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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
STUDIES IN MAIN STREET DIVINITY
By JOHN STAHLBERG

| individual papers, and their conse-
quent misinterpretation of their du-
ties. These intellectual sheepherders
come to their jobs convinced that they
have to be stooges; and the effect of
the utter indignity they feel at such
relationship with their employers Is
inevitable and continuous degenera-
ton. From simple stoogery they pass
to deliberate spiritual whoredom; in
time their minds become an intel
lectual Sodom of such inconceivable
muckiness that they cannot encounter
the purest idea without seeking to
pervert it to their purposes. Their
distortions of fact and logic, their
contempt of intellectual decency reach
such lengths that, instead of serving
the interests of their employers, each
of them becomes ultimately major
disaster for those interests.
There is no sound reason why a
paper owned by corporation should
be more dishonest than one controlled
by political group. Indeed the mod
ern citizen has every cause to doubt
that any greater dishonesty than that
of political groups is possible. If,
therefore, corporation owned papers
systematically pervert opinion and dis
tort the news, much of the reproach
may well be directed at the congenital
idiocy of the editors, who are too
stupid to interpret correctly even the |
demands upon their bargain-counter
venality
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
WASHINGTON THIS WEEK

| whenever free speech was denied Mr..
Smith or any other America First
speakers" 1t was the same Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union which
couple weeks ago entered the only
opposition from non-government
sources to enactment of the Dickstein-
Lynch bills to bar anti-Semitic and
anti-Negro matter from the mails.
JOKER IN NEW TAX BILL
Aside from being a bill which all
labor and win-the-war forces agree is
a bad one because it raises too little
money and most of that from the low
est-income groups, the new tax bill
has its special joker. 1t provides that
labor organizations need not
pay taxes on their income, they must
nevertheless make full financial re-
ports to the treasury. The question
arises: what is the informa-
ton wanted for, since there is no tax
liability? Obviously not for any prop
er purpose. Evidently this is a first
move toward Incorporation of labor
unions and government control of
their internal affairs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10

The article in the November Il
issue of The Peoples Voice under the
heading montana Papers Not Party
but Corporation Organs" touches 6
problem which has yet to be examined
really calmly and thoughtfully.
On one side we have people tc
whom the word Corporation" Is in
itself bad word; by them corpora
ton organ" is automatically under
stood as a term of reproach On the
other side stand people who look up
with slavish admiration to any one or
anything that has power; to them the
same term is a guarantee Of values
which they have never, perhaps, at
tempted to define, but which they
nevertheless regard highly.
Both reactions are immature. Cor
porations are not necessarily bad.
There is much to be said for them
merely as corporations, and much
more to be said for some cor
porations than for others. A corpora
ton is bad if the men who control
it are bad; it is mill for grinding
out profits at the expense of flesh
and blood if the men who control it
are in turn controlled by greed. 1t is
not bad or greedy merely because it is
a corporation. The bad and greedy
men in it would be just as bad and
greedy if they were Senator Murray's
pet charity, "small business men,"
and probably 10 times as bad and
greedy if they had had a few years of
political life in which to feed and
cherish their vices.
No corporation need be solely a
profit mill. The corporation for which
myself work spends, every day,
both hard cash and employee hours in
services on which it not only does not
make a profit but for which it never
receives one red cent. l am not guess
ing. AS an employee, have rendered
many such services on behalf of my
own department; and as a customer
have received similar services from
another department. Object, if you
like, that these things are done to OBJ
tain public good will and thus to
smooth the road to later profits. So |
what? Is it wrong to help people |
merely because it may please them?
Against the corporation owned |
press, deeper and one would sup |
pose, more telling argument than
mere ownership, is the mental petit
ness of some of the men who run the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
WAITS FOR THIRD COFFIN

