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The people's voice., 1940-08-07
No, Thanks, We Prefer Humane Drunkard

Not that makes much difference, but Roger W. Babson
wetodo crackpot is running for President the Proh
btion party ticket.
Mr. Babson of course Danish beer wine and whs
key The country has survived prohibition and sup
pose it could do again But to think what life
would be like Mr. Babson should have the chance put
ALL of his program into effect he described in inter
view in the Chicago Tribune July 80
He has solution for the unemployment problem: just
let the unemployed find jobs
Solution of unemployment lies with the jobess themselves
Babson told the Tribune T they after being
helped they should faha is natures method of showing
them they wrong" he added.
Wrong in what way, Mr. Babson Wrong in having been
born?
"The WPA hospital for inefficient people and the RFC
hospital for inefficient business We are opposed to
them' continued the who would be president
Mr. Babson also offered few predictions We are going
to see lower wages and longer hours" he said.
Well, Mr. Babson think it's lucky thing YOU won't be
elected If you should have chance put your program
into effect we suspect that even the W. c. u would be
driven to drnk-Kenosha Labor
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
Boys in Illinois
And Ministry
In Berlin

| The painstaking attention paid by
Doctor Goebbels to every pro-fascist
wind waiting from the United States
| is indicated in the following report
reaching us from Highland Park, Ill.
A group of local high-school boys,
either impressed with the military sue
cesses of Hitler and his armies, or
merely playing juvenile prank, wrote
a letter addressing it, "Hitler, Berlin,
Germany" Therein they stated their
admiration for the nazis and their sue
cesses and asked to be allowed to do
their bit for the Greater Reich Some
how, despite the uncertainties of the
wartime, the letter must have reached
Berlin, for within a few weeks came
reply from DR.. Joseph Goebbels'
Ministry of Propaganda. The reply
directed the boys to the proprietor of
a local German bakery, one of the most
popular in town, who was recon-
mended by the Berlin authority as a
reliable nazi and the local representa-
tive of Hitlers idea. The man, ac-
cording to the letter, had his instruc-
tions and would be glad to be the
Gauleiter of the eager American boys
The result was rather unexpected:
in great glee the boys showed the
letter around, and indignant citizens
began to boycott the bakery almost
out of existence.
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE REVIEW

lgreatly like to have someone purchase
as surplus or otherwise, have been
the latest to attempt to revivify this
idea. Brazil, with 100000 bales of
cotton stored up from last years crop,
was willing to sell this surplus to the
United States, thus magnifying our
lown surplus, but like other Latin
American countries objected to giving
the United States a complete, perma-
nent and irrevocable monopoly over
its export trade.
1T. v. A.
With both houses of congress in
recess for practically the whole Of
last week, the House finally got back
to work long enough to consider a
iva appropriations bill, providing for
the Tennessee Valley Authority dam.
Appropriating $25,000,000 for the pres
ent, it was estimated that the addi-
tlonal facilities will eventually cost
almost $66,000,00O, and will provide
an estimated 290 thousand additional
kilowatts for the IVA, a large part
OF which will be taken by the ALUMNI
mum Company of America, with which
to increase its output of aluminium
sheet. Edward R. Stettinius of the
Advisory Council, formerly of u. s.
Steel, testified before the House COM
mittee in favor Of this BILL
ToIan Committee Hearings
First hearings of the Congressional
Tolan committee to investigate mi
gratory labor, were held In New York
City on July 29, 80 and 81. These
hearings, concerned themselves prin-
cipally with the problems of Eastern
Seaboard migration and it's impact
upon rural life. Pitiful stories OF
hitch-hiking across 46 states search
of work, of working at starvation
wages, and of living at the lowest
levels of destitution were told the
committee, as it visited the huge
Seabrook Farm in New Jersey. Here
the members could see the spectacle
OF a factory in the field" allowed to
operate with cheap labor exempt from
all wage-hour legislation, and thereby
subsidized to drive out family-sized
farms which must feed and clothe
their members with some degree of
decency.
Other hearings are scheduled to be
held at Montgomery, Alabama, August
l4-16; Chicago, August 1925; Lincoln,
Nebraska, September 1920; Oklahoma
City, September 1925; and San Fran
cisco, September 27-30.
Ranking officials of the Farmers
Union arrived at the capital during
The last few days to attend sessions
of the Agricultural Advisory Council,
sessions with Chester Davis, National
Defense sessions, and conference at
he White House. Among those are
Iohn Vesecky, Bill Thatcher, Jim Pat
on and C. E. Huff.
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
Liquor Board Makes
Dividend on Profit

