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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Demand More
Meat Rations
For Miners

HELENA-The office of price ad-
ministration came in for hearty eondem-
nation not only by miners but by the
governor and leading citizens Of Mon
tana at the hearing before the minerals
subcommittee of the senate small bust
ness committee here Monday. Governor
Sam Ford declared that the drop in
copper production in Butte is due in
no small degree to an insufficient diet
for the miners. Several other witnesses
upheld this contention at meeting
presided over by Senator James e. Muir
ray of Montana. The hair-brained idea
of OPA TO serve extra meat to miners
in the mines, and not at their regular
meals in their homes was denounced as
ridiculous"
Senator Murray described the Muir
ray mines relief bill, S-344 which per
mits the courts to make equitable legal
adjustments on contractural indebted
ness, or to suspend them if, in the
opinion of courts Of competent jurisdic
tion, it is just to do SO. It provides for
loans to save mines from ruin, also
Odfl d. lfhucfIhdh conuucteu a near
ing on operating phases of small mines.
The metals stockpile bill was discussed,
DIR. Francis Thomson of Butte and John
A. Hickey of Philipsburg expressing
fear that stoekpiles might be a threat
to prices in years to come. There is
10000 tons of oxide manganese ore
and $4,000 tons of pink manganese now
built up in Philipsburg district. Man
ganese deliveries have been 191, 135
tons, containing 59.07qs metallic man
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Ceoph Mystical
Prospecting
Hits NeaU Peak

in the Rocky Mountain region in 1913
has been published by Petroleum In
formation, Continental Oil Bldg, Den
yer, Col, showing that there are be-
tween IS and 40 parties in the field,
a new peak.
eThe Texas company has been quite
active in Montana during the past
few months" it says. at has a seismO-
graph operating near Chester and is re-
ported 20 have spent some time in the
area Immediately south of Shelby. It
Is also running a profile across the
Kelvin sunburst field.
"A seismograph party active south
Of Great Falls may be working for
either The Texas company or The Car
ter Oil Co.
"Not much work is being done in
south Dakota but the Amerada Pc
troleum Corp. has gravity meter parties
working out of Hot Springs and Belle
Fourche.
"ln Wyoming, the large structural
basins are being checked by various
geOphysieal methods. Particular atten-
ton is being paid to Powder River
basin but some of the others such as
Wind River, Shirley, Bridger and Car
hon are also being investigated
Several Of these basins are covered
by formations Of Tertiary age which
lie uneomfortably on older beds and
the search is for covered Cretaceous
OF older structures such as were found
by John Wilson's Independent Explora-
ton Co, at Horse Creek and Quealy
dome. Horse Creek was found with the
gravity meter and Quealy by seismo
graph.
sTn the Powder River basin, Gulf Oil
Corp. has a gravity meter party at
Buffalo, a magnetometer party at Gill
lette and a seismograph party at Moore
croft.
"The Texas company has a seismo-
graph party at Buffalo and Sinclair
Wyoming Oil Co. has a gravity meter
party there. Sinclair also has gravity
meter at Riverton and seismograph
operating in the Lost Soldier basin.
"The Continental Oil Co. is checking
with seismograph on the Barren Butte
structure in the Red Desert % miles
west Of the Lost Soldier field
superior Oil Co. has a gravity meter
party at Midwest which is working
along the east side of the Salt Creek
field. The Shell Oil Co., Inc California
dfvisiOn) has a seisnsOgraph party
checking between Casper and Midwest
and from Midway across Cole Creek.
"Standolind Oil & Gas Co. has a
seismograph party at Fort Laramie and
gravity meter party in the Shirley
basin. Early this year, this concern
was active at Beaver Greek dome in
eastern Moffat county where it is now
drilling a well.
"The Carter Oil Co. has widely
scattered geophysical operations under
way At TOrrington, in the Goshen
hole, it has a seismograph party and
it also has a seismograph party work
ing out Of Douglas along the southern
rim Of the Powder River basin. In tbs
Big Horn basin, Carter has gravity
meter parties at Thermopolis and al
Cody.
General Petroleum Corp. is engaged
in seismograph survey of Neiber anti
cline aud has party stationed a
Worland.
@JOhn Wilson's Independent ExplOra
ton Co. is working south of Elk Basin
along the Polecat bench for Fred Good
stein of Casper. II is reported tina
GoOdstein began the purchase of acre
age along the east side of Elk Basin
4heo xx,ask
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
45-MI1.E SPEED LIMIT

