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

Political gossip heard on the high
ways and by-ways, always leads back
to speculation on the senatorial race.
There appears to be unanimity OF
opinion that Judge Erickson and Judge
Adair are the only two possible can
didates who would be able to muster
enough strength to defeat Wheeler in
the primaries. Expressions from the
vote which has been called the vote
back of the sagebrush" is practically
unanimous in favor of Erickson as the
candidate. All Wheeler's opponents
recognize that a three-man race with
both Erickson and Adair in opposition
to Wheeler would be situation made
to order for him.
This reporter has heard what might
be called persistent rumors" that
Wheeler will not enter the primary
campaign as a candidate for re-elec-
ton. but will file as an independent
candidate in the general election cam
paign. Evaluation of this strategy
brings out certain advantages which
would accrue to him and also some
disadvantages.
Should he do this, he would be
banking on the strength of his demo-
cratic-republican coalition machine in
the state as having greater strength
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

aggression than could we avoid the
consequences of attacks by the Bar
barry Corsairs a century and a half
before.
We, as Americans, do not choose
to deny our responsibility.
Nor do we intend to abandon our
determination that, within the lives
of our children and our children's
children, there will not be Third
World War.
We seek peace-enduring peace.
More than an end to war, we want
an end to the beginnings of all wars
yes, an end to this brutal, inhu-
man and thoroughly impractical
method of settling the differences
between governments.
The once powerful, malignant
nazi state is crumbling, the Japa-
nese war lords receiving, in their
own home land, the retribution for
which they asked when they at
tackled Pearl Harbor.
But the mere conquest of our
enemies is not enough.
We must go on to do all in our
power to conquer the doubts and
the fears, the ignorance and the
greed, which made this horror pos
sible.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

from the utilities in % months. The
LET the People Vote League" actual
ly organized to cripple public power
in Washington state, got S48,000, the
FPC says.
Other utility false fronts, according
to the report, were the Washington
Bureau of Governmental Research,
Washington Business and Investors,
Spokane Taxpayers Economy League,
Oregon Business and Tax Research,
Inc, Oregon Tax Fax, Inc, Oregon
Tax Review Publishing Co.
Used False Fronts
The commission says nat1y that the
Washington State Taxpayers associa-
ton was used as tool of the utili-
ties for their political purposes"
Company employees went out early
and late, rang doorbells and pleaded
with voters to defeat public power.
Washington Water Power Co. spent
$4,000 in three years, saying the ex-
penditures were for customer infor-
nation" Employees went in to debt
to contribute" big sums for political
purposes, and later were paid off by
the companies through false accounts
concealed until dug up by the commits
sion.
Prominent citizens were put on the
utility payroll, including such former
public power men as Joseph c. Chen
ey of Yakima Wash. These payments
were secret and were for supposedly
disinterested advice to the public.
George T. Brodie, former United
States minister to Finland and Siam,
was one Of these, paid off by Portland
General Electric Co. Others were N.
c. Richards, Yakima attorney; Owen
Clark, Yakima; Irving Bounds, Yak
ina; E. J. Barnes, Yakima, who got
s2,788 for organizing a Small Home
Owners committee" against public
power.
Hired Ex-Governor
L. ]. Kelly of The Dalles got $1,000
for heading special committee to OPP
pose public power. A. J. Peters of
King County, Wash, got several thou
sand dollars for organizing a Rural
King County committee" against pub
lie power. "He admitted he was the
only member" says the report.
Fred Adams, a former member of
the Washington legislature, was hired
likewise.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
Nations Economy Is
Strengthened
By Co-ops

