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Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-08-01
EarIy History Of the West
Recoptured on CanuGs Today
By Larry GILL

PUT TOGETHER a small boy, a
set Of crayons and big barn door,
mother who sort Of encourages the
boy along, and some day an artist
may emerge.
The boy in this case was young
Kenny Ralston. The barn door was
on the old Capital P ranch, across
the river from Broclzton in Dawson
now Richland) county.
Today you see the signature, j.
K. Ralston, on some of the best liked
oil paintings In Montana and across
the nation. Most any time of day
you'll find this tall, slender, grey
haired and soft-spoken man before
an easel in his log cabin studio
home off Grand avenue in Billings.
Almost always you'll find a
scene of the old west taking shape
on that canvas-coverel easel. It
might be a group of buffalo cross
ing the river, a stage coach round
ing a bend, a lonely cowpoke on
night herd or point riders swinging
a trail herd into bed ground For
the scenes painted by this we'll
known native Montanan are the
scenes of his own boyhood and
young manhood.
Word Pictures Captured
Picture a 10-year-old boy near
an open fireplace in a sod-covered
ranch house, listening with open
mouth to the word pictures of the
trail drives, Of hard winters and
hot dry summers, of night herds
and topping off a rough one" that
the cowboys tell SO wildly at such
times-word pictures that later have
appeared in the gorgeous colors and
the delicate shadings that a mas
ter's hand and oil can bring out
on canvas. And 10 years later he
himself topped off the rough string
rode herd, swung his loop and all
the rest that goes with holding
down a $40 a month job on ar
honest-to-g goodness COW outfit. II
1914 Ralston rode for the OK or
Prairie Elk in the Big Dry country
Later he was with the 70 wagon
Their ranges were on the head Q
the Big Dry, with ranges south t
the Yellowstone.
If history is in a mans blood
Ralston has that too. In 1864 hi
grandfather, Samuel F., arrived a
Highland in Alder Gulch, near Viz
ginia City, Montana. His father, VIII
liam r., young man in 1877, wen
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-08-01

Capital P ranch on Charlie creek,
near Brockton and Culbertson.
Rode in Roundup
AS young man Ralston saw and
took part in some of the last of the
great roundups on the plains. He
remembers the slim-legged, long
rumped, high-withered duns and
bays and browns and buckskins
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-08-01

The original" old barn
door. shown in This pen
and ink drawing by Rail
sion cRrfies carved
brands Of many Of the
old-tirne COW outfits in
the Big Dry country.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-08-01

August ] l95l-4l
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Nerve-Ruckinq to Our Allies
Any Threat to Continuity of Present U Foreign Policy
Would Prope Eisenhower Into Presidential Race

partisan foreign policy or q
reasonable facsimile thereof. es-
pecially as the Presidential
campaign gets in motion.
The services seem quite in
different to the personalities in
volved. Whatever its other de-
fects the United States military
is little interested in partisan
politics. Many of them admit
they would regret an Eisenhow-
er candidacy more because it
would upset their no-politics
tradition than because they
would lose him at SHAPE.
This is not Of course true Of
all those around the General.
Sometimes it seems the bee Of
presidential power has bitten a
few Of them more deeply than
it has their chief.
The bulk Of the steady pro-
cession of Eisenhower for Pres
ident callers appeal to him to
save the country from four
more years of Mr.. Truman,
spending. mink coats, deep
freezes, etc. They are often
quite emotional about it, what
ever that may prove. Some at
tack Senator Taft as an tsola-
Evening star., 1951-10-05
1honnos [: Stokes:
Let Us Be Honest About 1t All
Americans Talk About Peace Too Just as Do the Russians
And Keep on Making More Atomic Bombs ond Weonons

