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Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-11-01

THAT NEIGHBOR of mine thinks
the scales of justice need a little re-
balancin'. The same day the judge
fined him $50 for shootin' a blue
grouse by mistake another court
gave a fellow convicted of rape a
suspended sentence.
AS some rural sage once re-
marked. patience may be one of
the cardinal virtues but il never
helped a rooster lay an egg.
Foxtail Johnson of Arizona Farm
err says what of it if a race of flies
has growed up that's immune to
DOT and all of them other bug
killers? On Squawberry Flat a race
of people has growed up that's i'm
mune to flies"
Alfalfa Ike says his wife has the
worst memory he ever encountered.
She remembers everything.
Martha thinks there would be
fewer motor accidents if the high
way sign writers used more magma
ton. Instead of, go S1ow-Sharp
Curve Ahead" she recommends,
SHARP Curve Ahead@Step on the
Gas, the Undertaken. Needs Your
Business"
Protein Pete says this plan to
give onsume cheap food and
make up the difference to the
farmers in the form of a govern
ment check has one possibility that
sort of takes the edge off his en-
thusiasm for the proposal. About
the time the public was educated
to considerin' cheap food their just
due the farmers might start get
tin the government checks back
from the bank marked insult
ficient funds"
With the board of examiners tryin'
to run our educational institutions,
we can expect the state accounting
department to start superintendent
highway construction any day now.
Dogie Johnson isn't in favor of
higher salaries for congressman. He
says the way they have been
THROWN the taxpayers money
around its about time they learned
that the stuff doesn't grow on
trees.
The local committee ran rightfully
claim some credit for gettin' the
signup for the new irrigation prof.
ect but it was old Mother Nature
who really clinched the deal when
she turned off her sprinklers last
summer.
It's hard TO follow the reasonin'
of the farm organizations that have
been askin' for a price support
floor at so or 20 percent of parity.
If parity is a fair price there is no
reason why they should settle for
less than 100 percent of it. If the
parity formula isn't fair and rea-
sonable then they'd better figure
out one that is. If farmers go be-
fore the court of public opinion
and ask for part of what they have
comm under the American protec-
tive system they'll be a long time
gettin' the whole hog. It's like the
attorney for the defense saYin' to
the jury: My client is completely
innocent and should be set free
but if you order him hung please
have he sheriff use a shorter rope
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-11-01
Montana Farmer-Stockman

Published twice u month, on the LIST and 18th,
by The Montana Farmer. Inc. Great Falls.
Mont. Entered as second class matter at the
Postoffice at Great Falls, Mon ~
tana under act of March 3. 1879. ~%SITso
Evening star., 1949-02-23

V&I-Coats and Suits, Third Floor
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
The President RapS
Senatorial K7lIckLeS

President Truman laid his cards
on the table the other day when he
informed a press conference that
his nominations for Office are "a
party matter" and he demanded the
Democrats must support the men
he picks, and confirm them prompt
ly so that the Republicans wouldn't
get the edge on such matters as he
declares belongs in his hands.
Well, Harry is as stubborn as a
Missouri mule and when he de-
manded a confirmation for Leland
o. Olds for a third term as Federal
Power Commissioner he raped the
knuckles of Democratic Senators
who didn't believe Olds should be
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
that our Government exists to Sc
cure the blessings Of liberty to our
selves and to our posterity.
Very Remarkable

In view of the fact that the S1st
Congress is the worst" we have
had since the S0th, President Tru-
man seems to be easy to please
since he calls the 81st Congress
remarkable" He asked for more
than one hundred pieces Of legisla-
ton and he got exactly 1919 of his
wishes. And here's the 1919 record
that the President is so happy
about:
1. Revision of the Armed Forces
UnificatiOn Act.
2. Extension of the European Re
covery Program for another year.
3. Extension of the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act without re-
strictions which the Eightieth Con-
gress had attached.
4. Ratification of the North At
lantic Treaty.
5. Ratification of the InternatiOn-
al Wheat Agreement.
6. Approval of the Military As
sistance Program to help non-COm-
munist nations build up their arms.
Z. Approval of slum clearance and
lOw-cOst housing programs.
8. Extension of Federal Rent Con-
trolls.
9. Revision of the Commodity
Credit Corporations charter to al
low it to provide storage space for
crops held under price-suppOrt
leans.
10. Grant to Mr.. Truman of au-
thority to reshuffle the Executive
Branch of the Government.
But there is no new farm price
support legislation and the
chances are that there won't be.
No positive action by Congress
has been made with regard to uni
versal military training. The So
called "health program" and the
st. Lawrence SeaWay and power
projects legislation failed to get
Congressional approval.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Controlled ~ Economy

