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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
DUE PROCESS OF LAW

An absolute premise of our American
way of life is in the inviolability of
private property without due process
of law.
Consistent with the premise, during
the early days of World War II, we
seized German private property phys
ically located in America, so that it
could not be used to pay for the fight
against us. But now the fight is long
over-we have even ended rent con-
troll in the District.
How can we with due process of
law" continue to hold this private
property? Dayton M. Harrington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
CRITICAL OF MOUNT ALTO

Congress has decided that veterans
of the Washington area are adequately
served by ancient Mount Alto Hospital.
am sure that no member of Con-
gress in his right (politicaD mind
would ask for better treatment than
he accords veterans.
May suggest. therefore, that men,
bers of Congress who have to go to
the hospital while they are in the
Washington area be sent to Mount
Alto instead of to Bethesda.
One visit would change their minds
about the adequacy of this facility
which, believe, was built as girls
school in 1901.
Bernard II. Mullady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
School Case Decree

Now that the arguments are over, the
Supreme Court faces the formidable task of
preparing decree which will facilitate the
augmentation of its decision outlawing
segregation in the Nations public schools.
It is new high in understatement to say
that this is problem of considerable COM
plexity."
On the one extreme, the court has been
urged to command countrywide integra-
ton on some date in the relatively immedi-
ate future 1t is unlikely that any such rash
command will be forthcoming. At the other
extreme, there is the suggestion, implicit If
not express, that the court, having banned
segregation, should not permit the local.
ties to Illustrate the decision by resorting to
stalling tactics. It is equally unlikely that
anything of this sort will be even tacitly
approved in the decree.
The only remaining course is middle
one-something similar to that proposed by
Solicitor General Sobeloff. But many pit
falls will be found, even along the middle
way.
In some areas Of the Southland the
major problem, of course, is in the South
early indignation seems feasible. 1t may we'll
be that decree veSting discretion In Fed
eral district judges would serve nicely in
those regions. But the same thing does not
apply to all other areas.
One suggestion, for example, was that
a grant of discretion to the district judges
be accompanied by requirement that local
authorities must submit workable integra-
ton plan within 80 days. But what is
L., ale
which will be accepted by the public and
which can be put into operation. But how
can the local authorities submit such plan
in areas where public opinion is overwhelm-
ingly against integration?
This is but one of the problems which
lie ahead, but it, alone, is enough to caution
against impulsive demands upon the court
for hasty and drastic action. Any champion
of indignation who contends to the contrary
is not helping his own cause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
Unopprecioted Invitation

1t is no secret that Maryland and Vir-
GINA authorities will receive with some
thing less than enthusiasm the invitation by
the Federal Government to discuss plans for
the financing Of an auxiliary national air
port for Washington. Nor would it be sur
prising If the Governors of those States and
the representatives Of nearby counties were
puzzled by the suggestion of the Commerce
Department that they might participate
In the financing" of the project.
1t is hard to imagine any improvement
in the Washington area that Maryland
would be less interested in helping to pay
for than new air terminal here. Mary
lands legislators have made 1t clear that
their State is against any new airport in
the Washington Metropolitan Area. They
insist that Baltimore's partially used termi-
nal, Friendship Airport, should be desig-
mated as Washington's "co-terminal"
Virginia is no more interested in the
financing of new Washington airport than
is Maryland. It has problems of it's own to
worry about, including the finding of money
enough to provide adequate approaches for
new local airport, if it should be built in
nearby Virginia with someone else's money.
To ask it to contribute, besides, toward the
construction of an air terminal designed
primarily to serve the Nations Capital
would be presumptuous, in the opinion Of
many Virginians
And the District, faced with an acute
fiscal crisis, certainly is in no position to
add an airport to its already costly public
works progranl-especially an airport that
probably would not be needed but for the
traffic demands of the Federal Government
and those doing business with It,
To put it frankly, Commerce Undersec-
rotary Louis Rothschild will have to work
some sort of miracle If he is to succeed in
convincing these. State and local officials
that they should take over the main respon-
sibility, but with some Federal help, for
building and paying for another Washing
ton airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
A-Weopons and NATO

