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The people's voice., 1940-01-17

The petition urging an investigation
OF Simmons administration which was
signed by 40 members of the faculty,
declared that there have been five
Investigations of affairs of the uni
yersity during Simmons tenure Of Of
flee, whereas during the administra-
ton before him under DR.. Clapp for
IA years there had never been any
necessity for any investigation. The
petition charged:
Il. There exists on the campus a
feeling of unrest, insecurity and dis
trust. This is in marked contrast to
the unquestionable harmony and con-
fidence which prevailed here during
the presidency of DR.. Charles H.
Clapp, Immediately preceding.
"2. The request for the designations
OF five members of the faculty who
were in indefinite tenure is without
precedent in the history of the uni
versity.
"3. During the four years of Presi-
dent Simmons administration there
have been these special Investigations
of affairs at the university:
"a. By special committee of the
1889 legislative assembly.
"b. Two by committees of the Amer
ican Association of University Pro-
fessors.
&c. One by special committee Of
the American Federation of Teachers.
I'd. One by special committee of
the Montana state board of education.
No Previous Inquiry
During the IA years of the admin
istration Immediately preceding there
was not one such investigation nor
was there any occasion for such in
quiry.
"A. Grave concern for the welfare
of the university has been created
amongst alumni, students and, to a
great extent, amongst citizens of the
state. as4.
IS. Since 1885 there has been little
or no increase in enrolment of the
State university. At the State college
(Montana State college in Bozeman)
there has been a remarkable gain in
uuIIuB lueSt bdult Jcdib.
I'VE therefore request that the state
board investigate the administration
of President Simmons
"In thus stating our belief and max
ing our request we are not prompted
by personal animus; this action is
motivated by sincere desire to serve
the best interests of the university,
and by and with full confidence in
the sincerity of the official request
that we set forth our opinion as to
the source of the present deplorable
situation at the State university.
"E. l.. Freeman, A. S. Merrill, e.
A. Atkinson, w. E. Maddox, t. G.
Spaulding, Lucia B. Merrielees, Mike
c. E. Mollet, Louise G.
e. e. Bennett, Flora b.
Weisberg, F. o. Smith, John Suchy,
Ralph M. McGinnis, ]. H. Toell, X.
H. Jesse, w. r. Ames, w. G. Bate
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1940-01-17
|NLRB Cuts Out
Phoney Part Of
Profit Sharing Plan

WASHINGTON.-( P)-Untanglin
of a phoney labor relations scheme
from a profit-sharing plan was ordered
here by the national labor relations
board in a decision directed against
the Duffy Silk Co. Of Buffalo, N. Y.
The board expressly provided that
its order is not intended to interfere
with the profit-sharing arrangement
of the plan or with its wage and
hour feature If continued without dis
elimination against labor organiza-
| tion.
The plan was put into effect while
members of the United Textile Work
provided that the company and work
ers should choose a person not con-
nected with any industrial, business
or labor organization to act as trus-
tee and to represent the workers In
all matters of employment.
The company agreed to pay wages
as high as those paid by its compar-
able competitors and to pay to the
trustee, for distribution among the
workers, 759o of the net profits earned
in the Buffalo plants.
Workers accepted the plan by a
vote of 450 to 4 after speeches in its
favor were made by union officials,
FIR. John p. Boland, then the NLRB
regional director, labor department
conciliators and FIR. Justin Figas,
nrOminent Catholic who was chosen
trustee.
Refusal to deal with the union and
the attempt to discourage member
ship, coupled with the recognition of
the plan, and the facts in themselves
indicate employer domination of the
plan even without regard to the fact
that the plan was originated and
formed by the company, the board
said.
The people's voice., 1940-01-17

