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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
Sells Store

Faye T. Abel recently sold his
entire stock of groceries and
fixtures to H. H. Huffman of
Lame Deer.
MIR. Abel returned here from
Sheridan, where he had been
operating a store, only a few
months ago.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
TRAVEL CLUB
HAS FAMILY NIGHT

The Travel Club met at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Hol-
ley Tuesday, The regular fam
lily night dinner was held at six
O'Clock with the following men,
bers and their families present:
Mrs. W. A. Petzolt, Jay Fitz-
gerald. Mrs. R. G. Brookins and
Beverly, MI. and Mrs. George
Cooley and De Anna, William
Dunning of Sheridan, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Lynde, Mrs. Will
bur Sorger, Mr. and Mrs. Earle
Miller, MI. and Mrs. M. T. Wells,
Mrs. Dave Pease and Anne, Miss
Clara Olds, Mrs. Claude Brock,
Miss Malvina johnson, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Thomas and the
host and hostess, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. W.Holley and family.
Mrs. BrookinS and Mrs. Brock
had charge of the games which
consisted of Chinese checkers,
Beano, and Cribbage.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20

Marilyn McVay, Viola Nichols,
Catherine Nichols, Violet Wright
Georgette johnson, Hazel Knight
Florence Swearington, B e t t Y
Jane johnson, Claudine Glow,
Blanche Brock, Betty Lou Ora
ham. Joan Davidson, and Eldah
PeaSe.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
BIRTHDAY BRIDGE
CLUB MEETS

The Birthday Bridge club met
at the home of Mrs. Lloyd Ora
ham on Thursday evening.
Guests present included, Mrs.
Emmett Curry, Mrs. Charles Sch
oner, Mrs. Clayton Clanin, Mrs.
L.. L. Wagenaar, Mrs. Erwin
Schnad of Garryowen, Mrs.
Cliff Clark and Mrs. Howard
Jenkins, Mrs. Emmett Curry won
high and Mrs. Schooner received
consolation.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
AID
GUESTS IN HARDIN

A number of ladies from the
Ladies Aid were guests of the
Hardin Ladies Aid at the Con-
gregational church in Hardin.
Those from Lodge Grass that
attended were Mrs. Carl Settle
Mrs. Fred Sharpe, Mrs. Forman,
Mrs. A. G. WeStWood, Sr., Mrs.
George johnson, Mrs. J. w. Hol-
Ley, and Mrs. w. A. Thomas.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
HOLD SURPRISE
BIRTHDAY PARTY

1IOlD OO1Cf TCIOE
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Chandler
and Mr.. and Mrs. Child Lining
entertained at a surprise BIRTH
day party for Mrs. J. C. Buck
ingham on Wednesday evening.
The affair was held at the
Buckingham home.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
is HO
AT DINNER

Mrs. j. C. Buckingham was
honored at a dinner given at the
Buckingham home on Friday
evening.
Besides the honoree, those pr
esent were Mr.. and Mrs. D. J.
Westbrook and Clarence, MI and
Mrs. Tom Stevens and Donnie
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlow Bucking-
ham and children, Bill Shirley
Lila Mae and Jimmy John
Manolis, Michael Morrell, Mr..
and Mrs. Gene Boggess and
Gene and Norma of Crow Age
ncy. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ball
and sons, Johnnie, Jackie and
Roger, J. c. Buckingham and
Calvin Lee Buckingham.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
HOSTESS TO
WOMANS CLUB

Mrs. Clayton Clanin entertai-
ned the Womans club on Tue
sday afternoon. Plans for a
card party to be held on Thurs
day, Mar. 20, were discussed. 1t
was also decided to do sewing
for the British Aid.
Attending were Mrs. Cliff Cl-
ark, Mrs. Charles Schooner, Mrs.
Carl Meister, Mrs. A. M. Steve
nson, Mrs. R. G. Brookins, Mrs.
Claude Brock, Mrs. Francis
Owens, Miss Mary, Mrs, Francis
Curry and the hostess.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
CAMPFIRE R
ARE ENTERTAINED

