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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13
The Governor Does Right

Governor Cherry's refusal to have three
highway patrolmen charged with beating a
recaptured prisoner reinstated is. commen
dable. In fact, it is not possible to see how
he could have done anything else.
Despite the good records Of the three prior
to the attack, they violated the laws OF
North Carolina, and the laws o + good con-
duct and decorum.
The whipping of prisoners is forbidden in
this state, except upon specific instruction
from the chairman Of the State Highway and
Public Works commission and in the pres
ence of a physician. The commission chair
man issued no such order in this case, nor
was a doctor a witness to the beating.
The patrolmen appear to have given way
to their temper, and whether one or all had
a part in the actual beating, they were
equally guilty as accessories.
Officers of the law have great responsible
lily to enforce the law. When they break the
law they are doubly guilty. They have not
only violated the law itself but the moral
code as well.
The states entire highway patrol system
would fall into disrepute, lose public respect
and confidence, if these three men were
allowed to rejoin the force.
The governor has given his pledge to those
who asked their reinstatement that he will
do what he can to find other jobs for them.
It should not be difficult for him to fulfill
this promise. Having done that, Mr.. Cherry
will have gone as far as he reasonably can
be expected to 60.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13
Don't Sell UN Short
BY PETER s

Economic and Social Council a
they are with agencies of tn
federal government.
It may take a full generation
in which the American publ,
has been made aware Of VIVA
the UN can do and how it doe,
it, before the outfit catches on
Courses on the UN may hav'
to be taught in the high school.
and colleges. Students of thes,
courses must grow up in an at
mosphere of international af
fairs.
AS President Truman pointee
out in his speech to the Bra
lillian Congress-, "We must kee,
ever in mind that the United
Nations was not intended to set
tie the problems arising imme
diately out of the war. but. t.
maintain International peace
after just settlements had beer
made"
In fact, settlement of prob
lens arising out of the wal
were definitely excluded from
consideration by the UN Those
problems were left to the Biz
Five and the smaller Alice
powers, which were actually al
war with the Axis. To date,
peace treaties have been con.
Guided with only five Of the Axis
satellites. To expect the UN to
function before peace treaties
have been imposed on Germa-
ny, Austria and Japan is toe
much.
In spite of this, the UN has
made a start at tackling some
of the problems of the postwar
world. If its progress seems
slow, it is necessary only to
compare its speed with that OF
the U. S. Congress. 1t is not
unusual for Congress TO take
from five to seven years to ef-
feet needed reforms in Ameri-
can government.
Any little thing that the UN
accomplishes is therefore that
much net gain. There was un-
questionably a desire or the
part OF the American people for
the UN to succeed. It deserves
chance to be understood.
In the hope of contributing a
little to that understanding.
some of the more important is
sues before the forthcoming SEES
sion of the General Assembly
Will be outlined in succeeding
dispatches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13

