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Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

LOOK! 5O0 lettemeacs and $40
envelopes printed as yoI want
them, as low as $3.50. Phone 300
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
CARD OF THANKS

WE WISH to thank the many
friends and express our deepest
appreciation for their many
kindnesses, sympathy and gifts
OF flowers during the illness and
death of our husband and father
Mrs. Ray Barnes.
Raymond Barnes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
OLD ALFALFA

For vegetables and melons. 160
now in dairy Also L. S. Blcnk-
iron 100, half mile west FL Cen
tro water works. There is less
old alfalfa land for rent than
ever in Imperial Valley. w. T..
HANCOCK THE FARM LAND
MAN" II mi. west of court
house. Phi. 689.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

81 CHEVE 4-door sedan for sale.
good tires. SIS. 1865 Adams. l-31
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

on" boys can tell you just where
to locate il. All you have to do
is send $3.50 plus postage for
a complete outfit including a
compass and a book telling where
and how TO look. Apparently the
suckers didn't stop to ask why
the promoters themselves didn't
go out and dig Greed got the
better Of them and they forked
over the cash for a phony COM
pass and a phonier book.
But no matter how many
fraudulent. schemes the alert
Post Office Inspectors unearth,
nor how many gyppers they send
to Jail the crop. never stops
growing. That King Of Show
man, p. T. Barnum, said a sucker
was born every minute. 1t is
this army Of suckers that the
Post Office Inspectors are doing
their best to save from them
selves.
At that they rarely get any
help because the victims who
readily open their hearts and
their pocketbooks TO the crooks
close their lips tight to the in
vestigators who need the infor-
nation they have to try and pro-
tect them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

dreds keep springing up trying
to cash In on human vanity, greed
or frailty.
In the Post Office Museum in
Washington are exhibits of
sucker contraptions for the
benefit Of young inspectors in
training. The photographs of a
few of these devices are repro
duced on this page and they give
good idea of how the bright
minds" of racketdorn make a
play to snare credulous men and
women.
For instance, there's the cap
that is guaranteed to grow hair
while you wait The Postal In
spectors sent samples of dog
hair, horse hair and even strands
of rope to the Institute" ped
ding this "thirty-day" hair re-
storer, requesting a diagnosis of
hair roots and scalp conditions.
OF course, the reply was favor
able. All the hair roots, includ-
ing the rope strands, could be
rejuvenated by use of the magic
cap.
Then there's a device to de-
light the souls of men and wo-
men who are gloomy because
they are too short. It's promoters
claimed their machine would in
crease height as much as five
inches.
The originators Of this fraud
may have gotten an idea from
the legendary Greek robber,
Procrustes, who laid his short
guests on a bed and pulled their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

the right nor left.
Shamefacedly he hurled the UNI
magical straightener into the
garbage can. He was now a full
Pledged member of the self-elect-
cd society of suckers. His money
was gone, but disgust at his
gulibility made him keep his
membership a secret.
How many other John Does
have been similarly victimized is
anybody's guess. Fortunately
Uncle Sans Post Office Inspec-
tors had an eye on the nose re-
modelling promoters and jailed
them for using the mails to de-
fraud.
But this is only one small in
stance of the racketeering activi-
ties of those ingenious, get-rich-
quick gentry who are always
alert to separate easy marks
from their money. The plausible
schemes of these "con" artists
keep the inspectors busy day and
night. The alert authorities have
nabbed hundreds but other hun
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

