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Evening star., 1941-10-05

l. Think before you speak. When
your lawyer roars "Objectionr'
wait until the court gives its
ruling.
2. Be fair, be frank. Don't be too
anxious to please or too eager to
fight. If you make a mistake. or a
slight contradiction. admit it and
correct it. Don't tie yourself in
knots trying to cover up some
slip of speech or memory.
3. Keep your temper. Don't let
anybody rile you into arguments
over trivial points or even impor-
tant ones. Be firm, but flexible.
4. If you can't answer Eyes" or
NO." say so. Modify your reply
by "Under certain circum-
stances :"
S. If you don't know or can't re-
member, say so. Those are legit-
innate answers to the most
illegitimate questions.
6. Avoid mannerisms of speech.
The habit of prefacing your re-
plies with something like Il can
Evening star., 1941-10-05

across their full story. When COM
PEELED to isolate facts that. in their
own minds, are connected with so
many other facts, they founder around
disastrously.
Witnesses are sometimes their own
worst enemies. Because people differ
so radically in their powers Of obser-
vation and their memories, several
witnesses. even on the same side OF the
case, may have different stories to tell
about the same event. And each.
knowing his own story, is suspicious of
a different one. And when they get on
the stand, such people are apt to stick
vehemently to their story, come hell
or high water.
Cuss Of a Water Clos
lO ILLUSTRATE: Harris and Baker,
casual acquaintance, pay sick call
on a mutual friend in the hospital. The
patients good-for-nothing nephew
also drops in. During the conversa-
ton. Baker, attention strays down to
a man on the hospital grounds.
The patient reaches for glass OF
water. The nephew hastens to help.
His back is turned to the Others, his
hands are outside their vision as he
pours the water. The patient drinks
the water. Baker, his mild interest on
the lawn, has been listening with half
an ear, seeing with half an eye. Even if
he observed the water incident, it was
trivial and he really didn't notice it.
Late that night, the patient dies. A
disgruntled relative demands an au-
topsy and the medical examiner reports
poisoning. Harris, questioned by the
police, casually mentions the water
Evening star., 1941-10-05

rarely escape an as
tute cross-examiner.
Their manner, their
complete lack of nat
uralness gives them
away. Normally, a
person describing an
event is seeing it
again while he talks.
He's alice his facial
expressions change.
his eyes move, his
language varies.
But no m after.
what you do on the
witness stand, you
may have trouble.
"If you can't de-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
POWER COMPANY CUTS WORK BUDGET
FAITHFUL Old EMPLOYEES LAID OFF

