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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-24
MODERN MARRIAGE
Who S the Doormdt
In Your House?

out. she score 90 per cent in
aggressiveness: her husband
didn't get above 20 per cent.
In other words. she was twice
as dominant by nature as he.
It would be hard for any man
to trample on her and live
to tell the talel
The marriage counselor
had her keep q record Of
every dispute for one week,
and note the outcome. She
found that her husband was
q very good loser--but he.
never seemed to win. even
by her own system of scoring.
He was actually the doormat,
IL there was one in that home.
She was merely trying to
cover up her own bossiness.
The other type is exempli-
ned by Mrs. ON. who gave
me q detailed account of her
situation. She really did have
cause for complaint. She was
probably born without much
aggressiveness. She grew up
continually squelched by her
own parents. who weren't
satisfied with the old rec
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
The Fued Begins Anew-Edftor
Power-Private or Public

l note the article by MIR. Leverne
Hamilton on the above subject. Since
/ know that he is an Intelligent, we'll
read man, with wide experience in pub
lie affairs, I will not contradict word
he says: Especially in view of the fact
that he is an expert in splitting frog
hair fine technical creeping socialistic
hairs that are already too fine to be
seen by the naked eye. Such as the diff
ference between tax paying and tax
collecting for instance. | am somewhat
confused by Leverne's statements Of
facts and logic on the subject and
would appreciate having him split a
few more hairs for me.
Cd He seems to imply that the pri-
vate utilities are a bunch of crooked
SllunkS that take great pleasure in
going out of their way at considerable
expense to collect taxes from their
customers without having the slightest
authority under the law to do so. Why
property of the utility?
CD Are the utilities ordered by the
tax levied by the government against
their customers, the utility or just the
property of the utility?
CD Are he utilities ordered by the
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
CruybM Anna Dohl To Speak
AT Demo wonen's Convention

SIDNEY = Democratic National
Committeeman Leo Graybill, Great
Falls, and Mrs. Anna Dahl, president
Sheridan County Electric Coop, will
be two of the principal speakers at
the annual convention of Montana
Democratic Women's Clubs here June
%, 29 and 80, Mrs. Paul Provost,
convention publicity chairman, has
announced.
Mr.. Graybill will speak on "The
Democratic Party, It's History and
Importance, and Mrs. Dahl on
"Women's Role and Responsibility In
the legislature.
Other speakers at the convention
will include Mrs. Barbara Luther,
Washington, D. c., assistant to Katie
Loucheim, vice president of nation
al committee and director of women's
activities. efa 5.I
Another feature will be the an
nual progress reports by state clubs
The people's voice., 1957-06-21

government to collect the taxes from
their customers?
(4) Would their customers come in
and pay to the government the taxes
levied against the property of the util-
ity if it was not COLLECTED" by the
utility? If not, what is wrong with the
utility adding it to their cost of doing
business and charging it to their GUS
toners?
go If the utility failed to collect"
the taxes from it's customers would
it still have to pay them?
(6) Is there anything illegal, unethical
or wrong about private utilities charg-
ing their taxes to their customers just
the same as REA, farmers, laboring
men and corner g1rocers and every other
single taxpayer in the United States?
If not, why use up valuable newspaper
space in making a point of it? Is it
a legitimate argument against private
power? Will have more questions to
ask later.-E. j. PARKINSON, Great
Fails
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
How Stupid Do They
Think We Are?
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Radio news telling everyone foolish
enough to listen, that those nasty
Chinese communists shot and damaged
one of our nice navy planes. How stupid
do our government Spokesmen and the
news commentators think we are? They
declare the plane in question was eight
miles from Chinese territory, yet they
admit damage from shore batteries.
Now if the communists are that good,
we better start leaving them alone. OF
course the plane was said to be off
course due to hazy weather. The wealth
er is always conveniently to blame for
our planes getting too close, but after
ALL eight miles is pretty good shooting
for those communists.
1t is mot respectable to notice the
lies and deceit daily practiced to in
flame and confuse the people. One
gets called nasty names and suffers
loss of prestige for exposing such vi
cious rot. Since the price of being re-
spectacle has become so dishonorable
and insures ones complete futility in
the search for truth and decency, I
herewith publicly annollnceaHny affilia-
tion with the disreputable and those
of i'll repute. Yours truly.-HOBART
McKEAN, Circle.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
Tossing Good Money
After Bad

