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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-10-25

luncheon preceded games. Mrs.
Jane Jones won first prize at fid-
dlesticks, Mrs. May Williams won
the prize for the guessing game
and Mrs. Alberta Robinson won the
handmade Bunco prize. Mrs.
May Williams is a new member.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Alberta Robinson.
Invitations were issued this week
by Mr.. and Mrs. S. Foster for the
wedding ceremony and reception of
their daughter, Miss Annie Salenia
to Mr.. John Charles Henderson.
Mrs. Theodore F. Allen will be
matron of honor and the Misses
Evalyn E. Kelly and Estella LucGe
will be bridesmaids. Little Miss
Patricia Foster, niece, will be
flower girl, and the ushers will be
Messrs. Lounneer Pemberton and
Charles Hargrave. Mr.. Herbert
Foster, brother of the bride, will
serve as Mr.. Henderson's best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson-to-be will
be Eat home" at 92O 33rd street,
Oakland, Calf.
The Young Republican League of
Ramsey County entertained for
Mrs. Milton Shanks, State Direc-
tor, with a tea at the Sterling club
on Friday, October 18, from 5 to z.
Leslie Warren was chairman of the
affair and Evalyn Aston is secre-
tary of the organization.
Miss Rachel James of Washing
ton, D. c., daughter of Mrs. George
James, county employee, is in the
city indefinitely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Jackson
of 4O3 N. Western avenue, returned
home after a months vacation
which took them South, West and
East. They returned with many
interesting souvenirs and report a
wonderful vacation.
Mrs. Leila Head, beautician from
Chicago, left Friday for home after
two-week visit here with Mrs.
Dorothy Venable and Mrs. Marie
Houston of N. Dale St.
The COterie Club are issuing YER
bal invitations for Halloween
party, Thursday, October 81, at the
Sterling Club. About sixty couples
are expected to attend. Guests and
members will wear aprons and
overalls.
George w. Brooks, Jr., was the
victor in the election tie vote which
was held at the last regular meet
ing of the Cameo Club at the Ster-
ling Club on Wednesday, October
16. Mrs. Beatrice H. Brown was
elected vice president. The next
regular meeting of the club will be
Wednesday, November 6, at the
Sterling Club.
Miss Margaret Benjamin, girl
reserve secretary of the Y. w. C.
A. in Youngstown, Ohio, and for
mer Saint Paulite, is in the city
visiting her father, W. A. Benja-
min, 756 Iglehart avenue. Miss
Benjamin was accompanied to the
city by Mrs. Harriet Harris, also
of Youngstown, Ohio, who is ex-
ecutive secretary of the Y. w. C. A.
Miss Benjamin is a graduate of
the University of Minnesota.
John Whitaker, formerly of Car
roll Avenue, has taken an apart
ment at the Ponders' home on Ron
do avenue.
Mr.. John Barker, who has been
stationed in Montana for several
months, was in the city for a few
days last week. Mr.. and Mrs.
Barker reside at the E. D. Moore
apartment, $50 Carroll avenue.
The Elite Club met Friday, Oc-
tober 10, at the home of Mrs.
James Norman Bradford, 612 St.
Anthony avenue. Election of Of
ficers was held and resulted: Cor
inne Powell, president; Charley
Blackburn, vice president; Stanley
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Each guests place was marked
with miniature bridesmaid dressed
in blue from the material of the
wedding party's dresses. The hon
Gree was given complete set Of a
miniature wedding party dressed
similarly. The table was covered
with a blue cloth and centered with
a low bowl of fruit on a blue glass
tray at either side Of which were
blue candles in blue holders. Prizes
for games were won by Mrs. Her
bert Foster, Miss Annette Hatton,
Mrs. William Smalls and Mrs.
Lawrence H. Mccoy. Miss Mar
guerite Benjamin of Youngstown,
Ohio, was an out-of-town guest.
Other guests present included Mes
DANES Gwen Twigs; Lounneer Penn
berton, Norman H. Howell, Charles
Hargrave, Thomas Hargrave and
Miss Dorothy Hall. Guests who
sent gifts to the shower but could
not attend included Mrs. Leo b.
harmon, Evalyn Kelly and Estyr
Bradley. ;. Other affairs at which
Miss Foster has been honored in
clude a Neighborhood personal
shower given by Miss Estella
Luckie on Thursday evening of
this week and a Neighborhood
shower given on Monday evening
of this week at which the honoree
received a beautiful satin-bound
blanket. On Friday evening of
this week, Mrs. John M. Patton,
954 St. Anthony Ave-, has issued
attractive invitations for a person
al shower in Miss Fosters honor.
On that same evening, the groom
to-be will arrive from California
and on Saturday they will be
among the spectators at the Home
coming game (Minnesota-Iowa) at
Memorial Stadium. Also on Satur-
day, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert F. Fos-
ter, GIG st. Anthony Ave., will en-
terrain for them with a cocktail
party. On Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Foster, 1883 Sherburne Ave., will
have a family dinner party, and
on Monday of next week, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lounneer Pemberton and Mr..
and Mrs. M. Leo Bohannon will en-
terrain informally at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Pemberton, 679 st.
Anthony Ave-, for the bride and
groom-to-be. Members of the we'd
ding party and close friends will be
guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. X. Mcknight,
$50 Fuller Ave-, entertained Satur-
day night very informally for Miss
Izetta Robb of Washington, D. c.
Guests included Miss Robb, Mr..
and Mrs. John M. Patton, Mr.. Clar-
ence M. Mitchell, Jr., Mrs. Gladys
Wigington, Mrs. Ruth Gage Colby,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil E. Newman and
Mr.. Ralph Matthews of Washing
ton, D. G.
The Luncheon and Game club met
at the home of Mrs. Clara Will
liams, $40 st. Anthony avenue,
Monday, Oct. 81. An appetizing
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Friday, October 25, 1910
Social and Personal
. ST. PAUL .
By Estyr L. Bradley
900 Horroll Ave QR10

