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Evening star., 1940-12-10
Christmas
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number of children who will have
real toys for Christmas depends on
the number of youngsters. and their
parents. too, who attend the TOY
matinees."
For those who cannot attend the
"toy matinees' or who wish to send
their Christmas gifts earlier this
week, all Warner Bros. theaters are
serving as collection centers for toys
and clothes.
Those who wish to make their
gifts in cash may bring their con-
tributionS to The Stars Christmas
House at Eleventh street and Penn
sylvania Avenue NV. or mail them
to Christmas House in care Of The
Star.
Mothers Themselves Know Needs.
These cash gifts will enable the
mothers of the needy to buy the
things that make Christmas. These
mothers know best what the needs
of their families are, whether the
money could best be used for food,
for clothes, for medicine or fuel.
Whatever 1t takes to make a family
happy at Christmas time, your
dollars will make possible.
Civic organizations, fraternities,
business groups and others who wish
to make q contribution for their
entire membership will be inter-
viewed during the frequent daily
broadcasts from Christmas House.
Among those who brought gifts to
Christmas House yesterday were
former Corporation Counsel Elwood
Seal; Bill Jennings and Carl Ceder-
strand, 1910 and 1889 Washington
Soap Box Derby champions, respec-
lively; Charles Effinger Smoot,
Harold Fangboner and Richard K.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
New Contract PIeoses
Wrjoht Co. and Union

