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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
l3Co-op Bank Loans
Big Aid To Food
Production

Washington, D. C-Extending credit
totaling over s375,701733 to 1,O23
farmer co-operatives, the 10 Banks for
Co-operatives continued to help agri-
cultural co-operatives meet unprece-
dented demands for food and other
farm products during the fiscal year,
ended JUNE 30, 1916. Co-ops have re-
paid 935 per cent of all money bor-
rowed.
Commodity loans and advances, in
Guiding loans and advances based upon
Commodity Credit Corporation docu-
ments, decreased over $40 million
from the total of the preceding year
The rapidity with which staple pro-
ducts moved into consumption during
the period reduced the need for loans
to finance the usual warehousing of a
substantial part of certain staple
crops through the marketing seasos
On the other hand, loans to co-opera-
tives for general operating capital
purposes, and for the purchase and
erection of plants and equipment, in
creased substantially over the volume
of the preceding two years. Important
developments affecting cooperative
financing by the banks during the
year were:
% The continuing tendency for CO.
operatives to go further into the own
ership of raw materials and supply
plants. (2) Use of more machines on
the farms has increased the number
and scope of associations engaged in
manufacturing and distributing petrol
cum products (3) Increase in CEN
tralized grain drying, alfalfa dehydra-
ton, meat packin fertilizer manufac-
turing, mixed feed production; (4) |
Completion of the part the banks !
played in the lend-lease programs.
From the time of their organization |
in 1898 until June 80, 1916, the 10
Banks for Co-operatives had advanced |
$2,552,82 ,037 in credit to 3,491 farm
ers' co-operatives. By the end of the
1916 fiscal year 93.5 per cent OF this
had been repaid, ga per cent was still
and one-tenth of one per |
cent was in liquidation accounts, or
had been charged off.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
YOUR SOCIAL
SECURITY
WHAT CHANGES DID CONGRESS
MAKE RECENTLY IN THE
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT?

Congress, just prior to adjournment
passed a bill providing for a number
of new amendments to the Social
Security Act. Briefly they may be
summarized as follows:
l. Survivors insurance is extended
to families of veterans who die from
nonmilitary causes within three years
after their discharge from the armed
services.
2. More liberal conditions are pro-
yided under which old-age and survi-
vors insurance can be received. These
changes are for the most part minor
and technical in character.
g. Employer and employee social
security contributions to old-age and
survivors insurance are frozen at 10
for another year.
4. States are authorized to extend
their unemployment insurance sys-
tens to include maritime employees
who work for privately owned ship
ping companies.
5. States are permitted to use en-
ployee contributions to State unem-
ployment insurance funds to finance
disability insurance benefits.
6. Federal funds are increased for
the following Federal-State programs:
aid to dependent children, aid to the
blind, old-age assistance, maternal and
child health, crippled children, and
child welfare services.
For further information on old age
and survivors insurance visit your
local social security office located at
604 Power Block, Helena, Montana,
1880, Stewart J. Thomas,
Manager.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
Much Federal Help
Available For
Airports

| A current survey by the airport di
vision of the American Roadbuilders
association takes note of the fact that
Montana's rank in appointments OF
federal aid funds for airport develop
ment is eighth in the entire United
States-with s797,739 in federal funds
available to this state in 1947.
Added to the federal funds, it seems
likely that communities where airport
projects are approved will match these
funds or add even larger amounts.
The national organization estimates
that the initial stage of the federal aid
airport program in Montana will
amount to at least $1,900,000 next year.
Since the federal aid program, au-
thorized by the last session of con-
gress, involves an authorized expendi-
ture of s5O0,OOO,O0O by the national
government over period of seven
years the rate of expenditure in this
state after 1947 might reasonably rise
to around $4,000,000 annually.
In order for a community to parti-
cipate in the program public agency,
such as municipality or the state
must submit project requests, and
then follow them with project appli-
cations for federal aid funds. In gen.
eral sponsors and applicants will
carry on their negotiations with the
civil aeronautic authoritys district
airport engineers but it is expected
that the state aeronautics commission
will cooperate and assist the Montana
sponsors.
This program, which is in addition
to and exclusive of military and naval
of ground facilities,
should be of substantial benefit to
ontana.-Great Falls Tribune
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
OPA Rent Control Is
Now In Effect In
Capital City

