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The people's voice., 1943-01-01
Monthly Labor
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of retail co-operatives. The 1,600 To-
tions making returns on these points
reported combined net earnings for
the year aggregating $11,533, 14S, after
deducting losses of $216,916 by 116
associations. If to this sum are added
the net earnings of the wholesale as
sociations amounting to $4,750, ,497, the
consumer co-operatives saved for their
members over 16 "a million dollars in
one year Since less than one-half
of the retail distributive co-operatives
reported, the savings for members In
the whole consumer goods section of
the consumer cooperative movement
as reported in the survey indicated
that consumers were served a great
many more millions of dollars worth
of goods than those actually reported.
Dramatic growth in co-ops is re-
vealed by comparing the present sur
vey with that published in 1897 COW
ering the operations of consumer CO.
operatives in 1886.
Membership in stores and buying
clubs jumped from 100000 members
to $4,000 in 1941. Business of these
coop stores and buying clubs jumped
from $1O7, 1850, 900 in 1886 to $160, ,00O,-
900 in 1941.
Membership in petroleum co-opera-
tives jumped from 325,000 members
in 1886 to 645,000 in 1941. Business
of gas and oil co-ops jumped from
$69, 900 to $179,000,000 in 1941
This was an increase of over 800, ,000,-
900 in the five-year period and more
than double the volume of five years
ago.
Other striking gains in membership |
and business were indicated in the |
following fields: Coop electric asso-
Citations increased from 82,500 mem
bers in 1886 to 100000 members in
1941, with operating revenue of $685.
100000 on coop owned and operated
rural electric lines. Credit unions,
which are not included in the overall
statistics given above, jumped in
membership from 100000 in 1886
to 1852, 900 in 1941. The amount of
loans made during the respective
years jumped from $112,195,OO0 in
1896 to $362,779,OOO in 1941. Coop
eratiye wholesale associations in
creased their business from $43,32S,-
900 in 1886 to $1O4,OOO,OOO in 1941,
again more than doubling the volume
in five years. The net earnings of
these WHOLESALERS was S4,750,000 in
1941.
Production by the coop WHOLESALERS
and inter-regional as ociations
amounted to l4,2O9,0OO in 1941. A
very interesting feature of this re-
port was that the net earnings of
.hese coop factories, mills and refin-
cries totaled $4,000 in 1871. The
of earnings in the produc
i've phase of the consumer co-opera-
i've movement was far greater in pro-
portion than in either the wholesale
II retail field, indicating a very i'm I
,ortant course of expansion for the s
movement.
The people's voice., 1943-01-01
Broadcasting-
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WKBZ, Muskegan, Mich; Jan Shimek,
CHS, New York City; Lee B. Wales,
KYW, Philadelphia; VIM. S. Hedges,
NBC, New York City; Neville Miller,
president NAB, Washington, d. c.;
and Russell B. Place, NAB and secre-
tary to the code committee, Washing
ton, ID. G..
"The broad questions of public in
terest in the regulation of the radio
industry which are presented in the
resolution offered in the United States
senate by Senator George w. Norris
and which is now before the senate
committee on Interstate Commerce
were not involved in this conference"
said E. R. Bowen, executive secretary
of the league. "That is matter
which is entirely in the hands of the
United States senate"
The Norris resolution called for an
by the senate committee
70 determine the facts in the contro-
versy between the National Broad
casting Company, the Columbia Broad
casting System and The Cooperative
League over the right of the Co-opera-
tive League to purchase radio time
The resolution also asks for an in
of the need for amendment
TO the Communications Act of 1894 to
provide machinery for the settlement
Of such controversies.
The people's voice., 1943-01-01
America First

