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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
GIVING IT THE PATCH TEST"

1t is such conditions that create the
need" for foreign markets The
scramble for foreign markets breed
wars. AS soon as the shooting war
stops the shouting war starts. Indeed,
as in France in the late war, bust
nessmen (Englishmen and Americans)
followed on the heels of the army,
making business contacts, grabbing
off markets and thus planting time
bombs" for the next war. Commercial
war is the twin brother to physical
war
Frankly, | cannot see where CAPT
talism 1--WE might as well call it by
| its right name) gets us anywhere, or
see any prospects of it ever solving
anything. It's whole history has been
one of crisis after crisis. The people
have never been full jump ahead of
the hounds of adversely. Security
has been only vanishing mirage.
If we were not such "timid souls"
and were willing to poke our noses out
of the ancestral cave and try some
thing new we might learn little now
and then. We have heard of "Produc-
ton for USE" but have never tried
it. Think of that Not one thing has
capitalism ever produced for use. Use
is not in its lexicon of reasons. If
it can't get profits it sulks, balks, lays
flat down on its belly and bowls to
high heaven And the dear, befuddled
people, instead of demanding some
thing different does backward hand
springs and yells mo. no, no. Give
us what granddaddy had"
Suppose we had one lucid interval
and said, "All right, We'll give it a
try Suppose, cautiously, we agreed
to try it out on the basic necessity
of life-food? Suppose we'd leave
Injuries and useless gadgets in the
silly world of giggle-glee where they
belong? Suppose we opened up all
resources and started all professors
and gave all people access to the
means of making living in peace
as well as in war? Suppose that out
of the aggregate of products we per-
mitted each person to have as much
as he needed-as he needed it?
In other words suppose we take So
cialism on probation, as the Metho-
dists do sinners. If the thing back
slides we could toss it out and take
back dear old snatch-and-grab-all-y
need it-or-not system
Of starving in the midst of plenty
l should think those who oppose So
cialism, with all its free-love and So
cialized children-children who don't
know who their daddies are-of which
we have aplenty today, would be will
ing to try to prove their contention
by giving it the patch test" Just
try it, say, no food. No matter how
badly it turned out it could be no
worse than what we've had.
But | guess we're just afraid to risk
t. We fear that once the people had
asted sanity they would never re-
urn to crazy capitalism.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
METEORIC CAREER OF THE HON.
BURTON KNOCKOUT WHEEZLE

incomplete If mention was not made
his chateau at Lake Mcdonald during
rest periods. This is above and more
exclusive than Swan and Flathead
lakes, where his new-found friends
and plutocratic pals shake off the
fatigue resulting from signing checks
and withholding from the mine work
ers sufficient to make the miners
much less than the highest-paid work
ers which they should be.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
By o. M. THOMSON
Willernie, MINI.

Capitalism has become so obnoxious
that we've changed its name to free
enterprise" But no matter what the
liable is there's a wolf under the skin.
One has only to watch its behavior
to be convinced
The trick of free enterprise is to buy
something for as little as possible and
sell it for all you can. But If you think
that is hard try selling raw materials
at a low price and buying back the
finished products at high price. Or
try working for low wages and pay
ing high prices for the necessities of
life.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
By B. SMITH, Butte, Mont.