Meeting the last week in July, the
state liquor control board declared a
100000 dividend from it's operations
profit for that month, according to
l.. M. A. Wass, administrator for the
board The dividends declared by the
board go into the state general fund
to be distributed according to appro.
priations made by the legislature.
During July the liquor board paid
the federal government $82,500 in ma
tional defense taxes on stocks of liq-
uor on hand, in accord with the new
national defense tax law. The de-
partment also bought $6,650 worth of
federal retail and wholesale stamps,
a years supply.
The liquor control board meets
monthly to study reports on the pre-
vious months business, and to plan
for future selling periods The board
has declared 100000 dividend
for more than two years.
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
THE PEOPLES VOICE

not provide for punishment through
criminal prosecution Of any person
who deprives workers of such rights.
Although the jury in the Fitzgerald
case returned verdict OF mot gull
| ty," civil liberties unit attorneys see
partial victory by refusal of the trial
judge to dismiss the case by demurrer
| interposed by the defendants, the
court holding that If the allegations
Of the government as to the facts were
correct, the government had case
The court also denied a defense mo-
tion to dismiss the case after submfs-
sion Of evidence. In these rulings,
government attorneys read substant-
iation of their legal position that such
cases can be prosecuted criminally.
Public Reacts Against conscription
Although few on Capitol Hill doubt
that Congress will enact the Burke
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
Breathing Spell

The asprants for election reelection to public office
enjoying breathing spell from active campaigning But
safely be said that there little absense of for
them Probably the hardest job that of them have
to evauate the reports that them and
to figure which out and and which be
accepted authentic unpreudced statements concerning the
attitude of the voters in fair land.
Until the for the filing of petitions independent
ddates there will be worries for the who
successful the primary election and right at the
the factory is working quantity production basis
However, there always the chance that there be
solid grounds for the And that sis the rub for the
who made the grade in the primaries
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
|Flathead Farmers
Union Opposes
Conscription Bill

After discussion of the proposed
Burke-Wadsworth Peacetime Conscrip-
t1on Bill and its implications, a reeu-
lar monthly meeting of the Flathead
County Farmers Union took a definite
stand against this bill. 1t is doubtful
II many Americans have had sufficient
llnformation as to the possible effect
OF this plan to appreciate all that It
would mean.
For the most part the regular press
has discussed it very generally and
mentioned 1T as an urgent and neces-
sary part of the defense program
which has sidetracked legislation for
the aid of distressed farmers and
other common people in America. The
TACT that powers and regulations es-
tablished under this bill would pro-
vide ample authority for fascist con-
troll in the United States has been
quietly and completely overlooked. In
addition, the bill as originally drawn
had such generous provisions as the
payment of five dollars per month to-
those conscripted, for their service to
their country, whether or not they had
dependents. This at time when
manufacturers of military equipment
demand cost plus guaranteed profits
plus speedy amortization of new plant
expenses is rather interesting. The
authors of the bill were consistent op-
ponents of measures designed to bene-
lit Americans crushed by the econom-
1c collapse of the last few years.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted by the meeting:
I'VE condemn both the spirit and
the method Of the Burke Wadsworth
bill las un-American and undemocratic.
We do not admit that we can defend
democracy by using the worst and
most conspicuous methods of dictator
ships abroad. We maintain that
Americans will have no reason to de-
fend freedom unless they are In pos
session of it. Therefore we urge ef-
fective steps be taken to improve the
condition of Americans in America as
the first element of national defense.
Given such action we are confident
no peacetime cOnscription Is or will
be necessary, and that necessary ma
tional defense can be maintained with
out sacrificing our American liberties
we propose to defend"
A collection was taken and used for
sending by telegraph copies Of the
resolution to President Roosevelt, Sen
ators Wheeler and Murray, and Rep
O'Connor and Thorkel-
son.
The National Farmers Union has
similar attitude on militarism, the last
rational convention adopting resolu-
ion on Peace which states, in part:
We stand unalterably opposed to the
appropriation of huge sums of money
or armaments made at the expense
# appropriations which are necessary
n the solution of our domestic prob
ems, both rural and urban. We re-
use to become engulfed, through prop
ganda and a defeatist psychology, in
he tide Of hatred, intolerance and
var, out of which nothing can be se-
ured except more hatred, more intol-
rance, more war, and the probable
estruction of our freedom to continue
uilding just society"
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
"This Draft Is Despotism-
From "Washington New-Dealer"

