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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24
ALL MARINERS WELCOME

Boston-UP-The nations old
est marine society-The Boston
Marine Society-Opened its doors
to seamen from all over the Unit
ed States. Heretofore only native
New Englanders were eligible to
membership. The society still
treasures THE BoX"-a heavy,
leather-covered, brass-studded box
once used as the society's bank
From this box were taken funds 10
help assist needy members OF the
society.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24

ed facilities for the Institutions
which care for the city'G III and
disabled soon will be launched. II
will be the greatest coordinaed hos
pital fund campai. \ ever under.
taken in the United States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24

covered the thiet-S bird dog who
carefully took a "spud" in its mouth
then buried II IN newlyplowed
garden near the store.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24

regularity from an open sack IN
front OF the store OF a Jerseyville
grocer. The grocer turned. sieuth
stayed up late one night and dis
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24
DRIVE FOR sll MILLION

Cleveland-UP-A camaplgn for
S9,525,OOO for the Greater Cleveland
Hospitals fund 10 provide expand
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-12-24
FOUR LEGGED cULPRlr

JBRsEYVILLE. Ht-INs-Pota.
toes disappeared with mysterious
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23
BY JOHN STAHLBERG

III. Revelation
Gabriel, blushing to the tips of hi
great white wings, looked about for
way to escape unobserved. The Re
corder's eyes glittered with represset
amusement.
Snobson stopped at the edge of thu
Recorders desk and set his amazing
machine, covered with the dust o
cosmic spaces and still blaring, on toI
of a neat stack of papers. The as
sembled souls looked at one another
in CONSERVATION; most of them ex
pected to see him blasted on the spo
by the steady flame of the Recorders
gaze. But the angel only smiled.
Turn that thing off" he said.
Snobson, deaf to everything but his
selfmade applause, paid no attention
He stood wavering tiredly but still
raptly listening. A guard stepped up
and ended the phoney clamor. AS II
deprived of his last strength, Snobson
rolled his eyes Whitley and collapsed.
Confusion and babbling; and out of
the babbling emerged the voices of
the guards, commanding silence, de-
manding room. Several of the lady
angels who acted as nurses were al
ready working over the fallen one. AS
they toiled to restore him, the breezy
angel of my own first day in heaven,
gave a cry of surprise.
well, what do you know" she
exclaimed. This package must be a
standard brand Look at the trade
mark"
1t was not a trade mark exactly. 1t
was a metal plate affixed to his left
side at the level of the heart. 1t bore
triangular design which enclosed
the following words:
MADE by The Specter Talking Ma
chine Company. Pat. Nos. 1234567S9
and 9S7654321. Property of the Cop
perhead Metal Smelling Company"
Excuse me-" said. IF | may sug-
gets ON explanation, the label appar-
emily came off his photograph and
got stuck to his side during the trip"
The breezy angel grinned at me-a
trifle sarcastically, for an angel, l
thought.
Sure you may" she said. Maybe
you can also explain why the label
stuck to him right side out"
| hadn't thought of that OF course
if such a transfer had occurred the
reverse of the label should have
turned outward, the face inward.
felt silly about the oversight and hast
lily slipped out of sight behind a group
Of saints who were discussing the new
arrival.
Reminds me-" the tallest one said,
"of the day when some big shot from
a place called Spain strutted in. Said
his name was Franco. Felt he was
entitled to the highest rank among
the saints because he'd saved the
church in Spain, he said"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23
EXTRACT FROM SAINT SIMPSONS
VISIT TO HEAVEN
with deep bow to the shade of Mark Twain