on Assistant Attorney General Malon
ey, who has been in charge of the
federal grand jury investigation o.
Axis propaganda operations in the
United States and who was chiefly
responsible for the Indictment In July
of this year of 28 persons charged
with conspiracy to sabotage the NOR
ale of the U. S. armed forces.
Representative Hoffman has a per
sonal interest in the case of the %.
One of the facts which inevitably will
be made public at the trial of Charles
B. Hudson, pro-Axis propagandist from
Omaha, Neb., who is one of the % In
dicted, is the full story of how Hud-
son obtained for his propaganda pur-
poses mailbags crammed with franked
envelopes of Representative Hoffman
and reprints of the congressman's in
flamatory speech Roosevelt is Ju-
das."
Role of Sens. Nye and Reynolds
In the Indictment of the % persons,
which was announced by Attorney
General Biddle on July 23, 80 publica-
tions were listed as seditious agen-
cies through which the defendants
had tried to undermine American
morale by picturing the United Ma
tions as weak and ineffective, Amer
lea as safe from attack Americas
leaders as untrustworthy, and the war
as Jewish plot. Among the pub
lications named as having been used
in spreading this seditious propaganda
was The Cross and the Flag, which
is published In Detroit, Mich, by Ger
aid L. K. Smith, former Silver Shirter
No. 1928.
Both Senator Reynolds and Senator
Nye have publicly endorsed The Cross
and the Flag. In a letter written to
ex-Silver Shirter Smith by Senator
letter used by Smith for
purposes-this paragraph
appears:
Let me congratulate you with my
full heart upon your first edition.
1t is well you did 1t in black and
white. 1t is just the right size; it
hits the bulls eye with every para
graph; it Is straight from the shoul-
der; it is gotten up in conserva-
tive manner; it should have its ap-
peal; it speaks the truth"
In a similar letter, Senator Nye ex-
'ressed in somewhat simpler terms
is approval of the publication later
randed as seditious by the depart
nent of justice. 81 have received
ssue No. l of the new magazine"
enator Nye wrote to Smith "It is
Xcellently DONE"
1t is therefore not hard to under
tand why both Senator Reynolds and
enator Nye should be closely inter-
sted in the governments prosecution {
{ the indicted %. Nor is it difficult {
, understand why newspaper dis {,
atch from Washington reported on
The people's voice., 1943-01-01
By w. H. oLDENBURG


Most farmers are no doubt aware
now that a floor of 35c per dozeI
as a national average annual price
has been put under eggs for the yeal
1943 This in itself is not going tC
mean, however, that every farmer in
every community will receive that
price for eggs. He may never for the
entire year receive more than halt
that much. Whether he does will de
pend on what he as one member of his
commnnitg about the matter to-
gether with every other member OF
that community, and what each com
munity does in conjunction with every
other community in the state. All
the farmers of the state can have that
price for their marketable eggs for
the year 1943 if they will organize to
do the job necessary to get the price.
How, then, shall we go about the
matter? First, the producers of every
trade community should associate
themselves with some existing coop
erative marketing association, or if
none exists, should organize coop
erative which can collect and market
the eggs of every producer in that
trade area, and in turn affiliate itself
with some larger cooperative market
ing association which can finally put
those eggs on the market of national
demand.
To be little more concrete, in the
general trade area to which this mes
sage goes these are now number of
co-operatives established, such as, for
instance, the cooperative creamery
association at Chinook Then let all
the communities surrounding little
towns, which we might term primary
centers, form some simple
cooperative egg collecting and mar
keting association and ship the eggs
so collected to the farmers plant at
be done for the areas around Waller
and Conrad where there already are
co-operatives for collecting and selling
eggs. Also there are established as
sociations and facilities in Flathead,
Lake, Sanders, and Ravalli counties |
These, because they are the second |
step in the process, might be termed |
collection centers. These
would serve as facilities for collect
ng from the primary collection cen
ers, and then in turn, ship to some !
place like the Farmers Union Coop
,rative Creamery Association at Great
Falls, which will have larger buying,
toring processing and marketing ia
:ilities.
The same kind of organization could
hen be developed to center in the
Billings area, where the Farmers I'm
ON also has an organization and
liant functioning. These two major
oops could then affiliate with other
marketing facilities such
s at Bozeman, and possibly an
ther major one needs to be estab-
shed at Missoula, and all these could
hen join to comprise one state wide
association which would
erve not as a storing and processing
AGILITY but only as central selling
gency for the products of the other
hree or four major co-ops which
yould do the storing and processing
fter collecting the product from the
econdary centers.
The total organization as here out
ned. then, would consist, first of the
rimary collection center to which
le farmer would bring his eggs to
is own cooperative; second the sec
The people's voice., 1943-01-01
TUITION FREE
COURSES ARE
OFFERED

