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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
ON THE GROUND LEADERSHIP

Whot America needs today, as well as England, Russio
and the rest Of the world us On the Ground leadership
Such leadership absolutely essential to all Motions one
Roces we are to escape from the horrors and suferngs
of Third World War. The greet trouble today among
NEGRO and White people the oct that have selected
and accepted Platform Leadership instead of On the
Ground Leadership.
Platform Leadership is Make Believe, moreover Plot
form Leadership attempts to lead the people by giving
orotoricoI pqhts from the Speakers Platform and hence
their leadership dies when the orutoy is On the
Ground leadership is very much TO the contrary On the
Ground leadership works the ground with the people,
for the people and in the best interest of all the people,
On the Ground Leadership omong Negroes, as well as
other people simply to work definitely and con-
structivey for the attainment of those Ideals which make
for the general advancement of all the people At the
time On the Ground Leadership will carry forward it's
crusade against all social evils which harm the Negro in
his quest for those attributes of full life.
On the Ground Leadership will wage fight against
sum conditions, poor hospital and heoth focilities 1t
will present to the people whole. the true meaning OF
Democracy and encourage the true of Democracy
rohr than Communs any other sms contrary to our
form of Government
Let US try On the Ground Leadership, especially we
hope TO overt another Bloody World War and to moke
World of Lasting Peace 4e
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
OUR COMMON INTERESTS
BY Ruth Taylor

Common suffering YIELDS together people OF different
notionotes as though they members of the same
family Common aims bind together people of different
faiths Common ambitions coordinate the actions of peo
pc of different backgrounds.
After oI what does common mean? According to the
dictionary it "usuo average regular, and pertaining to
or participated in by o". There must be division in
democracy A very great man once said: THE foundo-
on of unity is the equality of status of the citizens In
short if law to effective it must be applied oIwoys,
everywhere and TO all.
We hove learned from bitter experience that to be
truly Free must have the for all alike of
opportunity to work free in the company of free
men No man con be confident in perpetuty of his own
sofety unless and unit! every man. woman and child is
equoIly sofe.
some goal = prize which will be shared. RIVAL an
bon is striving for gooI which must be seized for the
benefit of the and the detriment of the other Will
we let rival ambitions separate US?
If we ore to fulfil duty Americans, must,
without setting aside any of individual rights, work
together in community communal life, to carry out
the Ideals of democracy too to it that there OPP
poruntes for each to advance according to his tol
and abilities to extend friendly hond to those who
need help to keep the lows which ourselves have mode
Only foth behind democracy foster the vir
tues which necessary for self government and for the
preservation of our unity
Centuries ago Euripides stated it thus:
Look to the things of God.
Know you are bound to help all who ore wronged,
Bound to constron all who destroy the law
Whot else holds state to stote sove this alone,
Thot each one honors the great lows of right
We did this in war We must do it now if this is to be
of peace and not just ormsce between wars.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
BIuej ackets Fall
Before bearcats
1910 Score
By VIVIAN HILL

The Dunbar Bearcats gave a spe-
ctular display of power and pre-
cision Saturday night October II,
as they scored in almost every per-
iod,. and the colorful high school
team kept the game alive, when
they crushed the Dunbar Junior
College Bluejackets 10 to 0 be-
fore approximately 1000 delirious
fans.
The bearcats Unbiased a set of
swift fast backs, who made sew
eral pretty runs as they datred
through the entire Bluejackets
team for the first touchdown. The
Bearcats who should be called the
WONDER-BOYS registered their
touchdown in the first quarter,
piling up and rushing nearly so
yards for scrimmage.
The aleart Bearcats took full adj
vantage of intercepted passes to
tag the favored Bluejackets with
it's first defeat from a high school
team his season. In the last quar-
ter of the game, the Bluejackets
looked like the club which was
supposed to add the Bearcats scalp
to it's list of victims, but the Bear
cats were too much for them, when
the Bearcats started rolling, they
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
THE COMMON DEFENSE
By Rev. William c. Kernon

RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATRED IN THE CHURCH
Coming to the fore is the question, How much lon
ger the Church regard members in good standing
those who provoke and ogitote for roco and religious
hatred?
Certain it that notorious evil Ives have always been
subject to the Churchs discipline ond since know most
ossuredy from the history of the past DECIDE that the
propagation of racial and religious hate issues in wide
spread human suffering and produces the most debosed
kind of character which is scondoous in the Church
it reasonable and right that hotemonge be declared
TO be in serious state of sin.
The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church
puts the matter this way IF omong those who to
be potokers Of the Holy Communion, the Minister shall
know any to have done any wrong to his neighbors
by word deed that the Congregation be thereby
offended he sho odvetze him. that he presume not to
come TO the Lords TobIe unit The have openly declared
himself to have truly epented and amended his former evil
life"
Surely the kind of hatred to which we are referring
comes under the category Of having done wrong to ones
neghbors. For what greater crimes be committed
against humanity thon those which hatred causes and
has oreody coused?
So recently as September Fl. the NEW YORK HERALD
TRIBUNS reported thot Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter Of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18

ST. Louis had said that members Of group protesting
admission Of Negro children into Roman cothoIic Sc
hoos with white students would be communicated
tomotcoIy if they persist to seek to bar the Negroes by
civil octon against the Archbishop"
In letter read in all parishes of the Archdiocese of
St Louis the Archbishop said that the policy of odtt
ina Negro children Catholic schools with white pupils
one which we consider right and duty as chief pos
Tor of this Archdiocese regardless of nationality"
For the Church to declare now that racial and religious
hatred is sin which will deprive Church members of the
rights ond privileges of the faithful would have its soutory
effects bothn the Church and the body polite 1T will
do more to destro yhe oge-od crime of nti-Semts"
declared Rabbi William F Rosenbum, President of the
Synagogue Council Of America, "thon all the polite as
suronces of good will by creed leaders, 1t would do
thing else 1t would put the Church where she belongs
out in front as the champion Of human rights
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
Night Club Owner
Charged With
Black Market Tax
Violations

Joe Catchings operator of the
Pelican and Percy Simpson, own
er and operator of Percys Place
were charged along with several
wife night club operators with vio-
lating the State Black Market Tax
by State Tax Collector Carl Craig
last week.
Catchings and Simpson were
charged with being in default of
Tax payments and were subject
to levys of $1,000 and $500 re-
spectively. According to reports
both cases were steeled out of
court.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
Pulaski Day
Proclaimed By
Truman

Wilmington October II was de-
signated as General Pulaski Me-
mortal Day in honor of the Pol
ish patriot who lost his life fight
ing for American independence
in the Revolutionary War, by Pre-
sident Truman.
Mr.. Truman invited THE people
of the nation to observe the day
in civic ceremonies, and directed
that the American flag be flown
from all government buildings.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
$500 Left To
Faithful Maid

philadelphia, (NNPA) - A maid
who worked for forty years for
the family of Miss Martha H.
Young, who died September % in
Lankenau Hospital will receive
$500 for faithful services, her
will probated last Friday disclos-
es.
The maid Mrs. Mary Neal, ex-
planned that she first worked for
Miss Younkgs's parents, by the
day. After their death, she said,
she went to live with Miss Young
as her housekeeper.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
Leads Parade At
Peanut Festival

Dothan, Ala. - Oct, 6 - (DSN)
- For the first time in southern
history an all-Negro Band will per-
form at a white festival when Tus-
kegee Institutes crack 80 piece
band heads the parade of the an
nual peanut festival
The Tuskegee band will be fol-
lowed by more than a dozen white
bands making up the parade.
The Tuskegee band was selected
to lead the parade in honor of
the late DR.. George Washington
Carver great Negro scientist who
more than any other man, throu-
gh his research contributed to the
advancement of the peanut indus
try. the chairman of the festival
said.
Officials estimated that more
than $4,000 people from three
states would attend the festival.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
Dig Out Of Jail
With Screw Driver

Natchez, Miss - Oct. 10 = CD
SN) - Willie Beasley, % year old
Negro escaped from the Adams
County pail here Sunday by digg-
ing through the Jail wall with what
local and county officers said was
a smuggled in screw driver.
Beasley was being held on a
forgery charge to await action of
the Adams County Grand Jury.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-18
seemed unstoppable.

