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The first treaty between the United States and China was signed Oct. 24, 1844.
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
ENGINEERS GET EDUCATED
Custer, Montana, January 12, 1916.

The Peoples Voice:
Huntley
miles
Charles interesting historical
story about wish to add some more facts to that story
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which
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there
will venture that about 10 the farm units laid
the reclamation
the within
through special
their
doing the
project broke of As
asking this thought
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bunch qualified
they
didn't
Project had teach the reclamation that
Uncle $6S0O0 could tell instances
their will
disregard the nations rights
C. S. HORTON
Editors Note: Mr. following clipping
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
TEACHERS UNION
MAKES CITY
PAY ARREARS

DETROIT Brought to book in the
state circuit court by the Detroit Fed
Grafton of Teachers (AFL) the board
of education of the city of Detroit
was ordered by the court, Dec. 10,
to pay not only the back salaries but
interest besides to 1926 teachers. The
city had chiseled so per cent of all
teachers pay during May and June in
one of the Hoover depression years
1t later paid half of the back pay and
agreed to pay the other half this
month but refused to pay any interest
Counsel Edward N. Barnard of the
Detroit and Wayne County Federation
of Labor, who also represents the
teachers, fought the case at law and
obtained the verdict for about $4,000
interest. Now he is filing suit for all
other teachers affected, which will
bring the amount to be recovered from
the reluctant board up to about 81, ,000,-
900.
Then he will appear for the Fire
fighters (AFL) and city employees in
the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees
(AFL) who are similarly short-changed
by the city, probably totaling another
million.
The city plans to appeal but seems
to have a weak case since it collects
interest nsums due it such as taxes
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
CHICAGO CLUB
URGES CONGRESS
TO SET UP MvA
(Chicago SUM-

The City Club of Chicago recon-
mended yesterday that congress estab-
lish a Missouri Valley Authority SINH
lar to the Tennessee Valley Authority
to harness the Missouri river and pro-
vide vast electrical power for the IA
states of the region.
Drafted by the City Clubs national
affairs committee, the report declared
there is great need for flood control,
soil conservation, electric power, trans
portation and municipal water supply
in the Missouri valley"
Range of Project Cited
By its nature the proposed MVA
project is clearly beyond range of in
dividual initiative or. private enter
prise, for reasons political, practical
or financial" the club said.
"The project would in no material
degree lessen the possibilities or mar
row the field of private enterprise.
On the contrary, businessmen of un-
derstanding and vision believe it will
offer increased opportunities for indi-
vidual enterprise"
Benefits Listed
The City Club listed these "collat-
eral benefits" to be realized from the
MVA:
I. A higher standard of living, be-
aContinued on Page Four
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
C0-0PS REAL
FREE ENTERPRISE
SAYS ANDERSON

CHICAGO. (NAC) - Secretary OF
Agriculture Clinton PsAnderson's ring
ing declaration in support of farmer
co-operatives and agreement by all co.
operative groups on continuation of a
united front on the tax issue were
the outstanding features of the 18th
annual meeting of the National Coun-
Gil of Farmer Co-operatives in Chicago
this week.
The coop tax fight and collateral
issues commanded predominant atten-
ton throughout the five-day sessions
but even preceding the conventions
formal opening, continuation of the
united front on the tax issue was as
sured.
"There is no doubt about it, the
cooperative technique is a part of the
American way of life," declared Sec
retary Anderson, in pointing out that
diversified cooperative activity is by
no means confined to agriculture
alone.
Business, too," he continued, has
many forms of cooperation
and many specific co-operatives which
operate almost exactly like farmers
co-operatives and which are taken for
granted. There has been a strong
trend running in small business to
meet the competition of big business
by combining into cooperative organi-
cations; thus obtaining the advan-
tages of massed buying power and
mass sales methods, while retaining
individual ownership.
Thousands of Independent retail
ers, wholesalers, manufacturers and
service firms have formed purchasing,
advertising or credit coop
eratives. 1t is interesting to note, in
passing, that these co-operatives, re-
turning their savings to the individual
and to his customers, have
no income of their own and hence are
free of income taxes, although they
are subject to other taxes common to
most types of business.
"You can see these business coop
eratives all around you. Independent
grocers, competing with the large
chains, have their cooperative retail
grocery chains which operate ware
houses and represent their members
in spending their pooled purchasing
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1946-01-18