PATERSON. N. j., Dec. 10 RI.-
Company and union spokesmen
hailed today as "the most compre-
hensive agreement ever negotiated
in aviation history" a labor con-
tract whereby "all strikes, sit-downs,
slow downs, stay-ins, or curtailment,
or interference with production are
outlawed" at the Wright Aeronau-
tical Corp. plant.
Myron B. Gordon, vice president
and general manager OF the huge
airplane engine manufacturing
plant. and William H. Showers, pres
Ident of the Wright Aeronautlcal
Employees Association, an lnde-
pendent union claiming representa-
tion of a majority of the 10000
plant workers, announced the sign
ing of the agreement last night in a
joint statement.
Under its terms, wage increases
will boost the annual pay roll from
s22. 900 900 to S23 ,0OO.500. The pact is
effective December Is for an unan-
nounced period.
Base Wages Up I Per cent.
Provisions include a basic per
cent wage increase, with a con-
tinuation of the 10 per cent premium
for workers on night shifts; seniority
clauses, vacations with pay, time
and one-half for overtime, and
double time for Sundays and holi-
days.
Holder of large Government de-
fense contracts, the Wright corpo-
ration has expanded local operations
to include five factories in nearby
East Paterson and Fair Lawn, and
three in Paterson. Before the de-
tense program started, the company
had only one plant here, employing
about 5000 persons.
The Gordon-Showers statement
referred to the contract as IAN eX-
ample of what can be accomplished
by peaceful negotiations"
In addition to outlawing interfer-
ence with the defense program, the
contract provides that all major
grievances must be submitted to i'm
partial arbitration" In this con-
nection, the statement said clause
provides that the side seeking arbl-
tration can petition a member OF the
Court of Errors and Appeals, New
JERSEYS highest tribunal, to select
an arbiter.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Issue
OF taxable Notes
For Defense Offered
Only Fair to Draft
Money os Well us Men,
Moreenthou Declares
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Government invited investors
today to enlist in the national pre-
paredness drive by subscribing to
fully taxable $500 000, 900 issue of de-
fense notes.-the first wholly taxable
Federal issue in United States his
tory.
People who have the money
should be delighted to pay taxes
when the money goes for national
defense" Secretary Of the Treasury
Morgenthau said.
He characterized tax exempt
bonds as Stacker money" at press
conference yesterday and said it was
unfair for a man who owns 81 ,000,-
600 in tax-free obligations OF spend
his winter in Palm Beach and make
no contribution to pay for national
defense, while We ask our boys to
work to IL hours a day in Army
camps for $50 a month. 80
I'VE feel that we should draft all
money-that is, that all money
should pay taxes toward the defense
program"
Starter in Tax Program.
Emphasizing that he spoke for
President Roosevelt, Mr.. Morgen-
thau said the s5OO,0O0, 900 worth Of
notes to be offered tomorrow was
only a starter in the program of
making Government securities sub
ject to full taxation.
Congress, he said, would be asked
for authority to lift the tax exemp-
tiOn clause from all future Federal
bond issues, including United States
savings bonds and Government
guaranteed obligations.
Further, the Treasury will seek
congressional permission to launch
a Nationwide campaign to sell
baby bonds" in denominations as
small as $5-possibly to sell bond
stamps at Is cents each, as was done
in World War days.
And the dignified cabinet mem
ber nodded approval to a suggestion
that the bond-selling drive revive
the 1917 custom of encouraging
pretty girls to give away kisses to
the bond buyers.
Based on 23-year-old Law.
While full details of tOmorroW's
$500 600 900 issue were not yet re-
vealed, the tax exemption was to be
lifted on the flve-year obligations
under 23-year old law applying
only to notes" The States as we'll
as the Federal Government will be
allowed to levy taxes on the interest
Mr.. Morgenthau said his proposal
to lift the restriction on all Gov
eminent obligations already had re-
ceived IAN encouraging reception
among Democratic members of Con-
gress.
He estimated that 250O.OOO per-
sons now hold United States savings
bonds and he said he would like
to double or triple that number.
1--WE have to raise an awful lot
Of money he said, land I want
as many people as possible to take
part in raising it.
Tax Interpretation Asked.
Meanwhile, request for immedi-
ate "clarification and improvement
of the excess-profitS tax law came
yesterday from the Federal Finance
Committee of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce.
Describing the law as "unques-
tionably the most complicated, tech
nical and involved tax statute ever
enacted by Congress" the commit
tee said lit prescribes computations
which are impossible"
In many Of its provisions, 1t
added, ordinary standards of rea-
son, justice, equity and common
sense have been disregarded.'
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Choice Of Parkman Scored
In Letter 10 Roosevelt
NJ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 10.-Chairman
William H. Burke of the Massachu-
setts Democratic State Committee
denounced yesterday in a letter to
President Roosevelt the appointment
of Henry Parkman, jr., unsuccessful
Republican candidate for Senator,
TO a legal post in the War Depart
ment.
Asserting that Mr.. Parkman was
zone of the most virulent critics OF
yourself. Senator David 1. Walsh,
Democrat, of Massachusetts, and the
Democratic administration during
the campaign" Chairman Burke
wrote
a.. - Yet, apparently as reward
for his vicious opposition to our
party and the administration, ne
receives the first Federal appoint
ment from this commonwealth.
THE implications of this appoint
ment to a high position OF respon-
sibility and influence are too strong
to be ignored by the Democratic
party in the State which success
fully carried our fight to the people" "
Mr.. Parkman was named by As
nstant Secretary of War Robert P.
Patterson to his legal staff to COM
plete expansion agreements between
the Government and industries as
ISOLATED with national defense.
Evening star., 1940-12-10

Christmas Day belongs mostly to G.
that The washington Star again is
helping make Christmas happy day
for the children Of some of the city's
needy families.
The people OF Washington are for
tunate in having this chance to help
brighten Christmas for youngsters who
otherwise would 60 without gifts Of food,
clothing or toys. I am sure that the
campaign this year will receive the gen.
erous support it deserves.
CLAUDE R. WICKARD,
Secretary of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
YuIe Donors
Contributions Provide
Cheer for Children

Just how many needy families can
be taken care of on Christmas Day
depends on the number Of names
to appear in this column.
Here are the dollars that will
enable the mothers of needy chill
dren to buy the things that make a
Christmas And here are the people
who today put those mothers and
children on their own Christmas
lists by contributing to The Star
Christmas funds.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Here Are Two More Families
Who Need Help at Christmas

