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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10
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''reason"-by promises of acceptance
into the New Order and share in
future prosperity" They talked
trade, and even succeeded in making
some sort of trade deal-a face-sav-
ing proposition to conceal failure. The
Turks refused to be embraced by the
nazis; they feared the poison fangs.
They are willy people.
The Turks have always been SYM
pathetic to the cause of the democ-
racies. But they played a smart,
realistic game, knowing what happens
to countries that tried to resist Hit
ler's mechanical forced with rifles,
machine guns, and hand grenades.
The more the nazi 1egions run into
trouble, the holder Hitler's potential
enemies become.
Labor Aids Savings Campaign
Extent of the sales of Defense Saw
ings Bonds and Stamps in the next
few months will have material bear
ing on whether there will be legisla-
tion for increased taxes and enforced
savings as initiation curbs.
In recent months, sales have aver
aged approximately $300,000,O0O
month. Were the sales increased
from $70O,000,000 to $8O0,OOO,OOO
it is believed that sufficient
power would thus be abb
sorbed to make enforced savings and
increased taxes insofar as initiation is
concerned unnecessary.
The government, of course, can bor-
row money from the banks at cheaper
rates of interest than it pays on the
Savings bonds. But money borrowed
from banks does not absorb purchas-
ing power.
Hence, the move by the Treasury
department in bringing in labor rep
to help promote the sale |
Of Defense bonds is of special signifi-
canoe. The effect of the campaign
among labor unions already is begin
hing to bear results.
The labor men who have been
brought into the picture are: James
Barrett, who was publicity director
or the Southern Labor Bureau; Leo
Goodman, who was director of re-
earch of the United Shoe Workers;
md A. J. Dunn, who was vice presi-
lent Of the Brotherhood of Railway
Jerks.
-wo-Way Propaganda
Nazi short-wave propaganda, trying
to create distrust between
be American and British people, last
yeek gave a most admirable example +
f their two-way propaganda tech +
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10
OPINIONS OF READERS

communications
o effectively
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10

You cannot control what you do
not own!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10
November 80, 1911

November 80, 1884,
Dear Editor,
Your editorial on parity hits the
spot once more I have been thinking
of the man who asked the Master"
what is TRUTH" He did not wait
| for reply.
However l ask, what is Parity?'
and answer my own question by say
Ing IA Pigment of the imagination. y
The following plan would put agri-
culture on it's feet If adopted with the
proviso that all agricultural produce
(home grown be paid for at cost of
production as a minimum Cor floor
Cost of production to nickle, has
been worked out by all agricultural
authorities. 1t includes interest on
the farmers investment which very
few of us have got since 1924 when
Ben Strong was governor of the fed
eral bank
A plan to eliminate agricultural sur
pluses by providing a discount to con-
sumers on the retail prices of domest-
ic agricultural products and on indus
trial products containing domestically
produced agricultural raw material.
1. The secretary of agriculture
should render periodic report to the
secretary of the treasury of the value
at cost of production of current, do
nestle agricultural SURPRISES. The
secretary of the treasury should pro-
coed to monetise these SURPRISES in
the following manner.
2. The treasury should open special
accounts with the Federal Reserve
and for member banks depositing with
them a special issue of currency to
the value of the SURPRISES. This cur
rency would be legal tender in pay
ment of all debts and taxes, but would
be restricted with respect to it's use
IS cash reserves by all banks in the
United States, it's territories, and pos
sessions, to 1000 reserve against
equivalent deposit liabilities. All
treasury and member bank deposits |
With the Federal Reserve banks aris-
ng from the issue or transfer of this |
would be segregated accord |
ngly so that member banks holdings |
If such deposits with the Federal Re-
erve banks could not constitute a
ash reserve against more than the |
anne volume of their own deposit liza
,ilities, and SO that Federal Reserve
,ank holdings of such currency could
lot constitute a cash reserve against
Their Federal Reserve bank opera
ions.
Thus neither this currency or the
'ederal Reserve bank deposits created
gainst 1t could be used as a lease
Or additional bank creations Of cred
!. All banks would be required to
ccept this currency in clearing OPP
rations with other banks in the same
roportion in such clearing which its
gliding of this currency by the pay
lg bank bore to that banks total
ash reserves.
g. Retailers of domestically pro-
uced food or other goods made from
r containing domestically produced
gricultural products would be offered
lie opportunity of selling such food q
: other goods at discount off their t
primal retail price, the amount of the v
scount to be reimbursed to them by O
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10

