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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01
KRUSE TO
SURVEY BEET
HARVESTING
Will Investigate Complaints
By Growers That Excess
Tare Is Imposed on Them by
Sugar Processing Companies
In Topping of the Beets.

State commissioner of agriculture,
Albert Kruse will leave tomorrow on
trip of observation and investiga-
ton of the manner in which tares
and dockage are assessed against the
sugar beet growers by the professors,
many complaints on this score com
ing to his office from growers all
over the state. Mr.. Kruse expects
to spend some time in the field and if
the complaints are found to be justi-
fled to any extent, bring them di-
rectly to the attention of responsible
officials of the sugar companies.
Complaints indicate that the proc
essors are topping the beets too far
and that the tops are locked from
the growers weights, though they are
topped so deeply that the tops con-
tain considerable sugar which the
grower is entitled to credit for.
Under the contracts between the
growers and the professors, beets
shall be properly topped !. by
cutting off the tops squarely just be-
low the crown at the base of the
bottom leaf mark - and "a dis
tinct trace of leaf scar is to be left
after top tare is taken" This pro-
vision is being violated by the proc
essors according to complaints, the
topping taking off part of the beet.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01
C0-0PS ACT TO
extend GRADE
LABELLING
Will "Take Guess Work Out
OF Buying" All Groceries;
Co-ops Pioneered in Grading
Canned Goods According to
u. S. Standards.

MINNEAPOLIS. - At a two-day
meeting here last week, consumer CO.
operative WHOLESALERS affiliated with
National Co-operatives, Inc, took an
other important step toward helping
the Coop housewife buy groceries
more wisely and economically.
Pushing ahead with the co-opera-
tive plan to take the guess work out
of food buying. grocery buyers of
five WHOLESALERS voted unanimously to
act Immediately to establish quality
standards and grades for all COOP
products not already included in the
grade labelling program. This would
mean such items as canned pineap-
pie, for which there are no govern
ment standards, macaroni, preserves,
spices, baby food, and soaps, and
other household supplies.
Co-operatives pioneered several
years ago in grading canned goods
according to U. S. department of agri-
culture standards, and in printing on
the canned goods labels for the house.
wife to see, the quality grade Of the
contents-"A", "B", or &C." This en-
ables the housewife to KNOW the
quality of the foodstuff she is buyir
BEFORE she buys, it, permits her, in
other words, to buy with her eyes
open instead of blindfolded.
The department of agriculture, how
ever, has not yet set standards for
many products, and these are the
items which will be included in the
extended grading program decided
upon last week. To avoid conflict
with Abe designations the terms
Coop Grade 1, Coop Grade 2, and
Coop Grade 3" will be used. These
terms will tie in with the red, blue,
and green color scheme of differenti-
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AUTO RACKET
I'm The Pen
Discovered
Auto Registration Blanks
Sold All Over the Country to
Ring of Motor Car Thieves;
Said to Have Been Carried
On Probably for Years.

Immediate reorganization of the
automobile registration set-up in the
state prison at Deer Lodge has been
ordered and placed in effect by Gov
ernor Ford following discovery by
Warden Jones and Sheriff Loberg of
Cascade county of widespread rack
eteering by convict workers in the
bureau in the sale of blank registra-
ton certificates and ownership forms.
With an investigation still being
made, the extent of the operations of
the gang, inside and outside of the
prison is not known. However, indi-
cations are that it may be said to
have been nationwide.
Following a system of close check
ing of the work of the registration
bureau, Immediately installed upon
orders of the governor, Griffenhagen
and Associates have made the follow
ing recommendations for improvement
of conditions at the state prison reg
istration bureau:
1. Use of as few female employees
dS pUSSlUl0 DcCduS6 VI Tie ncCSooiJy
of working prisoners in the same
quarters.
q Abolition of the position of chief
clerk, in favor of junior position,
and assignment to other supervisory
employees of the chief clerks duties
discretion.
8. Incoming mail should be opened
only when two employees are present.
4. Remittances be routed directly
to the cashier instead of indirectly
through receipt writers.
5. Consideration of eliminating the
receipt writing process for an equally
effective but simpler method.
g. Consideration of the possibility
of producing certificates by photo
graphing applications.
z. Condensing certificates of owner
ship to a standard card size for con-
venience in filing.
s. Office work performed within the
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FARMS Are
P0TEN
Market
Post-Emergency Productive
Capacity Can Be At Least
Partially Solved by Making
1t Possible for the Farmers
To Buy Factory Goods.

