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lace's own ideas. There is an incll-
nation, however, even on the part
of some of the Democrats, to mini
mize Mr.. Wallace's influence on
Iowa politics. And some go so far
as to say that if he were not the
rSDning mate of Franklin D. Roose-
40. his chances of success in Iowa
would be rather small. Some recall
the old, bewhiskered saying that
a prophet is without honor in his
own land.
The great bulk of Iowans are
primarily Republicans. They have
slipped off the reservation only a
few times since the formation of
the G. o. P. Mr.. Wallace himself
was a registered Republican not so
very long ago. and his father was
Secretary of Agriculture during the
Harding and Coolidge administra-
tions. Many Iowa businessmen, like
businessmen in other states, are very
much off the New Deal, of which
Mr.. Wallace is one of the shining
lights. Many of the farmers have
been irritated by the administration
Of the farm program.
Stake Hopes on Roosevelt.
Mr.. Wallace has been made the
scapegoat and the criticisms have
passed the President by. All of this
is just roundabout way Iowa poll
ticians have of saying that Mr.. Wal
lace is not adding much to the
Democratic national ticket in Iowa.
The battle so far as the Democrats
are concerned-and their New Deal
allies-centers in Mr.. Roosevelt.
They will sink or swim with him,
depending upon how strong his per-
sonal pulling power turns out TO be
on November 5. This may be unfair
to Mr.. Wallace, who was chosen
particularly by the President and
his New Deal inner circle to run for
Vice President during the memo
rable Chicago convention. But that's
the way they add it up out here.
1t is not only Mr.. Wallace who is
running in Iowa on the coattails
of the President. The Democratic
candidate for Governor, John VAL
entine, is making his plea to the
voters on the strength of the Roose-
velt administration record in Of
fee He attacks, it is true, the
handling of the States affairs by
Republican Gov. George A. Wilson.
In the end, however. Mr.. Valentines S
chances are dependent entirely on
the strength which the President
develops.
Indeed, it is we'll within the
possibilities that President Roose-
welt may carry this State and the
Republicans will re-elect Gov. Will
son. In 1886, President Roosevelt
carried the State by upwards of
$4,000 votes. Yet the Democratic
candidate for Governor, former
Gov. Kraschel, only squeaked
through with a lead of about $500
votes over his Republican opponent.
Allowing that Mr.. Valentine is more
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Since abhors politicians abho ballot
carry every
Northern
being made under the and Surplus Commodities
export to Western Hemisphere countries
Buttons for Defense
the Ed Stettnus National Defense Commission
has worked whereby all Wke buttons will
Washington cancelled protecting
shortage.
which pinned lapes
making celod
buttons
explosives.
the Franklin poll of button opinion The
still dumb enough
not
by Feature
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The Discarded Button Poll

decided to conduct its
assured operation by
conducted basis of the
pals
by the sanitary departments of large cities
Wkie button thus disposed indicates who forced
listened the Republican
collected will stacked
of Roosevelt buttons which savaged from
disposal plants The balance the figure
I
his
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the popular vote. ThlS ngure COM
pares with 56 per cent conceded by
Gallup and my own estimate Of So
per cent based on an analysis of
Gallup's figures for State per-
centages and the electoral votes.
1t is all very confusing to the stat
isticians-with Roosevelt's present
percentage in Main running per
cent above what he got in that
State four years ago and with the
1896 figures disputing Gallup's as
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We, the People
A Poll to End the Bottle Of Strow Votes
Is Perfected by Mr.. Franklin
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Things have reached pretty The battle OF the polls in fun
picks which please Dr. Gaups
effort given Roosevelt AZ States and 400 ELECTORAL votes leaving
Wkie only the dust bowl States Maine and Vermont
Faced with this statistical inratude the Republicans have struck
back with Mr. DUNNO
ton with Dun Bradsreework that Wlk will get 1884 elec-
Republicans Hardng 4O4 electoral
Vanderbilt again wires that after
landslide
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Roy to Visit lodqe