Americans who longingly gaze at
the current experiment in socialism
in England as an example of a
Democracy controlled "by the peO-
pie" would be somewhat startled if
they really understood what is ac-
tually taking place in the minds Of
those now in power.
A clipping from a recent edition
of the London News Chronicle
brings us this revealing example Of
bureaucratic autOcracy:
A furniture van drove through
the gates of Norwich Hospital, Che
shire. yesterday and stopped out
side the Jubilee Extension Block.
Four men stepped out, went into
the board room, and began moving
the furniture.
They said they were acting on in
structiOns from the North and Mid
Chesire Hospitals Management
Committee.
Doctors and nurses looked on in
amaZement, for the board room fur
niture was a gift from Colonel j.
A. DuuCAs a AOAAlCA GAlttAA AAAcAAA VI bAC
board of management.
The men took the Is TT. oak table,
the "a chairs which matched it and
available desk from the secretary's
Office.
Then the men presented the bill
and asked who would pay it. They
were told to take it back to the
Management Committees headquar-
ters at Altrincham.
Last night a doctor at the hOspi-
tai told me: ''We heard they (the
Management Committee) were COW
7 citing our board room. We were very
upset and thought we had talked
them out of it.
Their argument is that there is
no longer a board of management
here and therefore we do not need
a board room. But that furniture
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
The PeopIe COM First

~ = 01N+NL CONeC = - 0N
WASHINGTON, d. C.-For the
life of me can't see how Uncle
Sam can pull himself up by the
boOtstraps and look forward to re-
cOvery from the present slump that
our nation is suffering, simply by
handing out Government money to
boost the prices of all the different
kinds of foods that people are ae-
custOmed to eating. From time Inn
memorial the prices on the mer-
chants shelves have been fixed ac-
cording to the invisible device Of
supply and demand. The stock and
grain markets managed to boost
the prices of food and other neces-
sites of life pretty much as they
pleased. But when the politicians
90 off on some other form Of ad-
venture the prices go down. Right
now the Government is attempting
to dictate and predict the cost of
all kinds of public necessities es-
pecially crops, grains, fruits and
vegetables that come of the farms.
There are a lot Of prescriptions Of
fered by Congress about farm Sc
curity, but none Of them, even
though they may have the approval
Of the ruler in the White House
seem to furnish any evidence that
they will make the farmer success
ful or rich.
The law Of supply and demand
has begged down under the weight
of the fair deal?"
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Railroads Attack Truck
Industry

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has received orders from
the Railroad hierarchy to drive
trucks of the highways.
Why, think of it! How awful it is
for trucks to tap "the vital terri
tory upon which our traffic volume
and continued existence are largely
dependent" says the ancient rail-
road bosses who have managed pol
iticians, politics, and 1--WE, the peO-
pie" since Hector was a pup"
The potential traffic which the
trucks are diverting is in the line
of national progress. So let the rail-
roads officials squeal!
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21

The above classic is an observa-
tion by Senator Kefauver who says
that the District Of Columbia, with
out suffrage or the right to vote is,
nevertheless-made up Of people
who are probably better equipped
to exercise the franchise than any
where else"
The District of Columbia was in
cluded in the northern part Of the
United States when the Civil War
was won for the North. But when
Lincoln was assassinated and pass
ed out of the picture the Southern
rebels were given their seats in a
new Congress-and they regislated
the right of suffrage out Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Ever since that time the Con-
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21

plOyees have paid in payroll taxes
nearly thirteen-and-a-half billion
dollars. AS result, about 100000
persons are receiving pensions of
around $S6 dollars a month.
That isn't very bad but there is a
bill before the House of Represen-
tatives that would extend coverage
to 100000 additional persons, in
cluding the self-employed by ma
tiOnal and state governments.
The scheme widens out and Con-
gress has received instructions to
levy taxes on employers and en-
plOyees over periods of about ten
years so that Mr.. and Mrs. Every
body may inherit 500 or more Old
Age Pension a month.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Obeying The Word
From Home

