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The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1955-05-27

The Bison Creek Ranch will
open its season Sunday, May 20.
R. w. Harris, Browning high
school ag instructor, was one of
the speakers at the kickoff din
ner given by the Shelby Cham.
Der of Commerce as a courtesy
to the Marias Fair personnel last
Thursday evening. Harris is now
superintendent of the agricultur-
al exhibit division of the Marias
Fair, which includes activities of
the member counties and the
FLA.
Paul Ironpipe left Monday for
Galen, where he will receive
treatment at the sanitorium.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hall and
daughter, Kathy, and MIR. Halls
mother, Mrs. Emma Hall, arriv-
ed today for visit with Mrs.
Halls parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Wright. Mr.. Hall will return to
his home Tuesday, the other rel
atives to remain for two weeks.
Miss Lillian Cook, public health
nurse, is visiting relatives at Fer
gus Falls, Minnesota.
See Glacier Plumbing &
Heating for all Pipe and Fix.
lures Adv
Joe Lavarro, former Browning
resident and now of Spokane, is
here visiting relatives.
Mrs. Ella Burd and family of
Spokane are in Browning this
week, having arrived ea1ly Mon.
day to attend the funeral of Bill
Buffalohide.
Mrs. Lloyd Crowell and child,
rem, Karen, kahy and David, will
leave today for Shelby to join
Mr.. Crowell, who several weeks
ago was transferred from the
Boss Tribal Store here to Shell
by, where he will be manager OF
the Boss Farm Market there. Mr.
Crowell's family has remained
here that the children could com
plete their school work.
Fred Boss was here from Shell.
by Tuesday confer with his
new Tribal Store manager, Earl
SilvaS.
Mrs. Robert Douglas and Mrs.
Vina Chattin spent time in Great
Falls Monday.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1955-05-27

Pleading guilty to a charge of
burglary at Browning April 7,
Louis Calfrobe was sentenced to
IS months in federal prison by
Federal Judge w. D. Murray at
Butte May 10. His plea for pro-
baton was denied.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
An Honor Earned

It is high honor that the international
Court of Justice has accorded to Green H.
Hackworth, American member and Wash
ington resident, in electing him to three
year term as president of that body
During a distinguished legal career,
Mr. Hackworth has concentrated primarily
on the field of international law. From 1925
until his appointment to the world court in
1916, he served as Legal Adviser to the State
Department and was the principal United
States legal representative at nearly score
of international conferences. He was ad-
wiser to the United States delegation at
the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1914
and the San Francisco Conference in 1945,
when the United Nations Charter was
drawn up. The International Court is the
principal judicial organ of the United
Nations and Mr.. Hackworths appointment
to this tribunal in 1946 was an appropriate
recognition of his interest and experience
in this field. In turn, his election to the
presidency is recognition by his colleagues
on the court Of his fine service there.
Evening star., 1955-02-12

Many Americans who know the story
of Abraham Lincoln forward and back
ward, still may not have discovered the
wonder of his face.
They may do so at no more cost than
50 cents, by getting copy of the Signet
Key book published recently by Mentor
THE Life of Abraham Lincoln"
by Stefan Lorant.
Here are more than 1870 portraits and
other pictures. full page after page OF
them, good cuts, showing Lincoln from
his earliest days to his martyrdom.
These photographs, made by the first
great photographers. and still wonder
full, show fey face, one which drew
tragedy to it.
It is impossible. we believe. to look
over these photos without feeling tears
come to the eyes.
The story is old. Walt Whitman told
it tellingly in when Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd."
But the face is ever new.
There was sorrow there. Gloom,
melancholy, these were more than a
matter of beard or lack of it, more than
lines in the face.
The whole face spells one doomed, in
the first place, and now going to his
doom.
1t is this tragedy, which history
makes explicit, that Is enwrapped in
this face.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
By Charles E. TroceweN