Striking entirely in bridal showers Mrs Theodore F.
Marguerite Tresvan used complete blue
miscellaneous shower they Tuesday
evening" bdetobe Miss Annie Saenia Foster whose
John Charles Henderson of Oakland California will
event Wednesday, October Pilgrim
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
For Your Consideration

Editor The Peoples Voice:
The editorial Investigations in your issue of November 20
important question for the people of Montana Such
Investigations by legislative committees in the have of
necessity been less superficial Time and
cod-booded efficiency have been wanting Mistaken ideas
interests and ogrong tactics of the usual legislative
On the point of inadequate consider the language the
committees of the last legislature quoted their joint
report:
1--WE have endeavored in about 40 days time to
form task that should require at least months of
continuous work, and necessarily in many instances
have only touched what might be termed the high
spots of the liquor setup"
With the time and at their disposal the committees
did reasonably good job But if had been
Peoples Voice the report would have had little
cy The controlled press of Montana printed little
of it. Had the legislative committees to give their
report skechy it is real effectiveness they would
made effort to have printed and circulated public ex
it by The Peoples Voice accomplished election of Sam
defeated Roy Ayers for reelection whichever way
to put it. Many documents printed crcu
lated at the Montana which to
be compared Importance with that legislative report vet the
people of the state must depend private initiative and
private expense gain knowledge of it, or other words
prevent its suppression Perhaps occurred to any
member members of those committees that report to
of value to the of the freely
and widely circulated them the made
recommendation to that effect attempt made
have DONE Had not been for The Peoples and
sponsors those would have been born blush un
average legislators idea of economy peculiar Ap
pareny he extravaganza in paying secretary
State Highway Commission $5,400 year while tho
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
after DEFENSE
PROGRAM Then
What, IS ASKED

