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Evening star., 1954-08-13
170 Arlington Students
Set for Double Shifts

Some ITO pupils Of the Oak.
ridge and Henry Elementary
Schools in Arlington will be on
double shifts when classes begin
next month.
Yesterdays announcement was
the second this week about Ar
lington school children having
to go to school under such ar
rangements. 1t earlier had been
announced that $500 pupils of
the Williamsburg, Stratford and
Swanson Junior High School
likewise would be started on a
halliday basis.
School officials said, however,
that as far as they can foresee
no further double shift sessions
will be necessary this year, al.
though there will be some ad.
justmentS made.
Those from the two elemen-
tary schools slated for halliday
classes are first-grade pupils.
Half will attend classes from 8
am. to noon, the rest from
1890 pm. to 4:30 pm.
Teachers for these classes will
work a full teaching day, school
officials said. Besides teaching
their own classes, each teacher
will work one hour daily help
ing one Of the other teachers on
the shift schedule, giving indi-
vidual instruction to pupils need
ing such aid or working with
small groups.
Among adjustments to be made
to meet crowded conditions are
those involving f1rst-grade pu-
pills from the Mckinley Elemen-
tary School, who will be taken
by bus to classrooms at the Mar
shall School annex, and 80 sixth
graders from Woodmont School,
who will be taught at Taylor
School.
Evening star., 1954-08-13
1000 Fairfax
TOGO on
Double Shifts
School Boord Adopts
Schedule for II
Schools in County

-Four thousand Fairfax County
first and second graders win b0
placed on double shifts when
school opens September /.
A double shift schedule for II
county school was adopted by
the Fairfax School Board last
night. School officials declared.
however. that the County should
be able to cut this number In
half by February l with the
completion of new schools and
additions . now under construc-.
ton.
The County only had about
1000 on half day shift last year,
but the number was more than
1000 in the previous year.
5000 Jump In Rolls.
An anticipated increase Of s.
600 in enrolment is the major
cause of the half day program.
A total enrolment of 28,700 10
expected.
Schools affected are Amman.
dale. Bailey's, Belle View, Cam.
eron, Chesterbrook, Franconia,
Freedom Hill. Garfield, Graham
Road, Groveton, Holm Hall, Oak
Street. Vienna. Westlawn, West
more. Weyanoke. and Woodburn.
-Four Of these are expected to 60
OF half day shift by mid-Decem-
'ber. and the other six are due to
go off double shift by Feb
ruary /.
Contract Awarded.
The School Board accepted .
bid Of $319,372 for construction
Of the new 16-room Timber Lane
Elementary School to be built
near National Memorial Park.
The contract was awarded to
Culpeper Building and Supply
Co.
On motion Of Fred w. Robin
son, the board granted $4,000
to each Of the county's six high
schools to buy band instruments.
This is the first time the county
school board ever appropriated
funds for. the purchase of band
instruments. Parent organiza-
tions and student activities have
raised for all instruments in the
past, although the school board
has contributed to the mainte-
nance of such instruments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
Is Our Congress Cowardly?

our fundamental law, the Constitu-
ton, that every admitted lawyer has
sworn TO support, provides that Con-
gress shall declare war. Yet, for years
we fought in Korea a major war not
declared by Congress. So far as know
Marcantonio was the only member of
the House or Senate to protest on the
floor (officially) that Mr.. Truman had
exceeded his powers when he sent our
army into Korea.
q am still unconverted. 1 think Syng-
man Rhee was the aggressor. A year
before that war broke out, a delega =
ton of North Koreans went to Seoul,
the South capital to arrange a Union.
The chief of that delegation was as
sassinated in Seoul.).
And now, Vice President Nixon pre-
sumes to say that if the French with
draw from Indo- China, American SOL
diers may go into their trenches. "On
what meat does this, our Caesar, feed,
that he is grown so great? Is he bid
ding for the support of the munitioners
for himself for president in the next
Republican convention in this per-
sonal declaration of war. And if Mr..
Eisenhower were to die suddenly,
would our Congress be so cowardly as
to allow, without Impeachment, Presi-
dent Nixon, the DuPonts and General
Motors to send Americans by hundreds
of thousands to their deaths in the
swamps and jungles of the Mekong
River?
Wake up Americans!
No private soldier cOnscripted in
France proper can be sent to IndO-
China. French officers are there in
force, and have been killed in droves.
But the Government of France is not
sending any French men as privates
into the fever, malaria, tiger, snake
infested land to die against brave ma
tives fighting from jungles for their
country
The French armies in Indo-China
consist of Colonials from Algiers,
Morocco and other French held lands.
And this our Vice President would
send the Flower of our Manhood to
die (for our war economy where not
even the French themselves have gone,
or will go.
Carthage fell by fighting with
mercenaries. The Roman armies were
Romans.
See the facts. Last year America
gave $500 million for Frances war in
Indo China. France put up only $500
million. Are we already actually fight
ing a losing war there with mercen-
aries?
King Georges Hessian mercenaries,
though better equipped, fled before
George Washington's embattled farm
ers, usually ragged and often bare
footed
Call a keen accountant. Break down
that $500 million. Tell us how much
profit DUPONT, General Motors, got
out of it.-LOWNDES MAURY, Butte
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
These Were Not Communists

