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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
HOW A SYSTEM WAS BUILT

The future life of national banks as
fixed and safe investments depends
upon immediate action, as there is an
increase sentiment in favor of govern
ment legal tender notes and silver
coinage
9. Under the Federal Reserve
act the vast power of the thirty thous-
and American banks is concentrated
in the hands Of little club with head
quarters in Wall Street. This club
holds in its hands the power to make
or to destroy any business man in the
United States; the power to make or
wreck financial institutions and in
augurate panics; the power to issue
credit, and even money. The bankers
at the center of the financial web are
endowed with the power of govern
ment.
THE right to issue money is, as l
have said- fundamental This right is
exercised by the New York bankers
club, thinly disguised as the Federal
Reserve board. Imperial Washington
PIP. 51-54)"
Here is a little problem in interest
that perhaps you have never con-
sidered in this particular light. Sup
pose child, we will say of seven
years of age, inherited $1,000,o0 clear
or all membranes and this money
was put out at 40 interest until the
child was 81 years of age, with a
deduction every year of $4,000 for
maintenance of the child. What would
be the effect on the workers, using
the assumption that all wealth must
be produced and all production comes
from the worker (Which is CORRECTLY
have the figures here that show how
much labor would be necessary to pro-
duce that much interest. II we allow
a person $500 per day for eight hours
work it would take 132,439 men one
days labor to pay this interest We
gave the inheritor the best of the deal
as we put the fortune out at a low rate
OF interest and credited a much higher
scale of wages to the laborer than is
commanded throughout the country at
this time. Nor did we allow anything
for expenses such as food, clothes,
rent etc. $4,000 for living expenses per
year for a child would be there as
much as the majority OF the people in
the United States get to raise family
with
If we would take this problem up
into the billions of dollars that are
controlled by the powers-that-be the
figures would be staggering. You
would see that the common people
are working, stewing and fretting
night and day; living on part rations
with half enough clothes to wear;
luddling around stove in some shack
hats not fit for human habitation;
in all kinds of weather and
places and under the worst conditions
fighting each other tooth
md toenail for handout from the
master class so they can keep body
md mind functioning little longer,
md gain little more strength to
work and fight again. For what? To
Jay debt of nonsense. The only debt
hat the producer owes is the debt of
to himself
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
War Price Increases
Threaten Economy,
TNEC Reports

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rises
| In raw materials such as cotton, grain
and silk will, If continued, become a
| matter of vital concern in keeping the
national economy on an even keel"
the Temporary National Economic
Committee declared In a statement
here
The TNEC's report, its fourth since
President Roosevelt asked it to keep
an eye on war prices since the. out
break of war In Europe, ascribed no
reason to the price increases
The outstanding feature of the COM
modify markets recently has been a
resumption of the sharp upward move
ment in the price of many basic raw
materials, the report said, principally
cotton, grain and silks. A more sus-
tanned price increase seems now to
be well under way" it added.
To some extent, at least, this effect
(of price increases) will depend upon
the willingness of manufacturers and
groups of manufacturers to cooperate
in the effort to restrain runaway
prices" the committee said.
The committee noted that bananas,
which though imported are largely
by the United Fruit Co., a
domestic corporation, rose almost 500
in price in single week. Probably
even more significant is the sharp
rise in the basic domestic agricultural
grain and cotton. Kansas
City wheat is 41% higher than on
August "a while cotton on December
IL was $40 higher"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
WAGE-HOUR CASES
TO BE SPEEDED UP

WASHINGTON. - OPP - Speeding
up of the handling of wage-hour cases
is predicted by the wage-hours di-
vision here following a revisio- Of pro-
cedure giving field staff members
more responsibility and eliminating
the requirement for authorization from
Washington before proceeding with
cases 1t was also announced that
henceforth, when immediate payment
OF back wages due under the act would
place employers In financial jeopardy,
installment payments covering a
period of less than year will be
permitted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
Utility to Appeal
Decision Against
Rate Increase

