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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-01-15
Mechanics School
Ito Be Conducted

A mechanics school will be con-
Quoted in Browning, beginning
January 10. according to Rex
Campbell. Smith-Hughes instruc-
tor of the high school. The pro.
ject is being arranged with the
State Department of Vocational
Education, and will be primarily
for farmers. although other per-
sons may attend.
The school will have two
fold purpose. that of teaching
repair, construction a n d main.
tenance of farm machinery and
motors and OF getting farm ma
chinery in readiness for the ex.
ira heavy duty required of it this
season.
Glasses will meet at the Silver
Garage five days a week. t h e
period of instruction being from
l to 4 p. m.
7 There will be no tuition charge
f or instruction. Farmers a r. e
urged to bring their own ma.
chinery. and repair it while learn
ing. The only expense will be
for new parts.
If sufficient persons are inter.
ested evening classes will be held
from I to 10.
Those planning to attend the
school should leave their names
with Mr.. Campbell at the high
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HAPPENINGS
of Local Interest
18th
1913

Mrs. Eva Arnoux i 8 leaving
this week for Chemawa, Oregon,
to be near her daughter, who is
i'll in a hospital there.
A new shipment of children's
dresses, sizes l to ID. prints and
spun rayons. Economy Shop
Mrs. o. A. Tellifero has been
confined to her home from an at
tack of flu,
Sale on all winter caps and
mitts. Economy Shop
Mrs. l.. V. Jackson of Belt vi
sited her son. Bruce. for several
days last week. Mrs. Jackson's
husband is a banker of that town.
If you appreciate service and
good Merchandise trade at the
Quality Market.
Lost-Pair reading glasses and
case, with Kornmesser. James
town. N. D. printed inside
case: reasonable reward; finder
bring to Chief office. 42-It.
Mrs. Anne Carone. who h a 8
been seriously ill since early last
week. is making favorable e.
covery.
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Mrs. Fred Getty has received
word from her son. Francis. that
he has been promoted to sergeant
in the tank division at Fl. Knox,
Ky. He visited home folks here
recently. the promotion coming
after he returned from his fur.
Tough.
Lost-Woman's suit case b E.
tween Browning aud Y-Service
Station January IL; finder return
to Chief office for So reward, Gus
Jackson. Cut Bank. 1927
Browning men serving with
the armed forces who are here
on furlough include Leigh Kerr,
Ed Shurr, Jack Kramer, Melford
Overhaul, George and Edward
Aupert and Bruce Songret.
Fringed head scarves. Econo.
my Shop
Mrs. Jessie Sinclair is home
from points west of the noun
tians. having been there for 6
holiday visit.
Your cash dollar really talks
here. Quality Market
DR.. and Mrs. L. L. Elliott oil
Cut Bank were Browning visitors
Sunday.
Cleo Cobell left this week fol-
Bozeman to take a three month:
nursing course preparatory tt
war service.
| Mr.. and Mrs. William Norman
were here from their ranch Tues
day.
! Mrs. and Mrs. M. A. Webben
hurst were Great Falls visitors
last weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Shook ar,
proud parents o f a baby cir
born Wednesday evening at tn,
local hospital.
Candles Store repairs all makes o
radios. refrigerators, gas and electri
washers and bicycles.
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Paint Guns Blaze Trails

In place of notching trees with
an axe and unnecessarily damaging
standing timber. modern woodsmen
now blaze trails by shooting paint
from paint gun upon the bark of
the trees. The mark made with the
paint is said to be fully as distin.
guishable-if not more so-than an
axe blaze in the bark.
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The Double Crnss

Hitler is reported to have created
a special decoration for inhabitants
of occupied countries who collabo-
rate with the Nazis. Called, no
doubt, the Double Cross.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-01-15
Paper Paint Cans