should be rectified at once.
This high pressure hazard is added
to by the fact that the pipe lines
servicing these public building are run
from the main line to the buildings
being serviced, under ground, and
when the ground covering these pipes
is frozen and a leak occurs in the
main lines, the escaping gas, cannot
rise to the surface, but usually follows
one of these service lines into some
basement, where it becomes highly
explosive.
1t is safe to assume that if this con-
dition is not rectified, some day or
night an explosion will occur that will
make the residents of this community
realize that an ounce of prevention is
much better than a pound of cure.
The Parent-Teacher Association was
organized for the protection and well
fare of our school children, and they
could do nothing better at this time
than to make an effort to have the
power company rectify this hazardous
condition Immediately.
Nobody wants to see repetition
of the catastrophe that visited
school house in small oil town In
Texas several years ago, and the best
way to avoid the effect of catas-
trophy of this kind Is to remove the
cause and the sooner the better.
The Railroad and Public Service
Commission of the state of Montana,
has been given the power, by our
state legislature, to make and enforce
rules and regulations governing the
distribution of gas | feel that If
enough individuals and organizations
would write the commission, request
ing them to make an investigation
of conditions in this district, compared
to other districts, that the investiga-
tion would be made, and | am positive
that If such an investigation is made
these regulators will be removed from
the inside to the outside of the build
ings.
If an explosion occurs that could |
be avoided and you were to loose one |
or more of your loved ones, your hap |
piness would be forever destroyed, so |
make an effort to have this corpora
ton give you the rights that are guar
anteed you under the Constitution of |
these United States of America, the
right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness.
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government must provide work OPP
portunities."
OF the expenditure of SIT ,485, 100000
that was proposed in the budget, 62Tt
is for military items. Not included
in this 62qo or in the budget was the
cost of the program of 1oaning war
materials to Great Britain. That cost
will be estimated later the President
said
In calculating the revenue to meet
the II billion dollar budget, the Presi-
dent said that increased national in
come, together with taxes levied last
year, will produce net receipts of 49,
275,OO0,000
81 suggest" he declared, ga finan-
cial policy aimed at collecting progress
sive taxes out of a higher level of
national income. | am opposed to a
tax policy which restricts general con-
sumption as long as unused capacity
is available and as long as idle labor
can be employed"
The President added that he is not
yet satisfied that existing excess prof
its laws are adequate and it was said
at the White House that despite the
Presidents injunction against persons
enriching themselves on the defense
program, such enrichment is taking
place.
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Scripps- Howard columnist, for "his
courageous war on racketeers in la.
Dor"
Early in the film, the commentator
says: "All aid short of war must be
rushed to embattled Britain" Then
the scene shifts to the last war and
the commentator states that there
were 5000 strikes, some of them hind
ering defense industries, despite ap-
peals to patriotism by Sam Gompers
The film moves up to the present
with a history of labor, showing the
1919 steel strike, the Seattle general
strike, the depression years, the
growth of the CLIO and scenes of the
1910 AFL and CLIO conventions.
Although the film takes crack at
Pearl Bergoff and professional strike
breakers, what seems to horrify the
average audience most of all is a shot
of an alleged striker smashing the
windows of factory.
Shots of this type, combined with
the emphasis on racketeering, may be
expected to obliterate whatever favor
able impressions the uninformed spec
tator may have gained from scenes of
democratic procedure at union meet
ing and collective bargaining in action.
Labor and Defense 1941 will not pro-
mote greater understanding of labor's
cause, nor win any friends for the
workingman. 1t wasn't supposed to-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
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their duties. The governors recon-
mendation was that all such miscel.
laneous income be deposited with the
state treasurer. or course, it is up
to the legislature to indicate to which
fund or funds, this revenue shall be
appropriated. This bill was intro
duced by Armstrong of Flathead.
H. B. No. g. introduced by Eggen-
berger, provides for the creation of a
new, non-political state highway COM
mission. This bill, according to its
title will regulate "the political activi-
ties of members of the commission
and providing grounds upon which and
procedure by which they may be dis
charged; and establishing require
ments for the conduct of the business
of the commission"
House Memorial No. 1 and House
Memorial No. 2, have both been passed
by the House No 1, asked for utili-
cation of the power generated at Fort
Peck and No. 2 asks for the estab-
lishment of an air base there.
A list of the measures introduced
in both the House and Senate since
the last day of publication of The
Voice, will be found elsewhere in this
issue. The list of new bills intro
duced, will be carried in each issue
of The Voice.
In the Senate
Little of great interest has trans
pired in the state senate up to the
date of publication of his issue. Only
five bills, one senate joint memorial
and one senate memorial have SO far
been introduced.
Senate Memorial No. 1, introduced
by Ruffcorn of Valley has been passed
by the senate. This was directed to
congress, asking that the present
water supply at Fort Peck be made
valuable for irrigation.
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members of both organizations from
employment on WPA.
2. Passage, for the first time since
1898, of a federal sedition act.
8. Vigilantism against Jehovahs
Witnesses in 1886 communities in A
states.
4. Unprecedented curtailment OF
rights of minority parties in the presi-
Dental election.
On the plus side, the A. G. L. U.
reported that "the record of courts
or civil liberties during 1910 was
strikingly favorable The U. S. SUI
preme court upheld the right of pick
citing in labor disputes and Indirectly
knocked out the Oregon anti-picketing
law adopted by voters in 1888, In
three cases it sustained the rights of
negroes to a fair trial"
The League for Industrial Democ-
racy made a somwehat similar report
after it's own survey. Among the set
backs listed were increased "hysteria
and matchmaking" elimination of the
NLRB research division, attempts in
city, state and national governments
to slash funds for education, health,
housing and recreation, the continu-
ance of the AFL-CIO split, and the
increasing dependence of the national
economy ON war industry
Progress consisted of the U. S. SUI
preme courts okay on picketing, in
creased membership of unions and CO.
operatives, higher wages and less I'M
employment, and "the failure of big
business to elect its Nfavorite candi-
date" in the presidential campaign.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
Reuther Plan Studied

Reuther Plan Studied
Convinced that there is some merit
to the so-called Reuther plan OF util-
ize idle space in the automobile plants
for the mass production of warplanes
(Mr Reuther estimates that the plan,
after six months, can turn out 500
planes daily the Administration has
undertaken study of it's feasibility.
The plan is receiving considerable
support from liberals on Capitol Hill,
who feel that the automotive indus
try is the logical place for airplane
mass production rather than the air.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15

