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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
WHO IS GETTING RICH
in THIS WAR?

Who is getting rich out of this war
Popular belief among many farmers
is that labor is making most of the
money. Likewise, too many laborers
believe that the farmers are getting
rich.
What are the facts? Nathan Rob-
ertson, crack reporter for the News
paper PM, did some exhaustive dig
ging among the official records in
Washington to come up with some
revealing data. They tell story that
few newspapers or magazines have
cared to print.
Here is what Robertson said:
Corporation profits, subject to taxes,
are four times higher than they were
in the last peacetime year-1939
Corporation profits, after all taxa
tion are almost twice as big as they
were in 1889.
Corporation profits, after all taxa
ton, are almost twice as big as they
were in the biggest profit year of
World War I-1917.
The three statements, taken to-
gether, show that the government ac-
tually is paying the taxes for the cor
porations.
This is proved by the figures on
profits left to the corporations after
they have paid their taxes. They
have more than twice as much left,
after taxes, as they had in the last
peacetime year = 1889 which was a
pretty good year for corporations
Public Pay the Taxes
So what the corporations have done
is not only pass their tax burden on
to the public, but to double their prof
It's in addition. In other words, the
governments effort to control profits
and make the corporations bear their
share of the war cost has failed.
Profits are supposed to be the re-
ward for the risk capital takes. Capt.
al is risking much less in this war
,eriod than ever before in history |
t has an assured market for every |
hing it can produce. Much of the |
is on a guaranteed Gust |
,lus-a-profit basis.
Here is a simple table showing how
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
ROUNDUP

AS result of recent OPA actions
glass jars of apples, applesauce, apple
juice, and sweet cider will sell at re-
tail for approximately two cents more
than the same-sized tin cans. 10000
new passenger automobiles and 1900
new bicycles will be available under
rationing to civilians in March. :.
Ration point values for country butter
will be lowered in areas where neces-
sary to move it faster and prevent
spoilage. Effective June l, the
country shipper may add 81 a hun
dredweight to his ceiling price for
sales to the ultimate consumer when
he makes such sales in amounts up
to 500 pounds. =. Reductions are ex-
pected in some lines of lamps and
lamp shades which have been selling
at excessive prices. 5. Lard is tenn
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
v
SERIAL NUMBERS ON
GAS COUPONS

A strip of serially numbered cou-
pons in a cardboard folder will now
be issued to renewal applicants of
"B" and sc" supplemental gasoline
rations, and new "E'' and "R" rations
for gasoline-powered equipment. Ser
ial numbering of coupons is one of
OPA's strongest weapons against the
gasoline Black Market. Motorists
must still endorse their coupons.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
WILL REVIEW DEPARTMENTS

Local selective service boards have
been directed to review cases of all
registrants IS through 81 years old
and deferred in classes IA, 2B, &c,
and sc. Particular attention will be
given registrants under 26 years of
age in view of the Presidents state
ment that agriculture and industry
should release the younger men for
military service.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
CARE EoR 100000 BABIES

Nearly 100000 babies and their
mothers were cared for up to Feb
ruary under the Emergency Mater
nifty and Infant Care Program. Hos
pital and medical care are provided
without cost wives of service men
in the four lowest pay grades, during
pregnancy, childbirth, and for six
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
NOTICE

Because of increased COSTS the subscription price of
The Peoples Voice will be advanced So. 90 year
March 25 1914. Present subscribers may their
subscription the price of $15O year and SUBJ
scriptons subscribers the present will be
accepted until March Is, 1914.
The expiration date of club offer subscriptions
The Peoples Voice. membership in the Book Find Club
and copy of Agnes Smedley's book, Battle Hymn of
China" has been extended until March 25 1914.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
WOMEN FARM WORKERS o. K.

The work of non-farm women, in
GLIDING teachers, college students,
stenographers, and professionals, on
farms in the United States during
1913 satisfied farmers, who have in
Dictated willingness to employ them
more extensively this year. Recruit
ing is handled by the Extension Serv-
ice of the Department of Agriculture
and the U. S. Employment Service.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
M0NTANAN IS
new PRESIDENT
CENT. EXCHANGE
Pioneer Member of State
Board of the Montana
Farmers Union Named
Head of Regional Coop
erative Wholesale.