Here was man who joked and was
rude, yet who was gloomy and glorious.
He looked beyond the senses into the
we'll of the ages, and did not like what
he saw, and showed it.
He could not help how he looked to
us. That is his gift to us.
He was plain, honest, artistic.
Every person who honestly tries to
write must feel indebted to this man,
who also was a writer, a coiner Of
glorious sentences and phrases, user
of words as Shakespeare and the
translators of the Bible used them.
h
The book may be obtained in cloth in
an edition published by McGraw-Hill
Book Co. The author and collector
Of photographs also has a larger and
more expensive collection, called
Lincoln. Picture Study of His Life"
published by Harper and Brothers.
Surely, Abraham Lincoln must have
been one of the most photographed men
of all time, as he was one of the first.
Today's Americans are fortunate in
this Those Civil War photographs are
a record of men and their times second
to none in all history.
Most fortunate of all, these pictures
of Lincoln show him to us as he must
have been. The pose, the clothes, the
beard-these are of their time; the face
itself is timeless. 1t too. now belongs TO
the ages.
Evening star., 1955-02-12

cent-they are now set at so per cent-as
against 10 and Is per cent buying that was
permitted in that earlier period. Buying Of
common stocks by investment trusts and by
pension funds, not practice IS years ago.
gives new stability to the market since
these purchasers are not in-and-out traders
whose daily manipulations might upset the
price trend. Furthermore, Federal laws
enacted in 1888 and 1884 have done great
deal to eliminate dishonest dealings in
securities and to regulate the markets in
ways which protect the public interest.
Even so, a bull market such as we have
experienced during the past six months has
had sufficient impact to justify an exam
ination by responsible committee of Con-
gress. 1t has, for example, been tempting
to those who dream Of quick riches, and
prices have been stimulated accordingly.
II there have been unwholesome forces at
work to make speculation rather than in
veStment the predominant interest in the
market, the Fulbright committee will be
doing a service in exposing them.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
This and That

Not that the man was at all fey in
the modern sense of elf1n, or visionary.
His face goes back to the real archaic
meaning of one fated or doomed to die.
This aspect of Lincoln is story
never seen so well as in photograph
after photograph.
Then the sense of working with fate,
in the sense of Greek tragedy, strikes
home.
He, evidently. was man of so many
elements. that nature might look up
and call him Man.
It is all in the faces.
The young man, beardleSs and deter
mined. all summed up in one ma3nifi-
cent photograph taken August l3, 1850;
the first bearded photographs, taken by
the great Mathew B. Brady, especially
those in 1868, the year of the Emanci-
patton Proclamation; the last photo
graphs, in 1865.
He certainly was not pretty man,
not handsome one, in what we think
of when using such words.
He tore the covers off. and let us see
what was inside. 1t is greatly to the
credit of those early photographers that
they succeeded, where so many photog-
raphers today might have failed, be-
cause those first ones were working with
the original wet plates. Somehow these
seemed to catch glimpses Of futurity
which we sense somehow with the
souls eye.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
When Silence Is Golden

The Star editorial on the Formosan
situation. when Silence Is Golden, -
gave full approval to the President S
refusal at his news conference to spe-
cifically answer questions on admins
tration policy for defense OF the island,
and commented: "Mr. Eisenhower said
the purpose of the policy is to make
certain that mo conflict occurs through
mistaken calculations on the other side
as to our concern about Formosa and
our discrimination to defend it." II the
President is SO fearful of mistaken
calculations by the Communists. then
why leave them and the American
people in the dark as to our intentions
with respect to Quemoy and MatSu, the
outer bastions of Formosa?
The Star says: This is not the sort
of thing that produces headlines. But
it is truly the course of wisdom in a
situation in which an unguarded COM
ment by the President might prove to
be the spark to touch off an explosion" !"
However, in the report of this news
conference on page AS we find the
headline, pledge to Fight for Quemoy,
Matsu Is Denied Chang; and "A
rejection was indicated by everything
President Eisenhower said on Formosa
policy at his news conference yesterday.
Inquiry in official quarters brought the
information that Chiang's plea. re-
ported from Taipeh earlier this week
would not be granted" This will be
good news to the Chinese Reds.
It looks like the President and "offl-
cial quarters" as well as the editorial
and headline writer's Of The Star,
should get together.
Old ReactiOnary.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
Told by q Confederate Sentry

