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Evening star., 1939-11-17
Justice Butler

The death of Associate Justice
Pierce Butler removes from the
Supreme Court man who followed
the letter of the law as his guiding
star. His philosophy did not permit
of that fiexibility Of Interpretation
which has enabled other jurists from
time to time to discover in our Con-
stitution an intent on the part Of
its trainers that its provisions were
to be shaped to the needs of a grow
ing and changing Nation. In Justice
Buffers estimation the force of prec-
edent was controlling; If the times
required that the fundamental law
as he saw it be altered, that change
should be accomplished by the
amendment process and not through
the medium of judicial interpreta-
ton.
In all probability he will not find
a place in history as one of our great
judges. Rather, he will be remem-
bered for his answering fidelity to
what he conceived to be his duty,
for his fortnight and courageous
exposition of the law as he UNDER
stood it at time when great pres
sure was brought to bear in an effort
to force a modification of his judicial
outlook.
It. is natural that the death of
Justice Butler should recall the at
tempt by President Roosevelt to
enlarge the Supreme Court little
more than two years ago, for, when
his successor is chosen, the President
will have named five justices, a
majority of the court. In that con-
nection, two thoughts come to mind.
In the first place, in appraising
the court reorganization plan it is
impossible to escape the conclusion
that the game was not worth the
candle. Mr.. Roosevelt has paid
dearly for his impulsive and ill-con-
sidered effort to inject new blood"
into the judiciary by a dubious leg
iSlative operation. If anything was
gained in the way of more favor
able consideration of the New Deals
program, that advantage is more
than Offset by the prevailing chaos
within the Democratic party, which
can be traced directly to the fight
over the court bill Had Mr.. Roose-
welt been able to retain the prestige
he enjoyed at the beginning of 1887
he, and the country as a whole,
might we'll have been in stronger
position today.
The other consideration concerns
the calmness with which the peo-
pie today accept the prospect of a
legitimately created New Deal" Su-
preme Court. There is no suggestion
Of the storm of protest which swept
the country when the effort was made
to attain the same objective in 1887,
and the lesson to be drawn from
that fact is obvious: namely, that if
any of our vital institutions is to be
changed, the means as we'll as the
end must be above suspicion.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Deplores Growth of
Degree Mania"


To the Editor Of The Star:
Lyman w. Landrum says of a college
degree: "A label on a can of tomatoes
is something like college degree. If you
are canning tomatoes for your own con-
sumption you don't need any label" I
quote from his interesting article in This
Week, in last Sundays Star.
And agree with Mr.. Landrum that
reading and voluntary study provide
liberal education and both are a constant
source of pleasure. But an education so
obtained cannot be authenticated and has
very little market value or official status.
Degrees or no degrees-that is the ques-
ton.
Only an educated person, without the
benefit of college degrees, can realize
how serious handicap the lack of aca-
demic training can become. A homemade
education may be superior merchandise,
but try to find a market for it with
the degree mania in full possession of
both business and Government.
Every year the Civil Service Commits
sion increases the number of jobs requir-
ing degree from an accredited college
before candidate can qualify to take
the examination, much less compete for
appointment. With huge surplus of
unemployed college graduates these pre-
requisites may be justified as generally
improving the quality of Government
personnel, but how about the intelligent,
sef-educated persons who have been
kept away from college by force of cir
cumstances? The World War veterans
for instance.
In addition to recommending even
higher educational qualifications and
examining seniors in colleges before they
are graduated, witnesses before the
Presidents Committee investigating civil
service problems, with Mr.. Justice Reed
as chairman, have attacked veterans
preference, recommending its abolition.
There will be strenuous objection to this
and I am sure public opinion will not
permit it, Thousands Of men in the
World War had their college education,
or their preparations to go to college,
interrupted. Military and college age
coincide. This country will not place a
: triple penalty on military service by first
preventing men from getting higher
education. then setting up such high
educational qualifications for civil service
appointments that the average veteran
is ineligible to take an examination and
then deny him any preference because Of
service to his country in time of emer-
gency.
At present true veterans preference
has to do with men past 40. The plight
of this group, many dislocated by both
the war and the depression, has been SO
serious as to attract the attention of the
President. If many Of them turn to the
Government for jobs commensurate with
their age and experience it is only nat
ural. To find their way blocked by
educational requirements beyond their
schooling and veteran and age discrimi-
nation is tragic. They are lucky to
qualify as assistant clerks or messengers.
A Lincoln-type education simply does not
get by this day and age.
Some people are educated beyond their
intelligence; others are educated and
intelligent. and still others are educated
and intelligent far beyond their aca-
denic training. The civil service should
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Inspiration