WASHINGTON OPP = Spending
for national defense has taught the
nation how to solve the problem of
unemployment, administration econo-
mists argued to group OF business
men, at a conference here November
18th
The conference was arranged, 1t
was reported, by Milton w. Harrison,
former railroad lobbyist, and brought
together such administration lumin-
aries as defense commissioner Leon
Henderson, defense commission con-
sultants Isidor Lubin and Richard Gill
bert, Emil Despres of the Federal
Reserve Board and Lauchlin Currie,
administrative assistant to President
Roosevelt.
Representing business were Robert
l.. Garner, vice president Of Guaranty
Trust, Noel Sargent, secretary of the
Natl. Assn. of Mfgs., and Alexander
Sachs, vice president of the Lehman
Corp. of New York, among others.
Lee FRESHMAN, CLIO general counsel,
Ralph Hetzel, secretary to CLIO Pres.
John L. Lewis, and J. G. Luhrsen, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Railway La
Dor Executives Assn. represented la
Dor at the conference.
Gilbert acted as spokesman for the
administration in declaring that there
are three methods of creating purchas-
ing power sufficient to buy up the
products Of American industry. The
defense program contemplates a COM
bination of these methods, he said.
The methods Gilbert listed as gov
eminent spending of borrowed funds,
raising taxes on high income groups
and cutting taxes on low income
groups, and progressive wage in
creases combined with voluntary price
cuts.
1t was agreed during the discussion
that the defense program would bring
about 100000 increase in employ
ment by the spring of 1912. The
question arose as to what would hap
pen when the defense program stops.
FRESHMAN suggested that industry
had been afforded protection against
that day by the provision for five
year amortization of defense plants
and asked why labor could not be af-
forded the same protection.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
THE
WASHINGTON
SCENE
Federated Press)
BY HENRY ION

Last September the national re-
sources planning board prepared a
400-page report discussing the basic
characteristics of the American econ.
omy.
1t was startling report showing
the great gap between Americas ca
pacity to produce and the wants of
the American people. The resources
of the nation were analysed and found
to be tremendous while at the same
time 1t was discovered that peoples
needs are long way from being sat
isfied.
This report was handed to a group
of economists and their comment was
asked That comment has now been
published in 48-page report and was
made public November IL.
OF outstanding interest in the COM
ment is the discussion of wages and
wage rates by Prof Alvin H. Hansen
of Harvard University.
Hansen makes out a case for in
creasing wages without increasing
prices and notes that wage increases
should be dependent upon the capa-
city Of industry to produce rather than
prices.
ut was not altogether an accident
that the most violent deflationary
movement in the great depression
came in 1881 in the midst of whole
sale wage cuts" he said.
Economic thought in recent years,
led by the Swedish and more recently
the English economists, is coming
more and more to the conclusion that
a relatively high degree of wage
stability from the cyclical standpoint
is the preferable wage policy.
ut follows from this that, il the
long-run trend of wage rates may be
expected to rise relative to commodity
prices, in view of increasing produc-
tivity, such an advance ought to oc-
cur in the upswing phase of the cycle,
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
SELECTLVE SERVICE
ORDERS NOT TOO HARSH

A news release from the National
Headquarters of the "Selective Serv-
ice" dated November 25, seeks to i'm
press employers with their respon-
sibilities in the following:
Each and every employer realizes,
I'm sure, that the men who go into
training are performing service to
the Nation of which the employer is
a part.
"The trainees are meeting a grave
obligation and we know that they are
doing 1t in generous, patriotic way.
The responsibility Of the employer is
equally great and he too is meeting
and patriotism.
1.-THE morale of the trainees must be
preserved and those men who know
that job awaits them after they have
completed their service are certain to
fulfill their Selective Service obliga-
lions with a greater degree of en-
thusiasm than those who face the flu
ture with uncertainty"
In circular letter No. So, from the
National Headquarters to all local
boards directs them to consider Sup
port by Selective Service Regis
trant of his parents, grandparents,
brothers and sisters must be con-
sidered as basis for dependency de-
ferment from training in the same
way as his care Of wife or children
would be-"
Circular letters No. ga, is, in our
opinion, of sufficient interest to quote
in full below:
prosecution of yiolators of the
Selective Training and Service Act of
1910 rests with the Department of
Justice, C. A. Dykstra, director of
Selective Service, pointed out today,
Nov. 25), in stressing the fact that
the Selective Service System is charg-
ed with the responsibility of admin
istering the law, not with enforcing
it.
1.-THE Selective Service Act is a Fed
eral Law" Mr.. Dykstra said, land
any violation of it is federal offense.
The Department of Justice, through
the Attorney General, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the various
United States attorneys, have the duty
OF enforcing the law and prosecuting
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

