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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Tax Collections

Collection of taxes by the Fed
eral State and local government
averaged $344 46 for each of the
144,000,000 Americans during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1947.
The Federal Government got the
lions share of the total, a per
capita average of $257.36 against
$46.S4 for the states and $4O.26
for local governments. Total tax
collections of the Federal, state
and local governments combined
were $40, sos, 100000 - nearly a
fourth of the 1947 national in
come of $202,50O,O0O, 900 but 49,
445,000,000 below fiscal 1945's
record high total tax.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Fall Suits And Coats With Quieter
New Look To Stay In Style Next Year

If you were cautious last year
about buying New Look clothes,
you can stop worrying this fall
Fashions have settled down into
less startling lines that are here
/ to stay while. You will find
suits to suit just you and coats
that can be worn as happily next
year as this, says Hildegard Fill
more. Writing in McCall's for
September, she describes the two
leading coat styles - the REFER
and the bareback:
"To prove that you can find
what you want in the happy me-
dunn price range, we've chosen
coats that typify two fashion
headlines: the beloved REFER and
the untitled bareback.
THE REFER in handwoven,
homespun tweed is double
breasted, with skirt full enough
to cover a full skirt underneath.
It's the perfect answer for town
and country all day wear, coat
that may replace the favorite polo
coat that had such a long and
happy life in so many wardrobes.
1.-The bareback coat has an in
verted box pleat that starts from
yoke at the top. making a long
graceful line. Both coats look
best worn about midcalf, or a
little below. Both silhouettes are
becoming to a great variety of
figures.
This fall you'll find the suit
that's right for you. II you like
the simmer silhouette, you'll
find plenty of slender-skirted
suits around, with fine de-
tails and longer jackets. They're
done in smooth-finished woods, in
rich fall tones-the kind of suit
that is almost a uniform with the
wardrobe-wise woman.
For those to whom the fuller
skirt spelled freedom from skimp-
mess. the modified flared skirt is
the answer. Its jacket is perky
and the fullness gives rhythm to
your walk. The last word, the very
newest in suit types is the suit
with skirt fullness swung to the
back, the new = looking flare
achieved by cores, pleats, UNI
brella tucks and what-have-you.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16

, "Midcalf is about the most
graceful skirt length for any
height. On most average figures
this is about IL inches from the
floor. Exaggerated padding is out.
Two shoulder shapes, both with
some padding, are here: one
rounded, to go with the flared
skirt, the other, tailored, for the
slim-line suit. In well-thought-
out suit all parts are shaped to
f1atter the figure, not distort it,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Credit

Installment credit has account
ed for 60 per cent, or $5,200,000,-
900 of the $S,50O,OO0,OO0 rise in
total consumer credit in the three
years sin cethe end of the war
according to Business Comment,
a financial publication. Total con-
sumner credit at the end of June
this year was estimated at S14,-
100000, 900, of which installment
credit amounted to about 81
200. 100000.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Free Trolley Ride

Cleveland, o. - Richard Davis
was standing too close to the curb
recently and was caught by the
waist by a passing trackless troll
ley's guidesropes. He was dragged
for 20 feet before released, suf-
fering cuts and bruises.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
Insect Damage

Insect damage to American
crops has reached an all-itme peak
of $4OOO,OOO,OOO year, despite
the fact that better-than-ever bug
killers are available, according to
officials of the Agricultural De-
partment.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-09-16
ALBERT S. TABLER, JR
Auctioneer
MT. AIRY, MD.

Route No. 5 (Nr. Damascus)
Graduate of Reppert Auction
School. 8 Years Experience
Selling Livestock, Farm, Fur
niture and Real Estate Auc-
tons.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06

RAIDED 1t seems that Direc-
tor Hoover's agents raided Sc
veral brothels in Penns Grove,
N. j., and furnished the evidence
which convicted the operators
Naturally, the county grand
jurors and Walter Van Ripper
New jerseys Attorney General,
would like the assistance of the
federal police in tracking down
the acknowledgements organizers
of this illegal traffic.
When Federal Judge Madden
sentenced one of the defendants
arrested by Orian Knnedy, a
Hoover agent, he said:
You couldn't have. run that
house of prostitution without pay
ing Off"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
Pegler Says Though Frankfurter
Associated With Communists He
Was Not A Communist Plotter

