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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
Milkweed Pickers
Wanted: Silk Is
Needed for w ar

This fall, school children can help
directly in winning the war and saw
ing lives by picking milkweed pods
for the light buoyant floss that must
go into the making of life jackets
and aviators' suits.
Because the Japanese cut off the
nations kapok fiber supply from the
Dutch East Indies, the armed serv-
ices are asking for every pound of
milkweed floss that can possibly be
collected this coming September and
October. By the first week of school,
most teachers and pupils in the
northeastern quarter of the United
States will have instructions on
picking, drying and shipping pods,
and information on obtaining bags
free of charge. The Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, All club leaders, county
agricultural agents, war boards and
local soil conservation service Of
fees will also be furnished with full
information. This section of the
country is getting most of the at
tention for it is here that most milk
weed grows. The heaviest known
stands are found in the northwestern
corner of Michigans lower PENN
sula, around Petoskey. Every coun-
ty, however, from Maine to Vir-
ginia and from Missouri to Mime
sofa, as well as many counties in
other states, have some plants. 1t is
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
The Rambling Rhymster
BY LES PLETTNER
Yesterday

Although full many years have
flown,
II seems like yesterday,
As retrospective glance is thrown,
On living sad and gay.
The days way back in district
school,
The days upon the farm.
For moment now they memory rule,
In recollection warm.
The father-mother-a the home,
The old familiar place.
The evenings in the dusky gloam,
Time never can erase.
The days when preparations Ger.
You stepped into the world,
To face the battles din and roar,
With banner bright unfurled.
The failures and the triumphs strong,
Which you met on the way.
The sadness and the joyous song
1t seems like yesterday.
The thought of romance fresh and
sweet,
That came along your path
OF her you we're destined to meet,
No finer memory hath.
They all come crowding back again,
As old lights round them play
So bright it seems that they have
been
Brought out Of yesterday.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
COP Has Some Kind
Words for Bureaus

Federal responsibility (regard-
ing agriculture) should be directed
to such economic sterilization
through disposition Of SURPRISES, as
surance of fair market prices. :"
Who says this? The 26 Republican
governors assembled in st. Louis
early this month to back Mr..
Dewey's presidential campaign.
They represented, we opine, both
the common man" and likewise,
the uncommon man."
And if you want further support
for Mr. Bingham's thesis that the
leaders in the world of technology,
the men who own the machines and
supervise their operation, like some
of the bureaucrats, note the state
ment from authentic sources that
after the war industry is going to
encourage the perpetuation of some
of the functions of the OPA and the
WPB because it is thought they can
help stabilize industry.
On the other side of the medal,
again, just to preserve a nice bal
ance, what about the GI Bill of
Rights? That law puts into the
hands of the federal government
the administration of the greatest
welfare program ever framed.
take it that high, low and middle
are willing to pay for the bureau
Gratis to run this program out of
the federal treasury. It was passed
unanimously by congress.
So it goes.
We can boil down the debate in
congress over unemployment insur-
ance and the effort to put the ad-
ministration of the payments into
the hands of the states, into much
more immediate and practical ques-
ton than the broad principle of
states rights, Capitalization of gov
eminent or the growth of bureauc-
racy 1t is simple matter here Of
whether the administration (any
administrator handing out the ben
efits directly. sets up the office
holders who do the handing out,
or whether the state governments
Estate political machines) assume
these gracious functions. In other
words. who gets the political sup
port in return?
I'm sorry but that's the way it is.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

room table or out of several book
cases placed end to end with the
shelf side facing in. Cover with
white cloth. Have all the makings
for sodas, sundaes and yes, even
banana splits. Have prices pasted
up on the wall behind the bar (if
you have a mirror behind you, it's
much more realistic). If you're
patriotic you'll make everything cost
a l0-cent war stamp. AS hostess
wear white soda-jerker coat and
take your guests orders. They'll
eat it up-and you can take that
literally.
Make Like Statue-'Member that
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
Changing Times Call for
Creation Of j. :. Bureaus
Various Interests Favor Special Agencies for
Own Problems; Patronage PIuns Sought
BY Political Parties.
BY BAUKHAGE
Nerus analyst and Commentator.

