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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25

The "Kevin crowd" Of big game
hunters are at it again. The crowd is
growing smaller each year as the boys
grow older and learn to know better
and besides, some Of the poker chips
were broken last year and hunting
will be more difficult this year The
story is told that last year one Of
the hunters who actually did some
hunting (name withheld) came run
ming into camp, finding Postelwaite,
as usual. cutting wood.
"Posty, are all the other boys out
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25

Are you sure2" he questioned.
quite sure" was the reply. You
see. I'm the doctor"
A hypOchondriac consulted q doctor
for a thorough checkup. After going
over the patient carefully, the doctor
inquired Of him as follows:
do you drink" Reply was NO,
doctor"
do you run around nights2" Reply
was mo, doctor"
DO you swear excitedly2" Reply
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
IPA Asks ICkeS to
Adopt Standard
Lease Form

CONTINUED from Page One)
struction of Atlantic seaboard pipe
lines.
10. Asked for study Of wage-hours
law lin the drilling and producing
branches of the petroleum industry to
determine what interpretations of the
law or amendments to the law are
necessary to make it possible to apply
the law in a practical and reasonable
manner"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
ROYALTY INCOMES UP 2O%

The higher the cost of producing the
oil, the higher the price and the higher
the price, the greater the profit to the
landowner.
Had that $4,000 barrels of oil been
produced when the price of oil was 80
cents per barrel, the landowner or his
assigns would have received 100000
But when the price went to 90 cents,
his oil was worth $112,500
With ST oil it is worth $l25,000O0
With $1l0 oil it is worth $137 10000
With S1.20 oil it is worth $150000OO
With $1.30 oil it is worth $162, 10000
Thus a Cut Bank royalty investor
who bought his royalty on the basis
Of 80-cent oil has seen the value of his
mineral interest jump 62.5 percent, with
the posting of the present price of $1.30
per barrel.
This is true of every royalty, no
matter how large or how small Every
royalty has increased in potential worth
in proportion to the increase in the
price of crude.
The rate of return on every royalty
investment has increased from 20 to 30
percent as result of the price in
creases already recorded.
Is the price of crude going up
Answer that question with two more
questions:
Is the cost of labor going up
Is the cost of steel going up?
The two requisites of the production
of oil are CD steel, and (2) labor
At the same time there is no denying
that the United States MUST have oil
much more oil. The price of oil must
be made so attractive that every strip
per we'll can be produced at profit,
to utilize every drop of available crude
from presently drilled wells There
after, steel ono MATTER HOW
MUCH 1T COSTS must be released
for rigs, tools, casing, tubing, rods,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
EXTEND STATE LEASES

The state land board has extended
81 oil and gas leases on 1884 acres
of state land from Is to 20 years, under
terms Of a law passed by the 1941
session of the legislature.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
WE BELIEVE

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS been definitely proven in
dspenbe in Morcana. Every wildcat should have both
Madison and Devonan thighs" determined by reflection
seismograph before drilling begins
DEEPER DRILLING is essential write the real history of
the Montana oil industry. The major source Of Mon.
tina petroleum is in formations BELOW THE BIG
LIME Abandonment of wells at Cat Greek horizon
is stupidity No we'll should be considered completion
until it is drilled into the Devonian.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25

was mo, doctor"
Thereupon the doctor inquired II he
felt pain on each side Of the head.
Yes, doctor. do" was the patients
reply.
Well. my man, your trouble Is your
halo Is too tight" concluded the doctor.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
WORKING ON RAISE

TROY-The Keystone mine. Is
miles north, has resumed raising above
the tunnel, the objective being 300
feet above and has already reached
2lO feet. Wilson Miller is the con-
tractor. under Morning Glory. Inc.
which has reopened the mine.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25
COMPLETES Gas WELL

BAKER. - Mondakota Development
Co., of which F. H. Becker is field
manager, has brought in another gas
well on MEL NE4 36-5N-61E, 25 miles
southeast of Baker, with an initial
of 100000 cubic feet per day, to be
delivered to the Montana-Dakota Util-
tiles line.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-25

