The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1946 Page: 2 of 18
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THE WEST NEWS
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By EDWARD EMERINE
WNU Fraturas
mA TREASURE,’’ says Web-
** ster’s dictionary, "is a valu-
able store, accumulation, or reserve
supply. a collection of precious
things.” And South Dakota is a
storehouse of those treasures, a
vast accumulation of nature’s bless-
ings, with a reserve supply to last
man forever.
Among the precious things of
South Dakota is the glorious sun it-
self, shining from its blue heaven
almost every day in the year. And
precious, too, is the clean, pure air
of its plains and mountains. In its
rich topsoil is the accumulation of
ingredients that produce vast fields
of wheat and corn and fruits. The
lush grass of its ranges, where fat
cattle and sheep feed, is a valu-
able store of wealth and content-
ment. Beneath the surface is a re-
serve supply of minerals, gold and
silver, feldspar and lithium, lig-
nite and bentonite.
As though that were not enough,
South Dakota has mountains, trout
streams, cabins in the pines, lakes,
waterfalls, colorful canyons, the*,
fragrance of pine and spruce. The
days are cheerfully warm in South
Dakota, with the nights cool and
refreshing. And the Black Hills
have no mosquitoes to take away the
pleasure of being out of doors.
The famed Black Hills! Harney
Peak rises 7,242 feet above sea lev-
el, the highest point in the United
States east of the Rockies. Mount
Rushmore has an altitude of 6,200
feet, and on it are sculptured the
heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lin-
coln and Theodore Roosevelt. The
largest monument ever conceived
or executed by man, the Mount
Rushmore National Memorial was
sculptured in heroic proportions by
Gutzon Borglum, the late world-re-
nowned artist, and is called the
"Shrine of Democracy.” A half-mil-
lion visitors come to the monument
each year, and it is one of the most
photographed scenes of all times.
The figures on the solid granite face
are carved in proportion to men 450
feet tall!
North and south the Black Hills
M. Q. SHARPE
Governor of South Dakota
Born in Marysville, Kan.. Janu-
ary 11, 1888, Governor Sharpe
taught school for two years,
served four years in the 0. S.
navy, and has been a surveyor,
newspaper man, lawyer, soldier in
World War I, and has had varied
other business interests.
Sylvan Lake in the Blark Hills.
stretch 125 miles and are approxi- I
mately 50 miles wide. There is Cus- '
ter state park, with 128.000 acres of
mountains, gorges, lakes and
streams, and 90,000 acres under
fence, with buffalo, elk, deer, bighorn
sheep, Rocky mountain goats, ante-
lope and other animals roaming
unmolested. President Coolidge had
his summer White House there in
1927, and left reluctantly. "I'm
coming back," he promised.
Skeletons of Ancient Beasts.
The Big Badlands covering a mil-
lion acres lie east of the Black Hills,
and is one of the most important
fossil deposits of prehistoric life.
Fossils of alligators, rhinoceroses,
hippopotamuses, saber-toothed ti-
gers, three-toed horses and other
long-extinct animals are found here
and displayed in most of the impor-
tant museums.
East and northeast of the Bad-
lands, South Dakota is mostly roll-
ing prairie, falling to lowest levels
in the northeastern part of the state.
Big Stone Lake is the lowest point,
967 feet above sea level. The great
Missouri river drains most of the
state, cutting South Dakota into two
almost equal parts as it flows
through it.
The agricultural treasure house of
America is filled with corn, cane,
wheat, oats, barley, flax and fruits
from South Dakota. The vast plains
area has a big dairy industry, and
beef cattle are grown -in all parts of
the state. The production of live-
stock is the main feature of the
state’s extensive agricultural in-
dustry. Hot Springs is the head-
quarters of horse-breeding, and is 1
also known for its medicinal wa-
ters. At the annual Black Hills
Round-Up at Belle Fourche, real
cowboys from the surrounding cat-
tle ranges compete in riding and
roping.
The mineral resources of South
Dakota include more than 60 basic
minerals, including gold, silver, tin,
zinc and others. Many of these de-
posits are not of economic impor-
tance at the moment, but will be-
come important in the future. At
any rate, they remain in South Da-
kota’s Treasure House, a reserve
supply whenever the nation needs
them. At Lead is the largest pro-
ducing gold mine in the United
States. The “Days of ’76” celebra-
tion at Deadwood re-enacts many
of the events of the historic gold
rush days, when Wild Bill, Dead-
r
HOMESTAKE MINE ... At Lead,
S. D., known all over the world as
the greatest producer of gold ever
discovered.
wood Dick, Calamity Jane and oth-
er Wild West notables were seen
on the streets of this mining cen-
ter. A pageant descriptive of the
Red Man’s history of creation is
held each year at Custer and called
"Gold Discovery Days.”