CHICAGO.-(FP)-The Illinois SUI
preme court granted on Dec. 20 to the
Peoples Gas Light G. Coke Co. the
right to file petition for new hear
Ing in the corporations gas rate case.
On Dec IL, the court denied the COM
pany's petition for 100000 annual
increase in Chicago's gas rates.
The increase rates, which were put
into effect on Feb. 4, 1888, will re-
main in force pending final settlement
of the legal controversy The differ
ence between old and new rates is
being held in escrow.
The united conference on the high
cost of living has picketed the gas
companies building, distributed leaf
lets, conferred with the management
and otherwise pressed widespread de-
mands that the company refund before
Christmas the money collected under
the higher rate scale.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

ganda in terms Of good or bad, true
or false. 1t will not be easy to do.
The inquiry that I want to make
involves the searching and understands
ing of ourselves. There lie the rele-
want facts concerning society and poll
tics and history, and all of wisdom
and folly. We are the ones who make
and use propagandas. They are the
images of our harmful notions about
ourselves. And they are the weapons
that are destroying us today. For that
reason we must study and understand
them, for only so can we render them
harmless
Independence of thought, the desire
to understand rather than to malign,
are qualities distrusted by radicals
and conservatives alike. II there is
a new frontier it marks the boundary
of the land of self, conquest of which
we have scarcely begun.
Let's talk about propaganda.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
TENNESSEE LEAGUE TO
FIGHT POLL TAX

Observation-Disclosures
program calling for abolition of the
poll tax and enactment of a state
wage-hour law, the Tennessee League
for Progressive Democracy was or
ganized here Dec. II.
William Turnblazer of Jellico, Tenn,
president of Dist 10, United Mines
Workers (CIO), vice president; and
Paul D. Ragon, president of the In
dustrial Union Council, secretary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

The Farmers Terminal Association Mimi
that markets the
Minneapolis and Duluth
cooperative grain marketing
States
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
HEARINGS ADJOURNED

WASHINGTON - (FP) - Hearings
before the house committee allegedly
investigating the National Labor Re-
lations board and act were adjourned
until early next year here after the
committee questioned NLRB secretary
Nathan Witt on board procedure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-26
Attorney Is Slain
By Assassin LurkinQ
Outside Window
Wife Finds Body With
Two Bullet Wounds
In Back
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCIATED fTeSS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 90
An assassin crouching outside bed
room window shot and killed David
T. Melin, 81, civil law attorney, as
he undressed in his home about $50
o'clock last night
Several hours afterward, three de-
tectives had as clues only slightly
trampled grass and flowers, the foot
prints too indistinct to be of as
sistance, and vague description of
a running man made by neighbors.
Mrs. Melin, who discovered her
husbands body, could supply no
motive and his brother and former
partner, E. Luther Melin, several
times candidate for district judge
and mayor, told the officers he knew
Of nothing in the slain mans general
law practice that might have created
such an enemy.
Shortly before $50 pm, Mrs
Melin told the officers that he went
into the bedroom as usual to put on
his pajamas and listen to a baseball
game over the radio. She went into
the kitchen. In another bedroom
was niece, Alice Campbell, 20, who
lives at the Melin home.
Mrs. Melin said she heard "three
cracks" Mystified, she went to the
bedroom door and called out, "Ted!
She told the officers she couldn't see
her husband, so she entered the
room and found his body, still
clothed, slumped in a closet. There
were two bullet wounds in the back
Miss Campbell and neighbors also
heard the shots and neighbors said
they saw a man running between
two other houses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-26
Howard Mckinley, So,
Dies Of Heart Attack

Howard Mckinley, SO, secretary
of the Reliable Stores Corp, died
suddenly of a heart attack last
night at Shady Side, Md.
Mr. Mckinley was mentioning at
Shadow Lawn, his Maryland home,
when death came. His wife, Mrs.
Minnie Carter Mckinley, was with
him.
He was we'll known in Washington
through his association with the
Hub Co., subsidiary of Reliable
Stores Corp, and was a member of
the Washington Centennial Lodge of
Masons and the Corinthian Yacht
Club He made his home here at
1865 Kilbourne place NV.
Born in Falls Church, Va, Mr.
Mckinley lived most of his life in
and around Washington. He had
worked at the Hub Co. about IS
years, having started as credit man
ager.
Besides his widow he is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Olivia Mckinley
of Washington.
Funeral services will be held al
Hysong's funeral home, 1900 N street
NV, Monday at 2:30 pm. Buria
will probably be in GlenWood Gene
terry.
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campaign to sell" buyers on the
superiority Of letter-press printing
Monauolu u m olu4io.a ID i>.ll

