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Evening star., 1945-08-25
Blood for Hospitals

To the Editor Of The Star:
I have read the letter In The Star
signed Bruce Burnside suggesting that
an organization be set up for the col
lection Of blood and blood plasma for
use in Washington hospitals.
My donations to the Red Cross Blood
Donor Center totaled II pints, and I
hasten to indorse Mr.. Burnside's sug-
gestion.
! know Of nothing that so much
makes person feel like decent lhu-
man being and brother Of his fellow
man than this anonymous contribution
to . still unknown receiver.
BLOOD DONOR.
Evening star., 1945-08-25

A serious increase in the number
and size Of fish that got away Is
expected now that ample gasoline is
available for fishing boats.
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Child.Care Centers Praised

Washington area mothers learn with
distressed bewilderment that the Gov
ernment-fnanced nurseries are to be
closed by September 80, move so sud-
den as to give us a momentary psycho-
logical trauma. In a word, this deci-
sion seems to us to be a very real
threat to our hard-won home front
security.
However. we learn with pleasure that
your paper has shown interest in our
plight and We are grateful. The un-
happy situation Is this: We WASH
ington mothers in general are not en-
gagged in actual war-processing and, for
that reason, cannot anticipate imme-
diate release from our work. Moreover,
we are working because we must: The
serWceman's allotment proved to be
insufficient for the family's needs. 1t
is folly to hope for the return of our
servicemen by the end of September, to
say nothing of the very real problem
Of their finding employment when they
do return. An enforced vacation" on
short rations seems imminent, unless
eAAO oohiSoeAS AiCAP oAsdoeAoiA 4oOoCiio
magically
1t might be suggested. too, that the
talents of the typical housemaid no.
where approach the tangible as well as
spiritual values of the child-care CEN
ters. The nurseries are without doubt
one of the finest means of relieving
the harassed mothers too-burdened
schedule. Now she is faced with a
panicky feeling of not knowing what
to do: She must work, her husbands
return Is by no means likely to be i'm
mediate, her children must be sum-
marily removed from a social environ
ment in which they enjoyed feeling
of "belongingness.' The already over
wrought mother is obliged to find means
of adjustment in a confused society
whose blunt attitude is sure to be that
''woman's place is in the home"
If this letter seems entirely too emo
tional, please forgive it. We feel very
strongly about the whole thing.
VIVIAN McMAHILL.
Evening star., 1945-08-25
Letters to The Star
Says Rationins Is Necessar,
For Aid to Starving

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Be 1t ever to the credit Of our people
that in humanity's dark hour the United
States did not fail A national poll
found that the majority of Americans
favored a continuation of rationing in
order to help the worlds starving
millions.
We could not do otherwise. For we
learn that
In France: The percentage Of declared
tuberculosis was IS per cent even back
in 1941. Drugs for medical treatment
practically are nonexistent.
In Belgium: Belgian children have
been on starvation diet since 1910.
AL children have been losing weight
constantly.
In Italy: Infants when fortunate are
wrapped in rags and old newspapers.
Milk, when available, is limited to chill
dren under one year. Forty-seven out
Of 100 children die before they reach
their first birthday.
In China: One hundred million are
without food and clothing.
Yet it is not just this physical suffer-
ing that the war-torn peoples are under
going. Worse still is the emotional
anguish due to dear ones forever lost
We all have been Mortified by the
Nazi concentration camps Each one of
those precious human lives, so ruth
lessly ended, was indispensable to the
happiness Of at least one survivor This
means that millions of Europeans have
been overwhelmed by woe. And starva-
ton on top of this would be Just too
much to bear.
The Nad horror camps shook us into
a resolution to be as different from those
inhuman brutes as possible. Therefore
we want rationing to continue to help
those starved masses. If we didn't lend
hand now in our comparative afiluence,
we, like Himmler's savage stooges, would
not deserve to live.
ISABEL TOURIAN.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-07
AS "RABBLE ROUSER"