WESTINGHOUSE the man
in the street what he thinks OF
the United Nations organization
today and he will probably sum
it up with, "That bunch of guys
out beyond Brooklyn amt dom
anything. Every time they come
up with an idea, Russia vetoes
it."
Amid mounting public opinion
that the UN "can't do the job
it was supposed to do, some 500
diplomats from SIS nations, with
several thousand aides and as
%sistants, will formally open a
new session of the United Ma
tons General Assembly at
temporary UN headquarters in
Flushing Meadows, N. Y. Sept.
Is.
To say that this session is cru
cial puts it mildly. With the
world capsizing, any straw that
can be grasped is a life raft.
That efforts are being made
to avoid disaster by the Truman
doctrine for Greece and Turkey
or the Marshall plan for west
ern Europe - both outside the
UN-is taken by some people as
an indication that UNI isn't do
ing it's job.
A group Of II senators and 10
congressman has proposed that
the United Nations charter be
revised. Such a responsible citi-
zen as ex-Supreme Court JUS
tice Owen Roberts goes even
farther, and says the I'm can
not maintain peace. He wants a
new federation of states willing
to surrender their sovereignty
to keep the peace.
There is no such spirit of de-
featism on the part of the Amer
lean staff which, under Secre-
tary of State Marshall. Ambas-
sador to the United Nations
Warren Austin and his deputy,
Herschel v. Johnson, will rep
resent the United States at the
forthcoming General Assembly.
Part of the popular impress
sion that the UN is a failure is
due to unfamiliarity with what
the world organization is sup
posed to do. Proceedings at
Lake Success have become too
hard to follow. They don't read
as easy as the sports or society
pages. They have no sex-appeal.
Newspaper readers and radio
listeners are, therefore, not as
familiar with what goes on in
the General Assembly or the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Sept.
II - I have had several good
grandchildren; but only two
have been boys. One of these is
artistic and has no interest in
business; he was in the Service
and returned from Europe safely.
The other, Michael had been
much interested in business, one
with whom I had discussed my
affairs although only eighteen
years old. He had been working
at a Sunapee, New Hampshire,
hotel all summer; last week he
took a speedboat party out on
Lake Surapee.
Somehow one Of the girls fell
overheard. Michael stopped the
boat and dove in after her,
knowing that she could not
swim. He succeeded in dragging
her to the side of the boat so
that the others could pull her in.
This they Gid; but Michael Was
exhausted and sank to the bot
tom. Divers finally recovered
his body. 1t was a splendid way
to 60 and I am much prouder
of him than if he had lived and
made a million dollars.
But why do l tell my personal
troubles to you readers? There
are two RESPONSIBILITIES, because
it has brought trouble home to
me and makes me appreciate
human values. It is the first
blow which I personally have had
since my sister was drowned
here at Gloucester many years
ago. I lost no near kin either
in World War I or II. War
fatalities were only cold statis-
tics to me. This is the first time
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13
BY ROGER w. BABSON

Il have appreciated what these
$50, 900 families really suffered
and what one thousand other
families are experiencing every
day Of the year.
During my career, I have
studied only profits, wages,
bushels and tons. Friends, I
fear there are too many other
American businessmen who are
like me,-forgetting the human
values. This may explain why
we do not understand the mil
lions of wage workers whose only
assets are their boys and girls.
Today l am trying to think of
them and also Of the millions of
starving families in Europe who
love their children just as much
as I loved Michael.
My second reason. for men
tioning Michael is to apologize
for my habit of discussing World
War Il as if the money cost
and property damage are of pri-
mary. consideration. Heretofore,
l have figured which is the
cheaper in dollars-to help out
Europe nov or to fight now. l
have not considered the millions
of good boys who would be
killed in another war. Again I
fear there are too many other
businessmen and perhaps la
Dor leaders too - who are as
ruthless as I have been in think
ing too much of the dollars in
volved and not enough of the
human lives. Anyhow, 1 am a
changed man today.
Just one more thought: Of
course, if World War III comes
we will be told that il is q tioht
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13
Unions And Reds


might lead a skeptic to aSsa1
that, although there was not '
slightest red tinge in the Y
bracket of AFL officialdom U
decision as to compliance y =
noncompliance with the " !.
davit requirement is maze "
ficult by a suspicion on the p
of the executive council th''
the lower official brackes
some unions there are olll'l
who might steer pretty cI0"
the ragged edge of perlu!.rf
they filed the required o.
davits. ~,
That, however, is sheer =, =.
picion, unsu stained by IN ~
dence; but it is a suSp''
which was bound to arise ~ a.
result of the hemmlng anu -.
ing INDUCED in by MIR 0'''
and his council. ~,
The language of the peff' !.
paragraph is as PLAN - s.,;
union label on a polltl2di .s Or,
dates campaign card II vi q.
fies that leach officer Oh IL
labor organization" na1}s% \
local union, as well as ms a
GERS of any affiliate malone N
international labor organic.
must comply with the an'I'
munist provision. ,cla
We are forced to oont w +.
therefore, that the d3 e. ! scr.t
be made by the ALL hA '+o5 d
Council is not being jela lel.-5l
cause. of any need 1oE n
cation" but because the s.+ i"
hasn't decided whe'n'' M
choose the alternative "a a 4 4.
colt of the National La0g nj \
lations Board, in order EN-, nv j
reveal, by refusal of 50'l nsics
GERS to sign, that such w. w..
are. or have been MEMBER 81 J
the Communist party OF -"
low traveller organizafio a,.s t5
It should be stated here aeej I !
this problem will be fat ty y
an even greater degree =,,i 4 y
clio when confronted VIII no J
same diler:ma, for the ,i:t; 4
known to have Comih;t s lo'
prof. amonS
officers. is e
sence, the question fac ,1ly u
unions, and more esps's eh.l =
is: "shall we. or s.' ~
not, expel union oflleu's q ~
are members of ComL.'"3
fellow traveller groups
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13
GOOD MORNING