DENVER Predicting the s5-mile-an
hour speed limit would soon be in
creased to As by the office of de-
Tense transportation, the Colorado high
way patrol board announced today it
would not attempt to enforce the 35-
mile limit because such speed is waste
full of equipment and manpower.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07

India supplied 1000 miles of ban
dages to troops in the African cam
paign-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07
Answers Your Questions
on Prospecting

This complete. procticol. pocketsizsd guide
book gives many focts helpful to the pros
pector. miner. and field engineer. Covers
equipment and methods. geologic and min
erologic doto. identification Of important
minerals. and scores Of related facts for
practical use.
Handbook for prospecsors and
Operators OF Small Mines
BY M. w. Won Bernie See these d0ao
WIZ Aid TO Prospectors
04o Poges' s4-oo Lows Pertaining 10
Revised by M,n,no
Geology in Pros
Simply and concise pectinq
ly. this book pre- Ouicrops
sents everything the somDI,no ond As.
practical mon con .7,,inc,
use in the field. from -
the m 81 efficient 0eSuiis'i0e ~
equimeni. to making se
field tests. Pructicol Morksis and
uses of geology ond Prices
minerolooY ere sx- Treatment
ploinsd Minerals Developing and
ore covered fully us Equippinq
to their occurrence. Glossary OF Terms
and voiues. Used In Mining
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-08-07

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Evening star., 1943-10-28
Mr.. Widener's Story

The hitherto untold story of
Joseph E. Widener'S enrichment of
the National Gallery of Art now,
because of his death, can be told.
AS seen by the world at large, the
Philadelphia traction and railroad
millionaire was interested predomi-
nantly in business and in the breed
ing and racing of fine horses. Rela-
lively few were those friends who
realized that the particular concern
OF the latter portion of his life was
the development and disposition of
his magnificent collection of beauti-
full and precious works of human
genius. AS early as 1899 he must
have realized that his health was
failing. The knowledge hastened
the completion of his great philan-
thropy and he was privileged to
survive his benefaction.
Just what the giving of his treas
ure to his country meant to Mr..
Widener perhaps does not lie in the
power of any individual to explain,
but it can be suggested. The fact is
that his home at Elkins Park, Penn
sylvania, was palace, filled to the
ceilings with not merely master
pieces of painting and sculpture, but
also jewelry, crystals, porcelains,
Evening star., 1943-10-28

ivorieS, tapestries, carpets, engrav-
ings, prints, books, etc. A visitors
admiration grew the longer he re-
manned In the house. Mr.. Widener's
own peculiar talent Of appreciation
was evident everywhere. He was
connoisseur in the true meaning OF
the word, not solely man Of wealth
gathering property for his private
enjoyment, but rather lover of fine
human artistry and craftsmanship
glorying in the reality of cultural
humanness and delighting to share
it. To that end he wrecked his Won
derful residence. Nobody counted
the number Of times the cavalcade
of motor trucks moved from his
gates over the roads to Washington.
When the last of them started the
journey all that was undisturbed in
Lynnewood Hall was the empty shell.
Possibly Americans of the charac-
ter Of Mr.. Widener are "out of date"
1t well may be that future genera
tions will produce no imperial
princes" Of his compelling type. The
legend he has left, however, may be
all the brighter on that account.
Even if he is forgotten as a financier
and as an enthusiastic sportsman,
he will be remembered at the Ma
tional Gallery, where his contribu-
tions will continue to testify to his
taste, his discrimination and his
generosity.
Evening star., 1943-10-28
The Crisis in Education
the Vancouver Sunday Sun.

