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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27
VACATIONS take
OVER
LEGISLATION
Congress Planning Long
Vacation Though Measures
OF Paramount Importance
Awaits Action; May Be
Prodded by Constituents.

| Facing legislative needs of para
mount Importance, such as planning
for providing jobs for the unemployed
the number of which is constantly
growing and may become holocaustic
should there be a sudden end to the
Japanese war, and without any legis
lative provisions for those faced with
a jobless period, congress is preparing
to take a vacation extending until
October g.
1t is recognized that the vacations
of the legislators may not be ac-
counted as total loss to the people
of the country, as the senators and
congressman will, most of them, re-
turn to their home states and the peo-
pie will have nopportunity to con-
tact them personally and tell them
what they want done.
Montana people will have an oppor-
tunity for instance to ask Senator
Wheeler and Congressman Mansfield
what their attitude toward the MVA
proposal is; ask them to declare their
stand. They cannot offer the excuse
that they have not made up their
minds because this will clearly indi-
cate that they only want to ride the
winning horse" and are sitting on the
proverbial fence.
Below is list of important pend
ing measures, briefed by the legisla
tive service of the International Labor
Defense and its suggestions for appro-
pirate action:
Abolish the Poll Tax, H.R. 7. Passed
the house 251 to 105 Now in senate
Judiciary committee. Hearings super
fluous. Same committee has twice
spent months over it, reported favor
ably in previous congresses. Press
Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada for
immediate report and action on SEN
ate floor to forestall filibuster. Com
nit your senators to vote for bill and
for cloture.
Permanent FEPc, H.R. 2232 and S.
101. Reported favorably out of both
house and senate labor committees.
Blocked in house rules committee.
Discharge Petition No. has been
filed. Needs rs more signatures. See
that your representative signs. Com
NIT your representative and senators
to incorporating fight for passage
Get it on paper
Full Employment Bill, H.R. 22o2
and S. $50. Hearings will last over
summer in senate committee. Com
NIT your representative and senators
to fighting support.
Murray-Wasner-DingeII Social Sc
curity Bill, S. 1860 and H. r. 1898.
Stalled in house ways and means, SEN
ate finance committees. Action same
as above.
Boosting and Lengthening Unem-
ployment Benefits, H.R. 1896. This is
what President Truman asked for:
S25 for 26 weeks to cushion recon
version unemployment; boosting vet
Grams jobless allowance. House lead
ers reluctant and procrastinating.
Buried in house ways and means COM
mittee. Action same as above.
Educational Benefits for Veterans,
S. 1176. The Pepper bill to improve
veterans educational opportunities.
Action same as above.
Rankin Divide-and-conquer Bill, n.
R. 1884. Designed to destroy closed
shop and union-shop agreements, un-
der cover of exempting veterans from
Continued on Page Four J
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27
C0-0PS BUY LAND,
LEASE SEED PLANT
I'm minnesota
Northwest Coop Mills Buy
16-Acre Tract in Green Bay
For $4,000 Fertilizer Plant
Also Least Seed Processing
Plant to Meet Coop Needs.

MINNEAPOLIS (CLNS)-Purchase
by Northwest Cooperative Mills of a
16-acre Green Bay industrial tract for
erection of $15O,OO0 fertilizer plant
and leasing of a seed processing plant
at Thief River Falls, Mimi, were an
nounced this week. Robert Davids,
formerly manager of the Northern
Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Will
1iams, Mimi, has been appointed seed
division manager for Northwest Mills
and Offices opened at 21O1 Kennedy
ST., NE, Minneapolis
Construction of the fertilizer plant
at Green Bay will begin as soon as
priorities and materials can be OBJ
tanned. Plans call for a building 1870
by 200 feet.
The seed processing plant is being
leased from the Farmers Cooperative
Grain G. Seed Assn, Thief River Falls
The plant will be improved, and new
machinery and laboratory equipment
installed by August 1, in time for the
1916 seed harvest. Seed is being
bought in northern Minnesota, North
Dakota, Montana and Canada. The
plant has a 100000 pound seasons
capacity.
Northwest Cooperative Mills is
owned by Midland, Farmers Union
Central Exchange, Central Co-opera-
tive Wholesale and Farmers Union
Grain Terminal Assn. to provide ia
cilities for processing or manufacture
ing of feed, seed, fertilizer, soy bean
products and other merchandise need
ed by patrons of the four regional
co-ops
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27

