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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-25
Pormenter Valley

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Vanderwood
and MIR. and MRS. Louis Burren and
families left Sunday morning for
a vacation in Washington, Oregon
and California.
Mrs. James Shanholtzer attended
the Libby Garden Club Christmas
party at the home Of Doris Chap
man. Mrs. E. M. Slauson was CO.
hostess. The home was beautifully
decorated with a Christmas tree;
mistletoe and lovely green's and pot
ted plants. Games were played and
local pictures in natural color were
shown by Mr.. Parker. Following
a gift exchange, the hostess served
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.Puyinq for the Party

It will not be possible to get the full
picture of Elliott Roosevelt's connection
with Howard Hughes and his photo
reconnaissance plane until the late Pres
idents son has had a chance to tell his
side of the story
The Senate subcommittee which is in
vestigating this matter seems to have
established that Elliott, his wife and their
friends were on the receiving end Of some
thing like five thousand dollars worth of
entertainment provided over a period of
three years by public relations man en-
ployed by Mr.. Hughes. This is an eye
catching phase of the investigation, and
the item-by-item account of the expend-
itures for dinners, liquor, gifts, theaters,
night clubs ETC., makes interesting reading.
Apparently the late Presidents son was
not one to lag back when free entertain
ment was to be had for the taking. Except
for the lavishness of the outlays, however,
the things that the public relations man
did for young Mr.. Roosevelt were not great
ly different from what was being done
during the war by many press agents for
hundreds of other people who were con-
sidered to be worth cultivating for business
or other reasons After all, in the long
run, the public was going to pay for these
parties, so why should the front men
operating on expense accounts worry about
the size of the bills? Their Job was to
cultivate good will" and they did it in a
big way.
What may be important in this investi-
cation was Elliott Roosevelt's apparent
ability to obtain a reconnaissance aircraft
contract for Mr. Hughes after responsible
and competent officers had turned down
the project. BY going directly to General
H. H. Arnold, then Chief of the Air Corps,
Elliott who held the rank of colonel, was
able to bring about reversal of the refusal
by high-ranking War Department technical
experts to order this plane.
The question is: How did Elliott, who
had never been suspected OF possessing any
notable qualifications as an expert on
aircraft design and production, accomplish
this reversal? Perhaps the whole thing was
open and aboveboard, as General Arnold's
recent statement would indicate. But the
natural suspicion is that Elliott, through
his family connections, was able to put
pressure on the War Department. This is
something that the subcommittee should
go into thoroughly, for if that is what
happened then the overall party was a
very expensive one for the taxpayers
more expensive than the total of the items
on the press agents expense account would
indicate.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Fifty Years Ago

william Allen White "the Emporia Sage"
was the author of these words which The Star
for July %, 1897 quoted from the
konsons Of Atlantic Monthly: There are no
Wealth rich men in these Kansas towns.
The men who own million dol
lars worth of property number less than half
a score in the whole State. Those who control
half million dollars worth of property might
ride together in a sleeping car, with an upper
berth or two to spare. Every town has its rich
man, measured by local standard, who is
frequently q retired farmer turned banker, but
not one in five of these Is rated at 100000. Yet
each Is the autocrat of his county, II he cares
to be- - " The great trust which he keeps re-
quires a knowledge Of the details Of the game
that men are playing around him. Yet with
all his power this town banker would be
counted poor man In the city"
An editorial in The Star on July ~, 1897,
discussed an error of judgment of the Nip
ponese as follows: I'm protesting
Jopon's against surrender of independ-
Mistoke ence by the Hawaiian govern
ment, Japan uses arguments
which completely ignore the existence OF that
independence. Hawaii Is treaty power, recog-
nized as such by the whole world, possessing
all the rights which pertain to an independent
government Japan, while holding fast to
alleged rights under her treaty with the
Hawaiian government, protests to the United
States against annexation In terms and on
grounds which, In effect, deny any Independent
powers In Hawaii and obliterate that govern
ment entirely from the calculation. The jap
anese theory seems TO be that the Hawaiian
government exists and must continue to exist,
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Antarctic Names

