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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
Fire Proven
ton Week
Every Individual and
Organization Should
Participate in Program

T. Alfred Fleming, chairman of
the Fire Protection Association
committee on fire prevention and
cleanup campaign, holds that Fire
Prevention Week, to be observed
nationwide October 6 to IL, inclu-
sive, should include both fire pre-
vention and fire protection. He
further holds that individual citi-
zens and the various civic and bus
mess organizations should cooper
ate intellectually in the activities
incident to the observance of Fire
Prevention Week, and urges that
local committees be formed early
in the various communities, to the
end that an effective campaign may
be planned and carried out.
Mr.. Fleming points out that the
members of fire departments-paid
and volunteer, alike-risk their
lives day and night in protecting
the lives of citizens and the con-
servation of property against the
hazard of fire. Individual citizens
can show their appreciation of the
work carried on by the firemen by
helping them to do a great job for
the direct benefit of the commun-
ity as a whole. He emphasizes the
fact that every fire prevented may
save human lives, as we'll as con-
serve property.
Home safety is sponsored by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, and various other organiza-
tions. There are approximately
26,00O,000 homes in the United
States, Mr.. Fleming says. In these
homes, in addition to the very many
adults, are housed over 35,0OO,O 900
children Of school age. Mr.. Flem-
ing asks the parents why make
these children suffer for your neg
.ligence in providing for their safe
tyr"
To the end that school children
my be safeguarded against the
hazard of fire, special programs in
connection with the observance OF
Fire Prevention Week have been
planned for the schools by the COM
mittee on fire prevention of the
National Fire Protection Associa-
ton. These programs should have
the support and direction of the
board of education, school trustees
and other school authorities. Fire
drills, playlets produced by the diff
ferent grades Of the school chill
dren, oratorical contests on fire
prevention subjects, poster, essay
and slogan contests, and addresses
by firemen or others, under the
direction of the local fire preven-
ton committee, should be featured.
Well-informed and experienced
speakers on the subject of fire pre-
vention are available on the staffs
of the various State Fire Proven
ton Associations. These men, who
have had special training in the
work, are of great service, not only
during Fire Prevention Week, but
at all times in the prevention of
fires. They should be called upon
for staging fire prevention activ-
tiles, as they are ever ready to do
their utmost for the program to be
carried out.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
BEST OF YOUTH TO
BE CHOSEN FOR ARMY
CONTINUED from Page One)

whole local board areas, not to ex-
coed 10000 registrants as a result
of the first registration and are
empowered ito affirm, modify or
reverse" any decisions made upon
appeal to local boards. Their de-
cision will be final, subject only
to modification or reversal by the
President.
At the same time, Mr.. Roosevelt
addressed identical letters to the
governors of the 48 states charging
them with the responsibility of set
ting up their state registration ma
chinery.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
SAFETY PICTURES SHOWN

Pictures dealing with traffic
safety were shown to the Sank
Centre Safety Council last Fri
day evening when Mr.. Luecke,
st. Paul, associated with the
field department of the Mime
sofa Safety Council met with
the local group. Pictures stress
ed the Importance Of safety
measures in both motor and
bicycle traffic. Mr.. Luecke is
anxious to show these timely
moving pictures, in the interests
of greater public safety, and an
nounced that they would be
shown to any group. Groups
wishing safety pictures to be
shown may find them available
by contracting Frank Bunker or
S. G. Schwarzbauer, of the Sank
Centre Safety Council.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
EYE BURNED WITH LYE-

Mrs. Willis Dahlem returned to
her home here Tuesday from st.
Cloud after she had undergone
treatment for a painful injury to
her eye. In the accident Saturday,
when she was cleaning stove
burners, I've entered her eye burn
ing deeply.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
nAAnEV NEW MUNICH COLISEUM
O7sVO.s SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th

Presenting the Old Maestro ny Little Orchestra
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST-Wedding Dance given by Ralph
Worms and Bridget Weisser. Music by Herme Hoeh and
His Orchestra.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER STH-Weddng Dance given by Edwin
Kemper Dorothy Music by Jerry Dosel and
His Orchestra.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9TH-Wedding given by
Aphonse Herzog Margaret Wiechman by Eddie
Wifahrt and His Orchestra
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
SCIENTIFIC SHOPPING

