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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
Lost-Minute Remarks
On Trick or Treut'

Mrs. D. H. NJ. University Park
l was so glad to read Mrs.
D. A. C.'s defense of Trick or
Treat" Let the children have
their fun! Don't take away the
pleasure the children have in
dressing up and going around
from door to door-but rather,
educate the groWn-ups to use
some sense in WHAT. HOW
and HOW MUCH to give.
l am appalled, at the lack
of common sense people dem
onstrate in the things they
hand out to children. A couple
of pieces of wrapped caramels
or wrapped lollipops would be
clean and adequate offering
to the little beggars. 1t is not
the children's fault that adults
have a mistaken notion of
generosity or try to Guido their
neighbors and give something
Just little "fancier"-a
chocolate bar that gets
smashed and gooey, q cupcake
or popcorn ball carelessly
wrapped in a snip of waxed
paper and tossed into the bag.
a handful of loose, unwrapped
Halloween Mix that gets
dirty and unappetizing in the
bag.
We live in a suburban,
family community and have a
constant stream of children at
the door on Trick or Treat
night. My nine-year-old boy
and four year-old girl (the
latter escorted by her father
or me- will be out with them.
I'll tell you what 1 do when
they get home and are safely
in bed: / go through their
collection Of loot and toss out
all the unWrapped, messy
stuff don't know whose
hands have touched it or how
much it has rolled around in
an unclean place. The rest is
set away and given out at
reasonable times and in rea-
sonable amounts more lib
orally. however, than the
children can generally expect.
/ have yet to suffer any
trick at the hands of the
children because my treat is
small in amount and sensibly
wrapped. But l hate to think
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
BY VIOLET FAULKNER

That day is fast approaching
when the theme song will be
get out and vote" You'll
be grateful for a simple, hearty
recipe such as veal and limas
when it's time to get home
and cook.
This robust ragout SINNERS
on top of the stove Cor in
an electrical skillet, requires
d minimum of preparation and
little watching. Use quick
frozen limas as the recipe sug-
geSts to save time.
A one-dish main course like
this is a boon to the busy
homemaker whether it's cleo
ton day or a day spent work.
ing for your favorite charity.
Keep 1t IN mind for those
days you come home worn to
a fragile after holiday shop
ping.
Serve it with a salad, warm
brown n serve rolls and a
bowl of fresh fruit for dessert.
The whole family will cast
a solid vote for that menu.
Late Supper
Round about eleven o'clock
when the election returns get
really exciting. appetiteS will
probably need a sustaining
snack
A hot dish that can be pre-
pared in between commercials
is this smooth, tangy Welsh
rarebit. Be original and serve
it over tomato-to topped shredded
wheat biscuits. The rarebit
can be kept hot in a chatting
dish and each guest can help
himself.
If you feel it calls for some
thing else toss a crisp green
salad to accompany the rare
bit. Or, if you want to top it
off with a bite of something
sweet, make a batch of these
coconut islands earlier in the
day SO they'll be all ready to
arrange on your prettiest plate.
Veal and Limas
2 tablespoons -four
1s teaspoon pepper
l pound veal steak " inch
thick. cut in 4 pieces
2 tablespoons oil
! medium onion, sliced
"a green pepper, slivered
pa cups mo. 2 cam tomatoes
and juice
S4oNt SdTllC, minced
Pinch of basil or oregano
3 teaspoons salt
package 30 ounces) quick
frozen Fordhook lima beans.
thaw enough to separate
Mix flour and pepper and
pound into veal steak. Brown
veal in hot oil in skillet. Add
onion, green pepper. tomatoes
and juice. garlic, basil and
salt. Cover and simmer until
veal is almost tender, about 20
minutes. Then add limas,
cover, and simmer until veal
and beans are tender, about
20 minutes; stir occasionally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
G.. II. H., Alexandria

What a pity that some Of
the born too lates" are now
trying to discourage trick-or-
treating, a custom which was
evolved as happy solution to
an otherwise unsatisfactory
night of hoodlumism.
Surely one night out Of 1858
should not be too much for
us to sign over to the little
people for some fun and adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
A One-Dish Dinner
For Election DQy