Containers for paint made of
paper, with metal ends, have been
developed and are coming on the
market to help relieve the wartime
tin and iron shortage.
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DIR. M. F. KELLER-Optome-
trist
all Ford Bldg. Great Falls
May be consulted at the Yegen
Hotel. Saturday. January 23 I'd
Eyes examined and glassesfitted.
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$4,000 Man Hours

It takes $4,000 man-hours of work
to build a medium bomber as
against only 200 for an auto.
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school or appear at the mechanics
school.
Evening star., 1943-01-15
Brothers in Sacrifice

Every SO often in the history Of
human affairs it happens that a
great man makes use of his native
genius to express the instinct of a
whole community. Such a time and
such an event were those of Novem-
Der 21 1864, and letter written at
the Executive Mansion by Abraham
Lincoln. The text of the communi-
cation is famous. 1t was addressed
to Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachu-
sets, and read:
Dear Madam: / have been shown
in the files of the War Department a
statement of the Adjutant General
of Massachusetts, that you are the
mother of five sons who have died
gloriously on the field of battle. I
feel how weak and fruitleSS must be
any words of mine which should at
tempt to beguile you from the grief
of a loss so overwhelming. But I
cannot refrain from rendering to you
the consolation that may be found
in the thanks of the Republic they
died to save. pray that our heaven
ly Father may assuage the anguish
of your bereavement, and leave you
only the cherished memory Of the
Evening star., 1943-01-15
Etching Of Night

Cold, CLASSY black of slipping stream
Stripes hard across the spangled
snoU.
Light rabbit prints dot eery CLEAN
Leading to shado,Ded glen belop.
On nearer slopes, the pine and birch
With mu61ing tufts of white are
turred;
But trees beyond loom like sn1trch
OF ink on parchment, jet and
blurred.
The cedars Nth their jagged cones
No,D punctuate the cloud testoon;
While lone hound tucks tail and
means,
His muzzle lifted to the great white
moon.
ROSE ALTIzER BRAY.
Evening star., 1943-01-15
Anthracite Strike

The War Labor Board virtually Is
calling for showdown in the an
thracite strike, by summoning oper-
ators and union officials here to
explain at public hearing the
reasons for the tie-up, which now is
in its third week.
The board order directing the
miners to return to work and nego-
tiate their differences has had some
effect, as is evidenced by the fact
that 1000 were reported back on
the job yesterday. There still were
1900 idle, however, and the board
unquestionably felt that more posi-
tive action was needed to speed
restoration Of normal operations
The strike was started as a protest
by the miners against a 50-cent in
crease that raised monthly union
dues to $1.50. Then complicating
factor was injected by their demand
for a wage increase of So daily, al
though a contract Just negotiated
for Six-day operation has been de-
scribed as entirely satisfactory by
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers.
BY bringing all parties to the con-
troversy together, there is a chance
that settlement may be accelerated.
For the strike has cut anthracite
production by 500 900 tons, according
to the figures OF Solid Fuels Co.
! ordinator Ickes, and the country OBJ
viously is in no position to combat a
shortage in this direction in view of
the oil situation. Already, supplies
have been cut off from Canada and
the territory west of Erie in an effort
to help the eastern seaboard where
the oil pinch is felt worst. Ironically,
the shutdown has come at a time
when the anthracite industry was
regaining some Of the ground that
had been lost to substitute fuels.
The present situation had an
! interesting parallel in 1902, in the
administration of Theodore Roose-
welt, when anthracite occupied a
more prominent position than it has
in recent years, and a five month
tie-up resulted in White House inter-
vention. A conference of operators
and miners here broke down when
the former refused to arbitrate-and
used intemperate language in the
process, according to the President.
Then j. Pierpont Morgan persuaded
the operators to arbitrate, but they
held out on one point that seems
unbelievable today: Labor was not to
be represented on the arbitration
commission. President Roosevelt got
around this by naming E. E. Clark,
| president of the Order of Railway
Conductors as the eminent sociolo-
| gist," to be included in the commits
sion, blandly commenting that he
understood Sociologist to be some
one who thought deeply about social
problems, and applied his conclusions
practically"
While the Government was pre-
pairing to take over the mines if
necessary, the commission effected a
Evening star., 1943-01-15
Proposes Alternative Plan
For Easing Tax Payments.