President Roosevelt was well advised
when he said he did not wish to have
"sea" In the South Polar zone named after
him. The persons commemorated there
should be those who actually have played
a part in the exploration of the Antarctic.
Pierre Bouvet, a French naval officer who
made determined effort to discover a
third world" at the bottom of the globe
in 1889, naturally heads the list. 1mme-
diately after him comes Yves Joseph Ker-
guelen, also French who sought "a very
large continent" below Mauritius in It'll
and discovered only what he called the
Isle of Desolation. Then follows Captain
James Cook, under orders Of the British
Admiralty. He was the first to cross the
Antarctic Circle. The date was January
II, 1773, and with it the modern era of
searching for terra firma in the ultimate
antipodes began.
William Smith, Edward Bransfield,
George Powell, James Weddell, John
Biscoe, John Balleny, Captain J. Clark
Ross, Kemp and Tapsell of the Enderby
line, the officers and men OF the Chal-
lenger; all Of these pioneers attempted to
solve the mysteries of the Antarctic from
the ports of England. Among their nine
teenth century rivals were N. B. Palmer
and Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the
United States; Fabian Won Bellingshausen
and Lieutenant Lazareff, Russians; Jules
Dumont d'Urville, French; Larsen, Even
sen, Captain Christensen and Carstens
Egeberg Borchgrevink, Norwegians, and
Captain Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian.
Systematic scientific work commenced
in 1901 when several we'll equipped expedi-
tions left Europe for the South Polar
region. Commander r. F. Scott, Lieutenant
Ernest Shackleton and DR.. E. A. Wilson
were the leaders of the British endeavor;
Professor Erich Won Drygalski was in
charge of a German ship; DR.. Otto
Nordenskjold directed a Swedish party;
Captain Thomas Robertson Scottish.
France was represented in the quest by
DR.. Jean b. Charcot in 1904. Shackleton
returned to the Antarctic in 1908 and
in 1922. Scott went back in 1910 and
with Wilson and three other men reached
the Foie on January 10, 1912. and perished
on the return journey over the ice. Mean
while, Captain Roald Amundsen and four
companions had attained the Pole in a
dog team dash on December IA, 1911. DR..
Douglas Mawson organized and conducted
an Australian expedition in 1911 and
revisited the region in 1929. On November
1928 of that same year, Commander r. E.
Byrd successfully attempted to achieve
the Pole in a trimotored plane. What has
happened since then is history known TO
hundreds OF thou, knds Of readers.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
In Need of Correction

The next time Congress gets around to
Income tax legislation the chances are that
1t Will make strong effort to end the spe-
cial advantage enjoyed by the thirteen
community property States over the rest
of the Nation This is an old issue, but the
signs indicate that the day is nearing when
1t will be settled once and for all. Fair
ness demands such action.
As things are the States with community
property laws have to pay considerably
less in income taxes than the thirty-five
other States. That is to say, their married
taxpayers have the pleasure of being able
to place themselves in the lower tax-rate
brackets by splitting their earnings on a
$3.50 basis between husband and wife,
even though one of the two may earn
nothing. Taken all together, these privi-
legged couples thus have been able to save
a great deal of money for themselves by
withholding from the Federal Treasury
a sum currently estimated at $150,000, 900
a year.
Although all this is perfectly legal, and
although there is much to be said for the
idea of dividing earnings and property
ried taxpayers in the thirty-five nom
privileged States have a right to feel that
they are being Disseminated against when
they pay taxes Starting in small way on
lower incomes, the discrimination becomes
more and more marked as earnings in
crease. Thus, for example, by the simple
device of splitting his s12,500 salary with
his wife, so that each files a separate re-
turn on $6,250, person from a COM
munity- property State pays the Treasury
$646 less than one whose State gives
him no such advantage. In the $4,000
bracket, the difference is 1881; in the
$4,000 bracket, $2,622; on $50O00 it Is
over $4,000, and so on up the line.
The inequity involved in this is so obvious
that numerous attempts have been made in
the past to end it. Broadly speaking, two
types of corrective action have been tried,
only to be blocked up to now by determined
opposition. One of these, as pushed by
President Roosevelt in 1941 and 1912, would
make it mandatory for husbands and wives
to file joint returns in all States. The
other, as advocated by Senator Mcclellan
in the last session OF Congress, would equal
ize the situation by permitting married
couples everywhere to resort to the COM
munity property device in paying income
taxes. Although defeated by Senate vote
of 81 to 20, the Mcclellan proposal is
likely to come up again at the next session,
and 1t may be adopted. At any rate. .
strong group OF Republicans and Demo
Evening star., 1947-08-03
The Great Game of Politics
Experienced Politicians Held to Regard Wallace Third
Party Movement as Joke
By Frank r. Kent

