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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Buyers Strike Launched By Irate Great
Falls Consumers In Protest OverPrices

A consumers group, meeting Sun
day at Carpenters hall, voted to begin
an immediate buyers strike aimed at
lowering the price of milk, other dairy
products, bread, meat and eggs in
Great Falls and to launch a campaign
to persuade others to join the strike.
Ray Graham, chairman of the citi-
zens' committee appointed two weeks
ago to investigate the price of milk
and obtain facts to present before the
hearing here last Wednesday of the
milk board in connection with a pro-
posed rise in prices here, was chair
man of the meeting.
The buyers strike motion was made
by l.. l.. Price.
A letter to the milk board protest
ing the participation of Fred Rosse-
let, Butte, vice chairman of the board
on the ground that Rosselet's atti-
tude at the hearing here indicated he
is not impartial and prone to feel
that the rise in the price of milk in
this area is necessary" was approved.
Kenneth McIver, Great Fall milk
DOdIu HelHDeI, SHOuiu not participate
in the determination of the milk price
because "he is a milk distributor and
interested in milk production in this
territory" the letter states.
Bernal ]. c. Leary, member of a
previously appointed food price inves-
tigating committee, said facts had
been gathered in connection with
milk prices and statements made at
the milk control board hearing here
which it was hoped to be able to lay
before a grand jury
Leary said some consideration al
ready has been given by interested
groups to form a consumers coop
erative here.
Don Chapman, state Farmers I'm
ion president, discussed cO-operatives
and charged cOnsumer-voters had been |
"sold out" by their elected representa- |
tives He pointed out the Farmers
Union had fought abolition of the OPA !
and rationing.
Another consumers meeting will be
held next Sunday afternoon at at
Carpenters hall.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03

is by not having the facts on it
because of our kept PRESS" he con-
cluded.
Anna Zelleck, staff member of Mon
tana State college, specialist in his
torical and economic research, and
dry land farmer from 10 miles cas-
of Lewistown, said only 43 per cent O.
Montana's farmers have electricity
"Our rates are so high we use cleo
tricity only for a few essential things
and use very little other needed ma
chinery."
C. G. Manning, superintendent OF
Lewistown schools, felt that the MVA
would be in the best interests of the
people.
The philosophy behind the MVA
should be, mot to do things for peo-
pie, but to make it possible for people
to do things for themselves" he said.
Manning suggested several changes,
including a five or seven man board
instead of the proposed three. He felt
the immensely of the project would re-
quire a larger board, to which Senator
Murray agreed.
Leo G. Graybill, Great Falls attOr-
ney said that it was no longer the
Pick-Sloan plan, but the Pick plan.
"The army's end of the deal seems
now to compare with the reclamation
bureaus end as an elephant to a
mouse.
He felt that the MVA was the best
way to develop the various interests
of the Missouri valley, yet would not
allow the lower end to dominate.
Graybill also attacked those who
insisted the MTA was incompatible
with the free enterprise system"
Earl McGinnis, Lewistown insur-
ance man, was out of the city so left
statement which was read. He en-
phasized his belief that the MVA would
"be best for the greatest number of
people" He felt that the army engi-
neers and reclamation bureau are not
in a position to coordinate activities.
Old Young Women
A farmers wife from Fairfield, aid
mother of two small boys, Mrs. Harold
Woodhouse, said "all riches come
from the EARTH" in emphasizing her
feeling that an MVA is needed.
81 now live on modern farm with
and it is quite compari- |
son to the drudgery I had when living
on a farm without electricity. l then
had little or no strength to raise a
family 1t is no wonder that women
on farms that do not have electricity
age so fast"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Much Sentiment
Continued from Page one)