campaign to sell" buyers on the
superiority Of letter-press printing
Monopoly Resolution Rejected.
The convention rejected a resolu-
ton by New York City delegates to
require the unions Executive Coun-
Gil to gather evidence of alleged
monopolistic practices in the news
paper publishing industry.
The Independent I. T. u. faction
renominated President Claude M
Baker in announcing nominees for
the referendum election next May
A committee of progressives will
meet in october to select it's NOM
inees.
The independent slate includes:
First vice president, John J. Buck
ley, New York.
Second vice president, Thomas A.
Holland, Vancouver, British Column
bia.
Secretary-treasurer, John j. Con-
ley, Fort Worth, now serving as Sec
ond vice president. Woodruff Ran
dolph Of Indianapolis, progressive, is
secretary treasurer.
Home trustees, F. l.. Pferdsteller
Denver; Sloan Springfield, Atlanta !;
George Ballinger, Pittsburgh.
Agent, William J. Cantrell, Wor-
cester, Mass.
Auditor, P. D. Lyon, st. Joseph,
Mo.
Relegates to the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor meeting, Henry E.
Clemens, Los Angeles; Nicholas M.
Dipietro, Tarrytown, N. Y; Paul E.
V. Muret, San Antonio; Glenn L.
Mitchell. Indianapolis, and Harry
Wicks, Chicago.
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|. I. j. Asks CLOSING
OF Federal Printinq
Apprentice School
Fort Worth Convention
Condemns Use of
Substitute Processes
BY the Associated Press.

=
FORT WORTH, Tex, Aug. 26.-
The International Typographical
Union demanded closing of the Gov
eminent Printing Office apprentice
school and condemned Government
use of substitute processes of print
ing, as it closed it's annual conven-
ton.
Delegates voted to attempt to
eliminate finally the six-day week
by January l, 1912.
Nearly 10000 members are to par
ticipate in referendum, perhaps in
October, on whether to create a
fourth vice presidency, which would
increase the executive council to
six members. Five would be printer
members and the sixth the presi-
dent of the Mailers' Trade District
Union.
Also approved was the proposal of
George L. Berry, president of the
Printing Pressmen's Union, that the
I. T. U. join in forming a new print
ing trades federation.
Guild Talks Continue.
Conferences between officials of
I. T. u and the American Newspaper
Guild in an effort to settle juris-
dictional disputes will be continued
under terms of a proposal submitted
by Henry J. Oettinger of Waukesha
Wis, and Daniel G. Mack of Chicago
Other proposals adopted:
Make residents of the Unior
Printers Home at Colorado Springs
eligible to participate in elections.
Condemned the proposed ANTI.
closed shop" law under considera.
ton in Alabama.
Give local unions in port cite!
jurisdiction over ships printers.
Retain the 2 per cent pension func
assessment until the fund reache
100000.
Call on all local unions to form
special committees to aid the Chi
cago Union in its fight to unioniz,
a large non-union printing plant il
that city.
| Provide for a national advertiser,
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Robert E. King, ~, Retired
G.P. 0. Proofreader, Dies

Robert E. King, 70, retired Gov
eminent Printing Office proofreader
and a resident of Washington for
more than so years, died yesterday
in Garfield Hospital. He had been
In poor health for several years.
Born in New York City, Mr..
King came to Washington many
years ago. He worked for the Gov
eminent Printing Office in various
capacities from 1886 to 1927. He
made his home at $500 Thirty
ninth street NV.
He was a member of the Press
Club and was we'll known among
journalists of the old school.
A brother, John King, ST., of
Newark, N. j., survives.
Funeral services will be held at
$50 am. Monday at St. Paul's
Catholic Church, Fifteenth and v
streets NV. Place of burial has
not yet been determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-26
Mrs. Daniel Harrington
Dies al Residence

Mrs. Mary E. Harrington, a resi-
dent of Washington for 80 years.
died Thursday at her home, 444O
Conduit Road NV, She was a
native Of Piedmont, w. Va.
Mrs. Harrington was active IN
church affairs, having taught Sun
day school at the Holy Trinity
Catholic Church before her mar
riage. She was one of the original
members of the church's sodality.
She was married April II, 1879. to
Daniel Harrington at the Holy
Trinity Church.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by four sons, J. Daniel
Charles A., Raphael S. and George
E.; five daughters, Mary S., Kath-
crime, Mrs. Louise c. Yingling, Mrs
Agnes G.. Slattery and Mrs. Nellie
H. Wright.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day at Holy Trinity Church at 8
am. Burial will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
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Abraham G. Cook Dies;
Lifelong D. c. Resident

