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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13
SOYBEANS DON'T
THRIVE IN STATE

Although soy beans are highly sue
cessful in corn belt states, tests con-
Quoted by the Montana agricultural
experiment station definitely show the
crop is not adapted to Montana grow
ing conditions.
Interest among Montana farmers in
soy beans has been stimulated recently
by the urgent need for heavier pro-
duction of oil seed crops to meet war
needs.
To encourage this production the
department of agriculture has estab-
lished price supporting program for
soy beans and flax.
Because flax can be grown success
fully in some parts of Montana. farm
ers are advised to consider it if they
wish an oil seed crop which has the
advantage of a price-supporting pro-
gram. Beans, including the great
northern variety, also come under a
price-supporting program.
Experiments with soy beans under
irrigation were begun by the Montana
agricultural experiment station as
early as 1914. Similar experiments were
carried on at the Huntley branch sta
ton.
These tests, the department said,
show conclusively that as hay crop
soy beans rank far below the common
hay and grain crops.
Dryland tests have been made at
branch stations at Havre, MoccaSin
and at Huntley.
At Havre the soy beans ranked far
below the great northern beans, rec
commended for Montana.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13
Consolidation of Offices
I'm Counties Recommended

Secretary Fred Bennion of the Mon
tana Taxpayers association has asked
county commissioners in the state to
consider the consolidation of county
offices for efficiency and economy.
I'VE are not making a blanket rec
concentration for all counties" Ben
Mon explained in his letters to the
boards.
"All we ask is you give the matter
consideration Conditions are so varied
each board will have to use its own
judgment"
Action should be started in March
for consolidation to be effective in
the next four years, Bennion stated.
If you now have efficient, econom-
ical officials who get along well with
each other, consolidation is not neces-
sary," he asserted. IF this is not true
and you are reasonably sure some ex-
perienced, efficient person can be
elected to the consolidation office. it
is worth trial."
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13
States March Sugar
Quota 10000 Bu0s

Montana's allotment of sugar for
March is 10000 bags, or 100000
pounds, oscar A. Baarson. priorities
district manager for the war produc-
ton board. has announced.
This quantity, although only 30 per-
cent of that sold in March. 1941, will
prove ample, Baarson believes. The per-
centage quota applies to the northwest,
with total of 100000 1OO-pound bags
allotted to Minnesota, North and South
Dakota and Montana, he said
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13

The word mummy comes from an
Arabic word for wax.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13
College HOlsteins
Are Biz Producers

During the testing year just closed,
IA registered Holstein COWS owned by
Montana State college made an aver
age of 452 pounds of butterfat per
cow-an average that is d times that
of the country's average dairy COW,
reports the Holstein-Friesian Associa-
ton of America which supervises the
testing. Highest producer in the herd
was Gladys Piebe Fobes, senior q
year-old that produced 525 pounds Of
butterfat from 1895 pounds of milk.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13

In that moment, at last, and staring
into the fire, Edna Hall seemed to look
into . future home whose happiness
depended ON her present choice. Bob
was due any moment. He had tele-
phooed for . special appointment. An
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13

day some inner sense had warned Edna
subject of marriage again, and that if
him.
He would not hang on" Indefinite
ly. She could see Hilary doing that, but
not Bob. He was not the patient type,
yet he had been amazingly patient with
her. His manner of late had been in
creasingly restless, however, yet in
creasingly purposeful.
Purposeful, too, was his atmosphere
as he now entered the living room and
joined Edna before the fireplace. Pur-
poseful were his voice and expression
as he took her hand and looked down
into her eyes.
Edna" he said steadily, ignoring
the chair she was offering him, I'm
here tonight for just one reason. I'm
here to tell you again that I love you
and to ask you again to marry me. I'm
going to get you or I'm going to forget
you. Which Is it to be? That's for you
to decide now
I'VE can't keep on this way. It's mess
ing up my life and my work. Christmas
Is only a month off. After the first
of January can get two weeks leave.
Will you marry me then, and go to
Florida on a fortnight's honeymoon"
Edna stood speeches. for moment,
looking into his brilliant eyes. In that
instant and in that look her last doubts
were swept away. He read her thoughts,
as he so often did, and caught her in
his arms.
But this Is 50 sudden" she gasped
out aughingly, against his shoulder.
He laughed, too. and held her closer.
you'll have all your life to get used
to It," he reminded her.
She tried to think clearly.
"But-Bob!" she brought out. what
about Hilaryf"
THE lad that sits by the fire and
thinks things over for q few years?
He's too slow for usl Wen ask him to
be the godfather Of our first son." Bob
told her cheerfully.
They did when the first son came.
Hilary accepted the invitation.
CTHE nlD)
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13
GREAT FALLS ICE
SHOW SCHEDULED
AMATEUR PROGRAM ARRANGED
BY FIGURE SKATING CLUB
FOR MARCH 1923