lante Electric Coop, an REA unit
were described by C. e. BIinn, Dillon
chairman of the board of directors
and Howard Babcock, manager.
Carl Kraenzel, rural sociologist al
Montana State College, described the
problems of Montana arising from lack
of sufficient population and from lack
of forcefulness on the part of the
present population. He said
eff the upper Missouri basin states
were to move in the direction of hav-
ing fifth or third OF a quarter of
the population density of the nation
as whole, extensive progress could
be made in getting out of the hinter-
land stage of psychology into a posi-
ton of constructive self-government
and psychological security. The re-
source development phase is only the
tool for the benefit of the people in
the basin and the nation and is not
the major objective This human en-
phasiS must be a specific part of the
overall program, along with the re-
source development emphasis, if the
people Of the area are to grow to their
full stature in democratic and I'M
exploited way"
Jerome G. Locke, Helena engineer
executive secretary of the Montana
MVA Association, gave a detailed &C.
count of how a proper development
of the Madison river basin could be
carried out, in contrast with the at
tempt now proposed in the Pick-Sloan
plan He said the Pick-Sloan plan was
more a political than an engineering
plan, being laid out so as not to upset
present financial interests of the Mis-
souri, basin. He pointed out that the
Pick-Sloan plan calls only for irriga- |
ton of $4,000 acres in the Madison
valley.
A project worked out by Locke and !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Additional Information On
Milk Board Hearing

Expressing a desire to leave the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. out in the cold,
consumers and producers gathered at
the milk hearing in Great Falls Sep
TENDER 25th agreed that the farmer
producer needed an increase of &c for
producing milk but that the increase
should come out of the excess profits
of the distributors, not from the con-
sumer. At present time distribution
of milk nets more than the production
itself.
The distributors, including Fergus
Mitchell of AYRSHIRE Dairy and Black
of Jersey Dairy took up a great deal of
time offering testimony to show that
they did not make sufficient profit to
stay in business
The consumers didn't get chance
to start testimony until after midnight,
the meeting lasted until 3 am. But
Black indicated he had been able to
build up a $4,000 business from an
initial investment of $500.
After considerable time had been
spent in testimony, Mitchell of Ayre-
shire Dairy stated there is nothing
in the law to keep us from raising
the price of milk.
A number of housewives made sur
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03

veyS of their communities and stated
that &c increase per quart of milk
would force them and their neighbors
to either cut consumption in half or
discontinue it altogether. Mrs. Fore
man, from the consumer group stated
with perhaps the exception of your
self, Mr. Mitchell, there is no one in
this room who can afford enough to
eat in face of the inflationary costs
of food. We must begin to draw the
line somewhere. 1t is a tragic stu
ation.'
Ray Graham from the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union cited the fact
that the local dairies were directly or
indirectly affiliated with huge monop-
oily chains such as Borden company
who made a net profit after taxes
were paid in 1915 of $4,000, 900 which
figure scared to $19,000,OOO in 1916
with OPA was lifted.
The need for price control was
and both farmer-producer and
felt that establishing
producer-consumer Co-ops would be a
solution to the problem locally.
The Montana Milk Control Board
has deferred action.-Barbara Warner.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
What S Happened?-

Continued from Page TyvO)
that it did not occur to him that these
contributors wanted anything but a
governor who would really enforce the
laws against gambling and other ques-
tionable activities. Anyhow Sam OBJ
viously felt no pricking of his tender
conscience in accepting campaign con-
tributions from these sources.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Reflections
Continued from Page Three)


