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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-24

The programi
Overture ....... Patriotic Tunes
Orchestra
Prologue ....... BY the Narrator
Enrol Stevens
Trumpeters
Charles Candoo, Newell Gragg
Patriotic Dance ..........-
Gloria Lee Kristofferson
Columbus ......... Pantomime
Children from Wright Park
Pilgrims Play, Sailing of the
Mayflower' ...... South Park
Indians ...- Mckinley Playfield
Song and Dance by Lorraine
and Alice May Blair
Dance oy Group Of Children
with Tomtoms
George Washington and Betsy
Ross ......... Alling Piayfield
Daniel Boone
Abraham Lincoln. Frees the
Slaves ...-. Harmon Playfield
song TN, Surdnndn
Cowboys, Throwing Lsrist -.
............... Mckinley Park
Cowboy Song, BY Group
Melting Pot. jefferson Plsyfisld,
Lincoln Park. etc.
rwirling Baton
Dickie Powers, Wright Park
Dutch Dance
Jim Barnes. jefferson Playfield
Military Dance
Merylin Powers
Ensemble. Goddess Of Liberty,
Uncle Sam and Entire Company
Community Singing America.
the Beautiful" led by Mrs.
Adolph Anderson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-24

You help yourself when you buy
u. q. Defense Bonds
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-24

The common tsrantula II caps.
bic Of going SIX weeks without
food.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
FORD DEMOCRATS FAIL TO ELECT
THEIR CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER

islation that is reasonable and fair.
These two men, in my opinion, are
two of the finest types it has been
my privilege to meet and they carried
on their fight with cards face up on
the table and made promises to no
one, nor did they accept any COM
promises These men pledged them
selves to give a fair deal to all, in
Guiding the major corporations, small
business men, the farmers and the la
borers. These were two outstanding
candidates, and when the democratic
caucus was opened on January 9Th at
8 o'clock D. M, SO votes out of 55
were pledged to support this team.
At least that was the opinion of these
two leaders. One representative was
absent, leaving 81 representatives to
carry ON the fight. Twenty-seven
votes were needed to tie and % votes
were needed to elect. When the final
count came, it was found that Dough-
erty received "a votes to Stromnes'
80 and Cannon received rs votes to
Byrnes 20, showing conclusively that
II representatives had given their
friends the run-around and gone into
the Stromnes or company camp.
II the election had been held Satur-
day night, Dougherty and Cannon
would have won hands down, and Sun
day morning the company gang were
certainly panicy. The company lead
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
Criminal Proceedings
Launched Against
Broadcasters

WASHINGTON - OPP - Criminal
proceedings against Broadcast Music,
Inc, the American Society of Com
posers, Authors and Publishers, the
National Broadcasting Co. and the
Columbia Broadcasting System will be
started by the department Of justice
Immediately after the first of the year,
1t was announced here.
The proceedings, under the Sherman
antitrust act, will charge illegal pool
ing Of copyright music, illegal discrim-
nation against users of copyright
music, illegal discrimination against
composers not members of ASCAP or
BMI, Illegal price fixing and other
violations of the law.
The proposed suits threw bomb
shell into the battle between ASCAP
and the two major broadcastfng chains
which set up BMI in order to fight
demands of composers and authors for
royalties.
This department" the announce
ment of the department of justice
said, cannot sit by and see ASCAP
and the broadcasters engage in pri-
vate war at the expense of the pub
lie, using violations of law as their
weapons in order to fight fire with
fire"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
By E. B. COOLIDGE

1t may be OF interest to the voters
of Montana who supported s. c. Ford
for governor in the last election to
know some of the facts that went on
behind the scenes in conferences and
a democratic caucus prior to the as
semblage of the legislative session.
E. ]. Stromnes, Cascade county,
made several statements after the
election as to what his plans were and
what he was going to do. The first
move, with the help of the company
henchmen, was to contact almost
every legislator in the state to sup
port him and Ed Byrne as speaker and
floor leader in the coming session.
There was really no particular objec-
ton to Ed Byrne except that he had
gone into the Stromnes camp and had
agreed to cooperate.
The liberals or Ford democrats de-
cided they would put up two man
team who could represent the general
public, including the governor, In this
race. First, Lehrkind of Bozeman was
selected but was weighed in the pan
and in the opinion of various leaders
was found wanting, 80 the support
was shifted to James Dougherty OF
Powell and Paul Cannon of Silver Bow,
who, to my mind, represent the indie
pendent small business man and who
believe that Ford should be given a
square deal In all matters of new leg
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