In the beginning of the Eisenhower
administration it was necessary to
have someone to carry out his Kassan
1909 parity farm program-Sec. Ben
son fell heir to this important post.
Mr. Benson has twelve legal advis-
ers (nine of them have since resigned
because of E. T. b. His advisory
counsel was large. These very able
men were asked what should be done
about a large amount of field seed &C.
quired during the parity program. The
result was to form corporation COM
posed of five members from five large
wholesale field seed houses. These es-
Unable gentlemen agreed to take
the seed for at least the cost of govern
ment storage. Then came the result
of the farm acreage reduction, leaving
millions of acres of idle lands. Many
farmers will, to prevent soil erosion
seed this acreage in part at least and
will pay more than the former parity
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
AD-X2 BATTERY ADS
FALSE, F.T.C. SAYS

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-
AD-X2, the controversial battery re-
juvenator, is right back where it
was when the Eisenhower admins
tration took over IA months ago.
Federal Trade Commission recent
ly said its maker, Jess M. Richie,
was using false and misleading ads.
AD-X2, ETC says, won't do what
Richie claims. FTC's hearing will
be May 10.
DR.. Allen V. Astin, bureau of
standards chief, had said AD-X2 is
worthless. The new Commerce Secre-
tary Sinclair Weeks had barely be-
gun work last year when he said DR..
Astin hadn't been sufficiently OBJ
jective" about AD-X2. He fired AS
tin, said AD-X2 should be tested in
the market place. Scientists and 9TH
ers stormily protested Astin's firing,
and Weeks backed down. Astin's find
ings that AD-X2 is worthless were
substantiated by Senate committee
and a group of scientists Weeks APP
pointed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
New Kind of Revolution
In Latin America
Editor, Beople's voice:

Editor, beOpie VOICE.
Recently an editor of News Week
magazine, who had just returned from
a visit to Latin America, wrote the
following quotation as to the condi-
tions he found there. Seeds of new
kind of revolution are sprouting
throughout Latin America and the
harvest may be a bitter one for the
United States"
Revolutions as such, of course, are
commonplace; but most upheavals of
the past consisted of one group of
"hares"-a clique of landowners or
army officers, for example-seizing
power from another group of "hares.
The peon at the bottom-the hare
mat" was often untouched by these
violent changes of government. What's
brewing today is different; it's has
nots against hasses The peon Will be
the invisible delegate to the Caracas
conference"
This man was able to see beneath
the surface conditions.
During the last Christmas season,
the Pope in one of his pronouncements
made the statement, that seven out
of ten of the people in our world are
undernourished. T h e s e statements
underline the fact that the troubles,
the revolutions, in our world today
are produced by poverty, and back OF
this poverty, the institutions OF eX-
DIO1taI1OnS. MUCH Oh lHlS pONtl ~ 10 III
lands of rich natural resources, where
the rulers and eXploiters live in lux
ury. The exploiters are usually foreign
investors and native landlords and cor
rupt politicians
A look at the trouble spots Will
reveal the fact that this is the com
mon cause in all of them. Indo-Ch1na
was the most profitable of the French
colonial empire. 1t was reported that
before the Japanese army moved in
the French were taking out more than
100 million in profits each year. Indo-
China also had an age-old feudalist1c
landlord system. The French are now
fighting to get back these profits To
do this, they're trying to reinstate
the emperor and his landlords. In Iran,
where there is enormous wealth in
oil. the peasants have to live in mud
huts and caves; one reporter, who was
in Iran during the war, said the Amer
leans wouldn't keep their dogs in the
kind of quarters which Iranians have
to live in But it is the foreign oil
companies, the landlords and corrupt
politicians who profit from these de-
posts.
In Egypt, where trouble is now fast
developing, the mass of the people
have to live on less than 81 month.
They're exploited by foreign banking
and business interests and the local
landlords and politicians. In Kenya,
page, Time magazine reported that the
natives did all of the work, nursed
the babies and dug the graves for the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
"LABOR" READERS HELP
F.T.C.'S HEALTH RISK AID
STUDY