Most everyone knows that with the
parts of the United States, caused
mainly by the defense program of the
federal government, the Montana Pow
err Company will receive from the con
suming public a greater revenue this
year than they have ever received in
their history.
Most corporations, when they intici-
pate a year of greatly increased rev.
enue, increase the appropriation for
local work, particularly work that
would have a tendency to protect the
public from whom they receive all
revenue. so in making a drastic cut in
the local work budget at this particu-
lar time they, the power company,
very clearly show they are not greatly
concerned as to whether or not the
public is protected.
All the people in this district are
either directly, or indirectly, custom
ers of the Montana Power Company
and pay them exorbitant rates for the
gas and electricity this company sells
them. Electricity and gas, that are
really the natural resources of the
state of Montana, and rightfully be-
long to the residents of the state of
Montana, and are not the property of
the Montana Power Company.
The cutting of this work appropria-
ton, at this critical time might lead
some people to believe that this money
was going into the defense fund. Yes,
it is going into the defense fund of
the Electric Bond & Share Company,
our absentee political rulers, whether
we like it or not
The local officials of the power COM
pany, take great pains to demonstrate
to the public, by their advertising
Dollar Sign-the amount of this dollar
that goes towards paying taxes, but
they do not inform us as to how much
of this dollar goes towards paying |
top heavy official family (some of
them not very competent), neither, do |
they inform us as to how much of this |
dollar goes towards paying for cor
rupt political machine nor the amount |
of this dollar that goes to the Electric |
Bond & Share Company, for what they |
term service. But best of all they do |
not inform us as what they get for a
dollar, when they are purchasing the |
commodities they sell the public.
The writer less than two years ago
published an article entitled, 'Is. Our
Gas System Safe" In this article |
called the attention of the residents
of this community and the Montana
Power Company to the fact that the
power company was taking a thirty
pound as pressure into the homes and
of this district where a
regulator was installed cutting this
pressure to about four ounces. At
that time | suggested that these regu-
lators be placed outside these build
ings for the protection of the public.
The power company officials evident
ly realizing the value of this sugges-
ton have since that time placed prac-
tically all the new regulators installed
on the outside of the buildings being
but to date they have done
nothing about removing
seven or eight thousand regulators orr
ginally installed inside these buildings
which as time goes on are an ever
hazard.
The taking of this thirty pound gas
pressure into the Easements of prac-
ically all buildings in the city limits
s a great hazard, especially to our 7
churches and theaters, and !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
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| tCOntlnueQ from rage OueI
| lions that dominate it's personnel are
seeking to cripple all strike action.
The Detroit Labor News (AFL) calls
the act "the worlds worst law" that
looks like collection of fish viscera
and should be turned over to the gar
bage collection division for ultimate
disposal"
The mediation board is trying to
stretch the regular 5-day strike notice
to the 80 days that are required only
for hospital and utility disputes. The
board is demanding 80 days notice on
all defense contract disputes. This is
called Legislation by decree"-that is,
by dictatorship, by AFL officials who
are fighting the application of the 30
day notice to the Duplex Printing
Press Co. dispute in Battle Creek The
Intl Assn. of Machinists is involved
Another symptom of anti-labor Of
fensives was the hasty formation of
the Michigan home guard under the
late republican administration and
the appointment of the most detested
police official in the state to command
the eastern Michigan area, including
Detroit. That man is Heinrich Pick
ert, commissioner of Detroit police,
who left office just when the terrific
graft scandals in his department were
breaking. 1t is possible that Gov. Van
Wagner (democrat) will supplant the
home guard before it can embark on
its projected career of vigilante strike
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
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plete state control OF the labor market
the pace of this development being
determined by the pressure of events
II the government, however, is to tel
labor where to go and what to do
it must consider placing ceiling on
wage advances which are already be
ginning to undermine what one com
petent observer calls the rickety
structure of war finance.
; Mr.. Bevin's accession says Ken
nedy brought about an immediate i'm.
provement in the entire set up for
mobilizing British labor for the war
effort Mr.. Bevin's tasks of getting
more out of existing war workers and
bringing in more workers to expand
their efforts have been made much
easier because of his trade union asso-
citation. 1t is probably his inside
knowledge of labor that makes him
inclined to use wage policy as a bait
rather than as brake
In Fact claims that recent cables
from England bear out most Of Ken
nedy's predictions. The -four to six
months period Kennedy mentions is
now over and Bevin has stopped CIV
ing the sort of speeches he gave six
months ago, when he said: The task
of rebuilding the world has to be done
by the working class Now he speaks
vaguely of taking strong steps against
unions: L should be very reluctant
to supercede the authority of the or
ganized employees and unions, but il
some people won't honor their agree
ments or refuse to recognize their own
leaders, the state will have to exert
its own authority. But if we are
driven to initiate any part of the nazi
regime in the name of greater eff
cheney, it is going to be difficult to
cut it out afterwards
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rum dSc OHcj
governmental bonds taxable. Federal
relations.
". ]. R. 2, by employment commit
tee. - Authorizing an additional law
clerk in the house.
H. B. IL, by MISUNDERSTANDING
use of white canes except by blind
persons. Public safety.
H. B. IL, by Hageman. - Allowing
county commissioners to discontinue
streets and alleys in unincorporated
cities and and towns. Affairs of cities.
H. B. 10, by Petersen.-Permitting
additional election judges in precincts
with more than $50 voters. Privileges
and elections.
H. B. IA, by Lowe.-Reducing mile
age paid state and county officials, ex-
cept sheriffs, from to cents. State
boards and offices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
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between 10 and zero. Furthermore,
this bank stands for the proposition
that the more you save the less you
get.
Save and be rewarded" preached
will be penalized," is current banking
practice.
And this is all quite as it should
be. An age of deficit needed savings.
The present age of potential plenty
needs outlets for goods and capital
that the price-profit economic system
cannot possibly offer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
MOST BOOK MATCHES UNFAIR

