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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
FIRST LADY PROTESTS
Mrs Roosevelt Criticizes Newspaper Guild Board for
CONSUMPTION Statement and Is Answered

scrfption, under any conceivable cir
cumstances, would be bad.
| do not share your confidence in
local draft boards but would be will
ing to risk their tender mercy In de-
Tense of democracy which could COM
mand the fighting devotion Of its peo-
pie by providing jobs for the millions
OF unemployed, insuring the preserva-
ton OF civil liberties and labor's gains,
and which could produce government
determined to force the masters of
industry to join an entire effort of an
entire people. | have not heard that
the power to compel priority for war
orders, now existing, has been used.
These things make one fear that, If
we are threatened, our blood and tears
and sweat and toll will be in vain be-
cause of a defense which does not con-
script industry There is no doubt that
the power to conscript men, If granted,
will be used.
These are truly agonizing times but
1t seems to me that we will betray our
selves If, given threat to the coun-
trys security, we do not insist on an
effort that is entire. | submit that it
Is therefore good patriotism to oppose
a defense plan which fails of COM
pleteness, while there is yet time to
10 so.
| know you share my hope that,
through intelligent discussion of the
state of the country all Guild mem
)ers can reach proper conclusions
which Will make for the security OF
he country and its people.
Sincerely,
DONAL M. SULLIVAN
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
Saturday Post to
Correct Statement
On CIOCrook
(By Federated Press)

NEW YORK.-The Saturday Eve
ming Post will publish a correction O
Its statement that justice official
Inabbed "a CLIO leader - = on Charge
OF forgery and larceny" Publicity Man
lager A. ]. Gallagher told Federated
Press by telephone from the office O.
Curtis Publishing company in Phila
Idelphia.
Gallagher said the statement, used
In seven-column ad in leading news
papers throughout the county on Sept
IL, was an error. There was no refer
ence to any CLIO crook in the feature
article on Westbrook Pegler, to which
the advertisement referred.
The correction, Gallagher said, will
papers that published the original adj
Ivertisement.
What seems to be more or less
regular campaign against unions was
continued in the Sept 81 issue of the
magazine. This time the target was
the National Maritime union (CIO)
which was described as a communist
organization by William McFee in an
article entitled "Seagoing Soviets.'
McFee has been friendly with Je-
rome Medeiros (King), Peter j. Innes,
Jr., and other unionists expelled from
the union for spying, it was recalled
at the NMU office. Asked whether 1t
was likely that McFee had been receiv-
Ing subsidy from shipowners for
his literary efforts, an NMU spokes-
man said he thought not
AFTER ALL" it was pointed out, "the
shipowners can't pay everybody who
1oes their work for them. And there
are some guys who do it for love-"
Gallagher said he couldn't answer a
question from Federated Press on
whether the Post has scheduled other
Irticles attacking CLIO or ALL unions.
lie referred the query to the editorial
department., but the editor who gives
hat kind Of information wasn't in.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
MEXICO REVOLT
In HEADLINES
u. S. PAPERS

MEXICO CITY (FP) - Headlines
and editorials in some leading United
States newspapers during the first
week OF September made correspond
ents here pledge themselves never to
touch another drop of tequiIa. But
sober friends convinced them that the
typographical pink elephants were
genuine.
The headlines said that revolution
was due within As hours. A sample of
the editorials was one from the New
York Herald Tribune of Sept. A. which
asserted that every newspaperman"
in Mexico knew that Juan Andrew AL
mazan had been counted out in his
presidential race against Avila Ca
macho, the candidate favored by Pres
ident Lazaro Cardenas.
One correspondent wrote in answer
to query from New York: 81 have
been greatly puzzled about the sudden
rash of front page stories on the out
break of the Mexican revolution. I'm
fortunately | was out of town and my
legmen omitted to advise me, they say
for the obvious reason that there just
isn't any revolution"
But the revolution scare, coming
upon the heels of Almazan's threat in
New York to provide Mexican sequel
to Frances Spanish rebellion, is not
so funny as 1t first seems.
Almazan implied that he would re-
store the oilfields to Standard Oil and
Royal Dutch Shell, companies that are
under the appropriation
awards for their Mexican reservoirs
of black gold. The campaign in the
United States press to portray Alma
Fan as the man who was robbed of
the election, the man who would
5quelch the Mexican radicals and make
tho country safe for Standard OIL is
40 accident.
The facts were available to any
American newspapers that wanted
hem. Almazan was defeated, not
cheated Cardenas and his successor
,lect, Camacho, are no friends of the
communist party. Actually Cardenas
las virtually outlawed the communists
s result of the clamor raised after
he murder of Leon Trotsky.
Apparently the ugly truth is that
eading United States papers are en-
aged in drive to prevent American
ewspaper readers from learning the
ruth about Mexico. The object Of this
rive is to force the United States gov
to act the part of Hitler and
Iussolini in Spain through disas-
'ous and hypocritical policy of nom
in Mexico-a policy that
-ould operate, as in the betrayal of
le Spanish republic, to aid in the
of Mexican Franco.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
40 SIGN POLL
TAX PETITION