Leo Doheny of Dutton, Mont, was
elected president of the Farmers I'm
ion Central Exchange, by the board
of directors at their meeting February
10. following the annual stockholders
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
" :
IF YOU MADE A MISTAKE

If you find you made a mistake in
your Income Tax return and already
have filed it, what do you do? If
your error was simply one of arith-
metic, your mistake probably will be
corrected without your action. If you
made a mistake in your income or
deduction entries, contact the office
of the collector where you filed your
return. You may need to file an
amended return.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10

SINGLE RATION BOOK FOR FOOD
After food shoppers have used their
Brown Y and 2 stamps, they do all
their food shopping with ration Book
Four. The ration token plan now in
denominations Is, 5, 2, and 1 points,
and uses stamps of one denomination
90 points, with one-point ration tok-
ems for change.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
TRUMAN COMMITTEE
REPORTS PR0F|TEERING
BY WAR INDUSTRIES
Estimates That Corporation Profits After
Taxes and Renegotiatiops # Contracts Will
Reach Ten Billion Dol 1913;
Challenges Baruch Repore ~s,< g. Industry
Needs Protection in Post Was <4s

The suggestion that industry must be protece post
period competition from the plants built the gov
made by the George reports sharply
challenged report by the Truman the
which reports that result of it's Investigations the
program finds that the profits the corporations 1913
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10

profits last year compare with profits
years, according to Treasury figures:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-10
TOWN and FARM
in WARTIME
Prepared by OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
OFFICE OF WAR INFORMl

weeks after the baby is born, and for
the infant during it's first year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
Billions For Postwar

The United States Chamber of Com
merce has found, as the result of series
of surveys, that the things we are going to
want to buy first, when the war ends, in
order of their Importance are: New homes,
new automobiles and new refrigerators.
The number of people in our nation who
fully intend to buy one or all of those
things, and are actually saving money for
that purpose, is so great that it almost
guarantees prosperity after the war I'M
less something happens to prevent indus
try from converting rapidly from the man
ufacture of war supplies to the manufac-
ture of these and other products for which
there is the greatest demand in history.
The most tragic thing that could hap
pen in this country would be a period of
widespread unemployment following the
war which would make it necessary for
large numbers of people to use those saw
ings to support themselves and their fanli-
lies. It would only take few months of
unemployment for the billions of dollars,
which are now practically earmarked to
buy national prosperity, to evaporate.
That's why the government and indus
trial leaders who are working on postwar
plans consider continued employment to
be the key factor in determining the future
of our nation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
Vertical Attack

With all its innovations of jet-propul-
sion airplanes, rocket guns, infra-red pene-
tration of fog and cloud and other techno-
logical advancement, the great war some
times reverts startlingly to principles
which were first stated long time ago.
Advocating the free balloon, Benjamin
Franklin, always a believer in the poten-
tialities of air, wrote in 1888: Give thou
sand balloons, capable of raising two men
each, could not cost more than five ships
of the line; and where is the prince who
can afford so to cover his country with
troops for it's defense that 10000 men de-
scending from the clouds might not, in
many places, do an infinite deal of mis-
chief before force could be brought to-
gether to repel them?"
There are indications from the seeth-
ing Eastern front that the Russians, mod
ern advocates of the mass attack by para
chute and the mass utilization of elders,
may utilize these weapons on scale hith-
erto undreamed of when their armies ap-
proach the Balkan borders Our own serv-
fees are increasingly convinced of the val
ue of air-borne troops where the terrain is
at all suitable. They did excellently in
New Guinea, for example. Recently Lieut..
Gen. Lesley J. McNair, commanding gen.
eral Of the Army Ground Forces, COM
mented favorably on the maneuvers in
North Carolina, which constituted the most
severe test of air-borne infantry we have
yet attempted. In these maneuvers IS per
cent of glider-borne troops were landed in
the designated area by night and an even
higher percentage of paratroopers, jump
ing by thousands, reached their detectives.
The actual use, or even the fear, of YER
teal development may be an important
factor in dispensing enemy strength against
landings in western Europe. Glider, para
trooper-perhaps soon helicopter-may
bring full-scale reality to Franklin's vision
of air-borne war. New York Times)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
ASHE BOND SALES
REACH $1O7, 100000

