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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17

ments, now appear to have launched
a co-ordinated drive to purge univer-
stiles in the occupied countries of
similar elements, thereby eliminating
these schools as centers of resistance
against them.
The nazis began their drive in Nor
way on November 80, when they used
a fire in one of the buildings of Oslo
university as pretext for closing the
university and arresting 1000 stu
dents and professors, a number of
whom have already been deported to
a special camp" in Germany
When the first group of the ar
rested students reached Germany, the
Berlin radio told the German people
the students had been deported ito
protect Norwegian life and maintain
calm and order"
This week the nazi gestapo in Den
mark followed up the action taken
in Norway by conducting search"
of the mathematical institute at the
University of Copenhagen, according
to the Swedish radio. The following
day the British radio quoted Swiss re-
ports as saying that the Gestapo had
arrested all Alsatian students at the
University of Strasbourg on charge
of spreading "anti-German propagan-
d."
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such investments year earlier
Other bonds, stocks and eurities
held amounted to s3,538 mil len
The unimpaired capital sttck June
30, 1943 was SLABS million.
The surplus of these national banks
was $1,475 million; undivided profits
1884 million; and reserves S268 mil
lion-making a total of $2,327 million,
an increase of seven per cert in he
year-above dividends paid.
Loans and discounts were June 30.
1913 only 16.S% of deposits, compared
with 26.Sa6 a year earlier
The most significant fac IN this
Treasury Report is the enormous in
crease in government obligations held
by national banks. This is sure
road to initiation.
Treble Income
The Department of Commerce re-
Gently reported that the net income
of agricultural. proprietors was s4.3
billion in 1889, and in 1943 is $13.6
billion.
While the number of agricultural
proprietors increased only slightly,
their income increased 1913 billion or
216q5.
The average increase in net income
of agricultural proprietors families
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TWO new FIELD
OFFICES PLACED
by The VITA

San Francisco, Dec. 15.-Estab lish-
ment of two field offices in Montana
in addition to the one already operating
lin Helena was announced today by
Buell. F. Maben, newly appointed
western regional director of the Food
Distribution Administration, in move
to further decentralize the agency 8
widespread activities.
The area field offices, which will
Operate under the direction of Will
liam Allen, Montana state supervisor,
are to be located in Billings and Great
Falls and will make possible greater
cooperation and faster decisions in
matters relating to food distribution.
Gas much personnel and administra-
tive authority as possible is being
moved out of the regional efficcs into
field offices throughout the western
states so that farmers, food distribu-
tors and consumers can be served
most efficiently" said Maben.
"Montana's agricultural and live
stock position makes FDA operations
in this state of major Importance. In
creased wartime production frequently
presents marketing problems which
have become further aggravated by
current disruption of labor supply,
transportation, warehousing and pro-
cessing-not to mention government
regulations which, designed to achieve
a major wartime objective, sometimes
work hardship on individuals.
eve are working out cooperative
plans so that the normally high peace
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DISTINGUISHED
OF SOLDIERS TIED
up With POLL TAX