tee: reported out of committee favor
ably, considered by the committee of
the whole house, read third time and
passed. Probably for the first time In
the history of Montana legislatures
there was one may" vote in the
House, on the feed" bill when VIII
liam Castles, representative from Min
eral voted no after explaining that
he had made a definite promise to his
constituents that he would vote no ap-
preparation measure until the appro-
priation for relief had been made.
Senate Organizes
With clear cut majority of re-
publican members In the Senate, there
were no surface indications at least
of any conflicts In the organization
of the body. Senator Kelly of Powell.
was named president pro tenn and Sem
ator Plank was elected minority floor
leader.
Claude McAllister of Helena was
and other minor offices have all been
filled.
Senate Bill No. 1, the only one In
the hopper as we go to press, intro
duced by Alvord and Baker, would
repeal an act of the last session Great
ing a Montana Board of Forestry. The
sponsors of the repeal act state that
the act has not worked out as ex-
Dected
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

Along with the heads of the house
organization E. N. Joffre, reputed to
be wearing the halo of the Retail
Liquor Dealers Association was
named sergeant at arms. Selection of
James Brennan of Sidney as chief
clerk may be regarded in the nature
of peace offering or crumb tossed to
the liberals and progressives.
The organization of the lower house
as set up at its first session on Mon
day was as follows: e. j. Stromnes,
speaker; Rep. e. ]. Byrne of Toole
county, majority floor leader; Rep.
Paul Cannon of Silver Bow, speaker
pro tempore; the Rev Charles e. Gun
ningham of Helena, chaplain; r. NJ.
Joffray of Jefferson county, sergeant
at arms; James P. Brennan of Sidney,
chief clerk; Ray Campbell of Great
Falls, assistant chief clerk, and Hilda
Richeson of Carbon county, journal
clerk
On Tuesday. joint session of both
houses heard the governor deliver his
message to them, in which he made
definite recommendations for needed
Legislation, urged cooperation of all,
regardless of party affiliations, for
remedying conditions adversely affect
ing the best interests Of the state
which have crept into the state gov
eminent. The complete text OF the
governors message which is worthy
Of study by all of the people of the
state, is carried elsewhere in this
issue of The Voice.
In a brief session OF the House held
after adjournment of the joint session
the speaker announced the appoint
ment of the following committees:
Committee on Journal: Hess, chair
man; Parker cascade; Wilson.
Committee on Mileage and Per
Diem: Lynch; Parket (Flathead);
Saylor
Committee on Employment: Lip
pard, chairman; Helding, vice chair
man. McGreevey; Gebhardt; Tough
ran.
Committee on Appropriations:
CudlIludut 0oouWih VIZ
chairman; Green; Zuck; Gunderson;
Ahern; Armstrong; Horri-
gan; Burke; Kirscher; Helding; Muir
-ay; Arson; Toomey; James; Rice;
Simpson.
Wednesday
House Bill No. 1 was introduced at
he Wednesday session by Cummings
Ind provides for a motor vehicle driv-
sr's license.
House Bill No. 2, was the regular
,ill appropriating money for the ex-
)enses of the session. The amount /
appropriated was s165,0O0 which will
,e divided as follows: Mileage and
)er diem of members, 100000; per ,
lem of officers and attaches, $4,000; |
$4,000. The bill passed
through the regular routine of both
Houses being introduced, read first and
econd time and referred to commit !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