It paws to be a congressman IN more
ways than one. 1t enables you to
smear anybody and anything with per-
feet impunity.
Like Bengal tigers smelling fresh
blood, senate and house reactionaries
are approaching the prospect OF slash
ing appropriations for such things as
housing, WPA, administrator of labor
laws, and the like, under the pretext
of national emergency"
G. o. P. National Chairman Hamil-
ton selected Jackson day as the occa-
sion to announce that the republican
campaign fund deficit had been wiped
out. And we had been told that the
Wall street boys had been 80 i'm
poverished as the result Of heavy
taxes" that they didn't have enough
money left to maintain decent stand
ard of living, much less contribute TO
the republican party!
House Liberals Gird
For Legislative Battle
BY the time this appears In print,
the liberal bloc in the house, headed
by Representative John Coffee OF
washington, will probably have held
a caucus to discuss a plan OF action
in the present congress-
The group is woefully in the mi
nority-it can count on only about o0
members. But it has spirit. and
fight and it does not believe that
the fires of liberalism should be per-
mitted to die out when things are
getting little dark
It's going to formulate program
and make a contest OF 1T. This pro-
gram will include such things as ade-
ouate WPA, NYA, and CCC appropria-
tions; protection of civil hDerues'
liberalization of the present WPA act,
particularly abolishment of the H.
month enforced leave clause; opposl-
tion to transfer of American ships to
foreign registry; insistence that the
"cash and carry" provisions Of the
neutrality act be carried out literally;
curb on war profiteering, to include
goods of domestic consumption as
well as munitions; and some curD on
Mr.. Dies to assure that he will re-
main within the field OF legitimate
investigation, if not actual opposition
to an appropriation to keep his COM
mittee going.
The liberals do not believe that we
The people's voice., 1940-01-17

| The constitutionality of section
of chapter lie of the Laws of 1897
which prohibits an office holder from
retaining his office II he files for an
other was affirmed yesterday by a
four to one decision of the Montana
supreme court. The majority opinion
was written by Associate Justice
Angstman and concurred in by Chief
Justice Johnson and Associate JUS
tices Arnold and Morris. Associate
Justice Erickson delivered dissent
ing opinion.
With Justice Angstman's long rec
ord of dissenting with the majority
opinions of the body, the progressive
element of the state will no doubt be
surprised to find his opinion the same
on the question at issue, as that of
the conservative members.
The opinions rendered were the
findings of the supreme court in an
action brought by Senator Mulholland
of Silver Bow county, for a declara-
tory judgment on the question of
whether or not he had vacated his
office as state senator by filing for
the office of mayor of Butte, last
spring. District Judge Padbury be-
fore whom the case was heard, held
the 1897 act unconstitutional.
The majority opinion was that filing
for a municipal office did not affect
his status as state senator because
he filed for an office at a municipal
election held in April and that his so
doing did not affect his incumbency
of the office of state senator which
regularly expires on the first Monday
in January Aside from this excep-
ton, however, the majority opinion
The people's voice., 1940-01-17
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL

I should permit war hysteria to cause
us to abandon, even temporarily, pro
grams designed to meet the "unmet
economic needs of our people"
| Did you know that the lives of 81
colored persons in the south were
snuffed out at the hands of mobs for
insult to white persons" between
the years 1882 and 1896? That fact
was revealed in statistics on lynch
! ings submitted during the anti-lynch-
| ing bill debate in the house. The
| figures also showed that less than
half the cause of lynchings were for
alleged rape.
So far there's nothing in the (Wag-
ner) National Labor Relations Act
which forbids female labor board at
torneys from having babies. One of
the boards young women review at
torneys testified before the Smith in
vestigating committee regarding a
case upon which she had worked.
But she wasn't around when the de-
cision was reached, and Committee
Counsel Toland wanted to know why.
Because l was giving birth to twins, !"
she replied.
Watch for Jackson Boom
As Third Term Weather vane
Those who are watching the third
term weather vane would do well to
keep their eyes peeled on whether
real presidential boom develops in the
near future for one Robert Jackson,
the newly appointed attorney gen.
eral
For If genuine Jackson boom
develops-and we do not know that
it Wilt will serve notice to the
political world that the inner new
deal circle has just about given up
all hope of inducing R. F. D. to
make the race. 1t will mean, to all
intents and purposes, that the presi-
dent has indicated a final mo" OF
their entreaties.
We are reliably informed that the
inner circle is still at it, hammer and
tongs, telling the president that every
thing the new deal stands for will
be sacrificed if he does not again be-
come candidate.
Why are they 80 persistent? 1t is
because they do not trust any of the
current potential candidates. Hull is
too conservative. Garner is obnoxi-
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The people's voice., 1940-01-17
SUGAR BEET Professors
make GIGANTIC PROFITS
ON PRODUCTS OF FARMERS
Engineers Analysis Of Corporation Reports
Of Great Western Sugar Company Gives
Clear Pictureref Unreasonable Profit Toll
Taken in Processing Farm Products While
Farmers Are in Dire Need of Assistance.

