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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
CERTIFICATES
REQUIRED OF
ALI. MINORS

Rules laid down by the Child Blu
reau of the U. S. department Of labor
require every minor under Fl years
of age to secure from the state
certificate setting forth his or her ex-
act age, and employment of minor
without such certificate is against the
law. The state department of labor
is authorized to issue the certificates
under an agreement with the federal
bureau.
Special rules have been made for
the employment of children in the
beet fields Of the state. Minors who
have reached the age of IA years may
be so employed provided that they
have a certificate from their super
intendent of schools permitting them
to be absent from their school. Gene
Burris, commissioner of labor for
Montana stressed the importance of
observance of this requirement of
certificate from the school superin-
tendent by employers of minors for
work in the beet fields.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

The same guy that / told you about
couple of weeks ago that wrote a
letter to the editor and complained
something about not being on the in
side of the blue ruin business and
claimed the governor was monopoliz-
ing it, wrote again this week and now
he wants to debate with a representa-
tive of the paper or the governor.
Well, the editor among other things
is rotten public speaker, and as
he has heard me few times when |
was really warmed up, he turned the
challenge over to me. The only
trouble is this secretary gimmick for
got to sign his name again and just
signed it with the name of his or
ganization. So / guess he means his
wants to debate, | ac-
cept the challenge for the Anal
Association of Bar Flies and
wen meet his organization any time
for a debating or singing match for
two cases (quarts) of that Red Lodge
blue ruin that the guy has to sell and
the state don't seem to want. Then
well be helping out a state enter
prise too, and the kind of manufac-
turing that ought to be encouraged
in the state. The only reservation
Is that if it's to be singing match,
we have notice so that the AABF
has time to oil up their vocal chords.
If this bird is as hungry for scrap
as guy might get the idea he is
from reading his letters, I'd like to
know what he looks like before /
make him proposition that / got in
mind. II | knew or if he'd let any
body know who he is l could get an
dea of his chest measure-I don't
care about his head measure because
can guess at that-so l could know
t he can really battle or just talk
about it. Because what l want to do
s going to take regular Drawn. Here's
he idea, but he'll have to answer
his and sign his right name and not
fish out any more phony addresses:
| want to start a revolution. This
lew tax bill that those CATERS back
n Washington passed that plastered
more taxes on all kinds of wassail
8 just going miles to far, and the
AABF is ready to join up with this
,immick's organization and just go to
my kind of lengths; short of doing
without any giggle juice, Of course.
So come on brothers, let's see what
Continued on Page Four
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hot wheat"
May BE SOLD
PENALTY-FREE

| Montana wheat producers preparing
to seed their 1912 crop today were re-
minded by R. J. McKenna, state Tri-
cess wheat stored under 1941 market
ing quota provisions may be released
for penalty-free marketing by pro-
portionate understanding of 1912
wheat acreage allotments.
Present Triple-A regulations" Nc
Kenna explained, provide for the re-
elase of excess wheat equal to the
normal yield of any part of the 1912
wheat allotment which is not seeded
Release may be made as soon as all
wheat seeding for 1912 is completed
and measurements made to determine
how much the allotment is under
seeded This means that excess wheat
may be released after fall seeding if
no spring wheat is to be seeded.
However, only excess wheat stored
to postpone penalty payment will be
released"
"a 1912 supply of wheat estimated
at 300 million bushels in excess of
marketing and reserve requirements
has already necessitated proclamation
of marketing quotas for 1912" Nc
Kenna said Operators should con-
slider this in planning next years
farming and arrange to stay within
their allotments. Quota, wheat loan
and allotment provisions of the Triple
A program are largely responsible for
the present parity price of wheat in
the face of record-breaking SURPRISES.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
CONSENT DECREE"IN OIL
TRUST SUIT Being SOUGHT
Reports Indicate That Thurman Arnold
Under Pressure From Friends of the Oil
Trusts in the Defense Council Is Working
To Secure Consent Decree" Removing
Threat Against the Monopoly.

