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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-11-15

EUREKA NEWS

With Our Service Boys and Girls
Jarvis Finch has returned to Eu-
reka from Fort Douglas where he
received his discharge.
Leroy Frost returned last week
from Fort Douglas with discharge
from the Army.
Dale Osler of Trego received a
discharge from the Army last week
at Fort Douglas.
Herb Wilkie of Fortine has re-
ceived his discharge from the Army
and has returned home from Fort
Sill, Oklahoma.
Bob Harrig of Fortine has gotten
a discharge from the Army and is
now home.
Thomas H. Price, S lie has sent
word home with his folks that his
ship the u. S. S. Missoula has
joined the Magic Carpet Fleet. They
will bring service men home from
the Pacific and will come to the
states every two months.
Dick Ingram has received dis
charge from the Army
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-11-15
Osterbcrg Peltier Nuptials

MISS belLy Fellfef, daughter Oh
Mr.. and Mrs. VERNE Peltier Of
Eureka, Montana and Charles Os-
terberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Osterberg of South Gate. California
were joined in marriage on Novem-
Der 10, l945 in the Sacred Heart
Catholic Church of Spokane with
the Rev. Father O'Connor officiat-
ing The ceremony was double ring
and the bride had as her Matron of
honor, Mrs. James Campbell of
Spokane and her bridesmaid was
Miss Ramon Peltier of Eureka. Cpl
Roy Baer of Spokane was best man
and S/Sgt. James Campbell was
head usher, also of Spokane.
The bride wore suit of blue and
pink with pink accessories and car
ried a prayer book with an orchid
attached. The Matron of Honor wore
black and white checked suit with
black accessories and had a corsage
of talisman roses The bridesmaid
was wearing a tan suit with brown
talisman roses.
"A Weddlng reception was held IN
Sports Room of the Dessert Hotel
after the ceremony, for relatives
and friends. Mrs. Osterberg is
graduate of Lincoln County High
School at Eureka and attended the
Montana State University at Miss
oula for two yaers. where she was
member Of Sigma Kappa sorority
She has recently been employed
at KFPY radio station in Spokane,
Washington. Mr.. Osterberg enlisted
in the National Guards in l94l and
served n months overseas in the
Pacific theatre of operations and
has recently been honorably dis
charged from the service. He at
tended the University of Arizona at
Flagstaff for two years and plans to
reenter the University the first of
the year to complete his studies.
Out-of-toWn guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Osterberg of South
Gate. California, Mr. and Mrs. Yer
ME Peltier, Ramona and James. and
Miss Clara Belle Dierman. all of
Eureka, Montana; Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Eberth of Colville, Washington and
Mrs. Roy Eissinger of Brockway,
Montana. The couple left Spokane
Monday for California
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
No Joke

In certain respects price control has become grim joke--a joke that may boomerang with deadly effect. Many present shortages are the result of pric- es fixed too low. In other words, prices have been over controlled at the expense of production. The OPA has had the satisfaction of keeping price tags down with nothing to hang them on. But before you laugh, stop to think what this means.
 The entire retail distribution system operates on very thin turnover profit margin-around one and one-half per cent for larger chain stores Retailing lives by volume. When production falls off under the impact of artificially low prices, volume falls off. An authority in the food chain business states that public officials realize that sharply de- creased supply of meats, poultry, dairy products, some processed foods, cigar cites and other short items inevitably means falling volume which in turn means possible operating losses which could conceivably weaken or even paral- yze the food distribution system" Ad- mittedly, all shortages are not caused by impractical price ceilings. However, plenty are caused by this fault and more are appearing every day.
 It is no public service for the OPA or any other government agency to blind itself to the danger of interfering with maximum production and distribution, by price juggling. The greatest single stabilizing force outside of the govern ment, is the modern American retail distribution system. If the efficiency of this system is undermined, the OPA will be helpless to make any sort of control effective. If the merchant cannot oper- ate successfully, imitation cannot be con- trolled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Selected Poem
FAIR HARBoR

