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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-30
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Interest in the coming election Is
moves to its climax. Senator Murray
has been in the state for the past
few weeks. Rankin has been cam
paigning vigorously as have F. F.
Haynes and James O'Connor, the can
didates for congress in the second
district; and Mike Mansfield and
Howard Hazelbaker, candidates for
congress in the first district.
One of the most unethical stunts
pulled In a political campaign has
been perpetrated by the Murray
forces. They are giving wide pub
licity to pamphlet listing Murray 8
record in the senate and contrasting
it with the record of Congresswoman
Jeanette Rankin of the first district.
The catch in the whole affair is that
the Murray forces have labelled the
record so that the average voter
would believe that the Rankin record
was that Of Wellington d. Rankin,
Murray's opponent. TIME magazine
in its October 26 issue exposed this
fraud and revealed how the Murray
forces were attempting to confuse the
voters by a bare-faced deception. 1t
is evident that the voting record of
Congresswoman Rankin cannot be
compared with the record of Senator
Murray; nor should Murray attempt
to indicate that Miss Rankin's record
is an issue in the campaign.
This trick bears the imprint of the
Shiny hand of John w. Nelson, Muir
rays Ratchet man. Nelson's long rec
ord of political chicanery would give
rise to no other conclusion. He is
the one, it will be remembered, who
spread the story about former Gov
ernor Holt. When it comes to smear
ing the opposite side, Murray has
found a good ally in Nelson. Progress
sives all over Montana have wondered
why Murray has seen fit to engage
the services of Nelson who has long
been considered an enemy of liberals.
This question, it is rumored, received
quite a bit of discussion among the
farmers gathering in Billings and
caused Murray no end of embarrass-
ment.
All voters should make sure that
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new TAXES
ON SMOKES
RAISE ante

Collector of Internal Revenue Lewis
Penwell issued a statement today
calling the attention of cigar and Gig
arctic dealers and manufacturers to
the fact that the Revenue Act of
1912, just enacted, increases the tax
rates on large cigars and large and
small cigarettes, effective November
1, 1912 The collector emphasized the
Importance of all manufacturers and
dealers in these products taking an
actual inventory of stock on hand at
the close of business October 81, 1912.
The new Revenue Act imposes a
floor stocks tax on these articles,
which means that the difference be-
tween the old and the new rates of
tax must be paid with respect to all
large cigars and large and small cigar
cites in the hands of dealers and
manufacturers as at the close of bust
ness October 81, 1912. Therefore,
each and every cigar and cigarette
dealer and manufacturer should take
an accurate inventory at the close of
business on October 31st of all
stamped cigars and cigarettes affected
by the new law, regardless of the
quantities in stock. This inventory
must include separately small cigar
cites, large cigarettes, and cigars
listed according to the price for which
sold.
Dealers and manufacturers should
apply Immediately to the Collector of
Internal Revenue, Helena, Montana,
for blank floor stocks tax return forms
which will be supplied just as soon
as they are received from the govern
ment printer The inventory figures
should be retained for insertion in the
return form when received and also
for the information of deputy collec-
tors of internal revenue In verifying
The return and the inventory. The |
law requires that a complete and &C.
curate return of floor stocks taxes
shall be filed with the Collector on |
Or before the 31st of December, 1912, |
such return to be accompanied by re-
nittance of the floor stocks tax due.
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". D. RANKIN
effective
CAMPAIGNER

Wellington d. Rankin. republican
candidate for United States senator,
is conceded to have made favorable
impression on the people of the state
in his campaign appearances. An
able speaker, he has shown himself
familiar with issues confronting the
people, and whether or not his hear
ers have agreed with his utterances,
they have admitted that he has pre-
scented his views logically and force
fully.
Mr.. Rankin is a native OF Montana
and has held several state offices
While conducting an extensive law
practice, he is also engaged in stock
raising and ranching.
Bluntly Mr.. Rankin tells the Mon
tana voters that bureaucracy must be
curbed. Whenever a multitude of
departments and bureaus are created
there is great danger of oppression"
he declares. 1.-THE only control the
people have on these bureaucrats is
through congress, and therefore we
must see to it that we have a congress
that will place proper restraints and
controls on these department heads
to the end that the public may be
better served"
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BIG BANKS UNITE
TO FLOAT
G. M. LOAN
BY SCOTT NEARING