Board plans Tor re-
conversion of war production
facilities to production of civ
|ilian goods.
1t is recognized that sudden ar
rival of VI Day would bring unem-
ployment figures almost Immediately
to an estimated seven to nine million.
The War Manpower Commission in
arriving at its figures for unemploy-
ment by December l of this year took
into account the 100000 unemployed
on We Day. 1t added to this the
estimated total of 100000 who will
have been taken out of war ploduction
and 100000 released from the armed
services The commission then esti-
mates that out of this 100000 about
100000 will find jobs in our civilian
economy and 5000 men of working
services. Then the Commission adds
to the number of people probably to
be absorbed by the civilian economy
and the armed services, some 100000
not expected to enter the labor mar
ket; some of them returning to COM
plete their education, women who
have been engaged in war work re-
turning to their kitchens and old peo-
pie who have been working for pa
triotic reasons retiring from the labor
market
On the basis of these estimates
100000 will be left without jobs and
tbs number added to the 100000 I'M
employed on We Day makes up the
Total estimated to be unemployed on
December 1, this year. The commits
sion estimates that an additional $780,
100 will be added to this list by June
|, next year.
Labor economists take a more pes
'imistic view of the situation than
loes the War Manpower Commission
They contend that as a possible re-
suit of the Potsdam conference, there
may be still further cuts in war pro-
duction and more people thrown out
of jobs.
1t is recognized that there is a pos
sibility if not probability that the
Woi WIN Japan may Coillc W a SuuuSA
end, and find the country totally I'M
with any plans for employ
ment and no plans made to provide
adequate unemployment compensation
or the unemployed during the recon
yersion" period. Congress has failed
o take any action on any remedial
,ills. Bills such as the senate bill
roup of liberals in the upper house
re buried in committees without even
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27
How America Can Strengthen the
Councils Work
BY COLSTON E. WARNE

State u, address delivered by Dr.
Colston Warne storicsy Lobby
printed Sids 'faly lference
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27

TT HAS BEEN REPORTED recently that
some of the business and trade associations
are considering joining forces with the Ma
tional Tax Equality Association and its attack
upon the structure of farm co-operatves. 1t
would mean a great deal to the United States
of these organizations would examine care
fully all phases of the problem before joining
forces with this tax group.
Not always remembered by businessmen are many
simple statistics about farms and farmers There
approximately 900 farms in the United States the
great majority of which consist of famysize farms
In the past, the produce of these farms sold
price level upon which business could succeed
Crops, generally speaking, had to be sold when they
received generally the lower wholesale price AS
contrasted with this these same farmers bought their
farm supplies and materials and machinery for produc
ton generally at the highest retail prices
Studies show that prices paid by farmers for sup
plies, including branded merchandise in the average
small community, far exceed the prices paid by bust
and labor in the large metropolitan centers for
the same goods
Why co-ops Were Organized
We used to hear about the operations of the tariff
which forced farmers to buy in protected market and
sell in free market This and still is largely true,
but you rarely hear farmers talk about it any more.
Much nsdiOus in its effect the plight of the
farmer beforesaid in selling at wholesale and buy
ing at RETAIL which in itself did to the or
ganization of farm co-ops than any other factor
Without cooperative effort these small farmers would
have marketing agents, statesmen sales organiza
lions at their beck and call Their crops would have
to be sold when ready for market at whatever price
was offered
izer seed feed gasoline tractors dozens other
items used to the end that farm produced
for market If a has buy these items retail
and sell at Wholesale he is under the insurmountable
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27

Because Mr.. Emanuel is a prominent
figure in industry. his memorandum. In
defense of farmer CO. operatives which
was prompted by attacks of the Ma
tional Tax Equality ASSN is all the
more significant.
Until recently, he was president of
The Aviation Corporation and retired
to become Chairman of the Board. He
also is president of Standard Power &
Light Corp, Albert Emanuel Co., Inc,
partner in Emanuel & Co. (members
of New York Stock Exchange) and
director of Republic Steel and several
other large corporations.
1t is obvious that Mr. Emanuel Is
with his subject, indi-
eating that he has made careful and
comprehensive study of farmer Coop
ertives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27

handicap, which our traditional tariff
policy merely aids.
The farmer does not enjoy the adj
vantage of doing business in corpor-
ate form. He is too small But his
cooperative is a corporation with one
important difference. 1t is built to
serve patrons at cost rather than to
serve the public at a profit. In the
United States, the cooperative move
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27

