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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-23
Variety Of Sports Featured
On Program

Log saving, chopping and other con-
test exhibitions sponsored by Loggers
Local 2646 will take place during the
celebration. Present tentative plans
provide for these contests to be held
in the early evening If arrangements
to obtain the Flathead county fair
grounds for that purpose are success
full The day will be topped off by a
rousing public dance, also to be held
at the fair grounds pavilion If ar
rangements for the grounds can be
made.
Various Flathead Valley unions are
being asked to sponsor other contests.
or entertainment, which
will be announced later, according to
the committee The Kalispell Central
Trades and Labor Council is soliciting
all its affiliated organizations, urging
them to participate by sponsoring en-
and underwrite some of
the expense which will be involved.
To date, the response from labor
groups, fraternal organizations and
business institution, has encouraged
the committee to feel that the affair
will be a huge success, although all
details have not yet been finally
worked out.
Evening star., 1946-10-12

cunstances that the draft treaty
will go to the Council Of Foreign
Ministers, which will have the last
word and which is governed by the
unanimity rule. Thus, 1t is in Mr..
Molotoy's power to veto the draft
treaty and thereby render OF no
effect the arduous labors Of the
conference during almost the past
three months.
Such veto becomes the more
possible If the western powers stick
to their assertions that. in the con-
ference's provisions for Trieste, they
had reached the limit OF their con-
cessions. If neither side yields, an
other Soviet-western deadlock will
then enSue.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Check to Prosperity

From the London Daily telegraph and Morning
Post.
To analyze the causes Of the recent
wave of selling on the New York ex-
change is dif6cult International ten
sion, which is only too evident to every
body and sometimes given an alarmist
flavor by some American commentators,
has certainly increased any existing
jumpiness on Wall Street. A more con-
crete reason for the decline may be
found in the falling figures of the quar-
terly profits of American corporations.
Rising labor costs have been met in
many instances by rigid price ceilings;
elsewhere, where price limits have been
removed, there are signs of growing in
flation, and the general policy of the
American Government toward price
controls remains unpredictable. Labor
disputes, which have caused $500 strikes
in the United States since the beginning
of the year, cast shadow OF further
difficulties to come. 1t is not surprising
that many American economists have
prophesied check to prosperity early
In the coming year.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Now q Hotel Strike
With Sunday Morning Edition. =
WASHIN G TON, ID. c.

In the years Immediately preced-
Ing the war and during the war
itself Washington's hotel system
was an important cog in the ma
chinery of national defense. A
crippling strike then, such as the
one which began yesterday after
noon, would have justified sending
in the WACS and the WAVES to
administer Government operation.
To have denied food and shelter to
invading armies of harassed war
contractors would have been like
putting a gag on Admiral Halsey, or
taking the engines out of B-29s. 1t
might have stopped the prosecution
Of the war.
But all that Is over now. The
people who come to Washington
these days are concerned with
trivia, such as price controls, sur
plus equipment, politics, demanding
one thing or another, seeing the
Washington Monument or visiting
the Library of Congress to verify
the existence of the Declaration of
Independence. They will accom-
plish about as much by staying at
home. So the hotels and the unions
are to be congratulated on the tim
ing of their present strike. They
can get it out of their systems now
with least inconvenience to the gen.
eral public. The temporary sur
cease from formal dinners, ban
quets and luncheons will improve
the digestion and perhaps the dis
position of thousands of Washing
tonians.
And as nobody seems to be par
ticularly worried over the fact that
the American merchant marine is
tied up at the docks, that the indus
trial heart of America, in Pittsburgh,
has been without electricity for
about three weeks and that Wash
ington's chief source of beer has
been dried up-why get excited over
a hotel. strike? The hotel people
have been working at such feverish
pace for so long a time that perhaps
the rest will do them good.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Whose Melody Still Lingers
tSidney Lanier.)