WASHINGTON. - (FP) = Over 40
members Of the house have signed the
petition to discharge the anti-poll tax
bill, Representative Lee Geyer dem,
Calif.), sponsor of the bill, announced
here.
The bill proposes to make it illegal
to require payment of poll tax for
voting in elections for federal officials.
Eight states have such requirements.
They are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennes-
see, Virginia and Texas.
A majority, 21S signatures, is re-
CURED to bring the bill to the floor
of the house.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
INFANT HEALTH
PROGRAM PLANNED

| Counties will be contacted soon in
a program planned by the maternal
board of health and the Montana Med
ical association In the interests Of re-
|ducing infant mortality. DR.. Edythe p.
Hershey, chief Of the board Of health
division, said it was hoped infant NOR
tality would be reduced to minimum.
Counties will be surveyed as to infant
mortality rates and possible preventive
measures.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
DISBARMENT ACTION
UNDER CONSIDERATION

The Montana supreme court-finish-
ing its annual summer recess and now
lin session-has under consideration
ldisbarment action brought against j.
J. Mcdonald, Philipsburg attorney. An
Iders Of Philipsburg, now dead, declar-
ing Mcdonald had engaged in "mal-
practice" when acting as her attorney.
Arguments have been presented in the
case.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
POLIOMYELITIS DECLINE

The state board of health has re-
ported decline Of poliomyelitis Tin
|fantile paralysis) cases in Montana
THE board said that cases reported
last week totaled four as against eight
the preceding week and 16 the week
before that report Health officials
counseled Montana residents not to
fear an epidemic "as the disease is
not in epidemic proportion" Cold
weather will bring about further re-
duction, officials said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
BUSINESS BOOM
is BUILT ON
Dynamite
By SCOTT NEARING

Business activity In the U. S.
increasing rapidly. With one impol
tant exception it has advanced steadil
1since April, 1910. The exception wa
the brief period of hesitancy in MID
summer, when the extent of the pre-
paredness program was still in doubt
With the certainty that defense ap
preparations would run into billions
business doomed
| The present business revival, like
those from 1888 to 1887, and from
June to November, 1889, cannot be
attributed to private enterprise. On
1.-THE contrary, private business con-
tinues to stagnate. Reserve funds con
t1nue to pile up in banks, with interest
rates abnormally low The volume of
business loans decreases. The total
OF money in circulation rises steeply,
with no corresponding trade turnover
Private enterprise is as torpid today
as it has been for the past II years
II anything, it seems less able to
function now than 1t did then.
Government spending abroad and at
home has given the business world its
shot in the arm. In Europe and Asia
war purchases are being made on
large scale. In the U. S. the govern
ment is spending for defense.
Both there and here the resulting
stimulus appears in larger production
figures. A treasury statement shows
hat U. S. defense expenditures were
our times as great in the summer Of
$40 as they were in the correspond
ng period of 1885, and nearly twice
IS great as in 1889.
With the recent appropriations of
early $4,000, 100000 for the army and
avy, and nearly $4,000, 100000 for spe-
ial defense items, it appears certain
hat federal spending in 1940-41 will
xceed $4,000, 100000 and may go
cry much higher.
Business interests make no bones |
bout the matter The Annalist re-
orts "The business situation has
hown further improvement, largely
ecause of the impact of the national
olCuSG Wu1CA 10 ldplulJ
saching large-scale proportions"
The varied nature of government
lying is indicated by the $80000,000
contracts awarded during the week
Aug. "a, 1910. The bulk went for
ansportation equipment ($53,000,-
|0). Iron and steel cost $9;153,0 900;
xtiles cost s7,416,0OO; coal and Pc
oleum cost $2,168,O0O; and foods,
lemicals, non-ferrous metals and mis-
llaneous machinery, more than
100000 for each item
Evidently we have at last turned the t
rner and found prosperity. Orders /
g pouring into factories the motor t
dustry, chemical production, iron and t
eel plants and textile concerns are {
ain working full speed. /
To be sure, there are still at least
100000 unemployed, and the farmers
e still suffering severely. But bust i
IS is on the up and up. The reason? d
ar i
from 1915 to 1929 was a
lit on war. When it exploded, the b
ash caught and crushed millions of e
ople. c
Business interests are again build s.
, on dynamite because they can
d no other foundation for their
,nomic system When the dynamite d.
)lodes this time the entire private N
erprise structure will be in ruins. Of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
YOUR DOLLAR
BOYS, RLousEs
BY CONSUMERS UNION