The Senate has been silenced about
the fantastic budget. The protesting
millions realize their helplessness 10
influence Congress to cut the taxes by
cutting the expense. What is good for
General Motors is good for the United
States is still the password in Wash
ngton.
The DuPonts, the Boeings, the Steel
and Oil Barons still fatten on the NUM-
tions contracts. IChiang for the wreck
of our embassy will pay us reparations
in our money. When he was still ON the
mainland we sent him $4,000 million
in money and munitions. Some of the
money may be still in Mrs Chiang's
account in the Chemical Bank in N. Y.
The munitions were exposed to capture
for the Communists. Some think this
was on deal between Chiang and Mao.
Bret Harte said rs years ago For
ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain, the heather Chinese are peculiar.
They may, by agreement, be shooting
again at each other just to keep our
money coming to Formosa since some
of us got mad about the embassy Incl
dent.
Our West Coast merchants used to
make money out of the China Trade.
Britain France, Japan are resuming
this profitable trade. We are spending
81 billion the year-nursing Chiang-
and no trade
The billions we pay out to curb Com
munism only stirs up hatred for us.
Ceylon voted Communist months
ago. Kerala, a big state of India, voted
Communist weeks ago. The vote all
over India was 10 per cent Communist
If Communism succeeds in China all
Asians will embrace it. Nothing that
we can do will even impede it-hatred
of us may speed it up.
We had just as well invite China
into United Nations, pocket our pride
and save our money. When Free Enter
prise Athens spread out too much
She went down before Communist
Sparta. - LOWNDES MAURY, Great
Falls.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
LEON C. HURTT
541 Evans Ave-, Missoula

lone advocate has persistently and
'aggressively argued, believe with
little or no factual evidence that little
upstream dams are an answer to
water and power problems of the
West. AS manager of both public
and private lands for, more than 40
years / now challenge this stand but
do recognize both some values and
limitations of small dams. Years of
bitter experience has taught western
stockmen that they cannot rely even
for stock water on small dams be-
cause they are so often dry. Expen-
sive wells must be provided to have
livestock water when most needed in
dry and drought periods such as oc-
Cured during the "dirty thirties"
when nearly all small reservoirs were
dry mud flats that forced the sale or
thousands of sheep and cattle before
the grass was all gone.
On the cattle ranch | now operate
near Billings three small dams have
been dry for a month or more de-
spite the fact that precipitation there
has been nearly double the normal
since January /. This precipitation
came so slowly that it soaked into
the soil but failed to cause surface
runoff to fill the reservoirs. Never
theless | recognize that some small
upstream dams have positive but
limited value in watershed develop
ment and management.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21

president, Mrs. Charlotte Holtz,
Floweree, and other officers.
The convention will open with a
mixer in the NYA hall. Business ses-
sions will start at o'clock Saturday
morning in the ballroom of the La
londe Hotel. The annual banquet will
be held Saturday evening in the La
londe, at which time Mrs. Luther will
speak. 0t u
Final business on the agenda will
be election of state officers for the
coming year, Sunday afternoon.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
No Time Extension--
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three year permit expires. FPC said
MPCo. has plenty of time in the seven
months ahead to complete any further
studying it desired to do. Buffalo
Rapids No. would destroy the eco
nomic feasibility of the proposed L.
008,000 kilowatt Paradise Dam. The
smaller project would produce about
$4,000 XIV of power, provide an infini-
tesimal amount of storage, and do
even less in augmenting firm power
production of private and public
dams downstream.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
SUFFICIENT SMALL DAM SITES
NOT AVAILABLE

