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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
1910 CROPS
BETTER Than
In 1899

With the harvest of such late crops
as sugar beets, potatoes, beans, ap.
Piles, and corn well under way the
1910 production of principal crops in
Montana now appears to have been
about 6.3 percent above that of 1899
and 1873 percent above that of the
1O-year period 1929-193S which in
cluded the four bad drouth seasons of
1881, 1884, 1886 and 1887. Good Sep
TENDER rains and continued absence
of killing frosts prolonged the 1910
growing season and added somewhat
to the yields of late crops, according
to the October crop report of the
Agricultural Marketing Service
Crops whose production in 1910 has
exceeded that of 1889 include corn,
spring wheat, flaxseed potatoes,
beans, all tame hay, sugar beets, al
falfa seed, seed peas, and mustard
seed Smaller than in 1889 was the
production of winter wheat, oats, bar
ley, rye, apples, and wild hay. Rather
wide changes in production came in
the following crops: flaxseed, where
an increase of 68 percent was due to
good yields on a greatly increased
acreage; rye, where a decrease of 46
percent was due to reduced acreage
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
A COMP ARSON

Last week The Peoples Voice published special edition
and circulated it widely throughout the state reprinted in
this edition. complete official reports of legislative committees
appointed to investigate the state boards during the 1889
sion of the Legislature carried the testimony given
testimony charges that Ayers had provoned the governors
from supplies at the state hospital for the insane This
has been denied by Ayers He has effort
clear himself of the charges After nearly two they
that he dare not challenge Them that he hopes the people will
forget.
In this edition printed excerpts from the speeches
of Sam Ford outlining the he expects to when
of Montana Supporting the crying need for change
the office of we printed excerpts from the
speeches of the head of the democratic party the state de-
ivered by him during the primary campaign wherein Mr.
Lamey in vaccilang showed that Mr. Ayers tenure
Of the office of governor should be terminated.
This edition of The Voice have gotten under the skin of
the Ayers crowd defensive edition of has ap
double banner head the startling fact that Ford was once
fined $500 for contempt of court by Judge Bourqun of
rascbe and often of the unreasonable
dictaoria judges who sat the bench This will make
many attorneys in the state smile Many of them have had
the treatment from Judge Bourquin
Edoriay declares that the committee investigating the
liquor control board found nothing If the writers
of the editorial have read the report of that committee
nothing wrong
suggest that they read the report Then they still
believe that they themselves properly then
that they are writers who have prost
uted their talents for job In event. the people will
Judge and properly judge which to beeve the editorial
preston of biased writer official records.
The paper also Ford of receiving for legal
from the state Since when has that become sin
rme We willing to admit that long the state
his salary The only things object to his socaled
activities and the which he tries
to deude the voters.
For apparent good reason Rankin and Shelley
tackled Why attack them They aren't running for office
they friends of Ford they entitled
good judgment in picking friends.
Perhaps devong too much space all this We
that the published in Mssoua will make votes
Ford because while hesitate criticize another pubca-
in the weekly field believe that entirely
rilous Ford And the people will
that it anything but sheet paid for by the
Ayers machine which admittedly has plenty of money
risk giving contemporary advertising,
readers of last weeks Peoples
and copy of the Mssoua publication. Then weigh
validity of the both after
carefully And certain what judgment will be.
Voice quotes official records The other packed full
of political propaganda.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
REFERENDUM
NO. 43 MERITS
ALL SUPPORT

Montana voters, who are taxpayers
are called upon this fall to remedy
overcrowded, unsafe and unhealthy
conditions at the Montana State Hos
pital at Warm Springs by voting for
Referendum No. 43. This measure
will provide 100000 bond issue for
new buildings and improvements at
Warm Springs.
Overcrowding and unhealthy condi-
lions are not exaggerated. Personal
inspections by state, labor, civic, fra
ternal, medical and government Of
ficials to the hospital have impressed
the visitors with the horror of condi-
lions for mentally unfortunate persons
who are incapable of presenting their
needs to the people in the counties
of the state from which they come.
Investigation of living conditions of
patients at the state hospital at Warm
Springs by competent examiners
showed a shocking need for more
room. Quarters there provide only rs
square feet of floor space per person.
This gives only about 274 cubic feet
OF air space. Federal government
specifications in CCC camps call for
TO square feet of floor space and 72O
cubic feet of air space.
The comparison brings to light the
startling fact that Montana permits
its mentally sick to throng room
with 40 patients who should be in
quarters accommodating but II pa
TENTS in proportion to the cubic feet
of air space.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
ANSWE RS HITLER.
GREAT DICTATOR
By ALEXANDER L. CROSBY

