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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

had their cities converted to rubble,
their countrysides devastated, their
citizens slaughtered or undermined by
the loss of the basic requirements for
health, food, shelter, and rest, COM
prise our foreign markets. We cannot
enjoy economic health without them.
If we want them to buy from us, which
they must do if we are to produce,
we've got to help them to physical and
economic health. No one supposes that
this task is small one. or one which
can be accomplished without our tight
ening our belts and paying our share
of the cost 1t will cost us money, as
Wheeler points out in his pamphlet.
What he doesn't point out is that re-
fusal to help the world back on its
feet will cost us a great deal more
than $3.50 apiece. 1t will cost us our
future and our dreams of full, rich,
healthy, productive life. The refusal
to help means that every employed
person in this country will be taxed
to feed vast numbers of unemployed
persons. Somebody pays the dole,
somebody pays for the bread on the
bread lines, and somebody has to buy
that apple on the street corner.
Does Senator Wheeler seriously ex-
pect the voters to be attracted by his
that we return to the days
of economic collapse? Our senator has
a marvelously developed faculty of in
sulting our intelligence every time he
opens his mouth. 1t is hardly a credit
to man in public life to have hind
sight rather than foresight. Senator
case is far worse. He has
demonstrated to his state,
to his nation and to the world that
he has neither foresight nor hindsight
In discussing the British loan with
his usual confidence in his own judg-
ment, he says: 81 would be willing to
wager that the overwhelming senti-
nent of this country is against it."
Who Is This Prophet?
He is that same confident man who
IN 1910 pleaded so eloquently for the
innocent German war aims and who,
with the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nye,
denounced the British war aims. Re
how at this time his bench
nan, Nye, cried out that Pearl Harbor |
vas a British trick?"
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
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OPINIONS OF
READERS

Publications of communications
that The Voice agrees or disagrees
with the opinions expressed. Let
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should be brief and the subject mat
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SUGGESTS RIDER FOR
CONSUMPTION BILL
Editor, Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana.
Dear Cap Bruce
AS a prelude to suggestion that
there be rider attached to the bill
for universal military training for all
men of IS years of age or older, we
will quote a few figures released by
the United States treasury department
on the eighth war bond drive:
The military payroll is still two bill
lion dollars.
Three billion dollars are to be paid
to manufacturers of war supplies to
get them to cancel As billion dollars
worth of war contracts. (Said manu-
facturers did not advance months
wages to their workers when they laid
them off,
When World War II financing start
ed, 10 per cent of the population of
the United States claimed control of
80 per cent of the nations wealth:
Property, money, and natural re-
sources. Not very well-balanced
democracy
At the time of the eighth or Vic
tory bond drive, the governments sys-
tenn of financing had reduced that
control to go per cent of the nations
wealth still in the hands of the same
10 per cent Of the people. (Still out
of balance.)
Twenty-three per cent of the entire
national debt held by persons whose
incomes were less than $4,000 per
year. $50 perhaps the 40 per cent"
did not purchase very heavily IN the
war bond drives.)
If the United States treasury's re-
ports are true then we suppose that
30 per cent of the newspapers of the
nation are owned by the 40 per cent"
Of whom, no doubt, comprised most of
The nations rugged individualists."
Here are some of the things they said
n their papers along with Hitler and
1irohito:
younger generation going soft"
"Young folks these days lack In
tiative."
Well, our young men and young |
did not prove so soft against
1itler's supermen and Hirohito's Sons
If Heaven.
And the writer hopes they will not
listen to the "songs" of the "sirens"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
No West Pointers On
Army Board Of
Inquiry
The war department comedies the
army has "BO."

The war department comedies the
army has DO"
That is vastly encouraging.
The confession lies in appointment
by War Secretary Robert P. Patterson
of six-man board to investigate the
army's caste system.
The board, headed by Lieut.. Gen
James H. Doolittle, is not to confirm
or deny that the system exists but
to determine to what degree it exists
and what can be done to remedy its
evils.
It seems that the war department
seriously intends to give the army a
scrubbing.
Social Gulf
"The caste system" is the phrase
used to sum up the wide social gulf
imposed between officers and enlisted
men and between West Point officers
and those who aren't.
It's a word for all the snobberies
and inequalities, the signs of "offi-
GERS country" which turned so many
CTS bitter and cynical, and which pre-
vent the army from attracting enough
volunteers to build up an adequate
peace-time force.
The Record has repeatedly urged
the army, in its own interest and the
interest of the country and the men
who don uniforms, to purge itself Of
these abuses.
No soldier objects to taking orders
when he is on duty.
Not Lackeys
But enlisted men do object and the
American people object, to the soldier
being treated as a second-rate crea-
ture, lackey, pariah when he is
off duty.
The committee named by Secretary
Patterson is peculiar in its member
ship. Of the six, all ex-army men, NOT
ONE IS A WEST POINTER.
The makeup of the committee indi.
Gates Patterson wants to hear the
truth about the caste system.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, direc'
tor of Selective Service, has recon.
mended that the draft law be extended
for an indefinite time.
That is obviously needed now Re-
eruiting programs have failed to pro-
luce necessary personnel.
The caste system is perhaps the
most important factor in that.
Let the army democratize itself,
make itself attractive to American
fouth-and perhaps we can discon-
inue the draft after a year or So
Record)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
By TED sCHoENBoRN, Helena