Abraham G. Cook, 80, retired
Government Printing Office employee
and member of the Association
Of Oldest Inhabitants, died yes1er-
day in Sibley Hospital.
Mr.. Cook was a member of a
pioneer Montgomery County family
and was lifelong resident of Wash
ington. AS youth during the Civil
War, he was messenger between
the White House and the Capitol.
His home was at 1904 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc.
Surviving are a son, j. Williamson
Cook, of this city, and a grand
daughter. Funeral services will be
held Monday at pm. at Chambers
funeral home. SIT Eleventh street
Sc. Burial will be in Congressional
| Cemetery.
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DrathH

gust a5. 1899; HENRY B. HOLLAND, be;
loved husband of Rosa A.. Holland and
land, jr.
Services at Chambers funeral home. 5l7
18th st Sc. on Sunday, August q, at IL
ment Occoouan, Va. 81
HOWES. WILLIAM JOSEPH. On Thurs
day, August a 1899; at Garfield Hospital,
Of Mary F. and the late joseph Howes. '0i
Funeral services at the Colonial funeral
home of VIM, Reuben Pumphrey Rockville,
Forest Glen. Md where reoniem mass viii viii
be said at 10 am. 1nterment Rockville
Union Cemetery. 81
%, 1899, al Garfield Hospital. ROBERT E.
KING Sar; of $500 aafs St; NV, - .-,
gust %, at $40 am; thence to St. Pauls
where mass will be offered at am -
MGHTFooT; SADIE H. On Tuesday,
st. NV, SADIE H. LiGHTFooT, She IS
survived by sister. Mrs Catherine Holli-
day; FIVE 1ieces Mrs. Sarah Tyler Mrs,
Mary F. SLAUGHTER and Mrs. Alice Hill. and
a nephew. Lyman p, Robinson.
Short services at her late residence Sat-
funeral at Viewtown. va. Sunday. August
-, at 2 pm. Arrangements by MCGUIRE.
PALMER. WILLIAM On Thursday, Au-
gust "a. 1889. at Casualty Hospital, WILL
LIAM PALMER devoted son of Carrie G.
Walton. grandson of Mary Hale. He also
Is survived by two sunts. two uncles. a
nephew and host Of other relatives and
friends
Remains resting at Frazier's funeral
home. $3.50 Rhode Island ave. NV. where
funeral services will be held on Monday,
August %, at pm. Interment Airing
ton National Cemetery 27
RANDOLPH. NELLIE. On Friday. Au-
S' no NEIL R asf p5eilfifce vid aS q
the late Marshall A. Randolph. loving
mother OF ~; James L: Randolph, devoted
James L. Randolph. jr.; mother -in-law OF
Helen Randolph. Many other relatives and
friends also survive. Remains may be
viewed after 5 pm. Saturday. August 90,
at Frazier's funeral home $50 Rhode Is
land ave. NV.
at Hamilton. Va 27
TAYLOR, EMMA l.. SIMMs. On Fri
day, Augvst 20, 1889, At her residence
TAYLOR, beloved wife of George A. Tay-
lor. sister of Mrs. F.. Carter of Boston
Mass Mass She also leaves three nephews,, one
Notice Of funeral later. ARRANGEMENTS
by w. Ernest Jarvis.
UNDERWOOD. ALLEN F. On Thurs
ptal HIEN u 5SfS su 81 cr s1s.
belt; Md; beloved son Of Howard A. and
Ruth ssun Is Underwood :, 49,,
home. 2901 14th st. NV. on Sunday. Au-
gust 81. at 2;30 pm. Interment Epiphany
Cemetery, Forestviue. Md -
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nant gene. All prove clearly that
feeble mindedness and imbecility in
the majority of all families appear
together. Any independent in
heritance Of certain grades of mental
deficiency has not yet been proven
The feeble-minded are always much
more numerous among the relatives
of imbeciles. especially among the
parents. There are no facts at
present which contradict the genetic
uniformity of all cases of uncom-
plicated mental deficiency"
There is increasing evidence, re-
ported DR.. j. A. Fraser Roberts of
the University of Bristol, England,
that the lower grades of feeble
mindedness are due to single alb
normal genes in the parental proto-
plasm.
Factors Must Coincide.
In the great majority Of cases
which fall into the moron group, he
said, it is apparent that a complica-
ton of several genetic factors and
the environment in which the person
Is reared must fit together in order
to produce mental defect, and
only in the lower levels does it seem
to be passed directly from genera
ton to generation.
'LoW-grade detectives" he said,
ARE genetically very heterogeneous
group. There undoubtedly exist a
number of genes, any pair of which
may determine idiocy or imbecility.
But in the majority of cases both
genetic and non-genetic factors must
contribute to the result. The gene
merely determines an abnormal
susceptibility to influences in devel.
opment.
There is, of course, the usual
picture of different genes producing
indistinguishable results and the eff
feet of a single gene may be suffl-
GENTLY susceptible to other in
fluences to yield a variety of clinical
types. Low-grade deficiency may be
one of the features of syndromes
presenting number of develop
mental abnormanties.
THE most important problem in
regard to the causation of high
grade mental deficiency is the
identification of environmental fac
tors, if they exist, which play a
substantial part in determining the
level OF mentality"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-26
Stupidity Not Linked
Necessarily With
Moral Defects
Lack Of Brains
Inherited, Probably
As Genetic Entity
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Stan Corresnondent

