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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-04
Helena Man to
Check PriOrities

HELENA.-OScar BaarSon OF Helena
has been appointed assistant manager
Of the Helena priorities office by the
office Of production management. He
is now In Washington taking a course
In priorities work, to return about
oct. is. 1t viii be his task to check
ALLEGATION Of priorities to Montana in
dustries. Tom D. Caverly is emergency
co-ordinator Of mines, appointed by
Donald M. Nelson, director Of priorities.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-04
Giant Blast to
BLOw Top off of
LIMERICK Mountain

HFI ENA.-A blast Of I6 TOMS OF
free-flowing dynamite will be exploded
at 2 D. m. Oct. II at the Mcclellan
creek quarry of American Smelling &
Refining Co, % miles south Of East
Helena. according to Edward P. Marc
nick, operator. Three tunnels will carry
the blast, expected to break down $4,000
tons of lime flux for the smelter,
blowing the entire top off a noun
tain.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-04
OVER TIN

Oregon's mountain Of tin" near
Burns has been turned down by the
Bureau Of Mines which claims an I'M
solvable physiochemical problem, after
a two-year controversy. Oregon people
are talking Of demanding congress
sionaI investigation to see why tin
development is being discouraged. A
new process" Of tin recovery, by local
engineers, is said to have failed to
yield commercial tin.
Evening star., 1941-11-07

the domain of her colors, being protect
ed wherever she may be by an inviolable
sovereignty.
ANY nation ignoring such acts would
forfeit foreign respect.
In this period of transition. when
Americas anomalous situation is ap-
preaching definition our courts dictum
that the laws of war as established
among nations. is founded in reason, will
be of constantly increasing significance,
for by them a new condition is created
for each citizen of combatant nation.
America as defender OF civilization,
guardian of international law, ard a
nation of liberty is commanded by Ger
many to abdicate its oceanic dignity or
fight. Germany elects war with the
United States, conflict which, if each
Americans endeavor be for the supreme
good of his Nation, will result in the
complete earth's durable improvement.
EDWARD CONN.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Worlds Slave Market

The Presidents message to the
delegates attending the convention
of the International Labor Organiza-
ton clearly was an effort to warn
American workers that they may
look forward to a status bordering
on slavery if the Germans are sue
cessful in their effort to conquer
three-quarterS of the world.
Berlin, as Mr.. Roosevelt put it, is
the principal slave market of the
world. Not only has German labor
been enslaved. but the Nazis have
also imported some two million non-
German workers and reduced them
to a status approximating serfdom.
This policy Of conquest and en-
slavement is cardinal point of the
Nazi philosophy and there is no
slightest doubt that it will be pro-
gresSively implemented as the Reichs
armies move from victory to victory.
The final result, unless the plunder-
ing forces of aggression are checked,
inevitably will be the collapse of the
whole structure Of free American
labor, for as the President said the
liberty of the workers and the very
safety of the people of the United
States cannot be assured in a world
which is three-fourths slave and
e-fourth free.
Whether this direct appeal to the
rank and file of American labor will
be needed remains to be seen. In Mr..
Roosevelt's judgment, the menace to
our military production program lies
in the selfish and hort-sighted tao
tics of small minority of Industrial
lists and labor leaders-the few who
place their little victories over one
another above triumph over Hitler"
1t may be that this estimate of the
problem is correct-that the obstruc-
tionists are numerically unimportant.
Probably the mass Of American work.
men would be willing to subordinate
relatively unimportant things in the
larger purpose of winning the war.
But, so far as labor is concerned,
there has been little evidence that a
majority in the ranks is ready to dis
avow the leadership of an obstruc-
zionist minority. and there. has been
equally little evidence of any DISPOSE
ton on the part of the administra-
ton to insist that this minority fall
into line.
And yet, if our war effort is to
achieve its maximum efficiency, cor
rective action must come from one
OF the two sources. Mr.. Roosevelt s
admonition against the danger of
waiting-as did the French-until it
is too late, does not apply to the
ranks Of labor alone.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Big Shot

