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Evening star., 1947-01-22
This and That
BIZ Charles Z. Trace,Dell.

A correspondent is intrigued by what
he calls his upside down" goldfish, but
the fish itself doesn't find its fate so
funny, we'll bet.
1t is sick.
Lack Of proper foods and sanitation
have disturbed the function of It's SWIM
ming bladder.
Its balance, therefore, becomes upset,
and so it lives upside down.
It should be placed in a salt solution,
one level tablespoonful to gallon of
water, and kept there for some time.
No food should be given for several
days, and thereafter only one meal a
day, preferably of the best available
manufactured food of the type made
for tropical fishes.
One of the best of these Is made with
dried mosquito larvae.
End OF the war sees a renewal Of in
terest in the home aquarium.
Many old standards are missing from
the tanks, but no doubt will come back
again.
In the meantime, the goldfish man
ages to hold his own in public interest
He is still the same interesting fish he
was years ago. No matter how many
new species of exotic swimmers are
placed within the ken Of the enthusiast
the hardness, color and long life Of the
goldfish draw him back to 1t.
For those persons wishing bit of life
in a small apartment, there is nothing
that beats the goldfish.
He now comes in many colorS and
combinations of colors. In small aqua
rum he will not grow much. Put the
same fish into an outdoor pool and he
may become foot long.
We have seen many persons who have
gone through the gamut of home fish
keeping, starting off with guppies and
going to dozens of species, many of
supreme interest, grow tired of the care
they require, and 60 back at last to the
goldfish.
The common mistake with this hardy
fish is to crowd too many of him into
too little water.
This overcrowding, with the lack Of
sanitation it often brings about, Is one
of the reasons why tank inmates some
times have swimming bladder trouble.
The simplest easy rule to remember In
keeping goldfish properly is l inch of
fish-not counting the tail-to one gall
lon Of water.
This means that not more than five
small fishes ought to 60 into a 10-gallon
tank.
Yet it is commonplace to see that
many in gallon or less.
1t also is commonplace to see fishes
gasping for air at the surface of the
water, tanks with too green or cloudy
water, tanks which give OF bad smell
and sick and dead fishes.
II don't seem to be able to keep them,
the owner says, and he is right, because
the fundamental rules of the game are
not observed.
This violation of rules too often be-
gins with the dealer who furnishes the
fish. He wants to sell as many as he
can, naturally enough, and he knows
from long experience that the new pur-
chaser wants plenty of fish.
Can I keep five in this bowl?" asks
the beginner, looking down at the small
object he has just purchased.
"Oh, yes," says the merchant easily
and he is right, of course, for the time
being. The little bowl may hold them
for time, but not for very long time.
Too little water and too much food
these are the two usual violations OF
goldfish keeping, which result In sick
even upside down, dsh-
Evening star., 1947-01-22

WARSAW, Jan. 81 (By wirelesS -
There will have appeared elsewhere re-
ports of correspondents concerning the
conduct of the Yalta elections in Poland.
I believe there will be general consen-
sus among those correspondents who
have been here longest and have the
widest information connections, and
certainly every Pole outside the govern
ment with whom I have spoken has
expressed the opinion, that the out
come had been determined in advance
and that the recent elections were ac-
tually only another of those plebiscites
whereby governments, resting primarily
on force, secure the appearance OF ma
jority support.
Furthermore, have strong impress
sion, cleaned from government press con-
ferences and private conversations with
persons in high positions of authority
in this government-an impression more
convincing to me than even the accusa-
tions of Mikolajczyk's opposition-that
the present Communicated bloc would,
under no mstances-lncludlng, II
necessary, redress to naked force-al-
low itself to be ousted from Office. The
impression they gave and, I think,
sought to give, through repeated en-
phasis on the danger from underground
terror, Is that the fall OF the Beirut
government would plunge the country
into anarchy and chaos, and halt the
work of reconstruction and that, there
fore, any means, legal or illegal, to pre-
vent this is justifable in cold realism.
Also by curious irony, the government,
which owes it's existence to Russian
Intervention, even uses the unquestion-
able unpopularity of the Soviets and
the fear of Soviet domination to main
tair itself in power. For, in private
conversations which travel and are re-
peated faster than any press, its men,
bers spread apprehension, which may
we'll be true. that any serious division
of the country resulting from the dis
solution of the governing bloc would
bring direct Soviet intervention to re-
store order.
This argument that they had better
accept the present evils lest they suffer
worse has, in my highly tentative opin-
ion, a real effect on public opinion.
\ X
But this situation is the most battling
I have ever encountered. A people who
went through six years OF agony, mar
tyrdom and united resistance, open and
passive, to the Germans, resistance to
whom brought burned and dynamlted
ruins of rubble Of which Warsaw Is
gaunt reminder, has bitter sense OF
BETRAYAL which is all but universal.
Evening star., 1947-01-22

