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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
Liberals To Urge
Tax On Wealth


The liberal bloc in the house, which
has been functioning rather feebly in
the past year to two, is beginning to
take on new life.
Rep John Coffee, Washington,
leader of the bloc, says that the group
is to hold meetings to formulate a
tax program and make determined
fight for it,
The fat boys are plugging for a gen
eral sales tax and broadening the
tax base"-another name for taxing
poverty-o raise a stable portion of
the $4,000, 100000 in additional taxes
that will have to be raised the coming
year.
The liberals want wealth to pay its
just share of the tax burden, particu-
larly accumulated wealth. 1t is pointed
out that intangible wealth = stocks,
bonds, securities, mortgages, etc.,
which represent the holdings of the
big fortunes-is scarcely touched by
any existing taxes. This is the means
employed by the wealthy to escape
taxes The more this form of wealth
is taxed, the less it will be necessary
to raise money through taxes on cur
rent income.
Tangible property-real estate, etc.
today is taxed from 20 to 80 times
as great as is the above form Of in
tangible property.
The following tax proposals are on
the agenda for consideration by the
liberal bloc:
1. An excess profits tax bill with
teeth in it, that will carry out the
Presidents promise that the war will
craete no new millionaires.
2. Limitation on profits of corpora
ions-say percent. Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau said he was in
favor Of such a law few months ago.
8. Limitation Of individual incomes
"for the duration"-say to $4,000 a
year. That's surely enough to pro-
vide milk in abundance for the babies!
4. A tax on intangible wealth-se-
curities, bonds, etc. A percent tax
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
NO HAPPY new
Year FOR
U. S. BUSINESS
By SCOTT NEARING

Year-end reviews of the 1871 eco
nomic scene in the U. S. and comment
on the economic outlook for 1912 are
in close agreement. Faced by obvi-
GUS and unacceptable facts, most of
the economic dopesters have reached
some or all of the following conclu-
sions:
1. Production, national income and
taxes all reached record high levels
in 1941 and should go to somewhat
higher levels in 1912 unless the war
ends.
2. Wages and farm incomes rose in
1941. So did the cost of living. All
three factors will continue upward in
1912, with the cost of living leading
the procession, unless the government
decides to put a price ceiling on food,
rent clothing and other necessaries.
8. Business expansion in 1871 was
mainly the result of government buy
ing for war purposes and government
investment in new plants and equip
ment. Many lines of private bust
ness, particularly those affected by
priorities, declined sharply in 1941
and will be further restricted in 1912.
Business activity is therefore passing
under the control of the federal gov
eminent.
4. Money continues to be drug on
the market; interest rates remain
very low and the stock market, after
a year of inactivity and falling stock
prices, faces 1912 with little conf
dence.
5. A drastic shakeup is taking place
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TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL

on such securities, it is estimated, If
applied only to holdings in excess OF
$4,000, would produce in revenue be-
tween and 10 billions a year-more
than enough to take care of the adj
ditional taxes needed Such a tax
would lower no living standards, and
would not impoverish single family
in the land.
5. A tax on the undivided profits of
corporations, to raise few billions.
Cameron's "Helr"
Follows Nazl Line
This column recently called atten-
ton to publication by Destiny maya
zine of full-page advertisements in
leading newspapers, which cost thou
sands of dollars, warning" the Amer
lean people that we soon will be at
war with Soviet Russia.
So closely did this advertisement
follow the nazi line, that it may well
have been prepared by the Wilhelm
strasse itself That line is to create
dissension among the nations fighting
the axis. You can hear it expounded
at any time that you tune your radio
in to the shortwave broadcasts from
Berlin.
Investigation by this column Of Des-
tiny magazine discloses the following:
The magazine virtually is the
mouthpiece of the Anglo-Saxon Fed
Grafton of America, as notorious a
fascist outfit as can be found any
where in this country.
Anglo-Saxon Federation of America
was founded in 1925 by none other
than William j. Cameron, Henry
Ford's public relations man.
Editor Of Destiny magazine is one
Howard B. Rand Rand succeeded
Cameron as editor of the magazine.
Rand also succeeded Cameron as head
- they call it commissioner" - of
Anglo-Saxon Federation of America.
During the period that Cameron
"reigned" over this organization, Rand
was its Secretary General"
The federation for years has been
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congress in which he indicted
industry in general.
"There is not an organized basic
industry in the United which has not
been restricting production by some
device or other, in order to avoid what
they call the ruinous production
after the war;" Arnold stated, bluntly.
He added that the concentration of
defense contracts in very few in
dustrial groups "has aggravated the
danger Of narrowing economic con-
troll"
Many interpretations of Arnold's
Indictment may be, and probably will
be made. But if the indictment is &C
copied and then analysed, judicially,
the one inevitable conclusion which
must be reached is that the selfish
profit system, rather than individuals
within the system, is the enemy
Arnold's statement merely echoes the
charges made by others, but he is
more specific in his indictment. The
economy Of scarcity to induce higher
prices in the thought that higher prof
it's would result is the logical cause
Of trusts and monopolies and insuffi-
cient production Of aluminium and
stee1-and If the oil trust had been
successful in its bogus conservation
campaign" oil might be added. 1t
may yet be because the oil trust is
still SOLDERING periodically about
+;c,,o
Now that Arnold has opened the
doors for honorable discussion of the
plight the country faces in the short
age of essential goods, more discus
sion will result in congress where
questions have been asked privately
and "confidentially" for weeks.
The rubber shortage is no fake.
Your correspondent is convinced after
long talks, and during many weeks |
with officials in OPM and OPA that |
the drastic order which bans the pro-
pleasure or non-essential purposes,
can be defended The classes of con-
sumers to whom tires may go, under
a showing of absolute need may be
changed. For example, the officials
worried at great length over that pro-
vision of the order which denies tires
for retail delivery service, and there
is reason to believe this part of the
order may be modified.
1--WE hope we may influence reor
ganization of retail delivery service,
a consolidation of the service during
this emergency period" one official
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ganizer for the national organization
of the Farmers Union. Mr.. Rolph
will leave on Saturday for Minnesota
to take charge of organization in that
stae as his first work His position
will carry him into all of the states
of the union.
A banquet was given in Mr. Rolph's
honor last Saturday in Great Falls at
which a large number of county Off
GERS from all over the state who had
been in attendance at the officers
school were present. While the state
organization will sorely miss the mill
tant leadership of Mr.. Rolph, it feels
that it will benefit through his influ
Continued on Page FOur)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
HOOVER OF
The F. B. |.
ON THE PAN
Board of Inquiry Curious AS
To Whereabouts of Hoover
When Lights Went Out in
Pearl Harbor; Strikebreaker
Hoover's Liason Appointee.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
the problem of where FBI Director ].
Edgar Hoover was when the lights
went out at Pearl Harbor December
Z is eagerly expected here from the
board of inquiry studying the events
Of that day.
Hoover is on the hot spot as a
result of Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox's declaration, following a per-
sonal investigation, that the attack on
Pearl Harbor was "the most success
full fifth column work that's come out
of his war, except in Norway"
The board of inquiry, under the
Craftsmanship of supreme court justice
Owen Roberts, is expected to look
into the failure of the FBI to catch
up with the fifth columnists as well
as the failure of the armed forces to
anticipate the attack.
To Hoover the President on Sep
TENDER 6, 1899, entrusted the job of
investigating sabotage, espionage and
related matters and Hoover has used
this declaration of the Presidents to
wheedle additional funds for the FBI
out of congress.
Special offices were established for
the FBI in Honolulu and on January
5, 1910, Hoover told house appro-
priations subcommittee that the rent
of the Honolulu office was $2,176.S0
a year.
On February 81, 1941, he appeared
before the same committee, reported
that the FBIs division in Honolulu
was an important point and that
rent for quarters there would amount
to $4,622.96 year.
For the two fiscal years from July
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
FARMERS DREAD
TIRE RATI0NING

CLEAR LAKE, Wis.-FP)-Farm-
ers will be among the worst suffer-
ers from the federal tire rationing
scheme, 1t is agreed here A farmer
summed it up this way:
This freezing of auto tires is going
to be plenty hard on farmers for there
are no horse and buggies much any
more. The horses we do have are too
heavy and for most of US 1t will take
a whole day to go to town. With
car we could go in two hours.
"Of course while tires last we can
still go, but the poorer the farmer
the harder hit he will be-"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
R0LPH TO WORK
AS NATIONAL
ORGANIZER
State President of Farmers
Union Resigns to Accept
Position in Charge of Organ
ization Work; Mrs. Stoltz
Has Temporary Assignment.