From the Vancouver Sunday Sun.
All over America today educators are
speaking with alarm about the crisis in
education. 1t is indeed crisis. The i'm
mediate cause is the war, which has
taken from education many of it's best
teachers. They have gone into fighting
services or war industries. But the crisis
unfortunately goes deeper than that and
will not end with the war. In peacetime
education was deteriorating, as illiteracy
among Army recruits indicated in many
places and as the general state of our
society proved beyond doubt. The ex-
perts have various theories about this
and about the best method of improving
our schools. None of them doubts, how
ever, that the main trouble lies in the
teaching profession. The teaching pro-
fession has been in decline because it
does not offer adequate opportunities to
intelligent young men and women.
Evening star., 1943-10-28

or being inducted into the armed
services. In effect, 1t uses the Selec-
tive Service Act as club, a purpose
for which it was never intended, and
tends to degrade military service.
It's sponsors say that this is volun-
tary program, although it obviously
rests on coercion, and this largely
explains it's unpopularity and lack
of success.
For these reasons there will be
few to bemoan the attempt by the
House to bar the program. But it
is not altogether certain that the
language adopted will accomplish
its purpose without giving rise to
harmful consequences. The con-
ferees, by slight changes in phrase
ology, can avoid this danger, and it
is to be hoped that they will do so.
1t should also be emphasized that
both the House bill and the Senate
bill are essentially negative in char
acter. They forbid certain things
without substituting any construc-
tive requirements. Thus, while ban
ming the work fight program, the
House bill does nothing to facilitate
the recruiting of urgently needed
workers in war industries. Yet these
new workers must be forthcoming if
the war production program is not to
bog down. Instead Of being content
with merely prohibiting devious and
undesirable recruiting methods, the
members of Congress have a clear
obligation to go on from there and
adopt some form of national service
legislation which would require
eligible citizens during the war TO
serve their country where they are
needed.
Evening star., 1943-10-28

final "all clear" is sounded all over the
world
Much has been said, both pro and
con. regarding the warden service. 1t
has been praised and ridiculed no end,
but the fact remains that it stands to-
day as the communitys greatest safe
guard unnecessary loss of life and prop
erty and as its best hope for immediate
aid and assistance in the event of an
attack from the skies.
Its continued value to the community
can only be assured if it is left to pur-
sue its way unhampered, with friendly
and cooperative spirit on the part of
the general public.
The idea that the test alerts should
be abolished is stupid. Can you imagine
for moment what the result would be
If the city Commissioners were to issue
an order to the effect that on such
and such day the Police and Fire De-
partments would abolish all their various
types OF drills and practice sessions?
That sounds mighty stupid too, does it
not? Today. and every day until the
final battle in this war is won your Air
Raid Warden Service is just as impor-
tant to you as the Fire and Police De-
partments, Would you for moment
consider hampering their efforts?
SNIKSAH.
Evening star., 1943-10-28
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1Dell,