The last war ended on November
II, 1918. Today's farmer can remem-
Der how the $500 he once got for his
wheat dwindled to &c in 1882, how a
bushel of corn brought 19c. Yet 32
million farm people produced larger
and larger crops year after year.
Farmers emerged from the depres-
sion with their assets eaten away.
They had-by continuing to produce
at less than their costs-literally con-
sumed their capital and their equip
ment. The value of mortgages on
American farms reached 10 billion
dollars, more than $4,000 on each farm
owned.
In 1910 the ratio of farm mortgages
to total value of all farms owned was
27.3. In 1920 it was 29.1. In 1880,
1876 In 1885, 50.2.
There is approximately billion dol
lars of mortgage debt outstanding
against American farms today. That
is 70 percent of the total farm income
including government payments for
all of 1910.
1t is 10 percent of 1940's total ma
tional income.
This month farm products are sell
ing at 81 percent of parity. Theo-
retically, that figure will enable the
farmer to pay service charges plus
modest retirement sum on his out
standing debts. There is no claim
that even full parity will permit the
farmer to make up the operating de-
ficits of former years.
AS America energies from the de-
tense emergency it will find itself
with the greatest industrial capacity
of all times. The government con-
tracts for materials of war on which
this industry is built will one day stop.
Who then will provide the demand for
the products of U. S. factories?
In the U. S. the million farms,
the 80 millions farm population form
the greatest unexpected market for
industrial goods in the world.
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CREDIT BUYING
APPROACHING
DANGER POINT
Installment Buying Bubble,
Bank Credit Near Breaking
Point With 'Debt Feeding
On Debt and Devils Dancing
A Hornpipe" Carson Reports.
By JOHN CARSON

WASHINGTON.-Debt, the certain
road to peonage, is mounting to new
records.
1.-THE present volume of consumer
installment debt, amounting to about
six billion dollars, is at an all-time
peak, and is nearly double the recent
low in 1885," the Federal Reserve
Board has just announced in its Of
fetal bulletin for September.
During the past year, the amount
of credit outstanding on automobiles
increased over 40 percent, and other
forms of installment credit also have
increased substantially" the board
adds.
But that is not ALL While the I'M
fortunate consumers are being Sc
duced by high pressure statesmen and
the merchants of debt and death, the
banks are not idle. In the past
year." the board reports, "the coun-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01
HARVESTING
DELAYED BY
WET Weather
ISSUED Jointly by Agricultural
Marketing Service and Weather
Bureau.)

BUREAU.
Some further delays to late har-
vesting and haying operations oc-
Cured during the first part of the
week ending September Goth when
frequent rains and SHOWS held up all
farm work and further damaged UNI
harvested grain, hay, beans, and seed
crops. Progress of fall seeding was
also delayed and wet soils slowed up
potato digging and the beginning of
the sugar beet harvest. In the case
of ranges and livestock, while addi-
tional moisture was of benefit from
the standpoint of stockwater and
growth, the abundance of green grass
in range feed has resulted in a less
favorable finishing of grassfat cattle
and lambs than expected a month
earlier. Light and heavy frosts dur
ing the week damaged late gardens
and some susceptible commercial
truck crops. Only the last three days
of the week were favorable for field
work
While most of the grain crops, for
the state as a whole, have been har-
vested and threshed, in some of the
late areas a considerable portion of
these crops have been caught in the
unfavorable harvest weather which
has characterized most of September.
Damage to those and other late broad
cast crops has been heavy in some
sections. In the case of dry peas in
the Gallatin Valley and dry beans in
parts of the Yellowstone, Big Horn
and Clark's Fork Valleys in south
central Montana, the continued ex-
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PRICES RISE
In STATE
and NATION

