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matter of fact be truly beautiful
until every part is clean.
cleanliness idea not effort to cater to the
practical need for clean city than
beauty To have sanitary healthy city
intelligent need be
nishes breeding places for disease
the time to get busy and help the promoters OF this
obtain cooperation OF public
spirited philosophical resident Do something about
the association and get others to
join may entirely weather for under
taking your neghbos interested helping clean the
neighborhood But you only much cooler
wholesome street when clean and free from litter
you will feel we'll repaid for the effort.
studying this problem found that motorists have much
helping the city unclean Parked make
1t extremely difficult to do thorough job of street cleaning Then
the highways
paper
wrappers and whatnot would be simple matter
kind in the
accumulated until dumped into receptacle.
the throwing the sidewalks roadways elsewhere
OF cigarettes cigar butts and matches gives the city oveny
of the most disgusting of all the material
houghless scattered those speakable chewing
The only of used receptacle
The officers of the outdoor Cleanliness Association of the
District of Columbia Garfield president
Jesse c. Suffer- first vice PRESIDENT Hoffman Philip treasurer
Admiral Russell Train assistant treasurer and Mrs Thomas
West, secretary
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Traffic Record for Nav
BY ]. b. ZATMAN.

bringing more
violations than the 1888 bringing
total for May to 1854.
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Traffic Cases for Month of Nav

Parked overtime ,450
Parked from pm. to 6 pm. 889
Disobeying official sign ----- 888
Parked less than 20 feet from
building line and less than so
feet from intersection 755
Speeding 685
Parked from 8 to $50 am.--- 427
No parking ANYTIME ---- 1872
Warrants 1913
Parked abreast ------ 263
Parked at bus stop-------- 1913
Passing stop sign ------------ 172
Passing red light -------- 167
Failing to keep to right ---- 1876
Parked more than inches from
curb 1875
Disobeying traffic signal device lit
Parked overtime in Commute
meter zone ----- lis
Obstructing entrance ------- 109
Parked in loading zone lot
Miscellaneous ----------------- 103
No D. c. permit t--- 100
Truck parked in front of private
residence --------.----- 81
Failing to give hand signal "a
Parked in restricted zone 86
Parked less than Is feet from
stop sign "a
Violation of pedestrian control
regulation -------------- 80
Parked in public space 81
Unnecessary noise -- "a
Parked from 8 am. to 6 pm IA
Parked overtime in Commute
meter zone ---- SO
Failing to exhibit registration
Obstructing crosswalk --------- 81
Parked less than 10 feet from
fire hydrant ----.---------- 81
Failing to exhibit permit --- SO
Failing to give right of way to
vehicles so
Improper lights ------ so
Disobeying officers signal --- Al
Parked with left wheel to curb Al
Turning from wrong lane Al
Parked on hack stand 40
Obstructing alley -- 40
Violation of one-way street, 80
Driving on wrong side of street 81
Parked less than 20 feet from
street car stop sign "a
No lights while running "a
Parked off hack stand 81
Bad foot brake e------- 81
Parked in official space------ 30
Driving while drunk %
Obstructing driveway %
Driving to left of loading plat
form -----..------ 26
Failing to change address on
permit 26
Bad hand brake e- Is
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Hobby of w. Crosdale Wits
Is Watching City Grow
Fishing, Tennis
And Bowling
Are Diversions

