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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
Spendthrifts

The first session of the 18th Con-
gress that recently adjourned spent
s13. 359. OO0.0 900. Ten billion dollars
was the astonishing sum reached il
1886,
Government spending crept up
close to six billion in 1882 when
Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced
President Hoover in the following
words:
Il accuse the present Administra.
ton of being the greatest spending
Administration in peace times in all
our history and on my part
ask you very simply to assign me
the task of reducing the annual op-
Grating expenses of your National
Government
They did! And see what happened !!
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
NOT WITH IMMUNITY

Some time ago the Macon, Geor-
gia. Telegraph said: ut would be
genuine contribution to the
straight-thinking of the American
people if it could be realized, once
ard for all, that no government can
violate economic laws with impuni-
ty, and the misuse of the taxing
power as an excuse f5r regimenta-
ton and dictation is one of those
plumbers which amount 10 a crime"
This statement was accustomed
by the situation in the Macon bust
ness district. Georgia has a stiff an
tI-chain tax law. And one immedi-
ate result of the tax was to depress
rental values, and to empty store
properties. In Macon, at the time
the Telegraph wrote, 40 to so store
buildings, representing a value of
about 100000, were empty. One
half of them had formerly been oc-
cupied by chains. And locations
which had formerly brought as
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
OBSOLETE

Speaking of a sizable group of
politicians and officeholders. Sena-
tor Tydings of Maryland, recently
described them as "courterparts of
those who welded power in ancient
Rome. These men preach democracy
and free enterprise Will, they set
IN motion the machinery 70 destroy
It.
The very insidiousuess Of the at
tick against democ- is one of
its menacing attributes. The men in
viewed never preach socialism. COM
n'nnism, fascism o" nazism as such
Away their position is camouflog-
ed, and always they talk ringingly
OF democracy.
Unless the American people see
through this transparent disguise,
democracy will eventually be no.
thing more than an obsolete word
found in dictionaries.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

waterways, have been given gigan-
tic tax subsidies. The railroads have
been the poor relation, despite the
fact that rail transport is the very
backbone of the nations commerce,
and the inevitable result has been
to bring this vast essential indus
try intentionally close to econom-
&c ruin.
There is hardly a person in this
great land of ours who won't bene-
fit in some manner from a sound
and workable transportation policy.
The worker, the investor, the in
dustrialist, the farmer, the store
keeper-all depend, directly or in
directly, upon the railroad indus
try for part of their livelihood. No
industry does more to create wealth,
opportunity and trade AS many an
economist has truly observed, there
can be no real, general prosperity
in this country so long as the rail
roads are in the financial doldrums.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove

see where the 100 million they
gave Mr.. Wallace down in Old
Spendthrift Town, it is all gone
and now Congress has given him
another 100 million. II every body
who lost his shirt on some horse
race could go lack and get another
100 million, it would be great stuff.
Hot Dogl
But this last 100 million, Mr..
Wallace, he is gonna put it on the
same old horse again, so it dom t
look so promising-for the tax.
payer.
But l was gassin' with my old
friend Henry about it-Henry lives
IN Puget Sound-and he says, 10,
maybe you never heard about the
duck who took his spring bath, and
lost bis vest. And l says, what has
that to do with Mr.. Wallace s shirt?
And Henry says maybe Mr.. Wal
lace will find his shirt like the duck
found his vest, the next spring.
And l says where did he find it,
and Henry says, he found it under
his shirt.
But l can see where Henry is con-
fused-Mr. Wallace, he won't have
either shirt or a vest to find any
thing under-by next spring.
Yours, with the lowdown.
10 SIERRA
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
The Labor Board

Many unfavorable court decisions
appear to have been responsible for
modifying some of the of the poll
cies of the National Labor Relations
Board, that have been denounced as
discrimination by the AT of L-un-
fair by employers.
Henry Ford refuses to obey an OF
der of the Board to re.employ a
number Of men on the grounds that
the decision of the Board deni. s
him, and the Ford company, the
right to state their views to en-
ployes and the public. Ford's posi-
ton is that this is an Arrangement
of free speech.
Well enformej authorities believe
that the Board will lose in the higher
Courts.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
WORKING ON THE
RAILROADS

