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Hardin Tribune-Herald, Hardin, Montana
Thursday, February 13, 1958
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Published every Thursday and entered
April 4, 1952, at the Postoffice at Har*
din, Montana, for transmission through
the mails as second-class matter under
the act of Congress March 3, 1879.
EDITORIAL
Teachers of Tomorrow
The Chicago Daily News says that “ ... we get
high school graduates who don’t know democratic capi
talism from communist dictatorship.” That sad observa
tion was prompted by an astonishing report from a pro
fessor of economics at a well-known university which
specializes in teacher training. He asked 80 freshmen
who are preparing to become teachers to define “capita
ism”. Almost all of them, he found, “not only called
capitalism a form of government, but they also thought
it an evil and dangerous form of government.”
One student, for instance said: “Capitalism is more
on the dictator type of government.” Another said:
“Capitalism is the extreme measures that are taken by
a group, country, or even a single person. ... It can be
dangerous if allowed to spread into the wrong hands.”
Another said: “I am sure there are many places where
capitalism is going on at the present time, and if this
practice should ever become nation-wide, the country is
in for a lot of trouble.” Still another said: “Capitalism
... is on the order of communism. . . .”
It would be hard to find more horrible examples of
sheer ignorance combined with semi-literacy. And they
came, don’t forget, from college students who want to
become teachers and guide the minds of this country’s
most important asset—its children. Something is indeed
wrong with American education—and it’s something
that can’t be secured by multi-million dollar school plants
50,000-seat football stadia, and curriculums that stress
social adjustment, home economics, and other such fur
belows.
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Practical Numerology
Now is the time for all good men (and women) to
come to the aid of the income tax examiner. It’s time to
start practicing the Arabic numerals—l, 2,3, 4,5, 6,7,
8,9, 0.
Right now, all good citizens are busy accumulating
—and trying to find—the records and memos and can
celled checks they’re going to need in filling out that tax
form. For most people, this is the most important docu
ment of the year. But with all the fretting that goes on
over what to report, mighty little attention is paid to how
to write the figures.
It’s not much wonder that the examiners are prone
to get the idea that the public is trying to confuse them.
Actually, they find far more errors in arithmetic than in
interpretation—more mathematical mistakes even than
efforts to deceive, mislead or just plain cheat!
And the handwriting itself is of prime concern to
the government. The Internal Revenue people have
found that most personal income tax forms are handwrit
ten, as are almost half of all corporate returns. In fact,
they note an increasing use of handwriting by business
men.
Most of the deception in income tax reports is self
deception. Many individuals aren’t too sure of their own
writing after it has cooled off —7’s look like I’s, 3’s like
s’s or B’s, or 6’s like 9’s. And when dealing with the im
portant money involved in the Big Divide with Uncle
Sam, careless calligraphy can be mighty expensive.
Sloppy figures make plenty of trouble on the job,
in social life and at the bank —and combined with illegi
ble handwriting, cause business losses that run into mil
lions of dollars a year. Banks, for instance, commonly
maintain what they call “Who Am I?” accounts in which
they carry the deposits of those whose deposit slips they
can’t read—until the worried depositor can prove his
own hieroglyphics.
So, tonight perhaps, when the kids get down to
their homework, maybe vou’d better join them, 1,2, 3,
4,5, 6,7, 8,9, 0.
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Could Be Done
Lothar Teetor, former sub-cabinet officer in the
Eisenhower administration, now an industrial executive
in Hagerstown, Ind., says we can so cut taxes, and we’d
better do it as “we are drifting into socialism”.
z\s spokesman for the Indiana Chamber of Com
merce he told the House Ways and Means committee:
“All we have to do is cut out the non-essentials.” We
wish Mr. Teetor were a Congressman, himself.
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
WASHINGTON AND
"SMALL BUSINESS"
By C W 11S O N HARDER
From all reports, from all over
the nation, this past holiday sea
son postal service was the slow
est, most inefficient in history.
Actually, ft was not the fault
of the postal employees, as their
still
backs win bear
witness. E iHWBr
Called "junk
mail," megiti-BS^gfo W
mate mail, or
any ot h e 2■' .j
name, it is
coming in-Ks|sS|sgSgL p
parent that
amendment to^^^vV^tarOar
the postal rate increase bill by
Rep. Rhodes of Pennsylvania is
a very sound one. His amend
ment provides that no one user
of the second or third class mails
shall be subsidized more than
SIOO,OOO in a year.
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Writing In the Denver Post, that
great newspaper’s outstanding
columnist, Roscoe Fleming, re
cently reported some weird hap
penings in post office of Mile High
city while holiday mailing rush
was getting underway.
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One big food company decided
to send through the mail free
samples of mashed potatoes to
Denver householders. The sam
ples weighed 5.5 ounces, or three
to a pound. Thus on basis of 200,-
000 home delivery, Mr. Fleming
estimates weary postman toted
around 66,000 pounds, or 33 tons
of mashed potatoes.
* * *
The huge company that per
petrated this load for the mail
men paid at the rate of 4.5 cents
per package, or a total of around
$9,000, which figured out less than
14 cents per ponnd.