(T1Centy-to fourth in q series OF
sketches OF officers and directors
OF the Board OF Trdde)
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streets, on the Fairgrounds, if pos
sible, and, in any event, let's make
their well-being and safety our par
ticular charge, so that every child
may return to school next fall-un-
nurt, happy, healthy and capable of
securing the best there is to be had
from the new school years.
New chairmen, introduced at the
meeting of the Board of Managers
Tuesday morning, included: Mrs.
Edward Koegel, news letter; Mrs.
Thelma Richardson, record book.
Mrs. Henry Lipscomb, publications:
Mrs. Van Lippard, seventh division
representatives, and Mrs. T. A..
Martin, fifth division representative.
A contribution of $25 was voted
to be added to similar sum voted
last year, for inclusion in the
Kramer Memorial Fund, collected
through the schools and the Parent
Teacher Association, to provide,
among other things, a scholarship
for some deserving high school grad
uate, who wishes to attend Wilson
Teachers College. The fund was
reported as at present amounting
to $1,000, and an effort is being
made to up this to $4,000.
Endorsement was also given to the
plan being advanced by the Advisory
Safety Council of the American
Automobile Association, for a bay
patrol safety education camp, to be
held August 81 to September 9 at
the Boys Camp near Washington.
Endorsement was also given to the
Kepecs report, advising co-ordina-
ton Of the various welfare agencies
in the District.
Mrs. R. M. Graham, chairman of
the Summer Roundup, announced
that 48 local units signed up to par
ticipate in the local Summer Round
up campaign, As had already con-
Quoted their health examinations,
with two yet to be held. Nine hun
dred and sixteen children have been
examined to date at the school
clinics, with no report as yet avail
able on the number having been
sent to private physicians.
Wallach- French.
At the last meeting Mrs. Russell
Clickner, historian of the D. C.
Congress, installed the following
officers: Mrs. William Mooney, pres
ident; Mrs. Phillip Stebbing, first
vice president; Mrs. William Ram
sey, second vice president: Miss Ella
Crook, third vice president; Mrs.
William Mclean, secretary; Mrs.
w. Dishun, treasurer.
The patrol boys and members OF
(see PIT. A. Page C.e.)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
COORDINATION OF
farm Relief
AGENCIES PLAN

A greater degree of security for dis.
tressed farm owners is the aim OF a
program of increased cooperation be-
tween the Federal Land Bank of Spo-
kane and the Farm Security Admin
istration, E. NJ Ehrhardt, president
of the land bank, said this week.
For some time the land bank and
the Farm Security Administration
have had working agreement cover
ing the handling of cases where both
institutions are interested. This
agreement is now being expanded and
clarified, through conferences between
bank officials and Walter A. Duffy,
Portland, regional director of the Farm
Security Administration.
"Out of our joint efforts we are
carrying forward a program under
which worthy farm families that have
any reasonable chance to make go
of it ON their farms will be given every
opportunity to succeed" Ehrhardt said.
"This is program that is not only
fair to the debtor, but to the creditors
as well. 1t enables the land bank Dor
rover to maintain his equity, re-estab-
fishes his prospects of eventual own
ership of his farm, free of debt, and
at the same time maintains the in
tegrity of the banks investment.
Eighty percent or more of the farm
families that are members of the land
bank system are keeping their loans
in good standing. If conditions be-
come no worse than they have been
in the past two OF three years, they
should be able eventually to work
themselves out of debt without out
side help. 1t is our aim to assist as
many as possible of the remaining 20
percent to get in the position where
they, also, can work themselves out of
debt and be self-sustaining on farms
of their own"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
$4,000 REFUNDED
BY VIOLAT0RS OF
WAGE-HOUR LAW

NEW YORK (FP) = Wage hour
law violators In the New York region
have been compelled to pay $362,556
in back wages to 24,S77 workers, the
first public report since enactment OF
the law showed.
The total number of violators was
21S. The worst cases were found in
the glove and infants knitwear indus
tries, where homeworkers were being
paid as little as &c an hour.
"Falsified time and payroll records
constitute one of the most serious
violations against which we are seek.
ing the legal penalties imposed by the
act" Regional Director George P. KEEL
ley said in his report.
Legal action was taken In 81 cases
In q instances the courts granted in
functions restraining future violations
and in four cases employers were
criminally indicted and pleaded guilty.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
SOVIET OIL FIELDS
May BE GOAL OF
BRITAIN'S army
By SCOTT NEARING
Federated Press)

Chamberlain's January 16 announce
ment of British-French loans to Tur-
key took many people by surprise.
Why this sudden interest in Turkeys
welfare? With the war in the west
straining British-French munitions
producing capacity, what could induce
the Allies to give Turkey arms to the
tune of $15O,OOO,000 plus commercial
loans of more than $1O0,000000?
Chamberlain and Daladier are not
in the habit of giving something for
nothing. In these difficult times they
would hardly hand quarter of a bill
lion dollars to Turkey unless they
were getting handsome return.
Turkeys part in the transaction has
now become clear, On February 1
the Turkish foreign minister, Shukru
Sarakoglu, made a statement in Bel
grade: "Our country is not neutral
but is merely out of the war"
The Turkish authorities followed
this announcement by taking over the
Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn
and sending back to Germany a group
of technical experts. Thus, for all
practical purposes, Turkey entered the
war on the side of the Allies.
The British-French-T Turkish alliance
will undoubtedly play an important role
in the Second World war Strategic
location ON the eastern Mediterranean
and the Black sea place the nation in
the first rank of key areas in the
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28

