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Laurel outlook., 1949-05-11
COMBS FLAT

The residents of the eastern
part of Saltwater county were
gratified to see the county road
grader fixing the roads which
border on the Yellowstone county
line this week. Good roads are
what we need.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Fisher
have returned from visiting var
ious points in the east and spend
ing the coolest part of the win
ter in Florida. For the present
they are living in the school
house teacherage.
Mrs. Hilda Platz. nurse at
MontAqua. was a caller in Laurel
Tuesday. She will be remember
ed by some in this neighborhood
as one of the Byam girls.
Russell Linger. who is attend
ing high school in Laurel, spent
the week lend with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrss.. Earl Linger.
Walter Baxter has recently
moved his family from Billings
into the late Joe Smith house
temporarily. while remodeling
will be done in his home. Nh.
Baxter recently purchased the
Denny holdings here of which
John Smith is the executor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herb Tesch of
Billings we're recent visitors at
the Charles Zimmerman home.
Floyd Hill, of Billings who
purchased the Mrs. Stahl land
two years ago has made quite a
record for himself as a chicken
raiser. He recently received a
large shipment of Rhode Islands
from Washington.
George Mikesell was recently
reelected to the Combs Flat
school board.
Jim Luckey,. who was dis
charged from the air corps at
McChord Field the first of the
year is living with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. c.
Henley.
All this week trucks have been
hauling stock from the j. Lack
man ranch near Billings to past
ure land in the Valley creek vi
purchased from Mrs. Inez
The rain which came Wednes-
day night was very much ap-
preciated according to Dewey
Johnson, our rural mail carrier.
The wheat in this territory is
exceptionally good.
"Buckie" Wood spent the week
end with his friend Leonard Gill
at the Gill home.
Row Linger and Jim Luckey
we're guests at the Absarokee
high school prom in Absarokee
Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Baxter
recently attended the annual
dance of the Junior Wo-
club at the Northern hotel,
Billings. Their guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Yegen, III. Mrs.
Baxter is a member of the club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Fisher
transacted business in Columbus
he fore part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Baxter
If Blue creek helped celebrate
The birthday party of their grand
son, Walter, Jr., on Wednesday
Nay a. Walter Jr., who answers to
he name of Buddy, by relatives
md friends, had spent part of
he winter with his grandpar-
,nts, is now at home. He was
,hree years old. 800.
Wesley Thatcher is busy this
week putting in a crop or the
'ecently purchased Polytechnic
holdings. $3.50.
Joyce and Esther Churchill
we're callers at the C. G. Henley
home, Saturday. Their father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Herb Tesch
md brother Chuckie, were callers
It the Charles Zimmerman home.
Laurel outlook., 1949-05-11
Nears Million Goal

Auxiliary Nears Million Goal
Approximately $4,000 women
were actively enrolled in the
American Legion Auxiliary for
1949 as the organization began
its April activities, Miss Valma
Shay, membership chairman of
the local Auxiliary unit announc-
ed today. This was only $780,
900 below the million-member
goal set for this year.
Laurel outlook., 1949-05-11

ducing feed lot gains on cattle
and sheep.
For years, the beet by-pro-
ducts, and especially beet tops,
have been one of the major fac
tors in reducing these feed costs
to insure greater net returns
from farm feeding operations.
Laurel outlook., 1949-05-11
News Items

Returning last week from a
visit of several weeks in Biloxi,
Miss, Mrs. H. E. Starkey was
accompanied to Laurel by her
daughter, Mrs. w. H. Phillips
and son, Joe, who will visit here.
Technical Sergeant Phillips has
been transferred to Wichita Falls,
Tex, and his family will join
him there later.
Mrs. William Mcintyre was CO.
hostess at a prenuptial shower in
Billings honoring Miss Mabel
Damn, who is to be married to
Donald Benscoter, both of Bill
lings. The event was given at
the home of Mrs. Herbert Horst
man.
Laurel outlook., 1949-05-11

USE OUTLOOK WANT ADS.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
SIoaon Cancellations