Members Of the lower branch Of
Congress have voted overwhelming
ly to expand Social Security cover
age and benefits for millions Of
American veterans.
With adjournment in sight the
probabilities are that the Senate
will put its Okay on this legislation.
1t should be done inasmuch as the
great mass of young men who
fought in the World War will be the
beneiciaries of the legislation.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Trrinated FQr1ns III Idaho

Forty-five hundred acres of irri-
gated land, consisting of SO farm
units, in the Black Canyon area of
the Boise Federal Reclamation pro-
ject in Southwestern Idaho, have
been opened for homestead entry by
veterans Of World War II and
others. The Bureau of Reclama-
ton is taking applications for the
new land.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
A Plan That FniLed

When the new Administration
went into Office its leader, Presi-
dent Truman told the cock-eyed
world that the biggest industrial
objective was the repeal of the
Taft-Hartley Act. Well, he made a
hot fight, but as the debate prog
ressed on Capitol Hill the Demo-
Gratis began to slip away from their
leader and the Taft-Hartley Act is
the same today as it was when the
fight was opened against it. The
old and worthless Wagner Act
mOlds in it's grave.
Even so, there has been very little
done by the Administration to crack
down on strikes in the great indus
tries Of the country that are so big
and dreadful that they constitute
tremendous threats against the pub
lie interest.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
The Public Health

We beg to differ with the Federal
medical scheme that claims public
health is a normal province of Gov
ernment-particularly on the the
Ory that the Govt. provide san
itary conditions, inspection of cat
tie, milk, medical care in veterans
and other hospitals. Old Doctor
Uncle Sam is boosting a plan put
forward by the politicians for uni
versal free medicine"
The Government medical bill is
all "phOOey." I don't know a news
paperman in Washington who goes
to any Public Bureau when he meets
with an accident, or gets a tummy-
ache. An official statement brags
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21

gress has lodged behind the ridic-
ulous theory that it viii take a
Constitutional Amendment to re-
store the rights Of Democratic Gov
ernment and suffrage to people in
Washington. It's a fake notion, but
dog-gone it, they get away with it.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Washington Letter
By ]. E. JONES

was a gift from Colonel Saner.
Colonel Saner told me: They
have got control now and seem to
be able to do what they like. / am
sorry, but there is nothing can do.
I am IS and 1 don't suppose 1 count
at ALL"
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Wig. of Course

The steel and coal strikes have
jammed down a double squeeze on
the Administration in Washington
and there is a growing demand for
the President to step in and do what
he can to ward OF the terrific
threats that hover over the entire
field of our national industries.
Even the President seems to know
that his Administration, and par
ticularly the Democratic party, is
in terrible jam.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
retained on the lob.

retained on the job.
We all know it is a fact that the
public expects nominations of the
President to be confirmed. But be-
hind the scene on Capitol Hill the
Democrats are jumping over the
traces. Why? Because they refuse
to believe that Mr.. Truman is a
great statesman and therefore they
are not convinced that Mr.. Olds
should be kept in Office.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21

The United States has one of the
worlds highest accident rates, an
annual 67.1 deaths per 100000 pop
ulation compared with a world av-
erage Of less than so.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21

Driving q motor car is twice as
dangerous in the country as in the
city with 10.S deaths per 100,000
vehicle miles in the country as COM
pared with 5.S deaths in the city.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Cotton Production

A cotton crop of 15,446, 900 bales
is forecast by the Crop Reporting
Board of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. The crop, as of October
l, is $4,000 bales, or over go more
than the September l forecast and
$4,000 bales above last years pro-
ductiOn.
Increases in prospective produc-
ton in Texas, Oklahoma and Ar
kansas more than Offset declines in
the Eastern cotton Belt and New
Mexico.
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MT. LAKE PARK
Election

