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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
IT'S A
GREAT SYSTEM!
BY JOHN PAINE and
DAVID DACHS
Federated Press)

The department of justice has dis
covered food profiteering.
| Up until now it was closely guard
ed secret between the food profiteers
and 13O,000,00O consumers.
Unpatrotic
With steel profits up 400 percent.
stockholders are worried.
They believe that net take of
less than 500 per cent is contrary to
national defense policy.
1t is said of one anti-labor congress
man that he keeps fit by crossing
at least three picketlines day.
OUR ANNUAL POLITICAL
LIMERICK
| A congressman from the old south
Remarked from the side of his mouth:
81 owe my subsistence
ITO poll tax existence
ITO repeal it strikes me as uncouth."
Looks like the newest war slogan
will be: ENGLAND expects every Amer
lean dollar to do its duty.
Front Line
Lillian Herstein of the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor recalls that patriot
ism hit a peak in the last war when
a local corset manufacturer spurred
his workers with this sign: "Corsets
will win the war;"
BY sheer staying power, we sup
pose.
For the information of the New
Orleans police captain who couldn't
identify the flag with gold fleurs-de-
lis at the A. F. L. convention: II
was the New Orleans city flag.
Father" said little Luther, what
is a subversive character?"
"A subversive character, my boy,
is an migrate who, forgetful of the
privileges of Americanism, seeks to
undermine the foundations upon which
our republic rests"
How does he undermine the foun-
dations?"
"By refusing to work for so cents
an hour when his country needs his
services in defense industries"
Does everybody get so cents an
hour in the defense industries,
Unfortunately no. In many cases
the employees have combined and OBJ
tanned larger amounts. BY doing so,
they have tended to decrease the
standard of living of the executives
and stockholders in whose hands the
future of our nation rests"
do you mean that the employees
have forced the executives and stock
holders to live on less than so cents
an hour?"
81 should say mott Let me tell you
one thing, Luther. So long as this
employers have an ounce of
Americanism in their
veins, they will never consider work
ng for any such wages! Why, they
would sooner close their factoriesi"
but, daddy, wouldn't that be little
eensy bit subversive"
Luther! | don't know where you
.et such ideas! Do any Of your teach
rs belong to the union?"
correspondence
Dear Santa Claus: Please tell
addy how he can buy Christmas
rec with a union label. And is it
rue that you are asking double time
Dr. night work this year?
Sincerely
JOHN PAINE, Jr."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
Correspondence
GRAZING FUNDS SENT

The state treasurer reports S24,-
574.85 in funds collected under the
Taylor grazing act have been sent to
Montana counties. Monies are dis
tributed on an earned basis and used
by grazing districts to improve land.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
WPA GETS APPROVAL

Montana state officials have beer
advised that President Roosevelt has
approved $61,500 WPA project fol-
Montana to promote musical actiyi-
ties Operation of the project is at
the discretion of Joseph w. Parker
state WPA administrator of Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18

You cannot control what you do not
owni
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18

You cannot control what you do not
ownI
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON = Use of the con-
scription act as strikebreaking wea-
pom came under legislative considera-
ton as the house judiciary commit
tee undertook to study methods of
stopping strikes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

Grams from last yelr-Genn Price and Captain Bill Parsons,
forwards Chuck Foey, center nScS III n, layout
Coaches Eddie Cameron Of Duke and Franklin Cappon Of
Princeton Both the Blue Devils and the Tigers have had good
success games this and Saturday night 5
counter should be fitting open the building
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03
phantomsNeet
AppaLacI1ianln
Fiji oniight

Chapel Hill, Jan. 3.-North Caro-
i!na's varsity basketball team will
open its 1910 season here tonight at
9 o'clock in Wooden Gymnasium
AGAINST the strong Appalachian quint
from the North State Conference in
the first OF three contests for the
White Phantoms this week.
Another formidable North State
Conference foe, CataWba's Indians.
comes to Chapel Hill Thursday night
tor shot at the Lange-coached
team, and on Saturday Carolina
moves over to Charlotte to engage
Davidson in the Tar Heels first Big
Five and Southrn Conference test.
With every lettcTman on hand
from last years crack outfit, Appala-
chan is represented by its strongest
team in several years. In their first
start recently the Mountaineers trip
ped Morris-H Harvey College from
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03
Little nlszee:sS
Resume II Il1C4
ThurselayNight