i1as Ualkin0 guard at Characteristic.
And the midnight air held an April chill.
All the tents iDere dark; all the guns
tOere still.
thought at first that tree had
moUed.
AtDhile matched: and 1t then behooued
Ny sentry's sense that the thing be
proDed:
"Hdlt! Who goes there?"
My cry rang out on the frosty air,
While frosty fingers piucked my hair.
Are you friend or foe?"
iDdnted to knoU.
And a Doice responded, gentle and
sloW::
81 wds standing there near the other
camp.
heard your steady sentry tramp,
And saw your little sentry lamp.
thought I'd come for a ,oord With
vou."
He ,odlked Nth me a turn or t,0o.
While a Leftover Wird from ,1inter bletD.
kno,D / shiuered once or twice.
For an April night can be cold as ice.
And the April air can stab and slice.
He turned to 90 and he DiShed me tOeit.
Just phat he did ! could not tell.
But about my back some toarm thing
teH.
I matched the figure, oaunt and tall
Vanish through the nights dense wnu::
Then touched my hand to knitted
shdpl.
George /. Kress
Evening star., 1955-02-12
A Study of the Market

Early indications of the course to be
followed in the Senate Banking Committee
study Of security dealings offer promise that
this will be an informative and constructive
undertaking. For Chairman Fulbright has
made careful distinction between a
"study" on one hand and an investigation" :"
on the other, that might be launched on
presumption that there is some evil-doing
which must be uncovered.
The old boom-and-crash pattern OF
stock market trading has created a suspicion
In some sectors of public opinion over the
years that there is sinister quality to this
manner of dealing in securities. Actually,
the great achievements Of American busi-
ness and industry probably would not have
taken place without existence OF organized
markets through which investment capital
is enlisted While there have been specula-.
tive exceSseS in the markets--and these
have had harmful effects upon the overall
economy-trading in securities is neces-
sity. Over long period, the prices paid
for these securities represent the public
evaluation of the merits of specific COM
panies or industries, and of prospects for
the future The current bull market, for
example, began before there were other
tangible signs that business was pulling out
of the 1854 recession, and through most Of
this rising market there has been emphasis
on the so-called growth stocks.
A comparison of today's lively market
with that of predepression 1929 can be
very misleading For one thing, todays high
security prices have resulted from strong
investment cash demand as contraSted with
top-heavy credit buying that marked the
1929 period. Postwar margin requirements
have huctuated between so and 100 per
Evening star., 1955-02-12
Reossessment Problem

The General Accounting Office has
revealed little that was not already known
about the inadequacies OF the Districts real
estate assessment system. District officials
long have been concerned over their inabil-
ity, with existing facilities, to make CITY,
wide, thorough reappraisal of real property
in Washington. It has been estimated that
1t would take a staff of about 200 assessors
to do the job on a rush schedule The pres
ent staff of ten assessors can operate only
on hit-or-nliss basis, concentrating on
larger holdings promising more revenues.
This is an inequitable procedure, at best,
and one that deprives the District Of an
inestimable amount of taxes which 1t ought
to be collecting.
Robert L. Long, GAO director of audits,
after long study of the Districts assess
ment problems, has suggested that an at
tempt be made to cover the field through a
Questionable to all property owners. The
questions would bear on original cost, i'm
provements added, and uses made OF the
building or land. This plan would place
heavy reliance on forthrightness Of the
replies, as a wholesale check Of statements
made would entail ALMOST as much work as
a house to- house survey. Perhaps SAM
pling check, such as the Internal Revenue
Service uses on income tax returns, would
help to produce trustworthy information.
But the only really satisfactory method
Is by actual inspection. Assessor Martin
says that his limited staff is making some
progress in long-range appraisal survey.
With few more assistants, he declares, the
city-wide task could be completed within
ten years. The slower, though more accu-
rate, approach would seem to be the best
solution for very vexing problem.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
'FoIse Economy in Budget

An item in the proposed 1856 Federal
budget eliminating funds for the four
State maritime academies is an out
standing example of false economy.
For over 80 years the leading mari
time States have maintained school
ships and academies to provide the
country's merchant fleet with a bal
anced supply of officers. In later years,
with the aid of the Federal Govern
ment, this program has been broadened
to encompass naval reserve officer
training. Some of the schools also OPP
crate as colleges of the State univer-
sites, thereby further increasing the
scope of the education and permitting
Evening star., 1955-02-12
Responsibility in Virginia