BY ALEXANDER L. CROSBY
Once in great while there comes
a movie that strikes so deeply into
mems hearts that the real world out
side the theater takes on the quality
Of stage set.
The Great Dictator is that kind Of
picture You walk out from the Capt.
toll theater on Broadway or from the
Aztec in Chula Vista, Calf, and look
at the newspaper headlines. And you
wonder what is responsible for this
lousy joke upon the world. This isn't
the way it was in the movie, and it
isn't the way 1t should be.
The Great Dictator is a comedians
answer to Hitler. Movie audiences
throughout America will laugh at
Charlie Chaplin's reply, but Hitler
won't. He will never see the picture
of course, but even if he did he could
not understand it. The theme of the
film is love. a word that no dictator
can comprehend
No one but Chaplin could coin hui
iuol OuL VI tuo III utdi Slull III G6I-
man ghetto 1t isn't called Germany
the name is Tomania, and the die
.tator is Adeneid Hynkel. His fellow
dictator is Napoloni Jack Oakie) Of
Bacteria, and there's country called
Osterlich that both Of them want to
grab
Chaplin plays two roles. He is
Hynkel, and he is also a Jewish bar
Der who RECEIVERS from amnesia to
learn that Tomania has Matched storm
troops while he was in the hospital.
While Chaplin the barber is be-
friended by a Jewish scrubgirl, Han
nah (Paulette Goddard), Chaplin the
dictator plans pogrom because
Jewish banker has refused to finance
the invasion of Osterlich Schultz,
one OF the dictator's aides, argues
against the pogrom and is thrown into
a concentration camp along with the
little barber
The escape of both men leads to
a mistake in identity. Storm troop
ers capture the dictator, while the
barber and Schultz are hailed as lead
ers of the invasion of Osterlich. Hun
dreds of thousands are gathered in
Continued on Page Four)
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They are now saying that war with
the United States is unthinkable-
that they shudder "for the sake OF
humanity" at the very thought of it.
And they are not even saying, as they
did short time ago, that the reopen
| ing of the Burma road will automat-
ica1ly mean war. There may be some
sort OF face-saving reprisal against
the British, but hardly more than that,
observers believe.
1t all goes to show that the only
language the so-called tough guys
the international bullies-understa
is the mailed fist. When they think
that you can lick them, and you
show them that you are of a mind
to do 1t if they get too fresh, they are
not likely to pick on you. That is
one way Of getting peace. If that
policy had been adopted against
Messrs Hitler and Mussolini some
years ago instead of appeasement the
world probably would not find itself
in the sorry mess that 1t now is in.
Do Not Understand Monroe Doctrine
1t is just impossible for the i'm
perialistic fascist and nazi mind to
grasp the real meaning and signifi-
canoe OF the Monroe Doctrine. They
show 1t whenever they talk of Mon
roe Doctrine for Europe, Asia, and
Africa.
When the dictators talk of Mon
roe Doctrine for Europe, Asia, and
Africa, they conceive Of certain power
full nations being given the exclusive
right to subjugate and to exploit all
the people on those continents. The
Monroe Doctrine has an exactly OPP
posite objective, namely, to protect
the defenseless nations of this hemis-
phere against European or other ag-
gressors. =.
The fascists and nazis look upon
imperialistic conquests as normal,
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
LABOR GROUPS
ENDORSE FORD

