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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18
COP. WEAKENING OF CIVIL SERVICE IS LOWERING
MORALE OF CAREER PUBLIC SERVANTS SAYS METCALF

removed from the merit sytem. In
June, Mr.. Eisenhower issued an Elk
ecutive Order which took Civil Ser
vice protection away from $1,000
government workers.
Just recently the Eisenhower Ad-
ministration was accused of making
Federal conservation agencies sub
ject to partisan political whims. The
accusation came from Ira N. Cab
rielsOn, Pres. of the Wildlife Man
agement Institute, and brother of
Guy Gabrielson former chairman of
the Republican National Committee.
Gabrielson retired in 1916 as di-
rector of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. He emphasized that the jobs
of director and assistant directors in
the Fish and Wildlife Service and
the National Park Service have all
been taken out of the career service.
'In blunt terms, this means that
any or all of these jobs can be
filed by political hacks whenever
the present, or any future Admin
istration is so disposed" Gabriel
SON said.
For years, he went on, conserva-
ton groups have been working with
success" to get the States
to put competent personnel, pro-
tected by merit system, into top
Jobs in forestry, park and wildlife
protection. The fact that Federal
bureaus were headed by
career men twas an effective ex-
ample that helped promote these eff
forts in the States" he said.
Gabrielson then cut loose at the Eli
;enhower Administration in general,
The Civil Service Commission in par
ocular:
"Now the Federal conservation
lgencies have been placed on the
anne basis as the politically controll-
ID State agencies, and by an Admin
that gives constant lip SER
ice to the merit system and talks
bout improving the Federal Service
0 make it more attractive to better
ualified personnel.
This step backward has been
approved by a Civil Service Com
mission that talks in the same lofty
tone while continually approving
more political raids on the Civil
Service system. If it continues,
none of the attractive jobs will be
left within the merit system /. 1t
is small wonder that morale among
the Federal employees in the con-
servation agencies is so low"
Low is the word for morale among
ederal employees, not only in con-
srvation agencies but throughout the
9rvice. So far the Civil Service Com
ission has only partially given in to
'essure from several agencies,
Interior-to take more
I'D more jobs out of the merit sys-
m.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18
NOTIFICATIONS OF ABOVE
SCHEDULE

CD Trailers under $500 lbs, $500
License fee only.
(2) Minimum tax on all trucking
vehicles from $500 lbs. to 5000 lbs
to be 5000, regardless of type of
use.
90 Farm vehicles, Logging trucks,
Low Boy" trailers, and such other
trucking vehicles if any there be,
that probably travel less than $4,000
miles per year, to be taxed at Y Of
Schedule.
In this connection, it is suggested
that the speedometer reading of all
trucks and buses be recorded at the
time of application for License, to
furnish data for a possible more
equitable revision at later date, of
the Schedule in different categories.
(4) Buses passenger only shall
pay $500 annually per seat exclus-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18

i've of the fitsvt 7 seats and the OPP
orator, except that buses operating
exclusively for transportation of per-
sons within the limits of Incorporate
ed cities and towns, and within Is
miles of such limits, shall be exempt.
School buses to be exempt unless OPP
Grated in charter service.
81 All trucking vehicles register
ed after June Both of each year to
be taxed at Il of above Schedules.
CO. There shall be imposed upon
all new passenger motor vehicles
which have not otherwise been sub
ject to assessment and taxation when
the owner applies for a license, sales
tax as follows:
114%6 of the FOB. list price for
the LIST quarter.
/ IS % for the End quarter.
q of 10 for 3rd quarter.
rs of 10 for 4th quarter of the
year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18
Where Are They?

USDA's probe into beef price
spreads say farm prices for low-grade
beef are reflected in retail stores
which handle lower grade cuts, but
few stores do. eSems odd that so
much goes to market but so little
appears in the showcase
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18

1t would at first appear from above
figures, that Glass I is contributing
more than its share of costs. How
ever, contributions in gasoline and
diesel fuels tax by tourists and other
out of state vehicles, will materially
reduce actual contributions by Mon
tana Glass | vehicles to about its
proportionate fair share of costs.
A lso maintenance requirements
should diminish each year as more
and more high standard highway is
completed, and more of Glass II con-
tributions will go into construction.
The procedures outlined herein,
would solve Montana's highway con-
maintenance, and financing
of Federal Aid highways, fairly and
equitably, at reasonable cost to the
highway user.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18
FOOTNOTE BY p. V. EDITOR

