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Evening star., 1949-02-03
Suyinu Our Future

It would be hard to find more impor-
tant undertaking, whose success or failure
means more to the future of this country,
than the one outlined to the Senate Com
mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs by
its chairman, Joseph C. O'Mahoney Of
Wyoming.
In opening series OF hearings this
week in search of an improved policy for
conservation, development and admins
tration of the country's natural resources,
Senator O'Mahoney remarked that unless
we keep strong at home, the peace effort
30 largely underwritten by this country
can easily fail.
Secretary Krug gave some examples of
current waste and profigacy in the use
Of precious resources:
For every two tons of coal mined, one
Is left in the ground and lost.
More energy is being wasted through
faring of natural gas in the fields than
is being produced by the entire series of
dams under IVA.
In the face of declining ore and petro-
leum reserves, the automobile manu-
facturers are adding to the average weight
of pleasure cars
The public range has been overgrazed,
with resulting loss tomorrow of wool and
meat. twenty-five million acres need re-
seeding now to halt irreparable depletion.
We do not have the farm land now
required to feed the number of people who
will be dependent on it a few years hence
Millions of tons of topsoil are carried away
by rivers every year. Yet millions of
acres can be added to productive land by
reclamation and irrigation; millions more
servation.
We are using up our saw timber at
twice the rate it grows. More than third
of approximately 500 million acres of COM
mercial forest land is denuded or poorly
stocked. We have only 1900 billion board
feet of timber left out of the 5000 billion
board feet of three centuries ago.
Senator O'Mahoney spoke of the neces-
sity for vigorous policy of conservation
on national scale-not merely in selected
regions of the country-if we are to main
tain our responsibility for world peace and
carry out some of the things we have
undertaken He might have gone much
further. Without such a policy our
existence as people, without counting the
added devastation of another war, is at
stake. We have not gone far in conserv-
ing our resources of forest, stream, soil
and minerals But we have gone far
enough to see the potential results in
safeguarding our future, maintaining our
prosperity and raising the standard OF
living for our people that are available
to us.
Lifting the minimum wage, adding TO
the coverage of social security schemes,
tiptoeing into socialized medicine and
Evening star., 1949-02-03

factors, projectile ultimately may be
steered with some degree of accuracy
toward its target. One of the Air Force
rockets is thirty-two feet long and capable
of reaching an altitude of one hundred
miles. The Army and the Navy also are
conducting rocket researches in series of
experiments co-ordinated with those of
the Air Force. One of the objectives is
to produce guided missile which may be
launched from submerged submarine.
W. flying bombs" already have been
launched from a surfaced submarine.
In reading news of these late develop
ments with new weapons it is we'll to keep
in mind that all authorities agree that
any war in the next decade or so is apt to
be fought with piloted planes rather than
long-range pilotless missiles. The time is
tional means of delivering a bomb to a
target will be replaced by push-button
technicians, operating thousands of miles
from enemy territory. To believe other
wise is, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Air Brown warned at the White Oak
Ordnance Laboratory dedication, to espouse
IAN insanely dangerous concept" It is
dangerous because it tends to encourage
an attitude of complacency that should
not prevail in times of continuing crisis
Overconfldence induced by wishful think
ing regarding capabilities of new weapons
could lead to neglect of existing defenses
and that would be a course fraught with
peril at the present time.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Further Clarifying Needed

In clearing up one phase of the yale
Special plane crash at Seattle last month,
the Civil Aeronautics Board has left for
future clarification number of other i'm
portant questions. The preliminary report
of CAB investigators exonerates the pilot
of the plane of early insinuations that he
disobeyed tower orders in taking off. First
dispatches from the scene quoted Civil
Aeronautics Administration inspector as
saying that the airport tower had given
an advisory warning" about minimum
weather conditions" that was "tantamount
to an order" against taking off.
But later publication of the transcript
of the conversation between the pilot and
the tower just prior to take-of showed
that the plane was given definite clear
ance for take-off. Presumably this tram
script was available to the CAA inspector
at the time of his serious accusation. One
of the questions remaining to be answered
is why this erroneous version of the tower
instructions was given to the press.
Among other points that should be
cleared up are whether the tower used
good judgment in clearing the heavily
loaded plane under prevailing minimum"
weather conditions, whether the plane was
overloaded and whether adequate fire.
fighting facilities were on hand at the
big airport. A spokesman for the Airline
Pilots Association has asserted that more
lives might have been saved If better
fire-f1ghting equipment had been available
He charged that the CAB has failed" to
insist on proper emergency fire-extin-
gushing apparatus at commercial air
fields. These are questions which can be
answered more readily than the actual
cause of the fatal crash itself. They should
be fully answered, as they are matters
rightfully of concern to the public.
Evening star., 1949-02-03

