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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
By Their Record We Shall Know Them

present session of the Montana legislature completes
its term the public has chance review it's accomplishments
While there group public doing
their keep faith with Montana they however
the minority when it buckng the Corporation
troled' legislature of 1941.
Notable among the victories the corporations
Scosis bill which awarded pension to those stricken with
this dread disease On the face of this may like
very good idea for the corporations who that
later such compensation would have to be paid
therefore they to it that the whole state of Montana
should bill instead of placing the responsibility upon
themselves where ghtfuy belongs for scosis
contracted in the and melters caused through dust
the system.
Another good corporations which was assened
the killing of H. 270 This would have taxed the big
utility companies the valuation they basis
for fixing their rates to the Both Representatives
Fred and Dahqus OF Valley county voted for this bill and
against the corporations but they and their
outnumbered and the bill killed.
Various labor bills summarily killed This be
expected than the farmers of
getting through this session the legislature
such received K of the big interests
The word economy often during the In
the interests of economyso toldthe legislature
the membership of the house H. This supposed
the taxpayers $4,000 every years In reality
the Corporations desired this for the smaller member
ship the less members takes to line up order get
majority We surprised that they did the mem
bership still could have been easily done with the
Corporation TOOLS Had the legislature properly
in the regular manner Valley county would
have received an additional representative making its total
three
This economy-minded legislature that saved
payers Montana $4,000 every years
pcnaized Valley county, turned right to
take S5000000 $10000000 every years
of the sadly depleted highway
for advertising Montana in order to bring tourist
enue" No in the state of Montana benefits much
from tourist trade as do the big corporations who own the
gasoline OIL railroads and big hotels AS consequence of
the of this advertising bill there will be
less money in the highway funds each This amount
would long toward constructing market
roads.
OF the supporters of this huge advertising say
tourists the gasoline sold and the
taken in. We reply that the gas sold
the corporations exhorban Montana prices
money they make and if advertising tourists will
heir business then would be good business
pay for it themselves without loong the
highway funds.
The also killed the drivers license bill Such bill
this long been the goal of those desired
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12

down highway accidents The of the bill was to
keep off the highway when such unfit
through physical defects mental incompet
Such people not only to themselves but
others turned loose at the wheel of modern
Now that this drivers license bill has been
killed there still nothing hopeless mbecie from
buying permit and operating the highway.
mental physical attributes do not enter IN the picture
until after accident Then they not be
restrained from driving.
taught this session of the legislature plainly
all The big interests properly
ganized and the others not Undoubtedly when the
go Helena those who voted against the best
constituents will have their abi ready
will settle down to do fence fixing
that they be returned two from and
the opportunity to sell out again with
reelected then the public itself
still has in this country the opportunity of
terng kicks through the ballot boxGasgow Messenger
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
An Explanation

We have discussed the legislative assembly while II
and still discussing and continue to dis
it's shortcomings the results of them become increasing
apparent In these discussions speak Of the assembly
body without reference to individuals. We have
tended and convinced that the results show conclusive
y that the majority in both houses willing tools of the
spcial interests of the state.
We are ready willing and glad indeed state that there
members of both houses who worked treess against
the dscouragng Odds the people of the state
They proved themselves intelligent courageous independent
and to these and the lone the lower house
the credit Of maintaining check the rthessnes
of the maores for the most braness stooges of the
Corporations.
We salute the brave little band of independent members of
the We pity the stued souls
if any-of the Others
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
In Extre1nis

