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facturers to turn out at least mini
mum amount of low and medium
priced clothing.
The Senate-House Conference bill is
a phony. 1t cannot stop further infla-
tionary price increases. In fact, the bill
is expressly designed to promote in
flation. A Quilted OPA is left in the bill
to conceal the betrayal of the peoples
interests by congress. Representatives
TONS defenses against initiation, hope
that the people will blame OPA for
the initiation that got under way July
1st and which will continue legally if
the Senate House conference bill goes
ON the statute books.
AS we go to press July 22nd) ap-
peasement circles in the administra-
ton are pressing the president to ac-
cept the Senate-House conference bill
as the best compromise" that could
be won at the present time BREAD G.
BUTTER disagrees emphatically with
this evaluation of the bill.
Not Compromise But SelI-Out
The bill is not a compromise. 1t is
an acceptance of disastrous initiation.
At best, it will simply slow down the
inflationary spiral that got under way
on July LIST. The politicians who sold
out the peoples interests hope that
the lnflationary chain reaction they so
recklessly set off won't lead to a cata-
strophic explosion until after the cleo
lions in November If the people re-
elect them to office, and then the ex-
plosion occurs, they will put the blame
for initiation on OPA, or even on the
people for bidding up prices.
The people should know right now
that their living standards are in
grave peril. The battle against infla-
ton has been lost. All that the people
can rely upon are their own efforts.
They must organize buyers strikes in
every community and pledge to pur-
chase only essentials. They must de-
monstrate against inflationary prices, |
whether or not they are on the statute |
books.
Consumers must develop such a |
campaign against initiation and it's in
stigators that long before the Novem- |
Der elections the representatives and |
senators who destroyed price control |
will learn what it means to incur the
wrath of the people. Consumers
Union Bread & Butter"
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DEPl ORES PITTANCE ALI OWED SENIOR
CITIZENS BY STATE OF MONTANA
Clancy Citizen Writes An Open Letter On Condition of Aged
People To Governor Sam c. Ford

that a maintenance diet for women
over fifty-five years of age who weigh
one hundred and fifty pounds, Il be-
lieve that is about average weight
should be 1920 calories. He states that
a man over fifty five, whose weight is
one hundred and sixty pounds, (again
about average) should be 2150 calor-
les This is per day calory quota
Governor, and not per week or per
month.
Can the people under discussion get
this per day quota on from twenty-five
to about thirty-two dollars per month?
Can they also pay rent buy clothing,
buy medicine and live decently on this
figure? l am told that those old peo-
pie who have not resided in the state
five years are paid a flat sum of
fifteen dollars per month, something
over three dollars week. Indeed
displaced Pole, Bulgarian or Italian
would rightly feel he was being per-
secuted if forced to live on such
figure. l wonder whether an appeal
should not be made to the United Ma
tions Administration to send a dele
gate here to Montana to check starva-
ton amongst the aged and infirm.
Their distributing food to the needy,
here in Montana, would save the Cor
poration money, and you would I'M
doubtedly be in favor Of that.
Again, Governor, let me remind you
that winter is coming on. Old folks
will need fuel and warm winter cloth
ing. They can buy neither on the pen
sion they now receive. According to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics whole
sale food prices rose SO per cent be-
tween June 20 and July 16, 1916. The
New York Journal of Commerce in
their daily index of sensitive COM
modify prices reports rise of 1872 per
cent as of July Is, and this rise took
place in a period of two weeks, with
no relief in sight due to the emascula-
tion of price controls by your republi-
can friends in congress.
In order to avoid absolute hunger
and widespread suffering, something
must be done. You, Governor, are re-
sponsible. I trust some action from
you is forthcoming Respectfully
Roger S. Murray, Clancy Montana.
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NEW FACES may OFFER HOPE IN next
SESSION OF NATIONAL CONGRESS
Much Unfinished Business Must Be Taken Up By Congress
To Make Up For Dawdng of Past 10 Months