, 1T may come as a surprise to many
readers, but, cost of administering
Montana's G.V.W. truck tax law runs
in excess of IL per cent, according
to figures we have obtained from
Highway Department. The Oregon
weight-mile law, unlike a ton-mile
law, is not cumbersome or unwieldy
Trucking interests at the highway
financing hearings of 1853 Legisla-
ture, attempted to confuse these two
types of truck taxing laws in their
successful effort to kill HB $50,
weight-mi1e proposal closely pat
termed after the highly successful
Oregon law.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18

table that they pay their share of
the cost. Amy argument that the
general public should pay part of
the cost is without justification.
Even so the general public is al
ready substituting the trucking bust
ness by substantial part of $40
of the construction cost through
Federal Aid. transportation of
freight by truck is already cost
ing the general public far more
than the tariff collected by the
truck.
(E). METHOD OF TAXATION
1t would appear that the Gross
Vehicle Weight Tax as Scheduled
herein is the fairest most practical,
cheapest and easiest tax to admins
ter, collection cost paid to County
officials being only so. The fire.
quently advocated Oregon weight
distance or ton-mile tax while theo-
retically more equitable, is most
unwieldly, cumbersome, and expen-
sive to enforce and administer. Ac-
cording to Oregon State Senator
Richard L. Neuberger, it costs more
than 11% to collect.f This would re-
quire a substantial raise in rates to
get the same net return, in which the
long run would cost everybody more
and probably nobody less, in vain
effort to achieve hair-line equality in
rates.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18
By E. ]. PARKINSON
1920 5th Ave. North
Great Falls, Montana
I'm Two Parts)
PART III
PRINCIPLES GOVERNING
PROCEDURE,

At this point a few principles
should be adopted to guide US in our
procedure. Suggested are the follow
ing:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-18
Al. EQUITABLE TAXES FOR
HIGHWAYS

Highways cost money whether they
are used or not. Therefore there
should be minimum service charge
for all vehicles regardless of how
much or how little they are in use
on the highway. Practically all pub
lie utilities such as water light tele-
phone, etc, have such minimum SER
vice charge. In all fairness, certain
classes of vehicles such as farm We
hicles logging vehicles, Low Boy
trailers," etc. that do not operate con-
tinuously, should have a lower tax
Schedule than those operated con-
tinuously, such as commercial truck
transportation lines, buses, etc. How
ever, the minimum readiness to serve
or service charge should be at least
not less than 500 of the regular
Schedule tax
If truck owner cannot afford
to pay the tax to construct and main
tain our highways, he cannot afford
to own a truck at all. To illustrate
let US take 10000 lb. G.V.W. farm
truck costing an estimated $4,000.
Annual interest a SO S250.00
Annual depreciation a 1919 I 10000
Annual property taxes .. 10000
100000
Annual G.V.W. tax per
Schedule attached S $500
Total $955.O0
The annual G.V.W. tax is only
go of the total overhead cost of
operating the truck. The same prin-
ciple applies to trailers as well as
trucks.
All vehicles of equal weight should
pay the same G.V.W. tax, since their |
highway requirements are equal. The |
only exception to this should be those
vehicles such as farmers and logger
vehicles, that on the average travel |
on our highways less than half as
much as the continuously operated |
truck transportation lines.
OBJ. NO SUBSIDIZATION
Class | vehicles nor anyone else
should be compelled to substitute the
trucking transportation industry.
Neither should any class of traffic re-
ceive preferential treatment. All
classes should pay their fair share of
highway costs based on the best esti-
mate of their share of the use of
them, but not less than the minimum
service charge of 500 of Schedule. 1t
is useless to try to arrive at precise
estimate of highways use by each in
dividual vehicle because it would be
next to impossible to determine.
Co. HIGHWAY LOAD LIMITS
There must be established a def
mite top load limit for Montana, no
higher than what the trucking We
hicles can afford to pay for. The dis
effect of heavy vehicles
on our highways increases roughly
as the square Of their weight There
fore if our present load limit of Fl
tons were increased to 25H tons
for instance, highway construction {
costs would be increased 500 and
G.V.W. taxes would have to be in
,reased accordingly. Even under our
present Elton load limit, G.V.W. tax {
'ates will have to be increased 1907
% maintain our highways and con- {
truct 290 miles per year for Is
years.
ID. DETERMINATION OF RATES
FOR PROPOSED G.V.W. TAX
r q
Evening star., 1953-11-19

