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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06

for hundreds of miles. We build rock.
cts that reach to the moon.
They had a powerful infantry. We
have weapons which make their spears
and swords look like toys.
They had circuses at which a hun
dred thousand people could be enter
tanned at once. We have television
stations that can beam out one pro-
gram to a hundred million people.
And yet, as we read Gibbons book,
and follow in his pages the unhappy
description of the gradual decay of
the glory that was once Rome, we
cannot help but make comparison
between the Roman age and our own.
Gibbon said that the first cause
of the collapse of Rome was the cor
ruption of its commerce. How does
our society stand in the area of bust
ness morality? There is a new book
called ''The Operator" a study of
American business practices. Here are
a few typical selections:
According to the u. S. Better
Business Bureau, SIS billion, which
is per cent of the total national
product, changes hands each year in
brides, kickbacks and payoffs.
According, to the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, $21a billion was col
lected last year from people who tried
to cheat on their income tax.
According to the u. S. Federal
Trade Commission, there have been
twice as many actions against COM
panies misrepresenting products in
1856 as in 1850.
The above statements include such
famous cases as:
The New Jersey company that
5ripled its price and then gave Is
per cent off.
The Michigan concern which sold |
tires as new.
The Pennsylvania gas station that |
put regular gas into the pumps |
marked premium.
The case of the Swiss watches that
we're made in Hoboken.
The wonder drug that turned out
o be ordinary aspirin.
see page 6
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06

Rep. Jamie Written (D-Miss. }
points out one reason farm bills of
all kinds are increasingly hard to put
shrinking farm population, Written
says, only IL per cent of the Amer
lean people now are members of farm
families. They produce the food and
fiber for the other SO per cent of
the people. Most newspapers and
some politicians take advantage of
this situation to stir up the SO per
cent against subsidies" for the II
per cent.
For example, Written says, take
the present appropriation bill. The
papers will say ST billion has been
provided to run the Department of
Agriculture for the next year. Such
a statement, Written declares, Sis
misleading for the following rea-
sons:
The Agriculture Department takes
in each year more than 81 billion,
which goes into the u. S. Treasury.
This will reduce the 81 billion to less
than $6 billion. Of the latter. $1.4
billion is for research, agricultural
extension pro grams, protection
against disease and pestilence, soil
conservation, watershed protection,
school lunch and other programs for
the good of ALL" not just for farm
ers. That brings the 81 billion down
to about 81 " billion.
Also, about S725 million is for
'loans which farmers will repay with
Written continues. Another
1912 million is to pay the remaining
costs of former soil bank program,
which, he says, 'ewas no good to start
with" and was ended.
Most of the remaining So ~ billion
of the 81 billion, Written points out,
includes not only farm price support
costs, but also the cost of foreign |
aid programs under which surplus
u. S. farm products are sold abroad |
at bargain prices or given away free.
These aid programs have other pur-
poses in addition to helping Ameri-
IAN farmers.-COPE MEMO. |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06

In 1897 mankind stood upon the
threshold of the new age. In France
the first faint rumblings of the
French Revolution could already be
heard. In England life was beginning
to alter its pace and character under
the impact of the industrial revolu-
ton. And across the seas in America,
a new country called the United States
was just beginning it's rise to power.
A spirit of change and excitement
was in the air.
In that same year, in London,
after % years of intensive re-
search, one of the greatest books in
the history of scholarship was fin
ished: "The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire by Edward Glib
bon. Why did Gibbon write it?
Because he wanted to know how it
happened that the Roman Empire,
which, was built to last forever,
should have crumbled into the dust
and how it was possible for the
empire which had the mightiest army,
the wisest legel system, the most
powerful organization, the finest
roads. and the richest culture of all
antiquity, to have collapsed. How had
a hoard of barbarious Huns been able
to overthrow it? Gibbon wrote this
book because he felt he had to know
the answer TO this question, for the
sake of the record, and also for the
sake of the new age that was being
born. He studied every facet of Ro-
man Life. And when he was finished
with all his research, he reached this
conclusion:
Rome was not defeated by the bar
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
From Other Editorial Columns ;.
BonneviIIe's $50 Million "Waste"
of Power