Truman.
Laski sued an English paper
which said he had countenanced
violent political revolution, and
lost his case. That put him in
his place. When he brought out
a book called Faith, Reason
and Civilization in 1914, the
New York Times had no COM
Function about using above its
review the title 'Laski's Brief
for Communism" The opening
sentence of the review. written
by Henry Hazlitt, read, "Of
all the apologists for commun-
ism writing in English, Harold
Laski is the most brilliant and
the most plausible.
There you have the associa-
ton, whether it establishes
guilt you may decide for
yourself.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt
nominated Frankfurter for the
Supreme Court in 1899, Felix
brought Dean G. Acheson to
the hearings of the Senate judi
CARY committee as his counsel.
He was the first nominee for
TINS court who ever showed up
with a mouthplece. 1t was al
most as though he considered
himself to be defendant.
Acheson later became undersec-
rotary of state and a supporter
OF Alger Hiss, also a Frankfurt
Ter plant in the State depart
ment, who went to Yalta with
the enfeebled F. D. R.
Harold Ickes wrote that Roos-
evelt told him Felix had been
lobbying him for a job on the
court. II there is any precedent
ior such vulgar pushfulness it
mas been kept confidential.
Roosevelt was vexed about this
pressure and Tommy Corcoran
Tommy the Cork" as Roose-
velt called him in his sissified
humor-was desperate. Corcor-
an knew that if he put in his
Hicks for Felix, Roosevelt
would really nix the PROPOSE.
ton.
So he beat it out to old
George Norris, monumental
ego something like Professor
Einstein, who had read that he
was the grand old man of Ii
oeralism" and believed it abso-
lutely. Corcoran told Norris
that Moosejaw was going to
pass over Felix and that this
would be tragic betrayal of
liberalism. So the old faker
heaved himself down to the
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
YOUR AMERICA Day by Day IN PICTURES
Adapted ALsvM OF AMERICAN History edited by ow Adom

OCTOBER 8. 1889, or SO years ago
today. the first motion picture
was photographed, in a make
shift studio" at the Thomas A.
Edison laboratory in East Or
ange, New Jersey, 1t was the Gull
mination of two years of efforts
by Edison. inventor of the pho
nograph, to devise "a machine
that should do for the eye what
the monograph did for the ear"
He had devised a mechanism to
carry a flexible medium over
set of sprockets and past the lens
of a camera, (and also through
viewing or projecting machine),
when he heard that George East
man had invented new kind of
film. flexible instead of glass. to
be used in rolls in kodak"
Edison sent for and got a strip of
the Eastman film so feet long.
This, with Edison's camera, was
to make the first movie.
Edison employees were the &C
tors in the first movies, which
were simple things like asequence
OF man sneezing. They were eX-
hibited first in microscopes, the
same kind of machine still used
in peepshows in penny arcades.
No movie was shown in a thea
ter until 1896.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06

madhouse and put the Guru
across. Roosevelt was afflicted
with short-term infatuations
with phonies and he was in the
throes of a crush on Norris just
then.
On the subject of Frankfurter
and truth, we return to
Frankfurter fight with Theo-
dore Roosevelt over his slant
ed report to President Wilson
on the Bisbee deportation of
1917. Theodore Roosevelt knew
his man and called him, cold.
He siad to Felix: Your report
is as thoroughly misleading a
document as could be written
on the subject"
The report was that of a me-
diation commission which Presi-
dent Wilson had appointed to in
vestigate the deportation of
about LOO men from the copper
mines of Bisbee, Ariz., hard by
the Mexican border. The whole
region was in turmoil. There
was bad blood between the
Mexicans and the Americans
and this made g terrible situa-
ton for Americans Of Mexican
complexion who were indistin-
guishable from Mexican Mexi-
cans.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
Department OF Justice Has Better
OF Exchange Of Notes Between 1t
Un-American Activities Committee