Eyes, I remember that" said an
other. "The Recorder looked at him
and said - you know how his voice
freezes your gizzard when he's angry
well, he just said, francisco Fran
co, take your true form!' The Span
lard went out like a spark when you
step on it,"
do you mean he just disappeared 2"
said a third saint.
That's what it looked like" said
the second speaker. But | happened
to glance down at the spot where he'd
been standing. There squatted a
loathsome little bloated toad. 1t made
my ectoplasm crawl"
Speaking of big Shots" said the
tall one, remember the fellow"
He was interrupted by cry of in
credulity from the group before the
desk. Snobson had revived and was
standing before the desk staring with
kind of sanctimonious insolence
across it at the Recorder. l say in
science, yet by some trick of consum-
mate hypocrisy he seemed to be in
JecLlnB INTO JndL luSOleuce d curious
quality of fawning humility. 1t was
1t was magic.
AS look back now upon that amaz-
ing day, see him again-that arrogant
cock sparrow of figure, matching
his mad earthly conceit against the
wisdom, the understanding, the stern
but plying justice of the archangel;
hoping by the pretensions of mortal
to crash the gates of Cod
There he stood, undoubtedly human
soul; containing, like all human souls,
of the divine; and yet
no. not quite human soul; not, as
yet, quite soul at ALL
At last he spoke, smiling smugly at
the austere face of the Recorder.
MARK the perfect man." he said,
'and behold the upright God will not
cast away a perfect man."
And lol his voice, to the last de-
tail of tone and infection was the
voice of his own absurd machine.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23

stitution used the term advisedly, will
a definite purpose. In constituting ;
constitutional provision it is our dut,
to give meaning to every word, phrase
clause and sentence therein, if it Il
possible so to do. So whether the
law authorizing a contract for the
sale of these debentures creates G
debt, such as is contemplated by the
! first two sentences of section 2, is
not material 1t certainly creates a
| liability, which includes a debt, for
| the state is expressly obligated not to
reduce the excise taxes on motor fuels
fixed by the 22nd legislative assembly
and to cause the tax to be collected
and paid to the debenture holders
This is prohibited by the plain terms
of the Constitution unless approved
by the people.
1.-THE fact that special fund is
created by the imposition of the Ii
cense or excise tax on motor fuels
with which to pay the debentures is
of no Importance.
Under this contention the legisla-
ture, or the debt-contracting author
ity, could divide the public revenue
into numerous subdivisions, calling
one the road fund, another the school
fund.- another the agricultural fund,
another the public health fund.- and
others almost without limit. Debts
could then be contracted in unlimited
amounts and payable in the far dis
tant future, and still be immune from
attack as violating constitutional pro-
visions limiting Indebtedness provided
each debt was made payable out of
some one of the specially designated
funds into which all of the revenue
collected by taxation from the people
had been divided A mere statement
of the proposition carries with it, it
seems to us, its own refutation. (Crick
v Rash, 100 KY. 800, 229 S. w. 63)
Estate ex rel Rankin v. State Board
of Examiners, So Mont. 557, 1877 Pac-
9SS, also presented an entirely differ
ent situation. In that case the debt
or liability was already in existence,
represented by outstanding warrants
when the treasury notes were issued
The issuance of the treasury notes
simply changed the form of the exist
ing Indebtedness or liability, and did
not create one. (Hotchkiss v. Marion,
~ Mont 21S, 20 Pac. S21 Parker "
City of Butte, So Mont. 531, 1913 Pac.
74S; Edwards v. Lewis and Clark
County, SO Mont. 1853, 165 Pac. 297;
State ex rel. Toomey v. State Board
Of Examiners, "a Mont. 1, 238 Pac.
316.) ~
'The creation of an obligation, pay
able from these funds, is a liability of
the state; it's effect is to divert
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23
CONSUMERS
GET REFUNDS

Refunds to Montana consumers
who paid more than OPA legal ceiling
prices amounted to $1,O54.95 during
January, according to Harold Ander-
son, district price executive. This
total, he added, was handled through
local price panels acting under the
authority delegated to them by con-
gress under the Emergency Price Con-
troll act Anderson indicated that
these actions represent increasingly
effective protection against excess
prices that these panels are giving the
public.
Violators of ceilings repaid $1,389.79
during the month, including the ST.
054.35 refunded to individuals, and
$355.44 paid direct to the U. S. Treas
ury. The largest sum received was
$50S.67, in settlement for an overceil-
ing sale of a 1910 Ford 1 " ton truck,
while the smallest amount refunded
was 32c in settlement of an over
charge on the sale of two pairs of
work gloves.
DEMAND THE ITNION IAREIf
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23