ture WILL De Unlike IIldt VI 'iic poo''
With the help of the western nations
they may build tolerable existence.
Then they will view with bitter resent
ment their lost provinces in the East.
A new generation will come along, led
by Albert Speer or some one like him.
False conclusions will be drawn from
past defeats, and determination to try
again may develop The stolid German
mind will turn to new methods. 1t will
believe in them, however inadequate
they are.
The German mind was capable OF
believing, 80 years ago, in Big Berthas,
submarines and in poison gas. Two or
three years ago it believed in v wea-
pons. In the future its interest will be
in atomic weapons. Next time it may
say to itself, 1--WE will get the weapons
first"
To counteraet the growth of these
decisions, certain things must be stressed
in dealing with Germans. II it is pos
sible, they must be taught the truth.
The atomic bomb did not defeat Ger
many. Ultimately Japan would have
been beaten without the atomic Domo
The v weapons were annoying but not
decisive.
."New" weapons never decided war
Napoleon III believed in them. He had
his "cheesepot," novel infantry weap-
en-. But Moltke, with superior strategy
and an efficient army, defeated the
French.
It will require Allied determination
for q generation to combat the danger
of a reyersion in German thinking.
There must be no preparation for war
in Germany. Alluring though it may
be to western nations to see a strong
Germany able to check Russia, the les
son we have learned SO bitterly must be
remembered. 1t was the German men
tality that caused two world wars. And
there is a tendency, always present, for
men like Speer to say, I'VE would have
won, but we were late"
(Re,eased b. Associated Nswpapsrs, Ine)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

Tor myself
You're commissar, aren't your" the
family queried. You can get anything
you want, can't you?"
I'm a commissar, all right" she re-
piled, but I'm not commissar on the
inside"
The distinction between inside" and
outside commissars intrigued her
American friends, and they pressed her
further about it. She insisted that al
though she was a commissar she was not
one of the ruling circle and told this
story to illustrate:
Shortly after the liberation she was
in Vienna when she met a Russian
colonel, staggering and full of self-im-
portance. He had just acquired hand
some American alarm clock. and had 1t
hanging from heavy ribbon around his
neck. He loudly proclaimed his impor-
tance. proudly pointing to his lately
acquired timepiece to prove 1t. 1t was
bigger and handsomer than anything
anv one else could display.
The Russian colonel and the Yugoslav
girl commissar set of down one Of
Vienna's main streets and were suddenly
halted by the clock giving forth loud
and piercing alarm The colonel, almost
in terror, tore the treasured timepiece
from its ribbon and dashed it to the
pavement.
'"Time bomb! Time bomb! Fascist
trick!" he cried as he whipped his pistol
from it's holster and poured four quick
and accurate shots into the shrieking
mechanism. That silenced the clock and
the colonel replaced his pistol with
grunts of satisfaction
THAT" the girl cornmissar informed
him disdainfully, was no time bomb.
That's an alarm clock. It's supposed to
do that. 1t wakes you up when you're
asleep. Now you've ruined it,
Convinced that he was not the in
tended victim of Fascist bomb plot,
the colonel bent over remorsefully and
gathered up the shattered bits of metal,
every one of them, and marched of to
a matchmaker.
when we found a matchmaker" the
girl commissar related, ''he topped it OH
by throwing the pieces down on the
counter, pulling out his revolver and
demanding that the matchmaker repair
it in 10 minutes. Nobody could ever put
that thing back together again"
THAT was what I meant by being on
the inside He was Russian colonel
and on the inside. am just Yugoslav
commissar, but I know an alarm clock
when I see it, and he didn't. When I
get as dumb as that will qualify as
commissar on the inside. Then I'll be
able to get food for my family
Evening star., 1947-01-22

of the nonpolitical character OF our
foreign policy and its administration.
There is one contingency, OF
course, that would involve neither
political ambitions on his part or his
selection, by political draft" as a
candidate but which still would
place him in the White House. That
would be the death of the President
of the United States, to whose Office
General Marshall, in the absence Of
a Vice President, would automati-
cally succeed. Such an act of God
does not belong in the category OF
speculation to which he referred.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