Bingham, was the technical revo-
luton, another name for the indus
trial revolution which has made
mass production and all the won
ders of the machine age possible.
Billion-dollar corporations required
some government control; various
industries, notably those producing
and using the automobile and the
airplane called for highway and sky
way encouragement, regulation and
guidance. The huge department Of
commerce, with its many activities
conducted to aid business became
separate entity in 1903 and has
grown steadily since.
And right here we might assert
that the common man, and, if you
will, the less common man, worker,
farmer, artisan, executive or entire
preneur, although he joins merrily
in the chorus denouncing the
bureaucrats in general, doesn't want
the particular bureaucrat who is
ready to help his particular inter-
est, disturbed. If he does not
actually demand the services of
such bureaucrat, he may create
situation which his competitor, or
those who may become his victim,
insist must be controlled by the gov
eminent.
Of course, Mr.. Bingham's answer
to all this is that a growing ex-
pansion of governmental powers is
all right, so long as it is self-govern-
ment. Without debating that ques-
ton let's see exactly how badly the
bureaucrat is really hated.
But you will find that there are
bureaucrats and bureaucrats.
You will find no complaint about
the civil servant who carries out the
DEGREES of the peoples duly elected
representatives, provided those de-
crees have been sponsored, not to
say lobbied, through congress at
said compliments request.
Let US consider the following state
ment concerning one bureau, pre-
sumably administered, if I read my
Webster Alright, by bureaucrats:.
Federal aid in building and
maintaining highways, as carried
out under Republican administra-
tons and since continued, is sound
and comparatively harmonious pro-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
Dog Chases Street Car
And Gets Round Trip

ST. PAUL, MINN.-When a small
bulldog nearly ran. himself bow
legged chasing streetcar here, the
motorman, Clarence W. Olson, Min
neapolis, stopped the car and let the
dog get aboard. Did it belong to
anybody on the car, he inquired? 1t
didn't. So the motorman let it stay
on as nonpaying passenger for the
round trip and brought it back to
St. Paul. There he let the dog off.
All IN q days work.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
B r E F S by Baukhage

More bituminous coal is being pro-
duced for World War II than was
mined during World War l, with ap-
proximately one-third fewer miners.
In spite Of difficulties imposed by
battle conditions, the Red Cross has
increased by 10 per cent the mes
sages delivered from servicemen in
staging and combat zones to their
families.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

A Go To = School drive has been
opened by the United States office Of
education, the federal security
agency and the children's bureau Of
the department of labor to combat
the nationwide decline in high
school enrolment.
Students in $50 Japanese schools
are busy breeding rabbits to pro-
vide clothing for soldiers.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
Bats Employ 'Radar'
To Dodge Obstacles
When Flying in Dark