humbly mention this personal ex-
perience as evidence of some ability
to make an educated guess at the
abundance of dam sites available in
the upper Columbia. Except for Glen
Smith | doubt if any man is as well
or better qualified for first hand
opinion on dam sites in this upper
basin. Based thereon / say that it is
nonsense to believe or say there are
small dam sites enough for adequate
storage to control floods on the Co.
lumbia. We simply do not have 1872
such, sites, lets face it.
Consider now the possibilities of
somewhat larger dams of which
present larger example. From data
in letter of May 2 State Engineer
Fred Buck listed 13 dams built by
the Montana Water Conservation
Board from 1886 to 1912 as fol-
lows: Total live water storage on
13 dams-305,737 A.F., an average
of 23,518 AT. of live storage (rang-
ing from 1908 to the largest, Tongue
River with 1880 A.F.) Engineer
Buck did not give construction costs
because he said they were then much
lower and would have no meaning
compared to inflated costs now. These
dams were financed by state bonds
and taxes supplemented by heavy
federal subsidy of WPA and RFC
funds. Mr.. Buck also reported that
none of these medium sized dams
generate electric power-all are sin
gle purpose irrigation projects. No
additional such dams have been built
by the state for some Is years.
Consider briefly the number of
such medium size dams averaging
23,518 AT. it would require lit
such to equal the capacity of Para
disc Dam, or 468 of that size for the
IL million AT. needed for minimum
control of Columbia flood threats. 1t
is quite significant that engineers
are not interested in building 468
such dams or 1872 of the smaller
ones
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
Bankers Tax Relief
Law Draws Comment
Dear Mr.. & Mrs. Billings:

Dear Mr.. & Mrs. Billings:
I have just read the June issue of
the VOICE, and was not surprised to
note that you included the Bankers
Relief Law in the Roll Call list of laws
passed by the last legislature.
| am of two minds regarding this
law, and I talked with Willard Fraser
about it when he was working to get
it passed, and L know that without his
efforts, this law would have stood no
more chance of passing than the pro-
verbal snow ball in He'll. willard
Fraser's contention was that this was
a progressive measure, providing that
the Bankers do increase their capitali-
zation, as this law permits, without any
undue penalty for SO doing in the form
of increased tax. Now if the Banks do
increase their capitalization, then Fras
er is right, for with an increase in
capitalization, it will naturally follow
that the Banks of Montana will be in
better position to aid the people of
Montana. The Banks ability to make
loans would naturally be improved
with an Increased capitalization. .r. ~.
SO the right or the wrong of this law
depends entirely upon how the Bank erS
act in increasing their capitalization.
Through Willard Frazer's efforts, and
of course the members of the legisla-
ture who followed his advice and who
voted for the law, the Bankers have
been given an opportunity to better
serve the people.
If, by the time the next legisla-
ture meets, the Banks have not in
creased their capitalization, but have
only taken advantage of the law to in
crease their own profits, then L think
that Willard Fraser should come before
the Legislature, and urge the repeal
of this law.
The VOICE should point out to the
that they are now on trial, |
and if they keep the faith that Willard |
Fraser, as their representative, as
sured the Legislature, was their in
tention, then no attempt will be made |
to repeal this law but if they do not |
come before the Legislature showing |
an increase in capitalization, then you,
Willard Fraser, and every one in the |
should do nothing less than
to make the repeal of this law one of |
the first orders of business of the next |
session. r.<e /
I hope you can print this, and see
to it that every Banker in Montana gets
a copy.
= You do a good job.-CALVIN LAR
SON, Townsend. 80 E4s 4
EDITORS NOTE-A1though the tax re-
!1fef bill became law about four
months ago., Friend Wizards bank
ers haven't as yet beaten a we'll
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
A. A.-EFFECTIVENESS OF SMALL
AND MEDIUM DAMS

