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

lconsumer. Then he must demand
more for his labor, thereby the en-
| tire parity plan is completely de-
stroyed and must be reconstructed.
Remember as this cycle Is taking
place, thousands of consumers are not
able to procure this commodity and
have been living on a starvation re-
duced diet. Out of their midst comes
degrading conditions of health, moral
and mentality, gangsters, criminals
and hoodlums of all sorts. What be-
came Of the bankrupt farmer? So
parity alone doesn't mean what it is
supposed to be.
Our nation is tangled into nearly
complete war of all nations of this
earth. Now that's taking in a lot of
territory 1t is being called the peo-
pies war But it has the earmarks
of being a producers and distributors
war, covering all commodities both
agricultural and industrial and fl
nance. We are on complete about
production and distribution basis We
feel positive that, through our about
system, we will win out eventually.
About means complete supply of all
commodities, no shortage for any de-
mand. To supply this demand at a
cost within our ability to pay, is just
as important as being victorious in
the war. If we lose the war, we be-
come slaves of the aggressors power.
oh 20 he
come the slaves of money power. If
this is a peoples war, all persons are
deeply concerned Our enemies know
these facts, their greatest secret
weapon, was initiation of prices that
would destroy our ability to pay. We
use sort of supply and demand sys-
tenn They use complete system of
demand and supply. History says,
that, under a demand and supply sys
ter men (and women too) have
worked all day (sun up to sun DOWN
for just life sustaining drinking water,
then died of hunger. We want moth
ing of that sortl We want to supply
the demand under a system based on
unit values of dollars and cents. No
commodity can be produced more
than once at less than it's production
cost. The producer must receive for
a commodity enough dollars and cents
to be able to reproduce the identical
That must be done either
by trade value or trade value plus
subsidy
War has brought about demand for
certain agricultural commodities, be-
yong the ability Of areas most pro-
1uctive of these commodities, to pro-
1uce So these commodities have be-
come listed as emergency war crops. |
For two years our government has
asked we farmers to grow these war
crops, on land in areas not susceptible |
to very large yields per acre, at unit
prices equal to those of more favor
able areas, with a comparative acre
cost and larger transportation costs. |
For two years we have grown these |
crops at financial loss. We didn't do
t exactly blindly. We were not led /
astray We didn't expect a profit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
with the average citizens conception of conventional

we'll with the average citizens conception Of conventional
banking procedures
Inasmuch the proprey of of the activities
of the liquor administration have been questioned the public
suspicious of anything that is out of the routine procedure
connection with the liquor traffic. this reported storage
liquor in a bank, anyones curiosity.
But perhaps is all legal Maybe the bank since failed
get the exemption from that in the last
session of the legislature had been driven the point of hav
form of pawnbrokng and what part if
any does the liquor administration play?
Anyhow, going to investigate little
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
Bic Business Dominated Farm
Organizations

tremendous effort being exerted in this country
part big business groups obtain control of agricultural
and farm organizations.
the control of farm organizations becomes fixed
the who adhere to the philosophy big business
the alliance of the farm bloc side and big business
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17