nique.
The short-wave directed to America
told American taxpayers that they
will be shouldered with crushing
tax burden for years to come-a bur-
! den that will be unbearable - which
will be of no benefit to this country,
just to help out country that will
show its gratitude by calling us,
Uncle Shylock."
The United States, the nazi an
nouncer predicted, will, as usual, be
left holding the weli-known sack.
But, at the same time, the nazi
broadcaster to Britain was telling the
British people what they can expect
from Uncle Shylock." The lease
lend bill, he said, was a diabolical
Yankee scheme designed to bring
Britain within the American economic
orbit, and make economic serfs and
slaves of the British.
Warned the nazi broadcaster, who
spoke perfect Oxford accent: "The
price that Englishmen will pay for
American help is the surrender of
their freedom. Uncle Shylock' is get
ting his factories going full blast SO
that he can capture all the world mar
kets."
The above is variation of what is
known as the lie technique In propa-
ganda. 1t is too obvious to be really
effective
Are They Learning?
1t wasn't so very long ago that the
press in some of the not-too-democrat-
c countries below the Rio Grande,
such as Brazil and Chile, were talk
ng in glowing terms of the virility
If the fascist and the softness of the
peoples.
This tone is fast changing, thanks
o the reverses suffered by the Ital-
ans.
But there is another change in tone
loted Whereas it formerly spoke
,nly of collaboration, economically
md ideologically, with certain Euro
,ean countries, it now speaks of col
alteration with democratic America.
Now and then, praises have been
Keeping into this press of American
emocratic institutions - freedom of
peech, of the press, of trade union
ctivity, Of individual rights, etc.
his is most unusual.
1t seems that the Good Neighbor
'olicy and promotion Of better rela-
ions with Latin America by Nelson
organization have been
God prostylizing forces for democ-
acy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10

Fairfield, Mont, Dec. s, 1941
Dear Sirs:
I would like to make Christmas
present Of one years subscription to
your paper Do you handle the
Christmas and New Years Greetings
to the party in such case? 1t would
be nice Why not suggest something
like that in the paper?
Yours truly,
MRS. H. G. WOODHOUSE.
The Voice will be pleased to send
a greeting card for Christmas Gift
subscriptions. Send names as early
as convenient. Thank you sincere
Iy Mrs. Woodhouse.-Ed.
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Wolf Point, Mont, Dec. 8, 1871
Dear Editor,
Find enclosed a check for the re-
newal of my subscription and copy
of the house and senate vote In the
last session of the Montana state leg
islature.
There may be enough in this check
to pay for the float charge Of 10c.
The Voice is one of the greatest
for the people that has
ever been put out in the state of
Montana, and l hope the people Of
the state will support it in way that
it can ever exist.
Respectfully yours,
G. NJ. BYXBE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10

Two-Way Propaganda
Nazi short-wave propaganda, trying
desperately to create distrust between
the American and British people, last
week gave a most admirable example
of their two-way propaganda tech
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. l. HARRIS

| former Poland, former Czecho-Slova-
kia, and the conquered sections of
Russia. 1t is in this district that We
find nazism in action, on the economic
front. The legitimate private owners
have been dispossessed and their legal
titles destroyed. New owners are
principally faithful nazi party mem
bers--a sort of distribution of loot.
Local corporations have been formed
to take over the forests and the forest
industries, but the nazi law says that
in no case must less than 81 percent
OF the corporation stock bc held by
Ayran Germans The entire district
is run by a large holding company
in Berlin This scheme undoubtedly
is the future economic pattern the
nazis have worked out for the whole
of Europe.
District No. 3-"Western Europe"
This comprises France, Belgium, Hol-
land, Denmark, with Spain and Port
ugal in the blueprint stage for future
absorption The district, so far as
TIM Der production is concerned, is re-
latively unimportant, so its intense
Modification is far from complete.
Experiments with wood in this
country have resulted in development
Of a wood product firm enough for use
as airplane propellers. A process has
been discovered by which wood is
compressed to one-fifth it's former size,
the product being harder than soft
steel and almost as hard as hard steel.
5inceall the air is pressed out, it is
virtually non-inflamable. When it
does catch fire, it burns very slowly.
Will Not Follow Dies
Everything isn't exactly milk and
honey right now on the s0-called Dies
committee. And it's all because Mr.
Martin Dies, determined to grab the
front-page headlines, war or no war,
recently submitted list of some 1,200
names of alleged communists" in
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
FORECLOSURES
Are LOWEST In
seven YEARS

