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Evening star., 1953-12-06

daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Om-
dahl, are at Fort Madison, Iowa
where they hope to spend Christ
mas. 1t is a days journey away
from their new home.
Capt. and Mrs. George A. Tay-
lor will be hosts on Saturday at
a formal dinner dance at the
Officers Club, Fort Lesley j
McNair. Their guests. for the
most part, will be brother Off
GERS and their wives of the
finance Office. Guests are in
vited for 7:30 o'clock with din
ner at 8, followed by dancing.
To Be With Son
Col. and Mrs. Bernard j.
Tullington have plans to be with
their son Bernard j., jr., at West
Point. They will go to Thayer
Hall for the holiday week, and
will have Christmas dinner with
the plebes in their mess hall
at the Military Academy.
Col. and Mrs. R. w. Nuss
returned from a Florida holiday
Evening star., 1953-12-06

They will be the houseguests oi
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Kuchs, par
ents Of Mrs. Mayo.
Mrs. George F. Hawley, wife
of Maj. Hawley, is in Rochester
N. Y, where she is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Voorhees,. She is expected home
for the holidays.
Mrs. William E. SEWERS ex-
poets to have Col. SEWERS at
home for the holiday. At the
moment. Col. SEWERS is attend
ing the Harvard School of Busi-
ness Administration. He will ar
rive December 18 and stay at
home until January 4.
Capt. and Mrs. E. p. Colo are
planning to divide their holiday
time between Red Bank, N. j.,
and New York City. They will
visit with Capt. Colio's mother,
Mrs. j. Colo at Red Bank, before
going on to New York.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

H. Morine are busy moving from
their house on Bradley boulevard
to their apartment at The Bar
clay. When they have finished
moving, Capt. and Mrs. Henry
w. Scholl. are planning to take
their house.
Capt. and Mrs. Scholl recently
returned from Hawaii. and with
them are their son Henry W., jr.,
and daughter Gretchen, who are
hopeful that the family will be
settled before the holidays begin.
Capt. and Mrs. Morine are
looking forward to their daugh-
ter's homecoming on December
10. She is at Mary Washington.
Capt. and Mrs. Carl B. Olsen
will have their son Carl, jr., home
for the holidays from the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Evening star., 1953-12-06

on Thursday. They were the
houseguests of Col. and Mrs
E. w. McLarren at Fort Lauder
dale and afterwards went to
Miami for 10 days.
Their house will be full OF
young people for the Christmas
/ season Their sons. Donald and
Gary, are expected home from
their studies, the former from
the University of Nebraska. and
the latter from the Naval Acad-
emy, where he is a plebe.
Navy 1t. Jerry Nuss, nephew
of the colonel's, is also expected
about the same time from New
London, Conn.
Col. and Mrs. John M. Parker
have been having a great deal of
fun living in a trailer until their
house was ready for them.
Back From Germany
Col. Parker with Mrs. Parker
recently returned from Munich,
Germany, his last duty station.
They have found a house in
Evening star., 1953-12-06
'Gen. Backs
Sister Here:
Other Notes

The Chief Signal Officer, Maj
Gen. George 1. Back, and Mrs
Back are enjoying a visit from
Mrs. John Granning of Sioux
City, Iowa, sister of Gen. Back
She is dividing her time while
here between her brothers house
and that of her sister, Miss Es-
ther Back at Arlington.
Last week Mrs. Back took the
visitor on a three-day tour of
Tidewater and Williamsburg, Va,
returning to their home in Raw
enswood on Wednesday.
Coast Guard Capt. and Mrs. L.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
Service News
By EVELYN M. Dent

The Army chief of finance
Mai. Gen. Bickford E. Sawyer
and Mrs. Sawyer have plans to
leave town about December %
and go to Boston, Mass, to spend
the holidays with the family
They plan to visit Mr.. Edward
Sawyer. father of the general
first and then stay with his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Shimmin, on
the North Shore for a few days
Before returning to town they
will also pay a visit to Mrs. Saw
yer's brother and sister-ln-law
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bell.
Col. and Mrs. Thomas c. Da-
Wis expect their daughter Nancy
to fly home about midmonth
from the University of Colorado,
where she is a freshman. Her
plans include a dance Decem-
ber %.
Evening star., 1953-12-06
To Repeot Porty