Light! Natures r~esplendent robe;
without whose vesting beauty all were
wrapt in gloom.-Thonnson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-13

The recovery OF Europe has been far
s!owe than had been expected. Disintegrs
Ing ! forces are becoming evident. The pa
taent IS sinking while the doctors deliberate
Action cannot await compromise tnroIgh
exhaustion.-Secretary of State Marshall
we have spent millions to teach vo,,no
americans how to Gle, but we have been
n1ggardly in training them how to live far
Ms,,e veou3ntry.-Judge Anna M. Kross Of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-30
BETA SIGMA PHI
 PLANNING BOOTH

Mayor Waino Hendrickson spoke at the regular meeting of the Beta Sigma Phi held Saturday noon in the Bubble Room Terrace of the Baranof Hotel.
 Mayor Hendrickson, in outlining the plans for the 4th of July, said that this will be the largest cele- bration Juneau has seen in many years. President Joyce Williams an- nounced that members of Beta Sigma Phi would operate a con- cession which would feature bal looms, sparklers and other holiday items. The booth will open the evening of the Third and continue throughout the holidays.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-30
H0SplTAL N0TEs

The following medical patients were discharged from St. Ann's Hospital over the weekend; Ed Fisch, Anthony Smeadyle, Barbara Voso- tros, Don Mines and Carl Peder- son. Admitted to the hospital on Sunday were Joe Kelly, who is a ln2dical patient
 Discharged from the Government Hospital were Marianne Williams and baby girl of Hoonah and Child Cundum of Hoonah. Admitted to the hospital were Wandering Han sen of Angocn and Lucille Fawcett of Hconah.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-30
RADIO LOG
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MONDAY EVENING

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 without notice. Daytime forecasts on weekdays at 3 :0Q, 9:30 AM, and 1200 Noon.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-19
Bozenlan Attorney Defends City Manager Proposition

| local ward politicians were all against
it and busy as beavers to defeat it,;
which would appear to be the reason
for the it's recent defeat in Great Falls,
too, since only 41@o of the qualified
electors voted. Wasn't a school bond
issue defeated in Great Falls recently
for the same reason, as it was in Our
neighboring City of Livingston-less
than the required 1919 voting?
But any effort in Bozeman now to
abandon the commission manager plan
and return to the mayor-council plan
wouldn't have a chance of success.
Why? Just consider the facts.
When Bozeman changed over to the
commission-manager plan the city had
half million dollars bonded debt, its
city warrants were at a heavy dis
count, its tax levy high and its city
services inadequate, inefficient and
generally demoralized. AS usual, no.
body was to blame, nobody was re-
sPonsible. Within ten years or there
abouts the bonded debt was wiped out,
or could have been wiped out if the
State of Montana, holder of warrant
refunding bonds not subject to the
prepayment privilege, would have &C
cepted prepayment. City warrants
were payable at par at any Bozeman
bank. City services were improved
and extended, and all of that done
without any increase in the tax levy
over what it was when the commits
plan took over and many
years it has been less. And with no
intent to indulge in "odius COMPARE
son" nor to reflect upon the efficiency,
honesty and capability of the present
city government of Great Falls which
is doubtless as good as it can be-
under an antiquated and outmoded
system, here is something for the city
taXpaying citizens of that city, in
Guiding labor union taxpaying citizens
if there are any such, to chew on: In
this year of grace the city tax rate
per thousand dollars of valuation in
Bozeman is $500 against a rate of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-19

