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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

labor movement. But this only
happened because too many So
called progressives again re-
treated when price and other
controls were smeared as red"
as were consumer strikes and
other demonstrations. And L
wellrremember, in our local
grocery store, how the great
majority of customers willingly
signed packers petitions to end
all price controls so they could
get more meat" and eliminate
BLACK market prices"
Now, on the subject of wages
and prices, l feel that the F.
VIC group has something less
than full grasp of the rela-
tionship between these factors
or they could not say that
"a round the clock price reduc-
ton could win mass support
outside the unions while
round the clock wage rise could
not"
The fact is that monopoly
propaganda is again at work
here, trying to sell the idea that
higher wages means higher
prices, which is an essential
falsehood. Prices under mo-
nopoly are raised. arbitrarily,
and have only a slight rela-
tionship with either wages or
commodity supply and demand.
: ACTUALLY. wages differ be-
tween plants which manufac-
ture identical products and sell
them at Identical prices. In
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19
big corporation.

big corporation. All 1t taxes is
honesty and hard work" The
success novels of Horatio Alger
helped make this myth into al
most a state religion.
We continue to believe it,
despite all evidence to the con-
trary. Most industrial and white
collar workers dream of some
day becoming independent and
owning their own businesses.
Results of a recent Gallup poll
show that two out of three
would prefer to own their own
business and assume all the
risks, on the long chance of
getting wealthy, rather than
work for someone else.
SOME FEW save up a little
money, maybe a few thousand
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

price competition with chain
stores and their tremendous re-
sources.
SO SERIOUS is the problem
of the small business man that
on July 2 the United Small
Business Association issued
statement which said:
Small business people or
persons interested in going into
business are hereby advised to
refrain from further expansion
or entering into new business
enterprises. The condition of
business today is such that
money invested in small enter
prises more than likely will be
lost because of rising prices,
merchandise, material and now
rent"
1t is no secret that the NOR
tally rate of small businesses
is steadily climbing. By con-
trast, a United Press survey
shows that membership in the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19
prices

rectly, and cannot be used to
get mass support, though it
may be sufficient to unite la
Dor. The price issue is the only
one which can mobilize the
great numbers of the American
people.
EVERY means of education,
whether through our limited
press facilities or through di-
rect contact in the community
such as Pea has established,
should be used to attack the
reactionaries on the price is
sue.
/. Consumer strikes and
demonstrations should not
be neglected as education
al means.
2. The unions should center
attention on prices by de-
handing lower prices on
the product rather than
higher wages. "A round
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19
Frank shall D :Ue

"bi1lion dollar club of Ameri-
can enterprises has risen to AS
as compared with 20 in the
boom year of 1929 and % in
1899 just prior to World War
II. Leading them all is Met
ropolitan Life with assets of
over So billion, followed by Bell
Telephone and Prudential In
-surance.
A RECENT report by the
House judiciary committee re-
vealed that only 62 of the
largest corporations hold 3d.
100000, 900 in net working CAPT.
tai, sufficient to buy up 80 per
cent of all the manufacturing
companies in America. Dur
ing the last four years, and
especially since the end of the
war, there have been no less
than 1900 major acquisitions
of manufacturing and mining
companies by other companies.
The Department of Commerce
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

has just announced that pub
licly reported cash dividends
paid by corporations for April
totalled 1888, 900, 900, an increase
of 10 per cent over April of
last year.
The larger companies elm
mate competition by gobbling
up smaller ones, and they pay
increased dividends. Meanwhile,
small businesses go broke and
adventurous souls are warned
not to start new enterprises.
But if one cannot start BUSH
ness in a day of fat prices, when
can he? Surely not in a de-
preston when money is scarce
and unemployment great!
THE PLAIN TRUTH is that
we are becoming more and
more a nation of moderate and
big business and paid employees,
with the small independent mer-
chant being gradually forced
out of existence. Whether we
like it or not, we might as well
realize that almost all of us are
going to work for somebody
else. The America of Horatio
Alger is dead. W
That being so, why must we
work to pile up profits for the
big stockholders at Armour and
u. S. Steel and the other in
dustrial giants when, under So
cialism, the whole nation can
share the wealth?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19
By FORREST EMERSON
Public Relation Director.
United Farm Equipment
Workers. CLIO
MO ONE could find