It is unfortunate that considera-
ton of the railroad problem was so
long delayed by the last Congress
that proposed legislation had to be
deferred until next session. Few
single acts could have been more
generally beneficial to the country
than a completed plan for equitably
regulating transportation, to the end
that no carrier be penalized and
none favored.
However, the last Congress did
make a start, and good one. Bills
were introduced in each branch
which, generally speaking, cover
the major phases of the transporta-
ton problem as it exists today.
These bills have been given the
overwhelming endorsement of the
Senators and Representatives. They
are now in committee, and it is be-
lieved that minor differences exist
ing between them will be easily
ironed out, so that the next Con-
gress can take action Immediately
on converting.
That the pending transporta-
ton legislation is worthy in mo-
tive can hardly be denied by any
one without an axe to grind on be-
half of some special interest. The
principal plan is to bring order out
OF our current chaos in regulation.
For many years we have regulated
the railroads in every particular
while their competitors have gone
unreeulated or half-regulated. Ger.
tain forms of transport, notably
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
CAUSE AND EFFECT

The fact that banks are doing
more and more advertising and soli-
citing for worthy leans would seem
to thoroughly blast the argument
that the banks are Intentionally
boarding their capital. ard are not
helping to build up their communi-
ties, state and nation.
No industry is more interested in
obtaining new business and increas-
ing old, than banking Banks are
constantly seeking to better their
service to the small borrowers as
well as the large Many banks. FOR
example. have gone actively after
such little stuff as personal loans
and automobile financing, and are
offering money to responsible bor-
rowers at very favorable terms.
This doesn't obviate the fact that
there is serious lack of new in
vestment. and that the growing
amount of idle money in banks is a
very real problem. But to lay all the
blame at the door of the bankers is
to confuse cause with effect. The
barrier to investment, and to sub
stantially increased banking loans,
lies primarily in the lack of conf
dence in the future felt by individu-
ais, and by both small and large
business. You can't expect a man to
go into debt to expand his business
or for any other purpose when he
doesn't know where the money is
coming from to pay out. There is,
OF course, a minority of wishful
business men who are eager to ex-
pertinent at any time with some
body else's money-but in cases
such as these sound banking prac-
tice, to say nothing of the rigid
state and federal laws regulating
banking, make it necessary to re-
fuse loan applications.
A concern which doesn't want
business would hardly advertise
and solicit it-and that is as true of
banking as any other industry. The
banks have the money, and they
want to put it to work after all,
their very existence is dependent
upon a large and stable volume of
sound loans. Money will go to work
when conditions in this country are
such as to give legitimate potential
borrower faith in the future.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
The Dies Investigation

The House Committee on I'm
American activities has undertaken
an investigation of enemies within
our gates. But, unfortunately, it is
doing a very poor job. There is the
siliest lot of testimony being heard,
and the greatest amount of contro-
versy over trivial things. Important
matters are aired for day or two
and then the investigation goes into
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

a dribble of words which compete
with Little Orphan Annie.
Surely there are enough anti
American movements being sup
ported hy European and Asiatic
groups that should be traced to their
origin and punished. That would
appear to BIZ the real responsibility
of the Dies Committee TO the people
OF the country.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

Under supervision of the Bio.
logical survey. hunters eliminated
3,7O3 predatory animals in Mont
ana during the fiscal year. The
total consisted of 1878 coyotes.
1903 bobcats. 81 bear, five mount
ain lions and one link.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

The chains are simp'y current IL
las tration of what punitive treat
merit of business means 10 the peo-
pie It is general problem. affecting
all business and all people. No tru-
er words were ever written than the
Telegraph's observation that "No
government can violate economic
laws with impunity.'
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

The government has tried every
scheme except the right one to re.
vive business. Business does not
want to get further in debt; it looks
forward to the day when there will
be renewed confidence in the future
and particularly the government g
fiscal policy, and freedom from per-
secution. Any other attempts to ap-
pease business are superficial aids
which only proloDg the day of reck-
oning. '-Estherville. Iowa, News.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