original party members) was
made public spokesman. When
the Allies forced that Army I'M
foreground Hitler adopted it as
the Gymnastics and Sports divi-
sion of the Nazi party.
An ex-military flier named
Herman Goering lent Hitler
money and joined the party. A
year later he was put in CON-
mand of Roehm's army, the
-shirted S. A.
Nor was that all that Roehm
contributed to Hitlers' rise. In
1923 the Nazis and other strong
arm groups held a Congress of
some 100000 persons in Nurem-
berg and formed a German Com
bat Union. Roehm Unanswered
50 that within a month Hitler.
who had wangled dictatorship
over the numerically small Nazi
party, became political head OF
the whole combat union.
On May Day, 1899, Hitler's
S. A. men stole weapons from
the Reichswehr barracks. unde-
TERED because Roehm had ar
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contingent. II was only General
Won Seekt's orders 10 the Reichs-
wehr, after the conspiratorS
thought they had won, that put
an end to the coup and sent Hit
Ter 10 prison.
Throughout this turbulent pc
riod General Ludendorff was
used as tool by the rising Aus
TRAN gang chief. Hitler used
him on the theory that, when
the time came for violence, the
Army never would fire on its
hero.
From 1923 to 1888 was a pc
riod of growth in Hitler's for
tures and those of his party.
Both were supported by con-
tributions from big industrial.
lists who were very frank about
their interest. They approved
Hitlers opposition to the Treaty
of Versailles, his desire TO gath
er all Germans OF the world into
a greater Germany, his anti
Communism. Like him, they
hated the Republic and the So
cial Democratic party.
PRO-NAZI JUNKERS
And finally, among the fact
ors which made the Nazis strong
even when they were weakest.
and paved the way for more
double-crossing, there was the
military caste. The Junkers
drought they were using Hitler
TO promote their own ends and
woke up, much too late. 10 dis
See POWERS-Page GA
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Hitler Double Crossed Way to Power

after 1t has forgotten all his
predecessors. Probably that is
true. 1t will recall him as an
egotist who raised the double
cross to an art which nobody
else in the worlds history ever
achieved.
Alois Hitler, illegitimate,y
born Schicklgruber but legititi-
matized by one George Heidler,
described his son, Adolf, as
good for nothing" The descrip-
ton was apt from the day of his
birth, April 20, 1889, to the out.
break of the first World War.
Adolf Hitler lived in Vienna,
in a sort of flop house, from
1907 to 1918. His fellow ROOM
ers gave him crusts of bread
and bits of horse sausage, which
he supplemented at a free soup
kitchen. He earned a little do.
ing the drabbest sort of pseudo
art work, carrying bags for
travellers, and for part of a day
shoveling snow on a Danube
bridge.
In 1913 he went to Munich,
where he continued his low life
until the Germans marched on
France. His war service was or
binary. He won the Iron Cross
twice, was wounded twice and
gassed once. The huSkiness that
underlies his shrill tones is a
permanent effect of that gass-
ing.
He got into politics by double
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crossing the first employer who
ever made him happy, the Ger
man Army. In July, 1919, he
was assigned by the Propagan-
ola and espionage divisi n,
which used him as a snooper, to
observe meeting" of the Ger
man Workers Party, consisting
of six men devoted TO Ger
manism and certain quasi-so-
cialistic dogma. He joined them.
on the spot, and thereafter COM
bined politics with his mill
tary" duties.
Hitler never was able to earn
an honest living by convention
al constructive methods. But he
did have what the German
people wanted at that moment.
His platform of pan-German-
ism, anti-Versaillesism, anti
Semitism, appealed to enough
persons to convince him that
politics was his forte. In April
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From Bum
toDittaior
and BatkAgain
Grand DoubIe-Cross
Carried Der Fuehrer
Almost to the Top
Corporal Adolf (l919)
BY s. BURTON HEATH
NEA Staff Writer