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 25.-
Lack OF brains is inherited, proba-
bly, as a genetic entity.
There is no necessary relationship
between stupidity and moral defects
These findings were stressed be-
fore the World Genetics Congress,
meeting here today by scientists of
several countries concerned with the
prevalence of feeble mindedness
genes in the heredity of their pop
ulations.
Much has been made in the past
Of the fact that many criminals are
mental detectives. Lack of brains
Is often shown by those who are
caught, and there has been con-
siderable dispute whether the moron
is lacking in moral responsibility or
is simply more likely to be caught
than the intelligent criminal.
Only One Abnormality.
But his own researches and many
reported recently from other lands
said DR.. j. A. Brugger of the Uni
verSity of Basic, Switzerland, show
that the majority of mental defec-
tives show no abnormality save re-
tarded mental development. They
cannot, he declared, be further clas-
sified by means of clinical methods
Some scientists" DR.. Brugger
said, suppose that several genetical-
ly independent types exist among
these mental detectives. An indie
pendent heredity transmission Of
these types, however, has not beer
statistically demonstrated.
Recent statistical investigation!
have disproved the hypothesis o.
any genetic relations between de.
fects of mind and defects of char.
acter. Mental deficiency cannot bt
interpreted as a character failure
All researches seem to show g
unified recessive determination ir
feeble mindednesS. Those to which
1 am referring are based on 1886
brothers and sisters. Results tina,
do not fit into the hypothesis Of
recessive hereditary factors have
been found only in very few
groups"
Hopeful Sign Emphasized.
The fact that feeble mindedness
is a "recessive," only cropping Out
occasionally, was stressed as hope.
full sign for the eventual elimination
Of this curse of the race which
some investigators have believed tt
be on the increase with a def1nit,
decline of human intelligence from
generation to generation.
Said DR.. Brugger: More than 81
per cent of 961 cases of menta
deficiency in which both parent
have been carefully examined arr
the offspring of normal, even gifted
| persons. Cases of mental defect
we have found. are no more nu
merous among offspring of tn,
feeble minded than among the of
spring of imbeciles. Less than one
third of 342 parents of feeble
minded persons are themselves men
tally defective and less than one
fourth of 672 such parents are i'm
beetles. These results provide n,
reason for assuming that feeble
mindedness may be due to domi
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World Roll PurIey Quits

OSLO, Norway, Aug. Is (P.-The
International Railway Congress here
dissolved suddenly yesterday when
several delegates were ordered home
by their governments. The Turkish
delegate, it was said, altered a rout-
ing home by Germany to return
through Poland.
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Take vacation from washday...
and you'll never 60 back to worl

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Call for Peace Pruyers

NEW YORK, Aug. rs (P.-The
Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America has appealed to
all churches in the country to OBJ
serve tomorrow a day of prayer for
peace and good will among the ma
tons" The appeal was made by the
Rev. George A. Buttrick, council
president,