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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
Political Forums

One why politics is such "ho subject of discus
that in the field of politics emotion rules greater
extent than does Politicians make of this fact
playing the emotions to the fullest extent.
We believe that people would form much sounder concu-
sons poics-as other subjecs-f they did two
things
l. Take pains to inform themselves concerning political
and legislative issues.
2 Get together frequently groups forums discuss
these issues and to exchange information.
Political parties for the most
ganizatons type of political organization is needed
if people to vote negenty and if ADLER people
be elected to public office 1t should be organization
whose main activity the conducting of political FORUMS
political study and discussion groups
The object of such forum would be not to grind any
ica but solely to enlighten 1t would discuss such sub
ects current bills before the legislature and recent
laws passed and taxation well local issues such munc
ipal ownership of public utilities Each member of such
forum would take his at studying subject and
presenting for discussion 1t would not be to
reach conclusions adopt resolutions the object
should be merely free and open forum discus
sion members of different political parties take part
much the better Since such forums would be nonparsan
they could well be organized by cooperaors forum of
community acivy.-The Cooperative Builder
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
The New Tax Program

The program being written in the viii
effect the country and should be watched from
day day. While reports today wednesday, indicate that
the Statesmen lodging at least temporarily inclusion OF
sales tax producer the bridge certainly has
crossed yet. Certainly, whether not sales
included in the program the low income
facing their already scanty of livelihood
These people unable to maintain the expensive obbes
Washington which kept there by the great vested interests
their profits from taxation 1t takes everything the
low income to keep roofs their heads and
to enough keep from going hungry all of the
Yet, additional taxes being piled upon them
Under the senate finance committees scheme higher
would be taxed only 13 cent compared
per and 260 per cent increases income eves
the $1,000 to $4,000 annual income groups.
has been estimated that rs per cent tax were
levied against and undivided profits of the great
poratons they would still show profit of than bill
has asked that special privilege and loophoe tax prov
be closed and estimate that this would increase
by $9OOOOOO00 But to this the has turned its
deaf
Admittedly these great corporations rolling their ire
mendou unconscionabe profits from production of necess
to thinking man. why should anyone be enriched at
the expense of others in this efort? Why should
the low income existing at bare subsistence level
below taxed provide profits to anyone this
gency And recognized that too much of the money
secured by taxation and otherwise the form of profits
to the great industrial organizations
The great of the people of the country
willing to make sacrifices to prosecute and the No
complaints heard when their ordered to don the
uniform They buy bonds and stamps willingly They are
willing to do their share and But they certainly
going remain complacent and willing they have to go
hungry
Moreover vitality necessary to the successful prosecu
ton of the that the people the home front be kept
fit for to the nation Our armed forces would be help
if back of them did not exist strong well nourshed
work produce the necessities life
implements them their anxiety protect the
privileges of the RICH the legislators had better
that their wealth will be useless to them, should
fail to achieve victory the bandit nations.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
Price Control

The declaration made by President Roosevelt that un
less congress acts price by October he will issue
an executive placing price control in effect without
act of congress- powers is of causing
much and speculation Moreover the President
promise threat whichever you prefer to call it, undoub
edv embarrassing to many of congressman seeking
election
The Presidents attitude on question, that prices of
agricultural commodities wages etc. must all be brought I'M
the control undoubtedly right The People
Voice is in position being able to Il told you So
on that subject first spoken Of and before the OFFICE
of Price Administration organized The Voice asserted
that program had be all inclusive would not be IN
the least effective.
The press the country has, of made much OF
the feature that agricultural products exempted from
the provisions the price control act Everything wrong with
has been blamed primarily the farmers Along with
Them has been attacked for their exorbant demands
request for limitation of incomes to S25O0o
year ignored Pofteeng by the great industrial con-
Germs tolerated and still is Apparently from the view
point of congressman the only thing wrong with our
economy that the farmers and aboers have been pre-
sumpuous for and extent been able to secure
a nearly fair compensation for their products
Almost exception, the daily has prostitued
itself its presentation of the price control question 1t has
itself willingly apparently to the efforts OF the lat boys
to build up public sentiment against the farmers and labor
public official discussed price control and called
attention to of agriculture and labor
greater this than in previous this featured
But official in his discussion should be mprudent
enough to mention the tremendously profits of the
great corporations this year. this did not in print
example of the it is handled by the daily
press with few exceptions is noted in the manner in
statement by Leon Henderson reported Almost
exception the daes carried the story that Henderson
had stated that incomes of farmers and aborer must not be
mention of his statement that industry
profits showing increases to 400 cent must also be
reduced.
We not afraid to predict that by legsa
the President by executive order provides some
by which program of control is evolved and
overall control achieved including limitation of salaries
and profits the and labor will be the last
plain about the program These groups have been taking
the chin long, however, that they skeptca They
much and often in the past that when the
been established their interests have been ignored
or sop handed them.
The final decision of the President and the
regulations established, will be watched with interest
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
Penalizing Children