legs until they fitted. His vic
TINS died but the modern device
was painless and sold for 1915.
1t cost only so cents TO manu-
facture and was quite useless.
And the inspectors add sar-
donic note by pointing out that
one of the promoters was
shorty" himself.
One of the most lucrative
"rackets" was the eyeglasses
racket. That took about SILL
100000 from Mr. and Mrs. John
@. Public, before the Post Office
Inspectors stepped in. The lit
erature of these get-rich-quick
artists warned the credulous not
to be "saps" and pay large sums
FOR glasses when for a mere
$3.50 they could secure glasses
just as good. The sucker was
advised to make his own eye
test at home and save $40.
The Bureau of Standards,
checking on glasses secured by
the Post Office Inspectors from
these racketeering concerns, not
only sound the optical centers
out of place, but discovered that
the promoters sent out different
types Of lenses under the same
specifications. The figures show
that about a million and a half
suckers fell for this fraud Most
of the glasses they received were
worth a dime and no one can
say how muclr harm was done
to their eyes.
When it's a question of find
ing hidden treasure the come
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15
Americans Who Don't Worry
About MeofIess DAYS

pinch-hit for the flesh Of fowls
to which theirs is similar.
Then there's the Armadillo.
Properly dressed and baked in
his shell this so-called varmint
tastes a lot like roast pig.
Turning homeward, there s
canned rattlesnake meat, a deli
cacy on the menu of many a
fashionable New York restaurant.
The meat, say those who have
eaten it, is pink like salmon and
has a fine flavor.
And the lowly woodchuck, or
grounding the guy who casts
his shadow isn't to be sneczed
at. His tribe is plentiful up and
down the length and breadth of
most of this country and those
who know the trick of preparing
and cooking the flesh claim that
it is the best of all the North
American mammals.
Neither is the skunk consid-
cred fit for food but he is eaten
by those who know that, fixed
the right way, his flesh tastes
amazingly like squirrel.
The diamond-backed terrapjn
a dozen Of which have brought
as much as SO from epicures
is familiar TO everyone but not
so wei Known is the old snap
ping turtle down in the brook.
Passed through the hands of a
real chef, he tastes amazingly
like his top-hatted cousin.
Southerners. who know a good
thing when they see il, also eX-
toll the virtues Of muskrat meat
as something to tickle the palate,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

~OME of our citizens who are
used to having more than
- an ordinary quantity Of
steaks, chops and roasts think
they are going TO find the meat
less days for which this country
is headed little hard on their
habits, if easier on their pocket
books.
The assurances of dieticians
that they won't become wasted
or weak because of their war
time diet may not impress them
very much-but they may find
some small consolation in the
fact that thousands of residents
in the western hemisphere have
been eating a lot of queer things
in place of meat for long time.
For example, no wedding feast
in Mexico is considered the real
thing unless there is a dish of
honey ants for everyone to sam
pie and visitors TO the land be-
low the Rio Grande who have
tried smooth skinned caterpil-
lars of the sphinx or hawk moth
dropped in boiling fat, compare
them to Drowned fritters that
taste like soft-shelled clans.
In Central and South America
there's nothing quite as tasty as
the tails OF alligators that are
from three to six feet long. The
clear white meat is hard to dis
tinguish from filet of founder,
say the epicures.
If we have a shortage Of
chicken meat, why not say those
who know, go in for those big
lizards called iguanas? They
abound in the tropics where they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

A YOUNG man who stood
~ on a corner of a busy
y city street eagerly read
ing letter attracte the
amused attention of people pass
ing by. He was tall and straight
and might have been called hand
some if his nose hadn't been
large and crooked. All it needed
was remodelling and this letter
told him how to do the job him
self.
The writer explained that, in
answer to the young mans in
CURRY, the simple contraption he
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

recommended, would. in 80 days,
straighten the most irregular
proboscis into a thing of beauty
and a JOY forever. 1t looked so
easy that John Doe couldn't or
der one fast enough, cash on
delivery
Mingled with visions of him
self as a near-Apollo were bitter
regrets that he'd never heard of
the nose straightener before.
But. after 80 days Of diligent
application his nose remained
the same old crooked protruber-
ance. II had turned neither to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

The Model
at the
Right Illus
trates a
Machine
Which
Suckers
Bought "to
Increase
Their
Height"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

1872 by American weekly Inc. Great Britain Right. Reserved
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
U. S. COURT ACTS
AGAINST PE0NAGE

