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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
PR0GRESSIVES TO
ORGANIZE in BUTTE

To organize for the all-important po-
litical drive in Silver Bow county for
the 1914 elections, the progressive
forces of Butte will meet next Sunday
April 80, at pm. in the Butte Miners
Union hall, for the purpose of organ
izing the Silver Bow County Council
for Progressive Political Action. The
call for the meeting has been sent
out by James Jepson, temporary chair
man, and Sam Spiegel, temporary sec
rotary, to all union locals, to the rail
road brotherhoods, the Farmers I'm
ion, Ladies auxiliaries, and all pro-
gressives in the county.
Permanent officers will be elected,
and several committees will be chosen
to carry out the work. The organi-
cation will be affiliated with the Mon
tana Council for Progressive Political
Action. The county council will at
tempt to put a strong county legis-
lative ticket in the field, as well as
elect good men and women to all of
the political positions to be filled this
year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
MELBY RESIGNS OFFICE
OF CHANCELLOR OF UNIV.
Declares Position Is Untenable Under
Present Conditions; Stresses Need for
Unification of Educational Program of
Institutions.

In a characteristic, straightforward
statement, DR.. E. O. Melby this week
submitted his resignation as chancel-
lor of the Greater University to the
State Board of Education, declaring
that under present conditions the posi-
ton is untenable and 4Fflat the diff
culties that have been encountered in
at the present time are deeply rooted
in the existing legislative straight
jacket under which the State Board
of Education operates"
The board accepted his resignation
and appointed him president of the
State University and at the same time
appointed DR.. Renne president of Mon
tana State College at Bozeman of
which he has been acting president
for some time past.
DIR. Melby's statement ON his resig-
nation is published in full, below:
cat the time the state board voted
to re-establish the chancellorship of
the University of Montana, / made
statement to the board in which |
agreed to accept the position of chan
cellor for one year, during which time
would make a study of the problems
of developing an administrative or
ganization for the university and
make recommendations with regard
to the most desirable pattern of or
"This year of study and experience
has convinced me that the difficult
ties that have been encountered in the
past and are being encountered at
the present time are deeply rooted in
the existing legislative straightjacket
under which the State Board Of Edu-
cation operates and in the faulty edu-
cational structure which the state
board is seeking to administer. :.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
COURT RENDERS
OPINION I'm
ATTY. Gen. CASE

The ambition of George Newcomer
attorney at White Sulphur Springs to
become attorney general of the state
received another setback yesterday
when a majority of the Montana SUI
preme court handed down brief opin-
ion in the action filed by him claiming
he was elected to the office in 1912,
though no election of an attorney gen
eral was called for. The court held
that Bottomly holds the office by
right of appointment according to law.
Newcomer made his third try in
this action to secure the office since
the regularly elected Attorney Gen
eral John Bonner entered the military
sevice and the offcie was filled by
the appointment by the governor of
Howard Gullickson. When Gullick-
son also entered the military service,
the governor appointed Mr.. Bottomly
who now holds the office, having ac-
cepted the appointment on June 10,
1912.
Associate Justice c. F. Morris dis
scented in a pleonastic opinion requir-
ing 80 sheets of legal size paper. This
circumstance is notable especially, be-
cause the chief justice yesterday, is
sued an order which is intended to
have the effect of conserving paper.
Probably Justice Morris opinion in
this case is what caused the issuance
of the order
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
JUDGE ERICKSON
ADDRESSES so.
SIDE DEMOCRATS