H. D. Rolph, state president of the
Farmers Union for the past eight
years, last week submitted his resig-
nation to the state executive board
in order to take over the work of or
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
CROP ms. BENEFITS QUESTIONED

Federal alisk Montana for
three
benefits will
By using
Peoples will thorough
exactly what expect from the insurance
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
SCARCITY FOR PROFIT
BURDENS Defense Al25
CONSUMER IS CHARGE
Asst Atty. Gen. Arnold Denoun( l5ocarcity
Planning of Industry and Gomez cation
OF Defense Contracts in Few Groups;
Arnold's Contention Supported by Critical
Report on Automobile Industry.

WASHINGTON D. C.=Assistant Attorney General Thur
man scathed profit capitalism and incident
ally the of scarcity and all of it's breed
pratca children Industrial greed for post profits has
burdened the country delayed the building national de-
enes fair Interpretation of Arnods annual report to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16

An administrative order efectng many changes in the adj
mnraon and of the state highway department
issued Wednesday by Governor Ford covering 40 particular
made by Grffenhagen and Associates An
other order also issued which will bring about drastic
changes the administration of the industrial school at
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR
CHANGES IN Departments
ISSUED BY GOVERNOR

Changes Ordered Cover Hiway Department
And the Miles City State Industrial School;
Reorganization of Entire School Staff to be
Arranged; Prospective Income and Expense
In Hiway Department to be Budgeted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16

divided % equals 5 yield
O yield
period o
year premium 81 bushels
he
IS his labor
the Of
bushels insured the end of the he
30
farmers ADMINISTRATORS to
going broke
is tina o wheat?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16

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 people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16

Democracy Cannot Endure Un-
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold, Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions. AP
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
Hoe Bacr WoU EpGHIefs
Godget .Husks Spuds
In DegIomorized K. p.
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Rumors that officer gentleman in the last
founded near-sighted fact
fellow who used to know went by when was seated
outside the hall He epaues my shoulder that
actually potato peels.
used to throw the Feelings my right shoulder
and then jump around quick trey spelled my sweet
hearts name.
The technique OF peeg spudoas requires of study
got expert could skin twopound potato right down to
cat's-eye. x .,.
You take the potato in the left hand the knife in the right
hand and follow the biblical injunction not to let know
what the other is doing.
The colonel used to give me K P to punish Brother,
you should how it punished the potatoes.
The colonel didn't know l had been the boy marble
champion of Pennsylvania. When he sdeswiping
bushel of sun-kssed Long Island spuds he said
"Are you making beef stew pearl necklace
understand the army has machines that peel
potatoes good That's taking the out
of X. p.
Copyright. BY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
The On|ooker

THIS is a most Inappropriate
time TO write about golf, Ill
admit. what with a global war
going on and the weather so
cold that a man would have to
DO ms putting with goose
neck icicle.
But the famed Augusta Ma
tional Club is conducting an
experiment which may revolu-
tionize the game Of golf as we'll
as make a definite contribution
20 the winning Of the war. and
| think something should be
written about H.
ON tho chance that YOU don't
regularly read the sports pages
perhaps a word or two Of eX-
>planation OF the Augusta Ma
y lonsl is IN order II was founded
D. a group headed by Robert
Tyre Jones and The idea was
10 build the finest golf course
in the United States. # not in
the world and 10 hold each year
thc finest tournament IN the
world the Masters
They succeeded on both counts.
They wound up with the hest
course and the best tournament.
Only the real masters OF the
game PLAYED in the Augusta
tournament To play in II you
had 10 be able 10 beat 20 with
out cheating. This is no small
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
BY Henry McLemOre