day the session of the legislature
of death agony. When the lower house
passed appropriation and they reached the
finance and claims committee of the senate some adding ma
chine must available from undiscovered
source figures added up column show
ing the total of appropriations made and another column show
ing anticipated income And the two failed balance
by half million of dollars and getting close to the
time to adjourn. Something had to be done
the started to the pairing knife quite Justify
clients didn't have effective
lobby and little criticism need be expected from the ACM
pany Montana Taxpayers League to white
off 100000 of the annual appropriation from them Let's
Where white off more? On, yes! Here
has appropriated $4,000 to the
victims scoss WE'LL of the ordinary taxpayer the
farmer the aborer the professional and the ordinary
for these fellows who have contracted
the while helping produce the profit millions for the
ACM company But $4,000 should be all they entitled
to- That saved another $4,000 Small, but-you know
pennies make dollars.
Next their eagle discovered another possibility The
aged teachers would just have to get along with the
pensions that they had though generally
recognized has been little the bennum May
be of them will die the that still exist (not ve
get by some
they continue the list of appropriations for
They discover that the Water Conservation Board
has had $4,000 for the past bennum They srop
the pairing knife and op off $24OO00 of that There aren't
farmers who for water for their lands around it's
Of there lawyers and other highly paid
employees around but the 100000 will
them they made the appropriation that and
behold the blessed budget balanced Practically
speaking anyhow still little difference of
S150000 but the adding machine probably out of
killer, anyhow.
be that some of the water users may something
say the Senators who supposed repre-
these and other people,
in the not going to acclaim their craftsmanship as
the cut in the appropriation for the water
servaton board
There have board
has shown lack of consideration in spending Most
of the people of the state would probably have liked to have
had it's past operations investigated and overhaung done
administration. Letting that however, the obstinate
remains that cuaing the appropriation prevents the
completion of Is and large number of smaller
utilization projects and affects about 100000
Monanas greatest And it follows, quite
naturally that this will affect the well being OF quite few
Montana citizens Also
the proverba hob with the state reclamation
effectively curtas the development of that
cooperation with the federal Moreover
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12

about perfect example of being wise and
pound foolish from business standpoint.
The reduced appropriation will certainly prevent ditch
which would make possible for the state to cash
in investments already made by the sale of water to ranch
for it. And this investment the last five
adds about IL million dollars Call that "hay you
want to but small rate of interest that amount it
had been possible through ditch extensions and
sale of would have certainly amounted in the
next two years than the necessary cost
What do you think of it? We'd like to know
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12