Beginning last week postmasters IN
hundred different cities and towns scat
tered over the United States have been
placing in service cancellation dies bearing
Inscriptions designed to aid the campaign
against forest fires. Similar markers were
used last year with constructive effect The
number of pieces Of mail receiving the
imprint will run to millions day. All
classes and all conditions OF people will
see the slogan, "Only You Can Prevent
Forest Fires" applied to letters coming to
their Offices and homes. The appeal of
the device is universal 1t has personal
connotation, personal significance.
The Treasury Department long ago
adopted the same procedure to reach null
titudes of potential purchasers of Govern
ment bonds It also has been employed
in behalf of military training for citizens,
subscriptions to the Red Cross, hiring the
handicapped, early mailing for Christmas
and other worthy causes. This yeaftt will
Evening star., 1949-08-28

help the Community Chests Of the Nation
to raise funds for necessary charitable and
educational work. All through October
"Red Feather" canceling dies will be
applied to letters in the mails. Postmaster
General Jesse NJ Donaldson has authorized
the making of two editions" OF each of
two slogans-one for the International
postmarking machines and one for the
Universal
OF course, the idea is not new. AS far
back as 1880 William Dockwra of London
was operating penny post system Of
message delivery in which inscriptions
rejecting prepayment" or "fee to be
collected" played an important part. But
postmarks have been traced to much
earlier date. Some writer's believe the
custom started In France under Louis XIV.
Others incline to the theory that it COM
menced with the Counts Of Thurn and
Taxis, who were the Mercuries Of Central
Europe for generations. Perhaps investi-
cation would show that it actually began
in classic times. Caesars letters must
have borne some sort Of marking, if only
to prove steady progress in transmission.
However, it did remain for modern in
vention to supply slogans of wide popular
interest Collecting cancellations of this
variety has become a recognized branch
OF philately The hobby is growing as
usage expands.
Evening star., 1949-08-28

lence to Iowans for f1lching rain from
Nebraska bound thunderheads.
But all that was two years ago. Today,
although the never-say-die scientists have
Just told the United Nations Conservation
Conference that there is good reason to
keep trying, it appears that the large-scale
output of man-made snow or rain is still
Just fanciful dream. And perhaps that
is Just as we'll. For If the weather were
manageable, If we could manufacture 1t
ourselves according to hearts desire,
what would we have to talk about during
blizzards or in dog days? How true 1t is
that every cloud, even when humidity
laden has a silver lining!
Evening star., 1949-08-28

wet and the city might be sued for damages.
William, the handy man at our apart
ment house, has Just knocked on my door
to tell me, I'm set out" When he went
home for lunch his wife was trying to feed
the children, aged 3 to H. Fearful and re-
sentful. they were sitting on the furniture
stacked on the sidewalk.
The landlord owns many slum houses in
the neighborhood-s blocks from the White
House. He is not man. Just a money
maker by fair means or foul. The building
inspector had warned him the walls of the
four-room 75-year-old house might collapse
and kill someone.
The landlord told the building inspector
he need not report the matter to the Board
for the Condemnation of Unsafe Buildings
since he would evict the tenant and demolish
the house.
He told William to move. William hunted
evenings after work for q place to move to-
for non-payment Of rent and got an eviction
notice. William was too scared to tell the
Judge his landlord had refused the rent and
that he only stayed because there was no
place to go. So the landlord kept on send
ing eviction notices and William kept on
hoping he would not be set out. Now 1t
has happened.
On my desk lie some newspaper clippings.
One headline says "Who Would Get the
Housing if There Were Any to Get?" Under
meath the headline it says, "The Commis-
sioners today December 2, 1948) ordered a
public hearing for January 10 to determine
which needy families are entitled to low
rent public housing that does not exist" :"
They said the law required them to do this
even though there is no public housing.
Seven months later, the same newspaper
reported: 1.-The Commissioners were asked
today to stay the eviction Of some so ten
ants of the 600 block Of Second street NV.
They must move to make way for construc-
ton Of playground"
Another headline says: 1.-TWO Senators
Told District Has No Slum Action Plan"
(under the Housing Act Of 1949). The story
below says the National Capital Housing
Authority is making plans for $500 new
dwellings in the next two years. But they
have a waiting list Of $4,000, including
5000 low income veterans and many other
families evicted from unSanitary or unsafe
dwellings or razed structures to make way
for public buildings such as the new Senate
Office Buildings for which Congress has
failed to appropriate the money.
Where are such families to 60 in the most
beautiful city in the richest country IN the
world?
In the words Of the prophet: How long,
oh Lord. how longi" CITIZEN.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Ending the Atomic Inquiry