Endorsement of the candidacy of
Sam Ford for governor was given by
the Montana Progressive Council at a
meeting held in Great Falls, October
10, and last Tuesday night, he was
endorsed by the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council, in which all of the
Butte unions are represented by dele
gates.
These endorsements were made on
the basis of recognition of Mr.. Ford's
record as a liberal while holding the
office of Attorney General and as AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Jeanette Rankin's record of serv-
ice in Congress and her work gener-
ally for the progressive cause and the
interests of the oppressed, received
commentator from the Montana Pro-
gressive Council, and is generally rec
ognized by labor and farm organiza-
lions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23

detection of Ayers.
This release, written by state en-
ployee on monthly salary, mailed in
doubtedly mimeographed on paper
paid for by the state, with state paid
stamps used, reports nothing more
vital to the people of Montana than
what Ayers said in speech delivered
in Bozeman, Tuesday, October Is.
And what politician such as Ayers
says can certainly not be considered
of any moment whatever.
The Voice has from time to time,
called attention to disregard of vari.
GUS provisions of our statutes, not
with any concrete hope of action,
since some of our law enforcement
officers and even some of our courts,
being courtiers of the administration
and the administration party councils
and influenced in some cases by even
more reprehensible agencies, are more
interested in their personal political
future than in the discharge of their
duties. It's only hope was to awaken
the public to realization of existing
And that is the purpose
of this story.
Much of the material released by
the division of publicity is Of interest
to the public, but when, probably upon
the insistence of the governor, or be-
cause of misguided sense of loyalty
the director of publicity releases po-
litical propaganda for the governors
benefit, it seems proper to remind
him that his work is defined by stat
ute and in case neither he nor the
governor has looked into this matter
Continued on Page Four)
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POWER IS
GREAT FACTOR
TN HISTORY
BY KAY ELLES

| When the "Flu" knocks you for a
goal and that goal is your downy
couch you find yourself passing
through some unusual experiences,
both physically and mentally. The
doctor can look after the physical and
as soon as the distress is removed
from its dominating influence one will
find, during convalescence, that he is
passing through very interesting
phase of mental gymnastics. You see
a fellow is removed from his daily
environment conditioning and cold
reasoning becomes a much clearer
reality; and with the most surprising
results. A conclusion lost in the haze
of daily actions becomes crystal rock
conviction; your past errors loom up
like ugly rocks in the rapids of the
stream of life.
1t has been so with the writer for
the past two weeks and he now feels
that he can grab off some of these
dilemmas, which have been bothering
him and just twist the horns 'off'n
EN-
Before we can take up any of the
Psychological solutions of todays
problems we just MUST have some
idea Of the angle of approach, for
the scientific approach to economics
is so different from the conventional
viewpoint that unless we are careful
to understand the basic fundamentals,
one finds it very difficult to wrench
ourselves out of the deep ruts of our
age old, conditioning.
The individual with a scientific
much less difficult to throw his no
lions, his prejudiees out the window
and to approach subject with an
open mind. This is really very
difficult thing to do; but even if you
only partially succeed you will at
once find vista OF mental activity
opening before you, that makes sew
eral life-times seem too short for its
accomplishment.
We can only look at the present in
the light of the past and the expert
ences the race went through then; but
there is all the difference in the world
whether we approach that past ready
to accept the opinion of some writer
as to conclusions, or whether we go
at it and dig out just the bare FACTS
and then form our own opinions. In
order to do that latter intelligently
we must have some idea of method
and some idea of just what are the
essential FACTS. From the scientific
point of view the only essential
FACTS are connected with two
things: In what sort of an environ
ment did those past civilizations live?
How successful were they in extract
ing from that environment the means
by which they lived?
The conventional historian talks OF
the ancient kings, wars, art, wars
again, ministers of state, court In
trigue, more wars, literature, morals,
etc.; but very little of industry or pro-
duction OF course there was not
much industry or production to talk
about since everything was done by
hand tools, by man power; but to
the technologist that is the most i'm
portant FACT Of all early history.
Man is a part Of the physical world
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
PORTLAND
RED SQUAD
UNDER fire