Sacha Guitry is French actor who
chose to collaborate with the Ger
mans. A short time ago Guitry was
working on a film. Between the
shooting of two sets a small packet
was handed to him. 1t contained a
tiny model of coffin. Guitry never
completed the film. More recently he
was performing in a comedy. At the
end of the second act, when Guitry
returned to his dressing room, he
found on his makeup table the second
model of coffin, larger than the
first When the curtain was due to
rise on the third act, it was explained
that M. Guitry was suddenly indis-
posed M. Guitry is suffering from
heart trouble waiting for the third
coffin. Receipt of third coffin by
a traitor in France indicates his com
ing doom.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
Legal Advertising
Office of State Auditor
STATE OF MONTANA
Insurance Department
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
AND AUTHORIZATION

WHEREAS, The Iowa Mutual Liza
bility Insurance Company
Has filed in this department a sworn
statement of it's condition on December
81, 1912, in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Revised Codes of Montana
1885, relating to insurance organiza-
tions; and whereas, said statement
shows that said insurance organization
has complied with the Laws of this
State;
THEREFORE,, in pursuance of law
/, JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor and
Commissioner of Insurance, do hereby
certify that the above named insur
ance organization is authorized to
transact the business of miscellaneous
insurance in this State until the thir-
ty-first day of March, 1914.
| further certify that their statement
shows that on December 81, 1912, the
actual amount of Capital-U. S. De-
posit to be Mutual; the aggregate In
come for the year 1912 $2,340,065.61;
the aggregate Disbursements for the
year 1912 $1,876, 261.11; the aggregate
Assets are 3,074,2S5.77; the aggregate
Liabilities, except Capital, are S2,229,-
564.64; the Surplus over all liabilities
is $S44,721.13; the Surplus as regards
policyholders is $844,721.13.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have
hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this
twenty-ninth day of November, 1913.
JOHN ]. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
BRAZIL TO HELP BOMB
MOSQUITOES

Ten thousand pounds of pyrethrum
seed has been flown from Africa to
Natal, Brazil, to assist that country
in growing plants that will help
bomb malaria bearing mosquitoes
and other INSECTS on the battlefronts
of the world. Kenya, East Africa,
formerly was the big source of pyre-
thrum. Grenade-like cases of black
painted iron are used to hold the in
secticide ready for instant USE More
than million of these bombs have
been shipped to the battlefronts. One
bomb will emit enough puffs to kill
all mosquitoes in 10 rooms, each 10
feet square, every day for so days.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10

and used the guns against them.
EXIT Mr.. HORI
Sadao Iguchi, who was a diplomatic
aide to Ambassador Kichisaburo No
mura in Washington while the latter
and Especial envoy" Saburo Kuruso
were providing verbal cover for the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has
been appointed to succeed Tomokazu
Hori as chief of the third section" Of
the Japanese Information Board.
The third section" of the Informa-
ton Board is concerned primarily
with putting out Japanese propaganda
for foreign consumption. The Tokyo
radio. which announced the appoint
ment, explained to the Japanese peo-
pie that Iguchi would be a better man
than Hori to deal with propaganda
to the United States in view of his
experience.
With Horis removal, there has
been a clean sweep of Japan's three
principal propaganda spokesman in
recent months MAJ. zen. NdhdO I d.
hagi, army press chief who "lost
face" when the Chinese laughed off
proffer of peace, was relieved"
on Oct. Is. Capt Hideo Hiraide,
naval naval spokesman, who promoted
the United States fleet from mon
existent" to Fourth rate" to third
rate" to second rate" in his develop
ing propaganda, lost his job on July
4th
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
REACTlONARlES TRY TO
PREVENT SOLDIER VOTE