Senator Hickenlooper seems to be on
extremely weak ground in pressing for a
continuation of the investigation he
started last spring when he accused the
Atomic Energy Commission Of incredible
mismanagement." The simple fact is that
after weeks of hearing@open and closed
he has failed to substantiate his charges.
He has had plenty of time to do so, but he
has not done so, and he ought therefore
to accept Senator McMahon's decision to
put an end to the inquiry.
AS chairman of the joint congressional
atomic committee, Mr.. Mcmahon has af-
forded Mr. Hickenlooper every opportunity
to prove his case. The Iowa Senator, how
ever, has succeeded only in uncovering a
not-too- alarming measure of laxity within
the Acc as regards some security safe
guards, and he has forced the commission
to tighten up the policy under which 1t
had unwiSely awarded fellowships, in non
secret fields, to Communist and a few
others lacking proper clearance. To that
extent, and to the extent that the Aces
work needs to be reviewed periodically by
Congress, the investigation has been USE
full, but it certainly has not disclosed any
thing like incredible mismanagement "
In the circumstances, now that it has
become too dull and piddling to attract
the attendance of even committee
quorum, it is difficult to see why the in
quiry should not be closed AS matters
stand today, MIR. Hickenlooper's case looks
pretty much blasted, and he apparently
has no new evidence to offer to pull it
together again. Accordingly, his appeal
to keep the investigation going seems to
be little more than an appeal to waste time.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Its Own Master

A lot of people will be disappointed to
hear that the Air Force has decided to give
up trying to make rain. The decision
which presumably includes snow as we'll
apparently is based on long series of ex-
periments indicating that weather is still
pretty much its own master, whimsical.
capricious, and altogether too unmanage-
able to be manufactured artificially and
at will, on significant scale.
Only couple of years ago the outlook
seemed a great deal more promising. AT
that time scientist of the General Elec-
fric Company went up in a plane over
Massachusetts,, tossed out six pounds OF
dry-ice pellets carbon dioxide), and pre-
cipitated a heavy snowfall from cloud
three miles long. There then followed
much fascinating speculation about the
coming of new age in which man, in
stead of just talking about the weather,
would really be able to do something
with it.
For example, in November, 1946, no less
q person than DR.. irving Langmuir, the
distinguished associate director OF the
General Electric research laboratory, sug-
gested that with dry-ice pellets it might be
possible to produce snow wherever wanted.
such as at skiing resorts; or to let loose
precipitation in areas where the moisture
could be stored in winter for agricultural
purposes; or to ease the annual municipal
snow-removal problem by bombarding ap-
preaching clouds on the outskirts of cities.
Similarly, others saw the day coming when
Nebraskans. fF instance. might do vio'
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Wonted-An Official Obiector

The District government ought to hire
some fellow with deep voice, mean dis
position, fondness for controversy, a
distrust of all progress and an abiding
passion for the horse and buggy days.
He should be paid on per diem basis,
employed every day of the year and as
signed to keep a cold eye on the traffic
experts, the highway builders and the
official custodians of our parks and trees.
Every time one of these makes move
to chop down a tree or pour concrete
across green grass, his function would be
to roar like a bull and go into action,
head down.
The absence from the public payroll OF
any such person has been made conspic-
uous by the latest scheme to cut street
through the little park in front OF the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Surprise has been expressed by some OF
those responsible that there should have
been any protest. Failure to anticipate
any objection is the excuse given for not
having held some sort of hearing on the
business and invited criticism in advance.
But the traffic and highway engineers
would never anticipate protest. That is
just the trouble. And there is nobody
who does. The Fine Arts Commission is
not responsible under the law for super
vision of such things. Ever since the
White House balcony incident, the Fine
Arts Commission has been sulking in the
doghouSe that Harry built. The National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
has it's mind on other things. The Park
Service, engaged for the moment in closing
swimming pools in order to foster better
race relations, is apparently not interested
So it is helpfully suggested that the
Commissioners insert an advertisement in
the Help Wanted" columns of The Star
for the individual described above. And
let this fellow push against progress,
wherever it rears its ugly head.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Lost Encumpment