Basng estimates the probable continuation of the
with Japan the War Manpower Commission predicts that l.
100000 will be unemployed by the end of this year and by
1916 there will be 10000 900 with jobs the est
mates being based Army and Navy munitions production
schedules personnel requirements Pacific
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-27
Facts Do Not Support NTEA Charges
By VICTOR EMANUEL

Reprinted with permission National Live Stock Producer
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-28

A lad from Brooklyn turned up in a
hess line in a Texas camp holding the
httlers from a rattle snake
~Where'd you get 'em?" KIP asked.
"Offa big woim"
PocoteHo fi9bte, Plot
Have you and your first sergeant
yer had any difference Of opinion?"
"Yes. but he doesn't know it,"
Bevoh Coste
Blonde: Il heard you split with your
Millionaire boy friend"
Brunei Not word Of truth; got
j OF it,"
PocofeDo FIGHTER PJof
1t isn't true that the sergeart's gIrl
|ever draws the line-she uses an eye
low pencil
Cren,o
MY sailor is trying al times"
My Seabee IS trying all the time "
FRO Lone Sto,
Excerpt from d sailors letter from
|e South Seas. Long time no she"
Dolly Dope Sheet
CPL wonder II ] could borrow
bur necktie?"
| Pvt: whats the matter. couldn't
|u find it?"
Comp HOWE Howiizer
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-28

Patient That wasn't the tooth
wanted pulled"
DENTIST Calm yourself. I'm not
charging you for II
6Ioct Cot
The sailor entered the bank very i'm.
portantly In his hand he held check
for 50 cents He approached the cash.
ier's window. presented the check with
flourish, and said Come, come, my
good man. will you kindly cash this
check for me? I'm in somewhat OF
hurry" The cashier glanced up, ex.
amined the check. and as ne reached
in the change drawer asked Yes, sir.
and how would you prefer it-heads
or tails?"
Melville Steetef
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-28

Mother. Didn't I tell you not to 60
out with perfect strangers?"
Daughter, But he isn't perfect"
George Field News
Give me a roundtrip ticket"
where to-
why back here, OF course
Tro0sntfer
Civilian Can you lend me d dollar?
don't get paid until tomorrow
CT: Sorry, ! haven't cent Mas
paid yesterday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
BIuftOn Man UI
In Chllnking China


DR.. S. Floyd Pannabecker of Bluff
ton who recently arrived in Chung
king, China, to organize the postwar
relief of the Mennonite Central Com
mittee is i'll IN that city with ma
laria.
A cable message received Tuesday
byshis wife, Mrs $50 pannabecker
of East kibler street which brought
word of his arrival in the Chinese
capital city also told of his illness.
There was nothing in the message to
indicate that his condition is serious
and it is believed that he is hospital
lied.
Arriving in Chungking with DR..
Pannabecker was P. P. Baltzer of
Newton, Kansas, who will be asso-
ciated with the Bluffton man in the
work of organizing the postwar re-
lief.
The two men left here more than
year ago for China going by the
way of Egypt. Because of war-dis-
rupted transportation encountered
many delays and were in Calcutta,
India, for several months before pas
sage could be obtained to their final
destination.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
CribIez-CrOlU Wedding
At st. Johns Church

Miss Rachel Irene Criblez, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Criblez,
will become the bride of A. Leroy
Crow, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd
Grow of Mt. Cory, this Wednesday
evening at $50 o'clock in ceremony
to be solemnized in the st. Johns
Reformed church.
The ceremony will be performed by
the Reverend V. c. Oppermann, pas
tor. Mrs. H. Kenneth Luginbuhl,
sister of the bride, will be matron
of honor and Charles Crow, brother
of the groom, will be best man.
For her wedding costume the bride
has selected a gold wool suit. The
tunic-type jacket fastens with gold
buckles and is trimmed with fared
cuffs of lynx-dyed wolf. Her acces-
sories are black suede and her cor
sage single giant orchid. Her only
ornament will be earrings of onyx
chips.
Mrs. Luginbuhl will wear a tail
ored suit of officers pink cloth and
corsage of gardenias. Her acces-
sories are brown taffeta and kidskin
with nailheads.
Miss Criblez graduated from Bluff
ton High school and attended Find
lay college, Ohio Northern univers-
ity; then graduated from Bluffton
college in the class of 1941 when she
was elected to the ri Delta honorary
society. Since graduation she has
taught commercial subjects in the
Vaughnsville and Pandora High
schools where she is now employed.
Mr.. Crow, a graduate of Mt. Cory
High school, is employed as mechanic
in the Mcdowell Implement store in
Pandora, where the couple will re-
side.
Immediately following the cere-
mony, Mr.. and Mrs. Crow will leave
for southern trip. Enroute they
will visit Pfc. Robert Nj. CribIez,
brother of the bride, who is conval-
escing at the Nicholas Army Hospital
in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
SOuthernaires Will
Sing Here Tuesday