With the beet in dire need of federal assist
them remain their FARMS and the indus
protesting against spending the reports of
of extravagant profits made in the processing
the bees into to the only sou
problem that the co-operatey
their products retaining enough of the surplus shown made
processing and passing the balance to the
of lowered prices for the finished products
An analysis recently by engineer of the reports
Western Sugar Companys operations in Colorado
The people's voice., 1940-01-17
NLRB ORDER

WASHINGTON-(FP)--The NLRB
here announced an order directing
Republic Creosoting Co. and Reilly
Tar & Chemical Corp, both of In
dianapolis, Ind, to cease discouraging
membership in Creosote Workers Un-
ion, Local N. 20,483, (AFL). and to
cease in any manner interfering with
their employees right to self-organiza-
tion.
The people's voice., 1940-01-17
SHOWDOWN ON UNIVERSITY
FACULTY DIFFERENCES IS
APPARENTLY FORCED NOW
Petitions Signed by Large Number of Mem
bers of the Faculty, Presented to the Board,
Asking for an Investigation of Simmons
Administration Will Probably Bring About
Definite Board Action.

Presentation of two petitions requesting nvestiga-
ton of the Simmons administration university affairs signed
by 40 faculty members and the other asking that the board
rescnd its custer order of Atkinson Molett Merriam and
Lennes signed by 49 members of the faculty. featured the first
session of the state board of education meeting being held
Missoua for the of sitting evidence concerning
dons affecting the administration The announced intention
of the board of education air and impartial
investigation of conditions that have unrest over the
entire state &C. We not sitting as a court but want
this trouble sfted the bottom with no Injustice to any
The people's voice., 1940-01-17
NOTICE

Because the Presidents
Birthday Ball in Butte has
been scheduled for January
27, the Butte Miners Union
No. l, announces that The
Peoples Voice Subscription
Dance will be held on Satur-
day evening, February 10,
instead of the date previous
ly announced.
The people's voice., 1940-01-17

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack Of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
The people's voice., 1940-01-17

Democracy Cannot Endure Un-
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.
The people's voice., 1940-01-17

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Evening star., 1940-04-28

more. Performers are not to be
paid.
To De Annual Affair.
Candidates should report to Dem
mis- M. Landers. the director, at
1872 N street NV, Mr.. Hufty said
in announcing the event. which Is
intended to be the hrst annual
affair Of its kind.
Mass calisthenic demonstrations,
frequent in Europe, are rare in
the United States, according to
planners Of the local pageant. Re-
ducing, building up, and recreational
exercises, systematic dancing for
exercise and wand drills for better
posture are among the items on the
program. Numerous musical groups
also are expected to take part. 4
The contract made public by the
committee In charge stipulated the
institute will receive 80 per cent
Of the projects proceeds.
Need for Work Stressed.
In explaining its needs, Mr.. Hufty
emphasized the need Of blind per-
sons for employment Is its principal
concern. Sightless himself. he said,
I'VE can stand being blind If we
can get work to do."
The organization now employs 13
blind and partially blind persons,
most Of whom earn between $40 and
SIS per week. It also maintains q
home-teaching department to give
instruction in handcrafts, Braille
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Invitations Extended
10 Youths 10 Enter
Health Pageant
Mass CoIesthenics and
Dancing to Be Stosed
For Benefit of Blind

An invitation to the young people
Of Washington active In calisthenics
and rhythmic dancing to partici-
pate in the National Youth Health
Pageant has been issued by r. s.
Hufty, executive secretary and
superintendent Of the Columbia
Polytechnic Institute for the Blind.
The pageant, q mass exhibition
in costume with musical back
ground, will be presented June 10 in
Riverside Stadium as q benefit for
the institute. There will be after
noon and evening performances.
The cast of $50 is to be assembled
from among high school students
over Is. Young Women's Christian
Association and Young Mems
Christian Association members and
persons af1lliated with eymnastic
groups in Washington and Balti-
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Turkey Dinner Slated