There is a great demand In the gov
ernment for civilian junior engineers
Women with college degrees in an,
field may now qualify for junior en-
gineer positions in the federal civi
service by taking a short tuition-fret
course, Mr.. j. D. Cough, local secre
tary for the U. S. Civil Service Com
mission, has announced
This course has been developed by
the U. S. Civil Service Commission
and the U. S. Office of Education as
a part Of the Engineering, Science and
Management War Training Program
to prepare women for engineering ac
tivities in order to supplement the
rapidly diminishing supply of male
engineers, many of whom are enter
ing the armed forces.
Arrangements have been made for
any institution offering college engi-
neering training to give the course,
provided that a sufficient number of
persons enroll. 1t may be given as
a 10-week, full time, day course or as
a 27week evening course, covering
320 hours of lecture, recitation, and
problem work in such subjects as
computations, engineering
drawing, elementary mechanics of ma
terials, surveying, and job processes
and methods.
Persons who successfully complete
the course and who are otherwise
qualified are eligible for junior engi-
neer positions paying an entrance sal
ary of $4,000 year in Washington,
D. c. and throughout the United
States. All appointments will be war
service appointments. The duties, in
general, are to perform such work as
.esting and inspection of engineering
design or testing of appar-
ltus and machinery, assisting in ex-
Derimental research, drawing plans
or minor projects, preparing maps,
making computations, compiling re-
oorts, and handling technical CORE
pondence.
College graduates who have not yet
urned their efforts to war tasks are
Urged to secure complete information |
bout the course from the nearest i'll |
titution which offers college engi- |
eering training. Selection Of en-
ollees may be based on personal In
erviews combined with aptitude tests
t the institution where the course is
D be given.
The people's voice., 1943-01-01
new RATI0NInG
SYSTEM TO BE
STARTED In JAN.

Some time in January consumers
of the country will be issued Ration
Book No. 2 and many additional, II
not all, food commodities will be on
the rationed lists and purchasable
only on coupons contained in the new
book, according to the Office of Price
Administration.
A new system, termed point ration
ing" will be inaugurated This will
be used in rationing all commodities
except sugar, coffee and gasoline. I'm
der the system, each commodity Is
given a rating of a number Of points
and the coupons in Book No. 2 each
have volume of a certain number
Of points. The number of points
which may be used by the consumer
to purchase any comodity is thus de-
termined. The number Of points fixed
for any commodity is determined on
the basis of the availability of the
commodity, for month.
The following advice on how to use
the point system has been released by
the OPA:
In buying goods rationed under the
point system, you must, in effect
learn how to buy with two kinds of
currency-money and point-stamps.
You must know the money-price and
the point-value of the commodity.
You must give the storekeeper dol
lars and cents and point-stamps.
Just as you now budget the money
you can spend during each pay period,
you must learn to budget your points
so that they will last for the entire
ration period.
For example, you must plan your
spending" of your 48 points for GER
eals so that your points will last you
for the entire month.
When your blue A, B, and c stamps |
are gone, you will not be able to buy |
any of these items for the rest Of the |
month-no matter how much you are
willing to pay in money. You will
again be able to buy these items in
the following month, when the blue
D, e and F stamps become valid.
You cannot borrow more point the
way you can borrow money
II you use up most of your 48-point
allowance on few items with high
point value, you will have to get along
IN less for the rest of the ration Pc
'iod.
You must ask yourself not only
\ whether you can afford the dollars
md cents price of rationed commodi-
les but also whether you can afford
c spend your point in that partic-
liar way.
II you shop for your family, you
must plan the spending of the total
lumber points allotted to all the mem
ers of your family.
This will enable you to spend"
our family's points on the items G
7hich best fit their needs and will i
The people's voice., 1943-01-01

advantage by Axis psychological sab
oteurs and propagandists in the United
States and who continue to be a
source of comfort to the enemy on the
home front. The findings of the de-
partment should be made public at
the earliest opportunity.
The people's voice., 1943-01-01