The Southernaires quartet, ranking
with the greatest vocal ensembles
heard today on the air or concert
stage, will present concert at 500
p. m. next Tuesday in the Bluffton
High school gymnasium.
Appearance of the singing group
here is sponsored by the Bluffton
college department of music as its
first presentation of the current sea-
son.
Since 1929, when the Southernaires
were organized, their beautifully
blended voices have thrilled audi
ences all over the country. Their
programs, always favorites with mu-
sic lovers, this year are more ap-
pealing than ever.
AS their name implies, the South
ernaires are true sons of the South,
and they sing the native melodies of
their native soil with an artistry that
has seldom been equalled.
Their repertoire covers three CEN
turies of Negro music, including AT
rican chants, spirituals, slave songs
and popular songs. They also pre-
sent classics and ballads as effective
ly as they do songs of their own
race.
In the 16 years that they have
been broadcasting regularly over the
radio networks they have become a
nationally known group.
Making up the quartet are Ray
Yeates, lyric tenor; Lowell Peters
second tenor; Jay Stone Toney, bari
tone; William Edmonson, bass, and
Spencer Odom, accompanist.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
BlufftOn Folks Feast On Steaks
AS Result Of New Ration-point Cut
For First Time Since Rationing
Started, Meat Appetites
Can Be Satisfied
Removing Lowest Meat Grades
From Rationing Gives
Plenty of Points

Bluffton area residents this week
are fully satisfying their appetite
for beef steaks for the first time
since meat rationing was brought on
by the war.
The demand for steaks at local
meat markets was one of the more
or less unanticipated results of TAX
ing ration points off the three lowest
grades of meat, effective Monday.
With sausage, hamburger, bologna,
boiling meat and products made from
point-free meat off the ration list,
housewives have a surplus of tokens
for the first time since rationing
started, and they are spending them
on steaks and also butter and mar
garine which still are rationed.
Ration points now are required
for only the three top grades OF
meat--commercial, good and choice
and with their point value remaining
unchanged practically every family is
IN position to obtain any kind OF
meat wanted for their weekly menu
Butter or margarine, pork. and Tho
better grades of beef which still re.
quire points will not take enough tc
make planning the family meals q
difficult task for the housewife from
now on.
Plenty of meat is on hand with the
exception of bacon and ham, both of
which must be shipped in from out
side, but home-killed meats are avail
able in practically unlimited quanti-
ties, bespeaking the possibility of a
quick return to pre-war days so far
as the meat supply is concerned.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
ORGANIZE CITIZENS
GROUP To BACK 3
Mill SCHOOL LEVY
Initial Meeting to be Held at
High School Wednesday
Night
Members Will Serve to Promote
Sentiment i'm Prediction
Drive

Civic sentiment in favor of renewal
of special three-mill tax levy to
provide additional operating funds
for Bluffton public schools will be
crystallized this Wednesday night in
the organization of a citizens COM
mittee to support the measure.
Meeting of the group will be in
the high school at p. m. to COM
plete details of publicizing the pro-
visions of the special tax levy and
organizing to serve as neighborhood
contact persons.
Function of the citizens committee
will be the same as that of similar
organizations which have served in
the past when the three-mill levy
has come up for vote.
The proposed measure to be pre-
sented at the polls in November is
for a continuation of a levy that
has been in effect for years.
EFFECTIVE NEXT JANUARY
The levy provides for tax not to
exceed three mills per year for a
fve-year period beginning next jan
uary, when the present special tax
assessment expires.
Revenue from the three-mill levy
amounts to $15,225 annually on the
present schoold istrict tax duplicate
of $5,075,000. The funds can be used
for any operating expense, not in
cluding bond retirement and interest.
To be continued here, the measure
must be approved by majority vote
at the polls. Expiration date of the
present three-mill levy is Dec. 81,
1916.
Present tax rate for Bluffton school
purposes is 5000, including the spe-
cial three-mill levy now in effect. 1t
represents nearly two-thirds of the
Bluffton corporation tax rate of
S16.70, also including the school levy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
Sgt. Gordon HHty
Married In DenUer