about this as a sort of skeleton
for that movie:
Our heroine Is a young bal
lerina. The time is 1887, the
locale Paris. She is excitedly
looking forward to a dance con-
cert for which her new manager
is advancing the money. The
dancer will be a representative
of the arts of her native Yugo-
slavia and after the concert will
come to the United States in the
same role.
But the Yugoslav government
suddenly balks. It doesn't think
the young dancer qualified to
represent its arts. 1t orders the
concert cancelled. But the bal
lerina's manager demands from
the YugoslavS his 10000 francs,
and gets them. "Now," he says,
I'VE will put on the concert any,
how and we will foil the Yugo-
slav government by sending out
invitations rather than selling
tickets"
The dancer is widely acclaimed
in this appearance. Then comes
a reverse when her manager
dies. She is in Paris in 1888,
alone, confused and insolvent,
when an offer arrives from the
Ballet Russo. She grabs at it
and comes to this country. Her
movie, "Ballerina," has been
Evening star., 1953-11-19
Maybe Story She Has Lived
Mould Do for Miu's Movie
By Harry Macarthur

Mia SlavenSka, like many an
other stellar personality in the
entertainment world, needs a
writer. motion picture scenar-
ist, to be specific. Once she burst
radiantly onto the worlds show
business stage in much the same
manner as another dancer,
Moria Shearer, did a few years
back.
Miss Slavenska did it in a
movie titled "Ballerina," back
about 1888. It was an excellent
film and it spread its stars fame
widely. She could use a repeat
performance of the fame
spreading today.
She was talking about it the
other afternoon in her dressing
room at the National Theater,
while awaiting rehearsal time
for the Slavenska-F Frederic
Franklin ballet company. A ballet
troupe on tour is not quite like
a drama cast touring in a play.
A dance group rehearses two
hours every day, or every day
but one. since even dedicated
ballet dancers need day off.
1--WE rehearse two hours day
on the road, of course" said
Miss SlavenSka, "only if the trip
is short enough so that we can
get to the next theater by two
o'clock. The stage hands have
to have the stage from four to
six and we're not allowed to
work the company between six
and eight"
This rehearsing in the after
noon, doing a show at night,
then rushing to the next city
to be there in time to rehearse
makes touring less attractive to
Miss Slavenska than it may be
to others. Shed rather be home
with the baby; in committing
distance from New York.
\ X
But this is dancing and she
loves dancing. She loves it
especially with this group she
and Mr.. Franklin now head.
This is something of a culmlna-
ton of a dream and the tragedy
in Miss Slavenska's life right
now is that she may have only
two more weeks of it after the
week at the National.
Ballet, like some other enter
prises. is not enjoying a boom
year in 1858. If the financial
situation isn't bettered. Miss
Evening star., 1953-11-19

getting around and she has be-
come a leading dancer in the
leading dance company. Sue
cess seems secure.
But she has reckoned without
ballet politics. Ballet Russo has
four ballerinas and a fifth is
like a fifth wheel. Her roles are
not the plum ones. She becomes
discouraged and lets her weight
increase and her skill decrease.
Finally she leaves Ballet Russo
and settles down to work. She
returns several times to dance
better roles on tours.
Then she must set out on her
own. She goes on concert tours
in small communities. Her name
drops from sight in the ballet
big leagues. She marries, takes
time out to have a baby. She
and her husband decide the time
is ripe for the dancers own COM
pany. They sink their savings
into it and it is greeted with
acclaim. But in the second sea-
son it becomes apparent that
this is more an artistic than a
financial success.
Miss Slavenska won't have to
pay any one for the rights to
this tale. She has earned them
herself. All it needs is the happy
ending Hollywood demands and
Miss Slavenska hopes for.
Evening star., 1953-11-19

of such showings The time,
$3.50 pm. . Catholic Univer-
Sity reaches to the top shelf of
classical drama for it's second
Offering of the season, opening
December 4 This is Soph-
ocles' "Antigone," which will be
directed by Father Gilbert v.
Hartke. head of the university's
speech and drama department
=. Cast in the roles of Antigone
and Creon are Angela Bayer and
Jack Jeglum "Antigone" will
run the customary two weeks at
the university theater Three
catalogues listing films in the
Library of Congress records show
10000 films copyrighted between
the years 1894 and 1949 E.
Earliest film registered is Fred
Otis Sneeze," recorded in 1894,
the last Range Land" Foreign
films. also registered with the
Library, are not included in the
10000, but are recorded sepa-
rately.
Evening star., 1953-11-19
The Cast.