good deal Of this work is inept and
inadequate. Antiquarianism and nos
talgia are not enough To preserve
the past because it is old is dull and
profitless. The inspiration for the
conservation of Montana's heritage
cannot be sentimentalism nor the pro-
vincial, backward-looking interests of
self-styled pioneers"
The true source for the conservation
of Montana's physical and cultural re-
sources, as they form the heritage Of
this state, must come from the future,
not the past: from faith in the fu-
ture of the state which will not be de-
nied The remembrance Of things
past in Montana is likely to seem ap-
pallingly trivial to people who find its
future empty and uncertaini To such
persons the conservation of the past
is apt to seem like an escapist cult.
If we would teach Montana young
people to love the heritage of the
state, we must give them some reason
and some encouragement to believe in
its future. There must be leadership
in the state which has confidence in
the future possibilities Of its resources
and which vigorously and openly seeks
their utilization.
Such leadership must come from
within the state; its economic inter-
ests must not have their roots in the
native soil of New York-or some 9TH
Unf ha N
which welcomes ideas, methods peo-
pie and which does not petulantly NUT
ter about foreigners with a lot of
wild IDEAS" Such a leadership must
come from the people themselves as
they satisfy the demands of their lives
as farmers and miners and lumber
men and businessmen. Such lead
ership will find its true allies, not in
the well-financed and suspect promo
ton of a tourist-minded state cham
ber of commerce, but in a native,
agricultural association,
or labor union, or professional soci-
ETY.. Such leadership will urge its
young people to stay in the state, and
then furnish schools with better-paid
leacnerS, more equipment, QlVerSl1led
to train him to live in the
state.
Whether Montana has such leader
ship at present is not altogether ap-
parent. Whether Montanans really
want this kind of leadership is not
altogether clear. But this much is
let such a leadership
emerge among the people of the state
and the future of Montana will be
taken care of with the same zeal and
for the same reason that it's heritage
will be conserved: out of love. like
to think that this is the symbolism be-
hind the dedication to Dean Stone:
his love of the Montana story grew
out of his faith in the Montna future
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
POLITICAL
ORGANIZATION
HOLDS Meeting
Montana Council for
Progressive Political Action
Holds Convention in
Preparation for Campaign
This Year.

Election of officers and a new board
of directors and planning for its par
ticipation in the campaign this year
was the program accomplished by the
Montana Council for Progressive Po-
litical Action at its first meeting this
year held in Lewistown, Montana last
Sunday. The convention was attended
by about $50 representatives of farm
labor and other organizations.
J. M. Peterson of Poison, was elected
president to succeed Don Chapman of
Great Falls and Pat c. Gilfeather,
presently serving in the navy but soon
to be discharged, was elected vice
president. Ed vawter of Butte former
secretary was reelected and
Glen Zorn of Butte was named assist
ant secretary.
Organizations represented at the
convention each held caucus and
selected a member to serve on the
board of directors of the council, and
the following were named and their
election to the board confirmed by the
convention: Charlotte Holtz, Floweree,
Farmers Union; Bruce Steinmetz,
Great Falls, AFL; Tom Cotton, Bill
lings, Independent public; Maude Bax-
ter, Great Falls, Union Label League;
Chester Kinsey, Great Falls, veterans;
Don Swingley, Great Falls, CIO;
Roscoe Lofts of Great Falls, former
representative of the railroad brother
hoods on the councils board was re-
named until other nominations are
submitted by the organizations if they
wish to do so.
The secretary was instructed to ask
the United States Department of State
to disclose the names of Americans
listed as collaborators in the secret
files of the German Nazis, which were
and taken possession of in
Germany. He was also instructed to
wire senators demanding passage of
the legislation increasing the mini
mum wage level from 40c to 65c
Called Americas No. 1 fascist" by
one of the speakers, the convention
was urged to take decisive and mill
tant action to defeat Senator Wheeler
for reelection this year, and motion
was passed instructing the secretary
to seek the assistance of the National
Citizens Political Action Committee to
this end.
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
FARM Land PRICES
GETTING OUT OF HAND

CHICAGO.-The major problem fac
ing agriculture is the fact that the
price of farm land is getting out of
hand, l. w. Duggan, governor of the
Farm Credit Administration, has
stated.
In some states the price of farm
land is up 100 per cent from the
1859 average, and for the nation
as a whole the rise is go per cent, ac-
cording to Duggan. Figures available
to the Farm Credit Administration in
dicate that there is yet no perceptible
leveling off of land prices.
"Rising land prices left unchecked
can easily lead to duplication of the
World War aftermath when the farm
real estate bubble burst eliminating
between the two wars in two million
farm foreclosures with their trail of
wrecked homes and hopes"
The people's voice., 1946-01-18