Poles don't forget that they alone of
all Allies have lost great historic terri
tories, nor do they forget other things.
These get under the skin Of even the
Polish Communist, and you will find his
red streaked with the white Of the
Polish flag, and the differences often
end in a question Of whether the Rus
SLAMS or the British are the most blame
worthy The United States of America
is in class by itself, despite the hostile
government propaganda, because OF the
humane relief by UNRRA and private
American charities and the blood ties
between the Poles here and in the
United States, making the farthest ally
in some ways the nearest.
But any foreign partisan political
support is, am inclined to think, as
much liability as an asset. 1t is no
more help to Mikolaj jczyk, for instance,
that he returned from London than 1t
is for President Beirut that he came
from Moscow.
For, in the years of isolated martyrdom,
the new Polish spirit has surged for
ward tougher, harder, more politically
conscious, more savagely Polish and
more skeptical than ever before.
Proud Polish courtesy, equaled only by
the Spanish, is still here, especially
among children. whose ragged gentility
is overwhelming. But one senses an al
most unbridgeable distance OF experience
between those who endured occupation,
resistance insults, humiliation, servility,
danger, imminent death, and those who
did not.
That is, I think, the tragedy Of the
Polish nation - that those who led,
planned, and suffered with whole COM
munity under German occupation are
not those leading Poland today.
All terms-progessive, radical. reac-
tionary, left, right-have an entirely
different meaning and content to this
people than, for instance, to us.
And Polish patriotism means to build.
to separate, to recreate not only new
way of life but one absolutely and
specifically Polish.
The vitality of this country is electric
one feels it in the very air. This city,
which Is wilderness of rubble, cliffs
and caves, has more energy than Paris,
and every one is working. Thousands,
who despise the government, are never
theless in its health, education, social
and reconstruction services, working
with grandiose devotion. In short, the
Polish people dwarf the government and
upset all blueprints.
released by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Toward Atom Control
By David La,prence

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The job Is far from complete. But
bitter, hamstringing suspicious seem
dissolving and vista Of agreement
beckons. On this issue Of atomic con-
troll there is no room for the slightest
compromise, the slightest deviation from
the Baruch plan which is one of the
most intelligent, shrewd and generous
gestures any nation has made in his
tory The United States is not only
willing but intensely eager to Danish
atomic weapons from the world arsenal.
But this must be accomplished through
a universal treaty that establishes con-
troll, supervision, unlimited inspection
of tission materials and research every
where upon the globe; that can never
be subject to national veto; that pro-
vides for drastic, sure and quick punish
ment against any violator.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Winter Windowpune

/ thought the moonlight that had
touched the pane
Must hdue skinned oUer linptd troptc
seas,
For here, out on this bleak and wtntry
plain,
Are tiny fish and sea anenones
Etched in the frost that clouds my
pindoD glass.
What else but moonlight could haze
brought these far
Sea n1tipes from their indtery tDflds?
Alas,
TH never kno,o," said, yet here they
Strangers, indeed, to this chill ,oorld OF
Uhite.
Perhaps magic art anknown to
men
Was practtced dettly ON my pane last
night"
spoke thus to the silent room, and
then
I heard tinkly sound and kneto that
clues
Were Uotchings me, and laughing to
themselves.
PRUDENCE K. GEAREY.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
This Changing World
By Constantine BroiUn