g..aa:,.. Jan. 3.-Duke'S little boys
~ Ellie VIII celebrate the:r return to
re Basketball wars tomorrow night
...e" ;&Sy 81 against p2EIo<on :
Il .G,,;S i" ne 0nnI1l game At VIM
s.a-Salem.
= NIL De the first start tor the
=..s Devils = Souturn conference
.~J B.g Eve competition. ana II Will
-y - important contest ''o'" '''''
.--.s
p. a; the same tiEHe' Noacn Eoo .,,
C." e"1n ana MS 1.-the Dues IL
,s .-uN."g forward - 'N'' Dig s@i"e
~" Princeton saturday ;iSh' "''e'!
;~er VIII celebrate the "2eA"As u
.-s,'> neW gymnasium unit.
r-;::2g short tHeW Christmas nor.
GAYS . Ct ing shape Tor tnetE sun
.u...s"y slate. the Ouke OUTFIT mas
-se~ drilling regularly since last
-..5.y. Practices We're neta twice
G~..v 5.,t classes started Al the Uni
-y~> = today ana loacn cameron
.., -e:."Ae0 10 me aS,'@I Sci'e'''''e u
e. .E-0U:S.
D-Ee expects 10 ina OaEioSoA ana
2g."c..12 plenty toUSH. D3E IoS;'A mas
S. y graduation SeErra! oi U!s
49, mo used 20 worry ire Blue
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03
Large Quantity OF
Peanut Hay Grown
This Past Season

College Station, Raleigh, Jan. g.
Peanut growers Of North Carolina
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03
URGES FARMERS TO
TAKE AN INVENTORY

College Station, Raleigh, Jan. g.
Successful business people take an
Inventory at this season. and farm
ers neeG to do the same, says r.
". Shoftner. farm management
specialist OF the State College EX-
tension Service. Farming is just
as much a business as Storekeep-
ing, and it is equally as important
for a farmer to take stock of his
holdings as for merchant to count
thea rticlas on his Shelves" Shoff-
nor declared.
An annual inventory gives the
farmer an accurate basis for deter
mining whether his farm business
is paying lis way. the specialist
commented. It is also useful in
making plans fer the coming year
An inventory can be taken at
any time during the year. but most
farmers like to take it right after
the start Of the year, when other
work is net 100 pressing and feeds
ind supplies are low. Then. too,
taking an inventory at the same
time each year makes it possible to
compare one years results with
another. Shoffner stated.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

produced approximately l18,O0D tons
Of peanut hay in 1889, it was re-
ported today by DR.. !. O. Scnaub,
director q extension 1t State COL
!cgc. Those who produce peanuts
primarily for tho edible trade some
times tend TO forget that the peanuts
Weld an excellent hay that is 2ener-
ally balcd or otherwise stored under
cover. making the peanut crop even
more valuable to the State" he de-
c!ared.
The average yield of peanut hay
per acre is about onc-half ton. This
lay will become increasingly valu-
able as the livestock industry de-
rclopS in Eastern North Carolina,
where most Of The peanuts are
grown. DR.. SChaub stated.
Commenting on the market for
peanuts. the extension leader said
that renewed buying activity may be
expected this Wec; because stocks
in the hands of the trade in city
markets are still not large.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

OF course, Dr.. Poe said absolutely
nothing about any other guDerna-
torial candidate in his statement in
today's papers, but there is small
doubt that its implications were all
favorable to Commissioner Of Rev.
enue Allen J. Maxwell, who is like
ly to be its Observation-Disclosures.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

ministration.
DR.. Poe, OF course, didn't put out
any such report, nor were many
folks taken in by il.
Here's what happened: President
Frank P. Graham of the University
OF North Carolina and Dean j. w.
HARRISON of State college had been
anxious for some time that the
committee on rehabilitation of the
State college school of agriculture
do something more than exist on
paper. Dr.. Poe is chairman Of this
group and Governor Hoey called
him in to pass along to him the
wishes of Dr.. Graham and Dean
Harrelson. This he did, after which
Dr. Poe asked if he might have 4
few minutes of the gubernatorlal
time for discussion of another mat
ter. The time was granted. gracious
ly as is Hoey habit, and DR.. Poe
outlined his own reactions to the
proposal that he run for governor.
Governor Hoey listened politely,
commented with the friendllnesS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03
nIcNutt Will
Spend Monday
At Raleigh