• « *
“By contrast,” wrote Mr.
Fleming, "We, the ever lovin’
people pay about $1.20 per pound
to send first class and air mail.”
(?) National Federation of Independent Buiinesa
They're Saying ...
Comments of Other Editor*
SANDERS COUNTY LEDGER
Montana State prison inmates
were in the news again last week
with a sitdown strike which can be
traced to a large degree to one man
—the state’s diminutive attorney
general, Forrest Anderson.
Anderson has been taking pot
shots at Warden F. O. Burrell and
the prison administration in gener
al ever since last July’s riot. The
attorney-general's action then was
to settle the riot by giving the pri
soners everything they wanted and
more. We did not think then that
his “glve-ln attitude” was a per
manent answer to the riot and still
don't.
Just a week previous to last
week's sitdown strike, Anderson met
with prisoners who were members of
the inmates grievance council. The
attorney-general would permit no
prison officer to accompany him
inside the prison nor would he per
mit any official to listen in on his
conversations with the prisoners.-
What did Anderson say to them
that resulted in a sitdown strike a
week later?
Although Anderson Is a lawyer,
someone on his legal staff should
Inform him that prisoners can not
vote and that his campaign on
their behalf will not gain prison
votes for governor if Anderson runs
in 1960, as it now appears he Is.
Anderson would do the state a
great service if he would keep his
mouth shut, stay in his office In
the Capitol and let Warden Burrell
run the prison.
LEWISTOWN DAILY NEWS
One of the most disgusting news
photos we've seen in a long time
is that one showing this nineteen
year-old punk, Charles Starkweath
er, who has killed eleven people
according to the last box score,
smirking alongside of his fourteen
year-old girl friend.
Here we have the duck-tailed
haircut and the skin-tight blue
jeans and the thirst for adventure
running the full course to wanton,
wholesale murder.
About the time we begin to have
intellectual doubts about capital
punishment, along comes a punk on
the Starkweather order, so “full of
hatred,’’ who gives the supreme
penalty renewed merit.
We note his parents and friends
are already basing the defense on
the well-known and outworn psy
chiatric angle. If they can get some
psychiatrist to testify that he was
out of his mind (apparently not too
difficult these days), this aptly des
cribed “mad-dog" killer will then
be consigned to the relative ease of
an institution for a few months or
at most a few years and then be
turned loose on society perhaps to
murder and maim again. Even if
he gets a life sentence, the chances
are that he will be out before his
thirtieth birthday.
Despite the well-meaning but mis
directed efforts of the professional
do-gooders to blame everyone except
this punk for the mass tragedy he
has caused, it seems to us that the
death penalty is the only prescrib
ed medicine for him. We note
Starkweather said he was glad to
sign papers for return to Nebraska
because Wyoming has a gas cham
ber and “I don't like the smell of
gas." Well, gas is precisely what he
so richly deserves.
In the meantime it’s high time
society—all of us—gave thought to
the emphasis on shooting and vio
lence and passion which our young
sters are constantly exposed to on
television, in all-too-many movie*
and at most of our newsstands.
MONTANA FARMER-STOCKMAN
Xt is no secret around Washing-
Pointing out that the Port Of
fice Dept, claim* that junk mall
in 1956 cost a half billion more to
handle than wu paid for this
service, Mr. Fleming reported
that right while the mashed po
tato storm was in progress, an
agent for the junk mail Indus
trie* came to Denver and insist
ed the junk mailers are not sub
sidized. It’s really the people who
are subsidized because of all the
junk they get for nothing.
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Thus, his contention was that
people should be grateful for this
free junk, forgetting that out of
their tax money this year will
come at least S6OO million to pay
for this service.
• • e
Of course, pending before Con
gress is a bin to raise first class
postage to four cents. First class
make* money for the post office,
hence the alm to increase profit
making end of the business is
askew. On several occasions na
tion’s independent businessmen,
voting through the National Fed
eration of Independent Business,
have opposed such a move.
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Thus, the amendment to the
bill put on It by Rep. Rhodes
looms as most important. Thus,
for example, some of the big na
tional magazines now subsidized
up to as much as $lO million per
year would have to pay for this
service after the first SIOO,OOO
worth of subsidy. Obviously, they
are going to battle this.
• • «
Likewise, so will concern* such
as the huge soap company which
spent $900,000 plastering the na
tion with sample boxes of a new
detergent, which cost the tax
payers $1,900,000 over what the
soap company paid. Also of in
terest will be editorial stand of
big magazines on this issue. It’s
kind of difficult to urge economy
one week, a subsidy for self the
next week.
ton that the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture is formulating
a huge land retirement plan to take
the place of the present soil bank
program. Numerous USDA depart
ments have been working on dif
ferent phases of the project. Every
effort is being made to whip the
plan into shape so that it can be
placed before Congress as soon as
possible.
