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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
ARMSTRONG
RESIGNS FROM
COMM TTEE
Dry Armstrong of Kalispell
Resigns From State Reorgan-
ization Committee; Gives
Reasons Which Smell Queer
Iy; Reconsiders.

Announcement of the resignation Of
Dry Armstrong of Kalispell from the
state committee on reorganization was
made in the press of the state last
Saturday AT the time the governor
stated that he would not accept Mr.
Armstrong; resignation before he had
an opportunity to confer personally
yesterday, stated that Armstrong had
reconsidered after conference with
the governor and an official state
ment would be made after the next
meeting of the state committee.
The reasons given by Mr.. Arm
strong for submitting his resignation
as carried in the press were that he
was not in harmony with the proposed
use of prison labor for the production
of goods to be used in other state
institutions as recommended by the
Griffenhagen committee, and that he
was concerned about the competition
of custodial labor with organized la
Dor.
Mr.. Armstrong; stand on this ques-
ton will, no doubt surprise some of
the representatives of organized labor
who served with him in the last legis-
lative session, and will probably COM
pletely astound the progressives gen.
orally In a compilation of the votes
of the members of the last legislative
session on II measures of great public
Dry Armstrong came out
with batting average" of nine per-
cent.
In detail, he voted as follows:
He voted for the repeal of the pri-
mary law.
He voted against authorizing munic-
qualities and counties to finance spon-
sorship of federal works projects, per-
hitting them to acquire with federal
aid much needed roads, buildings and
other improvements and provide en-
3loyment for needy citizens
He worked and voted against the
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
RUBBER co.
and FORD
in BAD
Federal Trade Commission
Charges General Tire and
Rubber Co. and Ford Motor
Co. With Misrepresentation
In Advertising.

In complaints issued against the
General Tire and Rubber company and
the Ford Motor company, both are
charged with misleading representa-
lions in their advertising.
Among the tires manufactured by
the General Tire Co. are two automo-
bile tires designated General Dual
8" and General Dual TO-" respective
ly. In advertisements in newspapers,
periodicals and trade journals, by
radio continuities, and by other means
in commerce, the complaint charges,
the respondent has represented,
among other things:
"The new General Dual s gives you
unequaled QUICK STOPPING ABIL-
ITY-Stops your car quicker at 60
in the rain than ordinary tires stop
it at so in dry weather;
General Duel los the amazing tire
that stops quicker than any other
tire and without skid, swerve or tail
spin;
"Cuts normal stopping distance in
half, and
"Year-round protection against skid
ding"
The complaint alleges that these
representations are false and mislead-
ing in that the respondents tires are
not SO constructed that an automobile
equipped with the respondents tires
ca nbe brought to stop quicker while
at speed of so miles an
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
rice OF BIG
HORN" WINS AT
STOCK SHOW
Member of Montana Legis-
lature Exhibiting Polled
Hereford Cattle at Memphis,
Tenn, Tops One Days Sale
And Wins Coveted Prize.

A justly proud and enthusiastic
visitor to the office of The Peoples
Voice last week was John B. Rice,
representative in the legislature from
Big Horn county who recently re-
ceived national recognition as Polled
Hereford breeder at livestock show
in Memphis, Tennessee, where a year
ling bull from his herd won second
prize in the open show and was sold
for $4,000, the top price paid for an
animal in the show. The bull was
purchased by Secretary B. o. Gem
mon of the American Polled Hereford
Breeders Association, who represented
buyers in South American countries
and Hawaii.
Mr.. Rices stock commanded the
highest prices in one days sale when
he sold four head at an average price
of $1,525 each.
The current issue of the American
Hereford Journal gives Mr.. Rice and
his success very favorable publicity.
Mr.. Rice has been engaged in the
breeding of Polled Hereford stock
only few years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
PARITY PAYMENTS
TOTAL Big SUM