Several young people got Co-
gether last year and were CO.
hostesses at a very successful
affair at the Officers Club. Fort
McNair. They decided to repeat
the fete this year at the officers
Club, Boiling Air Force Base.
With Miss Davis in this venture
will be Miss Olivia Twining,
daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Ma
than F. Twining; Miss Patricia
Everest, daughter of 1t. Gen.
and Mrs. Frank F. Everest: Miss
Judy Sillin, daughter of Col.
and Mrs. Norman C. Sillin, and
Miss Elizabeth Wagner, daugh-
ter of 1t. Col. and Mrs. Frank
B. Wagner.
Col. and Mrs. George Stude-
baker have busy days ahead.
Col. Studebaker retires January
81, after which they plan to go
to Greentown. Ind. until they
can make up their minds where
they want to settle. They will
be there at least throughout the
winter. In the meantime many
parties are being planned for
them.
Mrs. William F. Ashenfelder,
wife of Col. Ashenfelder, has is
sued invitations to a bridge
luncheon on Thursday, Decem-
ber 18, at the Officers Club, Fort
Lesley j. McNair Her honor
guests will be Mrs. Studebaker
and Mrs. Leighton N. Smith, wife
of Col. Smith.
Bock From Florido
Col. and Mrs. Ashenfelder, with
their son Franklin, have just
returned from a two-week stay
at Clearwater, Fla. Franklin ex-
poets to be at home for the holi-
days, returning to DreXel Insti-
tute of Technology after the first
of the year. Mrs. AShenfelder is
an ardent worker for, and the
enthusiastic president of, the
Armed Forces Hostess ASsocia-
ton.
Col. Smith retired earlier this
year and with Mrs. Smith has
been staying in town until their
house was sold. They expect to
leave and be in their own home
at Fort Thomas, KY, before the
holidays. Their son-in-law and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
When Johnny Comes
Marching Home

Have you ever gone away from home
for a long period of time? If you have,
you expect to come back to your home
and find it the same as you left it, or
if anything, find it improved (Not<only
your home as much your family.)
One thing that you also like to find
Improvement in is the affairs of your
state and the people in it. When one is
away in the service, as | have been, he
thinks of his home state lot. Some
times a fellow even gets into a few
battles, mental and physical, over his
home state. He has to stick up for it,
and this is all right and proper, but
when he comes home and finds that
his memory of home has been let
down, what is he supposed to do about
it? Just stand by and let it go, not Civ
ing it a second thought? No. That is
why 1 am sitting at this typewriter
writing this.
Take for instance, our highways
Now there is not person reading
this that won't agree with me that
Montana ranks near the bottom of the
pole for good roads When 1 come home,
do a lot of driving, | go to our farm
which is about two hundred miles
from Helena, and then, l take little
trips out around the state. Now |
have been all over the u S. and I'M
doubtedly, Montana's roads are bad.
Why? The answer is clear. We have
big trucking concerns in Montana that
drive big heavy trucks over our high
ways. These trucks are riding practical
ly free on the roads 1t is a known
fact that these big vans and logging
trucks and the like are wrecking our
highways. The Remedy? That is also
fairly clear. Tax these trucks and
trucking firms so they will help pay
for the damage they do and have done.
The railroads keep their own railways
in repair, they have their own routes
and do not, hinder public transporta-
ton and safety The trucks, because of
their excess weight, beat down the sides
of the roads and cause terrific dam
age to the highways. Rough roads lead
to accidents.
Now the trucking concerns aren't go
ing to like paying higher taxes any
more than any of the rest of us. They
will no doubt try and maybe succeed
in defeating such measure that would
cause them to pay their fair share in
keeping Montana's highways up to
standards set by other states. Many
other states that have adopted a tax
on heavy trucks, have good raods.
Why can't we?
Maybe if someone would introduce a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
The SoIution-Plant A
New Seed