Reactionary republican and poll tax
ers in the senate this week continued
their efforts to prevent passage of
law which would enable members
of the armed forces and merchant
seamen from voting in 1914. The bill
under consideration is S. 1885, spon-
sored by Lucas of Illinois and Green
of Rhode Island The opposition
spent the week trying to make the
bill imperative by gripping amend
ments. S. 1885 is intended to replace
the law passed last year which proved
ineffective in practice because its pro-
visions were too clumsy. A report on
be given after disposition of the bill.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
The Co-optimist-
Continued from Page Two)

perience with cooperative marketing.
Then, on Wednesday afternoon, De-
cember Is, comes the old and tried
and true cooperative leader, Glenn
Talbot, president of the North Dako-
ia Farmers Union. 1t is going to be,
bound to be, a very fine affair and,
regardless of transportation difficult
ties, including crowded trains and
gas shortage, there will be an atten-
dance equal to, if not in excess of that
Of any previous year. You see, farm
ers have come to the decisian that
they must mind their own business
if anybody's going to do it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
DUTCH FEED UNDERGROUND
ARMIES

To feed the 100000 Dutch ex-service
men, students, and laborers who have
gone into hiding rather than submit to
forced labor in Germany is the big
gest problem of the Dutch under
ground. Members of this army in
hiding are being hunted by the Ger
man Green Police" and are deprived
of rationing coupons. The under
ground is solving the problem by in
creased thefts of food from freight
cars and railway warehouses.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
EDUCATION IN BULGARIA

According to Sofia newspaper,
the minister of education has issued
the following circular to strengthen
the feelings of Bulgarian school youth
towards the army:
"The officers of the local garrison
must be invited to all school festiv-
tiles.
with the help of the head Of the
local garrison, school authorities must
make known to the children the mar
tial deeds of the local regiment.
"All literature dealing with this
subject must be collected in the
school library.
"The deeds of fallen soldiers and
officers must be learned by the chill
dren. Schools in all villages must
have annual ceremonies during which
tombs of local soldiers should be
cleaned.
PORTRAITS of local heroes must be
hung in school rooms and corridors.
Everybody should know the num-
Der of the regiment of his father and
grandfather and the battles in which
they took part. They must also know
the decoration received by members
of their families.
Children should be asked to write
essays on the battles in which their
fathers took part"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
u. S. TRAINED DUTCH
FLYERS IN ACTION

Many of the Netherlands airmen
who received their wings or COM
pleted their advanced training at the
Netherlands flying school at Jackson,
Miss, are already in action from Brit
ish bases. Several have Joined the
Netherlands naval air service Mitchell
bomber squadron or have been given
assignments with Dutch fighter squad
rons flying in British Royal Air Force
blue.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
RUSSIAN FACTORIES
HAVE FARMS

Soviet Russian cities, industrial
centers, and factories are supplement-
ing their food supplies with meat,
vegetables and dairy products from
their own farms. Some grow vege-
tables, others breed pigs or poultry,
and some even have fisheries.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
BRITAIN's FOOD PRODUCTION

Britain, which before the war i'm
ported almost 70 per cent of its food,
is now producing nearly one-half of
it. The increase has been brought
about by blowing land not previously
cultivated and by switching from pro-
duction of meats and dairy products
to the growing of grains and vege-
tables
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
MUTUAL AID IN NEW
ZEALAND

While New Zealand furnishes hos
pital beds, buildings, meat, fruit,
dairy products, eggs, flour sugar, and
vegetables to United States forces,
the U. S. supplies ordnance, ammuni-
ton, airplanes, steel, wire, tinplate,
machinery, hardware, cotton, yarn,
and thread to New Zealand
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
FEC SMEAR GETS $4,000

The Lea (nee Cox committee to
Smear the Federal Communications
Commission has just been given an
other $4,000 by the house of repre-
sentatives to carry on its destructive,
administration work. Eugene
L. Carey, Cox-appointed counsel to
the committee, is carrying on under
Lea exactly as he did under Cox be-
fore the latter was forced to resign
craftsmanship.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

The Dutch Aneta agency reported
from London recently that the under
ground press in the occupied Neither
lands had begun a new campaign to
undermine the morale of German
troops. Aneta said the clandestine
press had urged the people to write
on every wall, tree, fence, cafe table,
yes everywhere, such names as Tunis.
Libya, Catania, Orel, Hamburg and
Mussolini"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
"THE MUSIC RUM