Having had experience as a slaugh-
terer. distributor, buyer, shipper and
feeder of livestock as we'll as federal
administrative experience within the
Department of Agriculture, as state
director of livestock operations during
the 1934-1935 drought relief program,
state director of livestock control I'M
der the WA, and in 1915 state slaugh-
ter-control officer of the OPA | feel
qualified to answer questions. | am
being asked by stockmen and packer
friends, regarding the reasons of these
recent diversions of livestock from
public markets.
The briefest and most accurate
statement | could make is that the
condition is utterly confused and cha
otto.
Since receipt of the invitation to
present a statement, | have investi-
gated and given the matter a great
deal of thought. Regardless of the
success of the OPA in other fields,
its regulations with respect to meat
and livestock are complete failure,
as evidenced by the fact that no sub
stantial amount of meat is being
bought and slaughtered by reliable
packers in the great meatpacking
centers of the country.
Receipts of 10 principal markets and
purchases of the large packers for
three weeks. March 26, 1916 compared
with previous years
1-Three-week ending; 2-Receipts;
3-Amount Purchased; 4-% of Re-
ceipts purchased.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
THE BEEF BLACK MARKET

| DOootOS tHt dDililJ W iOOh a.
given lot of cattle and to determin
the approximate yield that the slaugh
terer will receive.
AS practical proposition such &C
curacy is not feasible, 1t has beef
my experience that many cattle will
be on the borderline between TIVE
grades. To illustrate Buyer A may lool
at a pen full of cattle and place then
in the top-most grade, whereas buyer
B might be of the opinion that they
would average a grade lower. The
! OES, however, by its ruling, says in
effect that the buyer shall be absolute
| ly right and if he varies as much as
one fourth of one per cent he shall
be penalized 10 per cent and IL as far
as two per cent no subsidy. Yet it is
better than an even bet that the OPA
in its entire organization has no man
with the required skill to look at a
given lot of cattle and determine with.
in one fourth of one per cent their
approximate yield.
AS result, the dishonest slaughter
er and blackmarketeers who juggle
their books go happily on their way
while the legitimate and honest slaugh-
terer who attempts to obey the law
is penalized.
Some Reasons For Chaos
Specifically, here are some Of the
reasons for the chaos in the slaughter
ing field:
l. Cattle bought for feeding for more
than 30 days are not subject to cell
ing restrictions, and many slaughter
ers have resorted to this practice to
obtain supplies of livestock and meat.
2. Enforcement of regulations at
public markets has driven many of
the operations to country points where
supervision is more difficult.
3. Not enough experienced livestock
investigators.
A. Blackmarket and borderline oper-
ators falsify and forge their figures
so that they appear to be in comph-
ance, thus enabling them to receive
a government subsidy.
5. Side payments are made in con-
nection with sale of beef. Night club
operators in many instances use meals
for a leader and are not concerned
with price.
6. Carcasses of animals are weighed
heavy Such practices help the dis
honest operator in computing his COM
pliance figures, and allows him to
steal by charging for more meat than
he actually sells.
Z. Many blackmarket slaughterers
do not file any request for subsidy,
thus avoiding all contact with OPA
and RFC. 1t is easy to understand
why it is not necessary for a black
market operator to collect his &c sub
;idy per pound when he is selling his
neat anywhere from 10c to 15c per |
pound above ceiling.
8. degrading of meat carcasses: I'm
Ter this method, the purchaser of the
over grades of cattle designate the |
,arcasses as of higher grades when
hey are all sold. Not only is a better
market price obtained but the seller
llso collects a higher subsidy rate.
In addition to the violations re-
erred to above another sore spot lies
n the so-called custom slaughtering. |
t is a system whereby an individual
an buy cattle and have slaughterer
laughter the animal at an OPA rate
which gives the plant operator nice
rofit.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

remember that. / believe a majority
of the American people want to keep
OPA until we regain normal peace
time balance between supply and de-
mand without Gripping amendments
and until we are really safe from the
danger of initiation.
However, the incongruities and mis-
takes in policy and regulations should
be corrected as speedily as possible.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
VOICE IN WILDERNESS