WASHINGTON = The theory that
the cooperative movement seriously
endangers other economic forms of
business operation can be utterly dis
regarded, house committee told con-
gress this week.
There is substantial evidence to
show that the cooperative movement
operates as very successful means
of combating monopolistic concentra.
tions and as such, is a very healthy
addition to American economy" ii
said.
Conclusions of the committee in
cluded
1. That agricultural co-operatives
originally were formed to help the
small farmer who was in a disadvan-
tageous bargaining position and "the
conditions which gave rise to the CO.
operative movement have not entirely
disappeared.
2. Tax-exempt farmer co-operatives
have an advantage over competitive
business to the extent that amounts Of
income available for dividends on cap
ital stock or held as accumulated re-
serves escape federal income taxation
but the aggregate is relatively small
Enjoy No Advantages
3. Agricultural co-operatives which
are non-exempt from federal income
tax and all consumer co-operatives APP
parently enjoy no privileges or advan-
tages under the tax laws which are
not available to all other types of
competitive businesses operating in
the same lines of endeayor.
A. The levy of receipts tax on CO.
operatives would probably raise con-
objections" and would seri-
ously affect schools, churches. charit-
able and scientific organizations and
many social clubs which have a COM
parable advantage of tax exemption"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

Shortly after the sawmill is well
started it is hoped that materials and
heavy equipment will be available to
start work on the plywood mill. The
plywood plant will produce 100000
feet monthly and will employ an adj
ditional force of about $50 workers.
The pulp and paper mill, which prob
ably will not be under construction be-
fore 1947, will provide jobs to be-
tween 500 and 600 men, This mill will
employ the sulphate process of max
ing paper. Maximum paper output will
be 200 tons per day.
Montana Financed
Financing of this new industry is
being accomplished through a stock
selling campaign, with particular EN-.
phasis being placed on securing the
necessary funds from Montana citi-
zens. Sufficient funds to build the saw
mill unit were raised some time back.
This attempt to build the industry on
a completely Montana-owned basis is
radical departure from the financing
of other major industries in the state,
and may well be an important mile
stone in the economic life of Mon
tana Decentralization of economic au-
thority, like the decentralization of
political authority invariably results
in greater interest for the economic
welfare of the local community.
Eight Times AS Many Jobs
For many years, whether in mining,
livestock, or timbering, Montana has
been considered producer of raw ma.
terials Raw materials to be processed
into finished products in the indus
trialized East This means that Mon
tana payrolls from the exploitation of
our resources are only as large as
the amount of raw products needed
by Eastern manufacturers. Our state
as a result has remained a colonial
dependency not unlike Java, India or
The Congo, to be exploited to the hilt
as long as our native treasure lasts
and likely abandoned thereafter.
By the establishment Of such multi
purpose industries as the Idaho-Mon-
tana Pulp and Paper, the trend is re-
versed. For every man formerly en-
gagged in preparing logs for shipment
to out-of-state manufacturers, such a
local industry will employ eight men.
Further, by making the finished prod
ucts all in one plant, the wastage of
our timber resources will be reduced
The proposed combination plant at
Poison will utilize better than 80 per
cent of the trees cut, excluding the
bark, in making either lumber, ply
wood or paper. Eventually it may be
possible to erect another plant which
will utilize the bark in making wall
BOARD.
Piywood Possibilities
Developments during recent years
rave proven that plywood manufac.
ured from either larch or yellow pine
S equal to, and in some ways superior
o plywood made from Coast fir. Both
arch and pine are unexcelled for in
erior finishing Of homes; are equal
y as strong as fir, and are somewhat
lighter in weight. Sixteen per cent of
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

A MERICANS are gathered togeth-
er this evening in communities
all over the country to pay tribute
to the living memory of Thomas
Jefferson-one of the greatest of
all democrats; and | want to make
it clear that 1 am spelling that word
democrats" with small cd.
l wish l had the power, just for
this evening, to be present at all
of these gatherings.
In this historic year, more than
ever before, we do well to consider
the character of Thomas Jefferson
as an American citizen of the world.
AS minister to France then as
our first secretary of state, and as
our third president, Jefferson was
instrumental in the establishment
Of the United States as a vital fac
tor in international affairs.
1t was he who first sent our navy
into far-distant waters to defend
our rights. And the PRONUNCIATION
of the Monroe Doctrine was the
logical development of Jefferson's
far-seeing foreign policy.
Today this nation, which Jeffer-
son helped so greatly to build, is
playing a tremendous part in the
battle for the rights Of man all over
the world
Today we are part of the vast
allied force-a force composed of
flesh and blood and steel and spirit
= which is today destroying the
makers of war, the breeders of ha-
tired, in Europe and in Asia.
In Jefferson's time our navy con-
sisted of only handful of frigates
but that tiny navy taught nations
across the Atlantic that piracy in
the Mediterranean of aggres-
sion against peaceful commerce and
the enslavement of their crews
was one of those things which.
among neighbors, simply was not
done.
Today we have learned in the
agony of war that great power in
wolves great responsibility. Today
we can no more escape the conse-
quences of German and Japanese
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