CAMPFIRE GIRLS
ARE ENTERTAINED
The Campfire Girls held their
regular meeting on Monday eve
ming in the grade school gym
nasium, Miss Jean Jordan was
hostess.
Following the business me-
citing, basketball was played. At
the close Of the evening re-
freshments were served at the
Nelson cafe.
One guest, Miss Dora Mae
Wolfe, was present,and members
attending included the Misses
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-03-20
HOUSE GUESTS

f1OUOE JULES Is
Guests at the J. c. Bucking-
ham home on Monday were Mrs.
Harry Hughes, Mrs. P. S. Dow
ling and John Leithner of Sheri-
dan, Mrs. Mile Fisher of Buff
falo, and Mrs. C. B. Smith of
Story.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23

The hopes of the association OF
Coop stores Of northeastern Mon
tana and western North Dakota be-
came a reality when articles of in
corporation were granted by the sec
r.tary of state of North Dakota to
bring into being the Northwest Co
operative Society. The association of
Coop stores, a goodwill organization,
consisting of seven member stores
located at Nashua, Opheim, Richland,
Reserve, Dagmar, and Froid, Montana,
and Williston, North Dakota, now has
a grocery wholesale with headquart-
ers at Williston, North Dakota.
This new cooperative does not ex-
pect to maintain a warehouse until
enough cooperative stores have been
established in the territory to warrant
such action. However it is the hope
of the present members that the es-
tablishment of the wholesale will en-
courage activity toward the organiza-
ton of new Coop stores in many
communities.
The member stores will now pool
their purchases with the Northwest
Cooperative Society acting as broker.
A definite saving will be made
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. /. HARRIS

months of 1910; Kellogg Switchboard
from $16,623 to $52,S20; Universal
Cyclops fro m$864,219 to $1,088,SS5;
Vultee Aircraft from deficit of $779,-
129 to a net profit of $374,457, while
Motor Wheel Corporation reported
net profits of s1,S49,239 in 1889 with
nte profits for the first six months
of 1910 totalling $1,1S2,506. Henry
Ford does not report the profits OF
his concern.
The above, it must be remembered
does not include the fat salaries that
these profit patriots" pay them
selves. Also, it must be remembered,
defense profits are just beginning to
roll in, and 1941 profits will make
some of the above shrink into lnsig-
nificance. And yet, spokesman of the
National Association of Manufacturers
are talking of the patriotic service
and sacrifice for national defense"
of its members during the present
emergency!
CHAIRMAN VINSON AND HIS
GANG WOULD RENDER THE
COUNTRY A REAL SERVICE BY
TELLING REACTIONARY EMPLOY
ERS THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF ENLIGHTENED LABOR poll
ICIES AND PAYMENT OF DECENT
WAGES WOULD SOLVE THE
STRIKE PROBLEM COMPLETELY
AND AID IN REACHING. A MAXI
MUM DEFENSE EFFORT. But per-
haps Chairman Vinson does not be-
lieve in these things himself. Or is
there doubt?
We suggest that Chairman Vinson
make further study along the above
line. to the point of ascertaining to
what extent the worker is sharing in
the current prosperity He can OBJ
tain some rather enlightening figures
compiled by the Social Security Board
and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
These figures will tell him the fol-
lowing facts:
The DUPONT Company in 1910 made
net profit of more than $4,000 from
each of its $4,000 employees, this prof
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
TECHNOCRAT TO
LECTURE ON DEFENSE

| With series of public lectures
scheduled throughout Montana, w. e.
Walter of Seattle will open his tour
| in Thompson Falls on Friday OF this
week. The subject of Mr.. Walters
lecture is Continental Defense" and
the lectures are given under the aus
pieces of the sections of Technocracy
Inc. located in the various cities COW
cred in the schedule.
The tentative schedule of lectures
follows:
Thompson Falls, April 25.
Plains, April 27.
st. Ignatius, April %.
Townsend, May 5.
White Sulphur Springs or Deer Lodge.
May 6.
Helena Eagles Hall) May 8.
Butte, May TO-
Boulder, May IL.
Augusta, May IA.
Great Falls, May 16 or II.
Havre court House, May 10.
Lewistown, May 90.
Roundup, May "a.
More detailed information in regard
to Mr. Walters itinerary will be given
lin later issues.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
APM PLEDGES
NO TRUCE in
PEACE FIGHT

