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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
By the Associated Press

Harold Leclair 1ckes goes out of
Office leaving behind him record
of tenure and performance. He car
ried with him, however, a 14-carat
chip on his shoulder.
Those who are friends of the adj
mittedly irascible Ickes-he tagged
himself 1.-THE Old Curmudgeon"
say it isn't such bad chip. He uses
it as much to defend his friends
as to blast or ridicule his enemies.
He says himself he has plenty of
foes.
1--WE known for a long time" he
observed years ago. that I'm not
loved with the fervor to which I'm
entitled. If a man worked hard at
it, he couldn't get bigger list of
enemies than l."
The criticism he spread around.
garnished with verbal vinegar and
oftentimes conducive to hearty
"bellylaugh," made Mr.. Ickes FIVE
star show. Many of those who
note the number of his enemies
overlook the fact that he made most
of them by supporting his friends.
And there is a testimonial for the
1-year-old former dean of the cab
met right in the Interior Depart
ment. 1t takes a lot of digging to
find an employe who won't stick
up for him.
He stuck up for us" they say.
Once Newspaperman.
Mr.. Ickes attained the big time
when he became Secretary of the
Interior. Before that he had been
neWspaperman and lawyer. He
was named to the cabinet after
President Roosevelt had turned him
down for position within the de-
partment itself, the post of Indian
commissioner.
President Roosevelt named him
to take over one of the big pro-.
grams designed to prime business
pumps-the Public Works Admin
istration. On the fifth anniversary
of the PWA in 1898 Mr.. Ickes an
nounced that his agency had made
allotments for more than $4,000
projects, costing nearly $4,000, 000,-
600. Few communities failed to get
some share
In this job Mr.. Ickes, who had
spent so much Federal money,
gained the name Honest Harold"
In his actual work as Interior
Secretary Mr.. Ickes had the prob
lens of reclamation, of development
land later conservation of coal and
oil, and of the minerals which he
came so important when war struck.
He built the fishery resources with
hundreds of regulations, expert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Corn Supply Seen Dipping
ID Low Level Of 1914
BY the Assoeioied Press

The Agriculture Department pre-
dicted today that this years domes-
tic supply of corn may drop to the
low level of 1874. The 1914 shortage
forced a sharp liquidation in live
stock and a consequent scarcity of
meat, particularly pork.
Supplies of other feed grains, ex-
cept oats. may likewise be cut to
similarly low levels, the department
reported. Stocks of corn on farms
on January were described in the
departments report as the smallest
in five years.
Back of this prospective sharp re-
duction in feed supplies is an I'M
usually heavy demand, the depart
ment explained. 1t said that COM
mercial iced grains and live product
feeds were insufficient in January
to meet the unusual demand at
ceiling prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Berry Farm Civic Group
Endorses D. c. Suffrage

The Barry Farm Civic Association
last night went on record as favor
ing suffrage for the District and
giving it representation in both the
House and Senate.
The association asked better bus
service on the Garfield loop during
the morning rush hour; authorized
a committee to contact the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. to request that
gas mains be laid in the most
thickly populated streets in the
community, and passed a motion ia
voring an alliance or council with
the Garfield and Hillsdale Civic
Associations. Officials emphasized
that this does not mean a merger
with those groups.
The first part OF the meeting was
dedicated to the life and work of
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Department in order for my success
sor."
For that reason, he continued, he
would have liked the resignation to
take effect March 81, although he
said If an earlier date was desired
by the President he would step out.
Sought Personal Talk.
The Secretary recalled to MIR. Tru-
man that he had sought in July to
resign on August 81, but that you
insisted that you did not want me
to resign and that your wish had
been that should continue as Sec
Rotary of the Interior"
1t was also understood at the time
Mr.. Ickes continued, that If there
ever came a time when he felt he
could stay no longer that he was to
so advise the President, and that if
the President ever got ready for him
to resign he would tell the cabinet
officer.
Il had understood that this meant
a personal conference between us, 2
Mr.. Ickes said. But since I have
not been able to get an appointment
with you from the time that UNDER
took to do SO on Tuesday afternoon,
February 5, I have decided that,
while would have preferred to talk
to you personally, the only recourse
left open to me is to write this
letter
In this same connection Mr.. Ickes
told reporters today he had not been
able to arrange conference with
the President since he had testified
against Mr.. Pauley.
Says Order Was Never Signed.
Mr.. Ickes wrote Mr.. Truman that
ION no occasion did you ever tell me
that you proposed to nominate Mr.
Pauley for Undersecretary of the
Navy" He said he had heard II
discussed and that anticipating the
President might have such an APP
-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Life-soyinq Course to Open