Restriction of the production of
safety razors, razor blades n d
straight razors will save upwards of
800 tons of high-grade steel.
The people's voice., 1943-01-01

They are powered by an internal
combustion engine and cost up to
$4,000 each. You can help pay for
these important factors in Marine
operations with your regular pur-
chase of War Bonds. If all Of us
INVEST AT LEAST TEN PER-
CENT of our income every payday,
we will provide Uncle Sam with
enough money to do the job. War
costs money and this is your war.
u. S. Treasury DEPARTMENT
The people's voice., 1943-01-01
AlhotHo~H~xWiM
WAR B0NDS

Down In the Solomon Islands, our
Marines landed from convoy and
troopship in Higgins landing boats.
These boats are specially construct
ed with a shielded propeller to
negotiate sand bars and shallow wa
ter. They are capacious, extremely
buoyant and some have landing
ramps so that tanks may roll out on
the beach. J..
The people's voice., 1943-01-01

give you a choice of variety of the
items in the group.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
Icy Roads Cause of
Serious Car Accident

Finley-As Mr.. and Mrs. c. G..
Whitney were driving their car
home from Yakima last Friday,
the machine skidded on the slip
perry highway, about a mile from
Grandview, and turned upside
down in the ditch, pinning Mrs.
Whitney in the car. Mr.. Whitney
managed to get out. The engine
caught fire, and as result OF
quick work on the part of passing
motorists, the car was righted and
Mrs. Whitney was released. Whit
|ney was rushed to the Pasco hos
pital, where it was found he had
a broken rib and a badly spraineo
neck. He was released from the
hospital Saturday and brought tc
his home after having his neck
put in a brace. Mrs. Whitney ha.
a badly bruised eye and leg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Johnson Of
Pasco were visitors Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. Ellsworth O'Hair.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
Relatives Meet i'm GOble
For Family Get-t0gether

Finley-Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Kerr and son Melford and grand
son Kenneth Nelson left Saturday
for a Today visit with their rela-
tives in Goble and Vernonia. They
also went to meet their son Pf/c
Marvin Kerr who is stationed in
California, and is enjoying a short
furlough at Goble.
j. H. Bennett has been confined
to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital
in Pasco with the flu.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Preston
and son, Billy, and Mr.. and Mrs
Ole johnson all of Pasco, were
visitors Sunday at the E. Sherry
home.
The Whitneys went to Topper
ish Thanksgiving day and were
run into by another car, and they
had to leave their car there fol
repairs. They went after it las
Friday and were bringing at home
when the accident occurred.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
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O B / 7 u A R Y
Minnie Elise wiers Fruchling

Minnie Elsie Fruehling was born
in Essen, Germany, in the province
of Hanover on the 21st day OF
August, 1891. She was married
to William Fruehling on the 23rd
of February, 1911, and came to
America the following month
They settled in Illinois where the
lived two years, after which they
moved to Richland, where they
lived until few months ago when
they moved to Kennewick. Seven
children were born to this union
and all survive her: B. w. Frueh-
ling, Prosser; Mrs. G. Dietrich Out
look, Alfred j. and William S.
Freuhling of Kennewick, Mrs. Al
bert Steffens of Pasco and Clar-
ence Richard and Wanda Louise
of Kennewick.
Mrs. Fruehling passed away af-
ter a short illness. Besides her Z
children, she is survived by her
husband and six grandchildren.
The funeral services were held
from the Mueller Parlors on Mon
day, with the Rev. Luvaas in
charge. Interment was in River
view Heights cemetery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23