Sgt. Gordon Hilty, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip Hilty of Route 25 south
of Bluffton and Miss Ila Dunning,
daughter of Mrs. Maurice Cleavinger
of Denver, Colorado, were married
in that city Saturday, according to
an announcement made here the first
of the week.
The ceremony took place in the
chapel of The First Plymouth Con-
gregational church at 8 o'clock in the
evening. The pastor, Rev. Raymond
Waser officiated in the double ring
service. Decorations were yellow
roses.
The bride was attired in yellow
soft wool afternoon dress with cor
sageof talisman rosebuds. Her at
tendant, Miss Anne Stoffel wore an
afternoon dress of soldier blue with
yellow rosebud corsage. Hal Dun
ming, brother of the bride was best
man.
Sgt. Hilty and his bride are ex-
pected here the last of this week on
short furlough. He has been in
the Army for four years and is sta
toned at Las Vegas, Nevada, where
the couple will reside.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
Bluffton Air Raid Wardens May Keep
Their Shiny Steel Helmets After All

Bluffton air raid wardens for
World War II can keep their helmets
and armbands, and perhaps even the
stirrup fire extinguishers they have
been using as garden sprayers, ac-
cordlng to new Interpretation of
orders to return all civilian refense
equipment to the government.
Ralph H. Stone, director of the
Ohio Defense Council, made the an
nouncement, reversing earlier instruc-
tions from Washington that every
thing issued to municipal civilian de-
fense workers would have to be re-
turned.
Branding orders to collect small
defense items as ridiculous, Stone
indicated that only large equipment,
casualty station and medical team
first-aid equipment, ETC., would be
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-04
Catherine Gratz Arrives Home
Tuesday Night on Years
Furlough
Missionaries Interned by Colon
ial Government of French
Guinea

Miss Catherine Gratz who spent
the past five and one-half years as a
missionary in French Guinea, French
West Africa, arrived here Tuesday
night at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Peter Gratz of South Jackson street.
She will spend years furlough in
this country.
Because of war-disrupted transpor-
tation facilities, the usual travel by
boat was not available and the Bluff
ton woman made the trip by plane
from her mission station at Kankan,
1000 miles inland in Africa to Mi
ami, Florida.
1t was not until recently that air
travel was available and because of
this Miss Gratz remained for Is
months longer than the regular four
year term of service in the foreign
field.
Missionaries Interned
The colonial government of French
Guinea, pro-Vichy following the fall
of France rounded up all the Ameri-
can missionaries when the United
States troops invaded North Africa.
For two weeks 10 women We're in
termed in the mission compound and
the men were taken to concentra-
ton camp. During this time they
were deprived of the use of their ra-
dios and they had no knowledge of
what was happening in world affairs.
Supplies were obtained from the city
market thru natives employed at the
mission station.
After two weeks they were releas-
ed when the American forces took
over Dakar, one of the key cities on
the west coast and the colonial gov
ernment swung into line with the AL
lies.
After this the mission station was
permitted to resume its activities.
1t is the only Protestant mission in
Kankan, a sizeable city and trading
point of that region.
Airport at kankan
From the airport at Kankan where
she left September 4, French air
line operates a regular passenger SER
vice to Dakar. At Dakar she sboard-
ed a Pan American Clipper for the
transatlantic trip going from Lii
IBERIA, West Africa on a 14-hour nom
stop flight to Natal, Brazil. Three
and one-haIf days were spent there.
From Natal she transferred to
land plane and went by way of For
taleza, Brazil and Trinidad, Port of
Spain to Miami, Florida, September
81.
The work of the mission station at
Kankan is under auspices of the
Christian Missionary Alliance and the
Bluffton woman was bookkaeper at
that place. Natives of the region are
large, well proportioned and very
black, she said. French is the official
language of the region, altho the ma
tives speak several dialects.