Pigment and oils and canvas and brushes,
These were the tools that the great
Masters knew,
Creating beauty that dazzles, that
bushes,
A transfgured Christ, and Virgin in
blue.
Raw umber, burnt umber, rose madder,
flake,
Emerald green, cobalt blue, chrome,
crimson lake.
Here in these tubes glow warm walls Of
old converts,
Turbulent cities and fields in the sun,
The smile Of baby, the gloom OF the
forest,
workmen at rest when the days toll il
done.
Angels and sirens. Madonnas and Mag
dalens,
Martyrs and saints and landscape and
sea
Are waiting uniformed here the hand of
q master,
Waiting-who knows but they're waiting
for me?
Ocher, permalba, sienna, viridian,
Flemish red, Prussian blue, scarlet ver-
million.
Palette and paints and canvas and
brushes,
OIL and an easel. a stick of charcoal
Raphael, Rembrandt, Del sarto, Da
Vinci
Had only these to use-these and 4
soul. .n2S
NELLIE GRAY BOURDEAUX.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
War Profits

Among the many lopsided, mac
curate and illogical anti-American-
isms recently uttered by Soviet Pre-
mier-Foreign Commissar Molotoff
before the Supreme Soviet was the
charge that capitalism" in the
United States is fomenting the Eu-
ropean war for the sake of blood
money" profits to be derived from
the sale of munitions. The accusa-
ton is not new. 1t has found fire.
quent utterance, in one form or
another, in this country. 1t was a
popular argument during the NUM-
tions investigation, when it was the
fashion to pillory our armament in
dustry as merchants of death" and
otherwise to stigmatize it. The sug-
gestion that American manufacture
ers and other export interests craved
another world war for prof1teering
purposes also was heard during the
recent neutrality debates in Congress.
American business authorities are
virtually unit in denying the
soundness of the allegation that war
Is a boon to our commerce and in
dustry. They describe it as quite the
contrary. Experiences after the
World War are cited as proof that
boom volume and boom prices, such
as this country enjoyed on the pre-
vious occasion, are a blight rather
than blessing. That certain
branches of heavy industry, like
steel, aircraft and munitions, stand
to reap substantial benefits from
war business is unquestionable. But
events of twenty years ago remind
American industry that the advan-
tages in question are purely ephem-
eral. With the war over, many
key industries found themselves
with vastly expanded plants on their
hands, the productive capacity Of
which was far in excess of Americas
own needs or any requirements
springing from normal, peacetime
export markets. Hardly any branch
of our economic structure escaped
this postwar consequence. Even
the farmers of the wheat and corn
belts found themselves with an over
abundance Of cultivated acreage,
planted to meet wartime foodstuffs
needs at home and abroad The
"surplus" problem that endured
throughout the 1e2Os was one Of the
prices the American farmer paid for
war prosperity.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States reports that, as the
lamp Of experience is the best guide,
American industry today is watching
its step, and building no air castles
on the strength of anticipated profits
from war, lest conditions ensue
again, which proved so illusory be-
fore The Chamber points out, more
over, that the current uptrend in
American industry-steel registered
in october the greatest monthly pro-
duction in its history-is no war
baby" but the normal result of i'm
provement in the times, due mainly
to long deferred replenishment of
depleted inventories in many staple
lines.
1t is clear, too, that the stalemated
European conflict, which becomes
less and less of war in the old sense
and more and more campaign of
attrition, is divesting it of the
profits angle from which so-called
merchants of DEATH" belligerents
as well as neutral, may once upon a
time have envisioned it.
Evening star., 1939-11-17

to-day living in harmony with COM
randing ideals--a pattern of life in
which every citizen would have priv
ileges balanced by definite obliga-
tions. Average opinion" so con-
structed would be a force against
which nothing could stand.
Evening star., 1939-11-17

