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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-12-01
The Low Down From
Hickory Grove

I been reading where towns
here and there have had
tough sleddin' with their Com
munity Chest. And being a kind
of i%nquisitive hombre, I have
been trying to deduct how
come. It is not because folks
think the Boy Scouts, and the
Salvation ARMY. or the Girl
Scouts, ETC., don't need so much
money-it is because the Chest
Is the one place where an in
dividual can, If he must, pull
in on his expenditure.
You have no control over
how much the Income Tax Man
removes from your private eX-
chequer, and which is doled out
in Places far beyond your hori-
zon-doled out on a lavish
Govt. payroll 2 times too big
doled out on experiments in
price floors and ceilings-doled
out on wasted, meaningless but
high Sounding palaver like HUI
man Rights-doled out on
Govt. dams and power stations
that nav no taxes but which
lost taxes you make up.
Looks kinda gloomy, don't it,
says Henry. Well, yes and no,
I says. It looks gloomy If we
sit around mum. But It looks
completely vice versa and even
halfway rosy If each person.
including everybody working on
the Community Chest-would
unlimber his ball-point pen,
buckle on his 6 shooter and go
to work on hts congressman.
Yours with the low down,
10 SIERRA
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-12-01
MIKE
SEE

Last Monday mite I seen DR..
Iab61tt and Tony Buzzetti
window shoppin'. 1t seems fun
ny TO zee them two guys smil-
In and laffin' at something. I
knoe it wasn't at no wimmin.
I watched for another minute
and Tony curved into Frank
Buzzetti'S mixed drink parlor
and Doc. Labitt just kept on
goin'.
Me and Uncle Albert Sheets
are building a new MN mach
1nery and appliance building.
Uncle Albert will furnish the
money and I will furnish the
rest.
Now, talkin' about politics, I
see IN the Billings Gazette
where Gosman said Montana
Il epublica should h a
new faces in the state cen
trail o m mittee and on the
ballot next year. I second the
motion. I thought the same
thing a long time ago. What I
think Gosman should have said
is, Let the Republican die
hards and tight-wads move over
and let some younger guys go
ahead and build up, not hold
back like they have been doing
Me, I am a tWo-faced Repub-
hcan. 7 60 the way 1t is best.
! don't care II I never win,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-12-01

that makes me have the edge
on all politicians.
More politics. It seems that
some guys take their politics so
hard that when they win they
are really happy, but when
these extra happy guys lose,
they get heart trouble. Some
even die. Now I'm braggin'. I'VE
lost eight times and if anything
I've gotten an extra beat in my
heart.
Now, back to business. If you
need a new mattres to lay on
and rest, come in and get a new
Beauty Rest or a King Kohl
mattress. Mr.. or Mrs, if you
amt got one Of these mattress
eS,. you amt sleepin'. You amt
k1dd1n me only yourself. Ask
those that have got them. MOI
a repoSSeSsion or a trade-in on
these since I have been selling
them. Our mattresses do the
business. See me, your mattress
expert. IF you can't be satisfied
with our mattresses it amt the
fault of our mattress.
Here is another nickle's
worth. Ken Byerly, editor and
owner, or part owner, of the
LewiStown Daily News, Is the
best editor of Montana. That
guy rites the best of all stories.
One of these days, I'll bet ACM
or some other little company
like them will buy him out.
Reason-he says what he
thinks, not what they think.
Give it to 'em Ken, give it to
'em.
Mike,
P. S.: Have you seen the
building that DR.. Yates is build
ing. Here is another man that
is a builder. He has come here
in the last few years and al
ready owns his home and is
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-12-01
Russell Project
Coins Momentum

A campaign to erect a statue
of Charles M. Russell, famed
Montana cowboy artist, in the
National Hall of Fame in Wash
ington, q. c., is gaining NOM
entum, according to Henry Lobe
of Helena, member Of the Rus
sell Memorial Commission. He
said:
participation has been mani
fest by the schools, and civic.
fraternal, veteran and union
groups. Montana hopes to be
on a par with other states in
providing the statue Of Russell,
and not delay any longer this
honor due Russell and Monta-
ma"
Other members of the COM
mission are Gov. John w. Bon
ner, chairman, Julius ]. Wuer-
timer, ST., and S. A. Willis, both
of Great Falls.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-12-01

now building his doctors office
building. It's builders like Doc
Yates that build towns like
Hardin.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
TALLER of Man
Found Dead in
Prison, Resigns