In 20 years, to the exact day,
Adolf Hitler talked and double
crossed his way from the Aus
tro-German equivalent of a
Bowery bum t. dictator over
one of the worlds great nations.
On August 2, 1914, when
World War started, Hitler was
existing in the squalor and de-
graduation to which laziness,
egotism and the complete lack
of any constructive talent had
brought him.
On August 2, 1884, he declar-
ed himself complete dictator Of
the Reich, and made good his
presumption.
Hitler has boosted that his
tory will remember him long
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05

Missouri Valley Authority Locke
Mr. Locke
and attempted development Montana
employed by Army Chief Engineer for Camp San Luis obipo
and vicinity in California This is his 23rd article
Three issues ago invited the folks who have
questions about MVA to send them and would
print far as know So here several questions that
have accumulated.
Mr.. r. d. Kenney of Clyde Park map that will
show what MVA unit projects there and where
An excellent idea. simple map will tell most of
ten minutes than will hour of reading descriptive articles
OF properly the entire Missouri
Basin, with it's $4,000 square miles of
Maps should be issued to each state u S. Bureau
Of Reclamation has already done this its plan for
storage irrigation and of each flood control
development These and Reclamation Service Report of
which they part, be had for fifty cents Send
Superintendent OF Documents Government Printing Office
Washington D. c. and ask for Senate Document number
18th Congress, End Session.
Since complete MVA plan will undoubtedly consist
only of the Reclamation Bureau and Army Engineers plan
ordnatd together but of other
men and state plans also coordnated into the whole map
that complete to all features be made available yet
There way to get necessary Likewise there
present to and produce needed
step all of necessarily organ
zation and sufficient budget for informative activity
Martin Olander of Faxve wants to know how much
horsepower be developed MVA also dams
will be built on the Missouri River.
Sloan Reclamation Bureau Plan provides for
plants with installed capacity for 758500 klowatts
slightly than million horsepower for commercial
also provides for five other plants with installed capacity
of 267 kowa 531 900 horsepower, be used for
irrigation pumping Pick Army Engineer Plan
contempaes houses all of the 23 large
reservoirs they list Their report does specify
how much power will be developed 1t very we'll
two three four additional millions of horsepower.
All of this does not scratch possibilities 1t is only
major projects for irrigation and flood control
The hundreds of tributary streams they tumble down from
finally furnish many times the volume of that
be developed sluggish main streams Some of this be
developed by diversion canals pipe lines along walls
sufficient drop head through pensock require
Continued
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05
ment principal criticism with this part of the
being that reflects inconsistency the part of the


the providing
activity
avoided What state government
with the federal government in planning
the period
will required hope
upon at Emphasis ours)
the viydy
the load
through the
national and governments
should the smaller units of government make their plans now
planning Mon
participate"
We agree with the that separate department
of labor established and hope that he will be
in swinging the support of the members OF his party
proposal 1t knowledge that the members
democratic party favored this proposal IN the 1913
session while those of his party then opposed it.
parting thought referring to the governors frequent
expressions about possible unemployment IN the
postwar period may ask what tangible plan he has IN
mind but kept secret that would provide
poyment for returning citizens and contribute more to the
development of the state than MVA?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05
OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION

Use of V-mail by civilians in writ
ing to service men overseas must be
stepped up in 1915 to conserve crit
ically needed transport space, the Of
flee of War Information reported to-
day on the basis of facts from the
Army and Navy. An intensified cam
paign urging the public to increase its
use of V-mail will be opened January
1, 1915, by the War and Navy depart
ments with the cooperation of owl.
While the total volume of Army and
Navy V-mail, incoming and outgoing,
is almost twice that of 1943, recent
drops in the use of the microfilm serv-
ice by both service men overseas and
civilians at home has been of con-
Germ to the Army and Navy.
Reasons pointed out by high-rank-
ing officers for the importance of ex-
tended V-mail use by the public in
cluded:
1. The increase in the numbers OF
service men now overseas, with
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05
craftsmen
COURSES ARE
OFFERED

