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The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11
Girl Scout Community
Committee Holds
Monthly Meeting

The Browning Community Com.
mittec for Girl Scouting held its
regular monthly meeting Mon.
day. December !, at the home of
Mrs. c. Franks. Assisting hostess.
es were Mrs H. Clokr. Mrs. |.
Barcus and Mrs. Patty Beard
The Open House which was
postponed because of a broken
water pipe at Friendship House.
will be held during Girl Scout
Week in March
Two contests are being con.
Quoted in the troops. The first
Is for troop scribcs. Two awards
will be presented in May. one TO
a Brownie and one TO Girl
Scout. These will be based upon
the number of lines of publicity
they have had throughout the
year.
The second contest X being
conducted to encourage the girls
to engage in community service.
They may assist in their homes.
schools. churches and in the town
anywhere. \ record will be kept
by each leader and again an
award will be presented the wln.
ming Brownie and Girl Scout
Attention! 4 record player and
old records are needed at the
Friendship House. If any person
has one to give the girls. even
il it needs some repairs. please
notify a leader \ scout will
pick it up.
A party for all intermediate
scouts will be given in January.
If the weather man co-opcratcs.
this will be a coasting and ska,.
ing affair with refreshments.
The Senior Troop is fixing up
a Kitchen at Friendship House
They need dishes. pans. a tea
kettle. glasses and silver.
Any member o! the community
who has some old dishes TO give
/ away please call FE8-+l2l and a
scout will come and get them
Mrs. Clair Davis and Maryellen
johnson spoke to the Girl Scouts
in Cut Bank. giving a report on
the regional Conference in Port
land. Oregon. They will also
speak to the Lions Club this
week.
Al the close Of the meeting All
exchange of Christmas gifts wa,
enjoyed by all and delicious
lunch was served by the hostess
les.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11

ceivcd It for this month. Re.
freshments were served in the
cafeteria. The next meeting will
be held January 8.
The Cub Scouts held their
meeting last Friday night. They
put on a skit on frontier life.
They received their Bobcat badg.
eS.
George Roberts left Friday for
California, where he plans to
spend the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Smythe
and Charlie Lcary went to Kal.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11

ispcll last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buck Conner re-
turned home last Wednesday.
Teri Habets returned home
Tuesday to stay. She was work
ing in Chester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Red Harper are
the new owners Of the PalOminc
Bar.
Frank Shettlc. from Chester
was q weekend guest at the
Harve Parmalee home.
Sewing Club was held at Millie
McMullin's last Wednesday.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11
GIRL SCOUT TROOP 6

Troop 6 met at Mrs. Weasa's
home Monday afternoon We
worked on our scrap books and
stamped our scout emblem IN
the corner vi dish towels. We
finished Christmas party plans
and had cocoa and popcorn be.
fore adjOurning.
RCDOrtcr. Cccilc NcNabb
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11
East Glacier Park
BY Mary johnson

The third PrA meeting was
held last Thursday night. There
were II people present. They dis.
cussed schools and tcacheragc.
They made a pcnnant with PTA
on II with gold letters. Each
month this pennant goes to the
room that has the most percent.
age 0f parents attending the
meeting. Mr.. Brooks room re.
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11

The tccn.agc girl. after I've
lessons from the drlvin. >;'hnnl
took her family out for Il spin II
tho family :ar. "Oh. daddy" >h,
rrillCti. Doesn't speeding n,"l
hill and dale make Won .laH
you're alive"
Glad? I'm amazed"
The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1958-12-11