DETER way to serve
people and country than by
working toward the goal of
unity and understanding be-
tween the American worker,
farmer and consumer. Hence,
there can be nothing but praise
for the Farmer Worker Con-
sumner Coalition group on the
University of Chicago campus.
1t is inspiring just to know that
some students are thinking in
this direction despite the con-
tinuous barrage of monopoly
propaganda directed against
every movement toward ma
tional unity.
But there is danger in over
simplifying the task.
HOW WAS it possible for
Americans, most of whom have
virtually everything in common,
to be so dis-united? What is
this power of reaction to saw
such discord that it has been
able to drive rutuhlessly for
ward on a program inimical to
the welfare of the deluded pub
lie? The key to any future
unity lies in answering this
question.
Everything basically sound
and in the interest of the gen.
eral public welfare has been
labelled radical by reaction,
while the people have been in
Inundated one way or another
into fear of being so labelled.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

But has this issue been ex-
plotted by us? NO! We, are
fighting the NAM on the issue
of Greece and Turkey. But
Greece and Turkey are outside
the experience of most people,
and therefore we cannot mob
ilize mass support behind it.
We are fighting the NAM on
the Taft Hartley Bill, but this
affects only the workers di-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

different industries, in recent
years, wages have gone up and
prices down; wages have gone
up and prices remained static;
wages have remained static and
prices lowered. Despite prop
uganda, employers themselves
do not operate on the principle
that wage increases create price
increases.
l note, likewise, a serious
misunderstanding of the rela-
tionship, or lack of it, between
farmer, labor, coop and other
groups. Calling a national con-
vention of such bodies is at
this time but a far-fetched
dream, albeit a commendable
one. Only small segment of
the farmer groups are con-
WINGED that dealing with in
dustrial workers is at all cor
rect. Only a small segment
of the labor movement enjoys
enough political understanding
to evaluate the need for NOV
ing into the countryside with
its message.
ONLY the Go Farm Equip
ment and Clio Packinghouse
unions have thus far had the
political foresight to maintain
farm relations directors for
this purpose, breaking ground
for other unions to follow.
Homer Ayres, the FEE Go
farm relations leader, had this
to say recently on co-operatives,
speaking on the subject of the
pre-World War l farm revolt in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

AT the University of Chi
cago. a new movement has
taken shape. based on or
ganizing farmers. workers.
consumers in cooperatives.
Its spokesman. Saville Sax.
has asked the Star to print
a criticism of the strategy
of progressives." A reply
has been written by Forrest
Emerson. Public Relations
Director of the CLIO Farm
Equipment Workers.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

hliJNl lNo -
the great land
of opportunity.
Any boy can
grow up and
become Presi-
dent. An Of
flee boy can
rise and be-
C o m e chair
man of the
board of the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

ing from their inflationary pol
icy on the unions.
THE PROGRESSIvES must
look over the NAM position.
They must find its most vul-
nerable point. That is, the point
where NAM. policy has already
adversely affected the people.
When this point has been
found, speeches, articles, edu-
cation must hammer upon this
point. But this is not enough.
Social action must be taken so
as to make the diffused resent
ment specific, concrete and di-
rected.
The NAM is now most vul-
nerable ON the price issue. Re-
sentiment against ingrained in
has been deeply ingrained in
all people. When Truman
called his cabinet together to
discuss prices, there was ter
ror in the Republican ranks.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19
BY SAvILLE SAX
Co-chairman. Farmer Worker
Consumer Coalition
ID ROGRESSIVES t h n k
Il that the dav to day task