The flying bat at night employs
natural radar" to avoid colliding
with trees and other obstacles. The
little animal sends out cries, too
shrill to be heard by the human ear,
that help it to locate things in its
path. DR.. Robert Galambos of the
University of Rochester medical
school recounted his experiments
in General Electric science
forum address at Schenectady,
New York.
bats move around almost ex-
clusively in complete darkness
search of food-"except for moon
and starlight" DR.. Galambos said.
That means they would collide with
trees, bushes and fenceposts, unless
they had some way to tell where
such obstacles are located.
Although bats have eyes, they pre-
fer to live and feed in darkness.
The method used by the flying bat
depends on the production of sound
and the analysis of echoes. AS the
bat flies through the air, it emits a
constant stream of high-pitched
cries, which permeate the space in
front of the animal. If there are
any obstacles out there, like tree
branches or fenceposts, the sound
is reflected or echoed back. The bat
hears these echoes, changes its
course, and flies into regions which
are echo-free.
Physicists have invented cleo
tronic devices for detecting the
supersonic sounds of bats, DR..
Galambos continued.
"When DR.. Donald Griffin and I
were asking ourselves whether
bats produced a supersonic cry, we
took the problem to Prof. G. w.
Pierce, the expert in supersonic
sound at Harvard u, who very
generously turned over to us what
ever laboratory space and equip
ment we required.
1.-THE instrument we needed most
was a so-called sonic amplifier,
device which converts supersonic
sounds into audible ones. With it we
were able to show that so long as
bats fly, they emit constant stream
of cries in which frequencies around
$4,000 cycles were particularly
strong" the doctor explained.
Humans cannot hear much above
about 10000 cycles. And as people
grow older, the upper limit drops
lower and lower, until at 60 or so,
a person is deaf above about 5000
cycles.
1.-THE bat emits a steady 'tat-tat-
tat of about 30 supersonic cries
second as it cruises. about in the
air." DR.. Galambos said. "But when
an obstacle lies ahead, this rate just
about doubles momentarily, then
drops back to 80 again when the
obstacle is passed"
DR.. Griffin and DR.. Galambos
watched about hundred bats and
also experimental further to show
the importance of the supersonic cry
in another way. They tied the mouth
of the animal closed and then let it
fly away. Those gagged animals were
helpless in the air. But as soon as
they cut the strings, each bat
avoided obstacles once again.
The physicists also found that
plugged ears were as dangerous as
gags for the bats, the latter bump
ing into obstacles again. Funda-
mentally the same vocal structure
produces supersonic cries in bats
as produces speech in man.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

down, retie any that have been
opened and, especially after wet
weather, to shake each bag to fluff it
up and help drying. Dew, rain or
snow do not hurt the pods if the
bags are hung up properly. After
two to six weeks, the thoroughly
dried bags are put indoors to await
pickup.
The floss of the milkweed plant
is very elusive substance. AS the
plant approaches seasonal maturity
the leaves drop, the stem gradually
ceases to function and while the pods
cling tenaciously to the stem, they
lose moisture and shrivel until they
split and release floss and seed.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

Your unused porch can be trans
formed into an ideal place to spend
most of your vacation. 1t takes
little effort, and some ingenuity to
fix up a porch, but it can be done
and inexpensively too.
An open patio can be screened by
running a porch shade out from the
caves, over the patio, to several
poles on the opposite side of the
patio.
An awning ceiling, and roller
shade sides make a second living
room for you. 1t will afford you
privacy, and a cool spot to loll for
hours.
Ledger Syndicate.-wNu Features.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

All children are urged to watch
for the purplish flowers and fat
green pods of milkweed (Ascle-
pias), making notes on locations
where they are to be found and on
the areas where they are most abun-
dant. Then, in early Fall when the
seed within the pods begin to turn
brown, the picking can get under
way Immediately in those marked
locations. Picking starts about the
middle of September. knowledge
of the natural distribution of milk
weed within the United States indi-
Gates that it is possible to obtain
from one to two million pounds of
floss annually.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

Your face gets into the Eternal
Triangle, too! Have you narrow
forehead? A wide jaw and a narrow
face? That's it! Combat it cleverly
by brushing your hair up from the
sides and expose the forehead. This
gives length to the face. Soft hair
line over the ear, but smooth at the
jawline. Little rouge but that little
well blended. Accent on the mouth.
Eyebrows groomed to their natural
line.
Ledger Syndicate-wNU Features.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08

form a lily Will
make your next
party a headline
hit if you make it
a soda Fountain
Fie sta" Send
your invitations
out, written on
wooden ice-cream
spoons - just for
a t m o S p h e r e.
M a k e a S o d a
fountain out of
vo,,r 1opo 6ipino
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
Spending for War Is
Slowing Down a Bit

Observation-Disclosures spending
slowed down bit in the first half
of July.
The treasury's statement for
July IS reported war expenditures
of So, 1888, 272, 293 compared with
So, STA, 277. 635 in the same period
of June. In the first half of July,
1913, the expenditures totaled 49,
100, SAC, 1888.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
WNU Service, Union Trust Building

WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, d. C.
The much-mooted question of
states rights as against the over
Capitalization of government in
which is Jumped neatly
into the one word "bureaucracy" -
is due for thorough airing in the
coming political campaign.
The recent debate in the senate
over reconversion, especially in the
contest over whether the federal
government should administer the
unemployment payments during the
change-over from war production to
civilian production, is a good ex-
ample.
There will be much sound and
fury, much laundering in the index
on this subject. Little will be found
to have been accomplished when the
dust settles. For in this question we
behold an interesting paradox. New
Dealers as well as Republicans, left
wingers as well as right-wingers, de-
plore the growing Capitalization of
power in the federal government as
threat to democracy. And yet, all
of them, when they sit down to look
at the facts, admit privately that
there is little or no chance of check
ing this trend.
The very groups which oppose the
tendency toward the creation of
more federal machinery and de-
nounce the bureaucrats the loudest,
are insistent that enough of the
bureaucrats who handle their spe
cial interests be spared whenever
the axe threatens to fall.
1t is upon this little inconsistency
that President Roosevelt always
hangs his rebuttal whenever Sena-
tor Byrd and other critics of his law
ish government spending call for
reduction of the government pay
roll.
OF course, the war badly dis
turbed the traditional democratic in
stitution of checks and balances and
lifted private enterprise right out by
the hair and sat down in its place
with the brutal Indifference which is
associated with Mars. The federal
government today finds itself doing
business on a scale larger than all
peacetime enterprise put together.
Some of these activities are bound
to stick when normal times finally
return, but the trend toward
bureaucracy started even before
that.
According to Alfred Bingham who
has written a book called 1.-THE
Practice of Idealism," which you
ought to read whether you can agree
with it or not, the trend toward
bureaucracy is due largely to two
of five revolutions which he says
are going on now.
Bingham says that revolution re-
suits from the pent-up pressure of
delayed social change" He believes
that, like water-power, it can
"either sweep in a destructive food
over peaceful cities and FARMS" or
it can be controlled and turned to
hepaGcio1
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
ARE YOU A PARTY GIRL?

AICE 1OU n HICI O1ISA'
Well, if you're not, you'd like to
be, so here are some suggestions for
making your next rat-race SO cata-
cIysmic that all the other kids will
start giving parties. As we've said
before (monotonous morons, aren't
we?), you have to give parties If
you want to 60 to them.
Soda Fountain Fiesta - You know
how much fun it is to sit around the
soda fountain after school and pass
the chatter around This same in
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
Revolt of Common Man
ENCOURAGES Bureaucracy

The first of the revolutions he
names, and one of those which
has encouraged bureaucracy and in
creased the demands on the fed
eral governments manpower, is the
"revolt of the common man." OF
course, that revolt has been going
on Justify with the start it got at the
barricades in Paris and the events
which occurred between Lexington
and Yorktown, but the depression of
1929 moved it ahead quite peg in
this country, to say nothing of what
happened after World War all over
the world, including the birth of
communism, fascism, and all their
freak off-shoots.
Bingham says it was the call of
the common man for social and eco
nomic security which was one of the
two chief causes of the growing GEN.
tralization of government. He cites
as two examples, the labor group
which demanded that their interests
be looked after, and the farmers.
(The labor department, which had
been part of the department of
commerce since 1908, was created
separate unit in 1879 Bingham
says that the vast organization un-
der the department of agriculture
was the result of the insistence by
farmers that agriculture be recog-
nized and assisted.
The second revolution, the de-
poapds of which hro,,phf about oddi
tional federal activity. according to
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-08
GAY CADETS"
By NANCY PEPPER
Associated Newspapers-wNU Features.