Here reports two Of the thousands Of families
Washington who can't afford Christmas either for themselves
their children. Put them Christmas list by mailing
Christmas House. of The Star by taking
theater time this week by attending
of II manees at 1890 Saturday 1t
depends many families circumstances like these
given food clothing and at the time these gifts the
moshe Yuetde Details OF the cases printed that you
kind Of homes into which your gifts will
BRIGHTEN Christmas
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Drastic Law 10 Make
Defense 5toppages
Treason Is Studied
House Leader Expresses
Hope Extreme Measure
Won't Be Necessary
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
House members seeking ways of
preventing strikes in defense indus
tries said today that Congress, as a
last resort, might be asked to make
any stoppage of preparedness pro-
duction punishable as treason.
Representative Hobbs, Democrat,
of Alabama, chairman of a House
judiciary Subcommittee empowered
to study the entire situation, said
such a drastic step might be found
necessary.
He expressed the hope that some
less severe deterrent would suffice
and that labor and industry, by CO.
operating, would keep legislation
from the treason extreme.
Wright-Lab0r Pact Cited.
IN this connection, the interest of
those studying the strike problem
was attracted by an overnight de-
velopment in Paterson, N. j., where
a labor contract barring any inter-
ference with defense orders was
signed by the Wright Aeronautical
Corp, and an independent union
claiming to represent most of the
$4,000 employees in the five Wright
plants in this area.
This contract outlawed all strikes,
sit-downs, sloW-downs. Stay-ins, cur
tailment or interference with pro-
duction. Any major grievances
would be adjusted by impartial arbi-
tration.
Representative Hobbs indicated
that any drastic measures proposed
to combat defense stoppoges would
apply equally to industry and labor.
ITO declare cessation of work by
either company or labor as an act of
treason would be perfectly legal and
tustifiable." he declared. Il can't
see the difference between that and
ANYTHING that we have learned to
call treason"
Law Survey Under Way.
He said his subcommittee is sur
veying all defense legislation of re-
cent months. as well as World War
laws, but with view to recommend
ing some less stringent solution. The
survey would require some time, he
said
"If the necessity should arise.
however" he added. you can bet
that a majority will have some kind
of a bill ready for the House to act
upon"
Isador Lubin, Labor Department
statistician, yesterday told special
House committee studying migratory
labor that capital and labor should
be congratulated on the relatively
small number of strikes. He said
that there were fewer in the first
five months of the current defense
program than in the comparable
1916 period or in the first five
months following the United States
entry into the World War a year
later
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Guest SoIoists Named

Miss Marjorie Lehman, soprano,
and Daniel William Powell, jr., BARI
tone, will be guest soloists on the
Parade of Talent" program of the
Patent Office Society tomorrow at
8:15 pm. in the Department Of
Commerce Auditorium. Eldon BaS.
ney will be guest pianist.
Evening star., 1940-12-10

Tivoli-Errol Flynn and Miriam
Hopkins in Warner Bros Virginia
City"
Uptown-"Wizard Of o."
Evening star., 1940-12-10

F1orida's southern boundary is 600
miles farther south than that Of
California.
Evening star., 1940-12-10

Mrs. w. j. O'Connor, department
store gift certificates totaling IS.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
A Chance to Brighten Christmas
For Needy Youngsters -.

Christmas Day belongs mostly to children glad
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Let Us Examine Source
OF Support

Your attention is called to article in the Independent
Saturday, May 25th by the Civic League Citizens of
Helena asked to examine carefully the of
port for the proposal to revert to the Ademanic system
Why not be fair and ask them to examine also the
source of the opposition advocates of the manager form
of government.
Then those questions will be answered. if the proposal
is prompted by unselfish devotion to clean city
ment class interest individual gain Under the
mission form manager form there chance for
individual GAIN easier to work through unnecessary bond
issues, etc. than there under the aldermanc form
Alderman form of government is representative form
of government $50 is the government of the u 81 Each
ward in the city represented and citizens get better
service and at less cost.
We told it step forward and have tried the
Commission form, they want to experiment and
try the form of government and understand the
manager need not be a resident of Helena WE'LL the
power being advocated why not send out and
get dictator? Then | suppose will have modern
city government.
surprised to the article in the Saturday paper
several months wrote article regarding the
delay by the city council in taking action petition
fire hazard and criticized the form of government
The editor said he could not print the policy of the
paper to not print any articles regarding the different
forms of city Seems to have changed their
policy! Why?
The Civic League say they want to give the present
city administration chance. That is said only to get
you to vote against the Aldermanc form and gain votes
for their proposal-the Manager form.
B. r. STREET.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Aldermanic Form
OF Govt Simplifies
Correction ofErrors

