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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
The Election Coming

The sovereign people the Second Congressional District
Montana will cast their ballots for representative in the
United States Congress June There will be four cand
for the position Republican, Democrat, Socialist
and one Independent of any party
1t important election and the issues between the
the major parties quite clearly defined Leo
Grayb Democratic candidate definitely pledged to
support the national administrations policies domestic
we'll International W. DEwar the Republican candidate
may expected to make effort to be thorn in the side
the administration the somewhat limited extent of his
ability It beyond the ken of this writer whether DEwart
that there such things international problems
solution During the when have had
tuny observe him public servant have gained the
impression that he is just willing tool of the great
ton and not sharp at that just ordinary hack
word of warning to the people of the district may be
timely There question about the people in the district
favorng the corporations candidate going to the polls to vote
election The hired of the Montana Twins nfes
ing every community the state will to that But will the
aborrs and others who opposed the
tons ackey get the polls in superior numbers That it
may lot of labor of love- the part
of leaders of these groups.
the people, the liberals in the district realize
that requires votes to elect their candidate They must get
the polling place though taking off few
hours work The time they lose be of the best
investments they have made Moreover they must realize
that who do not the polls election day have moth
ing complain about the results not what they would
wish.
And they do not VOTE they simply evadng one of
their most important duties citizens of democracy Surely
not many of them will take Stacker attitude
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
Calls for Heavier Capital Gains Tax
By RICHARD L. STROUT

Are people getting rich at home while others are
fighting and giving their lives the battlefield Of
they Here's example of how the tax law is evaded
Let contrast two different
Rich Man patriotic and invests his S5000000 capital
bonds They yield around per cent let's say
married. with two dependents and his income after deductions
of $68,565 He gets only $31 435 That doesn't
big and isn't because public opinion has stepped
said people shouldn't have immense incomes in wartime
Congress has slapped income taxes rising 80 cent
the highest brackets
Rich Man is different sort of fellow He takes his
900 and puts into the stock market Only suckers
he says, buy bonds
War speculation and other have been sending the
values of Stocks real estate and farm property steadily up
PORES Index of Composite Common stocks shows present 88
per the low of 1912 So Rich Man puts
his money into market With $5000000 you do lot of
things with small stock. He probably buys a speculative
stock that sensitive to quick manipulation With his
of capital and SKILL it will be odd indeed if he not
pick stocks that advance Actually the fact that
many people specializing in them helps them up
purposes of this have assumed that when
the end of the year. he takes only the relatively
modest profit of 100000
That capital gain But the treasury looks lenieny
on that The story that Rich Man has taken risk and
be penaized which all right peacetme but
hardly applicable today when bonds available and
initiation bubbng all around the edges stocked by
public and corporations holding demand de-
posts and securities approaching 200 billion
dollars
Well Rich his profit, part
pays only 25 per cent leaving him $4,000
the clear Of he has years dividends from the
he has speculated n and this part of his return must
high but they higher because he has
had additional $4,000 from buying and selling the
ket-From The Christian Science Monitor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
''Reaping the Whirlwind"

The which the people of Italy disposed OF Musso
n speedy subsequent approval by the provisional
the actions of the pasans must give pause
to the of reeabshmen of the old status
QUO in In effect the public
has that intends take matters into it's hands
and dictate policies else And particularly
specifically the people apparently have decided to deal
with criminals without permitting cumbersome
legaIisms to delay rerbuon.
that the quick approval given by the Provisional
Italy to the action of the partisan group in
summary executing Musoni and his encourage is loaded
with implications Evidently is clearly recognized that the
temper people stayed that they have endured
for years uncomplanngy but that they
intend to endure that they intend that there shall
From standpoint of orderly legal procedure the action
this criticism WILL doubt have its origin with the socaled
upper classes in Italy and will have the ac not expressed
agreement of the privileged Great Britain the Unit
and other countries who deplore evidence
of militant action by the people This criticism will
openly worded however, because Mussoin was
officially recognized leader by the United Nations
Perhaps the in which he killed had some ee
brutality about it. But the history of his rulershp
repete with instances of sheer brutality directed by
him. Perhaps the innocent people of Ethiopia who were killed
bombngs by Musoni who claimed that his bombs
beautiful picture ke the bursting of flow
when they struck assembly of the innocent naves
perhaps the relatives of these natives will not think the method
of ussons execution too brutal He merely reaped the
whirlwind that he had sowed.
There is evidence that the people in Europe
the march, and will not be healthy to try to stop them
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
This Incentive Talk