We disagree emphaticaly with the idea of congressman
and treasury officials who would individual
emptons and credits for dependents still They have
been lowered to point of unfairness.
There much talk of giving credit for payments of
debts for investments medical bills All of those
have plausible arguments for them but there much better
for keeping the credit for dependent children at the
old figure There talk of refunds of substantial part of
the corporation profits help business after the but
that essential than proper maintenance of the Amer
lean home?
We calling millions of young to offer the sacri
flee of f if need be- in the defense of the country and then
around and penaze the homes where families of chill
being raised replace the from this
Grafton Where other countries grant subsidies to parents to
children increasing by plans the
burden American parents
dozen ingenious devices proposed by which
industries may keep of their profits but cruel
less effort being made to cut savagely into the small family
income in legislation.-Great Falls Tribune.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
Co-ops in War

Persons in this country doubtful the ability of
sumner cooperaves to with effectiveness
able to private enterprise find out few things about the
effectiveness of cooperaves today by looking toward
torn China
With large part of their country by Japanese
troops and with of their mainline industrial cities the
hands of the daughty Chinese citizens providing
themselves with great many civilian and lesser military
esse nowadays through 5000 co-operatves spread
through the hnterlands.
According to competent reporters coop producing units
to be found hidden away the hills crude and
other places protected against Japanese bombs and machine
gun bullets
Already operating at capacity to provide what they
able for Chinese civilians and soldiers the coops heavier
responsibilities that Japanese thrusts in Burma have
forced closing of the Burma road supply line
When Japan first invaded Chinas coastal she des
royed captured most of Chna modern industrial estab
shmen deprived China of direct the forced
sixty million of more refugees into the interior.
Out of the dire need of this situation grew the chain of
utilizing whatever machinery and tools had been sal
vaged from industrial plants later renqushed to the Japs
Although these mascae enterprises despite their numbers
hope fulfill the needs of the whole Chinese
lion turn out the heavier implements of they
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|
over the family farm.
eve farmers have big job on our
hands these days." he says. "Our
country is up against the most fearful
threat in it's history. This war is 60
| ing to decide whether we Americans
will be slaves or free men-whether
the forces of Evil of the forces of
Good will rule the world for years
to come" He concludes his talk with
a plea for national loyalty and in
creased production.
Republic Steel is one of a half
dozen concerns that have secured
stranglehold on the American iron
and steel industry. Under the de-
Tense program these concerns have
frozen out their small competitors and
bagged about 984o of the government
contracts for iron and steel products.
Republic Steel has a record of con-
sistent anti-union activity
Like other big business concerns it
is organized from the top down with
policies decided by stockholders and
high-paid executive burocrats-a clas-
sic plutocratic setup. In its organi-
zatino and its policies, Republic Steel
is a plutocratic dictatorship built on
and opposed to economic
freedom and to political democracy.
Big business is richer and more
powerful in the U. S. today than it
has been at any time in the country's
history. The reports of the Temper
airy Natl. Economic Committee de-
tailed its strength
The war emergency has given big
business its long-awaited opportunity.
It is expanding its manufacturing
plant with government money, max
ing government guaranteed profits,
driving its small competitors out of
business, taking a prominent part in
the government and reducing
its income tax payments by presum-
ng to sell democracy to the American
eople.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11

haveserved highly useful in supplemenng the
supplies of sumgged into China from Allied SYM
pathetic nations outside
At present there said to be about 5000 of these little
machine shop chemical plant and manufacturing
ton in China Persons we'll acquainted with the Chinese stua
ton believe that if this number increased 10000 the
could do pretty good job of providing the Chinese
pie with the economic essentials needed to hold off, nde
nitely, economic stranguaton at the hands of Japan
With capitalization of only little more than S67OOOO
the Chinese coops todays turning out around hafa
million dollars worth of capital and medical goods
each month Besides furnishing China with the possibility
of immunity against collapse the country
isolated by further japanese military genius the
said to be exerng powerful influence toward unyng the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11