From "WaShlngtOn NeW-Deaer'
to a
to
"Mr Chairman After the best reflection which
able to beow the subject of the bill before you the
opinion that its principles by any provision
of the constitution.
"This bill attempt the power of forcing
this country the army the
purposes of the under color of military
discussion Sir, of the last Importance That
ures should be debated all the
The people's voice., 1940-08-07
Trespassing-
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kind brought by the department of
justice, the other more than a year
| ago against mine operators in Harlan
county, Kentucky. That case ended
in jury disagreement and was later
dismissed, together with indictments
obtained by local authorities against
some 200 workers, as move for re-
storation of labor peace in that vicin-
lity.
The prosecutions were brought un-
der Section 81 of Title 18 of the
United States Code, which provides
for punishment of persons who con-
spire to deprive citizen of right
secured to him by the Constitution.
The Wagner act secures workers the
right of collective bargaining, but does
The people's voice., 1940-08-07

While the federal land banks and
land bank commissioner financed as
much as three-fourths of the annual
volume of new farm mortgage loans
in 1884, their share of the total de-
clined to only 1913 percent in 1889.
The people's voice., 1940-08-07

Electric power production during
1910 is up 1870 over last year. That
means more energy conversion (ma-
chines) and more and more men toll
less; AND DRAW LESS PAY.
The people's voice., 1940-08-07

STOCKHOLM-(FP )-Customer of
Swedish cooperative stores saved one
months bill in 1889 because Of lower
prices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
MtkINLEY DUE
 IN MORNING

Steamer Mount Mckinley, from the south. with passengers, freight and four and one-half days mall, is due to arrive in port at 9:3O o'clock tomorrow morning vest bound.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
NOTICE

TO SCOTTISH RITE MASONS; Regular meeting Friday evening December l3, at 7:30 o'clock.
 WALTER B. HEISEL, adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
STEWARTS LEAVING
 TO VISIT CHILDREN

Commissioner of Mines and Mrs. B. D. Stewart will leave on the steamer Yukon to spend the holi- days in Seattle with their chil- dren.
 The Stewards plan to return soon after the first of the year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13

New York's Museum of Mod ern Art recently received 5000 miles of film from newsreel concern, covering the 20 years from 1910 to 1880.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
Legion Groups Plan
 Annual Xmas Party

To complete arrangements for the annual Legion and Auxiliary Christ mas party, scheduled for December 28, members of the committee met last night at the home of Mrs. Os- car Olson.
 The affair will be held at the Dugout and all Legion members and their wives and Auxiliary members and escorts are invited The men are requested to bring mechanical toys for the ladies and the women planning to attend are asked to bring the same as gift for the men attending. Bin g C will be played during the evening and after the arrival of Santa and the distribution of gifts, there will be dancing and refreshments.
 Committee members include Mes danes Oscar Olson, Dorothy Man. thy, Ted Johnstone and Messrs Harry Stonehcuse, Leo Jewett and Lester Rink.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
CATERPILLAR MAN
 HAS F0GGY TRIP

