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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

ployment are the major factors taker
into consideration in our assignment
of WPA employment to the various
states. For instance, the reduction in
WPA employment for this coming
July over the previous year is about
80 percent in Montana, whereas ii
runs as high as rs percent in Con-
necticut, 81 percent in Rhode Island,
65 percent in Maryland, ct cetera.
The national average is Al percent.
The situation you tell me about and
which is told to you by people in
Montana is, in my opinion, correct.
think the same situation is true in
practically every state, namely, that
many eligible and needy persons will
not be able to find employment
The WPA appropriation is a very
drastic reduction. There is simply
nothing we can do except distribute
one million jobs to the best of our
ability, taking into account all Of the
known factors of unemployment and
need as between the states.
With best personal wishes, | am
Sincerely yours,
HOWARD O. HUNTER,
Commissioner.
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Defense work. This situation has
been brought to the attention Of Of
ficals of the executive departments
repeatedly and I sincerely hope that
you will be able to give sympathetic
consideration to the problem we are
faced with.
| know personally that the effect
of this reduction in the Montana WPA
quota will be severe hardship for mum
erous relief families. Our smaller
counties, which will be closed under
the WPA order, have suffered from
drouth and economic depression for
the last ten years and are not now
in a position to assume the relief
load. l hope that you will visualize
the situation that will exist if this
order is put into effect, because if
you do 1 am sure you will want to
make adjustments that will allow the
WPA to continue its operations in
the small counties. Unless some ad-
justment is made hundreds of our
citizens in actual need, through no
fault of their own, will suffer. would
say that it is absolutely necessary to
increase the July quota, which you
have already set, by at least 1,500.
Your earnest consideration of this
request will be deeply appreciated,
and | would like an opportunity to
discuss this matter with you tomor-
row.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES E. MURRAY.
P. S. For your information l en-
close herewith several messages l
have received from Montana protest
ing this action by the WPA. Please
return these when they have served
their purpose. ]. E. M.
FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
Work Projects Administration
Washington, D. G.
June 25, 1941
The Hon. James E. Murray
United States Senate
Dear Senator Murray:
| am fastening to reply to your
letter of June oath regarding the Mon
tana WPA employment authorization
because 1 want to correct what ap-
parently is a misunderstanding.
l want to assure you that the ma
tional defense industries and re-em- J
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Nelson being a notable exception
are fronting for big business, which
generally speaking, has been oppos
ing plant expansion. Failure to ex
pand plant capacity commensurate
with the tremendous defense effort
has created many serious bottle-necks
and has retarded the program. Dunn's
resignation" ito RETURN" as the an
nouncement reads" to his position as
President of the j. G. White Engineer
ing Corporation" may be the first OF
several such designations"
Nazi Propaganda Gets Jolt
The government order to the Nazis
to shut down their propaganda offices
in this countryside German Library
of Information, Transocean News
Service, and the German Tourist Bu-
reau-brings a sigh of relief to Uncle
Sans postman, particularly those on
Capitol Hill. The paper companies,
however, will lose by the decision to
treat Nazi propaganda here the same
as democratic propaganda is treated
IN Germany, since many tons of paper
were used daily to carry the mes
sages of disunion and hate.
Many members of Congress will
miss Facts in Review" neatly
printed and ably edited propaganda
magazine published by the German
Library of Information, under the SUI
pervision of George Sylvester Viereck,
the old Kaiser propagandist, and now
registered as nazi foreign agent. To
many with a sense of humor, Facts
in Review" afforded not a little amuse-
ment to see the nazis portrayed not
as burners of books but as patrons
OF the fine arts and sciences. To the
fascist-minded members of Congress
and there are several of them in this
democratic representative assembly
1t merely afforded additional proof
that Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, ct al
are the most maligned and the least
understood gentry on earth.