dear Sir.
I have been reading the Montana
Standard for some time and l think
lit is a shame the scandalous way
they attack President Roosevelt
A few days ago read a story
about Mike Quinn from Boulder who
said he was being driven by the OPA
BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T let
him sell his hogs and they wouldn't
let him buy ham or bacon.
I know this is not true because
hams and bacon and he just sold his
hogs to the Hansen Packing company
in Butte for lac pound l can re-
member when he used to get &c a
pound for hogs.
Mr.. Quinn has $4,000 in the bank
and he is just working with the peo-
pie at the Montana Standard to
smear President Roosevelt.
I think this is very disloyal to at
tack President Roosevelt and to lie
about him.
Isn't there something you could do
to punish people like Mr.. Quinn for
such untrue stories.
MRS. R. K.
A few days ago I attended the
Farmers Union annual convention of
our county (Yellowstone). Among
the many very interesting topics dis
cussed was the questions of Parity
Prices for agricultural commodities
and subsidy payments.
The why of one and not the other
1t is generally understood that when
the price of agricultural commodi-
ties is equal to the parity price
through what the trade will pay or
government subsidy plus what the
trade will pay. The grower of the
commodities is on a so-called parity
basis. Now dealing with the national
average yield of the commodities per
acre, he is on a parity plan, if his
yield is above national average yield,
he has parity profit, if his yield
is below national average yield, then
he has parity loss. That gives us
two classe of agricultural commodity
producers, whom are in position to
continue the production of the COM
modities and one producer facing
bankruptcy Now the two producers
in the favorable position of finance,
cannot, and do not produce enough
of this agricultural commodity to
supply the demand of the non-agricuI-
tural consumer. Therefore if the
third producer through bankruptcy,
is forced out of production, those con-
sumers less able to pay will be the
first sufferers (The unorganized labor
class. AS this commodity becomes
less the demand becomes greater, ac-
cording to the amount of the COM
modify and the amount consumed !,
AS the amount available becomes less
the trade handling charge per unit
becomes greater, therefore the trade
begins to add to the handling charge, |
with each trade transaction multiplying
the handling charges which in the
end increases the living costs of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
New Kind of Banking?

responsible citizen of Helena has offered the Voice
to make affidavit that he has witnessed the unloading of
large quantities of of liquor into the First National Bank
of Helena despite the fact that the principal storage
house liquor administration is located in that city
There may may not be anything culpabe in connection
with storage of liquor in bank but it does not be
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17

we had hopes OF breaking even. Out
Of half promises, we allowed our faith
and patriotism, to overcome our bet
ter judgment not mentioning the fact
that coercion was used through the
AAA program. II the consumers want
these commodities, all they can con-
sumo, at q reasonable price, we do
not want unit increase in the price
of these commodities. A parity basis
price wont work, largely because for a
long period prior to the present date
these commodities were produced at
less than parity cost, while during
this same period, industries and or
ganized labor were adjusting their
production costs to a profits basis.
The farmer, the world over, was
pushed out in the mud No the whole
world is in a quagmire war. But we
are not lost, oh no! There is more
than one way out What I consider
the safest and sanest is a road back
on commodity prices that are above
the present parity basis, supplement-
ing the present parity price, with
subsidy payments on war crops out
side the area of high acre yields,
subsidy payments for increases in
yields in the natural high yielding
area. Government insurance to grower
for costs of all crops, acre basis.
Limited incomes and nothing tax ex-
empt.
Whose war is this?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-12-17
OPINIONS OF READERS

this heading not that
agrees with the opinions expressed Letters sub
subject
degree least effectively Anonymous letters will
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26
FACING c.
THE
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

1t pains us to light into a hero, but
Capt. Edward " Rickenbacker is fast
becoming hero only to the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Ever since his return from his
miraculous rescue in the Pacific, Capt.
Rickenbacker has devoted his time to
a transforming tour Of the country
attacking labor unions and sneering
at the record Of Americas soldiers of
production.
If this is supposed to be morale
building" or helpful to the war effort,
Capt. Rickenbacker is being grievous-
ly misled In fact, the War Depart
ment has felt it necessary to divorce
itself of any responsibility for Capt.
Rickenbacker's utterances. Under Sec
retary of War Patterson issued pub
lie statement declaring that the
former World War ace was speaking
as an individual and not as an Army
officer in his lecture tour.
This statement effectively blasted
the impression Capt Rickenbacker
sought to create that he is the spokes-
man for the millions of American boys
now serving in the armed forces.
The Voice of Big Business
Before analyzing Capt. Ricken-
backer's attacks on American workers
and the labor unions that represent
them, it may be helpful to inquire into
his own economic background.
The fact is that Capt. Rickenbacker,
in private life, is business mana
big business man. He is President of
Eastern Air Lines. In this capacity he
has had extensive dealings with two
labor unions which hold contracts
with his company-the Airline Pilots
Association and the International As
sociation of Machinists, both affiliated
with the American Federation of La
bor When questioned by newspaper
reporters, Capt. Rickenbacker was
forced to admit that his relations with
these unions have been friendly and
constructive.
Thus, when Capt. Rickenbacker as
sails labor unions in general for not
cooperating sufficiently in the war eff
for he is not speaking from personal
experience-quite the contrary-but
from hearsay.
We would like to know who has fed
Capt. Rickenbacker the boloney which
he is spouting SO energetically.
Furthermore, when Capt. Ricken-
hacker criticizes conditions in Amer-
can war factories, he is not speaking
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26
TRADES COUNCIL