A great deal Of silly stuff is being written
these days about third party in 194s. Most of
1t centers about that woolly minded, whirling
dervish of politics, Henry Wallace. There will
be more of it before, during and after the next
speech making tour which he is now planning
for the early fall
The basic reason for this is the fact, perfectly
clear to the more astute promoters of Mr.
Wallace, that unless constantly nourished by
fresh publicity, their garrulous little hero is
likely to shrivel right up and drop of the vine
One group Of his press supporters now tells
us that the Pea Progressive Citizens of
America), which is the leftwing element that
does not bar Communists already Is making
arrangements" to overcome the State obstacles
to placing Mr.. Wallaces name on the 1948
ballot. Another group asserts that, under
direct orders from Moscow, the Communist
organization In this country Is the real force
behind his candidacy. There is some plausibil-
ity in this but not much.
It is charged that Mr.. Wallace's first tour
was ardently furthered by the easily recognized
communistic CIO leaders in every city she
visited. These. it is claimed; supplied large
part Of his audience, a considerable part of the
cash and most of the enthusiasm Without
their wholehearted cooperation the tour would
have Topped. To what extent this is true is
a matter of opinion, but certainly the Com
munists everywhere are solidly with Mr. Wal
lace, anxious to build him up. As he is the
most conspicuous assailant Of the American
foreign policy and the ardent champion Of the
Russian point OF view, it would be strange,
indeed, If this were not so
"Sinister" Strategy Secuted
However, despite the propaganda proclama-
tions none Of this means that either the
Communists. the CIO politicians or Mr. Wal
lace are committed to third-party move
ment, seriously contemplate forming one or
have taken real steps toward one. Perhaps
the mcst puerile statement along these lines
yet put out is the one that ascribes to the
Communist leaders a sinister and subtle de-
cision to promote the independent Wallace
candidacy with the idea of insuring the
nomination and election of "stodgy" favor-
ite word of the more lurid liberal" writers)
Republican reactionary-preferably Senator
Bricker of Ohio--for President next year
thereby making sure q radical revolution
in 1852.
There are so many reasons all this is
absurd that it is difficult to find space to
enumerate. Most Of them should be clear to
any uninfamed mind. For one thing, Senator
Bricker, Or any one of Senator Bricker's es-
sential "stodginess" has so little chance Of
being nominated by the Republican conven-
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Gratis have placed themselves on record as

Gratis have placed themselves on record as
favoring something like 1t.
From the Treasury's standpoint, however,
a Nationwide application OF the COM
munity-property principle would mean a
loss of about 81 ,00o, 900 900 year in reve-
nue., and to make up for this there probably
would have to be general upward re-
vision of income tax rates. But whether
the equalization should be effected in this
manner or through mandatory joint re-
turns, there can be no doubt that the situa-
ton calls for correction. AS long as the
married taxpayers of thirteen States con-
stitute kind of privileged class, all mar
ried taxpayers elsewhere will have a right
to insist upon the redress of a real
grievance.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Man Bites Doc