To the Editor of The Star:
The President has Endorsed the pay
as-you-go tax plan in principle, 80 the
"go sign" is on for the thinkers.
Like the President, do not approve
Of forgiving a years taxes in order to
bring our income tax calendar up to
date, and I do believe that . painless
method Of payment can be devised with
proper thought
AS a starter. propose the following:
Divide the tax bill of 1912 into halves,
the first Of which to be hquidated with
In five years, and the second Of which
to be liquidated within the next five
years. Require the taxpayer to buy War
bonds for assignment to the Treasury.
This automatically would result in a
reduction Of 25qs In the tax bill, because
the War bonds earns an equivalent
amount Of money, returning 500 for
each $75 invested. Inasmuch as the
bond natures in 10 years and the tax
payer is given 10 years in which to
liquidate his tax Indebtedness, the bur-
den is divided equally between the tax
payer and the Government. Therefore,
a family which owes a tax bill OF $500
for 1912, would actually pay of a total
of $225, at the rate Of $3.50 per year
or less than S6 per quarter. In the
Evening star., 1943-01-15
much Of one thing and too little Of

another.
Donald Nelson seems to have ac-
cepted such a philosophy. He does
not work toward a decision that will
mean the rubber program is more
important than the octane gas pro-
gram, or that the octane gas pro-
gram must be carried through at
the expense of the rubber program.
One cannot do that, he said yester-
day, amy more than one would say
that water was more important to
man than fire" Everything is i'm
portant. The big job is to get every
thing done. 1t requires a steady
hand, a constant shifting of balance,
readiness to accept disappoint-
ments as inevitable accomplishments
of any great program. 1t requires
an ability to get along with people
who would not be worth their salt
if they were not trying to outdo each
other in getting their own jobs done
first. Mr.. Nelson has been in the
thick of many fights" between these
people. Yet the fights somehow are
won without dramatic victories or
losses; they somehow dissolve them
selves as others take their places.
Mr.. Nelson goes quietly along, with
out cracking down." without COIN
ing new Wisecracks, without knock
ing heads together, good man in
tough job that is being done we'll
Evening star., 1943-01-15
He Has Grown

President Wilson once told con-
hdante Of World War I days that
there were two sorts of men who
came to Washington-thoS who
grew and those who Swelled. Look
ing back over the first year of the
War Production Boards existence,
one may conclude with some salts
faction that Donald Nelson has
grown, not SWelled When he took
Office, friendly critics were saying he
would have to be superman, desk
thumper, czar whose word was
law, production wizard, an expert
on distribution and raw materials
and man whose instantaneous de-
cisions must be accompanied by i'm
mediate action.
He undoubtedly has disappointed
some Of these advisers, and it prob
ably Is lucky that he has. AS we
slowly learn more about the fine art
of fighting the war at home, the
realization grows that the successful
production of materials and the
maintenance of a steady flow of
goods for the front line are not so
much a matter of cutting off this in
order to have more of that; of speed
Ing up one production line at the
expense of slowing down another, or
Of telling the claimants for Al pri-
critics that they must get along with
something less The big job is to
keep everything going by maintain
Ing a fine balance between conflict
Ing aims, understanding that we
probably never shall have as much
OF anything as we want, but that it
Is more important to have as much
as we can get of everything than too
Evening star., 1943-01-15
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace,DeLl.