, The first black tarpaulins were
spread over studio sets at Universal
, and Warmers the last week in August.
!, At Universal City disaster scenes at
the mouth of a coal mine were being
filmed for the picture Pittsburgh. At
Warmers the night-by-day stuff was on
streets sets for the spy picture Back
ground to Danger.
The elimination of actual night
work saves extra pay to some of the
studio crafts, and has a tendency to
cut down overtime in general. So the
savings in pay may pay for the tar
paulins.
Dimout of Stars at Premieres
There was another advantage for
Curtis Bernhard, Warner director.
He is resident alien and has to be
home by s o'clock every night. 1t
Hooked as though he would have to
let someone else direct the 10 night
The new system will enable to shoot
the whole works.
| Hollywood's premieres have been
conducted in dimout war obscurity
the past few weeks. The publicity
boys have been fretting. Not because
they were denied skysweeping search
lights, but because they couldn't take
flashlight photos of arriving stars.
This flattering attention is the chief
reason they attend premieres, it is
feared
Anyhow there was flashlighting as
usual for the opening of The Pied
Piper at the Chinese theater Sept. 2.
Smart boys at goth Century-Fox had
adopted the tent idea and stretched
a tarpaulin over the forecourt of the
theater
This columns recent survey of
Hollywood's awakening realization
that it's a peoples war should have
mentioned the pioneer product of this
realization = five pictures already in
the theaters. See The Invaders, The
Remarkable Andrew, This Above All,
Mrs. Miniver, and Joe Smith, Amer
lean, and see what you think.
Seek Anti-Fascist Stories
Members of the Screen Readers
Guild (unaffiliated) review and report
on the merits of story material con-
sidered for filming. 1t is evident that
they may be counted upon to recon-
mend drama reflecting humanity's all
out involvement and to advise against
exclusive emphasis of the military
phases.
The guild committee has prepared
an Illuminating survey of the treat
ment of motion pictures of the last
war, and of this one to date. The
committee urges new evaluation of
war pictures on the basis of their
honest treatment of the democratic
way of life.
The readers participate actively in
the Hollywood Writers Mobilization.
it they arranged a special
seminar with Nelson Poyn-
ter, of the film division, Office of
War Information. The readers were
assured that the government hopes
for more films explaining the nature
Of the enemy, fascism, wherever it is
and for film treatment
Of other neglected war issues.
SLOGAN OF THE WEEK: Securi-
les for your security-war bonds.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11

bright l1gntlng OUT
doors.
Producers quickly
saw this meant that
shooting night scene
on a street set or
other outdoor scene
would require cover
ing t h e shooting
area with tarpaul-
ms.
Almost as quickly
they reasoned that
by painting the tar
paulins black the
filming might a 8
well be done in the
davtimp
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11

Sixteen light bulbs will supply an
average household for two years; a
battleship plying the Pacific carries
1000 bulbs in sockets and two spares
for each one in use, or total of
|21, 900.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS

The government is waoping the Philip Morris Tobacco
for fraudulent advertising for it's adver
Using of its "Dunh brand of cigarettes Probably the
eminent will base its charges of fraud deception largely
the fact that the company left the g of the Of
the cigarettes.-Captal Press (Ore).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
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The Voice dgrees with the opinions Letters
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-09-11
HOLLYWOOD
LOT
By TED TAYLOR

Hollywood is moving under canvas
to film it's night scenes. Further
more it is filming them in the day
time This comes from the army's
dimout regulations, which prohibit
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN to
all creditors of and all persons
having claims against the Peoples
Finance and Thrift Company Of
Imperial Valley, corporation, that
within four months after the first
publication of this notice that they
file their said claim with the nee
esSary vouchers in the office Of
said corporation, located at 759
Main Street, in the City of FL Cen
tro, California, whether such claims
or demands be due or not yet due
or contingent or unliquidated or
sounding only in damages.
All creditors and claimants fall
ing to make and present claims
and proof within the time herein
above specified shall be barred
from participation in any distribu-
ton of the general assets of said
corporation.
Dated, El Centro, California, this
25th day of May. 1912.
PEOPLES FINANCE AND
THRIFT COMPANY OF
IMPERIAL VALLEY
BY l. J. GOREE, JR.
Secretary
(No, 22l M26-J2-9-l6l
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16

CAIRO, June 16. (UP)-The Brit
ish have abandoned coastal FL GAIA
la, the westernmost point and north
ern anchor of their original Libyan
desert line. ,.nG are concentrating
now on the defense of Tobruk,
famed city siege 40 miles to the
east, it was revealed today
A Middle East headquarters COM
munique said Lieut. Gen. Neil M
Ritchie had withdrawn his forces
from positions south of Ell Gazala,
frustrating an Axis attempt to split
the British army and isolate troops
remaining in the exposed coastal
sector west of Tobruk.
1t said the withdrawal was ac-
complished under the cover of a
magnificent fight" by Imperial
troops holding threatened positions
around AcrOma, 13 miles southwest
of Tobruk.
The communique did not clarity
the present status of the Acroma
stronghold toward which Col. Gen.
Erwin RommelS desert tank army
was reported driving in an attempt
to cut the vital coastal road stretch
ing 40 miles west from Tobruk to
Ell Gazala.
Berlin radio, quoting a special
Italian communique, said RommelS
forces broke through the British
defenSeS at Acroma and reached the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
New Air Front in
Europe Reported