Thomas Jefferson, himself dis
tinguished scientist, once spoke of
the "brotherly spirit of science,
which unites into one family all its
votaries of whatever grade, and
however widely dispersed through
the different quarters of the globe.
Today, science has brought all
the different quarters of the globe
so close together that it is impossi-
BILE to isolate them one from an
other
Today we are faced with the pre-
eminent fact that, il civilization is
to survive, we must cultivate the
science of human relationships -
the ability of all peoples, of all
kinds to live together and work
together in the same world, at
peace.
Let me assure you that my hand
is the steadier for the work that
is to be done, that | move more
firmly into the task, knowing that
you-millions and millions of US
are joined with me in the resolve
to make this work endure.
The work, my friends, is peace,
more than an end Of this war-an
end to the beginnings of all war,
yes, an end, forever, to this imprac-
teal, unrealistic settlement of the
differences between governments
by the mass killing of peoples.
Today as we move against the
terrible scourge of war-as we go
forward toward the greatest con-
tribution that any generation of
human beings can make in this
world-the contribution of lasting
peace, | ask you to keep up your
faith. | measure the sound, solid
achievement that can be made at
this time by the straight-edge of
your own confidence and your re-
solve. And to you, and to all Amer
leans who dedicate themselves with
us to the making of an abiding
peace, I say:
The only limit to our realization
of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today. Let us move forward with
strong and active faith.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

Enormous lobbying expenditures of
Northwestern private power compan-
les to defeat public power and CO.
lumbia Valley Authority, as shown
by Federal Power commission inves-
tigation were recently released.
The commission found five power
companies spent $1,037,00O in five
years (1935 to 194O) for politics,
charged most of the cost to consum-
ers. and falsified accounts to conceal
such expenditures.
Many "citizen movements" oppos-
ing public power were actually subsi-
died false fronts for the utilities,
the report says. The Washington State
Taxpayers association got $4,000
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
FROM IVA


this week two letters from presidents of large industrial con-
Chattanooga Tennessee These in to
requests made by Fred Huntington president of Montana
MVA Association for full and frank expressions of opinion
the merits of IVA.
MOUNTAIN CITY MILL COMPANY, INC
20 1916.
Mr. FredG Huntington Preside
Montana MvA Association,
the Ten
nessee Valley to give you my frank appraisal Of the iva
businessmen like myself doubt
with dispatch efficiently and in a
friendly cooperative democratic During the u years of the
specifically electric have
electrified plant 1910 and since that time
costsnow 20 per cent Of
Many similar experience
alone has brought to the
During the great stroke
national good fortune that the IVA was far enough along to
amounts of that needed Oak Ridge
Aluminium Company America Reynolds Metals and many other
making materials throughout the Valley
with the cheap and other benefits
that IVA has brought this section now many will want to locate
Valley will develop faster than other section
10 20
qualified in field navigation than
concerning power small local businessmen
without experience formed the Tennessee Valley Barge
Line that time have operated continuously and potaby
and other rivers From this experience we know that
One Of Twas spectacular achievements has
Valley The marvellous water control due
the huge dams on the tributaries and the dams on the main
checking soil erosion efeon and promoting better farm
p Psss pso as activities Of the iva
haa pouna ecu on me Re- Inc aven4 avon hem scratcad
In developing the
ntegrated into well
completely convinced and believe most other
the IVA idea sound and practical Of
Valley opportunities Valley
further questions that would like to ask me- please
Yours very truly RAGLAND President
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

which has been secured under
a long-term lease by the COM
pany. The land lease also in
cludes one-half mile of 'front.'
age on the Flathead river just
below Poison.
Construction of the sawmill, accord
ing to reports from the Flathead area,
may be underway within the next few
weeks. The mill when completed will
employ approximately 100 men in log
ging and mill work, and have a daily
capacity of 10000 feet.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
IN MEMORIAM