some degree at least, effectively.
Missoula, Mont, March s, 1871
Editor OF The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont.
| Dear Sir:
l hope this letter does not meet
with the same fate my last one did
This is an open letter to State Sen
ator Mahoney from Garfield county.
When he was given free radio time
to talk of the happenings in the legis-
lature and tell what he had done for
the betterment Of the state and the
people, (maybe he had nothing to telD
he took advantage of the time to talk
| for Wheeler. | would like to ask Mr..
Mahoney if Wheeler didn't write that
speech for him to deliver? 1t sounds
just like him always praising himself.
have heard parts of it spoken from
Wheeler's own mouth. He is so jeal-
GUS because he is defeated in every
bucking contest he enters. AS for
him winning the court fight, you are
mistaken. The man that gets what
he goes after is always the winner
and the President did just that. Not
by the help Of congress but by the
help Of God. The Lord laid the plans
so nice for him to put new men in
the court so easy there was nothing
to it.
And the Bible says: The Lord doeth
all things we'll: l prayed then that
he would be able to replace several
more of those ancient gentlemen be-
fore he left the capitol and it appears
my prayer is being answered. Then
Wheeler was defeated before he got
started to the Chicago convention, and
also when the President installed two
thorobreds in the cabinet. Burtie
would like to have occupied one of
the stalls but F. D. was wise enough
to know the bronc was not big enough
to carry the load Furthermore he
has bad habit of bucking and man
can not accomplish anything without
a steady puller. Then he seems to
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and the subject matter discussed. to
think 1t is time to begin training men
and building war equipment after war
has been declared Then he can blame
the President for not being prepared
as he has been doing for the past
year.
For he says: No need to enlarge our
army and navy any now. And that
Hitler can't bring his troops across
three thousand miles of water. Yet
he is so sure Roosevelt is going to
send ours over there.
Is the pond wider one way than
the other? Besides Hitler doesn't
have to send his over here, when he
gets ready all he has to do is push
the button and the fire works is on.
think Senator Murray painted the
picture so plain the other night that
any person with good common sense
could not fail to see what would hap
pen to the western hemisphere If
Hitler wins the war even If we are
never attacked
(But I see Murray's fate in 1912
Afghan and Jerry O'Connell, if posi-
ble.)
Yet last summer Wheeler didn't
want to give any aid to Britain, said
the less aid they got the sooner the
war would end. That could mean
only one thing and that is that Hitler
would win If Wheeler wants him to
win, he should go over there and
help him. He is considered good
fighter and we could spare him,
hope.
Nobody wants war but we don't al
ways get everything the way we want
1t.
Now the next time Mr.. Mahoney
asks the people Of Garfield county
to vote for him, maybe they will re-
member that he was more interested
in Wheeler than in the legislature.
Now little note to the editor:
While l know the bill to repeal the
Primary election law was killed and
you say to vote "a" is in favor of
the people to select their candidates.
While the measure was to repeal the
law, l should think GA would be in
favor of the measure and be for re-
peal
VIII you please untangle that?
l. E. DUNCAN
An "a" vote as recorded was vote
against the measure-Ed.
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the bill gives the President in lending
money.
The thing is very simple. The
British, for example, are very badly
in need of 100000, 000-and bills of
that denomination aren't hanging
from either cherry or apple trees.
"Okay," says FDR to the British, you
can have the money, but only on
condition that you pass some New
Deal legislation-a wage-hour law, a
Wagner act, social security act, and
similar legislation" That puts them
right up against the gun. But they
plead that they haven't got anybody
who can draft those kind of laws.
Well, that little matter is looked after
beforehand Ben Cohen, legal adviser
to Ambassador Winant, is right there
to do the drafting for them. He is
an expert at it. So now we know
why Ben Cohen was sent along with
Winant!
And thus Britain goes New Deal.
But that's not ALL Britain is just
a stepping stone. After the war (and
it is assumed that Britain wins the
war; FDR, through control of Uncle
Sans purse strings, can still call the
tune that the European fiddler will
play-and it will be New Deal tune.
Europe, the same as Britain, will need
American money And so it will go
until the New Deal encircles the
globe.
Result: Instead of nazi revoIu-
tion enguIfing the world, It will be
New Deal revoIution-and we are not
certain which is more anathema to
these boys. The only thing that is
wrong with the picture is that most
of the European countries, including
Britain, have more New Deal laws
than has the United States of Amer
lea.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12
Want Congressional Inquiry
OF Agricultural Year Book

Recent outburst in Congress against
the 1910 Agricultural Year Book,
Farmers in a Changing World"
branding it as subversive and Krem-
lin-inspired, will not subside. House
conservatives are talking about Con-
gressional inquiry of the book and its
authors to determine whether Joe
StaIin's boys didn't have hand in
its preparation.
That's what a thought-provoking
book for the farmers will do-inci-
dentally the first time that the Agri-
cultural Year Book has gone in for
airing fundamental social and econom-
ic problems of the farmer. The chap
ter entitled, Cultural AnthOpology
and Modern Age" by two University
of Chicago professors, certainly sounds
subversive. Didn't j. Edgar Hoover
write the NLRB warning them of the
communistic tendencies of a field ex-
aminer because he was interested in
anthropologyl Why drill into the
heads Of farmers, as Milo Perkins
does, that there are 30,000,000 under
fed but potentially good customers for
farm products, should they ever be
able to get enough to eat! And that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-12