Thousands OF people are familiar with
the axiom: when a dog bites man, that
is not news, because 1t happens so often;
but If man bites dog, that Is news"
Very few persons, however, know anything
about the author Of the thought thus
phrased. His name was John B, Bogart,
and current biographical reference works
do not include him. To find his story it is
necessary to dig in the files of another,
different age. He was born in New Haven
in 1845 and obtained his first independent
experience of the world when at sixteen
he ran away to join the Union Army in the
Civil War. After Appomattox Court
House job in dry goods store kept his
body and soul together while he gathered
his resources for a more important career.
He became a reporter on Charles A.
Dana's New York Sun in >1871 and was
made city editor Of that paper In 1873.
Such responsibility was unusual in the
hands of beginner" The explanation
of his appointment lay In his own natural
genius. Mr. Bogart was possessed Of see
ing eyes, warm heart and a keenly
analytical mind. Arthur Brisbane, who
trained under him, called him "the best
teacher Of journalism America had yet
known" His celebrated definition of news
was only single example of his power of
apprehension and exposition. He believed
devoutly in his capacity to detect "cur-
rent" of events in the atmosphere. A good
news writer, he argued, must be equipped
with "a sixth sense" almost magically
clairvoyant in character. Yet instinct
alone was not enough, and he practiced
tireless diligence in pursuit OF the material
he wanted.
But the tradition which Mr. Bogart left
at the Sun embraced also quality of
humanity which definitely requires to be.
mentioned in even the briefest of BIZ
ographies of him. Mr. Brisbane said:
He could tell the young men where to
go for their news, what questions to ask,
what was and what was not worthwhile.
Above all, he could give enthusiasm to his
men, He worked by encouraging, not by
harsh criticism.
Perhaps 1t was because he gave So much
of himself to others that his administrative
assignment was terminated prematurely
In 1890, when Mr. Bogart was only forty
five. Illness compelled his retirement. He
apntinued to contribute to the ksun for
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Here are some things ahead for American
consumers as foreseen In Washington and New
York:
Among items almost certain to cost more
next winter and spring, whatever the general
price trend, are woolen clothes and felt hats.
Washing machines with aluminium tubs are
due to appear soon as manufacturers seek q
way to beat the sheet steel shortage.
Air travellers from many points will be able
to arrange flights as far as Ankara, Turkey, on
one reservation although travelling under two
flags. Air France, the French transoceanic
service, is arranging package trips" with
American domestic airlines.
Already, in summers heat, factories are busy
making transparent plastic containers for gifts
to 60 under the tree next Christmas.
And where's the money for all this coming
from?
Well, the Federal Reserve Board has made
survey showing that American families hold
$3.50 100000 in bank accounts and savings
bonds this year. They had little more than
50000, 900 900 before the war.
Although top-income groups hold the lions
share, families with incomes of less than $2,-
300 year have savings of $50, 1000, ,o00, ,000 Half
that figure.
Price changes will influence the amount that
is spent and what 1t is spent on.
Here are the views Of one Government econo-
mist on this:
Whether prices 60 up or down. hgh-income
families will be the major buyers of new auto
mobiles, household appliances and expensive
lines of clothing food, ETC.
Further increases in living costs may force
the lower-inccme families to use savings for
ordinary living expenses.
If living costs fall lower-income families
could use more of their savings for cars re-
frigerators and the like, thus bolstering the
market for them.
Red Bicyclisfs
STOCKHOLM-A Foreign Office spokesman
says police have been asked for reports on q
bicycle vacation trip which the Russian mill
tary attache repeatedly took recently.
The attache. with another Russian officer,
Evening star., 1947-08-03