Parents often buy the cheapes
boys blouses, without regard to quail
ity, believing they will be outgrowl
before wearing out But It's poor
economy II the shirts wear out frs
and must be replaced with others the
same size.
The September issue OF Consumers
Union Reports rates Is models OF
boys blouses. Only few came UP
to mems shirt quality. Some Of the
poorer brands had too-short sleeves
and they shrank 80 much that they
wouldn't fit after the first washing.
Shirts with tails will generally wear
better than button shirts, advises Gu.
Shirts with open necks and short
sleeves are not outgrown so quickly
as those with buttoned up necks and
long sleeves To get the best fit,
measure the neck, chest and sleeves
on the boy.
BLOUSE LABOR
Among the advantages claimed for
industry are higher average wage,
job security and freedom from Excess
sive speedup Six Of the brands
tested by GU. are union made under
contract with the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers (CIO): The Bell, Col
legiate, Fruit of the Loom, Kaynee,
Model, Puritan. Three are non-union:
Lucky Lad, Pepperell, Tom Sawyer.
CHEAP WATCHES
Consumers Union tested inexpen-
sive watches mainly for time keeping |
ability and concludes that, II 2 or |
minutes error day does not particu-
1arly matter, cheap watch will serve
quite we'll
Five samples each Of ia models, in
Guiding wrist and pocket watches
ranging in price from 81 to s4.95, were
tested in various positions and at va
rious temperatures. Best buy among |,
wrist watches was New Haven Fad.
This lists for $2.95, but is sold by
Montgomery Ward as Cat. No. 9196
for $1.9S plus postage.
LABOR IN WATCH FACTORIES
Two of the manufacturers of mex
pensive watches tested by Gu. Qn- :
gersoll, Westclox) would give Gu. :, :
no report on wages paid their work
ers. The company which did reply, =,
New Haven, said it paid minimum =
Of SIP a week and an average of $21
Three companies are unorganized.
FOOT POWDER n
If your feet trouble you, look first w
'or the most likely causes: ill-fitting Id
shoes, ringworm, or some foot all
nent Such causes must be corrected r
before you can expect to be comfort
lble
But if your trouble is caused by L.
'ver-long standing or walking, or by >
excessive perspiration, foot powders l
nay give some relief by preventing r
hating and by absorbing perspiration. II
'alcum powder, boric acid, or COM Il
ination of the two are as effective U
s any other powders, and consider 81
bly, cheaper Talcum and boric acid
an be bought for 1c or &c an ounce; ri
dvertised foot powders which are in cl
o way superior cost as much as 15c d.
n ounce. to
Foot powders alone cannot cure m
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

WASHINGTON Stating that Gin
reference with the political rights of
minority parties has greatly increased
in recent months" the civil rights
committee of the National Lawyers
Guild (unaffiliated) urged that the De-
partment of Justice Investigate all
right to circulate nominating petit
TONS"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
FEWER ON RELIEF

WASHINGTON (FP) = Reports
from SO states for 10S urban areas
show for August, 1910, decrease of
1 per cent in both the number of cases
receiving general relief from public
funds and the amount of obligations
incurred as compared with July, ac-
cording to figures made public by the
social security board
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25

ringworm or similar conditions, as is
claimed for some Using a foot pow
der az substitute for seeing a doc
tor delays effective treatment and
may make the condition worse.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
Reprinted from Guild Reporter