Continued from page one)
West Jefferson post office, $685.
3O6.25; Northwestern Bank, JEFF
ferson, $22,443.75; Ashe Building
and Loan Association, $2,962.50;
Lansing post office, $2,156,25;
jefferson post office, $2,0O6.25;
First National Bank, $1,80O.OO
Sales were not available from
Sturgills or Todd.
Included in total of $107,175.0O
is $13,50O.00 allotted this county
by the State Highway Depart
ment.
Reports from Washington show
that throughout the nation sales
reached one-third of the $14,000,-
100000. on February l.
Of $4,628,00O,OOO now subscrib-
ed, the treasury said $2,886, OOO,-
600 represented purchases by cor
porations and other large invest
ors, with the balance-$1, 742,-
600, 0O0-accounted for in indivi-
dual sales.
A $156,oOO,ooO gain in indivi-
dual sales in the last "a hours
was the largest since the drive
began and reflected, the treasury
reported, a mounting indignation
over the Japanese atrocity re-
ports.
A treasury spokesman said that
while an ''excellent showing" has
been made in individual sales
through the first half of the cam
paign, stress would continue to be
placed on the little money" sub
scription until the drive closes.
Individual subscriptions still are
less than 80 per cent of the $5,-
5O0,O0O,OOO goal.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03

ing to an alarm Their death was wholly
unnecessary Instead of going out the.
open window of their bedroom, they at
tempted to flee down the stairs. They
were met by superheated gases of 1000
degrees flooding the upper areas of the
house. They died instantly. They had
never been taught that in burning house
the stairway is usually converted into a
flue And they didn't know that when a
bedroom door is hot to the touch, it's a
sure sign that it's fatal to open it.
The lesson from such tragedy is OBJ
vious Every family should be familiar
with simple precautions that safeguard
life in the event of fire, and of greater i'm
portance, prevent fire from starting. Most
systems should be cleaned and checked
periodically Basement ceilings, and walls
should be protected with double coat of
high grade cement plaster on metal instead
of wood lath There should be clearance
between furnace and ceiling of at least 30
inches, with proper insulation of heat pipes
which pass through wooden partitions.
While you read this article, somewhere
a home was consumed by fire. Was it
yours?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
SHORTAGE OF TIRES
WILL BE GREATER

Continued from page one)
and the only "B" card holders eli
gible will be those whose driving
is rated high on the essentially
list.
The shift is necessary, it was
stated, because of serious deple-
ton Of the supply of used passen-
ger car tires available for low
mileage drivers.
Such motorists, Colonel Hous-
ton explained, may need tires for
highly essential purposes even
though their total mileage is
small.
Since there is no provision for
occupational driving in the "A''
card ration of East Coast motor
lists, none of them will be eligi-
BILE for new tires.
In other parts of the country
"a" card holders use part of thei1
ration for occupational driving
but only ''very small number
will be able to qualify for new
tires, Colonel Houston said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
COUNTY LIBRARY
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Right now I am more interest
ed in reading than I have been
in many years and I feel there
are many like me. And when I
think about postwar conditions,
I realize that all of us should be
better informed on world affairs.
1t seems to me, that while the
county is making progressive
steps along other lines, it should
do something to expand the Ii
brary and library service.
I have been informed that the
capable librarian, Mrs. c. D.
Neal, has long given her services
without any remuneration. ]
have also been told that the Wo-
mans Club, which for a time
sponsored the library to the ex-
tent of paying the rent, has de-
cided to stop this.
I feel like there are many in
terested citizens of the county
who will want to do something
about it. Why not start a library
sponsors club? Let's raise some
funds for it. I also feel like our
progressive county commission
ers will help in some way. There
is now a large collection of books
in the library and I believe more
can be secured through the state
library commission if the proper
sponsorship is secured.
Let's keep our library growing
instead of stopping it.
A Reader.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
Buy Extra War Bonds!