(Sidney Lanier)
o never shall his lyric soul be mute
Who ,1innoired aDisdom from the winds
and pines;
Symphonic echoes OF his silper fute
Still sound from moss-hung oaks ana
forest zines,
When monarch trees cast foliage at his
feet,
Each rustling ,cas whispering OF
God;
And stl small gray-green oliue leaves
repeat
The story OF the iDoods the Master
trod.
A,ake to cadence, beauty and perfumes,
His music toas Lore questtng for
toord;,
By Uide sea-marshes' dim t,oiliehted
gloons
Sweet tenderness ,oithin his heart ,cas
stirred;
Cnressingly the orchestras OF trees
IN mu6fed heart tItrobs iUnft soft
melodies
Evening star., 1946-10-12

There is one question which every re-
turned traveller from Europe Is asked
by every one he meets in America:
els there immediate danger OF an
other WARP"
This reporters answer Is;
mo. Definitely not-on one condi-
ton: That the United States keeps
up, and continues to keep up, a respect
able military power.
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Nobody wants war; The American
people certainly do not want It, The
British people do not want it. There
fore their servants will not pursue
policies which lead to war.
AT present. the Russian government
does not want war any more than the
Russian people do. but for different
reasons. 1t does not want a major war
because it knows quite well that Russia
could not win major war. 1t does not
want to engage in, or be involved even
indirectly in any minor military adven-
ture which might fail, and from which 1t
might have to withdraw with consider
able loss of prestige.
These conditions spell out the char
acter of the military force which the
United States should maintain. First.
an unchallengable strategic air power.
the rock on which our security must be
founded, striking force so established
and distributed that no opponent can
knock 1t out by surprise blow. and that
no surprise blow can be struck without
bringing instant and devastating retail
alton. Second, sea power-the mobile
police force which can be sent to any
part of the world where 1t is needed,
which can always be present in any
area where disturbance of the peace
seems possible, which from its floating
platforms can employ air power or other
modern weapons against any local
peace breaker; and which can, should it
be necessary, supplement the main strik-
ing force by its highly mobile armament.
Third, sufficient land force to protect
the bases of our air and sea power, to co.
operate with them by means OF air.
borne troops when needed, and to pro-
vide the framework for q reserve to
maintain internal military stability in
ctr own country In case Of major at
Evening star., 1946-10-12
'Tito's S Reputation

1t is a striking commentary on the
reputation and character of the Tito
dictatorship that few If any people
in the free western world will believe
that Archbishop Stepinac. head Of
the Roman Catholic Church in
Yugoslavia, has been Justly tried
and sentenced by the Peoples Court
at Zagreb.
The trial OF the archbishop was
staged in the open. It was witnessed
by an American representative of
the Vatican. It was subjected to the
daily scrutiny of foreign correspond
ents. It allowed some time for de-
tense arguments. It had, in short,
numerous outward signs of fairness.
but still-despite all this-most of
the outside world will feel that this
man has been sentenced to hard
labor not because he is guilty of war
crimes but only because Tito wanted
to use him as an example In prop
aganda show designed to make reli-
gion submissive to the Communist
tyranny at Belgrade.
Archbishop Stepinac's case thus
shares with the earlier case of Gen.
eral Mihailovich the distinction OF
seeming to western eyes to be a
damning measurement not of the
man convicted but of the men con-
victing him-a damning measure
ment of Tito and his agents, OF the
nature OF the entire Yugoslav dicta-
torship. Conceivably, in an extremely
remote sense, the evidence against
the archbishop and the general may
have had some intrinsic merit, but
that possibility will carry little or no
weight to outsiders for this simple
reason: That by his past acts-his
complete suppression of liberty in
Yugoslavia, his ruthless stamping
out OF any opposition, however un-
armed-Tito, together with his gov
ernment, has left himself wide open
to the suspicion and distrust of the
free world.
This may not bother Tito, of
course, but then again 1t may. After
all, even dictator of his type must
find it bit disquieting to know that
no matter how "open" and "fair"
he makes his courts seem, no matter
how much he speaks of democracy"
his reputation continues to be such
that great part Of the world keeps
on regarding him with distaste as
an altogether unjust tyrant. This
Is a thing that can gall.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
This Changing World
By Constantine Byo,0n