4
Minimum Old Age Pensions
CALIFORNIA; Senator Downey is still
trying to get Congress to do some
thing about equalizing old age pen
sions and placing them on decent
basis. The other day, he introduced
a resolution asking for an investiga-
ton of old age pensions by a sena-
torial committee of seven, with view
to establishing a national minimum
pension. Although universally ad-
mitted that the present old age assist
ance system is haphazard and unjust,
with recipients of some states receiv-
ing pensions five times and more the |
amount paid in other states, 1t has |
ben impossible to get Congress to !
10 anything about it. The trouble Is
hat the Federal government matches
'tate funds, so that old folks residing
n poor and backward states are pen
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
|PR0FITEER
IS BACK With
us AGAIN
By JEANETTE RANKIN

| The profiteer is back with us again
And, as in the last war, he is raising
the cost of most of the things which
men and women must have to live
During the last year foods have gone
lup AZ percent, according to the de
partment of labor; and during just
the last month, farm products have in.
creased six percent; food 3.2 percent;
and fruits and vegetables IA percent
Also, rents in the communities where
defense workers are most numerous
have been skyrocketed as high as 100
percent.
Leon Henderson, price administers
tor of the Office of Production Man
agement, and Karl Borders, rent ex-
pert of the Office of Price Administra-
ton, have told congress that moral
suasion" has not been sufficient to
keep prices down and it will be nee
essary to enact legislation giving
power to the government to freeze
prices at a reasonable level.
OF course, the profiteer did not
make the conditions which brought
about these high prices, but there is
tendency for the man who is getting
rich out Of defense to feel that war
isn't so bad, after all. In other words,
the psychological effect of these exor-
bitant gains is to convince the prof
iteer that war is, in some respects,
a blessing to those in position to
take advantage of circumstances to
get rich
However, the women of America
know there is no real profit in war
for them. When the boys are taken
from their homes and thrown into the
cruel nav of this Unsuitable monster,
war, the mother has lost her all.
There can be no profit for mother
whose sons are mutilated or killed.
A new crop of Gold Star Mothers is
a fearful price to pay for few prof
iteering war millionaires.
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Current Capital Comment
Rep. Tinkham, the Massachusetts
lion hunter, says that FDR is not a
Democrat at all, but radical com
munist." /. Some of the members
of Congress are complaining because,
they say, Congress is being shut out
in the cold rain by the President. .
What can Congress expect when the
filibuster is used in the Senate to pre-
vent measures from reaching vote,
a tactic employed by a minority to de-
feat the purposes Of representative
government Senator Wheeler is
becoming known as the chief heckler
in the Senate of the Administration.
Regardless of what the issue is, he
can always be depended upon to put
in "his twobits worth" against the
Administration. -. Rep. Tenerowicz,
Mich, has introduced concurrent
resolution in the House for Congress
sional investigation ito determine the
reasons for the increased cost of
lOOQ VI AOO CiliCl, hOOh iiSli
derson, has asked some of the large
bakeries not to increase the price of
bread without first consulting with
his office. :. An effort will be made
to conserve rubber, not because of an
shortage but to build up
large stockpiles :. 1t looks as though
OPM may act favorably on proposals
for steel expansion in the far West.
Establishment of priOrities are now
coming in so fast, that one has to get
the latest daily information to keep
up with it. +. Census figures disclose
that 219,382 farms of from 20 to 40
acres and 83,917 farms of from SO to
SO acres and 1894 farms Of from 100
to 499 acres have disappeared during
the past 10 years. That's not a
healthy condition for agriculture, since
the family-sized farm is the backbone
Of agriculture of this country.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Toward a Better Day

special effort being made by Alabama Union
get members of organized labor to them at their
rally at Oneonta, July 9Th.
This the part of farmers definitely pointing to-
ward better day The unity of farm working people and
ustria workers the basis better living conditions
for BOTH
The Southern News Almanac believes this gesture of
GRAFTON between the two groups of working people hope
full evidence of the need felt for farabor political
party that will put real peoples
and women-in public postions-Souhern Almanac.