Settlement of South Dakota came
slowly, although the Verendrye broth-
ers, Frenchmen from Canada, vis-
ited the region in 1743. In 1804 and
1806 the Lewis and Clarke expedition
followed the Missouri river through-
out the area. Fort Teton was estab-
lished in 1817 on the site of Fort
Pierre, and in 1831 the American Fur
company pushed a steamer into
the territory.
Both plainsmen and mountain
men helped build South Dakota and
bring to light its treasures. That
there might always be intelligent ap-
preciation of the state, seven institu-
tions of higher learning, all state-
supported, were founded. They are
the University of South Dakota, Ver-
million; South Dakota State college,
Brookings; School of Mines, Rapid
City; and four normal schools. There
are five junior colleges in the state.
Young, thriving and rich, South
Dakota does not hoard its wealth,
nor does it allow waste. Its treas-
ures are open to all-—for the re-
serves are ample.
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Washington pi 9^ St;
New Political Groups Seek
To Shape Parties’ Policies
By BAUKIIAGE
Nett'S Analyst and Commentator.
H’NU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
The donkey and the elephant are
getting jealous, and the Washing-
ton Chapter of the SPCPA (Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Po-
litical Animals)
is getting a little
worried, lest
some other new
and strange fau-
na are going to
sneak under the
tent to steal the
old regulars’ fod-
der—and it ain’t
hay.
Three very ac-
tive creatures
are being heard
from in tones so
stentorian that
the bray and the trumpet, familiar
sounds in campaign years, are al-
most drowned out.
The latest performer in the ring
is the ROF (Republican Open
Forums). Officially the newcomer
belongs to the Republican stable,
as its name implies, but some of the
old timers are afraid the colt is
getting ready to kick over the party
traces.
Although the other two more fa-
miliar creatures, the CIO-PAC and
the NC (National Citizens)-PAC, are
more at home in the Democratic
pasture, they frequently get their
heads through the rails to browse
on the Republican side.
All three are full of ginger, and
not too bridle-wise.
Stassen Heads
Open Forum
Chairman of the Republican Open
Forums advisory committee is Har-
old Stassen, and ROF is considered
pretty much his baby. Wayne
Morse, Walter Judd, Gov. Raymond
Baldwin of Connecticut, and other
Republicans not unfriendly to the
liberal domestic and expansive in-
ternational views of Stassen make
up the committee.
At ROF headquarters, you are
told it is strictly all-Republican, not
a one dark-horse team. However,
a broad-minded tolerance prevails
which permits Democrats to take
part in forums, if they want to.
The forums are compared to town
meetings, and are supposed to pro-
vide members of the party with the
opportunity to form party policy.
At that point comes the rub. Old
Timers don’t want Mr. Stassen’s
outfit (which its director insists it
isn’t) making policy. They feel
they have had enough experience in
such matters themselves.
Anyhow, ROF i» a going concern.
As of mid-May, there were already
474 forums in operation in 44 states.
CIO Works to Get
Out Favorable Vote
The CIO-PAC we know of old.
That outfit is run by Sidney Hillman,
and because the CIO fathered it,
Mark Sullivan says that the CIO is
no longer merely a labor organiza-
tion, but has acquired the status of
a political party. This column de-
scribed CIO-PAC’s dynamic activi-
ties, literature, and methods at the
time of the last campaign.
Their ostensible object is to get
out the vote; the real object is to
get out the vote they want. A def-
inite platform for both domestic
and foreign policy is stated in de-
tail.
The six points of foreign policy
include such controversial subjects
as the quarantine of Spain and Ar-
gentina, and self-government for co-
lonial nations.
There are 13 points in CIO-
PAC’s domestic policy, ranging
from a minimum wage to OPA,
and including price guarantees
to farmers, progressive taxation
for large incomes, reduction on
small incomes. Specific bills are
singled out for support or oppo-
sition.
CIO-PAC’s brother, NC-PAC, is
what might be described simply as
simon-pure New Deal. Chairman
of the policy committee is Dr.
Frank Kingdom with Sydney Hill-
man as an "honorary,” and mem-
bers including Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Henry
Wallace, Hugo Black and so on.
