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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
Nora Dinson Feted
At Surprise PARTY

Mrs Madeline Sewell and Lillian
Smith were co-hostesses at a sur
prise birthday party given October
q at 1858 Epworth, home OF Mrs.
Nora Dinson in the latter's honor
Many lovely gifts were received
by the honoree and several flower
arrangements were presented to
her.
Among the guests were: Walter
Dinson. Norma Steele. Henry Scott.
Ethel Harriston. Margaret Dudley.
Mary Todles, Sybil Reed, Frank
Reed. Walter Freck. Clifford
Ernest. Robert Smith and others.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
BROWN MODEL CLUB

Met at the home of Mrs. Rose
Density, where a bridge party was
held. First prize was won by
Clarence Morris, with a BOBBY
being won by Louise Greenway.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Leila Radcliff
Thursday.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04

a group OF women with n similar
purpose in mind organized two
years ago into the Dramatic club.
Their aim was to aid some deserv-
ing boy or girl 10 obtain a higher
education.
This year the club gave a schol-
arship 10 Dolores Matthias, enabling
her TO continue her education al
Wayne university. This pioneering
group Of women became SO fond
Of Dolores that they adopted her
as their club daughter and they
Will continue 10 pay her tuition
until she graduates They hope,
IN the future. 10 be able to award
two scholarships.
Members and officers OF this club
are: Mrs. c. c. Coulter, president;
/ Mollie Taylor. vice-president; Fan
ME Pryor, secretary: Winnie Smith
reporter; Bessie Wilson. club ad-
wiser: ArvIlle Gould. Anna Owen
Henrietta Raidford. Odessa Haw'
kins, Annie B. Hawkins. Anna Bat
tie. Vivian Bethenia and Edna
Mathies.
We feel that such women as these
are doing such vital job for oul
youth in an unobtrusive manner
cannot be commended too highl,
for their splendid work. We pre-
sent TO you the "Drametic Club.
Long may they continue the goo
work!
x X x
JOTTINGS
Well, that busy bird the stork
evened the score in Detroit, Whel
he deposited two bundles from
heaven on the doorstepS OF tw
prominent families. The Sam Lew
ises received pink bundle an
the Nimrod Carneys, Q blue one
THE Sam Lewises named their bun
die Diane and the Carney's choic
was Gerald.
Another firSter is Eleanor Griffir
a visiting teacher Her office is
the Garfield school.
X X y
The reason for that dellghte
smile on Doris HasSen's face,
Pvt Walter Watson. He's her spe
cial beau and is furieughing here
X X ~
Speaking of furloughs. handsome
Cpl Eddie Webb is back from thu
South Pacific which is cause fol
many a feminine heart 10 flutter
X X X
We heard that the Frederick
Stevensons OF Arden Park quietly
celebrated their fourth wedding an
niversary recently.
* x X
Ardenah Johnston was very chit
recently in that silver fox JACKIE
and Marie Reeds suave Persian
lamb did things to her hair.
X X X
Elma and Tcena Clcmentine, two
charmerS from Chicago. paid oul
city visit last week and liked i
so well, they intend 10 return soon
x x X
October is a blue star month fol
Mrs. Bean B. Mohr ,nee Louise
Leonard. On October 10 she eel
ebrated her birthday. and friends
remembered with numerous gifts
Among them. jewelry, lingerie
flowers. cook book. and from
her husband. 1t Dean Mohr. In
Italy. watch and corsage Sun
day % also marked the second an
niversary of Louise and Dean and
so there were flowers on the altar
Of st. Cyprian's Episcopal church
where special prayers were read
for the young couple Later, Mrs
Mohr and a few close relatives had
dinner together.
X !, 4
/ Coxswain William Billy Smith
popped Unexpectedly in town this
week for visit with his family
Billy" has seen service in Italy
and England
!; x X
Victoria Mccall Thomas is in
town and we understand she viii
stay for about three weeks. Al thai
time. she Will reioin her husband
Capt Alfred Thomas Jr.. at TuSke.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
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AT HOME