chapter on Agricultural SURPRISES
and Nutritional Deficits" by three
department scientists, might put
strange ideas in the mind of the farm
er that all is not as it should be with
our economic system.
The book challenges the farmer to
do some real thinking = AND THE
EXERCISE OF GRAY MATTER is
STRICTLY vERBOTTEN.
Nazis Dictate Jap Notes?
The State Department is said to
have received some rather disturbing
confidential reports of what is trans
piring in the Far East, currently the
place of greatest danger One Of these
reports is that the notes of the Japa-
nese foreign minister have been writ
ten by his German advisers. This
would indicate that the nazis play an
important part in directing Japanese
foreign policy.
Germany, it is said, having decided
that the United States will come into
the war sooner or later, wants to
bring about an armed clash between
the United States and Japan in order
to divert this countiy's efforts APP
parently the Japs have worked out a
common plan of action with the nazis,
and the latter are seeing u it that
they don't back OUT.
Labor Friend From "Deep South"
It's not often that labor finds a
champion on Capitol Hill from the
deep SOUTH" but Rep. Ramspeck, Ca,
has been sticking his neck out for
the worker consistently. Whether
labor in his home state has noticed
it or not lit probably has), at least
the conservatives in his district have,
and they already are laying plans to
punish him for it by grooming can
1idate to defeat him at the next cleo
Jon.
Last week Ramspeck warned his
colleagues in the House against reach
ng "hasty conclusions" from propa-
sanda circulated to discredit labor
lnions in the matter of initiation fees
ind union dues. He introduced into
he Congressional Record an article
~ Cicero Kendrick, editor of the
Journal of Labor" Atlanta, showing
low facts are either being magnified
tut of all semblance or deliberately
current Capital Chatter
Edward J. Stettinius Jr., in charge
f priorities for the Office of Pro-
uction Management had to virtually
at his own words last week when he
rdered priority of aluminium for the
ircraft industry. Some time ago,
tettinius derided those who pointed
lum, inreality the most serious bot
eneck in the program OF airplane
reduction. The shortage is due to
lie practice of the aluminium Corpor-
ton of America in restricting out
ut in order to keep up high prices
. AS the national emergency deep
IS, look to the newly-created Produc-
on Planning Board assuming an
yer greater role. Harry Hopkins
as appointed to this Board, which
itself testified to its Importance.
be Board is regarded by many as
e first step in the direction of cen
allied control of industry. The
ouse committee on unemployment,
ganized by Rep. Voorhis, California,
lring the last session of congress,
is been called together again and
IS begun new studies of the problem.
Senator Nye, North Dakota,
inks that Dorothy Thompson is a
itler-hater." If that's crime, there
9 plenty of criminals in the world
day. Everybody seems to know
lat George Washington would do II
were alive today, and they all
ote him to show that he would do
ferent things.
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You cannot control what you do not
ownI
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
Imperial Planning
Civic Promotion

IMPERIAL, Feb. GA program to
promote civic expansion in Imperial
will get underway here Saturday
night, according to Johnny Lincoln,
civic promotion committe chairman.
at a dance at the Veteran Memorial
hall.
The dance is the first in series
of activities planned to raise money
for construction of a civic center
and promote the interest in COM
munity affairs, Lincoln said Ro-
deos, street dances, and city carni-
walls are planned as additional pro-
grams.
All organizations of the city have
cooperated in the program, Lincoln
said. Other committeeman include,
E. Norwood of the American Legion,
Pete Brooks of the city council,
Bill Burton of the police depart
ment, Ben Hudgins of the fire
depart. Mrs. E. B. Ingle of the
legion auxiliary, Jess Bishop of
the chamber and J. Andres of the
Lions club.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
SHIPPERS HAND Clio COUNTER PROPOSAL
Bomber Crashes

