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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-08-01

according to a trade estimate. Min
consumption is much below year ago,
but is picking up slowly. Cloth sales
are small but prices are firm. Trade
inventories of goods and clothing are
not excessive. The wool incentive pay
ment program is making progress in
Congress. If enacted it probably will
apply to the 1854 clip.
WHEAT-Prices may not rise much
more for a while, but an advance to
new high levels can be expected later
in the season. The upturn thus far has
brought some markets close to the
loan value, which invites selling by pro-
ducerS. Flour buyers contracted well
ahead at recent low prices and new
orders are likely to be light for some
time. Commercial demand for wheat
for export is lacking as the government
is supplying buyers from its stocks.
Red winter and soft white wheat is
still well below the loan value. Move
ment of these classes into the loan
probably will be heavy and impound-
ing of other classes will increase if
prices sag in the next few weeks.
With most of the carryover govern
ment-owned and a decrease of 100 mil
lion bushels in the total crop COM
pared with last year, ''free" supplies
probably will become tight enough to
lift prices by next winter or later to
higher levels than have been reached
thus far in the season. Stem rust is
damaging spring wheat, especially
durum.
FEED GRAINS-Prices probably will
be mostly steady to higher, but the
amount of strength in the near future
will depend greatly on weather Oats
and barley prices probably have passed
their low points for the season.
July prospects for harvest of 12t
million tons of feed grains against only
ia million tons last year have beer
dimmed considerably by drouth ant
heat The final outturn will be sub
stantially below last year if drouth con
tinues and spreads farther into tn,
heavy corn producing areas. Price ex
pectations will vary accordingly. Re
quirements will be larger because o
increased hog and poultry crops.
SEEDS-Reduced carryovers and
drouth continues, smaller production @
hay and pasture seeds appear likel
this year. Imports from Denmark an
New Zealand are expected to be small
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-08-01

er. The Kentucky bluegrass seed crop
forecast is So per cent over last years
small crop but % per cent below sv-
erage. Orchard grass seed production
is about As per cent less than both last
year and the average.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Prices probably
will have a moderate seasonal up
trend until November. Production will
drop about one-fourth and even more
if the drouth area extends. Sales of
butter and cheese to the government at
support prices will decline and may
cease for a while in late fall. Produc-
ton has stayed slightly larger than a
year previous.
EGGS-Prices for fine eggs probably
will continue their seasonal rise little
longer but will remain lower than at
the corresponding time in most recent
years. Hot weather is cutting produc-
ton faster than usual at this season and
is lowering average quality. Low prices
during the spring led to larger consump-
ton than last year which probably will
continue.
However, production will remain high.
The us. Department 70 Agriculture re-
ports that farmers have been culiing
heavily due to low prices. However, the
large crop of early pullets now begin
ming to come into production tends to
keep laying flocks larger than in 1858.
TURKEYS-Prices are at the lowest
levels to be expected this season and
no loan or purchase program is nee
essary at present, according to the
Turkey Advisory Committee. Early
sales of turkeys are running UNUSUAL.
heavy.
POTATOES-Price changes will hing,
greatly on weather. Early July crol
prospects were 8 per cent less thai
last years harvest with the early an
intermediate crops near usual need
and a late crop slightly above probabl
requirements. The crop is losing groun
in central and southern areas but pro!
poets are good in the northern heavy
producing late states. Persistent he
dry weather would mean quite hig
prices, but general breaking of tn
drouth and a favorable fall would mea
moderate prices.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-08-01

A man can jump about four times
his body length, kangaroo about 5
times, a frog II times and flea 200
times.
Evening star., 1954-04-12