Washington = (FP) - Hope for a
better congress and more progress
sive House rules committee at the
next session was held out Aug. IL by
Rep. Adoph J. SABBATH Cd, Ill., in a
speech inserted in the congressional
record.
AS a result of primary upsets and
November voting, said the rules COM
mittee chairman, 81 look forward to
a more progressive membership of the
rules committee, which will enable us
to act as the House rules intended, as
a clearing house for legislation, and
not as a bottleneck and burying
ground"
SABBATH said the House should have
a chance to vote on committee-ap-
proved bills, and decried the coali-
ton of republicans and southern de-
mocrats which kept the fair employ
ment practices bill from the floor.
AS a list of unfinished business"
he said he would insist the House act
ON at once in January, SABBATH pro-
posed:
l. The Csc minimum wage bill.
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Dear Governor:

Dear Governor:
| am writing you this open letter to
point out to you a long suffering group
of Montana people. I mean the people
who are trying to exist on the old age
pension. also mean the people that
are slowly dying with silicosis. When
/ first talked to some of the people
that are getting miserable pensions.
l could hardly believe that people here
in Montana were compelled to live on
a diet consisting of less calories than
is fed to German or Japanese prisoners
of war. The reason they are compelled
to live thus is because you have not
insisted that their pensions rise with
the cost of living
You undoubtedly know throughout
the State, in attics, in easements, in
novels there are thousands of good
Montana citizens trying to live on
from twenty-five to about thirty-two
dollars a month These people are old
and are unable to work There are
also hundreds with silicosis, all sick
men, trying to live on thirty dollars
month. Since the relief office only
publishes figures on how much is paid
out, in the Company press, that office
would seem to try to convey that
everything is lovely with the aged
and afflicted AS a matter of fact your
relief experts would not know any
better anyway. They are for the most
part interested in their jobs and their
pay and not in their clients. The men
you have consistently picked to head
Montana relief have been, character
iscally enough, mediocre simpletons,
sponsored by the. tax payers league.
Because the cost of living has steadi-
ly risen, the old people who are COM
PEELED to accept this wretched hand
out, together with the victims of the
pure air in the Butte mines are today
unable to buy meat, milk, eggs or
cheese. They are what might be called
Sam Ford Vegetarians Naturally, this
starvation diet releases them from this
vale of tears, years before they would
otherwise 60 The state is responsible
for this.
Recently | talked to a superintend-
ent of nurses in one of our more pro-
gressfve cities. She assured me that
when old age pensioners are brought
in to the hospital where she is en-
ployed, they are so undernourished
and run down, that there is little that
can be done for them. You will observe
that said this takes place in one of
our more progressive cities. In the
average city, and worse yet in the
rural counties, where the city council,
or the board of county commissioners,
have been bamboozled by your "Strict |
Economy For The Poor Program"
things are much worse. In these places
the old age pensioners, and silicosis |
victims are never admitted to a hos
pital until three hours after rigor
mortis has set in.
Now Governor, let me give you some
facts to null over. Dr. August A. Tho
men, one of the worlds leading nutri-
tionists and one of the foremost dieti-
tians and author of the provoking
book, doctors Don't Believe It-Why
Should YOU" states most emphatically
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g. The permanent Fair Employment
Practices Commission bill.
3. The federal anti-polltax bill
4. The Wagner Ellender Taft gen.
eral housing act.
5. The Wagner-Murray Dingell ma
tional health bill.
6. The st. Lawrence waterways bill.
7. A new and stronger price control
act.
8. An amended seamen's bill of
rights.
8. A real investigation of the Ku
Klux Khan and other fascist organiza-
TONS
"If the American people send to
congress this fall progressive repres-
entatives with the good of the country
at heart who will back Pres. Truman's
legislative program not only with talk
but with actual votes" said SABBATH,
1--WE will pass these fair, just, humane
and desirable laws"
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Continued from Page One)