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addition to his regular monthly pay
"2O service certificate" redeemable
in two years, with interest at the
rate of percent. To defray the cost
he proposes an annual excise tax OF
2 mills (one-fifth of one percent) on
Intangible property" of holdings OF
more than $4,000. This would tax
he says, between 300 and 500 billion
dollars of property, and raise funds
sufficient to increase the pay of more
than 100000 soldiers.
One of the great weaknesses of
present tax laws, both state and fed
eral, is that great masses of intangi-
BILE wealth virtually escape taxation
stocks, bonds, treasury notes, and the
like. 1t is common knowledge that
people of great wealth invest their
money in Intangible property in
order to escape taxation. 1t is true,
as Patman says, that only the profits
of Intangible property" comes in for
taxation under the income tax laws,
but the property itself remains virtu-
ally untouched. But this far, Con-
gress has turned a deaf ear to all
efforts to tax hidden wealth, and Pat
mans bill undoubtedly will be placed
in a House ways and means commit
tee pigeonhole, where it's pleasant Tor
turbed by human hand.
Gano Dunn "Resigns"
Resignation" of Gano Dunn as spe-
cial consultant to the materials branch
of OPM has much more significance
than the casual press handout of the
OPM would indicate. Dunn, it is
said, is the first victim of an OPM
reorganization, being undertaken pri-
vately. 1t has been rumored for some
time that a move is to be undertaken
to get rid of the "dollar-a-year" boys
who have shown that they aren't so
hot when it comes to delivering the
goods for Uncle Sam, probably be-
cause they have other interests that
come first.
Dunn, it is recalled, is the expert"
who made two special reports to the
President, in which he practically told
the chief executive that talk by New
Deal economists of an impending
shortage in steel was just so much
hooey. The President believed Dunn
rather than his New Deal economic |
advicprc with tho roc,,1t that M in |
cerase in steel plant capacity was |
The President, to his sor-
low, has found out that he took the |
wrong advice.
For many months, New Dealers in
he defense setup have been telling
FDR that many of the dollar year"
usinessmen-not all of them, Donald
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Missoula, Mont, June %, 1871
Dear Editor, The Peoples Voice,
I see there is some interest, and
perhaps condemnation, in your paper,
on the attitude of the Churches to-
wards reforms in economics.
You have a book advertised on the
subject: 1.-THE Needles Eye"
l enclose an article on the subject
which is very illuminating and comes
from England.
One should read this in conjunction
with the article in last weeks "Satur-
day Evening Post" on the life of Col
onel Lindberg's father.
Yours sincerely,
n T III
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
Helena, Montana

| Helena, montana
Editor Peoples Voice,
! Recognizing the fact that our paper
The Peoples Voice is valuable asset
to the state of Montana, and also that
you are a very busy mani do not
feel it in my power to be of much
assistance in the contributing to much
that is needing to be said But one
phase OF what seems very import
ant matter that appears to a very
considerable extent to be overlooked
generally, is this, that we the Amer
lean people have allowed "far-sighted
glasses" to be placed on us to the
extent that we see, or are made to
think that we can see things in Eur
ope, Asia and in Washington, to the
"blacking out" of conditions in our
own back yard.
1t appears logical to suppose that
if charity begins at home, Democ-
racy should and must also. For in
stance is it hard to imagine what sue
cess Jack Dempsey or Joe Lewis
would have had as pugilists, had some
one, after they had won their cham
pionships in the fistic art, tried to tell
them that "You are perfect now and
must not carry on further training?
1t is needless to say, had such advice
been needed their championships
would have been of short duration.
And the answer is identical concern
ing democracy.
So those persons who advocate the
suppression of peoples rights while
talking of preserving democracy are
either plain damn liars or fools that
have had such ideas put in their heads
by the treacherous liars who are doing
all in their power to undermine de-
by calling ideas that they
may not happen to agree with, sub
versive, un-American and what have
you.
So I would like to ask of all your
readers; do you not, as fair-minded
people, feel it is high time that each
and every one of us, begin with de-
to put such advocates in
their place, by simply asking their
identfty-are they ignorant
fools or just plain liars. And espe-
cially it appears necessary regarding
many editorial writer's and news COM
nentators of the kept press" And
doubtless the same method applied
% many of our politicians would not
be amiss.