oCCIIISu UHoIUPpdUI6.
With the score against them IL
to and the running time almost
ont, the Bluejackets tried hard to
get their offense moving, but on
several occasions they looked like
bunch of novices..
The Bearcats have held the cha
mpion-ship three times and were
runnerup in. 1916. It's looks like
they are headed toward the champ
ionship this year, all in all it
lined up like a show well worth
while.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01
MISSOURI RIVER WATER Is OUR LIFE BLOOD

Last week | a signed editorial entitled Montana
Faces Its Greatest Crisis. | hope that statement will
travel far and wide across state, that will be
checked up, fully and fairly investigated and discussed
every street and every crossroad from the
Continental Divide to the Montana-Dak state line
Water is the life blood upon which virtually all
future developments must depend in this semi-arid
Except for about onefourth of Glacier National
Park Missouri river and its tributaries drain all that
portion of the state east the crest of the Rocky
mountains about threefourths of the entire state
AS the Missouri river passes WiIliston North
Dakota Us miles east of Montana line) carries an
average annual flow of 13S98000 feet This aver
age annual flow increases acre feet by the.
time the water Yankton Ton the South Dakota
Nebraska line
In a flood control report submitted to congress on
February 2S 1914 Army Engineers list five main stem
reservoirs to be constructed between Williston and
Yankton Presently proposed storage capacities as
follows
Garrison, Garrison, n Dakota 23 900 900 ac it.
Oak Creek, Mobridge S. Oak. -. 5000 900 ac it,
Oahe, Pierre, s. Oak. --...---. 5000 900 ac it.
Fort Randall near Wheeler, S Oak H. 100000 ac it,
Gayns Point, YanktOn S. Oak. 100000 ac it.
Total--..-.----.-....- Il 200, 900 &C it.
Then there is Fort Peck already constructed for a
capacity of 19 100000 acre feet. Although originally
built for flood control reservoir it may in the future
furnish much 100000 feet per year of
water for irrigation purposes (See pages III lis
Senate Document No. 1911 Sloan PLAN. This still
leaves balance of 15,6OOOOO feet be added
the Al, 100000 feet shown above.
Here then is 5680O0O0 feet of storage to control
stream with average annual flow less than
third that 900 feet, ess of course,
of the 100000 acre feet that will be consumptively
Fort Peck for irrigation, providing the Army
Engineer brethren feel that they spare the Bureau
of Reclamation brethren that much water).
Common will tell any of that the primary
purpose of flood control reservoir is to catch and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01

hold the waters that constitute flood crests, and
then gradually release this stored and let it
down the stream later in the season. when it will
not flood crest. On that basis there is alb
sOutey need flood control storage capacity of
more than three times the annual flow of the
stream twenty-five to thirty percent of the proposed
main stream storage would be ample.
However, Army Engineers not concerned with
flood control alone. They want nine-foOt deep and
5000 50OOfoo wide navigation channel all the way
from Sioux City, Iowa to the river mouth (See page
of their 1914 report). The real purpose of the gil
gantic reservoirs is to adequate supply of
water to keep this channel filled and that's about all
the water that flows in old muddy Missoris chan
mel at Sioux City any point above.
Innocently perhaps this grandiose scheme of Army
Engineers has now been reapproved and enlarged by
the Presidents recent message 1t has been nipple
mented by gigantic appropriations and $50 ahead"
signal from congress. Mr. Sloan's of the Pick
Sloan plan will struggle along for awhile and probably
pinch Off little more water for upper valley rriga-
grand transition not be sudden or too
glaringIy apparent, but to all ntents and purposes
General Pick is the water car the Missouri
valley.
While the powerful and ever active power company
and other corporate influences around telling
farmers that MVA would steal their water rights
the Army Engineers and the barge companies have
slipped in and stolen the water
All the engineers this the Peary Gate cannot
make water stored in the Dakotas do development in
Montana, neither the foot of water that is
required to help furnish me-wide Broadway of Com
in Missouri be consumptively irrigation
in Montana AS a result Montana, in common with
other up valley states is holding the bag-nothng
Fortunately the lower valley states do like
the type of development they going get any
more than we like the development we are NOT going
to get Therein lies hope.-JEROME G. LOCKE, Mem
Der Regional Committee for MVA.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01