Charging that the poll-taxers braz-
emily DISTINGUISHED an entire genera
ton of young men yesterday when the
senate threw out the Lucas-Green
soldiers vote bill, Mrs. Katherine
s,,..lryver, executive secretary of the
National Committee to abolish the
polI-tax said, "Without the Is senate
Republican votes the poll-taxers could
not have deprived this generation OF
men of the right to vote in the most
important election since the Civil
War"
"Rumors of a deal against the pas
sage of the anti-poll tax bill are float
ing about the senate, to the effect
that the Southern Democrats have
been willing to disfranchise the sol
diers in the 1914 election for the bene-
fit of the Republican party If the Re-
publicans in the senate will give the
poll-taxers enough votes to defeat
cloture for HR T." she said.
whether the initiative comes from
the poll-taxers of the South or not,
those who support them in the senate
will be held equally responsible. Just
such combination last year defeated
the vote for cloture so that the anti
poll tax bill could not be brought to
a vote" Mrs. Shryver stated. She
called upon the relatives and friends
of men overseas to inform their con-
gressmen and senators that they
would not tolerate this wholesale dis
reimbursement of those in the trench
es. Mrs. Shryver asked for organized
support of the original Lucas-Green
bill
She pointed out that the soldiers
were not here to guard their interest;
they were busy with another enemy.
"But the American people are at
home. They want to vote and they
want IL million fighting men, their
sons to vote in 1914. They are watch
ing the senate. They insist that no
coalition of poll-taxers and Repub-
licans can deny to an entire genera
ton the exercise of the franchise"
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ACTS ON LIVESTOCK FEED
AS part of the government program
to conserve livestock feed and make
the best use of available supplies in
producing the maximum volume OF
livestock products, WA has taken
the following steps: D Elimination
of the subsidy the Commodity Credit
Corporation has been paying on corn
moving from surplus to eastern and
southern deficit areas. (2) an in
crease of 20 cents a bushel in the
price of feed wheat on and after De-
cember 6; 90 an offer to buy corn
during the remainder of this month at
the old ceiling price in approximately
$50 counties on the fringe of the corn
belt where the new ceiling on corn
defective December g. represents a
reduction in prices. OPA raised the
maximum price of corn 9 cents a
bushel at Chicago to correct Unequal
tiles in the previous regulation. At
the same time, the prices of oats,
barley, and sorghum grains were
frozen" at the highest prices of the
five-day period, November 20 to De-
cember 8, pending issuance within go
days of a permanent regulation on
these feeds.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
new LIQUOR
BOARD STARTS
DELIBERA TI0NS

Montanas new liquor control board
composed of David R. Wallace, retired
grocery man; John w. Corwin, retired
banker and Carl H. Rippel, member
of an accounting fra has been in
session since Wednesday, apparently
making an estimate of the situation
which was left in their laps by the
ent administrator.
Among the problems which they
face, is the refunding of large sum
of money to group of retail liquor
dealers which they had advanced to
the old board as down payment on a
quantity of liquor, on a deal engi-
neered by Administrator Mcdonald,
and which a majority of the state
supreme court found was legal but
still somewhat questionable and which
two members of the court, Associate
Justices Adair and Erickson, declared
was completely out OF line with the
law
Another deal proposed by the old
board and the administrator for the
purchase of a distillery and a large
quantity of liquor was apparently
stopped by the governor, and the res
ignations of the old board members
followed
But Administrator Mcdonald is still
lending his great business acumen
to the service of the board. 1t is not
known if the new board feels that
they can dispense with it.
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such unconstitutional policy has beef
found necessary. In both, however
wage rates have exhibited mucl
greater stability since the cost of liv
ing has been stabilized. Under thu
Canadian scheme of control, wage
rates are formally linked to the cos
of living index and cost of living
bonus is payable to offset increases
| in the official index. A similar re
suit is obtained in Britain due to the
| fact that one-third of the wage con
tracts there formally incorporate cos
Of living adjustment provisions, while
wage bargaining as whole reflects
the same basic consideration.
The experience of Great Britain and
Canada. is a striking demonstration OF
the effectiveness of subsidies as part
Of an integrated system of price con
troll Subsidies work-they enable a
country to hew to the line on a tough
sterilization policy and at the same
time to get production to the limit
of its capacity.
The Present Crisis
The same circumstances that forced
other belligerents to use this instru-
ment now face us. The urgency of
the immediate use of subsidies cannot
be too greatly stressed We cannot
stand still. Unless the cost of living
is rolled back it must rise. There is
no possibility of stabilizing it at its
present level because, unless it is
rolled back, it must force the aban-
donment of the present wage stabili-
cation formula. The upward adjust
ment Of wages will be signal for
boost in farm prices. Prices gener-
ally, under these twin pressures, will
shoot upward and the cost of living
will rise well above its present level
The consequences that would follow
hardly need elaboration We would
be caught up once more in the in
spiral and under pressures
which would push us along at catas-
trophic pace. That we must avoid by
prompt action, action which will make
up for the ground lost; action which
will include the full appropriate use
of subsidies. Only in this way can
we emerge successfully from the pres
ent crisis and insure that it shall be
the last on the economic front.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
0DT DIScoURAGES
HOLIDAY Travel