One of the most arguments against specialization
any industry that eliminating the private profit
would all incentive for progress that the only
incentive appealing to humans is private gain
We reminded of the faacy Of much of this palaver
when note the which the medical profession
conducting its work in the army There have perfect
example of control and at the time have
example of who before their entry into
the services probably almost without exception free
terprsers."
Now find them regmented and performing prodigous
fats of service and than that developing methods
of treatment of injuries and diseases from which mankind will
derive benefit the future And doing all of these things
obviously without thought of any material consideration Just
what the incentive to keeps them going without sleep
rest for days?
that they have just devel-
oped beyond the point where money most them
They have discovered the great satisfaction that lies serving
their feowman their country They have discovered that
giving of the best of their knowledge and skill they
receiving intangible compensation far satisfying than
big money fee would be to them.
1t makes wonder if these and women will be as
much opposed to supervised and directed medical
when they return to civilian life of them
before they entered the service.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
The Popular Front
By RAY S. KELLOGG
FLOODS AND COMMON SENSE

function of the IVA was to save the
millions of dollars annually lost by
| floods, of equal or greater benefit to
the people has been its gigantic con-
tribution to the nations power-source,
and the further millions saved in the
rates compared with what the human
ghouls formerly took away from the
helpless and defenseless inhabitants
of the territory for their heat and
light. Here, indeed, is the top example
of a peoples creation. Nobody should
be making a dime of profit from the
IVA Any man who is, if such is
found, should be promptly jailed. He
is simply nothing but common thief
And now turn away from this peo
pies project, built by the people I. :.
all of the people -. for the benefit of
all of the people, and glance out to-
ward Minnesota and Montana and the
states between and nearby. Here a
few far-sighted individuals, certain of
their position, with the proven IVA
as their pattern, are struggling to
achieve a like enterprise for their
own mighty river and its countless
tributaries. But they are being fought
as fiercely as if they were bandits
bent on ravaging the countryside.
For decades these good people have
been the helpless victims of a gang of
thieves. Common thieves
who have quite literally stolen mil
lions of dollars over the years from
the people of the Great Northwest.
=. from the people who have had to
90 to these robbers for all their light |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04

J Lately it was the Red river thai
was running wild, and the millions OF
dollars in flood-losses were being piled
up in Louisiana. A few weeks ago it
was the Ohio. Before that the flood
news originated in New England.
From time to time it is the Missouri.
All of this has been going on for sew
eral decades. What do we do? We
dash around collecting old clothes,
money for the Red Cross, just any
thing at all for the sufferers, we offer
some of the washed-out homeless tenn
porary shelter, we murmur "too bad"
as the horrors are pictured for us
realistically by the broadcaster, and
then we yawn and go to bed.
AS Miles McMillen so ably pointed
out in THE PROGRESSIVE a while
ago, there are no flood news emanat-
ing from Chattanooga, nor from any
of the cities or territory embraced
within the far-flung limits of the
man-made giant, IVA. Once, floods
were common there also. They never
again will be. They cannot occur. Wa
tiers of rampaging river are absorbed
by that expansive network of dams
and lakes, lowering the crest further
down stream by as much as four to
six feet, thereby preventing VIII a
would have been a million-dollar
loss from that one freshet.
This is going on throughout the spring
and other rainy seasons. Thus it is
again proven that man is master of
The elements insofar as flood proven
ion is concerned. Though the prime |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
Engineering
(Continued from Pare One)

