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Evening star., 1941-06-11
University to Give PIuy

A play, The Servant in the
House" will be presented by mem
bers of the faculty and student
body of Frelinghuysen University
tomorrow at 8:l5 pm. at ST..
Georges Parish Hall, Second and U
streets NV, for the benefit of the
church and school. The play will
be presented under the direction
of Mrs. Anna j. Copper, retiring
president of the university.
Evening star., 1941-06-11

party last night at the home Of
Miss Anna Humphries, 4ll3 Third
street NV. Plans were made by
the chapters for program Of sum-
mer activities and sports Misv
Dorothy M. Tones, president o.
Alpha Chapter, presided.
Evening star., 1941-06-11
Mr.. and Mrs. Hesse
Return From
Wedding Trip

Mr.. and Mrs. Clement Franklin
Hesse have just returned from a
wedding trip spent in st. Augustine,
Fla, and now are making their
home at 1923 LuZon avenue NV.
The bride formerly was Miss
Blanche Burton, daughter of Mrs.
Thomas H. Burton and the late
Judge Burton, and Mr.. Hesse is the
son of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
lin Nicholas Hesse. Their marriage
took place May II in the Wash
ington Chapel. A reception was
given in their honor at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club by
Evening star., 1941-06-11
Leave Capital

Mrs. Sol Bloom and Miss Vera
Bloom are in New York, where
Representative Bloom will join
them on week ends.
Evening star., 1941-06-11

Mrs. Hesse's brother and sister-in-
law, DR.. and Mrs. Marcus H. Bur-
ton. The reception was attended by
close friends of the bride and bride
groom.
Evening star., 1941-06-11
Miss Frances Duff
Will Be Married
To MIR. Shaffer

Mr.. and Mrs. William P. Duff an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Frances EdWardine
Duff, to Mr.. Thomas Newton Shaf-
fer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Shaffer OF Washington. Mr..
Shaffer is a graduate of the Uni
verSity of Maryland and is now con-
nected with an engineering firm in
Riverdale, Md.
The ceremony is to take place
on Saturday afternoon, June 81 at
4 o'clock at the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart, to be followed by small
reception for the immediate men,
bers of the family at the home of
the bride elects parents.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Finland Under German Scourge

little Finland is tough spot England and the
United demanding that Finland Immediately stop
making Russia and the people of Finland had
thing to say about would been complied
with before made But England and the United States
in cahoots with Germany been coddng and training
Russia for they should not
expect sudden reversal of the policy they have
fostered.
The people of Finland peace-lovng people and would
make their country real democracy the big vena
nations allow it. but unfortunately Finland has
nations and is strategcay military
standpoint So been and controlled by Others
and although fondy called democracy" has really been
virtual dictatorship for many Elections held of
course-but so they in Germany and Italy.
secured her independence from the Russian boil
merely asking for it, and Immediately started to
form real peoples government But Mannerhem German
general in the army who had been chased
with other white Russians marched in and started to econ
quer them found it bigger task than he had thought
appeal to Germany to send him large reinforce
men Then subdued the Firms rebes, slaughtering
about rs 900 them showing his German instincts by
cunning captves few days times, and thus
earned his title Butcher Mannerhemhe Manner
nh patriot" Many leading Finnish patriots escaped him,
and several of these in Astoria
Now Finland entirely in the hands of Germany There
are more German soldiers than Firms there The Finnish
radio and press entirely controlled by the Germans of
nothing but defiance of the demands of Eng
land and the United that Finland shall making
war on Russia the though demands made
for the withdrawal other German Some day. in
The final settlement affairs the real sentiments of Finland
and her people will have chance to be heard In the
lime we can only say: Poor little Finand-Capal Press
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
Confederation