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. %. "a
NP)-The jailer here, James Mer-
odith, has resigned his position.
His abdication follows a rigid in
v sstigation Of the parish prison
where under his supervision Frank
Bates, 42-year-old Negro longshore
man, was found dead in a strait
jacket nearly a month ago while
confined in a condemned cell.
Meanwhile, a letter from the
state attorney generals office to
the local branch of the NAACP,
admitted that it was possible that
Bates death might have resulted
from neglect" But the attorney
general did not say to whom the
neglect" might be ascribed.
A special committee of Negroes
called on the district attorney at
the criminal courts building and
were permitted to review the find
ings of the grand jury in the
Bates case. The committee OBJ
served that there were numerous
kilograms from northern cities,
New York in particular, signed
by various CLIO unions, demanding
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
Adopted Negro
Son Happy with
White Parents

KENMORE, N. Y, Aug. 23. GA
NP)-Probably one of the most
unusual cases Of child adoption is
involved around young Daniel Sa-
phian Davey, II, of Buffalo. He
is the foster son of white par
ents, the Rev. and Mrs. Horace
Davey.
The Daveys served 20 years in
africa as missionaries for the Pres
byterian church. 1t was in Africa
that they adopted Danny. His
mother died in child birth, and &C
cording to native customs, he was
supposed to die, too. The two mis-
sionaries pleaded with the tribes
chief, to let them have the baby.
They did, and they have taken
care of the African boy I've since.
Rev. Davey and his wife also have
three children of their own and an
adopted daughter. Their w chill
dren are John, "a; Neill, 16; and
Patsy, 10. Sylvia, IL, is their
adopted daughter.
The Daveys say they plan to
return to Africa to adopt a girl
to make a total of six children in
their family.
In Kenmore, Rev. Davey is min
lister of the Ellwood United Pres
byterian church. He and his fam
lily have lived here since 1913.
Before coming to this city they
lived in Canadad for five years.
Prior to that their home was in
Africa.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
EIks National
Conventional
San francisco

Throughout the country this is
perhaps the most nationally active
week of the summer season.. In
Detroit the national championship
golf tournament is being held. At
Wilberforce the national tennis
champions are taking place.
Out in San Francisco, the I'M
proved Benevolent and Protective
Order Of Elks of the World is
holding it's national convention. 1t
opened Sunday night with a pan
Drama of music under the direc-
ton of the orders bandmaster,
the famed Lionel Hampton. Also
featured were Jack McVea and
Cecil Cant, the latter who recently
closed a long stint in Dayton clubs.
1t won't be all music, though,
for the Elks have as one the most
important subjects on the agenda
Of business a panel discussion on
civil rights.
For all his flamboyance, ]. Fin
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
Something You
Should Know

Yesterday, some major changes
took effect in the Ohio unemploy-
ment law. With unemployment
growing in the state and city it
is advisable that unemployed
workers familiarize themselves
with the changes so as to better
equip themselves to face the ext
gencies of being out Of work.
In Dayton as in the rest of the
nation the old adage, last to be
hired and first to be fired, applies
to Negroes. It is therefore most
important that readers of this
newspaper make it their business
to learn what these changes are,
how they are, or will be affected
by them, and to pass the knowl-
edge along to others.
At press time it was not GER
tain whether those now receiving
unemployment compensation would
Continued on Page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
Steyedores Work
In Sun Sans
Clothing

ACCRA, Gold Coast, Aug. %.
(ANP)-Civilization doesn't move
some segments of the native popu-
lation here; but this disregard for
civilization does move church and
British officials as we'll as mis-
sionaries.
There are about 500 natives
loading and unloading cargo ships
here, and more than half of them
go about their jobs without a
stitch of clothing on.
This state of affairs is annoy
ing to white persons, particularly
missionary ladies travelling on
ships plying between Nigeria, Lii
Continued on Page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
To Build New
Negro School

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. %. GA
NP)-The Orleans Parish school
board has announced the proposed
building of a Negro school which
according to architects when COM
pleted will cost more than $780,
900. It will be the first Negro
school to be built since the be-
ginning of the war and will re-
place the "eye sore'' wooden struc-
ture which has long dominated a
four block area in a residential
section of the city. The new insti-
tuition will be named for a Negro
educator, John w. Hoffman.
Forty-two additional Negro
teachers have been employed for
the next school term; a closer
check disclosed that so additional
ones are needed. The board also
decided that out Of parish chill
dren might also attend school
here.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23

