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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
Defense Spending
No Boon to Jobless
(By Federated Press)

NGTON.-Prospects for In
creased employment as a result of the
defense program are not very bright,
sioner, told the U. S. conference Of
mayors in New York in a speech pre-
pared here.
On the basis of past experience,
Hunter told the mayors, the expendi-
ture in one year of five billion dollars
for defense should result In an In
crease in employment of approximate
ly two and a half to three million
workers.
1t may not be even this much If the
hours of work are increased and If
chronological advances continue to cut
down the number of men required.
At present, Hunter told the mayors,
unemployment numbers between g.
100000 and 100000. In addition
there are 100000 new workers seeking
jobs each year as the population in
creases.
In addition to the increased employ
ment, about 100000 men will be draft
ed each year. This will partly offset
the additional 100000 new job seekers.
"Our experience during the last sew
en- and a half years." Hunter said,
should make us extremely cautious
in attempting to plan reductions In
the programs of work for the unem-
ployed until the expected jobs in pri-
vate industry actually materialize.
"The unemployed must not shoulder
all of the risks in the defense pro-
gram"
''There is no question:" he went on,
"of the loyalty of the unemployed to
the nation in time of peace or in time
Of emergency We cannot discriminate
against American workers because of
The accident of their employment or
status.
1--WE must resist bold attempts that
nave been made and will be made to
make the unemployed bear the major
'isks of the defense program by being
lenied the opportunity to work on our
own useful public projects and to
'etain their own decent American
lights"
He urged the mayors to help in
our own economic and
social structure. I'VE must continue
he struggle against poverty and mis-
,ry," he said. Eve must have democ-
acy in which the humblest person has
stake We must have nation which
very citizen will be proud to defend"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
FOOD STAMP
PLAN STARTED
in DANIELS COUNTY

Daniels county may have the federal
food stamp plan established in the
near future following sanction given
the proposal by the board of county
commissioners in a session held at
the court house Wednesday. Discussed
previously by the commissioners, local
business men and the Lions club, Off
cial action was taken yesterday when
Edwin G. Garwood, state representa-
tive of the surplus marketing admin
istration met with the board on re-
quest
Through the favorable action of the
board, Daniels county is now placed
on the federal list as one of the coun-
ties requesting the plan. The board
of necessity empowered the county
treasurer to provide, upon installation
of the project, the necessary revolving
fund to carry on the plan. The pro-
gram does not cost the county cent
but it is necessary to provide the
finances to start the work.
Daniels County Leader.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
STUDENT FINDS
cORRESP0n DENCE
COURSE GOOD
BY GORDON FARRELL

Last summer l studied my senior
year of high school under the State
Correspondence school. My school
house was my home; my teachers
checked my lessons hundreds of miles
away, and my disciplinarian was my
self My hours of study were left up
to me-and whether | wanted to study
or not. I found that the work was
hard, that it required hours of study
Ito finish one lesson, but when it was
completed I felt that I had really
Learned something. l learned how to
study during the summer. In school
i had worked from bell to bell; this
summer I worked every minute of the
time I could spare from chores and
farm work. made learning my bust
ness, and l worked harder at the
business of studies than l ever had
before. l am sure that l learned as
much or more about the subjects
studied than the average high school
student.
All over Montana, students like my
self are studying under the Montana
State Correspondence school, They
are in CCC camps, in trailers and
construction gangs, on farms that de-
mand their labor during the day, in
rural high schools where the subjects
are limited, and in outlying places far
from any school. They are learning,
as / did, the value of hard, intensive
study, and the value of acquiring an
They appreciate as do, the
existence of this function of the state
Of Montana.
The correspondence school is filling
a vital need in our educational system.
1t reaches out into the backwoods, to
those who have no other way of learn
ing, and it offers a helping hand to
hose in regular schools who need a
wider curriculum. Where the public
schools leave off, it begins. 1t serves
The overprivileged who need to adj
vance, and the underprivileged who
need special care and supervision. 1t
oroadens and supplements the exist
ing school system; it is an important
ink in the educating of Montana
youth.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