Registration of property rented as
living accommodations in the Helena
rental area, which includes all of
Lewis & Clark County, began Novem-
Der first. Harry L. Harlem, who is rent
director for Helena handling rent reg
istrations, offers the following informa-
ton for the assistance of landlords.
All rental units, whether or not they
are occupied at the time of registration
must be registered. The rental control
program became effective in Helena
on November 1st 1916, and applies to
all dwelling units and accommoda-
tions, including homes, hotels, room
ing houses and similar establishments,
Harlem stated On that date it became
illegal for a landlord to demand or
receive more rent than was being
paid on January l, 1916, which is the
maximum rent date for the area. The
Helena rent office is located in the
Montana Building, where forms for
registration may be obtained and
where the rent director and staff will
assist landlords in making the regis
tration.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08

vi ed1ca1 Association. Here is
part of what DR.. Amick told
his colleagues:
up to now, we have been disin-
clined to be realistic, or quite frank
in the admission of our failures. Our
distress Of our fellow-man in his prob
lem of securing good medical care for
himself and his family convinces me
that we have been facing down the
road to hell, lured by the mirage of
personal prosperity and security :.
up to now, we have ignored the
social implications in our medical
progress, its needs and possibilities,
its opportunities and dangers For
a few decades we have gone on the
assumption that the patient existed
for the doctor, rather than the doctor
exists for the patient. A self-righteous
attitude on our part creates gulf
of misunderstanding between us and
the people we are supposed to serve.
1--WE need not waste any more time
in pointing to the achievements we
have attained in medicine in the last
80 years as if they signified that the
people need have no voice in deter
ming the type of medical care they
need today. The point at issue is how
to bring the social applications of
modern medicine in line with scienti-
fic progress in eradicating and pre-
venting disease.
To-day an informed public is de-
batting the question: Which will give
better results, our individualistic con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08

cept of medical practice that permits
the physician complete freedom to act
as he pleases without ever taking the
welfare of society as a whole into
consideration, or carefully planned,
organized medical service directed not
for individual gain of a few but with
the needs of the people in mind?v
The answer-passage of the Wag-
er-Murray-Dingel Bill was with
held from the people, when the Bill
was bottled up in committee in the
Senate. 1t is to be hoped that, with
pressure from forward-looking medical
men such as DR.. Amick, along with
demand from uses of medical services,
legislation for national health insur-
ance will be brought to the floor and
passed in the next congress.
From Bread & Butter
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08


naon the liberal colleges well the professional schools
according w the
prejudice in nstu
lions o
The with when confronted with this situation
bullets didn't
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challenge national
receiving
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Chicago entitled Race and
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thro the country
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
NAM At Odds With
McCabe's NTEA

| The National Association of Manu-
facturers has come out in support of
co-operatives in their position that
savings are not taxable as corporate
income, because they are paid back
as savings to member-patrons
This places the NAM at odds with
the National Tax Equality Associa-
ton, headed by Minneapolis grain
merchant. This grain man has led
vigorous campaign to have co-opera-
tive savings taxed before they are dis
tributed to member-patrons, claiming
they are profits" the same as money
he personally derives from his own
private grain trade.
This is the first time NAM has
broken its silence on the subject of CO.
operative taxation.
mo justification is found for taxing
lat the source patronage refunds paid
to customers of co-operatives," says
Morris Sayre, head of MANS agricul-
tural policy committee.
Although NAM now propounds the
CO-OpeTdllF6 punt VI view, ulduy VI us
individual members have been vigor-
GUS supporters of Ben McCabe and
his NTEA.
MANS new policy appears in re-
port called "Co-operatives in Relation
to Other Forms of Business Enter
prise" and delivered by Sayre before
a meeting of the Indiana State Grange. |
1t is primarily concerned with the tax
position of farm co-operatives but in
cludes consumer co-operatives in its
more general statements. In an intro
ductory paragraph, this general pic
ture is given:
"A cooperative is form of business
that enables a group of in
1ividuals, partnerships, or corporations
to combine together for the purpose of
producing or buying or selling a COM
modify or service. They are also legi-
innate forms of private enterprise"
DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
PREDICT LOWER PRICES

Houses in Brooklyn, appraised at
$4,000 were selling at $4,000 six
months ago. Today they are being
sold for $4,000. Some real estate
brokers in New York are stating that
prices will be lower in six months.
This resistance to outrageous prices
is concentrated in the middle and up
per bracket homes. Low-priced homes,
no matter what their state of disre-
pair, are still being gobbled up. Err
pensive homes are being subdivided
and sold to veterans and others who
cannot afford to purchase an entire
house
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
The Story Of Three Farmers Who Smoked Ciga

farmers do. They figured out that if they dubbed
together, they could buy these 10 cent cigars at
three for quarter.
That meant that the cigars cost 1-3 cents EACH
On the transaction they saved five cents.
Now question came up. Should these farmers
be taxed on the five cents they saved because they
were able to buy 10c cigars at three for quarter
There were people who went marching up and
down the land carrying the banner Of Private en-
terprise" and shouting that the farmers should be
taxed the five cents they saved because they were
able to buy 10 cent cigars at three for quarter
The farmers scratched their heads and wondered
They were not mad at anybody. They were not
against free enterprise. They showed some enter
prise in being able to buy 10 cent cigars at three for
quarter. They had made saving.
All they had done was to club together so they
could buy and sell at better advantage
What these farmers had learned was that coop
GRAFTON pays. That is the strength of the co-opera-
tive movement, people working together to improve
their marketing and distribution system.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08