Premier Constantil Tsaldaris Of
Greece is putting up 9 valiant but USE
less flight for the rights OF his country,
which stood the brunt Of the Nazi In
vasion and accepted total destruction
rather than compromise with the Axis
dictators.
The dogaed Greek resistance to Hit
ler's hordes, supported by Bulgarians.
was Of vital Importance at the time
when Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel was
beating at Egypt's gates and might
have penetrated as far as the Suez
Canal If German forces in the Balkans
had not been styn1ied by handful of
Serbs and Greeks supported by a weak
British force.
In spite of the tangible and seldess
services rendered by Greece to the
cause of the Allies, its position in Paris
is less favorable than that of Nazi-
collaborating Bulgaria. Greece has re-
fused to become a satellite OF the
U. S. s. r.. and stands in Russia's ex-
pansionist path to control the Eastern
Mediterranean.
1t is with Understandable sadness that
the Greeks remember the solemn words
of Prime Minister Churchill, who stated
at Britain'S hour OF need, We Shall
snare our victory. We shall constitute
Greece great power in the Eastern
Mediterranean" At the same time from
Washington they were hearing Presi-
dent Roosevelts equally emphatic state
ments that the Greek people would be
delivered from poverty and fear.
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1t is not great power that Greece
wants to become now. She would be
perfectly happy to be allowed to live
in peace and be permitted to heal her
deep war wounds.
Greece has been given but meager
assistance In restoring her economy and
the towns and villages which her gov
ernment destroyed at Allied request to
impede the Nazis. But more than that,
the Slav bloc, headed by the all-power-
full Russia, now demands that she sur
render to Bulgaria. which stood firmly
by the Nazis, a portion of her territory.
This is demanded in the name of world
peace. in order to appease Bulgaria s
old claim for an exit to the Aegean
Sea,
Evening star., 1946-10-12

The Greeks reject the demand, but
say that in any event, If the Bulgarian
claim has any Justice, 1t should be SUBJ
mitted to the United Nations and the
whole matter thrashed out before that
organization, rather than at a peace
conference where the enemy countries
are supposed to receive just punish
ment rather than rewards for start
ing World War II.
But 1t is not only in Paris that the
Greeks feel the pinch of being small
non-Slavic island on the edge OF a
Slavic sea. At home the Greek govern
ment is confronted with situation
which is expected to turn into full
f1edged civil war Moreover, even If the
tired and poorly organized army is able
to cope with the domestic problem
Greece is threatened with an invasion
by foreign forces.
Although in recent weeks only brief
reports have been published about what
is going on in that country, it is known
in official Washington quarters that
there are continual and daily skir-
mishes between the national govern
ment's forces and Greek Communist
bands. These skirmishes occur mainly
a short distance from the Albanian,
Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders. Well
armed bands attack military police sta
tlons in these areas and take refuge
across the frontiers when confronted
with strong reinforcements. The I'd
and Sd Army Corps are doing more
fighting now than they did during the
war.
The $4,000 British troops still sta
toned in Greece are witnesses to the
present struggle; but they are not likely
to intervene until the situation is COM
plicated by active Intervention of foreign
troops. ANY definite action by the
British In the present situation Is likely
to precipitate a major international
crisis, with wide repercussions all over
Europe and the Middle East.
There are many in Greece now who
feel that their government is backing
the wrong horse and that the western
powers. in whom they have put their
trust, are not in position to keep their
promise against the driving power OF
the Slavs.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Trieste and the Veto