The aldermanic form of government
is nearer to the people than either the
commission or manager form
If the people in the cities that have
aldermen are opposed to any ordi-
nance enacted by the city council they
can within thirty days after the pas
sage of the ordinance demand that
the same be submitted to a referen-
dunn of the voters by submitting a
petition to the council signed by five
percent of the voters. Likewise eight
percent of the voters can initiate an
ordinance and the city council must
submit it to a vote of the people at
the next election.
Under the commission form of gov
eminent if the people are opposed to
any ordinance enacted by the commits
sioners it requires petition for
referendum signed by twenty-five per-
cent of the voters and the people have
only ten days to act after the passage
of the ordinance by the commission
which makes the law imperative.
The aldermanic government is clos
er to the people.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
DICTATORSHIP OR DEMOCRACY?

Would the people of Helena care
to have dictator in the United States
as the German and Italian people
have? Of course they wouldn't con-
slider changing a Democratic form of
government for dictatorship. Their
intelligence would be insulted if any
one suggested that our legislative
form of government be substituted
for one-man dictatorship.
But that is just what the corporate
interests of Montana are trying to
push over on the people of Helena by
sponsoring a managerial form of gov
eminent It's going to be entirely
up to the people of Helena to decide
by their vote on Friday May 31st
whether or not they shall have a
democracy in Helena. Will they have
city government for and by the people
through their selected representatives
or will the city be controlled by an ap-
pointed lackey of the Montana Power
who will dictate the policy of the
peoples everyday life, for the finan-
cial interest of the corporate powers
in Montana? If the people of Helena
fail to vote in favor of the alder
manic form of government and place
in the hands of their chosen and cleo
ted representatives the responsible
ties of the city of Helena, then the
Montana Power and the corporate in
terests of Montana are going to take
over their city, their schools, the life
and education of their children and
the tax control of the taxable prop
erty. (And they will be sure they
don't tax their own property. But
the small home owner, the little bust
ness men and the consumers of Hell
ena will be saddled with a heavier
tax to make up the deficiency of taxes
that the corporations are planning on
taking from their holdings.
In the past few months the Peoples
Voice Publishing Company has
brought before the public some of
the rackets and racketeers in the |
city of Helena. The Ministerial AS |
ISOLATION has thoroughly exposed the |
slot machine racket and the gambling
fraternity Of the city. 1t has been
pointed out that the children of this |
lily are in constant danger of syphilis
md other private diseases because
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
COMMISSION FORM
CITY Government
MAY End april, 1871

1t appears that some advocates of
the city manager form of government
are circulating reports that the pres
ent city commissioners hold office I'M
til May 1912 irrespective of how the
people may vote next Friday Such
reports are not true as Section 1897
of the revised codes of Montana 1885
provides for the time of making the
change from the commission govern
ment to the aldermanic.
While the mayor and commissioners
are elected for two year term, how
ever, their tenure of office is subject
to the discrimination of the commits
sion system of government. Should
the voters next Friday decide that
Helena shall return to the aldermanic
government, an election will be held
on the first Monday of April 1871 to
elect mayor, police magistrate and
fourteen aldermen who will take Of
flee on the first Monday of May 1871.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29

CONVERSATION WITHOUT FIGURES
is AT TIMES. MISLEADING

/ withheld because of the rotten" con.
dition the city has gotten into.
In looking over the city's figures. |
find that the city treasurer has on
hand and in banks the sum of s29.-
699.71 l find also, that this amount
is exceeded by balances in four trust
funds, namely, Library fund SS,429.3S,
water fund s20,4756S, Beattie family
memorial fund s4,527O2 and the fire
mans disability fund, s4,279.S5. Total
|$3771193
These figures show that the city
has not only exhausted its own mon
les, but is now using, and has already
used $S,012.22 of the monies belonging
to these special or trust funds.
The above figures are the results
after payment of the city's running
expenses up to and including the
month of January, 1926, and the col
lections of the city's revenues up to
and including the month of February.
l trust that you will publish this
signed letter and hope that you will
publish more complete report of
the city's financial condition at an
early date.
(Signed) Frank L. Reece.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29