Save a Life Today-Drive Carefully
Evening star., 1941-11-21

and Portugal confirmed the per-
manent independent status of Ma
Gao, although the exact boundary
is still subject to occasional dispute.
A barrier gate, raised across the
neck Of the Macao peninsula, long
has been guarded by both Chinese
and Portuguese soldiers.
East Meets West.
Macao (of1icially known as the
city Of the name of God, most
loyal to the ColoniesD is an odd
mixture of East and West. The
100000 people who live within its
less than a dozen square miles in
clude Chinese, Hindus, Africans,
Europeans and Eurasians. In 1886
there were an estimated 1000 Por-
tuguese. The colony has a repu-
tation as refuge for missionaries,
merchants and political dissenters
during China's troubled times.
Above the picturesque little harbor
of Macao, in which ancient Chinese
iunks and modern steamers seem to
joStle for room, rises a settlement
whose architecture is remindful of
Southern Europe Its pastel shades
of yellow, blue and pink. slanting
across the hillsides, once earned for
it the title of stranded Eastern
rainbow"
Modern Macao, with its improved
harbor works. normally makes its
living by trade and fishing, manu-
featuring and gambling. Its dozen
or so fan tan houses have given it
Evening star., 1941-11-21
Macao Is China's
Oldest European
Settlement
=
Portuguese Have Held
o.. Possession Of Port
...NeorIy 400 Years

A reminder that Portugal Is
among the European nations with
territorial interests in war-Shadowed
China comes with the report that
Japan has asked for Joint admin
iStration of the port Of Macao, about
20 miles southwest of British Hong
Kong.
Macao has been a Portuguese
possession for nearly 400 years, a
bulletin from the National Geo
graphic Society says. It's settlement
in 1857 represented the first Euro
pean foot to be thrust in the long
CLOSED door of China.
Although its early commercial
Importance has declined as a result
Of the rise of Hong Kong and other
foreign held ports, Macao still en-
Joys an exceedingly strategic po-
sition along the southeast coast of
China.
OverlookS Busy Traffic Lanes.
Situated on a peninsula extending
into the mouth of the Canton River,
II forms one Of the points of tri-
angle which may be drawn on the
map between Hong Kong. Canton
and Macao. 1t overlookS one of the
busiest traffic lanes to the East, the
northern entrance to the China Sea
bv way of the channel which separ-
ates japanese TaiWan (Formosa)
from the northernmost islands OF
the Philippines.
When the Portuguese colony was
young, both the Netherlands and
England desired it. and as late as
1885 news dispatches told OF at
tempts by the japanese govern
ment to purchase it.
Portugal came into possession OF
Macao, which today comprises two
neiehborine islands. as result of
early trade with China and naval
assistance rendered the Chinese
authorities in their struggle against
Canton River pirates. The Portu-
euese, however. paid an annual fee
for the use of the colony until 1849
when they refused further pay
ments.
In 1887 a treaty between China
Evening star., 1941-11-21
Shanghai Court Fines
ToiIors for Strikinq

Thirteen tailors out on a strike
in Shanghai, China, were fined for
melting other tailors to lay of
work. Judge Tsu observed that
while their demands for higher
wages might be justified owing to
the high cost Of living, they should
seek their ends by peaceful means.
A defendant said that the pay
for tailor, so Chinese dollars a
month, was insufficient to meet
present living costs.
Evening star., 1941-11-21
Sheriff Gets Back Toxes
By Painless Method
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Annotated Press.
FALLS CITY, Nebr-Nebraska
law makes no provision for collect
ing back taxes on the installment
plan, but Sheriff Irwin Gates does IT
anyway, like this:
He takes partial payments "on
trust" keeps an unofficial set OF
books and issues an unoff1cial per-
sonal receipt. When the delinquency
is paid in full he turns the money
over to the county attorney and
an official county receipt is issued.
In the first nine months of this
year installment collections Of 81 or
more totaled 1898.
Evening star., 1941-11-21

complicated. The simplest affairs
Of life have been turned into tam
gled problems, 1t is asserted. The
"co-prosperity" vaunted by the Jap
anese officials has prospered only
the Japanese officials superimposed
on the formerly simple economic
and social life of the Chinese.
Living Is immeasurably more ex-
pensive than four years ago, and 1t
is impossible to get many articles
formerly in common use. The
Chinese are continually harassed
with house-to-hous inspections or
called to police headquarters to be
questioned.
Evening star., 1941-11-21
People Of North China
Cold to New Order