ton that 1t is not worth discussing. For
another the Communists and their CIO friends
long ago reached the conclusion that there was
no riourishment whatever for them in third
party, and the only way to promote their
goal Of economic chaos was to work within one
Of the two major parties Early in the New Deal
they chose the Democratic Party.
Third Party Talk Is buff
For Is years they have been registering and
voting Democratic. They still are-and they
will be in 194S. The third-party talk is bluff
They do not want third party for obvious
reasons. So far as the Communists are con-
cerned, one is that it would altogether undo the
work and nullify all the propaganda and
training since 1888. Another Is that in a
country which, for a number of excellent rea-
sons, has grown steadily more anticommunistic
IN the last two years, to sponsor and identify
themselves with third party next year would
be to exhibit their numerical impotence. This
is thing they go to great lengths to conceal
Another reason is that for the Communists
to go third party with Mr.. Wallace would be to
break away from the CIO leaders who, now
that Mr.. Truman has vetoed the Taft-Hartley
labor BILL certainly are not going to follow Mr..
Wallace solely on his foreign-policy views,
with which they have no sympathy.
The truth is that with Mr. Truman having
cast his lot on the side of the labor bosses and
yielded to the Hannegans, Sullivans and Cliff
fords, who ignoring the lessons of the 1946
elections insist upon clinging to the now dis
integrating political alliances of the late Mr.,
Roosevelt, there is obviously nothing for anv
OF the so-called liberal groups" in a Wallace
movement. Most Of them know this very well,
Hollywood Performance.
Mr.. Wallace puts on good show and gets
lot OF publicity. 1t does not seem to be doing
his magazine great deal of good and it really
is not doing him any good.
For his is essentially hollow performance,
He has agthered about him as curious a crowd
OF crackpots and phonies as there is In the
country. They make much noise, but they are
unimportant politically as in other ways. He
and they may succeed in soaring the easily
scared Hannegans Sullivans and Cliffords into
going to liberal" extremes In the convention
platform, but it is unlikely that he will have
more than q negligible number Of delegates
there.
Experienced politicians regard the Wallace
third party forecasts as joke. With the new
and unchallenged facts which Westbrook Peg
Ter has recently produced concerning his inti-
mate connections with the crystalgazing cult
In New York and his undenied authorship of
what are called the Guru letters, they believe
that Mr.. Wallace is rapidly becoming comic
character.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Latin American Economics

In discussions on economic world recon-
given top priority, with Latin America
getting relatively scant consideration. The
assumption is that the southern half of
the Western Hemisphere, having been al
most unscathed by the war, is in rela-
lively favorable position and can work
out its own difficulties.
This optimistic thesis has Just been
challenged by DR.. Herman Santa Cruz,
Chilean delegate to the United Nations
Speaking before the U. N. Economic and
Social Council, he painted dark picture
of economic conditions over the greater
part of Latin America and contended that
this situation made necessary the estab-
lishment of U. NJ Economic Commission
for Latin America similar to those recently
set up for Europe and the Far East.
While pointing out the hardships suffered
in most of Latin America due to war-born.
factors such as shortages of imported
goods, dislocation of exports, and conse-
quent imitation, Dr. Santa Cruz depicted
Latin Americas economic plight as due
to deeper and more permanent factors.
Despite growing industrialization and
progress towards balanced economies in
some countries notably Argentina and
Brazil, the Chilean delegate depicted most
Latin American countries as still econom-
ically primitive, dependent on foreign
markets for the sale of their raw products
in order that they may buy the manufac-
tured imports which they urgently need.
The upshot Of this "semicolonial" economic
status is chronic poverty of the masses
with attendant malnutrition, illiteracy.
and disease. He estimated that nearly
two thirds Of Latin Americas 100000 900
Inhabitants are in this economically de-
pressed and backward level.
This economic plight renders Latin
America fertile ground for relationships,
both militaristic and authoritarian in the
traditional sense, and social revolutionary
on the Communist model Dr. Santa Cruz
therefore drew the conclusion that the
setting up of U. NJ Economic Commission
would confirm at strategic moment, the
faith OF the Latin American peoples in the
United Nations" and would give powerful
Incentive to democratic ideals.
DR.. Santa Cruz's thesis, however, did not
pass unchallenged. The United States
and Canadian delegations to the Council
questioned whether the solution of the
problem lay with the United Nations. They
contended that the economic problems of
Latin America should be first considered
by the Inter-American Conference sched-
uled to meet at Bogota, Colombia, next
January, while they and others pointed
out that the European and Asiatic COM
missions already appointed were created
Tor the specific and limited task of post
war reconstruction. The Russian criticism
was that the proposal runs contrary to
the organizational pattern of the Councils
permanent commissions as those on
unemployment, narcotics, or human rights
since they were designed according to
subject matter, not geographical region.
Whichever view is correct, it is well that
the economic shortcomings of so large a
portion Of the world have been set forth.
Out of such discussions, constructive good
may result.