L that the day to day task
of political education can be ac-
complished by meeting issues
as they come up. This is true
if Roosevelt determines what
issues are to be brought up. 1t
is wrong when the choice of
issues is left to the very able
staff of NAM strategists.
The NAM won the last cleo
ton by placing the blame for
shortages and high prices on
the unions and government.
Now, when their price predic-
lions have proved wrong in
practice, they have ch n
combating Russia as a crucial
issue, thus distracting the
people from the failure of their
policies. They passed the Taft
Hartley Bill hoping, m ng,
other things, that the wave of
strikes it would provoke would
enable them to put the blame
for the economic chaos result
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

on the standard of living
with farm and cooperative
groups.
The unions together with the
the farmers could then form
joint cooperative movement
on a large scale. This move
ment would be centrally fl
nanced thru farmer worker
banks and insurance. Such
central group could raise over
a $1o0,000.0o0 for investment,
and would get concrete results
in a short time.
But even if this were not so,
it would have great education
al political value in show
ing: l. Wages are the other side
of prices; 2. Farmers and work
ers are not opposed to each 9TH
er on the price question.
NOIln OdhOld.
1.-THE farmers captured the
Republican Party and became
its dominating faction but as
time drug along the farmers
enemies drove wedges into this
militant mass movement and
crept back into office. Many
farmers, disheartened with pol
itics, put their efforts into
building co-operatives. The
Farmers Union, acting as the
parent organization, set up CO.
OPP elevators, oil stations, credit
unions, stores and insurance
companies =. around 10000
farm families were involved.
The success of these splendid
co-operatives gave rise to a
theory of political neutrality
or indifference on the part of
too many farmers who relegated
politics to the shelf or the
professional politicians. They
began to think that, come hell
or high water, the co-operatives
would solve their problems and
gradually become the backbone
of the (nationaD economy
But these farmers reckoned
without benefit OF a political
compass :"
This was one of the many
large-scale coop movements of
the past. Co-ops are good, no
mistake about that, but only as
part of broader political move
ment. That they could seri-
ously c h lenge monopoly's
stranglehold on our commerce
is another Utopian dream. It's
too late on monopoly's clock
for that. Our battlefront must
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

go YOU want to know
why the idea of social
ism mas never caught on widely?
It's because we still belleve
in Horatio Alger.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19
lis there something wrong with progressive strategy
:4.- We must bit NAM weak point prices : %

the clock price reduction
could win mass support
outside the unions. while
a round the clock wage
rise could not.
The Labor unions should
call a national convention
on the standard of living
with farm and cooperative
groups.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-19

ing from their inflationary pol
icy on the unions.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

and TX inches from the edge Of the
post, and another 3 inches from the
edge. These posts are 6 feet long,
3 feet 6 inches above ground.
The choppers are bored 4 inches
from the bottom and then 6 inches,
inches, 8 inches and II inches,
allowing the top barbed wire to rest
on the side Of the dropper, to which
it is tied through the hole with tie
wire. The choppers are 3 feet 10
inches long. The bottom wire is
reeved through the troopers and
then through the posts. Each drop
per near a post has piece OF wire
passed around the top Of the post,
then around the dropper so that it
will give way in flood time and
allow the fence of troopers to col
lapse. The bottom wire, inches
from the ground, holds the fence to
the posts.
After the flood has subsidized, all
that is necessary is to stand the
fence OF choppers upright again and
attach it to the posts as before.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

A vegetable bowl of snowy
white caulifl0wer surrounded with
green peas is hard to resist.
Tasty butter sauce variations will
add sparkle to humdrum vegetable
dishes. Here are two possibilities:
Lemon-Butter Sauce
Y cup butter
Juice of " lemon
8 tablespoons parsley (if you
prefer)
Melt butter, add lemon juice and
blend thoroughly. Add parsley and
serve hot with vegetables. An extra
dish of the lemon-butter sauce may
be served on the side.
BrOwn-Butter Sauce
u cup butter
tablespoon chopped parsley
Salt
Pepper
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Melt butter in a frying pan and
stir until a golden brown. Add
chopped parsley. lemon juice, and
salt and pepper to taste Serve hot
on vegetables or fish.
Released by Western Newspaper Union
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
Don't forget that dates added to