One feature of the savage mind
is its delight in exaggerated glory.
Perak. for instance, is little king
dom stuck away in the Malay Penin-
sula, but its ruler, the Sultan, does
not let that fact dismay him. After
reading his official title, which can
be done in two deep breaths, one feels
that he is wasting his talents in
Perak, and should be given a suite at
10 Downing street, with Churchill as
office boy. Here is his title:
King of kings, brought to earth
by Adam; the god whose right eye
is the sun, whose left eye is the moon;
master of the bearded lance and
armored beetle; owner of the sword
made of steel and the talking Saber
which cries when sheathed and
laughs when drawn; lord of the city
of Rome; owner Of the air; collector
of taxes by the bushel basket; lord
of the burning mountain who may
slay without committing a crime;
possessor of the tall coconut that
requires ten years to climb; owner
of the man of twelve-karat gold;
possessor of the calawang wrapped
in an unmade chinday; and master
OF the ocean"
AS Hitler has said in "Mein
Kampf," If you pile it on thick
enough some OF it is bound to stick,
and no doubt his title helps him to
get those bushel baskets of taxes
from awe-struck subjects. At least it
puts them to the annoyance of dis
proving his claims, and one at least
seems impossible to refute, namely,
ownership Of the calawang wrapped
in the unmade chinday, neither of
which presumably precious objects is
listed in the dictionary.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
u. S. Promotion PIun

The promotion plan contemplated
by the RamspeckMea Act is
brought closer to realization by
President Roosevelts request to Con-
gress for funds to get it started.
Designed when in full operation
to benefit more than $4,000 men and
women in the Federal and District
Governments. the measure fills a
long recognized need for program
that will assure periodic advance
ment for competent workmen. In
the classified service salary brackets
below $4,000 annually, employees
whose efficiency rating entities them
to recognition will get increases
ranging from $50 to sl00 every
eighteen months. In the upper
brackets, the increases will range
from 5000 to $3.50 but will be given
at thirty-month intervals. Under
this arrangement, it will be possible
for the maximum in a grade to be
reached in nine or ten years. Com
parable raises will be given to those
employees outside of the classified
service who are paid under the So
called emergency order" schedules.
The program was worked out by
the Budget Bureau in response to a
request from the House Appropria-
tionS Committee which noted in
appropriation estimates a marked
variance in the promotion policies
among agencies. In many instances
injustices have resulted. The plan
not only will eQualiZe conditions
among the agencies themselves, but
will make it possible for qualified
workers to get promotions as a mat
ter of right, instead, perhaps, of
depending on the whim OF an en-
ploying officer
The President is asking for $780,
327 for the program this year, and
if it is carried out on the lines pro-
posed, an appropriation for the pur-
pose will be required annually here
after. Over term of years, however,
sponsors are confident that the plan
will return dividends in the shape of
increased efficiency and lowered
turnover.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Burma Stirs

everybody mas nedrQ ABOUT the
Burma road-the mountainous life
line of Free China with the outer
world. Most persons know that the
road, up to the Chinese border, ira
verses British territory. But rela-
lively few Americans realize That the
long route from the busy port of
Rangoon on the Indian Ocean to the
rugged Chinese frontier runs through
a country inhabited by proud peo-
pie which, like so many other ORR
entail races, is stirring with vigorous
self-consciousness and aspires to
nationhood.
The rising tide of Burmese nation
alism is dramatized by the current
visit to London of the Burmese Prime
Minister, gentleman with the
unusual name of U Saw. He flew
thither from his homeland a month
ago to demand that the principle of
self-determination for all peoples,
announced at the close of the first
World War and recently reaff1rmed in
the "Atlantic Charter" proclaimed by
President Roosevelt and Prime Min
lister Churchill, be formally promised
Burma, too. Mr.. U Saw evidently has
become impatient that the pledge he
sought has not been forthcoming
from the British government, for he
has just issued a warning statement
that Burma's attitude toward the
war is dependent on it's national
prospects. Behind that statement
lies an interesting story of a two
fold nationalistic agitation, directed
against both Burmas connection
with British India and its position
within the British Empire.
The Burmese are the westernmost
OF a belt of peoples inhabiting the
great southwark projection of Asia
which lies between China and India.
All of them are of mixed Mongoloid
and Malay blood. Equally composite
are their cultures, derived from both
Indian and Chinese sources, but they
have common bond in the Buddhist
religion, which they all profess.
During the 10Th century Burma was
subdued by Britain in series of wars,
just as the Indo-C Chinese peoples fell
under French rule. Between them
lay the Siamese or Thailanders, who
managed to retain their independ-
ence and became a buffer state
between the British and French CO.
lonial empires. Burma was typical
Oriental kingdom, looSe-jointed and
despotic. It was not a nation" in
the Western sense, and its people
had no true national consciousness
Although Burma had never had any
political connection with India, il
was governed by the British Indian
authorities for administrative con-
l venience. and the Burmese did moi
Evening star., 1941-11-07