WASHINGTON Oil and the OF
trust companies are doing very, very
we'll during this troublesome nationa
de.s1nse period. In some respects
there is a reason for the contention
oft expressed in congress that the oil
| trust has grown stronger and gained
bit more influence and control in
government than it had in times OF
peace, if that is possible.
The latest example of oil trust
power is found in the agreement just
about completed through which the
oil trust will escape the threat from
the government of a billion dollar
damage suit.
The oil trust always has owned oil
pipe lines. These pipe lines are sup
posed to be common carriers" which
should mean they were just as avail
able to Independent oil producers and
refiners as railroad coach is to any
passenger. But in fact, the oil trust
used the pipe lines as they wished
and permitted Independents to use
them only when the trust wished
Everyone in government bureaus as
ISOLATED with the oil industry has
has done anything about it. The oil
companies were the boss of govern
ment here as elsewhere.
Owning those big pipe lines, from
which the profits were unconscion-
able, the oil companies poured money
from one hand to another but the pipe
lines actually became more important
as weapon against Independent com
petitors than they did as profit MAX
ing enterprises. They could be used
to crush competitors. But under the
Interstate Commerce act, and the
Elkins amendments to it, transporta-
ton companies which pay or allow
rebates are guilty and the law states
the government can collect from them
three times the amount of the re-
bates paid.
Until few years ago, the oil trust
officials laughed heartily whenever a
threat was made to collect damages,
but to the amazement of oil officials,
and most newspaper men, Homer s.
first attorney general in
he Roosevelt administration, and
)ften described as a conservative
Ind politician" authorized and di-
'ected his assistants to enforce the
antitrust laws against the oil trust
Dill trust companies were convicted
Then Thurman Arnold, present assist
INT attorney general, carried on in
footsteps, until other pow
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
co. TREASURER
APPOINTED May
RUN FOR OFFICE

In an opinion rendered at the re-
quest of Fred c. Gabriel, county attor-
ney of Phillips county, Attorney Cen
eral Bonner has held that the consti-
tutional prohibition in Section 5,
Chapter SO session laws of 1897 which
provides that county treasurer shall
not be eligible to his office for the
succeeding term, does not apply in
the case of person appointed by
the county commissioners to fill out
the unexpired term of county treas
urer who has resigned.
The law, according to the opinion,
applies only to county treasurers who
have been elected and not to those
appointed to complete the unexpired
term of another.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
General Hershey's
Order Protested
By Organization

charge that the Selective Service
Administration has set itself up as "a
super labor board with power to pun
ish only one side in labor disputes"
was made this week by the Workers
Defense League, national non-partisan
agency for defense of labor's rights
in letter to Selective Service Admin
istrator Lewis B. Hershey.
In reply to a Geographic inquiry
of the League as to whether the June
9th work or fight" order was still
in effect, Gen. Lewis B. Hershey re-
piled "Order of June has not been
modified" In response, the League
sent the following letter to General
Hershey:
Dear Mr.. Hershey:
Thank you for your reply to my
telegram concerning the work or
fight" order in which you say that
the "Order of June has not been
modified" We had thought that the
cancellation of the order in the re-
cent Kearny, N. j shipyard strike in
dictated broad modification or COM
plete cancellation of the order was
contemplated.
1t is our opinion, and that of the
labor movement, that the work or
fight" order, which cancels draft de-
ferment of striking workers and
makes them liable for immediate call
into the army, is a serious infringe
ment of labor's democratic rights. 1t
makes the Selective Service Act a
club held over the heads of American
workers to prevent them from exer-
cising their legal right to cease work
when their conditions of labor become
intolerable to them. The order is in
clear violation of administrative as
surances given to labor leaders at the
time of the passage of the act-that
it would not be used to limit any of
of the usual functions of labor Or
CARNATIONS.
Local draft boards are charged with
carrying out the order, and by it's
use they can coerce labor into accept
ing whatever terms the employer may
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24