A weekly newspaper published every
Friday at Browning. Glacier County.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
'Good-by'

'Good-by'
"Good-by" is a contraction of
"God be with ye."
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Silver Wedding Slippers Serve
Aquin on Golden Anniversary

When DR.. and Mrs. George C..
Havenner finished celebrating their
silver wedding anniversary on Au-
gust 13, 1914, Mrs. Havenner care
fully packed away her gown and
slippers wondering If she would ever
wear them again.
Today, as the couple celebrate
their golden wedding anniversary at
their home. 2912 Albemarle street
NV, Mrs. Havenner expects to wear
those same slippers. Some 200 Dis
trict and Federal officials and friends
are expected at the Havenner home
between 4 and 7 pm. to join the
celebration.
DR.. Havenner said last night that
were the celebration an evening
event, Mrs. Havenner would. prob
ably have worn the gown as we'll
as the slippers.
And she tells me she is going to
pack them up again after this Is
over" he chuckled, to wear at our
18th anniversary"
The couple was married here in
1889. Mrs. Havenner was the former
Mary Elizabeth Linger, the daughter
Of Henry A. and Cassandra Linger.
Her father was a pioneer mattress
manufacturer in Washington, operat-
ing plant on Nineteenth street be-
tween L and M streets NV, where
he at one time employed as many
as IS men, DR.. Havenner said.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Bennett to Speak in Forum
Farm and Wood Lands Problem
To Be Discussed in Broadcast

H. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil
Conservation Service, Department of
Agriculture, will discuss problems of
retaining and improving the Nations
farm and wood lands tomorrow night
at $50 on the National Radio Forum.
Conducted by The Evening Star,
the National Radio Forum is broad
cast over coast-to-coast hookup of
the National Broadcasting Co. and
Is heard locally over WMAL.
Mr.. Benefits subject will be This
Is Your Land"
Born at Wadesboro, N. c., April
Is, 1881, Mr.. Bennett was graduated
from the University of North Caro-
lima with a B. s. degree in 1908.
The same year he Joined the Depart
ment Of Agriculture's Division of Soil
Survey. In 1888 he was named di-
rector OF the Soil Erosion Service,
then under the Department of In
terror, He was appointed to his
present post in 1885. During the
World War he served with the United
States Army Engineer Corps.
He is the author of q number OF
papers and articles on soil conser-
vation. He wrote the book SOILS
and Agriculture Of the Southern
Evening star., 1939-08-13
California Doctors
Start Service Plan
Al Low Cost
Contract Signed by
5000 Physicians for
low-lncome Group
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.-Some
5000 California doctors inaugurated
a physicians service plan today to
decrease medical costs for lower in
come patients.
The doctors signed a contract in
San Francisco with the 19 900O-mem-
Der California State Employees As
sociation.
The service provides medical and
surgical care and disqualification at
a cost of 81 or $3.50 per month per
member.
Membership is limited to groups
of five or more members not over
65 years of age. whose annual in
come does not exceed $4,000.
The $3.50 membership fee provides
full coverage Under the 81 fee,
however, the member pays for the
first two visits by doctor in any
one sickness or injury.
William Glenn Ebersole, Southern
California business manager for the
service. said, 1T is not an insur-
ance enterprise. The amount of
doctors services is limited only by
the requirements of the case for
modern diagnosis and care"
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president
Of Stanford University. is president
Of the non-profit organization spon-
sored by the California Medical As
sociation.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Gas Rate Cut 10 Save
D. {. Consumers S120,10O