For several reasons the effective
ness of small and medium dams is
very limited. Costs of building the
dams, roads, telephones, housing, etc.
in remote upstream drainages is ex-
cessive per acre foot. Also these
small dams fill quickly during early
spring snow melt or after heavy rains
then provide little or no storage dur
ing the critical May-June flood period.
Stored water must be carefully regu-
lated. 1t is impracticable to provide
personnel, housing, roads and all
needed facilities to release water
then to close gates in a synchronized
plan-wise way from hundreds or thou
sands of small dams to prevent floods
on downstream. Such restricted stor-
age is not effective yet very costly.
In fairness l must mention the
need for good land management at
stream headwaters. Most land mana
gers recognize the urgent need for
a good cover of trees, shrubs, grasses
and litter to retard runoff and hasten
percolation of precipitation into the
soil regardless of whether little or
big dams are built. Such protective
cover is the best and cheapest of all
water storage devices, especially at
headwater drainages. In few cases
small upstream dams may be needed
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
D.-FOR FISH, WILDLIFE
AND RECREATION

Small dams are often detrimental
to sport fishing and to wildlife man
agement generally. AS already point
ed out, the many hundred small dams
required for inefficient storage would
destroy spring and winter forage on
most remaining mountain valleys and
meadows that is already in short sup
ply and critically needed for winter
ing our deer and elk. Most fishermen
and other sportsmen will look with
sharp disfavor on building hundreds
more of such dams, even if sites could
be found and tax money provided for
construction, operation and mainte-
nance.
The relative public values of other
recreational facilities of hundreds of
small and medium reservoirs in iso-
lated mountain locations as compared
to those that will be available at one
large Paradise Lake deserves sober
consideration. Costs of providing and
maintaining access roads, and of ad-
ministering and supervising non-reve-
nue. producing recreational uses at
such sites would be infinitely more
costly than at Paradise. One addi-
tional obstacle to 1,436 or more small
dams to take the place of Paradise
must be briefly mentioned. Many if
not most of them would have to be
located in wilderness areas. Wilder
ness Areas are large undeveloped
roadless areas set aside in back coun-
try of national forests, dedicated to
a continued wilderness status for en-
joyment of those who travel with Il
back pack or pack horses to sample
the primitive life and get away from
the artificial mechanical gadgets that
dominate our daily lives. These wild
erness areas would be violated and
their basic purposes utterly destroyed
by hundreds of dams and thousands
of miles of ugly road scars through
our beautiful mountain scenery. Such
misuse would be most Objectionable |
to wide circle of wilderness sup
porters.
/ might go on at length to point out
and pitfalls inherent in |
depending primarily on the small dam
concept for proper development of |
the Upper Columbia. After a sober
realistic look at the many obstacles
and limitations as briefly reviewed
herein, the theoretical advantages of |
small dams melt away. Propaganda
to the contrary is based largely on
fuzzy wishful thinking and assump-
tions that are misleading and will be
very costly if accepted BY the people
most concerned. s"'''2t ~
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
MONTANA EXPERIENCE WITH
SMALL AND MEDIUM DAMS

Are small dams an adequate answer
to the growing water problems of the
West? | say they are not. From list
of 297 small and medium sized dams
on and near National Forests of
Montana and North Idaho l have
made some analysis to determine to
what degree these dams do in fact
contribute to our water power, stor-
age and other problems in the Co.
lumbia Basin.
Data as to both surface area and
acre foot of storage are available on
only 81 of the 297 dams that range
from 40 acres with 25 AT. of total
storage to the largest with 872A
acres with $4,000 AT. of storage.
Compilation of these figures gives
the following:
Average when full, 162 surface
acres. Total storage, 9,236 surface
acres. Average 2,841 Acre foot stor-
age.
In order to get 4,080,000 acres of
storage (the capacity of Paradise
Damn would require 1,436 such dams
averaging 2,841 AT. on the upper
Columbia Basin which includes only
about the western one third of Mon
tana. 1t would require 1872 such
average dams to give the IL million
AT. of additional storage that Army
Engineers are seeking for reasonable
control of Columbia River floods.
No one knows how many small
damsites are available on the upper
Columbia for the simple reason that
no one has ever considered it worth
while to make a survey to find out |
In my 35 years of work with the For
est Service l have ridden horseback |
and walked the headwaters of liter
ally hundreds of Columbia tributaries
of Montana and Idaho. During II
years of that time l was in charge of
the Division of Range Research in
Region / of the U. S. Forest Service.
Better conservation and management
of range land and water was always
major objective of that job. For
several years l worked closely with
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
The Readers Forum