In spite of an ever-increasing num-
ber of Government employees, the
President still has more than 5000
Federal jobs, some of them impor-
tant, to fill. The White House gravy
ladle is now so big that it takes the
President and several executive as
sistants even to lift it.
Evening star., 1939-11-17

To tie Editor of The Star:
The fine work The Star has done in
bringing about a reduction of fees in
the Landlord-Ten Court merits the
sincere and undivided praise of all
decent and respectable citizens. The
Star is to be congratulated for its inter-
est in the welfare of its readers. The
same interest and devotion to duty re-
garding another municipal disease,
namely, the exploitation of rent payers,
would prove to be a valuable contribu-
ton to the general welfare of our peo-
pie. A. L. CORDINGLEY.
November Is,
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Holds Minton Qualified
For Attorney Generalship.
To the Editor of The Star.

Az Inc Eoltor OF The Star.
A short time ago the press mentioned
the fact that Mr. Justice Butler was in
falling health and there would shortly
be an opening on the Supreme Court
resulting from his possible resignation.
1t was said Attorney General Murphy
was in line for Justice Buffers place. It
was then said that if Mr. Murphy became
a Supreme Court Justice that Senator
Minton of Indiana would be splendid
successor to Murphy. And they say
"Barkis is willin'."
The Senator has been mentioned sew.
eral times as possible appointee to the
Supreme Court, but his geographical To-
cation-in view of the present personnel
OF the'court-is such that he is at a dis
advantage for such appointment. Those
who know him best say he would prefer
to be Attorney General because he is an
active fighter and debater as we'll as
splendid trial lawyer. Many are hopeful
that Sherman Minton will succeed At
torney General Murphy if the latter is
chosen to succeed Justice Butler.
November is. c. H. JENNINGS,
Evening star., 1939-11-17

The curious thing about Dutch
courage" is that it is really an en-
tirely different thing from what one
means when he uses the common old
phrase.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Letters to the Editor

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credited to it or not otherwise Credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1939-11-17
C0rrects Error In
Star Editorial.

70 the Editor Of The Star:
In the Sunday Star of November 5
there appeared an excellent editorial un-
der the heading of "Woman's Work."
The editorial referred to the Women's
Safety Committee of the Federation of
Women's Clubs. believe the writer
really was referring to the Women's
Safety Committee of the American Auto
mobile Association, of which Mrs George
w. Thorpe is chairman, and who has
worked very actively and aggressively in
the interest of traffic safety for a good
many years.
The sympathy and support of the
Washington Evening Star helped ma
terially In this activity.
A. j. MONTGOMERY,
Director, Department of Public
Relations.
November IA.
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

The Heart Knows
When thy hand hath done a good
act, ask thy heart whether it was
well done.-Fuller.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
Rural America Leads New Dry Trend
As Nation Deserts Beer Barrel Polka
By JAMES HARRISON