The completion of draft treaty
of peace with Italy by the Paris
Conference would normally be
highly welcome tidings to an impa-
tiently expectant world. However,
the circumstances under which the
document was arrived at and the
background against which the con-
ference itself should be evaluated
suggest an attitude of caution if
optimism is not to be followed by
disillusionment.
To begin with, the conferences
field of initiative was circumscribed
by commitments previously made by
the big Four" Council of Foreign
Ministers, in which large conces-
sions were wrung from the western
powers in favor of Yugoslavia by
Russian pressure, in order that the
conference could be held at all.
Only with great difficulty was Mos
cow induced to assent in principle to
an international regime for Trieste,
which was recognized from the first
as the nub of the whole issue.
The conference had not been long
in session before Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov revealed a tactic
which Moscow diplomacy habitually
employs. This tactic consists in
making concession" in general
terms, only to insist later on "inter-
pretations" which either nullify or
go entirely contrary to what has
ostensibly been agreed upon.
Such procedure naturally drew the
ire of the spokesmen for the western
powers, together with nearly all OF
the other participants in the con-
ference, with the notable exception
of the Soviet satellite states. Con-
sideration of the Italian draft treaty
has consistently conformed to this
"bloc" pattern, the voting being al
most invariably along those lines.
In those votes, the Slavic bloc has
been regularly defeated, the result
being the present draft treaty pro-
viding for a regime in Trieste which
will be genuinely international in
character. But Mr. Molotov has
voiced his vigorous disapproval and
openly backed the aspirations OF
Yugoslavia to get Trieste, thus en-
couraging Yugoslav threats to boy
colt the treaty and eventually get
Trieste by hook or by crook.
It lis under these diScouraging cir
Evening star., 1946-10-12
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

ocratic and Republican nominations,
which he won in the primary. While
Mr.. Warren is the Democratic nominee
for Governor for Mr.. Roosevelt to make
claim he had elected a Democratic
Governor would be laugh.
Black-haired Will Rogers, jr., who
looks lot like his famous father, but
doesn't sound much like him. is a for
mer member of the House from Southern
California. He has an engaging grin,
takes a ribbing good humoredly and ap-
parently has in the past absorbed lot
Of the horse sense of Old Will While
he followed the Roosevelt New Deal line
during his service in the House. he is
no wild radical and takes pains to make
1t clear he has no liking for Communists
whatever.
Indeed, in some of his speeches, he
might be mistaken for Republican
as, for example. when he said: The
first essential Of my liberalism is an
emphasis on freedom of the individual
This liberalism is opposed to regimenta-
ton. 1t is the basic philosophy that
gives rise to freedom of enterprise free
dom of thought and religion and speech,
freedom of movement and exchange.
1t is the liberalism that holds that the
individual is sovereign, not the state. It
holds that the state is the tool of the
people, not the master
Chairman Carroll Reece of the Re-
publican National Committee could not
rave put it better-Mr Reece who
claims the Republican Party is the true
liberal party in America today.
However, Mr.. Rogers adds another
essential to his liberalism-the right of
the people to protection by their Gov
ernment from old-age insecurity, from
unemployment, from imitation, from all
the economic hazards which bring suf-
fering and want to millions of Amer
leans who live on marginal income.
This sounds more like the New Deal.
Nevertheless, some of San Francisco's
businessmen are inclined to give young
Rogers the benefit of the doubt.
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In private life Mr.. Rogers is the pub
Usher of the Beverly Hills Citizen. a
newspaper he acquired on graduation
from Stanford University in 1885. The
paper has expanded under his direction
until his claim is that it is the largest
weekly newspaper in the West.
He enlisted in the Army in 1912 as a
private. He was reelected to the House
while he was in camp, then resigned
later from Congress in time to join a
tank destroyer unit before D day. He
landed at Omaha Beach, as a recon-
naissance platoon leader with the 7th
Armored Division, which led the spear
head of Gen. Patton's Sd Army across
France. He was in many engagements,
including the battle Of the Bulge, and
was awarded q Bronze Star and the
Purple Heart--he was wounded in the
mop-up of the Ruhr.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Insuring Against War
Bv George Fielding Eliot