Sometimes these pinwheels, or pini-
wheels, as some called them, were
elaborate affairs. with involuted stiff
paper whorls
They were fixed with pin-hence the
name-to a long stick and 1t was pos
sible to make them whirl by running
swiftly down. the street
When they were held In the wind,
they went around, too.
We can recall that as a child we saw
one Of these pinwheels which must have
been made of very stiff paper, indeed,
on window sill on Sixteenth street.
1t went around there, when the wind
blew just right, for many years.
There also, memory says, blue doll
affixed for many, many years to the
window sill of another house on Six
teenth street, at about o street, or
thereabouts.
We sometimes wonder If the old Wash
ington was really more picturesque, or
it was just that we beheld it then with
the eyes of childhood.
But certainly there are no old men
going around crying their wares, as
they did in the old days.
Then the streets had characters in
their own right.
One was on old lady, gray haired who
danced to the tunes of the street piano
men. For the benefit of newcomers to
the local scene, it may be necessary to
say that a street piano was much larger
than the small hand organ used by the
monkey men.
The street piano had new tunes, regu-
larly, whereas the typical barrel organs
ground out the same tunes year after
year.
piano songs, and when worked to the
proper tempo, would begin to take off all
her clothes.
Usually by the time the patrol wagon
came she had most Of them off, much
to the screaming delight of the kids of
the neighborhood
This may seem pretty far from Caro-
lima wrens, but music is music, wherever
one hears 1t, and whatever its effect.
This big wren may remain all winter.
1t likes worms, and may be appealed to
by handout of meal worms. which are
grown in old meal, either Intentionally
or unintentionally.
This wren will eat boil weevils, which
Is very much to its credit, but there are
not enough Carolina wrens to do much
real good in this respect.
Perhaps the most dangerous nesting
site in history was selected by Carolina
wren.
She built in a basket which had been
| hung high in barn
It was nice basket.
The only trouble with 1t was that 1t
had some sticks of dynamite in it.
When these we're removed, carefully,
slowly, the wren deserted the nest, and
never came back to it again.
Evening star., 1943-10-28
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
Can you tell me what is the bird
which resembles wren but which is
larger?
1T is browner than regular wren.
There is a sort Of light streak through
the eye. 1t stops, of course. at the eye,
and begins again on the other side.
TT has pretty song, good and loud,
not at all like the house wren.
"Sincerey, M. j."
X X X
The bird is the Carolina wren.
While it is not more than half-inch
longer than the common wren, it gives
an impression of being much larger, and
it is, because it is much thicker.
1t has become a custom to refer to
wrens as little"
In fact, with some persons, all birds
are little" when they are not tiny
The truth is that birds are not small
especially when seen close. 1t is only in
comparison with all outdoors, as it were,
that they are little, in any real sense.
Compared with most insects, the
natural prey and food of many species,
birds are quite large. With their ability
to fly, they assume a largeness which
puts them in the same class with air.
planes many thousands of years ago.
We think of plane as small, when we
see it high in the sky but when we see
one on the ground it begins to look
rather on the large side.
This is true of the Carolina wren.
This is such big wren that long time
ago it was spoken of as the great Caro-
lima wren"
The Carolinas are not the only States
which lay claim to this bird.
1t is sometimes called the Louisiana
wren.
Its upper parts are a beautiful, rich
rusty-brown, the under parts a sort of
buffy-white
The bill is long, but at that shorter
than the head; it makes curve down.
ward; the eye stripe runs from the bill
through the eye and takes up again on
the other side, running directly back
ward along the body line.
Ills piQ usually ollONo Cp dIOuIlu
here in the early fall.
After one has become acquainted with
it, this wren can be told instantly by its
song, which has the character of a
wheel turning.
1t has this circular effect mostly be-
cause of the pattern. with the accent at
given place each time
1t will remind many listeners of the
old-fashiored pinwheels which used to
be SO popular with children.
Today one seldom sees them. Today's
children are no doubt more sophisti-
Gated. They play with model airplanes.
But in the old days, when foreign-look
ing men went around the streets with
small organs and monkeys on long
leashes, the pinwheels were favorites of
all children.
Evening star., 1943-10-28
Air Raid Warden Service
Defended Against Alleged Scorn.

To the Editor of The Star:
God forbid that enemy planes carry
ing loads of death, destruction and desc
lation, should ever manage to wing their
way across the skies of any of our cities.
Yet it appears that such will have to
come to pass if some of our citizens are
ever to understand and realize the value
of civilian defense organizations.
Especially is this true regarding the
Air Raid Warden Service which Just
now seems to be a pet object OF scorn
by persons who no doubt would resent
being told that their petty criticisms,
chiefly against the test alerts, are either
a display of sheer ignorance or an un-
willingness to cooperate for their own
good. Perhaps they just don't take the
war seriously.
Naturally all of us hope that those
who argue that all danger of air raids
here is past will prove to be correct
Nevertheless, and despite these hopes, we
cannot afford to let our precautions and
safeguards become stagnant until the
Evening star., 1943-10-28
CzechosIovukiun Brothers