ers in the administration began to
force Arnold to desist.
Arnold is now trying to reach an
agreement with the oil trust for a
consent decree" which would end
the threat of suits from the govern
ment. Everyone knows that Arnold
was forced to agree to the consent
decree by his superiors in the Roose-
welt administration, and particularly
in the National Council of Defense
friends, and some very surprising sup
port from liberals" In the midst
of these consent decree negotiations,
up bobbed the threat of treble
damage" suit against the oil trust be-
cause of violations of the Elkins act.
Tremendous profits, paid back to oil
trust shippers who owned oil wells
and refineries as well as pipe lines,
became rebates" in fact. Some esti-
mates of damages the government
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
.C0UGHLIN
PREDICTS
NAZISM
Says National Socialists Will
Take Over Government of
The u. S. and the End of
Democracy - Probably
Wishful Thinking.

Father Charles Il. Coughlin of Royal
Oak, Mich, has long been an ardent
booster Of Adolf Hitler, but lately he
has outdone himself in his support to
the nazi regime. 1t may be that Red
Army resistance to the Germans has
made this fascist priest rather anxious
and it is perhaps i'm order to bolster
his own morale as well as that of
his stormtroop flock that he is out
shouting the nazi propaganda ministry
in praising the "feats" of the German
military forces.
In the latest issue of Social Justice,
he berates American newsmen for
failing to treat Der Fuehrer and his
war machine with sufficient respect.
He says:
1.-THE American word-warriors are
having a veritable field day in BELT
ting Adolf Hitler. Radio, movies and
newspapers vie with each other in
ridiculing the nazi fuehrer. Holding
no brief for Hitler-in spite of what
some of our best critics say-we are
inclined to suspect that the German
leader is making monkey out of
the word-warriors whose armies have
been defeated and whose boasts have
been reduced to thin air"
In the same issue of his sancti-
monious tabloid, the pro-nazi church
man observes:
Now that the Russian campaign is
decided in favor of Hitler,
British morale, which hoped for a
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
five MEN
NOW FORM
HIWAY COMM.
Law Passed by Last Session
OF the Legislature Provides
For Representatives From
Five Districts in the State to
Highway Commission.

The appointment of E. B. lizard
rock Coolidge of Great Falls as a
member of the highway commission
from District No. 3 and ]. E. Foster
of Harlowton as a member from Dis
trict No. 2, was announced today by
Governor Ford These appointments
changes the highway commission from
three to five members in conformity
with the law passed by the last legis-
lature dividing the state into five dis
tricts and providing for a member
from each of the districts.
Mr.. Coolidge, extensively engaged
in oil and gas production in the state
is favorably known all over the state
He rendered great public service as
one of the members of the first well
fare and relief board in Montana,
some years ago.
J. E. Foster is well known stock
man and served in the Montana legis-
Iative assembly some years ago.
The appointments are for four year
terms expiring July l, 1915.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
MELBY TAKES
Presidency
OF UNIVERSITY
Northwestern University
Dean of Education Accepts
And Will Assume Duties
Of Office in Very Near
Future.

DR.. Ernest o. Melby, for four years
dean of the department of education
at Northwestern University has noti-
fled the state board of education that
he has accepted the offer of the presi-
dency of the state university at Mis-
soula rendered him a week ago last
Saturday by the board
1t is expected that DR.. Melby will
actively take over the duties of the
office about October Is. The offer
was to take over Immediately on ac-
ceptance, but DR.. TMelby had some
speaking engagements to fill, which
could not be Cancelled.
DR.. Melby ranks high in the field of
education and it is expected that I'M
der his leadership, former difficulties
at the institution will be eliminated
and harmony in the faculty and pro-
gress of the university will be as
sured.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
Weather
DELAYS
HARVESTING
ISSUED Jointly by Agricultural
Marketing Service and Weather
Bureau.)