Carl Senior, Caterpillar engine representative, had a rare experi- ence in boating Wednesday.
 As fog held all plane traffic, and Senior had to reach Juneau to catch a southbound boat, he char tered the Tillacum out of Hoonah.
 Henry Moy's boys brought me in," Senior said. We ran com- pass courses all the way from Hoonah to Aux Bay and we never saw land but once on the route. That was when we pulled into the float at Aux Bay
 Senior, stopping at the Baranof, is going to Wrangell on the North Sea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
Faculty Members Honor New|yWeds
 Al Dinner Party

Honoring Mr. A. B. Phillips, su- perintendent of the Juneau Public Schools, and his bride, the former Myrtle Moe, members of the facul- ty and their wives entertained last evening with dinner party in the banquet room of Percy's Cafe.
 An especially lovely wedding bell cake, made by the home economics department of the High School, was placed at the table and gardenia corsage for the bride topped the cake as a center decoration.
 Mir A. $. Durham, Juneau High School principal, was toastmaster and the newlyweds were presented with a coffee table by those pres ent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
pOA(HER E FINED FOR TAKING MOOSE
 IN RENAL RESERVE

Alfred Wick has been fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days in jail at Anchorage for killing a moose in the Kenai Moose Reserve, ac- cording to word received by the Alaska Game Commission today from Wildlife agent Jack O'Connor The meat was turned over to needy persons.
 Ole Frostad was fined $25 at the same city for illegal possession of ducks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
JIGG5 DINNER
 SATURDAY NIGHT

Friends of the American Legion are invited to join the Legionnaires in Jiggs dinner at the Dugout to-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
HALF TON OF.
 CLOTHING ON
 WAY TO ISLES
Juneau Shipment for Peo- pie of England Going
 on North Sea

Half a ton of clothing for Eng land will leave Juneau tonight on the steamer North Sea.
 The committee which solicited do- nations of old clothing for the peo- pie of England said they were won derfully impressed with the high quality and fine condition of cloth ing given by residents of Juneau
 Besides the huge shipment going out today, Il bundles have already been dispatched by parcel post.
 Included in the 1000 pounds on the North Sea is apparel for men women and all ages of children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13

morrow night with the corn beef and cabbage ready to be served at 6:30 o'clock There will be suffic- tent to go around and plenty to help wash it down with.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
Charles BurdiCk
 To Be Speaker at
 Nor|itemen Dinner

With Charles Burdick as guest speaker and members of the Nor litemen Boy Scout Troop as special guests, plans are now complete for Tuesday nights Norlitemen dinner.
 The affair will be held in the Parlors of the Northern Light Pres byterian Church between 6:30 and 8 o'clock ard reservations may be made by calling 373 before Monday evening.
 The Rev. Jchn A. GlaSse will be tcastmaster, Tony DelSanto will play accordion selections and Mrs c. Robert White will give piano accompaniment to community sing ing. Mrs. Katherine Hooker will prepare the menu, witch is 10 fea- ture Matanuska potatoes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
MRS. POST RETURNING

Mrs. E. J. Post, who has been south for several weeks, is return ing to her Juneau home aboard the North Coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13

The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
MAIL GOES SOUTH
 ABOARD AIRLINER

Two hundred and five pounds of ailmail were dispatched aboard the airline Douglas this forenoon for the south.
 The North Sea, leaving late this afternoon for the south, is taking a large dispatch of Christmas let ters and packages. The mail for the North Sea closed at 4 o'clock this afternoon and was then inn mediately transferre to the steamer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13

Try classified ad in The Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
North Coast Is . Juneau Bound

SEATTLE, Dec. 13. - Steamer North Coast sailed at 10 o'clock this forenoon for Southeast AL aska ports with 8 passengers on 1oard, the following booked for Ju- neau:
 Mrs. Fred McElhany and chil- dren, Mrs. Ursula Waldman, Mrs E. J. Post Mrs. Myrtle Lind, Orrin Kimball, Miss Mary Virginia Ma nancy, James Nilima.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-13
KIMBALL ENDS VACATION