Parity payments totaling nearly 49,
045,000 have been made to Montana
wheat producers on 23,700 applications
under the parity phase of the Triple
A program, Chairman r. j. McKenna
of the state Triple-A committee says.
These applications are about 81
percent of the 24,334 that are ex-
pected this year." he added. "a pro-
Queer has until December 81, 1941, to
file an application for payment. About
$3,285,000 will be distributed when all
payments have been made. This
means that the average application
payment will be about S137, some 81
higher than the 1910 average applica-
ton payment. Under the 1910 pro-
gram, about s3,134,000 was distributed
Ito 41,742 payees on 23,541 applica-
TONS"
Parity payments are made to wheat
producers planting within their wheat
acreage allotment to help them
achieve equality between the price
they must pay for things they buy"
McKenna explained. This year the
payment is 10 cents a bushel on the
normal yield of the acreage allotment.
In addition, cooperating farmers re-
ceive an 8-cent-a-bushel conservation
payment on the onrmal yield of the
acreage allotment. These two pay
ments, combined with the IS percent
of parity wheat loan rate, assure
growers of nearer parity price for
their wheat this fall than for many
seasons"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
Three OPINIONS
Rendered BY
ATTY. GENERAL

The following is a digest of opinions
rendered by Attorney General Bon
ner.
For the department of public well
fare on the following questions:
1. Shall silicosis payment be made
payable from the date the applica-
ton is made rather than from the
date the application is approved as
to completed documents, all docu-
ments investigation and medical ex-
aminations completed.
2. If an applicant dies between the
date of application and the time the
investigation is completed, should the
widow receive benefits from the time
of death of the applicant?
Held: An applicant for silicosis pay
ments, when determined eligible, is
entitled to payment from the date of
the application, and in the event of
his death between date of applica-
ton, and determination of eligibility,
his widow or dependent is entitled
to payment for such period
For the state fish and game warden
on the question:
have received many inquiries from
professional trappers asking if it is
legal for them to trap beaver on lands
other than their own, when the owner
of such other lands has legal permit
from this department for the taking
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
SASKATCHEWAN
BANNER COOP
PROVINCE
Article in "News for Farmer
Co-operatives" Relates in
Detail Splendid Development
OF Co-operatives in This
Province in Canada.

Claiming that about one-fourth OF
the population of Saskatchewan are
members of co-operatives and that
the membership is growing daily H.
r. Lamberton, editor of the Co-opera-
tive Consumer in Regina, in an article
in the News for Farmer Co-operatives
| for October, declares that his province
leads all of Canada in cooperative
development.
Mr.. Lamberton claims that Sas-
katchewan co-operatives possess more
than so percent of the reserves and
surplus of all co-operatives in Can
ada and that these amount of S22,-
9S6,956.
We reprint below a part of the
article by our neighbor to the north,
telling in detail about cooperative en-
terprises and their development:
Saskatchewan is headquarters for
the Wheat Pool, which in member
ship is the largest single cooperative
organization on this continent Since
its inception in 1924 the Wheat Pool
mas uduuieu l,iHOgOUO,OOU DuSueiS VI
grain, has built and paid for 1903
country elevators and 1,182 temporary
storage bins throughout the province,
and has acquired membership of
110,715 persons.
On August LIST of this year the
Wheat Pool paid out to its members
the sum of S781,000 in patronage divi-
dends, which is equal to more than
half the total value of all the COOP
erative plants and premises in the
province of Ontario Net worth of
the Pool is more than 10 million dol
lars.
In 1934-35 Saskatchewan dirt farm
ers organized the first cooperative oil
refinery in the world. It's inception
was the signal for drastic reductions
in the price of petroleum products,
yet the refinery expanded from a
small Swimming plant to one of the
most modern plants in Canada, valued
at well over half a million dollars. |
On sales of s1,58O,627 for the year
ending November 80, 1910, the Con-
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continued.
Meanwhile, under the law
passed by the last legislature,
requiring all fees collected for
services by state departments
to be deposited in the general
fund, and with a large income
from an extraordinary amount
of services performed by the
state grain testing laboratories,
all going into the general fund, a
condition is brought about where the
farmers are paying what amounts to
an extra tax for special services but
these services must be curtailed or
discontinued although the fees col
lected are ample to provide continued
and adequate services. Thus the
farmers are contributing this extra
amount to the general expenses of
the state government.
The legislature, presumably, based
the amount appropriated for these
services on an average year. How
ever, in view of the fact that during
the years of small crops and COM
paratively short harvest season. the
grain testing department had accum-
ulated substantial reserve from fees
it would appear that the leg
stature might well have considered
either reducing the amount of the
fees, or making more liberal appro-
priation for these services with the
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
INAUGURATION
OF U. PRESIDENT
DECEMBER 8