Election
Tuesday was election day and only
! "a votes were cast. 1t is now Mayor
Emile Germaine. Council, Ira Har-
desty high man with so votes, Orville
Kitzmiller and Clarence Sewers. The
office of clerk will be made by APP
pointment later. Last years record
showed Ga votes. There were several
'write-ins" as follows: for mayor, Joe
Turney, Helen McRobie; for council,
Annie Reffert, w. O. Bitter, Harry
Turney and Edward Tasker.
The WSCS will continue the rum
mage sale at the Bowling Alley on
Saturday afternoon, at one o'clock.
The WSCS met last Thursday at
the home of Mrs. Mary COffindaffer.
Following the program. Mrs Mabel
Brock, president for the past four
years was presented with a lifetime
membership WSCS pin for her SPLEEN
did work during her tenure of office
Mrs. Louise Moon Keller and two
sons, Johnny and Kenny, and Mrs.
Anna Keller, all of Elyra, Ohio,
spent several days with Mrs. Kellcr's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy Moon.
Johnny Keller will spend the summer
here with his grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Friend have as
their guests their daughter, Mrs. j.
Randolph Weese and children, Susie
and Sally, of Wellsburg, w. Va. Ray
Friend, Jr., will spend the summer
here.
Edward Kahl, ST., spent several
days in Baltimore the past week
Mrs. J. E. Watson had as house
guests the week of the Fourth: Mr.
and Mrs. Renwick Breck, New York
City, and Miss Maria Clark Fair
mont, w. Va.
Johnny Gnegy, USN, returned Sun
day to his base, Staten Island, N. Y,
after short visit.
Mr.. and Mrs W. H. Friend spent
several days in Cumberland
Mr.. and Mrs. Hervey Bittner and
son, Ronnald, left by motor Sunday
for St. Petersburg, Fla, where Nh
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STEYER
Church Notes

Church Notes
The next meeting of the WSCS
will be at the home of Mrs. Paul
Harvey, on July 2Sth, at 1880 p. m.
This meeting date has been changed
because of the Revival Services at
White church. Future meetings will be
held on the regular third Thursday of
each month.
Revival Services will begin on Fri
day night, July Is, at White Church,
at 745 p. NJ. Rev. Charles Thompson,
Jr., will be in charge.
/ he annual homecoming at White
Church will be held Sunday, July II.
Services begin at 10 A. NJ, continu-
ing throughout the day, with a basket
dinner served on the grounds at
o'clock.
Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Burton, Clarks-
burg, called on Mr. and Mrs. NJ. f.
Fucker, on Sunday.
Weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Propst were: Mrs. Jonas
Gainer, Charles f. hester and Gene
Cross, of Kasson, w. Va. Mrs. Gain
Il remained for a short visit with
her sister, Mrs. Allie Wilson
Mr. and Mrs Robert Burton and
children, Bel Alton, and Mr.. and
Mrs. William Nicholson and son,
Washington, d. c., spent few days
last week at the c. E. Shillinburg
home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Arne and sons,
Mrs. Rosie Cerne and Ruth Cerne,
Baltimore, and Betty Summerfield,
Erwin, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Cerne over the 4th of July
DAILY Uphold called at the Propst
and Loughry homes on Saturday.
Mrs. Meta Burton, Kitzmiller, spent
a few days at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ f. Tucker last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Loughry and
daughter, Lake, and Mrs. Frank
Propst called on Mr.. and Mrs. James
E. White, one evening last week
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hanes and
Mr.. and Mrs. Wotring, Rowlesburg,
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Propst.
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Oakland Day" Will
Be Featured at Fair
In Cumberland Area

Cumberland Fair authorities have
offered to make Thursday, July %, as
Oakland Day" at the Cumberland
Fair, to give publicity over loud
speakers and other advertising con-
corning its approaching centennial.
; Mayor Joseph limbaugh reported
this last Friday to the centennial
commission at its weekly meeting.
{ One of the requirements would be
the appearance of the Oakland band
at the fair upon that day. Trophies
( to be contributed by the business men
! of town for the winners on Oakland
, Day, already have been arranged
, for, it was stated. The invitation Of
the Fair has been accepted. Further
details will be announced.
! A committee Of men and women is
to be appointed tomorrow evening at
the commissions regular meeting.
! To Make Concise Reports
| All administrative chairmen of the
various committees have been in
vited to attend the meeting tomorrow
to give a two minute resume of their
! days program and all activities.
| A report of the finance committee
showed it had collected in full the 100
pledges of 500 each, as originally
| planned, to underwrite the Centen-
nial expenses, plus an additional 1920
| in outright contributions. Letters of
appreciation are being sent to the
members which include Bernard l..
Gender, chairman; Lowell LOOMS,
vicc-chairman; D. Emroy Bolden,
Irwin Field, Mason Glotfelty, J. Ed
ward Helbig, Paul B. Naylor, How
lard C. Riggs, Irwin R. Rudy and
Cecil Smith.
Responsibility of finding ticket
Etakers was being worked out with
scollege students, and employment of
one person as general fieldman, to
look after the Commissions inter-
ests on the amusement grounds, was
discussed.
The commission announced that the
history books, now being printed and
which are to sell for $lOO each, will
cost $1.15 if mailed; and that pro-
grams, which will sell for % cents,
Twill cost 40 cents if mailed.
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Iittner has business interests.