(COntinueu from rage One)
American disease of ACCOMMODATIONS
hate must be applied on a national
scale. One should remember that q
staggering number of Americans
possibly as many as 40 per cent if we
include negroes, Catholics, and Jews
are the actual or potential victims OF
hate.
1t is self-eyident that no nation can
remain strong, or even survive, if well
over one-thrd of its citizens are com.
PEELED to live in constant physical
fear and insecurity because of origin
or faith American slavery before 1860
led to the bloodiest civil war in his
tory. American race and religious pre-
JUDGE of today can have no happy
outcome either IF we cannot change
woman Frances p Bolton of Ohio
warned, 1--WE are going to bring upon
the heads of our children a
cataclysm."
No Overnight Solution
There is no overnight solution to
this problem, but the essential point
about it is that it can be solved. All
that it requires is effort, imagination,
and will. There are many examples to
guide and inspire such efforts Look at
Switzerland, or look at Russia. Both
countries, each in it's own way,
brought forth national harmony and
unity out of ethnic chaos and tribal
hate. Swiss citizens enjoy respect and
equality regardless of whether they
are Calvanists or Catholics, Germans
or French or Italians.
There are some American groups
that are working in that direction The
National Conference of Christian and
Jews is an outstanding example; the
Bureau for Intercultural Education is
another. There are still others. These
hold community confer
ences and publish, or encourage the
publication of, stimulating and helpful
especially for teachers.
An encouraging example of the
awakening of the teachers to the
whole problem is the current (June)
ioohC VI blC 44uSlioll JOul iotls tilG DlO-
fessional magazine of the teaching of
English in the secondary schools. The
whole issue of the Journal, under the
special editorship of Prof. Louise Ros-
enblatt of Brooklyn College, is de-
voted to "intercultural education"
Scholars like Horace NJ. Kallen and
Ruth Benedict, writer's like Thomas
Mann and James T. Farrell, psycholo- |
sists like Ernst Kris, all contribute |
comments and suggestions on how
he teacher of English can add to ma
ional unity and democratic health by
N eradication of the weeds of pre-
udice.
But the Americans who get their
yes squashed out because their skins
re black, and the Americans who
annot get jobs because their religion
S not that of the majority, cannot
e expected to wait with philospohic
erenity until the teachers have
rought up an unprejudiced genera
ion. The good fight must be carried
n every day, in every community, on
very front, by every body concerned
nth the welfare of the nation.
This is one fight that no decent
lmerican can afford to lose.-Saul K.
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ublic Gets Hotfoot In
OPA MAKEUP Rule

Washington OPP Unless con-
sumers rally around to defend both
themselves and OPA, the shoe indus
try is going to force the weakened
agency to grant new price increases
or remove shoes entirely from price
control. The industrys profit rate is
three times its prewar aver
age.
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Power Trust Charges In As Exceed IVA

Continued
table, July 25
electricity
they would have IVA instead private
company and the saving they might have made)
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Lend a Hell ping Hand

How help making Cooperative successful enterprise?
By taking active part in building it up.
AS membeowner should attend all the meetings of
operative particularly annual meeting which the directors
IF consider the of that invested
will realize the of choosing the capable directors
guide the business You will choose public spirited people who
knowledge
basic understanding of the philosophy of cooperation
Ii and fellow understand the of
with this wechoen board and
cooperative spirit will repaid the
benefits PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER THEIR COM
MON GOOD
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Patronize the Cooperative in your
is there to serve you!
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
By FARMAN HOLME

EVERY now ana then, when you
get ready to haul off and say some
thing. nasty about union leader,
a reader wrote recently to the edi-
tor of a large Eastern paper, you
seem to feel that it is necessary to
soften the lick by reminding your
readers that big business used to
be pretty wet around the nose, too.
yet, when you review the situa-
ton, | do not believe there is 4
case on record where one business
man ever had the power-or if he
had it, ever used the pOwer-cOm-
pletely to strip the country's in
dustrial gears.
Il can't recall where a single
big businessman, or even group
of big businessmen, ever had-Or
if they had it, ever used-the
power to close stores and hospitals.
to stop trains, to dim out whole
cities and sections, to cause thou
sands of people in remote. parts OF
the country to be thrown out of
jobs; to bring about suffering and
hardship, to threaten starvation,
I disease and disaster"
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
.awAsAINeToN
~ YsNApsAo1 1ssEz!
Ry WILLARD CARLTON