A letter from Mrs Eleanor Roose-
velt, wife of the president and Guild
member, herself, criticizing the Inter
national Executive Boards statement
on the Burke-Wadsworth CONSUMPTION
bill, was received at international
headquarters on Sept. 10. The state
ment which was directed only to the
membership, condemned the bill 1t ap-
peared in the Sept. / Guild Reporter.
Defending the statement and its con-
tents, President Donal M. Sullivan re-
piled to Mrs Roosevelt's protest in a
| letter ON Sept. II. Mrs. Roosevelt
declared that she would be Every glad
to have you print this letter" The full
texts of both hers and Sullivan's fol-
low:
Sept. 7, 1910.
Hyde Park.
Gentlemen:
have just received a circular which
you are sending out to members of
the American Newspaper Guild on the
question of the Burke Wadsworth
draft bill.
| wish to register Immediately my
violent opposition to many of your
statements.
While | entirely agree that it should
be possible to conscript industry If
there is an amendment I'M
der consideration which will make this
possible. A selective draft is a demo |
cratic and intelligent way of training |
people for defense. There is no ques- |
ton about the fact that it does require
people to make sacrifice, but a Sc
lective draft will make this as little
harmful in dislocation to communities
and individuals as possible. After all
a democracy does require something
rom the people who live under that
'orm of government.
There should be no sweeping state
nent exempting men who are married
,r have dependents. That should be
eft to the selective draft boards who
lnow the people in a community who
hould be exempt. There is a full dis |,
ussion going on in congress and |
hink that some of the points which
ou mention might well be taken up !,
nd discussed and your ideas reg
stored on those points. However, to |.
lake sweeping statements seems to
lie stupid beyond words and to use
UGH claptrap as the young people in
he American Youth Congress use,
GEMS to me even more stupid.
We people who are older must real q
20 that this new type of war being Il
aged today requires that new meth n
DIS must be employed for defense. n
on are quite right that more democ- n
ICY, not less, is needed in this coun- /,
y, but more unselfish willingness to
srve for the good of the people is f,
hat we really need-not a group of h
citizens who are always =,
skiing and never giving. h
| will be very glad to have you print +,
lis letter. !.
Very sincerely yours, f,
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. is
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
Sept. II, 1910.
Boston, Mass.

|
1t is entirely good that the Interna-
tional Executive Boards effort to slim
ulate membership discussion, which
was the purpose of our statement on
CONSUMPTION, should have resulted in
contribution from so distinguished o
member as you. Some of your state
ment merit comment, however.
| regret that, in the absence of a
Guild convention policy and because
of the division of opinion among the
membership, it is impossible for any
Guild officer to say he represents the
Guild on CONSUMPTION. We can not,
therefore, act on your excellent sug-
gestion that we register our opinion
with congress.
Your references to things stupid
beyond words" and to "claptrap" are
disturbing, the more so because such
statements attributed to us are not
identified in your letter. If sweeping
statements" are accurate, ! see no
objection to them. | submit that the
boards statement, drafted after hours
Of careful discussion, was accurate,
In the references to the
anti-labor possibilities Of the bill.
| suggest that our reference to 1.-THE
entire effort of the entire people" is
quite in harmony with your criticism
Of group of democratic citizens who
are always asking and never giving"
And should like to note that the IEB |
statement nowhere declares that con- !
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-15
GERMANY'S DECEIT
(OrOViIIe Mcrcury-ItoTIstcr)

a German transport loaded with 10
German soldiers clad in Dutch uniforms
was shot down at The Hague.
The Germans had taken time to accu-
mulate a lot Of Dutch uniforms in prep
aration for the invasion of The Neither
lands. Two days before the invasion the
deccittul German news agency gave out
solemn assurance that Holland would
not he invaded. At that time the Ger
mans were all set for the invasion and
the Dutch knew it.
DR.. Goebbel>, responsible for the Ger
man propaganda system, issued a long
statement, piing up blame on The Meth
lands for not being actually neutral and
among the counts was the charge that
the army and air forces were concen-
trated against the German border
1t would have been strange had the
Dutch concentrated elsewhere after they
had seen the sudden nvasions of Austria,
Czcchoslovakia, Poland and Norway. No
power other than Germany has invaded
small neutrals with armed forces.
All this goeS TO show that the word
of a nation at war is not worth the paper
il written ON when the government of
that nation is not responsible to the peo-
pie il rules. When it cannot be over
thrown without revolution, then it pro
cccdS 10 Kill off OF silence all opposition
within. Once that has been accomplished
there can be 40 criticism and the stand
ard Of morality drops to zero.
Contrast that situation with the recent
overthrow Of Prime Minister Chamber
lain and the outspoken criticism of his
administration in the house of commons.
4 nation where that can happen is
more likely to speak the truth as it goes
along for only by open dealing, even in
war time, can it continue to merit the
confidence Of the electors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-15