Raleigh. Jan. 3.-Thc jackson
Day Dinncr to be neid in the ball
room oI the Sir Walter Hotel at
Raleigh next Monday night has not
only brought one of the best known
nyIiUna! figures to North Carolina
in Tie person Of Hon. Paul McNutt,
but reports from the several coun-
ties pouring INTO headquarters in
GicutSs Il larger atte05ancc than
.y2- before OF rNn-of-mne North
Carolina Democrats.
The campaign is we'll ahead Of
last yea. Nearly every mail this
Vcc. mas LroUemt letters from
CUuu.v cEaiYmcn announcing that
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

Now that Dr.. Poe is definitely out
of the picture as a candidate, it
can't hurt anybody TO rell the in
side story of how the report got
around in some quarters that Gov
ernor Hoey phoned for DR.. Poe,
got him in the office and told Poe
he wanted him to run for governor.
Some weeks ago the governor
did, in fact, phone Dr.. Poe and
ask him to come to the Capitol.
but from there on the reported and
the truthful versions part company
and take complete separate paths.
The reports would have it that
Governor Hoey then told Poe he
would like to see the Progressive
Farmer editor as his successor as
governor, and virtually promised
the full support Of the State ad-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

With Captain Turner and Blake.
Coach Fitzpatrick Is counting on
Glenn Powers, J. ". Neal. .. c.
-ianm. Almer Nelson, Leo Byrum
~Na Preston Powers. Othet lads
looking good ere Walter Aston,
Billy Daniel and {. l.. Finch.
Coach Bob Harrison OF the girls
likes the Way his team is shaping
up. His aggregation holds the girls
title Eor TIC county. and will likely
repeat this season. Coach BOD en-
:>@ctS to eiEs his S0phomorc5 plenty
OF work during the coming season,
.!opin& It. Guild reserve strength.
The teams prize Oft the lid Fri
cay night with 4 double header
mere II G:3O O'Clock against Louis
nIrG
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

Charleston, ". Va, ~ to 81. The
leading performers are Novotny,
sharp-sho0tlng guard, VINO tailed 10
POINTS 10 pace Inc victory, ana Hud-
son, another guard, whose floor play
ana pdii-naWKIn3 Was OF Hign Cd4l-
pre-.
Carolina hes five consecutive VIC
tories III preseason games with in
oePenGenL college and city league
teams. The phantoms beat Lynn'S
All stars from Raleigh twice 1912
and 1882, Atlantic Christian Col
!ese 1882, Eatman-S Smith City Lea
que entry from Greensboro 1923,
"nG the McCrary Eagles 1873,
George GIamack, 6 foot inch CEN
ler' and Jimmy Howard, foot 8
inch guard, We're the Big noises in the
Tar ri2els practice game triumphs.
Giamatk rang up the amazing total
OF .l02 points with high OF q for
the McCrary game, while Towards
close guarding and. all-round floor
play proved an equally important
factor IL The victories.
Two outstanding sophomores-
Bob Rose and Bob Gerstcl-nave
also been looking good in the carly
games and are expected to hold down
starting assignments against the
MoUntaineerS.
Probable line-ups:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

Utility man on the speedy, flashy
North Carolina Quint, which opens
u regular ,sIson with he GIashy
.Appa!achiar QUint at the Hill
Wednesday is Ben DilMor h
(aboyc}. The hard-W orE.ing and
seasoned senior, who will likely &c
seen at guard, has also played GEN.
ter and forward-in Fact every
position on the team in his "our
seasons at Carolina. And ne WAS
nigh scorer as freshman and
sophomore and runner-up as 4
junior.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03

which marks all Hoey comment,
and Poe left
But there had been no Hoey re-
quest for a Poe candidacy and,
equally, no Hoey pledge to back
such a candidacy should if ever
eventuate.
In passing, it might be added that
the Poe-Hoey interview was fol-
lowed within a few days by meet
ing of the rehabilitation committee
AN account of which executive
session was published exclusively in
papers served by this bureau.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-03
Hoey Never
Asked Poe
To Make Run
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Winter Hotel
Rv HENRY tTEEILL.