Keynoting the opening session Of
the huge American Peoples Meeting
in Mecca Temple, New York City, the
Rev John B. Thompson, APM ma
tiona1 chairman, called for 'organiza
ton and more organization" to rally
overwhelming anti-war sentiment in
the United States as guarantee of
a lasting democratic peoples peace
throughout the world.
''The American people still have the
power; they still have the native In
stinct for democracy" he told cheer
ing delegates who jammed the big
auditorium.
"The sovereignty of this democracy
must not be taken from the people.
The will of this overwhelming major
ity must not be frustrated by few.
The resources Of democracy must not
be offered to the gods of war and
imperialism.
1--WE have come together in this
great pilgrimage of democracy" he
continued, "to confess faith in the
rights of the common man, in the
sovereignty Of the people and our ma
tive hatred Of all tyranny.
1--WE are brought here also by a
world crisis which has suddenly be-
come our crisis, in mill and shop and
church Something alarming has hap
pened to the morale and machinery
of democracy-for we know beyond
the shadow of a doubt that vast
majority of the American people want
to stay out of war. And yet we see
our government moving closer and
closer to complete participation in
this war
1--WE know that the American peo-
pie want more, not less, democracy
Yet not a day passes without the
news that the elected representatives.
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
BY HENRY ION

WASHINGTON.-FP) = Return to
power Of the New Deal was the sub
fleet of discussion among business lob
byists here as two persons closely
connected with the rough and tumble
days were appointed to high posts
by President Roosevelt
Accusing the most wrath was the
appointment of Harry Hopkins, for
mer WPA administrator and the Pres
ident's closest friend, to the job of
administering the lease-lend program.
In that capacity Hopkins will have
charge of the procurement CT mase-
rails for the program and the expendi-
ture of the s7,0O0,000,OO0 recently
voted for its execution by congress.
Shrieks of wrath at his appointment
were heard in congress and they came
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
BRIT0NS DON'T
like WAR But
Defend HOMES
Englishman Tells Uncen-
sored Story To Press Service
On Condition His Name Be
Withheld; Criticizes British
Government.

NEW YORK. - (FP) - An uncen-
sored picture of England under war
conditions was given to Federated
Press April 7 by man who had just
arrived by steamship for visit here,
after active participation in the Brit
ish war effort.
The story, related upon the condi-
ton that the narrator's name be with
held, was one of a nation puzzled by
the purpose of the war, convinced that
British domination of Europe is fin
ished, yet fully determined that Hit
Ter shall not conquer the British Isles.
Nazi bombings have not seriously
damaged morale nor have they dis
rupted production, the expert said.
"You get used to bombings," he ex-
planned but what really hurts mo-
rale is the failure of the British mill
tary forces to win any victories.
Privately, military people say that
Britain will not be ready to fight until
1913 There is a great deal of resent
ment at the governments action in de-
claring war when the country was UNI
prepared.
From America, the British people
want planes more than anything else.
They do not yet expect to see an
American expeditionary force. They
think that if Britain could gain mast
cry of the air, it would be enough.
"The military tacticians think now
that a stalemate is inevitable. There
is no prospect Of England defeating
Hitler on the continent, and the
chance of Hitler making good on his
invasion boast is remote"
Faced with this condition, the Brit
ish people are asking what the war
is about and why the government re-
fuses to state it's aims, the visitor
said
veterans of the last war say the
people got nothing out of it," he con
tinued "They had expected good
end to the old traditions of
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23

} With industrial unemploy-
ment on the increase generally
during the decade, and several
organized "back to the land"
movements given impetus be-
cause of that fact, the prelimi-
nary census reports still show
that the total increase in the
farm population taking the
country as whole, is only one
tenth of one percent.
The reports do not, of course, dis
cuss the reason for the drop in farm
population. South Dakota shows the
greatest decrease in farm population
of all the states with a decrease of
I'll percent. Connecticut, probably
because of drift back to the land
by unemployed Industrial workers
shows an increase of 1913 percent.
determination of farming operations
and large scale, corporation farming
is probably the offsetting reasons why
the back to the land" movements do
not show any greater increase In total
farm populations.
While the reports made at this time
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
SURVEY SHOWS
LIVING COSTS
Are RISING
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Report Shows That Living
Costs Are Rising Rapidly
Where Industrial Activity Is
Increased; Housing Acute.