are in and do something to cor
rect it.
Who devised the atomic bomb?
Who dropped it first?
We did. and it is at least COM
forting to recall that at that
time we had a guilty conscience
about it and argued with our
selves about the morality Of its
use. There still then was some
sanity in the world. But that
passed when we learned that
Russia, too, had it, as she was
bound to do eventually. Science
cannot be bottled up behind any
imaginary line of national boun-
daries, even If there weren't
spies. If Russia had got it first
we certainly would have turned
our spies loose to get it, except
that our scientists would have
got it in time, too. It could not
be copyrighted or trade-marked.
When we dropped the two
bombs, a wave of fear surely
must have gone through the
peoples of the world, creating
atoms of dread deep in the SUBJ
conscious, like a cinder in the
eye, which have had their effect
on what has happened all over
the world since. We experienced
all this, too, when we learned
that somebody else had the
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Vondenberq Diaries to Be Read
Stossen Plans to Submit Ample Documentotion Prove
Contention Dr. Jessup Guided U. S. Policy in Far East

what stormy scene at the
White House. Moreover, if the
subcommittee members are not
fully satisfied, there are four
Republican Senator'S who are
ready to testify under oath that
Senator Vandenberg reported to
them on his return from the
White House what had hap
pened. They report that the
principal pillar of bipartisan
policy angrily rejected the
Acheson and Jessup suggestions.
Vandenberg. who had also told
his colleagues that this was the
first time that he had been in
vited to a top-level conference
dealing with China, repeatedly
was pleased that he had been
able to puncture the Acheson-
Jessup plan.
In it's desire to help the con-
f1rmation of DR.. Jessup now
before the Senate. the State
Department has actually done
him a disservice.
Some Democratic Senators
point out that the present sub
committee is not investigating
Jessup's loyalty but his fitness
to serve the country in a highly
responsible diplomatic position.
Nobody denies that the Ambas-
Sador-at-large is a competent
scholar and a learned interna-
tional lawyer. The question be-
fore the Foreign Relations Com
mittee is whether his judgment
on international affairs is good
enough to justify his confirma-
ton. And so far DR.. Jessup has
come out only second best. He
has proved by his own testi-
mony that his judgment has
been wrong ever since he has
participated in public affairs
either in an unofficial or official
capacity.
AS an authority on interna-
tional law he joined in January,
1889, those who claimed that
the arms embargo established
by Congress in 1887 was all
wrong and that 1t should be
lifted so that the Loyalist gov
ernment Of Spain could receive
arms from the United States to
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Constantine Brown:

Harold Stassen, president OF
the University Of Pennsylvania.
has asked1or a hearing before
the Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee investigating the
fitness of Ambassador-at-iarge
Philip Jessup to be confirmed
for the position Of American
representative at the United
Nations.
Earlier this week Mr.. Stas-
sen appeared before the Nc
Carran Subcommittee on In
ternal Security. He declared
that at a meeting at the White
House in 1949 Secretary Of
State Acheson and Ambassador
Jessup had urged President Tru-
man to make a dramatic"
announcement stopping all aid
to Nationalist China. They both
insisted, Mr.. Stassen stated un-
der oath, that such a move by
the Chief Executive would have
considerable effect in furthering
world peace. Mr.. Stassen tes-
titled that he had that informa-
ton directly from the late
Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
who had attended the meeting.
Within less than "a hours the
State Department denied this
statement emphatically, saying
that there had been no such
conference. It said that after a
thorough search of documents it
had come to the conclusion Mr..
Stassen's memory must have
played a trick" When the in
formation that Mr.. StaSsen had
asked for a hearing before the
Foreign Relations Subcommittee
became known. the State De-
partment reversed itself and ad-
mitted that there had been such
a conference but that many of
the Republican leaders details
were erroneous.
Mr.. Stassen is expected to ap-
pear next week before the five
members Of the subcommittee.
According to some reports, he
will be able to read extracts
from the dairies Of the late
Senator from Michigan, In
which he detailed the some
Evening star., 1951-10-05