Governor Stanley of Virginia has ex-
pressed some fortnight support OF President
Eisenhower's philosophy that the public
school systems of the Nation should remain
as State and local responsibilities. They
are so considered in his own State, he told
a press conference, and should continue
without further Federal aid and certainly
without Federal interference" The Gov
ernor's comment followed earlier opinions
from the State Department of Education
that the Presidents proposed program for
aid in school construction apparently offers
little that could or would be utilized in
Virginia.
Although Virginia Is suffering from the
common problem of classroom shortage and
the burden of financing new construction,
State officials feel that these needs can be
met without direct Federal construction
assistance. In addition, circumstances in
the State are such that its requirements
probably would not fall within the category
eligible for the type of aid proposed by
the President For example, the Governor
pointed out that local school construction
bonds have been fioated at tbetter rates than
the ga per cent suggested in the Federal
pldll, ttIe COuiltiSS w iiOt iidVC iCSo1A u0S'
limits which would preclude further bor-
rowing and there are no, localities lacking
money or borrowing capacity.
4 Several possibilities already have been
discussed in Richmond. One would be to
increase the so-called Literary Fund,
revolving pool from which the counties may
borrow for school construction at rate OF
8 per cent. Another would be State bond
issue with the sum of $50 million being
mentioned. A third would be sales tax
with the revenue set aside for school
purposes.
In these circumstances, the Virginia
authorities have good reason to prefer to
handle their own problems rather than pass
them on to the Federal Treasury and the
taxpayers Of the entire country.
Evening star., 1955-02-12

inequity in his nine years Of stationary
pay checks while business and industry
and the professions put the incomes OF
their partisans on an escalator. But OF
more pointed concern is the fact that
he has helped grant similar pay raises
to Federal workers in the civil service
and other categories. It could be that.
on the comparative basis alone, the
ladies and gentlemen of the Congress
should up" their incomes (after the
next election, of course) percentagewise,
to keep parity with other Government
workers.
On the social side of the question,
tours for constituents, dinner checks for
chiseling guests and maintenance of
two homes, all hint Of too much society
consciousness, not social consciousness,
in the gentleman's pleading. Those
factors have nothing whatsoever to do
with the purpose for which the Con-
gresham was elected. Had private in
dustry, business or the professions,
offered him the same deal as the Gov
ernment in his election to Congress, he
could either dicker for greater
emolument or turn down the deal.
There is no law compelling him to
take it. Earl (ScOOp) Shutz.
X
Will our legislators increase their SAL
aries?- Surely they have the right to
vote for it, also what the amount will
be-. There is no argument about their
needing fair and living wage, provid-
ing there is money to meet demands. Yet
to suggest SO per cent increase does
not seem fair while other equally i'm
portant Government employees who
have no voice or vote as to their paysa
are given to understand they only rate
per cent.
SO Per Cent Versus 5 Per Cent.
Evening star., 1955-02-12
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What are the names given to reg
ular polygons that have more than four
sides?--A. A.
A. The names are as follows, with
the figures indicating the number Of
sides: Pentagon 90, hexagon (6), hep
tagon (0, octagon 90, nonagon (9),
decagon 40, undecagon QD, dodeca-
gon d2p. There appear to be no terms
in general use for polygons with more
than IL Sides
Evening star., 1955-02-12

all the propaganda for the pay in
crease, haven't heard much about the
law practices many congressman have
on the side; or about the free medical
care available to them at Walter Reed
and Bethesda Naval; or about the in
on-Tuesday, out-on- Thursday schedule
of many congressman: or about the
pretty high honorariums some OF them
receive for their speeches; or about
Mrs. Congressman or Sonny Congress
man who is on Papa's payroll; or the
so-called inspection trips.
vote against congressional or any
pay raise for Federal employees except
to employees now being paid under
$4,000 annually.
Pennypincher.
western Congressman" makes out
rather convincing case for increased
salaries on Capitol Hill. However, there
is a wide divergence Of opinion on the
question. both in and out OF Congress,
and, in the circumstances. would it not
be well to reactivate the Kaplan COM
mittee for thorough and dispassionate
study of the whole subject OF con-
gressional remuneration, with instruc-
tions to report back its findings and
recommendations not later than year
or two hence?
Meanwhile, relief from most of the
ills Of which western Congressman
complains might profitably be sought
in a congressional study of our Govern
ment-sponsored imitation programs and
tactics.
L. b. S.
4
Your letter from that impoverished
western Congressman" certainly set
up some factors for consideration IN
public life. One can grant a measure OF
Evening star., 1955-02-12
The Impact of Lincoln