number Of windy editorials written
the the utility trust regarding the alleged
bonneville rover
mir
editors Helena diys "opinioneer jumped on
dollar
inability develop market for Its
deg further into the
already surplus of hydro energy and there
pubic
would be a waste of taxpayers money.
advertising checks
their 1t remained
the weekly publishing field
editor Dick HIS publ
published in Eureka northwestern
alleged "waste"-HLB
the surplus
has been reported by Bonnie
produced Actually this
which the simply allowed to the DAM
that this ocaled "nerruptbe
power industry that they will have
industry afford million dollars the basis
invested millions of dollars however
which available and for
which they have guaranteed contracts
BPA
falls of potential runoff the spring snowfall
much sell
had in previous
feels will
a period.
BPA Not will itself additional but
BPA utility along the Libby would
do the while is firmng the firm would probably
also increase the Surplus
BPA has the waiting
available
to gamble the interuptible which is available
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
Okinawa HaIts Missiles

/ peace sentiments of the people. VIII,
wildly recall the fearful ravages o.
the last war. Alongside the prospect
of becoming among the major battle
fields of the coming nuclear holo-
caust, the appeal of a war industries
job tends to fade.
To the right of this large, but most
ly unorganized peace movement,
which as yet has taken no outright
political form however every legis-
lator who desires reelection pays
them heed today, there is the pro-
Japanese organization of "The Coun-
ell for the Return of Oldnawa Prefec-
ture to Japan" in addition to some
twenty-eight additional organizations
which also advocate the early return
of Japanese rule. Representing a
formidable force in Ryukyan politics,
these groups have sent delegation
to Tokyo to see Prime Minister Hay
alto Ikeda, to urge him to include free
ing the Ryukyans in his coming Wash
ngton, d. C. talks with President
Kennedy. The Council is also consid-
ering direct appeal to the U.N. in
order to secure their independence.
To the left is the very vocal. active
and growing Socialist movement, but
as it is not in position to play
decisive role in politics, they follow
a policy of simply adding fuel to the
growing fires of national dis
content. Perhaps this whole situation
is unique in the world, for where else
do the detectives of these groups so
closely match?
The Okinawan legislature, in Nsha,
addressed a letter to the u. S. high
commissioner for the Ryukyus in
which they requested the u. S. mill
5ary authorities to scrap the proposed
missile project $50 as to reduce ten
sion in this area And to the Japa-
lese government, anticipating forth
coming talks with the u. S. Presi-
lent, they sent note requesting
hem "to convey the feelings of the |
)kinawan people against the con-
itruction of the Mace missile sites"
So now all the warning flags are |
lying, and it remains to be seen
whether we will act before the crisis |
arrives. Will the islands become, as
ONE European political writer's have
4lready predicted, american Orien-
al Cyprus; do we still say, in the
words of John Foster Dulles, that ''to
e neutral is immoral; can a people
even remote islanders) avoid the APP
arently approaching nuclear horror
nd still remain friends with Amer
"a? Perhaps Okinawa will provide
he answers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
BY BOB CASEY
In THE CATHOLIC WORKER

The Okinawan legislature has just
served warning by unanimously pass
ing resolution demanding the imme-
date halt to any further construction
of missile sites on the Ryukyu Islands.
This may Immediately effect the pro-
posed building of four new Mace
missile sites. The legislators freely
described the missiles as offensive
type weapons"
In the past the controlling faction
was pro-American grouping, well
situated politically and supported by
a mass base and many u. S. military
installations. But they have been
steadily losing ground to the growing
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
Private Power,
Birchers Linked

Electric Consumers Information Comm
The link between ultra-right wing
groups and the power industry was
demonstrated again in San Francisco,
Calf, last month.
The Electric Club of San Francisco
made up of people in the power in
dustry, including utility representa-
tives- provided forum for Robert
Welch, founder of the ultra-right
wing John Birch Society Welch out
lined the anti-communist goals of the
Birch Society at one of the Electric
Clubs weekly luncheon meetings.
He told the electric industry group
that methods used by the Birch So,
ciety TO combat communism include
disseminating "Americanist'' books,
pamphlets and periodicals, and carry
ing on an educational program.
These "Americanist" publications
and programs include material that
is clearly anti-federal power, rural
identification and resources pro-
grams. Some of it bears a striking
resemblance to private power in
dustry propaganda ads.
A retired candy manufacturer,
WEIGH said there are "about 200"
Birch Society chapters in "A states.
The chapters range in size from 10
to Sc members.
A preliminary check by ECIC dis
closed that the Electric Clubs mem
bership includes employees OF Pacific
Gas & Light Co., as well as employees
of major electrical manufacturing
and supply firms.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
How Now, Governor?