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Federal Trade Commissions look at
fraudulent health insurance ads is
getting some unexpected help from
LABOR and scores of its readers.
LABOR, weekly newspaper of Is
rail unions, asked its readers to tell
their experience with false and mis-
leading health insurance ads, and by
March 27 nearly 100 had written in.
LABOR turned the letters over to
Charles A. Wolverton (R-N.JD, chair
man of the House commerce commit
tee, whose group is preparing health
legislation, and Wolverton forward
ed all those indicating false or mis-
leading advertising claims to ETC.
Summarizing the replies, LABOR
said, "The most common dodge is to
cancel the policy Immediately after
the first claim for benefits is sub
mitted. The claim itself, often a
small one, is paid. But then-just
when the policyholder is apt to need
health protection most-the company
drops his policy or tries to sell him
a new one with limited coverage or
with much higher premiums"
THE MACHINIST, weekly paper
of international Association of Ma
chinists, has also spotlighted gyps
in health insurance. Group insurance
is best, the MACHINIST said, and
next comes the non-cancellable, guar
INTERCHANGEABLE type of private pol
icy. Worst is the optional-renewable
private policy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
A farmer can't get federal price
support loans on his 1854 crop I'M
less he finds satisfactory storage for
it. If he can't, he'll take whatever
the market brings-usually a lot less
than parity.
Anyone who buys the farmers
grain and can find storage is en-
titled to price-support loan on it.
The elevator man, terminal grain
operator, pit speculator, exporter,
miller, or feed maker thus stands
to gain windfall profit at the farm
er's expense if storage is short and
the buyer has some bins of his own.
When the wheat harvest starts
rolling next month in Texas and
Oklahoma, farmers face "the big
gest storage job ever" USDA says.
With record-breaking carry-overs of
wheat and corn the nation may be
short $50 million bushels of storage.
The farmer himself, his grain
co-ops, and other grain handlers
can provide this storage. If they
do, they get tax incentive. They
get to write off the cost of new
bins in five years, instead of over
the normal life of the facilities.
The government also guarantees
that the storage will be used. If it
isn't, Uncle Sam pays rent on the
empty space until five years are up.
Farmers can also get federal 40
loans to build storage, up to three
fourths of it's value Grain co-ops
can generally get other loans from
the banks for co-ops. Private han
dlers have private financing avail
able.
The government is helping, too.
USDA let contracts April Is to build
100 million bushels of storage in
the corn belt and wheat country. But
Ter Manufacturing company will build
one-third of them. But whether farm
ers can find enough storage so they
can get 900 parity for their crops
remains to be seen.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
U. S. Oil Giants Join
Monopoly Abroad

TEHRAN-(CNS)-Five giant u.
S. oil firms are going to do here
what they can't legally do at home.
They're planning to form trust
with British, Dutch, and French com
panies to take over the big Abadan
refinery and nearby oil fields that
Iran nationalized three years ago. The
firms have kept all but trickle of
oil and oil products from moving out
of Iran since then.
The U. S. firms are Socony-Vac-
uum, Standard of New Jersey, Stand
ard of California, Texas, and Gulf.
They'll own 400 of the stock. Anglo
Iranian Oil Company, which owned
the refinery before naturalization,
will own another 400. Royal Dutch
Shell will own 14%. Campagnie
Franchise des Petroles will get go.
Attorney General Herbert Brown
ell has granted the big five immu-
nifty from antitrust prosecution, thus
enabling them to join the combine.
Under the defense production act,
President Eisenhower offered to
grant them similar immunity, but the
firms felt this pledge would expire
when and if the law expires. They
held out for broader immunity with
no time limit.
Herbert Hoover, Jr., is negotiator
for the firms and the State Depart
ment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
Ike Drops Ali Funds
For IVA Construction