large part of the revenue of the state
into the State Highway Fund for a pc
riod of ten years, which otherwise
might be used to pay the public deb
or to defray the general expenses OF
the government, thus relieving the
heavy burden of taxes levied upon
property The people are gravely
concerned as to how and the purposes
for which their money is spent.
As the great Justice Story said in the
Dartmouth College case a Wheat.
| (U.S.) 451S, L. Ed 629): We have
nothing to do but pronounce the law
as we find it; and, having done this,
our justification must be left to the
impartial judgment of our country
"The upshot is that in order to vail
date the Act it must receive the APP
proval of the electorate"
1t would seem that the money to
pay "for the construction of a needed
office building or addition to the
present State Capitol building at
Helena" and for the payment of an
architect for the purpose of preparing
plans and specifications for such con-
struction should be appropriated from
the trust fund provided for that pur-
pose and known as the Estate Capitol
Building Fund" rather than to be ap-
propriated from the General Fund of
the state. If the appropriation were
made from the former fund, the re-
strictions of section IL of Article XII
of the Constitution would not apply,
as this court long ago (1896) held,
speaking through Mr.. Justice Hunt in
State ex rel. Bickford " Cook III
Mont $500.
Since the power to appropriate is
coextensiye with the power to tax, it
is subject to fundamental and inher-
ent limitations. In my opinion, sec
ton ~ of Article XII of the Consti-
tuition not only limits and restricts APP
preparations but also authorizations.
1t does not freeze the surplus monies
which are now in the general fund
1t merely requires that before over
four millions of dollars exacted from
the taxpayers and paid into the public
treasury for one purpose shall be ex-
panded for wholly different purpose,
the taxpayers shall be consulted and
that the proposed expenditure be, by
the taxpayers, authorized and ap-
proved at a general election before
the money is spent. The other alter
native is that the legislature submit
to the taxpayers an amendment to
section IL of Article XII of the Consti- |
tuition permitting it to spend the
money.
In the meantime, even though we
cant look at hobbies" and though |
we cant stand fences" still the fence |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23

1T AT SUCH ELECTION; (10) NJ
debt or liability shall be created by
the legislative assembly which shall
singly, or in the aggregate with any
existing debt or liability, exceed the
sum of 100000 UNLESS THE LAW
AUTHORIZING THE SAME SHALL
HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE
PEOPLE AT A GENERAL ELEC
TION AND SHALL HAVE RECEIVED
A MAJORITY OF THE VOTES CAST
FOR AND AGAINST 1T AT SUCH
ELECTION; CID No appropriation
shall be made by the legislative as
sembly whereby the expenditures OF
the state during any fiscal year lie
from July to the next June 800 shall
exceed the total tax then provided for
| by law and applicable to such appro-
priation unless the legislative assem-.
bly, shall provide for levying a suffi-
cient tax to pay such appropriation
within such fiscal year; (12) No ex-
penditures shall be authorized by the
legislative assembly whereby the ex-
penditures of the state during any
fiscal year shall exceed the total tax
then provided for by law and applica-
BILE to such expenditure, unless the
legislative assembly shall provide for
levying a sufficient tax to pay such
expenditures during the fiscal year.
The only gap in the Tense so built by
the trainers of our Constitution is at
fence posts numbers 10, II and ~
above andJthe gap can exist only for
emergency appropriations or expendi-
lures ito suppress insurrection, de-
fend the state or assist in defending
the United States in time of war"
A general election is held in this
state each two years at which repre-
sentatives in the legislative assembly
are elected for the term of two years
and since no appropriation of public
term than two years article XII, Sec.
12) the Constitution requires that
those entrusted with providing for the
revenues and expenditures of the
state must, each two years, stop, look
and listen to the needs of the state
W
and management, remembering that
the provisions of our Constitution in
relation to taxation are not grants of
power but are limitations on the tax
ing power of the state.
By House Bill No. As, the legislative
assembly recognizes and declares that
it has a postwar obligation for the
care, rehabilitation and employment
Of its citizens and, "In order that a |
beginning may be made in translating
that OBLIGATION into performance,
The state board of examiners is here
by authorized and directed to employ |
an architect or architects for such pc
rod of time as it may deem proper, |
not exceeding two years from the eff
'ective date of this act, for the pur-
pose of preparing plans and specifica-
ions for the construction of needed |
office building or addition to the pre-
sent State Capitol building at Helena"
The appropriation provided for in
House Bill No As is not for the pur-
,ose of paying any of the regular and
ordinary expenses of government but
t is for the payment of an expense
wholly foreign to the purpose for
which the contributors, whose money
makes up this surplus were asked to
contribute. To appropriate and ex-
,end the peoples money for other
han the regular and ordinary ex-
lenses of government, the questions
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23