Civilians were urgently requested
by the Office of Defense Transports
ton today to give up all pleasure trips
on trains or intercity buses from De-
cember II through January 10. Civ
ilians also were asked to defer even
necessary travel, whenever possible,
until after January 10.
Joseph B. Eastman, ODT director,
said willingness to put up with
crowded travel conditions afforded no
excuse for disregarding the ODT re-
quest to stay off trains and buses dur
ing the holidays.
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average duuudl Idlt VI Itlui ii VI icoS
than about 96-while the same num-
Der - seven, reported an average of
over 1917.
The 1850 return of the 16 food
professors or distributors of foods,
(other than bakeries) doesn't provide
much of an argument against a sub
sidy to "roll-back" prices of foods.
National Banks War Profits
Total assets of national banks June
L30th, 1943 were $50 billion, an in
crease of $14 billion in year-NEAR-
LILY ONE THIRD, the Treasury re-
ports, for 5,066 active banks.
Total deposits were nearly $55 bill
lion, as follows:
Demand and demand and time de-
posits of individuals $30,51S million !;
OF corporations 1891 million.
Million
u. S. government deposits $4,582
State and political Subdivisions 1900
Postal savings z
Banks 7,156
Certified checks, etc. 634
Loans and discounts were $3.50
million reduction of nearly sixth
in the year.
Investments in u. S government OBJ
legations, direct and guaranteed were
s30,190 million.
This was little more than double
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
AN OPEN LETTER TO The MEMBERS OF
The CONGRESS OF The TEDSTATES

l am addressing you in this manner
because l am not expressing a per
sonal and private opinion, but rather
the collective opinion of 100000 bread
winning consumers whose livelihood
depends upon their wages in the rail
road industry.
We urge you to appropriately
amend provisions of house resolution
BAIT which, if they become law, would
forbid the use of subsidies or price
supports in the nations food produc
ton and market.
Thoughtful citizens are amazed that
a representative body of presumably
intelligent and patriotic citizens who
have ben given the public trust of i'm
portant public office should spend the
public funds that provide their sala-
-ries debating this simple but vicious
and destructive piece of legislation.
Any citizen having the slightest
acquaintance with the mark-up sys-
tenn in business, and possessing the
rudimentary ability to make the sim
plest calculations in arithmetic, knows
that subsidies, used with intelligent
discretion, are at this stage of our
fight against Initiation economically
sound and therefore good public pol
icy.
Anyone who argues that such sub
sides are as expensive as initiation
is guilty of demagogy and swindle
on public opinion.
The record of the 18th congress is
now an almost complete body of evil
dence that it desires initiation. AL
though it has enacted two important
price-control and economic stabiliza-
ton measures under pressure of pub
lie opinion it has slyly done every
thing it could to hamstring attempts
to administer and execute these laws
effectively.
The congress has refused to appro-
pirate sufficient funds for the Office
of Price Administration 1t has re-
CURED that key personnel of the OPA
shall be recruited exclusively from
among commercial groups which are
the enemies of price control. 1t has
forbidden the OPA to take measures
to protect the consuming public
against adulteration of commodities.
The halls Of congress have been
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
BLAckSHiRTS IN NORTHERN
ITALY, GETTING MORE VIOI EMIT