ATLANTA, Cain a history max
ing decision the United States SUI
preme court last week in Washington
held 1903 Georgia labor contract act
unconstitutional, under which it was
charged thousands of negroes and
poor whites were held In peonage.
The vote was s to with Justice
Roberts not participating. Justice
Byrnes, former u. S. senator from
South Carolina, wrote the decision
Justice Byrnes said that this section
Of the Georgia code was repugnant
to the 18th amendment to the fed
eral constitution which prohibits slav-
cry or involuntary servitude.
The decision came about in an ap-
peal from conviction of Ira Taylor,
negro of Wilkinson county, Georgia,
who was convicted Of violating the
Georgia labor contract act and SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $500 or do
work in public work camp for eight
months
Taylor was represented by Thomas
T. Purdom Of Wilkinson county,
Georgia, and Leonard Haas of Atlanta.
Expenses for the case were handled
by the Commission on Interracial Co.
operation with headquarters in At
lanta.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
Stu. MEET
BROKEN UP
BY PLANTERS

H. L. Mitchell, secretary Southern
Tenant Farmers Union announced
that a meeting of farm laborers was
broken up in charlottesville, Mo. Fri
day night, January 16, and that his
organization was calling upon the U.
S. department of justice to immedi-
ately investigate this occurance.
A telegram signed by Mitchell and
Roy E. Raley, president of the ST.
Flu. was sent to Attorney General
Francis Biddle in Washington. The
message stated that w. M. Tanner, an
organized for the sharecropper union,
was driven from the town after the
meeting had been broken up and that
Tanners life was threatened.
About so farm laborers were meet
ing in a hall belonging to the Inter
national Union Of Operating Engi-
neers (AFL).
Mitchell also notified Pres. William
Green of the AFL and asked his CO.
operation in securing immediate &C.
ton in Washington.
1t was also announced that another
melting would be held in the same
place on the evening of January %
and that the mayor of Charlottesville,
the county sheriff and the governor
of Missouri had also been called upon
for protection of the rights of citizens
to peaceably assemble.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
EDUCATION
URGED TO
AID war

CHICAGO (FP) = Blasting the
economy pleas Of employer groups
who would sacrifice education and
other non-defense services for the dur
alton Of the war and after, the execu-
tive council of the American Fedora.
iton of Teachers (AFL) demands ex-
tension of these activities.
The councils position is set forth
in the January issue of The American
Teacher published January 81 In an
editorial headed, 'The War and Edu-
cation" the council says:
Certain patriotic business associ-
ations, the Brookings Institute, the
Citizens Emergency Committee on
Non-Defense Expenditures, and tax
payers associations are currently adj
vocating curtailment of what they re-
fer to as non-defense spending.
"They refer to schools, parks, play
grounds, child welfare agencies, IL
braries, and health protection as serv-
ices which may be increasingly diff
ficult to support. They characterize
them as Injuries which we can no
longer afford
"The American Federation of Teach
ers believes on the contrary that it is
the patriotic duty of teachers and all
others concerned to preserve and ex-
tend these services to fullest extent
possible.
'Our people must not lose sight of
the fundamental purposes for which
schools were established: the preser-
walton and development of our Gull
ture, and the training for complete
living in democratic society. While
it is true that our education must and
will change to meet the demands of
a new democratic society in the post
war world, the basic services of edu-
cation should be expanded rather than
contracted during the emergency and
the period beyond.
Education for healthful living, i'm
plemented by immediate health serv-
ices, nutrition programs, and expan-
sion of recreational facilities should
be an integral part Of our total de-
Tense effort"
Contending that any curtailment of
educational processes would be
threat to our own democracy, the edi-
torial points out that greed and am
bition may masquerade as patriotism
to secure power as autocratic as any
against which we are now at war"
1t is especially important that op.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
ASSISTANCE in
TAX RETURNS TO
BE Available

