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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-07-21
Scout Council Camp
Begins At St marys

The annual gathering of Boy
Scouts of North Montana Gen.
trail Council at Camp Napi on the
west shore of St. Mary Lake is
under way this we eel k, having
opened Monday.
1t will continue several weeks,
the attendance including troops
of Great Falls. Malta, Conrad.
Choteau, Augusta, Fairfield and
and DuIton.
Floyd C. Miles and Mark Judy,
executives of the regional coun-
Gil, are in charge. They are ass
listed by Glenn OVERLY, water
front director; E arl Brown,
handicr;aft and commissary Off
Ger and a staff of older Scouts.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-07-21

Mr.. and Mrs. John I.oewen and
family returned home last Sun
day from a visit with his parents
in Seattle.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Improving Virginia Justice

BY adding two judges to the undermanned
Circuit Courts in Northern Virginia the General
Assembly has opened the way for speeder and
hence more effective administration OF justice
In the counties near Washington. The Legisla-
ture has given recognition to the fact that court
machinery designed to serve regions that were
principally rural when the courts were created
is no longer capable of keeping abreast of the
work.
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy, heretofore the
lone judge of the 35th Circuit in Arlington, will
have the help now of an able second jurist,
former State Senator William D. Medley, of
Arlington. Mr.. Medley is a longtime resident
of the county, leader in civic affairs there and
q highly respected lawyer. His selection for the
new judgeship was a popular one. contest
developed over the new judgeship for the 18th
Circuit, serving Alexandria, Fairfax County and
Prince William County, with Arthur w. Sinclair,
Manassas attorney, winning out over Trial Justice
Harry L. Carrico of Fairfax. Mr.. Sinclair.
native of Prince William County, is member OF
the District as well as the Virginia bar and is
favorably known in both Jurisdictions. He should
be capable associate of Judge Paul Brown,
present occupant of the 18th Circuit bench.
The doubling of the number OF judges IN
the fast-grow3g be Virginia area near the Distrif
Evening star., 1950-03-19
No Painless Taxation

local merchant has been fined 500 for
telling prospective customers that he would
absorb" the local sales tax on some of his items.
That 1t seems, is violation of law.
1t apparently would not have been viola
ton of law if this same merchant had said:
have some items for sale and going to
reduce the price of the items that the new
cost to you plus the sales tax will be the same
as the old price without the tax
The theory of this, according to tax officials,
Is that the sales tax is a tax on the consumer,
and the consumer must jolly well know that he is
paying it. In either situation, of course, the
District would collect the same total amount of
tax. But that is not good enough. This tax
was levied on the purchaser. And the officials
endowed as they are with wisdom that passes
all understanding, not going to let any
merchant kid the buyer into thinking that he
is paying the tax for him. Why not? Because
the theory Is etc, etc.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Science Oversteps Itself

Nothing could be more frustrating to base
ball players and fans alike than robot umpire,
such as the one being tried out in Florida by
of all teams-the Brooklyn Dodgers. human
umpire who pays little attention to abuse from
the dugout or the bleachers is bad enough
strike -and-ball machine impervious to pop
bottles and invective alike would be downright
intolerable.
Baseball would never be the same If Branch
Rickey's training camp automation were to come
into general use. One does not argue with an
electronic gadget, whatever the provocation-
and ball game without at least one good and
noisy argument with an umpire is hardly worth
the price of admission.
Fortunately, there seems little likelihood that
any serious effort will be made to substitute the
General Electric electronic umpire" with its
tubes, beams and light signals, for the familiar
blue-serged figure of the man behind the
catcher. In the preliminary tests the device
made some wrong decisions, just as the human
variety does. That would be all right If there
were any way to retalate without wrecking the
mechanism and busting up the game.
No, science is going too far when it invades
the field of calling 'em behind the plate. Let
science confine itself to designing more COM
Portable seat for ball games or hot dog that
does not drip mustard. Umpires should be left
as they are-astigmatic, articulate, pugnacious
and generally Observation-Disclosures indispensable.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

