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Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12
Community Calendar
TUESDAY

TUESDAY CHOIR PRACTICE at Lutheran church. 7:30 pm. FIRE ASSOCIATION meeting at Legion clubrooms. 8 pm. PLANNING COMMITTEE of Chamber of Commerce meets at 8 pm. Matanuska Valley Bank.
 Wednesday TWELVE-THIRTY CLUB meets at home of Mrs. Nina Stock. INTERMEDIATE GIRL SCOUTS meet at school at 3::3O D. m. WASILLA SCOUTS meet at school at D. m.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12

Peterson and myself. They are a couple of swell fellows. Played chess with Virgil in the evening which kept us occupied for quite while. He won but I sure did keep him going. And he only beat me by one move. So that's not so bad for beginner.
 Monday. Nov. 3-My last full day here. Sunrise at 8:46 o'clock. Temp. at sunrise 19 above, Temp. at 7:30 a. m. 10 above. Sunset al 12:30 p. m. Temp. at Sunset 2515 above. So there wasn't much time to spend outdoors. But of course spent it ski-joring with ''Whitey." He's really fast and cuts corners. Makes you keep on your toes. Mrs. Mommsen made sourdough ice cream. Boy that's good stuff. Spent the eve. reading books they have on Birds of Alaska" and Birds of America" I like them. Would like to have more time to spend reading them. They are so in- teresting. Always had refresh ments before we went to bed. Tasted pretty good. My last night there. l have certainly had one swell time and look forward to the time can come back. Every one here has been swell to me.
 Tuesday. Nov. 4-Got up at six and had breakfast then and got ready to leave. Went to the hotel for lunch and had swell meal. Walked around a little and had my last looks at the beautiful country. The train came again at a quarter to two. And left at two.
 It was quite cloudy when we left. But after we got down a little 1t cleared up and was so p1e.ty. Some places it was zero.
 Had good time with the con- ductor. Learned more arithmetic on that trip than I'll ever learn. As the conductor had me figuring how long it took to get from one section to the other on the sched- ule. Really had to do some tall figuring. Met some nice people on the train. The train was over two hours late. Didn't get to Ma tanuska until 10.45 p. m. where my Daddy met me and ended my trip.
 It is something I will always remember as one of the happiest and most interesting of my life. Thanks so much to all those who made it possible for me to go.
 Kermit King
 The End
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12

In general, enamelware baking pans give the deepest brown when baking products. Glass ranks next, especially in an cleo tric oven which has high degree of radiant heat.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12
VALLEY THEATRE Announces a Price Change
 in Admissions

For the last two the Valley has held the price ne @ on adult admissions; but too have found that cost of operation has steadily increased today is almost 100% higher than the 1945 price contracts Our of operation fuel heat transportation of m repairs aoor and living costs have reasons we have finally decided to raise admission prices
 AL HAGEN
 Children 17c plus Sc tax - 20c Inc chanoa, tThs is children l2 years under children up 10 and including the eighth grade. All children occu- pYing seats must have a ticket.
 High school 50c plus l0c federal tax tho chanqe) Actual and bona fde high school enrollee only. oth- erwlse the charge is for a regular adult ticket. Adults 67c admission plus federal tax, soc adm Wednesday and Thursday Family Nights Two adult tick cts will admit the holders plus those of their immediate family who under high school attend the theatre family group however. ~ ~ Moflon pictures lowest cos type entertainment in most towns: - - ~ ~
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12

JUST ARRIVED. New Farmall A and Farmall H tractors. 1 used Ford tractor. Hoyt Motor Co.,, Anchorage.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12

PIANO, typewriters, bicycles.
 Mountain View Store.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12

CotteY Insures Everything Remember? Adv,
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12
Classified Ads
FOR SALE

Automatic washing ma chine; nearly new; $125. Ray Gather, Palmer.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12
Kermit King The End

Editor's Note: Mrs. Mommsen wrote letter to Harry Silver in Anchorage which had this to say about Kermit: T really want to thank you, Harry, for asking me to take care of Kermit for a week. We all, that includes the men here, Teddy, (Mr. Mom- msen) and myself have had great deal of pleasure out of his stay here. 1 will miss the lad when he is gone and so will Whitey. So thanks a lot, I wish he might stay always.')
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12