The alert housewife can do a
great deal toward making budget
dollars strickland toward keep
ing merchants on their toes in try
ing to out-serve each other.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-26
TWO LADIES PASSED
AWAY THIS WEEK

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Catholic Hierarchy Denounces Wealth
Concentration; Tells Labor to Organize

ciples of social justice, an important
instrument, therefore, is governmental
authority.
"As Plus XII asserts, the civil au.
thority has the obligation to adjust
ownership to meet the needs of the
public good and by so doing 1T acts
not as an enemy but as the friend of
private owners"
The statement put forward the posi-
ton of the Catholic church as to own
ership of private property, denounced
the principle of supply and demand
as applied to human labor, called for
a living wage that would protect the
future of workers, called for stable
between wages and
prices, and asked for the establish
ment of middle of the road" social
order.
From the sacred scripture we learn
that the earth is the Lords and the
fullness thereof" the statement says
in its introduction. mo absolute or
unlimited ownership therefore can be
claimed by man as If he were free
to follow his own selfish interests
without regard to the necessity of
others"
"In too many instances" it is said,
AN undue portion of the income has
been claimed by those who have own
srship or control of capital. while
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
|CITY COUNCIL TO
PUBLISH NAMESOF
RELIEF CLIENTS

WAUKESHA, Wis (FP) - Names
of persons and families on relief in
this community of 1900 will be pub
lished once month in local news
paper, the city council voted.
Although several aldermen objected
strongly, a majority held that the pub
licity would help to cut relief costs.
At the same time the council voted
a 1870 reduction in budgets for work
relief and direct relief.
The plan was adopted upon the rec
ommendation of a 3-man committee
named by Mayor Henry Snyder, who
was alarmed when the 1889 relief
budget of $4,000 was exceeded by
$4,000. For 1910 the council has set
aside $4,000, minus the $4,000 over
expenditure for 1889.
The councilmen also forbade the re-
lief department to incur any bills for
surgical, dental or optical
care without prior approval by the
in cases of extreme
Severely criticizing the publicity
plan, an editorial in The Capital Times
Of Madison declared that it might cut
relief costs because there are prob
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Labor Paper Accuses
Columnist of Posing
As Federal Agent

ERIE, Pa OPP - Something new
in anti-labor activities was reported
to the federal bureau of investigation
when The Erie County Labor Press
submitted evidence that a columnist
employed by The Erie Daily Times
had posed as federal agent in an
attempt to intimidate union members.
The columnist is William Boetcker
Recently, the labor paper learned, he
wrote to Pres. Michael Mikula of
Local GIG, United Electrical Radio G.
Machine Workers (CIO), requesting
strictly confidential meeting" in order
ito get rid of certain elements" in
Erie. The letter gave the impression
that Boetcker was serving both the
department of justice and the Dies
committee.
In another case Boetcker wrote to
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
SURVEY SHOWS
EDITORS WANT
CONSUMERS news

NEW YORK-(FP)-Labor editors
feel the need of more consumer news,
survey by Federated Press indicates.
Eighty-five editors of leading labor
and liberal publications throughout
the U. S. were polled. Fifty-fiye an
swered the QUESTIONABLE.
Replying to the query, (which of
the following types of news would
you like MORE or LESS Of" A asked
for more consumer news, 80 requested
humorous shorts; 80 wanted features
on strike and union anniversaries, 81
wanted more stories on labor unity,
and 80 voted for interpretive articles
based on research, and political and
legislative news.
The outstanding feature of the FTP
news service, the editors declared, is
the Washington column by Henry
Zon, which appears semi-weekly I'M
der the headings of The Washington
Scene and On the Capitals Cuff. Rank
ing next in popularity are the Your
Dollar column written by Consumers
Union, the page of news shorts headed
Labor's News in Brief, the John Paine
column, Scott Meanings articles, and
John r. Chaplin's Hollywood Shorts.
Federated Press is gratified by this
QUESTIONABLE experiment for two rea-
sons" said Managing Editor Carl
Haessler. First, the results show
that the editors we serve pay close,
intelligent attention to the service.
Second, the FTP output of news and
features finds wide, favorable accept
ance."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14