After careful investigation the Allied Printing Trades
Council of Butte has found that statesmen mis-
representing the book matches that they sell by telling
Montana firms that they Union Made.
The Allied Printing Trades Council of Butte far
find knows of only two companies that
100 percent Union Made matches and they
Superior Match Co., 1880 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago.
Book Match Co., 4O14 Parker Ave, also Chicago.
We have noticed that there very few firms in Mon
that these matches for their advertising that have
the Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label and
starting campaign to get them to paronze these
Union houses
BUTTE ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL,
Joseph LaMontagne Secretary-Treasurer
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necessary implements of war with
which to resist Hitler.
Finally, he went on the air in a
nationwide radio hook-up and
proved to the satisfaction of every
body that all he had on the ball was
lot of crust.
SO exeunt Mr.. Verne Marshall and
his No Foreign War Committee. The
fuse to his time bomb will continue
to sputter for while, but the bomb
itself will never explode. 1t is dud.
Now and then he will make the front
page headlines-but mostly it will be
when he and the connections of his
committee are exposed. He cannot
possibly do the cause of the sincere
people who want to keep America out
of war for this country's sake any
good.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15

You cannot control what you do not
owDi
DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-01-15
Hopkins Goes to Britain

i
When Harry Hopkins arrives in
England ito survey the scene" for
President Roosevelt and discuss
things with British officials, it will
| be almost as if the President him.
self had made the trip.
The purpose of the assignment is
a carefully guarded secret. The ex-
PLANTATION that Hopkins will pinch
hit" for the new ambassador to the
Court of st. James until such am
bassador is named and arrives on the
scene Che may have been named by
the time this appears in PRINT is, Of
course, not expected to be taken very
seriously He has a most important
mission to perform.
There is nobody who can speak for
the President-and speak the Presi-
dents mind-better than Harry Hop
kins, who has been living under the
There is nobody whom the President
would better trust with a most deli
cate mission. That he is making the
trip despite the condition of his health
emphasizes its Importance. He will
be Colonel House plus. Incidentally,
the Administration "1ease-loan" plan
to aid Britain is thought to be Hop
kin's "brain-child.'
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-12-18
Montdnd Whed
Is Notions Best

Montana grows the best
wheat in the United States.
This is the decision of the
judges at the International
Grain and Hay Show held in
Chicago last week, when they
picked the grain grown this
year by L. E. Peterson of Victor,
Mont, awarded him the newly
established Philip w. Pillsbury
prize for the best United States
wheat and named him United
States wheat king for 1941.
Peterson, who has exhibited
his wheat and oats at the Chi
cago show for many years and
has many times won high hon.
ors with his grain, won the Pills
bury prize with a hard red win
ter wheat known as Turkey
Red" which weighed 66.5
pounds per measured bushel.
Peterson has been invited to
come to Chicago as the guest of
the donor to receive the award,
a huge urn-like trophy and a
cash prize of $50 for the sample
of wheat exhibited.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-12-18
FOURSQUARE CHURCH
Earl Goodman, pastor

Sunday school, GAS am.
Mrs. Ray Morissette, Supt.
Morning worship, II am.
7:45 a pantcmime by the SEN
iOr Crusaders under the direc-
ton of Mrs. H. Pauley, The
Promised One"
Christmas Eve a program by
the Sunday school including
miscellaneous numbers, and a
skit by the high school class
under the direction of Mrs
Mabel Simmons. The main fea-
ture of the evening will be a
play ''Nobody'S Child" under
the direction of Mrs. Ray Nor
issette.
Friday evening, 7:45 pm.
prayer service.