Applications are wanted immediate
ly from meF and women all over the
state to enroll in a 16-week drafts
men course, being sponsored by the
federal government in cooperation
with Montana. State University, Dean
T. c. Spaulding of the forestry school
said yesterday. The four-month
course will begin January %, although
early registration is desired.
Additional courses in mechanical
drafting and machine design appro-
pirate for training much-needed Mon
tana workers will start them it was
announced.
"Since we never have been able to
supply the full demand from employ
ers for craftsmen from previous grad
uating classes, the applicant is as
sured a well-paid position after sue
cessful completion of the short course,
should the present demand continue"
Dean Spaulding said.
Discharged veterans and disabled
ex-service men are urged particularly
to consider taking the course because
of the excellent job-opportunitiesD Dean
Spaulding asserted. However, any
qualified men and women between the
age OF IS and so not contemplating
military service, are eligible to enroll,
he said.
Course instruction and equipment is
furnished at government expense.
Glasses meet from to 10 o'clock
three nights a week to enable en-
ro1lees to continue with regular jobs
while training.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05
FARMS In DEMAND
MORTGAGES
INCREASE

When people travelling east wire
back to Iowa to purchase farms with
out having seen them, and when ship
yard workers on the Pacific Coast buy
farms sight unseen, it reminds one of
the boom period during and following
the last war when purchases in Iowa
were reported as looking over farms
by lantern light, said l. w. Duggan,
governor of the Farm Credit Admins
tration
What called forth these remarks
was the recent. study made by the
Farm Credit Administration showing
that both the amount and average
size of farm mortgages recorded dur
ing the third quarter of 1914 were
abnormally large compared to the pre-
war average. Mortgages totaled 1877
million dollars which was "a per cent
more than for the third quarter aver
age for the years 1937-4O Mr.. Dug
gan pointed out that this is the larg-
est amount recorded during a CORE
spending period for any year since
1885. Back in 1888 the average mort
gage for the quarter was $2,140 where
as in 1914 it was 1910.
Although the number of mortgages
recorded is not up materially from
last year, this does not reflect the
true situation in respect to land trans
fers," Mr.. Duggan explained. MANY
farms are being sold by farmers for
all cash and thus the number of mort
cages does not reflect the total sales
But those mortgages which are being
recorded show sharp rise in sales
prices. Not only is the average size
of mortgages recorded up considerably
with before the war, but
they are also higher than 1943"
Mr.. Duggan pointed to another trend
in the farm real estate market when
he said that the amount of money
being loaned by individuals far ex-
eeeds that of any other group of com
mercial lenders durin gthe first nine
months of 1914 He said that the in |
lividual lenders financed about 2S5 |
million dollars worth of farm mort |
cages while commercial banks came |
second with about 1875 million dollars; |
insurance companies, third, with about
80 million dollars; federal land banks
md the Land Bank Commissioner,
.ourth, with only about rs million
dollars.
Apparently what is happening is
hat many individuals selling farms
ire willing to carry the mortgages
themselves because of the income
which they thus derive but there is
likely another potent reason, and that
S they are selling the farms for much
more than institutional lenders think
t is wise to lend on them.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05
SCHOLARSHIP
DONATIONS
ACCEPTED

The State Board of Education at
Helena recently accepted donations
for six Greater University scholar
ships, three of which were granted to
schools and departments of the Uni
versity at Missoula.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Howard A.
Johnson of Helena made the principal
award, presenting the law school with
$500. Dean C. w. Leaphart of the
school of law said a general scholar
ship fund will be started so that addi-
tional contributions might be made
later by interested graduates and ia
Guilty members.
Determination and means of the
amuonts of making individual student
awards for scholastic ability and need
will be left to the discretion of the
law school faculty, he said. Justice
Johnson was graduated from the law
school in 1916.
President Ernest o. .Melby gave
three awards of $50 each for student
scholarships to Eastern Montana Nor
NAL School at Billings, Northern Mon
tana College at Havre, and the Mon
tana Normal College at Dillon.
The State Board approved a 500
award by A. j. Mosby of Missoula
for a radio writing scholarship. The
sum was granted to the University
school of journalism. A second jour
nalism school scholarship for S25, pre-
scented by Mrs. Edna B. Gannaway of
Hot Springs for rural journalism writ.
ing, also was accepted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05