Today in indianapolis, handful OF old.
old soldiers, the remnant of mighty
army and the survivors of once-powerful
veterans organization, are answering the
roll call of the Grand Army of the. Re-
public for the last time. For these aged
comrades in arms, whose number is about
Is and whose average age is 100, it is
poignant occasion ringed around with
memories and with ghosts. 1t is easy to
understand the feeble rebellion of half
dozen of the old boys in blue who wish to
keep the GAR going "as long as any Of
us are around" This desire to keep one
frail link with the past extends to several
who cannot travel to the final bivouac.
In spiritual union, even, there is evidently
strength for them. There is some ground
for rueful reflection in the fact that even
now, "a years after that bitter strife was
ended, the GAR refuses to close its thinning
ranks with those of the Confederate Army.
The GAR was begun in 1866 by Benjamin
F. Stephenson as non-partisan organ
ization. One of its avowed purposes was
"to aid with its charity the manned and
helpless soldiers and the dependent families
of the fallen" With espousal of the cause
of veterans pensions, its modest member
ship swelled to a peak of 100000 and in
the '90s it became one of the first pressure
groups on the American political scene. As
more and more of its members were found
In the ranks of death, its political influence
steadily declined and it resumed the
sentimental, comradely nature Of its earlier
phase. But even during its heyday, there
is no evidence that the encampments
where the veterans literally tented on the
old camp ground and sang their old songs,
were marked by any of the raucous water
bag craftsmanship and electric-cane buzz
ing which have distinguished the get
togethers of veterans Of later and more
terrible wars. In 1886, 1900 wore the blue
again to repeat their historic march down
Pennsylvania avenue. This was in COM
memoration of the parade of 1855, which
symbolized the end of the war and the
preservation of the Union. At that time
the Department of the Potomac had four
teen members. Since then, all have gone.
John NJ Kline, senior, department COM
mander, died in 1914
So the campfires will go out. And doubt
less the little band which will warm itself
with comradeship and memories for the
last time will be consoled by the words of
its most famous battle hymn, their souls
go marching on"
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Fifty Years Ago

The STAR on August 49, 1899, printed a
cable from Tromsoe, Norway, announcing
that Walter Wellman and
Discoverer Of the survivors of the Polar
New Lands expedition led by him had
reached that town with re-
ports OF the discovery of important new
lands and many islands," Mr.. Wellman
himself was crippled by fall into snow
covered crevasse. He told tale Of hardship
and suffering but Of success in exploration
washington men in his party included
Prot. j. H. Gore of Columbian (now George
Washington University 1t. Evelyn B. Bald.
win Of the United States Weather Bureau,
Querof Harlan of the Coast Survey and DR..
Edward Hoffman, physician and zoologist.
MIR. Wellman, formerly a journalist, was
sponsored by the National Geographic So
ciety and by several newspaper publishers.
He had been interested in the frozen North
for many years.
Referring to the arrest at Columbia, Mo-,
of a man charged with murder in Washing
ton, The Star Of August 10,
Roce Trocks 1899, commented editorially:
To BIome Frank Funk = = now says
that he took his first down.
ward step at one of the race tracks in Alex
andria County, while he was living here
happily and prosperously. The confession
justifies the protests which the close prox-
unity of those tracks and their evil appur-
tenances evoked from the citizens Of WASH
ington few years ago. It was felt on all
sides that the existence Of these dens SO
close to the city was serious menace to the
Capital. The local campaign against them
was inspired solely by this thought.
It may be impossible, with the manifold
needs Of modern society. entirely to remove
all opportunities for evil-doing through the
awakening of the impulse to gamble which
so often leads to crime. But when the COM
munity finds an institution which is thor
oughly bad. which furnishes no single moral
excuse for existing which neither honestly
profits its projectors nor affords cleanly,
wholesome entertainment to its patrons and
which at the same time debauches youth
.as well as age, and furnishes refuge for
fugitives from justice-when, in short. an
Alexandra Island develops-the only thing
to be done is to demolish it ruthlessly. That
means to reduce the opportunities for crime
without In the least affecting any honest
industry or hampering any useful en-
terprise"
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Cites Influence of Liquor
In International Conferences