A turkey dinner for the benefit Of
Pensioners will be held by the st.
Vincent de Paul Society Of Holy
Trinity Church On Wednesday be-
ginning at 5 pm. in the school
building, 1925 Thirty-sixth street
NV. Members of the Sodality
Mothers Club and students Of Holy
Trinity School will assist in serving.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

reading and writing, tipping, dicta.
phone operation and other pursuits.
The institute receives q small an
nual appropriation from Congress,
Mr.. Hufty said, but Is dependent
principally upon donations. It is
hoped the pageant will provide suf-
ficient funds to permit employment
Of . colored home teacher and
make improvements to its building
ut 1905 H street NV,
Evening star., 1940-04-28

Diesel engine today costs about five
times that of a gasoline motor Of
equal power. Also, they agreed,
there was lack of fiexibinty in
the Diesel at some low speeds.
But these are bugs we are con-
quering," said one. After all, we
Evening star., 1940-04-28

have made strides in the last five
years which the gasoline engine
men required 40 years to accom-
plish. And now we are flying a
made-in-America engine. That has
been goal Of aviation, which also
is still a growing infant"
Evening star., 1940-04-28

QUEEN is CROWNED Keyser Mercury is shown
crownng Charlotte Meum May Queen during the spring
festival presented yesterday by the junior school
Hail. The queen crowned with pink carnations
caSsmate. Star Staff nhoto
Evening star., 1940-04-28
WASHINGTON G, APRIL 49, 1e4o-PARr ONE

e. Performers are not to be
Evening star., 1940-01-07
GIRL TAMES ICE
Continued from poss four

most men skaters - certainly higher
than any other girl performer. She
was the first woman to complete two
whole revolutions in the air during a
jump, and the first person of either
sex to accomplish the difficult aero
batic butterflies" on the ice.
She developed these stunts after her
carnival experience had convinced
her that her audiences liked acrobatics
better than the softer, more graceful
movements. And she invested some
of the family savings in course at
gymnasium in New York, alternating
between the gym in the morning and
the Brooklyn ice rink in the after
noon. At the rink, she tried to do the
gymnasium stunts on skates.
Evening star., 1940-01-07

But in the meantime the boom was
growing, and she was beginning to
get more bookings, better prices. The
year 1880 was a turning point; the
worlds championships were held in
New York. the first time they had
ever come to this country, and the
arrival of foreign amateur stars
brought a new burst of interest in
figure skating. As a professional -
indeed, the country's leading pro-
fessional by this time - Evelyn was
not eligible to compete with the anna
teurs in the championships. But the
new boom in figure skating was all
grist for her mill. She began jumping
from show to show - from Oakland
to Los Angeles. and back to Boston or
Evening star., 1940-01-07
GEMS THAT CATCH BUGS
by Roy Chapman Andrews
sMvsvm NufyeHa
rector Of tie Amssieos Mvsevm Of Nufvsai History

HIRrY million years ago. when
the world was young, a spider
d watched tiny winged bark
louse alight on patch of sticky sap
oozing from the knot of a tree. 1t
crawled quickly forward to sink its
jaws in the struggling insect but it
never reached its victim. The deadly
gum caught its body and there it died.
A later wave of sap flowed over the
spider and the fly, embedding them
both in transparent tomb.
The tree lived its allotted span,
died. was covered with countless tons
of sediment and turned to stone
The gum, too. was fossilized and
today has been put on special exhibi-
ton in the gem collections of the
American Museum of Natural History
as one of our most priced specimens
of amber. Strangely enough. the pieces
of this semiprecious gem in which
insects are embedded are among the
most valued of amber jewelry.
Actually most Of the substance of
the animals themselves has been re-
duced to dust and the solid-looking
Evening star., 1940-01-07

bodies are practically empty shells,
but they retain the form of the insects
down to the last detail and even show
the original colors and iridescence.
Amber insects are our best fossil
specimens and give additional clues
as to the climate and kinds of life in
the Oigocene period. The fact that
members of the family of the primi-
tive spider shown in our piece of amber
are natives of tropical countries sug-
gests that the climate along the Baltic
Sea was much milder thirty million
years ago than it is today.
East Prussia gives us the greatest
deposit Of amber, but it has been
found also in Sicily, Rumania, Canada
and even in New York City's Staten
Island. Related substances such as
copal and kava gum are formed like
amber and used in jewelry, but they
are more easily falsifed than true
amber Bakelite. an artificial sub
stance, is frequently used as an imita-
ton of amber, but it is made from
formaldehyde and when touched with
hot needle smells most vilely.
Evening star., 1940-01-07