! Left Erickson, associate justice Of
the Montana supreme court and can
didate for governor on the Democratic
ticket spoke at a well-attended meet
ing of the South Side Democratic club
at Butte, Thursday, April 20.
In his remarks, Judge Erickson cited
the need for aggressive, liberal leader
ship in Montana for the postwar
years. He called attention to few
of the more glazing mistakes of the
present state administration and to
the complete failure of the last legis-
lature to enact any progressive and
forward-looking legislation. He at.
tributed this failure of the legislature
to enact progressive laws and to the
lack of leadership from the head OF
the party. He pointed out that one
of the main planks in the platform OF
the present governor when he was
elected was complete cleanup at
Warm Springs and adequate support
for that institution. Judge Erickson
briefly pointed out that far from ac-
completing that result, conditions
there as as deplorable today as they
were when the governor took office.
He said that full responsibility for
that condition must rest with this
state administration for the reason
that the republicans had clear ma
iority in both house and senate and no
alibis are available to explain the
failure of the administration to do
as was promised.
He briefly noted that in spite of the
governors statement in Omaha that
Montana had model soldiers vote
act which would assure to servicemen
a right to vote, that the present act
is so cumbersome and so involved
that very few soldiers in foreign serv-
ice would have an opportunity to vote.
This statement was borne out in a
short talk by Adds McGrath, who
told in some detail of his investigation
of the act and its operation. Mr.. Nc
Grath in his statement said that in
his opinion the act would do more
to assure that soldiers couldn't vote
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28

Judge Erickson asked to have printed
after his name on the ballot 1.-THE
doors of the governors office will be
open to every citizen"
In his nominating petition he
pledged that he would work for a
greater Montana, and specifically:
Guarantee jobs to returning sol
diers by providing jobs for everyone.
"Save Montana water by using it,;
put the water on the land.
run the state with Montana men,
as a business, but won't stop the
states progress by false economy
Actually do something to remedy
the deplorable condition at Warm
Springs and other state institutions.
Provide the people who built Mon
tana, our aged citizens, truly adequate
assistance.
Administer the liquor system as a
business and eliminate bungling and
favoritism
Run the game department with
common horse sense.
Rebuild and extend Montana's
highways"
Judge Erickson was born in Wis
consin and as child came with his
parents to the Sidney area. He was
graduated from the Sidney high school
and worked his way through the uni
versity of Chicago, where he received
his doctor of laws degree.
Huberta Barton Brown and Left
Erickson were married in 1882. They
have two children.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
FRIENDS" GIVE POLL
TAKERS Time

The senate supporters of the anti
poll tax bill CHR. 7, Marcantonio)
saved the filibusters another whole
week of windbagging by failing to
keep their promise to bring the bill
up on April II or IS. The process
has been going ON since May rs, 1943,
when the house passed the bill by
265 to ITO. The Importance of each
week so gained by the poll takers in
creases almost geometrically every
seven days as time for summer recess
approaches.
Now the story is, Pat McCarran,
chairman of the senate judiciary COM
mittee, will call up the bill on Tues
day, April 25. The previous promise
had been for April II, but McCarran
just didn't come to Washington. If
expression of indignation this week
against further delay has mounted
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
Marine CORPS
WANTS DOGS
TWO YRS. Old

An appeal for 80 War Dogs by
May 81 was issued today by the
Marine Corps.
The fighting dogs already have
proved their worth on Guadalcanal, on
Bougainville and at many behind-the
front short stations, and more are ur
gently needed for future fighting in
the Pacific.
They are trained primarily for
scout, messenger and sentry duties,
and sometimes also are used to guide
first aid units to Marines wounded
and to carry ammunition.
The First Dog Platoon, comprising
veterans of the Bougainville and Qua
dalcanal campaigns, saved many Ma
rine lives, won commentators from
Marine commanders and suffered its
share of casualties.
Dogs needed must be male Dober-
man-Pinschers, or German shepherds
in limited numbers. They must be
about q inches tall and weigh about
70 pounds. They should be from two
to four years of age, of clean blood
lines, alert, healthy, aggressive but
not vicious.
The dogs offered are first examined
to determine if they meet the require
ments, then are shipped to Camp Lee
jeune, North Carolina, for an inten-
sive 12-week training and battle-con-
ditioning course.
Dog owners willing to donate their
pets to the Marines for the duration
should write or telegraph to Marine
War Dogs, Headquarters, U. S. Ma
rine Corps, Washington, D. c."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28