released by Western Newspaper Union.)
MYTH the national pendu-
w lum swinging from tip
ping to temperance, rural
America is climbing back on
the water wagon.
There's little fanfare or
hurrah about this new prohi-
bition crusade. The tradi-
tional temperance groups are
apparently playing but a
minor part. The movement
is growing in spite of cam
paigns by enlightened ele-
ments among the distillers urging
temperance in drinking.
Local option is the process which
is making the wet spots dry.
More than 1900 communities have
voted "dry" since prohibition was
repealed 5k years ago, prominent
research organization estimates. The
majority of these have been in rural
areas.
Counting the districts that re-
manned steadfastly dry in the face
of repeal, there are today at least
10, 900 communities in which beer
and booze are outlawed. This rep
resents about one-fourth of all the
townships, rural precincts, counties
and villages in the United States.
Rapid Growth Significant?
An America only one-fourth dry
might not be regarded as ominous
to the vets, when compared with
the situation preceding the adop-
ton of the Eighteenth amendment.
At that time 80 per cent of all town.
ships and rural precincts, IS per
cent of all counties and rs per cent
of all the villages in the United
States had their own form of prohi-
bition.
But the rapidly with which the
new dry movement is gaining
ground today is significant of a
changing public sentiment. Thou
sands of local option elections are
scheduled for ballot this fall. In
Pennsylvania alone 492 precincts
will hold wet-dry contests.
Some ardent drys predict that
when the votes are counted this au-
tumn, at least 5000 communities
will have entered the dry belt since
repeal. This may be overoptimistic,
but it is not being entirely laughed
out of court by impartial observers.
Dries Win so Per Cent.
How the dry forces have tri-
umphed so far this year is indicated
by results in Illinois. Out of BAL
local option contests last April, the
drys won 273 or 80 per cent accord
ing to a survey by the American
Business Mems Research founda-
ton.
Illinois now has 1928 dry areas, of
which about 500 represent commu-
mites that have voted that way since
repeal. "It is estimated that there
are now more than 100000 people
in Illinois living in areas made dry
by local option votes" says an Off
cial bulletin of the foundation. If
the results elsewhere are similar, it
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
'Rumors' Cost Dime a Dozen
In Secretive Dictator Lands

d ONE. - Those "uncon-
IN firmed reports" and "ru-
mors" your newspaper brings
from Rome, Berlin and other
totalitarian cities may prove
in the end to be false-but
don't blame your newspaper!
In both Germany and Italy,
where news must filter
through a ministry of propaganda
before painstaking censors decide
whether it should be released, the
most fantastic rumor may prove to
be true. On the other hand, very
logical report from some distant
province may have been entirely
false. The foreign correspondent has
choice of waiting several days
until the story is dead" and
thus having it denied or confirmed
by the propaganda ministry, or he
can take a chance and release it
as a rumor.
Mystery of Eye Doctor.
Mussolini and Hitler are both men
of mystery whose comings and 60
ings make big news. Yet lucky in
deed is the foreign correspondent
who can pierce the veil of secrecy
and send his paper an authenticat-
ed story. Recently Mussolini made
a secret visit into northern Italy
which produced three rumors for
correspondents. Take your pick: ~
He was going to Switzerland to con-
suit an eye specialist; (2) he was
meeting Hitler in the Bremen pass;
(3) he was meeting a German diplo-
mat and the Swiss eye specialist at
Venice. Not until almost a week
later did the ministry of popular
culture (lxnown as "Pop Cult to
correspondence give reporters the
story. Several of them got severe
dressings-down for having issued
false reports, yet no one could have
expected them to ignore II Duce's
trip.
Troop Train Panic.
Similarly. the world was startled
several months ago by reports that
German troops were passing south
ward through Bremen pass for re-
shipment By boat to italian colonies
In Italy. This was q Sensational
story. suhstantiated by . respected
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

would mean that more than 16,00o,-
600 Americans now reside in terri
tory from which liquor is barred.
Why has the dry movement spread
so rapidly in the farming districts?
The answers range all the way from
the rural accident problem caused
by drunken drivers and tipsy pedes-
TRANS, to increases in crime and
rising juvenile delinquency. But that
doesn't tell the entire story.
Follows Tradition, Says Authority.
One of the most plausible explana-
tons was given by Martin Nelson,
secretary of the Kelley institute, of
Dwight, ILL.,, sanitarium for the
treatment of alcoholism. Rural
America is simply running true to
form, he says and he bases his
statement on the 60-year experience
of the institute in observing the ebb
and flow of temperance.
I'm banning intoxicants," Mr.. Mel
son declared, farming areas and
smaller towns are for the most part
returning to the status they occu-
pied before prohibition. They have
been additionally dry for century.
1t is only natural they should lead
the parade today.
'That rural America is dry in
practice as well as theory is indi-
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
Lightweight Diving Equipmen