done? A great democratic government
stepped in and began to plan, not
for one segment of the population but
for all the people. They didn't make
the mistake of thinking they could put
a patch on nature here and another
there and make things work. They
started from scratch and planned in
a unified fashion for everything and
| for everybody in the Tennessee Val
| ley.
Has private industry suffered be-
cause government went into business?
Mr. Lillientha1 says never before has
industry had as large a return and
this was an established trend in in
dustry before the war boom started
Paying for Itself
But, say the scoffers, this is all
very well, but we can't burden the
taxpayers with billions of dollars of
taxes to pay for such improvements.
Mr.. Lillienthal says to the scoffers
that we are not placing untold bur-
dens on the taxpayers. According to
the most conservative methods of &C.
counting, IVA is paying for itself and,
depending on what methods are used,
will have paid back the original in
vestment in 80 or so years
Can this be done elsewhere? There's
the Missouri Valley authority where
somewhat similar conditions exist,
There's the Ohio Valley authority, too.
Remember the flood of a few weeks
ago that brought death and destruc-
ton in its wake? And think what the
st. Lawrence seaway would mean to
the Middle West and to the whole
nation. A new waterway all the way
from Chicago to the Atlantic Ocean.
What vistas of world trade that
opens up. Grain, wheat, corn, directly
from the breakbasket of America to
all the peoples of the world. Automo-
biles from Detroit in the shadow of
the Pyramids. And coming back to us
from the far corners of the
earth all the skills of all the peoples.
And at prices we can afford to pay.
How can this be done? Mr.. Lillien-
thai gives us many of the answers in
his book "TVA-Democracy on the
March" 1t can be bought for quarter.
It's splendid investment-Cle
Union Leader
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04

and power. The take" has been sc
monstrous as to lately attract the at
tention even of the Washington gov
eminent, long since grown all but cal
lous to robbery when it is done whole.
sale with stacks of loot built mountain
high.
The Montana Power Company, for
example, was found to be over-capi-
talized 500 and was ordered to re-
duce its capital by that amount. 1t was
graciously given until January first
1916, to complete the job, which
should be relatively simple Mean
time, the stealing goes on. Earnings
on this ocean of clear, cold, water are
simply taken away from these vic
Tins as neatly and as thoroughly as
if done by masked bandits with black
jacks.
And who is fighting the setting up
of an MVA? You've guessed it i. the
Montana Power Company and the al
lied brigands who've never for single
instant loosened their grip upon the
throat of an outraged people. And
these jackals have their trained seals,
called congressman, doing their bid
ding in the nations capital, blocking
stalling, lying, stealing
Yet, and this passes comprehen-
sion these thugs were sent down to
the capital by the votes of the citi-
zens of the NothwestI The constant
wonder is, HOW can people be so
stupid SO utterly lacking in COM
mon sense. as to send men to
congress who actually fight FOR the
vultures who devote all their time
and talent throughout their lifetime,
to stealing FROM the people? - The
April 10, 1945, Roosevelt (Ohio), |
County Record.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
THE Sl2.OOO.OOO BOND ISSUE
By LOWNDES MAURY
"A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED"

The last legislative assembly hal
: proposed a special election June fiftl
for the taxpayers of Montana to vote
bond issue for roads. Many years age
we needed telegraph lines in this
state badly; we have enough of then
now. Later on we needed railroads
we have enough of them, and then
there was great need for telephone
lines; we have enough of them. At an
other time we NEEDED highways badly;
now we have North-South, East-West
highways.
This bond issue is put forth, as is
said to provide, work for our returning
soldiers. Corporation control of Mon
tana is so obvious to all of our young
men and women who have gone into
military life that, according to DR..
Melby, of 5000 who have been honor
ably mustered out, only 1000 have re-
turned to Montana to reside The New
Republic asserts that comparison of
the ration cards shows that we have
lost over 10000 people since the war
started.
Forty-five thousand of these can be
accounted for by induction into the
armed service. The other $4,000 have
departed because of the un-American
conditions in Montana. If these can
avoid it, they are not coming back.
The dark shadow of the control of
the executive, the legislative and the
bureaucratic branches of our state
government by the mining, power, in
surance, railroad, chain banking cor
porations, is clearly seen when our
young people get out into daylight and
look back at it. Born and raised with
in the shadow and the odor they do
not know of better conditions until
they depart, but once gone, they do
not want to come back
AS has been said, a blood transfu-
sion is needed by our colony. The only
hope we have is in the establishment
of a Missouri Valley authority, and
the Columbia Valley authority.
This proposal to bond the state, and
put men to work is started to divert
tuG ulliuo VI Jul ptOplS HUH tu0SG
and their building.
About As years ago we voted bond
issue of a half million dollars to build
the state capital. We paid interest on
it for 40 years. If it took us 40 years
to pay a half million dollar bond is
sue, will it take us 1,O32 years to pay
q IL million dollar bond issue? Some |
New York bankers got 172 per cent |
from us on the capitol bond issue. |
It is proposed that this bond issue of |
IL million dollars shall bear interest |
1T 40 per annum. Before the urge to
BUY war bonds, banks in Montana
we're lending huge sums at * of 1
per cent per annum. Massachusetts
,orrows for 10 per annum Last week
he Milwaukee Railroad borrowed 100 +
million dollars at 1 q per cent.
Of course war bonds must be bought
o save our national life. There is no
but almost all other pub
ic bond issues are for the benefit
# the bankers first, the public Sec
nd The chain bank systems of Hell
ma came to Montana chiefly to con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-04
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Governor Ford and MVA