universal health insurance-all such things
have fetching sound to many people,
with or without counting the cost But
they are superficial and merely expedient
compared with the fundamentally i'm
portant issue of conservation, assuring to
our grandchildren at least continuation
of some of the bounties that we inherited
The hearings before Senator O,Mahoney's
committee may not be spectacular. But
there could be nothing more dismally
spectacular than the results of failure
to carry out what the committee has
chosen as it's objective.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Keep the Mediutors ImportioI

The administration request of Congress
to transfer the Governments labor
management dispute-settling agency back
to the Labor Department raises grave
doubts as to whether such a move would
be in the best interests of the whole people
OF the country. Congress should take a
long look at the issues involved before act
ing. Certainly it is agreed that the agency
should be placed where it can be the most
effective in mediating disputes before they
reach the strike stage and in ending work
Stoppages quickly once they have gone
that far.
Secretary of Labor Tobin's goal of
strengthening his department is lauda-
tory one. His desire to take over the
Mediation and Cancellation Service is
understandable. The service is the most
Spectacular" of the labor agencies. It's
work catches the most headlines But
one wonders whether. it is even in the
best interests of organized labor to have
the service under control of the de-
partment.
1t should be borne in mind that Federal
conciliators of disputes are called upon to
deal with management just as many times
as they deal with unions. To be effective,
conciliator and the agency behind him
must have the complete confidence and
trust of employer representatives, just
as they must have the trust of union
leaders. Certainly an agency which does
not have the confidence of employers is
of little value to the unions
The Labor Department by charter is
directed to foster and protect the interests
of the working men and women of the
country. In actual practice in recent
years the department has become the
advocate in Government of organized
labor. In recognition of that primary
function provision was made for two
Assistant Secretaries-one from AFL, an
other from the CIO. At the present time,
the two union assistants exert even more
influence than usual on department
policy, since there is no UnderSecretary
representing the public.
Secretary Tobin stated in a recent
speech just how he feels about the depart
ment. He gave as his goal the creation
of department which would be as
voice in the Presidents councils"
DR.. George w. Taylor, an expert admired
by labor, recently advised the Hoover
Commission that If the Labor Department
is to remain the vehicle of organized labor
it would serve the best interests of the
public to keep Independent the agencies
concerned with Interpreting national labor
policy. The mediation service would seem
to fall in that category.
Since the service became independent
in 1e47, its able director, Cyrus S. Ching,
has developed a staff whose actions have
gained the confidence of both labor and
management. The record has been good,
John L. Lewis has been about Mr.. Ching's
only critic. That should provide food for
thought.
Rather than include this important issue
for settlement in the heated political air
surrounding debate on Taft-Hartley repeal.
would it not at least be better to leave
the final placement of the mediation
agency to the calmer atmosphere of the
general governmental reorganization pro-
gram?
Evening star., 1949-02-03
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

O. Did Handel earn much money from his
celebrated oratorio, the "Messah?"-T NJ G..
A. The proceeds from the annual per-
formances of the Messiah" during Handels
lifetime were presented by him to the Found
ling Hospital in London and in his will he
stipulated that the royalties from this work
should go to the same charity.
= @. How many persons does it take to run
the United Nations?-L. r. ->
A. There are 1900 employees of the u NJ,
coming from more than so different nations.
The largest number of professional posts is
held by 321 citizens of the United States. :.
@. In what year did hail and snow actually
fall on day in July, as predicted in popular
almanac?-M c. H.
A. According to a story often told Of. the
Old Farmers Almanac, the printer, just before
going to press, was asked what weather FORE
cast to put for July 13. In careless haste he
replied, Anything anything whereupon the
shop boy set Rain, hail and snow" Although
readers were astounded at this prediction,
it was fulfilled, for it actually did rain, hail
and snow on July 13 that year, which was 1916.
@. How many persons lost their lives in auto
mobile racing last year?-T. r. on
A. Thirty persons were. killed last year in
the field of automobile racing, many of them
the result of defective parts in the cars. In
addition 43 drivers were critically injured.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
North Wind