Veterans interested in getting
camp and life guard jobs this sum-
|mer were invited today to enroll in
a Red Cross senior life saving and
water safety course at pm. Mon
day in the Boys Club OF Washing
ton, Seventeenth and Massachusetts
avenue Sc. The course is open to
those II years of age or over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Business Group Elects

Robert r. WOODBURY., assistant
cashier Of the Liberty National Bank,
has been elected president Of the
Christian Business Mems Commit
tee, Inc, which conducts the Service
Mems Victory Center, 1113 Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, 1t was announced
today. Other officers are: Vice
president, Clyde H. Freed; treasurer
John B. Sven; secretary, w. j
Dreistadt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
AAF PIuns to Retuin
Seven AirfieIds in U. S.

by me Assoctofed Press
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 13.-Maj.
Gen. James P. Hodges, commanding
general of the Army Air Forces
training command, said seven fields
throughout the country will be kept
on an active basis.
They are: Williams and Luke
Fields, Arizona; Randolph, Good
fellow and Perrin Fields, Texas;
Enid Field. Oklahoma, and Barks-
dale Field, Alabama
Gen. Hodges made the announce
ment at a dinner here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13

He said he had had no differences
with the President, but he pointed
out that he did not support him for
the vice presidential nomination in
Chicago in 1914. saying that his cam
didate was Henry A. Wallace, then
Vice President.
The departure of Mr.. Ickes leaves
Mr.. Wallace now Secretary OF COM
mcrce. as the only Cabinet ofY1cer
who came In with President Roose-
velt in 1888. Mr.. Wallace was Sec.
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| NASH !: =: =; ]; + ], j; !:
NOVN Smell
1916 10th ST. NV.
Republic 1910
ADVEHTISEMENT.
Ugly Eczema
No Joke

The itching torment OF eczema Is
enough to make anyone wretched and
anxious for relief. II you suffer from
the itching OF eczema, pimples, angry
red blotches and other irritating
bIemishes, get Petersons Ointment.
35c all druggists. II one application
does not delight you. money refunded.
Peterson's Ointment also wonderful
for itching feet, cracks between toes.
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gan, who is regarded as Mr.. Chap
mans political father"
After Franklin D. Rooseyelt's first
election as President, Senator Costi-
gan sponsored Mr.. Chapman sue
cessfully for appointment as Assis-
tant Secretary of the Interior In
1888. Mr.. Chapman then was SO
years old, the baby of the little
cabinet.
MIR. Chapman is regarded as close
to retiring Secretary Ickes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
First Excavation For Roosevelt Memorial
HospitalNear Hot Springs Is Underway
BEAT INITIATION NOWi

They say-that Is the manufac-
turers, the wholesalers, the retail
ers-that prices have Increased be-
cause of removal of subsidies
that subsidies were financed out of
taxes. All we'll and good-but-
have any of you noticed any reduc-
tion in your federal taxes (income
or otherwise) because subsidies
are no longer being paid on many
items? 1t simply boiIs down to this
we're still paying taxes for sub
sides on meat, milk, butter, ETC.,
but the subsidies don't exist any
more. And-at the same time-and
practically at the point of gun,
we're paying the most outrageous
prices for everything we eat and
everything we wear. It all adds up
to the little tax payer Including
little business) being pinched
harder and harder, while big blz's
profits go HIGHER and HIGHER.
We the people better be doing
something drastic about this and
quick. Organize your individual and
group buyers strikes, and buy only
the barest of necessities. That is
the only way left to avoid utter
ruin at the hands of uncontrolled
initiation, since the congress failed
the American people so miserabIy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
MUG ASKS CONSUMERS
STRIKE BY PEOPLE
OF MONTANA