and submitted reports to Washington.
The problem goes far beyond that
of violation of civil rights Of Califor-
mia migratory workers by a fake farm
ers' organization = the Associated
Farmers-financed and controlled by
railroads, public utilities of all sorts,
packing houses, and chambers of COM
merce. Neither is the problem local,
since similar conditions exist in more
or less degree in Missouri, Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington,
Oregon and other states.
When Paul S. Taylor, professor of
economics at the University of Cali
fornia, testified before the LaFollette
committee, he struck the real note
when he said, what is happening in
California is preview of what will
transpire in varying degrees and in
modified forms on a national scale"
The problem Is created chiefly by
industrialized agriculture which, in adj
dition to it's large scale anti-labor ac-
tivities, has resulted in disintegration
of small, individual farming. Indus
trialized agriculture has proven
stumbling block not only to the FSA
but also to enforcement and admins
tration of such legislation as social
security, FILA, USHA, the national
(Wagner) labor relations act, the fair
labor standards act, and the like.
For instance: How is it possible to
develop enlightened employer en-
ployee relations when the owners Of 4
arge-scale industrialized farms are
allied with the most vicious anti-labor
elements? How is 1t possible to form
llate a decent labor policy and fair
rates of pay for workers who can
obtain employment for only month |
Dr. six weeks at stretch? How is it |
possible to furnish decent housing for |
.hese underprivileged and harassed |
people who are constantly on the |
move? How can individual farming
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Aldermanic Form
City Govt Endorsed
By Helena Labor
By L. B. STEFFENS

Special items that came before the
Helena Trades and Labor Council at
its regular semi-monthly meeting held
Friday, February Q, 1910:
In the reading of the correspondence
and communications received by the
central body communication coming
from the wheeler for President Club"
was noted, as was also the fact that
quite a number Of copies of the same
correspondence had been circulated
among the labor group, asking for
their moral and financial assistance.
This body wishes to call to the at
tention of the laboring people through
out the state, il it has not already
been noticed, that the pamphlet con-
tanned did not bear the union label
and therefore must have been printed
in non-lnion shop. 1t is difficult
for us to comprehend how a group of
men, obviously with the purpose of
helping professed friend of organ
lied labor, with such an appeal, could
overlook this small
matter, unless it be a matter of regu-
lar habit.
We are also wondering if Senator
Wheeler would not be helped to
greater extent with the organized
in the state if some of his al
legged friends would kindly refrain
from having their names attached to
any literature of this kind, that is
sent to us. We refer especially to
our friend and honorable governor,
such friends as R. S. O'Day, Tom
Stout, w. P. Sullivan, and our great
open-shop (no-union) advocate and
friend B. R. Albin of Billings.
Organized labor might overlook the |
act that there is obviously quite a
disregard for state laws pertaining to |
political activity by some parties, but |
t cannot and will overlook pernicious
md non-union activity designed |
Igainst organized labor by any party.
We reiterate that we and all organ
zed labor will be proud and happy
o assist any true friend of labor to
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ton of wealth and the anonymous
character of the owners of wealth con-
stitute two great dangers facing So
ciety at present, a statement by the
Archbishops and Bishops of the adj
ministrative board of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference made
here declares.
Hailed by the Catholic press as the
most important pronouncement of the
American Catholic hierarchy since
1919, the statement consisted of dis
cussion of "The Church and Social
Order"
Discussed were ownership, proper
ty and labor, security, wages, and
establishment of social order. The
position of the Catholic church on
these issues was set forth.
"The two great dangers which So
ciety faces in the present state of eco
nomic organization" the statement
declared, "are, first, the concentration
of ownership and control of wealth,
and secondly, its anonymous charac-
ter which results from some of the
existing business and corporation
laws, whereby responsibility toward
society is impaired If not completely
ignored"
As If in answer to the tory critics
Of the New Deal, the hierarchy de-
slares, "in the application of the prin- |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Ford Compliance
With NLRB Order
Just A Pipe Dream