(Fleur Conkling in The Christian Science
 Monitor) This is the place where sky and ocean meet In quick, symphonic trembling of delight; The sun may come and go-the stars retreat, But flames eternal beauty in its might The white sands skirt untrammeed on the
 shore,
 Running unchecked except by mothering dune.
 And grasses flecked with misty silver store Bright splinters gently pilfered from the
 moon. The far horizon holds miraged & ship Rocked on green foam as winds will sway a
 flower. And clouds like swans their downy plumage
 dip In nests of blue that tint the summer hour. Inland scrub oak and pine determined hold The sandy soil. Intrepid with wild strength, The juniper runs free and uncontrolled Spawning its brood along the island length. Faint rose scent trails the air. Bayberries
 bloom.
 Grading the sea in each small waxen cup Washed by the spraying surf's ecstatic broom, A frenzied housewife bent on cleaning up The little houses fit well in the scheme, Fran toys of whitened cards to toss away, But tangible enough to hold a dream And shelter humans at the close of day. While over all the white gulls' mating cry Forever torn between the land and sky.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

existence is still boy gets girl-or vice verSa-not social revolution.
 Of course all this may be part of a subtle and sinister plot. Perhaps the Marxist producers are trying to goad the proletariat to action by these views of the happy, prosperous people of Never-Never
 Land. They may be secretly arming desperate band to seize the Hays office, take over the studios, and shoot down the $1000-a-week screen writers like dogs. But our secret suspicion is, that the con- gressional investigation, if it ever comes off, will wind up with Hollywood's decid- ing to do remake of "The Birth of a Nation," and with Rep. Silent John" Rankin of Mississippi in the role of the Little Colonel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

RYE SCARS
 As news of the Belgian deal leaked out, rye scared so high that the Commodity Credit Cor poration sold 50,0O0 bushels it had left over from the Belgian transaction of a lush profit of $20,
 Meanwhile, the Belgians want ed more rye-at the taxpayers expense through lend-lease. But this time TEA turned them down. finally, the Belgians offered to pay their own cash and were al- lowed to buy half a million more bushels on the promise that they would not use it for cattle feed. Actually, they wanted to buy even more. But the U. s. Army step ped in and bought a million bushels, partly to keep it out of Belgian hands.
 By this time, valuable freight car space needed for wheat was being used to carry rye to the Atlantic seaboard. And every time a few freight cars were loaded with rye, an item ap- peared in the press-obviously a planted story by those in- terested in boosting the price of rye.
 So finally the Department of Agriculture stepped in and em- barged rye shipments to the Att. lantic Seaboard. It was at this point that Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois used his influence to try to keep Rye moving. He was acting at the behest of his friends on the Chicago Board of Trade. who wanted to clear rye out of Chicago. There Is no evidence that Lucas was financially inter- ested.
 Simultaneously. Senator Pass The Biscuits Pappy" O'Daniel of Texas also began buttonholing officials in order to permit the movement of Rye. Pappy was working at the behest of Ralph Moore, who. in turn, was work ing with Dan Rice, the Rye manipulator for general foods.
 All the more recent senate lobbying, however, failed to budge new Secretary of Agri- culture Clinton Anderson. He has remained adamant that freight-car space eastward must be used for wheat, dairy feed, and other more essential grains, rather than helping general foods unload the million of bushels of rye which they hOarded in one of the greatest grain speculations of the cen- tury.
 NOTE - General Foods has come out of the deal in good shape. It looks as if they made real money. The price of rye has risen from around 52 cents a bus shel, when they first went into the market in 1942, to around $50 bushel. In addition, Bel guim and UNRRA came to their rescue, and finally the War Pro- duction Board has thrown out another life-saver by resuming the distilling of whisky. This means that General Foods has probably sold another million bushels of rye to the whisky dis tillerS this month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

People are just beginning to appreciate the hardships of travel-that is travel for pleasure. Some who are returning from sojourns tell of standing in trains, poor accommodations, and the difficult ties finding places to eat. These are some of the reasons you are urged to stay at home this summer. The difficulties that present themselves when looking for a place to eat are greater away from home At home you know what to ex- pect, or not to expect, and can plan ac- cordingly. But if you find yourself un- known in an unknown summer resort you will discover that you are not going to get service. So it seems to be indi- cated that it might be wiser to stay at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Movie Marxism