Agreeing with the opinion Of Attor
ney General Bottomly that the people
of the state should have a voice II
determining how the surplus none,
in the general fund should be used
Associate Justice Hugh Adair deliv
cred an opinion dissenting with tina
of the majority of the court. 1t Il
printed in full below, and merits the
thoughtful reading of every citizen:
A cash surplus of $4,S59, 5OO.97 was
in the general fund of this state or
February l. 1915. This money has
accumulated during the past four
years. 1t is revenue of the state that
was paid into the treasury to pay the
public debt or defray the general ex-
penses of government This money
was exacted from the people. These
exactions have exceeded the needs of
the state government for the ostensi-
BILE purposes for which they were col
lected by almost five millions of dol
lars. This money belongs to the peo-
pie of the state. 1t was paid INTO the
treasury by them for the purpose of
defraying the general and ordinary ex-
penses of their government.
1t is now proposed that this $4,-
S59,50097 belonging to the people be
paid OUT of the treasury.
The people of this state prescribed
certain definite and positive limita-
lions on the taking of their moneys
to pay INTO the treasury as well as
upon he paying of this money OUT of
the treasury.
Despite the tuneful appeal of Don't
Fence Me H." the fact remains that
the power to raise money by state
taxation and the power to appropriate
and expend that money after it is
raised was, by the trainers of our Con-
stitution, very closely fenced in.
The people of this state not only
built a hog tight fence to keep it's
servants within bounds on the matter
of state finances but it attached the
constitutional fence to steel posts set
in concrete.
Here are some of the anchoring
posts provided by our Constitution:
a. The NECESSARY revenue for the
support and maintenance of the state
shall be provided by the legislative
assembly; (2) Taxes shall be levied
and collected by general laws and for
PUBLIC PURPOSE ONLY; 60 All
taxes levied for state purposes shall
be paid INTO the state treasury; (4)
No money shall be paid OUT of the
treasury except upon appropriations
made by law; 81 No money shall be
DRAWN FROM the treasury but in
pursuance of specific appropriation
made by law; CO. The general appro-
priation bills SHALL EMBRACE |
NOTHING BUT APPROPRIATIONS |
FOR THE ORDINARY EXPENSES of
the legislative, executive and judicial
departments of the state, interest on
the public debt and for public schools;
(7) All other appropriations shall be |
made by separate bills, each embrace
ing but one subject; (S) No appropria-
ton of public moneys shall be made
for longer term than two years; co. |
The rate of taxation on real and per-
sonal property for state purposes shall
not exceed two mills on each dollar
of valuation UNLESS THE PROPOSE
TION TO INCREASE SUCH RATE
SHALL HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED
TO THE PEOPLE AT THE GEN
ERAL ELECTION and shall have RE
CEIvED A MAJORITY OF ALL
VOTES CAST FOR AND AGAINST
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23

erected by the trainers of our Consti-
tuition stands between us and the APP
propriating, expanding and paying out
of the general fund in the public treas
ury monies in an amount which shall
exceed the total tax then provided
by law, and applicable to such appro-
priation or expenditure"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-02-23

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-02-15
THE NATURE OF OUR ENEMY

Many of our topflight writers have used such phrases as
degradation of the natural dignity of man. and destruction Of
the SOUL in attempting to describe the Nazi philosophy. Those
are words that do not mean so much to the average man. But
we think they can be defined in simpler terms, through the
medium of a letter that an East Helena nurse, Lieut.. Bernice A.
Hrela, wrote to her parents.
Lieutenant Hrella, somewhere in Germany with a hospital
unit, tells of admitting 3O4 men of all nations, Russians, Ukrain-
ians, Belgians, others, who had been slave laborers in a Ger
man coal mine. Her story is enIghtening.
after a diet of turnips, black bread and water and living
underground for such a long time, SO percent of them had
intensive abuse and neglect" she wrote. 1T will take weeks of
bathing, ~scrubbng and delousing before they'll begin to re-
semble humans"
They're so thin their bones stick out everywhere from their
skulls to their heels When we first smiled at them they
were too shocked to respond .. Long months of working in the
coal mines had filled their pores with black dust No amount
of s~crubbing will remove it. t is a sin to put the filthy remains
of humanity between brand new white sheets-but they loved
it. 1t took all day to get our SIS bathed, with frequent changes of
water. h
'They ate like animals. w fed them three times normal
amounts at meals, witt. intermeal nourshments -. They weren't
even allowed water to drink by the Germans SO they're deny
drafted and dry as bones e. They are dying fast on other floors.
W. lost one the first night"
We print this not to engender hate or to stir emotion. To us,
the graphic terms of this Montanas nurses letter tell better
than thousands of words the nature of the enemy we face and 5
the core of the Nazi thought. 1t will be well for us to remember
such things, to remember that only by the fortunes of birth and V
location, were many Americans not subject to the same beastly J
treatment. And it should also give us a better understanding of N
the feelings of millions of Europeans who have been under the Il
heel. c
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-02-15
Operator Of Saco
Garage Passes
IN Local Hospital