give them an ally against the Assyrian
dictator. threatening from the north.
But that little scrap Of paper did not
impress Isaiah, the true statesman.
He told the scoffing rulers of Jeru-
salem that they had made a bargain
with death, and that they only thought
they were safe behind lie. Justice, he
thundered, is what God wants, righteous
ness in people: your cleverness will not
save you. Your bed is too short to stretch
yourself on. And so it was. The inevi-
table bitter harvest which comes from
inner decay and outer compromise with
evil soon caught up with the nation. The
exile brought the utter collapse of the
national life. The prophet was right. the
bed was TOO short.
Now the startling thing is that this
ancient chapter of history translated
into today's vernacular might well
appear in the Congressional Record as
an accurate description of our day, in its
leWdness, its debauchery its drunken
ness, Its crime waves. its political corrup-
tion, its treason, its panicky fears Of
threatening dictators abroad. The bed
being prepared today for the security
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Spires Of the Spirit 49,
A Shortened Bed

Across from Fords Theater In the
Capital City is a sacred room, now q
national shrine. where the white soul Of
Abraham Lincoln slipped away from his
earthly tenement to belong forever to
the ages. A placard informs those who
in imagination attempt to reconstruct
the tragic scene that the body of the
mortally wounded President was laid
diagonally across the bed, because from
head to foot its dimensions were in
adequate. The bed was too short for
the great Lincoln.
That fact suggests that he was too
tall morally for the conventional beds
OF eXpedlency and of partisan politics.
The fatal trouble with the totalitarian
state is that the bed is too short. If
human personalities extend beyond the
prescribed length, instead of lengthening
the bed, it cuts off legs, or even heads,
to make people conform to the truncated
bed.
Many centuries before Lincoln a
statesman gave striking diagnosis of
the national and social Illustration and
utility of that long vanished day, as he
declared. "The bed is too short" What
ne meant by his shortened bed express
sion was that the materialists and the
opportunists, who, with what they
thought was clever chicanery were run
ming the affairs of the Nation, had been
substituting deals for ideals. In perilous
times they were trusting for security in
schemes which were too circumscribed
and short-sighted to take into considera-
tion spiritual verities which in every age
form the moral pillars of the universe.
Because the national policies had been
reduced to narrow dimensions, emitting
vital matters which, when ignored, guar
antee defeat and disaster the statesman
prophet warned: "The bed is too short"
But the leaders lounging around the
capital were oblivious to the inner dis
integration of the nation and the rotting
away Of its moral fiber. Gleefully, they
waved in the face of the prophet an
appeasing treaty with Egypt which would
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Fifty Years Ago in The Star

leader in the war on the National Bank.
It was to him that the ratio between
gold and silver was changed from Is to
/, as established by Jefferson. to the
more accurate Is to /. Gold coins. in
his day. were known as "Benton's mint
drops" When he finally lost his seat
in the Senate, he employed his remark
able memory to write his Thirty Years
View in which he surveyed political de-
velopments between 1920 and 1850 and
also edited another monumental work
his "Abridgement of the Debates OF Con-
gress from 1889 to 1885,"
Movement Of the mountains in the
vicinity Of San Jacinto. Calf, was a
matter Of sufficient
Earthquake Importance in WASH
At San Jocinto ington on March 20.
1900, to justify 'front.'
page space for description of the sub
terranean activity. "A territory covering
so acres at an elevation of 1000 feet
was dislodged and had slipped $50
feet lower than it had previously stood
for centuries" Fissures and cracks in
the high hills varied from an inch to
feet In width, "and 1t Is possible to see
neither bottom nor to sound the depths
by throwing stones into them" Light
shocks continued to be reported in the
neighborhood of the great earthquake.
X
In The Star for March 81, 1900. the
following notice appeared: "A patent
has BEEN issued to John
Potent r. Pickering of Haiti for
For Airshio an airship or launch. At
tached to the balloon is
car carrying motor with air pipes
leading upward and downward from the
fans and extending through the balloon
and the bottom OF the car. with means
for shifting the blast Of air from the
fan to either the upward or the down.
ward air pipes. It is claimed that this
invention provides . ship or launch of
great strength and that the mechanism
enables Its movements to be completely
controlled. 50 that it can be turned to
any point or In apy direction desired"
Evening star., 1950-03-19
MAdvised and Dangerous