One of the good signs OF our times
Is the increasing interest In Abraham Lin
coin. Nobody may have said Nov he
belongs to the ages" in the Peterson house
at the moment of the great Presidents
death, but it seems plain that the sentiment
was justified then and certainly is justified
now. Each annual celebration of Lincoln's
birth brings out a rich harvest of tributes.
These include full-length biographies, stud
les of different specialized aspects of his
career, novels and short stories, essays and
poems, movies, television and radio plays.
No other personality Of the modern era Is
an equal subject Of literature. In the
Catalogue Of the Library Of Congress, Lincoln
surpasses Washington, who was his own
accepted model of American eminence, and
has for his rivals Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
and Napoleon.
What is most significant about this fact
is the dynamic force which motivates the
growing homage. Lincolns expanding pop
ularity is based upon constantly enlarging
influence. This current "age Of confusion"
needs him. He is important for his achieve
ments as the savior of his country, but
he also is mportant-particularly so-for
the philosophy of ordered freedom and fell
lowship which nowhere is better expressed
than in his words. For instance, as far back
as 1857, he summarized the purpose OF the
founders of our federated nation in this
tremendously meaningful sentence:
They meant to set up standard maxim
for free society," which should be familiar to
ALL and revered by all; constantly looked to,
constantly labored for, and even though never
perfectly attained, constantly Appropriated,
and thereby constantly spreading and deep
ening it's influence and augRenting the hap
piness and value of life to all people of all
colors everywhere.
Thus Lincoln anticipated the whole
modern objective of men of good will. A
like affirmation may be offered for his
defense of optimism as an asset of human
society, set forth in 1859 as follows:
Let us hope that by the best culti-
walton of the physical world beneath and
around US, and the intellectual and moral
world within u.s. we shall secure an individual.
social. and political prosperity and happiness.
whose course shall be onward and upward.
and which, while the earth endures, shall
not pass away.
Considered jointly with the whole Of
the Second Inaugural and the whole of the
Gettysburg Address, these citations prove
Lincoln to have been the ideal prophet Of
the democratic republican principle. In the
mirror Of history he likewise appears as its
leading expositor and exponent. Now, in
this bewildering year 1855, when "the prop
osition that all men are created equal" again
is being tested for its endurance value, to
whom, if not to Lincoln, may we, the heirs
of his example and his service, turn? How
better today, the 146th anniversary of his
birth, can we pay him our grateful homage
than by reading him and taking his wisdom
and devotion into our own experience2
Responsibility in Virginia
Evening star., 1955-02-12
Veterans Service Center

The National Honor Guard Of the
Catholic War Veterans joins with other
veterans organizations in requesting
that the temporary building at Four
teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
be retained as the Veterans Service
Center and that no consideration Of
dismantling it be given until adequate
quarters be furnished for this agency
serving veterans seeking assistance. And
If suitable quarters are found, before
any future construction is contemplated
where this building now stands, such
building shall be designated memorial
to DC veterans of all wars and made
available for veterans services, as has
been done in cities throughout the
United States.
The members OF our organization
unanimously resent this building being
referred to as a shack or slun. Such
statement is an insult to all veterans
of the District of Columbia. Our mem
bers have given of their time and
money to participate in civic events
and take an active part in the COM
munity's welfare, and If any thought
is given to the destruction of this
building before central location can
be obtained, we request the Commis-
sioners to hold a public hearing and
give the citizens an opportunity to be
heard. This is usually done in
democracy.
A. C. GaIante.
Adjutant, National Honor Guard,
Catholic War Veterans.