BOSTON, (FP) - The NLRB will
take court action to force the Ford
Motor Co. to post notices in its Somer-
vile, Mass, plant that it will cease
and desist from interference" with I'M
ion activity, Regional Director A.
Howard Myers declared. The state
ment followed the companys refusal
to post such notices as called for in
a recent board order
NEW YORK.-FP)-An announce
ment February 5 that the Ford Motor
Co. had agreed to comply with an
NLRB order calling upon it to stop
distributing Statement or propaganda
which disparage or criticize labor or
CARNATIONS" at its Somerville plant
was all big misunderstanding said
Frederick H. Wood, attorney for the
company
Wood said that Ford would comply
with the Wagner act but would fight
the board order. He had no COM
ment to make on the boards finding
that the company had spied on union
although he insisted that
there had never been any interference
or coercion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

! All my life I might have been pretty
comfortable and had peace of mind
| if it hadn't been for having to deal
all the time with editors. When it
comes to taking the joy out of life
they're in a class by themselves, and
| they seem to take a special lot of
joy out of razzing Woodworking guy
like me who is just trying to get along.
Like this morning when I stopped
by the office on my way out to the
capitol, there's this editor of yours,
tickled pink because he thought he
had something on me. He begins by
kidding me about my sleuthing abil-
ity; tells me that he can discover
more sitting around home than l can
by providing around. Then he asks
me il I've found "Store A" of the IL
quor set-up here in Helena, and won't
believe me when I tell him that I
hadn't looked for it for a week. Then
he kind of gloats and tells me that
if l just wait long enough, the noun
tain would come to Mahomet, which
didn't make sense to me. Then he
said that the boss of the liquor set-up
had called him up to relieve his mind
and tell him where "Store A" was,
SO | could just quit my gumshoeing
to find it. He was also good enough
to tell me l might "look for something
useful" Of course l could have found
it useful if I'd located it.
This "Class A" store is sort of a
wholesale set-up down at the ware
house he tells me, where they supply
the hospitals with alcohol and other
health producers. He didn't tell If
five bottle men like the executive
heads of the AABF can buy there at
reduced prices, so he didn't know
everything I'm going to get to the
bottom of it when I get around to it.
[ can find a bunch Of fellows here
who should get wholesale prices and
iii put pressure on those guys at the
warehouse for some consideration for |
he AABF, believe me.
| just believe maybe this boss of |
he liquor set-up wanted to make |
everything clear before this "Dead-eye |
Dick" Dewey got to town. Anyhow,
is only partly clear now to me.
Well, I don't know but what Dewey
lid find something that very few had
bought existed in Montana; at least
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Technology Takes
The Place of
Human Toll

Americas present problems and
paradoxes have arisen out of the con-
flict between the physical realities of
our great new technology, and the so
cial customs, institutions and folkways
handed down to US from countless
ages of low-energy agrarian civiliza-
lions. Our ancient Price System was
consistent with our past, but a new
age has dawned upon this continent.
Our industrial expansion up to 1920
was accomplished primarily with hand
tools, and with hand-controlled power
machinery. Since 1920, the transition
in our method of producing goods has
been especially rapid. We are now in
"a period characterized by the COM
pletely automatic machine.
But technology is more than power
machinery, directly taking the jobs of
men. 1t is also the application of
science to every phase of human ac-
tiyity = bringing new processes, new
methods, new synthetic and substitute
materials, new control and recording
devices. Every invention, every dis
covery dropped into the pool of indus
trial operations sends out ripples in
all directions, resulting in more inno-
vations, more inventions, more dis
coveries.
How is this cumulative use of tech
nology affecting our daily life? 1t en-
ables us to produce more and more
goods, with fewer and fewer men, re-
lieving humans from toll. Productiv-
ity per man-hour, during the period
from 1920 to June 1888, almost ex-
actly doubled. 1t has continued its
rapid rise, and modernization speeds
On with every passing month. The
end of 1889 saw an all-time nigh in
Industrial production-and yet, there |
ire more than nine million employable |
adults unemployed!
This, under a Price System, is in |
,vitable. Increasing Technology, I'M
Ter Price System, means unemploy
nent spells reducing purchasing |
,ower, increased government spend
ng, rising debt and mounting taxa
ion, to the point of general bank
uptcy. This irreversible process
eads but to one thing -. the collapse
# the Price System itself.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
mo GAINS FOR
FARMERS IN SIGHT
FROM the WAR