Director ]. Edgar Hoover of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation is justified in taking a
vigorous stand against legislation to require the
FBI to pass judgment on the loyalty of employees
OF the proposed National Science Foundation.
An amendment which would set the FBI up as
Judge, as well as fact finder in loyalty cases has
been approved by the House. The Department
of Justice is correct in notifying Congress that
this projection of the bureau beyond the field
Of objective investigation and reporting would
be extremely radical and undesira BILE" and would
be "fraught with peril"
The prestige of the FBI as an impartial fact
nnding agency has been built around policy
OF refraining from any police-state tendency to-
ward assuming the functions of either Judge or
prosecutor. Mr.. Hoover has resisted successfully
several previous moves to have the FBI evaluate
information it obtains in loyalty or other in
ouries. II Congress to force a departure
from the FBIs wise policy of reporting facts, not
Its opinions, grave damage would be done the
bureau-and hence the country which it serves
so well.
Peyton Ford assistant to Attorney General
McGrath has called attention to another bad
provision OF the House amendment 1t would
require the FBI to certify that no Foundation
employe or recipient of a scholarship is or ever
has been "a member of any organization declared
subversive by the Attorney General or any or
ganizat1on that teaches or advocates the over
throw OF the Government by force and violence"
Not even the stringent Atomic Energy Act con-
tains so drastic screening provision. That act
merely requires the FBI to investigate and re-
port on "the character, associations and loyalty"
Of commission employees. The general depart
mental loyalty program specifically states that
past or present membership in an allegedly sub
versive organization is only one factor to be
weighed by loyalty boards in judging the loyalty
OF an employe. To bar a scientist from partici-
pating in the Foundation work solely because at
some time he may have innocently Joined an
organization later determined to be subversive
would be grossly unfair and unwise. D
There is no reason why the National Science
Foundation, few of whose researches are expected
to be OF secret nature, should be subject to
more sweeping loyalty guarantees than the super
secret Atomic Energy Commission. The Founda-
tion bill as passed by the Senate contains what
appears to be adequate security safeguards.
That bill requires the Foundation to establish
regulations and procedures for the security
classification of information or property 0having
military signifcance) in connection with scien-
tifc research under this act, and for the proper
safeguarding of any information or property so
classified" 1t would be proper under such
procedures to ask the FBI to conduct investiga-
tions in certain cases. But to require the FBI
to act as investigator and judge in any case is
both illadvised and dangerous.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

I tried again and my headache
vanished and with it that tired feel
ing and I have never done greater
justice to any part have ever played"
Mrs. Leslie Carter and Lillian Russell
also Endorsed "Kafriko,' but inquiry
among old-time druggists last week fail
ed to elicit answers to questions as to
what sort of preparation "Kafriko' was
or when it disappeared from the mar
ket. Nobody remembered it.
X X
A telegram from New Haven, printed
in The Star for March II, 1900, dis
closed that the Yale
Choir of Forestry corporation had been
Provided offered fund to
establish and en-
dow "the department of forests" The
donors were Mr.. and Mrs. j.. w. Pin
chot and. their sons Clifford. SO, and
Amos, 81. Their gift amounted to
$150,000. Clifford Pinchot was head
of the forestry branch of the De-
partment of Agriculture. with head
quarters in Washington" He subse-
quently became Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. The first occupant of the Yale
chair Of forestry was Henry s. Graves,
who was director of the forest school un-
til 1910, then chief forester of the United
States until 1922. then dean Of the
school of forestry and provost Of Yale,
now professor emeritus still enthusiastic
about keeping the world green.
"The head Of Thomas H. Benton Of
Missouri" reported The Star on March
10, 1900" will dec
benfon crate the new 2 per
To Be Honored cent bonds for ST.
000." This selection,
it was argued, lis peculiarly appropri-
ate. although Benton was a Democrat.
because he was one of the first gold
standard men in the United States. and
by his persistent opposition to paper
and silver and demand for the single
gold standard was given the SOU
briquet of Old Bullion" The man
thus complimented had been parti-
san Of jackson and Senate floor
Evening star., 1950-03-19

