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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-08-26
Accidents Cause
More Dedths
Than Child Diseases

Accidents are the greatest
killer of young people in the
United States, far outranking
any of the more generally fear
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15

sugar which will be consumed at prices
fair to both consumers and the domestic
sugar industry"
Representatives of the beet growers as
sociations and the sugar companies are con-
WINGED tina most of the serious drop in
sugar prices that occurred during the 1913
marketing season was due to the fact that
the consumptive quota estimate was set
too high. They feel that a proper adjust
ment of this quota at the beginning of the
1949 season will bring sugar prices, and
consequently sugar beet prices, much
closer to a proper parity level.
Under the law the secretary must an
nounce his consumptive quota for 1949 dur
ing the month of December, 1948. If it is set
at too high a figure, as it was for the 1948
season, the outlook for beet growers will
be -discouraging. If it is based on a lower
and more realistic estimate and if sugar
prices react favorably, growers may feel
inclined to stay with beets next spring.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15

Successful farmers and ranchers contin-
ually look with a critical eye on their own
operations. They are never satisfied with
the job they are doing. They are always
seeking a better way of handling land and
equipment. They keep asking themselves
questions like the following:
Are the crops I am producing the ones
that are best adapted to my land and mar
ket conditions? How can I plan things SO as
to carry out my farming operations in a
more timely way? Are my seed varieties the
best available? Am I taking full advantage
of seed treatment and weed control posi-
bilities? Is the capacity of my farm or ranch
equipment too small, or too large, for most
economical operation? How can I increase
the efficiency of my power equipment?
How much tractor and truck fuel am | vast
ing through faulty adjustment of motors?
Can I profit from more efficient marketing
practice? How can I make greater progress
in improving the quality of my livestock
and in disease prevention?
These winter months will be the most
valuable months of the year for those who
Systematically use part of their time in
planning ways and means of achieving
more efficient production and marketing.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15
The Editors Page
Planning More Efficient Production

"TOMMON sense tells me that good in
come from farming isn't going to come
as easily in the SOS as it has in the '40s,"
remarked a Central Montana farmer the
other day.
This man and many other thoughtful pro-
ducers are convinced that efficiency and
better farming are going to be more essen
tial to satisfactory income in the years that
lie ahead. Growing conditions can't be ex-
pected to be as favorable as during the past
decade and costs of operation will come
down more slowly than will prices of farm
products.
But some of the disadvantage in this
changing situation can be overcome by
watching costs more closely, by eliminating
some of the wasteful practices that always
creep in during boom times, and by giving
careful study to all other phases of farm
and ranch management.
While valuable help can often be secured
from extension agents, soil conservation
specialists and from experienced producers
who nave been particularly successful with
this or that operation, the efficiency of any
farm or ranch will always depend primarily
o n the operator himself.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15
Straws in the Wind

Too many farm homes still lack a pres
sure water system and the modern con-
veniences that go with it. If yours IS one
of them how about making such an installa-
ton one of your top resolutions for l949!
No investment you can make will bring the
family greater satisfaction.
Southern farmers are moving steadily
out of cotton and into corn and other feed
crop production. Hybrid seed, new tillage
methods and use of fertilizing practices
have resulted in surprisingly large yields
in North Carolina and other states in that
region. Cornbelt farmers may be In for
serious competition in future years.
X y =
administration leaders are giving more
favorable consideration to higher parity
support levels than they were a few
months ago. They are hopeful that pro-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15
Beet Growers Need Price Support