1.-THE University of Montana as now or
ganized is not a unified institution OF
higher learning In reality it com
prises six separate institutions, each
constituting a separate corporate en-
tity and each receiving specific ap
preparations from the legislature
Each of the six institutions has a
separate budget AS it is, the state
board has responsibility for the con
troll of higher education in Montana,
but the authority for the control rests
with the legislature. This is true in
the first place because the legislature
has not given the state board the
powers it needs for efficient admin
istration. 1t is true in the second
place because the establishment of
the various units as fiscally independ-
ent units makes any attempt at uni
fled administration a mere mockery :.
"The first weakness Of the chan
cellor's position is thus inherent in
the weakness of the board of educa-
ton :. But the chancellor plan has
sulting in the employment of seven
administrators with relatively high
salaries, that is, if competent ones are
to be secured. 1t makes of the chan
cellor an overhead administrative Of
ficer whose concerns are political and
financial rather than educational. AS
originally set up, the plan located the
chancellor's office In the Capitol in
Helena. This office is an utterly inn
practical place to work. Educational
administration today is not one-man
enterprise. Decisions are arrived at
by group thinking. Consultation with
deans and faculty is essential If sound
educational policies are to be deter
mined. If the chancellor is to do any
real educational work, he must leave
Helena and go to one of the units Of
the university. This means that he
must be away from home almost con-
stantly. In fact, one day per week
would be enough time for the duties
that can be performed in Helena, and
many of these could better be done
on one of the campuses of the uni
versity.
I'VE should consider also the effect
of this plan on the chancellor him
self, and what is more important, on
his work and position. If his leader
ship is to be sound he must stay in
close touch with students and faculty.
If he does not keep this contact, he
will soon be pure theorist and his
judgment faulty I think it is very
questionable whether any chancellor
can pursue vigorous program of edu-
cational leadership and retain his
position in the face of political, in
and personal jealousies
and the opposition which would be
certain to follow upon vigorous pro-
gram. If he does not exercise such |
the wisdom of maintaining
the position is doubtful. Few, If any,
educators know would
accept such position -.
IF the University of Montana were |
constituted as a unified, single insti- |
tuition, with phases of its program |
operating at different points in the |
state, it would be practicable for the
president of one of these units to |
as the chancellor or chief !
officer for the board of edu-
cation. In California, this plan is fol- |
lowed =. Such a plan would have /
a number of advantages over the ex-
listing plan of administration. 1t |
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
DRIVE FOR
MORE WAC
ENLISTMENTS

Questions concerning the current
WAC recruiting program will be an
swered in the towns in northern Mon
tana during the week and the first
week of May when 1t. Ada M. Owen
of the Helena recruiting station ar
rives to facilitate WAC enlistment.
For several months now enlistments
in the Women's Army Corps have
steadily increased, and with interest
at so high. pitch, local women will
undoubtedly take advantage of this
opportunity to secure much valuable
information.
1t. Owen especially desires to make
contact with local procurement Off
cers-civilian recruiters-and to add
anyone to the present listing who
shows interest in such work.
Key-noting the current campaign is
the slogan 'Women's place in war
the Women's Army Corps. And it is
evident that women throughout the
country are accepting this slogan as
voicing their attitude also. They
know they can't find more import
ant job
The army now more than ever real
ICES the vital Importance of the femi-
nine addition to its ranks and con-
offers greater incentives to
More varied and better-paying jobs,
finer living quarters, the best of en-
tertainment facilities, additional uni
forms, and the fact that women today
may choose job and station assign
ment, if they desire to remain within
the Service Command in which they
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
WASHINGTON
LETTER