Governor Ford took last week the Western
Governors conference at Reno to condemn again NJ A.
Many liberals always entertained the belief that the
nors professed liberalism scarcely skn-deep - just
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-07
u. s. Abondons Air Bases
In China as Jops Gain

Canton, Major General Claire Chen
ault'S fliers and ground crewmen
destroyed bases at Namyung and
Kanchow from which our air power
had reached out over vital Japan
ese supply and combat lines.
Chennault announced the end of
this dramatic episode in the 14th's
opera tionS at press conference
Chennault revealed that the
American squad rons based at the
forward airfields had been supplied
completely by transport planes leap
frogging from the Running area
over enemy lines and Japanese-held
American bases.
The fliers and ground crewmen
clung precariously TO the Namyoung
and Kanchow fielcs until the Jap
anese ground forces occupied all
the Canton -Hankow railway and
moved in on them.
When the Japanese were within
4C miles, the crews loaded equip
ment into transport planes while
demolition experts blasted installa-
tons ano exploded bombs buried
beneath runWays.
Chennault said Japanese strategy
in China had forced the 14th to
reduce" its recent operations, which
had netted unprecedented monthly
bag of 343 Japanese locomotives
and 334 planes curing January.
With Luzon- based bombers now
sweeping the China Sea, Chennault
said the 14th's missions will be
concentrated on japanese installa-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-07
Arizona Senator
Warns ConnaIIy
On River Treaty
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ing his questioning of the witness.
Connally has clashed repeated ly
with California spokesmen during
the past two weeks of hearings.
HORTON HURLS CHARGES
Harry w. Horton. chief counsel
for the Imperial Irrigation District
of California, declared:
This treaty is in the nature of
an appeasement of Mexico. 1t was
not drawn on the basis of the mer-
its of the case. You are being urged
to take a step which cannot be
recalled, to ratify this treaty simply
because it seems desirable to the
state department to appease MeXi-
CO"
Horton also asserted that the
treaty was deliberately drawn by
the state department to take away
all control over the Colorado at
the boundary from congress and
place it in the HANDS of the pro-
posed water commission and the
state department"
Clashing frequently with Chair
man Connally, Horton maintained
that the treaty gives the two-man
zone American, one MeXican COM
mission "the right to control con-
struction of projects on the Colora-
do and even on its tributaries"
do you make that charge as sin
cerely as you do your other state
ments?" asked Senator Abe Muir
dock (D,) Utah.
"Yes, sir!" saiG Horton, banging
the table with his fist.
ADVISED TO STEADY DOWN"
Advised by Senator Eugene D.
Millikin (R) Colorado, to steady
doWn-in a table-pounding contest
J think I could keep up with you,"
Horton reiterated his statement and
asserted further that through eX-
ercise of veto by her commits
sioner, Mexico might be able to
block developments of the Colorado
river basin within the United
States.
Furthermore, he said, the treaty
gives the commission sufficient
power to increase the guaranteed
amount to Mexico Q,5Oo,O00 acre
feet annually without ever refer
ring the matter back to the SEN
ate
You mean," said Senator Alex
aOder Wiley (Rl Wisconsin "tha
the treaty conveys away part OF
our sovereignty to another coun-
try?"
"Yes." said Horton, Il do mean
it,"
Millikin informed Horton that it
would help the committee if the
opponents of the treaty would make
a specific proposal fer construc-
tive alternative. Horton said he
would be glad to file a statement
later.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-07
Meeting Fixes
Scout Leaders
Training Plans