Bittner has business interests.
Attorney and Mrs. M. w. Ogden,
of Fairmont, opened their cottage for
the season.
Mrs. Martin Groves and daughters,
of Baltimore, are visiting Mrs.
Groves parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Kahl, ST..
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman McNary,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Fear, all of Ash
land, Ohio, visited their cousins, Miss
Helen Schooley and Tom Schooley, on
Sunday Miss Schooley, who has been
ill for the past year, is much i'm
proved.
John Stevenson, Sr., is spending
this week in Washington, d. c. His
daughter and granddaughter, Mrs.
Kenneth Stahl and Nan Stahl, who
have been visiting the Stevensons, re-
turned to Arlington, Va, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Cato enter
tanned as house guests the past week
Mr.. and Mrs. Guido Cato, Lumber
port, w. Va; Mr.. and Mrs Agnew
and son, Keyser; Mr.. Dayton LON
bard and daughters; Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Feillni and Dominick Lom-
bard, New York City; Mrs. James
1 ie'IIS tNilNlilillCls WI anu WI lSc'i
Meyers, Detroit, Mich; Albert Cato,
Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Steve Staron,
Thomas, w. Va.
Mrs. Kate Jeffries and daughters
and Mrs. John King, Keyser, w. Va,
were visitors this week with Mr.. and
Mrs Arthur Durham.
Attending All camp at Bittingel
are Mary Anne Calls, Louise Kitz-
miller, Rosalie White, Dolores More
land, Charlotte WEIGH, Charlotte
Mundy and Bernadette Bittinger.
Miss Elizabeth Kipp, Providence
R. l., is the house guest of Miss
Blanche Davis.
Mrs John G. Squibbs, of Wheeling
has opened her cottage and has as
guests, Mrs. R. L. Jolly and daugh-
tiers, Dena and Diana Sue, of Wheel
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Coburn and
family, of Fairmont are spending the
summer at Mt Lake Hotel.
Miss Martha Raymond has as
guests, her sister, Mrs. John Wolfe
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Philadelphia, and Mrs. Eleanor F..
Blair, Fairmont, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Kennedy, of
Woodstock, Va, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Weir Pollard, ST..
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Deacon were Jerry Flynn, public re-
laticns Director of Athletics at U.s.
Ma, Annapolis, and Arthur Ger
quest, Darien, Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kittle and
son Robbie, of Clarksburg are occupy
ing Mt. Lake Hotel cottage. Mrs. Kit
tie is the former Patty Hennen.
Miss Ramona Gregory, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Gregory entered
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland on
Tuesday and will undergo a major
operation this week.
Mrs. c. f. Wilson has returned
from Wheeling and was accompanied
by her brother, DR.. Will McLain.
Friends here are greeting Marvin
Harrison, Of Romney, w. Va, who
was for many years Park resident.
Miss Lucy Phillips, Leesburg, Va,
is visiting her brother and sister-in-
law Mr. and Mrs Morris Phillips, in
Loeb Lynn.
Mrs. Paul Bennett and daughter,
Lois Ruth, of Mechanicsville, Md,
are spending several weeks here with
Mrs. Benefits father, John Ream.
Mr.. Bennett. who came with them,
has returned home. Other guests of
Mr.. Ream were Mr.. and Mrs. Elmus
Ream, of East Orange, N. j., who
stopped here enroute to Mrs. Ream's
home in North Dakota. Mrs. George
/ Ream, Indiana, Pa, was also visit
ing relatives here.
Rev. G. w. Simpson, of Loeb Lynn
u. B. Church, announces two Chris
tian EndeavOr meetings on Sunday
evening: Junior C. F., at 6:15, and
Adult c. E., 7:15 o'clock.
Carolyn Grace Groves, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Groves, has re-
turned from Cumberland where she
visited her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wellington Yutzy. While there
she underwent tonsilectomy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Cuppett had as
guests this week, Henry Fogglepole,
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To Open Office Here

George Mclaughlin, public ac-
countant, who has had an office in
Elkins, w. Va, for ten years, is plan
ming to open an office here perman-
emily.
Temporary quarters will be at the
William-James hotel, and he will be
in Oakland Friday and Saturday.
He and his family expect to locate
on Deep Greek Lake, where they are
now constructing a home near the
Glendale bridge.