discovers It Is not an entirely
undeserved slur. Mark has been
living in the islands with a native
girl, bloodying his hands with
combative islanders and a couple
of pearl-hunting partners, and
otherwise living in sinful reck-
lessness.
He causes almost as much
trouble on the Nathan Ross be-
fore he dies like a redeemed
Shore in a mutiny which he in
spires.
The need to cover the dra-
matte incident of "All the
Brothers Were Valiant" divertS
Director Thorpe from any seri-
Gus intention he has to get into
the nature of the heroic Shores.
He has to be content-and so do
audiences-with the mereSt in
timation of what made these
the greatest of whalers. He is
more concerned with showing
what whalers suffered for a Ma
tion's oil. This, after all, is more
consistent with movie formula
and in this case werks out rather
we'll.
The performances in Cali the
Brothers" are muscularly ample
in every case, most professional
in those of Whitmore and Kasz-
mar as pair of murderous pearl
fishers.
Miss Blyth, coiffed and dressed
for a party at Versailles, is ra-
diant enough to inspire whole
whaling industry instead of
merely one dramatic New Bed
ford bark.
II + + 4
BULLETIN BOARD: Arena
Stages marionette production,
"Mr. Whirlwind" is sold out for
its regular Saturday perform
ance But it inspires an ex-
pertinent This will be a
Sunday matinee performance
which will test the advisability
Evening star., 1953-11-19

Slavenska may have to disband
her troupe.
"It will be too bad" Miss
SlavenSka said, because this is
something I had to do. Oh, if
we only had a foundation. We
have the nucleus here. It would
take few years to catch on,
but then we could have a coed,
big ballet company.
Maybe I never should have
left the Ballet RuSse," she
unused. Maybe I shouldn't have
gone on those community tours
while my name was being for
gotten in the big cities. You
never know, maybe, what is the
right thing to do.
"It will be too bad, too, if we
have to give up this company, !"
she went on, because we have
the only happy ballet. Those
flowers I got on, opening night
were from the company. They
knew the strain I've been under.
That never happened before in
ballet"
It also would be too bad be-
cause this troupe obviously has
given Miss Slavenska a great
deal of artistic satisfaction. She
has been happy in her work,
especially in being able to dance
Valerie Belts brilliant ballet
version of "A Streetcar Named
Desire" That apparently isn't
the strain on its leading dancer
as it is on it's audiences.
"When I'm out there doing
that. I don't know who I am or
where" said Miss Slavenska. IT
love it. I guess I really would
like to be an actress" That
brought up the subject of BAL
lerina" and it's star revealed that
it's director would like to do an
other movie with her.
THE only trouble" she said,
sis that he wants me to find the
story and can't find one. Peo-
pie write about everything else,
but not about ballet. All I read
about ballet is that so-and-S so
danced such-and-such role well.
Never does it tell what happened
to her, the things that combined
to make her a great artist. I
guess the people who can write
don't know ballet and the peo-
pie who know ballet can't write"
Miss Slavenska is a woman to
whom any man in his right mind
would lend assistance. So. how
Evening star., 1953-11-19