Sixteen men gathered in Yuma
Tuesday night to complete plans
for leadership training in the I'm
perial-Yuma Boy Scout council for
the entire year.
The group approved plans for
four different types of leadership
training to apply on the Scouting
Key award, the highest award for
&C ult participation in scouting. The
courses include basic scoutmaster-
ship for all men new to the game:
troop camping which provides for
training long-term camps and
takes in everything from finances
to ration points; health and safety
through knowledge and skill is a
course scheduled for Yuma October
1914; and the advanced scouting
course.
On March l0-11 the camp course
will be given at Camp Hual-Cu-
Cuish in the mountains, beginning
at 10 pm. with a supper. Twelve
subjects will be considered
A sort Of three-ring circus will
be held in Holtville April 14-15. At
that time between 100 and 15c boys
engaged in Scout leadership will
hold a Green Bar conference. At
the same time will come the course
in basic scoutleadership for aeults
and the advanced leadership course.
This three-way conference was
worked out to save time, money.
and transportation facilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-07
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the flames spread from the down.
town business section into the
northern districts, roasting Filipino
civilians and japanese suicide
squads alike.
The conflagration muShroomed
from block to block throughout
Monday night and on into daylight
Tuesday, fed by exploding gasoline
and munitions dumps that went up
with earth-shaking blasts.
WATCH FIRE, FIGHTING
Observers atop the Iowur of San
to Tomas university, many of them
Americans liberated from the Jap
anese only a few hours earlier, were
able to watch the course of the
street battle all Monday night by
the light of burning buildings on
all sides. Santo Tomas itself was
still untouched and its water pumps
were working. Blazing embers were
showering down all over the dis
trict.
Grim-faced American infantry
men and Filipino guerillas stalked
the survivors of the Japanese gar
rison through the streets, finishing
them off with gun, grenace and
bayonet. Others were dynamiting
buildings to create fire gaps that
might check the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-07
Red Armies Hit
Berlin Barrier

and Frankfurt. It added that un-
confirmed reports already had
reached Moscow that advanced ele-
ments were across the river and
battling to secure firm crossings for
the main weight of the army be-
hind them.
Soviet airmen reported that be-
yond Frankfurt, endless columns of
refugees were streaming afoot and
aboard all kinds of vehicles into
Berlin. which still was burning as
a result of Allied air raids from the
west.
The Moscow reports said hundreds
Of thousands of persons were flee
ing west and southwest from Ber-
lin, where the biggest fires were
raging in the Rathaus area. the
Tiergarten, along Uncer Den Lin
den and on the Alexanderplatz.
The GeStapo has taken over all
power in Berlin" Soviet dispatch
said. Chaos reigns supreme"
FIRE RUTHLESSLY
A Moscow broadcast by the Soviet
sponsored free German committee
said that Berliners demonstrated for
peace and the SIS Elite guard fired
ruthleSsly at the demonstrators,
wounding women and children"
Southeast of Berlin l80 miles, the
First Ukrainian army pushed u to
Is miles beyond the Oder on SO
mile front in drive to encircle
BreSlau and perhaps ultimately to
flank Berlin from the south.
The Germans conceded the loss
of Steinau, on the west bank of
the Oder "a miles northwest of
Breslau, to other bridgehead forces
forging the northern arm of pine
ers around the Silesian capital.
Moscow dispatches said endless
streams of white-painted tanks, mo-
bile guns and white -shrouded infan-
try were moving through the Siles-
ian forests toward the front both
north and south of Breslau
Burning German towns on the
west bank of the Ocer set afire by
Soviet artillery and Nazi scorched
earth squads, light the skies for
scores of miles, Moscow said.