LETTERS: No letter over $50
words will be accepted for publication
All letters must be signed by writer,
although, on request, name will be
withheld.-P.V. Editor.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
HUMAN BONES

The human skeleton is made up of
about 200 bones of which "a are To-
Gated in the head, neck and trunk
and the remainder found principally
in the legs and arms.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
Retired Forester Evu|uutes Merits of
Small, Medium and Large Dams

the late Meyer III. Wolff who was in
charge with administrative aspects of
watershed management on II nation
al forests. 95a
The people's voice., 1957-06-21

DEMAND THE COOP LABEL
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
POWER

According to the state engineer,
none of the Montana Water Conser-
walton Board dams listed generate
any electric power, though they aver
age 23,518 AT. Only one on my list
of 81 small dams generates power to
help cover costs. This all indicates
that neither small or medium dams
are of much value for power. Quail
fled engineers recognize their many
limitations and are not inclined to
rely on them for power. Without
revenue for power or irrigation, small
dams must be financed primarily from
increased taxes. That is not popular
or a happy solution
The people's voice., 1957-06-21

to help check severe erosion and re-
store damaged land to good health.
But remember, such dams have little
or no value for flood storage.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21

EDITORS NOTE-A1though the tax re-
.41fef bill became law about four
months ago., Friend Wizards bank
ers haven't as yet beaten a we'll
'l worn path to the door of the State
Bank Examiner for permission to
{. increase capita lization.
The people's voice., 1957-06-21
B.-~-EFFECTIVENESS FOR
IRRIGATION

Nearly all medium and small dams
on my lists of 80 above, were built
for irrigation or stock water. Very
few new sites are economically feas-
able for irrigation alone under pres
ent costs, though many small dams
of an acre foot or so are needed for
livestock water as limitations are rec
ognized ><s. 80 s<
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-16
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Curious about the language
being spoken by teen-agers to-
day? Do you find yourself mys-
titled by references to the
"flicks," to making out" and
to the bird shot DOWN." Well,
lend an ear. and we will "clue
you in" on the meanings of
these and a few other choice
items from the private Ian
guage Of your sons. daughters
and their friends.
THE fiicks" are movies.
Making out" is today's euphe-
mism for what grandfather
called "spooning" and Dad
called "necking." An "M.O.A.. "
incidentally. is q make out ar
tist"-and that should need no
further definition. THE bird
shot down" is the unfortunate
lad whose girl stood him up
on a date.
ANYTHING distasteful or dull
is likely to be either "scroungy''
or real spotty." A noncon-
former is an "oddball." while
the one-time B.M.O.C. tbig
man on campus) is now simply
pres"
Money is either scratch" or
bread" and a drive-in movie
is a passion pit" or. simply
the pit" A "plasterpuss" is
a doll with too much makeup
while a homely girl is simply a
"crocodoll." Fruit boots" and
Float boats" are both terms
for white buckSkin shoes worn
by all lads except farm boys. "
A farm boy" Of course. may
never have been within miles
Of a real farm. He's simply q
lad who pays no attention to
dress"
Gasoline is go Juice" and q
car is usually a mill" or q
heap"
Parents and teachers are
"wardens" and school is fire.
quently labeled prison" while
home is 1.-The pad" Anyone
over 81. incidentally, is a pre-
historic" and those who don't
merit any measure of teen-age
approval are dubbed peas
ants"
released by The Bell Syndicate. Inc. ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-16
OUR PRESIDENTS
By HONORE NJ. CATUDAL

To-day is the 96th ami
versary Of the birth of a future
First Lady named Edith Kermit
Carow. She was married in
London, England. some IS
years before her husband be-
came President. What was her
husbands name?
2-The Queen Of England
exchanged messages with the
President over the first trans
atlantic cable. 80 years ago
today. Before entering the
White House this President had
known the Queen in London
where he had served as our
Minister. Which President?
3-Who was President when
Will Rogers was killed in an
airplane accident, % years ago
yesterday?
ANSWERS on Next Page)