Every day in every way the bic
business interests of the u S. draw
closer together. The competitors Of
yesterday are today standing shoulder
to shoulder in common front of prof
it and privilege.
The latest example of the big-busi
ness-interests-unite program appears
in the announcement of billion dol
lar loan for General Motors, financed
by 400 of the leading commercial
banks of the country and guaranteed
by the federal government.
Not so long ago there were Rookie
Teller banks, Morgan banks, DUPONT
banks and the like-each group serv-
ing certain special interests. These
old semi-competitive lines disappear
in the General Motors loan.
General Motors has generally been
listed as dupont interest Dupont
money played large part in its or
ganization and the duPonts have al
ways held a large block of General
Motors stock. The billion dollar loan
was organized by committee of five
New York banks Bankers Trust,
Chase Natl, First Natl, Guaranty
Trust and j. P. Morgan Co. Four
hundred banks in 40 states are par
ticipating in the loan.
This is the largest commercial loan
in U. S. history and the greatest num-
Der of banks that have ever taken
part in making single loan. The
War Department guarantees the bulk
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CANDIDATES
RECON- ENDED
BY 1.-THE VOICE"

| Listed below are candidates for the
Senate and House whom The Voice
regards as sincere and conscientious
able and courageous, most Of them
with records as independent liberals
established in service in previous SEES
sions, and eminently deserving of the
support of their constituents:
| SENATE:
| Herbert ight-Fergus county.
Ernest Burns-FIathead.
Forrest Observation-Disclosures
Geo. Mckenna-Judith Basin.
F.-E. Baker-LincoIn.
Lars Angvick-Sheridan
M. J. MuIhoIland-Silver Bow.
Paul Rice-Teton.
William Ruffcorn-VaIIey.
HOUSE,:
Ole Gunderson and Ralph Parker
Cascade.
Armand w. Tonn-Custer
J. D. Bourassa-Daniels.
Glenn Coutts-DaWson.
Barney McGreevey-Deer Lodge.
Joe Vanek and Mrs. r. T. Martin
Fergus.
Emil Bjorneby-Flathead
Robert j. Dunn-GalIatin.
William NeIson-GoIden Valley.
Carl A. AhIgreen-Lake.
David F. James-Liberty.
Martin J. Beck-McCone.
Walter Banka-Pondera.
ED. Note: Mr.. Banka's opponent,
Earl Crawford, has also been highly
recommended by liberals in Pondera
county.)
John Zuck-Roosevelt.
Hans asmussen-Sheridan
Paul Cannon and Sam SpiegeI-SiI-
yer Bow.
Ben Peden-Teton.
Robert Cotton-ValIey.
Charles S. observation-disclosures
AS stated before, The Voice does
not intend to represent that there are
no others whom it would gladly rec
ommend if it had authoritative in
formation concerning them.
We urge that you work diligently
for the election of all of the candi-
dates listed above. They will serve
you honestly and faithfully. They
cannot be influenced to do otherwise.
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essary to ride bombers or submarines
to get there, they're for it.
This is the start of new distinc
ton for Hollywood. Hollywood will
be diffusing center of warm human
contacts with home for American
fighters at battle stations all over the
globe.
Obstructionists Haven't Shut Up
And still the narrow circle of OBJ
structionists keep up their sniping.
Before the Offshore Committee and
its initial 100 members was an
nounced, Hollywood had already been
treated to a circumstantial account of
an incident that got Al Jolson's goat
in Ireland and made him mutter:
"Why did | come to this dreary, rain
soaked placer"
1t wasn't funny and its publication
could only have been intended to dis
courage stars from visiting troops in
fan places.
The obstructionist gags snipe main
ly at the morale front and the second
doesn't he go home to England?").
To some extent they stem from
class superiority complex. For exam
pie the crack (published) that "seri-
Gus music got great setback when
Stokowski conducted the Shostakov-
ich symphony in the desert to a lot
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: RMER-LAB0R
! letting IS
JCCESSFUL-