Well, I guess I didn't get that job
of dishing out the blue ruin to the
! Legislators up in the Placer Hotel
room because they Just help them
selves and don't need anybody to help
them under the table, and guess they
needed all the room there too so it
would have been too crowded II I had
tried to sleep there.
Anyhow, whatever 1t was, | still
have to prowl around the capital in
stead of living in style like, and it's
no cinch or comfort to have to do it
now Up to here lately, while you
never knew when you'd stumble into
some mean looking patrol guy, dressed
up like a sore thumb, they weren't
always around.
But now it's getting just tough.
Every day almost for week or more
there's been new crop of colonies,
and you can't miss hitting one OF
them If you aim a cigarette butt at
a cuspidor. They're everywhere and
its getting to be no kind of place
fDl guy line uic W NC
They're in every office too even
though they haven't got their new
boots and spurs yet and some Of them
are going to need shoulder and back
braces and a few of them could do
with corsets If they are going to look
like army guys, but that'll probably
come along later The tough part for
me right now is to know just when
to snap to attention and salute. 1t
won't be near 30 tough when they get
their new boots and spurs.
Pretty near all the guys that worked
for the old governor got the colonel
jobs, I understand I've been trying
to get word to him that / worked for
him to get to be president Of the
Association OF Bar
Flies, but guess he didn't hear about
it, or maybe I'd got to be colonel too.
But maybe it's just as well l didn't.
Those boots don't look like they'd be
easy on my corns and lodging around
like | have to do sometimes, those
spurs wouldn't be SO hot.
One guy said that the old governor
gave all these guys the colonel jobs |
80 they'd have something to keep
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
STATES CROPS
ARE WORTH
S61,483.000

Crops worth $61, 483, 900 were pro-
duced in Montana in 1910 according
to the final estimates of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Service This crop
value total, the highest for the post
drouth years to date, exceeds by good
margins both that of 1889, or $685.
265,000, and the 10-year (1929-1938)
average of $56,5O8,0O0, the report
notes. The states leading crop,
wheat, valued at So, 0S1, 900 was worth
about a million dollars more in 1910
than in 1889 but nearly nine million
dollars more as compared with the
10-year average. Hay, the second
largest item on the crop value list,
was worth $780, 900 in 1910 COM
pared with $12,OS9, 900 in 1889 and the
10-year average value of $18,362000.
In the case of hay, the lower value
of the larger than average hay crop
Of 1910 represents a lower cost of
hay in livestock production, repeating
what has been favorable ratio be-
tween feed costs and meat animal
prices for the past two years. Sugar
beets, worth $5,202,0OO in 1910 set a
new record both in production and
value. Fourth in rank was the oats
crop, worth $2,53O,OOO and then in
order: barley, worth $1,736,000; corn,
worth $1,323,000; alfalfa seed, worth
$1,310,000; potatoes, worth $1,224,000;
and flaxseed, worth $1,15S,000. Among
special crops grown in restricted
areas, seed peas, grown principally In
the Bitter Root, Flathead and Gala
tin valleys, were worth $558,000 |
Beans, grown principally in Yellow
stone, Carbon and Big Horn counties, |
were worth $4,000, while mustard |
sed, grown principally in Pondera and |
Teton counties, was worth $4,000.
The harvested acreage Of all main
crops in 1910 totalled 6,777, 900 or
about 8.6 percent larger than in 1889
when it was about equal to the TO-
year average total of 6,249,000 acres.
larger acreages were planted to the
grain crops, including corn but ex-
;luding rye, in 1910 as compared with
10Th the preceding year and average.
larger than average harvested acre
lges also occurred in the case of sugar
,eets, mustard seed, sweet clover seed,
md alfalfa seed. Averages smaller
han average were harvested in the
.ase of flaxseed, rye, potatoes, beans,
eed peas, and hay.
Production of most crops, this year,
vas above that of the 10-year average
With the principal exceptions being
ye, dry beans, and seed peas. Both
pples and cherries yielded less than
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
'LAB0R'S PLAN
FOR AIRPLANES
GIVEN TO FDR