Grand Master Louis w. Roy and
members of the Acacia Grand Lodge
of Prince Hall Masons of the Dis
trict will make their annual visita-
ton to the Pythagoras Lodge. No.
9, F. A. and A. NJ. at 8 o'clock
tonight at the Scottish Rite Temple,
Eleventh and r streets NV.
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ticket, Is making
his first bid for
public Office be-
fore the electo-
rate of his ma
tive State. Mr..
w a lac has
many friends in
his home State
and certainly
he should have
among the farm
ers W ho have
had the benefit
of the program
largely Matched
in accordance
1.yith Mr. Wo1.
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seon that the Roosevelt trend has checked stopped Instead
D. R. gaining more rapidly this time than he did against Landon at
there is
the will depend of the W. A.
enrolment which light Republican insnce
cutting appropriations attempt votes
the rugged starvation which knocked Mr. Hoover
a polling booths
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below, the vanishing point. A big
drive is on to obtain an emer-
gency fund for Representative Pat
Drewry'S Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee.
Ordinarily, this would be bad
sign for Wendell L. Willkie. In a
presidential year party bosses gen.
orally decide to feature their local
candidates only when they have
despaired of national success. But
although Republican National Chair
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curing Wnetner,
In view of the
tense interna-
tional situation,
there should be
a change in ad-
ministration.
There are two
eon t n G encies
q h e a d. either
America will be
forced in t o the
World War or
A m lea will
have an oppor-
tunity to make
world peace.
If we are 60
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OIlVe COWdIQ tHc
East. The Mos
COW dip lomats
re m ain enig-
matte. T h ey
m a / n t a in a
friendly aloof-
ness toward the
British repre-
sentatives an d
are almost cor
dial when talk
Ing 10 Laurence
Steinhard, tn e
U n | t e d States
Ambassador.
The la t es I
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if he lets the boss know he is for
Roosevelt and another thousand
who refused to wear Willkie but
tons anyhow. Every discarded but
ton means, therefore, at least 2,00l
votes in Roosevelts majority.
Already on this basis, some
startling results are indicated. First
of all, Roosevelt appears to have
1878 per cent of the total vote.
with minus 81 per cent for Willkie
and minus 10 ner cent undecided
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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

DES MONIES, Oct. 15.-Henry A.
Wallace, until recently Secretary of
Agriculture and now vice presi-
Dental candidate on the Democratic
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HE opinions OF the rters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions OF interest to It's
readers although such opinions may be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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might thus be
this is little different.
1t not the Republican bosses who have decided devil
informed is small group of prominent businessmen According
the received these independently decided while
Wllke may be bet spent congressional fights likely
pretty good
collecting
cash money
at premium of political usefulness.
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This
Changing
World
StuIin Is Believed
Doubtful Of Final
Victory for Axis
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Russia is not encouraging the
Balkan states to resist the axis.
neither does she discourage Hitler
and Mussolini in their plans for a
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Sees Peace
Handicap
In Roosevelt
Observer Argues
An Uncommitted
Figure Is Needed
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Numerous letters have been re-
ceived by this correspondent asking
for an evaluation of President
Roosevelt's foreign policy and in
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Democratic fat cats" commonly
have some sort Of personal interest
in the administration.
The wind will be raised in two
ways. Special gifts will be sought,
particularly in the South, where
Democratic Congress means much
to the people, and where many "fat
cats" though unfriendly to the
President, are willing to stump up
IN keen their partv in control on the
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The Capital Parade
Democrats Are Alarmed by Republican
PIon for Congressional Campaign

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
Republican
congressional campaigns the last the election
his majority
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Republican Kitty

If the kitty lavish enough and if the election is Roosevelt
landslide the Democratic leaders worried the
what In the first the
fights obviously voting
Because of the prolonged sitting
briefly Washington
preoccuped with the
hard on them be absent while their opponents have been getting
their final icks Then talk
because OF the emergency but putting check him in Congress-
which much tckesptting Of Republican
slightly place perhaps
80
As shwd and highly professional politician told the President
"You hell of
into district in the weeks of congressional campaign Thus
the will astronomical proportions 100000
would 100000 would
luxurious the Republicans.
limiting
Wilkes ubscribi the Republican congressional
pagns check the President should be
wealthy
and who fear and dislike the Roosevelt policies.
Special Gifts and Mr.. QuoyIe
This trihe cynical but such unfortunately the
politics collecting their fund the Democrats
precisely the Of contributors the Repub
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Special Gifts and Mr.. QuoyIe

may a cynical, unfortunately,
politics collecting
precisely the contributors
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Another Might Heal Wounds.