With a little less than two weeks left,
many more war bonds must be sold if we
are to reach our quota in the Fourth War
Loan Drive. This means that many peo-
pie, who have already made purchases,
must buy extra bonds.
Those who have not already bought
their bonds should do so now. There are
now around 1900 Ashe county men and
women in service, who are bending all Of
their efforts toward winning the war.
Some have already given their lives, others
injured, hundreds are suffering from pri
walton in remote places. Surely we should
be concerned enough to make the extra
effort to buy bonds.
This county has always made it's quota.
Let's not fail now. Let's all back the at
tack by buying more war bonds and buy
ing them now. .....
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
LOCAL YOUTHS ARE
ACCEPTED BY NAVY
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CONTINUED from Page One)
copied as hospital apprentices,
second class, and are now on in
active duty awaiting graduation.
On being called to active duty
they will after a short period of
indoctrination, attend Navy Hos
pital Schools and on graduation
will be pharmacists mates serving
in Naval Hospitals. The fourth
youth to be sworn in was Horace
Smith, of Mouth of Wilson, Va.
Recruiter Huffman also an
nounced that two other youths,
well-known in the Warrensville
section, were sent to Raleigh
Monday for final physical exam
nations and enlistment. They
were Roy Edwin Roland, of
Clifton; and Gale Jack Ashley.
They also chose their branch of
service in the Hospital Corp, but
like the others sworn in, will
take the Eddy Test of Electronics
which may qualify them for in
struction along those lines.
Recruiter Huffman will be in
West Jefferson on Monday, Feb
ruary Z, at the Post office.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
AMERICANS HAVE
LANDED ON MARSHALLS

Continued from Page One)
ed at an objective of utter defeat
for the japanese and a drive on
Tokyo itself.
Moving westward and, in COL
laboration with our allies east
ward from Burma and Malaga,
Mr.. Roosevelt said, the American
detectives are complete defeat Of
the enemy.
The Red army has captured the
frontier railway station of King
isepp (Yamburg) and has driven
to the Estonian border in steady
advances along a 50-mile front
from the Baltic to Lake Samro,
Moscow announced yesterday.
More than 1000 Germans were
killed and quantities of war ma
terial-still being counted-were
scooped up in the westward drive
by Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's
Leningrad front troops, said the
midnight Moscow bulletin record
ed by the Soviet monitor from a
broadcast. Fifty communities
were captured during the day.
Reinforced American and Bri-
fish troops, striking out in their
first major offensive since the
landing on the Anzio beaches 10
days ago, have fought into the
outskirts of Campoleone, only Is
miles southeast of Rome on the
main coastal rail line supplying
German forces on the lower fifth
army front, headquarters an
nounced yesterday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
Congressman Doughton
Again

Thousands of people of the ninth dis
trict in particular, as we'll as those
throughout North Carolina and the nation,
are deeply gratified that Congressman R.
L. Doughton, who has so ably served in
congress for the past 18 years, will again
offer his services in this capacity.
Congressman Doughton's announce
ment, published in detail elsewhere in
this paper today, points out that he had
planned to retire in 1910, but the urging
and expressions of confidence of his many
friends as we'll as the gathering clouds of
war, impelled him to change his mind then.
Congressman Doughton would hear more
urging than ever before if he should at
tempt to retire at this time; for not only
North Carolina, but, the entire nation, is
indebted to him for'the outstanding serv-
ice he has, and is, and must continue to
render, in congress, as chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee.
>' Congressman Doughton has served
longer than any representative of North
Carolina, in congress, and the ninth dis
trict is honored9 that he has again decided
to run, which means, of course, that he is
again to be our representative.
The financing. Of the war is gigantic
task and the tax problem is one that must
be dealt with wisely and with understand
ing. We do not believe there is anyone else
that can handle this problem as we'll as
North Cardinals distinguished Congress-
man, Robert Lee Doughton. We are in
deed happy that he has again offered his
service as congressman.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
Was 5 It. /: Yours?