The index of prices received by
Montana farmers went up s points
during the month ending September
department of agriculture. The gain,
as compared with year earlier, has
now spread to 35 points, the depart
ment's Agricultural Marketing Service
reported and is quite marked in the
case of grains, chickens and eggs,
which are produced by the bulk of
the states farming families. Live
stock producers of meat animals who
have enjoyed good prices for cattle
and sheep for nearly two years have
lately seen hogs join this above-p parity
group. Dairy product prices are also
newcomers into this class. Only a
few Montana products such as apples,
eggs, potatoes, beans, seed crops, and
hay are now below parity levels.
Price gains for products sold by
farmers last month outrun those for
prices paid by farmers, the former
gaining points during the month
compared with but 2-point gain for
the latter However, the index of
prices received by farmers for all
commodities sold is still only 120 per-
cent of their 19O9-1914 base levels,
whereas the index of prices paid by
farmers for things they buy is 1873
percent of their 1910-1914 base. Mon
tana farm prices in this comparison
still lag behind the national averages
in which the September 18th index
of prices received reached 139 percent
of the base year period and for the
first time in 81 years exceeded the
average of prices paid.
U. S. Prices Rise
Prices received by farmers for agri-
cultural commodities continued to
climb during the month ended Sep
TENDER 18th. An S-point rise in the
index during the month lifted the mid
September level of agricultural prices
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FDR-La Toilette Again
Will Work Together

Report is that Senator La Toilette,
Wisconsin, and the Administration,
who have been "estranged" and at
odds the past year because of differ
ences over the foreign issue, have now
found a common grounds to again CO.
operate. La Toilette is not to desert
his isolationism, but he and the Presi-
dent will work together on postwar
economic problems to be considered
now.
With full backing of the Admins
tration La Toilette, this column is
informed, soon will introduce into the
senate Che may have done so by the
time that this reaches PRINT resolu-
tion calling for study OF postwar
unemployment problems. The resolu-
tion will be referred to the committee
on education and labor, of which lib
era1 Senator Thomas of Utah, is chair
man. La Toilette also is member
of that committee. Thomas is ex-
pected forthwith to name sub
mittee, with either himself or La Fol
lette as chairman. In either e'ent,
La Toilette probably will be on the
subcommittee, which will immediate
Nv start hearings that may take 1t
TO various sections of the country.
These hearings, it is believed, will
more than counterfeit the Senator
Bvrd plan for a joint congressional
committee to tackle the problem OF
reducing "non-defense spending. The
Byrd resolution, most liberals ON the
Hill hold, is vicious in that the mo-
tiyes of its sponsors is to cripple all
governmental social enterprises, sucn
as NYA, WPA, CCC, and even hit at
all further attempts to improve So
ciaI security legislation. Powerful re-
dictionary groups are known to be De-
hind the Byrd plan-and they already
have organized a nationwide cam
paign to put pressure on congress, as
witness by the flood of letters now
being delivered to senators and rep
resentatives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01
TRESPASSINC Al THE CAPITAL
By A. 1. HARRIS

The bringing together of FDR and
La Toilette, even though it is not on
the question of foreign policy, will
greatly strengthen the liberal posi-
ton on the Hill. La Toilette, his
friends say is ''sick and tired of the
war issue" doesn't like the idea of
being thrown into the Wheeler-Nye-
Clark anti-Roosevelt camp, and for
some time has wanted some basis for
again working with the White House.
Although he has supported the lsola-
ZIONIST position-and still supports it
he has never been one of the vo-
ciferous isolationists, although his
brother, Phil La Toilette, former Wis
consin governor, has been leading
America First attraction.
Hitler Victory Means
American Imperialism
Should Hitler come out on top in
his present war, this country must
either embark on a policy of outright
Imperialism or accept South Amer
lea that will be receiving its orders
from the Wilhelmstrasse. That is
what students of South American af-
fairs, on the basis of most recent OBJ
servations, are said to have reported
to Nelson Rockefeller, in charge of
promoting good relations with the
countries below the Rio Grande.
These observers bring back reports
that many government and business
and industrial leaders in South Amer
lean countries are waiting to see
which side wins the war, so that they
can go either way. Most of them be-
lieve that they can do business with
Hitler While more than willing to
accept all the financial and other help
that they can get from Uncle Sam,
they aren't buring any bridges be-
hind them so far as the European
dictators are concerned.
On the whole, however, United
States-South American relations have
improved greatly in recent months. A
of things are responsible for
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01
Farmers Union
Seeks Graduated
State Land Levy