Among the weekend drunken
drivers penalized in the Munich
pal court by Judge Paul Sherer,
chief justice, were: Kenneth 0.
June, of Versailles, and Eddie
Stamford, each being fined 500
and cost and had their driving
rights revoked for a period of
three years.
Noah Hammons, 2721 Holeman,
Cletus French, Of Norwood, Ohio,
and Sherman R. Courtney, of
West Milton, received fines of
500 and cost for driving while
drunk.
Paul Martin, 522 West Fourth
street, was fined $75 and cost and
Leonard Woodbury. of Union City,
$50 and cost for driving while in
toxicated.
John R. Rush of 1880 Weowee
street, was fined on two counts
for violation of the State liquor
laws. The first one being charged
with keeping a place for illegal
sales of intoxicating liquors at 306
East Fifth street, for which he
was fined $500 and cost. All but
$50 of the fine was suspended on
condition Of good behavior. The
second count brought a fine of
500 and cost and 80 days in the
workhouse for illegal sale of beer.
All was suspended on good be-
havior.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
Concert at
Wayman AME

The Album of Faith singers of
Allen university, Columbia, S. c.,
on their fourth national tour, will
appear in concert Wednesday, Au-
gust "a, at 8:15 p. M, at the
Wayman AME church, corner
West Fifth and Bank streets. The
public is cordially invited.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
From the Police B|otter
By Jimmie N. Jones
By Jimmie N. Jones

Casper Boher, as, told Common
Pleas Judge Robert U. Martin
that she would rather be in the
penitientiary than to live with his
wife," whom he charges contin-
ually nags him and is preventing
him from "going straight"
Boher got his wish when he was
sentenced to a term of one to
three years for issuing fradulant
checks. His record of offences
dates back to 1888 when he ba-
gan his long trek of crime con-
sisting of all types of trouble,
that caused him to spend most of
his time behind prison walls. He
told the court his wife was the
reason for his downfall by calling
his employers and telling them he
was an ex-convict after which
time he would lose his job and as
a result was unable to support her
Continued on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23

ley Wilson has taken an admira-
BILE stand on fighting for civil
rights. He has himself called a
civil rights conference in D. c.,
and has made a fighting organiza-
ton out of a group whose white
counterpart prefers to remain re-
dictionary.
The convention which is max
ing Frisco a hectic city this week
will last until Saturday. Repre-
sentatives from Dayton are in at
tendance.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-08-23
School Equality
Cost for Georgia
100 Million

ATLANTA, Aug. 23. (ANP)-7
The state Of Georgia would have
to put out 100000 900 in order
to equalize education for Negroes
in the state, if school officials
were compelled to accede to the
desires of 18 Negro school chill
dren in Irwin county through the
federal district court at Valdesta.
The suit, filed for the children
against the county school board
and superintendent, demands equal
educational opportunities - equal
buildings, equipment, teachers,
transportation and courses of
study. Outcome of the litigation
could effect all of Georgia and
possibly the entire south. That
would put the cost throughout the
south in the billions of dollars.
Georgia had 699,464 white chill
dren and 451,1O4 Negroes enrolled
during the 1947-48 school year.
that the DA's office reinvestigate
the murder of the tortured"
victim.
Elsewhere in Louisiana, Jack
son, two employees, white, of the
state mental institution were dis
missed because Of fighting which
they permitted to take place in the
cells. In one instance an employee
was fired because she pulled the
hair Of a mental patient. In the
other instance, a worker was
turned out because she put a white
patient in a cell where a Negro
inmate beat her with a mop
Continued on page q
Evening star., 1949-11-10