and university | feel that / know the
problems that face all of our Montana
people, and the solution of those prob
lens is of paramount interest to me.
If nominated and elected attorney gen.
eral will conscientiously and eff
GENTLY perform all duties pertaining
to that office as prescribed by law.
"The office of attorney general
should not be employed to create a
political machine to advance the in
terests of any person, corporation, or
privileged. group, but should be oper-
ated at all times to serve the state
of Montana conscientiously and eff
GENTLY and with the view of co-opera-
ton, under the laws, with state and
county officers. An effort in this di-
rection in my judgment, will save
thousands of taxpayers dollars and
will be far more effective in an or
ganized representative government.
81 am for organized labor and en-
forcement of all labor laws. There
is responsibility and service due the
people and not to any special clique.
| will protect the farmer and stock
man and will work for economy in
state government"
Mr.. Bonner is former president
Of the Montana Bar Association and
former attorney for the Montana
highway commission.
He was born in Butte in 1902, but
he left there as a child, and was
reared on a ranch in Sanders county.
He attended public schools there.
Later he returned to Butte and worked
in the mines to finance his legal edu-
cation.
Mr.. Bonner is a former worthy pres
ident of the Fraternal Order of Eagles
in Helena, a member of the Elks
lodge, the American Bar Association,
former ex-officio member of the Amer
lean Law Institute, a member of the
Lewis and Clark Bar Association and
the Montana Alumni Association. He
helped to organize the Association of
Montana Law Alumni, and was that
groups first president. The Associa-
ton of Montana Law Alumni is COM
posed of Montana law school gradu-
ates. Mr.. Bonner has also been an
officer in the University Alumni AS
sociation.
He lives in Helena with his wife
and three children.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
HELENA LABOR
PLANS MONTHLY
MASS MEETINGS

At the regular meeting of the Hell
ena Trades and Labor assembly held
Feb. 16, and attended by large group
of delegates, the body complied with
a communication received from the
Kalispell central body, condemning
lower than prevailing wages on work
in the Glacier national park, and also
with communication from the Mis-
soula body in recommending Prof. At
kinson of the Montana university fac
ulty for postmaster in that city.
A discussion of vocational work in
the schools and the proposed $4,000
bond issue for increasing the local
facilities was had in which it was
brought out that vocational students
on the part-time work, were in some
cases being used contrary to the in
tended purposes and regulations. The
assembly roundly condemned the use
of such work to displace employees
with family obligations, the use of
such help in cleaning up, package
carrying and other minor jobs, exclu-
sive of any educational or business
training opportunity and their hiring
at rates of pay below standards set
in union agreements for such work.
1t was brought out that some of
the violations and misuses of such
students might be curtailed If a com
mittee of labor, business and educa-
tional groups was formed to regulate
and sponsor this work. A committee
was delegated to contact the school
officials on this. Labor desires to
see an enlargement of the educational
training opportunities for both the
young and old if properly conducted.
A mass picket was arranged for and
conducted on the following morning
and afternoon at the Helena Hard
ware company in which more than
sixty people with banners mass picket
ed the business, which is non-union.
Much enthusiasm was displayed and
were made for such
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
LANSING LETTERS
DISCLOSE HOW j.
S. Entered WAR
BY HENRY ION
Federated Press)