Joining the nationwide effort to hold
prices in line by encouraging buyers
strikes, the Montana Industrial Union
council meeting in Helena, Sunday
July 28, went on record to aggressively
push similar action here in Montana.
To implement the MUG action, the
officers were instructed to have
printed Immediately dodgers calling
upon Montana people " in the in
terests of the nations good, to assist
in stopping initiation !" by refusing
to buy meat or dairy products which
were priced over the old OPA ceilings.
The council encouraged Montana peo-
pie to buy only absolute necessities,
not only of food stuffs, but Of all other
items which have received unreason-
able price boosts since the death of eff
fective price control.
The next meeting of the council will
be held in Butte Thursday, September
5,
Among those present at the meeting
were: Mike Lacey, Butte, council pre-
sident; Jack Byrne, Butte, vice presi-
dent; Tony Petroneo, Butte, board
member; Carl Rooney, Bonner, presi-
dent of IWA-CIO at Bonner; Tony
Smole and Joe Nasti, International
Mine, Mill and Smeltermen, East Hell
ena.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02

District council VIII Immediately I'M
was authorized by its executive board
shortly before the strike began last
fall. 1t is hoped in this manner that
the Lumber and Sawmill Workers or
carnations will be able to underwrite
the complete expenses of the first
pool, which is estimated to cost ten
thousand dollars; thus leaving other
Camp Aqua funds free for the compile
ton of the main building, which is
estimated to cost twenty-nine thousand
dollars.
Abundance of Hot Water
Water for the pool will be obtained
from the famous Bartlett Well'',
which is owned by the Camp Aqua as
ISOLATION. The we'll has capacity Of
100000 gallons of water per day, with
a temperature of 100 degrees, esti-
mated to heat the hospital building
which will be constructed. The well
has the same medicinal properties as
are contained In the spring water at
Hot Springs, Montana, and which are
used by several health resorts includ-
ing a government-operated bath house
in that city. The land surrounding the
well, and upon which the project will
be built, was formerly the homestead
of Mary S. Bartlett, daughter of Mon
tana's third governor, Robert B.
Smith.
The Federated Women's Clubs OF
Montana originally purchased the well
and its surrounding lands, and have
conducted an active campaign for
many years to interest other organ
cations in the possibility of develop
ng 1t as a crippled chIldren's institu-
ion. This campaign had the active
support OF the Montana State Fed
ration of Labor which carried an I'M
campaign into the Montana
State Legislature in an effort to OBJ
ain state funds for the building of the
Institution.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
MANUFACTURERS PAY MILLIONS FOR
SCHOOL, PRESS and RADIO
PROPAGANDA

institutions Sixth, $30,735 for propa-
ganda films shown to 1882 audiences.
Seventh $4,000 for 1850 radio hours
used direct and for it's weekly Briefs
to Broadcasters' issued to 604 stations.
The last figure is an example of
penny tossing for the NAM does not
need to seduce radio In fact it scarce
ly needs to seduce any means Of pro-
paganda. Consider some of the factors
poisoning the media Of Information
and making them tools whereby this
malignant minority maintains its rule
and robbery.
Unpaid Propag andists
First in Importance, but most often
overlooked because it is so obvious, is
the general frame-up whereby one
constructive element in society, labor,
is made to appear as the disturbing
element, while the business class
whose business it is to disrupt pro-
duction and hamper progress, is made
by the circumstances of the colossal
frame-up, to appear as the construc-
tive element in society. This frame-up
is a natural" doesn't cost a penny
Except to expose it,; and makes
many unbought people, even unbuy-
able people, propagandists for the
ruling class.
Second in Importance, but also often
overlooked, because it is free serv-
ice rendered the malignant minority,
is the fact that many Of those who see
through the foregoing fear that for
labor to free itself would be a most
process and so feel that it
is better to let bad enough alone.
These. people are actually victims of
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02