bomb, somebody we feared, and
that must be responsible for the
jittery state we have been in for
many months now which exhib-
its itself in so many ways.
We dropped more bombs after
the war, for experimental pur-
poses, but ostensibly for others,
too; for we picked two spots in
the Pacific-Bikini and Eniwe-
tok-so that Russia hardly could
miss the point. Then we had
more experiments in the Nevada
desert and now, as the White
House announces another Rus
sian atom bomb explosion, we
are getting ready for something
called atomic war games" in
the same waste places of the
West.
We are, all over the world,
working up to a crazy state of
mind which will find us tossing
atom bombs on each others
great cities and wrecking our
civilization, unless we hurry,
hurry. hurry to do something
about international control of
the bomb as was suggested, con-
structively, in the White House
statement. There's little time
left.
We are by no means guiltless,
and to recognize that could be
the beginning of wisdom.
Evening star., 1951-10-05

zionist at heart; more contend
he cannot beat Mr.. Truman.
The odds are heavy that II
the President and Mister Re
publican could close ranks be-
hind a new version of the old
Vandenberg bi-partisanship in
foreign policy. they would both
be relieved of the threat of an
Eisenhower candidacy. 1t is
reasonable to suppose that Gen.
Eisenhower shares the distaste
Of his comrades for breaking
their no-politics rule and that
he meant 1t when he so stated
in 1948.
All signs, however. are that
the two politicoes prefer the
calculated Eisenhower risk to
any concession that one or the
other is not total loss.
Mrs. Eisenhower is with her
husband in Europe. She avoids
the limelight and the would be
interviewer. sticks close to old
and trusted friends. Guesses
once removed are that like Bess
Truman she would regard the
presidency as a necessary evil
and their Gettysburg farm as
preferable to the White House.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Fletcher Knebel:
Potomac Fever

Senator Moody the Senate Banking Committee
irregularities in the Detroit Internal Revenue office It's lucky
thing going month the
enough money collectors
batch.
Gov McMath of Arkansas the Republicans
lay mink coat and deep freeze into
lot Of voters who don't know anything Teapot
enough about mink and deep freezes pretty
somebody else that got them.
President says agencies necessary
enforce the price control law Nobody going be permitted
to sabotage that law unless he's been elected Congress
President Truman blameS the printing
Of the Nations secrets Already the whole built
atomic perfected aweather jet
launch earth satellite turkeys hams and
President Truman John Foster Dulles declined
Ambassador Republican
Party from solation II the President thinks
horrd word ought Republicans calling
Dulles
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Truman Stung by Criticism
Congress Asleep at Switch It Permits News Suppression
In Government Under Guise of Military Emergency

security for America and what
they want is to give aid and
comfort to the enemy.
Unless the President is ready
to take advice from persons ex-
perienced in the field of volun-
tary censorship-there are many
among his friends who served in
wartime and who could give him
the right information-the net
result is going to be an increas-
ing suspicion that the real
secrets Mr.. Truman is anxious
to suppress are those which now
are coming out Of congressional
committees revealing graft and
corruption in some Of the
bureaus of his administration
handling public funds.
The Iron Curtain" order is
wrong because it is European
and not American. It central
ICES the whole business of sup
preston in politically appointed
officials. 1t makes no provision
for a check or review by dis
interested individuals of the in
formation now to be officially
suppressed. And, what is even
more disturbing. it puts into
effect a rule of fear and intimi-
dation throughout all civil
agencies and departments. so
that objective-minded officials
will not dare to issue informa-
tion to which the public is en-
titled without clearing it with
the headquarters of the admin
iStration to determine whether
it is politically embarrassing.
The situation could be easily
cleared up-and certainly Con-
gress is asleep at the switch If it
permits Nazi and Communist
methods of news suppression to
take hold inside the Govern
ment of the United States under
the guise of a military emer-
gency.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Doris FIeeson:

PARIS, Oct. 5.-The total
commitment of the United
States in Europe makes con-
tinuity Of United States foreign
policy an absolute necessity. Any
threat to that continuity un-
questionably will propel Gen.
Eisenhower into the Presiden-
tial race.
More fervently than Harry
Truman, far more eloquently
than Secretary Acheson, the
military argue that United
States self interest is as total
as the commitment and that
the commitment is wholly for
the purposes Of the United
States. United States command
ers say repeatedly that there are
no alternatives.
Nevertheless, some Congress
sional debate still has the pow
er to make them queasy and it
is Of course even more nerve
racking for our allies. The
biggest single contribution that
the politicoes could make to
the morale of the war-preven-
ton forces now being mar
shalled in such impressive num-
bers is to re-establish the BIZ
Evening star., 1951-10-05

fight against the rebels led by
Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Then. as a member of a political
group, the America First Com
mittee, he also insisted that the
neutrality act should not be re-
pealed to help Britain and
France, who were fighting the
Nazis in alliance with the Rus
slams. DR.. Jessup is now a high
policy making official Of the
State Department. The legal
rigidity" he showed in the case
of Spain land Britain, at a time
when international law was SO
elastic, creates doubts in the
minds of many members Of the
Foreign Relations Committee as
to his ability to deal with the
present complex international
problems.
1t may be a sad commentary
on the world but it is q fact
that international law, since the
first world war, has been sub
jected to interpretations and
charges prompted by the higher
reasons Of the security Of each
individual country. 1t may be
argued that this will put an end
to international law. But 1t is,
all the same, an indisputable fact.
For instance, the late PreSi-
dent Roosevelt, with the advice
of all the international lawyers
in the State Department,
decided soon after the outbreak
Of the last war to extend the
limit of our territorial waters
far beyond the internationally
agreed three miles. He stated
at a press conference at the
White House in 1910 that the
territorial limits of both oceans
extended as far as the interests
of the United States require.
In these days of lawlessnesS
provoked by the turbulence Of
Russia and her satellites the
established international regula-
tions have fallen even further
into decay. How can a man with
a legalistic mind as rigid az
that of DR.. Philip Jessup, ask
these Senators, adequately I'LL
a diplomatic policy making posi-
ton?
Evening star., 1951-10-05

press conference that the rea-
son all other bureaus and de-
Notwithstanding. of course,
the civil agencies which haven't
anything to do with defense
had to be covered by the eXecu-
tive order was that they some
times were given copies Of i'm
portant data concerning military
matters, he was using an official
excuse that has been offered
hereabout for 40 years. It is not
a justification for the blanket
ing of all agencies from the RFC
to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Stung by the criticism that
has arisen, the President veers
away from the use of the order
on non-military matters and ap-
plies his customary political
demagoguery and sarcasm to the
discussion. One would think
from listening to him that the
press wanted to aid the enemy
and had less regard for the
safety of the United States than
he has. That's not the way to
bring about cooperation be-
tween the press and the Gov
ernment.
So far as maps of various
cities are concerned which the
enemy can use for bombing,
these can be bought or obtained
free at the gasoline stations of
the United States or in the
souvenir booklets in tourist
agencies and bazaars through
out the country. Also, If the
Russians haven't bought all the
maps our own Government has
been selling for years, they are
more stupid thar anybody
thinks.
1t is nothing short of tragic
that a President of the United
States should stand up before
a group of intelligent news
papermen and try to tell them,
in effect, that what he wants is
Evening star., 1951-10-05
David LoWrence:

President Truman was Ger
tainlv right about one thing in
his controversial conference
with the press on the subject of
cenSorship-it always has been
and always will be the duty of
the newspapers and periodicals
to refrain from publishing data
that could be useful to the
enemy.
This is what is called "volun-
tary censorship" It operated
successfully during World War
I and World War II. But, un-
fortunately, that is not the real
issue that has risen over Mr..
Truman's Iron Curtain" order.
What the President has failed
to do is to set forth. through
consultation with the repre-
sentatives Of the newspapers,
periodicals and radio, the spe-
cific categorieS of tabooed news
of a military nature so as to
guide the press. This is very
readily accomplished. but for
some reason Mr.. Truman and
his staff spurned all idea Of CO.
operation on the accustomed
basis that has prevailed in the
past
The origin Of the order which
Mr.. Truman has been persuaded
to sign undoubtedly was in mill
tary quarters. If the military
bureaucrats' viewpoint were al
ways accepted, the American
press would have to suppress 95
per cent of the news that nor
mally comes out of the Govern
ment, and the morale of the
Nation would suffer accordingly.
It's not a new problem. Mr..
Truman has simply been caught
In one Of the oldest traps that
bureaucracy has ever fashioned.
President Wilson resisted it and
so did President Franklin Roose-
welt.
When Mr.. Truman told his
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Thomas L. Stokes:

We Americans can, at times,
be a SNUG and holier- than
thou people.
AS. for instance, the second
paragraph Of the White House
statement about another atomic
bomb explosion by Russia, thus:
TN spite Of Soviet pretensions
that their atomic energy pro-
gram is being directed exclu-
sively toward peaceful purposes.
this event confirms again that
the Soviet Union is continuing
to make atomic weapons"
Mock and synthetic naivete,
as we'll as SNUG.
What did we expect them to
do but make atomic bombs?
We are making them, day after
day, and there have been re-
peated flowing statements about
what a big pile of them we now
have.
AS for Soviet "pretensions"
that their atomic energy pro-
gram was directed exclusively
toward peaceful purposes, did we
accept that any more than any
other professions from the
Kremlin? We put much en-
phasis, ourselves, you will re-
call, on the development of
atomic energy for peaceful pur-
poses in the early stages. That
represented the best instincts
and aspirations of our people,
still a pioneering people, to
utilize a dangerous new force
for the benefit Of humankind, as
well, undoubtedly, as reflecting
our guilty conscience over
dropping the two bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But little is said about peace
full purposes any more. All stress
for a long time has been on the
atomic bomb, the hydrogen
bomb and atomic weapons. And
we have delighted to tell the
world about it.
The purpose of all of this, we
say, is to become so strong that
Russia won't dare attack us, and
thus, we say, it's really a peace
program. So we talk about
peace, too, just as do the
Russians. And we keep on max
ing more atomic bombs and
weapons, which presumably we
have to do in our mentally un.
balanced world, and Russia COO
goes on making atomic bombs
and talking about peace"
Let's be honest about what il
going on, on our side and on the
other side.
The result of all of it is tt
horrify our people. the Russian
people, and all the other people
in the world.
It's time to take stock Of our.
selves so that we can bette,
understand the state Of mind W,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-04-30

E s. Snyih of Seattle is regis. tered at the Gastneau hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-04-30
CONSTRUCTION MAN AT
 ALASKA NAT. SERVICE

John Finley, associate chief, branch of buildings and utilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washing ten, D. C., is at the Alaska Native Service office on planning of building construction at Bethel, Anchorage and Mt. Edgecumbe. He will make field trip to Anchorage ma Bethel before returning to Washington about May 15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-04-30

The train ride through the Bren- ner Pass in the Alps covers 174 miles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-04-30
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our most sin cere thanks to all who have in any way assisted, and teen of comfort at the tirne of the death of oul husband and father.
 Signed: Mrs. w John Harris and E. T. Harris and family.
 797-1t
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ruRcKE TO HAYNES

ki 1usaAe, Territorial Highway PaG Gol2an, scecmpaniec by aGrA Lubcse lett fog F1Ginss Friday to be stationed in that area log the coming summer season. 1e VIII patrol tae road from Hasnes ,o the boundary.
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William MFarlsne. Canadian Pacific Rsilwag agent returned on the Princess Lcnise, from Nanaimo. ?. c. where he had been on a Eonlh's vacation Mrs. McFarlane and tlre.r baby remained there and Wlll return here in about a month.
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