Lcona Brown went to Gu, Bank
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Shrrburnc
and Mr.. and Mrs. Buzz I.u,2
went to Great Falls las, Monday.
Lorraine Miner had two bridge
parties Monday and Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Mahoncy
went to Great Falls las, Thurs
day.
The Womcn's Club is holding Il
bake sale and fish pond a, the
Community Hall Friday Il, pm
Everyone Is invited.
Vic Overcast made a trip to
Helena last week
The All Club had il danrin.
party at the Community Hall
Saturday night.
The lower grade children are
going to put on NATIVITY Seen,
program at the schoolhuu>c the
10Th of this month. with the help
of their teacher. Mrs, Var>i.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-08-21
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gavel for order.
There are questions and ex.
plantations. amendments. subsfi-
tu.e amendments and amend
ments TO the amendments.
Some are adopted. some defeat
ed, lust for what reason no one
seems to know. or care.
The Speaker calls for vote.
What are we voting on?" is
the question.
Finally the bill is adopted. 1t
turns out several of its opponents
voted for it, under the impression
they were voting against it. A
minority of those voting know
what the bill is about. The rest
voted with the committee, with
their caucus, or with their friend,
John"
This account is restrained,
rather than exaggerated. A spec
tator in the galleries watching
his legislature in action frequent
ly leaves with a feeling of frus-
tration. 1t is unbelievable to the
average citizen that our laws are
often enacted in surroundings
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-08-21

comparable to those Of an un-
attended sixth grade class.
The defenders Of this system
will tell you that the most i'm
portant legislative work is done
in the committees, and that the
bills have been carefully drafted,
studied. and perfected behind
those closed doors.
i shared this belief myself -
before my first committee meet
ing.
II ran. I recall like this. The
chairman called the meeting to
order. He picked a bill off the
pile. and said. This is Johns
bill" and that John was q
good guy" Someone asked.
What does the bill do?" At
this point. I suggested the bill
be read. There was a moment
of panied silence.
81 can tell that this is your
first committee meeting" said
the Chairman. "We never read
the bills in this committee" He
was telling the truth. Neither at
that meeting or any other meet
ing of that committee was any
bill read.
Some bills were referred to
''subcommittees." This consisted
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-08-21

from tnree 70 five members
OF the m a i n committee. If the
Chairman favored the bill. q
friendly subcommittee was an
pointed. If he opposed it, the sub
committee was an unfriendly one.
In either ease usually one man
did all the work.
Particularly obnoxious bills
were favored with a distinct hon.
ora public hearing. The citizens
who attended thes public hear
lngs came in good faith, but they
were wasting their time.
Every bill afforded a public
hearing was killed. with one
exception. in that case a COM
mittee substitute was approved
that was SO repugant to the
original sponsors Of the bill that
they promptly begged that it
be dropped.
This picture is not true of the
majority of the committees of the
House. Many committee chairmen
are able men, and their commit
tees work as hard as humanity
possible within the limitations inn
posed. But things like this can,
and do happen.
The reason they can happen is
because of rules that permit them
to happen, and because of a par
tisan caucus system that places a
premium on faction loyalty, and
ignores competence.
Other defenders of this system
will strongly argue that the bills
are carefully prepared by their
authors and thus don't need any
intensive study.
This is not true. Less than forty
of the l40 members of the House
attempt to draft their own bills.
Nearly all bills are prepared by
people outside the legislature.
Special craftsmen prepare a
large number. The attorney Cen
erals office and the lawyers for
the various departments of the
state prepare most of the technical
bills.
The special interest groups
introduce most of the legisla-
ton affecting their own opera
lions. If a reform measure is
introduced. it senerallY winds
up being rewritten by the peo-
pie who are supposed TO be re-
formed. Good bills are few and
far between.
Most of those written, an d
some of those that are adopted,
are trash. Many of them became
law simply because they are
Johns bill" and "John is a good
guy"
John" for the record, is any
member of the legislature.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-08-21
Wutch On The
POTOMAC
by
Robt. G. Spivack

COMMON SENSE ABOUT
THE Observation-Disclosures Eli
senhower said the other day that
he opposed panic" measures to
fight the business slump. The
connotation, the word "panic"
will unfortunately have for
speech writer's, he would have
been better advised to have left
it out. A large part of the public
still associates the word panic"
with 1929 and the Great Depres-
sion that followed.
Such panic as we are now ex-
periencing does not, I think,
come SO much from critics of the
Administration or from labor
leaders as it does from the Ad-
ministration's staunchest Big
Business supporters. What con-
Germs them, it would seem from
their public statements, is not so
much the 100000 unemployed
as the 1857 decline in profits.
At the very moment that they
are screaming for bigger federal
OUTLAWS for ornaments and de-
Tense, they are also demanding
huge cuts in corporate taxes. If
you think it over, that's quite a
switch from traditional Repub-
lican doctrine.
X r X
The real issue, in my judgment
is whether the current recession
is not being used by some seq
ments of the business community
for a concealed purpose? Are
they not really trying to create
business-is-bad psychology so
that the big unions will not be
asking for substantial wage in
creases this year? What most
Big Business complains about is
decline in profit from 1856
and 1857 levels. It may not be
fashionable to ask the question,
but weren't profits too big in
those years? Weren't prices too
high?
There certainly can be no doubt
that small business is suffering
these days. It has no margin of
money to play with. But I think
a careful examination of the facts
will disclose that Big Business is
not too badly off.
AS an example of what / mean,
look at the current report of
Jones and Laughlin, the nations
fourth largest steel producer.
This company's operations are
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-08-21
SECTION ONE, PAGE 3
down to $500 Of capacity.