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are not Delighted. Wonderful Tor CRACKING
hair. breaking off at the ends for itching
scalp. Full directions and advice by doc
tor given 70 you. This eatment and direc.
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hair tonic and the doctors directions. pay
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6 Different WAYS
TO CHANGE THE
v Ok Y oSSk FACE

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Powder actually offers you 6 different
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year and with many new plans.
they expect to make tremendous
strides in the coming year.
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gee. Mrs. Alfred Thomas Sr, will
accompany Victoria back to Tus-
kegee.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04

II YOU stay home from the polls.
YOU stay home from the future.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. FOLKS,
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
WPB Bans foot Suit;
lassies IN Violation

Helena-That sartorial phan-
tasy known as the z Tot suit"
has invited the realm of feminine
fashion but without the approval
or sanction of the War Produc-
ton Board.
There have been few in
stances recently of manufacture
ers of women's clothing produc-
ing a small number of women's
and misses dresses and suits with
tops of thirty-three inches. WPB
regulations. according to Oscar A..
Baarson. District Manager. WPB
Helena. limits the tops as a dress
or suit for misses and junior
misses to twenty five inches. The
makers and retailers price these
articles separately and offer them
for sale 8 coats and dresses.
Such a practice is a fragrant vio-
lation of a WPB order. Mr.. Baar-
son said.
Since garments of this typs are
manufactured and sold 10 direct
violation of WPB regulations
retailers and manufacturers are
adviced to check their stocks
carefully to comply with. the re-
strictions governing manufacture
and sale alike.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28

sent as | have in the past the in
terests of the worker. The farmer,
the grain grower. the livestock
man and of all the people of the
state"
Casey. now chief clerk of the
railroad and public service CON-
mission. was Silver Bow coun-
ty representative in the house of
the 1881 legislature. He was SER
ge2nt at arms If The house in
1878. 1884 and 1895 Casey has
ben Montana resident AZ years,
making his home in Butte and
He ena.
Casey is a veteran Of World
War !. having served with the
first division.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28

Correct-Attest:
j. L. Sherburne,
F. P Sherburne,
w. E. Burnison
Sworn 18th day of April 1914
A. M. Shannon,
Notary Public for the State residing Browning
tana My Commission expires June1 6, 1916.
(Noarys SeaD F. R. GETTY vice-predent cashier
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
Medals For All Girls

Who will be the most outstand-
ing all around" All Club girl in
each county in 1914? This will be
determined in the National Al
Girls Record competition. which
is being continued for the TWEEN.
ty-second consecutive year.
County winners will be award
ed gold-pIated medals of honor
provided by Montgomery Ward,
and the highest rating individual
among them will be named the
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
War Bond Buys
Better Investment
Than Farmland

For the farmer with surplus
money to invest war bonds are
today a better buy than land, be-
lieves VIM. H. BARLEY. executive
director of the Montana War FL
nance Committee, who points out
that for the nation on March l.
1914 the price of land was up 38
DER cent from the average Of the
five pre-wsr years. 1935-1939.
Here in the mountain region,
with the value of farm land up
a. per cent from the 1885 80
period, the rise in land values
has run ahead of the national
average. This makes an invest
ment in land at the present time
all the more dangerous for in the
World War l land boom the Sec
tions of the country hardest hit
in the postwar deflation of the
twenties were the areas where
land values we're inflated most in
the boom.
Secretary Wickard of the de-
partment Of agriculture has ex-
pressed alarm over the sharp rise
in land values, and in a recent
radio speech said: 1.-The behav-
ior of land values is now very
similar to what it was in the last
boom. Since this war started
farm values for the United States
as whole have risen at almost
exactly the same rate as they did
during the last boom period"
Concerning the disastrous period
that followed the World War l
boom. the Secretary said: Two
million farm foreclosures tell the
tragic story
While the person buying land
runs the risk of heavy loss, Bart
ley points out that the farmer
who puts his wartime profits in
war bonds will at the end of ten
years get four dollars for every
three invested. He believes it
would be much easier for the
man who wants to buy more land
to invest in bonds now and wait
until values get back to normal
after the war to purchase the
land. Then land values will be
back in line with peace-tlme
prices for farm commodities.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
PEACE PROBLEMS NOW