| One phase of the story of America s
involvement in the world war-the last
one-was told in graphic detail here
by the State department in its publ
cation of the letters and papers of
Robert Lansing, wartime secretary of
state following William Jennings
Bryan
1t is not new story The essence
| of it, the way in which American in
dustry and finance became materially
and financially involved in the out
come of the war, has already been
sketched by the senate munitions COM
mittee.
The part of the story that is new
consists of the actual documents writ
ten by Lansing, President Wilson and
other officials of governments and
banks. Set forth in unmistakabl BILE
terms is the process by which Amer
lea moved towards war.
Briefly, the story told by the fas-
cinating documents is this: On August
Is, 1914, almost Immediately after the
outbreak of war in Europe, Secretary
of State Bryan issued a public state
ment to the effect that "war loans"
would be considered contrary to the
true spirit of neutrality"
In October, Robert Lansing, then
State department counsellor, gave his
impressions" to certain New York
bankers" in reference to credit loans.
Bankers insisted that the loans were
necessary if the United States was to
keep the war trade. Belligerent ma
lions insisted that the loans were nee
essary to- maintain their purchases.
The bankers and belligerents won and
the course of the country was set.
When the senate munitions commit
tee told that story there was great
indignation in the senate and the
newspapers. Sen. Carter Glass d.,
Va.) spoke in the senate with such
passion that he cut cash in his hand,
pounding on his desk. The family of
Lansing insisted that condolences had
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
MIGRATORY WORKER
GETS s MOS. FOR BRING,
ing FAMILY TO CALF.

MARYSVILLE, Calif.-FP)-Fr Fred
E. Edwards, a migratory agricultural
worker, has been sentenced to six
months in the Yuba county Jail for
the crime of helping his sister and
her family to come to California from
Oklahoma.
The conviction was under a forgot
ten state ordinance which says that
it is against the welfare of Califor-
MIA to transport an INDECENT into the
state"
A few previous attempts to invoke
this law in the San Joaquin valley
have resulted in suspended sentences
contingent on deportation of the de-
PENDANT from the state. Edwards was
defended by the northern California
branch of the American Civil Liberties
Union, which will appeal the case in
a test of the constitutionality of the
law.
No effort has been made to apply
the law against large growers who,
through handbills and advertisements,
have lured many thousands of dust
bowl residents to the state.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

Thank goodness Tatonka Dewey il
gone now so the governor and I hav,
one less worry, and maybe now W,
can get down to business and com
plete the organization of the AABF
For the benefit of the thousand new
readers, this stands for the Amalga
mated Associated of Bar Flies, ant
we expect the governor to become its
first president
l was just going into the Capito
today when | saw patrol car coming
and | ducked But when | peepeC
around the corner, l found that this
patrolman was just bringing the gov
ernor out to work. They tell me that
the governor saves quite few tax
fares that way, and of course | sup
pose that this saving goes back to the
taxpayers too.
don't see how this highway patrol
can find time to do everything il
does besides watching the highways
Here the chief Boedecker can hold
schools for the patrol to teach them
how to salute properly show them
how to park in front of saloon with
the back wheels up on the sidewalk
SO they can move out quick after
DRINKS; guard cracked-up planes for
the civil aeronautics authority and
furnish taxi service to the governor,
lead Tatonka Dewey parades from
Butte and lot of other things. Boy,
how that outfit can stretch the days
out.
A friend of mine happened to be
up late one night or real early one
morning, rather, mo, this wasn't one
of the members of the AABF) and
saw a couple of these patrol cars pull
up to the curb in front of the house.
Good thing it wasn't me or this story
just couldn't have been told, because
about then I'd have had business
somewhere else, late or early as it
was. Well anyhow, these patrolmen
went in next door to my friends place
where the boss of the Broadwater lives
and my friend guessed that they were
just guarding this proprietor home as
he probably had the take of the night
in his pockets. These patrolmen were
there couple of hours. l guess they
were rendering another public service
by helping this fellow count the cash.
There you see how hard they work.
Ordinarily, you might think that If
this dance hall boss needed a guard
he could have gotten someone from
the sheriff's office or from the police
here in Helena to sort of look after
him. But these patrol guys are al
ways on the job; particularly on i'm
portant jobs like this. Chances are
this fellow had lot of dough from
the gambling games and so on, so he
needed real protection.
Now when we get the AABF organ
izatfon going good and the governor
has taken office, it will be kind of
handy because after our meetings we
can maybe get the patrol to taxi US
all home; all except me. / just don't
banker after riding in patrol car, be-
cause | remember the vehicles they
used to call patrol wagons" They
can keep my share of those rides. But
with the governors influence and the
publicity the patrol can get through
judicious use of this column, it will
make it easy to get this taxi service
from them I'm sure, for the other
members. / don't doubt that maybe
we can get Boedecker to become vice
president. Look at the set-up Wen
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
CO.. OPERATIVE PUB.
ASSOC. OPENS SIS, 600
PRINTING PLANT