According to my statistics,
which are just as unreliable as
you'll find anywhere. Mr.. Tru-
mans gift to the CIO chieftain
was the s,634,332d pen given away
by Presidents Of the United States.
Started ut Valley Forge.
George Washington started 1t
when he gave Baron Won 6teuben
the pen with which he signed an
order at Valley Forge banning the
throwing Of snowballs at officers
by enlisted men. The pen, Incl
dentally, was the first to be guar
anteed to write under snow.
Thus was established the prece-
dent for pen-giving-away by
Presidents, and the second Presi-
dent. John Adams. kept 1t going
by giving his wife Abigail the pen
he used In signing q check for
the purchase Of a new top hat.
The fever for giving away pens
increased in each succeeding
President. and reached q height
in Franklin D. Roosevelt. He
signed more papers than any
other President. and thus had
more pens to hand out. I don't
know how much truth there is in
it, but I have heard that at one
time or another a quarter Of the
population Of our country either
had a pen with which FDR had
signed . State paper. or was Q
relative Of some one who did.
Coolidge Was Different.
The only reason that the num-
ber Of pens given away does not
top 100000 is due to the fact
that the late Calvin Coolidge
spent span in the White House.
If he gave away 80 much as one
Evening star., 1949-11-10

had to meet the responsibilities
Of their time have recognized
themselves as ordinary men. As
we contemplate great achieve
ments Of the past, made possible
in part at least by the ability and
character of individuals, We some
times think there were giants in
those days. Perhaps there were,
but it is definitely open to doubt
and. in any case, it is reasonably
sure that the giants did not rec
ognize themselves as such.
Problem Of World Hunger.
The great conquerors, the Alex
anders. the Napoleons, the Hitlers.
the Mussolinis. may have held to
the delusion Of personal greatness
until they were buried in the
wreckage Of their ambitions. But
not the Washingtons. the Lincolns
and all the others who expended
their strength In service Of their
fellow men. They thought Of
themselves as ordinary men con-
fronted by extraordinary situa-
tions.
These not-too-profound thoughts
are aroused by consideration Of
the problem facing the Food and
Agriculture Organization Of the
United Nations as it prepares for
its fifth annual conference In
Washington week after next. The
problem Is: How to check the
rising tide Of hunger in the world,
how to turn the tide toward the
plentitude the world is capable Of
providing.
In this country. bothered by
surpluses. it may be difficult to
realize that hunger is on the in
crease In the world. But that is
the fact. according to Sir Herbert
Broadley, deputy director general
Of FAC. Whereas, before the war,
he says, "a per cent Of the popu-
lation subsisted on 1000 calories
or less a day, now that 'underfed
proportion has risen to IS per
cent. Today, he says, there Is less
protein available for 80 per cent
Of the worlds population than
there was before the war. Actu-
ally. he explains. the worlds food
supply, in terms Of calories. has
increased / per cent. but popula-
ton has increased 8 per cent.
People Anxious to Learn.
'You can't build world peace on
empty bellies" Norris e. Dodd told
the National Catholic Rural Life
Evening star., 1949-11-10
Flying Diplomats
MATS Is Seen as Americas Lifeline
To Her New World Responsibilities

King Ibn Saud Is q nationalistic
and independent old party. But
his Arabs lack the skill to run
airports and fortunately there was
the non-combat MATS with q Col.
O'Keefe commanding at Dharan
whose warm Irish personality
suited the King fine. The vital
lease has been renewed, Col.
O'Keefe is now q general and
everybody Is happy. especially the
Pentagon students Of map
making.
Rags to Riches in Travel.
You can go almost anywhere
by MATS provided you are SUI
f1ciently durable and flexible to
Jump from rags to riches in your
travel pattern.
One day you may catch Gen.
MacArthur's private plane. the
Bataan, which he lends to Very
Important Persons. This is known
as travelling plush and 1t Is very
plush: the reclining chairs which
are sometimes bolted into the old
bucket seat planes for VIPs are
plush. too, and are called Mac
Arthur seats.
Even so on an all-night flight,
a mattress on the floor and a
blanket or perhaps q litter bolted
to the wall will be the best you
can get. And it is not well to
expect much waiting on from the
plane steward: he will probably
be busy helping some mother who
Is taking her babies to live with
their father In Okinawa, or Siam.
These stewards can teach the
baby -sitters some tricks and their
patience and good temper are
monumental.
MATS schedules were reduced
by the airlift and by budget
economies. In any case the d.
versity of the accommodations will
hardly recommend them to mem
bers OF Congress except on the
much Travelled routes to Japan
and Germany. Nor Is the De-
fense Department over-eager to
advertise the defense aspects Of
the MATS operation.
Mention Dharan's nearness to
Russia to Gen. O'Keefe or Hong
Kong to Gen. White who COM
mands the Pacific division. Their
eyes get bland and shallow and
rather q mulish "Who, me?" ex-
preston takes over. They are,
they say, just running MATS
bases.
Evening star., 1949-11-10