Youngsters get. thrill out of watching
a paper box burn on bonfire. They love
to watch the thick curling smoke and the
sudden burst of flame. Their parents
could learn lot from those boxes Hous-
es burn the same ,way-at the rate of one
every other minute Sixteen people day
are turned from living beings to corpses, in
the ashes of these houses. Annual proper
ty loss from dwelling fires exceeds $780,
100000. Most of this loss in life and prop
erty is attributable to ignorance and care
lessness in the home.
Not long ago in Detroit two boys shar-
ing second floor bedroom were found
dead in the upper hall by firemen respond
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
ASHE COUNTY RED
CROSS QUOTA SET

Continued from Page One)
meeting on Friday evening, Feb
ruary 18, when more definite
plans concerning the drive are
to be announced. Everyone is
cordially invited to attend this
meeting. .--- t*:
A large percentage of the
funds raised in the drive will 60
toward the aid of men and wo-
men in service and since this
number has greatly increased
since last year, and will contin-
ue to increase as the war goes on,
the Red Cross must have more
and more funds to serve. them
it was pointed out. Chairman
Shoemaker pointed out that he
hoped everyone would bear this
in mind and would cooperate II
making the drive a success.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
NEW PLANS NOW
USED BY BOARD

Continued from Page One)
will be so classified out of his
ga classification.
These men will not be sent to
the examining station. If a man
is found physically fit for mill
tary service at the examining
station, he will be re-classified in
la, and at this time they may
appeal their classification or ap-
pear before the local board, re-
questing a Redistribution, with
in the Today period allowed for
appeal.
If a man is not found to be
physically fit at the examining
station for military service, ~
will be re-classified in AZ, i
was explained. This new pro
cedure was started February !
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-03
Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE
OUR NATIONS TRIUMVIRATE
OF TREACHERY

In order that the once Imperial
City of Rome could successfully
defeat her enemies, a coalition
of men, known as the First Tri-
umvirate in the personages OF
Caesar, Vrassus and Pompey was
formed to more successfully car
ry out the ambition of the i'm
perialists of that nation.
This Triumvirate was even
more deserving than the one that
exists in the United States today,
inasmuch as there seemed to be a
collaboration, or a pooling of in
terest Though they may have
been tainted with selfishness) to
secure a definite ultimatum-win
for Rome.
Our Triumvirate seems to be
in the guise of a three-headed
monster, each had working for
itself, but all of which is striking
at the foundation of our success
in freeing human beings from the
throes of the most hideous and
barbaric debacle upon humanity
that the world has ever known.
The disappointing fact is that
each ''personage" is working in
dependently of the other two,
and that each and every one is
working to attain the same end
self-aggrandibement.
Even more disappointing is the
fact that each member of this
trio (labor, the farm-bloc, and
politics) when working in it's
proper sphere constitutes one of
the mud-sills of all civilized and
enlightened progress. This re-
minds us of Caesar who said to
his friend, Brutus, "And thou
too, Brutus?" Like Brutus, farm,
labor and political Headers" have
drawn swords and are attempting
to do as Brutus-sacrifice all that
our Constitution stands for and
cruelty the names of our patriots
of Valley Forge and Yorktown,
for purely selfish reasons.
Naturally, the majoriey of us
take off our hats to the farmers,
to the miners, and to all other
industries which are so essential
to the success of a nation. We
also grant that in a democracy it
is necessary to have parties, and
that they should have the right
to function as they choose. But,
during a crisis, when the rights
of free men are in the balance;
when the evil forces of the most
beastly and barbaric nations in
the world are seeking to forever
enslave, ditch, doom, and damn
this and succeeding generations,
it is time for all who remain pa
triotic; for all who stand for the
highest and noblest ideals of a
God-fearing and a God-loving
country to use all their might to
relegate to the rear this hydra
headed monster whose deadly
coils are entwining themselves
around the best and noblest thing
that earth affords humanity-the
right to live and die as free men!
G.. M. DICKSON,
Silas Creek, N. c.
January II, 1914