10y l. -. -.
April 81
HALF CONGRESS SPECIAL FUNDS
USED TO SMEAR ADMINISTRAT'N
Representative Cochran of Missouri
ord on April IS. He listed all the
money used by congressional commit
tees for investigations. His pur-
pose was to illustrate how the house
and senate committees overlap and
duplicate each other. Indirectly he
showed, too, how the time of admin
istrative officials is wasted by thous-
ands of hours of appearance before
congressional committees to explain
the work they would be doing if they
weren't too busy appearing before con-
gressional committees. But the fol-
lowing figures will show something
else that is very significant too.
The total amount of special funds
appropriated for existing house in
vestigating committees, according to
this table, adds up to $1,S07,000
One-third of this amount was spent
on the anti-administration electioneer
ing activities of the Dies committee.
The sum; $652,5O0.
One-haIf of the amount was appro-
priated for combined activities of the
Dies committee and other special COM
mittees with the same purposes and
activities The total amount for these
smear-bodies: $S62,500
The figures in the Record for these
committees are: Appropriations sub
committee to back up Dies commit
tee charges: $15,000 smear of admin
istration in Puerto Rico: $4,000;
smear of FEC: $4,000; Smith gen.
eral smear committee: $60,000; Dies
committee: S652,500.
That is the record of electioneering
at public expense by the Undoly Coal
ition, as exposed by Representative
Cochran. Congressional Record, PIP.
>A1993,4,5.)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
Left ERICKSON
FILES FOR
GOVERNOR

was elected county attorney and then
rose to associate justice of the SUI
preme court, filed with the secretary
Of state today his petition for the
democratic nomination for governor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
BUTTE HOLDS LARGE
MASS Meeting TO PUSH
POWER ISSUE HEARINGS
O'Connell, Go Political Director Is
Main Speaker at Large, Enthusiastic
Rally; Crowd a.-nnorts Federal Power
Commission cate oselH .sto,,.. That Hearings
Continue. without p's' sa's's'' l'''a,, < S.

BUTTE-Dspaying lively interest in The current hearings
which being held here by the Federal Power Commission
and the Public Service Commission the effort of
the federal squeeze $53 900 of inflated write
up values the of plant of the Montana Power Com
pany in accounting procedure large crowd of Butte
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-28
MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE
COMM. PARTICIPATES
LITTLE IN M. P. HEARING
One Member Absent and One Occasionally
Reads Newspapers While Witnesses Are
Testifying While the Attorney for the
Commission Has Only Spent About Is
Minutes Examining Witnesses.

The accounting of the Montana Power Company before
Federal Examiner Ed Marsh its fifth week
the Montana Power Company which had the burden of
going forward in the first instance has about completed
putting its witnesses and introducing exhibits although
company witnesses still to be crosexamined
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-06
Allied Show Of Power
Affects Enemy Morale
Robot Plane Attacks Used to Bolster Home
Front Spirits Following First
Invasion Landings. 4.v
By BAUKHAGE
Nesps Analyst and Comm entdtor.

when the Japanese homeland was
ruthlessly hammered by an engine
Of war more terrible than any they
expected existed-or when Ameri-
can naval guns roared in the
Kuriles and the Bonins, almost in
Hirohito's back yard.
It takes some time to assay the
morale in enemy lands, but thanks
to certain reports which have al
ready reached the Allied capitals we
can gauge the mental state Of the
population in Germany.
Some of the information comes
from secret sources which may not
be disclosed lest they give hint
to the gestapo as to whom or where
the sources are. One such report
speaks Of that spectre "the third
man" who is haunting the Nazi
minions everywhere they 60. Per-
haps he is a bent old derelict sweep
ing the street crossing. Perhaps
he Is a garrulous workman drinking
his thin beer with a group OF
friends; perhaps he is even the
quiet-faced fellow wearing the
swastika, hei1ing Hitler with the
rest. Anyhow, he is described in the
document I quote as the third
man" who, like a dark shadow,
''overhears all conversations.
"He learns" says a nervous
Nazi warning, which I cannot
identify further, translation Of
which I am quoting literally,
shat the enemy took a village
a week ago, that there is only
one German soldier to every
500 meters along the eastern
front Il have been told by
ColoneD that the Americans
will attack with hundred thou
sand aircraft steered by remote
control methods Eyes, certainly,
our charw0man's nephew who
works in the secret department
in the Reich air ministry says
SOY. :" and SO the trans
lation runs, revealing the state
of Nazi nerves.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-06
LJgM ON THE EI3