The view taken by The Peoples Voice the action OF
the National Education Association in going OUT for abolish
ment of the CCC and the NYA being corroborated by wide
spread, editorial expressions.
Among many Others the Scotland Neck North Carolina
COMMONWEALTH discusses the criticism leveled at the
NYA by both the comptroller of the treasurer and by the Ma
tional Education Association, saying in part:
"In great organization handling millions of dollars it
is inevitable that there shall be petty graft Some folks
who do that get into the best of organizations and Mr. Will
could prevent it, and neither could Mr. Warren have
if their positions had been reversed We
deed glad however, that Mr. Williams has taken the ati-
ude he has with respect the matter for shows he is
Mr. Warren about having things done the right
"With Mr.. Warrens further criticism that some the
administrative activities of the NYA do not please him
have great deal of fault to find Mr. Warren the fiscal
comptroller of the and not the administrative
director Perhaps he does disagree with of the
tons and activities of the NYA but submit that he
appointed direct activities but merely control expend
So long the latter within the law he fiscal
director has right to publicly criticize administrative
tivities
"The further criticism of the NYA by group of national
educational officials the effect that the NYA setting up
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Findings Of Board
(Continued from Page One)

/
to a deserving body of wage earners
by blinking at the nations best in
terests. No group has more to lose
from initiation than the nations wage
earners.
ITO save the nation from the blight
and chaos of initiation it will probably
be necessary to impose drastic new
taxes on the public as a whole, inn
mobilize a part of the expanding pur-
chasing power by some organized
scheme of saving, and most important
of all, adopt a comprehensive plan
in regard to wages, profits and the
prices of both industrial and agricul-
tural commodities.
That is a fair sample of the way
the report of the emergency board
to Investigate the facts as to the dis
putes between certain common car
riers by rail and certain of their en-
ployees respecting vacations with pay
rules of service and wage increases
and to report thereon" reads.
1t seems to be another instance of
an agency that is confronted with the
problem of making UP its mind as to
the rightness or wrongness of labor
dispute and being unwilling to do so.
The emergency railroad board
should have learned from the expert
ence of the Natl. Defense Mediation
Board in the captive mines dispute.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12

