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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-24
Lodge Grass Locals

Mr.. and Mrs c. w. Thompson
of Denver, Colo. transacted bus
mess here Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Carney
made a trip to Kirby Monday
Miss Mary Lou Richardson Of
Miles City and Larry Wilson
accompanied them.
Mrs. Mary Jane Curry, Mrs
Frank Dornberger and daugn
ter md Mrs. Lawrence Wheeler
and daughter of Hardin visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Curry anc
children Sunday
R. j. Miller left Thursday fo1
BoZeman, Mont. for a brief Wis
it.
DR.. Wm. A. Petzoldt and
granddaughter, Patsy Fitzgerald
Shopped in Sheridan Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lohmaier
arrived Wednesday from Los
Angeles, Calf. for a visit with
the c. L. Lohmaier family.
Cliff Clanin transacted bust
ness in Billings Thursday.
Mrs. Warren H. Sands left
Friday to spend the week enc
with Mrs. Barney Ryan at Boze-
man, Mont.
Mrs. Stuart Mason and
daughter Shirley we're in Sherl-
dan Thursday where Shirley re-
ceived medical treatment
Mr.. and Mrs. B A. thinner
man, Mrs. Jack Owen and
Francis Owen went to Billings
Thursday
J. W. Holley is putting in new
cement sidewalks in front OF
his home.
Mrs Suzy Sherman and Har-
old Anderson had a collision on
the Lodge Grass creek road last
Saturday evening. Both cars
were badly damaged.
Mrs. L. r Cool and o. E. And
erson of Hardin were visitors
here Wednesday.
Mrs. Bob ClaWSon and son.
Bobby, spent Friday in Sheri-
dan.
Miss Elizabeth Shaw shopped
in Sheridan Friday.
Mrs. Jim Holley accompanied
by Helen Holley, Lydia Miller,
Mrs. Thomas Baker and Mrs.
Carl Settle, drove to Billings
Friday.
Mrs. Jay Sharp transacted
business in the county seat FRI
day.
Miss Marie Morton arrived
home from Los Angeles, Calf.
Norma Barrett who made the
trip with Miss Morton remained
in Los Angeles and is attending
a school of telegraphy.
Miss Marion Knutson VINO =
in training at st Vincents hos
pital, is spending her vacation
with her parents, MI. and Mrs.
Guy KnutSon.
Boyd Hopper visited his aunt
and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Carr, Saturday evening. Boyd is
working with B. B. outfit.
Harriet Wall and daughter
are visiting Bill Wall at Camp
White, Ore.
Miss Malvina Johnson is spend
ing her vacation in Minnesota,
visiting relatives and friends.
Miss Jane Mefford of Decker,
Montana, who has been induct-
ed into the Waves at Seattle,
Wash, arrived in Lodge Grass
Friday for a few days visit with
Mrs. Donald Esp. She was en-
route to her home In Decker.
Miss Mefford will remain at
her parents home until she re-
ceives orders to 60 into training
at Hunter College, New York.
Mrs. William Wilson, Mrs.
Donald Esp, and Miss Jane Mef-
ford spent Saturday shopping
in Billings.
Pvt. James H. Wiley, Jr. Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Darrell Nc
in Sheridan Friday and
also attended a show
!. Mrs. Edgar Sherrod visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Fisher on Big
Owl creek Saturday
Mrs. Edgar Sherrod, and sons,
Jimmy and Jerry, returned to
their home at Ryegate Monday
after a ten days visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. wiley
and family.
Mrs. Wiley, Mrs. Glenn Potts,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-24

Hobert Delp called on c. R.
Faw Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Ziler were
Sunday guests at the Coney
Ziler home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin LOOMS
called on Mrs. Albert LOOMS
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Kern shop
ped in Hardin Saturday.
Mrs Matte Simpson called on
Mrs. ESteIla Mabe Sunday.
George Heller called on Tom
FaW Sunday.
Illness and industrial accidents
account for over so per cent of
absences from war work.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-24