ENCK SPOT POULTRY FARM. Spenard road, Anchorage, Box 598, Main 499, is ready to sell you poultry feed. Carload now on hand to go at COST price in "lets-get-together" sale.
Valley frontiersman., 1947-11-12
FOR SALE

FOR SALE PURE bred Collies-puppies and grown stock. Mountain View Store.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-18
EDUCATIONAL FILM
 OF PUBLIC INTEREST
 TO BE SHOWN FRIDAY

Educational and entertaining films, of interest to offices and various departments, as well as private business, will be shown Fri day forenoon at II o'clock in the Grade School auditorium by the Capitol Typewriter Company. The showing is free.
 The films, The Duties of Sec retary," and "Typing Tips are the title, and both are of special interest, the former providing the understanding of the plus value of a secretarial position, and the latter accurate methods Of opera ton of typewriter, etc.
 There will be only one showing of the films, the first taking about 30 minutes, and the latter about 21 minutes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-18
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE

Christmas Party Monday, Dec. g at 7:30 D. m in New Moose Club. Don't forget! 762 St
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-18
RADIO LOG RINY (1460 KC) JUNEAU "The Voice of Alaska"

THURSDAY EVENING 5:00-Story Lady. 5:15-G. I. live. 5:30-Totem Talk-Forecasts. 5:45-Music Box. 6:00-Pan A News. 6:15-Concert Hall. 6.45-Sport Memories. 7:00-Community Center. 7:l5-Standard News-Forecasts 7:30-Mel Blanc. 8:00-KINY BandboX. 8:30-Teen-Age Quiz. y:00-Mystery Playhouse. 9:30-Pamaray Time. 9:45-Between the Lines l0:00-Date at Dreamland. 0:15-ForecastS. All programs are subject to change
 without notice. Daytime forecasts on weekdays at 800, 9:30 A. M, and l2 Noon
Evening star., 1947-06-27

run, unavoidable unless the Communists
get their own way and virtually dominate
the situation. II this be true, our Gov
ernment was asking the impossible of
Chang Kai-shek.
Equally important is the question: What
next in China? 1t is generally believed
that the Nationalist government Is vir-
tually bankrupt. The chief factor pre-
venting economic collapse has been the
hope of adequate aid from the United
States If, now, this hope should prove
vain, the disintegration of the Nationalist
regime in the near future is far from
unlikely. In that case, communism might
spread all over China and the Communist
Party could conceivably become the pre-
dominant force That would pose grave
, eventuality for our foreign policy, not
merely in China but also in the rest OF
the Far East; indeed throughout the world.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Letters to The Star
'Old Bob as a Filibusterer

odd Bob as FIlibusterer
To the Editor of The STAR
Seldom is there an evening when do not
enjoy your editorial pages, for they are IN
variably carefully prepared, fact-flled and falr-
minded rare exception I find in the editorial
After the Veto" You say that to the liberal
filibusterers a tllibuster conducted by any one
else Is an iniquitous thing.
The relative lack of propriety OF a hliouster
seems to me to depend upon its purpose FILL
busters that are arranged by a minority group
for the avoWed purpose of Indefinitely prevent
ing a vote on a measure are one thing.
fllibuster undertaken for the announced pur-
pose of delaying vote for very lew Gays
seems to me quite another thing. (Contrary 10
many comments Saturday night about the 'oe-
feat" of the flibuster and your statement IN
your editorial that the filibusters were over
whelmed," it is true, is it not, that the hl1-
buster was not halted until an agreement was
made to defer the vote until an agreed date ana
hour?) A filibuster must be judged upon the
issue at stake and upon the method OF con-
ducting it. If so, the broad statement OF your
editorial is surely not well made.
The historic effort of "Old Bob" La Toilette,
when he made the longest speech on record IN
the Senate, might be studied with profit by
one interested in this question. Here was an
effort made by one man with very limited sup
port from few Of his colleagues to prevent the
exercise of the will Of the great majority until
the close of the Congress already determined
upon Here there was great opportunity for
difference of opinion as to the merits of the
effort. To his opponents La Toilette seemed to
he a self-willed man obstinately determined to
defeat the majority who should have the right
to carry through their efforts. To those of us
who knew La Toilette and understood his pur-
pose 1t was brave effort of an honest patriot
who had fought for the right all through his
life Here was an effort to defeat the will OF
the ma jority by man who, again and again had
had his suggestions turned down by the In
terests which he was fighting only to see them
afterward accepted and made the law OF the
land Once in time there arises in this land
man who seems to be ruthless and determined
because he has the vision to see the light long
before the majority of his fellows "Old Bob
was one such. c. 4. 5.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Chino Loses Its Credit