What is expected to prove the most
impressive amateur ice show ever pre-
sented to a Montana audience will be
given by the Great Falls Figure Skat-
ing club at the arena in the Great
Falls civic center March 27-29.
Mary Lou Bell. club instructor and
director, is conducting rehearsals reg
ularly and the skaters are rapidly
nearing peak condition.
Although a majority Of the numbers
will be presented by Great Falls talent
officials of the club have signed four
Canadian performers for appearances
Among them is Earl Myr, professional
instructor at Calgary, who toured the
country with Sonia Henie's ice show
Augmenting the outside talent, three
top Canadian skaters, recommended
by Myr, will also be on the show
program.
Persons from areas outside Great
Falls may make reservations by mail
from the Great Falls recreation office
which is handling the ticket sale.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-03-13

The caves of the Thousand Buddhas
are located near Tua Huang, China
They are cut into solid rock cliffs and
have served as Buddhist shrines for
more than 1900 years. A sealed manu-
script chamber was found in the caves
in 1900.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
What to Do About It

Hartford civil and judicial authorities are concerned over the gradual increase in the number of inebriates being brought into court these days. The situation there, though, is probably no different than in most communities of any SlZe. There is an appreciable increase in the number of arrests for drunkenness. But if the courts are to continue to impose as strict sentences as they have been do- ing in the past there won't be room for the prisoners in our various institutions.
 As it now stands the Hartford County fail is jammed with such prisoners and the court docket is still crowded with cases to be heard. The officials up there believe that the solution lies in creation of a iail farm. This is just another indl- cation, to our way of thinking that the county jail eventually will be but de- tention house for men or women awaiting trial in superior or common pleas courts. Anyone sentenced to jail will be committed to a iail farm. It would seem as if present. day conditions warrant more than passing interest in the idea, which certainly is no new one in Connecticut.
 We have a legislative session coming up in January. It might well be some concern of this body what disposition is made of the situation as it exists not only in Hartford but in most of the other counties in greater or lesser degree. Whats true of Hartford can be said to be true of most of the county jails. They are overcrowded with majority of their inmates Short-term prisoners whose mis- deeds might be linked to drunkenness. Hard work might prove better cure than mere imprisonment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
A Thought for Today
Town Caucuses

CaucuSeS in most of Connecticut's 169 towns are over. A proceeding that is involved and strange to the majority of voters has taken place. Delegates to attend numerous conventions at which candidates for offices to be contested this fall have been selected It's very clear if you know the workings of a political organization. But after reading the survey that the League ci Women Voters made throughout the state to determine how delegates are selected, you really wonder how democratic is our govern ment.
 Well, it's as democratic as we choose to make it. The people who compalln about lack of proper representation on the delegations that do the selecting of candidates overlook one fact, namely, what interest are they manifesting in such selections. Another point to be made is what really constitutes persons qualifications to serve as a delegate on any convention. There are certainly a number of factors to be considered and the foremost one is the availability of the delegate If he or she is not interested and won't attend, there really is no prac tical purpose served in using such a name.
 Once upon a time it was enough to decorate a nominating convention with names. You can't do that today. There are too many active individuals and groups in our various organizations to whom representation is due on the basis of the service they perform. Party or ganizations are quick to recognize the need for this as well as to have some un- derstanding of public opinion and reac- tion. We give all credit to the men and the organizations that keep our party government system functioning. They are seldom praised, often criticized, work uncomplainingly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

his salary by forcing concessions out of the boss.
 Such men apparently do not realize that, for the most part, their constituents now are very well paid; that workers are more interested in war production than in such theological considerations as the union shop; that there is no surer way of injuring the institution of labor union ism than to foster strikes or stoppages which will delay war production. The topmoSt leaders of unionism, both A. F. of L. and C. l. O., are as patriotic as the rank and file of Americans. The workers who make up the unions are as patriotic as the soldiers and sailors in uniform.
 It is high time that these two groups get together and squeeze out the rela- lively few middlemen, occupying strategic positions as local officers, shop stewards, etc, who are bringing unionism into dis repute. This is not a reactionary view point. A good reactionary, who hated unioniSm as such, would not seek to in duce unionism to clean house and CO., operate in the war effort. He would try to provoke the unions into greater excesseS. Continuation of obstruction ism in war production is surest way of swinging back the pendulum and depriv- ing labor of much of the gain it has achieved in the past 10 years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
SAYING IT WITH PLANES
(New York Times)