Government press agentry, which
flowered under the New Deal to
cost the nations taxpayers more
than $4,000. 900 in the last fiscal
year, faces drastic cuts from
economy-minded members of the
new Congress.
Official records show that in the
last fiscal year there were 23,009
full-time employees engaged in
tacks falling under educational,
promotional and publicity" activi-
ties.
In addition, Federal employees
devoting more than one week but
less than a full year to these ac-
tivities totaled 22,769.
Much Criticism
Criticism of the governments
huge crops of press agents reached
it's peak during the OPA extension
fight in Congress. Of the overall
$74.S million so-called 'informa-
ton" budget, $26 million was
budgeted for OPA.
The OUA's press agents literally
flooded the country with prOpa-
ganda favoring extension of the
price control law without change.
To spread their propaganda they
utilized the "grass-roOts" Organi-
cations established originally as
volunteer watch-dogs for price
regulation.
Before the advent of the New
Deal there was but one press rep
resentative at the White House
and an average of about one each
at the ten established government
dana
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
SOUTH HAD
PEAK YEAR
IN INDUSTRY
BY {. w. GILMORE
APP NeWSfeature

Atlanta-Industry in the tradi-
tionally agricultural south has
brought forth elaborate expansion
plans for 1947, both to take advan-
tage of cheap money and protect
the current employment peak.
Cotton in particular and agri
culture in general still remain
the backbone of southern econ
omy, and most segments of the
farming industry continued to
ride high on the strength of bum
per prices in 1916.
But industrial expansion parti-
cularly in cotton textiles, captured
full share of the spotlight. All in
all, SO textile industry expansion
projects already have been mapped
in nine states, providing as esti-
mated 22,975 new jobs.
Cotton producers, despite a
series of price breaks, and tobacco
growers, despite a record, came out
of the year with more money than
ever. Only in Florida did the farmer
suffer when torrential rains did
multi-million dollar damage to the
truck crop.
A price of better than 80 cents a
pound for cotton in December was
gratifying to tenant and planta.
tion owner alike, although the mid
October crash sent the fiber down
from 1910 cents.
At the end of 1945 traders in the
New Orleans exchange considered
"a cents fair price but the bullisf
talk of 40 and SO cents, coupled
with short crop predictions, sen
the spectators on a buying spree
The end came Oct. 19 when banker!
called for more margin against tn,
loans they had made. After three
trading suspensions, cotton fel
more than $50 a bale.
Meanwhile, a tipoff on textil,
mill expansion came through. ;
report thatthe consumption of ney
cotton in Florida, Georgia, Ala
bama. Tennessee, Mississippi an,
Louisiana had increased six percen
. over 1915.
Mergers within the industry, an
the now-fulfilled prospect tina
!, price controls would be removed
= precipitated an unprecedented in
? flation in cotton mill securities
: Some common stock issues boone
:, up as much as $500 and more pc
$100-par. share as several milliO
;, spindles passed from southern t
! northern ownership. However, mos
= southern mills remained in south
ern hands.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

tracted by frantic, CLASSY knocking
on the pavement outside the board
room. A skunk had caught it's head
in a mayonnaise jar. While some
strong men repeatedly turned pale,
Joseph Shaeffer, advisor to the
board, donned a gas mask, long
rubberized gloves, and the volumi-
nous cape. When the jar wouldn't
come off, Shaeffer banged it against
the sidewalk, smashing all but the
neck. which remained like a col
lar Enraged. the animal fled, show
ing it's scorn the way only a skunk
would, according to all by-stand-
ers save Shaeffer, who couldn't tell,
! thanks to mask and cape
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

The latter part of the year finally
brought expansion announcements
totalling $23,000,000 in the hosiery
knitting industry and $300,000,OOO
in the spinning and weaving INDUS
tries.
The year was a record breaker
too, for the tobacco industry-bOth
for the manufacturer and the PROV
er. Farmers in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia and GeOr-
gia sold 8,940,266 pounds of
leaf-164,00 600 pounds better than
in 1945-at an average price OF
around SAT per hundred pounds
or four and half cents above last
year. ..t -.
These all time highs were
matched by the tobacco manufac-
turers themselves, who produced
335, 900, 100000 cigarets by the end
of the fiscal year, June 30. This
was better by 7,000,000,000 than
the wartime peak.
The great Birmingham valley
which harvests it's iron ore and
bituminOus fuel from the same roll
ing hills, found coal production hat
been reduced by one-fourth under
1945 due to strikes. Steel prOduc
ton also dropped in the face O
orders even heavier than during
the war. Some finishing units
were booked solid for two or more
years ahead.
A major expansion in the stee
industry was under way in Ala
bama with one additional Opel
hearth under construction and ;
cold reduction sheet mill bein:
built at Fairfield.
Shipbuilding dwindled rapidl
although the giant works at Pas
cagoula Miss, had enough order
to last through 1947.
AS the year came to close, cit
rus. growers wondered how the
t would dispose, of an estimate
102,000,000 box crop. Prices wer
: lower than 1945 and the state
| citrus commission learned tina
= there were 100000 cans of fru
2 products left over from last yea
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
Flagpole Sitter Quits
In a Lightning Decision