y t is reported that the Farmer-Labol
et-Together" held in Butte last Sun
DAY was highly successful and that
all those in attendance found the
meeting interesting and instructive
The hope was expressed that closer
cooperation may result from such
meetings.
Brother Barney reported that Broth
er LeFevre had suggested a course
in Unionism for union members, and
that the instructor would be paid by
the WPA.
President Joseph Doran presided
The council endorsed the candidacy
of the following:
Senator Murray
Judge Angstman
Horace Casey
Mike Mansfield
Barney McGreevey
The council donated $500 to the
We are Americans Committee.
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a fascist. He may
be kind 10 dogs and nice to his wife
for all we know. He may be Joy
in the home.
But he doesn't go about spreading
sunshine outside the home. When he
told the Investment Bankers Assn. In
New York that organizers fought to
be shot at sunrise" he was spreading
downright defeatism.
Part of the same defeatist pattern
was his saying typewriter strategists
should let the President and the mill
tary experts handle the war" and in
the next breath saying I'VE can't
lick the submarine menace"
To make his viewpoint clearer, he
replied, when asked by reporters, that
when he said organizers he meant
union organizers.
Let's see just who Land would have
shot at sunrise.
There's Joe Curran, head of the
National Maritime Union (CIO). Well,
maybe Land would like to shoot Cur
ran. He's as responsible as anyone
for the high morale of union whose
members, as the President said re-
Gently, are risking their lives every
hour of the day to get guns and food
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lof the most successful and con-
structive gatherings in the his
tory of the organization.
Resolutions adopted by the conven-
ton advocated among other things,
the public ownership of all munitions
plants and war manufacturing indus
tries and disarmament for victors as
well as vanquished; taxation on all
incomes over $4,000 at 1000; denial
of exemptions from taxes of gifts and
grants; taxation of all excess profits
at 100 per cent over and above the
amounts necessary to provide for de-
probation; taxation of all securities
of the nation, states or any political
subdivisions.
The convention went on record as
opposing proposed amendments to the
state constitution changing the per-
sonnet OF the State Board of Educa-
ton and providing for four year terms
of office for certain county officers.
1t urged the passage of the measure
providing for issuance of bonds for
construction of needed buildings at
Montana State College.
Ole Gunderson of Power was elected
vice president. Don Chapman, presi-
dent; Harold Brown, secretary-treas-
urer; Charles Banderob and S. A. Hin
erman, board members were all re-
elected without opposition. Julius
Cess was reelected conductor as was
Stanley Vogt as doorkeeper. State
President Chapman was named dele
gate to the national convention.
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TO The VOTERS
OF EASTERN
MONTANA
By E. B. COOLIDGE