If mixture seems too dry, add
a little water. Makes four
servings.
Rarebit on Biscuits
IL tablespoons butter or mar
garine
1l2 tablespoons -four
Ia cups milk
2 cups grated sharp American
cheese
/ teaspoon salt
"a teaspoon dry mustard
"a teapsoon Worcestershire
sauce
Few drops of Tabasco sauce
4 shredded wheat biscuits
4 thick tomato slices
Melt butter; stir in flour.
Gradually add milk. Cook,
stirring constantly, until mix
ture thickenS. Add cheese, salt,
mustard, Worcestershire, and
tabasco to mixture and con-
tinue to cook. stirring con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
C. M. WASHINGTON

For the reader who wishes
to know how to recurl plumes.
it is very simple. Just take
three or four strands at time
and run them along the blade
OF a scissor in the same way
you would to curl the ends of
gift ribbon. Bear lightly until
you learn just how much pres
sure your feather will stand.
That's all there is to il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
Please Take Care
In Curling Plumes
Mrs. r. W. l., Washinotc

NTS' ~. " T., " USTLIWULOH
Recently a reader suggested,
as part of the process for re-
curling ostrich plumes, holding
the plumes over a steaming
kettle.
I advise the woman to be
very careful about this. Don't
let the strands get at all near
tie flame. l know of SOS
worth of plumes which were
ruined that way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
READERS CLEARING HOUSE

venture to dream about for the
rest of the year.
| write this as an interlude
to the work of putting up
skeletons, Halloween lanterns,
stalk houses and building
a witch's tunnel--all part of
the preparation for a six
year-old's party. And four
nights later. on October 81.
this same Spook House will
be opened for all the trick-or-
treaters of the area. May the
night be theirs to enjoy!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
See You at the Polls

The Y-Teen Girls Club of
the Bethesda Chevy Chase
YWCA Cottage has as its
first service project: Baby
sitting on Election Day. Girls
will be at the Woman's Club
of Bethesda from 10 am. to
4 pm. to take care of children
while mother goes out to vote.
The club, open to junior
high-school-age girls, meets
weekly at the Y-Cottage for
discussion sessions about
things of interest to "iust
girls" service projects. parties,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
recreation and handcrafts.

recreation and handcrafts.
Trying to meet the needs
Of girls, the YWCA of Mont
gomery County has Y-Teen
clubs for girls in Kensington
and Bethesda Chevy Chase.
For further information call
Oliver 4-6432 between 10 am.
and 4 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
M. H. s., Washington

I protest to the Junior
Woman's Club of Riverdale
and other would-be do-good-
ers who feel justified in send
ing small children out to beg
money for UNICEF or any
other charity. This condoned
begging is beyond the compre-
hension Of most trick-or-
treaters. Why put the burden
on the youngsters? Let them
have fun and let the benevo-
lent send their own contribu-
tons to worthy causes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
WEE WOMEN
Relax. or III serssmI"

what they'd be out doing If
we just banned the treats and
had no activity to substitute
for it. Let us have some tradi-
tional Halloween customs, but
do our part in making them
harmless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-30
Mrs. e. L. w WASHINGTON

Mrs. E. L. W., Washington
I. too, am discouraged with
the behavior of our youngsters
on Halloween Trick or Treat
nights. Couldn't we substitute
pennies or inexpensive toys,
balls, etc. for the junk many
people give-stale candies and
cookies? Time and again my
children have come home
with a bag fun of sickening
mess from which we had to
pick out the pennies from
the crumbs.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Idaho Insurance Commission Rehabilitation says "No"
Liberty National Refuses To Pay
81, 900 Court Comp. Award

Liberty National, formerly known as
Idaho Compensation Insurance Co., has
refused to pay a $1,000 death settle
ment awarded by the Montana State
Supreme Court several weeks ago, In
dustria Accident Board Chairman Rob-
ert Swanberg advised THE VOICE
Wednesday.
(Liberty National is currently in the
hands of the Idaho Insurance Commits
SIGN for what is known in insurance
jargon, rehabilitation. The original
executives of the company are no long,
er in charge of its operations, having
been replaced by a "rehabiitator" rep
resenting the insurance commission.
The reason for this is that the COM
pany's assets are not sufficient to COW
er outstanding compensation commit
ments should such commitments all
become reality at one time.)
The $1,000 award which the Idaho
insurance Commission Rehabilitation
has refused to pay, was made by the
Montana high court to the surviving
parent (mother) of John O'Bannon
who was killed in a logging accident
near Superior, Montana, July II, 1850.
O'Bannon's mother, however, will
get the compensation for her sons
death. Swanberg said the lab has in
its hands a $4,000 U. S. Treasury
bond put up by Liberty National which
the board can cash in case of default
or refusal to pay compensation awards
by the company. The board is now
shopping around to sell the bond at
the highest possible price. (Treasury
bonds are now selling something
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Fight 70 Broaden
Wage Act Planned