Formal inaugural ceremonies Of the
new president of the Montana State
university, DR.. Melby, are scheduled
for Monday December 8, at o'clock
p. m. in the Student Union Theater.
Formal invitations have been sent out
to a large number throughout the
state, and large attendance is ex-
pected.
The days program is as follows:
Monday, December 8, 1e41
200 p. m, Educational conference,
Organization, Management and Fis-
cal Policy in Higher Education" Sill
yer Room, Student Union.
800 p. m, Inauguration, Student
Union Theater.
9:45 pm, Inaugural Reception, Gold
Room, Student Union.
Tuesday, December 9, 1941
900 a. m, Educational conference,
Frontiers in Higher Education" Sill
yer Room, Student Union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
FAMILY SIZED RANCH"
CAN BE MADE POSSIBLE
By HJALMAR SToRLIE

For the farmer the question of land
tenure is becoming more serious every
year. More and more of the land is
falling into the hands of large specu-
lative operators, stock raisers and
wheat growers, who get the work
done by seasonal hired labor This
means not only that farmers are trac-
tored out but that small town labor
and small town business also will be
tractored out, because the large opera
tor does not need the services of fam
lilies living on the land the year
round who would buy goods and serv-
ices the year around in the small
towns.
The small town people have been
lulled to sleep by talk of tourist trade
and easy money brought into the
state by outside people coming here to
spend their vacations. But it should
be recognized that all the states are
making bid for a definitely limited
tourist trade. And the record of re-
sort business in older states shows
that very soon there are more people
depending on tourist trade than 1t
can support, SO that sooner or later
these people find themselves trying
to make living if not by taking in
each others beer while they brag
each others's beer while they brag
about the scenery. 1t is obvious that
a prosperous community cannot be
built without people; families living
permanently in the community and
to produce.
But their production must be adj
justed to the best use of the resources
Of the community. 1t is obvious that
competitive enterprise
has wasted much of our natural re-
sources by encouraging the wrong
kind of land use in many areas. The
government has been on the right
rack in its soil conservation program.
Although it must be admitted that the
program has been applied in a way
% give the large operators most of
he rewards for compliance with the
.erms of the program. 1t is sound
policy for the government to remove
rom cultivation sub-marginal wheat
and and restore it to grass and to
the ranges into districts that
IAN be put under long term program
If range management.
But this basically sound program
las also worked out in Montana for |
he benefit primarily of the large
cale speculator in stockraising. Mon |
ana has been from the beginning a
)lace where the great stockraising
corporations have been intrenched;
renee when the department of in
erior took over the administration
f the grazing districts under the Tay-
or grazing act, including both the
Id public domain and the sub-mar-
.inal land repurchased by the soil
observation service under the Bank
ead-Jones act. The most influential
tockmen the government agents had
0 deal with were the strongly en-
renched old line bonanza operators
is easy to see that the program
ould not have been begun at all had
here been serious attempt to divide
p the ranges of the big fellows and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
STATE film
DEVELOPED
Visual Aids in Education
Division of the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction
Shows Progress by Accumu-
lation of Large Film Library.