This is the saga of all sagas-beine
the meteoric career of Hon. Burton
Knockout Wheezle with some skips
and misses due to charitable dis
position and shortage of paper.
Beginning back on bleak, poverty
stricken apple orchard in Massachu-
sets, our one-time hero and erstwhile
leading isolationist, was found at
times to purloin more than his ration
al share of the fruit of the orchard.
1t should be noted here that the
Hon. Wheezle was an acrobat of parts
and sorts. And in his embryo or
adolescent years, he decided to have
done with the rigors his forebears had
endured before and after the May
flower.
Having arrived at a decision, the
one-time hero of the man in frayed
overalls, executed hop, skip and
jump to Michigan u, where he washed
dishes to support himself while major
ing in isolationism, throwing the har-
pooh into all corporations, and acquir-
ing the know-how that imbued him
later on to repel attacks by the A.C.M.
for a time.
Joe Stain went through the same
curriculum in Siberia, and he and our
hero were at one time in rather close
and intimate agreement. in purely
abstract way, to be sure. Just exactly
when this friendship ceased it is diff
ficult to say.)
Be that as it is or was, it must
have been after the Hon. Wheezle
vaulted from the balcony of the Butte
hotel right into the first pages of Con
Kelly's morning blackout rag.
The leap from the balcony to the
first page established an all-time rec
ord which has never been equalled in
ancient or contemporary history, and
perhaps never will be, there being no
worthy competition for the laurels our
former hero has acquired.
In between there are many other
near-highlights in the hero's meteoric
career, such as his trip across coun-
try (shortly before the outbreak of
hostilities, making speeches under the
auspices of America First at $500 per
speech and found (This is permitted |
under Senate Rule 81 BX, which al
lows member to make some extra
speeches without loss of Uncle Sans
stipend to senators)
These speeches were so well thought
of by Herr Hitler's agents in Central
America that they were reprinted YER
batim in Nazi newspapers in that re-
gion
Versatility is something the Hon.
Wheezle has plenty Of as witness his
recent charge that Stain was an iso-
lationist and demanding that Uncle
Sam put Russia in her place; of
course not with "the blood of your
boys and my boys.
Before the recent session of con-
gress assembled after a curtailed va
cation Of less than three months, the
Hon. Wheezle was in no hurry to re-
turn to his Washington duties making
trips up and down and across Mon
tana, delivering speeches before Mite
and other clubs which were more ex-
elusive and cultured than the men of
rusty lunch-buckets who formed the
bulk of the senator-to-be's support ]
about quarter of a century ago,
when the going was rougher.
This chronicle would be more than I
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

the National Youth Administration
and the various programs for training
military personnel.
The opposition argument most fire
quently heard in Montana is the bug
bear of federal control of our schools
1t is wholly without merit, this argu
ment. Legislation providing for fed
eral aid specifically prohibits federal
interference in state direction of the
schools; such federal interference is
prohibited implicitly in the Constitu-
ton of the United States; and it is
prohibited explicitly in the Enabling
Act by which congress created the
State of Montana, in these words
1.-THE schools, colleges and UNIVERSE
ties provided for in this act shall for
ever remain under the exclusive con-
troll of said states"
Federal aid simply means that the
federal government would pay into
the states public school fund.- to be
administered BY the state and local
communities along with the rest of
the money therein, a sum sufficient to
obtain reasonable equality of teaching
standards and facilities throughout
Montana and the United States. That
does not mean standardized teaching;
it could mean, however, that Montana
could bring up its teachers salaries
at least to the national average of
,599 year from the present level
more than 5000 below that average.
The average, certainly, is far from
adequate; remember that it includes
such incredibly low annual salaries
as the 1854 paid in Mississippi. Com
pare this national average annual
wage for teachers, approximately ST.
600, with the national average for en-
ployes in manufacturing industry, ST.
1863. Is it any wonder that nearly 300,-
900 teachers have left the profession
since the war started?
You do not find the shameful record
of Montana teachers salaries-twen-
ty-fourth from the top in the national
scale-in THE MONTANA TAXPAY-
Err, bulletin of the so-called Montana
L ca PoJ Oio EoSOCldliOns ihotCclds INC
teachers are brushed off with this am
biguous sentence: 1.-THE average tax
payer recognizes the importance of
adequate compensation for teachers
but he is less interested in the mini
mum and maximum paid the indiyid
lal teachers than he is in the total
amount required" And the bulletin
prints a chart to show that Montana,
in average school expenditure per pu-
pill, ranks seventh in the country. 1t
loes not print the rest of the story
he fact that because of our huge |
urea school costs for the same service |
ire 80 per cent higher in this state
han the national average; nor does
his take into account the fact that
We have larger proportion of school
lge children in our population than
he nation as whole, and a higher
reproductive rate.
vi.
THE MONTANA TAXPAYER calls
he attention Of its readers to the fact
hat current state appropriations for
he various units of the university sys-
EN- are up Ga to 1872 per cent from the
evel of 1850 years ago. But 1t
oes not mention the fact that Mon
ana's income has doubled in that time,
hat state income tax collections and
ank deposits are four times what
hey were in 1885, the cost of living
as skyrocketed, that agricultural in
ONE is two and a half times as great
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
THE NEEDLES EYE
fearless crque of the in which the Christie
Church the need for social and economic change.