In approving the proposed agreement
on exchanging Aweapons information
within the North Atlantic Treaty Organize
ton, President Eisenhower has taken a
step that has long been needed to improve
the defenses of our own country and the
free West as a whole. He has done so in
keeping with the authority granted him by
the Atomic Energy Act which Congress
adopted last year to modernize the out
NODDED law of 1916, and his decision can
hardly fail to promote a marked increase
in NATO's effectiveness.
Thus, under the old law, our Govern
ment was debarred from revealing any
restricted atomic data to the Atlantic allies
AS result, NATO was seriously handicapped
in its efforts to make the most Of its poten-
tialities and keep itself as up to date as
are nuclear weapons themselves. In effect,
since it had to regard such weapons as a
more or less forbidden subject, and since
it therefore could not tailor its preparedness
operations to all the revolutionary implica-
tions involved it suffered serious def
cheney in its collective training of personnel
and in its mutual defense planning de-
ficiency that initiated against our own
security as well as the security of the other
members.
But now, as provided for by our revised
law and the new agreement announced by
the President, this deficiency happily will
become thing of the past. Although a
number of major restrictions will continue
In force, the old wall of self-defeating
secrecy will be sufficiently preached to
enable our Government to communicate
to the Atlantic alliance hitherto restricted
data essential to NATO in three respects:
(1) The development of joint defense plans,
(2) the training of personnel in the use
of and preparedness against AweaponS, and
90 the evaluation of potential enemy's
capabilities in the employment OF such
weapons. And in the exchange process
the United States will receive information
as we'll as give it out. For the other MEM
Der Enthusiastically Britain-will have
much to contribute in that sense.
All this may entail measure Of risk
because leakage Of secrets is possible in
any such interfiow Of information. How
ever, as Mr.. Eisenhower has said, it is not
an unreasonable" risk. On the contrary,
it makes sense. And this is so because a
continuance of the old secrecy between
ourselves and our NATO allies would have
the effect of being not only silly but mu-.
tually injurious. There can be no doubt,
in short, that the new way Of doing things
is much wiser and that 1t constitutes, in
the Presidents words, "a great stride for
ward In the strengthening OF our common
defense" within the Atlantic community.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
UNTIDY STREETCARs AND BUSES

A recent letter citing transit drivers
statement as to the cleanliness of
streetcars and buses was quite amusing
to me. as only yesterday remarked
to the driver Of the Car boarded at
the end of the line: do you remember
the old days when there was a man
with broom at the end of the line
to sweep out these cars?"
wonder sometimes how they get
by the health regulations with all the
food scraps, soiled tissues, peanut hulls.
etc. Old Timer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE

bf IHE HASklN SERVICE
@. Is the worlds tallest tree, the
Founders Tree in California. still
growing?-E. M.
A. In 1852. DR.. Ferdinand Lane re-
ported that the lofty redwood, 1854 feet
tall, was still growing and that it had
rivals. Another redwood not far away
had reached 36l feet.
O. Do birds have extra large hearts
compared with their body size?--
E. G. M.
A. The hearts Of birds are relatively
large for body size, and they beat faster
than the hearts of man and other
animals, While a frogs heart beats %
times minute, the heart Of a pigeon
beats 1875 times and that of humming-
bird 615 times minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
Letters to The Star.

politan Area get together and lay out
a problem-solution of traffic and mass
transportation in the area for the next
so years without marring any Of the
beautiful sights that make Washington
worth coming to see? Get the best
engineering brains in the country to
work on it. insisting on rigid adherence
to the above specifications. Then, when
they produce solution, pay the bill to
put it into effect. Spread the payment
over so years. In the end it would
probably cost less than a continuous
series of solutions that are obsolete
before their construction is finished.
The cost and the difficulty would prob
ably be very small compared with the
cost of building the first atomic bomb,
and the result would certainly be more
permanently beneficial.
F. r. Fosberg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
VOTE ON QUEMoY AND MATsU?