Listing 1879 films available for rent
al by the schools of the state, the
new department of visual Aids in
Education" has issued a catalog de-
scriptive of the films, by whom pro-
duced and detailing their educational
features.
An analysis of the films listed
shows that they cover 81 general sub
jects. The films run from one reel
to three, most of them being sound
films.
The new division of Visual Educa-
ton" in the department of public in
struction under Miss Elizabeth Ire
land, superintendent of public instruc-
ton, was established by an act of the
last legislative assembly. With only
small annual appropriation with
which to work, notable progress in
the development of an effective IL
brary has been achieved.
Harry Norton, appointed by Miss
Ireland, is at the head of the new
department.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. I. HARRIS

playing the nazi game.
AS long as the nazi Zine" remains
what it is, an investigator assigned
to find nazis in the government serv-
ice is, to put it mildly, up against a
mans size job.
Nazi business men have adopted the
device of having few Jewish en-
ployes in order to conceal their nazi
affiliations. They call this Jewish
front" tactic. In recent case, a
nazi business firm employed three
Jewish persons, which fact, the head
of the firm insisted, was conclusive
proof that he was anti-Hitler. He
didn't fool the investigators, however.
Still in Lethargy
1t is obvious to observers here that
neither the army nor the navy pro-
curement divisions are fully alive to
the dangers of unemployment and
bankruptcies of small business that
may result from SPAB priorities rul-
ings affecting civilian production.
These divisions are continuing their
old practice of letting defense con-
tracts to the few large firms with
whom they have always done bust
ness, without following through to see
to it that sub-contracts are let out to
smaller firms. Defense orders are
thus continuing to pile up-and civil
liam life suffers.
The inevitable reply of these pro-
officers to criticism of their
methods is that they are still waiting
to be told what the defense program
is Once told, they say, they will
map their plans accordingly. Evident
ly, the man on the street understands
what has to be done better than some
of these fellows. It's hard to say
what is required to shake them out
of their lethargy.
The situation is somewhat analag-
GUS to that which existed In Great
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"Weeding" Out the Nazis

"Weeding" Out the Nazis
An effort finally is being made to
weed the nazis out of government
service-but progress is being made
at something less than snaiPs pace.
Principal reason why progress is SO
slow is that the nazis have adopted
natures laws of protective coloring to
hide themselves They are hard to
find.
The nazis here don't act and talk
and operate as nazis at all; they are
good America Firsters = 100 percent
Americans who think of the interests
of America, first, last, and all the
time.
You never hear a nazi employed in
the government service defend Hitler
and his works-not unless you catch
him off guard. He even tells you
that he disapproves of some of Hit
ler's professionalism for ex-
ample. And he doesn't even denounce
the British with nearly as much We
hemence as many an anti-Britisher
who isn't nazi.
Government Investigators are be-
ginning to distinguish the line" but
proof is most difficult because of its
similarity with that of the isolationist
groups. This is just one of the age
old European squabbles, which Euro
peans will have to settle for them
selves. America cannot become the
big policeman for the entire world.
We will lose our democracy at home
if we try to save democracy abroad.
Don't worry too much about Hitler,
because the German people will take
care of him in due time.
Currently, the nazis in this country
are not disseminators of nazi theology,
but rather of nazi propaganda, whose
present objective is to interfere with
the program Of aid to those fighting
Hitler. But not few Americans who
aren't nazis at all, nor even naz1 SYM
pathizers, are disseminators OF the
same kind Of propaganda, unwittingly
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12