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terrible a as any ma
month
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follows:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
Five Power Firms Spent
Over Million On Politics
Money Financed Taxpayers Association and
Numerous Other So-Called Public
Groups, Over S. ear Period

Every citizen interested in valley authority developments
should this story, remembering that 121
panes united in opposing all river valley authorities
This indicates how big false front committees
other tricks usedand paid for by electric customers
TO defeat public power developments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
Poison Pulp Paper Plant
Enviisages Payroll Of 500
Construction of Sawmill To Start Soon; Also
Plan Plywood and Paper Mills For
Multi-Purpose Industry

Prospects that Poison during the next two three
may become the hub of Montana neophye pulp and
industry have been enhanced during recent months by the de-
cson of the dahoMontana Pulp and Paper Co., to install
huge muti-purpose plant the lake city
Tentative plans call for building combination sawmi,
pywood MILL and pulp and paper mill the 50acre tract
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

After the 1918 Armsce prices sagged for few months This
fooled almost everyone into thinking that the dangers OF imitation
were over What price controls had dropped Then
prices began rise rapidly than during the war BY mid
1920 prices high that people could not Them Then
firms went bankrupt Merchants farmers and industries suffered
inventory of $40 billion farmers lost their FARMS
Help prevent this from happening again Know the ceiling price
of everything buy Refuse more Help protect your
job and your business.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12

HARDWOOD FLOORING PRICE UP
In an action designed to increase
production of hardwood flooring, the
OPA has announced increases averag-
ing nine percent in mill ceiling prices
for maple, birch and beech flooring.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-12
INSIST ON RATE REDUCTIONS!

Here's some why citizens
that Public Power COM
TO reduce its excessive
In 1914 overcargs every
citzensincudng the sick the
month $500 of
kowa hours used by
have in other sections figures
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-25
A Thought For Today
War Is 'Hellish'

The system of using secret agents to gather military
information is hesh says Secretary of Commerce Henry
Wallace, and should be replaced by open ana
international dealings ~ , .,4
Surely most of the country will say Amen" to that
Tn fact it is quite possible that most OF the country had
already reached this nonetoorecondte conclusion before Mr.
Wallace delivered it to members of the Womens National
Democratic Club in Washington
So that everybody agrees on the heshness OF spy
ing what are we going to do about it? Shall we set good
example by dsmantng our new peacetme ntorma o0d
service? Shall then call the nations together around
the United Nations table and exact from them promise
that this subtle and sinister practice will be renowned from
on? , , n,
It would be wonderful if could do that Perhaps
some day But right now it seems realistic ratner
than cynical to say that should be foolish to make the
attempt For we should be repeating past mistakes. 49,
Heavy production and big Navies are heish
too back in the early Twenties the United States aed
conference of great powers to some existing war
ships tear the for Others and put general stop
to expensive wastefu provocative preparations Tor war
The United States lived to all agreements and set
splendid example. 49,.
War itself was certainly helsh. So, back in the late
rwenties American Secretary of State and french
Premier coaborated on an agreement renouncng war as an
instrument of national policy. The keogg-Brland Treaty
was signed by 81 of the worlds nations.
If wars were to be outlawed large standing army was
not only heish but impractical and unnecessary So the
United States good example by maintaining, in the
year that war again broke out in Europe Regular Army
of less than 100000 and Navy of less than $4,000 men
though it had long been evident that the Kellogg
BRAND Treaty just another scrap of paper blown down
the drafty corridors of history.
War and armament races and big armies and secret
agents all heh But this country has never corrected
them by ignoring them 1t has only weakened itself and
brought suffering and death to it's citizens.
It needs to be said again that America cannot assume
world leadership by trying to exert moral pressure WINE
disspatng her inherent national strength" She must at
least provide herself with full complement of protection
as her neghbor have Only thus she lend full power
to the task of building organization strong enough to
preserve world peace.
Meanwhile our leaders should not be put off by argu
ents as sv as Mr. Walaces statement but ntration of
foreign agents into Russia in the Twentes contributed to
Soviet suspicious today Such nltration and COM
in every major country and RUSSIAN agents most Ger
tany were and participating in it. If government s
knowledge of foreign agents existence the signal and
for foreign policy of rucuent suspicion then the
world would be an even sorrier place than it is today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-25