The farmers of this country surely
know that war torn Europe will be
a mighty poor place to sell in. 1t is
not like the last war. Every Euro
pean country has developed their own
farm production immensely, particu-
larly Russia. Besides that all the
foreign nations are already practically
bankrupt upon their entrance into this
war Great Britain entered the first
world war with three billion 800 mil
lion dollars of national debt. This
time she goes in with SO billion dol
lars of Indebtedness. The other coun-
tries are in like or worse condition
except Russia, who has repudiated all
her debts. Is that what the others
are planning on doing? They have
not paid us for the last war yet, re-
member. But do they look like good
customers for our farmers?
Does such picture hold any hopes
of reviving foreign trade? Hardly
This is the way our foreign markets
have shrunk: cotton exports 1911-1915
average 100000 bales; 1936-1938 av-
erage 5,176,000 bales. AS the cotton
year ended last August exports were
at a so year low-3,327 900; and a
of 13,032,611 bales (so-called
surplus). And this even with the new
deal blowing under every other row.
How about wheat? 1916-1920 aver
age export was 1851, 900 bushels;
lq36-1938 olfr exnorte drODned TO 3D.
$4,000 bushels. Still on hand in
storage wheat stored ten years ago
1t Kansas City. And besides we have
/ carry over estimated for the current
season of 227,O00,0O0 bushels; a noun
ain of wheat for Uncle to pay for
All this with crop curtailment and ex-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
CAMPBELL CITES
PROBLEMS FACING
COOP MOVEMENT

NEW YORK.-FP)-"The Ameri.
can cooperative movement is now
faced with major decisions which may
well mark turning points in its policy
and practices and speed up it's pres
ent rate of growth" Wallace Camp
bell, assistant secretary of the Co
operative League of the u S. A., told
100 students and cooperative leaders
at conference here.
Zone of these fundamental decisions
concerns the establishment of a CO.
operative financial institution; Sec
ond will involve further steps into
production of the goods now distrib-
uted by consumer co-operatives; a
third is the necessity to spread to the
city and industrial centers the extern
sive growth of co-operatives now
achieved in rural areas"
Since the profit margins in retail
distribution are growing smaller,
Campbell noted, the greatest savings
can be made for consumers as the
Co-ops move into production of the
goods they distribute. He pointed out
that more than $2,00OOOO was invested
in cooperative factories and process
ing plants last year in the establish
ment Of the first cooperative oil re-
finery in the U. S., the building and
buying of cooperative flour mills,
feed mills, and commercial fertilizer
factories. These, he declared, are
merely first steps in a program to ex-
end cooperative activity into the field
If production.
Campbell opened a series of six |
ectures on Turning Points in Con-
;umer Cooperation" which will be de- |
ivered by six outstanding authorities |
IN the cooperative movement as part |
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14

groceries furnished the poor, etc.
At the same session of the county
board an emergency of 5000 was de-
clared in the budget of the sheriff
This represents an estimated deficit
in salaries for deputies and mileage
between now and July 1. Sheriff
Lowe at the same meeting presented
claim for $2,597.37 for additional
mileage, this representing the differ
ence between 7c and 8 C, the mileage
the sheriff and his deputies have been
receiving, and the 10c per mile rate.
The claim covers the period between
the present and 1888.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-14
Relief Payments
Held Up But
Sheriff Gets Mileage

WOLF POINT.-Although Roosevelt
county received grant of $1,000 from
the state welfare board for direct re-
lief they were obliged, because of
lack of funds, to put over until next
month payment of s1,126.74 in poor
fund claims. This represented the
county's share of old age and depend
ent children payments, claims for