K A. LEDGER Thompson
Donald critczing
leading
with the facts his statements like the
manager, Stenge, speaking his syntax
AS Press
in order to improve industrial possibilities
University
compishment is what counts"
reading statement chief executive
entire industry that
between Roman and Poison the direct
the plant which
charcoal bique
MILL MISC developed which
industry possible distinct
utilizing Montana sawmis
that up n smoke
the
eeconcs established
industry that of MISC industry
Montana produces electronic
but little shipping bulk weight and thus easily hurdle
rate barrier which other industries
result of MISC research
by flour mills?
of Montana hard wheat and the
MISC researchers solved the disease problem
premium This research has
wheat the
Lodge portion depressed coal industry has new
optimism because MISC has
derivatives.
direction from the cop
dome of the capitol benefited
research by Montan institutions learning
citizens gainfuly research
In view of these facts find justify
statement when research chnneled
certain that the people of Montana will
Perhaps the Governor would just
the fright lines which channel
industrial
the fact that research has created industries
repeusons In
indirect rebuke the Governor
at MISC and the Importance of such work the we'll
being of Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
DECEPTIVE

One hundred and seventy-five years
have gone by. The new age, which
was just beginning when Gibbon
wrote his book, is now in full flower.
Let US, therefore, look at this age of
ours carefully with an eye on Glib
bon's notes, make a few compari-
sons, and perhaps learn lesson.
In many ways, our age is far SUI
perior to the Roman Empire.
They built roads which stretched
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-06
Alarming Parallels
Fall Of Rome Compared With
Life In United States Today

by RaDDls oamuel III. DreSner ana JACK Relmer IN
NATIONAL JEWISH MONTHLY
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Cooked Cabbage

AS an accompaniment to,
corned beef. prepare cabbage
in this fashion: Remove out
side leaves, cut in wedges and
remove core. Cook covered for
7 minutes in boiling water
with lemon juice. Drain; sea-
son with salt and pepper. The
cabbage may be cooked in
the pot with the corned beef
for the last 20 minutes of
cooking. Take meat from the
liquid. drain. and remove
strings. Place on a hot platter
and surround with cabbage
wedges. Serve with mustard.
If meat is to be served cold.
let it cool in the cooking
water before draining.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Corned Beef SouffIe

Melt 2 tablespoons of but
ter or margarine: stir in
Glove of garlic, " cup each of
finely minced onion, parsley
and chives, and cook until
onion turns a little yellow,
turning frequently over a low
flame. Next stir in l table,
spoon of lemon juice and 2
tablespoons of flour, blending
well until smooth and thick;
gradually stir in / cup of
Scalded milk; season to taste
with salt and cayenne pepper
and, when boiling and thick.
remove from the fire, cool
slightly, then beat in 8 slight
ly beaten egg yolks and re-
turn to the fire. Cook / min
ute longer, remove from the
fire, let cool, then fold in l
cup of shredded, cooked.
leftover corned beef, and
lastly 3 egg whites stiffly
beaten. Turn mixture into a
buttered souffle dish and
bake IS minutes in a hot
oven (400-425 F.. Serve at
once.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
There's Just No Mystery
To Fixing Corned Beef

2 tablespoons picking spice
y ounce saltpeter
8 bay leaves
5-pound brisket of beef
8 cloves garlic
Combine the salt, water,
sugar, picking spice, salt
peter and bay leaves in a
saucepan. Boil for S minutes.
Cool. Place the beef and
garlic in a stone crock or
glass container. Pour the
spice mixture over it. Place
a weight on the meat to keep
it submerged. Place a piece
of cheeSecloth or muslin over
the top of the container and
tie it in place. Place the COW
er Of the container on top.
Allow to pickle for IL days
in a cool place.
Remove the beef and rinse.
Place in a saucepan with
water to cover. Bring to a
boil and skim the top. Cook
for 8 hours, or until the
corned beef is tender.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Beef Brisket