Wayne Bond received high score
and Mrs. M. +. Wells, low. Mrs
Wells and Mrs. Gene Mcdaniel
were guests of the club.
S~HREVE-HANLEY
Miss Valea Beth Shreve
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Shreve of Wyola, became the
bride of S Sgt. Robert j. Hanley
son of John Hanley of Wyola
Saturday.
Sgt. Hanley was formerly sta
toned with the armed forces in
Alaska. He has been transferred
to the Air Corps and will leave
soon for March Field, Calf.
:
PICNIC HELD
Mrs. Marge Clanin of Sheri-
dan entertained at a picnic on
June % in observance of the ell
eventh birthday Of her son
Douglas. The picnic was held at
Pioneer Park in Sheridan. Those
who attended from Lodge Grass
were Mrs. A. M. Stevenson,
Ralph and Kim Forman, Keith
HOlley and Douglas, who has
been visiting in Lodge Grass.
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LAWN PARTY
A lawn party was given Mon
day evening for Mr. and Mrs
Donald Temple of Mitchell, Neb,
Those present were Frank Sharp
and family, Jim and Edith Grow,
Cora Kiesling and children, and
Mrs. Nora Temple.
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Lodde Gross Society

LADIES AID
Mrs. Nora Carr entertained
the Ladies Aid at her home last
Thursday afternoon. There were
thirteen members present.
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BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. John T. Ryan was host
ess to the Wednesday afternoon
bridge club last week Mrs.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Prentiss Brown Resiqns

In reSigning his post as head of
the Office of Price Administration
PrentiSs Brown, former Senator
from Michigan, has every reason to
contemplate with pride the things
that he has accomplished under ex-
tremely trying conditions.
He assumed the management of
OPA after that agency, under the di-
rectlon of Leon Henderson, had in
Cured an inordinate amount of i'll
will. 1t is no eXaggeration to say
that OPA, regardless of whether Mr..
Henderson's policies were right or
wrong, was on the verge of ruin when
Mr.. Brown took over and his success
in salvaging substantial measure
OF public and congressional toler-
ance for thankless undertaking is
no mean accomplishment. Mr..
Brown has not had a great deal to
do with the details of OPA admin
lstration. Essentially, his main Job
has been to smooth the troubled
waters, and the extent of his sue
cess, on the whole, has been sur
prising
But the problem of price control
has not been solved, despite the good
showing that Mr. Brown was able to
report in his letter of resignation.
The cost of living has been held
down, and in some instances even
reduced, by setting prices at levels
winch can be maintained only bv
the payment of Federal subsidies.
And Mr.. Brown is leaving office at
a time when the real battle over
these subsidy payments, and the
larger ones in contemplation, is Just
getting under way. In this connec-
ton, it is interesting to note one
point that Mr.. Brown makes in his
letter.
Since Pearl Harbor, he says, the
net income of farmers has risen 80
per cent. The average weekly wage
OF American workers has risen 33
per cent. Corporation profits, after
taxes, are Is per cent higher. but
prices throughout this period have
| risen only IL per cent. There are
other official estimates which show
an even greater disparity between
the increase in prices and the rise in
earnings. But even if Mr.. Browns
hgures be accepted as the correct
ones, the inescapable conclusion is
that all classes of Americans, on the
average, are much better off eco
nomically, so far as prices are con-
cerned, than they were on December
7, 1941
If that be the case, how can Mr..
Brown or any one else justify. on
economic grounds, the payment of
larger Federal subsidies to bring
about still lower prices? The answer.
certainly, is that the justification, if
there be any, is political and not
economic in character.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Objections to School Aid

The Thomas-H bill, authorizing
the expenditure of 100000 900 a
year in Federal aid to State and
local public school systems, has been
Shelved largely because a group of
Southern Senators-originall very
much in favor of the measure-ob-
Jected to an amendment forbidding
discrimination for reasons of race.
color or creed. Many supporters of
the amendment knew that this
would be the reaction. They wanted,
in effect to kill the legislation, and
SO they killed it with a political
device.
Such procedure reflects no credit
on any one, and it is particularly
regrettable since there seems to have
been reason to recommit the bill
forthrightly, on the basis of several
objections to it. There can be no
question, of course, that the pres
sures and dislocations of war have
created a serious problem for all
primary and secondary school sys-
TENS throughout the Nation, with
many thousands of modestly paid,
poorly paid and underpaid teachers
finding themselves more remunera-
tive jobs in factories and shipyards,
and with other thousands entering
the armed services. But the prob
lem is one thing, and the solution
another, and it is doubtful in the
extreme that the now-shelved SEN
ate proposal contained the right an
sWer, if any right answer can really
be found in Federal action.
AS analyzed by its opponents, the
Thomas-Hill bill had several objec-
tionable features. The first of these
was that although it specifically
ruled out any degree of Federal con-
troll over State and local public edu-
cation, it could readily have served
as an entering wedge, a sort OF first
step, toward such control, since
the natural tendency is for any
person or organization to be influ-
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Mother Tells u Incident
In First World War