ANKARA, Turkey, June 10. CUP
-Vichy French sources reported to-
day that big Allied planes had been
bombing Axis targets in southeast
ern Europe for several weeks be-
fore four United States army bomb
ing planes landed in Turkey Friday
InformantS asserted that the raids
had been made intermittently but
that the Allies had remained silent
regarding them, and the Axis com
mands in turn had decided to say
nothing.
Allied military sources said there
was but one clear point regarding
the United States plane raid-that
there were plenty more big new
United States bombers where the
four which landed in Turkey had
been based
They said the bases would be kept
secret in order to keep the Axis
guessing.
Opinion here was still that the
American planes had bombed the
Rumanian oil fields from Middle
Eastern bases and military sources
said the attack-or attackS-meant
the opening of new aerial front
which might force the Germans TO
spread their air force still thinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
YOU CANNOT FIT ONE
THEORY TO ALL FACTS

What the LaFollette committee wants
to do is to remodel industrial agriculture
to fit existing laws. That is obviously
impossible.
In a melon season such as Imperial
valley has, for instance, there is not time
for such collective bargaining confer
ences as sometimes require six months
or year in the heavy industries.
In the valleys farming fields, it would
require a back-breaking staff of book
keepers to maintain up-to-the-minute So
cial security records on the hundreds of
employees who come and go many times
a year.
AS we said before, we do not intend to
discuss whether social security and col
lective bargaining should be extended to
industrialized agriculture. What we do
want to point out is that, if these benefits
are to be achieved at all, they cannot be
achieved by cramming agriculture into
a pre-conceived form which does not fit
its operations.
Agriculture, even industrialiZed agri-
culture is thing apart, with problems
found no place else. The same rules
that apply in automobile making and
plane manufacture cannot apply in agri-
culture, no matter what kind it is.
If LaFollette and his kind are to achieve
their detectives, they're going to have to
clear their minds of preconceived notions
and start by studying agriculture first,
and social legislation second. If they
do that, perhaps the legislation then can
be made to fit the needs it is intended to
fit.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
AIeutian Battle Raging

WASHINGTON, June 16 CUP -
A third great naval-air battle in
the Pacific within six weeks is in
progress today off the Aleutian
Islands.
American airmen-both Army and
Navy - already have damaged at
least six japanese vessels, maybe
seven. and sunk another. One of
the damaged vessels was an air
craft carrier
The battle apparently has been
going on intermittently since Jap
anese bombers attacked the naval
base at Dutch Harbor on June g.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
THROW HIM OUT
(San Bernardino Sum

(San BernardlnO Sun
On the occasion of the order for his
deportation, Harry Bridges issued an
amazing statement.
What is in the mind of this alien who
sought to promote the cause of commun-
ism in this country, it is not difficult to
comprehend from the reading of Bridges
statement.
He said:
"The international LongShoremen's and
WarehouSemen'S union, of which | am
president, will continue its all out war
effort in spite of this decision.
Il am urging all union men and women
to redouble their fight against Hitler to
make up for the damage caused by this
decision.
Il am confident the millions of workers,
who always have supported me, will re-
spond in this way
What Harry Bridges is saying is that
if it were not for his appeals the union
men and women of the United States
would sabotage the war effort because
of their resentment of the attorney gen
erals order of deportation.
That is the mental attitude of the man
who supported an organization that ad-
vocated the overthrow of this government
by violence.
Millions of union men and women who
are giving patriotic support to the war
program will not approve of Bridges
intimaton that their future conduct will
depend upon what happens to his depOr-
tation case.
Nor will they agree with his declara-
ton that there has been a slow down in
war work because of the decision in his
case Just reread the lines: Il am urging
all union men and women to redouble
their fight against Hitler to make up
for the damage caused by this decision.
Bridges is saying that those union mem
bers who slowed up their work must re-
double their efforts in order to make up
the damage or the lost time caused by
the decision.
So Bridges thinks that the outcome of
the war may depend upon whether he
remains in the United States or is thrown
out on his ear. He is pretty good for an
alien
The union men and women whom he
represents in such a statement should join
in the decision to throw him out
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-16
German Offensive
Expected By Reds

MOSCOW, June 16. CUP)-A new
German offensive by at least 100000
men, with every plane and piece of
mechanical equipment they can
muster, was believed imminent to-
day on the Kharkov front, where
the Russians knocked out 180 tanks
yesterday.
Fierce fighting still ragged at the
Crimean port of Sevastopol, and
last nights Soviet communique in
dicated that fighting of major pro-
portions had been resuped on the
Kalinin front, northwest of Mos
COW.