nesian ports. But the US. and Britain
which want the supplies, have never
demanded the end of this blockade.
They have protested only in ineffec-
tual whispers, for FORMS sake, even
when their own ships-like the U. S.
vessel Martin Behrman-Were held up
by it. They evidently preferred to
see the republic reduced to a name,
and to do business on the old colonial
basis, with low costs, meaning low
paid workers.
The Indonesian Central Labor Or
ganization (SOBSD has appealed to
maritime unions everywhere to tie up
Dutch ships. But even SOBSI was
fooled by the soft words of the past
month Only a snort time ago it
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

tana. Do you remember the speech former Secretary
of the Navy Josephus Daniels made at the little white
cottage in Warm Springs Ga. in which Mr. Daniels said
There who would defend democracy by in
frnging its liberties. There some who think that
the democratic faith depends for defense upon military
force rather than the steady fulflment promise
for plenty and freedom together and everywhere"
Do you remember the Four Freedoms F.DR fought
to obtain for
Did you know the Amherst ~ Y. Republican com
mitee put out fund raising letter asking support
activities committee for 1947 and stating each city
employees share of the responsibility $4,000.
We learn lot from the Republicans-if "You
haven't had enough remember the passing of the OPA
rent controls elimination of workers rights under the
wagehour act ignoring the needs of veterans Gripping
social insurance the tax bill which would save you only
$50 year. costs $1,000 year to so why don't
congress give tax bill with $4,000 exemption for
man and wife, $1,000 for single NATIVITY not vote for
your pocket book in 1948.
w. J. PRIEST, Livingston.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01

asked Australian lockers, who had re-
fused to touch Dutch cargoes during
the past two years of fighting, to
abandon their boycott because nego-
tations were going so we'll
The Australian lockers have al
ready re-imposed their boycott. So
to their honor, have Dutch lockers in
Amsterdam, who will not handle Indo-
nesia-bound ships.
CHECK this with your headlines
and see if you can believe the big
business press:
Item L. Greece: The United Nations
Balkan Investigating Commission, the
British government and even the
Greek army's own chief of staff all
say they have no evidence of any.
international brigade" fighting with
Greek guerrillas. You'll find this even
in the money-bag papers, in small
type under the headlines. Not that
there's anything reprehensible about
foreign volunteers in cause they be-
lieve in. After all, Lafq yette did it.
Item 2. Marshall plan. Russia and
eastern Europe were ca,Ied liars when
they said the plan W ould build I'D
Germany first. Now the TT. S. has an
bounced it intends tc, do just that.
The French promptlg swore they
would have no part OF the nlan under
such conditions. Even British Foreign
Sec. Ernest Bevin is talking of get
ing out of the hands OF money-lend-
ers"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01
Who Are the Fascists in Montana?

Editor, Peoples Voice Helena, Montana.
you are unable explain to your CT readers just
what a fascist is and how he performs in Montana
there no difference in the aims they seek to achieve
whether it was Germany Montana any other state)
please have your subscribers read the report pre-
legislative reference service of the Library
of Congress at request of Representative Patman of
Texas, Chapter reads
"Fascism began by pleasing business, disciplined
labor, suppressed independent trade unions pro-
hbited strikes, and checked consumer co-opera-
tion," the chapter labor which written by
Ludwig Hamburger formerly of the staff of the
Bookings Institute, states Zone of the most i'm
portant changes fascsm brings about is the aboIi-
ton of free collective bargaining and self govern
ing labor organizations Labor policy under fascsm
first of all takes away from the worker all means
for self defense. 1t renders all militant labor ac-
ton impossible"
AROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME, ETC.
You may call the disease by another name in Mon
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01
Legal Advertising
INVITATION TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the State Board of Examiners
in the Capitol Building, Helena, Mon
tana, until 1000 o'clock AM on Tues
day. the 18th day of August, 1947, for
the reroofing of all slopes with cedar
shingles, replacing two metal decks on
Cottage Number Two "Canaday Hall'
at the State Vocational School for
Girls in the valley north of Helena,
Montana
Each bidder shall carefully examine
the plans and specifications and visit
the site of the work before preparing
his bid.
Proposals shall be submitted in
lump sum to furnish all labor and
materials necessary to complete the
work in a neat and workmanlike man
ner satisfactory to the superintendent,
and the State Board of Examiners.
Plans, specifications, and proposal
blanks can be obtained at the office
of the State Board of Examiners. Each
bidder will be required to comply with
all the laws relating to the employ
ment of labor on public works and
each bidder will be required to furnish
his contractors license number and
submit a certified check with his bid
in the amount of 1919 of his bid.
The Board of Examiners reserves the
right to reject any or all bids and
waive all Irregularities.
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR
THE STATE OF MONTANA
BY w. l.. FITZSIMMONS, Clerk
First publication July 25, 1947-3t
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Army Engineers
CONTINUED from Page One)