Secretary of State Marshall's announce
ment that the Chinese Nationalist govern
ment headed by GeneraliSSimo Chang
Kai-shek would not get the $500,O0OO0O
credit earmarked for it eighteen months
ago by the Export-Import Bank brings into
sharp focus both the financial plight of
the Chinese government and our own
Chinese policy.
The credit for China was originally ear
marked with the limitation that none OF
it would be made available until China
put its political house in order. 1t was
in accordance with that directive that
General Marshall conducted his special
mission to China, when for nearly year
he strove to effect a settlement between
Chinas warning factions. On his return
to the United States, Marshall issued his
famous statement, best characterized by
the familiar saying: "A plague on both
your houses" This dual condemnation was
occaSioned by the unreliability, intransi-
geance, and bad faith displayed alike by
the Nationalist government and its Com
munist opponents. Indeed, since his re-
turn, conditions in China have gone from
bad to worse with civil war raging in
many parts of the country and the eco
nomic situation verging on chaos. Under
these circumstances, the State Department
apparently intends to let the whole matter
drop with the passing of the deadline fixed
for June 80. Afterward, the Chinese gov
ernment would have to renegotiate from
the beginning That would not be easy,
because the Export Import Bank has pend
ing requests for credits which would more
than exhaust the earmarked Chinese funds.
Assuming that China has definitely lost
its credit opportunity, two questions i'm
mediately arise. The first of these is
whether genuine understanding between
the Nationalist government and the Com
munists was ever feasible. Granting that
the Nationalists have been ambitious and
intractable, nevertheless, the Chinese Com
munists have shown the same strategy and
tactics as Communist Parties are doing
everywhere. The lesson would seem to be
that coalition governments which include
Communists are unstable and, in the long
Evening star., 1947-06-27
The President and the Low

The President has acted wisely IN issuing
a special statement backing up the pledge
of the National Labor Relations Board
to give the new Taft-Hartley Act tine
fairest and most efficient administration
that lies within it's power" The act, as
he saws. is now the law of the land, ana
it demands the respect of every citizen ana
complete good faith and earnestness Oh
the part of those charged with the re-
sponstbility of making 1t effective. 10
adopt a contrary attitude would be 10
do violence to the will OF the American
people-resoundingly expressed through
Congress.
This point should be self-evldent, OF
course, The NLRB's pledge and Mr.. Tru-
mans statement ought not to have been
necessary. The public at large snoulo
have been able to take for granted
without special assurances-that the new
law would be well and faithfully ao-
ministered." The truth Is, however, the
President himself made such assurances
necessity. He did so because OF the un-
fortunate language he used in his veto
message and in his futile last-minute
appeal to the Senate not to override hinl
Reading things into it that simply were
not there, he described the legislation as
unfair" dangerous" and unavoidable"
In effect, he said that even II 1t became
operable it would fail-a wholly deteatlst
line suggesting that it would be admin
istered in the same spirit and inviting
labor leaders to resist it from the start
AS the coal miners under John L. Lewis
are demonstrating, such resistance IS
already in the making. measure OF 1t
would have been forthcoming under any
circumstances, but now we may expect
it to be the greater. because of the ex-
treme nature of the Presidents criticism.
Had his words been more balanced the
union bosses would have had less en-
couragement to follow defiant course
The mischief has been done IN that sense,
and the top members Of the NLRB nave
not undone it by promising to discharge
their new responsibilities as fairly and
efficiently as possible. Nevertheless the
promise, together with Mr.. Truman's
appeal for compliance and his announced
determination to enforce the law fully, is
to the point Presumably-like Mr.. Van
oAAASASSA1
of the board will resign II they are hostile
to the act. The President makes clear,
too, that the new members to be appointed
will have a sincere and firm desire to
make it work.
Admittedly, the Taft Hartley labor law
Is not perfect, but what law is? In this
case, its shortcomings have been grossly
eYaCoerated and its purposes reckleSSly
misrepresented. Actually, if it is admin
istered honestly and well, it can do much
to correct abuses long in need of correction,
and wherever it proves weak in the light
of experience it can be strengthened by
later congressional action. In any event.
what the American people have right to
demand now is that the NLRB carry out
It's own and the Presidents pledge to the
letter by sparing no effort to have the act
Io +be ioh AZ uaS uyritten for
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Old Music