Raleigh, Jan. at isn't on the
race tracks alone that thc long shot
bet sometimes pays off.
The Tuesday morning Raleigh
News and Observer notoG in its
Under the Dome" column: 1t was
learned tina: the odds are 100 to
one that DR.. Poe will become a
candidate"
On Wednesday morning the same
News and Observer carried Dr.
Poe's remuneration OF guOcrnatorlal
ambitions.
Those who read this bureaus
Tuesday afternoon story. DR.. Poe
Suspected Of Change Of Mind"
ought to have taken some Of these
odds. Our "comr!ct.ly unreliable
source" called that one right, any
how.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
A Rascal Turned Out
(Cincinnati Enuuirer)

Cincinnati Enquirer)
 Until the full story be gleaned from the censored chaff the world only guess at the inn pcaons of the reported busting of Pierre Laval as Foreign Minister of the French state of Marshal Philippe Petan. However, to the democracies, it can hardly be other than good news
 One of the most unprinciped rascals of a French political system deservedy notorious for it's unprn cipled rascals, Laval has given the Vichy Govern .nent a sinister aspect from the time of its forma- ticn in the trying hours after the collapse Of French resistance He has been quite unashamedly, the tool of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and has made t plain by his actions that he would welcome an opportunity to plunge France into the war against England as means of establishing himself as the head of an Axis satellite state However, this was not a tendency noteworthy only after the collapse of France for Laval previously had given reason "a believe that he more in sympathy with the Axis powers than with the French republic.
 Consequently it assumed, at least at the outset that the Vichy Government consisted only of Marshal Petain as the front" and Laval the actual controller of state, according to Axis bidding Events seemingly have disproved this assumption for at no point has Marshal Petain displayed willing ness to go to the lengths of Axis cooperation pro- posed by Laval.
 Laval-it may be taken for granted-has done ably accounts for his expulsion from the Petain regime But there is still another explanation for Petains ability to expel him from the government. That lies, concevably in displeasure of Berlin with Laval But much more likely, it lies in the fact that the position of the Vichy Government has been mmeasurably strengthened by Italys misfor- tunes Vichy still commands the French colonies and they now may command the decision of the 
 And had it been left to Pierre Laval, the Axis powers would not have wanted in vain for the French colonies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
WAKE UP AMERICA

There was nothing in the Presidents fireside chat last night except perhaps, it's tone All of the estimated l000O00OO who heard him know now that despite MT Roosevelts firm statement of personal belai that he thinks the Axis will not win the war the President is certain that much greater efforts will have to be made by this country in order to bring about that desired outcome.
 It 's late terribly late, for America to be waking ? 70 it's tssk Of becoming the arsenal of democracy. But as the President said last night it will earlier If have dawdled oway precious weeks and months, let's not dawdle away any
 American industry and labor and the great mass of the oopu ation in this country have been living in a fools paradise since the first gun fired in the present war. monthly output of 1000 planes expected by this time Last month the actual number of planes sent by the United States to Britain TIT Canada got another 102 Every sign is that even this dribble of planes is considerably more than half the nations output. The President has had to exceed his rue-of-thumb of every other plane for England Otherwise England wouldn't be getting enough to notice
 And, meanwhile we may be quite sure that the NaZi overlords of the combined industrial production of the Continent of Europe, from Czechosovakia and Poland on the east to France on the west, are not indulgng their plants and workers to long weekend holidays. This fact may be read into the recent speech of Adolf Hitler in which he said that as be- tween German work and United States gold he, with German work, could defeat any power earth
 Are we, they say kidding ourselves? We have been bandly assuming that the industrial might of the United States is incomparable This is true insofar the fashoning of peaceful equipment and implements is concerned. The American automotive industry turns out 25,0QO automobiles day. But are MT. Knudsen says, turning out only four light tanks day, and are not yet in production dium tanks,
 So far as arms production is concerned it is Germany which is the industrial giant the United States which Is the pygmy.
 We shall be criminally careless of our security even our liberty if we permit any unnecessary delay in the inevitably slow process of getting huge re- armament program under way. It cannot be done
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
MERRY-GO-ROUND