The promised congressional investiga- tion of alleged Communism in the film colony has us in state of high excite Aent which none of Hollywoods coming attractions has been able to arouse for years. We await results of the search for Comnie in every swimming pool more breathlessly than we did the search for somebody to play Scarlet O'Hara. A Cal ifornia state legislative committee has offered to help the House of Representa- tiveS Investigators One state senator has spoken darkly of great volumes of information" on Marxism (not to be con- fused with the Marx Brothers). He speaks even more darkly of programs of Individuals and organizations in Holly wood for the destruction of the ConSti- tuition and the American way of life" Since Hollywood possesses one of the worlds most potent propaganda media, it would seem silly if the allegedly sub versive moviemakers didn't use it if they wanted to undermine capitalism and the Constitution.
 So we've been searching such movie plots as we can recall for clew to their use as instruments of Communist rev. olution. But alas, most of them fall into the same old familiar patterns that would make Marxist's hair curl. So far as we can see, Hollywood still glorifies the ca pitalistic way of life. For the most part the movie characters are still happy, well fed and beautifully groomed. Various enabodiments of the Horatio Alger hero are still popular, and overworked. The poor but beautiful young secretary still lands the boss or, better still, the rich young man whose inherited wealth lets him devote his full time to being an ut tefly charming wolf. The goal of movie
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Press Comment
"E" FOR EDUCATION

(The Christian Science Monitor
 Junior asked . pertinent question tn other day. Referring to the "E' awards bestowed on concerns f0 outstanding war production, he in quired: Why don't they give them to the schools?" Although question. ing developed he was referring to the very successful waste-paper col lection drive in which his grade hac taken part, the fact remains tha, few institutions have contributed more vitally to the all-out effort than Americas schools.
 It was the sound grounding thai they received in mechanical draw ing in high schools which helped its designers to evolve and commit te blueprint form designs for the sB-29 The dexterity developed in manual training classes made possible ih speedy building. Higher nlathen1a' tics prepared its navigators.
 The nations system of education developed an adaptability that made it possible for millions of men to bt welded into an unsurpassed army within an astonishingly short time And school-nurtured skills helped ohter millions to turn out the wea. pons of war. A richly deserved E' to all of the schoolhouses in the landl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

One thing this war has done, it has made many people tidy. Time was when housekeepers thought nothing of stack ing papers, magazines and boxes ceiling high. Those that would not fit in the cellar made their way to the attic. That little habit of saving things was common with great many. Then along came the war period procedure of salvaging every thing that you once threw away or carted to cellar or attic. Today we hesitate be- fore throwing away the smallest scrap; if we don't we should We have mania for clearing cupboards, closets and cor ners under the stairs That's the out come of general salvage. All this is lead ing up to the announcement that there will be a general paper salvage in town Sunday, July 29. Join the scrap to fill in the gap!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
psChosen Instrument" or Competition

President Truman says that it will be all right for three American air lines to operate over international routes for the next seven years. But Senator Pat Mc- Carran, of Nevada, says it ain't neces- sarily so. The Senator is champion Of the chosen instrument" as opposed to "controlled competition" in our interna- tional commercial flying. He has writ ten bill to create single "All-Amerlcan Flag Line" which he is expected to bring to the Senate floor shortly, after months of committee hearings that wound up ln a tie vote. Nothing beyond confusion can be predicted if Congress should vote to create this one-company air line. The President has signed the Civil Aero nautics Board certification which would permit Pan American, IVA and Amer ican Export to fly as far as Moscow, Bombay and Calcutta. And there seems to be considerable doubt that the McCar- ran bill, if passed could be retroactive ln the face of the Truman-signed certlflca- ton. Nevertheless, Senator McCarran and others are continuing their cam paien for the chosen instrument" They argue that the United States can com QCGC WltI1 Ot11C1 NOul4oAASS 6ONSAAAAAASAAS subsidized aviation monopolies only by creating a one-company line of it's own.
 lt is true that our international avia- ton was in the hands of one company until the war, in spite of the CAA act Of 1888 which permitted regulated compe- tition to the extent of serving domestic and international commerce, the postal system, and national defense. The Mc- Carran bill apparently would recreate and perpetuate the monopoly. It would permit domestic carriers to acquire ln- terest in the single overseas line, If they desired, in proportion to their individual share of the total gross revenue of all commercial air lines. But it is foresee- able that several domestic competitors attempt to run a harmonious business might result in confusion and eventual operation by one company. Champions of the ''chosen instrument" have failed to prove that elimination of competition in international flying would reduce the single company's costs, increase it's eff ciency, or lessen the need of government subsidy.
 The history of our industrial progress suggests that competition has promoted, rather than retarded, low costs and high efficiency, and that it has stimulated re- search, production and employment. On the other hand, the history of chosen instruments" shows that government regulation of a single company usually winds up in government control of it. It seems safe to say that the United States government and most of its cit izens don't want monopoly or subsidized control. The State, War, Navy, Justice and Commerce Departments are on rec ord in favor of controlled competition" in aviation. The Presidents signing of the CAB certification indicates that he Is of the same mind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