1t was twenty-five years ago today
that the National Committee at
Prague proclaimed the independ-
ence of Czechoslovakia. The declara-
ton brought to fulf1llment the hopes
Of nationalists who for centuries
had longed for freedom. 1t was
made possible by the defeat of
Austria and the collapse of Ger
many already taken for granted by
the Czechs and the Slovaks if not
by the western Allies.
The leaders of the patriots were
DR.. Thomas G. Masaryk and DR..
Eduard Benes, both keen students
of democracy and firm believers in
the ethical principles of self gov
ernment. For two decades they
labored to prove that a progressive
and prosperous republic could exist
In Eastern Europe. Their success
was distinctive and notable, and his
tory probably will say that it was
because they did not fail that Adolf
Hitler, beginning his campaign to
conquer the entire continent. chose
CzechoSlovakia as his first objective.
What happened at Munich on
September 80, 1888, is only too
poignantly remembered by the peo-
pie of the United States. They still
recall the shock they experienced
when it was announced that the
country created on the model of
their own Constitution had been
yielded for dismemberment Looking
back now, they realize that it was
then that they began to understand
that the greatest of wars-the pre-
vailing global conflict-was newt
able. The five years which have
passed since Czechoslovakia was
sacrificed have taught humanity a
lesson which, providentially, never
will require to be learned again. 1t
includes the privilege and the duty
Of fellowship among nations as
among individuals. The Czechs and
the SlovakS are more than neighbors
to Americans. In the ordeal of battle
they are brothers, and when peace
has been won and CzechoSlovakia
has been restored that sacred rela-
ton will continue.
Evening star., 1943-10-28
Milk Represented as Something
Adults Should Do Without.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Our dairymen inform us that, owing to
the recent drought and increased Army
uses, our supply Of milk must be cut
in half. The usual milk supply will go
to hospitals babies and children who
require it. Well. none Of us will make
any kick about that, I guess.
There are some few interesting facts
regarding milk that probably most peo-
pie have never given thought
Nature produces milk solely for the
nourishment of immature mammals.
You feed your cat milk-an unnatural
food for her All the members of the
feline tribe-the bobcat, lynx, leopard,
lion and tiger-when at the adult stage,
never drink a drop Of milk Where
would they get it? There is not an
adult animal of the wilds that ever gets
a drink of milk.
AS the North American Indian had no
cattle his children never had any milk
but their mothers. Indian mothers
nursed their children until two years Of
age. Our "civilization" is producing
many mothers who cannot nurse their
children at ala very unnatural state
of affairs indeed!
The enormous Gargantua Of Ringing
Bros. is probably the strongest ami
NAL in the world. He has an arm
stretch of 9 feet and weighs 500 pounds.
In his native wilds he would starve to
death with plenty of meat before him. as
his natural food is from the vegetable
kingdom.
Every creature of nature knows just
what to eat-which civilized man has
long since forgotten.
Gargantua probably is the most valu-
able animal in the world He is fed a
breakfast of three fresh eggs, table
spoonful of liver extract and a little
chocolate sirup mixed into three pints
of the best milk-which is about as un-
natural diet for him as a mouse would
be for a giraffe.
This powerful animal, that can pull a
6-inch nail out of hardwood with one
finger twisted around it, developed his
enormous strength from his natural
vegetable diet of the jungle. Of course,
they cannot supply his natural diet in
confinement.
them past finding out. Some of them
are as clear as the sum at midday
H. B. BRADFORD.
Evening star., 1943-10-28
Father Druft Curb

II 1t can be adequately clarified in
conference, the bill which the House
has passed to regulate the draft of
fathers and to strike down the War
ManpoWer COmmiSSion'S work or
fight" program should not interfere
seriously with the administration of
the Selective Service Act The bill
contains other provisions, of course,
but these are the two which seem
most Importantly in need of clari-
flcation.
The House bill is a rewritten YER
sion of a measure previously passed
by the Senate, but both were in
tended to put off the induction of
'pre-Pearl Harbor" fathers until the
supply of single men and childless
married men is substantially eX-
hauSted. There was no real objec-
ton to the language adopted by the
Senate. 1t laid down a policy on
the order of induction which Selec-
tive Service officials were bound to
follow, but they were required to
conform only insofar as adminiStra-
lively practicable. In effect, they
retained measure of adminiStra-
tive discretion in carrying out a
policy which, as a matter of fact,
they had already adopted. The
Senate language was changed in
the House, however, and although it
was stated by individual members
that the change was not intended
to be unreasonably restrictive so far
as inductionS are concerned, it
would seem desirable to have this
clearly stated in the bill when the
conference version is reported out.
The ban on the work-or fight
policy, which the House sought to
accomplish by providing that men
shall not be called for induction
because of their occupation, or in
occupational groups, is intended to
get rid of a practice which has been
less than fortnight and largely in
effective. The work-or- fight pro-
gram, on its face, gives men a choice
B between taking jobs in war plants
Evening star., 1943-10-28
Good Police Work

The police deserve credit for so
quickly cleaning up their part of
the investigation of the Robinson
murder. The fact that the solution
which they claim, with the arrest
and confession of a suspect, resulted
from routine followup of obvious
clues does not detract from this
credit. Good police work depends
more on this ability to follow up,
quickly and thoroughly, the obvious
leads than on the inspired genius
of Story-book detectives. There
should be as much readiness to
applaud the police, in this case, as
there would have been to condemn
them if, three days after the crime,
their Investigations had yielded no
results.