SUPERIOR.-FP consumer
co-operatives in the Lake Superior
area took their fifth step into coop
erative production when the Co-opera-
tive Publishing Assn, publishers of
The Cooperative Builder and The Fin
nish Cooperative Weekly, formally
opened it's new $4,000 printing plant
on February II.
Earlier steps in the field of pro-
duction," The Cooperative Builder
points out editorially in special 20
page issue, were the establishment
of cooperative bakery, coffee roast
cry, and two feed mills. The control
of these production plants by the peo-
pie who consume their products ex-
emplifies cooperative democracy"
The new plant has Duplex Model
q, high speed, flatbed, web perfecting
press. The plant will employ six full
time and two part-time employees, all
union members.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
'Fizzling Of Detroit
Red Raid Brings
Aftermath

(FP)-Dismissa of fed
eral indictments against 16 Detroiters
and others, accused of recruiting sol
diers for the late Spanish loyalist
army, leaves Justice Frank Murphy
of the U. S. supreme court with a
furnished halo as liberal statesman.
The indictments were dismissed in
Detroit federal court on orders from
Murphy's successor as U. S. attorney
general, Robert H. Jackson. Jackson
in Washington said February Is that
the red raid proceedings had been
ordered by Attorney General Muir
ply"
Newspapers here have published
dispatches stating that Murphy used
tremendous machinery of the depart
ment of justice against obscure citi
zens in order to wipe out red stig-
ma that conservatives had placed on
him. The papers say that the indict-
ments were ordered by Murphy though
Jackson now declares:
81 can see no good to come from
reviving in America at this late date
the animosities of the Spanish con-
flict"
Murphy, it is further stated, was
under strong pressure from the Roman
Catholic church, of which he is com
municant, and which was largely
aligned with Gen. Frances side in the
Spanish civil war.
The Civil Rights Federation, which
pushed the agitation that led to the
release of the defendants, held a
victory rally February % with former
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
A PROBLEM The
PRICE SYSTEM
CAN'T SOLVE

More frequent, now, are admissions
by our so-called leaders that wide
spread unemployment is here to stay,
and increase. But during the past
decade, businessmen have claimed that
! If confidence and prosperity were re-
stored, industry would soon absorb
the bulk of the unemployed. This
wishful thinking was given a con-
elusive test when, in October, World
War II doomed U. S. industrial pro-
duction to level that was SO above
1925 average. Yet, when our poll
ticians and businessmen got through
rubbing their eyes, there was the same
old pool Of unemployed still with us.
AS Technocracy had predicted, only a
small fraction of the idle humans was
absorbed by industry.
The unacceptable conclusion is that
the unemployed population, like Annie,
just isn't going to work here any
more The unemployed are no longer
needed as producers. But, without the
tremendous government expenditures
for relief, they could not even con-
tinue to function as consumers of in
dustry's goods, and the economic clock
would abruptly stop. Relief, there
fore, is much less humanitarian ges-
ture than a business necessity. In
|dividually we have become unimport-
ant as producters, but indispensable
as consumers.
Our mature Price System has no
means by which to check the growth
of its supply of idle humans. Re-em-
ployment by private industry or agri-
culture is out of the question. This
fact is substantiated by the U. S. gov
ernment's $13,O00,0O0 survey by the
National Resources Committee. The
committees survey, reported in it's
chronological Trends and National
Policy" (1937), proves that "every de-
cline in production results in a more
than proportional decline in employ
ment, and every increase in produc-
tionresults in less than proportional
increase in employment" The report
goes on to state that 1--WE must con-
trive to increase the volume of pro-
duction at rate which is faster than
the rate Of increase of our labor sup
ply, or else we face the problem of
an ever-increasing volume of unem-
ployment." But alas, even this only
hope is only hope!
How many idle humans has Amer
lea the worlds wealthiest nation?
Ten million? It's about that Some
say more, some say less; only esti-
mates are available. But ten million
unemployed are a large part of the
population-one person in every 13.
CARL SEABACKER.