some Of the professional Irish
American organizations Of
those days which was flung at
him Notwithstanding his Irish
ancestry and the assistance he
had given on other occasions
to the cause Of Ireland's in
dependence.
The opposition to the pres
ence of a Catholic as private
secretary at the elbow of a
President of the United States
began when Governor Wilson,
as President-elect, was consid-
ering the continuance Of Mr..
Tumulty in the post which he
had occupied at the State
House in Trenton.
Riding alone with Mr.. Will
son one morning early in 1913
on a day coach to Trenton
from Princeton, this writer,
then an Associated Press re-
porter assigned to cover the
PreSident-elect, had an off,
the-record conversation which
ran like this:
Whom will you pick as pri-
vate secretary?"
II am being urged in many
letters" Mr.. Wilson replied,
mot to appoint a Catholic. but
I've made up my mind to ram
that appointment down the
throats of the bigots and pick
Tumulty."
Small wonder that Mr.. Will
son had at his side such a de-
voted, faithful, Woodworking
assistant who spent every wax
ing hour in devoted work for
his chief.
The anti-C Catholic issue arose
again after Mr.. Wilson was re-
elected in November, 1916, and
this time it looked as if the
opposition which came from
intimate friends in the political
world would persuade Mr.. Will
son to force the resignation Of
Mr.. Tumulty. The Wilson
mind was virtually closed. He
had written a letter to Mr..
Tumulty suggesting his resig-
nation. Immediately on learn
ing of the letter, this writer,
at that time Washington cor
respondent of the New York
Evening Post, went to the
White House and spent As min
utes alone with the President
urging him to reconsider and
reminding him of his 1913
stand against religious bigotry
in America. The next day Mr..
Wilson determined to ignore
the cabal and welcomed Mr..
Tumulty for another term as
his private secretary. That was
the kind of liberal" Wood
row Wilson was before his
physical collapse deprived him
of the keen Judgment of hu-
man values he had so dramat-
ically exhibited in public af-
fairs.
Evening star., 1954-04-12

deviating Senator" and COM
ments below pressed home
the color argument.
This is the pattern hate
fully familiar to reporters who
covered the Smith Graham
campaign in North Carolina
and the Sma thers-Pepper race
in Florida.
The candidate, educated and
attractive, aware that when
and If victorious he will make
his national debut harnessed
to his campaign record, takes
the high road. In his .ahalf
the low road gets well travelled
too, while the candidate says
with injured innocence:
Who, Ele?"
A widespread impression ex-
lists here that Mr.. Battles race
against Senator Eparkman is
a dry run and that the real
target of the wealthy conserv-
ative forces is the senior Sem
ator, Lister Hill, who will be up
in 1856.
Senator Hill, an excellent
legislator and astute political
operator. is q true leader of
Southern liberal forces. He re-
sembles Franklin Roosevelt in
that he knows how to identify
the important detectives and
while he may zig and gag in
a sometimes battling manner
like the late President Roose-
velt-he never loses sight o.
his goal.
Senator Hill has, however,
accepted his regional chains.
He quit after serving briefly as
Senate whip, taking himself
out of the running for Demo-
cratic leader. But it was Sem
ator Hill who conceived the
idea of seminars for the liberal
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Princess Margaret Acts
Charity Play Understudy
By the Assoeio,ed Pres.

LONDON. April 12.-Princess
Margaret is un6er studying the
role of a dance hall hostess in
a forthcoming stage play-for
charity.
The play is "The Frog" adapt
ed from a chiller by the late
mystery writer Edgar Wallace
Set designer Reginald Wolley
declared:
"The princess is a born actress
She has played the part right
through several times during the
illness of the principal, Mrs. Ger
aid Legge."
Margaret, who is %, also is
helping out as an adviser on
costumes and hair styles of the
early 1930s, the period of the
/ play.
The play will be presented for
charity at London's Scala Thea
ter in June. Most of the parts
are enacted by high society fig
ures, including Margaret's oc-
casional theater escort, Billy
Wallace.
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Mossadegh Abandons
His Fast Until Death
ey tho Associated Press

TEHERAN, Iran. April IA
whopping dinner of boiled chick
en-, rice and vegetables has off,
cially ended Mohammed Mossa-
degh's latest hunger strike. His
prosecutor says the old man was
Judging anyhow-sneaking cook
les, chocolates and vitamin pills
on the side.
The former premier. who is
appealing his three-year solitary
confinement sentence, launched
his "fast unto death" Saturday
because the court didn't let in
enough spectators to suit him
and the papers weren't reprint
ing in full the 600 pages of ap-
peal he's now presenting.
On those counts the strike
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Thomas L. Stokes
ThOn0dS [. Stokes
Wire 7 opping Issue Revived
OId-Foshioned Tradition Frowns on EovesdropPin
But World We Live In Is Full of Conspiracy