Reading Lowndes Maury's Crime
Wave" in the Oct. 80 Voice set my mind
to racing back and forth. Yes, wealth
has accumulated Gin a few hands, and
men--the men who own the wealth are
rotten. AS a result the crime wave
is rolling higher-and sweeping low
er taking the kids along with it. But
why be surprised? 1t is the fruit of a
tree that has it's roots in both high
and low robbery. Because earlier rob-
bers had grabbed everything in other
lands few men came to free" Amer
lea and started grabbing, grabbing
from the Indians who had grabbed
from the Mound Builders who had grab
bed from the Cliff Dwellers.
In order to protect ourselves from
the rising tide of resistance we are
joining hands with "Shanghi Sheck,"
the Spanish tyrants and others all to
the end of saving our savagiliZation
from annihilation-or from being reno
waited by the masses.
It all started back when the first
boy killed the second one over prop
erty. Since there is little or no new
lands to go to the trend is turning
swiftly to social, economic and child
hood crimnality. Never before had there
been such a tidal wave of Juvenile
crime.
Bue 1--WE" set the example We say to
our kids, "see what we have done and
what we have done you can do-if
you IL follow our example" And they
are doing it. AS Maury says, us it
strange that public psychology, or psy-
chopathy" saturates our land? The an
swer is, no, it is not. 1t is the natural
fruit of our trees of savagery.
The only solution is to dig up the tree
and destroy it root and branch-and
plant a new seed-the seed of equal
rights of all to have equal access to
the earth and the fruits thereof. Either
that or this "civilization?" will go the
way others have gone-down to muck
and dust.
0, wad some power the giver would
give us to see ourselves as we actually
are. 1t might from more blunders free
us and thus from extinction save us.
%. NJ. THOMSON Willernie, MINI.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

bill in the Legislature that would low
er the maximum weight on these trucks
to operate in Montana, it would start
some of the members of the Legislature
to wondering if maybe there is some
thing in this taxation of trucks. No
doubt such bill would be defeated,
but maybe even legislator or two
would take his feet off his desk, take
the newspaper out of his face, and
pay little attention to what is going
on.
The whole point is, we have got to
do something about Montana's high
ways. 1t is shame to keep repairing
these highways that are wrecked by
trucks with money paid in gas tax by
you and me, and let the people who
own the trucks just keep on wrecking
them so we can repair them again.
This money that is used for repair could
go for new highways. There are many
parts of the state that are badly in
need of good paved roads, and in
sense, these big trucks are slowing up,
and in many cases, are stopping the
building of these roads.
The truckers say, put higher gas
tax on" We are paying a higher
gas tax than most of our neighboring
states, and still most of them have
better highways.
OF course, we go away from home af-
ter our short leaves and still carry
the battles for our Home State" be-
cause we feel a strong loyalty. Also
we know that after we have served
our hitch we can come back and do
about the business of MAX
ing it what we tell our buddies from
the AZ other states that our state is
1.-THE best state in the United States"
Most of us will come back old enough
to express our opinions by voting, and
we will have seen enough of the world
to know a little more about what we
would like to see done to make a bet
ter Montana.-J. c.. BILLINGS, USN
U.S.S. Princeton.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
Look Who Owns That Local
Utility, Idaho Power Co.
Of Maine!

All right, let's look. The Utility is
located in Idaho isn't it? How much
more local can it get?
The fact that the Secretary of the
Company opens the mail of the Com
pany and replies to the correspond
ence in Maine would seem to be of no
Importance. 1t could just as well be Ba-
ton Rouge, Timbuctoo or Boise.
Is there any objection to eastern CAPT
tai investing in our industries such as
power, gas, coal, copper, aluminium,
gold, silver, uranium, phosphate, etc?
If so should we chase out of the coun-
try and close up the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific, Milwaukee. Union
Pacific, Burlington Sears Roebuck,
Montgomery Ward, Standard Oil and
other big oil companies, etc? Should
we lock the doors of the dealers OF
Ford cars and trucks.
In the earlier days of Montana it was
commonly asserted that ut is the out
side money that keeps the town up"
am still a believer in that philosophy.
The news item under Salem, Ore
gon date line states that $50 of the
stock in the idaho Power Company is
owned by 80 people" Now half of
these 80 people" are insurance COM
panies with Is million policy holders,
or in other words Is million persons
who are owners of the Idaho Power
Company. The other Is people" are
corporations with about Is million
stockholders who are also owners of
Idaho Power. That makes about 10
million people scattered from the At
Iantic to the Pacific who are owners
of Idaho Power instead of 30. If we
assume these owners to be heads of
families averaging 4 dependents each,
then 12O million people or three
fourths of the population of the United
States are interested directly or indi-
rectly in the Company.
SO the statement that the people own
the Idaho Power Company is quite
close 70 being correct. Is there anything
wrong about that?-E j. PARKINSON,
Great Falls
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
COP Practicing big Lie"
Technique In White Case