WASHINGTON. MAY IS Real
sianlflc1mcc ot the Supreme Court
decision in thc Madison oil case IS
that in "ttcct the court has agreed
with 1h"lman Arnold about the
arcat breadth OF tho Sherman anti
tru.: law
\ year ago Arnold was arguing
that lhis ldW gives the government
all The power Il needs TO keep prices
flexible. FsW people aSrecd with
him. The sherman act had been al
most a dead letter fer wears. He
Was told that before there could be
real drive tor lower prices and
t1eor markets there would have
10 be new legiSlatlUn
Arnold replied that ii" would 90
ahead under existing law and find
ont. once and for all, whether he
wasn't right about its scope be-
fore asking for any new laws.
Now the court has defined the
Sherman act III as broad a man
Fer as Arnold could have wished.
L has hold that putting any sort
Of floor under prices is illegal, and
has enabled hlm to strike at al
no>t any practice that results in
stabilized prices.
On" of the chief results of this
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-15
THE All CLUB
GOES TO TOWN
hrlStlan SclCncC MOnltOr)

City-dWelling boys and girls, read, per
hapS bit wistfully, Of the activities Of
4-H club youth. Suppose they, too, were
Tree 10 engage III such diverting enter
priSes as corn-growing and Stock-raising
contests and attending camps and con-
NenuonS. Well. they are now being made
aware. through the Al Golden Key clubs.
sponsored jointly by the Chicago Asso-
citation of Commerce and that city's Ro-
tary clubs, of the many opportunities
which have been lying. unnoticed. under
their very noses. Also. they are making
the gratifying discovery that living in
crowded cities has lis compenSationS.
For while Al club projects are of
necessity limited largely to the raising
of sheep and calves, pigs and poultry,
the cities hold ne such restrictions. and
the Al farmers" are free to engage in
"diverSified agriculture This includes
the designing of dresses the building of
doghouses, working on community news
papers. and repairing equipment in
homes. The four rs" stand for "intcll-
gencc, integrity. industry, initiative"
The fact that some thirty groups already
are in operation in the parent city with
inquiries coming in from Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Butte. Pancsville, and other
far-flung industrial centerS, hint at a
banner crop year
But. apart from the interest mani
Tested in the Al Clubs, the project has
deeper significance. The frank adapta-
tion of Ill ideals to meet the require
mentS of city youth constitutes an en-
couraging bit of soil binding" 1t i'm
plies Il welcome breaking down of that
invisible barrier which too long has cX-
listed between town and country
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-15
NATIONAL DEFENSE

Not even the New Deals bittcrcSt poll
teal enemies can argue logically against
the national defense proposals of PreSi
dent Roosevelt. He is lust now coming
around, i'm fact. Ia Il program long advO-
Gated by the American Legion. Ii is
wise propram. especially now that Eu-
ropes war is reaching fever heat.
But there is danger in the program,
badly needed a. Il is.
The danger lies in the possible misuse
later on of weapons acquired now purely
for defense purposes. The gravest peril
is embodied in the possibility that un-
scrupulous leaders overly proud Of the
defense" system they have built up,
might want to use il elsewhere than i'm
this hemisphere.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-15
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

ruling VIII be thU Arnold'S build
inG costs campaign can br ,pecdcd
up. The system OF bid dCp0c:tolIeS,
under which contractors III various
cities have frozen out low bidder,
apparently lies directly in tn? path
Of the new decision.
If Arnold goes ahead with !ls
previously plan OF attack
ing the costs of food distribution,
the ruling will be Of great value Il
him. It's implications in such ptnd-
ing cases as those against he m2H-
inc picture industry are NOW b'Gg
studied in the department.
The new decision greatly SnHh-
tlcs work of the antl-truSt iIVlSlon
since it makes unnecessary t1c rc-
search formerly necessary 90 SaoH
the effect of a price fixing u@rac-
mcnt. Under tic new ruling TIC
prosecution need only to show that
such an agreement existed in sub
stance. Its entire work hCNCct0Hh
rests on new and much clnpl5l