cations. If you want to sell your land Rdver-
tise it in the GLASGOW-FORT PECK COUR-
TER, Box 218, GLASGOW, Montana Rates one
cent per word per insertion. Stamps accepted.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-24
CUT In OLD AGE
PAYMENTS UPHELD
SUPREME COURT SAYS PUBLIC
WELFARE BOARD ACTED
WITHIN ITS RIGHT

Reduction Made in April. May and
June Checks Due to Lack Of Funds Is
Pronounced Proper In to De-
cisiOn Of Body.
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DeIcO-Light Plants

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Pianos

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81 per week Might store with parties able
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-06-24

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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17
Is ceskych studentIi uveznsno.

Kolem asi 1000 ceskych uni
versitnlch studentG demonstro
valo v Praze prot nemeckemu
protektoratu Is. listopadu. 16
studentd zatceno bylo. Pc de-
monstraci policii chraneno by
10 Vaclavske namestf.
STUDENT snazili sc provaze-
tt mrtvolu mladlka, jenz zem.
rel pc zranen1 %. fijna kdyz
Cechove pokusili Sc slaviti FL.
vyroci zalozen1 republiky.
Policie We stredu zadrzela
suddenly kdyz pochodovatl
chteli z lekarske skoly, kde pc
hreb soudruha konan byl. Pc.
tom STUDENT zpfvaj1ce eeske
pisne chteli ma Vaclavske ma.
mestf, ale byli rozptyleni. '
oslave %. Tljna ctyfi osoby u
smrceny byly a rada Cechd q
NemcI zranena.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17
1914 bylo v mnoha prfpadech
znemozneno deportovati ciZin-

1914 bylo v mnoha pTipadech
znemozneno deportovati cizin-
ce, jejichz deportace byla jiz
narizena. V letech 1915-1919
bylo deportovano 63.730 osob.
Take ty pristehovalce, ktefi
sem v1bec nemeli byt pripus-
tent, nebylo vzdy mono posla-
ii zpet do zeme, z niz prisli.
Tito cizinci byli pokud mono
poslani k pTibuznym nebo pTa-
teldm, kdyz byli drive slozili
urcitou zaruku.
Ma zaklade pTedchoz1 anne
ricke zkusenosti da sc tez oce-
kavati, re deportace cizinc1
do valcicich zemf Dude odloze-
ma pc dobu valky, az do te
chvile, kdy plavba pres ocean
Dude bezpecnejsf. Naturalist
vani obcane a usazenf zde CT
zinci mali ovsem nepatrnou
nadeji, re by sem mohli pomo-
ci svym pribuznym z evrop-
skych zemi pc dobu trvani
valky.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17

V Plzni zemTel Vaclav Ma
rex, basista opery Narodniho
divadla. Prisel z Moravske O.
stravy zaroven s tenoristou
Vlad. Tomsem, rovnez predca.
she zemrelym.
Pc p1sobeni v Mestskem di.
vadle ma Kralovskych Vinohrs
dech, v divadle v Plzni, Brati.
slave a v Morvske Otsrave, sta.
sc r. 1880 clenem opery Marco
niho divadla v Praze.
Jeho slibny talent byl zahy
ohrozen zakeTnou chorobou
ktera mladeho umelce donuti
la predcasne odejft do pense
Zemrel sedmatricetilety.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17
Vliv valky ma pritsshovalectvi
F. l.. I. S.

W dnes ozyvaji Sc RUNE do
hady O tom, jaky vliv Dude mi
ii valka v Europe ma pristeho-
valectvl do Spojenych Statu.
We skutecnosti je vsak trochu
brzy u zted predpov1dati, jak
valka zasahne do otazek pri-
stehovalectvl, vystehovalectvi,
deportace a pod. Americka
zkusenost "a syetove valky da-
va nam vsak aspon z catsi tu-
siti, co mIzeme v tonic smeru
ocekavati cd budoucnosti.
Vyhlaseni valky v srpnu 1914
bylo nasledovano markantnim
poklesem poctu pfistehovalc1.
We fiskalnlm roce konclclm 30.
cervnem 1914 pfijelo do Spo-
|jenych Statd 1,218,840 pfiste-
hovalcn; v nasledujic1m fiskal-
MIN roce klesl tento pocet ma
|326,7OO, v roce 1856 ma
|298,826 a v roce 1867 ma
|295,4O3. Kdyz 6. dubna 1917
vyhlasily waikiki i Spojene Sta
ty, kleslo pristehovalectvi Jes-
te vice. V roce 1918 bylo prl-
pusteno 11O,618, v roce 1919
|141,132 pristehovalc1. Take
pocet docasnych navstevniku
|Spojenych StatG byl v te dobe
mnohem mensl.
Pred valkou prijizdelo nej.
vice pristehovalcd z Evropy -
500 procenta v roce 1914, "a
valky vsak shledavame, re vet.
sina pristehovalcu pfijizdl z
neevropskych zemi, hlavne 2
Kanady, Mexika a Zapadn.
Indie.
! Pc vypuknuti valky 4. srpns
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17