PORTLAND, Ore (FP) A petit
ton calling for dismissal Of Portland's
notorious red squad has been filed
with the city council by the Portland
Industrial Union Council.
At the same time the CLIO asked
Mayor Joseph K Carson Jr. to bring
charges against five officers of the
squad and to force them to appear at
public hearing. Carson, well-known
for anti-labor bias, is being considered
for nomination as member of the
u. S. Maritime Commission.
Named in the charges are Capt. Of
Detectives John J. Keegan, Lieut..
William D. Browne, and Officers
Walter B. Odale, Paul Mumpower and
Merriel R. Bacon.
Keegan and Brown "have conducted
and are now conducting labor spy
system and, in conjunction with GER
tain anti-labor forces, have caused
law-abiding union workers to lose
their employment" the CLIO charges.
All five squad officers are charged
with spending city funds illegally for
trips to San Francisco for the purpose
of framing Harry Bridges, west coast
CLIO leader. In addition Keegan and
Browne are charged with:
/. Making false accusations of sub
versive activities against unionists.
2. Interfering with academic free
dom at Oregon State College and Uni
versity of Oregon.
3. Interfering with freedom Of
speech and of assembly.
4. Interfering in elections by libel
ing and slandering certain candidates.
5. Libeling and slandering The La
Dor Newdealer, state CLIO paper.
6. Causing a national scandal by
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carefully concealed by many OF the
daily papers.
Summarizing improvements result
ing from WPA labor over five-year
period, Howard O. Hunter, acting
work projects commissioners, reported
among major construction items, more
than $4,000 miles of highways, roads
and streets and $4,000 new public
buildings. t@
Covering work completed by June
80, 1910, the report shows Al, 406 miles
of new and improved roads added by
WPA workers since the first of this
year, or nearly 5000 miles month.
New public buildings completed by
WPA during the first six months Of
this year numbered 2,726, or more
than $50 month.
Reconstruction or improvement of
67,724 public buildings also was re-
ported This was an increase of 4,644
for the first half of 1910. Other prof.
ects include the construction of 1902
additions to buildings, OF which $50
were completed since the last previa
Gus inventory, December 81, 1889.
This vast program of public i'm
porvements and public services, the
work of men and women who other
wise would have been reduced to
breadlines for subsistence, has set a
new standard in work relief" Hunter
said
"Other nations have tried the dole.
Some have herded their labor reserves
into armies Of aggression. No other
country has utilized it's surplus labor
in public Improvement program of
comparable proportions"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
WARBASSE Halls
GROWTH OF
c0-0PERATIVES

CHICAGO OPP = The growth of
co-operatives in the u. S. was de-
scribed by DR.. James P. Warbasse,
founder of the Cooperative League OF
hte U. S. A., speaking at the leagues
18th biennial congress.
when the Cooperative League was
organized, the U. S. was looked upon
as a cooperative desert with but few
verdant cases." Warbasse said. ITO
day there are 1000 cooperative asso-
Citations in the Cooperative League of
the U. S. A. with total membership
of 1,115,00O individual consumers.
cooperative business has become
the most stable example of business
in the U. S. In coo-peratives. invested
capital is safest and jobs are most
secure"
E. R. Bowen, general secretary of
the league, cited outstanding achieve
ments in the past two years, includ-
ing the building of three cooperative
oil refineries.
Pointing to the establishment of
cooperative bank in Indiana and the
rapid growth of credit unions, Bowen
announced that plans are under way
for national cooperative finance as
sociation.
DR.. J. Henry Carpenter, chairman
of the committee on the church and
co-operatives of the Federal Council
of Churches, addressed Catholic, Pro-
testant and Jewish clergy gathered at
the Hotel Morrison for an Interfaith
Conference on Religion & Consumers
Cooperation.
1.-THE church is not only spreading
the cooperative movement in Amer
lea, the cooperative movement is re-
making the church." he said
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
ARMY, NAVY TOLD
NOT TO BUY FROM
Law vIOLAT0RS