To the Editor of The Star:
I have just read the article, "Ameri-
cans Are Weary Of the Question: Don't
You Know There's War On?'" which
brings to my mind the first World War.
I l,ad read in The Star that women
going from house to house in behalf
of the Liberty Loan were saying to
the housewives who answered the doors:
Madam, do you know this country is
at WARP" This aroused my ire for
had a son who was a volunteer Zone
of the flrst). Also had phonograph
record, "a Mothers Liberty Loan" and
I put the record on my phonograph
and set the needle at the chorus: II
gave my boy to Uncle Sam to fight for
you and me, just like my dad at Gettys-
burg in 1868. His life must pay for
liberty, I'm giving all own, and when
the battles won I'll then take back my
son. That's Mothers Liberty Loan"
I waited for the woman to call on me.
When she came and said to me,
Madam, do you know this country is
at WARP I told her to step inside and
I started the phonograph. She stood
there and listened. Then I asked, IF
We mothers don't know this country
is at war, who does?"
She answered, I'VE were told to ask
that question" said, ''Well, don't ever
ask 1t again. and she promised, Il
never will"
MRS. D, RICHARDSON.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1DeU.

Five brilliant red leaves of Virginia
creeper shone on the dark green arch.
1t was perfect specimen of the leaf
growth CT this vine, SO often confused
with the poison ivy. At the same time
it was beautiful sight.
Looking at the five big leaves, with
the background of green, it was easy to
understand something of the way Orien-
tails look at art.
To them, a single morning glory BIOS
som is said to be as beautiful as a whole
fenceful of them.
That, of course, is not the American
way.
We want a whole lot of anything, on
the basis, we suppose, that if one thing
is beautiful hundred of the same will
be hundred times as fine.
X 4 x X
At this season of the year nothing IS
prettier in the woods and suburban areas
than the colorful leaves of the poison ivy
and the Virginia creeper.
The poison ivy leaves grow in groups
of three, the others in patches of five
together.
This is the way to be sure. 1t is very
good idea to take a good look, when
admiring these growing things, so that
one will not come too close, in case the
ivy is being considered.
Many persons have been poisoned
through taking home a bunch of beauti-
full red leaves
The Virginia creeper-the British in
sist on calling it the Virginian creeper-
likes to grow up tree trunks.
So does the poison ivy.
Each is beautiful, with a real red tint
at this time of year.
The red somewhat resembles that of
the dogWood leaves
II 4
DogWoodS, and some Of the NAPLES,
lead in the autumn color procession.
A few Of the oaks do wonders to any
landscape, and the best thing about the
oaks is that their leaves stay on so long.
Some oak leaves, in fact, will hang
on all winter, but it cannot be said that
the leaf colors remain beautiful all that
time.
Washington, with its wealth of trees,
leads in the annual production of leaf
colors. The chemical changes brought
about by cold on leaf structures intrigue
even the least sensitive person.
1t is not necessary to be an artist to
appreciate the fall colors.
All one has to do is look up.
Certain vantage points, such as the
Taft Bridge and the Calvert Street
Bridge, give the eye sweep OF an entire
valley of leaves.
Then. if a buzzard is floating above
the valley, there is a sight provided
which is not easily forgotten.
Somehow the lazy buzzard seems to
accept and point up the natural marvels
inherent in even the least leaf in the
valley.
A very fine place to see the leaf color
Evening star., 1943-10-23