American Liberator Bomber crews
call some bombing flights into the
Netherlands East Indies, "the music
run" because on these flights they
tune in on musical programs from
Japanese radio stations. A special
correspondent for Aneta, Dutch news
agency, quotes an American captain:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
POLISH WOMEN ON
NIGHT SHIFT

In Wuppertal Germany factory,
arms for Germany since 1941. They
have been on the night shift con-
tinually, and German women or other
foreigners relievethem during the day
when the raid danger is much less.
on top stories where the danger from
bombs is the greatest.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
ODT ASKS HELP FC
SANTA CLAUS
OWNERS NOTE LICENSE
NUMBERS

Car owners themselves rather than
ration boards or automobile registra-
ton officials must note new license
numbers on their ration books and
tire inspection records, under recent
OPA ruling. The action also provides
that "T" coupons issued for use in
1914 by commercial vehicles and taxis
will be in strips (similar to strips of
motion picture tickets) rather than in
book form and each coupon will be
serially numbered
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
G. L. X. SMITH GETS
OFFICIAL DEFENDER

Gerald L. K. Smith, Detroit anti
Semitic and anti-Negro director of the
America First Party, announced last
week that Roger Baldwin, director of
the American Civil Liberties Union
had promised him the union would
Cooperate 100 per cent with the
America First Party wherever and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
AUSTRALIAN MANPOWER-
TRAVEL CURB

Australians will not be permitted
to travel interstate in cases where the
local manpower authority considers
the persons work essential in his To-
cality. The land transport authority
may require a manpower clearance
before issuing ticket.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
88 PER CENT WITHOUT
BREAD

More than 8S per cent of the peo-
pie of Berehovo must do without
bread, according to an official an
nouncement quoted in a Hungarian
newspaper. Berehovo, city of 35,-
900 population which belongs to the
Carpatho-Russian province of Czecho-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
SENATE KILLS CHINESE
EXCLUSION

The senate last week passed and
sent to the President for signature
the bill repeating the Chinese exclu-
sion laws. AS in the house, there was
no record vote. But the people of
California, Oregon, and North Caro-
lima should note that leadership in OPP
position was taken by their Senators
Johnson, Holman and Reynolds.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
SUFFERING OF BELGIAN
WOMEN

The Germans have imprisoned, de-
ported to Germany, or executed num-
bers of Belgian women for sabotage,
printing and distributing illegal
papers, listening to BIC, or helping or
hiding British soldiers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
UNITED NATIONS AT WAR

eve find some Jap station which is
playing swing music and listen in. 1t
makes the time pass more pleasantly
particularly when you are on a long
mission over the sea at night"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
RECORD WHEAT CROP
EXPECTED

A record wheat crop of about $780,
900 bags of 200-pounds each is expect
ed in the Orange Free State, Union of
South Africa, compared with 100000
bags last year, according to the U. S.
department of commerce.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
UP JAM AND JELLY PRICES

Consumers will pay about two or
three cents more per pound for jams,
preserves, and jellies made from ap-
pies, apple products, and frozen
grapes, under recent OPA regula-
ton. The increases reflect increases
in 1943 fruit costs to the packer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
HOW RUBBER TAPER
WORKS

War has made business boom for
Bouivian rubber tappers. When a
rubber Taper starts his activities, he
cuts out his route, covering 100-150
wild trees within two or three miles
of river Usually a worker has
three such routes, one of which he
covers every three days. He collects
latex in cloth bag slung over his
shoulder Returning at night to his
fire, he makes rubber balls by re-
peatedly dipping stick in the liquid
latex. then turning it over the fire
until it dries, thus building up ball
at the end of the stick.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
CHANGE IN GASOLINE COUPONS