feathers Of the various songbirds, and
especially the patterns made by the
colors and their mixtures.
Pattern is woven all through nature
as part of symmetry, which is part,
in turn, of the universal harmony.
We must believe that nature, in the
original plan, was trying to work out
something, when the various patterns in
fur and feathers were created.
1t is difficult, If not impossible, to
believe that these creations, so interest
ing and beautiful to the human mind
could have come into being solely as
the result Of chance, or even as camou-
flage
If there must be rigid mechanistic
reason, camouf1age probably is it. All
breaks In solid color give stationary
creature chance to escape observation.
In nature many things prey on many
other things, usually the larger on the
smaller. Hence the small bird on
limb is better protected if it's colors are
varied enough to make it blend in with
the changes in lights of leaves, bark, etc.
4 -
The blue jay colors and pattern are
refreshing difference from most of
our popular songsters.
At this point, probably some one asks
Would you call the jay songster?"
Yes, very much SO. The term song
ster," as used in birdlore, means not so
much sweet singer AS a bird whose
vocal chords are built according to GER
tain principles.
The jay has these chords.
Even the crow has them.
Hence we are right in calling both
jays and crows songbirds, although it
must be admitted that neither birds
voice meets the popular idea of singing.
The jay has much more varied vocal
output than many persons give him
credit for having. His Shrill Shrek on
arriving at feeding station is merely
his way of saying, Watch out here
GOMEZ"
His motto might be the old Scottish
one, "Wha daur NEEDLE Wi me?"
He Is dauntless, a good giver of alarms
TO the smaller birds, restless in all he
does, an accomplished of good, although
he does not mean it, perhaps.
The way he does good to the other
birds is in carrying away seeds and
hiding them in the crevices of bark.
There they are found by nuthaches,
chickadees, brown creepers and titmice
and others.
The jay also hides nuts and peanuts
In the shell, when he finds them, be-
meath leaves and even in the ground
where the squirrels find them at last,
One of the interesting features of this
most interesting bird is that of failure
TO appear in a neighborhood on FRIDAYS
or at least such is the claim. The legend
has it that they go to see the devil or
these days We put this legend down as
superstition, pure and simple The isv
no more than any other bird, knows the
Gays. he is content to fly and be happ,
All Gays. II We accept his rude anc
nearly humor, we, too will have a bette,
chance OF coming out of all this wifi
our American sense of humor unharmed
Evening star., 1943-01-15
CHEVY CHASE, Md.

Dear Sir:
Many people praise the cardinal, but
none says word in favor of the blue jay,
to me the most beautiful and interesting
Of all the birds.
"On these cold days 1t is always JOY
to me to look out the window and see
the jays sWoop down on the feeding sta
ton, scattering all the other songsters.
THE smaller birds do not mind them
at all, in fact, think they rather enjoy
the diversion, because the jays never
stay very long. They fly in squawk a
few times, grab a few seeds, and fly
away for the day.
1T Is seldom that the blue jays re-
main more than few minutes, and the
regular small feeders come back imme-
diately. AS far as my observation goes,
the jays never attack them This is
very much to their credit, because they
are very large and strong birds and un-
doubtedly could do bodily harm to chick
adees and the like.
The jay seems to get so much fun out
of living. He is good morale builder,
do well to observe carefully.
Il know that some observers say they
dislike him, but for the life of me do
not see how they can. I believe their
dislike is synthetic, built up out of failure
to observe closely, combined with, two
parts Of lack Of charity.
If charity begins at home, as it has
been said, I think bird observers well
might watch the jays more closely and
try to find out about them from persona |
observation, not from what they read in
some of the books.
Very truly, D. r. r."
Il + 4
In this winter of l943 there Ia no more
American bird than the jay.
1t Is very symbol of the Nation, with
Its dash and color, its vivid interest in
life. and its flair for personal publicity.
The regularity of its habits makes it
good soldier.
Jays tend to come to the same wards
at exactly the same time every day.
They will appear almost on the dot
and stay at feeding station for about
the same length of time every day.
AS our correspondent says, they do not
stay long Usually they will stick around
for IS or 20 minutes.
Then they fly away, to look over other
yards, no doubt. This would help ac-
count for their regularity.
- -
In the snow, few birds make a better
show, unless it Is the cardinal. The red
OF the latter puts 1t in a class all by
itself. But the blue and white and black
OF the jay gives it a very fine coloration,
one which stands out boldly in pattern,
The pattern Of the jays coat some
what resembles Scottish plaid, or
tartan, to be more exact. 1t does not
resemble it very much, we must admit
but only somewhat, for the tartans are
unique.
Color fascination is thing in itself
one which not all persons enjoy. We
believe that any one who likes Scottish
tartans also will be pleased with the
Evening star., 1943-01-15