V Clevelandu Alicia krajan-
ka Marie Sekerakova a jeji tTi
synkove nalezajf Sc V Mestske
nemocnici nasledkem otravy
zkazenou polevkou. Sekera-
kovi hosi jsou 14lety stepan,
12lety Jirf a sestilety Michael.
Sekerakova prijela tam S
detmi teprve pred sesti mes1ci
2 Ceskoslovenska.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17
Bfdak.

V Hornell, N. Y, 26lety Nor
man Wheelock byl porotou u
statniho nejvyssiho soudu Cd
souzen k smrti "a sexuelni vra-
zdu, jej1z obeti Sc stala 13leta
Evelyn Reed, studentka ma vys
81 skole v Penn Yam, N. Y.
Wheelock jest otcem dvou d.
TEX.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17
Mcneil ma snabu - prodal Re
ninv SatY.

V Omaze dostal Sc pred po-
licejniho soudce Dominic Do
miniski. Manzelka jeho stezo-
vala 81 ma neho, re prodal jeji
saty, ably mel ma snabu. Domi-
niski dostal cd soudce "a nal1z
mutt 80 dnG.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17

V Nenosha, John Welton, 70
lety farmaT, bydlel samoten
ma farme. Tam jej nasli v bar
ne mrtveho. Bylo zjisteno, re
spadl re senniku do hloubky
IL stop, zlomil nohu a tax z1-
stall nekolik dnf bez pomoci le-
yet, az zemTel.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17

melO ucaSt v pOnranlcnlm IN
cidentu a re 'patrne jedna by
la poranena a jine pfevedeny
pres hranice do Nemecka."
Nicmene Sc domniva, re "zpra
Wy cd sebe Sc tax rdznf, re
"neni mono rlci pro tuto do
bu, co vlastne Sc stalo."
Ocitf svedkove incidentu u
Ventlooske celnice ma jihovy-
chodnich hranicfch Holandska
pravf, re strelba udala Sc ma
holandske pude, kdyz nekolik
muzG z nemeckeho automobile
preslo hranice a utkali Sc S mu-
Ii, sedicimi v autu, parkova-
mem ma holandske strane eel
nice. Myslf Sc, re zastfeleny
muz byl jednlm z cestujicich v
holandskem autu.
Francouzske pokusy O obsa-
zenf pahorku ma jihozapad cd
Pirmasens byly odrazeny, jak
bylo oznameno nejvysslm ne
meckym velitelstv1m.
V komunike Sc prav1: me
kolik pokusG francouzske pc
choty, jejichz 1celem bylo do
byti jisteho pahorku, sest mil
ma jihozapad cd Pirmasens
bylo odrazeno, ackoli Francou
ri pouzfvali aeroplan1 a tezke-
no delosrelectva."
z francouzskeho minister
stva valky bylo oznameno, re
'byly podniknuty najezdy ma
nekolika m1stech behem noci".
Komunike prav1: "Nekolik
mistnich 1tokd nepritele bylo
odrazeno behem dne."
Raymond Pigeaud, divisijnl
general, jeden z prvnich fran
couzskych dGstojniku, vyzna-
menanych valecnym krlzem v
teto valce, zemrel ma rany. Ne
bylo oznameno, kdy a kde byl
ranen.
Ministerstvo valky oznamilo,
re anglicke vojsko Dude odvo-
lano re severni C1ny a re tam
Dude ponechano pouze asi 100
vojakG, ably chranili majetek a
pecovali o poradek. Prav1 Sc,
re toto opatreni bylo ucineno
81 prfcin vojenske nutnosti,
vznikle z konfliktu V Europe"
Americka posadka v severnl
Cine je drzena v Tiencinu, KITE
ry byl lete stredem ~stretnutl
mezi Anglicany a Japonci.
Zrusen1 embargo americkym
kongresem spolu sc zpravou o
americke produkci aeroplanG
presvedcilo Hitlera, re must co
nejdfive uderiti plnou silou ma
Anglii.
Zpravy O aeroplanove pro-
dukci We Spojenych Statech by
ly dodany nemeckymi spehy v
Americe a dosly prave pc te,
kdyz Himmler oznamil, re v
Nemecku rosie odpor protina-
cisticke politice. To jsou asi
hlavni pr1ciny mnichovskeho
atentatu a Hitlerova rozhod-
mutt uderiti ma Anglii plonu 81
lou bez odkladu.
Jestlize zpravy, jez sem do
chazeji z Nemecka tajnymi &C.
stami, jsou pravdive, Hitlera
velice t1sni fakt, re spojenci
jiz takrka zmocnili Sc kontro-
ly vzduchu a re nasledkem to-
no Nemecku zbyva sotva rok,
ably valku bud vyhrali nebo
prohrali.
Premier Mussolini nar1dil, a.
by bylo vrazeno do armady s.
900 poddnstojnik1, dele slou-
ziclch a $4,000 dobrovoln1kI
pro specialnl sluzby.
Je to jiz druhe zvysenf sta
WI italske armady behem jed
noho tydne. V pondell Mus
solini naridil, ably bylo pfida-
no k armade 1900 dIstojniku
a stejny pocet podddstojnik1.
IS odvaden1m Dude zapocato
bezprostfedne.
Ucelem toho je zes1liti spe-
cielnf oddly armady, ktera NY
nj eta 100000 vojakI.
Mussolini konal radu dIle-
zitych porad S generalem u
baldo Soddu, novym ministrem
valky a S nekolika hlavnlmi
generally.
Produkce modernfch zbran1,
zejmena aeropland, byla po-
stavena ma valecny zaklad cd
zahajeni evropsker valky.
16 ceskych studentiG uveznsno.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17