The Star on March IS, 1900, said: "A
cablegram received in this city last night
announced the marriage
Mrs. Burnett at Genoa, Italy, of Mrs.
Married Frances Hodgson Burnett
to Stephen Townsend.
r. r. c. s., of the Inner Temple and
Continental Club, London. Mr..
Townsend is the son of the late Rev.
George Taylor Townsend of st.
Michaels and by profession is surgeon.
but after having obtained eminence in
his calling relinquished it for the stage.
He first met Mrs. Burnett through
mutual friends and was engaged by her
as a secretary. Later. they collaborated
in the dramatization of one of Mrs.
Burnett's books. The honeymoon will
be spent on the Riviera and later Mr..
and Mrs. Townsend will go to the
latters home, Maytham Hall, Kent,
England" But the American Dictionary
Of Biography explains that the marriage
was not happy. Mr.. Townsend was
many years younger than the author Of
Little Lord Fauntleroy" and she soon
left him and returned to America. Her
last years were spent near Plandome
Park, Long Island. She died in 1924.
Medical testimonials were common in
the press half century back, but 1t was
not often that so distin-
'Kofriko' guished person as David
Appreciated Belasco signed such a
statement as this. quoted
from The Star of March Is, 1900: Let
me, unsolicited say that I went to the
theater tonight In a very nervous con-
dition. suffering from q bad headache
caused by loss Of sleep. Certainly was
in no condition to do justice to my play
or my auditors. Your agent had sent
me a bottle of Kafriko.' Something
In the shape and style Of the bottle
caught my fancy-trifles often decide
big events in ones life-and decided
to take a dose of Kafriko,' for
reasoned that it could not possibly make
me feel worse than I did. The effect
was almost momsntary. In half an hour,
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Burma Reconsiders

Recent statements by Burmese government
leaders indicate pronounced shift in viewpoint.
Instead of emphasizing their independence from
the British Commonwealth, their suspicion Of
Western capitalism, and their insistence upon
socialistic naturalization, they now admit their
need for immediate aid from Britain and the
United States if their national integrity and
security are to be preserved =
J The reason for this rapid change of attitude
is, of course the impact of Red China, which
today impinges directly on their northeastern
border. Chinese aggression would be relatively
easy, especially along the wartime-fa
Burma Road" But the Red peril is not limited
to open invasion. Burma has its own Com
munists who are waging a civil war against the
government and control important sections of
the country. In addition, the government has
to face another civil war against the Karens,
powerful minority which demands self-govern
ment amounting to Neutrality-suspicious.. Indeed,
the whole of Burma is in such chronic turmoil
that it's economic life has been completely dis
rupted and its former prosperity has vanished.
SO chaotic a situation leaves Burma virtually
impotent to defend itself from Chinese Com
munist aggression whenever the Chinese Reds
think the time is. ripe for such policy.
The Burmese government has done its best
to get on good terms with Red China. 1t promptly
recognized the new Communist regime in Peping,
only to be met with an evasve to its offer to open
diplomatic relations. Peiping's answer was, in
substance: Thanks. But we'd better talk 1t
over. And if you want to do that, you can send
delegation here" Peiping thus keeps a free
hand for eventualities
Under these ominous circumstances, the
Burmese leaders are frankly seeking British and,
especially, American aid, and they want it
PROMPTLY "before 1t is too late" While still loath
to commit themselves Fundamentally to the
Anglo-American side in the cold war;" they
make it plain that they consider their salvation
lies with the Western Powers. Such aid is en-
visaged as both military and economic. The
Burmese Army is woefully short of modern equip
ment Also Burmas industrial plant and COM
muncations shattered during the late war and
postwar disturbances, urgently needs rehabta-
ton to restore prosperity and lessen popular dis
content. Only from the West can such assistance
come
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Hunger Grips Red China