You'll probably have to ex-
cuse some of US around here
who were drought UP in the
old-fashioned tradition, and
worked on newspapers that
nurtured that tradition. That
Is why we find it hard to
shake off an ingrained abhor-
renee to wire-tapping, or any
other sort of snooping about
in our private lives and af-
fairs.
The world we live in now,
however. seems not to be for
the old-fashioned. It is full of
conspiracy, some of it real,
some of it imaginary or manu-.
factured. So old values and
cherished American stand
ards must go by the board.
Wire-tapping is, of course,
legal now. But you can't use
information gained thereby as
evidence in our courts. Attor-
ney General Brownell says he
needs the use of it as evidence
to catch spies, and to proceed
against some suspects about
whom the Department has ev-
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Action Sought in Return for Aid
Appropriations Committee Wants More Than Words
From Europe In Drive to Halt Communism

would allow Germany to or
ganize IL combat divisions to
join q European army. We and
the British want that German
army for no other reason than
to bolster the NATO forces
sufficiently to Withstand a pos
sible Soviet onslaught.
Despite our pleading, cajol-
ing and occasional mild pres
sure the French National As
mb1y seems determined
more than ever to postpone
indefinitely the ratification Of
that essential treaty. The only
alternative left to us is to give
the Bonn government the
green light for the creation Of
a military force to support the
six American and four British
divisions now in Germany fac
ing a Red army advance guard
across the Elbe at least four
times the size Of our forces.
Despite the healthy economic
and financial position Of the
West German Republic, it will
be necessary for us to contrib
ute some cash and military
equipment, particularly elec-
tronic, toward that end.
Since 1947 the Turks have
used with utmost care the
slightly more than one billion
dollars given them for military
and economic purposes by the
United States. Turkey has
created since that time no less
than 20 modern combat divi-
sionS. To prove their spirit Of
cooperation, the Turkish gov
ernment sent $4,000 men to
Korea where they ranked
among the best fighters.
While some of our Western
allies are doing their utmost
to get us into a policy tanta-
mount to surrender to the
Chinese Communists, the An
kara government. with its
eastern and western borders
Immediately contiguous to
those of the Reds. is stand
ing by us and is willing and
ready to take any chances
in the event of an armed con-
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Doris FIeeson-
Dors FIeeSon-
Sporknoon Faces T Touqh Battle
Candidate OF Birminehom's Big Mules Describes
Senator as Troitor and Turncoot to the South

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-What
a Southern politician is up
against when he aspires to
national leadership is shown
here by the campaign Sena-
tor John Sparkman, Adlai
StevenSon's running mate, is
having to wage for reelection.
Representative Laurie Bat
tie was put into the race
against Senator Sparkman by
Birmingham'S big Mules"
The only pay dirt he can find
in the Sparkman record ap-
parently is what he described
as Sparkman's straddles on
labor and civil rights.
Senator Sparkman has
served as a delegate to the
United Nations, where about
two thirds of the spokesmen
for other member countries
are non-whites. While vot-
ing against civil rights, he
has plugged hard for greater
economic and educational op-
portunitieS for every one.
Representative Battle now
processes to find in him a
traitor and turncoat" to the
South. While Mr.. Battle has
confined himself to these
relatively civilized attacks,
the customary prejudicial
material has begun to appear
in the outlying areas. For
example, the Dothan Eagle
published April 2 last a
photograph of Senator Spark
man with three Negro leaders
including a Birmingham law
yer and his House colleague,
Representative William Daw-
son of Illinois, a vice chairman
of the Democratic National
Committee. The caption read
"a portrait of Alabama's nom
Evening star., 1954-04-12

other time and WELD author
ity.
We have had warning, or
should have, from past expert
ence. That is enough for some
who can remember the whole
sale Red raids" so-called, by
Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer of the Democratic
Woodrow Wilson administra-
ton after the First World War.
Or the scandals and perver-
sionS of justice connected with
the Justice Department in the
succeeding Warren G. Harding
Republican administration un-
der Attorney General Harry
M. Daugherty in the early
1920's.
That was a troubled post
war era, with overtoneS of hys-
terra such as we are enduring
now.
AS for the present, there are
lots of people around here and
elsewhere who did not consider
it entirely Justice" that our
current Attorney General was
pursuing when he suddenly
dug up the Harry Dexter White
case to excite a luncheon au-
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Constantine Brown