CUGARBEET growers of Montana and
~ Northern Woming, and in fact of the
entire west, are doing some serious thinking
now that they nave received their first
checks from the sugar companies. These
payments are approximately 1870 a ton,
varying a few cents because of slightly diff
fering company contract specifications.
This amount plus the government payment
of about $2.63 is approximately $40 a ton
less than in 1947
While the final payments computed GA
the basis of sugar content and market
prices of sugar will result in additional in
come at the end of the marketing year, the
net result to the grower seems likely to fall
short of last years per ton income by at
least So or 81.
Production costs are relatively high and
when growers compar returns from beets
with those received for other crops they
see little encouragement to put in much
beet acreage next season. A great deal will
depend upon adjustments that can be made
under the federal sugar act and upon price
support action that may be taken before
the next planting season opens. Price trends
of other farm products will also have an inn
portant bearing on the question when
growers plan 1949 operations.
While the administration of the pro-
visions of the sugar act of 1913 has proved
decidedly unsatisfactory from he stand
point of the growers, the response OF
market prices to the setting of the con.
sumptive estimate by the secretary of agri
culture during the past marketing season
has indicated that the act can be made t.
work as congress intended.
Under the act the secretary is directed
to protect the welfare of ant
those engaged in the domestic sugar pro
ducing industry by providing a quantity Q
@December is, l948
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15
Montana Farmer-Stockman

COVERS MONTANA AND NORTHERN WYOMING
OFFICE: 11 Attn st. N, Great Falls, Montana.
LESTER COLE = Editor and MANAGER
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Department Editors: AMY MARTIN, Rural Homes Depart
ment; DIR. HOWARD WEIGH, Veterinary Department.;
RALPH D. MERCER, Soils and Crops; H. E. CUSHMAN,
Poultry; /. w. DICKERSON, Farm Mechanics; DIR. JOHN
w. HOLLAND, Thoughts on Life; GILBERT GUSIER.
Market Analyst.
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15

grams to encourage greater domestic hui
man consumption, larger exports, stockpil-
ing, and diversion to industrial uses u as
alcohol production, will make acreage con-
troll necessary only during temporary emer-
gencies. The flexible support program may
be retained but minimum levels are almost
certain to be considerably higher thar the
so percent provided in the present law.
Prices for livestock. particularly cattle
and lambs, will remain relatively good
during 1949 in the opinion of a group Of
representative producers, market experts
and research specialists who attended a
conference in Iowa recently. Their forecast
was based on the probability of continued
high consumer income and the necessarily
slow increase in meat production.
The dairy market of tomorrow will
be a dynamic market" Benjamin H. Ben
nett of the bureau of agricultural eco
Monies told member of the Dairy Industry
Foundation. "Per capita consumption of but
ter may never again reach its prewar level,
but there will be a substantial increase from
the 1913 rate. The maximum per capita con-
sumption of fluid milk and cream, and
other dairy products as well, is still in the
future. -. The outlook for the dairy farmer,
the dairy professor and the dairy distrib-
utor for the next 5 or 6 years is far more
encouraging than is the outlook for some
other segments of our agricultural in
dustry."
Careless and improper maintenance and
adjustment of farm tractors are respon-
Sible for the unnecessary consumption OF
200, 900 900 gallons of tractor fuel a year
IN the United States in the opinion of auto
motive engineers.
There has been a greater decrease in
dairy cattle than in beef stock number
during the past three years. Milk cows
and heifers over one year old decreased
more than 5000, 900 head while beef cows
and heifers dropped only 5000 0 head.
Steer numbers are Town about 10000
from 1915.
Although u. S. population has increased
rapidly and there is less crop land per
capita, agricultural output has increased
still faster so we are producing 10 to Is per-
cent more per capita than in the early 1940s.
Observers predict the reduction in the
number of dairy COWS which has continued
for the past four years will be stopped by
increased stocks of feed. The number Oh
cows on U. S. farms is the lowest since 1898
Prices of farm products in 1949 are ex.
pected to average close to 1913 levels be-
cause of the operation of the support price
program and the outlook for continued high
consumer purchasing power.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-12-15

COVERS N NORTHERN
OFFICE: 11 Attn st. N, Great Falls, Montana.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

the late Mr. George w. Turner and
is . graduate of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School. She now
Is a secretary at the National Naval
Medical Center in Bethesda.
Mr.. Zera served two years in the
Navy and now is IN his Junior year
at the University of Pittsburgh,
where he is majoring in chemistry.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

No date has been set for the We'd
ding.
Miss Costello was graduated from
st. Cecilia's Academy and Mr.. Pyne
received his masters degree from
Strayer College.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