tack and an eventual follow Through In
the form of full-scale expeditionary
force should, unhappily, any such effort
be required of us-for even atomic
bombs must be followed up by ground
troops in the end.
We must recognize that for the next
two years or so, the responsibility of
back-stopping the peace and security of
the world is ours almost alone. 1t will
take at least that long for the British
to regain respectable military position
They managed to stave off little longer
than we did the disastrous, disintegrat-
ing effects of rehabilitation, but now
they are definitely on the downward
curve of military power, while our curve
has begun to swing up.
Meanwhile, however, it is essential
that in any area where the peace of the
world might be disturbed by an expert
mental thrust, probing for weak place,
this experiment should be confronted by
a risk which will prevent it from going
too far. This risk must, under existing
conditions, usually be provided by
American sea power Gas, for example,
the Mediterranean Fleet though other
forms of American power may also be
thus employed where appropriate. 1t is
likewise necessary that any major ag-
gression, any outright appeal to arms,
which might be terminating in the mind
of any national leader or group OF lead
ers, should have to take into account a
risk SO great as to be utterly prohibitive.
This risk can only, under existing condi-
tions. be provided by American strategic
air power.
This is the present state OF affairs.
It may change. We should be alert for
the signs OF any change. But unless and
until such change appears, the dis
charge of our responsibility for the peace
and security OF the world and Incl
dentally our own national safety. re-
quires the maintenance Of American
armed power sufficient in quantity,
quality and state OF readiness to cancel
out in advance any possibility of war, or
of an .'incident" which might make war
inevitable.
tcopyriEht 1896,
Evening star., 1946-10-12

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct i2-The late
Franklin d. Roosevelt, President, and
the late VIII Rogers, humorist, are
playing their full part in the current
political campaign in California. James
Roosevelt, eldest son Of the late Presi-
dent, is Democratic State chairman and
In charge Of the Democrats effort to
elect State officers and members of Con-
gress. Will Rogers, jr, is the Democratic
nominee for Senator--to fill the seat
once held by the late Hiram johnson
and, in recent months, by William F.
Knowland, Republican.
Mr. Roosevelt was catapulted into the
Democratic State Craftsmanship. 1t was
Southern California's turn to fill that
Office, the practice having been to give
the job to a Northern Democrat and
then to Southern Democrat. Accord
ing to reports. the proposal to elect Mr..
Roosevelt State chairman was first made
by Representative Helen Gahagan Doug
las of Los Angeles.<a charming sponsor.
What future political plans Mr.. Roose-
velt may have IN the back of his head
have not been revealed. But 1t is obvious
that II he Is able to put across Mr..
Rogers for the Senate. John F. Shelley
for Lieutenant Governor and Edmund @.
Brown for Attorney General. and holds
the Democratic line in the House dele
CATION, it will be feather in his cap.
He may want to run for Governor, or
for Senator. in the future. On the radio
he has much of the Roosevelt charm.
President Roosevelt was tremendously
popular in populous California Roose-
welt is name to conjure with here
which explains why the Democratic
leaders fell in line for James Roose-
velt for State chairman. This Is the
first campaign in years the Democrats
have had to wage without F. D. r. either
heading the ticket or at least In the
White House with plea to uphold his
hands. So James fits into the political
picture, and especially at time when
a good many of the voters look gloomily
upon the Truman administration in
Washington.
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Some of the native Democrats regard
the late Presidents son as carpetbag-
ger. He has made California his home
only for short time. But there are so
many hundreds of thousands of Cali
fornians who have been in the State no
longer than young Roosevelt, this is
scarcely an obstacle In his way to polit-
icaI preferment. 1t is recalled that
the late Senator William Gibbs Nc
Adoo-w1o married daughter OF Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson-was resident of
California only brief period before he
became Democratic national commit
teeman, candidate for presidential
nomination and Senator.
Jimmy" Roosevelt hasn't chance to
help elect Democratic Governor this
year-for the reason that Gov. Earl
Warren, Republican, has both the DEM