The Queen Anne's Lace leans all one way
Against the gentler south,
Like Dhiskers on a blanched, gaunt face,
That has no soft, redeenaing grace, Alss% <%
But ,oryly turns its stiff, cold MOUTH,
And has no 1Dord to say.
The apple tree is gnarled and dour,
Its back is hunched and SCARED;
A sheet of ice that ,Diu not thaw
Is all betpeen it and the law
OF that eternal foe, whose hard -
viii bends it doton and keeps 1t sour.
ALMA ROBERTS GIORDAN.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Getting On the Red List

To the Editor of The Star:
One of the penalties of being "liberal' is
that some people call you Communist-even
if you are anti-Communist. And you get on
list.
I don't suppose there's an actively practicing
liberal worth his salt who in the past dozen
years or so hasn't made himself vulnerable.
And again refer to the anti-Communist
liberals.
But the scope of the local police lists of
suspected" Communists, as excellently re-
vealed in last Thursdays Star by your reporter
j. Theodore Crown, indicates new low.
Thus, as stated by Mr.. Crown, if you speak
at meeting where "a suspected Communist"
suspected, that is, by the police is on the
same program, you get on the list.
If you sponsor or indorse movement which
happens also to be sponsored or indorsed by
know Communist" Rnown, that is, to the
police you get on the list
There's plenty of evidence that Commies
have participated in non-Communist liberal
programs to further their own devious ends.
Surely they have no patent on such programs
1t often happens that honest liberals Gin the
best sense of the term) quite often don't know
many OF the other sponsors or participants.
Are they, in any event. to abandon the pro-
gram and reject their ideals? 1t would seem
so, because they get on the police lists willy
nilly regardless of their single-mnded loyalty
to this country.
If all those who use the lists were completely
fair, there would be no serious problem, for it
is the use made of the lists, and not the
listing itself, which is important. But all
those who use the lists are not completely
fair, as the recent history of legislative and
administrative bodies amply demonstrates.
And so the listing itself results in incalculable
harm to innocent people. In any case the
dragnet Is far too wide.
Quite definitely, more common sense, less
hysteria, and more faith in the American
people seem clearly indicated.
SAMUEL H. JAFFEE
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Says Spending Leads to Disaster


To the Editor of The Star:
In clever cartoon which appeared re-
Gently in The Evening Star, Alice in Won
derapd Is shown gazing at the new Congress,
and she is doing some wondering! Now
in this same delightful book, Lewis Carroll
describes large, grinning Cheshire cat slowly
vanishing until there was nothing left but
the grim thereby subjecting the readers imag-
ination to a considerable strain. In our
modern political Blunderland, our credullty
faces an even more difficult test, when we
are informed by optimistic New Dealers that
our disappearing dollars, some hundreds Of
billions having evaporated will leave smile
of eternal satisfaction upon the countrys
countenance.
When one considers that the national debt
during President Tafts administration was
only slightly more than billion, whereas
today it is approximately 100 billion, con-
servative people are compelled to admit the
condition Is abnormal to degree Now there
is nothing new in the notion that q nation
can borrow its way out of trouble. In an
cient Rome, national disintegration got under
way when the government was required to
support the people. The idea that we must
"spend in order to save" always has ended
disastrously. Sooner or later, depressions
follow good times, just as day ends In dark
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Jewish Persecution of Germans