Despite almost daily articles In
the newspapers about the so-called
beauties" Of the new order" the
people Of North China regard it as
entirely baneful to them, it Is re-
ported in Peiping.
The outstanding feature is that
II tends to make life much more
Evening star., 1941-11-21

the rather grandiloduent name Of
the Monte Carlo of the Orient"
From its factories come such as
sorted products as cement and fire
crackers. preserves and opium.
Evening star., 1941-11-21

Fancy Christmas packing will be
curtailed this year as an aid to de-
fense planning the Commerce De-
partment reports.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Fate of Holland for Us

AN OCCASION arises in almost every ones
"A life when vital decision has to be made
either for bad or worse. The same thing
applies to a nation.
Our President, who is guiding this coun-
try, should have his own way and pro-Axis
supporters should be swamped and allow the
majority to govern.
Otherwise we are headed for the same
fate as Norway, Holland, Denmark, etc. Let
it be lesson that Hitler loves to step into
divided nation.
Let us follow our President and become
solid and united. Then Hitler won't have to
bother coming here to protect us as he did in
the case of the above mentioned nations.
Let us not be a bunch of defeatists like
the once adored American idol. Lindbergh
EDWARD GARDNER,
272 West Webster avenue,
Ferndale
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Supply Arms, Not Men

vX1HEN famine, pestilence and suppression
w fall and crush the human mind and body,
only one alternative is justified for the good
of all humanity: Destruction of those forces
which hinder progress and development of
human culture.
Entering the European war by formal
declaration and alliance is quite unnecessary.
Britain is begging us for ornaments, not for
our blood. We should furnish them with what
counts in this war: machines.
Our present course will inevitably involve
us in war if we remain at the present slow
pace of production.
Both capital and labor must resolve their
powers into a definite purpose: To keep us
out of war and at the same time put stagnant,
destructive theories of swindlers of humanity
out of circulation.
STANLEY ELESHEXICH,-
1891 West Warren avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Aid ENGLAND: Don't Fight

I AM for aid to England without declaring
war unless declared against the United
States.
1t is my opinion that England will lose
this war without our help. Being mer-
cenary person myself see no reason why
we should not try to lick Hitler with our
machinery and England's men.
believe war is inevitable if England loses
My point is that two nations will stand more
chance of victory than one.
All the American defense plans including
our guns and armor, will not keep many
American cities, including women and chill
dren, from being bombed if war is declared
against the United States alone. 1t would
be better to win this war on Englands battle
field.
DON A. DUBREVILLE,
Camp Silver Greek Co. 665,
East Tawas, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Aid-But Keep u. s. Out

YEEP the United States a closed corpora
N ton, America the ever-burning light of
liberty and freedom. For months past the
drums of propaganda have been beating to
drown out the echoes of misery from the last
World War that was to make the world safe
and sane.
There is no necessity today for propaganda
artists to manufacture atrocities; we know
by deduction that they exist for this is war
of civilians. But is it so easy to forget that
we have our own closets rafting with
skeletons?
One has only to visit the government hos
pitfalls, to see the hulking, miserable, apathetic
hulks that were once fine men, to understand
that what they brought back from France
was the living futility of European interven-
ton.
What other wives think of this intermin-
able discussion of war, do not know, but /,
for one, do not want to see my husband
trembling shadow of himself from shell-shock
or worse, pitiful puppet on string
All aid to Britain and God grant them
victory-but America for the Americans!
MRS. DONALD r. KENNEDY,
872 Philip avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Europe's Art, Literature
Driven to U. S. by War
By BENJAMIN DECASSEREs

Lacking the terrible halo Of
s. spears!
Who formed Christ bit Herod
aud Caesar,
The cruel and bloody rictories Of
Caesar?
Violence has been the sire Of all
the ioorld's Udiues.
Never Weep, let them play
Old pioleBce is not too old TO
beget nei0 ralues.
THAT is profoundly true, but,
Il like all truths. it is only hall
the truth. For while all nations.
man and history are full of vlo-
lence. il requires periods OF
peace for growth and to shape
things to beauty and use.
The very earth, it Is true.
was shaped by violence-the IL
tanic violences of nature. But
the beauty of trees, of sunsets,
of flowing waters can be en-
joyed best when violence is re-
mote.
Jeffers' poem is the most
courageous poem of these days,
but IT was written. it must he
remembered, in the peace and.
tranquility of his 40-foot tower
at Carmel.
Violence is the sculptor of the
world. The calm,acontemplative
mind OF the artist and the scien-
list is the finished product.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
ROBERT RIDGWAY,
1857 Grand River avenue.