Gradually stalemate in the war
may appear when the Nazis will
have to give back their gains in
territory and be guided by another
kind of leadership than they have
today. Such an occasion may come
in one or two or even three years
from now. An American President
who has pursued a policy of moral
leadership and who is trusted by
all Of his own people and by foreign
nations, too, would be in a position
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
THE ECONOMIC
fifth COLUMN
BY SCOTT NEARING

The hard years that followed 1929
provided an acid test for U. S. busi-
ness leadership. Businessmen had
run the economic system full speed
into swamp. Would they be able
to dig it out, put it back on the
road and make the necessary repairs :?
The supreme economic need in
those first years of the depression
was spending power. Bankrupt farm
ers and unemployed workers had
wants aplenty. They lacked money.
Would the business leaders put it into
their hands?
The U. S. Department of Commerce
recently published a study of income
payments arranged by occupations
and by states that answers the ques-
tion decisively.
Incomes paid out for the entire U.
S. were $SO,611, 100000 in 1929. Pay
ments fell to $45, 100000 in 1888.
OF these total payments s14,915.00O,-
600 went for wages in the chief indus
tries in 1929. Wages paid in these
industries fell to $12,332 100000 in
1880; to $9,371 100000 in 1881; to S6,-
4S2OO0,O00 in 1892; and rose to &c.
7S6,OO0,000 in 1888. Wage payments
in 1882 were only 43.5So of those for
1929. During the four years 1930-1933
the reduction in wage payments un-
der the 1929 level totaled $24,600,000,-
000
While these heavy cuts were being
made in wage income. the holders of
terest and dividends. In 1929, inter-
est and dividend payments as reported
by the Department of Commerce to-
tailed S11,S51, 100000. For the follow
ing years they were: s11,715,000, 900
in 1880; S10,270,000 1000 in 1881; s8,-
1893, 100000 in 1892; and $7,351, 100000
in 1888 In the first four years of the
depression, interest and dividend pay
ments totaled s37,7O0, 100000 From
1884 to 1888 the total was $43,700,-
100000
Even in 1889 all wage and salary
payments for the U. S. were $685.
000,000 less than in 1929. For New
\ OTh Sldlb lUey were pAslllgUUU,UUU
less; for Pennsylvania, s1,3O5, 100000
less; for Illinois, $1,374, 100000 less.
These income figures paint an un-
picture. The incomes of
wage and salary earners were cut
nearly in half between 1929 and 1888.
In the state of New York alone, this
amounted to S3,856, 100000
for one year. Meanwhile, billions
were being paid as interest and divi-
dends to bondholders and stockhold-
ers who saved the money instead of
spending it.
If business leaders had been looking
for the most effective way to worsen
the crisis they could have hit on no
better method. At time when pur-
chasing power was the supreme need
hey were pouring billions into the
pockets of those whose wants were
argely satisfied and who would there
'ore not spend but try to reinvest the
ncome.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27

H Ever since Ohio's distinguishe
! statesman secured the passage of tn
Sherman Trust law in the 90
, at Washington has betimes taken pot
shots at the big corporations alleged
to be guilty of restraint in trade
Teddy Roosevelt lashed out at the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
and Judge Landis, (now exalted poo
bah of the baseball world), assessed
the Rockefellers one million dollars on
each of 20 counts-s29, ,OOO, ,O00-not
one cent of which was ever paidi
Teddy's Big Stick had spoken but
Standards head was not bloody
neither was 1t bowed.
Despite the assaults upon Big Bust
ness by government agencies, amassed
capital has steadily and stealthily
pursued it's course. Occasionally it
dims it's lights and shuffles by some
legal scarecrow or tilts with the De-
partment of Justice but it never tar
ries long but is always on its way.
1t never is what it pretends to be.
| 1t never advertises what it is trying
to do. 1t never rattles before it
strikesi And now Bigness is gripping
the rich pasture lands of Montana
under the benevolent cloak of "Con-
servation."
1t is therefore all the more dismay-
ing to see government departments
do an about face and instruct their
minions to fall down and worship the
golden calf. 1t is current knowledge
that the Farm Security Administra-
tion at Malta Joined hands with the
discredited Montana Grass Commits
sion in the ignoble task of divesting
Blaine county farmers of range to
which they were entitled by commen-
suitability and long use, and manipu-
lated 1t into the control of big stock
men who don't need it, don't want it
and don't use it but subIet it to per-
sonal friends.
On November 18th latter day John |
ehC poPtiot III tht pei ooH VI IlOls r.
H. Sandberg, associate agricultural |
economist for the Soil Conservation |
Service came preaching to the farm
ers of the Big Flat The meeting |
was held at Hogeland and there was |
a fair turnout of farmers who had |
gained the idea the professor would |
say something about the restoration |
Of their pilfered range lands. In this |
they were sorely disappointed Prof |
Sandberg proved to be an apologist |
for the big ranchers and a firm be-
lever in the status quo. He told the |
small stockmen the big shots had beat |
them to the post and that the farm
ers could retrieve the situation only
by the democratic process and that
would be long, long road. He inn
piled anything short of murder or
mayhem done by the Grass Commits
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
A DRY-FEED ECONOMIST