fearless crque of the in which the Christian
Church the need for social and economic change.
Below opinions of some readers:
MANY The Needles Eye. have
read from Kiver Kveand with practically entire approval
Spencer church
to
kind of thing needing The book
readable tmey"Gladys Talbot Edwards
cooperative
uncomfortable including
would believe the Capitalist
Christian birth."-Rchard Joyce.
writes: Many thanks book
reading
Sunday the Minister
it."
Knight editor of the N D. u F. writes
enjoyed reading The Needles both
s thrilling read"
Olsrud writes: "Thank
Society,"
Illuminating fascinating
civilization of the
Copies of THE NEEDLES EYE can be obtained from
the author Ouf Erickson Watford City, North Dakota
from The Coop Publishing Company, Box $685. Helena,
Montana at 35c per copy
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
ON MONTANA EDUCATION
An Address by JOSEPH KINsEY HOWARD

Editors Note We have received permission Howard
compelled
of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

It is notifying truth. and ought
to teach the wisest of us humility, that
many of the most valuable discoveries
have been the result of chance rather
than of contemplation and of accident
rather than of design-ColtOn.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

Patronize the Cooperative in your
is there to serve youi
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
MORE LOOT FROM THE GLUE POT IS FOUND

Mrs. Jim Macheema, while chopping wood in her back yard uncovered a money bag with the Glue Pots mark on it. She imme- diately took it to the Glue Pot, where it was found to be part of the money taken in the second robbery.
 Tommy Upeckson, who is now held in the Federal jail, formerly lived in the Macheema home. The money was in nickels and dimes and amounted to about $ll.00. The U. s. Marshals office reports finding of other missing merchan- disc as well.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
Atomic Bomb Secret Must Be Made Public

WASHINGTON, Oct. g. (P) - Dr. Irving Langmuir, General Electric research laboratories, tes- tified there is no possibility of permanently keeping the secret of the atomic bomb"
 "Only a few years" is the most than we can keep it from other countries, Langmuir said in joint hearing of the Senate Commerce and Military committees for a proposal to grant broad federal aid to scientific research.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
WIEN AIRLINES OFFERS PRIZE TO BEST RAT CATCHER

The Wien Airlines has offered the prize of trip to Nome for the champion rat catcher of Fair banks. The Chamber of Com merce rodent control campaign is in progress with 2,O00 new traps expected this week. The Junior Chamber of Commerce as well as the Boy Scouts are cooperating in the program and bounty's will be established for the trappers.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
Groundhog Day(s)

BIG SPRINGS, Md.-(P)-What may be new record in ground hog extermination was establish ed here by Walter w. Suffcool, who bagged 100 of the animals in one season and on one form, blast ing away with a .22 rifle at dis tances of 40 to 200 yards.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
DELIVERS THE MAIL

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y.-(P) The Brooklyn Dodgers would like to see Elmer Red Durrett, a Guadalcanal Marine veteran, de- liver the mail just as he did last winter in Dallas, Tex, where Red carried letters on an eight mile route.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08

A flea will jump higher than any other animal in the world for its size, according to Encyclopae- dia Britannica. A comparable jump for a man in relation to size would easily be as high as the greatest New York skyscraper.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
At The Hotels
WALLACE HOTEL

Ruth Warren, Fairbanks; Don George, Bob Long and Archie Watson of Anchorage, Milton Girth and H. B. Creech of Seat tie, Fred Weinard and James Rob- bins of Candle and Steve Hornyak of Unalakleet, and Zena Page of Shungnak.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
MAYOR ON WHEELS

NUNEATON, Eng.-(P)-C. J. s. Dickens, Nuneaton's new may or, rides a bicycle to official func- tions, wearing his mayoral robes plus bicycle clips.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08