Last week the press of the state anC
the university participated in dedicat
ing the Journalism building on the
university campus to the memory ol
the late A. L. Stone, the much-love6
and well known dean of the School oi
Journalism. It was a thoughtful and
just GESTURE.
On the whole, however, 1t was only
small gesture, as Dean Stone him
self would have readily acknowledged.
It was guesture to the way a man
labored in the past. It was an attempt
by the university and the people of
Montana to honor and conserve an i'm
portant tradition. Few people in Mon
tana have done more to preserve her
past than Dean Stone. In dedicating
building to the late Dean Stone
we were honoring man who himself
was an honor to the heritage of this
state. Even so, it was only a small
gesture. For little is being done, and
little has been done, to conserve the
truly remarkable heritage Of this
state
Montana, unlike most states in this
union, has a unique tradition: a liv-
ing one. Many of its people are still
alive from its earliest days. Thou
sands have lived through its most
stirring and significant events: the
opening of new lands, the formation
of new counties, the discovery of new
resources, political fights and econom-
ic battles, the older irrigation devel-
opments, and countless others. These
experiences, now oral and transient.
will be forgotten. Dean Stone himself
did much to preserve their memory.
But there are few Dean Stones.
Montanans, like many other people,
have no great fondness for history.
History is too often something which
the young indulge the old, perhaps a
bit proudly, as they reminisce. Some
of Montana's history, to be sure, pre-
sent-day Montanans might like to for
get: some of it is unfortunate, unhap-
py, cheap; not little of it is still be-
ing repeated today But dislike of
history grows out OF SnalloW expert
ence. Modern peoples have no attics,
and yesterday is a vulgar word writ
ten on the walk and hastily erased.
To many Montanans the record of the
few generations which have built the
state is apt to seem barren and with
out meaning.
But not all Montanans will or do
feel this way. Dean Stone was one
to whom that past, which he himself
shared in making, had dramatic chal-
lenge. There are others. One thinks
of Joe Howard's MONTANA. 1t is
ironic that the very same press which
honored Dean Stone has been guilty
of conspiring to ignore the one publi-
cation which has attracted throughout
the nation the most favorable press
and popular reaction to Montana
which the state has ever received.
Montana fiction writer's have pre-
served this past, and so have the pio-
neer associations, the historical land
marks society, the historical library.
Yet these efforts are not enough
The motivation which lies behind a
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
MONTANA kgVA ASSOCIATION PLANS
TO INCORPORATE, EXPAND ACTIVITIES
Annual Meeting of Organization Considers Expansion of
Its Program and Incorporate for Permanent Participation
In States interests

picked, private power controlled" and
demands made that the scheduled
hearings by the agriculture committee
be held by the full committee and in
the Missouri region so that the COM
mon people might have an opportunity
to tell the committee the reasons why
they favor the enactment of S. 555.
The attitude of Senator Wheeler
and Congressman D'Ewart toward the
MVA proposal was severely criticized
and Congressman Mansfield asked to
make his stand clear on the issue.
Officers elected for the coming year
were: Fred G. Huntington, Billings,
president; Bruce Steinmetz, Great
Falls, 1st vice president; Richard DON
ovan, Butte End vice president; Mrs.
Andrew Dahl, Dagmar, 3rd vice presi-
dent; Violet Eastman, Helena, secre-
tary; Mrs. Leona Bentley, Helena,
treasurer.
The following were named to the
executive board: Volney Anderson,
Sidney; Don Chapman, Great Falls;
Thos C. Cotton, Billings; Left Erick-
son, Helena; Charles Mclean, Ana
conda; j. NJ Schafer, Livingston; L.
L. Price, Great Falls; Richard Ship
man, Brooks; Chester Kinsey, Great
Falls; Ilert Hellebust, Havre; Mrs.
Art Lavelle, Billings. A meeting Of
officers and the executive board is
planned for the near future.
The full text of the resolutions
adopted at the convention is published
elsewhere in this issue of The Voice.
The people's voice., 1946-01-18

BILLINGS, Jan 9.-(SpeciaD-From
long press releases just passed out by
bureau of reclamation regional office
here, the extent of reclamation con-
struction and other activities, for the
coming year. may be summarized.
This summary does not include Hun
CRY Horse dam which is near Glacier
National Park and in the Columbia
River watershed. Preliminary con-
struction activities are now in prog
ress at this site and sufficient ap-
preparation has recently been an
nounced to permit actual construction
to get under way early in the sum-
mer.
For work on Montana projects in
Missouri River watershep $1,25O,OOO
is now available and additional appro-
prications for the fiscal year begin
ming July l are anticipated. Con-
struction will be started on the Can
Won Ferry dam, on main stem of Mis-
souri, north of Helena. This project
is to store 100000 acre-feet of wa
ter. It's primary purpose is river reg
ulation and to furnish a larger low
water flow to Montana Power COM
pany hydro-electric plants farther
down stream. Generating capacity for
$4,000 kilowatts of power is to be in
stalled. Estimated cost of completed
project is $11,025,O00.
For Tiber dam and reservoir, on
lower Marias river about 15 miles
south of Chester founds have been al
lotted. Final plans and specifications
are now in preparation and construc-
ton will start early in the season
This project will store $4,000 acre
feet, about two thirds of which will
be dead storage. Remaining waters
will be used to irrigate 100000 acres
lieing west of Big Sandy. No power
development has been announced for
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
Promises and Performance