The vast majority OF the
Appropriations Committee OF
the Senate and q sizable ma
jority Of the Senate and House
membership have become con-
vinced that the nations which
are receiving American as
Sistance in cash or goods must
give us more than words in
the present attempts to curb
Communist offensives all over
the world.
In the past Congress lavish
ly voted funds for our allies
on the premise that by
strengthening them we would
serve our own cause. We got
in exchange sometimes nice
words. but more recently
mostly different words.
Leading politicians and inn
portant segments Of political
parties in Britain, France and
Italy have been telling for the
last two years that our sub
sides running into many bill
lions were more dangerous
than beneficial to their coun-
tries. "Yanks 60 home" a
slogan devised and used al
most exclusively by the Com
munists in the past, has now
spread among the masses in
the territories Of our three
principal allies.
Congress appreciates that
in the struggle against COM
munism American help must
be continued for some time.
But unlike in the previous
years it wishes to distribute
the taxpayers money Selec-
lively and not sentimentally.
BY "selective" is meant that
the countries which have
shown their goodwill to stand
by us and offer active resist
ance to Moscow should re-
ceive the bulk of our assist
ance.
Congress and the Admins
tration are irked because of
the refusal of the French par
lament to ratify the European
Defense Community which
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Secretary Of State Dulles flies Europe get united action
against the Reds in IndoChina It's confused world We
call the cold warand spend all time fighting
countries.
Democratic Senator Douglas says has given
union labor nothing but shot
Democrats got through giving things awayhats about
there left.
Americans for Democratic Action, the radicals politics.
in Chicago. idea of of
radcalism today when you realize progress
is retreatng only as far as the New Deal.
Republican Senators Harold SasSens idea
trade with The admit may
pretty close to right-bu they're the election
Democratic Senator Humphrey Of Minnesota now
nothing political rising sometimes
which is in politics. the nohings-or the know
everythings.
Dr. Townsend 85 advocates bigger odage pensions
going at this thing backwards We ought to give $4,000
everybody between 20 and 80 when they have
iand then make them work the next 40 paying
it back.
committee business pay-ofs
union leaders, Teamster Boss Dave Beck claims he's cleaning
his house. Every he gets the broo-and
under the rug.
Evening star., 1954-04-12

Senators at which experts fa-
niliarize them with the issues
and they arrange among them
selves to keep a legislative
watch on policy.
incidentally, Alabama, in
the person of the late Cover
nor Bibb Graves, contributed
to the political lexicon the
term big Mules" to describe
the South's economic royalists.
Mr.. Graves used to tell his
rural audiences: I'm gonna
make them big mules up in
BirmingtoWn tote their fair
share of the tax load" It was
the more telling since the
South has rather more than
it's share of absentee landlords.
Mr.. Battle was shrewdly
chosen for his role. He is the
son of a preacher, a World
War II veteran. attractive and
well spoken. He is AZ. There
is a large and respected Battle
clan, mostly of the professional
classes. scattered over the
State.
The odds are on Senator
Sparkman, but it is deemed
advisable that neither he nor
Senator Hill take anything for
granted.
The governorship race stands
on its own. with eight candi-
dates including the we'll and
unfavorably known "Kissin'
Jim" Folsom.
Mr.. Folsom was given a
chance early in the race, but
it is now believed that an at
tractive young member of the
Hill-Sparkman faction, James
Faulkner, will win.
(Copyright, 1854. by
United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Joe Tunnulty, What Price Glory?
Right Hand Man of President Woodrow Wilson Died
In Virtual Obscurity, Broken in Mind and Spirit