AS it is, after Doroth, Thompson.
we have elected a Chief Executive
his term is only three-quarters
served when he begins campaign
ing for re-election-and on our
time.
The President. on the occasion
of the Tooth anniversary Of Min
nesota, made a campaign speech.
obviously with an eye on 1852. He
revived the picture of American
life which was so successful in
winning votes in 1948. In this
picture, America Is divided into
three groups: A handful of schem-
ing reactionary selfish interests;
a little group Of scheming revolu-
tionaries: and In the middle the
American people, all noble and un-
selfish, disinterestedly interested
in the general welfare and there
fore voting for the Democratic
Party.
Picture Is Hooey.
OF course, this picture. 50 fiat
tering to everybody Except the
selfish" handfuD is hooey. Sell
flshness Is not confined to small
groups, and the President himself
plainly believes that self-interest
lis the handspring Of politics. for
that is what he always appeals to.
Farmers are to have high prices,
workers high wages. business fair
profits, old people comfortable
pensions, everybody free medical
care, small business an equal break
with big business, and everybody
equal rights, and equal oppor-
tunities free from fear and
discrimination" One is tempted
to end this prophesy Of heaven on
earth with the biblical words "and
9 little child shall lead them"
In the Presidents vocabulary
the words obligation" and duty
are non-existent. There Is never
q word to indicate that all Of Us
collectively reap what we SOW. OF
that to loaf on the job as surely
Evening star., 1949-11-10
On the Record
Political Campaigns Should Be Cut
To Limited Number of Weeks

sabotages the general welfare as
to grab exorbitant profits.
The President said. for instance.
1--WE hold that our citizens should
have decent housing at prices they
can afford"
Selfish Top to Bottom.
Well, why don't they7 They
don't because selfish interests
operate from top to bottom: Real
estate interests to initiate the cost
Of building sites: building regula-
tions to compel consumers to pay
tribute to selfish collusions Of the
building trades, the building
unions and corrupt politicians:
collisions which force the home
builder to purchase equipment In
the most expensive markets, where
a 331s per cent markup is Gus
tomary: union practices which
sabotage rational production and
compel workers to efforts way be-
low their capacity: financing pro-
cedures which oppress the home
owner at every point-all this
selfishness resulting in everybody
injuring everybody else.
Then the Government says, 1--WE
will see that you get q home; we
will subsidize housing" - which
just means that Government takes
out Of everybody's pocket the dif-
ference between what our houses
ought to cost, and what they do
cost, and then gives back to some
what ii takes from all.
Promising everybody something
for nothing is precisely what Mr..
Truman is up to in the name Of
"unself1shness."
Socialism at least has the merit
of demonstrating that after the
glorious honeymoon Of soaking the
small selfish groups" brief be-
cause the loot is so small, people
have to face the facts of life. After
the Trumans come the Stafford
Crippses preaching hard work and
austerity; and after the Lenins.
offering loot to the masses, come
the Stains. establishing ''correc-
tive labor camps" for the anti
social"
A hard way to learn.
Reisased by the Bell syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1949-11-10
On the Other Hand
Ordinary Men Gathering in Washington
To Deal With Extraordinary Situation

| Conference In Columbus, Ohio,
one day this week. Mr.. Dodd. for
mer able Undersecretary Of Agri-
culture, is now director general Of
FAC. successor to Lord Boyd Orr,
who has just been awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work in
FAC and elsewhere to promote
world peace.
He told the Catholic meeting
Of his trip around the world, vis-
ittng farmers, conferring with
government officials.
. IT saw people ragged and hun
gry." he said. Their first thought
each day IL the desperate quest
for Just enough food for that day.
I saw farmers sick with prevent
able diseases, scarcely able to
maintain themselves on . little
land with poor crops from poor
seeds, grown with primitive tools
used with back-breaking labor.
But I saw these people anxious
to learn II they can be shown
simple and practical improve
ments. I saw large areas Of good
land where irrigation could pro-
duce two crops where now only
one Is grown.
IT saw that, to our shame. the
whole world never yet has tried
to make full use Of all that the
Lord Of Creation has put here, In
order to make possible healthful.
useful lives for the whole brother
hood of mankind. I hope we are
now engaged In that kind Of
effort"
Ordinary men, In an extraordi-
nary situation-doing something
about Il.