The masters of the Kremlin are fire.
quently depicted as highly disturbed over
the effect which contact with the west
and its Luxurious" way Of living will have
on the millions of Russian soldiers who
for the first time in World War II were
permitted to leave the borders Of Russia.
In Germany. Austria and other parts
Of Eastern and Southeastern Europe the
Soviet soldier came into contact-even
in the most backward countries-with
certain amenities of living which have
never been known in Russia, even in
the higher ranks of Soviet society.
One of the amazing gadgets OF "de-
generate" western society for which the
Russian soldier-up to and including
the rank of general-became immedi-
ately enamoured was the watch, and
the bigger and gaudier 1t was the more
the Russian soldier was willing to pay
for it.
The black market in watches in Ger
many after We day became some
thing of a scandal, with Americans Of
all ranks and stations in life showing
no reluctance to dispose of second-rate
and well-worn watches at many times
their real value. But at the bottom OF
the whole illegal trade in watches was
the demand of the Russians for time
pieces of all kinds. Highest in their
estimation was not the dainty pre-
cision product of the finest American
watchmakers, but the Mickey Mouse"
variety.
Americans returning from recent as
signments behind the Iron curtain" tell
of seeing Russian soldiers with watches
adornlng all parts of their uniforms.
They strung them from their necks,
wore them on their pockets, on their
wrists One Russian officer had so
many-bought, of course, with rubles in
a land where the ruble was king-that
he wore them from his wrist to his
shoulder, like arm bands on some alb
original warrior.
These returning Americans tell Of an
experience which involved a Yugoslav
girl commissar and a high-ranking
Russian officer on the streets of Vienna.
The Americans were accompanying
the girl conmissar on tour in Yugo-
slavia when they visited her old home
and saw her family. The father, mother
and four sisters and brothers of the
fighting young lade lived in an earth
foored hut, wore rags and had no shoes.
when are you going to send us some
food? We need food. We have no food
they pleaded and it was apparent they
were telling the truth.
"I can't send you any food" the girl
commissar replied. II can't even get any
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Italian Socialism Explodes

rent the Socialist Party in Italy Is
more than a local phenomenon. 1t
is the logical culmination of trend
visible in other countries, notably
in<France.
The root of the present debacle
was the decision made about year
ago by the Socialist leader, Pietro
Nenni, to CO. operate with the
italian Communist Party in left
wing bloc for the attainment of
economic and social aims which the
two groups were supposed to have
in common. That decision aroused
the strong opposition of other
Socialist spokesmen who, like their
colleagues in France and Britain,
held that orthodox socialism, with
it's insistence upon basic human
liberties and the accomplishment of
economic social reforms by consti-
tional methods, was fundamentally
incompatible with the Communist
creed of totalitarian dictatorship
attained by revolutionary action
and maintained by naked force.
These objectors warned that the
Communists would prove to be a
Trojan horse" and that the out
come of the alliance" would be the
destruction of the Socialist partner
as an independent entity.
Those fears were abundantly JUS
titled at the twenty-fifth Socialist
Party convention, recently concluded.
The delegates were confronted with
a program drawn up by Nenni and
the other left-wingers sanctioning
virtual fusion with the Communists
on the latter's terms. That started
the fireworks. No less than three
groups of deputies walked out of
the convention, the most important
being the one headed by Giuseppe
Saragat, who bitterly denounced the
betrayal of Socialist principles,
which he contended had been sacri-
fed to what he called foreign
forces"
The immediate result was thus
less a schism than an explosion.
Since then, the dissident fragments
appear to be coalescing around the
Saragat faction in the shape of
new Socialist Party which already
won the allegiance of fully one
third of the Socialist deputies In
Parliament. Meanwhile, the left
wing rump headed by Nenni goes
ahead with its fusion program, prac-
tically unopposed now that the
right wing elements have seeded.
The logical consequence of all this
is the virtual disappearance of the
Socialist Party as a major factor
in italian politics. Since the party
has been the second largest group in
Parliament, ranking second in
numerical strength to the Christian
Democrats and ahead of the Com
munists, this implies radical shift
in the political balance Of power.
It foreshadowed inevitably recast-
ing of the coalition cabinet headed
by the Christian Democrat, Alcide
de Gasperi, who has just resigned
after visiting this country to solicit
American aid for Italy's desperate
economic situation.
Viewed in the larger perspective,
the disruption of Italian socialism
removes the chief moderating factor
and accentuates the trend toward
a splitting of the Nation into fanati-
cal extremist groups ready to fight
each other to a finish over their
irreconcilable aims and ideologies.
Evening star., 1947-01-22