This appraisal is based on the
batting averages" of the reported
candidates on the basis of their re-
corded votes on legislation for the
benefits of the common people of the
state and against the special, vested
interests. Each Session of the legis-
lature for the past several years the
votes on liberal farm, labor and tax
measures have been tabulated and
ton on how the representatives and
senators voted on progressive meas
ures which, almost without exception
were bitterly fought by the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company, the Montana
Power Company and other large in
dustrial interests and the financial in
terests of the state.
Those reported to be possible can
didates for the office of speaker in
the coming session are: Goodwin,
Cannon and Spiegel of Silver Bow;
Byrne of Toole; Lehrkind of Gallatin;
Daugherty of Powell; Toomey of
Lewis and Clark, (Rep.); O'Connor
of Carbon, (Rep.,).
Their Records
Sam Spiegel of Silver Bow is the
only one of the candidates who served
in the last three sessions who has
100 per cent record of voting and
working for all farm, labor and tax
measures. Paul Cannon, also of Sill
yer Bow, served only in the 1887 ses-
sion but he also, came out with 100
per cent voting and working record in
favor Of the measures beneficial to the
working people of the state showing
that while in the mercantile business,
he had, clear cut social consciousness
and could also see that legislation
which improved the lot of his custom
ers, would react also to his benefit.
Byrne of Toole came out Of the
1885 session with rs per cent record
Of votes for farm, labor and equitable
tax measures. In 1886 he was de-
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

IDUtH Juc ldDOI COliNcutlOllS.
James G. Patton, militant president
of the Colorado Farmers Union and
we'll known in Montana, not only In
the state Farmers Union but In organ
lied labor circles, was elected national
president. Montana was honored by
the election of Fl. ID. Rolph to the
office of national vice president. Mr..
Rolph is now serving his eighth term
as state president of the Montana
Farmers Union.
Farm and Labor Speakers
Among the prominent farm and la
Dor leaders who addressed the con-
vention were the following: John We
secky, retiring national president H.
H. Keeney, retiring vice president and
chairman of the national board;
George Nelson, national board mem
Der; Mrs. Gladys Talbot Edwards,
national educational director; George
w. Brayfield, president of the Colo
RADIO State Federation of Labor; Bert
Chapman, general grievance chairman
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men and Harold Rossman who spoke
for Reid Robinson, president of the
International Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers (CIO).
The convention approved continue
ton of the AAA soil conservation pro-
gram, but recommended that the max
imum size of federal farm payments
be reduced and the size of low pay
ments be raised. Other resolutions
called for full support of co-operatives,
urged abolition of the poll tax, and
called for the safeguarding of family
size farms.
1t also urged expansion of the edu-
cational work of the organization and
that leadership schools be adopted as
a definite part of the educational pro-
gram.
Reaffirms Position
The convention commended the Ma
tional Federation for Constitutional
liberties "for it's effective aid In secur-
ing the civil liberties of our Farmers
Union officers in the South" and re-
its position towards labor in
the following resolution which was
adopted and incorporated In its pro-
gram:
"In the emergency that confronts
the common people of America at this
time, the need for active cooperation
between organized labor and organ
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
Federal CREDIT
union STARTS
In GREAT FALLS

| Interest is being shown in Credit
Unions as evidenced by the organiza
ton meeting of the Great Falls Coop
orators, Federal Credit Union, charter
No. 4164. The meeting was held al
the Rainbow hotel, Monday night, No
vember 25th.
The meeting was in charge of Don
c. Candland, a representative of the
Credit Union department of the Farm
Credit Administration, Washington, D.
G. Mr. Candland gave very instruc-
tive and educational talk on the Inn
portance of credit unions and stressed
the Importance of sound business
practices being used in the operations
of credit unions. Many questions
were asked by the stockholders, which
were very ably answered by Mr. Cand-
land
A. E. Peterson, president and A. H.
Hopkins, treasurer of the Great Falls
Great Northern Federal Credit Union
were guests at the meeting and as
sisted Mr.. Candland in the work of
completing the organization of the
Great Falls Co-operators.
There were "a members present at
the meeting. The following board of
directors and committees were
elected:
Les Nichols, Cascade, president;
Ole Gunderson, Power, vice president;
Perrin Lyman, Great Falls, treasurer;
R. E. Wandke, Great Falls, clerk, and
w. S. Good, Great Falls, director.
Credit Committee: Fred Dufresne,
Great Falls; Howard Lyman, Great
Falls, and Albert Printing, Portage.
Supervisory Committee: Mrs. Har-
old Brown, Great Falls; Joe Tombrink,
Great Falls, and Walter Waber, Great
Falls.
The board of directors and all COM
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