Hamilton Cooperative Trades and
Labor Council met in regular session
Tuesday night with a fair attendance.
President Ralph Morningstar pre-
sided.
Union, No. 283, consisting of Henry
Teboe, president; Mack Holland, cor
responding secretary, and John Caha-
lane were admitted to the meeting and
were allowed the floor. The object of
the committee was to inform the dele
gates of trades council, conditions un-
der which they have been working
with the war time as is. This infor-
nation brought on much discussion
among the delegates. 1t was sug
gested that committee be appointed
to meet with the city council at the
next meeting.
A motion was offered and adopted
that all delegates present stand in
committees and have those commit
tees at a special meeting of the Co
operative Trades and Labor Council,
in the Labor Temple next Tuesday
night, and on time 1880.
C. l.. Hardin, secretary of the War
Chest, in a communication notified the
council of an important meeting
which will be held in the Anthony
Wayne Hotel, Wednesday, February
oath. Received.
Trustees called attention of dele
gates to the neat and clean appear
ance of the different halls since the
fedecorating.
A committee was appointed by re-
quest of Newton Burnett of the local
Letter Carriers Union, to assist them
in their efforts to secure better legis-
lation and an increase. The request
was concurred in and the delegates in
structed to go along with the mail
carriers. Ed. Dulli, H. H. Howard and
George BRANDED were named on the
committee.
Joe Spaulding reported on two
meetings which were held by the War
Man Power committee and that an
other meeting would be held Wednes-
day. President Ralph Morningstar
was placed on the committee as an al
ternate
Mr.. Mcconnell, manager of the So
cial Security Board was a visitor to
the meeting and was allowed the floor.
He briefly explained the Social Secur-
ity Act and why the working man
should know all about it. He told the
delegates that for any information
wanted concerning the act, to call at
his office in the Federal Post Office
Building, Room 204.
d. M. Lavely, representing the
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Com
pany, Louisville, KY, manufacturers
of union-made Raleigh cigarets, told
the delegates of their plan to supply
the soldier boys at the front with Gig
arets at SC per package. If ten cases
would be purchased the company
would donate another case free. In
structions were given how to order
and how they would be sent abroad.
Much interest was noticed at this
meeting and after all business was
transacted adjournment was in order.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26
Senators Walk Out
On Lee O'Daniel

Washington, D. C.-The contempt
in which the members of the United
States Senate hold their colleague
from Texas, labor batter Lee O'Dan-
iel, was evidenced when only seven of
them remained in the Senate Cham
Der when he launched on speech de-
nouncing labor safeguards.
Before O'Daniel concluded d his
TRADE three of the seven left the hall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26
U. S. Treasury Dept.