The collector of internal revenue
has made arrangements for deputies
and agents representing his office to
give assistance to the people of the
state in making out their income tax
returns. A list published below, gives
dates and places where the citizens
of the various communities may call
for advice and assistance from the
deputies and agents who will be pres
ent there on the dates specified.
Every single person having a gross
income of $3.50 or more and married
persons, living with husband or wife,
who have an aggregate gross income
of $1,000 or more, must file federal
income tax returns.
The list of places and the dates
when assistance can be secured In the
filing of the returns, follows:
Helena and Livingston Zones
Big Timber at Court house on Feb
ruary IL, 10, IA.
White Sulphur Springs at Sherman
hotel on February 10.
Three Forks at Sacajawea hotel on
February 10.
Townsend at Court house on Feb
ruary A.
Whitehall at Borden hotel on Feb
ruary IA.
Boulder at Court house on Febru-
airy 16.
Gardiner at Welcome hotel on Feb
ruary 16 and II.
CONTINUED ON Page FOUR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
GOVERNMENT
SPENDS MUCH
MONEY in MONT.
$86,676,OOO Expanded in
State by Fed. Government
During Last Fiscal Year;
Amount Lower Than in
Previous Fiscal Year.

Loans and outright expenditures of
the federal government in Montana
during the 1941 fiscal year which
ended last June Both, amounted to
S86,676,000 according to statement
made today by Miles Romney, state
director for the Office of Government
Reports. This compares with total
of s91, 087,00O expended during the
prior fiscal year of 1910.
Loans amounted to s39, 023,000, and
grants-in-aid and other expenditures
totaled S43,329,000. In addition, the
sured s4,324,00 worth of housing i'm
provement notes and mortgages in
the state. The largest amount of
loans was made by the Commodity
Credit Corporation and the greatest
amount of direct expenditures was
disbursed by the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
Loans were made to businesses,
farmers and home owners. Grants-in-
aid were made to the aged, the blind,
dependent children, farmers, and for
the concentration of public roads and
buildings. Relief was extended to
able-bodied men and women employed
on Work Projects Administration prof.
ects, to young men enrolled in the
Civilian Conservation Corps, and by
the distribution of surplus commodi-
ties through the state relief agency.
Montana also expended $4,000 for
the training of defense workers under
the Office of Education.
Mr.. Romney pointed out that an
itemized accounting of federal loans
and payments is available to persons
interested in the functions of the fed
eral government as they relate to the
state of Montana by applying to the
Office Of Government Reports, COZ
Power Block, Helena.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
OFFICE OF
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Helena, Montana

January 10, 1912
Mr.. J. B. Convery, Administrator
State Department of Public Welfare
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr. Convery:
Re: Application for Old Age Assist
ance Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Mattfeldt,
Livingston, Mont. - County Fair
Hearing Review by State.
At your request | have carefully
reviewed the evidence taken at the
fair hearing in the above matter be-
fore the County Board Of Public Wei
fare of Park County, Mont, July 80,
1871.
The evidence shows that the appli-
cants are respectively rs and 81 years
of age They made application for
Old Age Assistance on January IL,
1871, which application, after investi-
cation by the county department, was
denied on the ground that applicants
had within two years prior to said
application transferred property for
the purpose of making themselves
eligible for assistance. While the
record does not show, | assume that
applicants meet the requirement as to
residence. The only points in issue,
therefore, are as to the transfer and
the need. Due to the fact that appli-
cants are not very conversant with
the English language, and because of
their physical condition and advanced
age, the evidence is not quite clear in
many respects. Briefly, however, on
the points in issue the following are
the facts.
Mrs. Mattfeldt's first husband died
in 1908 leaving a daughter besides
his widow, the applicant here. The
daughter was then Of the age of seven
years. Her father left her the sum Of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. I. HARRIS