Farm foreclosure sales were the
lowest in seven years, during the year
ending June 30-a year that showed a
sizeable expansion in the use of mort
gage credit by farmers, the depart
ment of agriculture said today. A
drop Of 80 percent in farm foreclosure
sales and an increase of percent in
the dollar volume of farm mortgage
lending took place in the fiscal year
1871, compared with the previous
year, according to A. G. Black, gov
ernor of the Farm Credit Admins
tration.
Foreclosures by individuals 20
percent = showed the least decline.
Insurance companies, with drop of
A percent, and Farm Credit Admin
istration creditors, 38 percent, show
the most. Improvement in farm in
come and remedial measures adopted
in 1910, when more than 100000 land
bank and commissioner loans were re-
amortized, are credited with provid-
ing the major impetus to the drop
in foreclosures by the Farm Credit
Administration.
A total of sS11, 100000 in farm mort.
gage loans was made throughout the
country in the 1871 fiscal year-an in
crease of almost $58,000,000 over the
previous year Although the number
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
BY HJALMAR STORLIE

The newspaper men say fight is
always news, but the fight the finan-
cial interests are waging day in and
day out against the rights Of the peo-
pie to rule has become so common
place that we see little enough about
it in the newspapers. However, when
the banks and trust companies run
for cover under the starched skirts of
Methodist deaconesses to escape from
laws passed by the people, we have
something that is not only news but
first rate comedy.
To see a big fellow scrambling for
cover is always a funny thing to see,
but it is a serious matter too when
it involves the protection of the work
ing farmers ownership of his land
This is the issue involved in a recent
suit filed in a North Dakota court
challenging the constitutionality of
the anti-corporation farming law, en-
acted by direct vote of the people of
that state. 1t is an issue important
to the people of Montana also, for
here, as in many farming states, the
record shows growing tendency for
farm lands to fall into the hands of
or large scale operators
that profit by reducing the farm popu-
lation to the status Of hired labor.
And it is noteworthy that the finan-
cial interests operating in North Da-
kota should find it necessary to use
a religious institution as front. The
slut is filed in the name of Asbury
Hospital of Minneapolis, deaconess
institution owning farm land in the
state.
The story of North Dakota's So
called anti-corporation farming law
goes back to the early days Of the
depression, when Farmers Union and
other farm leaders saw that hard
times were making small farm owners
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
INCORPORATION Land
Law IN n. OAK. IN COURTS
Corporations Using Deaconess Hospital as
A Front to Test Constitutionality of Law
Restricting Corporations From Controlling
and

especially vulnerable and that by
forced sale much Of the farm land
was falling into the hands of non
farmers. In an attempt to prevent
the liquidation of the small farm own
err they initiated measure that the
voters passed by direct legislation in
1882 The enacted law gave corpora
lions owning farm land at the time
of enactment 10 years to sell or have
The land sold at public auction by
county authorities, and it gave cor
porations acquiring land at later
law would normally go into operation
next spring.
The first attempt to forestall the
application of the law was made dur
ing the legislative session last winter,
when corporate interests had gained
the approval of the state affairs COM
mittee for an amendment to the law
providing that corporations could re-
tain ownership of farm land as long as
they did not engage in actual farm
i,CiiCfiA6 liidb ouCl Oh
would defeat the purpose
of the law, the Farmers Union was
prepared to meet the opposition demo
cratically in the open. In a severe
blizzard between four and five thou
sand farmers, called in by Alex Lind,
Farmers Union lobbyist from Will
liams county, came to Bismarck for a
mass meeting and open discussion
with their elected representatives
with the result that the committee
decided to withhold the bill
The corporation interests had
sought to put through their amend
ment when the farmers were not look
ing, working secretly and without the
publicity that such an important issue
deserved. The farmers, on the other
hand, using the traditional and legiti-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
CONSUMERS
SHOULD THROW
AWAY CRUTCHES'

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Consumers
need to throw away their crutches
and start helping themselves through
the organization Of co-operatives, f"
Wallace J. Campbell, assistant secre-
tary of The Cooperative League of
the USA, told Representatives of labor
and co-operatives gathered here Octo-
Der II for a Regional Institute on Or
ganized Labor and Consumer Cooper
alton.
"Only through the independence
generated by cooperation will come
the economic freedom we need to
build an age Of abundance" Mr..
Campbell said He then outlined the
results that have been accomplished
when consumers own their own in
dustries and pointed to the Coop
mills, mines, factories, hatcheries,
bakeries, refineries, pipe lines, oil
wells, banks and warehouses now
owned by consumer co-operatives as
evidence of the power of consumers
when they throw away their crutches
and help themselves"
]. K Stearns of the Eastern States
Farmers Exchange told wildly how
hundred thousand farmers have built
S25,000,000 a year business on fun
damental cooperative principles.
Donald Montgomery, Consumers
Counsel of the AAA, U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture, outlining the problems
that face consumers, said the cost of
food was 1870 higher in September
1941 than it was when the war started
and that the most rapid rise was in
the last six months when prices
jumped 1870 He predicted on the
basis Of present trends that food
prices in 1912 will be 10 to 1870 higher
than the level for this year.
For the time being the job of the
government is to furnish "crutches"
for our price structure" he said, "but
l feel that the meaning of the con-
sumner cooperative movement to the
future is so great that it cannot be
over estimated"
Thomas Fansler, regional represent
tative of the Office of Price Admins
tration, talked on 1.-THE Meaning of
to Consumers" and pointed
out that of our 95 billion dollar in
come in 1941 approximately "a billion
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
RELEASED
DRAFTEES MUST
REGISTER