Early attempts of Europeans to settle on the Solomon Islands were baked by the cannibalism of the natives.
The Nome nugget., 1945-10-08
CHINA FRIENDSHIP 'DAY-OCTOBER
 10, 1945

Fourth of July-is October 10th. This great national holiday com memorates the dedication of the Chinese nation to the ideals of a free and democratic China envis- aged by China's immortal leader, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.
 Throughout the United States, it's territories and possessions, his day will be celebrated as China Friendship Day,"-a day when Americans everywhere join in a neighborly tribute to their friends, the heroic people of Chi na.
 This 54th anniversary of the Republic finds China joyful in peace at last, standing at the pin- nacle of her four thousand years of civilized history, free to take her rightful place in the world as a modern, democratic state.
 But three months ago, the peo- pie of Japan, still fighting gallant ly for national survival though worn and weighted with the rav- ages of war almost to the limits of endurance, marked another, bitter and sorroWful anniversary, recalling the date of July ', 1887, when the storm of Japanese az gression broke over China in full fury-a grim reminder that China has been the nation longest at war of all in the world
 For eight dark years of unre- lieved struggle and despair, the people of China, with indomitable will, and almost with their bare hands, fought a war of resistance that amazed the world. Knowing nothing of modern warfare and modern machines, lacking food, clothing and ammunition, they determined to fight on with flesh and blood, and by their death to slow down the advance of a fully armed enemy, to trade space for time until the Allies would range themselves at their side.
 The war destroyed China's in dustry, it's railways and foreign trade, drove the students from its universities, and made refugees of fifty millions of her people-more than one-third as many people as there are in the whole United States. And besides the scourges of war, there were the old disas- ters-flood, famine and drought.
 China survived because of the magnificent moral and spiritual strength of her people-because of their conSecration to ideals of freedom which are deep and eter- nal.
 Today the Chinese nation faces an normous task, not only to re- build what has been destroyed, but to carry forward the trans formation of whole way of life, the establishments of a democrat ic China, which was disrupted by the war.
 I am sure that the people of Alaska join with free people ev- anywhere in their desire to help China bind her wounds, to restore faith, to establish democracy, and to bring new hope to the world. hope that all Alaskans will take xx,kolo xl-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-02

Bn. troops engaged in a tactical
problem at the "Nazi Village" in
which rioters were driven out and
the leaders arrested. Companies Of
the 4th Battalion were also with
the local outfits.
The men received their pay on
Tuesday morning following an in
spection. The pay was based on
regular Army standards, each
man drawing salary according to
rank for a ten day period.
Companies of the 7th Bn. are
commanded by the following off,
GERS: Co. A, Capt. G. Hunter
Bowers; Co. B, Capt. A. PettingalI,
both of Frederick; Co. G, Capt.
Mark Patterson, Silver Spring;
Co. d, Capt. George Austin; Co. E,
Capt. c. Parkinson; Kensington;
Co. F. Capt. P. G. Stromberg, Eli
colt City; Hdqts. Co. Capt. c. H.
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-02
Baker Delivers The
Mail-Rain Or Shine

One of the funniest stories to
come out of the floods that have
beset the county the past few
weeks was the experience of Harry
F. Baker, special delivery and mail
messenger for the Rockville Post
office.
1t was raining when he went out
to Poets Lodge to deliver some
baby ducks that mad come by mail
one day last week and he noticed
that Watts Branch was up a bit.
He fingered about 20 minutes to
talk to the genial Judge Hunt
drove into the water which was
much higher, and it drowned out
his motor.
Judge Hunt, seeing his plight,
phoned the Baker nome and told
son he" mad better come rescue
daddy who was in danger Of being
washed down misunderstanding
to the call the boy decided some
thing heavier than a car was need
ed. He called the Rockville Fire
Department.
BY that time the water had come
into Harry's truck and he was sit
ting on the top. "You should have
seen Dad" said his son, Cpl. Baker,
Sitting up there with the fire en-
CINE pulling him down the road"
Of course had Mr.. Baker known it
was going to rain so hard he could
have let the little ducks swim to
their new home.
Meanwhile the rains continue
and all records for July rainfalls
since 1886 have been broken; crops
mildew and rot in the fields and
the planting of late gardens is de-
layed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-02