For China, hunger is a perpetual threat
In that overpopulated land the margin of
subsistence is so narrow that any untoWard
happening may depress mutitudes below the
famine line. Therefore, when it is announced
that China faces the severest famine in 70 years,
the magnitude of the disaster can be appreciated.
Virtually the whole of East-Central China, from
shantung to the Yangtze Valley, is acutely
afflicted and at least 40 million people are
menaced with starvation.
The present emergency is due to number
of factors, some natural and others man-made.
To begin with, there is a concurrence of drought
and floods. Not since 1878 have those two ills
struck the afflicted region together on a major
scale. The result has been a short crop for 1949
which cannot be locally ameliorated until the
winter wheat and barley crops for the current
year are harvested, four months hence. In the
interim, millions probably will die of starvation
and induced diseases.
The situation is made worse by last years
fighting over much of this area, and to wars
devastation must be added certain measures of
the new Communist regime such as wholesale
conscripting of manpower and draft animals for
the Red armies, food collections despite food
shortages, and the movement of surplus people
from the cities into the countryside. All this is
repeatedly turning the peasantry against the
various ways and sometimes reaching the point
of open revolt. 1t must be bitter irony to these
starving millions to food going from relatively
prosperous Manchuria to Soviet Russia in pay
ment for the industrial machinery that the
Russians removed from Manchuria and are now
sending back-for a price. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson emphasizes this as an outstanding
instance of Russian exploitation of China under
the agreements made between Moscow and the
Chinese Red regime in Peiping.
1t would be too much to expect that the
current famine, however severe, could shake the
grip of the Communists over China. But it will
spread discomfort and promote disillusionment
among the masses, whose support is needed by
the Communist regime as the foundation of that
transformation of Chinese life to which they
stand pledged. Also internal troubles may make
the Red leaders less inclined to foreign adven-
lures.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Senator McCarthy's Fan Mail"
Continues to Roll In

Continues to Roll In
One reads with amazement the hys-
terical charges of Senator Mccarthy,
Smearing one person after another.
His selection of Dorothy Kenyon as
his prize victim. indicates that he is
not familiar with his subject or his
particular target. Senator Mccarthy
should be asked to prove his libelous
remarks before a judge and jury.
Surely it is not fair to have such ILL
Informed persons protected by immunity.
Senators and Representatives perhaps
are entitled to call one another nasty
names; after all, in their own crowd, they
may know the facts. But is it democracy
to permit some legislator to attack per-
sons outside of the Government or Con-
gress. with complete impunity, but no
basis of fact?
Surely, the time has come when we
must have laws to protect average citi-
Zens from the hysteria running rampant
in Congress. Too bad Mr.. Mccarthy
doesn't find time to discuss old age pen
sions, or something else important to
the American people.
IRENE MOORE VAN ECKHARDT.
Lie PlOUtCku VI llOW W pldS UUNlOQoly
irresponsible charges made in Congress
must be one to make an honest editor
toss in his sleep. The Star can console
itself. in the case Of Senator Mccarthy.
that it has printed the columns of Doris
Fleeson, Dorothy Thompson, Tom Stokes
and Lowell Mellett. all of whom cooked
the Senator to a turn.
1t has also given reasonable promi-
nence to the denials of the Senator's
charges by his victims. The editors
may truthfully say that no one who read
the paper thoroughly on Mccarthy
says" could believe the implications in
it's headlines. And the implications to
be sure, were not yours either-they
were Senator McCarthy's.
But the implications remain. And for
those who must read and run the name
of Dorothy Kenyon, for example. if it
rings any bell at ALL rings one having
something to do with Communism"
1t does not mitigate the problem
though it may be consoling-to point
out that blunderbusses in Congress al
ways blow up Martin Dies, ]. Parnell
Thomas, Pappy ODaniel, Bourke Hicken-
looper, etc. The stigma placed on in
nocent persons isn't removed thereby.
They have been wronged, the public mis-
led and other blunderbusses come along
to shoot for headlines all over again.
So the problem goes back to editing.
I'd like to challenge the underlying as