To the Editor of The Star:
Several letters appearing recently have rep
resented extremist Jewish opinion relative to
Menachem Beigin leader of the terrorist group
that perpetrated the DER Yassim and King
David Hotel massacres, and WhiteWaShing any
and every action taken by the State Of Israel.
1t is unfortunate that moderate and fair
minded Jews by their silence are allowing
Americans to suppose that these opinions ex-
press their sentiments also. ] cannot believe
this to be the case
The latest exploit of such extremists is the
successful campaign to prevent Walter Giesek-
ing from being heard in the United States.
They likewise are spearheading the attempt
to keep Germany's greatest orchestral con-
ductor from working in this country. Their
"argument' is that these artists performed in
Germany during the Hitler regime Being
German citizens and not being interested in
politics, they did so. Are all German doctors
and nurses, ministers and musicians to be
ostracized for having continued in their pro-
fessional careers after 1882?
The Nazi regime disgraced itself when it
denied the German people the privilege of en-
joying the talents of Bruno Walter and Max
Reinhardt. Jewish extremists are disgracing
themselves when they deny Americans the
right to listen to Furtwaengler and Gieseking.
always have favored the unrestricted i'm
migration of Jewish persons into this country,
for America has been and should be haven
for prosecuted and afflicted persons. But it
is disappointing when the guests whom you
welcome into your home respond by debating
whom you may not listen to in concert hall
and symphony auditorium
May I suggest that the majority of decent
and fair-minded Jewish people in this country
would do well to repudiate publicly and in no
uncertain terms the antics and manifestos of
their lunatic fringe which trafics in American
tolerance and exploits the good name of Jews
generally to persecute persons of German
nationality? RICHARD v. LANE.
Evening star., 1949-02-03

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
1oriter, although it is permissible for
a 1Driter kno,Dn to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1949-02-03

Uncle Sam should watch his step. He seems
to be skating on thin ice.
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH
Mrs. Surratt's Case Remembered
To the Editor OF The Star:
1t Is interesting to note in connection with
the treason trial now in progress under Judge
Curran that some 80-odd years ago another
woman stood before the bar of justice CD in
Washington on a similar charge Widow and
mother, Mrs. Mary Eugenia Surratt supported
herself by accepting paying guests at her
home. Drawn into the maelstrom of the
times because she was the mother of John
SurIatt, who admittedly was an accomplice in
the kidnap-the- President plan, she was taken
to the old Capitol Prison when sectional hatred
was at its height
Axis Sally got a delay of preliminary hear
ing that she might obtain competent counsel.
Mrs. Surratt got no such delay, her defense
counsel being appointed for her the day be-
fore the trial began.
Axis Sally was returned from Europe aboard
a luxury liner. Mrs. Surratt was subjected
to untold hardships and indecencies in jail.
Sally is being tried by civil court, Mrs.
Surrat. faced hostile military commission
and that at a time when the civil courts were
functioning in the District!
sallys offense was aiding the enemy and
the attempted breakdown of our soldiers
morale. Mrs. Surratts offense was the keep
ing of boarding house on H street NV, at
which John Wilkes Booth was an occasional
visitor.
Sally will be allowed every possible chance
to clear herself of the treason charge Mrs
Surratt was allowed to speak not one word
in her own defense Sally will get whatever
the competent jury and judge will rule.
Though justice dictated acquittal Mrs Sur
ratt was hanged.
Has the full story of the Surratt trial ever
been published? Are the stenographic notes
Of the trial available? The reaction this
writer gets is that by its fair handling of the
present case, our courts admit that they failed
in the matter of justice for Mary Surratt
Receiving full justice, sympathetic handling,
legal delays and competent counsel, Axis Sally
certainly may hope for that for which Mrs
Surratt also hoped and never received-equal
justice under the law. HISTORY.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Appreciation for States Richter

Congratulations to Northern Democrat
who has in his letter Of January 20 on States
rights given new hope to one cropping bewil-
dered patriotic American, who feared that
everything constitutional and American was
dead. He has helped me to struggle on and
hope and pray for the time that we may
become free American citizens again.
M MARTIN.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Questions and Answers

reader get the to any question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Information
bureau, 316 street NE. washington 2, D. c.
Evening star., 1949-02-03

ness. Now we are off again on fresh "joy-
ride" and respect for money has gone.
Uncle Sam should watch his step. He seems
to be skating on thin ice
EDMUND K Col DSROROIIGH
Evening star., 1949-02-03