The distinguished service
rendered by Mr.. Tumulty to-
his country is we'll told by John
Morton Blum, now an assist
ant professor at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technol-
Ogy, In a Well-documented BIZ
ography entitled Joe Tumulty
and the Wilson Era published
in 1851 by the Houghton
Mif1in Company of Boston. It
tells of the inexplicable man
ner in which Mr.. Wilson, sick
and inaccessible to old friends,
was persuaded, in April, 1922,
to write a letter to the New
York Times repudiating an
oral message of greeting which
Mr.. Tumulty had brought to
a testimonial dinner in New
York City for Governor James
M. Cox of Ohio. Mr.. Cox.
though supporting the Wilson
policies 100 per cent. was de-
feated for the presidency on
the Democratic ticket in 1920
and was being talked Of again
for the nomination.
The message-,,n -,,nimportant
in itself and constituting really
no Endorsement of anybody for
the 1924 nbmination--was due
to a misunderstanding by Mr..
Tumulty of an ambiguous, if
not incoherent. expression by
Mr.. Wilson when he was ill.
After the Wilson statement,
Mr.. Tumulty apologized pub
licly for the error but he never
was permitted to see Mr.. Will
son again III the two remaining
years that the former Presi-
dent lived and was not even
invited to ride in The funeral
procession until Mr.. McAdoo,
former Secretary of the 'ireas-
ury and son-in-laW of Mr..
Wilson interceded.
This episode, it has long been
assumed by friends, was the
genesis of the nervous break
down that struck Mr.. Tumulty
in later years. He never really
recovered from the shock of
being cast OFF after his years
of faithful service. He lived
the last decade in solitary Sc
clusion. He never consented to
see any friends of the past
and did not even see all the
members of his large family.
He read the newspapers daily
and discussed public affairs
intelligently with his eldest
son but he seemed to nave 0e-
parted to some other world and
never came back, despite the
efforts of the best psychiatrists
in America to fathom the
mystery of his shattered mind.
Last week marked the end of
the life of as unselfish a pub
lie servant as Washington has
known in half century. What
price glory!
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Evening star., 1954-04-12

idence it can't. use now. That
is why the issue is before
Congress.
Our instructive antipathy
toward Paul Pry procedures as
a people was revealed by our
representatives in Congress.
While the House of Represent
atives voted to permit wire
tapping to get evidence against
spies and saboteurs and to per-
NIT use of such in courts, it
refused to give the Attorney
General the power he asked
to be sole judge of when wires
should be tapped. Instead, it
adopted an amendment spon-
sored by Democrats requiring
that he must get court ap-
proval in each instance of wire
tapping.
This is not a reflection on
Attorney General Brownell,
though it is no secret that he
has few friends among Dem
ocrats. What was reflected
was doubt about giving blank
ct power to the occupant of an
Office when no one could tell
who might occupy it at an
Evening star., 1954-04-12
Dovid Lowrence

This is the tragic &Md un-
told story Of a man who helped
make American history in its
most critical period, who sat
next to a President of the
United States at the White
House for eight years and in
fluenced some of, the most
significant policies Of our
Government before and dur
ing World War I, and yet died
last week in virtual obscurity,
broken in mind and spirit.
Joseph Patrick Tumulty was
secretary to President Wood
row Wilson and no man since
his time has ever held a COM
parable position of influence.
Mr.. Tumulty had no corps
of administrative assistants
such as are supplied nova
days at the White House. He
had no press secretary, for he
handled all press relations
himself. He was not a men,
ber of the cabinet but had
more influence than all of
them combined. His genius
for discerning the trends of
public opinion and his un-
canny faculty of coming up
with a memorandum of policy
at opportune moments that
fitted the domestic or inter-
national situation, as the case
may be. would mean. if Presi-
dent Eisenhower had such a
man today, the difference be-
tween a divided and a united
party.
Always aware of the pro-
gressive and liberal trend of
American thinking, Mr.. Tu-
multy successfully influenced
Woodrow Wilson to be articu-
late at all times against re-
dictionary policies but never to
antagonize individual conserv-
atives in the Democratic
Party whose support was
needed in Congress for the
legislative program.
Most important of all, Mr..
Tumulty knew when a policy,
for example, of peace with
prosperity" could be espoused
as in the campaign of 1915
and he could be outSpokenly
belligerent when, as in 1917
Berlin again ordered her sub
marines to violate American
rights on the high seas. He
was never lacking at any time
in his advice to strike hard at
those who wanted to appease
imperialist Germany or to
cater to the "hyphenated
Americans" - those who al
lowed sympathy for the coun-
tries of their origin to becloud
their vision of what a truly
American policy toward Eu-
rope should be. Mr.. Tumulty
took a good deal of abuse from