Higher temperatures and sunny
weather during the first three days
of the week ending yesterday dried
out fields and crops sufficiently so
that some harvesting and threshing
of late spring grains, beans, mustard
and alfalfa seed and haying operations
was done. Mostly cool and cloudy
weather with frequent rains near the
end of the period, however, again de-
layed all farming operations general
ly. Rainfall exceeding one inch fell
at many central stations. Snow fell
in the elevated districts. Light to
killing frosts on Monday caused some
damage to crops in scattered areas.
Considerable standing grain, grain
in shock, and some alfalfa remains to
be cut and threshed in western and
central sections, while only few
scattered fields of wheat, flax, and
other late grams remain in the east.
Much down hay was spoiled by rain
in the west Repeated cold, damp
has caused further loss to
grains. In Toole county,
is Smelling out badly and
about a week of warm, dry weather
will be required to complete the har-
vest of this crop. Corn harvest con-
tinues with average yields reported.
A considerable amount of crested
has been threshed with
good results in the extreme east-cen-
raj part.
The sugar beet crop is looking well
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
Senator Nye AS "Movie Director"

Senator Nye AS "Movie Director"
Sen. Gerald P. Nye, co-author of the
senate resolution calling for investi-
CATION of anti-Hitler propaganda by
the motion picture industry, feels
that the movies have depicted alto
gether too much brutality in portray
ing the acts of the nazis. How would
Senator Nye himself, were he mo-
ton picture director, portray some OF
these acts?
For example, how would he portray
a nazi concentration camp? Would
he depict wretched human beings suf-
fering the tortures of hell, being
whipped into unconsciousness by
Gestapo brutes, or being subjected to
other forms of unspeakable torture, or
would he show well-fed, well-groomed
contented-looking prisoners, killing
dull care by slipping at cocktails,
reading books-perhaps H1tler's Mem
Kampf" - or listening to the soft
strains of Beethoven music coming
from some unseen nazi orchestra?
And how would "Movie Director"
Nye go about the job OF depicting that
early sunrise scene in Paris the other
day when the nazis led out 10 hos
tages, ranging from Is to II years,
and shot them down in cold blood?
Would he show bleak, dismal prison
courtyard, with innocent people, ter
ror writ over their faces, being lined
I'D against a grey, stone wall, targets
of a nazi firing squad, paying for a
crime they knew nothing OF, much
less had anything to do with? Perhaps
Senator Nye would prefer to produce
an ephemeral scene, showing happy
spirits fleeting through space on their
way to a better world-the spirits ex-
pressing gratitude to their benevolent
nazi executioners for releasing them
from the woes and worries of a trou-
bled earthly existence. There is such
thing as mercy killings.
The isolationists conducting the in
vestigation into movie pictures are
fast getting themselves into hole in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
HERE ARE TWO NOS.
TO CONJURE WITH
S. 1915 AND H. j. So

Don't paste these numbers in
or in letter, and mail them to
your senators and congressman!
Senate Bill 1915, the LaFollette,
Ball, Capper bill, will amend the
Bituminous Coal act to give the
Co-ops equal rights with private
profit business. House Joint Reso-
luton So, introduced by Congress
man Voorhis, calls for the creation
Of commission including three
representatives of the Consumer
Cooperative Movement, to make
plans for the postwar crisis. Write
your congressman TODAY
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24