Don't forget that dates added to
mullins make them a party treat.
When you're using clans, don't
forget that a pinch of thyme will do
wonders.
Crabmeat and mustard with may
onnalse makes a nice salad for
light luncheon.
When you want to add a different
touch to frankfurters, they can be
stuffed with all variety of things
mashed potatoes-strips of cheese.
bread dressing, sauerkraut or
pickle relish.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
Cutting Protein Loss
Will Slash Feed Cost

Dairymen can reduce the size of
next winters protein-feed bill con-
siderably by saving greater per-
centage of the protein in their
homegrown forage crops, say dairy
specialists of the USDA. One way
to reduce the protein losses and
thereby actually put more Of the
homegrown protein in the cows
manure next winter, is to make
silage from forage crops instead of
curing in the field for hay.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
KNOW YOUR BREED
Silver Laced
Wyandottes
By w. ]. DRYDEN

The Silver-Laced Wyandotte is be.
lieved to have come from crosses OF
Dark Brahmas, Silver Spangled
Hamburgs and French fowl
named Brenda.
Standard weights are: Cock, 81
pounds, hens 61s pounds, cockerels.
7As pounds, pullets, 5k pounds.
The female is round in shape, the
back gently sloping. An ideal mar
ket fowl, this type also can be bred
for high egg production without sac
rifice of standard requirements.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
Booklet No. SO.

- I'D LIKE to say few words
:" you begin. But do you
say the few words clearly and con-
vincingly or are they punctuated
with grunted "uh's" and "er's"?
One thing about speaking in public.
whether before formal group or among
friends. you must be poised and able to
hold your audiences attention.
Our newest booklet No. 83 tells you how
to overcome jittery and awkward con-
versations discusses parliamentary pro-
cedure and gives sample speeches.
Send 25 cents in coin for "Self-Instruc-
ton In Public Speaking" to Weekly News
paper Service, 243 West 18th Street, New
York IL, N. Y. Print name, address with
zone. booklet title and No. SO.
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Make a mixture of equal parts
of flour, salt and vinegar. With
this and a little elbow grease you
can rub tarnish from brass or cop
per kitchen utensils.
After using a scrub brush, rinse
the brush in cold water and turn
the bristles downward. If allowed
to dry on it's back, water will soak
into the wood and loosen the bris-
ties on the brush.
Loop handles on mattress may
be made of heavy cretonne or
ticking and sewed on with heavy
cotton. These will prove a def
mite aid in turning the mattress.
Before washing your bathroom
floor use sweeper attachment on
it to remove dust particles and
hair.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
LYNN SAYS:
Spice, Seasoning Lend
New Tang to Foods

II you want really delicious
sauce for your fish, melt butter
add flour, and in place of milk
blend in sour cream. Add to this a
bit OF salt and pepper and chopped
chives.
A blade of mace and a few cloves
heated with the liquid when making
orange or lemon jelly will give it
added spice. Strain the liquid to re-
move spices.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

vegetables into one Of the glamo,
groups Of cookery.
First Of all, there are innumer
able sauces you can use with per
lection cooked" vegetables to bring
out all their hidden favors. Then, il
you want to forego the sauce, you
can combine vegetables with other
foods to make them palate-pleasing
and tempting.
Whichever way you prefer to
serve your vegetables, always re-
member that the overlooked vege-
table can never be guaranteed to
make friends or influence eaters to
come back for seconds, as they
should. Cook vegetables so there is
still bit of their garden crispness
left. II cooked to this point and
served Immediately, you will also
lose less Of their lovely colors.
Golden Caulifower
SERVES g.
l medium head cauIiflower
l cup raw carrots, diced
n cup onions, chopped
Salt
Paprika
tablespoons butter, melted
l cup rich milk
cup Wisconsin Natural Ameri-
can Cheese, grated
Break caulifower into flower
cites. Arrange caulifower and car
rots in buttered casserole. Cover
With onion, seasonings, and butter.
Pour milk over contents. Sprinkle
With cheese. Cover. Bake in mod
crate oven $3.50 degrees) l hour, re-
moving cover the last Is minutes.
*Red Cabbage and Apples
SERVES 8 to 10Y
2 quarts red cabbage, shredded
l cup apples, pared and chopped
l teaspoon salt
u cup butter
2 tablespoons flour
u cup vinegar
" cup brown sugar III
Buttered crumbs
Cook cabbage with apples 10 min
ties in sailed water, drain (save
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
How to Prevent Date
With Bio Farm Fire