getting so that she hardly ever had
time to get back to Brooklyn. Bruce
didn't like that either. So. being an
accomplished skater as we'll as an
architect. he decided to turn profess
sional. too. and he and Evelyn accepted
an offer to skate at the Dallas Gen.
tennial Exposition.
They have been a very successful
team ever since, as well as a most
devoted couple II guess" says
Evelyn, If we could stand that sum-
mer in Dallas together, we can stand
anything" For thirty days they
skated strenuous routine four times
a day, and the temperature never
dropped below 100 degrees! And what
is more. since Evelyn and Bruce have
been team. their fortunes have waxed
faster than ever. Nowadays the $50
a-week salary that Evelyn got as top
money for skating at the Century of
Progress. is small change. Her weekly
pay invariably runs into four figures,
and during some big shows she and
Bruce have made as much as SIS. 600 in
two weeks. They have played the
Cleveland Great Lakes Exposition,
Evening star., 1940-01-07

Philadelphia. Between times. she went
home to Brooklyn to look after Bruce
and the children.
She made big hit in Los Angeles,
and was signed up for movie audi
ton - then pulled a knee ligament.
and couldn't skate for eight weeks.
The opportunity passed. and girl
named Sonia Henie became the movie
skating star. Evelyn has since made
two short features, and still wonders
what might have happened. if
Her growing fame won her a con-
tract to skate in the Black Forest Ice
Show at the Century of Progress
Exposition in 1884. at top money of
$50 week She went to England and
was acclaimed by the English audi
ences, who had never seen anyone
do such stunts on skates. She came
back and resumed her career of
hopping from show to show in coun-
try that was getting more enthusiastic
about figure skating every year.
Everything seemed rosy well.
no. not everything. Bruce and the
children still came first in Evelyn's
life, as they had for years. And it was
Evening star., 1940-01-07

have been to England again, have
played five months on Broadway, and.
more recently. have been touring with
the lice Follies," which has been
packing all the important arenas from
coast to coast.
1t is often a hectic business, this
hopping about all over the country.
Most melodramatic, perhaps. was the
night the engagement in Dallas closed,
when Evelyn hurried to make plane
for Boston for an appearance the next
night at the Boston Winter Sports
Show. The weather was bad, and the
plane was eight hours behind schedule
in taking off. Even then. it had to
come down several times. 1t finally
swooped into the Boston airport at
$50 - with Evelyn due to 60 on at
8:45! But she had changed into her
costume at the Newark stop. and now
she put on her skates in the cab that
whiZzed her to the Boston Garden,
and dashed out on the ice just as the
orchestra was striking up her music.
But she's real trouper and takes
things like that in stride. She used to-
give everything she had in show that
would pay her few dollars. and she
does the same thing today. She wears
out four or five pairs of skating boots
year. and ten pairs of skates. She
periodically snaps off the heel of her,
skates in executing her split - and
improvises fake finish to the number
so nobody will know She hurts herself
more than any other skater, and has
finished many a performance with a
badly sprained ankle or pulled tendon,
while the unsuspecting audience
cheered.
She practices for hours everyday
with unsparing energy, and then puts
in an hour of floor acrobatics to warm
up for every performance In her spare
time she rides horseback - strenu-
ously. That's just for fun; but some
time. she thinks. when there's enough
money in the bank. she might retire
and settle down in some such peaceful
pursuit as horse wrangling. A nice
farm somewhere. with lots of elbow
room and comfortable big house to
which young Bruce, Jr.. and Chandler
can come home for their vacations
from college - that's her dream, when
she takes time to dream.
Evening star., 1940-01-07

SUSIE H.. glamour girl in the cradle class Strong
fall to their knees at the sight Of Susies SOFT she'll
pink skin! Her secret? Ivory Soap cooed Susie in
recent bathsde interview Doctors orders! He says
sensitive skins like mine need pure mild soap! And
:. didn't you know? doctors advise my Ivory for
grown-up compilations, too!'