consequent rise in the volume
of mail to be handled.
2. The need for the maximum utili-
cation of cargo space of all kinds,
especially in air transport.
3. Extension of supply lines as ac-
ton progresses in both theaters
of war
4. Continuing Importance of steady
frequent flow of letters to service
mems morale.
Rear Admiral Joseph r. Redman,
U. S. ~, director of naval commune
cations, said
"The Navy V-mail service was in
augurated to supplement and ease the
problems of transportation in the
establishment of good mail service in
wartime. Although the American
public has been contributing faithfully
in all phases of the war effort with
the crisis at hand, renewed efforts
must be expended The public is
asked to share the air-mail space by
using V-mail; and in this manner to
curtail the present air-mail load,
which on occasion backlogs and hind
ers the goal for which the Navy is
getting the biggest morals
builder of all-mail-to the largest
Navy afloat"
Major Gen. J. A. Ulio, adjutant gen
eral of the Army, poitned out the mail
shipping problem:
with more than 100000 individ-
ual pieces of mail being dispatched
to American troops overseas every
week, it is now more important than
ever before that the public use V-mail
when writing to American soldiers
stationed outside the United States.
"The reason for this is obvious, in
hat there just is not sufficient cargo
space to carry this letter mail by air
Inless a high percentage of it is in
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05
Big STATE
FUND FOUND
HARD TO USE

The approximately S5,000,000 sur
plus now in the state general fund
and upon which many with particular
projects in mind have been looking
with covetous eyes is now held to be
almost impossible to use under the
present law.
Attorney General Bottomly will adj
wise the appropriations committee that
it can only make appropriations of
anticipated revenue; and the present
balance can only be used to meet APP
preparations already made for the
present fiscal year by the 1913 SEES
sion. Apparently it is going to re-
quire a constitutional amendment, if
Mr.. Bottomly's contention is correct,
to make it possible to use the money
except in defense of the state or ma
ton.
1t is probable that some way may
be found to bring the matter before
the supreme court for ruling, but
the form of action to be brought has
not as yet been determined upon.
Mr.. BottomIy bases his ruling which
he has not yet formally presented to
the appropriations committee on sec
ton IL of article II of the Montana
constitution which reads as follows:
"No appropriation shall be made nor
any expenditure 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-
bic to such appropriation of expendi-
lures, unless the legislative assembly
making such appropriation shall pro
vide for levying sufficient tax not
exceeding the rate allowed in section
9 q mills) of this article, to pay such
appropriations or expenditures within
such fiscal year. This provision shall
not apply to appropriations or ex-
penditures to suppress Instruction,
defend the state, or assist in defend
ing the United States in time of war.
No appropriation of public moneys
shall be made for longer term than
two years"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-01-05

Committee on mmittees-Arnold of
saltwater, chairman; Baker of Daw-
son and Campbell of Missolla. Seat
ing-Robinson of Phillips, Ecton of
Gallatin and D'Ewart of Park.
AS usual, the feed bill'' providing
payment of mileage and per diem to
the Legislators was the first order of
business and passed and was signed
yesterday by the speaker of the house
and the president of the senate and
sent to the governor for his signature.
1t provides $155.000
Two other bills had made their ap-
pearance yesterday. One provided for
the pay of district court
jurors from six to eight dollars per
day and the other to increase the
salaries of some of the legislative en-
ployees.
The usual pattern of legislative ses-
sions is being followed. Sessions are
brief and the usual sparring for posi-
ton and for favorite committee ap-
are being carried out. off
the floor and off the record.