To start, buy the large
lump of beef called corned
brisket of beef at the grocery.
About 5 pounds is an aver
age piece. Simply place the
brisket in a large kettle and
cover with water. The kettle
should be large enough so
the meat is completely i'm
mersed. Cover tightly and
simmer until tender. Be
sure the liquid does not boil.
Allow about so or so min
utes per pound for cooking.
This long cooking time is
actually a saving for you.
Hours before the guests ar
rive you place the meat on
the stove. Then, just before
serving, the corned beef is
set on a platter, ready for
carving into delicious, appe-
tite whetting slices. Re-
member when carving to cut
across the grain at a slight
angle, making thin slices.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
BY MARY L. VAUGHAN
Star Staff Writer

Corned briSket of beef
and it's preparation for
the table remains a myS-
terry to many homemak-
ers who pass it by on the
meat counter with timidity.
Since I've been married" :"
confides one wife of 10 years,
1--WE never bought it because
I've been scared to death Of
it,"
Striving to please her hus-
bands culinary tastes, this
wife has served only the IA
miliar cuts of meat. II have
a husband who loves beef -
steaks or roastS-I've never
Strayed from his favorites."
Corned beef has been
around as a favorite food for
centuries and in the Goth
century, if properly pre-
sented, can be made a deli
cacy unsurpassed for the
party buffet or a simple fam
ily meal.
It is relatively easy to pre-
pare.
AS one of the many larger
cuts of meat, corned beef is
an economical buy with high
protein content, falling in
the price range we'll under 81
a pound.
Origin of the word corn"
in this instance. harkS back
to the 10th century or before,
when it was synonymous
with the word grain" Our
American corn or maize was
unknown then.
About 1850, manufacturers
Of gun powder used the term
"corned" to refer to their
product spread out and al
lowed to dry in single grains.
From that, the usage was ap-
piled to the sprinkling of
grains Of salt on beef and
other meats to cure or pre-
serve it. 1t still indicates the
use of grains Of salt in cur
ing the meat.
For entertaining at an in
formal buffet supper. choose
corned beef as the main
dish, served with a special
glaze. Couple it with Savory
baked beans, cole slaw with a
unique dressing, ripe olives
and spring onions, potato
chips and dark bread as pic
tured.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Dawson Dressing

2 eggs
4 tablespoons sugar
l tablespoon salt
/ teaspoon celery seed
l teaspoon prepared mustard
5 tablespoons vinegar
head Of cabbage or, 8 cooked
potatoes .
With spoon, stir together
in bowl the eggs, sugar, salt,
celery seed, and mustard.
Then add 5 tablespoons vine
gar. Cook over low flame,
stirring constantly until the
mixture becomes as thick as
mayonnaise. Let cool. If it
becomes too thick, thin with
a little salad dressing NOT
mayonnaise) before mixing
with coarse chopped cabbage
for slaw or cooked potatoes
for salad.
The following recipe, from
The Molly Goldberg Cook
book, is the authors favorite,
garnered as a bride from her
butchers wife.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Beuns McGrory

3 Il ID. Q OF Jars B & M pes
beans
/ large onion
large green pepper
8 strips bacon
jigger bourbon
brown sugar
Place the contents of one
jar pea beans in bottom of
212 quart casserole. On top
place one layer onion rings,
one layer pepper rings and
a layer of bacon strips. Add
other two jars, repeating layer
Of onion rings and pepper,
ending with bacon strips on
top. Sprinkle lightly with
brown sugar. Bake for an
hour or so in moderate $3.50
F. oven. One half hour before
removing from oven, pour jig
ger g or. of burbon over all.
Serves six.
For a cole slaw dressing,
use this tried and true recipe
that has been one family's
favorite for so years and was
originally the priced possess
sion Of a First Family of
Virginia" 1t can be used
either for cole Slaw or potato
salad.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Corned Beef Glaze

n cup brown sugar
/ tablespoon flour
"a teaspoon dry mustard
2 tablespoons spiced apricot
or peach juice
Mix ingredients thorough
ly. Spread mixture on
cooked corned beef. Bake in
a moderate oven $3.50 F.) for
20 to 80 minutes or until
glaze is set. Place on a hot
platter. Serve with Horse
Evening star., 1961-07-13

radish or mustard sauce for
an added touch.
This variation on New
England baked beans (con-
cocted by a Boston lass) is
a Succulent dish made from
prepared pea beans. It does
away with overnight soaking
of the ade-from-scratch
dried pea bean variety. The
result, we guarantee, ranks
in the blue ribbon class.
Evening star., 1961-07-13
Mrs. CowIey's
Corned Beef