If all the tough, difficult, tedious
problems of humanity were solved
and done with, there still would re-
main the greatest problem of all
complete and absolute boredom.
Evening star., 1947-01-22

Of the record, the President is
afraid that Congress will be so
obstinate in opposing his Govern
ment spending plan that he won't
be able to budget.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Worse Than the Disease

From the Winnipeg Tribune.
As the common cold still afflicts "a
per cent of the populace, what has any
one to suggest, other than louder COM
rnercials and a tablet that attacks it
five ways?
Evening star., 1947-01-22

Who remembers when a mansen-
titled to wear as many as three diff
ferent varsity football letters was
looked at askance as a tramp
athlete? .
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Music .und Color

From the Cleveland News.
First proposals call for U. N. flag
with a globe, six stars and a rainbow.
Later, perhaps, it will break out into
lights and ring bells
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the proud parents of a baby girl
Karen Ethel born at Whitefish hos
pital on February T.
Mrs. James Broderick spent the
past week in Spokane on business
The Baptist Ladies Aid will meet
at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Hoop
er with Mrs. Boneu as assisting
hostess on Thursday, Feb. q.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Green have
been Eureka visitors the past week
due to the illness of Mr.. Green's
father.
Ralph Hendrickson, who has
spent the past two weeks with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hen
erickson, left for Hamilton Wednes-
day. He will 60 by way of Libby
and Missoula where he will spend
several days visiting friends and
relatives. Shortly after returning
to Hamilton he plans to leave for
Alaska where he has been employed
for the past two years.
Mrs. Frank Baney was a visitor
in Kalispel Friday where she met
her daughter who is attending Col
lege in Missoula. June will spend
a few days at home before return
ing to school
William Badgcly who has been
seriously i'll for some time passed
away at the Eureka hospital Fri
day, Feb. IA. An obituary will
be printed at a later date.
Mrs. Frank Costich returned to
Eureka after a two weeks visit in
Browning. She was accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. George Au-
bert and little daughter, who will
visit here a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Romie Filiatreau
and family of Warland were visi-
tors in Eureka for two days last
week.
Friends of MIR. Henion will be
glad to know he is improving.
Mrs. Sailing left for Portland
where she is visiting her sister for
several months.
John Porter is visiting in Eureka
from Plains. This is the first time
he has been here since he was dis
charged from the army several
months ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Miles have
been visiting at the home of Mrs.
Miles sister and brother-in-law Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Fetterly for the
past week. They left for their home
in Maxville Tuesday and were ac-
companied as far as Missoula by
Mr. Fetterly.
Miss Gertrude Dumbolton left
for Wenatchee Wednesday, Febru-
airy 49,, for a visit with her nephew,
Ray Waller.
Word has been received from Mr..
and Mrs. Don Bereley of Kenne-
wick, that they are the proud par
ents of a baby girl.
Mrs. George Ramlo returned from
Spokane where she has been visit
ing for several weeks at the home
Of her daughter and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Floyd Williams. She boasts
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os a darling new baby granddaugh-
ter born while she was there.
Royal Neighbor Sewing Circle
will meet at the home of Mrs Rudy
Peck Feb %, with Mrs. Jack Al
avana and Mrs. Fred Titchbourne
assisting.
Lew Vanish of Walton spent Sun
day visiting at the Jack AlaVana
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudy Peck had as
dinner guests Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs.
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ANAb6SeS
P. J. Zook left Tuesday for Spo-
kane where he will spend a few
days on business. c. F. Dierman
is running the draw and hauling the
mail during his absence.
Mrs. Fred Johnson left for Kalis-
pell Wednesday to spend a few days
with her son and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Johnson.
Mrs Edward Bailey entertained
the Baptist Ladies Aid at her home
Thursday, Feb. Is.
Rev L. B. Whitman of Helena.
President of Montana Council of
Churches. who visited here the past
week, was the house guest of Mr..
and Mrs Chester Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde N. Voorhees,
left Monday for California where
they plan to spend their vacation
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. T. H. Price and mother, Mrs.
Francis Shenefelt, left for Whitefish
Wednesday where they plan to spend
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hansman spent
Wednesday in Kalispen and were
accompanied by Mrs. Fred John
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aldus Mackey visi-
ted at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. L. Smith in Kalispeu during the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Moen are