The problem of Quemoy and Matsu
is chance to test once and for all
whether collective security" is an
effective policy. John C. Caldwell
author Of 1.-THE Korea Story" and
"Still the Rice Grows Green" has
proposed that the people of Quemoy
and Matsu be given a chance to vote.
under U. N. supervision, whether they
wish to go to Red China or Free
China. II they chose Red China, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15

principle Of collective security which
the U. N. processes to support.
Let us write to our Senators and to
Secretary Dulles urging immediate
adoption of the Caldwell referendum
scheme. In this way the United States
can be certain it is doing the right
thing. neither being too reckless nor
appeasing.
Catherine Delaney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15

islands could "go to Red China without
a shot," If these people. however. voted
to stay with Chang. then the U. N. and
the free nations would be morally
obligated to help us defend them
against aggression, according to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
Friday

Friday is the day of the clock. Its hands
move far too swiftly for the work remaining
to be done. It should be day for planning
for the coming week, but ones desk is so
piled with the work of the week just ending
that planning is impossible. The hour Of
i've and the end VI the week are nearly here.
Friday is the day Of anticipation. It is
the day before the too-short week end, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15

Pen-ndn1es may be used. If letters carry
Drtters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer by mail
TO any question of fact by writing The
Eye st. N w.. Washington s. D. C.
Please inclose cents for return post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
LETTER OF COMMUNICATION

The Star Of April IL was distin-
guished. Your coverage of the Salk
vaccine story was broad, clear and well
organized. It was an edition to make
the reader tingle. Thanks for the way
you handled it.
MFR
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-03-01

Don't hesitate TO write MONTANA FARnrERsTOC-
MAN information
TO YOU Tel hina ~
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
LITTLE FLOWER CHURCH
Rev. A. M. D. GilIen, Pastor
SUMMER SCHEDULE

Mass on Sundays and Holy
Days from June IL to Sept. IL
will be as follows:
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29

NOTICE - Very important
broadcast. Sunday, July 81 at
tbs p. m. over KMON. 7-29-ltp
FOR SALE - Massey Harris tag
along Hay Mower, good con-
dition. Contact Sarah Lancast-
er at Babb. 7-29-ltp
LOST - White handbag contain
ing Rosary and pair of glasses.
Reward leave at Glacier Re
porter office or Post office.
Mrs. Mary Ground 7-27ltp
FOR SALE-22-foot All Alumi.
mum house trailer. Sleeps four.
New tires. Electric brakes.
gas range. Priced at Sl350.00.
Electric refrigerator. Butane
c. W. NICHOLS, Browning.
LOST-On July %, between
Browning and East Glacier,
one blue barracks bag; and
one air force brown B-4 bag.
Contents, women's travel and
camping clothing. For reward,
leave at Browning police sta
ton. 7,29ltp.
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
NOTICE

Applications will be accepted
not later than 1000 o'clock A. M,
August 4, 1855, and then publicly
opened at a Tribal Council meet
ing held for that purpose, for the
position as deputy Special Off
Ger of the Blackfeet Tribe.
Applicants must be at least Il
years of age, in good health and
have no physical infirmities
and must not have been convict
ed of a felony.
Starting salary for the position
is $4,000 per year, and successful
applicant must pay own expen-
ses. Applicant must have auto
mobile.
All applications should be ad-
dressed to the Secretary of the
Blackfeet Tribal Council and
should be clearly marked, "Ap-
plication for Deputy Special Off
Ger position with Blackfeet
Tribe"
ROBERT LA FROMBOISE
Chairman Blackfeet Tribal Coun-
Gil, Browning, Montana.
7-22-2tc
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
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CHURCHES
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METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. George S. Riehey, Pastor