CateterlaS to Quartermaster Corps!
To the Editor of The Star:
Now that the question of the Government
taking over the cafeterias in Government
buildings has come up, why not turn them over
to the Quartermaster Corps, which already has
the "know-how" in mass feeding, the buying
facilities and the experience to do the job? A
comparison of the costs of meals in Army
facilities and in the GS eating places shows
that the cost would be greatly reduced and the
food probably would be better and served in
larger quantities under ONO management.
HENRIETTA M. HICKERSON.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-07-01

Lost-Gray sd d ID e horse,
branded 5-bar-C on left shoulder;
$40 reward. Waldo Macdonald,
Browning.
Mrs. H. J. Morse returned
home yesterday from Lewistown,
where she h a d been spending
several weeks with relatives.
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al Meeting Called To
Discuss Camp Plans

A meeting of t h Browning
All Variety Club will be held at
t h Agency barracks tonight
friday, July l att
The meeting has been called by
Jason Devereaux, Jr., leader, a
large attendance being necessary
in vi ew Of the purpose of the
event.
Discussions will deal with plans
for the clubs participation in the
annual camp on Rose Creek July
Is to 16.
A Monograph newsletter
issued by County Agent Flesch
and containing camp instructions
and a registration form W IL be
distributed a m on G members at
the meeting.
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Events In Brief....

Mrs. Violet T mplin and
daughter, Mrs. Taylor, of Libby
have been here since the middle
of last week visiting Mrs. Tenn
plin's sister, Mrs. Julia Powell,
and daughter, Mrs. Irwin (Happy)
Peterson. Part Of the time they
visited Mrs. Templin's daughter,
Mrs. Margaret Reverb, at Cut
Bank. They returned home yes
terday.
For sale-Used electric wash
ing machine and upholstered day.
export and chair; cheap. Louis
Sitzmann, Glacier Park, Montana.
For sale-Pumice and cement
blocks, all sizes. Phone 722-J,
Cut.Bank or write Cut B a n k
Block Mfg. Company. Write us
for estimate of buildings. 14-tf.
For sale Il New Holland auto
matte hay bailer, like new; l
Model B International tractor
g. fit. mower: one John Deere
tubular grain elevator; l Ford It.
ton truck. Anderson Implement
Company, Cut Bank. 16-4c
Have your lawn mowers re-
sharpened for the summer season,
ground by machinery. All work
guaranteed. M. H. Arnoux, Box
SCI, or Phone 39-M Browning. u
For sale-modern home, desir-
able property; one block south of
Tribal office. Inquire John M.
Wright.
Two-tone western embroidered
slack suits. Economy Shop.
Tom Burd, who is employed on
a project at Martin City, is in
Browning this week. He has been
working there for the a s t six
months. The town has ID beer
parlors, he said.
A few coats left, priced for a
quick sale. Economy Shop.
For sale-1947 WHY'S sedan,
good rubber, in good condition.
$3.50 cash. Box 121, Cut Bank,
Montana. ct.
Sun dresses with jackets, sizes
II and IA. Economy Shop.
For sale-14 by 16 house. See
or write Mrs. Joe Schildt, box
43, Browning, Montana.
For sale-Oil-burnnig range;
also water tank. T. E. SERVER.
Bonnie Lee Brandt. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Brandt, !
accompanied by h e mother and
grandmother, Mrs. Lena Brandt, !
was in Fairfield asst Thursday
and had the pleasure of attend
ing birthday party given by her
cousin, Suzanne Stevenson.
TT e Saddle Clubs dance at
Glacier Park Station last Saturday
evening was largely attended, the
event availing members to engage
in a heavy sale of chances on the
drawing for the saddle horse set
for July 4th. J.
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L. V. Smell is hooking forward
with pleasure to a visit with his
a g e d parents at Nova Scotia,
whom he has not seen in 20
years. He and three brothers will
be home for a happy family re-
union in August.
For sale-Bred-does and two
bucks. See Henry Weber. 17-4tp
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Charles D. Allison
Dies Following
Short Illness

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Fromboise; two brothers. Wen
dell and James, and two sisters,
Mrs. Ed Butler of Seattle n d
Mrs. Maggie Williamson of Cut
Bank.