from personal observation He has not
made any extensive inspection of such
war plants. Those who have, repudi-
ate his uninformed conclusions
Among these is an entirely unbi-
ased war correspondent, Quentin Rey-
nolds. In an address to Detroit busi-
nessmen recently, Reynolds said he
had visited thirty American war fac
tories and hundreds in Russia and
England, "and | say that nowhere in
the world is labor digging in and
working as hard as it is right here in
America"
Out of His Own Mouth
A report in the New York Times on
Capt. Rickenbacker's address last
week in Philadelphia confirms our
suspicion that his public statements
are shaped by his personal political
and economic views rather than based
on facts.
In the speech referred to Capt.
Rickenbacker harshly denounced the
payment of overtime for work in fac
tories over forty hours week and
drew some tart comparisons with the
service being given by our armed
forces in "the foxholes, the swamps
and the deserts"
P,,t ~, Al
enbacker expressed oppositions to
President Roosevelt's order that net
salaries be limited to $4,000 a year
for the duration Such a limitation,
Capt. Rickenbacker asserted in typical
NAM style, would destroy "initia-
tive" He added that "anyone is en-
titled to work and be paid for it,
In other words, Capt. Rickenbacker
believes it is perfectly patriotic for
big business to reap huge profits from
the war but it is reprehensible for the
common workingman to get extra
compensation for Shaving at the ma
chine all day and part of the night
compensation that is necessary to help
him and his family meet the increas-
ingly higher cost of living.
We believe that the juxtaposition of
these two statements out of Capt.
Rickenbacker's own mouth explodes
his anti-labor platform so thoroughly
that no further comment from us is
necessary.
But we should like to point out
the danger in his attempt to line up
Americas fighting men against
Americas working men, He seems to
forget that the men or the firing line
are, for the most part, workers them
selves or the sons or brothers of men
now serving as production soldiers.
We fear that if Capt Rickenbacker
continues his unjustifed campaign,
the very men for whom he processes
to speak will suggest that he pipe
down.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26
Women Run Towns Buses

Lewiston, Pa. (ILNS).-With few
men bus drivers available, the Lewis
ton Transported on Co., has hired
women operators for the duration of
the war. A group of 20 female appli-
cants, ranging from 81 to Al years,
was "broken in" with Introductory
lessons in bus mechanism followed by
practice runs under actual traffic con-
ditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26

How much wiser are you than in
the stuporous days before Pearl Har-
Dor?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26
ON SUNDAY MORN. IF HEADACHES COME. l
OR ANY OTHER CAX.
HOP OUT or Be0 AND EASE YOUR HEAD |
TIE AlkA-SElTZER WAY,

TWE ANALGESIC (painrehever)
in Aka Settler acts quickly
because it is fully dissolved
and ready to 60 to- work as soon
as you swallow 1t. Its painreliev-
Ing action Is made more positive
by alkaline buffers which protect
1t and speed up its action.
Because Alka-Seltzer contains an
analgesic and alkaline buffer salts,
it is used by millions for the relief
not only Of Headache, but of Cold
Symptoms, Acid Indigestion, Mus
cular Fatigue, Morning After"
and Muscular Pains.
At your drug store In handy
packages and by the glass.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
Junior Miss for
Washington Run
Tomorrow NIGHT
New Comedy Written
By Sister Eileen Team
To Stay One Week

Junior Miss" a new comedy by
Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields.
authors of the highly successful
My Sister Eileen" which is now
in its second years run on Broad
way and which had weeks tryout
here in Washington over year ago,
comes to the National for one week
beginning tomorrow with matinees
Wednesday and Saturday.
Max Gordon has selected a cast
of unusual brilliance for Junior
Miss including Cora Sue Collins,
Rosemary Rice, Robert Allen, Kath-
crime Anderson. Effie Alton, Lynne
Arlen, Edgar Mason. Marian Ed
wards, William Whitehead. Rupert
Baron and others. The setting is by
Frederick Fox.
Like the authors MY Sister
Eileen" which is based on the stories
by Ruth McKenney in the New
Yorker. Junior Miss" stems from
the pages of the same periodical
Sally Benson originated the char
acters and incidents which 60 to
make up the version dramatized by
Chodorov and Fields.
The playwrights, who came from
Hollywood to make their Broadway
debuts with "Schoolhouse on the
Lot" scored their first major success
when critical adjectives of praise
were bestowed upon them for their
! hilarious MY Sister Eileen"
Evening star., 1943-02-07