STILL DOING MCELY-De-
spite the cut in operations j. &
LIS president, Avery c. Adams,
optimistically predicts the com
pany will show a profit for the
first quarter of this year. No fig
ures are yet available but it will
be substantial, even if below the
1857 figures. Just ask yourself
how many small businesses could
show a profit if they were run
ming at about half of their ca
pacity.
And the big oil operators also
seem to be making out. The Tex
as Co., reports record earnings
for 1857. The dividends on its
common shares rose from $5.5l
to 1894 while many filling sta
ton operators were barely able
to make ends meet.
Or take the business report of
r. G. LIE Tourneau, Inc, COM
pany which makes oil drilling
equipment. It's sales rose over
$5,000,000 last year and it was
able to convert a $11a million
deficit into a modest profit.
The list of big companies that
are doing pretty well is still
long one. And yet if you read
the financial journals it is these
same companies now crying the
loudest about declines in profits
and even begging for federal
help-something they once con-
sidered 'socialistic".
r = X
STRICTLY PER SONAL -
There are two thoughts I have
wanted to write about for some
time and about which / hope to
write more later.
% The u. S. television indu
try looks awful these days ar
the program fare being offere
the general public is of low grae
Why then do NOT the televisio
critics give some encouragement
to men like Eric Sevareid (
CHS who is trying to add a ne
dimension to television with h
magnificent science progral
Conquest? Have the critics b.
come SO jaded they can't say
good word for one of the mos
creative men in the industry?
(2) A fine little paper publish
ed as service to union men ant
women LABOR'S DAILY O
Bettendorf, Ia, is threatenea
with financial extinction. VIII
can't democratic labor leaders do
at least as much for this first
rate publication as the Commu-
nists used to do for the DAILY
WORKER? Have the union chiefs
also become jaded?
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1958-08-21
A Personnel Message from Bill Colmer :.

A Personnel Messoge from Bill Colner =.
AS have ssuted before, thers s only issue
In mis- composn and fof IS: Who is best qvulified
The people Of fte Sixth District? Ny record Of
ice is my onswer 10 ii,ot qsestionl
hosssvsr, shsre hos bsen attempt inises an
sshss issue into his campaign which does exist
tot she'll quit the end at mis- This 5 fGIse.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
World Scholarships

About IT'S young American
artists are now studying
abroad under the Fulbright
awards. This and other gen.
eral competitions, such as
the Guggenheim, have pro-
vided the majority of oppor-
tunities for United States
artists to study and travel
abroad. Yet, says Kenneth
Holland in his foreword to
the Directory Of Internal
tional Scholarships in the
Arts.
Despite the steady growth
Of international exchange
programs, q very small pro-
portion Of present exchanges
is in the arts" Far more
numerous are those available
in technology. medical and
social sciences.
This directory has been
prepared by the Institute Of
International Education, from
which copies are available
without charge. q East 9th
street. New York 81. New
York;
Directions for using the
guide precede a catalogue Of
awards offered by Govern
ment and private organiza-
tons throughout the world
in architecture, creative writ
ing, dance, design, music.
painting and sculpture. and
theater arts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
Let us Horken Back
To an Older 7 Tradition