LOUISVILLE, Ky. .-R-L Louis
colgate, Jr, 81, can prove that
lightning strikes twice in the
same place.
colgate has returned from
Nashville. Tenn, where he saws
he undertook to sit atop a 9O-foot
nagpole for 40 days as an adver-
tising stunt.
Everything went we'll for ID
days but on the 18th day, storm
struck. So did a bolt of lightning.
Coigate was just beginning to re-
cover from the shock, when along
came bolt No. 2.
! Colgate resigned.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27

nomic and political freedom.
The statement also warns that
Government spending must be
reducted and a start made on pay
ing off the public debt"
Five Other. Problems
Comments on the other five
problems include:
Credit control: "UnWise money
and bank credit policies during the
past two centuries have been sec
Ond only to war as a cause of hui
man suffering. Those in power suf-
fer from an irresistible urge to
tinker with the money situation
which is so much dynamite from
the viewpoint of economic Stabil-
mitted to find their own level in
free markets without resorting to
such manipulation"
Government regulation: BUSH
ness management accepts reason
able and proper Government regu-
lation, not only because it realizes
that such regulation is necessary
to protect the public against un-
scrupulOus practices. but as we'll
because the existence of a healthy
business system in country of
this magnitude is dependent upon
/, such regulation
THE issue is whether the regu-
, lation shall be of a character which
! encourages and improves the sys-
; tenn of individual enterprise, or SO
far-reaching that it undermines
} individual enterprise and thus
t leads the nation into state OF
; complete Government regimenta-
2 tion and totalitarianism. If the
5 people of this nation are to have
- their basic political and economic
| freedom, ii is imperative that they
. get rid of operative decisions by
= Government in competitive fields.
4 Labor: "If the labor situation is
to be corrected, it is necessary thai
: unions, no less than business, bt
: prevented from following policie:
= which are contrary to the genera
e public interest"
= Give Farming Chance
Agriculture: THE wise Govern
ment policy from here on is to Civ
d farming it's head With a sound
s healthy, prosperous economy, an
l. the demand for farm prOduct
d which clearly will be present in tn
= future, farming can begin to en-
Joy d sound stable prosperity, tn
S, like of which it has not experience
ID since before the First World War.
,e International situation: "FOreig
TX trade, if it is to make a contribr
IS ton to the welfare of the Amer
az can people, has to be twO-wa
rs street. 1t is to the interest OF tn
nt country to have the rest of tn
al nations sound and prosperous. W
IN can, and should. stand willing
IL help get foreign productlo
If started. This country, by using i
to leadership and available resource
in in a prudent manner, can do muC
~ to get the world back on the fOa
to progress"
The responsibilities of manag
he ment, the report said, extend II
IL beyond the efficient conduct of il
ge dividual companies with fair trea
1T. ment for employees and customer
to Four points mentioned in a broad
a field of responsibility are: malnt
nd nance of free, open, competltl
is markets; provide employment
ly major segment of the workil
force; recognition of the welfa
lot of consumers, as we'll as employe
lly and investors, in determinil
nd wage, price and dividend policie
w policing of its own domain to ke
ms it free of business policies al
ad practices which are a threat
20 continued prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1946-12-27
That's What He
Gets For Knocking

SANTA FE, N. M.-(P)-A pesky
woodpecker has posed a problem
here that may boomerang on him
in the end.
His noisy pecking has disturbed
the slumbers of Mrs. George H.
Wisehart, who appealed to the
state game department and city
police for protection against this
nuisance"
Police advised Mrs. Wisehart to
apply to the district court for per-
mission to have the woOdpecker
shot.