of the rotten, unsanitary conditions
of the sporting element Of this city,
Especially on Wood Street which can't
even boast of plumbing in the shacks
that are inhabited. Medicos inform us
that the largest percent of private
disease infection is contracted inno-
Gently through drinking glasses, etc.
Why do we have these conditions
when there are laws on the statute
books prohibiting them? There can
only be one cause-slackness in the
administration Of your city govern
ment. 1t may be because the sport
ing element is paying off the officials
of the city government, or it may be
that the city officials are afraid to
move on account of pressure being
put on them by the politicians of the
corporate interests. Rackets are a
profitable enterprise and are much
sought after by grating politicians
and many of the politicians are paid
off in that way. This means that the
politicians that have served the big
interests well are given an opportunity
to make big profits by corrupting the
people or using them in any manner
they see fit.
There isn't any argument on the
of the commission form of
government as it has been exposed
here in Helena. It is both inefficient
and illegal 1t has curried favor from
the sporting element by allowing
them to jeapordize the health and
lives of the people of Helena. Be
cause of the political fear of three
men the commission form of govern
ment has proven that it is not work
able. Three men in politics-and all
ambitious monetarily and politically. |
Two of them can swing the vote and |
turn the city in any direction, either |
to plumber and ruin or to decency and |
health. The managerial form of gov
is the same thing except we
have one man and he has all Of the
power of a dictator. The powers
.hat-be have only one man to buy and
lictate to, where under the commits
sion form they had three.
But under the aldermanic form of
government there would be fourteen
men, two to be elected from each ward
~ the people of that ward Each ward i
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
HhYTIN FAILS
TO TELL ALL in
his RADIO Speech

In his radio talk, last Sunday eve
ming, Mr. Haytin said that he had
a program, but he did not say that
his program could not be carried out
under the aldermanic form of gov
eminent.
The mayor admitted that three
weeks in the mayors office did not
allow time sufficient to prepare an
estimate that would indicate the fl
nancial condition of the city. For such
inability he could have blamed the
commission form of government, but
he didn't.
The mayor stated that his program
included the setting aside of some of
the water revenues, each year, for the
purpose of replacing water mains. He
did not say that this could not be
done under the aldermanic form. nor
did he admit that the commission
| form failed to do that very same thing.
After three weeks in the mayors
office, Haytin could have told his
radio listeners that the so-called COM
mission form of government is not
form of government at all. 1t is
ratification board. Mr.. Haytin should
have advised, composed of a mayor
and two councilmen, each having a
department, and, at intervals, so-called
council meeting was held by these
officials, for the purpose of ratifying
the official conduct of one another
This is the legislative pretense.
Mr.. Haytin could have told his radio
listeners that the so-called commits
sion form would be the more accurate
ly described, If referred to as a
secret form for the manipulation of
public affairs. And he could have
told the same listeners that the secret
report condemning the Roberts adj
ministration, under the commission
form, could have been made five years
ago, or ten years ago, or fifteen years
ago, or twenty years ago.
Had Mr.. Haytin been DESTROYS of
informing his listeners, substantially,
he would have referred to the details
of the report that was dated October
6, 1899, and secretly distributed among
the members of the Chamber of Com
merce and its subsidiaries, and with
the cooperation of the Montana Tax
payers Association.
NOTE: This report appears else
where in this supplement)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
LACK OF COORDINATION
COSTS HELENA money

Some years ago an epidemic of
typhoid fever swept the city caused
by the drinking of impure city water.
The state board of health notified the
city officials that the water was con-
taminated three months before the
fever appeared. DR.. Cogswell at in
tervals covering the three months kept
notifying the city officials to treat the
water supply to prevent fever, but,
the warnings of the board of health
were ignored. Many deaths from the
fever. took place and the city was
made defendant in the courts in dam
age suits on account of the criminal
Of city officials.
The failure of the law to provide for
coordination and executive authority
in the commission form of government
cost the taxpayers of Helena 100000
in damages.