Sharp as the baton's fall and Its npratstno
Is the stdccato n1ustc's ebb and fo,1;;
And all its youthful depotees, GgloD
With pleasure In its brittle, modern
phrdstlg,
Greet NTH surprise d change In orches-
trdtton,
Their looks a question, for they do not
knou
These movements stately, dtontfed, and
sIoU,
The measures Of an older generation
But now those faces marked with years
groto bright,
Glance at each other In q quick delight,
And eyes are tender, lips curUe 1otstfulty,
As this soft echo from the past sets free
Dim, half-torootten dreams, that dweil
apart
In locked and hidden chambers of the
heart. HELEN CONNOLLY.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
To Leurn Our Limits

A task of prime Importance has been
assigned to the three committees named
by the President to make special studies
of vital aspects of our aid abroad Now
that the European powers-Russia in
cluded-are beginning an attempt to
draw up a common recovery program in
line with Secretary Marshall's ideas, such
studies are imperative. We need to know
just how much we can do, and countries
looking to us for help need to know it, too.
Otherwise there can be no real integration
of plans for the restoration of the worlds
economic health.
Two of the Presidents committees-one
headed by Secretary of the Interior Krug
and the other made up of the Council of
Economic Advisers-will operate within the
Government. The third-a ''nonpartisan"
body of prominent citizens led by Secretary
of Commerce Harriman-Will function on
it's own but part of its working material
will be the studies of the two governmental
groups. This arrangement differs In
structure from the single body proposed
recently by Senator Vandenberg but 1t
obviously stems from his suggestion and
is aimed at the same basic objective =
namely, to inventory our resources, meas
ure the impact of foreign aid on our own
domestic economy, and determine the
''limits within which the United States may
safely and wisely plan" to extend further
help.
AS Bernard M Baruch pointed out more
than q year ago, and as Mr.. Vandenberg,
former President Hoover and others have
re-emphasized within recent days, an ex-
haustive survey along these lines is indis-
pensable to sound and efficient planning
for world recovery. The United States will
| have to give aid on a large scale for its
! own sake as well as for the sake of the
nations in need, but it cannot do this
blindly. Although our wealth and produc-
tive capacity are incompatible, they are
by no means boundless. There are limits
to what we can do safely and wisely" and
these limits must be found out and defined
| if the projected overall program is not to
come to grief.
In this respect the Presidents three
committees ought to be able to render a
highly valuable service. While countries
on the receiving end seek TO correlate their
Evening star., 1947-06-27

In 1863 Washingtonians first began taking
their drinking water from the Potomac River.
They endured it unfiltered until 1905.
Since that time the local water supply sys-
tenn has expanded until it has become metro
uolitan in character It services Arlington
County, Va, and is about to take on a new
customer-Falls Church. 1t contributes, when
necessary to the water supply of the two ad-
jacent Maryland counties.
The Federal Government is largely RESPONSE
BILE for this.
Always the SYSTEMS largest single consumer,
1t is now piping water through 30-lnch main
across Key Bridge to the Pentagon and other
Government Offices in Virginia, including the
National Airport 1t has also tapped the Ana
costa Reservoir on this side of the river and
runs pipe all the way down to Andrews Field
five or six miles beyond the District line. And
all this water is free.
During the fiscal year 1946 the Federal Gov
ernment consumed free, inside and outside the
District more than 100000 900 gallons of water
valued at about $850000.
Governments Lump Sum Payment.
Under the pending District revenue bill,
81 600 900 of a 100000 increase in the annual
Federal payment toward District expenses is al
lotted to the water system in payment for Gov
ernment water use. But District officials re-
gard this as no handout because the same bill
raises the water rates for paying customers Is
per cent, thus increasing the value OF Federal
water consumption to something more than
81, 100000. There seems no predictable limit to
future Government demands for water.
In developing the pending repayment plan
Congress refused the suggestion of the Com
missioners that the Federal Government pay
for its water on consumption basis at pre-
vailing rates just as any other local consumer
From 1878 to 1925, while the Federal Gov
ernment was paying large share OF District
development expenses it may have been con-
sidered to have built up a part interest In the
local water systems.
Since that time, however, expansion has
been virtually at the expense of the local pay
ing consumer and the Federal Government
through its vast consumption of free water
has more than liquidated its initial interest
The system today may be said to belong to
the Washington consumers.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Another Plea for Annuitants