in the Western World? No, it
is not. One may believe, as
this column does, that no form
of total socialism ever will work
out for the greater prosperity
of the people or justify the claim
to create a CLASHES society. 1t
certainly has not done so in the
U.S.S.R. nor overcome the idle
mmas" of capitalism which also
appear under State capitalism.
:. But it is not such crlti-
cisms which constitute the pri
mary charge against the Comm
unist system. The primary
charge is it substitutes terror for
law, and persecution for prose
cution. 1t arrests without indie
ment, Furnishes without further
evidence than extorted confess
ions" interprets such legal codes
as exist according to the states
political detectives, and thus ere
ates condition under which no
mans liberty is safe. Totalitar-
ianism reaches its apogee in
THE Peoples Tribunal" a
form of inquisition identical, ev
en- as to name, in the Nazi and
Communist regimes.
Now, the Committee on I'm
American Activities is coming
dangerously close to developing
into just such Tribunal, in its
zeal to ferret out those who, if
they had their way, would make
such tribunals the substitute for
legal justice. Fighting fire with
fire is dubious political proce
dure at any time. AS Emerson
said, we are very likely to be-
come what we hate.
The Committee is pillorying
and bullying persons, accepting
hear-say. injuring persons in the
regulations - and, as a result,
in their economic positions and
unquestionably alternating from
Government service distin-
guished men unwilling to SUBJ
NIT to thought control. And a
bove and beyond this, as the
statement issued by the Depart
ment of Justice says, it is en-
croaching upon the separation
of powers, which is the most
basic ingredient of our Constitu
ton.
The suggestion put forth by
the Committee that Attorney
General Tom c. Clark and ].
Edgar Hoover of the FBI have
conclusive evid nee" to support
the prosecution of certain name
persons who have not been pro
secuted, implies that the Depart
ment of Justice somehow is soft
hearted and protective of Comm
unists.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
PEGLER
BY WESTBRooK PEGLER
Copyright, 1913, King Features
Syndicate, Inc,)

(SOpyllSnt, 1870, Ming TedtuI SS
Syndicate, Inc)
Washington, Oct. SIN our
study of Felix Frankfurter's in
visible government, we must not
try to accommodate a suspicion
that this was a communist plot.
There were and are commun-
lists in the group of Harv I'd
l,> ers who formed Frankfurt
er's team, but Frankfurter him
self seems not to be one. A per-
son who is pro-Russian or n.y.
persensitive to Solshevik opin-
ion, as Frankfurter certainly was
at the time of the 1917 revolu-
tons and massacres, is not nee
essarily a communist.
Frankfurter' team fiercely
rejects guilt by association.
But such argumentarians damn
ed Charles Lindbergh because,
in his opposition to the implica-
cation of the United States in
war, he found himself in COM
pany of the Nazi-Americans,
who had other reasons for their
opposition.
Frankfurter is an old friend
of Prof. Harold j. Laski, of
the London School of Economics,
who was with him for years at
Harvard. This was not an ordi-
nary friendship. An essay in the
Catholic Worker in June, 1914,
tells of Laski lecture at Ford
Hall, Boston, in 1887, and says:
"Laski was introduced by Felix
Frankfurter, who made an OBJ
servation that seemed very sig
nificant. He declared that the
day that he looked forward to
in the year with the most joy
was the day when Mr.. Laski
came to stay with him at his
home. When you understand
that Mr.. Frankfurter has the re-
putation for being the adviser
to certain persons in Washing
ton you can well have under
stood our added interest in lis
tening to this adviser to the ad-
wiser. Ford Hall forums were
then being managed by David
K. Niles"
Niles, born Nayhus (this is
the correct spelling from his
birth record) of Russian par
ents. moved into the White
House with Roosevelt as Frank
furter's man at the throne and
remained there with Harry S.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
People Urged To Cooperate With
Fire Department To Prevent Blazes