The way this story starts is that once upon time
there were two men who wanted to go into business
They wanted to set up cigar store.
They had some money, but not enough. So they
borrowed what they needed. Then they opened their
cigar store and began selling cigars
They sold cigars at 10 cents apiece. Business
was good They sold lot Of cigars and made lot
Of money In fact they sold so many 10 cent cigars
that they made millions Of dollars.
At the end of the year they figured up their
profits They set aside some for They
paid interest on the money they borrowed Or may
be it was dividends on the stock they issued
Then they kept all the profit after paying taxes.
They were good businessmen.
Now it happened that there were three farmers
who lived near this cigar store. They liked to smoke
cigars They liked the particular 10 cent brand that
the cigar store Sold
But these three farmers knew that there was a
big profit in that brand Of cent cigars And they
did not have any too much money to spend cigars
So they got together to talk things over, the way
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
COP Tide Of
CONTINUED from Page one)

the successful reelection bid of Silver
Bow County Sheriff Al Mcleod on the
Independent ticket over his democra.
tic opponent John Malta and Bob
White, republican. 1t will be recalled
that Mcleod during the April dispute
between the ACM and the Butte
miners refused to let the company
run roughshod over his authority and
would not permit the bringing of
troops into the city. Then in the prim-
airy, the people of Butte were so in
terested in nominating Left Erick-
son for senator over Senator Wheeler,
that thousands voted the democratic
ticket, and Mcleod lost out. When
McLeod's loss was learned, union men
and business people insisted that he
run on the independent ticket. Butte
labor has indicated its faith in Nc
Leod by the very excellent winning
vote given to him Tuesday.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08

Pontiac, Neutrality-suspicious. F.
Adde's, secretary treasurer of the
United auto Workers (CIO) told a
meeting here, $50 long as we believe
in Strengthening democracy we should
participate in democratic organizations
such as unions and co-ops." The pur-
pose of the meeting was to raise funds
for the projected coop super-market,
which has had active support from the
local CLIO council as well as from Cen
trail States Cooperative Wholesale.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08
West Virginia ANA. Head
For Murray Health Bill

refreshing contrast to the attitude of organized medicine
toward the urgent need of providing the entire people with
adequate medical to be found in speech de-
ivered by Dr. Andrew E. Amick president the West
gnia State Medical Society constituent part of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08

Spare stamp 81, good for five pounds
of sugar, which was validated Sep
TENDER LIST, expires December 31st,
1916.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-08

We think the city administration the
county board of supervisors and the county
health department made a very promising
beginning this week to carry Onward a CO.
operative program to correct the very serious
health and sanitation problems which have
grown up in our community. DIR. Hegmeg, in
his position as head of the health Department.
drafted a thorough survey Of the problem
and listed the first things that have to be
done, the ordinances that ought to be passed,
the specific areas that ought to be cleaned
up; and he also, with what seemed to US
justification, frankly discussed the share of
responsibility for these matters which falls
TO the city, the county, the FPHA, and to the
public itself. We believe that if all agencies
concerned cooperate to work within the out
lines Of DR.. Hegmeg's program, that if public
opinion presses solidly behind them, and if
the health department head continues to
work for the execution Of this program, then
the city and its environs will really exper-
fence the cleanup that is actually desperate
ly needed. This newspaper hopes to do its
part in keeping the issue alive and progress
ing along cooperative ines.
We think the institution of the contin-
uoua fill system for trash and garbage. with
the county buying the power shovel and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-08
A Promising Beginning for Cleanup

the city buying the land. will be OF funda-
mental importance in the project. No mat
ter what else is accomplished. we shall not
be able to say that the program has come
anywhere near success unless and until
the shovel is acquired. the trenches dug.
and the fill system actually installed and
operating.
We agree with DIR. Hegmeg's statement
that cleanup campaigns which fall in the
category Of one-week wonder projects, with
newspapers and civic leaders doing a lot OF
talking and nobody doing any of the actual
hard and dirty work which paradoxically &C
companies a cleanup, are useless campaigns
After the talk has died down, things remain
exactly as they were. The work ahead of US
here in Paseagoula is more serious and must
go on for a long range period. None of these
agencies should pass the buck to the others.
fall into inactivity because the other fellow
has failed to do his part; each should assume
his responsibility and do it, and pay more
attention to accomplishing a success than tc
establishing a good explanation for failure.
And this applies TO the people of Pascagoula
in no degree less than to the authorities. In
deed, is has been we the people who have
dumped the trash heaps on our fine roads
and done so much to foul our own nest.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-08