May God forbid many of them being
Jailed intellectuals and statesmen.
Yours truly,
l.. F. KING.
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chine to "get blood out of turnp So shall ultimately
have get money quantity where it
and stop trying to get where doesn't exshere there
amt more where trying get probably eim
nate the entirely
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

be brief and the subject matter dis
'jectively
so in the case of Rerum Novarium.
For years the Holy See had been
urged to give lead to the faithful
in regard to labor troubles and their
: causes and remedies. For years also
the international study-group of nota-
BILE Catholics, meeting at Fribourg,
had worked and consulted and kept
the very interested Pope informed;
and when the Encyclical at last ap-
peared it was in many respects based
upon the Fribourg circles facts and
findings.
"In one point, however (but very
crucial one), the encyclical was a dis
appointment to those who had hoped
so much from it. In a sentence near
the beginning the Pope states that
the mischief has been increased by
rapacious usury, which although more
than once condemned by the Church,
is nevertheless, under a different
guise, but the like injustice, still prac-
tised by covetous and grasping men.
That was all-the encyclical did not
explain what the different guise' was,
and anybody could interpret the SEN
tence as he pleased, or ignore it as
merely puzzling.
"The Fribourg group had hoped for
something much more explicit in the
direction of money-reform. They were
quite alive = especially those who
came from Vienna-to the process of
credit-creation, and of the evils aris-
ing from such a power in private
hands,
Father Drinkwater then quotes the
words of one of them: eff we do not
succeed in Transforming our actual
system of credit, all other means to
rescue us from the social peril will
fail" They had hoped to see reform
of financial abuses urged in the en-
cyclical
ITO say why it was left out" con-
tinues Father Drinkwater, cor rather
reduced to a vague condemnation of
'usury in a different guise,' would
need more research than anybody is
likely to give, especially perhaps into
the correspondence Gf any survives)
iof Cardinal Mermillod, who was the
link between Fribourg and Rome at
the time of the encyclicaPs compost
tion. Somebody or something pre-
vented it-that is all we can say for
certain"
He goes on to point out that some
how the truth about money always
has been smothered. Men like Bishop
Berkeley, Abraham Lincoln and Ges-
ell 1--WE could add another) became
aware of what the money-power was
doing, but somehow their ideas have
always been pushed out of sight.
"The money-masters took care to
ity and information, not to mention
the sources of private income, and
were able in a thousand ways to 81
lence critics or make them seem mere
cranks.
Even if Pope Leo had spoken plain
ly, the money power would have
smothered the effect of his words.
If the Pope spoke plainly about the
tomorrow, his words
would fall dead and unheeded by the
world. How do | know? Because he
did speak plainly, 10 years ago in
Quadragesimo Ammo, and nobody has
yet taken any notice of that part Of
it except a few money reformers,
mostly non-Catholics. If you do not
believe me, look up the various Off
cial explanations of that encyclical
given by the Catholic Society which
deals with such things in this country,
and marvel at such skill in soft-pedal-
ling the indiscretions of the sovereign
pontiff"
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Yours sincerely,
H. G. B. COLVILLE.
POPE LEO AND THE BANKERS

In an article under this title in the
English Catholic Times of May 8,
1871, Father F. H. Drinkwater de-
scribes why the doctrine of Pope
Leo's social encyclicals has not been
more applied to circumstance:
"An epoch-making encyclical does
not come down straight out of heaven
like the tongues of fire at Pentecost;
it is often the final result-or per-
haps only the interim result-of a
long process of discussion and fer
ment in the Church about some par
ticular topic, and this was especially
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Missoula, Mont, June 10, 1941
The People Voice, Helena
Dear Sirs: Enclosed you will find
a money order for $1.5O for my sub
scription to the paper, which is due.
1t is the best independent paper in
the state.
Yours truly,
L. E. DUNCAN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Lewistown, Mont, June 25, 1874
Editor, Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont.