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Patrioteel
ing industrialists were driven to tn
wall here December 90 as CLIO Pref
Philip Murray laid before Pres. Roose
welt labor's proposal for the produc
ton of 500 airplanes day within ST.
months.
The plan. drafted by Walter P
Reuther. director of the General Mo
tors division of the United Auto Work
ers (CIO), constituted dramatic an
swer to charges that labor has beer
sabotaging the defense program.
A survey, made by Reuther and of
ficials of the JAW, Murray told the
President, indicates that the facilities
of the auto industry are used at less
than 500 of capacity, that basic motor
production and stamping machinery
can be adapted to mass production of
planes, and that there is an adequate
supply Of skilled and unskilled labor
in the industry.
I'VE can foresee the fears this plan
may arouse on the part of some man.
agements Reuther said. "They may
prefer a method whereby the govern
ment finances entire new engines and
aircraft plants.
Aviation companies may look with
misgiving on production program
that would inevitably cut the cost of
planes by putting their production on
mass production basis"
Labor" said Reuther, "offers its
whole-hearted cooperation. All that
labor asks is intelligent planning, a
voice in matters of policy and admin
istration, recognition of its rights and
maintenance of it's established stand
ards"
His plan for adapting unused auto
mobile plant machinery for plane man.
ufacture, Reuther said calls for manu-
facture of ''the tools required to adapt
existing automotive machinery to air
craft manufacture" AS proof of the
adaptability of automotive motor-build-
ing machinery, Reuther said that Gen
eral Motors is now making "the most
difficult and precise parts of the ALI
ooA dNldLiOn cu6luo III luo CetuildC
plant in Detroit, much of 1t with re-
fooled Cadillac machinery" The more
precise dimensions required by air.
plane motor parts, he declared, could
be obtained by more precise tooling.
Supporting his contention that auto
mobile plant facilities for motor pro-
duction are largely unused, Reuther
cited figures indicating that two eight
hour shifts of the motor lines at peak
production, could supply Oldsmobile
waspiross annual need of motors in 1877
days, Plymouth in 1913 days, Chevro-
let in lat days, and Chrysler and |
DeSoto in rs days.
The Chevrolet drop forge plant in
Detroit, Reuther said, could produce
Ill the drop forgings needed for
laily output of 500 planes and still
supply sufficient forgings for 100000
Chevrolet cars in the next year. Re-
erring to stamping Of wing and fuse
age sections for planes, Reuther
pointed to what he said was typical
that huge Toggle presses
which would take years to deliver are
low standing idle 500 of the time in
he Cleveland Fisher Body plant.
Outlining the steps in his program,
aeuther said that its essential was
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
Wall Streets Program
Revealed by DR.. Anderson

Wall Streets Program
Revealed by DR.. Anderson
DR.. Benjamin M Anderson, profess
sor of economics at the University OF
California, economist of the Capital
Research Co., and former economist
Bank, can always be depended upon
to speak the mind of Wall Street. At
this time, when new congress is to
assemble, his views as to what this
Congress ought to do is of special
interest, since many of the boys on
Capitol Hill will be plugging for these
views.
DR.. Anderson's recommendations as
printed in the Pacific Coast Wall
Street Journal, are:
REORGANIZATION of the tax structure
by broadening the income tax base
through lowering of exemptions; IN
creases of income evies in the lower
brakets, and downward revision of the
corporate excess profits tax.
Early revision of the Wage-Hour act,
"the most dangerous single piece Of
New Deal legislation" particularly
abolition of the time and half fea-
ture for overtime.
Reorganization of the Federal tax
structure along the above lines, says
DR.. Anderson, would spur private
capital into action to aid in the de-
Tense program encourage those
with money to put it to work in in
dustry -. and bring quick mobili-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

Stating his CONVICTIONS tnat the
Hitler bill' law in his opinion was
dangerous" the governor advocated
its repeal. He also stressed the need
of divorcing the administration of ou1
liquor laws from politics and political
corruption"
He advised that a thorough and i'm
partial study be made of the past,
present and future construction, main
tainance and financing" of the high
ways be made and that he recon-
mended a thorough investigation of
the water conservation board
Taxation
The governors proposals on tax leg
islation was summed up in his state
ment that ability to pay and equality
should be the watchwords of taxation.
He reminded the legislators that the
demands of the federal government for
increased taxes would impose new
burdens on the people of the state and
this must be considered and that
therefore the state and local govern
ments must retrench.
Amendment of the present fish and
game laws to the end that the pow
ers of the commission be limited and
greater control be placed in the hands
of the sportsmen of the state; liberal
izing the social security laws, laws
granting relief from mortgage fore
closures, reframing of the laws now
governing the appointment of the
board of education, legislation to au-
thorize new construction under the
provisions Of referendum No. 43 to re-
lieve conditions at the state hospital
at Warm Springs and other legislation
to remedy conditions existing at pres
ent were advocated.
Among the things recommended by
the governor to bring about more eff
ficient business administration, was
legislation to require all fees, licenses
and trust funds to be paid into the
state treasury and not, as is the prac-
tice now, to pay them into the vari-
Gus boards and commissions, that the I
boards and commissions operate I'M
der the appropriations made by the
legislature.
Labor
The governors attitude toward la
Dor was clearly indicated in his eau
ton against using the defense emer-
gency as a pretext for depriving labor
of it's fundamental rights and in his
advocacy of legislation recognizing
silicosis as an eccupational disease.
The broad, general as well as the
specific recommendations for legisla-
ton contained in the governors mes
sage, places the legislature in the posi-
ton of being compelled to give serious
and effort to pass the {
many remedial measures advocated or
answer to the people of the state for
it's failure to do so.
The complete text of the governors '
is printed in this issue of l
The Voice and we recommend that {
everyone read and study it,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