again and ravage those liberties.
 Liberty is something which must be continuously guarded. It may be we shall have to keep a large mili- tary equipment to do this. Or per- haps some more constructive means may be found But let us be con- scious of the fact that even after we have won our war against Japan, freedom will be in about as much danger as it has always been.
 Liberty has to be guarded against the selfish encroachmentS of those who care much for themselves and not at all for their fellow men.
 All Rights Reseryedr-Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

ly Ed Pauley, former treasurer of the Democratic National Commit tee.
 Other Democrats active in rye were Senator "Pappy" O'Daniel of Texas, Senator Happy" Chand- Ter of Kentucky. Attorney General Bob Kenny of California, and Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois.
 Senator Lucas was chiefly en- gagged in trying to lift transpor- tation restrictions so the Chicago boys could unload their tremen- dous quantities of rye. Chandler and Kenny were let in on the deal through their friend, Ed Pauley. Their profits were relatively small, Chandler making less than $100.
 They were stowaways cOm-
 pared with the really big opera
 tors, General Foods, owned in
 part by Mrs. Joe Davis, wife
 of Ro0Sevelt's former ambasSa-
 dor to Belgium and to Russia.
 General Foods, after buying 89
 per cent of all the deliverable
 supply of rye and being stuck
 with it, then performed a beau
 tiful salesmanship job in per-
 sIading the Belgian government
 to take a million bushels off its
 hand-paid for by U. s. tax
 payers through lend-lease.
 The Department of Agricul-
 ture has now ordered hear
 ing on the earlier rye gyrations of General Foods. However. no
 hearing has yet been ordered on
 more recent developments, in-
 cluding the operations of Dem
 ocratic Bigwig Ed Pawley and
 the glamorous salesmanship by
 which a million bushels of rye
 were unlOaded on the Bel gians.
 One other interesting point is why the War Production Board ordered distillers to use 10 per cent rye in making grain alco- hol. Obviously thls helped the General Food boys get rid of their vast rye hoard.
 NO CEILING ON RYE
 The story begins in the winter Of 1922, when ceiling prices were put on all grains except rye. Off, ficial explanation for this excep- ton is that rye was way below parity-around 52 cents a bushel and the ceiling price was left off for the benefit of the farmer who deserved to get parity, which is over a dollar a bushel.
 However, this left rye sticking up like a sore thumb as the one grain in which spectators could trade, and General Foods imme- diately went into the market, working through a well-known Chicago grain operator-Dan Rice. General Foods excuse is that they were hedging against imitation. At any rate, they began to buy rye in tremendous quantities un- til. by Nov. 29, 1943. they had so much jammed into Chicago eleva- tors that Charles Metcalf, vice president of General Foods, was called on the carpet by the busi- ness conduct committee of the Chicago Board of Trade and warned that he had so many rela- tives and friends buying rye for him thorugh disguised brokerage accounts that he was barred from buying any more December rye futures.
 Finally, in May, 1944, the General Foods rye corner reached the stupend0us total of
 13,262, 900 bushels or S9 per cent of the entire rye crop.
 It was for trading through this period-1942-44-that the ag-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

cdLlOu OI [ n . UNO charter. The show opened with Ex = Secretary of State Edward R.
 s t e t t i nius, Jr., reeding a 20-page
 statement which took an hour and told no one pres ent anything he shouldn't h a V e known two weeks ago. That was the kick-of, but then it was Leo's turn. Leo had to carry 4kA La1I L
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

liberty is not something that can be made secure once and for all. Every generation produces a null
 titude of men bent on destroying the liberty of their fellows. If we allow ourselves to indulge in the illusion that liberty will remain inc tact without any effort on our part, then these sinister men come in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at 12:57 a. m. (war time)
 Sun rises at 5:35 a. rn., sets at S:20 p. m. (war time).
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 new was riding bit sideways, was prac- tcally perpendicular. not able to hold watet indeed. as you may have discovered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18

laundering down across the gener- ations ever since.
 Today we are engaged in defend ing that liberty. There are a few foolish people in world who believe that h a V i n g gained liberty, we can lie back in our satisfaction and thank God for 1yiOtNy.xy hut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
.
 SPOTLIGHT
When In Doubt Send For Leo
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash ingtOn Correspondent

Washington, July IS - Whenever anyone has a question which no one else can answer about the new United Nations Organizations, the call goes out for Leo.
 That happened the very first day of the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearings. prior to ratif-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-18
Your Health By pr. William Brady

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