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
With atomic enegy production soon
taking three-fourths 0 Tennessee
valley power, the huge slash in IVA
funds will make a power shortage
there exceedingly serious" Cover
nor Frank G. Clement of Tennessee
said April 10.
The Eisenhower administration cut
all funds for new IVA construction.
IVA had asked again for funds to
start its Fulton steam plant and to
add generating units at three dams.
TWAS funds for 1953-54 were
$1SS million. 1t asked for 1924
million for next year. The presi-
dent eliminated all construction
funds and asked congress to give
IVA $142 million. The house cut
this to $1O3 million.
"Unquestionably IVA is the pri-
mary target of anti-public power
forces" says Citizens for IVA. by
Gripping the system, they hope to
break the IVA yardstick-a yard
stick that reduced the national aver
age electric rate 500 in 20 years"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30

departed, were paid only seven cents
a day.
The fact that these poverty stricken,
illiterate peoples are awakening to the
fact of their exploitation and that a
better way of life is possible amid so
much natural wealth, is an encourage
ing sign. This shows we are moving
toward better world. Any real under
standing of the situation should dispel
our fears
1t is our business to know what is
happening and to help encourage this
movement, instead of trying to sup
press it. To use force, to take the side
of the eXploiters, will only make the
situation much worse and prolong the
agony of the world.-JOHN McGUF-
FEY, Roman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
Only Volunteer Army

Did you notice what the good Demo-
Gratis in congress did to the veterans
appropriation bill??
1t was passed by voice vote. Just
a cheap parliamentary trick, so the
veterans have no record vote" to show
how the various members voted on
the bill, whose appropriation was re-
duced nearly one hundred million dol
lars.
Something you may not know, or
may have forgotten, that the war with
Spain (The Spanish American war;
was the only war we had that was
fought by a volunteer army.-JOHN
r. PAGE, Phillipsburg.
EDITORS NOTE: Since it was
voice vote" how does one tell it was
the Democratic minority who cut the
veterans appropriation?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
CREDIT UNION, COOP
FILMS IN FESTIVAL

CHICAGO-Among 400 films en-
tered in the recent Golden Reel Film
Festival here were "King's X" pro-
duced by Credit Union National AS
ISOLATION, and "We," by Southern
States Cooperative.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30

price Thus this apostle of political
economy will be able to show that
parity does not pay-Though the vol
ume of reduction in retail sales show
otherwise, it will very likely never be
seen by the average voter.
political quirk should merit a S64
quiz.-JOHN BARNARD, Poison.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30
The Readers Forum

"Democracy is based upon the con-
yfction that there are extraordinary
possibilities In ordinary peopIen-
DIR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF
THE STATE OF MONTANA, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF LEW
is AND CLARK
SUMMONS
24333

Is AND CLARk
SUMMONS
24333
NELLIE SORGE, Plaintiff
VS..
ROBERT SORGE, Defendant
THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends
Greetings to the Above Named Defend
ants, and to Each of Them:
You Are Hereby Summoned to an
swer the complaint in this action which
is filed in the office of the Clerk of
this Court copy of which is here
with served upon one of you in each
County wherein any of you reside, and
to file your answer and serve a copy
thereof upon the plaintiffs attorney
within twenty days after the service
of this Summons, exclusive of the day
of service, and in case of your failure
to appear or answer, Judgment will be
taken against you, be default, for the
relief demanded in the complaint. This
is an action for an absolute divorce
on the grounds of mental cruelty and
physical cruelty. For more particulars,
please refer to the Complaint on file
herein, which is by this reference made
a part of this Summons.
Witness my hand and seal of said
said Court this 26th day o April,
1854.
DAVID r. KEMP, Clerk
H. C. HARLEM, Deputy Clerk
(SEAL)
O'CONNELL e. DAILY
Attorneys for Plaintiff
305 Barber-Lydiard Bldg.
Great Falls, Montana
Times-April 80, May Z, IA, 21
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-30