United States Bureau of Reclamation has in circula
ion attractive i~vArlv illustrated 30page booklet
Also multi-t0ne cspo Rssl R Library Basin showing Zoe
ion and corps of engineers United States 1t bears the
itle
APPROVED MISSOURI RIVER PLAN
FOR UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT OF IRRIGATION,
HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER, FLOOD CONTROL, MIN
ERAL RESOURCES NAVIGATION AND OTHER BENE-
FITS THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF FEDERAL,
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
UTILITIES-NEW GIANT
"Tirne.
(Time, January IA, 1850


(oude
of the 945 burgeoned into the
its
than had produced nearly II
the United States Twas nearest competitor Nagaudson Power
corporation
power
operating OOOOOO
United QS5c
347c) thanks
projects Example, dam building
completed its flood navigation
eandahaflong
miles 100000
flood control navigation and
The people's voice., 1946-01-18

The French people are struggling
purpose and cooperation in national
affairs, as they have never struggled
before In the elections recently held,
g very high percentage of the eligible
voters actually went to the polly-73
per cent-much higher than in any
elections in the United States, and
way beyond any previous French ex-
perience. Men and women voting for
the first time) alike studied their
problem carefully and went to the
polls in serious frame of mind.
A new party, called the Popular
Republican Movement" ran surpris-
ingly strong, and polled about one
third of the votes and secured third
of the seats in the chamber; this par
ty is not party of the right, or con-
servative, line of thinking, and is al
most as radical as the French Social
ist and communist parties, which,
each won another third of the seats
The men and women elected to the
chamber of deputies appear to be Sc
rious people, who are truly and patri-
otically interested in and concerned
about France They will draft new
constitution; and 1t is one of the most
serious undertakings ever entered
into.
Another surprising item of the cleo
tions was the fact that 32 women were
elected to the chamber of deputies in
this first occasion when women ever
voted or were eligible for public Of
flee. 1t marks the passing of the an
cient prejudice against women which
has always prevailed in this country,
where women are very important in
the economy and in the business life,
but have almost no voice in anything
outside the hame and family.
The French people are cooperating
as they never did before in helping
the unfortunate victims of the perse-
cutions and hardships of the war. In
every resistance group, the people who
survived the resistance feel deep
and passionate obligation to take care
Ol lIit ldlulllco VI lnOoC WIZ WCl
killed and to assist their former com
rades who were injured or having a
hard time, for any reason.
Among the most pathetic cases are
the cases of children whose parents
were killed or sent to concentration
camps, or driven out into the wilder
ness, as so often happened.
The persecution of the Jews shocked
the French people of all groups, and
there are large movements now in
which all types of French people, in
cluding Jewish and Catholic and prot
estant families, pool their financial
resources and work together to take
care of Jewish children whose parents
were the victims of these prosecutions.
When | was in France recently |
went to see house in the country
where 200 of these children have been
taken. Not all of them are of Jewish
but most of them are. The
people who are raising them, who are
finding the money, who are doing the
work of caring for them, who are
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1946-01-18

Incorporation of the organization
and expansion of its activities in the
fields directly and indirectly related
to the purposes of the Missouri Valley
Authority were two outstanding de-
cisions arrived at in the first annual
meeting of the Montana MVA Asso-
citation held in the Civic Center in
Lewistown last Sunday The meeting
was attended by about 200 represent
ing all sections of the state.
Open criticism of the subcommittee
of the commerce and irrigation COM
mittees which conducted hearings on
the Murray MVA bill, S.555 was made
and they were labeled as "hand
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
CONSTRUCTION ON MONT. POWER co.
reel LAMATI0N DAM TO START in 1916

this project Estimated cost of dam
and reservoir is $6,80S,000
Canal construction for $40 acres un-
der the Lower Yellowstone project,
near Intake will be completed. Eight
miles of canal and pumping unit to
reclaim 1000 additional acres under
the Milk river project will be under
taken. Surveys and data gathering
will continue on other Montana prof.
ects.
In Wyoming major construction eff
forts will be on Doysen dam, on upper
Big Horn river south of Thermopolis
Dakota construction will consist main
ly of a 115-kilowatt transmission line
from Fort Peck to Williston and a
sub-station in Williston.
The people's voice., 1946-01-18
ON DEDICATINC A BUILDING
TO DEAN STONE
By PAUL MEADOWS

opinions expressed personal
attitude
ganizat or group, o.