narrator. The scene in which
Widmerpol outlines to his
friend his plan for seducing
his flancee is sheer farce.
Mr.. Powell tells everything
on his own terms. Those lit
tie dramas at the tea tables,
those duels in the drawing
room-he gives you every
beat and makes you follow
it with fascinated attention.
His happiest inspiration is
the character of the octo-
genarian general, a hero Of
the Boer War, who is saving
away at his cello and stu
diously coming the works
Of Freud for a better under
standing of life. His account
in the finest Viennese jargon
of the climactic encounter
between Mildred and Wild
merpol is nothing short Of
delicious.
AT Lady Molly's" can be
recommended unreservedly
to those who SAVIOR the
quieter delights of flawlessly
written fiction, to those who
weary of brutality and grub
biness. 1t is civilized enter
tainment from q writer who
manages to be both warm
and witty. M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27

ularly good is a lacquer
enamel painting in gold. red
and turquoise. which sug-
gests a handsome Oriental
brocaded silk.
Mr.. Owsley has created
quite different compositions
with a more pictorial flavor
in odd Orchard" The Fog"
and In the Beginning" The
last two are distractions, but
the manner in which the
paint is applied conveys the
sense Of the titles. A. COM
mendable feature Of Mr..
Owsley's distractions is their
appearance of having been
planned. in contrast to the
random-explosions look Of so
many abstract expressionist
paintings, which makes them
more accidents than art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
This One Keeps
You Guessing
THE TIGER SHIFTS THE

THE TIGER SHIFTS THE
ROSE. BY Helen Grace
Carlisle. CDoubleday;
$685..
There were too many
women in the life Of a DASH
ing middle-aged bachelors
life to believe that Nicki
Halasz died of a heart at
tack--two hours after his
wedding.
And to complicate matters,
each could have inherited
something from his estate.
But when Martin Bryce, a
friend and Nicki's lawyer, re-
ceived a nervously composed
letter Just before the we'd
ding. Martin is left to decide
how the playboy really want
ed his money divided.
The tense drama moves
quickly tied in with a good
understanding of how people
act when they are suspected
Of murder.
There are three detected
women who loved and hated
desperately; an illegetimate
son who hated his father, and
a weird old uncle who bottles
a poisoned cat.
For an evening of enter
tainment this story will do,
but don't expect a clever end
ing. even IL 1t is q happy one.
--ROSANNA NOVAK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27

domination, there is THE
BROKEN MIRROR, a COL
lection of writings from con-
temporary Poland. edited by
Pawel Mayewski Brandon
House; $3.50.
In his Introduction, Lionel
Trilling says that 1T is
scarcely possible that anyone
will read this book without
feeling the impulse to be
heartened for the future" To
him, 1t "exemplifles the in
tensity of the afirmations Of
intellectual liberty that were
made by the Polish intellec-
tuals after the early months
Of 1856" Possibly, so. But it
shows also the devotion to the
idea of communism which re-
mains in them even after dis
enchanting experiences in
Moscow. They are Poles and
thus almost ferocious in their
independence, but not less
Communists for all of that.
In their writings - drama.
stories, essays. dialectics-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
Art Photography

six Modern Masters Of
Photography" is the title Of
an exhibition Of their work
at the IFA Galleries, 1928
Connecticut avenue NV,
through next Saturday.
These 40 photographs are
truly creative works in a me-
dunn which has been adopted
by untold millions Of anna
teurs. many Of whom have
achieved pleasing. even i'm
pressive results by careful Sc
lection Of subject matter.
But these six artist photog-
raphers have gone beyond
the happy outcomes Of tech
nical skill and attractive sub
jects. These artists have
brought out the beauty and
wonder Of such minute de-
tails as Foam" the tex
tural contrasts OF Boards
and Thistles" (both by Ansel
Adams; frost crystals max
ing patterns on a window
pane and dead tree stumps
reflected in stagnant water
paul Caponigro); drops of
dew and rain on grass blades
david VestaD.
Two Of Walter Chappell's
prints, untitled, are abstrac-
tions; I was unable to guess
what the subjects were, yet
they are entirely photo
graphic. unretouched. In con-
trast. Roy de Caravans group.
nearly all figure subjects. the
majority Negroes, captures
mood and gesture with in
tense realism. Just as real Is
one other figure subject, An
sci Adams portrait Of q
work-worn country woman
behind a screen door.
In the hands Of such as
these. photography is q fine
art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27

has devised, through 1900
questions in so categories Of
knowledge and experience, a
means by which the reader
may evaluate himself as q
cultured person. The an
swers are given in a later
part. However. DR.. Montagu
emphasizes that the most
cultivated person would find
it difficult to answer a ma
jority of the questions; that
this is not a game in which
the reader pits his wits
against the authors. but the
purpose rather is to define
the lines on which culture is
pursued and. If possible, set
the reader on the right
track. Indeed, many of the
questions do not seek exact
Information. but opinions
and inclinations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
Don't Miss 1t