Peoples Voice Publishing Co,
Helena, Montana.
Please find enclosed money order
for So for a subscription to your news
paper for one year.
Your paper is just voice in the
but it is heard over the
mountains and the plains. Best wishes.
Yours very truly-E. c. ROBERTSON,
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
oPA Failed In Beef Market

By way of preface let me say, that
| have been and still am CONSTANT
supporter of the OPA, without Grip
ping amendments, and have on many
occasions publicly defended OPA from
attacks. However no matter how well
OPA may have succeeded In other in
stances the fact remains that in the
meat situation it has failed complete
ly, and at the present time the beef
market is demoralized and in the
hands of blackmarket operators.
The facts speak for themselves and
it is my intention in this article to
touch upon the factual situation Of
the beef market as it exists today.
The root Of the trouble lies in the
compliance with regulations.
Compliance is procedure of rou-
tine which must be observed by the
slaughterer in order to collect the sub
sidy which the government offers.
Without subsidy a slaughterer can
not stay in business with the present
price ceiling.
Compliance figures are arrived at
by a complicated set of calculations,
which | shall not attempt to explain
in detail. Sufficient to say that the
subsidy is calculated on certain pri-
mary factors. The grading of the meat,
the percentage of beef that is dressed
and processed out of a carcass are vital
factors. The subsidy is calculated not
upon one animal or one group Of ami
mails, but upon all the cattle which
are slaughtered during a given re.
porting period of four to five weeks.
The subsidy payments vary with
various grades, the highest subsidy
of SO per hundredweight being paid
for choice AA.
Dishonest SIaughterer Has Much
To Gain
A. skilled buyer can almost predict
with the accuracy Of life insurance
actuary the percentage of dressed
beef that can be processed from
given animal. In the case of Grade AA
beef, the slaughterer knows that he
can count on yield Of 81 per cent, |
therefore, the percentage factor is
taken into consideration in determin-
ing subsidy payments. The dishonest
has much to gain by fall |
styling his records and reporting that
his beef has dressed IS per cent. /
know from personal experience that |
yields as high as 81 per cent were |
to my office during the con-
troll nroqram in 1915 which any buyer |
would know was an impossible yield.
The compliance violation penalty is
provided by sliding scale of dimin-
shing subsidies: 10 per cent is with
held if at a given period buyer
misses his guess by one fourth of one
per cent or less; 60 per cent, 1 u to
.wo per cent and no subsidy paid If
buyers figures are off as much as two
per cent
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
Legitimate SIaughterer At
Buyers Mercy

Therefore, legitimate slaughterer
is at the mercy of the buyer, who, in
cidentally, is one of the most highly
skilled men in the cattle industry. He
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
Must Return To Vigilant
Slaughter Control

There is no control on who can go
into the slaughtering business. Com
pliance and subsidy mean nothing to
the people that will engage in custom
slaughtering and it is a practice that
is being engaged in more and more
by blackmarket restaurants and night
club operators who buy beef for above
ceiling prices, have it slaughtered,
and get their money back by way of
releases carry a story that some con-
trolls are being reinstated on custom
Strengthening. The trouble with this
program is that 1t does not go far
enough. Nothing short of vigilant en-
forcement of the 1915 control order
and quota system will remedy the sit
uation and this order cannot be en-
forced without sufficient administra-
tive funds to furnish strict enforce
ment by experienced livestock inves-
tigators from range to consumer. We
know that the legitimate slaughterer
in Montana is unable to compete with
blackmarket operators. Eastern and
West Coast buyers are buying up the
cattle in our local yards and bidding
up the price in order to assure them
selves of supplies. | have heard re-
ports that cash is being paid on the
side in addition to ceiling prices. While
admitting there is blackmarket in
meat, the congress did not help the
when they slashed the funds
of the OPA. | think the consumer will
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Evening star., 1946-01-20
Women Democrats Plan
Speakers Contest

Deviating from their usual pro-
cedure of having guest speakers. the
Executive Board and Board of Gov
ernors of the United Democratic
Women's Club of Maryland will have
volunteer speakers from their own
membership at their quarterly
meetings this year.
Three volunteers will speak briefly
at each meeting. The best speaker
will compete in finals at the end
of the year. The winners name will
be sent to the Democratic National
Committee as national speaker
from the club
The first quarterly meeting of
the year is scheduled Thursday at
the Emerson Hotel, Baltimore. Mrs.
Margaret Matthai, Central Mary
land chairman, and the clubs in
that district, will be hostesses for
the luncheon at 1890 pm
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Montgomery Set 10 Raise
$4,000 in Polio Campaign