feat and YOU can take il from a
man who has never been able
10 break 50 even with a cheat
in sand trap here and a cheat
in the deep rough there
4 ND The course, well. II was
"a something that would Mt
look bad in Heaven Every day
every blade OF grass had its MATHS
manlcured The greens got a
marcel as regularly as a dow
ager. and the rough was so nice
that quail put aside money each
year in order 10 return 10 II IN
their old age.
No matter where YOU were
on the course the scent OF dog
wood and laSbine and wisteria
helped YOU on your backswing
and the little club house was
bit Of colonial architecture that
Thomas Jefferson would not
have been ashamed 70 have
designed
Now with the war on. and
half il members caring
khaki and broganS instead Of
slacks and spiked shoes the
Augusta National has been
turned over 10 the COWS.
A letter that came only this
morning informed me that the
club has been closed 10 coR for
the duration and that 80 head of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
ENpectantS' Hit
at War Curb

were sometimes required to hold
same.
AS a matter of fact, I suspect
the complaint before me may
have come from one of these
gentlemen.
THE rubber that used 10 go
Il into these pants is now en-
ployed for more useful war pur-
poses and I have no patience
with this particular complaint.
While have no direct report
from any of the infants who
wore them. l always have felt
that the rubber pants were per-
haps an inconvenience and GER
tainly an affectation.
They tended in my opinion
to give the infants a superiority
complex over those equipped in
less ornate under appurtenances.
Back in my old home town
OF Pueblo. generations grew TO
man and womanhood out of an
infancy in which a small square
of cotton material served all the
purposes of the flossier fixings
Of modern times and they were
sturdier adults than those who
have sprung from rubber pants.
Why. some of the best people
in my old home town came Of
te N.st,~
ing a civilization out of wilder
ness 10 bother with any "trip
peries at all on their infants,
and used only a flour sack with
holes cut in il for the arms and
legs, which, if you ask me. was
about the handieSt device for
infants ever created.
Copyright. 1892, by King Features
Distributed by International News Services
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
The Brighter Side
/ WAS talking the other day
Il 10 q lady who is what YOU

I WAS talking the other day
10 lady who is what you
call expecting
That is 10 say. she is an
ticipating one of Mr. Winchell's
blessed events. a picturesque
term. indeed. though l once was
informed, with some acerbity,
by a gentleman whose ninth
was coming up. that it can
be a gross eXaggeration.
Anyway, this lady was tell
ing me 1 ought to start cam
feaiggfH4 in behalf of the expect
ants of the land whose number,
she assured me. is greater than
ever before in our history. and
who find themselves facing
many handicaps because of the
wartime restrictions on this and
that.
/ have no idea how the lady
arrived at her numerical esti-
mate.
| have seen no statistics on
TINS interesting point from owl
or any of the other war bureaus
that are supposed TO know
everything.
Perhaps she just took an off,
hand guess from observation in
her own neighborhood which IS
the vicinity of big war plant.
RUT as specific instance
~ bearing on her argument.
she pointed out that she is uns
able to buy a pram, which is
a vehicle for the conveyance
of infants that was known back
in my old home town of Pueblo,
as a baby buggy.
1t seems that the manufac-
ture of prams has been re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28
BY Damon RunyOn

stricted by Washington and
other expectants who got tips
on their expectancy ahead of
this lady beat her 10 the market.
She said with some heat that
she thinks Washington has lot
of gall yanking the buggies right
from under impending infants.
though personally l feel she
should have had more foresight
and taken advantage of the
early betting.
One must be on his toes IN
times like these.
In her enlightenment she VEN
tured the prediction ere long
our ladies would be compelled
10 revert 10 first principles in
the transportation of infants
and carry them as Indian
squaw do their papooSes,
though l hope and trust that
this does not come to pass.
MI AN lddleS OF my dCqudlnl-
NI ance would scarcely look
their best with packages of this
nature on their backs.
! think if the worst comes
10 the worst, the happy Solu-
ton would be TO just let the
old man lug the child.
From different source I
have another complaint on
government restrictions that af-
feet infancy.
This one deals with the
scarcity of those rubber pants
which had become the vogue
among infants of late years and
which had certain popularity
with gentlemen who visited
friends possessed of infants and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28