toned in the next paragraph. My
basic training and much of experience
has been engineering. I see first the
materials available for gigantic and
many-purposed project; water, land
and all the natural resources, material
need for development, and a wonder
| fully efficient machine and power age
! in which to do the job I find that
like myself other brethren of the slide
irule fraternity seem to see this side
of the picture. To all of us the design
and construction field is the very i'm
portant one. We all know we can
never have a great or an efficient and
creditable project unless we build it to
extract the maximum of accomplish
ment for good use of each item of
material. That is why so many of the
engineers, probably large majority
of them, are not actually satisfied with
halfway measures such as have been
proposed in the opposition's plans.
You may not hear much of it in public
but l am morally sure from personal
contacts and otherwise that most of
the boys in the Bureau of Reclamation
and many of those classed as Army
engineers are actually for an author
ity-type of development. Their posi-
lions will not permit the airing of
views but these are competent, faith
full and highly qualified professionals
whose inner dream is to be part of
something that really counts.
May Be Most Important Part
Now we come to the fourth major
activity, the last field that is a part
of the picture in our western develop
ment In the long run this may be
the most important part of the picture.
1t is the political field If the work is
ever authorized, it will be done
through our representatives who are
politicians. A few of them have be-
come statesmen; many have not and
never will. The statesman, as I see
it, is the public representative who
becomes big enough and broad enough
and honest enough to seek to initiate
and carry out measures that are in
the interest of the great mass of
people which he represents. Thank
Heaven we have a few such men in
the United States senate and the halls
of congress- Then we have some pol
iticians, a very considerable number in
! congress and a considerable number in
high positions outside of congress-
These politicians are nice fellows to
meet; they mean well but sometimes
too feebly. They are handicapped by
the fact that a politician must always
keep his grip on the votes of the
majority of the public and at the same
time not offend the great source of
his campaign contributions Unfor-
tunately the great source of campaign
contributions in Montana is the Mon
tana Power Company and the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company This
explains, l think, why some of our
highly placed politicians have been so
diligent in issuing derogatory state
ments about the MVA during the past
few days.-JEROME G. LOCKE, Mem
ber Regional Committee for MVA.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03

Joseph V. Bennett showed that be-
sides this irrigation this up-river valley
could have: Four reservoirs to store
415,000 acre feet of live water; 1896
kilowatt hours a year of prime hydro
electric power, extensive utilization of
phosphate deposits, an increase of five
to eight times in the supply of trout
and other fish, an $50 square mile rec
reation district, fine new paved road
from Three Forks to Yellowstone
Park, and maybe even development of
limestone deposits for cement He
estimated that go per cent of the cost
of all these features could be regained
In 40 years by legitimate charges for
benefits.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
CHEAP ELECTRICITY

He felt an MVA would take power
out of politics, and provide cheap
electricity to make possible the con-
truction and operation of other flour
mills, a meat packing and pottery
plant, and other industries in the
Lewistown area.
McKenna said population in Fergus
county had declined from $500 in
1880 to $4,000 in 1910, and that Petro-
leum county had also lost population
'If we had cheap MVA power to
maintain industry, and also pump
waters from rivers and the sub
surface for irrigation, we would be
able to maintain our population and
create opportunities for our young
people," he stated.
Clio Likes MVA
Gordon Dial, speaking for the CLIO
union at Great Falls,
said, 1--WE have discussed the MVA
in many of our meetings. We want
economic security, and think the MVA
will help give it to us. We are for it. y
Ralph Cook, president of Cascade
County Farmers Union, and member
of the legislature, discussed the need
for soil conservation, and predicted
that MVA would do the most in solving
this important problem.
1--WE need cheap power to develop
our fertilizer industry . the people
of the west are fed up with eastern
control of industry and its prevention
of decentralization in this area" Cook
said in demanding the MVA
1.-THE only way any of the COM
mon people can be against the MVA
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03

If friends whom you with a
Christmas greeting year. will noting
"high giving" you
a humble
Thrifty last
Printing, like everything climbing
necessary every
along that line So only that
minimum your Thrifty
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Need For More
CONTINUED from Page One)

The Hungry Horse dam would irri-
gate 100000 to 10000 acres in the
Kalispell area" according to McKen-
ma. The Montana Power company
says it is for irrigation, but opposes
the Hungry Horse dam. Also they
favor a higher dam at Canyon Ferry,
which would flood most of the irri-
gated land as far up as the Townsend
area, and would probably provide lit
tie if any additional irrigation below
the dam. 1t seems to me that if the
Hungry Horse dam were turned over
to the Montana Power company they
would be for it, as they want a power
monopoly in the state" McKenna in
sisted
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03

Patronize the Cooperative in your
community-it is there to serve you.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28