fare now f1ndS that JnlS same
legislature failed to make a
sufficient appropriation to full
fill the requirements of the law
passed, and payments will have
to be curtailed or means found
by the state board of examin-
ers to meet payments required
in excess Of the appropriation.
The passage of this act, providing
for payments to silicosis victims out
of the public welfare fund instead of
holding the owners of the industry
where the disease is contracted re-
sponsible, while at the same time par
ing the appropriation to the bone SO
as to not appear to be "extravagant"
with the peoples money typifies quite
accurately the class of legislators
which composed a majority group in
both the house and senate in the last
session
The legislative appropriation for
payments to silicosis victims for each
year was $4,000 and ]. B. Convery.
state welfare administrator has re-
ported to the state board of examiners
that this sum will barely meet half
of the legitimate demands upon the
department by the unfortunates.
At the present time, Administrator
Convery reported to the board of ex-
aminers that la applicants are be-
ing paid the monthly payments pro-
vided by the law, and that there are
103 applications pending. 1t is ex-
pected that the normal number to
whom payments should be made will
run about 200, and the payments for
year will total $4,000. Administra- |
ton costs were estimated at $4,000 |
and the number of examinations total |
ing about 400 at $3.50 adds up to an
other $4,000 making total amount
of $4,000 for which the great States
men" controlling the last legislative
assembly appropriated $4,000. APP
parently their arithmetic was as poor
as their consideration of the interests
of silicosis victims, the common vari-
ETY. of John Taxpayer or others than
the ACM company.
The question of what to do about
the situation has been laid in the lap
of the board of examiners and Attor-
ney General Bonner will probably be
given the job of determining what,
if anything, can be done. In an opiu-
ion already rendered on the request
of the state department of public vel !
fare, he has held zone qualified to l
payment under Chapter 5, Laws of
Continued on Page Four)
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coMMUNIQUEs
CALL FOR new
PHRASE-B00K
BY ROBERT M. YODER
I'm Chicago Daily News)

The Russo-German war has devel
phrases, and without a clear idea of
their meaning it is impossible to make
much sense out of the communicates
Here, then, is little dictionary, based
on a long and unproductive study of
the the communicates themselves.
Nothing is too good for readers of
this space.
"Disintegrate.' This is word
first used by the nazis, who an
nounced the complete 'disintegration"
of the Russians on July 10. There
upon the Russians put on many a
fierce battle, indicating that disinte-
grafton was just what the Reds
needed. Thus we find that "disinte-
grafton means something like de-
struction and immolation only far
more healthful and encouraging. AS
used by the nazi communique writer's,
it may be taken as meaning anything
from "cut to bits" to BADLY scared
Obviously, you can still run, since
the nazis announced at the same time
that they were pursuing a defeated
foe" So when the word is found in
communique, such synonyms as
murdered, whipped" or wiped
out" may be substituted, along with
defeated" captured" surrounded"
and in the pink" They may be sub
stituted but don't expect anything to
be clearer
"Annihilate" is another term intro
duced especially for the Russo-Ger-
man conflict, and this, too, is an in
teresting word. There are divisions
on both sides that have been ami
hilated not once but repeatedly, and
yet, so far as anyone knows, are doing
fine. In the past, this word has had
a somewhat definite sense, and when
one was pretty much done
for. Now it appears to mean any
thing from permanent extinction to
escape without injury.
Preserves The Germans an
early in the game that the |
Russians were down to their last re-
serves, and in the past, this would be |
he same as being almost out of man
power. What has happened, appar-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
GAS and OIL
PRODUCTION
GAINS In MONTH
Sixty Day Supply Now in
Storage and Gas Totals Also
High; Seven New CONNER
cial Wells Completed in
Kevin-Sunburst Field.

Montana oil wells produced 644,921
barrels of crude oil during August, an
increase of some 5000 barrels over
July production the Montana Railroad
and Public Service Commission re-
ported last week.
Board members Horace F. Casey,
Austin B. Middleton and Paul T.
Smith said natural gas production
totaled 1,5S9,771,OO0 cubic feet, show
ing an increase over the July aggre-
gates.
Following is a report of total crude
oil and natural gas produced by fields
Of August, 1911:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
644,921.29 9,711,OOO

Kevin-Sunburst developments in
cluded seven completed commercial
wells, while the boards oil and gas
engineer added "that the production
figures for this field represent 1870
of its potential"
Oil storage in August was approx
mately 100000 barrels, and does not
represent oil in transit. Board mem
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24

Showing loss to Montana of total of 8741 farms during
the period of 93540 statistics of the u S. bureau of
reveal that all types of farms in size from three
900 decreased in number in Montana by 874 while
those 10000 increased showing decided trend
ward large scale Corporation farming and indicating the
disruption of thousands of family homes.