contracts.
The Newport News concern did g
little better on peace-time building. II
raked in 1863 per cent profit on one
cruiser and 1874 per cent on another
The New York Shipbuilding com
pany was able to make 254 per cent
and 21.S per cent, respectively, on two
cruisers built for Uncle Sam.
The interesting thing about these
profits is that the Vinson-Trammel act
specifically limits naval profits to Ill
per cent, but as the senate committee
discovered, the corporations pay no
more attention to that federal law than
they do to the labor statutes.
The naval department is supposed
to supervise the contracts but it is
not equipped to police the corpora
tions. The navy, the senate committee
said, knows little about COSTS"
One example concerned the New
York Shipbuilding company which told
naval gold braids that profits on the
cruiser U. S. S. Chester were only
$9S3,000 but had to admit to the SEN
ate investigating committee that they
were actually s2,946,0O0.
1t was revelations such as these
which led John L. Lewis to declare
with heat that "a defense program adj
ministered by profit-mad millionaires
will be a failure"
The action of the government In
again rewarding lawbreakers has In
tensified the campaign of all branches
Of labor to demand an end to the prac-
ice of using defense spending to un-
lermine the peoples legal safeguards.
Washington New Dealer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
Washington Scene
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page One)
compromises made The bill is still in
the rules committee.
What the USHA is now trying to
get out of the $8OO,OOO,OOO approved
by the senate is measly 100000 to
use for subsidies. If it can get that
$5,000000 it can use another $780,
100000 that it has for additional prof.
ects.
It's chances of getting even that
100000 are not good.
One of the monkey wrenches in the
machinery is the talk that is going
round about defense housing. The
federal works agency's public build
ings administration has allotted $780,
100000 for defense housing.
A lot of people think that this $780,
100000 is to be spent by the USHA for
the USHA slum clearance program
and opponents of the USHA program
are taking advantage OF the confusion
to say that the USHA shouldn't be
yelping because 1t has $150,000,000 Of
the defense money.
The fact is that the 100000 for
defense housing will be used to erect
housing in few places for workers in
navy yards and similar establishments.
AS far as the one-third ill-housed are
concerned the program for defense
housing means nothing.
Not many days ago sad conference
was held in the office Of USHA Ad-
Nathan Straus attended
by representatives of the AFL's build
ing trades unions and the CLOS con-
struction workers.
Straus wanted to know what could
be done to save the USHA's program
Of providing housing for those people
living in places where there are no
toilet facilities, where there is no hot
water, where the roof leaks, where the
bathtub is used by several families,
where there is no heating system.
The opinion Of the conference, after
the matter had been threshed out, was
that the only person who could do
anything about 1t was the president.
He would have to ask congress for
he money and spike the statements
If the democratic leaders in the house
hat the housing appropriation bill
doesn't have to pass.
It was a very nice housing program
while it lasted. The USHA has re-
housed a lot Of people.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

Editor Of The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana.
Under the heading OF Senator Muir
ray Honored" in your editorial of Sept
18, where you commented on the DEM
ocratic convention in Great Falls and
on Lamey and Ayers and then left it
for the other fellow to figure it out
Well, that is very easy to do.
Lamey, Ayers and Wheeler all be-
long to the same machine and all are
owned by the same companies and
therefore they are compelled to en-
dorse each other. Wheeler has known
Ayers for scores of years and knew he
was not fit for the governorship of
any state, but it seems the people are
so badly hypnotized they can't refuse
to obey his orders, or dictations. And
any man he doesn't want in Washing
take orders from him, Burtie is going
to see to it that he doesn't get there
If it can be done and it usually is done
regardless of how it is done. Also re-
CARELESS of the kind of person he
(Burtie) recommends for the office.
Why should the people send man to
Washington who would score the third
term as he did and then he himself
run for two offices and indorse man
like Ayers to handle the affairs of the
state? Such a man certainly has not
got the interest of the people at heart.
And servant should stay at his post
instead of spending SO much of his
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