government service. The resignation isn't effective
until April /, but "Gabe" had little leave coming
and he and Mrs Gabrielson, having rstled four new
tires for their old car. headed for Florida TO lie in
the sum- watch the dickie blrds-and fish
Gabe Of the most amazing characters
in Washington. He Is bigger than al outdoors him
self, weighing over $50 and he has one Of the
grandest smiles and frlendliest faces In this whole
capital community OF verbal cutthroats and back
Stabbers It probably comes from his lifetime inter-
est IN the fnny furry. and featheFy friends who are
after all, pretty decent compared 10 humans.
0abe got his start collecting bird EGGS as boy
In Iowa. He found out he could get paid for H.
and he worked his way through college collecting.
Skinning. and stuffing birds for scientific exhibits
IN his lifetime ne has collected about 1900 birds, and
hls oEn present collection Of about 5000 Is one Og
the best IN the country.
Sc vent 70 work f0F the government 10 iet6 Cor
800 . year. Hls first JOB was IS an economic ognis
thologiAt and I've sent ca from theFe IN eeyegnulen
service he has hksd end hunted and flAaed. Ane
INDUCED ~ his fagonle paatlme Of watching NE
dlekle BIRDS" IN every gtate. ali o. me canaaiAn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-25
Views of the Press

ate threat of widespread famine
and inadequate to fulfill Americas
moral obligations and responsible
ties as a world leader" So far as
the public is concerned, this &C.
bate is perforce largely academic
because of dearth of precise in
formation, such as U. N. r. r. A.,
for one, must be expected TO pro-
vide.
New York's former Mayor is no
new hand at dealing with crises.
He is no new hand at discnarging
huge administrative responsibilities.
He has had experience BON witt,
relief and with intergovernmental
activities. We in New York know
him TO be a man of extraordinary
dynamic energy, of extraordinary
persuasive power when situation
calls out for action. When Mr.. La
Guardia undertakes the U. N. r.
r. A. post he will, we hope, drop
all lesser commitments and devote
himself whole-heartedly to nobiliz-
ing both facts and resources for
the acquittal Of u N. r. r. A S
vast task. If he does that, we know
of no better man for this post in
which complications are exceeded
only by the Importance Of swift
and effective action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-25
DIsCOURAGING CAR THEFTS

New Haven Journal-Courier)
Spurred by an increase in auto
mobile thefts, Kansas highway off,
Gals will ask for legislation orovid-
ing fines for motorists Who leave
ignition keys in the cars. Police
in some cities already make prac-
tice of inspecting parked machines
and if keys are found they are TAX
en- to headquarters, where a five
dollar fee is demanded for recovery.
One such experience is calculated
to cure the most careless driver.
The Dyer Act, which makes
motor car thief liable to federal
prosecution if the machine is Griv-
en- from one state to another, has
been somewhat effective, but it has
not eliminated such crimes, as its
sponsors predicted it would do.
There have been many cases where
thieves crossed the continent, steal
ing one car after another. In many
instances ignition keys had not
been removed and gasoline tanks
were usually full.
With new automobiles still avail
able in only limited numbers, there
is need to guard those now IN use.
1t is only common sense to make
theft as difficult as possible. The
practice of removing The keys
should be generally observed, and
car doors locked in addition, Few
automobiles thus guarded are ever
molested.