WASHINGTON.-FP)- Effects OF
defense activity on living costs. long
feared by organized labor, were re-
ported upon for the first time April
Is by the bureau of labor statistics.
Surveying changes in the cost of
housing, food, clothing, fuel, electri-
city and ice. and housefurnishings in
five cities, the bureau found that liv-
ing costs increased noticeably during
the late fall and early winter.
Cities studied were Bridgeport,
Conn, Corpus Christi, Tex, Gadsden,
Ala, San Diego, Calf, and South
Bend, Ind These cities, 1t was be-
lieved, accurately reflected changes
that have taken place in other cities
in which there is comparable
amount of industrial activity.
In all five cities, it was discovered,
rents were raised between October IS,
1910 and January Is, 1871.
In all cities, also, considerable price
increases occurred for some goods and
other articles which are important in
the budgets of moderate-income fami-
lies with the exception of some cloth
ing for which prices were cut in the
January sales in each of the cities
except Gadsden.
Rents showed the biggest jump with
the largest increases coming in the
low rent field. All rents to all mod
crate income families in Bridgeport
went up 3.9%, in Corpus Christi, 1870,
in Gadsden, 2e6, in San Diego, 49,,
and in South Bend, 1871.
The greatest proportional increase
in rents, about 200, occurred in
homes renting for less than $40
month in October 1889.
(contfnued on page EoIIr)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
BUSINESS AS
USUAL" CARRIED
ON BY BRITAIN
Survey Said To Show Britain
Is Still Employing Millions
OF Tons of Shipping in Ordi-
nary Trade, Is Transporting
War Materials for Germany.


Although Britain admits its victory
or defeat depends on tonnage, and al
though America realizes that partici-
patton or not in bloodshed depends
on conveys, which depend on tonnage,
no one but the National Maritime I'm
ion (CIO) points to the fact that Bril-
tain is still engaged in commercial
shipping for profits.
A survey by Howard Mckenzie,
NMU organizer, claims that $500 900
tons OF British shipping is now en-
gagged in non-defense trading, in bust
ness not connected with the war.
Joseph Curran, president NMU,
writes: "For the past three month
lend of 1940) British, Norwegian and
American ships. have been carrying
high test gasoline and the best grades
of lubricating and fuel oils to Spain
We know that Spain does not con-
sumo more than one-fourth of that
oil. The rest is going to Italy and
Germany. Thus, while it is almost
unbelievable, it is fact that Italian
and German mechanical divisions are
operating by means of British oil from
Venezuela and American oil from
Texas British and American prod
ucts are helping to kill British work
ers."
Copper ingots from British copper
mines in Chile go via commercial Brit
ish ships to Germany via Spain, added
Curran.
Some 200 British 5,000-ton steam
ers are at present in the South Amer
lean commercial service, trying to
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
BIG BUSINESS
TAKES OVER
Government
By SCOTT NEARING

National defense is being organized
around the Office of Production Man
agement which is part of the execu-
tive branch of government, under the
direct control of the President. VIII.
liam S. Knudsen, until recently head
of General Motors, is In charge of the
OPM organization.
In very real sense, the OPM is
at the moment the most important
single governmental unit, since it is
directly responsible, not only for
spending the largest sums of money
ever voted by congress, but for the
planning of production, the ALLEGATION
of materials and the vitality significant
relations between capital and labor.
The OPM has big job on its
hands. Not only must it coordinate
and unity the great variety of activi-
ties that come under the broad term
defense. but it must introduce some
measure of economic planning and
scientific organization into business
system built along competitive lines.
A task of such magnitude requires
very large staff of experts.
The OPM has drawn its experts
chiefly from the ranks of business
executives and those Immediately as
sociated with the direction of business
activities. A recently published list
of 40 of Knudsen's assistants in
cludes the president of Libby Owens
Glass Co., the general controller of
General Electric, the president of
Proctor & Gamble, the president of
the j. G. White Engineering Co., a
vice president of A. T. & T. the sales
manager of Bethlehem Steel, plus a
great variety of equally important
contacts with other businesses.
Knudsen serves without salary as
director-general of OPM. The lao
staff members whose names were
listed in the recent statement are also
dollar-a-year men. That is, they have
their expenses paid by the federal
government while they are engaged
on OPM affairs. Meanwhile their
salaries are paid by the business or
SdlildtloHo WIN Which tHoy dix Soh7
nected
Dollar-a-year men are not elected
by the American voters They are
not paid out of the public treasury.
Yet they are performing some of the
most important tasks of the federal
government.
For the second time in this gen.
Grafton men on the payrolls of Amer
lean big business have moved into
Washington and taken over the task
Of directing the federal government.
After World War | they retired some
what reluctantly to their respective
business offices.
At the end of World War II, will
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
farm TAXES
FOUND TO BE
REGRESSIvE