BethIehem's War Profits Hit
go Per Cent Said Senate Probers
The senate committee declared that
Bethlehem and other firms made very
considerable profits. On treasury aud
its they showed up to 80 per cent.
They secured cost-plus contracts and
added questionable charges to the
costs. They took their profits on these
ships after the wartime taxes had
been repealed. They secured changes
in contract dates to avoid war taxes.
They brought from the government,
very cheaply, yards which had been
built extensively at government costs.
In one case this was prearranged be-
fore the yard was built.
Knowingly exorbitant claims were
filed against the government for can
collation.. Huge bonuses were paid to
officers. Profits were concealed as
The senate committee added scath-
ingly that it finds no assurance in
the wartime history of these COM
panies to believe that they would sud
denly change their spots in the case
of another war"
When the senate committee referred
to huge bonuses" being paid to Off
GERS it was touching corporation sore
spot. Eugene Grace, Bethlehem presi-
dent, was forced to admit, under ques-
tioning by the senate committee, that
he had received $2,887,725 in bonuses
during 1918 in addition to his salary
and earnings on stock holdings.
But Bethlehem did not always make
as much as 80 per cent on U. S. naval
ships. The senate committee in 1885
revealed that it only got profit of
23.1 per cent on two cruisers built
after the war.
Corporation viii Make Millions on
Ships Even at Lowest Profit Level
Ii Bethlehem is held down" to this |
small" profit it will make only $780, |
D00,0 900 on its $743,000,0OO worth of |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

time running all over the country bal
Iyhooing like Wheeler does
When he was up for reelection six
years ago, he said he was with and
for the president. But he was no SOON
er elected than he began to buck the
president and has continued to do so.
II he is elected again he will continue
to block progress in congress. He Is
constantly telling the people what he
has given them. Well he hasn't given
them anything. A man can't give
something he doesn't own.
If he presents bill in congress for
any project in the state after 1t has
been submitted to him, that Is what
he is drawing his $4,000 for, to repre-
sent the state Of Montana.
Let us change our governor and
senator when and while we have the
chance. / am sure it will be best for
all concerned. The republicans can't
buck any harder than Wheeler. Harri-
son Basso named him Burton the
Bronc, and it certainly fits him.
Please print this letter, and thanks.
l. E. DUNCAN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
PAINT INDUSTRY
PROFITS ARE UP

WASHINGTON (FP) = Nine cor
porations engaged in the manufacture
of paints and varnishes boosted profits
n million dollars in 1889, according
to the securities and exchange COM
mission.
A combined operating profit OF 5 "
millions was made in 1889 compared
with one million in 1888, the SEC said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
IT'S A
GREAT SYSTEM!

By JOHN PAINE

Every political party loves labor so
much at election time that the union
label blossoms out on every piece OF
| literature
Only way we can explain the alb
sence of the label from envelopes used
in New York by the republican state
committee is that the stationery must
have been printed between campaigns.
FULLER EXPLANATION NEEDED
Writing in Hearsts Detroit Times, a
Pontiac business man says he will vote
for Willkie because 1--WE need a man
who is allergfc to the truth"
Meaning someone who is badly up
set by hearing the facts?
Roosevelt's speech to the Transfers
convention is summed up by David
Dachs as follows:
Don't change trucks in the middle
Of an intersection"
GOLD BOOM
Another war industry is booming:
jewelers. report $50 per cent in
crease in the sale of wedding rings.
Senator LaFollette warns that we
are travelling down the same road as
in 1917"
War is always the outcome when
Wall Street is directing traffic.
DOUBLE-STRENGTH
The speed with which the Burke
Wadsworth CONSUMPTION bill was
rushed through congress brought this
comment from a spectator:
tits the first time l ever saw
machine that combined the principles
of steamroller and dive-bomber."
The housing situation is so bad in
some cities that the man in the street
has been joined by his wife, kids and
furniture.
JUST AN ACCIDENT
WILKES nomination, remarked
customer of Consumers Power COM
pany, was just as spontaneous as an
increase in electric rates.
Question for surviving members of
the brain trust:
What has happened to the third of
a nation that is ill-fed, ill-housed and
ill-clothed?
GOODBYE
If employers are asked to tell draft
boards which workers are unessential, |
shop stewards and other active union
sts might as well get the address Of
General Pershing's tailor now.
Gantner & Mattern bathing suits, i
made by a company that locked out |
is workers nine months ago, are I'M
air, local % of the ILGWU has de- /
,lared.
Make note of that for reference
when you find moth holes in your old
'uit next summer.
FLYING FIFTH COLUMN {
If you have noticed alien registra I
ion agents walking around in the {
ields with butterfly nets, don't be S
Harmed. {
Those Japanese beetles have got to {
e foot-printed. l.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
ELECTION ACTION
DISMISSED BY COURT