sending out to it's membership, the
same false figures and fdiotic form
ulae that the members of the Edison
Electric Institute and the readers OF
Messrs. Rising and Vennard have been
getting"
These falsehoods were disseminated
by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to
help it's members decide how they
should vote on the Chambers referen-
dunn No. 81, which was to determine
the chambers unprecedented" attitude
on National Water Resources Policies.
Senator Hill also paid his respects
to the National Tax Equality Associa-
ton saying:
NTEA-An Organization of
Mysterious Antecedents
Nevertheless, damage was done-to
the reputation of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce, if not to the
IVA. The results of this rigid referen-
dunn were presented as the mature
Judgment of American business. The
fraudulent data presented by the
chamber were seized upon and dis
animated as gospel by other propagan-
dists, for example, the National Tax
Equality Association, of Chicago, ILL.,,
an organization of mysterious antece-
dents but obvious bias. In a recent
tract, prepared by its research depart
ment; the NTEA presents as fact the
spurious Chamber of Commerce Ven
nard list of IVA activities. Likewise,
table II in the NTEA research report,
to show the effect of in
terest on IVA power operations at an
assumed rate of III percent, and cal
culated on total, rather than net in
vestment, after depreciation, came
bodily from appendix d of Vennard's
Dangers of the IVA Method of River
Control. Table III of the same report,
to show the effect of both |
interest and taxes on IVA power OPP
srations, stemmed back to the same
source, appendix D of Vennard, with |
some minor variations. Here again, as
n Vennard, we find comparisons of
apples and oranges"-the total taxes
If utilities on both generation and dis
operations, including excess
Profits taxes, used to support propa-
Continued on Page Three)
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joint MVA, eva meet
SCHEDULED FOR
AUGUSTUS

The Montana MVA Association will
be hosts at joint meeting of MVA
and eva supporters scheduled for
August IS in M1ssoula. Arrangements
for hall and hotel reservations to
accommodate the large attendance ex-
pected, are now being made.
Invitations to attend and address
the meeting have been extended to
Senators Murray of Montana, Taylor
Of Idaho, Mitchell of Washington and
Morse of Oregon, and they are ex-
~pected to make every effort to attend.
Invitations are also being sent to all
members Of the Montana MVA Asso-
citation, and a large attendance of
them is confidently expected. Dele
cations from North Dakota, Idaho and
Washington will also attend
Senator Taylor To Attend
Word received yesterday from Sen
ator Taylor, is that he will be in at
tendance at the Missoula meeting.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
That The People May Know
LETS LOOK AT The RECORD

in Candidate zaes
to- either nipple
agriculture
indication what role he believes America
appalling line with The Voices
poll
further information
of the Montana state legislature
consistency should
would OF
small business people should
be
factfindng Ectons voting
legislature
viii of
H.
bill approved by minimum
which could not Econ
voted against setting a
H. 12
Approval the legislature would have made mandatory
the filing annual
of making
the
this
the
recalls the Federal Power commission order of
OUT than $51 million
in overcapitazaion (watered stock that ls)
H. B.
of legislation from the House.
would lasting
all mined Purpose two
national ~
Northern Pacific railroad which has
Candidate Ecton
against the financial interests of the Northern
Pacific.
bill would have raised the income
in lowered
the tax the folks
to kill this maniesy unfair proposal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
MEAT INDUSTRY BOARD
WANTS CONTROLS
RETURNED

The National Meat Industry council
has reversed its stand on price con
troll; 1t now wants ceilings on meat re
imposed in order to check greed and
profiteering." The council represents
IS groups of Independent slaughterers,
professors, and chain and independent
retailers in nine eastern states and
the District of Columbia.
After two weeks without price con-
troll the executive board of the council
| held an emergency meeting and issued
| this statement:
"Our organization has at all times
been consistently in accord with the
principle of price control during war
time. and until such time as stability
of prices is reasonably assured, to
avoid runaway markets and danger
Gus initiation We have just as consis-
tently fought incompetence in the adj
ministration of OPA, wherever found,
as well as inequitable, harsh, or I'M
workable regulations
"On July 1st majority of our mem
bers greeted the end OF OPA with
gusto. However after witnessing I'M
mistakable signs and trends of an i'm
pending debacle, they have changed
their position.
eve are not in favor of an emascu-
lated, impotent Price Act full Of holes
and jokers controlling only luxuries.
We believe that basically price control
must regulate prices on necessities
first.
1--WE are convinced that the protesta-
ton of big business and the efforts of
industry to maintain prices, however
sincere, are pure bunk. Our economy
is too vast, too complex, and the greed
of certain producers too hot, to hold
prices on a voluntary basis. 1t must
be done by law, and only by law
which is effective"
The councils statement said the adj
vance of cattle prices to record-break-
ing levels proved greed and profiteer-
ing, to which there can be but one re-
straint, and that is effective price
control" The council concluded:
every senator and representative
who voted against effective price con-
troll is toying with an economic bomb
and digging his own political grave.
mo industry has suffered more than
ours because Of the Inconvenience,
the restraints and the nuisance of
price control We are, however re-
signed to further and even more eff
fective control for reasons of patriot
ism as we'll as the selfishness of self
The future, without
price control, isn't funny to contem-
plate nor difficult to predict. Con
5umers Union Bread and Butter.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02