Montgomery County's quota in
the 1916 polio campaign has been
set at $4,000, Alfred C. Paul, chair
man of the Montgomery County
Council of the American Legion s
March O. Dimes drive, announced
yesterday.
Planning an intensive campaign,
the committee members have opened
headquarters at the Silver Spring
armory The county had started
its drive with a sound truck and
crew making rounds of the subur-
ban sections. March O Dimes boxes
have been distributed to stores.
Community dances in support of
the drive are planned for Pooles-
vile, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Ken
sington and Glen Echo. all in ad-
vance of the country wide celebra-
ton to be held in the Silver Spring
armory January 80.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Arlington 10 Add
Five 10 Police Force

The Arlington County Board yes
terday authorized Police Chief
Harry L. woodward to add five men
to his department to make possible
a six-day work week. At present,
county policemen have two days off
each month.
Chief woodward said he expects
to put the siX-day week into effect
within the next 80 days, as soon as
the additional men are available.
In presenting his request to the
board, Chief woodward said the de-
partment now has it's full quota of
40 men, The additional openings,
he added, will be filled by men for
merly with the force now returning
from the armed forces.
No appropriation will be necessary
for the additional men during the
current fiscal year, he said, as there
are sufficient funds in the depart
ment budget. In the 1946-47 fiscal
year, he said, the department budg-
ct will have to be increased from
$4,000 to $4,000 to provide for the
additional men.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
BY NEWBOLD MOVES, JR.

S iSergt. Bill Grant sat in the
United Nations Service Center
dangling the stump of his right leg
over the arm of chair Once when
he went to sleep in this position on a
train, the conductor picked up the
leg and dropped it to the floor with
bruSoue query as to whether
Grant didn't know any better than
to lounge all over the seat.
The 230-pound former minor
league baseball pitcher from Utica.
N Y, who is convinced that being
an amputee does not mean a man
cannot take care of himself, says
that by the time he pulled himself
together and started looking for
the conductor, the official had left
the train.
II just wanted to tell him how
sorry I was to have been sitting that
way" he explains with an ominous
grin.
Bill, whose full name is William J.
Grant. was one of the St. Louis
Browns more promising farm pros
poets when the Army requested his
services in the Spring of 1941. At
that time he was with the Toledo
club. He went in with the 7th Army
in the invasion of Southern France.
His leg was blown off at Bitche in
what used to be the Maginot line.
Thinks Mine Got Him.
I'D gotten into Germany for
couple of minutes" he said yester-
day, but they ran us out again, and
got wounded in France. 1 couldn't
stick around long enough to be sure,
but I think it was mine"
He is at the Forest Glen annex
OF Walter Reed Hospital now.
Things are not quite right with his
leg, so he has not yet made sue
cesSful use of his artificial limb.
Next month he will have another
operation. .
He has his own ideas, however,
about what he calls public pity for
amputees.
II don't feel sorry for the am
puteeS as such" he said. Not one
of them. This is just one mans
opinion. but it SENS to me a few of
the boys try to play on public SYM
pathy - try to take advantage of
people. The guys I feel sorry for
now are the guys who are coming
home. They're not getting any
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Winchester to Be Host
To Red Cross Meetino

The Winchester Frederick County
Red Cross Chapter will be host to
81 neighboring chapters at a meet
ing at the George Washington Hotel,
Winchester, Tuesday.
Fairfax County Chapter will be
represented by Brig. Gen. Rufus H.
Lane, Mrs. Dorothy Laylin, Mrs.
Edward Howrey, Mrs liver Olsen
and Miss Rebecca Glen. Plans for
the 1946 fund campaign will be dis
cussed at the meeting to be at
tended by representatives from Alex
andria, Arlington, Clark County
Culpeper, Fairfax County, Fauquier
County, Fredericksburg, Greene
County, .Loudon County, Madison
County. Orange County, Page Coun-
ty, Prince william, Quantico, Rap
pahannock County, Rockingham
County, Shenandoah County, Spot
sylvania County, Stafford County
Warren County and Winchester.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Cooperative to Open
Food Store in Alexandria

Ks The Rochdale cooperative of Vir-
ginia will open a modern food store
Thursday at 1545 Seminary road,
Alexandria. The store is the first
of several planned for the Alexan-
dria- Arlington area.
In addition to meats and vege-
tables the store will have cosmetics,
toiletries. household appliances and
automobile accessories. James M
Dunaway, manager of the District
Rochdale Cooperative, will be in
charge of the Alexandria store. Ed
ward c. Behre is chairman of the
Board of Directors and Harry Pink
ham in charge of store membership.
The opening will be preceded by
an open house for members and
their friends from to 10 pm.
Wednesday In about three weeks
the members will meet to elect Of
flcers, draft bylaws and consider
general store policies.