TO THE EDITOR:
WHEN are the American peo-
w pie going to wake up TO the
fact that by having anything to
do with the unions, they are
selling their birthright.
When the papers are full OF
defense strikes holding up that
which is needed to protect our
own land. can't they see the real
plot behind it all. Isn't that how
France fell?
Now they dare say say they
are going to make a good citizen
of Henry Ford. who refuses to
take orders from a bunch of le-
gal gangsters.
They say Ford is not holding
TO the law.
What union or strike didn't
break the laws and rights Of the
American people, destroy prop
erty, bully men to join, even
killing people?
Is il jtist when fellow
worker has 10 join. or else? Is
that being free citizen
If 50 per cent Of union MEN,
bers would stay out Of beer gar
dens and try TO make q home
more like a home. they would
see things as they are, not as the
unions tell them.
In ny own case. we could use
more nJlpey. II course Buying 4
hOn9e. four children snd all the
e1pense that goes with H. But
NE are ~ Yp9ch more fortunate
vlso f1e pm desperate people
Ell 1sFf me world
Hhs' Ne need il more hmeri-
cans Ire Henry Ford who will
mr. be dictated ~ By the unions.
1Dg cant satisfy them no mat
ter wat yOg give them. They
VII Keep On striking because
fhei, gosl il 20 hold up defense
WORK
HEs. BLANCHE GALLANT,
Z3sI5 Wilson avenue.
Dearborn, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
TO THE EDITOR:

~ HE ELI lux.
NO DICTATORSHIP IN
AMERICA! Congress and
the Senate must not pass this
bill which would make our Presi-
dent a dictator, for which he is
SO power hungry.
Congress and the Senate were
put in Washington to do as the
people of the United States of
America want them to do, not
as Mr.. President tries to make
them do.
They were put there by the
people to represent the people
and to help Mr.. Roosevelt cor
rect his mistakes.
Mr.. Roosevelt has broken al
most every promise he made the
people and now he wants die
tatorship so he can give away
the American navy, army and
money, our planes, material and
our men if he chooses to do so.
If we are so weak we can't
defend ourselves without Eng
land, then we had better hurry
and do something about it, in
stead of giving it all to England.
England is the only one we
had to fight twice for our free
dom.
Why doesn't President Roose-
welt clean out America OF its
communism, naZiism and fas-
cism? 1t was pointed out by the
Dies committee that there are
$500 Communists on the gov
eminent pay roll. These should
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28

IT'S AN i'll wind. ETC.:
i The art. fashion and lltera-
ture of Europe Cor a goodly bit
of it, are moving to New York.
Fourteen years ago ! pre-
dicted just such an event. or
course / did not know how II
was to come about. But fore
saw thanding myself bouqueD
that we were on the road to be-
coming a modern Athens" be-
cause I could smell the decay
ing corpse of Europe culture.
/ doomed my apocalyptic
vision in a book called Mirrors
of New York" 1t was furious
chant TO New York and
America.
However. there's many a true
word spoken in fury. for today
we are taking over Europe
wholesale. and it is only ques-
ton of time, maybe. when the
Louvre will be in Central Park
and the Leaning Tower OF Pisa
will be in Times Square.
AS to European literature and
science. it's already in Uncle
Sans bag.
VIOLENCE. like a plague or
v epidemi c, periodically
breaks out all over the world
and seems 10 become something
like a philosophy of life. y
- Is violence necessary? Robin
son LETTERS. the California poet,
saws that it is in the following
extraordinary poem, printed IN
Poetry
Tt is not bad. Let them play.
Let the guns bark and the bomb
ing-pidne
Speak his prodigious b la s.
phemies.
IL Is not bad, IL is high time
Stark uiolence is stiH the sire Of
all the icorids vdlHes.
What but the ioolfs tooth chs
eled so fine
The feet limbs Of the dptelopo9
What but fear Cinged the birds
and hunger
Gemmed nth such eyes the great
y -coshdpk's heddg
Violence has been the sire Of all
hs Worids values.
Who would remember Helen's
face
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
TO THE EDITOR:


IT APPEARS the propaganda
L being spread around for our
benefit is being Fundamentally
accepted by some of the people
writing in this column.
In my opinion, the American
people are being rushed into the
European mixup by the moneyed
interests of the United States
and England. They tell us about
the mad dogs of Europe. but
I'm more interested in stopping
the mad dogs of America.
They are passing laws enslav-
ing us, and giving the politicians
more power. Why not fight the
crooked politician and the OPP
portunist before going over to
Europe?
With the power thus far
vested in him and the lend-lease
bill ready for passing. Mr..
Roosevelt has as much or more
power than many dictators. The
administration has given itself
unlimited power and shattered
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Connolly Answers

J. fs) 3: (b) 1897; fc) 10.
z. fsj AbeIard; fb) Isolde; tc)
McIIsande
3. fs) Greece; fb) Japan; (c)
Poland.
4. fs) Vergil-Aeneid; tb) Byron
Don Juan; tcD Edgar A. Poe
To Helen.
5. (a) District Attorney: fb)
memorandum; tc) Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals.
5. fa) one entered and then with
drawn from a race; tb) rapid;
(c) unusually large.
7. ta) Ages; (b) Thought; (c)
Hour"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28

be removed and replaced by real
honest Americans.
If we had few more men in
the Congress and Senate like
Mr.. Wheeler, Mr.. Dies, Mr.. Van
denberg. Mr.. Roy Woodruff and
a few others, there would be no
dictatorship bills passed in
America.
AL CROSBY,
2226 Crane street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
Fob % 1915

German guns destroy Verdun
forts: fierce fighting continues
on slopes; carnage among Ger
mans called simply terrible"
Berlin stands by new ses
order: fnStructs ambassador 10
United States that pledges hold
but don't include armed ships.
Wilson declares A meri ca
should keep out d war at sacri-N
lice OF svsrythtng sxesp4
humanity and justies.e
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
IBAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Clutch Hitter.
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER
fellow told that Ethiopian sharpshooter hit Mus
soin on the head with coconut
The Giants could man like that in the clutch don't
for Benitos tough breaks in Africa but Will
say thing If gets away with that explanation to the
Italian people then going to tell my wife anything feel
like.
quiz kids would rip that explanation apart like knots
in candy pull.
Do you remember what Bento said few years ago. ~
advance follow me- if retreat shoot me; If fail, ayer2s
me-"
That was a magnificent 15word telegram and he sefs
stuck out his chin like the ostrich in the ark. IS,
Dsss~.AA y Isssrnsto
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28
Letters to the Editor

a precedent set by Washington,
and honored by the American
people for $50 years.
What is the matter with the
people today? Can we find but
one man capable of running our
government? Let's start think
ing for ourselves and force the
international bankers and the
politicians to take much
needed rest.
Let's save America first, and
England second.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-28

6NGE. as a great sea power
" as well as a great land
power. she ruled the world. but
that was when it was principally
a Mediterranean world and when
armies meant little more than
massed muscular man power.
Even then she was dependent on
the rest of the world for nearly
all her metal and most of her
food.
Her principal value 10 Hitler
was her threat to North Africa,
a bottleneck in the Mediterran-
can and such naval and military
materials and munitions as she
had accumulated through the
years.
Her equipment has been proved
obsolete, the threat TO North
Africa is over and, so far as
she is concerned. the bottleneck
has been broken. Benito was the
worst bargain that Adolf ever
bought.
Now that bargain is his baby
and the care and policing of it
is going TO take a considerable
part of his military, naval and
air power that he may need
desperately elsewhere.
There is something terribly
pathetic about it. No people
wanted to fight the Italian peo-
pie and it is very apparent that
the Italian people didn't want
TO fight anybody else.
DERHAPS more cynical
i aspect of this terrible ex-
ample is to those who say:
mo democracy can fight a war.
Only relationships can make the
swift decisions necessary in
modern conflict. Democracies
must become relationships be-
fore they can fight Dictator
ships"
Well. Italy was an about die
tatorship and now look at the
darned thing. Stains is a dc
tatorship but. as war govern
ment. nothing to write home
about.
The truth seems to be that
the real question is not so much
of the form OF government as
the quality of leadership for
war.
Maybe a bad leader could do
more harm under a dictatorship
than under democracy. Maybe
good leader can conduct
pretty successful war under
either form of government. Any
way. that is about what the
history book seems to say.
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