drives against pubic power.
Adding emphasis to the in
formation he had brought out
about the lobby being extreme
ly well-financed, Senator Muir
ray also called attention of fell
low senators to the fact that
the head of the lobby was one
Purcall Smith, $4,000 former
president of the Midwest Cor
poration, an insult holding COM
pany.
During Senator Murray's speech,
Senator Aiken, progressive republican
senator from Vermont, on being grant
ed time by Senator Murray, brought
out that one of the methods of propa-
gandizing as exposed in the investiga-
tion into the Power Trusts carried on
by the Federal Power Commission was
to send out editorials to newspapers
all over the country, clevely present
ing specious arguments favoring the
private power interests. Senator Aiken
cited as an example of the present re-
vival of this plan, a boiler-plate edi-
torial opposing the st. Lawrence sea-
way, which appeared in the Harris
burg (Pa) News on March 26, in the
Roanoke (Va) Times on March 25, in
the Abilene, Tex.) Reporter on March
25 and slightly rewritten appeared in
the Arizona Republic on April 2.
On the same day Senator Hill at
tackled the private utility lobby in an
extended speech charged the United
States Chamber of Commerce with
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
SLAVE LABOR is BEING
Returned TO
EUROPE

Bozeman.-After 1910 of their num-
Der worked total of 84,679 man days
in the sugar beet fields, $500 prison
ers of war were removed from the
state last week and started on their
trip back to Germany, said H. L. Dus-
enberry, state supervisor Of the en-
Urgency farm labor program of the
Montana Extension service.
While thinning 30,557 acres and hoe
ing LOG additional acres of sugar beets,
the PW's earned about 100000, most
of which will go to the United States
government. The PW's represented
about 43 per cent of the total beet
thinning labor force.
They were brought into the state be-
tween April rs and May IS and were
quartered at Corvallis, Bridger, Bill
ings, Ballantine, Hardin, Forsyth,
Miles City, Sidney, Glasgow and Malta.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
WISCONSIN COOP Wholesale TAKES
$4,000 LOSS RATHER THAN
join PRICE SPREE

kets. They can also establish their own
sources of supply with greater free
dom than before.
co-ops Exist To Serve
Not Exploit
| And they can let the public know
that consumer co-ops exist to serve
the consumer, not to exploit him."
In New York, Eastern Cooperative
| Wholesale, owned by $4,000 consumers
in the eastern states, announced as its
policy determination to resist price
increases at every turn and "to do all
in its power to break any attempt at
price increases" T. G. Cashier opera
lions manager, declared ION certain
luxury items which were high in price
before OPA was discontinued and
which have increased sharply since
that time we are either sharply re-
ducing our commitments or else can
ceiling completely our orders for
them" He pointed out however that
"ECW, where unavoidable, is paying
the higher prices asked for staple
commodities and of course is forced
to increase selling prices on these
commodities as the costs increase"
Very few persons" Cashier pointed
out, "are sufficiently informed to be
able to distinguish unjustified price
rises from those that result from the
dropping of government subsidies.
Your local coop and coop wholesale,
being consumer owned, will stand as
your representative in this respect and
will naturally oppose any rises not
justified"
The Eel Co-operator broke prece-
dent to put big advertisement on its
front page announcing "CO-OPERA-
TIVES CAN'T PROFITEER". The CO.
operative, being owned by the con-
sumers returns any savings to them
and, by its nature, can not profiteer.
Cooperative leaders urged that con-
sumers, newly awakened to the i'm
portance of their buying power, should
use this power constructively by buy
ing through co-operatives rather than
merely refusing to buy.