Orrin Kifnball, assistant agent of the Northland Transportation Con- pany in Juneau, south on a brief vacation trip, is aboard the North Coast homebound.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-08

and argue orally before the board.
Proposed: Three man board, also
appointed by president but no more
than two of whom shah be members
of the same political party, would
follow same judicial practices as
present board.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-08
LINCOLN CHORUS
WILL sing HERE
81 University Male Mem
bers Billed at NeighbOr-
hood House March n

Mrs. Reuben Mckinney was
elected president of the Women's
Social and Study Club Of the Pearl
Street Neigtburnood House yester-
day afternoon. Others elected were:
Mrs. George Prince, vice-president;
Miss Cynthia Mott, secretary; Miss
Agnes Reynolds, assistant secretary;
Miss Mary jenkins, treasurer; Mrs.
Mamie Halle, historian; and Mrs.
Ellen Granville, chairman of the
program committee.
The Lincoln University Male
Chorus of 81 voices will appear here
in a concert Wednesday, March q.
A committee comprising Mrs. George
Prince and Mrs. Ellen Granville was
appointed to plan the entertainment
Of these guests during their stay
here. ~ 'r
Mrs. Laura Harvey, vice-presi-
dent, handled the gavel at yester-
days meeting. The topic for the
afternoon was Pierre Van Paasen's
'Days Of Our Years.. A discussion
period followed an interesting re-
view by Rev. Alan M. Fairbank, pas
tor of the Bunker Hill Congrega-
tional Church. Nine new members
were admitted to the club of which
Mrs. Leila T. Alexander is social
director. The next meeting Of the
club will be held Thursday, April 4,
Others present yesterday were: Mrs.
Reuben Mckinney, Mrs. Mary Jen-
kins, Mrs. NJ. Ward, Mrs. Mamie
Halle, Mrs. Leila T. Alexander, Mrs,
Agnes Reynolds, Miss Cynthia Mott
]. Mott, Mrs. George Prince, Miss
Mrs. Ellen Granville, Mrs. ". Good
Mrs. F. Fisher, and, Mrs, L. Franklin
son, Mrs. E. Lee, Miss G. Mckinney
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-08
OFFICERS ABSENT
TRIAL POSTPONED

Absence Of two policemen caused
the continuance Of two cases in city
court today.
The case Of Anthony Barra, %
and Joseph Barra, Is brothers ar
rested yesterday. on o breach Of
peace charges after q fracas at
Meadow and Field streets, was part
~ heard, but had to be continued
when two. Of the arresting Officers
were found TO be absent.
The other case involved an In
ebriate who peaded not guilty. The
absent officers were Jerry Hunihan
and Patrolman Joseph Phelan.
In the Barra case, Patrolman
George PalmetleE testified he reach
ed Field street when the two brot-
hers were already In custody OF Of
iiceEs PhelAn and HUMAN. He said
they were covered with blood, bu;
he did not see the fight.
Prosecuting Attorney Michael J.
0alullo said there was no reason
why the osIittfs '"shouldnt be
here" He aald no understood II was
q police regulation 70 require ofiiceFs
10 "gollow through" on each arrest
they made and be present IN court
when u opena
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declined to ADVISE Chairman How
ard w. Smith Of the special house
committee investigating the board
whether alleged activities of board
officials were illegal,
The FBI's investigation was re-
vealed as battle lines formed in the
house over drastic changes proposed
In the board and the labor act by a
majority Of Smiths committee
Those amendments - including
ones to abolish the present board
and substitute a judicial board to
hear cases prosecuted by a new
labor act administrator - were sent
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findings Of fact may not be reversed
by the courts II supported BY evil
denoe. $50
Proposed: Court rules Of evidence
would be controlling so far as prac-
ticable." Findings Of fact would be
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both ways now are on their way TO
the supreme COURT.
Subpenas
Present: Board issues its own SUBJ
penas on its own motions, and uses
its discretion in regard to employer
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Present: Court rules OF evidence
are not controlling I'M board hear-
ings. Courts have held that board
decisions must be supported by
Substantial evidence" and the SUI
pfenie court has held that board