sion was O. X. with him although he
no doubt draws good salary for
"helping the farmer"
Professor Sandberg came to Hoge-
land primarily it seems to advocate
irrigation as substitute for loss of
range. Irrigation on vast plateau
with no running streams, no sizable
lakes and high heaven the only plaus-
ible source of water. Not one acre
in ten thousand can be successfully
reclaimed by spring irrigation. The
professor was good-naturedly heckled
by the farmers and frequently was
hard put for an answer. In reply to
the question How can Big Flat farm
erds profitably turn their Scent rye
and 3-dollar hay into cash without
livestock?" he replied, "You may dry
feed your cattle in lieu of grassi"-
Parker T. Anderson, Hogeland.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
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went to the polls and overwhelmingly
endorsed the principles of liberal gov
ernment. But did the poll-tax states,
so-called, reflect the progressive spirit
of the day by sending liberals to Con-
gress? They did not.
Georgia, for example, returned the
"brains" of the House reactionaries,
Gene Cox, to continue organizing the
opposition to every progressive meas
ure and law, as well as Malcolm Tar
yer, foe of the Wage-Hour act, and
Stephen Pace, who bears a peeve
against anybody born across the seas;
Virginia returned to the House How
ard (Undertaker) Smith to continue
his efforts to wreck the Wagner act,
Clifton Woodrum to press further his
| fight on WPA, the Schuler Bland, who
doesn't like labor unions in general
and the maritime union in particular;
Tennessee sent Congressman Albert
Gore, who has been directing the STRAIT
egy of the congressional gang seek
ing to scuttle slum clearance and low
rent housing programs, back to Wash
ington Alabama returned House
alien-baiter, Sam Hobbs, author Of the
concentration camp bill, as well as
his fellow alien batter Joe Starnes, of
Dies committee fame, while Texas
again gives us clustering Martin Dies,
who is just beginning to find out that
there are nazis and fascists in this
country, and Jack Gamers man Fri
day, Congressman Charles South, who
can always be depended upon to be
on the wrong side of every social
question.
OF course, these foes of progress are
not answerable to the workers, the
WPA laborers, and the slum dwellers
of their districts, because the poll tax
keeps these free-born Americans from
exercising their right of franchise as
effectively as though the poll tax de-
pended upon property qualifications.
But one hears more and more insist
ence that the American form of gov
ernment prevail in every state of the
union. The problem here is fast be-
coming one of common discussion.
A certain textile firm in the South, |
it is reported. here, upon receiving a |
large defense contract, ordered re-
duction in the wages Of its employees |
I'VE all have to sacrifice for national |
defense" the notice to the employees
said.
Tory Objective
Current objective of the reaction
aries in Congress is passage of the
Walter-Logan bill, which already has
hurdled the House and is now pend
ing in the Senate.
The bill is a most vicious one but
on it's face very innocent-sounding
which accounts for the fact that 1t
originally passed the Senate without
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
SPAWN TAKING TO END

]. w. Schofield, state superintend-
ent of fisheries, has reported taking
of Loeb Leven trout eggs at the Madi-
son river spawn stations and at AL
word and Kilbrennan lakes, where
eastern brook trout eggs are being
taken, will close the latter part Of
this month. Schofield said the take
this year was excellent" and that
weather did not hamper operations
The eggs taken now will be cared
for in hatcherfes and released as fin
gerlings next spring.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
LABOR NEWS RANKS
WILLKIE WITH HITLER