Chungking, which has probably been bombed more times than any spot on earth except Malta, had what United Press dispatch de- scribes as three hour tea party in it's air raid shelters on Monday night. For the first ime in eleven months group of Japanese planes set out from Hankow to bomb the Free China capital. During 1889, 194O and 1941 the. Japanetse cus- tomarily came over by day, there be- ing no opposition, and put Il cir GUS over the defenseless city. Loss of life was kept down by the cave shelters that were available, but loss of property was enormous.
 This time the Japanese fliers wait ed until darkness was coming on. Fifty of them set out. Over East ern Szechwan they ran into Amer ican fighter planes. Twenty-three Japanese planes turned back. Twen- ty-seven got near Chungking. Only four succeeded in droppin gbombs, and these fell outside the city.
 One episode like this must do more to raise the spirits of the Chinese and make them have faith in our sincere desire ti help them than any number of laudatory messages. One hopes that Washington will be in- creasingly able and willing to say it with planes in the China skies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
Better Understanding

The Red Cross reports that thousands of British families are opening their homes and hearts to our eXpeditionary forces From Northern Ireland comes word that the men there have been vel comed royalty and made to feel quite at home. This does not mean that all misunderstanding have vanished. We and the British have been picking flaws in each other too long for complete har- mony to arrive overnight. It does mean, probably, that intelligent efforts on both sides have begun bearing fruit.
 Unfortunately our common language and common heritage double the diffi- culty with which British and Americans understand each other Coming from common stock and speaking the same words, we tend to think of ourselves as brothers. It comes, then, as shock when we meet and discover that we are completely alien peoples. Only educa- tion and mutual tolerance can bridge the gap.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

You'd scarcely know there was national tennis tournament going on at Forest Hills Long Island, this week. Not since the last World War has there been so little interest shown in the big show that the tennis boys put on at the end of each summer. But even the informal nationals of 1917 and 1918 were more of a show than the current one. Of course by the time the finals are reached there may be some display of interest from the public, but right now it could be just another group of tennis players. Probably the explanation lies in the fact that there aren't the name players competing this year Professional tennis has skim med the cream of the crop. It'll be couple of years before somebody works their way into front-page prominence as a giant of the tennis courts. As we recall it the last war brought us R. Norris Will Hams, Billy Johnston, William T. Tllden, Vincent Richards, the boy wonder ot that day, R. Lindley Murray, and number of others. Wonder what this war Will produce in the line of international com petitors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
Nobody Wants Strikes

Apparently nobody wants strikes, par ticularly in war plants. Responsible union officials have promised that the right to strike" will be waived during the war The dues-paying membership does not want to strike; it wants to work, earn good living and help beat Hitler. Surely employers do not want strikes. And we, the public, hate them like the poison they are.
 Why, then, should there be paralyz- ing parade of strikes, vacations" "holi- days" and work stoppages under vari- ous hypocrticaI pseudonyms? Principally, we believe, because thousands of subor- dinate professional labor union officials are too ignorant to realize that the war has changed both the underlying situa- tion and the popular psychology.
 Most of these minor Headers" grew up in an era when workers were exploited, when employers were arbitrary and un- reasonable, when the way to Leadership" was to achieve some new gain for the ocal at least once year = little more Day, little shorter working day, some Additional vacation or sick leave provis- on = anything that would demonstrate that the Header" was on the job, earning
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
Jurisdictional Board

There is real merit in the United Auto mobile Workers e. I. O. proposal for a national board to handle all jurisdictional disputes among unions. Such an organ ization, given the necessary authority and support, could do much to eliminate the strike nobody loves.
 To achieve results the national board would need to have two firm assurances: First, that no strike would be called in a jurisdictional dispute until the board had been given reasonable opportunity to act Second, that the boards decisions would be enforced with the full, militant might of the unions and, if necessary, Of the government of the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

The requests from many stores that customers return empty beverage bot ties with the original caps has caused some misunderstanding A lot of people thought that this meant the caps could be reused, but under our food and drug laws this is still strictly forbidden. State Dairy and Food Commissioner John Sweeney has called attention to thls statute and warned against such use. The idea of returning the bottle-caps IS simply to help out in the current salvage of metals Metal tops can be resmelted and some may even be found for the small cork piece inside them, but they are not to be reused as such.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
Views Of The Press

the most extraordinary antiquities ever brought to light in Biglical archaeology. Sir Flinders camped on the trail of the Hyksos, or Shepherd iKngs, who invaded Egypt about 1700 B. 0 he unearthed their tenn ples and made exciting finds on the site of Gaza, in which, he said, an archaeologist might read a chapter of history covering 5000 years. It was there he found earrings appar- ently made in Ireland about the time the walls of Jericho fell down Obviously, while he was thus solv- ing historical mysteries and produc- ing scores of books, he was turning up new puzzles Let us hope those who take up his spade are as suc- cessful.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

