The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15

plane industry, organized to do the
work more on "customs-made" basis
Automobile industrialists, however
are opposed to it, largely because il
doesn't fit into their conception OF
what constitutes good business" Also
and this is true of industrialists gen
erally-they don't like the idea of la
Dor originating the plan. Many of
them feel that placing all the idle
automotive facilities in large jack
pot, so to speak, is a stepping stone
to government operation of industry
and collectivism.
There is no indication of enthusiasm
for the plan as yet coming from the
defense commission. Whether Knud-
sen, who is large automobile indus
trialist himself shares the views of
his fellow automobile industrialists
is not known.
The airplane industry, as was to be
expected, is very hostile to the plan,
but is hardly in a position to say
much. They are letting others do
their talking. They are not prepared
for such competition either now or
after the emergency is over.
Current Capital Chatter
Regardless of what they do, the
Seventy-seventh Congress is going to
make history. +. The atmosphere is
tense, with nobody knowing whether
war or peace is in store for this coun-
try. That war hangs by very thin
thread is appreciated by everybody.
Most everybody wants to keep
this country out of the struggle as
an active belligerent, although we al
ready are in it, to more or less de-
gree =. . While isolationists caution
that greater aid to Britain will in
volve us in the war, proponents of
greater aid point out that this is the
best assurance against war-at least
against a dreadful, all-out war against
odds later on if Britain
collapses. Many believe that there
Is no such a thing as assurance
against keeping out of war in this
dynamite-loaded world - that war in
the last analysis will depend on Hit
Ter and nobody else
Liberals are keeping their eyes
peeled on the reactionaries, to see
that they don't slip anything over, par
Licularly for moves to rescind labor
and social legislation and saddling the
costs of defense on the common peo-
pie. Even though it will have |
Administrative backing, the plan to |
10 away with tax exempt securities is |
lot certain of being adopted. The
scheme to impose general sales tax
doesn't look like is can go over. Most
If the members of Congress have been
old what the folks back home think
If it. What disturbs some of the |
dictionaries in their campaign against |
abor is a counter campaign on the
'art of labor for legislation to actually II
onscript wealth. Any faultiness
n the system of private enterprise
o function efficiency in the interest
f public welfare in this emergency
eriod is going to be blamed on the
dministration-not on where it be-
ongs.
1t is accepted as a foregone con-
fusion that FDR will win out hands
own in his program of greater aid
D Britain, although the opposition,
specially in the Senate, will be very
ocal. =. An Axis military campaign
MS winter to knock Britain out be-
,re American aid really becomes a
ecisive factor is predicted by military
ircles here, despite the hazards of
lch a campaign. Rep. Hamilton
ish, New York, surprised everybody
hen he approved of the Presidents
'ireside chat" The USHA, the
,ming year, will concentrate on slum
earance, rural housing, and housing
,ojects in centers where defense in
lstries are located. The first day of
e Seventy-seventh Congress saw the
PRODUCTION of 947 bills in the House
and that was only start. Most of
e bills, of course, will find their
nal resting place in committee pig