are recommended because the
wage position of railroad work
ers lags behind that of other
industrial workers.
Yet it's recommendation for nom
operating workers amounts to less
than the rise in the cost of living
which, by bureau of labor statistics
figures, has risen 9.79o between Aug
ust 1889 and September 1941 and is
due to go still higher.
The board says that it was afraid
to recommend bigger increases for
fear of initiation yet, in virtually the
same breath, it states that the rail
roads will probably shift the entire
burden of the wage increases to the
shippers and the public and it notes
with approval that shift.
1t views with complacency the shift
of this burden despite the fact that
the net income of all railroads this
year is expected to be about $540000,-
900. The temporary wage increases
recommended by the board would cost
the railroads about $90000,0O0 this
year and about $180,000,000 next year.
Included in the boards report is a
long discussion of the ability of the
railroads to pay increased wages in
which conclusions are carefully
avoided, in which it is noted that
some railroads make more money
than other railroads, and in which it
is stated that railroads cannot expect
to absorb more than a part of the in
crease.
The upshot of this discussion is that
it doesn't make any difference wheth-
er the railroads can afford to pay
wage increases but increased wages
should not be recommended because
of the fear of initiation.
To the railroad worker, not versed
in the intricacies of professional eco
nomics, it would seem logical to as
sumo that If the railroads could afford |
the increase there would be no need |
to fear rising prices caused by in
creased freight and passenger rates.
"The hard problem facing this board |
is how to square justice to the rail- !
road employees with the national in
terest," the report said. Insofar as
the national interest requires a
healthy, efficient and justly treated
labor force operating the railroads in
these trying times, there is no con-
flict.
But insofar as the national interest
requires that initiation be checked,
only vigorous policy by the federal
government can save this board from
the charge that it melted out justice
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
BUTTE ""
CLUB ADOPTS
RESOLUTION

BUTTE.-Respond to the speech
of Sen. Burton X. Wheelers in the
senate against the amendments to the
Neutrality act which would enable
merchantmen to arm and travel in
combat zones, the Butte V for Victory
club initiated petition asking
Wheeler to resign and sent letters to
Montana's congressional delegation
requesting them to amend the Neu-
trality act to enable the U. S. to send
complete and sufficient aid to those
fighting Hitlerism.
The action was taken at the regu-
lar meeting of the club held at the
Miners Union hall last week.
About 200 people have already
signed the petition. The full text of
the petition follows
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler
Washington, D. c.
Sir:
We, the undersigned residents of
Montana, are opposed to fascism and
Hitlerism. Fascism destroys all rights
of the people: freedom of speech and
assemblage, freedom Of religion, the
right of labor to organize into free
trade unions, the right of the farmer
to organize into co-operatives. 1t
monopoly and wipes out
small businessmen. 1t enslaves wom-
en- and brutalizes youth. It is the
opposite of everything our country
If Hitler wins the war in Europe,
fascism everywhere will be immeas-
stronger and democracy in
finitely weaker. If Hitler succeeds in
his present campaigns, American Sc
curity will be Immediately threatened;
our beloved country would stand alone
surrounded by fascist enemies.
We are aware that you have OPP
posed every step of our government
to strengthen these peoples who are
fighting Hitlerism. We are also aware
that in your last election campaign
you stated that you favored the defeat
Of Hitler and announced that you sup
ported aid to the Allies. Today, in
to those announcements
If yours during the elections of 1910,
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SCHOOLS MUST
TEACH ANOTHER
Way OF LIFE
DR.. Kallen Says Liberty of
Spirit Must Come Before an
Economy of Abundance"
And New Order Cannot
Start With a "Clean Slate"

NEW YORK. - Liberty of spirit
must come before an economy OF
abundance" stated DR.. Horace Kallen
in introducing Francis Hackett, prin-
cipal speaker at the annual meeting
of Eastern Cooperative League at
Columbia University November and
2. The author of 81 Chose Denmark"
and numerous biographies and his
tories developed the theme first pre-
scented by Professor Kallen in urging
the 300 persons who heard after-din-
ner speeches to recognize the power
of the spirit in producing realities
no less manifest than the brutalities
now inflicted upon Denmark and other
civilized nations of the world
"Sir Horace Plunkett attempted I'M
to build a cooperative
in Ireland based simply on
and economics" said Mr..
Hackett. "He discovered to his
that in Denmark it was
recognized that a program of culture
must precede one Of agriculture. The
folk schools Of Denmark first of all
give the young people sense of COM
munity interest so that they under
take social reforms with mutual con-
fidence. In Denmark the community
is the instructor Of the state"
1.-THE Danes failed to recognize the
need for dealing with the world of
hate and oppression and they shut
their eyes to the fact that hate could
collide with them. They are now
ike reed that has been bent but
not broken, for their roots are firmly
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