Anne Wdte1non - n ef tlIneS,
the figure drops to 10.
Miss Waterman says it's been
a tough battle to put across
her program" in Soviet-back-
ed Poland where there's much
aovernment-inspired anti-Am-
erican feeling nowadays. But
even if her university class &C.
casionally dwindles. she always
has q big list of persons who
want private lessons. And
many specifically request to
learn what American slang ex-
pressions mean.
Miss Waterman is the starry
eyed, blonde, baby-faced daugh
ter of DR.. Alan T. Waterman, of
Washington, D. c., scientific ex-
pert for the Navy department.
While in Washington, she said,
a woman attached to the Polish
embassy met her and told her of
the great need for teachers in
Warsaw.
"She gave me a glorified pic
ture but warned me to expect
nothing in the way of comfort
only what war left" said Miss
Waterman.
But I had always been a par
ty girl and / wanted to show my
family that | could do something
worthwhile. l sat out the whole
war, studying at Vassar, with the
exception of a little u. S. o. and
hospital work.
Il went to the Polish embassy
and they agreed to send me to
Poland. That is, to accept me as
teacher. for paid my own way
over here, l left the United
States, in Nov, 1916, and ar
rived here on Thanksgiving dav
CT that year"
When she arrived in Poland
Miss Waterman appeared gay.
happy and anxious to start her
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In the winter, I fight to keep
warm, because it's terribly cold"
Miss Waterman says the Polish
authorities haven't yet tried to
censor anything she tells her pu-
pills. And she talks much about
American democracy and con-
cepts of freedom, most of which
are lacking in Poland.
his is far from the comforts
OF home. But l came over here
to do something worthwhile. I'm
staying another year. If l sue
coed in teaching even twenty
Poles how to speak English and
understand America, I'll have
done something worthwhile" the
young teacher says.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28

Az I anticipated, the Carnegie
Hall audience responded In their
true tradition with their LED.
endary sophisticated enthusiasm
expanded into salves of applause.
l am very tense and nervous be.
fore playing a concert. But think
il is a good type Of artistic TEN.
permanent. The life Of an instru-
mentalist has in il one serious
flaw: we know we have to do our
best at $3.50. A composer can say,
Il don't feel like composing today.
Ill 90 to Long Island" But an
instrumentalist 10 tied to an open.
ing curtain. Nervousness. in some
way, helps this $3.50 feeling.
experienced this same $3.50 feel.
ing. with a slight variation, before
going before the cameras in ''Car.
negie Hail." the = United Artists
film. The difference was the knOwl.
edge that if my performance did
not satisfy me, q '.retake" would
be in order. That mitigated the
tension somewhat, though real
lied the potential film audience
was far greater numerically - If
less seasoned musically - than any
hall or combination of halls could
accommodate. My performance be.
fore the cameras. therefore, had
increased significance.
Carnegie Hail. has a great op.
portunity. 1t has what is virtually
the first chance to bring SO much
music of the masters by so many
great artists to millions OF people
who are relatively uninitiate In
musical appreciation. II can be the
instrument which will unfold to
these millions the magic, the
beauty, the emotional and artistic
experience great music contains.
know l was fully aware Of the inn.
portance of my part In the picture
and I'm sure the other artists felt
i equally.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28

a heavy obstacle to The mature
and free artist in the best expires.
sion of his art. Facing an audience
from the stage, we interpreters may
sense the spirit of the listeners,
the acoustics of the hall, the quail.
ties of the piano we are playing,
and, last but not least, our own
state of inspiration. But if we must
play compositions which are un.
suited to the circumstances merely
because they have been announced
in print, of what avail is our -
shall / call it - sixth sense?
am convinced that audiences
all over the world - and l have
played all over except Tibet en-.
JOY and understand best the pieces
which awaken our inspiration
of the moment. This conviction
prompted me to appear without a
planned program and to announce
each composition from the stage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28