MRS. SEIPEL. u.
No,D the aOite of Mr.. John
Joseph Seipel, she formerly
1oas Miss Margaret Jane Neu-
mann, daughter OF Mrs. Claes
E. Strom. Mr.. Seipel is the
SON of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Seipel OF Bala-CynUyn, Pa.
Evening star., 1948-10-10

MRS. POWELL.
Miss Rita Fitzgerald, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
P. Fitzgerald OF Silver Hill,
Nd, recently became the
bride OF Mr.. John Frederick
PoUeH, jr., son of Mr.. PoWeH
and Mrs. Richard Dyer.
-HeSSler Photo.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
Engagement

Mrs. r. F. Weaver of Bethesda
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Helen Jean Turner,
to Mr.. Casimir A. Zera, son of Mr..
and Mrs. c. c. Vera of Pittsburgh.
The bride-elect is the daughter of
Evening star., 1948-10-10

MRS. LOPATIN.
Before marrying Mr.. Albert
Lopattn, the bride WaS Miss
Ida Edith Bermdn. The neaUly-
Deds no,D liue at 2226 Forty
first street.
-SteCe Z,Dei0 Photo.
Evening star., 1948-10-10
Engaged to We'd

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel T. Costello
announce the engagement of their
daughter Loretta to Mr.. John j
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

A MERICA, which prides it
n self on being completely
modern, has nevertheless built
up mythology as fanciful and
antiquated as that of the an
cient Greeks.
We have certain absurd be-
liefs that we cherish as part of
the national culture and which
are exported along with our
democracy. They go along with
the Marshall plan.
For instance, every body
knows that Negroes naturally
use dialect. They just can't
help being different, don't you
know. Yes, you do find one
now and then who doesn't talk
that way but it's only because
of tremendous effort and will
power. But get them excited
or among their own kind and
they sound just like the others.
That's why Don Foster is a
leading candidate for the title
of meanest man in Chicago.
The guy who went around town
in mid December convincing
little kids that there was no
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
-FRANK-LY SPEAKING
Another myth dies
Frank Davis

Santa Claus hasn't got chance.
For in his radio column a few
Sundays ago in the Sun Times,
Don Foster told how Lillian
Randolph, who plays the char
acter of Birdie on the NBC
Wednesday night show, 1.-THE
Great Gildersleeve," had to GO
to acting school in Detroit in
1880 to learn how to speak
dialect.
Imagine that, a Negro hav-
ing to learn how to talk that
way! Why, neverD
=
BUT WAIT! That's not all.
Her instructor, the authority
from whom she learned the
quaint accents and pronuncia-
tions that everybody knows all
colored people use, was James
Jewell, white man.
She has been using the
Jewell taught dialect with
considerable success ever
since-in the movies and on
the radio. but never in real
life" Foster wrote. IFS too
much effort. she says"
May this myth rest in peace.
Now let us turn to others.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

WE ALL know that America
is the land of freedom. We are
so proud of our democracy that
we are doing our dollar best
to mold the rest of the globe
in our image. What nobler gift
can we make to humanity than
the kind of liberty we enjoy?
But just the same, the war
den of the Mississippi state
prison announced recently that
AZ life termers cut short their
annual holiday leave, granted
for good behavior, and hurried
back to the penitentiary. Some
stayed away only two or three
days before they began bang
ing on the gates and asking,
please, could they have their
old cells back.
They returned because lib
erty cost too much. Being free"
meant paying 95, cents a pound
for butter and trying to find
non-existent housing. 1t simply
wasn't worth the effort. Wall
Street and it's grab for higher
and higher profits made these
prisoners prefer a comfortable
cell with no worry about how
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