forces 10 worry about their girls
being stolen in their absence?
Says Boyd Comstock:
Italy Is not a nation hut a
series of city governments.
There Is no patriotism in Italy
I'm our sense of the word, but
an almost fanatical devotion To
ones city"
This remark by Mr.. Com
stock, who has spent much time
In Italy, seems to agree with
my recent observation that Italy
is not really united nation. and
that if you ask a fellow from
Florence if he is an Italian, he
will reply;
II am a Florentine."
SVOU say as there are more
twins born In Ireland than
any other place i'm the world. a
girl should marry an Irishman
and have n good chance of be-
coming the mother of twins"
writes a client named Hazel.
You have tt wrong.
"A man should marry an
Irish girl and have good
chance of becoming the proud
pappy OF twins.
"The father does not make
blessed event a double feature.
when ii is twins il il the
mother who is responsible.
Something in her makeup
brings about the happening.
Twins run in families.
'If the aunt or sister of the
girl a man marries has had
twins, 1t Is very likely he will
become the father of twins"
HAS been announced by a man
IL of great Importance in our
armed forces that the United
States has something in the way
of a secret weapon of the air
which is going to make life
tough for the Japs.
That is good news.
Still / can't understand why
statements like this should be
made.
If we have surprise for the
Japs in the way of a weapon
why not keep quiet about it and
let the Japs feel the force of it
Unexpectedly so they will Won
der what hit them.
Seems 10 me too many per-
sons in authority in Washington,
D. c.. and in the army and navy
talk much too much.
Copyright, 1912, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28

other look at Iona, she never
seemed statuesque 10 me.
To get in the "StatueSque"
class a girl should be at least
) feet 9 inches tall
ON THE beautiful Redwood
~ highway of northern Cali
fornia just above the charming
little city of Eureka is the
town of Arcata, the population
of which is 1855.
The following notice recently
appeared in the Arcata Union:
Warning 10 dog owners: Any
dog found running loose on the
streets OF Arcata will be picked
up and shot.
Owners OF dogs will be open
Ia arrest il their dogs are not
licensed by Dec. I, 1912.
"All dogs must be licensed
and kept at lsiGnedl
Arthur Larson, Chief Of Police"
is ANNOUNCED there will be
4 a revival of the World War I
song: Don't Try-to Steal the
Sweetheart of a Soldier"
This type of song should be
forgotten.
Why do anything that might
cause the lads with the armed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-28

BY DIR. Logan CIendening-

TNHIS war already has created
l. more shifting in population
than any other event in history.
The migration of able-bodied
men OF military age in the army
and navy is only one feature
of IT,
Shifts in the civil population
Also have occurred aff over
world on a wholesale scale.
The consequences to public
health are Of several kinds. the
most important of which is the
possibility of the start and
spread Of epidemics.
Just before the death Of the
late lamented Hans Zinsser Of
Harvard, he advocated very
gradual drafting and mobilizd-
ton of troops.
THIS has been carried out 10 a
L far greater extent IN the
United States than in the last
war and probably accounts for
the very small number Of
epidemics which we have had
among troops-at least il &C
counts partially for IT,
OF course. we have 70 give
credit 10 the more extensive
vaccinations against contagious
disease which have occurred this
time
The shifting Of the civil pop
ulatlon has not. as yet. shown
any marked change IN public
health in this country
In English. however. one and
onc-fourth million mothers, chill
dren and cripples were removed
from large cities 10 rural areas
The Crowding has resulted in
many cpldemics Of scarlet fever,
diphtheria and influenza
Thirty per cent OF children Is
years Of age were evacuated
from. cities which were in dan
ger. with an immediate rise in
diphtheria among the native
children amounting 70 60 or 70
per cent.
1T is surprising. considering
Il the crowded living conditions
sewage facilities and mske-shift
plumbing and toilets that the
great migration OF labor in the
United States has not resulted
in more bad health
Six hundred thousand work
erS, II IS estimated. will leave
the farms in 1912.
Farm people are VIGOROUSLY
subject TO contagious diseases
when they leave the farm be-
cause they have been protected
by isolation from contact with
large groups Of other people
II is 10 the credit of the de-
partmentS of health-State and
local-that epidemics have been
held 10 a minimum.
NQtritional diseases are Slower