A statewide initiative that would
provide for a graduated land tax
aimed at checking the growth of fac
tory type farms in Montana was rec
commended Saturday at the Cascade
county convention of the Farmers
Union.
Approximately As delegates from
local groups attended the county con-
vention Declaring that the family
type unit in agriculture was neces-
sary to maintain democracy, the con-
vention adopted a resolution request
ing the Montana Farmers Union to
sponsor the initiative measure.
The resolution pointed out that u.
S. bureau of census figures show Mon
tana lost STA family type farms dur
ing the five-year period ended in 1910.
Ole Gunderson of Power was elected
president and Howard Lyman of Sun
River was named vice president.
Oliver Baker of Ulm became secre-
tary-treasurer.
Directors elected were William
LtlStlhO, GUN HlFSl, rI6u DulltSll
Great Falls, and George Grosskopf,
Arlington. Gus Thorson of Belt was
selected as doorkeeper, Perrin Lyman
of Great Falls as conductor, and
Myrtle Lyman of Great Falls as Jun
ior leader.
Grosskopf will be senior delegate
to the state convention, which will be
held at Kalispell in October, and Nor
ma Johnson, Belt, will be Junior dele
gate.
In addition to the land tax pro-
posal, the union adopetd resolution,
aimed at stabilizing the local market
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suming great responsibility and is
entitled to the sympathetic considera-
ton and cooperation of everyone in
terested in the problem"
The senator cited one illustration of
discrimination against small business
as type of thing which should be
corrected. He said, "The period Sc
lected for restriction of raw rubber
supplies by the Rubber Reserve Cor
poration was very injurious to the
small manufacturers and retailers in
this industry and most favorable to
the four major manufacturers, three
of whom own crude rubber planta-
lions and have undoubtedly profited
enormously from the increased price
of raw rubber. The small enterprises
in this industry are principally de-
pendent upon the manufacturing and
sale of tires and tubes. The four
major firms not only own plants in
many foreign countries from which
they derive revenue, but they also
have obtained large defense contracts
from our government and in addition
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ton as shown by Inc 1S4U CEN
sus" the state supreme court
last Friday decided in favor OF
Lewis and Clark county which
had brought an action to COM
pei the welfare board to dis
tribute the appropriation to all
counties and commended that
the act as passed made such
action mandatory. The well
fare board has filed a motion
for a rehearing of the case be-
fore the supreme court which
has not as yet been acted upon.
The action brought by Lewis and
Clark county grew out of decision
by the welfare board to apportion the
s250,0OO appropriated by the legisla-
ture to supplement the receipts in
those counties from the six mill poor
fund levy where the receipts are
found insufficient to meet the neces-
sary expenditures properly chargeable
to the county poor funds.
On the basis of probable needs as
determined by the welfare board after
study of the condition of the poor
funds in the counties, quite few of
the counties not having assessed the
six mill levy because there was no
existing need, the board apportioned
the money among the following coun-
ties:
Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter,
Cascade, Custer, Daniels, Dawson,
Deer Lodge, Fergus, Flathead, Gar
field, Hill, Lake, Lincoln, McCone,
Madison, Missoula, Musselshell, Phil
lips, Powder River, Ravalli, Richland,
Roosevelt, Sheridan, Silver Bow, Val
ley, and Yellowstone.
The decision OF the supreme court
sustains a ruling made by the attor-
ney general on June 9, when he held
that "the appropriation for grants to
counties must be apportioned by the
state department of public welfare to
all counties of the state in inverse
proportion to the taxable valuation
per capita with county population as
shown by the 1910 census, exclusive
of Indians. The apportionment should
be made at the beginning of the
fiscal year and counties notified of
the share apportioned in time for con-
sideration in their budgets
The language used by the attorney |
general is partially quoted from the
appropriation measure as passed by |
the legislature which reads: For |
grants to counties to supplement |
county poor funds to be apportioned |
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patients, their treatment while
inmates and reorganization of
the staff and the system fol-
lowed in the institution.
The reorganization experts declared
in their report that ''the reason for
admission to the institution should
not be the protection of persons or
property but the good Of the individ-
ual and the desire to rehabilitate him
as a useful citizen" It criticized the
provisions regarding admission of fee
ble-minded, alcoholics and drug adj
diets unless they were also psychotics
and also attacked the practice of
treating the mentally i'll as criminals,
both while being held for commitment
and while being transported to the
hospital, and asserted such treatment
would increase the hold of the disease
and decrease hopes of ultimate re-
coyery.
Discrimination
The agency found that marked
determinations are permitted to exist
between patients and employees in
favor of the latter" and recommended
among other things that "the present
gross discrepancy between the cost of
meals for patients and employees be
rectified by providing better meals for
the patients and that better balanced
meals be served through adequate
menu planning"
The report stated that of the 26O
patients, 40 were mentally deficient
and epileptic persons who should
not, in the interests of their own con-
dition, of the other patients and of
the professional work of the hospital
BIO retained in hospital for the men
tally i'll, and among the other 120
there are So suffering from senility
with simple deterioration and clearly
not in need of institutional care If
they can be placed in their own or
foster homes"
Among other recommendations the
having direct bearing on
the treatment and care of the mental
Iy i'll, were submitted to the governor
and the reorganization committee:
"That the present wholly made
luate medical staff be increased in
size by the recruitment of junior phys
icians desiring TO qualify themselves
as phychiatrists;
"That a consulting medical staff
be created;
"That the medical division be given
complete authority over assignment
Of patients to working details through
out the hospital; and that these in
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SUPREME COURT RULES
AGAINST WELFppE BOARD
Distribution IS FUNDS
Holds That Allocatio, IS Welfare Fund
Appropriation for G. gs-in-aid Must Be
Distributed to all Go 5ies in Inverse
Proportion to Taxab. Valuation Per Capita
Under Law Passed by the 1911 Legislature.