ravaged Warsaw University has
been restored to permit holding
of classes. The university, like
Miss Waterman, lacks enough
text books and teaching materi-
ais.
She says she hasn't any par
ticular system of teaching. Most
of her students seem to concer:
trate upon learning conversation
al English, and so her classes are
highlighted by talking back and
forth.
She lives in a tiny, white-plas-
tered room in the woman's dorm
tory near the university with a
betty, 24-year-old Polish ROOM
hate.
The wall decorations are prin-
cipally Christmas and greeting
cards Miss Waterman received
from home. There are two small
beds in the room covered with
U. S. Army blankets. Because of
high prices. she and her room
mate do much eating out of cans
and make their own beverages.
Through the us. Embassy COM
missary, Miss Waterman is priv
ileged to buy limited quantities
OF American canned foods.
She gets her room rent free.
he Polish Ministry Of Education
pays her 5000 zlotys per month.
That's $4,000, at the official rate
of exchange. She is permitted to
have one free meal per dav in
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the university dining hall. But
usually doesn't bother
It's so filthy it makes yea
sick" she says. The food is ter
rible. The tableclothS look
as though they've never been
washed. And walters just dip dir
ty dishes in cold water and slap
them back onto the table
Miss Waterman gets some aid
from home to keep on living in
Warsaw, for 8,066 zlotys per
month, at the present prices, is
just about enough for five good
meals.
Asked what she does with her
time when she isn't teaching,
Miss Waterman said she plays
tennis, reads. and travels about
the city with some of her young
Polish students
I'm the summer, l eat heavily.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28

I made my debut in Carnegie
Hall in 1906, when l was 10, and
have played there frequently since.
Each appearance there has been
highly gratifying because a Car.
negie Hall audience is admirably
equipped to hear, appraise and
respond to innovations.
A few years ago l used Carnegie
Hall as a testing ground for some.
thing l believe in firmly. / gave a
concert there without a printed
program, announcing my numbers
from the stage. had done it before
in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona,
BuenOs Aires, Sydney and San
Francisco. But l had never done il
in New York. l decided TO perform
this way only in cities where /
knew l would not be suspected Of
seeking publicity.
After long experience I have
discovered that q prearranged and
printed program tends to become
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some of its best people. The man
with gumption to pull out is valu-
able. Besides, the nations taking
the immigrants are carefully
screening them.
Europe was once the worlds
most important factory section. 1t
shipped to all the world at the
favorable profit that factory Sec
tons seem TO take from raw ma
terial producers.
When Europe loses its hands it
loses part of its ability to export.
But it also loses part CT the press
ing need to buy food abroad.
More Factories
And in other parts of the world
factories are growing. There isn't
a so-called raw material nation"
in the United Nations which
hasn't voiced desire for more
factories to piece out farm pro-
duction.
Those factories are growing,
particularly in Australia, India
and Brazil AS they grow, Europe's
old markets shrink. For example,
Australia is now exporting many
small consumers articles-things
as big as radios-and will shortly
tllrn ont itc nuyY1 alItoc
The possible outcome? Wash
ington economists are not partic-
uarly worried. They say there
will be creaking, complaining
interim, but the result is likely
to be more nearly balanced liv-
ing scale all over the world.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28
Your Horoscope

THURSDAY, AUGUST %, l947
This degree promises useful
and successful life. Under SIM
pie exterior, theer is really a pro-
found mind. perhaps sometimes
lacking the gift of expression. but
this trait may be easily overcome
by training. The aspirations will
be well directed, the life well
rounded and with the end passed
in a state of comparative COM
petence.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-08-28
What IL Means
Emigration From Europe
By SIGRID ARNE

WASHINGTON -(Apl-The worry over keeping Europe fed
work may poriolY solve itself through iuctor
which the politicians huven mentioned: Literally millions
OF Europeans want to leave for homes in other lands
That report brought TO Washington by Austrolios min
lister of immigration. Arthur Colwell otter quick swing
through European countries study that exact question
Winston Churchill has pleaded with Brons to stick it out
hoeond but Cowe says he discovered that 100000
Bnons want go Australia. Another 100000 want to come