The most recent attack on the Demo-
Gratis by the Republicans regarding the
Harry Dexter White spy business is
simply a repetition of the psychology
of the big lie" as practiced throughout
the 1852 presidential campaign. This
followed very closely the Republican
defeats at the polls in Wisconsin, New
Jersey, and Virginia. AS Harry Truman
says, "They will stop at nothing"
Despite what one thinks of Mr.. Tru-
man as an individual and politician, he
is, and always has been, a fighter and
political strategist who knows how and
when to strike back. To begin with, it
is uncomfortable that Truman, as presi-
dent would be guilty of these foolish
charges. 1t is even more inconceivable
that people, even Acknowledgment peo-
pie, would be credulous enough to be-
lieve them.
But we must not take too much for
granted in our calculations. What hap
pened last fall was incredible but it
happened. And a man whom no one
really knew was elected president of
the United States behind a screen of
falsifications and evasions-plus the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

appointed Secretary of Health, Welfare,
and Education. But, as others have
mentioned before, the lady has con-
tributed to the health of no one, the
welfare of nobody, and to the educa-
ton of only those who were able to
see that the whole business was moth
ing but lot of window dressing in the
first place, and was never intended as
anything else.
Although there is no end to the in
constituencies of the present admins
tration the most brazen of all is its
pretense of democracy in an atmosphere
where fascist practices are more COM
mon than democratic traditions. And
how, by any stint of the imagination,
any individual or group of individuals
can stand hand INLAND with such po
litical monstrosities as Mccarthy and
Jenner, and still retain a semblance
of decency, is the 64-dollar question
that the American people will sometime
have to answer. We may still hope,
perhaps, that their final answer will be
the correct one.
If these things were not so definitely
tragic, they would be the biggest laugh
since mankind developed a sense of
humor.-JOHN d. LUCKEY, Billings
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
If We Must Creep

The President has lately branded
Public Power, Price Supports and Rent
Control, Rural Identification, in fact
all New Deal Welfare methods as
Creeping Socialism,
The cutlery of the users of electricity
in rural areas against the assault by
the Administration on Rural Electrifi-
cation, the lament of tenants at ris-
ing uncontrolled rents, the protests of
small mine operators over the use of
our taxes to substitute foreign lead,
zinc, copper mines, the firing at Ben
son by the "embattled farmers of some
shots heard round the world" Ito para
phrase Emerson) the result of the
recent elections, indicate that the Amer
lean people prefer Creeping Socialism
to Creeping Paralysis" = LOWNDES
MAURY. Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
The Farm Bureau-A
Company Union?
Editor Peoples Voice:

Editor Peoples Voice:
AS Union man yourself perhaps
you can answer the following:
Union men know if they belong to
a Company Union, that the only re-
turns they will receive is what ever
the Company wishes to give them and
that covers hours worked, wages, va
cations sick leave, ETC., so he belongs
to a militant Labor Union which pro-
tects his interests.
On the other hand many Farmers
and Ranchers belong to the Farm Blu
reau" (Which seems to me operates the
same as a Company Union) instead of
joining the Farmers Union which is
fighting for the small farmer and
rancher, so that he can receive an ade-
quate return for his work. That is
the objective of members of unions
Why is it the Farmers and Ranchers
continue to support a set up like the
Farm Bureau, when they can join a
real Farmers Union.
w. ]. PRIEST,
OR.T., Divn 54-S43, Livingston
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
Cop CONGRESS PENNY WISE, POUND
FOOLISH, SAYS METCALF