loved and lost, and the solemn pride
that must be yours to have laid so
costly sacrifice upon the altar of
freedom"
OF course, the author Of these
words of sympathy was not discrim-
mating in his thought against those
thousands OF mothers who gave their
all when they gave their only sons
for freedom. Neither did Mr.. Lin
coin attempt any comparison with
mothers who sent two or three or
four sons out to fight and fall that
their country might survive. Yet he
could not fail to realize that Mrs.
Bixby had suffered a grief more
notably multiplied than that of any
other American woman of her gen.
Grafton. So, reverently, with pro-
found feeling, he penned the mas
sage quoted again and again during
the past 79 years, whenever such
sentiment has been appropriate.
But the present struggle likewise
brings forth its own spiritual affirm
ations. On January 8 President
Roosevelt dispatched to Mr.. and Mrs.
J. E. Rogers of Birmingham, Ala
bama, a letter signifying the graft
tude of the Nation to them and to
three OF their sons, reported killed in
"a naval engagement in the Pacific"
Their commanding officer had said
Of them: They could not have
given their lives more nobly, and in
their unselfish patriotism they stand
for all that is finest and best in our
American manhood" In his ac-
acknowledgement of their immolation
the Chief Executive told their par
ents: Il pray that God will comfort
you and give you strength to bear this
great sorrow" A similar grief and
similar heartfelt attempt at con-
ISOLATION are indicated for Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan of Waterloo
Iowa, whose Ave boys, all sailors,
are listed as missing in the cruiser
Juneau in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Their mother hopes they may "show
up somewhere, some day Soon," but,
she says, "if they are gone it will be
some comfort to know that they went
together, as they wanted, and gave
their lives for their country and
victory"
Evening star., 1943-01-15
Offers Suggestions to Prove
"Claim to Democracy" in Wartime.

To The Editor of The Star:
Since certain amount Of regimenta-
ton Is necessary to win the war, all
must be willing to sacrifice for the dura-
ton. We must put our shoulders to the
wheel, rather than to risk through sell
f1shness the loss of freedom under some
foreign dictator.
Inasmuch as the general public must
submit to rationing of food, tires, gas
and fuel it would be wise to ask those
concerned, for common sense suggestions
in regard to these matters, since we are
supposed to be a democracy with gov
ernment of the people, by the people and
for the people.
If schools were closed for the remain
der OF the cold months and reopened
during the spring and summer, fuel now
consumed in heating schools could be
used to heat homes and thus avoid sick
ness and suffering in this time of short
age of doctors and nurses and hospital
accommodations
Further saving of fuel could be
achieved by closing theaters during the
day and keeping them open in the eve
ming Night clubs could be closed for
the duration with benefit to the general
public
Older children could look after younger
ones in the homes, thus leaving mothers
free for at least part-time work. Day
nurseries could be established for chill
dren of all ages during vacation periods
or for children under school age at any
time and school children could be looked
after outside of school hours to allow
mothers to do war work and release men
for combat or work that women might
not be able to do.
All able-bodied people Of either sex
should be drafted, whether rich or poor
for necessary work to help win the war.
Otherwise we can make no claim to
democracy and cannot hope to keep the
promise of the -four freedoms" to all
the world o. S, MEGREW.