Effective on all bills rendered Sep
tember and thereafter, rates of the
Washington Gas Light Co. will be
reduced by an aggregate of sl20,1oO
for the ensuing IL months, under
an order issued yesterday by TIE
Public Utilities Commission. in en-
annual adjustment of the company 5
rates under its sliding-scal plan.
The minimum bill for domestic
consumers will not be reduced, but
those who use between 3l00 to 5000
cubic feet per month may expect a
reduction of cents per month on
their bills, and those who use more
than 6,100 feet a month will get an
additional cut of cents per thou
sand on any gas in excess Of 6,1O0
feet, it was estimated.
A saving for the next IL months
Of s78,700 was allotted to domestic
consumers. $39. 700 being allotted to
commercial and industrial gas users
and 81 700 to the wholesale apart
ment house service. 1t was estimated
that the Federal and District Gov
ernments would receive a total saw
ing of some SO 400 through the re-
duction Of the commercial schedules.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

"Hughey" McGrath went away to
the war, but 1t didn't last long for
him. However, the fever was in his
blood. So, Irishman that he was, he
remained In the Army and went to
the wild, woolly West-and fought
against the Indians. There was his
best record-as displayed at the
Soldiers Home. He came very nearly
being scalped in the Indian Wars,
but they never got his scalp. Instead,
they got an eye And, as a one
eyed man, Hughey McGrath sits In
his room in the hospital at Soldiers
Home and reads the newspapers.
HE is the most avid reader of
newspapers I ever saw" says his
doctor and pal, DR.. Kagy. Also,
he is great radio fan. He listens
to many. many programs"
Some years ago. about four years
back, "Hughey" McGrath got to-
gether all the old Indian fighters in
the Soldiers Home and organized
the Indian War Veterans-with a
membership of 40-and which was
called the Gen. Adna r. Chaffee
Post, Camp No. /.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Film Producers Consent
To Union Closed Shop
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12.-The In
ternational Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees won the consent of
film producers for a closed shop.
An announcement by Joseph NJ.
schenck. chairman of special ne
gotiating committee on labor for
the producers, said:
THE new basic agreement be-
tween the I. A. T. S. E. and the
motion picture producers was re-
duced to writing and signed by all
parties today"
Oficials of the I. A. T. S. E. said
this meant the producers had agreed
to their demands for a closed shop
and for a f1ve-year contract cover
ing 10000 workers in the film in
dustry.
Whether this action will be chal-
lenged when a formal hearing is
held Monday by the National Labor
Relations Board on a proposed elec-
tion among film industry employees
to select a bargaining agent re-
mains to be seen.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Wind Steadies, Whips
Flames Away From
Idaho Town
Two-Sided Fire Euses
Eastward Toward
Farm District
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash, Aug IA
prankish wind, which drove two
forest fires on an erratic course
over Eastern Washington and North
Idaho farming and numbering COM
munities all day, steadied on a gen.
orally north-to-south course to-
night, bringing hope to the be-
leaguered regions.
In the Liberty Lake area 18 miles
east Of Spokane. however, one front
of a freakish, two-sided blaze was
easing eastward and north into
farming districts near Spokane
Bridge, In Washington, and Post
Falls, in Idaho.
Twenty miles to the north the
wind was whipping a fire away from
Spirit Lake. Idaho, after the town
Of 900 persons had spent an anx-
ious day. The Panhandle Lumber
Mill, which lost 40,000,000 feet Of
stacked lumber yesterday, was be-
lieved temporarily safe.
An Idaho State patrolman drove
from Blanchard to Spirit Lake and
said the former town, where tele-
phone communication was cut OF
this afternoon, was not in danger.
Liberty Lakes fires burned on
two 15-mile fronts, one moving to.
ward Post Falls and the other,
which burned out a lake-site resort
and at least two farms early to-
day, spreading east across the State
line into sparsely settled timber
and grassland.
Narrow escapes from death were
told. Near Spirit Lake, two c. C. c.
enrollees, Jesse Meade and Murray
Reynolds, barely escaped the FIRE
Their clothing was scorched and
smouldering as they reached safety.
Two farm families fled before the
flames south of Liberty Lake and
reached safety after j. B. Cox drove
his truck ahead of the fire lines TO
warn them. They were Mr.. and
Mrs. Sig Knutson and Mrs. Otto
Roth, with their three children.
The Roth farm was burned shortly
after the families fled.
The parents and two sisters OF
Mrs. Lynn holland of 629 G street
NE, live in the town of Spirit
Lake, but Mrs. holland reported
last night she had received a tele-
gram notifying her they were safe,
although the t1re was OF dangerous
proportions.
Mrs. Nolands parents are Mr.. ana
Mrs. H. N. Spencer and her sisters
are Mrs. Paul brennan and Mrs.
William Hunslnger.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Hope for 2FIyers
Vanishes as Hours
Pass Without Word
New York Pairs Supply
Of Fuel Is Believed
Out Over Atlantic
BY the Associated Press.