Those who advocate focusing
100 per cent attention on fighting
the war and letting peace prob
lens wait are daily finding their
position less tenable, A news
paper that reports Navy Under
secretary Forrestars statement
that the months between now
and midsummer are likely to be
the most critical in Americas
military history is also compelled
to print on the same page War
Mobilizer Byrnes's extensive re-
marks on how workers must be
carried over the transition t o
peace production.
The fact is that the economic
as we'll as political steps that are
taken now, even as the great
military lunge is poised, will have
exacting effects on the quality
and endurance of the peace.
When Mr.. Byrnes, Mr.. Vinson,
Mr.. Bowles, and others of the
economic high command urge
holding the sterilization line they
may speak only of the present
effects at home-of imitation, but
they might also point out that an
inflated America would be tempt
ed to set up new tariff barriers
against the reciprocal trade of the
Debated countries of the world.
Few men have been so eloquent
in our times in emphaizing the
frictions and wars that result
from trade restrictions a g has
been Secretary of State Cordell
Hull.
Likewise, social unrest at
home is hardly conducive to that
sort of internal unity and realis-
tic hardness that America must
probably maintain for some years
in approaching International
problems. A desire to avoid such
unrest during t b e admittedly
difficult time of rehabilitation
and reconversion appears implicit
in Mr.. Byrnes's latest plea that
public unemployment insurance
carry workers through this period
rather than unequal and even un-
certain severance pay granted
from the war.profit reserves of
industry.
Mr.. Byrnes seems to feel those
reserves might better be used in
fastening h e changeover t o
peacetims production. Til a t
appears to he logical postwar
planning.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
Fifth War Loan
Drive June 12-JuIy 8

The Fifth War Loan Drive will
be launched June IL and extend
through July 8. In this effort
America is faced with the most
gigantic war financing program
the world has ever known. $l6,.
600, 600, 900 is the total quota,
g, 900. 900 900 Of which is to be
raised from individuals.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28

Wanted-Good reliable chore
man to do milking. care of chick
ems, etc, steady employment; 2
room house for man Wi h family,
George Plummer. Box Z, Brown
ing.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
Casey Files On Demo.
Ticket For Ry. Com.

Horace F. Casey, state railroad
and public service commissioner
from 1897 to 1892, has announced
that he will file for the demo-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28

states All "O' girl for 1914,
who will receive an all-expense
trip to the National Al Club
Congress in Chicago next Decem-
Der.
State winners are eligible to
compete for national awards of
5000 college scholarships.
County extension agents will
furnish all details.
Last years state winner was
Marjorie Lemar of Chinook.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-04-28
Charter No. l0883
Reserve District No q
Report Of The Condition Of The
First National Bank Of Browning, Montana
Reserve District No. 9

IN THE STATE OF MONTANA AT CLOSE BUSINESS ON
APRIL 49, 1914. PUBLISHED TO CALL MADE BY
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY UNDER SECTION SILL u S
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Chicago Tribune Backs
MArthur In Primary

CHICAGO, April 9. - tR'-The
Chicago Tribune, in a page one
editorial, today Endorsed General
Macarthur in the Illinois Repub-
lican presidential preferential pri-
mary Tuesday.
The newspaper said ga vote for
Macarthur will be a vote for the
return of stalwart Americanism to
the White House."
Macarthur name was entered
in the primary without his con-
sent His opponent in the Republi-
can preference list is Riley Bend
er, a Chicago real estate man.
The result is not binding on The
states delegates to the party's ma
tional convention.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10