Linda Anne Greene, aged II
months, wins the colored miniature
given by Van der Veer studio
in Rockville for the most photo
genie baby to visit the studio in
June.
While the father, NAM &C is
in the service, Mrs. Greene anC
the baby are living with her par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Levi H
King, on the Rockville Pike. Mrs
Greene, who looks like the baby's
not so much older sister, confesses
to Is years the father will be
Fl in October. She is native OF
Virginia he comes from North
Carolina.
Though the baby has not seer
her father since May she recognizes
his picture, says, Daddy" and kiss.
es it. She can also walk and
shows all signs of being a very
precocious young lady.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-02
Charter Says "Payoff"
NOyes Refutes Charge

The Montgomery County Char
ter Committee this week released
to all papers charge that the
insurance contract for county en-
ployees awarded to H. King Mu.
larkey, Of Bethesda, was "a pay
off for his services to the political
machine in its fight to defeat char.
ter in the 1914 campaign" and
stated that only one company had
a chance to bid for the contract.
Wednesday afternoon a release
from Alfred d. Noyes, president
of the board of county commits
sioners, refuted the charges by ex-
planning that two large stock com
panies and one large mutual com
pany had submitted bids, which
were studied in detail by a COM
mittee composed of Commissioner
Richard H. Lansdale, the county
accountant and the counsel to the
board.
Mr.. Noyes added "the people of
the county should realize that
standard stock companies are all
members Of the Underwriters Group
Conference and sell insurance at
identical rates."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-02
Sailor Home On Leave Airs
His VieIUs On "S;LLy LdlUs''

of Maryland Mr.. Watkins pointed
to this paragraph:
"This privilege shall be extended
only to persons of the armed forces
who shall appear before the Clerk
of the Court in the uniform of their
respective service, present their
credentials showing their status
and while hunting or fishing must
have the credentials on their per-
son for inspection by the game
warden, any deputy game warden
or any other person"
Now it is well known that Mr..
Watkins office tries to follow "the
letter of the law" as nearly as pos
sible," We have to" he says-"you'd
be surprised the things people try
to put over on us" and he cited a
recent case. A woman came in and
secured a marriage license for her
self and a certain man. In checking
up later it was found that the man
already had license to marry an
other woman-thus creating a
"who's going to get him" triangle.
The sailor in his letter is inclined
to berate "the men who make these
crazy laws" and those who carry
them out. He says, "The majority
Of seryiccmen on leave like to get
out of uniform and relax" and he
ends his letter rather pathetically.
Therefore should anyone be COM
PEELED to dress all up in his uniform
just to please some lawmaker in
a white collar, to get a fishing
license to fish with for few days?
Please put this in the paper for
me and thanks lot"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-02
JERSEY ShOW Had Record CrOlUd
And Eighty Seven Exhibits

305 Day Production Record and
The Life Time Production Record
These classes we're judged 50%
on production and 50@s on type. A
point system was used to score
these cows for the awards. The
305 Day Production Record Class
was won by Mrs. Helen p. Berlage,
Olney, with her 7 yr. old COW that
scored 1911 points. She produced
$3.50 lbs. of fat in 800 days on
two time milking. N. c. Stiles &
Sons, Holiday COW, walked off with
the Life Time Production Record
Class, scoring 231 points. She
has life record Of 1882 lbs. Of
milk and 3144 lbs. Of fat. These
classes tend to tie production in
with type which has always gov
erned shows.
Woolwine Hubble, Laytonsville,
won the Showmanship award for
Alters, ID years and under. He
received "The Jersey" by Gould
for his accomplishment.
The Senior Calf Class was a
standout with II calves partici-
pating while eight were shown in
the Junior Calf class.
Results Of the All Clesses:
Bulls mos. and under 1 yr. :
Fry Bros, Laytonsville; Stanley
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