Holding effect that the appropriation of $250000 made
for grants counties to supplement
funds permit the state welfare board discretion in
apporonng the to only selected of counties
the basis that the law specific its
ent that moneys apporoned Gin inverse proportion to
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Asserting that the law providing admission the
state hospital for the insane at Warns Springs sis relic Of
barbarous age and charging that conditions existing
the hospital in the administrative system results ineffective
supervision the Gffenhagen and Associates
committee for reorganization of the
mended most sweeping changes APPLYING to the admission of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01
REORGANIZATION OF
State HOSPITAL URGED
BY REPORT OF AGENCY

Criffenhagen and Associates Engaged by
The Committee on Reorganization of State
Government Finds Conditions at State
Hospital for Insane Detrimental to the
Care of Patients and to Economy"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-01

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of these Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-12
TO HIRE DRIVERS

Detroit, Mich Mar i2-Tmploy
ment OF 50 bus drivers and street
car ren was approved Tuesday by
The DsR Commission. The men
are needed 70 I'LL vacancies.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-12
Employment
Help Wanted-Mals

MAN WANTED AT ONCE
LARGE FEED COMPANY -- with
national reputation wants man for
good paying work In this locality.
Farm or sales experience helpful.
Prefer man between. 25 and so
years OF age Must have car.
Press.
SALESMAN axe IS to 20. Contact
civil Service inquiries. Education.
good appearance and car neces-
sary. Write Franklin Institute,
$3.50 Chicago Blvd. Detroit.
SINGLE MAN-for farm work. must
be experienced mixer. Edward
Melville, 1884 Jewell Rd