WASHINGTON, D. C.-NDNS)-
The top leaders of a number of ALL
CIO unions are meeting here this week
to plan concerted push to have Con-
gress extend the federal wage-hour
law to millions more workers.
A committee will be set up to CO.
ordinate the drive.
A great joint effort by unions last
year won the 81 an hour minimum
wage which took effect last March l.
However, the issue of coverage lost
out in the course of the Legislative
battle
This time, the priority will be on
expanding coveraga to workers most
in need of wage-hour protection. The
most obvious group is in the retail
and service fields. The drive will also
look toward knocking out the raft of
exemptions which were inserted in
the la wfrom the floor of Congress
during the 1949 fight to boost the mini
mum from 40 to rs cents.
Present exemptions include such
groups as lumber workers, cannery and
food process workers and operators III
small telephone exchanges.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21

One half of the male admissions
to Montana State Hospital at Warm
Springs are for alcoholism, Dr. Robert
]. Spratt, superintendent, told the Deer
Lodge Kiwanis club last week when
they held the weekly meeting at the
hospital There is no correlation, the
doctor said, between education, 10 or
financial responsibility on the basis
of surveys of incoming patients with
this disease.
DR.. Spratt said that the percentage
of the population that are alcoholics is
not high at the institution despite the
number of admissions and this is ac-
countable because the treatment lasts
about two months and then the patient
is discharged.
Success in the treatment is predi-
Gated upon two factors, said the super
intendent. First, the patient must rec
ognize that alcohol is his problem, and
second, the patient must have de-
sire to defeat the situation.
The two largest groups of patients
The people's voice., 1956-12-21

under par, and $4,000 may be the
very most the $4,000 par value bond
will bring.-EDlTOR).
AS soon as the bond is sold, the
O'Bannon claim will be paid. Liberty
National will then be ordered to turn
over to the board in either cash or
another Treasury bond an amount suf-
ficient to make up the difference be-
tween what is left of the first $4,000
bond and the $4,000 performance
bond required of the company to do
business in Montana.
Whether Liberty National, which
holds the great percentage of compen-
sation insurance sold in the state
under Plan II of the Workmen's Com
pensation Act, will comply with the
boards request to bring their per-
formance bond back up to the required
$4,000 is not known at this time.
The company earlier this fall ceased
writing any new compensation insur-
ance in the state and also cancelled
out all policies then in effect.
However, with the exception of the
O'Bannon claim, a check shows the
company is keeping current in making
compensation payments to all other
disabled workers whose employers
were insured by Liberty National at
the time of their disabilities.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Annual MFU State School
Gets Underway January 6

GREAT FALLS-Montana Farmers
Union annual state school will get
underway at MFU headquarters build
ing here Sunday, January 6, State
President Leonard Kenfield has an
nounced. The school will continue
through January ii.
The school is conducted each year
for local and county Flu officers and
concerns itself with membership, leg
islation, important issues, organiza-
tion, and allied activities.
Following conclusion of the school,
the Regional FarmerLabor Institute
will convene for two days on Satur-
day, January II. The institute is joint
ly sponsored by MFU and Cascade
county labor unions.
All sessions of both affairs will be
held at the state MFU building.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21