The blackshirts of the puppet fas-
cist government in German-occupied
northern Italy are adopting more
and more violent attitude against the
people because of their apathy to-
wards fascism and because of attacks
upon puppet officials, the Swiss news
paper Neue zuercher zeitung reported
recently.
The paper said that while the mod
crate fascists were advocating "a
legal settlement of difference with po-
litical opponents" the vehement fas-
cist Squadristi were pressing for the
application of more vigorous meas
ures and the use of "Squadrismo"
lynch law to combat attacks on Of
ficials.
"Black-shirted Squadristi, with
Continued on Page Three)
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onaDloQ DOJn Cno DTlClSu anu
the Canadians to reconcile the
imperative of economic stabil-
ity with the imperative of war
production.
The production achievements of the
British are widely known. 1t is not
so we'll known that for over two years
the cost of living in Britain has been
held to virtually absolute stability and
the cost of foods has even been re-
duced. Evidence of the effectiveness
of British sterilization is found in the
fact that, whereas between the out
break of war and May 1941, the cost
of living rose 20 per cent, between
the latter month and April 1913, it
actually fell 1 per cent During this
period, moreover, the retail price of
foods in Britain, which had risen 25
per cent above pre-war levels, was
reduced 81 per cent.
Similarly in Canada: Cost of living
sterilization was made national policy
in December 1941, and subsidies were
used from the outset in effectuating
that policy. The cost of living had
risen Is per cent at that time. In the
year and a half that followed, down to
May 1943, the net increase in the cost
OF living was only 2 per cent. Sew
eral successive roll-backs, made pos
sible by subsidies, accomplished this,
and in June 1913 a new roll-back was
scheduled to reduce or eliminate even
this slight rise.
The relation between the effective
ness of the British and the Canadian
sterilization and the use of subsidies
is indicated by the extent to which
prices entering the cost of living in
dex are subject to subsidy. In Britain
go per cent of the food component
of the cost of living index is affected
by subsidy This means that SIS per
cent of the total cost of living index is
by food subsidies alone. In
Canada, 68 per cent of all foods and
81 per cent of the cost of living are
subject to subsidy.
In both countries, the sterilization |
of the cost of living has been closely |
linked in policy with sterilization of |
wages In Canada both wages and |
prices were brought under control |
whereas in Britain no !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
TOBACCO TRUST
SEEKS TO STOP
NLRB ELECTION

Labor unions were stoutly defended
as strong constructive force in the
economic and political life of our
nation" by DR.. Fleming James, dean
Of the School of Theology of the Uni
versity of the South, Sewanee, Tenn,
in the Southern Patriot, published
| this week at Nashville.
The statement by DR.. James and
other distinguished citizens of the
south were made as public declara-
lions of encouragement and support
to the United Cannery, Agricultural,
Packing and Allied Workers, CLIO, in
/ its current campaign to organize the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company at
Winston-Salem, N. c.
"The philosophy that business ex-
lists for profits to make more bust
ness to make more profits and to
crush out the lives of men, women,
and children in the process is a self
Wager professor of education, Emory
University, Ga. In industry is to
thrive, "it will do so only as it learns
to share and cooperate"
"But the R. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Co., makers of Camel cigarettes,
Prince Albert tobacco, and other pop
ular brands" said the Patriot article,
was disposed neither to share nor
cooperate. Using the weapons of
company union, appeals to race pref
116ion and typn ,rf int,
company has attempted to block I'M
ionization and an orderly National La
Dor Relations Board election among
its $4,000 workers"
Unions" said the statement by
Judge Louise O. Charlton, U. S. COM
missioner of Alabama, both craft and
industrial, have been potent factors
in the long evolution of man from
his conditions of slavery, poverty and
ignorance"
The CLIO represents workers as
said DR.. Clark Foreman of
Black Mountain College, president Of
the Southern Conference of Human
Welfare, without un-American dis
because of race, creed or |
color, it deserves mucsh greater rec
ognition in our state"
Representing 100000 women of |
this country" said Dr. Mary Mcleod |
Bethune, president emeritus of Beth
college and president of |
The National Council of Negro Wom-
an, 1--WE feel deeply the responsibility
% accept the democratic way of trade
lnionism, not from spirit of per-
oetrating racial discord and clashes,
Continued on Page Four
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COM. MISS0ULA
UNIONS REPORTS