LOVELOCK New, Feb 6. (UP)-A railroad section
foreman reported to the Pershing county sheriff today
he "a large arplane" crash and burst into flames
Ragged Top mountain six miles south of Lovelock.
AS deputies and ambulance raced to the
of the reported crash said large bomber
with two officers and six enlisted men aboard en-
route Nevada at the time of the report.
The control tower at Salt Lake airport said it under
stood there had been report from the eastbound
bomber since it reached the Loveock
At Sacramento the U. S. army air depot headquarters
said the bomber left there at 28 psf for Lowry field
Denver. 1t BIZ flying fortress which being
servced for duty in Alaska.
United Airlines, which operates its mainner planes
Nevada said had two planes in that this
port received from the Southern Pacific section
foreman.
The Salk Lake airport control tower said at Ito
pm. MIST that the army plane should have passed
Salt Lake City at and must be presumed def
nitely overdue.
The operations officer at the Salt Lake army air
confirmed that the bomber overdue.
The Lovelock airport reported there was "twn-
motored plane over the mountains and apparently in
trouble this morning.
Following this report James Kjedsen rancher in
operating Friedman ranch As miles southwest of Love-
lock, said he and ranch hand Stanley Curtis heard
plane, apparently in trouble that area.
Curtis told Kjeldsen he believed he the plane
crash about 16 miles from the ranch. Keldsen set
to investigate.
While the section foremans report to the sheriff set
the crash only six miles south of Loveock there
great possibility he erred in the distance.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
Roosevelt Chooses
COP Laborite as
Envoy to London
Expert in Social
Problems to Represent
u. S. i'm Great Britain

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.
(UP) - President Roosevelt
today nominated John Gil
bert Winant, former Repub
lican governor Of NewHamp-
shire and specialist in labor and
social problems, as Americas new
ambassador to London during this
crucial period in British history.
The long expected nomination of
Winant to succeed Joseph P. Ken
nedy topped a list of diplomatic
shifts which the president sent to
the senate. These included:
Anthony j. DreXel Biddle, jr., OF
Pennsylvania, former ambassador to
Poland, as ambassador in London
to the refugee governments of Po-
land, Belgium, Norway and the
Netherlands.
Ambassador to China Nelson T.
Johnson, to be minister to Australia.
Clarence f. Gauss now minister
to Australia, to be ambassador to
China.
William Dawson, now ambassador
to Panama, to be ambassador to
Uruguay.
Edwin G. Wilson, now minister to
Uruguay, to be ambassador to Pan
anna.
Bert Fish, now minister to Egypt,
to be minister to Portugal.
Alexander Kirk, now counselor of
the U. S. embassy at Rome, TO be
minister to Egypt.
Herbert c. Pell, now minister to
Portugal, to be minister to Hungary
J. Pierpont Moffatt, minister to
Canada, will also take on the duties
as minister to the government OF
Luxembourg, which has been estab-
liShed in Canada.
Selection of a man of Winant's
type as envoy to London indicated
the emphasis the administration is
giving to the problem of long range
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
Ballot
Proves
HoItvine Returns
Veteran Director
By S+ronsVote

Mark Rose, the ''great dis
senter" of recent years on
the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict board, was ready Thurs
day for his sixth consecutive
term as director.
Rose rode back into office on a
powerful 200 vote majority over
Mayor Claude Shaw in the Holtville
division while Justice of the Peace
Frank Grubel of Calipatria was
edging to victory over four other
candidates in the northend
Only other board seat up for
election was in Calexico where
Evan T. Hewes was unopposed for
third term He was accorded
substantial confidence vote in We'd
nesdays balloting
On March l w. E. Young, north
end director who declined to run
for reelection, will meet for the last
time as a director The board will
adjourn at noon and in the after
noOf The new directors take office.
In this case. the only new face
around the board table will be Cru
bells.
Voters of both the northend and
the Holtville divisions were SUBJ
jected to strong campaigning, as
evidenced by the more than rs per
cent vote that turned out in both
divisions. Despite an unofficial pre-
election poll that favored Shaw,
Holtville citizens went down the line
so strongly for Rose that he failed
to carry majority in only single
precinct-Buena Vista, where Rose
polled 81 to Shaw's 68. Even in
the urban section where Shaw reg
ularly piles up Overwhelming sup
port for council office and where
he was expected to show strength.
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