full government sanitation program.
This may not be very appetizing,
but feel that it should be called
to your attention. Every day last
year, the Food and Drug Admins
tration seized an average of 27 tons
of filthy food that was headed for
market.
Lest you think the FDA was too
finicky, let me cite some examples.
A grain company was shipping maca-
roni enriched with the bodies of in
sects and rodent leavings. A ship
ment of canned peas was found to
be &c per cent bugs. The largest seiz-
ure of the year was 2 million pounds
of rodent-defiled sugar.
During the first half of this years,
our government seized 40 car loads of
grain contaminated with excessive
rat leavings.' Under heavy pressure,
the Administration decided to aband-
on inspection and merely study the
matter. Meanwhile, we're eating this
grain.
In its most recent report, FDA
tells of Selling more than 100000
pounds of food consisting of "filthy
or decomposed grains and cereal prod
ucts, butter, eggs, seafood, spices,
fruit and vegetables, poultry and
nuts"
And this was staff cut by the de-
creased appropriation.
That 100000 cut resulted in the
abolition of 81 positions. Of these, SO
were professional employees inspect
ors, analysts, doctors, veterinarians
and experts in the Food and Drug
law. The other 81 were clerical en-
ployes- including laboratory helpers
and examiners. Three subdistrict lab
oratories and four resident inspec-
ton stations were closed.
What has happened as a result?
FDA Commissioner C. w. Crawford
puts it this way:
"All this means that to fulfill
our obligations to protect health
we must ignore all but the most
fragrant economic cheats, and cur
tail to some extent our work against
filth and decomposition. Progress
in the formulation of food stand
ards will suffer, too, for a sub
stantial amount of field study is
required before proposals can be
developed for hearing"
Complaints against this cut have
come mostly from housewives, who
can't stand the thought that they
might be feeding decomposed food
to their children, or that they might
be using cosmetics which injure their
skin and eyes. l believe the Food and
Drug Administrator inspection pro-
gram should be enlarged instead of
,rt hack
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20
Close .Farmer-Labor Action
Needed I'm Montana

The United Automobile Workers I'm
ion in their convention last spring
proposed that working men and farm
ers should organize progressive coun-
ellis to study the issues and prepare for
the congressional elections to be held
in 1851. This proposal is certainly need
ed in Montana to prepare for the legis-
lative election to be held next year. If
the progressives expect to accomplish
anything in the next legislative as
sembly, they will need to come up
with constructive program. In the
matter of taxation, they will have to
write out workable program to pre-
sent to the voters in the campaign If
they fail to present such program and
to win support for it, we are almost
sure to have a sales tax saddled upon
us.
Many of our state institutions are
going to need more money if they are
to accomplish the purpose for which
they were established. The schools must
have more money and the highways
are in dire need.
Certainly our state is rich enough
with all it's natural resources to be
able to maintain these institutions It
is a problem of devising ways and
means to obtain the needed revenue.
There is, of course, a wide field for
constructive work in social welfare.
There are many things that can be
done in a collective way to develop
the resources of our state. But this
is going to require a lot of study and
thought to work out adequate pro-
grams.
Now the question is, have we the re-
qUired intelligence and public interest
and courage to get on the job to for
mulate plans and to generate public
support. What is needed is a state wide
organization with branches in every
~ We CT fn hot
want and then sell these ideas to the
public TO accomplish this we must OBJ
tain a much wider circulation for the
peoples Voice" Then, to put over our
program, we must get into politics
and see to it that capable men, who
our ideas are nominated and
elected.
Our primary system, as now operated, |
puts a premium on office seekers, who |
are out to get the jobs. Many times
his method does not bring out the
best men,
Frequently. it is personal sacrifice
'or a man to serve in the Legislature, |
his own personal interest.
Thus it becomes necessary to have |
;ome organized group to induce him to
get into the race This group can as
sure him that he is going to have
support.
IiHc - SioM iiS Siioi l. 4HlS NOih
must be done within the next few
months if anything is to be accomp-
ished in the 1854 legislature
If we sit idly by and let things drift
We Will find ourselves in the same
Id fix. If it looks like, as though the |
Democrats have a chance to win, the
,ublic relations men of our big com
,anies will come around and suggest
o certain safe and conservative Demo-
rats that they would make good leg
slative material and see to it that
hey file.
1t won't make any difference then,
which party wins. 1t will be heads l
vim and tails you lose" for the com
McGUFFEY Roman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-11-20

Social Security is an insurance
plan, bought and paid for by the work
ers. 1t is contract with the United
States of America.