enced by sources of outside financial
support. Second, because it would
have provided that aid could go only
to those States whose educational
expenditures were at least as much
as those Of 1912, it was hardly de-
signed to encourage economy even
where economy might be possible.
Third, it would have burdened the
National Government with a large
additional outlay at time when the
growth of vast debt and the con-
slant threat of imitation make all
feasible retrenchments an impera-
tive need. And fourth, subsidizing
plan of this kind seemed difficult to
reconcile with the fact that many
States and local communities are
today in much better financial po-
sition than they were last year or
the year before, and thus are at
point where they ought to be able
themselves to cope with increased
school costs. According to the Fed
Grafton of Tax Administrators, for
example, State revenues will exceed
S., ,0OO,0 100000 this year-an all-time
high representing a gain of about
S125 10000 over last years record
figure. If this is so, why then should
there be a brand-new Federal sub
sidy of $3O0,00OOOO?
Such objections as these, never
adequately answered. strongly Sug-
geSt that the Thomas Hill bill could
have been defeated on wholly rea-
sonable grounds. 1t should not have
been necessary for it's opponents to
resort to what was little more than
legislative trick.
Evening star., 1943-10-23

procession is along Broad Branch road
in Rock Creek Park, especially the
stretch from Pierce Mill to the north
west.
Here the leaf color changes took place
within a week.
There are here and there particular
trees, off to the east with strange colors.
One has bright orange leaves.
1t is slightly sad thought, in these
days of conservation, to think of all
the wealth of material going to waste in
all the leaves.
If they could all be made into compost
there would be enough within two years
to provide all the land with good ma
terial in the form of genuine humus, so
necessary to plant growth.
Yet not all the leaves are blown away,
or burned up. Many tons of them an
nually go to pack down around trees
and shrubs in the larger parks. They
blow into small valleys and get caught
in fence corners, and become compacted
and matted down. In town we are told
that such mating cuts off the air, but
somehow the trees and bushes of the
wild places have never heard of that.
They are saved as primitive peoples are
saved, from hearing so many things,
some Of which are not true.
Schoolboys in England have fad Of
collecting skeletonized leaves.
We forget the name they have for
them, but they are simply leaves which
have been eaten out by insects or the
weather, it is difficult to be sure of
which.
All that is left of the leaf is the back
bone, and the various veins, giving the
complete shape of the active leaf in it's
prime.
Such skeletonized leaves are not hard
to find, and are not difficult to keep.
With only little care they last for
years.
They cannot, Of course, be thrown
around as if they were building blocks.
A collection of such leaves may be
added to at any time of year, since some
time is necessary for nature to complete
the skeletonizing work.
1t is a good idea, In raking up leaves
at any season Of year, to keep lookout
for such leaves.
Some specimens are perfect, and have
all the beauty of the fine old lace work.
1t would be a good idea if more per-
sons got out of the notion that burning
is the only thing to be done with raked-
up leaves in the fall.
Using them as compost is one very
good way to get rid Of them. AS fertil-
lZerS and humus become more difficult to
get, many home gardeners are going to
be thrown back on their own resources
They will discover that the leaves of the
trees, which seem so many more in
numbers on the ground than they look
on the trees are genuine materials, sus-
ceptible to being worked and used for
the benefit and comfort of man.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Happier Homes" Visioned
As Aid in Winning War.

To the Editor of The Star:
Columnist Dorothy Thompson eX-
pressed herself with disarming frank
ness in The Star on october 20 when
she declared that rationing as in force
at present els not a conserver of food
but breaker up of homes"
This observation certainly was not
intended to be disparagement. of the
honest efforts of our Government to
provide an equitable distribution of food,
yet certain inherent dangers in the
Thompson also declared that cit is the
home and the family table that suffer.
No one can invite a few friends in for
meal. But he can stuff them at his
expense at night club"
If there is any other form of basic
Government, aside from our great
democratic heritage which has been
passed down to us by the founders. of
our country, which must be preserved
at all costs, it is a united home. This
is the foundation of all organized So
ciety. When the family crumbles, dam
gers from within assail the bulwarks of
the country, which in turn may open
the floodgates to human passions, and
in moment of disunity the enemies
lurking near our shores could possess
our citadels.
1t may not be amiss to point out that
Bible prophets revealed millenniums be-
fore just such conditions in our days.
ST. Paul to Timothy, in his second
epistle, chapter 3, verses to S. prophe-
sled in this manner:
This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, I'M
holy, without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good,
traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God;
having form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof: from such turn
away"
This serious prophetic indictment of
conditions which were expected to pre-
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Not Neat and Not Goudy