Charles Edwards, % years old,
who has Owed for pearls in light
weight equipment invented by him.
self, is diving for gold in the deep
pools of New Zealand's swift noun
tain rivers. He went from Sydney,
Australia, to New Zealand with q
mining engineer, who invited him to
make the venture. Prospectors are
recovering large quantities of gold
from margins Of New Zealand riv-
ers, but deep pools have never been
explored because the streams are
too swift to permit dredging and the
country too rugged for transporting
heavy diving apparatus. Edwards'
complete equipment weighs only 100
pounds.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08
How Women
in Their 4O's
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for = woman during her
change usually from IS to 52), who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worieB
about hot flashes, loss Of pep. dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, hrs. sleep and II you
need . good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. made
especially for pomen. 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance. thus helps give more
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change Of life. WELL
WORTH TRYINGI
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

Which cigarette gives the most
actual smoking for your money!
Here are the facts recently con-
6rmed through impartial labo-
ratory tests of 16 of the largest
selling brands:
4 CAMELS were found to con-
tain MORE TOBACCO BY
WEIGHT than the average for
the IS other of the largest-sell-
ing brands.
. CAMELS BURNED SLOW
4 Err THAN ANY OTHER
BRAND TESTED 1885
SLOWER THAN THE AVER
AGETIME OFTHE IS OTHER
OF THE LARGEST SELLING
BRANDS! By burning $3.50
slower, on the average, Camels
give smokers the equivalent of 5
EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK
, In the same tests, CAMELS
O." HELD THEIR ASH FAR
LONGER than the average time
for all the other brands.
Buy shrewdly. Get extra smoking and
also enjoy the cooler, milder, taseier
smoking of Camel's lons-burninG
costlier tobaccos. Camel Is the qualify
cieafetre epcry smoker can a&ord.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

Flat crepe, thin wool and rayon
jersey are smart materials for
this.
Princess Lines and Shirring.
Business and college girls will
like the slim lines and simplicity
of this very attractive dress
(1780), with princess skirt cut
high in the front, shirred Shout
ders, and fiaring revers that
frame your face becomingly. For
this, choose fiat crepe, taffeta or
thin wool, with revers in white or
q pastel tint.
The Patterns.
No. 1893 is designed for sizes 80,
"a, SO, SO, 40, AZ, A, and 46. Size
"a requires SIS yards of 80 inch
material. u yard of lace for
vestee.
No. 1880 is designed for sizes IL,
IA, 16, 10, 20, and 40. Size IA re-
quires 5 yards of 80 inch material;
" yard contrasting.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, Room 1924,
211 w. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill.
Price of patterns, is cents lin
coins) each.
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-09-08

IL DUCE-Did he visit an eye
doctor, Herr Hitler, or just a dip
lomat?
priva.e German citizen who said his
cousin had seen the troop trains
one night at Genoa. Similar ru-
mors came from many villages
along the line.
In the end these troop trains"
proved to be shipments of German
confiscated Czech army equipment
being sent to Libya in trains guard
ed by German sentries.
Recently Italian newspapers made
capital out of false rumors printed
abroad, publishing a list of them
under the heading, IAN Anthology of
False News" It included stories
growing out of the seemingly fantas-
tic report that foreigners were being
evicted from the italian Tyrol. This
story, denied by "Pop Cult" was
true.
So while Germans and Italians
blame democratic malice or panic
for the melange Of rumors surround
ing their comings and goings, for
eign correspondents put the blame
elsewhere-on q blanket system Of
news suppression which has made
the task Of checking rumors almost
impossible.