The lead article in their organ,
"The National Citizen,” whose
memorial edition made no single
mention of the name, Truman, con-
tained this paragraph:
“Stirred by the rising tide of re-
action, and the steady drift away
from the policies of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, more than 2,100 of the
late President’s most ardent sup-
porters and closest friends gathered
. . . to hear speaker after speaker
sound the call to political action as
the best method to fulfill the Roose-
velt domestic and international pro-
gram."
NC-PAC has a political guide
which demands the election of
progressiva candidates for con-
gress, and lists issues for action
which include anti-labor bills, Ar-
gentina, British loan, conscription,
FEPC, atomic power, and so on.
They likewise are sponsoring a
"School of Political Action Tech-
niques" here in Washington begin-
ning June 26 which purports to "un-
veil the intricacies of professional
political campaigning to the aver-
age voter.” The school will he open
to anyone; attendance will be lim-
ited to 500 students. NC-PAC
says "it is believed that the ma-
jority of the student body will play
an active role in the November con-
gressional elections."
Needless to say, in school or out,
they offer little comfort for the
southern Democrats.
Of course, there are various other
organizations, old and new, in the
field. The Young Republicans, for
example, who endorsed the ROF at
a recent national convention; Mr.
Ickes’ Independent Citizens Com-
mittee of the Arts, Sciences and
Professions to which James Roose-
velt presumably brings a hereditary
parental blessing, and others.
And I shouldn't fail to men-
tion the Women's Division of
the Democratic National com-
mittee, which teaches wives of
politicos such fundamentals as
platform poise, the right word
at the right time, bow to over-
come fear of public speaking,
and so on. Wives of cabinet of-
ficers, wives of senators, wives
of representatives, wives of
members of the little cabinet
and wives of top-flight agency
heads are exhorted; "Use your
feminine charm in the (Demo-
cratic) campaign. It helped you
get your husband, didn't it? It
will also help get votes.”
But these are only mother’s help-
ers. The PAC twins, and the ROF
are the ones that make the don-
key and the elephant nervous when
they look over their left flanks.
• • •
Congress Needs
Salary Boost
Wages are* at the top of the in-
flation list.
But that doesn't mean more pay
for congressmen. One of the best
arguments for a boost in the con-
gressional payroll comes from a
congressmen whom 1 won't name,
but whose bitterest rivals mention
as one of the smartest members of
either chamber. He says:
"The vote against a pay raise
comes from the men who know
that they couldn’t get elected, if
congressional salaries were high
enough to attract a better class of
candidates to oppose them.”
Philip Broughton, ex-newspa-
perman and political scientist
who has spent a decade ip
Washington, says, in his “For a
Stronger Congress,” that every
independent student of congres-
sional reorganization has “rec-
ommended a raise to $15,000 or
$25,000 a year. Certainly, it
would seem that the same pub-
lic which can afford $500 a week
for the writers of Grade B
movie scenarios ran afford a
similar sum for those who set
policies that control our nation-
al life.”
A congressman now gets $10,000
a year. Anybody who lives in
Washington, Broughton points out,
knows that that isn’t enough. A
congressman has to maintain two
homes; campaigns cost money. Be-
sides, he has to contribute to "the
do-good organizations that claim a
root in his constituency,” and "sec-
retarial expenses and meager rail-
road mileage do not balance his
family budget.”
There are. of course, many other
changes required in cdhgressional
organization before this body can be
brought up to date . . , bjit one of
the most important objectives is to
attract men of sufficient ability.
That means offering such men a
salary somewhere near what their
services could command elsewhere.
Otherwise you get an uhder-qual-
ity product ... or you have to de-
pend on men of wealth.
The thing that pains me most
as I travel up and down the land is
to hear the very people who scream
that no congressman is worth even
$10,000 a year, object to paying
enoygh to hire a man with ability.
BARBS a a .by BaukhtL ge
Suicides dropped during the war.
I You can’t compete with Mars.
* • •
Six million pianos out of tune,
says an official of the piano manu-
facturers' association. Ten thou-
sand piano-tuners will be kept busy
for years fixing them up. Maybe
that will solve some of our future
troubles when the next inflation bub-
ble bursts.
Jack Spratt eats too much fat,
his wife eats loo much lean and so
between the two of them the rest
of the world starves.
• • •
“Taking over” mines and rail-
roads doesn’t end strikes. It's true
there are nd strikes in Russia but
they have a Gestapo and a handy
Siberia, neither of which Americans
care for.
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Webb, Leonard. The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1946, newspaper, June 14, 1946; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth589996/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting West Public Library.