Pacific Lutheran College, Park
land, Washington.
Students elected for this honor
are chosen for their character,
scholarship, leadership in extra
curricular activities, and potent
atty for future usefulness to bust
ness and society. Annually stu
dents from over 600 American
institutions of higher learning are
selected by unprejudiced faculty
committees for this national honor
Miss Reese is this years presi-
dent of the Associated Women Stu
, dents at Pacific Lutheran, vice
president of the senior class, and
has major role in the all-school
play "Ghost Wanted" Last yeal
she was editor-in-chief of the col.
lege newspaper, the Mooring Mast
Other positions she has held a
college are assistant editor of thu
paper, secretary of the Associated
Women Students, and member O.
the Delta Phi Kappa Council.
She is a graduate of the loca
high school in 1910.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
Kit Clifford Wears
Gunnery Wings

A recent graduate of the King
man army air field flexible gum
ney school, situated a few miles
outside of Kingman, Ariz., was 81
year-old Kit L. Clifford, son of
Kit c. Clifford of Kennewick.
A/c Clifford entered the army
at Spokane Sept. IL, 1872. He
attended Gonzaga University.
As a student gunner at the
Kingman school he went through
a ground school course in which
he was taught the principles OF
ballistics, sighting, turret main
tenance, range estimation and air
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to t he many friends who
gave their kindness, sympathy and
beautiful floral offerings during
the illness and death of our below
ed wife, mother and grandmother.
VIM. Fruehling, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Fruehling; Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Die
trich, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Steffins,
Alfred, William, Clarence & Wan
da Fruehling.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23

craft machine guns. Following a
protracted course on the gunnery
range, where he shot the 20 rifle,
shotgun and 80 and so caliber
machine guns, he was given two
weeks of air firing before being
presented with his gunnery wings.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
Local Girl Listed Second
Time in Who's Who

Miss Mildred Reese, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Reese, has been
chosen to be listed in Who's Who
Among the Students in American
Universities and Colleges for the
second year. Miss Reese is a senior
in the College of Education at
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23

Miss Lowanna Gerber spent the
weekend with friends in Spo-
kane, returning home Sunday.
Miss Lorraine Messenger spent
the weekend with friends in Yak
ina, and returned home Monday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
Riverview Schools Will
Reopen January 3rd

Finley-The Riverview grade
and high school will close Wednes-
day, Dec. % for the Christmas va
cation, and will reopen ia. 3.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23
Finley Grange Meets
Friday, December RI

Finley-The regular meets.
the Grange which was - lung q
Friday, Dec. "a, has bee - 0e %
poned until Friday, Dec. :, u post
$50 pot-luck supper. Tha WIN 4
will have charge of the nr Nc nss
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-12-23

Miss Marie Beall of Brener,.
spent the weekend at the boma 'o !,
her mother, Mrs. winfred '1 me-. 3
leaving Sunday for Seattle Deal
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-20
POSTAL AND WESTERN
UNION TO COMBINE

New York - Twenty years of
negotiation on merger plans of
the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies have reach
ed their climax with agreement
by officials of both companies
upon terms for the amalgama-
ton.
The merger, uniting one-half
billion dollars in assets of the
two concerns which do an annual
business of $145,000,000, still re-
quires approval of the Federal
Communications Commission, the
New York Public Service Com
mission and stockholders. APP
proval by the two commissions,
is expected to be a Formally.
A. N. Williams, president of
Western Union, emphasized that
the time limit for the deal expires
Oct. l, stated that his company
will absorb all of Postals assets,
liabilities and obligations ,includ-
ing a Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration loan of about $1,000, 900.
Employees of Postal will be TAX
en- into the new Western Union
Company, Postal officials said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-05-20
Obids News

Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Crawford
and Miss DeEtte Crawford visited
in N. Wilkesboro, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Pen
nington and family visited Mr..
Pennington's mother, near Ma
than's Creek, Sunday.
Mr.. Fulton Parsons, of Fayette-
vile is visiting his parents, here,
Mrs. Carl Hodges and son, re-
turned from the Ashe Hospital,
Thursday. Both mother and son
are getting along fine.
Mrs. Howard Parsons and
daughter, Ann, of Yorklyn, Del,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones Parsons and
daughters, Villa and Joan, Mrs
Jack Deaton, all of Lands, were
recent visitors of Mr.. and Mrs
Hege Parsons.
Mr.. J. H. Coward made a bust
ness trip to N. Wilkesboro, Tues
daV.