st. Ignatius, Mont
Editor of Peoples Voice,
Perhaps observation and experience
of many years makes an old mar
skeptical, but listening to propaganda
over the radio and reading daily news
papers to the effect that farmers OF
the present should produce to the linn
it to meet food demands for our boys
at the front, as a patriotic duty is
not very clear as an emergency which
now confronts and is somewhat out
of direct line of thinking.
Now as matter of economic emer-
gency we were told only short time
ago, we must limit production due to
the fact that we were reproducing.
Now will some one tell us how taking
part of our people out of other occu-
pations and placing them in the army
has so increased our population as to
suddenly change our surplus to an ex-
IRENE shortage of food? Was it be-
cause our soldier boys only were so
under-fed at home and are now being
fed, it is creating an extreme
demand for farm products and farm
Since no great increase in our pop
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ulation has taken place, does it not
indicate that the under-feeding OF a
large part of our people created a
heavy surplus, leading our govern
ment to advance the theory of over
production?
They point to the duty farmers owe
to the people of Europe to see that
our farms provide for needs now and
after the present war, and advance
the theory our 'Lend-lease" bill will
guarantee to farm producers, fair
prices for some time to come, but re-
cent tax laws would indicate higher
prices and profits derived from them
payments on bonds created to make
loans to foreign countries that will, as
likely as Germany of the past, repudi-
ate both debt and interest on the lend
lease loans, but will not release pro-
ducers of the United States from re-
imbursing the holder of the bonds.
Why do the propaganda war. SYM
pathizers of the United States not tell
the farmers and laboring people the
clear facts on both sides of the ques-
lions?
They tell us of our duty to prepare
to help restore war torn Europe after
the war is over, but we know that
the destruction was not due to plans
of the rank and file of our people of
the Western hemisphere and is it the
duty of our people to impoverish our
farms, many of them are now declared
worn out, mines, forests and other
natural resources to restore Europe
wantonly destroyed by the people of
Europe? Capitalism looking for spoils
will say 'yes," but should not the
common people and common sense
say mo"
Much stress is being placed on I'M
declared wars Of aggression when So
called democracies CD Of other coun-
tries secure a victorious capture of
first, our executive branch of govern
ment, second, our treasury through
lend-lease bill, third, our navy, by
transfer of ships and equipment,
fourth, our congress by repeal of neu-
Lrality laws, approaching to last step
toward open declaration of war, fifth,
apparently soon to come, our army
and war department, with lives of our
own people, is not that an undeclared
war achieved by propaganda and stra-
,egy? De we owe it to the Eastern
hemisphere, and should our resources,
ives and future peace and security be
placed in Jeopardy for defense of
e. B. SHIPMAN.
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vocational schools and center is the place OF the
school foolish in the extreme The NYA which the
national educational officials wish to have abolished is merely
doing of the things which the educators have failed to
another. The NYA is sressing
tonal education which has been the redheaded stepchd
of the educational system until recent years Now that the
NYA is demonstrating its praccabty the educators are
foamng their mouths because else doing what
they should have done long
mo- get excited criticism of shorsighted
educational leaders All have to say them is that
glad had the to fuller education to
make living for those who finish high school, and the
necessary energy to put such program into effect
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
AN OPEN
LETTER
TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Mr.. President:
These things you know THAT
MEN ARE DYING BY THOUSANDS
IN EUROPE in war, in reprisal mass
acres, in executions and in starvation.
This thing we know: That your
heart aches for those bleeding, dying
casualties of Europe and Asia even as
ours do.
Yet do you know the real reason
why Americans in general are against
our entrance into the war? Mostly
it is because we have no assurance
that Hitler will be the last of the
| Napoleons. We are not even told this
time that it is war to end war as
we were promised of the last war.
Such promises wouldn't go far now
We know that as long as capitalism
and trade competition flourishes there
will be uprising and international jeal-
ousies. Europe unlimited will ever be
hotbed of national intrigues. Europe
united under a Hitler or Stain will
become direct menace to the trade
monopoly of America.
We know very well that might does
not make right 1t will take the best
brains of both the old world and the
new world to bring justice and
square deal to all people. Guns will
never do it.
Therefore we ask that you take the
initiative at once and call for volun-
teers from every nation to act as an
international police system, at the
same time calling for the same per-
centage of peace-loving representa-
tives from every country to make up
a court of justice-and also in an
international conference establish
high pay for these volunteer police
men beside sfurnishing them with the
best of training and equipment to be
contributed by each country for the
Of peace. l understand
that many people are thinking along
these lines. But why not act at once
and put stop to the senseless mass
murders of Europe and Asia?
Americans would be enthusiastic if
they could see chance to PUT AN
11ND III WAN. purely UOIu GulOpS
and Asia have had enough of it even
as we have. There should be quick
response everywhere to any call of
yours for an international army of
to put out the conflagra-
ion in Europe, especially if the fire
lighters are offered the pay they de-
serve.
But DON'T ask us to become the
policemen of the world DON'T
FORCE US TO IMPOSE OUR IDEAS
)F DEMOCRACY ON THE WORLD.
only ask us to HELP stop war when
ver and wherever it starts for the
AXE of humanity / truly believe
very anti-war organization would
Jack you up in this. There would
urely be unity on this question, at
east.
Do this, President Roosevelt, and
very mother in the whole world will
)Ve you. The noblest men in every
ountry would revere your memory
nd help. Any country that refused
D cooperate would be undeserving
Americas help now
1T WOULD BE THE GREATEST
-CCOMPLISHMENT SINCE THE
WORLD BEGAN.
Very sincerely,
MRS. ELLA v. ARCHER.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
HOLLYWOOD
SHORTS
By JOHN R. CHAPLIN