game of Statues" you played when
you were younger? The person
who was 'it," turned his back and
counted 10 and when he wheeled
around quickly you had to freeze
like statue or you were "out."
Try the same thing on the dance
foor-only make it harder and more
hilarious by announcing what the
statues must represent, just before
each unexpected music pause. For
instance, announce, "Sinatra and a
swooner" for one statue or "a low
er's quarrel" for another. Couples
freezing into the best statues get
points and at the end of the Statue
Dance the couple that has the most
points gets the prize.
FOR FRIENDSHIPS SAKE
Everybody's wearing friendship
rings. The main idea is to have each
ring inscribed with the initials of
the person who gave it to you. Here's
how some of the gals (and boys) are
wearing their rings these days.
String Them Along-Popular girls
receive so many friendship rings
that they haven't enough fingers to
60 round. 5000 they string their
rings on chain or black velvet rib
bon and wear them around their
necks as a necklace.
Chain Gang - Boys wear their
friendship rings on their watch
chains.
Fair Exchange-Some boys buy
two matching friendship rings-one
to give to their favorite fiutterbump,
one to wear themselves.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1944-12-01

Speaking of civic efforts, al
lowances, l know, should always
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1944-12-01

Miss Helen De Asis, charming
debutante daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Francisco De Asis, enter
tanned her friends from the MAIN
land December 4 at her lovely
home on 26O North School Street.
Honolulu, OahO, L. H., with an
est-to-goOdness Filipino DIM
ner. After the joyful consumma-
ton of half a dozen different orl-
entail delicacies, the party went
motoring along the majestic
sceneries of the tropical Islands.
Fishing was INDUCED in during
the afternoon, and the sizeable
catch graced the flower decorated
supper table. Grateful and very
well pleased guests were Messrs.
Silvestre p. Garcia, Esteban X.
De Asis, and Tel. 1. BayIon..
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenzo Nuezea
threw an impromptu party at
their residence on 1909 A Demo-
crat Street, Honolulu, Oahu, T.
H., the evening of December 4
on the occasion of the surprise
visit of their many friends from
the USAT IMPERIAL. Refresh
ments, Filipino-style, were served
the night. The party
broke up in the wee hours of the
Attending were Messrs.
Tommy Gonzales, Ray Otero,
Mike Domingo, Max Salvador,
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1944-12-01

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Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1944-12-01
Chinatown Whispers
By the Rambling Reporter

The Holiday Season is with us
again. Christmas means remem-
boring, and New Year, the maxi
ing of new resolutions. Christmas
will be a lot sweeter if we'll re-
member the sufferings of our
war-ravaged people, and New
Year will be perfectly grasd II
We'll top-list in our resolutions
the promise of aiding them to
the best of our ability. How
about it, compatriots?
Let me think. Oh, yes, the
date set for the election of the
future headman in the commun-
ity is not very far off. Now, to
avoid the chaotic disunity which
we have witnessed this year, let's
do the selection of the next Of
ficers the right way; l mean,
what the Constitution says. If
honestly followed, you can bet
all the laundrymen in China that
there won't be any murmur
against cooperation, What do you
say, Miss President?
Orchids, and / mean the fresh
est ones, for Mrs. Aurelia Do
mingo for doing her best in the
sale of bonds for the Sixth war
Loan Drive. Alone, and | got il
from a very trustworthy source,
she had sold no less than three
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1944-12-01

thousand dollars. That, my
friends, knowing our handicaps,
is big money. My respect to you,
Madame, and l only hope there
are more like you in our COM
munity.
You know I've never seen my
very good friend, FDF, get hot
and bothered about anything be-
fore. But when 1 happened to
ask him about the two Common
wealth Day shindigs, he got real
ly sore, if not mad His temper
may be set off by the fire of
patriotism in his heart. I do not
know, but then there is also such
thing as right is right. Had
FDR blitzed himself into the Of
flee of President, l mean. without
due regard to that old standby,
the CONSTITUTION, don't you
think there won't be any posi-
bility of a rip in this land Of
milk and honey? Now I ask you.
Speaking of civic efforts. al
lowances, l know, should always
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1944-12-01

When stopping in Honolulu, a
very nice place where to park
yourself to quench your thirst, or
perhaps give your feed-bag a
very good fill, is the Leliha Serv-
ice Grill on 1888 Leliha Street.
You'll find the hostess, Mrs.
Mary G. Villalba, an accommo-
dating and a very charming wo-
man. And so is lovely Miss San
dra Diaz with her magnetic
COME HITLER smiles.