Motorists are reminded by OPA that
their old "B" and &C" gasoline cou-
pons issued to motorists whose sup
Elementary gasoline rations expired
became good for five gallons each
throughout the country. Although
each new coupon will be good for
more gallons than before, motorists
will not receive any additional gaso-
line because ration books will have
CORRESPONDENCE fewer coupons.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
CITRUS MARMALADES
POINT FREE

All marmalades made entirely of
citrus fruits principally oranges and
lemons) may be bought point free,
according to OPA Marmalades made
Of citrus and non-citrus fruits in COM
bination are rationed at the same
wholly of nOn-citrus fruits.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10
Town and Farm
Continued from Page One)

CONTINUED from Page OneJ
tons. Bituminous coal price ceilings
were raised an average of IL cents a
net ton to compensate operators to the
extent required by recent increases in
labor costs. An increase of 80 cents
per net ton was made in ceiling prices
for by-product foundry and by-product
blast furnace coke manufactured in
the central west. A similar increase
is expected to be announced shortly
in maximum prices for industrial and
domestic by-product coke produced in
the central west.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10

creases will allow the professors to
pass increased raw material costs on
to the ultimate consumer.
ODT ASKS HELP FOR
SANTA CLAUS
Christmas shoppers have been
asked by ODT to lend Santa Claus
a helping hand by observing the fol-
lowing: % Shop now. Mail now.
Do not wait until the eleventh hour"
(2) Carry your packages whenever
possible. 90 Remember, war bonds
and stamps make the best Christmas
gifth. They are good buy and they
take minimum transportation space,
ODT pointed out.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10

FROZEN FRUITS, BERRIES
Consumers will pay from q cent
q pound to cents a pound more for
frozen California freestone peaches.
Concord grapes. apples, and black
berries. According to OPA, these in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-10

slovakia, suffers also from shortage of
other food and clothing.
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Inside the Axis

Continued from Page One)
and used the guns against them.
Evening star., 1943-08-24
BY the Associated Press.

as tA4S %HNSoSlatSd lCSSs
QUEBEC, Aug. 24-The tert OF
joint statement by President RooSe-
pelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
The Anglo American war confer
ence, which opened at Quebec on
August IL under the hospitable
auspices of the Canadian govern
ment, has now concluded it's work.
The whole field of world opera
tionS has been surveyed in the light
OF the many gratifying events which
have taken place since the meeting
of the President and the Prime Min
lister in Washington at the end of
May, and the necessary decisions
have been taken to provide for the
forward action of the fleets, armies
and air forces of the two nations.
Considering that these forces are
mtermingled in continuous action
against the enemy in several quar-
terS of the globe, it is indispensable
that entire unity of aim and method
should be maintained at the summit
of the war direction.
Further Conferences Planned.
Further conferences will be need
ed, probably at shorter intervals
than before, as the war effort of
the United States and British Com
monwealth and Empire against the
enemy spreads and deepens. 1t
would not be helpful to the fight
ing troops to make any announce
ment Of the decisions which have
been reached. These can only
emerge in action.
Evening star., 1943-08-24
Union Is Organized
By Airline Employees
BY the Associated Press.

--~N~~-N'~~~ =
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 24.-For-
nation of the Federation of Airline
Employees Associations-com of
employees of United Air Lines, Pan
American Airways and Transconti-
mental and Western Air-has been
completed.
Representatives of employees of the
companies yesterday closed a four
day organization meeting, the last
in a series.
F. B. Willoughby of Cheyenne, na-
tional president of the American
Airmen's Association and chairman
of the meeting, said the new union
had membership of approximately
10000 employees
He announced the four main
points in the articles of federation,
which must be ratified by the en-
ployes' associations of eacE COM
pany, as:
l. Uniformity of rules, rates Of
pay, working conditions, labor clas-
slfication and stabilization of en-
ployment throughout the airlines.
2. Membership extended to all in
dependent airline unions.
3. Supreme governing body. known
as panel, to be formed and in which
independent associations will have
limited number of voting seats.
4. Complete local autonomy on
matters pertaining to local chapters.