we can expect (and will receive) a
lot invaluable help from these sew
eral bureaus. The official family in
Washington is split wide open over
this double cross" of the departments
of agriculture and interior, and per-
sonnet of these divisions will not take
it lying down.
Further-there's lot of reasons for
concluding that the president almost
Immediately after dispatching his mes
sage to the congress, realized he had
pulled a boner of the first magnitude
You can help bring that realization
home to him thousand fold and block
this monstrous proposal by acting
now.
For the future prosperity of our
state, our valley, it is mandatory
that every Farmers Union local,
every labor union, every little bust
ness man, and yes, every chamber
of commerce Immediately contact
the president with resounding pro-
tests. DO 1T TODAY!
MVA for More Valuable Acres
Yes-and we've got something to
offer in place of the 10-year plan
something to offer which even the
president admitted should be accom-
plished for the lasting development of
the Missouri basin.
We have the Missouri Valley Au-
thority plan a bill Is. 1860 for which
Senator Murray and several demo
cratic and republican senators have
introduced in the S0th congress. This
bill, adapted along similar lines to the
IVA, will make possible:
1. Real and lasting flood prevention,
by controlling the waters of the Mis-
souri, from the moment they hit the
ground, by comprehensive soil con-
servation practices.
2 Irrigation waters in plenty to
make millions of dry acres bloom.
8. Cheap water transportation by
utilizing a series of locks contem-
plated under the bill.
4. Billions of additional kilowatts
of cheap public power to light every
farm home and to bring new industries
by the thousands to the Missouri basin.
5. Reforestation of millions of cut
over acres now unfit for the most part
except marginal grazing, and provide
a timber heritage for generations of
Americans yet unborn.
6. Recreation and wildlife. Count
less thousands of square miles of rec
reational areas can be developed for
millions of vacationers.
Wildlife restoration can go ahead on
a scale never before contemplated
Indignation of various state
and federal agencies now involved in
wild life problems.
Z. Cheap fertilizers produced from
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01
Standard OIL
Continued from Page One)

Under the Indonesian republic
founded at the wars end, workers at
these wells and plantations have been
allowed to form unions for the first
time and a nationwide labor union
federation has grown to economic and
political Importance.
Besides oil and rubber, more than
100000 tons of sugar, 10000 tons of
tin, great quantities of palm oil used
by big soap companies), quinine,
tea, pepper and kapok are now tied
up in Indonestan warehouses.
They cannot be moved because of
the Dutch naval blockade of Indo-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-01

the limitless beds of phosphates OF the
Madison can break the hold the ACM
and other corporate members of the
fertilizer monopoly now have; can
keep the valleys acres ever rich and
productive.
Yes-we have a plan, a plan that
can't fail because it is long step
toward a correct solution to all of the
valleys problems, and it is a proven
plan.
And : with such a plan, and an
aroused populace throughout the 10
states of the Missouri basin as well
as all parts of the nation, we can
stop this latest attempt of the Army
Engineers to spend more billions for
the benefit of the pork barrel boys
along Wall Street.
Action is needed now-not only in
impressing the president, but in max
ing yourself heard when a senatorial
committee begins holding MVA hear
ings here in Montana several weeks
hence. What are we waiting for?