The conclusion of the Brown-Bioff
trial in New York, with it's expected
verdict Of guilty for the two accused
officers of the init Alliance of Thea
trical Stage Employees, has been a
No. 1 topic among studio workers
here
The contrast between the workers
viewpoint and the newspaper accounts
Of the trial is one that only readers
of the labor press would readily I'M
derstand In brief, the consensus
among enlightened unionists is that
the movie producers were only too de-
| lighted to buy protection against wage
increases and strikes.
Nicholas Schenck and other execu-
tives testified that they paid some
100000 in mortal terror lest their
business be ruined and even their
lives endangered What the average
unionist fails to understand is why
these Hollywood bigshots had never
heard about the New York cops and
the Hoover Omen who could have
smashed this secret racket at any
time during the six years it lasted.
But instead of asking the police
to act, the bribe-givers kept the deal
a strict family secret.
tits not hard to figure out" one
member of the IATSE observed. "a
conservative guess is that the film
companies saved in higher wages at
hot TO-.
protection.
"Take the situation in New York
City in 1885. The scale was $2.12k
an hour, and the companies tried to
put through cut of s1.25. That's a
difference of $26.25 a week, or S1,365
year, for each operator With close
to 1000 men affected you can see
why the theater owners would con-
slider it good business to spend a
couple of hundred grand to save a
whole million"
In New York, however, the employ
ers discovered to their sorrow that |
the rank-and file operators could not |
be trusted to do as their officials told |
them. Members of Local 306 revolted |
against the cut, which was accom-
panied by advice to quit the union
and sign Individual contracts.
Local delegations went to interna-
tional headquarters and demanded
strike sanction when written and tele-
graphed pleas were ignored. But all
requests were refused.
It was then that the unionists re-
sorted to direct action. Using what
became known as the rotating" sys-
.em, different operators were assigned
to the various theaters. Pictures
we're flashed on the ceiling, on the
walls, or upside down on the screen.
Sometimes the sound track was omit
ed; at other times the sound was
lsed without the picture.
Theater managers pounded on the
loors of the projection booths, which |
we're securely locked from the inside.
They were advised to go somewhere {
Else. In deep sorrow they returned s
0 the box office for the job of hand G
ng out refunds to disguised patrons
The upshot was compromise on t
rate of $1.S61a which has since been il
oosted to $2O6. Ironically, the testi- a
1ony given by the producers at the n
ecent trial was that this effective n
ressure was inspired by Willie Bioff o
nd George e. Browne to demonstrate
heir power. The fact was that Bioff g
nd Browne were even more peeved a
bout the rank-and-file rebellion than Il
no theater owners were. n
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12

For Bert w. Kronsmiller county at
torney of Big Horn county, ON the
question:
Where county has acquired land by
tax deed, but board of county com
missioners have failed or neglected
for over six months after acquiring
such title, to make and enter an order
for public auction sale of such lands
and give notice thereof all as provided
in Section 1, Chapter III, Laws of
1911, may the taxpayer or successor
in interest whose property has been
so decided to the county, still come in
at any time before the date fixed for
such sale and purchase said lands
from the county as provided in said
section and chapter?
Held: Where board of county COM
missioners fails to made and enter
an order of sale of land, the title to
which has been acquired by county
tax deed within six months-the tax
payer or successor in interest may
at any time before the date fixed for
such sale, exercise his preferential
right to purchase such land, the cri-
Lerion set by the legislature restrict
ng the preferential right is at any
line before the date fixed for such
sale.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12

Fresno, Mont, Nov Z, 1871
Dear Cap Bruce,
Inclosed find $3.50 for five sub
scriptions, for The Peoples Voice
was at the meeting at Kalispell, and
know we must get at least 10 sub
scriptions each, If we are to have a
paper that will print the facts. 1t is
the first paper l read, as soon as
get the mail.
l think the farmers, and laboring
men would be wise, to go without
some other things, and get The Peo-
pies Voice and keep up to date, on
affairs of our state, and not cast bal
otis like band of sheep lead to
slaughter, by trained sheep, that is
not always any wiser than the rest,
but has been trained to do the job,
for the herder.
Yours for more subscriptions
ANNA H. PALMER.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
OPINIONS OF READERS