When arrangements were being made for the Lothian funeral serv- ices, the entire diplomatic corps was invited. Only at the last minute did ,nyone remember that Germany and Italy were at war with England, at which point Dr. Hans Thomsen and Prince Colonna, the two Axis diplo- mats, were stricken from the list. .. For its ultra modern Army, the Quartermaster Corps actually is buy ing tomahawks. This is the proper catalogue term for a certain type of hatchet used in the Army. Like carrying coals to Newcastle, the Army is sending refrigerators to AL aska. New Army quarters there will be equipped with electric refrigerat- ors, not to mention ice tongs. But the ice tongs are tiny-four inches long-and made of nickel, obviously for highball cubes. .. Great Brit ain, facing shortage of milk, is buying condensed and powdered milk in tremendous quantities from the United States. In the first ten months this year, we exported to Britain 7l,000,00 pounds compared with only 274,0oO pounds last year. Copyright, 1940, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER 30. 1921


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 Weather: Highest 33 lowest, g; clear.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
TRIBAL WARFARE

When Albanians are not faced by a common enemy-the Italians or Yugoslavs-they are not averse to Seeping in military trim by fighting among themselves. Once the writer oicked up young Albanian along he roadside, shot in three places. t our American hospital he had 3 have his leg amputated, but re-
 used to take ether, and did not make sound during the opera ion.
 Even the Albanian costume is de- tened for fighting. It is pure white 7ool with black stripes along the rollar, sleeve and trouser leg, a cam uflage which fits perfectly into the now and underbrush of the Alban- an mountains.
 Irony of the present situation is that although the Albanians hate he Italians, no great love is lost between the Greeks and Albanians either. Their present alliance is one of convenience. and what every AL banian must fear is the probability
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30

that Greece, if finally victorious, will carve out a slice of Albania for herself.
 Sentiment between the Greeks and Albanians is similar to that between the Albanians and Serbs. When the writer finally took his departure from this part of the world, fare well dinner was given by the Serbian army commander and the Albanian mayor, at which tribute was paid to the efforts of the Americans to bring peace and friendship to these rival people. Toward the end of the eve- ming the Serbian commander and Nedjib Beg, the Albanian mayor, had their arms about each others necks in tribute to their undying friendship.
 Next morning, as our party mount ed its horses for the five-day ride across the mountains to the Adri- atic, word came that someone had shot Nedjib Beg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30

overnight but we should at the very least keep all of our facilities working overnight at it. Our national defense industries should be operating on a time basis, and now.
 We hope Mir Roosevelt shocked some of his confronting America.
 Because America is at peace, because there are no shambles in our great cities left by bombing planes because our children safe from falling walls in coapsing school buildings look upon the war abroad as a distant spectre unlikely to affect our lives very soon if at all We being ulled into sense of security by recent British victories in Africa and Greek success in Albania. We don't seem to realize the fortunes of change like a zig-zag bolt of lightning. We going about our defense program as though it were an ordinary peacetime commercial operation. We not excited about it. We are complacent when should be demanding action
 The vast majority of American businessmen and union members honest patriotic, decent citizens But some of our ndustralists and some of union leaders need the spirit of the boys in uniform scat tered in a hundred camps, who giving every moment of their lives to preparing for defense Their motive isn't profit or high wages. They doing a job because somebody must do it-now.
 Until that spirit permeates the fields of business, labor and industry defense program will con- tinue to lag.
 We are confident after last nights assurances that President Roosevelt will swiftly to that the greatest plant capacity developed in any nation does not fail in the most important job it has ever undertaken
 Here is the real test of our democracy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30

on the top of our truck in pouring rain for three days and was almost ruined.
 In Albania, every mans home is his castle Around the house is stone wall with gun slits at the en- trance and usually a barbed wire entanglement. The house is of stone, and the first floor has no windows Gunshot might be poured through them too easily. The second floor has gun-slits for windows, and only on the third floor are the windows at all adequate Even these are heav- fly shuttered.
 Travel through Albania may be dangerous unless you first call upon the chieftain of the region through which you are travelling and get guarantee of safety. If you are a friend of Albania this is willingly 'iven, and once given it means that he chief swears to give up his own fife if yours is taken.
 This pledge means much more han mere lip-service, and is accom- panied by drawing blood in the wrist of each, and swearing blood oesa." Then presents are exchanged Once the writer got a beautiful rurkish ring in exchange for pair If American made corduroy trousers.