1--WE now have less authority, but
more work" It's about time that
everybody went to work.
A good feature of the new setup
undoubtedly is the planning board
and program reporting agency. The
former will be a sort of brain trust"
for mapping out programs and the
latter, headed by Stacey May, the
economist, will keep daily tab on
how the program is being carried out.
They thus will not be working in the
dark and trusting to luck.
Incidentally, some of this planning
will be concerned with the postwar
period which is a good thing. Nelson
seems to have a social vision which
most of the dollar-a-year men do not
have. Perhaps that's because his con-
necitons always have been with a
firm that catered to the low-income
groups, and he may have sensed their
problems.
They Don't Give Up
u6 dAtl-ldUOlltCo OH SdPltOi ILL iAS
awake nights figuring how they can
put over restrictive labor legislation.
They don't know when they're licked.
Some weeks ago, the psychological
situation to put over anti-labor laws
presented itself in the so-called cap
tive mines dispute. They hurried up
and rushed the Smith bill through the
house But their program was frus-
trated when the President called the
Labor Management Conference, and
later appointed the War Labor Board
But they didn't cease their schem-
ing, by any means.
Approaching that there is a grow
ing resentment against war profiteer-
ing, largely the result of the Senate
Truman committee report, and
growing public demand for action, the
house naval affairs committee last
week also came out with a report Of
a similar nature.
The house committee says that it
wants something done to put stop
to war profiteering, but they shrewd-
ly tie up war profiteering with labor
Continued ON Page TwO)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
A HUMAN INTEREST STORY

$1,000 in cash and the mother be-
came the legal guardian. Subsequent
ly and sometime prior to 1915, the
mother married Mr.. Mattfeldt and
they adopted the daughter, Mr.. Matt
feldt then becoming the legal guar
dian of his adopted daughter. At that
time Mr.. Mattfeldt Tor both) owned
farm or purchased a farm. At any
rate, the $1,000 belonging to the
daughter was invested in farm. This
farm was later sold to a Mr.. Van
Dyck. Applicants then purchased the
farm here in question, evidently using
part of the money received from the
prior sale and mortgage of $500.
At any rate they had the sum of
$4,000 in the State Bank and this farm
on which there was a mortgage of
$4,000. The daughters money was
part of the $4,000 on deposit. The
State Bank closed and this money was
lost except for SIS which they re-
ceived as a dividend. This was in
1921 and at that time the daughter
was 20 years of age as l calculate it.
Applicants, with their adopted
daughter, lived on this farm for a
number of years, the daughter per-
forming services on the farm until
her marriage, the date of which does
not appear. After the marriage of
the daughter the applicants continued
to live on the farm and work the
same until, because of their advanced
age and physical condition, they could
no longer do so. They then rented
the farm out for three years prior
to the application, receiving as their
share one-third of the crop, amount
ing to $500 annually. During these
three years they continued to occupy,
rent free, the farm house as their
residence. During these three years
their annual expenses besides living
were S35 interest on the mortgage,
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-30
WAREHOUSE
ESTABLISHED
I'm SIOUX FALLS
F. u. Central Exchange
Opens Wholesale Farm
Supply Distributing House
In Sd; at Present Joined
With F. u. Coop Brokerage

Announcement was made this week
by E. A. Syftestad, general manager
of the Farmers Union Central Elk
change with headquarters in South st.
Paul, Mimi, that negotiations have
been completed by the Farmers Union
Central Exchange to establish ware
house at Sioux Falls, So. OAK, for the
distribution, on a wholesale basis, Of
a complete line of farm supplies.
These supplies consist mainly of
Penn-Union Oil, grease, batteries,
automobile accessories, hardware,
tools, farm machinery repairs, pillow
shares, cultivator shovels, Coop trac-
tors, binder Irvine, wire, nails, bale
ties, Farmers Union paint, betting,
flour, feed, seed and other merchan-
disc.
The Farmers Union Central Elk
change has co-operated with the direc-
tors of the Farmers Union Co-opera-
tive Brokerage of Sioux Falls in estab-
fishing this warehouse. The Exchange
has entered into a long time lease of
the warehouse presently occupied by
the Brokerage and for the time being
both the Exchange and the Brokerage
will share the warehouse and offices
at 231 North Weber Avenue in Sioux
Falls. Victor Johnson, long time
employee Of the Brokerage, will be in
active charge of the warehouse.
Farmers Union and Coop merchan-
disc will be available at the same
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