! 1880 per thousand dollars of valua-
ton in Great Falls. The rate of $500
is the lowest of any of the twelve
largest cities of the state, and if any
of them give more for the tax dollar
than Bozeman gives it's citizens I don't
know it and will be glad to be set
right.
Of course no system of government,
great or small, is any better than the
men charged with its administration
and Bozeman may have been special
ly fortunate in that respect. In the
twenty-five years of commission-man-
ager municipal government in Boze-
man we have had six city managers,
all of them but one residents and tax
payers of the city and he a longtime
resident of Montana, highly qualified
civil engineer and with many years ex-
perience in management of municipal
government affairs in another Mon
tana city All of the managers have
been good and capable men, four out
of the six civil engineers by profess
sion. Among them they have saved
the taxpaylng citizens many thousands
OF dollars while at the same time i'm
proving and extending the city serv-
ices, and all of them very much I'M
derpa1d. In proportion to the value
of the service rendered and the re-
sponsibility assumed, no Bozeman city
manager has received fifty percent of
OF what city managers in cities of COM
parable cize throughout the country
are paid. And the same applies to the
city commissioners. One term in of
flee has been enough for most of
them: Such underpayment of top Off
Gals is the one black spot in the COM
municipal govern
ment of Bozeman. City managers
have no union. Maybe I could ge'p
the labor unions of the state to join
me in campaign to get just and
pay for city managers in
Bozeman. Come on, boysl Such a
campaign will be right up your alley
and I will need help to win out on it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-19

| pal gOVernm entS, may recognize the
"closed shop" principle of labor union.
ism, nor deal with labor unions as
such, every Bozeman city employe
may join any labor union ne pleases.
And representative of the unions are
always given a respectful hearing by
the commission. The union scale of
wages, or even little more, has al
ways been paid by the city and labor
union members have more than once
been elected city commissioners. Any
city employee is perfectly free to pri-
vately express his preference among
candidates for commissioner and pri-
vately campaign for his favorite just
as most other citizens who take the
trouble to vote may and do. But if he
does so publicly and Extensively he
risks losing his job if a majority of
the commissioners he opposes win
out, as he certainly would under the
mayor-council plan if the mayor, or
his ward councilman, that he so op-
posed if elected. I have, however,
known of only one such case in Boze-
man under the commission-manager
form and T. as then city attorney, hap
pened to be the loser. I expected it
and had no complaint to make, al
though the new city manager said he
would like to keep me. That was
nearly 20 years ago and in the early
years of the commission-manage plan
in Bozeman. I have not known of any
other instance of it since, but. as
everybody knows it is the common and
expected practice under the mayor
council plan. In four years l had the
job of city attorney back and held it
since until August / of
this year when I voluntarily quit it.
1t may be that the city government
of Great Falls under the antiquated
plan is all right or at
least as good as it could be under a
system that makes its top manage
ment a spare time from private bust
ness affairs and the fixing of respon-
sibility difficult or impossible because
Of the buck passing game in which
every one from the mayor down may
indulge as suits their purpose But
The fact that at least twenty-five per-
cent of the city's qualified electors
have twice tried without success to |
change to plan of municipal govern
nent abundantly proved better for the
taxpayers at least if not for the pur-
pose of local ward politicians, would
appear to be pretty strong evidence to
The contrary. Perhaps among that
twenty-five per cent of the dissatis-
led there are present or former city
and the present and form
9r mayors, too. 1t was so in Boze-
man, In fact the leaders in the move
nent for the change were the then |
mayor and most of the Bozeman city |
council as well as a few of the ex-
variety. But at that the change had |
narrow escape from defeat because
If the Indifference of voters. If a
couple of hundred of them had not
,een shooed to the polls during the
asst two hours the polls were open it
would have been defeated, for the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-19
CORRECTION
Great Falls, Mont, Dec. Is, 1947

Great Falls, Mont, Dec. Is, 1947
The Peoples Voice is showing a
splendid spirit by carrying state
ments on all views on the city
manager controversy.
Incidentally, the following state
ment appearing in the article,
Analysis of the Recent Great Falls
Election" (Voice, Dec. 12) is mis-
leading and perhaps should be cor
rected.
"The proposal lost 1884 to 1926
with the margin of 1,058 being
greater by some 76 votes than the
defeat of the same proposal in
1920, last time the plan was put on
the ballot"
The city-manager proposal lost
by II votes in 1920 and by LOSS
votes in 1947.
Sincerely,
Great Falls Correspondent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-19