Twenty-Five per cent of all driv
ers involved in fatal auto accidents
in the U. S. last year were under 20
wears old.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Paradise Dam

By E. ]. PARKINSON, Great Falls
There are always two sides to every
| question, the affirmative and the mega
tive. The case of Paradise Dam as op.
posed to Buffalo Rapids Dam is no ex-
| ception to the rule except that there
is plenty of affirmative propaganda
| appearing in the papers all the time,
| but practically none on the negative
side of the debate. 1t is necessary that
we hear both sides before we can ar
rive a an intelligent decision. In the
! interest of full and complete informa-
| ton on the subject, L will endeavor to
present the negative side.
Paradise Dam, estimated cost, prices
as of today, $350,000,000, or $1,000 per
kilowatt of prime power installed, at
taxpayers expense.
Buffalo Rapids Dam, estimated cost,
less than $3.50 per XIV, at no expense
to the taxpayer.
Cheap Government power" is only
a meaningless slogan. 1t is cheap only
when sold for less than cost. It's real
name is "Give-away Government pow
err"
Paradise Dam will inundate 121 miles
of extremely fertile river valley lands,
destroying and removing it from pro-
duction forever. This is more damage
than could be prevented by all the
flood protection of all the dams in
the Columbia River.
Buffalo Rapids Dam will only inun-
date miles of river valley, mostly
narrow canyon bottom.
OF the present day estimated cost of
Paradise Dam at $3.50, 900, 900, railroad
relocation around the 70 mile long res
ervoir is estimated at $100,000,000. That
is more than it cost to build the Mil
waukee Railroad 1000 miles across
several mountain ranges between Mo-
bridge, S. D., and Seattle, Wash. All
this at taxpayers expense of course,
before they even start the dam itself.
No railroad relocation will be re-
quired at Buffalo Rapids Dam.
A great amount of printers ink is
expended on propaganda extolling the
virtues of interruptible power, over
and above the prime power of any
plant. Such power is of negligible value.
There are very few industrial opera
tions, probably less than 49, that can
function economically on an inter-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02

! The present have-to-do in the natter
| of the Democrats regaining control OF
| Congress presents somewhat amusing
| situation. Just what are their inten.
tons or the scope of their program
| if and when they succeed? Do they
intend to stop the pilfering of the pub
lie domain, or just slow it down. And
| again, how are they to further any
| decent Legislative program in the face
| of opposition from their democratic
colleagues from the South?
Franklin d. Roosevelt accomplished
a lot toward social and economic i'm
prOVement for the people, but he is
very dead and his principles were
buried with him. Now the fanfare of
the reactionaries is to scream twenty
years of treason" against the only ma
tiOnal administration that ever made
an honest effort to solve the difficulties
of the present economic system.
That this effort was a failure, with
Q million unemployed in 1888, takes
nothing from the many good achieve
ments that were cOnSumated. The pri-
mary achievement perhaps being the
presentation of irrefutable evidence
that the Democratic party in its pres
ent form does not have the answers,
and that the only solution is a strong
farmer-labor party willing to purge
itself of the corruption and feudalism
now apparent in the Democratic party
apparatus.
1t was disheartening a few months
ago to hear psychopathic SANDER
mOngers going the length and breadth
of the land defiling the name of the
late Franklin d. Roosevelt Especially
so, while Democrats of prominence,
many of whom he had literally made
politically, sat on their posterior eX-
tremities, muttered mild platitudes
through their whiskers about being |
shock ed-and of all things, remon-
strated the abusers for their lack of |
fair play.
This obvious lack of fortitude had |
1ne wondering whether these people |
we're actually taken back by these sour
'ilous falsehoods, or were just angry
md hurt because they, themselves,
acked the nauseous proclivities to out
Mccarthy Mccarthy.
What might be q splendid definition
# the Democratic party comes from
10 less an authority than the Chairman
If one of it's Central Committees in
1os Angeles County, California;
"One-quarter Stevenson, one-quarter
)ixiecrat, and half scared. JOHN d.
jockey, Billings.