Kew. George S. Riehey, Pastor
Friday, July 20, Rummage sale
in the Methodist church base.
ment. Begins at 10 a. m. and clos.
ing at 4 p. m. Any who has bead.
work please bring it.
Friday: Choir practice at
p. m.
Sunday: Sunday School at $50
a. m. Morning worship at 1890
a. m. Worship service at Babb
school at $3.50 p. m. All welcome.
Monday: Bible school at the
Starr school will begin at 10 a.
m. and be in session for two
hours each day, Monday through
Friday, for two weeks. 1t will be
under the guidance of Rev. Lo-
bell Bennett and Mrs. George
Ritchey. Interesting classes are
being planned for the morning
session, and there will be an hour
of handicraft work in connection
with the Bible study of the
morning.
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
CALL FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the
Glacier County Board of Com
missioners will receive bids un
til 900 a m. August Is, 1855, for
furnishing the County with the
following equipment:
1-30 Ton semi-trailer of low
boy or tilt design, equipped
with air brakes and not less
than 1000 tires.
The board reserves the right
to pay for same by one install.
ment in present fiscal year and
another installment in fiscal year
1956-57 or to pay for same at any
time in such period.
The board also reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Dated at Cut Bank, Montana
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
Indian-o Operated Farm
TO Be Conducted BY State

BOZEMAN - The Research
Foundation at Montana State
college has just been awarded
S20OOO in a research contract
and $4,000 in a research grant,
according to DR.. L. H. Johnson,
executive director of the founda-
ton.
Both the contract and the grant
we're negotiated by DR.. Roy E.
huffman, head of the Department
of Agricultural Economics and
Rural Sociology where the re-
search work will be carried on.
The research contract is with
the Bureau of Indian Affairs for
a two year period. 1t will involve
A farm management study of In
dian operated farms on two or
three reservations in Montana.
principal objectives of the study
are to improve the economic
status of Indian farm operators
and to assist them toward indie.
pendent operation of their lands.
A full-time staff member will
be hired to work on this study
during the two years of the con-
tract. DR.. c. B. Baker of the MISC
Agricultural Economics depart
ment, will be associated with DR..
Huffman in supervising this pro-
ject.
The research grant is from the
Farm Foundation of Chicago and
is for a study of materials in the
files of the department of Agri-
cultural Economics and Rural So
Geology.
Many valuable materials relat-
ed to the development of the
farm program in the late twent-
les and early thirties are contain
ed in the files and are available
in no other place. This is paricul-
arly true of the files left by DR..
VI L. Wilson first head of agri-
cultural economics at MISC and
later undersecretary of agricul-
ure and director of the federal
extension service.
Some visiting personnel will
probably asst with this study.
The MISC department is in the
third year of a research contract
between the Research Founda-
uon and the U. S. Department
Of Agriculture. This contract in
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29