out of a job, Ickes fears. So the
Times columnist says:
"Just to be a good fellow, I
have decided to become an in
former to assist the committee.
l know the name of a man who
actually said:
This country with its in
stitutions belongs TO the peo-
pie who inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary of the
existing government they can
exercise their constitutional
right of amending it or their
revolutionary right to dis
member it or overthrow IT,
The 'subversive":: Abraham
Lincoln.
HONEST Abe would I'M
doubtedly have had a rough
time at the hands of Westbrook
Pegler, who has more and more
openly been showing his SYM
pathy for the same political be-
1iefs as those held by Lizzie
Dilling and Gerald L. K. Smith.
A couple of weeks ago he in
dulged in a rather obvious anti
Semitic attack on Hollywood.
This week, echoing the native
fascist line, he red-baits the
Zionist movement by referring
to Lecturers on -. Pales-
tine" as Communist propagan-
dists."
But his latest proposal is the
worst yet: line up all Com
munists = meaning Jews, Ne
groes, liberals, and unionists
too-up against walls and shoot
them.
ITO amend our law and
execute him tthe "Commun-
ist") by firing squad as a
traitor" would. Pegler insists.
be an efficient way to fight
what he calls the enemy
Russia.
THE SUMS Milburn P. Ak
ers commented bitterly on the
aggregation of Big Business
men who met, Dec. 80, at a
$5-a-plate banquet, to "honor"
the memory of John Peter Alt
geld, the great liberal governor
of Illinois in the '90s.
Most of tn e m probably
would have been numbered
among his opponents had they
lived during his adninistra-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

II
Flick, Germany's biggest coal
and steel man, got seven years.
The judge in the case was
Charles B. Sears of Buffalo,
N. Y, an old Republican who
in 1912 ordered Harry Bridges,
west coast union chief, deport-
ed as dangerous alien" This
verdict was later set aside by
the u. S. supreme court. With
the Nazi bigshots, however,
Sears did not live up to his
tough reputation. In fact, he
was soft as putty and sum-
marily dismissed the "crimes
gainst humanity charge
against all defendants.
IN Nuremberg on Dec. %,
Sears ruled that "a person can
not become guilty of a crime
against humanity merely by
exerting. anti-Semitic pressure
to procure industrial
property owned by Jews" In
other words, this crime does
not exist if you merely" get
a Jew killed to take over his
factory, which has competed
with yours.
In Nuremberg also. Sears
virtually apologized TO a de-
PENDANT, and rebuked prose-
cutting attorney. for harsh"
courtroom treatment of Otto
Steinbrinck. No. man In
Flick's coal and steel empire
and a longtime member of
Killers SIS Storm troops. He
rejected as "unthink able" the
idea that Steinbrinck. who
as a U-boat commander has
risked his life TO save
survivors of a ship which he
had sunk. should willingly be
party to the slaughter of
thousands of defenseless per-
sons"
COMING now to the big bust
ness solidarity angle, labor
batting Sears passed down an
opinion that there was some
shadow of justice" in the Nazi
defendants claim that ain their
persons, industry itself was be-
ing prosecuted. This of course
wouldn't do.
Sears also evidenced lender
understanding of the German
industrialists' problems when
he said that their $4,000 an
nual gift to the Nazi party
might have been mot TOO
high a price TO insure per-
sonal safety in the fearful
days of the Third Reich" We
haven't heard that those who
fought the Nazis. both in Ger
many and in the Allied
armies. had much chance TO
worry about. their own per-
sonal Safely or money to
buy it.
There doesn't seem much
more to say on the German
business, except that if Hitler's
still hiding anywhere, he may
as well come out. It's getting
safer and safer.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
VOHN R. STEELMAN, who

II oI1lN IL. - WIN
will probably ecome
Secretary of Labor" before long,
had had soft touch as mem
Der of President Truman's pal
ace guard, Edwin A. Lahey re-
ports in the Daily News.
Steelman, who helped break
the railroad strike, had an
open account with the Wash
ington branch of the big Wall
st. brokerage firm of Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and
Beane," says Lahey, who points
out:
There was nothing legally
wrong about this. But Steelman
at the time was director of re-
conversion. Any decision that
he might make, in consultation
with the President, had di-
rect impact on prices.
THE fact that he was
customer at the brokerage
house gave him a personal
interest in prices"
Lahey sums up by predicting
that nothing much will come
of the current Congressional in
vestigation of speculation and
initiation because undoubtedly
too many official characters
have profited to have the whole
story come out"
ANOTHER scandalous Incl
dent is revealed by Drew Pear
son, who says that "the Radio
Corporation of America"-bet-
ter known as RCA-"appropri-
ated for itself the Army's radar
secret and, before the war,
made it available to the Ger
mans and japanese.
Well lay you odds that our
congressman. who are al
ways screaming about phony
Red atom plots" won't get
around to investigating one of
the largest monopolies in
America. RCA. which is con-
trolled by the Rockefeller
interests.
Congressional investigations
also interested Harold Ickes
this week. Unless J. Parnell
Thomas can dig up new VIC
TINS for his. House Un-Ameri-
can witch-hunters, he may be
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