missed an action brought by p r.
McHale of Cut Bank seeking to re-
strain Governor Roy E. Ayers from
certifying Selden S. Frisbee of Cut
Bank as judicial candidate for the
Glacier county district. The suit was
brought by McHale after Frisbee was
given written" votes at the July pri-
mary election.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
SOIL BOARD WILL MEET

John T. Kelly, state commissioner
of agriculture, left Helena last week
for Culbertson, Froid and Baineville
to attend soil conservation board hear
ings. Kelly, a member of the board,
said that the three communities had
asked that soil conservation districts
be established.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

MINNEAPOLIS. - (FP) - Working
on the theory that "the more we get
together the better off we'll be-" edu-
cational staffs of Midland and Central
Cooperative Wholesale, Superior, Wis,
held joint conference at Ruby Lake
camp, Nashwauk, MINI.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
OPINIONS OF READERS


degree at eas,o cively.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-01-23
State To Get
6.423 Acres
Of Burley

College Station, Raleigh. Jan. %.
A Burnley tobacco allotment Tor
iorth Carolina OF 6.523 acres was
announced here today by Z. y.
lloyd. AAA executive officer Of
State college. 1t is designed 10 pro-
:uce 6.047.0 pounds Of tobacco At
II average OF 927 pounds per acre,
e >aia.
The State allotment is a part Of
ne National allotment of &39,466
ceres. which vii! be increased by
bout $4,000 acres to take care Of
Increases FOR small farms as pro-
':ded for in the Farm act. making
total oil about 365, 600 acres.
Floyd said that this is ABOUT 4 10
!ercent reduction from 1889 allot-
nents. which totaled 100000 acres,
including the increases for small
arms.
The 1910 State i.,-..:..:::; repre-
:ent a breakdown of the national
marketing quota Of POP million
pounds of Burley tobacco for the
i940-4l marketing year, which Sec
'etary Of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace proclaimed on October %,
md which producers approved by
1873 percent majority in the reGeren-
ium on November 81.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-01-23
Janitor Gives Up
Suicide Attempt
After Three Shots

New York, Jan. 23-(AP)- Saliva
tore Morroine, so, a janitor, went
MO the cellar of his apartment build
Tg yesterday, tired OF living and
determined to end it all.
He placed 80 calber revolver to
is temple. closed his eyes and pull
&c the trigger. He heard the report
# the shot but he did not die. He did
not even fall.
He put the gun to his head and fir
ed a second time. The result was no
more effective than the first.
He fired I'd time and threw
re gun away 1 disgust
Then he walked upstairs and cX-
claimed to his wife and two children
hat he had found q gun and that
t had accidentally discharged as he
was examining it. That, he said, was
."hy he was bleeding.
Doctors at Bellevue were amazed
NhCn he walked in and told them
&c real Story--hoW three shots fail
q 10 kill him. They didn't believe
inc story until Arrays showed the
presence Of two bullets and the pos
fiEiity Of Il third
Still the doctors cid not feel Nor
ones condition was serious He was
placed IN the prison ward on charge
Il illegally possessing d firearm.
Four hours after the shooting now
:Vcr, MCrrioEc complained OF a pain
Il The head.
The doctors placed him on the SER
Gus LIST.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-01-23
WHEELER TO SPEAK
AT CHAPEL HILL