cation of American industry for war
purposes" He says that "this is no
time TO worry about making million
aires out of the war" He does worry,
however, it seems, that workers may
be making a living wage during the
emergency period
What the fat boys want all adds up
to this: 1--WE will cooperate in the
defense program if the flood gates are
opened to war profiteering, if taxes
are cut down SO that we can hog
most of the easy profits, If the bulk
of the defense costs is placed on the
frail shoulders Of the little fellow,
and if the worker is given a sock
on the head with a blunt instrument
"a sock hard enough to stun him
but not hard enough to put him out
of condition SO that he cannot work"
Some day the people are going to
get wise to these patrioteers and show
them that they can get along fairly
well without them and without their
brand of economics They come I'M
der the general head of luxuries, not
essities-mighty expensive luxuries
that the people cannot afford in times
like we are now experiencing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

With members of the democratic majority the house
of whose support for Daughery for speaker
and Cannon for floor leader had been confidently expected by
independent members switching their votes
Sromnes and Brne recognized having the blessing and
support of the special interests the state the lobbyists of the
Anaconda Copper Company the Montana Power Company and
other vested interests themselves masters of their
craft though the last minute they had to send sos
Arthur Lamey corporation lawyer democratic state chairman
ace have been able to first oppose and then
support the campaign candidate for his
party ticket, who went down to defeat.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
FDR viii Hold Reins

Although Knudsen and the other
will have much greater powers than
they now have, it is to be noted that
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. |. HARRIS

Wall Street Journal believes that effort apply
outstanding exempt (secues) would
stitute immoral if not illegal the part of the
government
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
SMOOTHLY FUNCT|0NING
COMPANY" MACHINE
ORGANIZES HOUSE

Stromnes of Cascade and Byrne of Toole
Elected Speaker and Floor Leader Respec-
lively and Company" Appears To Be in
Drivers Seat in the Lower House of the 9th
Legislative Assembly
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

In his message to the weny-seventh legislative assembly,
Governor Ford yesterday analysed many of the faults and
the existing methods and procedures the
and recommended specific legislation bring
about efficient business administration
Included in his specific for leg
islation in the interests of farmers and labor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08
FORD STRESSES NEEDS
OF State IN MESSAGE
TO The LEGISLATORS

Calls for Repeal Of Hitler Law, Re-organ-
ization of Business Structure, Correction of
Abuses in Liquor Set-up Administration
and Many Other Important Acts Asked for
From Assembly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-08

Esonosnis justice and Equality
Il the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack Of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-16
Beta du Beta Charts Fdm Frofc Fun;
Theta Omega Delta Will Hold Rush I ca

Winter, guests will be asked to
arrive at this dance in Summer
clothes. And swishing about in
organdy and batiste you'll find,
among others, Nancy Brown,
Celeste Dillon, Ann Webb, Helen
Bowerman, Betty Stewart, Shir-
ley Cowling. Nancy Ensley, Pat
O'Leary, Marilyn Bard and Jane
Amos, all accompanied by hand
some escorts.
And speaking of Summer at
tire reminds us that you'll be
seeing plenty of it at that dance
the Tip Toppers are planning
for a day in May, as yet in
definite.
There'll be a bridge tea on the
same date, and already hard at
work with the older sorority
members are newcomers Mari
lyn Moore, Dana Babcock. Nancy
Harding and Mary Musgrave.
Practically all the sororities in
town are giggling at the manner
in which the young men OF The
Ex-Cen-Trix Club" have been
trying to emulate them.
MI Sorority is still jubilant,
and well they may be, over that
annual bridge-tea which they
caused TO take shape Saturday
at the Stetler.