Dear Sir:
Horace Greeley used to say that an,
fool knew he could run a paper bet
ter than the editor. The criticism
am about to make however, is con
structive, / hope. In your curren
issue you have poem, I'm Other
Words" by John Stahlberg.
In a recent issue Mr. Stahlberg
says that he is not communist. He
of course, should know, but | will say
that the thought expressed in the
poem is one of the cardinal points OF
communist philosophy-the point be-
ing that the working man is exploited
by the soft-living hypocritical men OF
the cloth, who are nothing but para
sites in the economic order, taking
from the worker material comfort
sorely needed by his family, in ex.
change for unctuous and unfeeling
platitudes.
LET the hammer and sickle come"
cry these enthusiasts land displace
the cross"
The reason I am writing this letter
is two-fold. First, because labor or
CARNATIONS, such as the Farmers I'm
ion are often accused by intelligent
people of wilfully harboring fellow
travellers within their ranks. Those
of us who are convinced of the rights
of labor and the inherent dignity of
man know that this accusation is
false. But for this reason we are the
more. solicitous Of our good repute.
George Washington once warned his
step-daughter that if she would pre-
serve an unblemished reputation she
must be careful to avoid any place or
circumstance in which should an
enemy see her, he could say anything
detrimental to her character.
The point l wish to make is that
even if our organization is definitely
opposed to communism and it's prin-
ciples, as we know it is, we must
not appear to be giving approval to
any facet of its diabolically clever
philosophy, which by saying one thing,
implies another.
The second reason felt impelled to
protest this poem is that it is so I'M
fair and the conclusion it reaches, so
untrue. | have known, as l am sure
we all have, great many ministers
of the gospel, priests, preachers, and
never have I known one
to be bored and perfunctory in the
discharge of his duties. These men,
highly educated for the most part
serve their people for mere pittance,
a bare fraction of the remuneration
to which their talents would entitle
them in other fields.
To defraud a laborer of his hire is
one of the sins, which cries to heaven
for vengeance. But to me there is
another sin more subtle and deadly
than this-to take from the worker
his calm confidence in the encom-
passing arms of a merciful and bene-
,icent Providence, and give him in
exchange, absolutely nothing!
Mr.. Stahlberg writes forcefully and
we'll. He has feeling for form and
nice sense of word value. However
should like to see him use his tai
,nts constructively. Thank you.
MRS. FRANCIS CRAWLEY.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1941-07-25
BRITISH CLAIM HITS
ON NAZI WARSHIPS g..

LONDON, July rs = Simultan-
eous and successful attacks on the
26,O00-ton German battleship Sharn-
horst and Gneisenao at La Pallice
and Brest, France, 24O miles apart
were delivered yesterday by the
Raj, the Air Ministry announced.
Several direct hits were reported
scored in blasting assaults which
climaxed "a hours of intensive oper
atoms against the two ships. The
Scharnhorst was bombed first We'd
nesday when it was found she had
moved south from Brest to La Pal
lice. She was hit by a very armor
piercing bomb at the time, the Air
Ministry said and last night the
attack was repeated. Yesterday hea.
Wy bombers struck at both the
Scharnhorst and the Gneisnau and
also at the French port of Cher
bourg.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1941-07-25
FRENCH IND0-CHINA
UNDER JAP PROTECTION

VICHY, July % - French Indo-
China will be placed under the
armed protection of Japan as the
dominant power in the Orient ae-
cording to an agreement in principle
announced here. Negotiations were
temporarily shifted yichy to Hanoi
capital of French Indo-China, where
technical details on bases for Japan
were to be worked out but contact
was resumed here between thu Jap
anese Ambassador Stotomathu Kuto
and Frances Vice Premier and
Foreign Minister, Admiral Jean Oar
Ian. 1t has been understood that any
details worked out at Hanoi would
be referred back to Viehy for a fl
nal understanding. It was empha-
sized that nothing had been signed
yet and that the accord in its pres
ent tentative form preserved French
sovereignty in Indo-China.