With thousands of men who have
been serving in the army scheduled
for release from the armed forces
before Christmas, state headquarters
for selectice service today warned
that such men must register under
the selective training and service act
upon their discharge.
Although, under certain conditions.
some men discharged from the army
will not be liable for further peace
time training and service under the
selective service act, it is incumbent
upon them to register upon expira-
ton of their service if they were with
in the age group Of 81 and Sc on Octo-
Der 16, 1910, and if they have not
already registered.
The selective training and service
act is specific in requiring registra-
tion Of men within the age group of
81 to SO who have served in the army.
Those men who were in the active
National Guard on October 16, 1910,
and who have completed six or more
consecutive years in that service are
relieved from peacetime liability for
additional service and training, but
they must register Men who were
members of the National Guard and
who have completed less than six
years of service are relieved neither
from registration nor training.
The act also provides that any per-
son who shall have satisfactorily
served as an officer or enlisted man
for at least three consecutive years
in the Regular Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, or Coast Guard; or any en-
listed man who has been or is here
after honorably discharged from the
Regular Army or the Coast Guard for
the convenience of the government
within six months prior to the COM
pletion of his regular three-year pc
Rod of enlistment shall be relieved
from additional peacetime training.
Any person who is an officer in the
Officers Reserve Corps on the eligible
list at the time fixed for registration,
and who shall have satisfactorily
served therein on the eligible list for
dJ ledSt SlA CONSECUTIVE years, Is also
not liable for additional peacetime
training.
Although the War Department has
ordered organization commanders to
warn the men that they must register
when discharged, state headquarters
said it was their opinion that some
OF them released thus far had failed |
to have themselves enrolled and rec
ommend that such men visit local |
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
ORGANIZED LABOR
OPPOSED TO
CONVICT LABOR
BY JAMES D. GRAHAM

From the time that the Constitu-
tional Convention convened in the
year 1889 until the legislature of 1895
adjourned, organized labor in Mon
tana had to fight vigorously to keep
convict labor from competing against
free labor.
Montana labor is again faced with
an effort to expand convict labor in
a report made to the state reorgani-
cation committee by Griffenhagen &
Associates of Chicago wherein it is
recommended that convict operated
industries be established at the state
prison.
1t is obvious by reading the recon-
mendations to the committee that the
Griffenhagen & Associates are i'll in
formed on the history of convict labor
in this country and especially in Mon
tana.
When Theodore Roosevelt was pres
missioner of labor to make an ex-
tended investigation of convict labor
in this country and give him a report
of the findings.
The report of the commissioner of
labor covers over 1900 pages of
printed matter and at the date of pub
LEGATION was the most complete book
on convict labor data printed.
The report shows that convict labor
is not sound economically, that it had
put many private industries out of
business and cost more to produce
articles than it did with wage labor
The commissioner of labor produced
evidence to show that when it was
to get skilled mechanics to
operate convict operated
skilled workers who were
good clean citizens were invited into
a saloon for drink and were either
given knockout drops, or, enough
whiskey to become drunk and incap-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-05
RECLAMATION
BUREAU ISSUES
1,00OTH PLAN

The 1000th set of construction spec
ifications for irrigation works in the
st-specifications which have GOV.
cred such record breaking engineering
accomplishments as Boulder and
Grand Coulee dams, the All-American
Canal and the Continental Divide Tun-
nel-has been issued by the bureau
of reclamation.
Appropriately enough the specifica-
lions which ran the total number is
sued during the past 80 years of bu-
reau of reclamation activity to four
digits was written for the Friant-Kern
canal on the Great Central Valley
California Reclamation project.
The Friant-Kern canal with flow
capacity of $500 cubic feet a second
will be one of the largest modern
irrigation canals ever built II is the
longest canal on the project which
itself is one of the most difficult and
most complex jobs of water, power,
flood control and irrigation engineer
ing ever undertaken by the bureau.
During its 80 years of existence the
bureau has written specifications for
and built $50 storage and diversion
dams, 20 hydroelectric power plants,
more than 10000 miles of canals,
bitches and drains. It has built near
ly 800 miles of tunnels, 300 miles of
bikes, $4,000 bridges, $1,000 culyerts,
5000 fumes, 5000 buildings, and over
100000 other structures.
This construction has brought wa
ter, power and light to western areas
with a population of Az million. A
million farmers and townspeople make
their livelihood from reclamation-irri
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