for completion by August 81, 1915.
No pipe dream, the five-year-plan
is the careful work of more than a
hundred members of co-operatives in
the central west who have spent the
last few months working out details
of the expansion program. The first
five-year- plan just completed gives
evidence of the fact that the co-opera
tives mean business, for the annual
report of the Consumers Cooperative
Association presented to 700 delegates
gathered here from nine states for the
annual meeting November ~ and 10
revealed:
125,000 patron-members of 486 re-
tail co-operatives in nine states.
Business for the year ending Au-
gust 81 totaled S5,110,000.
New productive enterprises estab-
lished during the past year:
sS5O,O0O oil refinery at Phillips
burg, Kan.
80 miles of pipe line.
Four producing oil wells, three
drilled by the co-operatives.
All of these achievements have
grown from the organization of GOA
twelve years ago as federation of
six retail co-operatiyes with $4,000
capital and headquarters the size
of a two-car garage.
Rejecting the battle with old line
oil companies for the right to buy
crude oil for the Coop refinery from
oil wells already under contract to
the Co-ops, GOA delegates approved
a resolution authorizing thorough
study" of the oil proration act of
Kansas which it is contended lis not
parallel either with the public inter-
est or with the true principles Of CO.
operation"
Consumer co-operators can lead the
way in the United States to pros
porous economy of abundance based
on spending for the means of life
for food, for clothing, for shelter,
schools, medical care, parks, play
grounds, and churches" Murray D.
Lincoln, general manager Of the Ohio
Farm Bureau Co-operatives, told the
700 GOA delegates gathered here for
the annual meeting.
"All the people have to do to des-
troy the power of monopolies, trusts,
finance capitalists, and other exploit
ers they decry but apparently are
content to deal with" Mr.. Lincoln
said, sis to direct their purchases
through cooperative agencies owned
and controlled by themselves"
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

violations"
Mr.. Dykstra predicted that many of
the alleged violations that have come
before the attention of the local
boards throughout the country will
prove to be unfounded He declared
that the machinery of the Department
of Justice should not be invoked by
local boards, appeal boards and others
unless there is reasonable certainty
that a violation has been committed.
"And they should bear in mind"
Mr. Dykstra added, that their duties
end when they have reported the mat
ter to a United States attorney, to-
gether with whatever evidence they
have collected.
Local boards should remember also
that they are not investigating agen-
cies. They should not make arrests.
They should limit their action to de-
termining whether or not an alleged
vioIator has registered or failed to
perform duty required by that partl-
cuIar local board"
"Mr. Dykstra added that the philos-
ophy underlying Selective Service
that each man is chosen or deferred
by a board of his neighbors after fair
and sympathetic consideration of all
the facts-might be compromised If
the local boards identified themselves
too closely with enforcement of the
law.
at is highly desirable Mr.. Dyk-
stra said, that unfortunate instances
of men being reported as delinquents
who are already in the armed forces
be held to an absolute minimum
The above is quoted from news re-
lease received from Washington.
Circular letter No. Sc issued by the
state headquarters of the Selective
Service refers to claims for defer
ment by conscientious directors, and
this is quoted in full, below:
amy registrant for Selective Serv-
ice who wishes to file formal claim
for deferment as a conscientious OBJ
jector. must be permitted to do 80,
C. A. Dykstra, director of Selective
Service said today, although local
boards will take no action on that
claim unless no other ground for his
deferment exists.
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