In international Conferences
To the Editor Of The Star:
The recent statement by the president
Of the WCTU about the use of liquor at
international diplomatic conferences is sup
ported by reports in three recent books.
John T. Flynn, in "The Roosevelt Myth"
comments on the subject and cites Maj. Gen.
John r. Deane ("Strange Alliance") and
Elliott Roosevelt ("As He Saw IT,.
Mr. Flynn writes: Gen. Deane is un-
doubtedly man with sense Of humor
and we owe to him much Of what we know
about the caviar and vodka aspects of the
great Russian conferences" Regarding the
Moscow conference in 1943 Mr.. Flynn says:
"On the vast table were bottles Of vodka,
wine, liqueurs in profusion. Then fol-
lowed a succession Of toasts in which the
eminent statesmen toasted Stain, Churchill
and Roosevelt and then each other and then
almost every one at the table, together with
such abstract ideas as Peace and Justice and
Victory. They drank bottoms up. The
liqueurs flowed, the good cheer rose, the
eloquence glowed. Gen. Deane frankly con-
fesses in his entertaining book that at the
end he was google and that old Mother
Russia, as he beheld her through vodka
tinted glasses, presented very rosy picture
From this feast, loaded with victuals and
vodka the remodelers of the new world
rose around four in the afternoon and
walked across the hall to the conference
room, where around another board they
assembled to begin their deliberations" !"
Flynn, pages 347-348, citing Deane. pages
1926. ta-.
At Teheran. says Mr.. Flynn (page 359) +,
citing Elliott Roosevelt (pages 186-194. .
'The guests gave themselves over to the
victuals and the. vodka in big way.
He (Stalin) got around to Elliott who was
flushed with liquor, as he admits, and who
rose 'unsteadily to his feet" And Mr..
Flynn concludes (page 360): "The dis
appearance Of Poland and the four little
Baltic states behind the dark curtain OF
Stalin's tyranny was made to the flowing
beakers of vodka and the merry shouts Of
the happy chieftains who were arranging
the affairs Of the brave new world"
It has remained for our new lady Dip
lomat, Mrs. Mesta, to point the way to over
coming this grave weakness in our foreign
relations. Our noble conferees going abroad
on important missions could very well fol-
low her example and take along an ample
stock Of good American soft drinks-and
then stick to them, If they want to get
back home with their shirts on. J. M. P.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Henqist and Horse

Britons, despite austerity, are cele-
brating the fifteen hundredth anniversary
Of the coming Of the first Saxons. Their
leaders were Hengist and Horsa, brother
chieftains who migrated from the Con-,
tinent at the invitation Of Vortigern, the
elected British king. They were supposed
to help their host against the Picts and
the Scots. Given the island Of Thanet as
home, they soon quarreled with their
neighbors. A lengthy and tedious struggle
followed, until vortigern was killed and
the British driven out of Kent. Horsa also
lost his life in the contest and Hengist did
not survive his final victory very long.
But the narrative is confused. Whether
the version of the Saxon Chronicle or that
of the Historic Brittonum be accepted, the
They probably were Jutes, as Bede alleges;
but their companions may have been
mixed company, drawn together simply
by adventure. Reinforcements are sup
posed to have reached them from the
mainland. The invasion may have con-
tinued for several decades. It ended by
the gradual absorption of the newcomers
In the overall picture of ancient England.
The rover influence, however, was not
lost. Joined to the older stocks, 1t has sur
vived the centuries in terms of stalwart
humanity. The Kentish folk even now are
distinguishable type. Canterbury is their
capital as much as ever. Wherever they
60, whatever they do, they are a sturdy
genus. The English language is largely
their creation. They replaced Celtic and
Latin and, in association with other i'm
migrants speaking Low German dialects
developed the idiom of 'Beowulf" Love of
liberty in the sense Of personal freedom
characterized what the commentators call
"the new race" When Augustine and his
disciples arrived with their portrait Of
Christ painted on a board, the needed
element Of religion and a system of order
founded on durable principles Of equity
was added.
So, not modern Englishmen alone, but
rather all the peoples Of the English
speaking nations of the world might join
in the commemoration of Hengist and
Horsa. True enough, they are only names
fifteen hundred years after their landing
at Ebbsf1eet in 449; yet they ought not to
be forgotten and they will not be as long
as the civilization to which they belonged
continues to exist.
Evening star., 1949-08-28
Wants to Know Where
Evicted Families Are to Go

To the Editor Of The Star:
A beautiful gold and blue day Is the kind
dreaded by many families in Washington.
The United States marshal breads this kind
Of day, too. It is an eviction day. It means
setting out on the sidewalk many families.
This is not done on rainy or cloudy days
because the shabby old furniture might get