A book that should not be
overlooked in the late spring
rush is LONELY COM
MAND: the Epic Story Of the
Emden, by A. A. Hoehling
(Yoseloff; 1885,. Mr.. Hoeh-
ling, a former Star reporter
and author of THE Last
Voyage of the Lusitania,"
tells in swift prose the excit-
ing story of the German
cruiser Emden in World War
/. The Emden. under the
command Of Capt. Karl Won
Muller, sank "a merchant
ships and two warships and
severed sea communications
between India and Burma
before the Australian cruiser
Sydney finally caught UP
with her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27
Measure Of Culture

Ashley Montagu. the noted
anthropologist. author Of
Man: His First Million
Years" explores another
field in THE CULTURED
MAN World; $3.50. IN
the Western world" DR..
Montagu explains at the out
set. I'VE talk about the edu-
Gated man and frequently
identify him with the cul-
tured man. But an edu-
Gated man is not necessarily
q cultured man" He is con-
cerned here with the kind
Of culture that is expressed
in the refinement of thought,
emotion. conduct. manners,
taste and attitudes Of the
person"
In the second part of this
arresting book. the author
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27

there is both defiance and
despair.
That curious mixture is per-
haps best exemplif1ed in Jan
Strzelecki's Notes: 1885,
1883" Having considered
Marxism in from every angle,
he writes something that
would never have been
printed in Moscow:
viii We really have the
future eating only from our
hands? Do we really believe
that we shall be able to tame
the men of the future to such
a degree that they will be-
come oblivious to those cathe-
drals which we condemn to
obscurity and contempt? VIII
no rejected beauty claim wor-
ship for itself-and forgive
ness for us?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-27

the young King OF Eleusis
and heir 10 the throne Of
Athens. who went to Crete
as q voluntary tribute 10 the
Minotaur. The well-remem-
bered legend has II that The
seus, with the aid OF the
young goddess Ariadne, slew
the monster that had the
body Of a man and the head
Of q bull and fed on young
men and maidens.
A New Version
But Mary Renault. with
the license Of a novelist, has
changed the legend. made 1t
more human and credible.
When Theseus and the other
young Athenians selected for
that seasons levy from the
powerful Cretans with their
invincible navy reach the
island, they ind that the
menace actually is a series of
ferocious but ordinary bulls
which they must dance
about and thwart II they can.
Theseus has taught the group
acrobatic dancing. m AIDE
them astonishingly nimble.
and they do well in the bull
pit. Meanwhile Theseus and
Ariadne have fallen in love.
And the young king finds
that his real enemy is the
son Of King Minos. called
the Minotauros or the Mino-
taur, a savage youth who
wears the mask of a bull.
The people VINO sparkle
through this novel. coming
to life surprisingly, believe in
all sorts Of fabulous crea-
lures, but never quite see
them. The gods sometimes
make known their approba-
ton or displeasure in strange
ways, causing the sun to
fade, the lightning to strike
or the earth to tremble.
Theseus. by the way, tells his
own story.
Based on Fact
The ancient tale is beau
tifully written. Recent re-
search on Crete has indi-
Gated that the story Of
Theseus, like much other
folklore. is based on fact.
Archeologists found a lahy-
rinth like the one in which
the Minotaur was supposed
to live. and prehistoric draw
ings indicated that the bull
was a sacred animal. its pro-
totype a god, and that bull
fighting may have been orig
mated by the bull dancers
Of Crete.
Mary Renault, a British
writer, is favorably remem-
bered for another novel Of
the classic period Of Greece,
THE Last Of the Wine" Her
new novel is a selection Of
the Book-of-the- Month Club.