It will make a stunning spread
for your bed either in the colors
suggested here or in any other
combination that suits your room.
The blocks are so easy to piece
and are such a convenient size to
carry around that they make ideal
summer pickup work.
NOTE-Mrs. Spears has prepared a
large sheet with actual size quilt piece
patterns for three of her favorite quilts.
The Kaleidoscope, the Ann Rutledge and
the Whirl Wind are included. This is
pattern No. 200 and the price is Is cents.
Address:
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-06

nN THE center table in most
~ Victorian parlors there was a
kaleidoscope. Guests gazed into
this after they tired of looking at
the family album. Bits of colored
glass were reflected in an endless
number of intricate patterns in
this ingenious device. Very much
the same effect was obtained by
the method of putting together the
simple six-inch quilt block shown
here and that is why the pattern
was called the kaleidoscope.
This quilt has just the right fla
vor for today's decorating trends.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-06
Hozu Did the Enemy Feel?

The tension in enemy countries Is
understandable to any of us in Wash
ington who have gone through the
strain of that morning when the
first hint came over the air that
D-day was dawning. Like many
other newsmen, writer's and broad
casters, was routed out Of my bed
shortly after midnight after be-
ing on the alert for weeks, and from
then on for many hours that bed
was a stranger to me.
Temperatures rose and fell for
many days thereafter but the peaks
and valleys of emotion in this coun-
try could have been nothing COM
pared with those of our enemies. AS
yet we cannot know exactly what
the German pulse beat was when
our forces reached their shores after
all the Boosting about Hitler's "West
Wau'; or how kimonos fiuttered
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-06
WNU Services, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. G.


Washington, ID. G.
In the last days of June when the
papers were full Of stories OF Ger
many's secret weapon" the robot
plane, scene which I witnessed
some three decades ago returned to
haunt me. ] stood in a large tent
with crowd Of people, oh-ing ana
ah-ing at mechanical miracle we
were witnessing. 1t was in Germany.
Before us stood a pompous gentle
man in evening clothes with fero-
cious mustachios. He had a wand
in his hand and with it directed the
movement of beautiful little dirigi-
BILE about three feet long, perfect
replica of the zeppelins which were
just beginning to be talked about.
It did look rather startling. The
impressario moved his wand to the
right and the miniature dirigible
started off around the top OF the
tent, its tiny propellers whirring. He
dipped his wand and the little ship
nosed down and began to descend.
He traced graceful circle upward
and the ship assembled and re-
produced his movement In the
air. Finally, after performing all
sorts of such feats it gracefully de-
scended and landed on table.
It was an impressive sight but
afterwards an American engineer
who had witnessed the display ex-
planned to me that it was all '''per-
fectly simple" He said the wand
was merely a signal to man con-
cealed from the audience who sat
before an electric switchboard and
controlled the ship by radio. Since
then many experiments have been
carried on by this type OF remote
control but so far as I know it has
not been used in any engines OF war.
Naturally, when I first read the
news of the robots, the picture OF
the little zeppelin foated into my
mind. Experts admit that the Ger
man pilotless planes are nothing
but rockets and they can be sent In
only the general direction Of their
targets. But the same experts freely
admit that there could be radio-con.
trolled pilotless planes.
mention the rocket attacks
not so much to emphasize the last
hysterical gesture of the writing
Teuton, but because they mark an
important milestone in the psyche
logical battle whose frenzy has
mounted in these weeks since the
invasion. The robot attack was not
nearly as much Of an offensive as
a defensive stroke. Reports reach
ing Washington in the last days indi'
cate that there is defeatist
psychosis mounting in Germany
That this bit of Buck Rogers fantasy
was to be an antidote. is clear from
the tremendous play it received ir
German propaganda.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-07-06
BRIEFS:

julius Caesar would have had
more water to cross today in invad-
ing Britain-the cliffs of Dover have
receded that much.
Nazi slave-labor recruitmen
among women in occupied northern
Italy now applies only to mmar-
ried women between the ages Of 10
and 80, resulting in q desperate
matrimonial rush.