Aioih up u DOttOm. AS
stated before, the tribal admins.
tration is D complex business, and
/ do not feel qualified to cover
the many and varied phases. II
the above suggestions were fol.
lowed, l am sure it would repre-.
sent savings enough to enable
the council to make a handsome
per capita payment. 1t appears
that the tribe is on the verge of
receiving larger sums of money
from possible oil development
than heretofore realized and now
is the time for members of the
tribe to demand that their inter.
ests' and rights be handled in a
more conservative manner.
Many councilmen have object
ed to the recent movement by the
minerals Committee" to have
the mineral rights restored on
certain allotments. am a men,
ber of this committee, however,
my personal opinion is that |
would be content to leave the
mineral rights to my allotment
in trust with the Blackfeet Tribe,
for the benefit of the tribe as a
whole, provided l could begin to
realize the share of tribal funds.
either through per capita pay
ments, or loan to engage in
farming or ranching, that / am
entitled to- There has been no
assurance that such a situation
will ever prevail, and therefore,
l am in favor of the present bill
in Congress which will restore
the mineral rights on land ori-
ginally allotted to me. Many
people in the same category as
myself have indicated the same
line of reasoning.
Under the present Tribal
Charter and Constitution people
have the right to circulate peti-
tions for betterment of tribal
governmental affairs, however,
unless adopted by resolution by
the Tribal Council, it is a useless
gesture. An election will be held
in the near future on two very
important amendments to the
Tribal Constitution. | feel very
strongly about these amendments
as they will finally give the
Blackfeet people a voice in their
government. The Council is ap-
parently opposed to these mea-
sureS, as indicated by a recent
letter published in this paper
to the Secretary of the Interior.
If were a member of the tribal
council, l would welcome a move
ment by the people which would
give them more voice in the gov
ernment and which would take
the heat and pressure" off me
as a councilman. One of the bas.
ic rights under the Constitution
of the United States is the right
of the people to petition their
government for measures which
they feel would be of most bene-
fit to their fellow men. Upon
petition with the required num-
Der of signers, our government
is required to meet the demands
of the people. l can think of
no logical reason why the Coun-
Gil should be opposed to these
measures which are nothing more
than a matter of good govern
ment.
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
SPECIAL MILL ELECTION

The school board of District
Nc. Z have called a special levy
election for tomorrow Saturday
asking for 70 mills with which
to operate the school during the
new term. The millage is design.
ed to raise $4,000. The election
will be held in the Cold Feet
School in the afternoon, the polls
to be opened at l.
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
GERARD LETTER
Continued From Page II


prevalent, feel so per cent for
per capita is sufficient.
S. l favor very much the ranch.
ing, farming and business loan
program for worthy members of
the tribe. further feel that the
relief, sick and medical grants
as we'll as educational grants arc
of equal importance to per capita
payments. Unfortunately, these
programs have become defeated
through favoritism and have
amounted largely to nothing
more than a per capita payment
for a great many people. Specula.
tion has loans receivable we'll ov-
er one million dollars. l have no
way of knowing what this figure
might be, however, the last tribal
audit did indicate close to one
half million dollars in delinquent
loans. Perhaps the amount is
close to one million. Regardless
of the amount, due to loose loan
ing methods in the past and pre-
sent, a vast majority of deliquent
loans represent nothing more
than per capita payment as
many people have no means, or
the intention of paying these
loans back. The common expires.
sion is "No one else worries a.
bout paying their loans back,
why should l." l believe that all
loaning by the Tribal Council
should be stopped until a wise
program could be worked out
whereby an individual would not
be able to borrow money unless
he had sufficient collateral to
cover the amount of the loss. A
program of collection and fore
closure should be initiated by the
Council and individuals borrow
ing money should be apprised
of the fact that default of pay
ment would place them in the
position of being foreclosed, un-
less valid reasons could be offer
ed.
The loaning program is one
that | feel can stand a lot of re-
vision. l do not believe that a
program of collection and fore.
closure could be successfully
handled by the tribal council be-
cause of friendship and relation
ship of tribal members. This pro-
gram should be turned over to
a group of disinterested outsid-
ers, or placed in the hands of tri-
bal attorneys who realize a hand
some yearly fee for legal counsel
for the tribe Many people have
told me that if an equitable sys.
tenn of collection were set up,
they would be among the first
to pay their obligations.
Several years ago an entirely
new council was voted in and
for one felt relief, thinking that
at last l would begin to realize
something of my proportionate
share of tribal funds. This was
wishful thinking. AS it turned
out. the only thing new. was the
tribal council. The time is at
hand for an overhauling of tribal
The Glacier reporter., 1955-07-29
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF lATTER-DAY SAINTS

Sunday school at ~ am. al Cut
Bank Boarding school.
Sacrament meeting 11:3O am.
at Cut Bank Boarding school.
Fireside at 7:30 pm.
Tuesday-Relief Society at 7:3O
Priesthood at 8 pm.