Inc Army recruit learns that his
uniform is sacred. He must keep it
clean and pressed, its buttons glow
ing even more than his own freshly
shaved face, and woe betide the
luckless soldier who does not. "Hev,
you over there!" barks a sergeant
What are you trying to do. make
this outfit look like a bunch of
tramps?" Trouble looms, possibly
connected with the guardhouse or
at the very least forced date with
a pairing knife and a vast quantity
of potatoes.
Now, just as the recruit has
learned this lesson the hard way,
comes the newly invented Army
"ragamuftin suit" actually designed
to make it's wearer look like tramp
and then some. Fastened to it are
numerous strips of burlap, in odd
lengths and various dingy colors. Its
buttons are never polished, for that
would spoil the camouf1age effect.
Inc SulC is never pressed for 1t must
have no sharp contours to contrast
with surroundings. It is never
cleaned; as in the case of the leop-
ard the more spots it has the better
for concealment. When worn in
conjunction with a two-week growth
of whiskers, its efficiency is almost
complete, But what will it do to
the old-time drill sergeant? Will he
be able to reverse the technique of
years, and be able to switch over and
hand out K. P. and other dire pun
ishments to the neat recruit who
thoughtlessly tries to keep his pla-
toon from being the crummiest in
the regiment? If not, he will have to
struggle along until that happy day
when his entire command becomes
invisible.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Capri

Hundreds of American tourists
who visited Capri in years gone bv
will remember the experience and
on that account be interested now
IN the news that the famous isle of
song and story has been occupied bv
troops from the United States. "The
tiny but lofty sentinel at the south
ern entrance to the Bay of Naples, -"
according to the National Geo.
graphic Society, has a position of
: military Importance" exemplifed in
. the fact that within the single
Napoleonic decade from 1906 to 1915"
French, British, again French and
then Sicilian forces successively
held it.
: Seventeen miles across the Bay of
Naples from the city of that name,
the island represents volcano activ-
1ty in very ancient times. Its coasts
are rocky and in bad weather dam
gerous. One of the limestone peaks
rises nearly two thousand feet above
the water. The celebrated Blue
Grotto is a cavern at sea level in
which the refraction of daylight
Through a submarine opening Gre
ates an effect of indeScribable opal
{eScent beauty. In another cave
,Neolithic remains have been discov-
cred, proving that Capri was in
.habited in remote antiquity. The
Emperor Augustus acquired the
whole area about 20 BIC, and built
roads, aqueducts and villas whose
ruins still may be seen. His sue
;cessor, Tiberius, however, was an
even more muniflcent patron, order
Evening star., 1943-10-23

ing the construction OF no less than
a dozen different palatial residences
in 27 AID. and shortly thereafter.
Travellers began to praise the isle
for its congenial climate, its fruits
and wines, its friendly inhabitants
soon after the unification of Italy
in 1870. Many literary persons
visited Capri in the period prior to
the First World War and wrote of
its attractions. Gradually it became
a fashion to spend holidays on its
beaches. Hotels and restaurants
with windows looking across to
Vesuvius catered particularly to
British and American "trippers." It
was in "the foreign colony" that
Joseph Conrad, the novelist, died in
1924.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Quondory Over an Autumn
Canvas

cannot choose betueen t1Do scenes
OF fall:
One, like an eastern carpet, richly
drought
OF scarlet, green and gold, on bronze.
and all
So subtly mingled every crimson
spot
SERIES but to point Its myriad
kindred hues,
And pointing, melt ,Uith them into
the phole,
Changing the single brilliance II
must lose
For that OF eUery tree upon tho
knoll.
My other picture? Here is no
brocade
OF parti-colored splendor; nature
copes
With clear, unblended tints, and she
has laid
Them starkly pure adolDn Wyom-
ing slopes
Against red rock, green spruce and
grass to brownness burned,
The yello,o light OF aspen ne,ply
turned.
SHIRLEY BAUGHMAN oLEARY.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Pleads for Relief
OF Prisoners of Japs.

To the Editor of The Star:
In our solicitude about world politics,
and our rather grandiloquent promises
to help all the countries of the world
(some of which may not care for the
same), are We going to forever forget our
soldiers, sailors and marines who did not
fail us, but who now are prisoners of the
Japs?
Can we not devise really powerful by
passing attack, or an attack through
China, soon or are more and more years
going to elapse before We get around
to it? L. A. JORDAN,
Chicago