a vyse
Ma lehke splatky

Standardni z~afizeni zahrnuje INSU-
LACI a MAGIC CHEF TROUBA je vyba-
vena proslulym (Red WheeD K1dicem Te-
ploty Trouby, ktery bdi mad pecenim i
kdyz jste nepritomny.
Celia kamna jsou AZ palcI siroka. A
vsak skytaji dosti prostoru ma vafeni a
peceni pro deset osob.
SKLAPECf PRfKLOP (Folding Cook
ing Top Govern ma zbalancovana pera a
lehko Sc %pohybuje a niue rychle zakryti
rozty.
MAGIC CHEF TROUBY MA PEcENf
A OPEKANf jsou insulovane a nepropou-
sti teplotu pfi pecen1 do k%uchyne.
TRUBKY, PLYNOVE ZAKLOPKY A
VEsKERE sROUBY jsou 1plne zakryty.
Zaklopka trouby jest uplne bezpecna.
NOVY SYSTEM HOkAKOVYCH POD
NOSU zakryva horaky a trubky S vyjim-
kou horakovych hlavic, cimz zdokonaluje
vzhled kamen a usnaduje cisteni hofaku.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-11-17

NOVA ROzNOVA OPEKACKA New
Grid-Pan Broiler) jest slozena re dvou ca
stf, porcelanova a da sc snadno cistiti. O.
mastek steka do reservoir a nem1ze chyt-
nouti. Take Sc mIze pouz1ti ma p~razen1.
Broiler Oven jest v~ytahovac1ho typu.
MAGIC CHEF "TKI V JEDNOM" VR-
CHM HORAKY. Kazdy hoTak NIUE byt
pouzit ma pomaly, pravidelny a nebo ry-
chilly ohen. Mali hlavice ktere sc lehko
oddelaj1, nerozezfraji Sc a take Sc neza-
nesou.
DIVE PROSTORNE ZASUVKY poho-
dine pro prechovani kuchynskeho nacini.
NOW ZPUSOB KAMNOVE VYPLNE
cini kamna hladka a zaokrouhlena.
MAGIC CHEF AUTOMATICKY VR-
CHM ZAPALOVAC zapali kazdy horak
iakmile Sc OtevTe ply n.
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AROUND
THE HOUSE