discovered Nantucket only last
Summer-but it is a moderately
exciting recall of the great
whaling days. 1t was a century
ago that the coming of "coal oil"
wiped out the whalers but Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer properly deems
them worthy of memorial.
That these doughty souls who
kept Americas lamps burning so
long might be fittingly repre-
Sented, the studio SKINNED the
top of its player roster. It's cast
here includes Stewart Granger,
Robert Taylor, Ann Blyth, Lewis
Stone (his last picture), James
Whitmore and Kurt Kasznar
among others.
This is a whopping lot of name
power, yet no more than the due
of such a whoppingly adventur-
Gus business.
Ben AmeS Williams, one of the
whalers' most fervent fans, wrote
the basic story of "All The
Brothers Were Valiant" He went
more deeply into the character
of his people than Director
Richard Thorpe is able to do in
the movie. The latter does his
best to compensate for this, how
ever, by visualizing whaling at its
exciting best.
He does very we'll with some
special effects, among them the
harpooning of a whale. a mutiny
aboard the bark Nathan Ross, a
rousing combat with some blood
thirsty island natives, a pearl
diving sequence and a storm at
sea. The hardships of whaling
suggested by these might imply
that any veteran of the business
would be glad to see coal oil"
developed. Such was not the
case.
The Shore family of New Bed
ford is the one dealt with in Will
hams saga. With the exception
of one, Mark, who lapsed briefly
from virtue, the Shores were a
credit to whaling.
This is especially true of the
youngest, Joel. played by Taylor.
He is the captain on the Nathan
Ross in one of its most adven-
turous voyages in the twilight of
the whale chasers. On board
with him is his bride, Miss Blyth,
when the bark sails for the Gill
bert Islands.
Six months out, and so barrels
of oil later, who joins the ship
but Mark Shore (Granger). He
had left her in the same area on
her last previous voyage and the
stories of his departure are a
black mark on the Shore name.
AS Taylor, the righteous Shore,
Evening star., 1953-11-19
This New Sound
A World of Noise
BY the Associoted Press
HOLLYWOOD

Director Henry King, a chap
who has weathered every Hol-
lywood revolution, reports that
the big unpublicized headache
in the current dimensional up
heaval is sound.
King says that wide screens
and three dimensions give him
no trouble. He is shooting
King Of the Khyber Rifles" in
CinemaScope.
This stereophonic sound is
worse than when the talkies
first came in. We're shooting
most of this picture outside
but most of the dialogue will
have to be dubbed-in later.
Stereophonic sound is so SEN
sitive that it picks up airplane
noises at the airport six miles
away"
Evening star., 1953-11-19
The Passing Show
Exciting Lives of Who|ers
Cuuqht in Keith's Film
By Joy Cormody

The waters of the earth coming off rather
macay recent movies They have made exciting stages
such epochal film 1.-The Cruel this
Keiths for such lively A The Brothers Were Valiant
The latter not epic-even in the of reviewer who
Evening star., 1953-11-19

"ALL THE BROTHERS WE'RE VAL
IANT" a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture,
produced by Pandro s. Berman, di-
rected by Richard Thorpe. screenplay by
Harry Brown, based on the story by Ben
Ames Williams. AT Keith'S.
Evening star., 1953-11-09

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Poree' Pickup your
Pickup toes OF the eheovt booths poeuges voting
for outside DOORS Drive your sgno
YOU otendonfs will ploee packages within your eor
Service buy for doys without burden
Evening star., 1953-11-09

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at Newark St.
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at w Place
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near 18th & Columbia Rd.
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near 18th & H SIS.
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Benning Rood
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at NoyEor Rood
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Evening star., 1953-11-09

housewives of
MODERN sreamd
building the You'll
a1ses and
gorsthe
simplify
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Luncheon Planned

The Engineer Ladies will have
their luncheon on Thursday at
the Army Navy Country Club.
Wives of former Chiefs of En-
gineers living in the Washing
ton area will be honor guests.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
Tukon1u Club
Benefit Thursduy

The Takoma Park Women's
Club will hold it's annual bene-
fit dessert bridge at 1890 pm
Thursday in the Takoma Rec
reation Center, West Grant ave-
nue.. Takoma Park. Md.
Proceeds from the event will
go to the clubs scholarship
fund. which each year provides
for a worthy student to attend
Montgomery Junior College.
The clubs executive board is
in charge of arrangements for
the party. Tickets may be OBJ
tained from department chair
men or at the door.
Evening star., 1953-04-26
eN-Sednooui
Announcement

Rear Admiral George L. Rus
sell. U. S. NJ, and Mrs. Russell
of Falls Church announce the
engagement of their daughter.
Anne Carter, to Mr.. Michael c.
Sednaoui of Washington, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Choukri Sednaoui
of New York City.
No date has been set for the
wedding.