Chapel Hill, Jan, 22.-(AP)-Sen-
1tcr Burton Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana, will speak at the Univer-
;ity Of North Carolina under the
auspices of the Carolina Political
,Irion, non-Dartisan student organi-
alton, April %. it was announced
lcre today by Harry Cation, chair
nan.
Cation has just returned from
Washington. where he interviewed
Senator Wheeler. He was accom-
panied by Norman Stockton, of Win
eton-S Salem. and Bill Joslin, Of Ra-
leigh. members of the organization.
While in Washington Cation also
called on Secretary of State Hull,
who was also invited to speak here.
Secretary Hull said he belived he
would be able to come during the
spring quarter but that he would let
the c. P. U. know the exact date
later in the month.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-01-23

Romany hid her sudden alarm,
saying evenly:
And suppose it is. Don't let him
come up. Make him tell you who it
is through the speaking tube"
Romany breathed sigh of re-
lief when Cholly called that it was
Brent. That young mans eyes lit
with admiration as the sparkling
little red-head opened the door.
You must be Cholly." He shook
hands, smiling broadly. "Old Doves
going 10 feel like kissing me when
he sees what I've brought him to
play with"
And who, may I ask, is Old
Dove?" Cholly motioned the an
nouncer to chair.
Dover Hayworth the Third"
Brent informed her little proudly.
when called him to ask if it was
all right to bring along another
girl 1 found he'd forgotten to invite
someone for himself. He was most
grateful to me-"
1T looks" Cholly grinned, "as
though we're stepping out in high
society tonight. He's the Little Boy
Blue of the corn syrup clan, isn't
he?"
THE syrup kid himself. And a
swell guy! Just as natural and
friendly as if he were one of his
fathers employees"
That sounds NICE" Cholly sighed
with relief. Now I can breathe
more freely. I don't fit in with the
blue bloods so well myself. They
take one look at my mug and know
I'm Shanty Irish"
Brent laughed heartily.
I'm still looking for hayseeds
when 1 comb my hair. When I re-
member that less than five years
ago was walking around Chicago
in my only pair of shoes wondering
if I was ever going to eat again!
I'm telling you, ran to an insur-
ance company and took out an an
nuity five minutes after 7 signed
my first radio contract"
Cholly liked Brent Nelson in
stantly. Perhaps it wa: because
what he confided so ingcniously
placed him in such direct contrast
with her irresponsible Terry.
Romany stood framed in the
doorway in Aunt Cissie's white jer-
sey sports dress, trimmed with gold.
She smiled sWeetlH
Il see you two are telling your
life stories"
Brent jumped up, standing back,
for better look at her.
$50 help me-" he whistled, 1.-THE
girl is magic! Every time I see her
I tell myself she can't be as beau
tiful as I thought she was. And
then, when see her again"
isn't he marvellous" Romany
said to Cholly. whats he been
dishing up to you?"
"Hayseeds and annuities," Choliy
offered systematically.
Brent was driving an open rccd-
ster and it was early twilight when
they speeded down South Shore
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-01-23
Auto Wrecks
Injure Six

Sanford, Jan. 23.-Two automobile
accidents Sunday night on agnaar
"a within a few minute, "a. caca
other sent six persons T. The Lee
county hospital. Three Of them lie
still under treatment.
The hospital patients @Ic lis
Leila Holder. %, of JonoSDogp with
her left arm broken and CT aoou
the face; Louis SplVey. -. q. igne,-
boro, with right arm broken aog.c
and below the elbow and Cuts aoo..
the head, and Watson Mc!nt.re g.:
negro of Olivia, with cuts and bruises
and severe wounds about the head
According 10 Highway Pawo.@aa
J. c. Haithcock, Of Sanford. who IT,
vestigated the accidents. the ...>, yc-
Cured about 9 p. r.. re: Sam
Station, when an automobile e.
route south driven by HaSiy Thomas
81, OF Jonesboro. in which Mis- Hold
er and Spivey were riding 80. H.
VOWED IN wreck WIN az aI'o,"oN.e
en- route north, driven by oE.|e>'e.
Slater, 80 negro OF Durham
!homas received Oily !l..'.o. -
lurles ana was released from me nos
pllai aller receiving IFeati.el''' .Ho'e
OF the i've occupants OF N.' o."e'
car was injured. NO cAa'SI> nave
been preferred as yet.
The second accident occuiTec III d
ROAD intersection N C!iNla ABOUT 'Eo