consisting Of flfty-one members Of
the State Senate and seven members
Of the Court Of Appeals with the
chief justice presiding, sustained the
charges that he had filed a false
statement of his receipts in his
gubernatorial campaign, that in his
statement he had committed perjury
and that he had used threats to
suppress evidence. He was ousted
at the end of nine months of turbu-
lence-as he probably deserved to be.
Yet "the villain in the piece" was
his opponent, the uncroWned czar Of
Tammany Hall. The national public
realized that there would have been
no difficulty if the Governor had
submitted himself and the control of
his office to Boss" Murphy.
Evening star., 1941-11-07

object to this arrangement so long
as India itself had no self govern
ment. But the rise Of nationalist
movement in India alarmed the
Burmese, who do not like Indians and
who objected to the influx of Hindu
laborers, shopkeepers and money
lenders in the wake of British rule.
At the same time, the spectacle of
Siam, or Thailand, successfully re-
organizing itself on modern lines
made the Burmese wish to free them
selves from the Indian connection
and also to obtain at least Self-gov-
ernment within the British Empire,
with independence as the ultimate
goal.
Britain recognized that there was
no reason why Burma should remain
part of India, and political separa-
ton was granted in 1887, together
with a measure of self-government,
including legislature with limited
powers. This, however, has not salts
fled the nationalistS, and growing
agitation has troubled the country,
with sporadic disorders and political
demonstrations. The numerous Bud
dhist monks have done much to
spread anti-British feeling, and Jap
aneSe agents have been busy for
years fomenting unrest The present
war naturally has increased nation
aliSt tension in Burma 1t is deli
craftsmanship in its handling.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Cider-Mukino

The air seems made of apple. Jonu-
than
And Northern Spy IN sparkling
brightness run
into the hungry mills uide open
mouth.
Upon breath OF vind bloWn from
the south
Taoo siluery butterflies come floating
near,
WaspS, yello'0- coated, noW and then
appear
And hnger close around the fragrant
dream
OF amber pouring IN d honeyed
stream.
No distance is quite long enough: no
sea,
Houeuer great, Is Uids sufficiently
TO make the lips forget the spicy
tang
OF golden music autumn truttaos
sang.
In Times great cycle, hours cannot
be lost
That Memory has wreSted from tho
frost
ROSE MYRA PFILIT7".
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Entered as second-class matter post ONCE
washington. u
Member of the Associated Press.
Rent Bill Chances