be resolved. 1t can be made less
acute by realizing that it exists.
1t We assume, as almost all sea.
soned observers do, that the sol.
diers and war workers who will
not vote would probably vote pre-.
dominantly for the Democratic
party, then the Republican party
needs to take that fact very much
to heart. Its candidate must be a
man who remembers the vote that
is not being cast, and has the i'm.
agination and foresight to take a
line of policy which thi vote
would find acceptable. If he does
not, he will be in grave trouble al
the very next election, open to
the reproach that his title to the
office is not morally altogether
sound. A reactionary Republican
might be in very hot water in
deed by 1916.
On the other hand, if the Presi-
dent really decided to run again,
and is reelected, he, too, must
realize that the country would nev.
er have considered asserting to q
fourth term but for the war. So il
the war ends in the early part Of
his fourth term, he will be in the
awkward position of a President
who remains in office long after
the only reason for keeping him in
office has disappeared That will
not be very happy situation to
be in.
The difficulties are apparently
insoluble. That is why it is SC
important to dwell upon them. It
may be, it is not at all impos-
sible, that this is a situation when
the wisdom of the people, chal-
lenged by the difficulties and the
risks, will order things differently
than we now imagine. The people
have a way at times of managing
such things as this better than the
political spectators foresee.
They might conclude, for exam.
Pile, in effect tc ignore the cleo.
ton and not to have a change.
Or equally they might conclude
that change is SO necessary that
they will not put up with a bitter
fight about it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Nazi Chief In Italy
Jittery Over Possible
New Allied Landings

LONDON, April Up - Field
Marshal General Albert Kesserling,
German commander in Italy, is
hourly expecting new Allied land
hgs on both of the North Italian
coasts on the Gulf of Genoa on
he west and at the head of the
Aorlatlc on the east - broad
cast by the German war cores
pondent, Gunther Weber, said to-
day.
Inc calm reigning the last few
Jays on the Italian front may be
ae calm before the Storm" We
9FS quoted one of Kesserling'
S'all officers as saying.
Al the northern flanks on both
.uaSlS the German command is
a'afly expecting new enemy land
1S operations. Defense positions
S dt,u troop concentrations have been
directed here"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
Today and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

To hold national election ir
war time is to put the public spiri
OF the politicians and the people
to a severe test. Yet in Grea
Britain, where elections an bt
postponed, there are accommodating
signs that there are serious dis
advantages in not having an cleo
ton: that difficult as it is to con
suit the people when they are al
war, government which lacks {
fresh mandate from the people
has its difficulties. too.
In this country of course. the
test cannot be evaded even if il
we're desirable &c do SO. The best
way to meet it, then, is to be.
come fully aware of the risks O,
the election, and by that aware
ness to let the overriding com
mon sense of the nation reduce
the risks to a minimum.
The controversy over the sol
diers' vote has disclosed one oil
the principal risks of a wartime
election. It is that the next Ad
mlnlstration may not have a de-
pendable mandate. This risk ex
lists, of course, under the measure
which Congress adopted. 1t woulo
also have existed, however, under
the bill which the President ia.
vored. 1t is inherent in the fact
of there being war, and no leg.
islation could remove it.
AS matters stand now under the
Congressional law, it is in h G
highest degree unlikely that most
of the qualified voters in the
armed forces will in fact vote. Il
is also unlikely that great mum.
bers of war workers who have
migrated will be able to vote. II
these predictions are correct, the
character of the electorate will be
radically different from what il
would be in peace time. The pro.
portion of elderly voters and Of
women voters will be above nor.
NAL, the proportion of t i v e
younger men below normal. The
electorate will not only be small.
err, which might not matter, but
it will tend to be unrepresenta.
tive, which does matter.
The Federal ballot, for which
the Presidents supporters con-
tended, might have cured this sta.
tistical abnormality. But it would
have introduced an abnormality Of
it's own. It is that several mil.
lion young men who are stationed
abroad, who are separated from
their fellow citizens, who cannot
really hear the issues debated
would have cast a powerful, per
haps the deciding vote. That, too
in a somewhat less obvious way
perhaps, but just as fundamental
ly. is not truly representative gov
eminent. There are countries
France, for example. which pro
hibit voting by soldiers on the
ground that when man is under
military orders he cannot perform
the functions of a citizen; and thai
democracy must protect itself
against letting the Army get into
politics and against letting poll
tics get into the Army.
The American tradition does not
60 that far. But the same princi
pie is involved in our feeling that
active soldiers should not be &C.
tive in politics.
The upshot of all this is that the
nation is in a dilemma. 1t canno'