Editors Note: The article printed
below would ordinarily appear in the
Opinions of Readers" column, but
reached the office of The Voice toe
late to be printed there. We publish
| it as the opinion of Mr. Coolidge
whose sincerity we hold in high es
TEEN, though The Voice does not en-
dorse all of the statements contained
in it, Let the people judge.")
In reply to Congressman O'Connor's
statement that the present war is the
result of the nations rebuff to Presi-
dent Wilson in 1918, | wish to make
the following remarks:
First, that we take exception to this
statement, as the condition was
caused by combination of circum-
stances that brought about the pres
ent war. Next, the Germans were not
defeated in the last war, but simply
asked for an armistice, contrary to
the wishes of General Pershing, as he
wanted to finish the job.
Woodrow Wilson's great mistake
was that he went across the pond to
help dictate the peace terms, where
he was influenced and fooled by the
willy intrigue of Lloyd George and
Clemenceau, who forced Germany to
sign an impossible peace treaty. We
admit that it was a great blow to de-
mocracy that the United States of
America did not join up whole-heart-
edly with the League of Nations and
the World Court, because if we had,
we could easily have controlled the
destiny of Germany and all other
allied countries sosthat a war of this
nature could never have started, but
we had too many Lodges, Borahs and
Johnsons who were isolationists, play
ing politics that sacrificed the secur-
ity of their own country to satisfy
their vindictive natures, and while it
is true that the American people did
not support Wilson in several of the
mistakes that he made, but withdrew
from the association of their allies to
live an isolated existence, which has
always been the wrong attitude for
a major nation, they did not give him
a full democratic congress.
The argument now is not to elect
a republican congress or to hamper
the efforts of our President in pros
ecuting this war, as we personally do
not think the house of representatives
could possibly be changed to a repub-
lican majority. This bugaboo has been
placed before the American people by
individual congressman to save their
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people OF the state SnOulQ De, is
one of constant recognition of the
rights of the common people I'M
der the laws of our state.
The special interests of the
state would like to see Angstman
defeated. No agency of the state
is greater threat to usurpation
of privilege by these interests,
than is the Supreme Court of the
state. Judge Angstman has been
a valiant and effective defender
against the encroachment by the
special interests, the great indus
trial corporations, the financial
interests and others, upon the
rights of the common man.
In every campaign, we find
the candidates asserting their in
terest in the common man" be-
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UNIVERSITY
GROWS HERBS
FOR DRUGS

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
- (SpeciaD = Herbs nd medicinal
plants such as belladonna, henbane,
digitalis, and many others which con-
tain drugs and medicines essential to
the war effort have been and are be.
ing produced right on the Montana
State University campus This prof.
ect being carried on by the School of
Pharmacy of the university is the
only one of it's kind in the northwest.
With the use of WPA and univer-
sity funds, Professor G. e. Mollett
dean of the School of Pharmacy, and
other members of the pharmacy
school staff began this summer the
cultivation of many native and foreign
plants which produce vital medicinal
extracts. The plants are being de-
veloped in the pharmacy drug garden
which Dean Mollett started in 1914
and in the forestry school nursery
plots. Some of the herbs are being
harvested, dried and standardized at
present.
Purposes of the project are to prove
that such drugs can be produced in
commercial quantities in this area, to
estimate the drug-content of culti-
waited plants and to produce seed
which will be available to Montana
farmers for such cultivation.
According to T. G. Spaulding, dean
of the School of Forestry, who is
working with Dean Mollett on the
project, if the herbs can be produced
ON farm wood-lots of the state, farm
revenue will be increased through the
growth and collection of these plants.
Not only that, he said, the serious sit
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them if necessary
says Merle Oberon
She made the trip
with Patricia Mort
son, Al Jolson, Frank
McHugh and Allan
Jenkins.
Miss Oberon now
heads the Offshore
Committee f t h e
Hollywood Victory
Committee and has
a charter enrolment
of 100 top stars
ready to go to any
part of the would to
entertain the armed
fOrcps IF IFS npc-
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lished records in the congress of
the United States. We endorse
him, because his background
and affiliations assure us that
when elected he will accept
the responsibility placed upon
him by the voters in his district
and will always remember that it
was not any small group of peo-
pie, any of the special interests
that brought him the honor of
shouldering this responsibility. He
will always remember and fight
for the rights and interests of the
common working people, because
he has always been one of them.
His opponent served one ses-
sion in the state senate. Accord
ing to the published results of a
study of the records Of members
of that senate session, prepared
by an unprecedented committee ma
L &C. IL Il 70, y,
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JUDGE ALBERT r. ANGsTMAN his collective power lies
the judgment of who shall hold office and who shall
often elected the candidate ignores the needs Of service
this common man. Too often his for the
is "a platform to not to stand on
Justice Angsman has shown by his acts as member of
Montanas Supreme Court that he is qualified for that high
position that he is intellectually honest that he
his for the interests of all of the people the
abhos the demand for special considerations privileges
contrary to law, by special groups
Justice Angstman will receive large majority vote of
confidence and appreciation from Montana
day in recognition of his great service to them.
MIKE MANSFIELD
The Peoples Voice endorses Mike Mansfield congress-
from the first congressional district of the
Neither Mansfield his opponent the have estab
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ing a second 'front.' Is
giving them encour-
agement. You can
see it in congress,
where they're get
ting more vocal. Our
second guess is that
those among them
who aren't encour-
aged, are being rap
idly discouraged, de-
spite t h e second
front delay, by Wen
dell Wilkes own
fortnight speaking.
And they're getting
frantic.
We don't know
Rear Adm. Emory
S. Land, chairman
of the us. Maritime
Commission, social
I,r ua ,,oou not ho
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L. j. Sandy Goodman, DEM
ocratic candidate for the etate
legislature will speak over
KPFA in Helena at 9 o'clock,
P. M. Sunday, November 1.
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THE
WASHINGTON
SCENE
By VIRGINIA GARDNER