LHefe is no CIVIL service SoCup IN BOZo-
man with it's Second class and first
class citizens" as your Correspond
ent' implies is a provision of the
Montana Commission Manager law.
That provision of the law is permits
sive and not mandatory. Bozeman
has never invoked it, having found no
need for it. AS for democratic pro-
cedures", the city manager law of
Montana makes much more liberal
provision for such procedures than its
mayor-council law. Under the city
manager law the mayor is a mere
figurehead. AS mayor he has no
power nor authority such as has the
mayor under the mayor-council plan
under which Great Falls operates, in
cludes the power of veto or of appoint
ment. He has a vote as a commits
sioner, is presiding officer at commits
sion meetings, is the city official for
the service of process upon the city,
may possibly have the power of par
don and remission in police court
convictions for infractions of city ordi-
nances subject to the approval of the
commission, represents the city upon
formal or ceremonial occasions, and
that is all. Compare that with the
powers of the mayor and the difficult
ties of his removal or removal of any
city alderman or councilman under
the mayor-council form, and determine
for yourself which form has the more
democratic procedures. No wonder
your Great Falls Correspondent" did
not mention Bozeman as one of his
horrible examples of the "undemo-
cratic" pitfalls of the commission-man-
ager plan of municipal government.
The labor unions of Bozeman, or
some of them, at one time thought
the commission-manager plan "undem-
ocratic" too and circulated a petition
as foundation for it's abandonment |
They found the necessary signers hard
TO get and it only takes $50 of the
qualified electors; in fact could not |
get them. That was ten or fifteen |
years ago. They have never renewed |
he effort, although urged to by those |
:ovetous of city jobs upon a political
party basis and not on merit. They
NOW that even though they were able
% get the necessary signatures to the
necessary petition there would be no
chance of success at the subsequent
election. And your Great Falls Cor
says the council-manager
orm, not provided for by the Montana
aw, is vastly different" from the
commission manager form, but does
lot point out any of such vast" diff
erences. There are few differences
f any and if any there be they are
# form and not of substance and in
lame only. In almost three-fourths
# the cities having the councilman
ger plan, 72.79o to be exact, elect
heir councilmen at large, 11.1% by
of by wards and at large,
nd only 1920 by wards only. (Mu-
icipal Year Book 1947, page 45.)
And labor in Bozeman now seems
ute content with the commissions
form. While no government
al unit of the state, such as munich
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-19
So This Is "Amercansm'
Los Angeles Legion Stormtroopers In Hot
Water With District Attorney

Los Angeles-FP-Dist Atty. Will
liam e. Simpson is bordering possible
charges against a group of American
Gestapo-like raid on suburban Demo
cratic party club meeting.
One by one, the Legionnaires
traipsed past the D.A. after having the
finger put on them by one of their
own officials, Orville Collins, COM
mander of Glendale Post 127 as we'll
as head of its Americanism committee.
Collins, who at first denied any con-
nection with the storm-trooping, final
ly admitted to Simpson that he was a
member, if not leader of the raid
ing party.
With approximately 20 other Legion
naires, Collins broke into a private
house November IA in which members
of the La Crescenta Democratic club
were meeting. Taking over the
speakers stand, he addressed the audi
ence as Progressive Citizens of Amer
lea" and ordered everyone to dispense
within 10 minutes" if they didn't want
to get hurt. The attack was appar-
emily inspired by the strong prevail
lace sentiment in some sections of the
Democratic party
The raiders were dispersed by sheEr
ifs deputies but no arrests were
made. With the Legionnaires admis-
sions in his files, Simpson was re-
portedly considering several possible
charges against the raiders
One could be the felony of conspir-
acy if it can be determined that the
raiders planned and schemed before
hand to break up the meeting. Mere
reading Of the statement, it was
pointed out, could constitute intimida-