Once Davis demanded that the Navy publish the complete story of what had happened in Alaska. Admiral Hepburn, then chief of the press section, grumbled that there was no news, but finally scratched together a summery which gave a fairly broad pie ture of the Alaskan situation.
 But most of the time naval news stacks up for weeks and months, while in contrast the British permitted reporters to get quickly almost every detail of the Commando raid on Dieppe.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Tennessee mountaineer Cordell Hull never forgets. Recently he refused a job to a prominent New York publisher because some years ago he had signed a petition de- manding that the State Depart ment stop sending scrap iron to Japan !. Good sport Evie Rob- ert, after losing 8 $l,00O bet that Senator Jim Mead would get the Democratic nomination for Cover nor of New York, telegraphed tri- umphant Jim Farley: "You sure were right-and howl" .. U. S. Army officials suggest that head lines on American participation in the Dieppe Commando raid were misleading. Our part was Insignificant The Navy now has on file 36,0O0 applications for "Cellephone Commissions the kind you can see through, though they protect from the draft Various American citizens of Jap anese descent are urging second front now and volunteering for front line duty : Latest wise- crack about the Navy: Its too Knoxy."
 Copyright, 1922, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
Selected Poem
WONDER

(Oscar Williams in the New York Times) Come out with me and watch line of mountains Crawl like huge blue snake across the distance; Or hear a row of trees like gttering fountains Splash in the sun with sbilant insistence; Come out and see how goldenrods are burning Where spring pushed by and left fire that fingers Or try to touch them, all the while discerning How in the breeze they shy beneath your fingers; And some rapt windless night come out and listen To the gold gmmering stars silently flowing Over the world, stone in stream where glisten Strange lights from skies of which there is nc
 knowing;-
 And through your spirits unit deep will thunder The one great word for holiness and wonder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

that will replace those the Nazis devastated practically u11opposed in. a crime that will rank forever with history's worst. The new Rotterdam, :, he says, will be bigger and greater than the old. h T'@ z
 He wasn't speaking for the men and women who survived the horror of that attack upon .defepseless city. He wasn't speaking for the generations that will ,ayerige that dastardly act.
 Theren be new Rotterdam just as there1l be a new Warsaw. Their foundations are already built-in Fsouls that can't be crushed by the heaviest of bombs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28

terrific bombardment England withstood on that day.
 AIRPLANES TO CHINA
 After some of the toughest, most persistent pleading any nation ever has made for arms, the Chi nese last week were given more airplaneS. The number remains a military secret. But though 1t was small, the Chinese seemed vastly pleased.
 Real fact is that the Chinese American bombing attacks against the Japs, though head lined in the press have been accomplished with a far too in- adequate force.
 To increase that force, Gen. eralissimo Chiang kai-shek has pleaded, cajoled, and even threat ened. And his foreign minister in Washington, T. V. Soong, has even dropped hints that China could not go on fighting forever unless she got something, to fight with.
 So last weeks fresh supply of airplanes relieved a tense, almost nasty situation.
 NAVAL CENSORSHIP
 Nobody is advertising it yet, but Elmer Davis and his Office of War Information have their toughest job in prying news out of the Navy.
 Stacks of reports are cabled every day to Admiral King, Commander of the Fleet. But nobody outside the President and one or two top admirals ever sees them
 Every few days, Elmer Davis will send over to King and ask for some naval news on the Sol- omon Islands or Alaska, and the Navy, in reply, will issue terse ten line commuunique.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
Current Comment

It was our provincial insularity that helped let loose the assasins who are destroying the elementary decencies and the cultural barriers which separate men of good will from beasts of the field. Maurice Simmons, past comman-
 der, United Spanish War Veter-
 ans.
 If gasoline rationing will contrib ute rubber to the war effort and a reasonable explanation Is given to our people, they themselves will en- force it.
 -senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-28
DIGGING HISTORIAN
(New York sun)

When, Sir Flinders Petrie was past 70, in 1924, he stopped excavating in Egypt's sands, irritated by re- strictions put upon archaeologists there, re moved over to Palestine. The world may be grateful to those who thus drove him from places he had explored for forty-five years. for in the next decade this shift led to tIncovering in Palestine some of