Some of our native fascists are
speaking out mighty boldly these
days We don't pretend to be able
to revael all, but we can hazard a
guess or two.
Our first is that the delay in open
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HOLLYWOOD
LOT
By TED TAYLOR

Five stars who were flown to Ire
land to entertain American troops are
back glowing with the experience.
when you see the joyful faces of
those boys and hear the roar of their
cheers you feel willing to swim to
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will be greatly enhanced When is elected to the
congress- he ego through the sweat and for long
time influence legislation be said to be circum-
his senator to his state and the nation
computed on the basis of his vote alone.
intelligent voter will not cast his ballot because of
emotional appeal will appraise in coldy judicial light
advantages which he and his fellow citizens stand to gain
by the reelection of Senator Murray He not have
agreed views at all times, matters of policy
itica planning he will inevitably arrive at the concu
sion that Senator Murray rendered conscientious
service to his naion that he will be position
service when reelected and that
ent conditions calls that he had
SENATOR for the sympathy for the
pie and the loyalty their interests that he has shown
his actions
The intelligent record apprasing voter will cast his bal
lot for the reelection of Senator James E. Murray
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ALBERT H. ANGSTMAN
The Voice unhesitatngly and intellectually endorses
Associate Justice Angsman reelection the Su
preme Court of his record Of service member
of that body the past six and during term served pre-
viously record anyone familiar with all the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-30

With of about $780, the Montana Division
Educational and Cooperative Union America
held it's annual convention in Billings last week The
opened officially Wednesday morning closed
urday evening" all those in attendance stating that
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STATE FARMERS UNION
HOLDS CONVENTION IN
BILLINGS LAST WEEK

Surprisingly Large Number of Delegates
And Visiting Members of Farmers Union
Attend Four Day Gathering; Appraise
Accomplishments of Organization in Past
Year and Plan For the Future.
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by unprejudiced committee named by large of vo
state Manseds opponent showed that he
sympathy with urtherng the interests of the privileged
(Contnu on Pa Fouf)
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beyond any doubt that ne IS con-
scientiously trying to serve their
interests; that he realizes the IN
equities existent in our soclal
structure and is sincerely contrib
uting to remedial changes.
We want to direct attention
to the broader field of service Tor
the nation and its oppressed
which will be Senator Murray,s
when reelected. In the United
States Congress, seniority in serv-
ice is a tremendous factor in en-
largement of opportunities to
serve with influence. When re-
elected the Senator will rise to
Craftsmanship of important COM
mittees and become ranking
member Of many. In those posi-
lions his influence and control of
legislative measures as a senator
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Generally speaking it is the policy of The Peoples Voic
endorse candidates reelection to office their record
service are that they indicate of responsible
for the welfare of underpriveged citizens; the exploit
workers. the small and others who victims of
capitalist economy
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JAMES E. MURRAY

We Senator James E. Murray for reelection be
United States senator shows that he
ognzes this responsibility His record of votes
and for the relief of oppressive conditions
faced by the aborer the unemployed