Ia cups salt
4 quarts water
l tablespoon sugar
Evening star., 1961-12-21
Justice Official
Takes New Post
BY the Associated Press

James A. Reed. Massachu-
sets lawyer, yesterday was
sworn into office as Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary Dillon administered
the oath to Mr.. Reed, whose
office will have supervision of
the Coast Guard. the Customs
and Narcotics Bureaus, the
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, and the Treasury's office
of law enforcement co-ordina-
ton.
Mr.. Reed was named by
President Kennedy to succeed
A. Gilmore Flues.
Mr.. Reed has been special
assistant to Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, engaged in
antitrust matters. Previously
he had practiced law in Massa-
chusetts, New York City and
New Hampshire and had been
executive officer and director
of several corporations.
Like the President, Mr.. Reed
served in motor torpedo boat
squadrons in the South Pacific
in World War II. He is a
graduate of the Harvard Law
School, Amherst College and
Deerfield Academy. He is a
native of Pittsfield, Mass.
Evening star., 1961-12-21

States or abroad upon evidence
they have participated in the
illegal Cuban trade" the de-
partment warned.
The suspension orders, eff
fective Immediately, may be
extended after the 90-day term
expires. The orders make 1t
illegal for any person or COM
pany to deal with the penalized
parties in transactions involv-
ing United States exports.
The United States firm
named in the orders was EMDA
Import and Export Co., Inc, OF
North Hollywood, Calf, owned
by a Mexican citizen, Victor
Hernandez Rodriguez.
The Texas businessman wal
identified as Lorenzo L. Saun'
ders of Tyler, Tex. Mr.. Saun'
ders is vice president of Trans
Continental, s. A., of Mexico
City. one of the suspended
companies.
Evening star., 1961-12-21
u. ). Accuses
1Sof !!!ega!
Cuban Trade
BY the Associated Press

The Government has accused
18 firms and individuals OF
illegally slipping aircraft and
automotive parts and other
equipment into Cuba by way
of Mexico. 1t issued orders
barring the group from any
United States export dealings
for 80 days.
The orders, put out by the
Commerce Department yester-
day, named a California import
export firm, a Texas business
man and several Mexican COM
panies.
The department said the
shipments involved were worth
more than 10000 but that
more than $45. 900 in equipment
has been intercepted in Mexico
and returned to the United
States.
In one shipment. said the
Commerce Department, were
two marine diesel engines anc
parts. Others contained part.
and equipment for planes
trucks and farm machinery.
There has been a great
effort on the part of the Castro
regime to attempt to obtair
United States parts and equip.
ment of these and many othel
types in the face of the Unitet
States embargo" said the de.
partment's Bureau of Inter
national Programs.
The bureau issued a public
request to all United State,
manufacturers and suppliers O
aircraft, automotive, farm ma
chinery and marine engin,
parts and other goods tina
Cuba has purchased in tn,
past, to question potential buy
ers about final destination o
goods to be exported.
The Commerce Department
it added, should be notified o
any doubtful transactions"
Prompt action in the form
of denial orders will be issue'
against persons in the Unite'
Evening star., 1961-12-21
TObriner Is Host
McNumuru Bars
ST Medical Fee
For 81 Families
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of Defense McNa-
mara has turned down a Bud
get Bureau proposal that de-
pendents of service men be
charged ST for each outpatient
visit to military hospitals and
dispensaries.
A Defense Department
spokesman said today Mr.. Nc
Namara rejected the proposal
this week while taking still an
other look at the planned mill
tary budget requests for the
year starting next July /.
The spokesman said the pro-
posed ST charge was intended
to curb excessive use of the
hospital privilege by depend
ents of military personnel. 1t
was calculated to save about
SIT million a year.
Evening star., 1961-12-21

of the legs tube feet - those
rods about one thirty-second of
an inch long.
Obscure and not-so-obscure
scientific journals have asked
TO publish the photos. So has a
national newspaper for school
children.
The photos reveal large sacs
Inside them are football-shaped
secretion packages about three
ten-thousands of an inch by
two ten-thousandths.
DR.. Alfred B. Chaet, profes-
sor Of biology at AU, has re-
lported that these football-like