WASHINGTON. = OPP - Instruc.
tons issued TO procurement officers
or the army and navy directing then
to inform contractors that they are
expected to abide by the labor policies
OF the National Defense Advisory Com.
mission, were made public here Dc
tober by Labor Commissioner Sidney
| Hillman.
Hillman said that no future con-
tracts will be given firms operating
contrary to the commissions policy
which calls for observance of the
National Labor Relations Act the
Walsh-Healey Act, the wage-hour act
and similar pieces of legislation.
This will apply, he said. to negotiat-
ed contracts and bid contracts, the
lowest bidder in each case being re-
CURED to stipulate that he will obey
the labor laws and other requirements
of the defense commissions policy
The question was Immediately
asked, at Hillman's press conference
at which the announcement was made,
as to the status of the Bethlehem
Steel company which, according to
SWOC Chairman Philip Murray, was
awarded a s625,000,000 shipbuilding
contract after the defense commits
sion's policy was announced.
Hill was asked whether he regarded
Bethlehem as complying with the COM
missions labor policy. Bethlehem, If
10 in pin Of To- will hQ
asked to conform" he replied.
He added that he was not in po-
sition to say whether Bethlehem was
complying with the law or not, that no
complaints have been filed to that
effect and that they could not have
been filed since the policy has just
gone into effect.
Complaints have been made, Hill
man said, regarding the relations be-
tween labor and the management Of
Bethlehem.
He reiterated his declaration that
Bethlehem will be required to conform
to the labor policies of the defense
commission as to future contracts. AS
to contracts already granted he could
not say, Hillman declared
The encouragement has been re-
quested for an opinion as to when
company is in violation of the Nation
al Labor Relations Act and the Walsh
Healey board has been asked for an
opinion regarding the Bethlehem prac-
tice of tying up the 62h cent mini
mum required under the act with
bonus and incentive system, Hillman
went on.
Assurances have been received from
the Bethlehem Steel company, the la
Dor commissioner said, that they will
obey the Walsh-Healey Act. Asked If
similar assurances had been granted
concerning the National Labor Rela-
tfons Act, Hillman said the company
contended 1t was not in violation Of
the labor act.
CLIO officials said the key to the
effectiveness of the policy would lie in
the attorney generals ruling as to
when company Is in violation OF
the National Labor Relations Act. II
the ruling Is made that the company
is not in violation until after the
courts have upheld the board, the pol
icy is meaningless, they contend
AS an example they cited the NLRB
order against the Bethlehem Steel
company handed down in August, 1889.
1t was not until last month that the
record In the case was printed and the
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CIGARETTE, AlRPLAnE
MANUFACTURERS
Make neat RETURN

WASHINGTON.-(FP)- Six cigar
cite manufacturers made an average
return of 1850 on capital employed
in 1889, according to report pre-
pared here by the Federal Trade Com
mission. The rates varied from $50
to 34.1%.
Nine aircraft manufacturing corpor-
of 34.4%, having a combined net IN
come of $45 ,405,826 on an average In
vestments Of $131,827,219, according
to another ETC report.
In neither report did the ETC make
known the names of the corporations
involved as does the Securities & Elk
change Commission in similar studies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-23
Japs Don't Want War
With the United States

Japs Don't Want War
With the United States
Uncle Sam is finding out that 1t
doesn't pay to be soft in dealing with
the Japs - not even with Japanese
militarists.
The Berlin-Rome-T Tokyo pact un-
ouestionably was intended to intimt-
date the United States. 1t was fol-
lowed by bellicose statements issued
by Japanese statesmen, which We'd IN
their bellicosity only by editorials ap-
pearing in the Japanese and Italian
press. This country was told IN very
blunt language that IL it wants war 1t
can have it for the asking, and that
if it doesn't watch its step very close
ly it will get war whether 1t wants
it or not.
WE'LL Uncle Sam didn't display any
evidence of being frightened. Presi-
dent Roosevelt called in the COM
mander of the fleet and went over
some maps" The fleet personnel
was Immediately increased by several
thousand men, putting 1t on war
footing. Naval and Marine reservists
were ordered to get ready for active
duty. Further economic restrictions
aimed directly at the Japanese were
promulgated. Britain, after consuita-
tions with the United States, an
nounced that the Burma road Will be
reopened. There were rumors tnat
the American fleet will make
friendly CALI at Australia, New Aea-
land, and Singapore. And, to cap the
climax, American nationals In Japan,
China, Indo-China and other places IN
the Far East were advised by their
government to return home.
Well, adding It all up together, u
didn't look to. the Japs that Uncle
Sam was running away from anybody.
The clustering Jap militarists, see
ing that their game of intimidation
has failed, are beginning to back wa
ter. They are changing their tune.