To the Editor Of The Star:
With the veto Of the tax reduction BILL all
hope of relief from that direction for retired
Federal employees has gone glimmering 1t Is
thus more than ever urgent that there be en-
acted one of the bills introduced for exemption
Of their annuities from taxation; lie. HR 738
1913, or So. Obviously these retired persons
should not have to await action on an omnibus
retirement bill, some features Of which appear
to be unfavorably considered to date, thus
creating difficulty as to the whole measure.
But as to need for relief now for retired
Federal employees there can be no question,
and surely with no tax reduction In sight, the
time has come to remove the discrimination
against this group as compared with retired
railroad employees and recipients OF old-age
social security benefits.
RETIRED EMPLOYE.
Evening star., 1947-06-27
Rent Controls Evil Results
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star
The worst mistake of the Republican Con-
gress thus far has been the reviving of the OPA
price and rental regulations which were dead
and buried when this Congress came into
power. Popular indignation secured repeal OF
price regulations but the greater injustice, rent
regulation, has been continued at enormous
expense to taxpayers and with evil results
and injustice to all concerned.
Thousands of apartments have been sold
because of tyrannical and unjust governmental
regulations. With rentals held down below
normal, and therefore legitimate, prices, prop
erty owners have been compelled to be far
more exacting as to exclusion of children and
in every other way than would be the case If
market prices of rentals were permitted to
prevail. The owners of apartments, mostly
widows and others who have put all their life
savings into this form Of property, have suf-
fered far more than any other one class by the
arbitrary and unjust rulings of the OPA. Their
property has been taken from them not by due
process of law" and not for the benefit Of the
Government but, instead, by political agree
Evening star., 1947-06-27

It is on this basis, at least, that the Virginia
and Maryland communities buy their water
here. They pay a rate which is based upon
the plant value required to render the service
plus interest plus depreciation.
Arlington County since 1926 has pped water
across the Chain Bridge for its residents. 1t
pays the District a wholesale" price OF $50
a million gallons and "retails' it to Arlington
County consumers at nearly 5000 million
gallons. The wholesale rate was fixed by the
Secretary of War.
Under the terms of the bill now waiting for
presidential action at the White House, Falls
Church may use District water at rates to be
approved by the Secretary Of War and the
District Commissioners even II Falls Church
taps on to the Arlington County pipes.
Arlington this year Is expected to require a
little above three billion gallons at cost OF
S153, 700. Expected additional consumption by
Falls Church will be. peanut" about half
million gallons daily next year and possibly
rising to almost million by 1851. Daily con-
sumption in the District is now running at
about 100 million gallons daily.
Substantial Margin Of Profit.
Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties
in nearby Maryland are developing their own
water systems through the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission. AS yet. there are
gaps In it and small demands have been made
on the District under existing agreements In
the 1916 fiscal year the two counties used only
little more than five million gallons for q total
bill of 1915 The rate to Maryland is $6o a
million gallons.
The commodity cost Of District water-col-
lecting the raw water and purifying its
about $18 a million gallons. To distribute 1t
and collect the money for 1t costs another $21
1t is retailed to the local consumers at about
500 million gallons. The average local con-
sumer might use million gallons in 18 or 20
years
Despite volume of water used by Virginia
consumers and the possibility 1t may increase
in later years, consumption is still small across
the river compared with usage within the
District. officials feel there is no danger OF
jeopardizing the city's supply. The control ex-
ercised by the Commissioners In the matter OF
working out rates to these communities and
the small amounts involved take care OF that.