The Senate District Committee
acted wisely in eliminating the
highly Objectionable Patman amend
ment before voting approval of the
House Endorsed District rent-control
bill. This amendment, hastily writ
ten into the bill on the floor of the
House, would have had the effect of
burdening the rent administrator,
tenants and landlords with COM
plicated procedures reminiscent OF
Washingtons ill-starred rent fixing
experiences just after the first World
War. The administrator, in adjust
ing rents, would have been required
to consider such factors as capital
investment and fair-market value
of rental properties and costs of
apartment services. Obviously this
would have defeated one of the main
purposes of the compromise bill,
which is to provide simplif1ed
rent freezing formula in lieu Of pro-
tracted Investigations and hearings.
The Senate committee tentatively
approved four amendments to the
bill, at least two of which have merit.
One of the latter amendments would
require approval by the Commission
ers of staff appointments made by
the administrator. The other calls
for semi-annual reports by the ad-
ministrator. The necessity and de-
STABILITY Of two other tentative
amendments are open to question,
however. One would give the Senate
veto power over any nomination
made by the Commissioners for the
post of administrator. There seems
to be no precedent for such course
with respect to appointments by the
Commissioners and the adviSability
Of starting the practice now is yet
to be shown The fourth addition
to the bill would authorize the ad-
ministrator to take operating costs
into account when considering read
justment of hotel rates fixed by the
bill. This amendment has every
appearance of being Superf1uous
appendage, in view of the fact that
section 4-B of the bill empowers the
administrator to adjust rates ito
compensate for a substantial rise
since January 1, 1941, in taxes or
other maintenance or operating costs
or expenses. or a substantial capital
Improvement or alteration made
since January /, 1941" These two
amendments certainly are of dubious
value.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Discusses Rule of Force
In International Affairs.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Prof P. W. Bridgman of Harvard, in
clear, careful analysis. says: Logically
war is that method of conduct which
recognizes no limitations whatever, and
to try to control it by rules involves
sef-contradiction. No nation, if it car
ries things to their consistent conclusion,
is going to forgo any advantage in war,
which 1t thinks it can get away with,
that is, which it thinks will not some
one sort or another filters action in
attacking and disabling or sinking Amer
ican ships proves that he does not, as
he has declared, consider America as
superior force, but inferior.
The man on the street-and I have
consulted many from different walks of
life between Washington and ST. Paul.
Minn.-thinks as does Prof. Bridgman.
That element of mysticism or wishful
thinking actuating many of those in
public life is easily understood as re-
suit of a belief that by holding high
ethical ideals one may induce them in
another. Certainly our experience with
anti-social elements in our population
has proven that to be an error; nothing
is of effect but superior force, and, in
mass situations that means war, and
war means shooting to kill.
CHARLES M. THOMAS.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. TrdceiDell.

So it may be seen that no bird is an
angel, but each acts, according to nature,
in the way which is its own.
Most species of birds now and then
will attack the nests of other species.
Grackles often kill the young Of other
birds in the nest.
Blue jays are said to fly away with
the eggs of robins and others.
1t must be remembered that birds have
difficult time of it, at nesting season,
to find enough food for both themselves
and their babies.
Often the parents go hungry, in order
to satisfy the needs Of the youngsters.
Hour after hour they must fly around,
trying to find enough worms and insects
to satisfy the hunger of the little ones.
Practically all species are brought up
on insects and small worms. These foods
insure the young of plenty OF necessary
proteins for rapid growth.
The baby birds know nothing about
vitamin B-1, but they get it just the
same
And they receive, in their daily diet,
erals, and no doubt other vitamins. in
cluding the famous sunshine vitamin d.
Nature takes care of all these mat
terS for them.
But the process of finding the food
Is another matter.
That is up TO the parents.
And they know, with the uncanny
wisdom of natural creatures, that other
nesting birds too close to them make the
task almost impossible
Scientists tell us that the beautiful
| spring songs of the birds are not only
| love ballads, as mankind so likes to
fancy. but also that they are in the ma
| ture of stalking a claim to a certain
| amount of territory.
The loud songs notify other birds and
| especially others of the same species,
that nesting is going on, and that to
build too close will mean a fight
1t can be understood that not all birds
| are as belligerent as some. Cardinals
| for instance, manage TO carry on their
nesting without much fighting.
But last summer We watched a mother
cardinal chase blue jay scores of times
simply because he insisted on coming
10 feeding station which was within SC
feet of the cardinals nest.
| -
We do not believe that the English
sparrow is any worse than many other
! species-including the wren-When il
comes to causing trouble at nesting time
Nor are we at all convinced that the
decrease in numbers of the house wrer
is due entirely to quarrelsome English
SparroWs.
Most bird species have decreased ir
numbers in recent years, especially II
and near large cities.
Maybe man, the terror of the ages, hal
something 10 do with it, too.
AS long as he insists on having a Vorlc
war every Is years, it i'll behooves hin
to find fault with the sparrovs.
Evening star., 1941-11-07
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
B1 Frederic J. HdSkin.