Removing Finger Marks
Sweet oil will remove finger
marks from vanished furniture.
Handy Duster.-The duster with
a long handle is a convenience for
the housewife who has bad back.
Pink ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
can be given a decorative pink by
the addition of tomato catsup or
cooked tomatoes.
-
Stippling Linoleum.-If your
inoleum is showing signs of grow
ing old, try painting and stipp1ing
it. First remove wax and grease.
Then use good floor enamel or
paint, put on two coats, and stip-
pie. A plain color shows foot
prints too easily.
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Make a pattern for chintz-covered lamp shades.

have not secured their copies Of
these two books should send in
their orders at once, as no more
copies will be available, when the
present stock is sold. Your choice
of the QUILT LEAFLET, showing
So authentic patchwork stitches;
or. the RAGRUG LEAF'LET, will
be included with orders for both
books for the present, but the offer
may be withdrawn at any time.
Leaflets are s cents each when or
dered without the books. "
Everyone should have copies Of
these two books containing SO How
to Sew articles by Mrs. Spears.
Send your order at once to Mrs.
Spears, 2l0 S. Desplaines ST., Chi
cago, Ill.
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Il
- a pair of lamps for my
dressing table, and I would like to
use some of my curtain material
to cover plain shades. Can you
tell me how this is done? c. H."
Here is method that is shown
for a living room lamp in Book /.
It may be used for a shade of
any size. You will need the top
and bottom rings from an old
lamp shade. A cardboard founda-
ton is cut to fit these, and the
chintz or other fabric is pasted to
the edge of this.
The ABB line, in the pattern dia-
gram is as long as the diameter
Of the bottom ring. The dotted
vertical line is approximately as
long as the depth of the shade.
The CD line is as long as the
diameter of the top ring. Draw
the diagonal lines to touch the
ends of the ABB and CD lines.
Place a tack where they meet at
E. Place pencil through loop
in string, as shown, and draw
the bottom line of the shade max
ing it as long as the measurement
around the bottom ring plus a
half inch. Shorten the string and
draw the top to fit the top ring
allowing for half inch lap.
NOTE: Book 1-SEWING, for
the Home Decorator, and No. 2,
Gifts, Novelties and Embroider-
les, are now Is cents each, or both
books for Is cents. Readers who
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justice or tolerance. They are
made up of men sent out to kill
or be killed. Whatever the the
ory, the act that wins is justi-
fed in war.
And there were the terrors Of
the air. In score of air raids
saw the terror of women and
children fiocking to the cellars,
frantically, to escape from an
unseen enemy.
Starving Women and Children.
In another even more dreadful
sense I saw inhuman policies Of
war. That was the determine
ton on both sides to bring SUBJ
lection by starvation. The food
blockade by the Allied govern
ments on the one side, and. the
ruthless submarine warfare by
the Central powers on the other,
had this as its major purpose.
Both sides protested that it was
not their purpose to starve wom-
en- and children. But it is an idiot
who thinks soldiers ever starve.
It was women and children who
died of starvation. It was they
who died of the disease which
came from short food supplies,
not in hundreds of thousands, but
in millions.
And after the Armistice came
famine and pestilence, in which
millions persisted and other mill
lions grew up stunted in mind
and body. That is war. Let us
not forget.
We were actually at the front
in this war for only few months,
but it cost us the lives Of 10000
men. It has placed 470, 900 per-
sons on the national pension list
already. It has cost us 40 bill
lions of dollars. And that rep
resents more than just dollars.
Today we have a quarter to
third of the American people be-
low a decent standard of living.
If that 40 billions of wealth had
remained in America, these peo-
pie would not be in this plight. A
large segment of our people have
already been impoverished for a
quarter of century. And the
end is not yet.
We may need to go to war
again. But that war should be
on this hemisphere alone and in
the defense of our firesides or our
honor. For that alone should we
pay the price.
The endless books tell us how
the Great War originated. They
do not agree. But some salient
facts do stand out that are per-
tinent today. It began by a quar-
rel between three Dictatorship
czar of Russia and the emperors
OF Germany and Austria. They
were competing for power"
France, democracy, was
dragged in because, out of fear
of the dictators of Germany and
Austria, she, a democracy, had
made a military alliance with
the czar. The British democracy
was drawn in partly out of ideal
ism to defend liberty, but also
partly to save its trade and its
possessions from too great a
concentration Of ''power" on the
continent. We finally joined in
the war wholly out Of idealism.
! dodge no responsibility. I
reluctantly joined in the almost
unanimous view of our country
men that America must 60 into