Chilly October mornings are causing more and
more home to set up their heaters for the COM
ing of winter and others busly raklng up fallen
leaves from their yard to burn them.
Both activities are commonplace to home
owners but to the whose job is protecting lives
and property in Roanoke Rapids they that fire
danger is multiplied.
There is no better time to stop and consider the
everpresent danger of fire than during this Nation
al Fire Prevention Week. a week in which to consider
the destructive qualities of the substance which has
been called "a wonderful servant but terrible
master
Every year in this country there are hundreds
of lives lost and millions of dollars in property sent
up in smoke and flames because people neglect the
ordinary precautions of handling fire properly Our
own city has been fortunate in it's short history never
to have suffered any more than it has from MAJOR
fires and in the past few most of the credit has
been due to the relatively small group OF men who
constitute city fire department.
Out of the number of fremen in Roanoke Rapids
it must be borne in mind that there are only three
ful-tme who paid for their job the others
are volunteers who give unsparingly of their time
and effort and who take grave risks for little com
pensation to give their city protection Chief King
has built cose-knt efficient organization which
is doing wonderful job of giving that protection.
These certainly deserve great deal of praise for
1t must be borne in mind, however, that
the most efficient fire-fghting force in the world
cannot function well if it does not receive the whole
hearted cooperation of the public.
AS long as people fire carelessy there is 60
ing be lot of damage caused in spite of the vast
efficiency of Roanoke Rapids firemen Surveys
clearly show that the vast ma jority of destructive
fires which occur are those which are preventble
Preventing fires does call for any elaborate pre-
cautions-just judicous use of common sense.
If our local flremen can continue to get the sup
port of fre-conscious public their record will
tinue to be good There is no better time to be-
of the necessity of that support than dur
ing this Fire Prevention Week.
With the cooperation of every citizen in the city,
Roanoke Rapids make every week Fire Proven
ton Week, and better tribute could be offered
chieflyvolunteer fire department than to give it
fires to fight.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06

night, but turned out to be COM
pletely innocent. Later he sued
both the captain and the ser
geant said he was Just acting
on orders" of the captain, New
ertheless the court held the SER
geant responsible too. The judge
said he had no right to act on
an order that was illegal in the
first place-no matter who gave
the order.
(State laws vary. For personal
guidance, see your local attor-
ney)
COPYRIGHT 1913, GENERAL
FEATURES CORP.)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
THOMPSON
DOROTHY THOMPSON

In the exchange of notes be-
tween the Department of JUS
tice and Rep. j. Parnell Thomas
of the House Committee on In
American Activities, the Depart
ment has, l think much the bet
ter of the argument. was
glad to see that former Score
tary of War Robert P. Patterson
now president of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New
York, also declared that no re-
sponsible member of the bar
would approve current proce-
dures of Representative Thomas
committee and that he was back
ed up by his bar associates who
are, on the whole, conservative
men.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06

We might ask ourselves, l
think what it is that disgusts us
most IN the Communist system.
Is it that it substitutes a system
of state capitalism for the mix
ed system of public-private-cor
porate capitalism which exists
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
Tucker Says Edgar Hoover On Being Put On Spot in New Jersey
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION

BE not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good" Romans l2:2l
This months daily quotations suggested by the
Rev. Willis Stevens Pastor of the Rosemary Methodist
Church of Roanoke Rapids. -
The Herald will each day in this position carry Bible
quotation Pastors churches in the five county area
to be by Herald will be asked to contribute the
quotation for a month.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
UNcooPERATIvE But when

UNcOOPERATIVE But when
Attorney General Van Ripper and
the Salem County grand jurors
asked the FBI to aid them inf
further prosecution of the case,
the answer from Mr.. Hoover's
office was: "No comment"
Peter C. Brown, assistant to
Attorney General Tom Clark,
was even more homeopathic.
When he was asked to work with
the New Jersey authorities, he
snapped:
Information in the records of
the FBI is considered con-
fidential!"
REACTION The FBI's SEEM
ingly scornful and contemptuous
attitude in this case has provok-
ed hostile reaction among the
people, the politicians and the
newspapers of Frank Hague's ba
iliwick, which now seems headed
for the Dewey-Warren column
But this incident may copper
rivet COP. victory. Here is
an excerpt from typical
editorial that appeared in the
Herald News of Passiac:
Upon what meat doth this
our Caesar feed, that he has
grown so great?' asked Shake
speare's Cassius.
1.-THE Caesar in this instance
is j. Edgar Hoover, Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga.
ton, tie publicity-loving boss of
the governments very efficient
detective agency. The Cassius is
Walter Van Ripper, New Jerseys
Attorney General.
However efficient the FBI
may be, it is getting to big for
its breeches when it refuses to
permit one of its agents to tes-,
tify under oath before the Salem
County Grand Jury as to what
he saw and heard when he was
raiding houses of prostitution in
Penns Grove"
CONTEMPT The Passaic edi-
torial then shoots the work, re-
fleeing the viewpoint of many
state, county and local police
who have cooperated with Mr..
Hoover's unit:
1.-THE FBI takes but doesn't
give. Its agents have gotten
an immense amount of help from
newspapers but let a newspaper
man ask proper question of the
FB1 and, invariably, on j. Edgar
Hoover's orders, the answer is:
No comment
The Attorney General of New
Jersey doesn't see it Hoover's
way. Van Ripper has asked Sup
erior Court Judge Lloyd for a
rule to show cause why Agent
Kennedy should not be held in
contempt for refusing to testify
as to what he knows about Of
fetal protection in Sa lie m
County.
REASON: The Penns Grove
affair points up a practical rea-
son for the South's opposition to
enactment of President Tru-
mans Civil Rights program
j. Edgar's carpet-bagging con-
duct in New Jersey is just the
kind of federal police inter-
ference and invasion which, in
the Southerners' opinion, would
follow If Washington were en-
powered to enforce federal laws
against the poll tax, segregation
and other accepted customs.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
THE READERS COURTROOM
BY Will Bernard LIB.