Fern P. Hays. 40, operator of a
Saco garage in partnership with
Wayne Long. died in a Glasgow hos
pital Monday morning. He had
undergone major surgery a few days
earlier.
Mr.. Hays had taken his wife to
Havre last week for surgical treat
ment and became i'll on his return.
necessitating immediate treatment.
The Peterson chapel is in charge
of arrangements. Funeral services
will be in Saco Saturday afternoon,
although the hour has not yet been
set. The body will be taken to oregon
for burial.
Mr.. Hays had operated a farm in
Oregon before coming to Saco sew
eral years Ago..
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-02-15
Beatrice Mitchell
And Lieut.. LutZ
Wed in Virginia
BY Courier Correspondent

NASHUA-MisS Beatrice Dawn
Mitchell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James l.. Mitchell of Nashua, was
married to Second Lieut.. Joseph l..
Lutz, son of Mrs. Harry Hicock of
Port Orchard, Wash, at Arlington.
Va, Saturday evening, Jan. 81, at
7. Vows were exchanged in front of
the fireplace at the home of the Of
ficiating minister, the Rev. j. H.
Carroll of the Central Methodist
church.
The bride was attired in light
aqua two piece wooden street dress
and wore black accessories and an
orchid corsage. Her attendant was
Miss Helen Lutz of Washington. D..
c., cousin of the bridegroom. The
best man was Lieut.. Martin S.
Hauge of the marine corps.
Mrs. Lutz graduated from the
Nashua high school in 1912 and
took an active part in literary and
musical circles when enrolled in
high school. For the past two wears
she has been employed at Fort Peck
as typiSt.
Lieutenant Lutz graduated from
Nashua high school in 194l and was
one of the star athletes in bas-
ketball, football and track. He at
tended the State university at Mis-
Soula before enlisting in the marine =
He received his basic training i
at Camp LeJeune, New River, N. C.E,
he received his rank as sec
ond lieutenant when he graduated
bird highest in a class of 100. He .
S now enrolled at an officer train
ng school at Quantico, Va, for fur ,
her advancement.
Following the ceremony a three
curse dinner was served at the
hotel in Washington, D.
when I'VE were laid for ten. S
the present they will reside in ?
Washington, D. c. a
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-02-15
A SMART CONGRESSMAN
(Helena Observation-Disclosures,

Ep James g. Fulton new bachelor member from Pennsylvania
started MS career IN the national capital by suggesting wives of service
men be allowed to visit their husband in combat zones Not in the 'front.'
lines, he explains, but in areas designated as comparatively safe Yes
the children could go along too. Instead of sending ren boroe for 90
day leave. give the wife and children a trip
congressman Fulton Is 10 baby klsSer. He has. thought III some
thng ley M with real appeal. Yves there ever a woman who would not
IKE a trip? Ii 30 we never have heard of her With such appealing ideas
1t is a wonder the good congressman from the Quaker state bas rar,si ro5
a bachelor.
Or course the congressman has no idea his plan will be taken ser-
ouay by anyone including the wives, but it is something to send new
thoughts through war-tred minds. And, his fan mail will come nv the
sack We predict a brilliant future for the new CONGRESSMAN Mrs Ino
should look to her laurels. else this male intruder in the feI5 of rrood
allowed many secretaries. Mr.. Fulton will need an accounting STATE lust
TO tabulate and classify his proposals of marriage. A bachelor With such
grand idees cannot remain single very long.