IN the next Legislature :" James
then went on to list a number of the
important issues that must be met by
the Democratic Legislature next Jan
uary and February. These include, he
said: the need to find additional
sources of revenue for state govern
ment, particularly the schools; cor
rective legislation to place Silicosis
and other occupational diseases under
Workmen's Compensation; further
consideration of the proposed Colum-
bia river compact; fish and game leg
islation; small loan regulation, and
highway financing, to name few.
STATE GROUP NEEDS MONEY
State Democratic Chairman Left
Erickson confined his remarks to a
brief resume of the financial condition
Of the state central committee. Esrick-
son said the state group was "in the
hole" $4,000; that not only must this
deficit be removed but that consider
able money is needed to carry on ef-
fective work of the state body during
the legislature and the months inter
vening before the 1853 campaign gets
He spoke highly of the ex-
ceIlent work done by State Finance
Committee Co-chairmen Lester Rut-
ledge of Big Sandy and Nels Bach of
Sidney in raising more money for the
state committee in 1856 than has been
raised in many years for Democratic
purposes.
Attorney GeneraI Arno1d Olsen ex-
pressed his heartfelt thanks to the
Democrats who had so Loyalty support
ed his bid for the Governorship and
assured his audience that, regardless
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The people's voice., 1956-12-21

points out, has prevented many dis
tricts from providing adequate edu-
cational facilities for their children.
other MEA proposals would permit
the State Board of Education to set
teacher certification standards; extend
the probationary period for teachers
one year before tenure is acquired;
provide an elementary supervisor and
building supervisor in the State De
partment of Public instruction; in
crease qualifications and salaries of
county superintendents of schools, and
eliminate the 40 per cent participation
for electors in school
bond elections.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Half of Male Admissions To
State Hospital Are Alcoholics

in the hospital, according to the doc
tor, and the groups that are increasing
in numbers rapidly are the mentally
retarded and the aged individuals.
Currently there are 1880 patients at
Warm Springs compared with 1880
when the club met there last year.
In the population are IT'S children
that are handicapped mentally in var
ious degrees. 1t is hoped that as facili-
ties are completed at Boulder, the
State Training School, about rs boys
and girls can be transferred and sub
iected to training program that may
eventually help their development.
To illustrate some of the type of pa
tients at the hospital, DR.. Spratt con-
Quoted six interviews with inmates
ranging in age from six years to the
aged.
Louis Wurl, director of vocational
rehabilitation therapy at the institu-
ton, arranged the meeting and DR..
K. L. Brandt, president, presided
SILVER STATE POST.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Demos Honor Anderson
With Going Away Party

Leroy Anderson is going to Wash
ington, d. G. with reputation already
established as a fighting liberal who
acquitted himself well :" in five
legislative sessions, said Democratic
National Committeeman Leo Graybill
in introducing the COngressman-El Elect
at dinner in the latter's honor in
Great Falls last Friday evening.
The dinner party was sponsored by
the Cascade County Democratic Club
and was held at the Meadowlark Coun-
try Club. Alan Donahue acted as mas
ter of ceremonies. Olga Dawson, Nell
Wheeler and Peg Smovir were in
charge of arrangements for the occa-
sion.
Anderson, in expressing his thanks
for the support accorded his candidacy,
and the party given in his honor, spoke
briefly emphasizing that he was going
to Washington, 9. not to be one of
435 members of the House, but to be
one Of four comprising Montanas
great liberal team" in the Congress.
He noted that, outside the South, Mon
tana is the only state which will have
q completely Democratic delegation in
the S5th Congress.
In commenting on his victory No
vember 6, Anderson paid high praise
to the Montana labor movement for
its support, and speaking directly to
Montana AFL-CIO President James S.
TIMBER, stated that labor is certainly
one of the strongest bulwarks of a lib
eral program in Montana :"
MUCH TO BE DONE IN ASSEMBLY
Sen. Dawes James (D-Liberty), prob
able majority leader of the 1857 State
Senate, told the dinner audience that
Democrats have a great responsibility
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Corporation Lieer +! LoophoIes
Require Legislative Plugging

When the 35th Legislative Assembly next month
the pressing problem will face will be and
of meeting demands of the departments of
state government.
The State Board of Equazaon other proposals for
increased recommending drastic overhaul of the
state corporation license tax law The state board has found
this law to be loaded with oophoesoophoes which cost
ing the state treasury thousands thousands of dollar each
That VOICE readers may have their minds refreshed
how badly the state ang because Of tax evasion reprint
herewith research report corporation license tax
which prepared by the VOICE staff 6 months and
published in the issue of September g. 1955.-EDITOR.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Corporation License Tax Evasion Widespread