bound for stardom because he or she
is a dead ringer for Ginger Rogers,
Hedy Lamar or Clark Gable.
At the moment there's girl called
Inez Cooper who looks so like Hedy
Lamar that I doubt extremely her
chances Of getting more than bit
roles In pictures. The girl, who is
pretty, but not quite as pretty as
Hedy, is accentuating the likeness
by looking, smiling, walking and
dressing her hair and body. just as
Hedy does. 1t is rather startling to
come across the aven-tressed- slack
cladfigure and find it is not Hedy at
all, but her not-quite- beautiful
double And there is naturally dis
appointment in the discovery.
Which Is what will happen for Miss
Cooper when and if she gets an i'm
portant role on the screen. The
fans will expect Hedy. And feel
cheated with substitute.
Rejects Carbon Copy.
Producer Joe Pasternak rightly
corrected this reporter when she
asked him if he were Transforming
Kathryn Grayson Gn Private Miss
Jones") into another Deanna Dur
bin. Pasternak was Svengali for
Deanna for the first four years Of
her screen career
But Kathryn is quite different y
he protested There never can be
another Deanna Durbin, just as I
hope there cannot be another Kath-
ryn Grayson.
"All the talk of another this and
another that is unfair" continues
Pasternak. All the biggest stars IN
pictures have been unique. Take
Charlie Chaplin. There can never
be another Charlie. And Mary
Pickford. We can never have an
other Mary Pickford. Or even an
other Shirley Temple
Paramount thought they had an
other Shirley in little Carolyn Lee
I'm not sure how much the label had
to do with Carolyn's failure to con-
tlnue her movie career. but the fact
remains she was far from being
another star OF the magnitude Of
Shirley.
When Lana Gets Mad.
One way to make Lana Turner
angry during the beginning OF her
time in pictures Was to refer to her
as another jean Harlow She had
more sense then than now, when she
seems to land herself in all kinds OF
trouble. AS duplicate Jean Har-
low. Lana'S movie career would not
have gone very far. The only thing
she shares with the late Miss Harlow
Is tremendous sex appeal, aided and
Evening star., 1943-02-07
Locale Is Nations
Capital in Hopes
Latest Picture
They Got Me Covered
VIII Open Tuesday
At Keifh'S The0fer

Romance and spy thrills In this
our Nations Capital, form the theme
of Samuel Goldwyns new comedy
They Got Me Covered" which CO.
stars Bob Hope and Dorothy La
mour.
Coming to RKO-Keith's on Tues
day. the feature is designed strictly
for laughing purposes. 1t presents
Bop Hope as an erratic foreign cor
respondent tor big news syndicate
Miss Lamour as the manager of the
Syndicate's Washington bureau and
the girl friend of the correspondent.
When he is fired for muffing a big
story, the newsman goes to Wash
ington consolation. soon finds he is
on the trail Of the biggest story yet
the complete plans for Axis es-
pionage IN this country, and how it
operates. On trying to get the tale
exclusively. however, he learns that
the Axis leaders know of the threat
ened exposure and are doing every
thing in their power to stop 1t.
Everything. in this case. includes
kidnapping, murder, drugging and a
clever scheme to make the reporter
hero such a ridiculous figure in the
eyes of the world that no one will
believe his spy story if he does give
it out.
OF local interest is the appearance
Of Mary Byrne. local Government
secretary, who was selected to go to
Hollywood to play typical WASH
ington secretary in the feature.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
Four New Dances Are
Listed by Miss Davis

The gifted choreography Of Evelyn
Davis will be demonstrated anew at
the Dance Playhouse, February 13
and IA. when Miss Davis and her
Dance Playhouse Group appear In a
modern dance recital which will
present first performance" Of four
dramatic dances.
The new works on this program
are Dance of Greeting" (Cheadle),
Petite Suite" (Stravinsky), "Primi-
tive Ritual" tSimmons), and "Ro-
mantle Interlude" (FinckeD. Other
numbers include For the Spirit"
CMeyers) and the ever popular
March to Glory" which is based on
an actual scene in a Negro church in
Southern Virginia. In addition to
these group numbers, Miss Davis will
be seen in solos.
The concert for Saturday, Febru-
ary l3, will begin at $50 pm. and
the repeat performance on Sunday,
February IA, will start at pm.
These opening performances of the
l943 season mark the fist anniver-
sary of the Dance Playhouse.
Tickets for the opening concert are
available at the Playhouse, 1742
Church street. I