Thirty-fve hundred farmers who
lived happily on their farms a year
ago are dead, largely victims OF
their own carelessness. They. de-
cided to live" with fire hazards
and lost. With them went almost
100 million dollars in farm prop
erty.
In one year $1,000 fires started in
newspapers, magazines and other
rubbish. Flammable liquids, i'm
properly stored or handled, caused
$4,000 fires. Electric cords and
other defective electrical equip
ment caused $1,000 fires. Dirty
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

casserole in hot oven (4O0 degrees)
until crumbs are brown.
Sweet Potato Cecilia
(ServeS 8 to 10Y
pounds sweet potatoes
u cup butter
Salt
Pepper
u teaspoon nutmeg or mace
u teaspoon cinnamon
" to l cup apple cider
Mash cooked sweet potatoes. Add
70 cup butter, seasonings, and
cider, mix well. Put in buttered
baking dish, dot with remaining
butter. Bake in a moderate oven
(375 degrees) 30 to 40 minutes. until
top is brown.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
Flood fence
Used In Australia
Lays Flat While Drift
Wood and Water Pass

A fence which bows before the
onrush of flood waters and lies nat
while water and drift-wood pass
over is being used in Australia.
The posts are SO feet apart and
two wooden choppers are placed be-
tween the posts and another along
side each post. The posts are bored
with holes 4 inches from the ground
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

Roll out to " tt
"a inch thickness
on Toured board
a n d ut in t O
squares or cir
cles. Bake on a
creased pan in a
h t oven (45O
degrees) IL min
uteS, SPLIT and
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

anu put LIleIIl CIl
the table without
any thought as
to subtle season
ing or attractive
serving? Thank
modern cookery
experts for real
izing the infinite
possibilities of
vegetables a n d
for Transforming
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19
Stuffed Eggplant


q Cut lid from one large egyptian
ii lengthwise, scoop out pulp and cool
in boiling sailed water until tender
drain and chop fine. Saute on'
small minced onion in butter unit
soft, not brown, add eggplant, one
half cup Of bread crumbs, one hall
cup Of chopped pecans, and two
well-beaten eggs. Mix well with
seasonings. Lastly add enough wa
ter in which the eggplant was
cooked to make the mixture quite
thin. Fill shell and sprinkle with
bread crumbs and dot with butter
and bake about twenty minutes.
Spinach Balls
Wash one peck OF spinach in sew
eral waters, then cover tightly and
steam with just the drippings from
the washing for about fifteen min
utes. Squeeze as dry as possible.
| Chop and press through coarse
sieve. Into this PURGE mix two
slightly beaten egg yolks, one table
spoon Of grated onion, one table,
spoon Of olive oil, and salt and pep
per to taste. Mix we'll and form
into balls, dip in beaten egg, then in
fine bread crumbs, and fry in
hot fat to golden brown.
Asparagus-Cheese Shortcake
(Serves to 81
1 No. 2 can asparagus tips
3 tablespoons butter ]
l tablespoon minced onion 1
4 tablespoons flour
teaspoon salt
Is teaspoon pepper +
2 cups milk Z
hard-co0ked eggs, sliced for 9
garnish
Melt butter in saucepan; add I
minced onion and cook slowly for l
minutes or until tender. Add flour \
and seasonings and blend. Gradu-
lily add milk, while stirring; cook
,ver low heat until smooth and Il
stirring constantly. a
Cheese Biscuits y
cups biscuit mix y
u cup grated cheese q,
cup milk y
Add grated cheese to biscuit mix
nd blend. Add milk, mix with fork. NJ
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

place hot asparagus tips between
biscuits. Pour hot cream sauce over
the top and garnish with hard
cooked egg slices.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-19

Water). Melt but
ter, add flour,
mix. Add " cup
drained water,
v n e g a r, a n q
brown S u 6 a r,
stir until thick
ened. Add apples
and C a b b a g e.
Raka in b,1ftaraI