cussed to some al least,o
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Three Opinions
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CONTINUED from Page One)
of beaver that are doing damage. May
have an early reply to this query?
Held: Professional trapper, operat-
ing under Fish and Game Commission
permit issued under provisions of Sec
ton 1855, Revised Codes of Montana,
1885, as amended by Chapter ia,
Laws of 1889, may, under regulations
fixed by the commission, trap beaver
on lands other than his own when the
owner 70 such lands secures from the
commission a legal permit for killing
beaver which are actually doing dam
age to his land.
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State Grain
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| Continued from Page One)
proviso that unexpended portions
should revert to the general fund at
the end of the year.
The year 1911 was a very fair aver
age year insofar as wheat production
was concerned, yet comparison of
the amount of work done by the grain
testing laboratory at the Great Falls
laboratory during 1910 and this year
during the month of October, shows
why the division is threatened with a
shortage of funds:
1910 1941
Car grades, samples
and on certificates 317 502
Submitted samples on
certificates 1857 7.016
Submitted samples
elevator reports) 430 925
Total samples grades 1904 8,443
Car prote1ns on
certificates 2O3 1893
Samples submitted, pro-
teins on certificates 1884 $3.50
Submitted samples
elevator reports) 43O 925
Total samples -
for protein tests 3,027 9,4O8
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though both come in that general cate
CORY. The attack on NYA, however
will be made from an altogether diff.
ferent angle, namely, that the de
Tense program is creating sufficient
jobs for young people to make NYA
no longer necessary. That is pure
fiction
Plan Domestic Program
| A group of congressman, most OF
| them members of the so-called liberal
bloc, met last week to consider form.
ulation of a program of legislation
designed to solve domestic problems
now, as well as to ward off postwar
unemployment and general disloca-
ton.
Discussion centered mainly on how
such a program could be put into eff
feet without interfering with the
country's defense effort. 1t was
thought possible that the basic living
standards of the "ill-clothed, ill-fed,
and ill-housed" could be raised during
the present emergency, since sacrifice
for defense consists mainly in lux
uries.
Current Capital Comment
Among it's other duties, the Amer
lean Red Cross has now assumed that
of aiding in the vocational and phys
ical rehabilitation of men discharged
from the army because of physical
disability. Don Herald, who has
been movie critic for "Scribner's Com
mentator' for the past eight years,
has resigned because the editors of
that "Clividen Set" magazine changed
his article on the senate sub-commit-
tee motion picture investigation" to
give the impression that he is an iso-
lationist. Also, he is sore" because
the editors deleted from the article
the passage, 81 hate Hitler and the
nazis" :. Gerald w. Movius, secre-
Lary of North Dakota's Senator Nye. |
believes that the senate should in |
vestigate the interventionist propa-
5anda" of the comic strips. The
soon will press for a |
much tougher tax bill in an effort |
o prevent initiation if congress waits
90 long to pass the price-control bill.
Sen. Josh Lee, Oklahoma, insists
hat, inasmuch as America First
threatens to come into his state to
lefeat him for reelection, he has a
light to know the identity of those
Who contribute money to America
first. Rep. Rich, Pa, says that
he President has outlived his useful
ess. That's infering that the Presi-
ent, at some time or other, served
ONE useful purpose, which is some
hing that Rich has never before adj
lifted Ii
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE

With savage tribes where skulls are
thick,
And primal passions rage
They have a system, sure and quick
To cure the blight of "age".
For when a natives youth has fled
And years have Slapped his vim,
They simply knock him on the head
And put an end to him.
But we, in this enlightened age,
Are built of sterner stuff,
And so we look with righteous rage
On deeds so harsh and rough,
And weak and short of breath,
We simply take his job away,
And let him starve to death
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-12

Manhattan, Mont, Nov. 7, 1871
To The Peoples Voice,
Dear Editor, VIII you please print
this little poem in your paper.
I want to congratulate Mr.. Maury
on his letter last week or week be-
fore in regards to Wheeler and Lind
bergh Lindbergh left this country
once and went to Seven Oaks, Kent,
England because America wasn't safe
to stay In to raise his family we could
very well do without him and Wheeler
too, for l consider them a detriment
to America They should be sent
over to Hitler and let him put them
in the front row of the firing line.
We don't need any Of their dictator
ship talk, I suppose if the nazis got
over here, Wheeler would run and
hide in his mansion in Glacier park.
I also think the lady from Bozeman
is right, Stahlberg's bunk does take
up too much room in the paper. This
week some one writes in favor of
Stahlberg and Lindbergh and is either
afraid or ashamed to sign his name.
With best regards, sincerely,
mr. IN rcDTnAu