Final basic decisions as the major
elements of the revamped soil bank
have not yet been made. Much will
depend upon the Conservation re
serve bids from farmers in the four
“test” states which were designated
some time ago. Farmers in Nebras
ka, Tennessee, Illinois and Maine
have been invited to submit bids
for retiring entire farms from pro
duction. Fanners in those states
who are interested in the plan will
submit bids before Feb. 1 covering
the amount of annual payment they
would accept for retiring their
farms for a minimum of five years
If the test plan Indicates that a
considerable percentage of farmers
would make bids which USDA would
consider reasonable, the land re
tirement plan chat is being develop
ed might be built largely around
this procedure.
Details still to be worked out by
USDA include how many total
acres to try for, whether to make
the plan available for all farms or
just “commercial type" farms, how
much to pay per acre for different
types of farms and whether to pro
vide payments in cash or in supplies
from CCC stocks.
When these questions have been
decided and when the general plan
has been formulated, USDA, may
not actually recommend it. Officials
may simply say in effect to the con
gressmen: If you want to support
farm prices by making a substan
tial reduction in production, here is
how you can do it and this is about
what it will cost.
Some congressional observers are
convinced that if any new broad
gauge farm program is going to be
enacted by the present Congress, it
will be a big land retirement scheme
of this type. But in view of the
many conflicting ideas as to what
should be done about the farm
problem there Is no assurance that
agreement can be reached upon
this or any other plan of impor
tance.
STRICTLY FRESH
AN old-timer is a fellow who
remembers when you could
buy for a penny a sackful of stale
candy in a grab bag.!’ Costs a
quarter today.
• • •
It's almost impossible to im
agine the purchasing power of
one billion dollars, but it sure is
fun to try.
• • •
A bore is a fellow who won't
let YOU monopolize the conver
sation.
• • •
The boss isn't up to par these
days. It's too wet outside for him
to spend his afternoons on the
golf course.
• • •
People who don’t believe in
miracles never managed to get a
seat on a rush-hour bus.
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LETTERS
To The Editor
(Editors NOTE: Wi UtH. M
ters from MIT readers n say tojk
•4 feaeral tatonte. Letters lb—l 4
be as brief aa passible aad to the
poiat. Letters mast restate the si*-
aatare at the writer far oar iaier
maMaa, bat aaam of writer eaa be
withheld from pablisatioa it de
sired. Views expressed in this eol
ama da not aaeessarily cenfam with
these of the editor.)
Well, I had to reach for a tran
quilizer pill after I read Sarp’s let
ter to the editor.
That I should see the day he’d re
nounce the Republican party!
Really stirred me up more than
hearing about Sputnik. To repeat
a trite phrase though, “better late
than never, or as the Chinese say,
a wise man changes his mind, but
a fool never does.”
However, I must say 50 years
seems like a long time to get
around to something that needed
doing so badly.
I got around to it a little earlier
than you. Having had Republican
ism crammed down my throat all
my growing years, I decided when
I got out on my own to be a Demo
crat just for the hell of it.
Now I don’t take politics too
seriously as there’s not all good or
bad in anything. In fact there are
some wonderful people who are Re
publicans. They just got the wrong
start.
Anyway, as one “has been" to
another, congratulations, and a big
hand shake.
Maybe there’s hope for the old
muddled up world after all.
A Friend.
Around the County
with Tribune-Herald
Correspondents
• North Valley
By Mrs. Ted Dumler
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dorn and
family visited friends and relatives
in Billings Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Heyn and Har
lan, Sally Dumler and Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Dumler and Bonnie spent
the week end at the Ted Dumler’s
and Howard Hussup's.
Miss Loretta Dorn was hostess to
a slumber party Saturday. Guests
were Judy Besel, Joan Keller and
Geraldine Steinmetz.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Keller and
family visited the Henry Dorn’s
Friday.
Mrs. Fred Schneider Sr. and Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Schneider Jr. left
tor Missouri where Mr. Schneider
will undergo surgery.
Richard Besel visited the Dum
ler’s Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Carper visi
ted the Harry Carper’s Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hussy and
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to Myers Sunday to visit Mr. and
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Mrs. AI Heyn and Harlan visited
with Mrs. Jim Besel Saturday.
Jim Besel, Ted Dumler, Al Heyn
and Leslie Dumler were fishing on
Willow Creek lake Saturday.
Mrs. Ted Dumler spent Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Henry Frlckle.
Mrs. Russell visited Mrs. Lloyd
Carper Monday.
• Muddy Creek
By Mrs. R. B. Rowland
Several Inches of snow fell in
this area during the week, but more
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Powell, Nedra Mason and Ray and
Patricia Anne Harris.
Nedra Mason was a week end
guest of Alice and Evelyn Row
land.
Those attending the show “The
King and I" at Lame Deer Friday
were Mrs. Ray Harris and family,
Mrs. Allen Rowland and family.
Larson Waters, Lee Harris, Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Rowland and family, Pa
tricia Anne Harris, Mrs. Lase Elli
ot, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Elliot, Mrs.
Leonard Elliot and Etfie Elliot.
Leonard Braine of Lame Deer
was a visitor at the Robinson ranch
Sunday.
Pvt. Ralph Rowland sailed for
overseas duty January 12.
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