DUBLIN. Aug. l2.-Hope for the
safety of the two New York flyers
attempting to fly from Canada to
Ireland vanished today as hours
passed without word after their fuel
supply was estimated to have been
exhausted.
The airmen, Alexander Loeb, 81.
and Richard Decker, %, left st.
Peters, Nova Scotia, at 9:O4 am.
E. S. T. yesterday with $50 gallons
OF gasoline, calculated to be enough
to last Is hours.
The odds were 100 to l against
them" flyers at Baldonnel airport
said, when the zero hour for that
supply. pm. 90 am. E. S. TJ
was reached without any report from
alert Coast Guard stations or ships
at sea.
The flyers monoplane, "shalom"
the Hebrew word tor peace-car-
ried no radio.
Atlantic crazy flyers overdue"
read the headline over terse press
accounts of the attempt Of the two
Americans to span the Atlantic IN
a plane similar to the one Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh used in 1927
when he few from New York to
Paris.
The Irish, who always are ready
with a welcome from daring Ameri-
can adventurers, said weather con-
ditions never were more favorable.
There was western tailwind and
skies were clear. .
1T is tough luck" said an officer
at the Aldergrove Royal Air Force
airport near Belfast. with weather
like today's I'd almost try 1t my
self"
Flyers at Baldonnel, where Doug
las Corrigan landed on his famous
wrong way" flight, asserted:
Engine trouble seems the only
thing that would have brought
them down short of their goal"
parents of young Decker in
Rochester, N. Y. said they were
completely surprised" by the at
tempt to fly the Atlantic.)
The Americans started out for
the Old World suddenly on Wednes-
day after flying to Canada from
Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
@-kiIe Winds, Rains
Lash Florida Coast;
Fisherman browns
Boots Are Pounded
Into Piers by
Heovy Tides
By the Associated Press.

APALACH1COLA, Fla, Aug. IL
Sixty -mile-an-h hour winds and tor
rental rains dashed Apalachicola
this afternoon as a tropical storm
moved across the gulf coastline near
here
The first death attributed to the
storm was the drowning of Orin
Croft, Cedar Keys fisherman, whose
rowboat overturned as he tried to
reach his fishing boat in the bay.
Waterfront property. mostly fish
houses and wharves, was damaged
and the few boats which had not
been moved to shelter were pounded
into piers by the heavy tides.
Streets near the gulf were flooded
Communication lines went down
about pm, Eastern Standard time.
The blow was stronger here than
In Southeast Florida, where the
storm struck late yesterday.
The storm abruptly halted the
Baldwin County fishing rodeo at
Foley, Ala. More than 400 sports
men-fishermen, warned by a Coast
Guard plane, scurried to shore. All
were reported safe.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

DR.. Havenner. who will be 73 next
month, spent so years in the service
Of the Federal Government before
retiring last year from the Govern
ment Printing Office where he was
liaison of11cer. A civic leader, he
was twice president of the Fedora
ton Of Citizens Associations and also
headed the Anacostia Citizens Asso-
citation. He is member of the Board
OF Library Trustees, the Forest Hills
Citizens Association, the Association
OF Oldest Inhabitants of the District,
and many others. Before moving to
Albemarle street, he lived at 1745
Minnesota avenue Sc. for 43 years.
At this afternoons celebration. a
special musical program has been
planned and refreshments will be
served. Mrs. Robert A. Frensler,
Mrs. Charlotte La Fond and Har-
vey Townsend. will sing solos and
duets accompanied by Mrs. Jewel
Downs. The Brusiloff string or
chestra will also play.