AMES, Iowa.-A series of studies
recently completed by 30 of Iowa's
1000 county agricultural planning
committees concluded that "Tax as
sessments on farm land are never
(well, hardly ever) closely related to
the productive value of the land"
They discovered:
81. Very little relationship between
assessed value and productivity.
20 Only slightly more relationship
between assessed value and sale
value, and
49, Without exception a pronounced
tendency for all land to be assessed
very near a predetermined township
average value"
Good land was found to bear much
less tax burden in proportion to its
income-producing capacity than poor
land. Where good land is assessed
at anywhere from 40 percent to 65
percent of its sale value, poor land
in some cases has been found to have
been assessed as much as 500 percent
of it's sale value" Moreover, high
value lands in northern Iowa are UNI
der-assessed compared with the poor
quality land in southern Iowa"
This concern with the tax problem
may seem like locking the barn after
the horse is stolen, since, according
to the 1910 Census, 47.6 percent of
Iowa farms were already operated by
tenants. From 1880 to 1910 over 5000
farmers were foreclosed and lost their
farms because of failure to pay de-
taxes alone.
Nevertheless, many of the S8,206
full owners in Iowa In 1910 would
benefit greatly from more equitable
tax system. While taxes based on
ability to pay. that is income tax,
would be the fairest type, such farm
ers would find some relief merely in
a method of assessment reflecting
the productivity of their land.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
LET'S SPEED UP

Stockholders the Educational Cooperative Publishing
Dear Friends
thought just letter folks would be enough and
here I've been writing you for several weeks it's
don't help do the Job of finishing
building and improving grounds It's just because
don't get around to sending dollar Let's this
job this space I'm every week be
something else; something that you'd rather read
The Cascade Trades and Labor Assembly really
appeal organizations and Farmers organza-
The Assembly contributed $40 bought
20 subscriptions to The Peoples Voice Thanks whole lot
boys expect other organizations will follow as
they have meeting they Anyhow the Cascade
Assembly has a mark for them to shoot at
The contributors added to the list below We still
have to fill Help this don't like
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
Strike-Bound Plants Show Huge
Prnfits. Bad Labor Policies

Profits; Bad Labor Policies
On March 81, the Labor Division o.
OPM compiled a list of all strikes
that had occurred in so-called defense
industries. The list was compiled al
the request of Chairman Vinson Of
the house naval affairs committee
who wanted it to bolster his plea fol
passage of restrictive labor legisla
ton.
Were Chairman Vinson really inter
ested in the causes of strikes, a study
of this list of employers would afford
him an excellent opportunity. He
would find, almost without exception
that strikes have occurred in those
industrial establishments that, while
enioyinq exorbitant profits as the re-
suit of the national emergency, main
tain. nevertheless, labor policies
amonq the most backward In the en-.
tire country. He would find here a
group of employers who have been
Haunting the national labor relations
act: who have repeatedly been cited
before the NLRB for vicious labor
practices, and who have been found
entity in decisions handed down by
the board.
yinson might do well to consult
Moody's Industrials and Standard
Statistics to find out whether these
firms can afford to pay their work
ers decent wages. In that connection
he would find that: Bethlehem Steel
increased its net profits from $24,63S,-
384 in. 1889 to $4S,677 524 in 1910; In
ternational Harvester from $3,S76,Slo
to $22, 1926, ITO; Curtis Wright from 3d.
21S,25S to s15,746,S74; Allis-Chalmers
from s3.719,546 to $5,O51,44O; Bah
cock & Wilcox from $1,16S,796 to So
5SS.199; Aluminium Company of Amer
lea from $36,633,389 to s44,l46,2sI;
Crucible Steel from $2,S03,596 to So,-
23O,1SO; Jones & Laughlin from s5,-
1894 to $10,277, 029; Youngstown
Steel from S5,O04,4S4 to $10,S15,468;
Todd Shipyards from $895,642 to ST.
4OS,671; Harvil1 Diecasting Corp. from
S51,476 to $96,312 for the first nine