december y, 1910.
Re: Communications and Resolu-
lions from Yellowstone and
Cascade Trades and Labor AS
semblies.
Greetings:
This Council has always been OPP
posed to a public commission utiliz-
ing public funds for the dissemination
of propaganda, either for or against
any measure of public interest.
! We are at loss to understand the
attitude of the chairman of the I'm
employment Compensation Commits
sion, supposedly a man of liberal ten
denotes, disseminating propaganda
with view of defeating meritorious,
social legislation and using his office
and the machinery of the institution
for that purpose. The way In which
the propaganda was presented leads
us to believe that the entire commits
sion is of the same opinion. We are
not at all surprised that the employer
member of the commission, rock
bound, die-hard Tory, should approve
the opinions expressed, but that the
third member, supposedly represent
ing labor, should, by his silence, as
sent to such activities is detestable
and unforgivable. 1t is gratifying to
note that the Cascade and Yellow
stone Trades and Labor assemblies
apparently share this viewpoint.
We hold that any person, whether
public official or private citizen, is
entitled to express whatever opinion
he may hold on any public question,
but to utilize the prestige Of his Of
flee and to use public funds to dis
seminate propaganda is conduct I'M
becoming public official and should
be dealt with accordingly.
Your committee previously recon-
and this council concurred In
the recommendations and is therefore
on record as supporting the desirable
features of the Wagner-Murray bill,
and we reiterate our statement that
we are in full accord with the senti-
Continued on Page Four)
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throughout the period of the war the
principal sounding board of propagan-
da against all honest and effective
proposals to keep down the cost of
living. Speaking and writing with the
protection of their official privilege,
leading members of the congress have
slandered and libeled and driven from
public office honest administrators
whose only fault was a desire to do a
patriotic job of price control
This congress, through the above
disruptive policies, and through it's
failure to adopt fair and adequate
tax law, has fastened upon our nation
at war a system of economic injus-
tice, which is rapidly undermining the
CONTINUED on Page FOUR
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FARM HELP FOR LUMBER
clInnIN

Because of the critical overall lum-
Der and pulpwood shortage, which di-
rectly affects farmers, who are large
users of lumber and wood products,
Marvin Jones, War Food Administers
tor indicated that farmers should
help by: % increasing production
from woodlands during the winter and
(2) providing labor for forest indus
tries during the slack winter season
on farms. Lumber used on farms for
the construction and maintenance of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
MARTIAL COMMANDMENTS"
ENTER GERMAN CURRICULUM

l"MARTlAL COMMANDM EN- I D"
ENTER GERMAN CURRICULUM
Dr. Bernhard Rust Nazi minister Of
education, has issued decree order
ing propaganda minister Joseph Goeb
bells Thirty Martial Commandments
for the German People" to be taught
in German schools in a manner "be
fitting their political and educational
importance" the German DNB agency
disclosed recently.
DR.. Goebbels' Thirty Martial Com
mandments," a morale-building man
ual, are based on extracts from an
article written by him in the news
paper Das Reich on Sept. "a In this
article the nazi propaganda minister
called on the German people to have
faith in their leadership, to refrain
from criticizing it, to make all sacri-
fees demanded of them cheerfully,
to steer clear of defeatists, and to
believe DRAMATICALLY in victory"
Everything is possible in this war
except that we shall never capitulate
or yield to the power of the enemy"
Goebbels wrote in the Das Reich arti-
Gle on which the Commandments"
are based. Whoever speaks or even
only thinks of it is thereby commit
ting cowardly treason to his peoples
right to life and must be cast out Of
the fighting and working German
community in disgrace and shame"
DNB quoted minister of education
Rust's decree as telling provincial
educational administrations that copies
of the Thirty Martial Command
ments" could be had from local
branches of the National Socialist
party in such numbers that each boy
and girl of the age groups in question
may receive one"
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No other major begrent has accepted considered either
the rising prices that of srangd production
except America All have insured full production within the
of stable prices They have done this by using
subsidies nsuate the cost of living from rising production
the wise and effective of subsidies that has
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The calamity bowls of Americas big corporations have
pierced the earrums of their ooge in both branches OF
gre they can't hear requests for adequate price
controls. The National City Bank Bulletin for November
should improve congressional hearing with showing of net
ncome after of 275 leading corporations for the first
nine months of 1943 $799 mlion-or $50 milon13
than in this period in 1912.