Z Friends were sorry to hear that
M. A. Penton suffered an acct
dent las. week to his left eye.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kell Penton and
daughter, Penny, Of Newton,
spent the weekend with relatives.
Mrs. Lee Thomas and daugh-
tiers and Shirley June Hastings
were visitors to New Orleans for
the weekend and Mardi Gras fes-
tivities.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Robert Horgan
and daughter visited Mrs. Marx
Andersen in New Orleans for
Mardi Gras.
Mrs. Walter Fuller and sons,
Miss Nellie Mae Wells and Mrs.
Carroll Clifford enjoyed Mardi
Gras Tuesday in New Orleans.
Cpl. Marbry Penton arrived
home Saturday after having been
overseas for the past two years.
Nh. and Mrs. Joseph Penton of
Mobile and two children spent
the weekend with Mr. and Mis-.
NJ. A. Penton.
Elton Rouse is at Norfolk, Va,
with the navy.
The penny party at the school
house Saturday was a big success.
1t. (jg) Stewart Hastings is
spending ten days with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Has
tings.
Mrs. j. S. Spielman of Edge
water Park visited her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Hastings FRI
day.
Mr., and Mrs. Eddie Jones are
receiving congratulations on the
arrival of a baby girl. She has
been named jeanne.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-08
troll of purpose as q rain-storm
lacks them, or a flowing river.

troll of purpose as . rain-storm
lacks them, or a flowing river.
In that sense, life and great art
are ono and the same thing, and
conversely, in every natural phe-
nomenon, whether beautiful or
ugly, there is a bit of this vast
legend of the earth.
To witness the soft. inexpres-
siDle beauty of an azalea bush
set in a clump of pines Is of
course a sufficient experience in
Itself without conscious meander-
ing into the ilowef-encyclopae-
dia history Of the plant. But TO
know some OF this history, TO
have absorbed il not as a mem
DRY exercise but as a living expe-
r~ience, is to broaden and to in
scnsify the appreciation Of this
and all the myriad shows and
seasons in natures repertory.
The books of the great natural
lists are suffused with this inner
richness, and though they like
all mankind are beset with the
grim hazards of human expert
ence, one is inclined to think that
they III certainly among the
happiest of men.
To return to the subject of the
a2alea-for they are now APP
preaching the peak of their season
here, and the eitv is alive with
them--it vas interesting to us to
learn something of the long back
ground of the plant. something of
the geologic and climatic drama
to which its fleeing beauty has
remained a mute witness.
If we have read our botany
books correctly. this type of
plant was developed during the
period between the second and
third Ice Ages. a period of warm,
balmy weather which lasted
about a million years and which
came to an end several million
years ago. Most of us get the
impression from Our grade school
! books that there was one Ice Age,
but this is not accurate. There
have been four Ice Ages. Four
times in the earth's history vast
glaciers formed at the polar caps
and slid slowly down the CONT
nent almost to the borders of the
tropics. Arctic ice wastes once
came almost to the site Of ST.
Louis, Missouri. Ii took many
thousands of years for each gla-
cler to form and move south, and
no one lifetime has ever been
~thusaleh, to tell much of a change
in the climatic conditions of his
own period. Yet within fairly re-
cent geologic history. there have
been ice ages. The last glacier
was melted only about 10000
years ago. and parts of il still re.
main in Greenland. and in the
long enough, not even old Me
Arctic, There are some scien-
fists who believe that the ice ages
are not really over. and that the
earth might actually be in a Pc
Rod between glaciers. One such
period. the Tertiary Period"
between the second and third gla-
ciers. lasted a million years.
This was when the azalea and
the rhodendron aud the other soft
| Towering plants evolved. II was
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-08

Gauiier

Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Nichols,
Joseph Wilkerson and Billy Mich
OILS We're Mardi Gras visitors to
Mobile.
Miss Lula Mae Guillotte, Doro-
thy Johnson, Sylvia Adams,
Mary Elise Peterson, Mayfax
Gautier, Betty Gray Roberts,
Marion Thomas, Rubye Cochran,
Mrs. N. Guillotte, Bob Guillotte
and Andy Bond were visitors to
the Biloxi Mardi Gras.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-08
Womon's Missionary
Society Observing
Week OF Prayer

The Woman's Missionary So
ciety of the Unity Baptist church
is in the midst of a week of
prayer during which the time
programs are being held at the
church.
The topic for study during the
week is Come Ye, Walk in the
Light of the Lord"
Programs dealing with this
study were given at the church
Wednesday evening at TOO