O MAY A POLICE EN- AN
JUSTIFY A WRONGFUL AR
REST BY SAYING HE WAS
ACTING ON ORDERS?"
(A) 4 police captain led a
raid on a gambling den, but all
except three of the occupants es-
capped. The raiders and their
prisoners returned to the Jail,
along with a group of interested
onlookers. At the Jail, the cap
tain suddenly pointed to a man
in the crowd and said to the
sergeant: Lock him up too-he's
one of the gang.' The protest
ing man was locked up over
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-06
FBI Secrecy
Said Preventing
Prosecution
TUCKER
BY Ray Tucker

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. Ed
gar Hoover is on the hot spo
where he has placed so many
eanssters for the first time ir
his seemingly charmed career.
1t is one of the most sensa
tional but least publicized stories
at Washington these days, wheI
official and unofficial eyes art
slanted toward possible conflict
in Europe and the Truman-De
wey war.
The latest outburst against the
publicity-protected director OF
the Federal Bureau of 1nvestiga.
ton does not come from Capt.
tol Hill Republicans, who wonder
why his sleuths did not uncover
the Communist threat against the
government, and, if they did,
why he has not seen fit to
publicize his discoveries.
That is sufficiently heavy in
dictment, in view of Mr.. Hoo
ver's record of breaking news
even in defiance of his superiors.
including the Attorney General.
The new attack stems from the
highest officials in New Jersey,
where FBI secrecy appears to be
preventing state and county au-
thorities from identifying and pro
scouting the alleged police pro-
tectors of houses Of prostitution.
Speculation has naturally arts
en- as to whether the FB1's
coyness derives from some poll
teal boss's desire to protect his
underworld associates and bride
payers.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-01
E AND PLANTS

WE BUY SEEDS-Alfalfa red clover, sweet
clover, Bromus, crested wheat grass, Western
wheat grass, etc. A year round market. Mail
us your samples. Occident Seeds, Box $50,
Bismarck, North Dakota.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-01
SCHOOLS

LEARN auctioneering. Terms soon, worlds
largest school. Students sell real sales. Don't
be misled. Free ~catalog. Reisch Auction School.
Mason City, Iowa.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-01
HELP WANTED

MONTANA FARMER-STOCKMAN is locking
for rural statesmen and saleswomen. Must
have car. Producer can earn s12 to $40 a day.
II you have had experience In calling on
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kind OF work. don't pass up this opportunity.
Write Circulation Manager. Montana Farmer
Stockman. Great Fails Mont
attending Great Falls College
of Education to work for board, room and
wages for nice family. 3106 First avenue north,
or call 6427.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-01
PHOTO FINISHING

IS CHRISTMAS CARDS and envelopes 81. go,
50, send negative. Three prints each 8 ex-
posure roll 40c. Two each 35c. One each Csc.
Reprints &c. Fred r.. Eastman, Bode, Iowa.
EIGHT exposure roll developed, 8 prints
pocket album, SIS cents. Extra prints 4 cents
each. PAX Photo Service, Box 720. Spokane l.
Wash.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-01
IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-01
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