A reader can get the cnSUer to any
question OF fact by Drtttng The Eue.
nina Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
d. C. Please inclose stamp for reply.
O. Who was the first Army officer to
die in an airplane accident?-F. L. A.
A. On September II, 1908 1t. Thomas
E. Selfridge was killed when a plane
piloted by Orville Wright crashed.
@. Why is part of Illinois called Egypt?
&C. j.. D.
A. Egypt is a colloquial term applied
to the southernmost quarter of Illinois.
Various traditions account for the origin
of the term but it probably resulted
from the deltalike character Of the Cairo
region and the presence of several
Egyptian place names.
@. What are the warm and cold colors9
W. T. H.
A. The warm coors are red orange
and yellow. The cold colors are green,
blue and violet.
rick Henrv's famous Give me liberty or
give me death speech?-D. F.
A. 1t is as follows: is life so dear.
or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery? For
bid it, Almighty God, I know not what
course others may take. but as for me,
give me liberty or give me DEATH"
@. When did the immigration quota
law go into effect?-S. L. A.
A. Congressman johnson Of Washing
ton introduced the Immigration Quota
Bill in 1924. The act went into effect
| on July l of that year, assigning a
temporary maximum limit Of 100000 n
| the number Of immigrants admitted
from Europe in any one year.
@ What is "aviatorS ear'?-C J. p.
A. 1t is an infammatorv condition Of
Evening star., 1941-11-07
LEGATION STREET.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
Your championship Of the sparrow
must certainly be due in large part to
change in his habits for the better in
recent years and no doubt caused in no
small measure by enforced departure
from city streets where he was the COM
plete bully in search of food.
Nevertheless, he still retains more
than trace of his former characteristics
as witness the following bird tragedy
watched by friend from the front
porch of her house on Montgomery
County farm
"On the lawn atop post she mad
large martin box, in one cell of which
a wren began to make nest. In a tree
some 80 or 40 feet away a pair of SPAR
rows had made a nest in a bird box
in tree and were looking after a newly
hatched brood
"As soon as the sparroWs discovered
the wren attempting TO nest in the mar
tin box. they began a concerted effort to
destroy her nest as fast as she built it,
took straWs and sticks away from her
anu III utSIl uClIht idIIlto.
After putting up with these annoy
ances for some DAYS the wren was
finally goaded to desperate act
She deliberately few TO the sparrows'
nest when both parents were away,
picked up one of the baby sparroWs,
few out of the nest holding it in her
bill and as deliberately dropped it, killing
it.
Was this act of the wren unique?
At any rate, the performance of the
spalroWs would seem to indicate that
there is still plenty of room for improve
ment in their behavior
Yours very truly, MIX"
Neltje Blanchan writes:
However angelic the voice of the
house wren, its temper can put TO fight
even the English sparrow. Need descrip-
ton go further? 1t must be admitted
that Jenny is a sad shreW"
Alice E. Ball writes:
"Wrens are valiant defenders of their
nests, but have been driven away from
favorlte nesting places by quarrelsome
English sparrows; consequently wrens
are decreasing in numbers Wren houses
with openings about an inch in diameter
too small for sparroWs to enter. may help
! somewhat TO check the decrease Of these
valuable insect-eating birds"
From Birds of America" We quote:
DIR. Eaton notices that house vrens
pay frequent visits TO the nests of yellow
warblers, chipping sparrows, and other
| species which live near his home, anc
peck small holes in the eggs"
The National Geographic Society's
The Book Of Birds" states:
Although the house wren is an at
eractive. vivacious little midget its pres
ence is not always an unmXed blessing
for its bird nelghbors On occasion il
slips slyly into their nests and with its
sharply pointed bill proceeds TO puncture
the eggs and 80 destroy them"