Corporation license taxes paid in
the six other mountain states having
such license tax laws-Arizona Colo
rado Idaho New Mexico, Oregon and
Utah-represent an average per capita
income Of $6.11 to the treasures of
those states, paid by corporations op-
Grating in those states.
In Montana, however, because of
loophOles in our Corporation License
Tax law, per capita payments into the
state treasury by almost forty-five
hundred corporations in 1854, amount
ed to only $3.07 (NOTE: Compare
this $3.07 per capita tax payment by
corporations with the more than $14.50
per capita sales tax payments made
last year into the Montana treasury
by slightly over 100000 cigarette smok-
ers, for total in excess of three mil
lion dollars for the year, as compared
with $1,811,977 collected in corpora
tion license taxes.)
DOUBLE BARRELED INJUSTICE
These loopholes in our corporation
ilCCilSc LttA law IllelhC pOOSADlC bAlC
greatest kind Of deviation from the
principle that income taxes should be
levied on an ability to pay basis. They
constitute a double-barreled injustice:
l. Corporation tax evasion means that
the people of Montana must carry an
extra tax burden in order to keep the
wheels of government in operation;
2 Because this tax evasion is almost |
solely limited to foreign" corpora |
tions it puts domestic" corporations |
in an unfair competitive position.
("Foreign" corporations are ones chart
cred outside of Montana and include
some metal mining and smelling, oil,
insurance, farm machinery, chain OPP
erations, cts, which handle much Of
the business volume of the state.
Domestic" corporations are ones
chartered by the State Of Montana,
such as locally-owned mercantile es
Montana-owned lumber
operations, smaller mining and inde-
The people's voice., 1956-12-21

/ pendent oil companies, hOme-oWned
meat packing plants, etc.
Pertinent to any discussion of cor
poration license taxes are some of the
points made by ]. F. Reid, chairman,
Board of Equalization, in testifying
before the House Ways and Means
Committee of the 1855 Legislature for
legislation to tighten up" the present
corporation license tax law
LAW PUT ON BOOKS IN 1917
In reviewing the history of this tax
law, Reid told the committee that the
law was first placed on the books in
1917. The tax rate was one per cent
and had an exemption of the first
$4,000 of net income. That year the
one per cent levied against 528 tax
paying corporations then operating in
the state, produced 1854 in reve-
nue..
The 1919 Legislature amended the
permissible exemption downward to
$4,000. BY that year. large scale evas-
ion had already become a reality. De-
spite the fact that there were 1,175
corporations doing business in the
state as compared to 528 in 1917, the
revenue from the one per cent license
tax shrunk to 1892, ,954-or less than
half the amount collected in the earlier
year.
For more than fifteen years there
after, corporation license tax revenue
followed a curve of diminishing re-
turns. The low point was reached in
1922 when the tax return to the State
amounted to $97,847 with only 45S |
reporting, due in part |
to the economic slump of the early |
Twenties.
In 1888 the Legislature again
amended the law changing the rate |
10 two per cent, wiping out the exemp-
ion in it's entirety, and setting a mini
mum corporation license tax of $500.
The revenue that year from 1854 cor
Continued On Page Three)
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
MEA Contends
MEA Contends
Sehool Foundation Program
BUdqet Must Be Increased

! If Montana schools are to keep apace
of mounting enrolment and the in
creasing demands on the schools for
improved educational programs it will
be necessary for the 1857 Legislature
to materially increase the foundation
program budget and to provide more
state equalization funds to the local
districts, the legislative committee Of
Montana Education Committee con-
cluded this week.
In listing its recommendations, the
legislative committee pointed out that
the present foundation program budget
provides only 20 per cent of the money
needed to finance Montana's elemen-
taIy and secondary schools. Funds
needed, above this foundation amount,
have to come from local sources, pri-
marily the property tax.
1t is the opinion of the committee
that the foundation schedule should
be increased to at least S5 per cent
of the money needed to provide a rea-
sOnably high standard of education for
Montana children, in order to avoid
further increases in local property
taxes. The remaining Is per cent could
be derived from permissive levies on
local property.
To either avoid further property tax
increases or relieve the property tax
burden, MEA believes it is essential
the State of Montana find ways and
means of increasing it's financial con-
to the education of grade and
high school children.
INCREASE BONDING LIMITATION
An increase in the bonding limita-
ton on construction of school build
ings is another MEA proposal. Under
present law districts can bond up to
only five per cent of assessed valua-
ton for both elementary and high |
school districts. This limitation, MEA