OF six NaZl
i n d u S t r j al
lists who pow
e + e d Hitler's
war machine,
used his slave
labor and sup
piled his gas
G h a m b e RS,
three were re-
l e a S e d scot
free. Friedrich
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03

To Hitler:
The coast
is clear :

THE first results of the
Il U. S. army war crimes
trials of German big business
men who backed Hitler We're
announced Dec. % We are not
sure which they illustrate more
the shortness of human mem
DRY or the strength of moneyed
solidarity.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
10 pay for food and clothing
and room rent.


AND SO the myth of Ameri-
can freedom collapses. The
grandly magnificent irony of
the Mississippi case should en-
barrass the free enterprisers,
yet I doubt that any of our cap
tains of industry will bat an
eye. We have been taught to
worship our myths, no matter
how cockeyed they look to OBJ
servers.
This kind of blind faith
sometimes produces gems of in
consistency. Not long ago the
rabidly anti Communist Mem
phis Commercial Appeal, one of
the South's biggest dailies,
printed a comparison between
"fascism," Communism" an d
democracy" Minorities have
mo rights" under the first two, !
but under American democracy
their privileges are respected"
and they are treated ''as
equals" the newspaper solemn
ly stated.
In the next column was a
news story telling that Cen
sor Binford had banned the
film. New Orleans" from
any Memphis showing be-
cause "a Negro. Louis Arm
strong. has too prominent a
role and it makes him too
nearly equal TO white people,.
And still we Americans Won
der why nobody but assorted
reactionaries takes Us at our
word!
The Colombian senate reject
ed Roosevelt's treaty. Almost
Immediately, L AN dis points
out:
Teddy took Panama. as he
later boosted, by sending down
warships to protect Panama
revolution made in the US.
Within two weeks he had his
treaty.
But now it seems Panama
won't stay Took
The reason, Lands believes,
is racial discrimination. He
says:
''The us. post office tin the
U.S.-controlled Panama Canal
Zone sells stamps on
segregated basis Govern
ment- owned hotels refuse to
accept Negro guests. Schools
are segregated. So is housing.
Even the government stores
operate on a jim crow basis,
and drinking fountains are
separate. And over all flies the
American flag"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
PANAMA's REFUSAL

grant the US. long-term leases
on IA military bases in that
country in ests Kenesaw
Mountain Lands ii.
The Sun columnist Ills
that Panama came into exist
ence as an independent nation
as a result of American i'm
perialism when t eodore
Roosevelt, then Presi ent,
wanted to build the Panama
Canal across the territory of
Colombia.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-01-03
Column review
Lahey reveals Stee|man' S
soft touch with Truman

tion," says Akers, adding, For
those for whom John Peter Alt
geld fought didn't have SIS for
a dinner
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-09
Business Activity
 Hits Peak

WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-tR- A dozen top businessmen believe the peak of business activity has been reached, if not already passed.
 But their two-fold prediction to government experts week before the market break that (A) infla- ticnary dangers are fading and (B) price downturn is ahead still draws a don't be. soo- sure reaction from at least one Federal economist.
 The views of the corporation ex- ecutives were outlined at the first of series of six meetings sug- gested by the Government. These are being arranged by Prentiss Coonley and Ernest A. Tupper, pri- vate business consultants
 Reporting on the first session, Coonley and Tupper said one big farm machinery company forecast a general price drop after the middle of the year" Others in the group represented railroads. insur- ance, banking, merchandising and food processing. They predicted factory building will decline from l947, but that home building will hold up as costs decline