DEDROIT-(FP)-An editorial blast
against Wendell WILKES armistice
day radio talk is loosed by the De
troit Labor News (AFL). 1t says in
part:
"Mr. Willkie with his studious at
tempt to voice serious warning
against dictatorship in the United
States, is organizing his minority
party just as did Adolph Hitler after
his stunning defeat in an election sew
eral years before he came to power
through Illegal methods"
The people's voice., 1940-11-27
Conrad, Montana,
November 80, 1910

November 30 1874
Dear Local Members:
Over long period OF time, we hav'
sought to interest our locals In taking
advantage OF the insurance service OF
fered by the Montana Farmers Unior
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. While the
response has been satisfactory In the
main, we still feel that our company
could give insurance protection to
large group of people who are still
insuring with stock companies We
urge you to make a special effort to
branch out in this field, not alone on
fire insurance but also on life and
auto insurance.
A considerable fund is being di-
verted into the Golfers Of the private
insurance trade through the reluct-
ance of many people to break away
from their emotional choice Of insur-
ance We say, emotional choice"
significantly because we can see no
adequate reason why the private trade
should be supported when we are en-
gagged in the life and death struggle
to build new order of cooperative
economy. Here, as elsewhere, your
power of patronage is in your hands
to use either to build wisely for pos
terity, or continue the system admit
tedly unsound and inimical to our
own best interests.
Our company has been in the field
for thirty odd years and during its
years of infancy grew painfully slow.
OF late years our stride has length
ened and today we are the largest
mutual insurance within the state of
the best service you can obtain in the
insurance field and our detectives are
to help as best we can to further the
new order of economic security.
While our services and the savings
they afford is but one phase of our
business activities, it is an important |
one. Statistics reveal that stock COM
pany insurance institutions have piled |
up huge funds that have been lifted |
unconscionably from the pockets of |
the public and forever removed from
their control
If this were all, the picture would
not be so tragic. However, the funds
thus acquired are loaned back to the
at fat interest rates which
in many cases cannot be paid with
principal and thus the mortgaged
likewise passes into the con-
troll of private companies. In this
manner thousands of farms have been
taken away from the American farmer
WITH THE AID OF THEIR OWN
MONEY. We are reluctant to believe
that you will much longer counten-
ance such vicious circle of dispos-
session and economic decay.
The Farmers Union Mutual Fire In
surance Company BELONGS to YOU.
It is an instrument of service, oper-
ating at COST and any accumulated
'eserve belongs to you also. You
ouild up it's organic laws and regulate !
is policies and with your patronage
you will be able to fashion it into a
in which you may have just
,ride. It's working principles are hui
nan and warm-hearted and is in pleas
ng contract to the soul-less detach-
nent of commercial insurance. Any t
ees or salaries are paid to OUR OWN
The people's voice., 1940-11-27

cause nobody can be found who be-
lieves that he is capable Of furnish
ing any kind of leadership whatever.
According to recent study, it
required one-half farm labor 80 years
ago to produce the same amount Of
farm products as it takes today. This
is due to increased efficiency because
of improved methods of farming and
labor-saving farm machinery.
The people's voice., 1940-11-27

a dissenting vote, but has since been
called back for reconsideration. Os-
tensibly, it's purpose is to protect"
the innocent citizen against arbitrary
rulings of various New Deal agencies
and governmental bodies, by permit
ing appeal to the courts from these
ruling. Its real purpose, however, is
to hamstring these agencies through
endless and lengthy court proceedings
so as to render them ineffective.
Tory prospects for the bill, though,
aren't so hot. Should it succeed in
getting by the Senaet, which is alto
gether unlikely presidential veto is
known to await it. Nobody on the
Hill is willing to predict that Congress
will override presidential veto,
which makes this campaign a rather
forelorn one. But they are going to
bat on it, nevertheless.
Current Capital Chatter
Senator Burke, Nebraska, announces
that he is going over for good to the
party, where he will un-
doubtedIy be much happier than he
was in the democratic camp. 1t
doesn't look now like the predicted
revolution in Mexico, growing out of
the rivalry Of the political factions
there, will take place, at least not
on a large scale. /. Keep your eyes
on those French, particularly those in
Africa, military men here say. 1t
wouldn't take much to get them into
the war again, it is believed. Ex-
periments show that rubber-bearing
trees can grow in several of the South
American countries, it is claimed.
The republicans are in favor of unity
unity on their program. <. Nobody
will be disappointed with the kind of
that Senator George, of
Georgia, will give the important Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee, be-