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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
Gov. Ford On Pan Over Schools, Roads.

ton of Montanas school financing
program single step"
Judge Erickson said: "In the eight
years the present governor has oc-
cupied the governors office the prob
lem of financing our schools has be-
come progressively more serious. Our
schools go from one financial crisis
to another and the school district is
rare that doesn't have to make a
taxes have built up a large state
general fund of which the governor
is excessively proud our school sys-
TEN is nearing bankruptcy.
1.-The situation has become so bad
that the people have lost all faith in
the ability of the governor to present
workable and acceptable plan of
school financing and school admins
tratiOn, and have organized a grass
roots movement to work out the an
swer to the problem.
Property Taxes Near confiscatory
"The propOrtionate share of the
to property taxes has increased stead
lily until new school taxes in some dis
tricts are almost confiscatory On
my farm in Richland county my school
levy last year was 926 mills | can
pay that now with two dollar wheat
and thirteen dollar sugar beets but I
won't be able to pay it when farm
prices go back to more normal level
"The governor has supported and
signed bills which have resulted in di-
verting state funds from school sup
port. II is my opinion that one-haIf
the cost of the support of schools
should come from state funds. School
costs must be equalized on county
basis as we'll If our schools are to
continue to function, immediate steps
must be taken to put school financing
on sound, fair, long term basis which
will assure the maximum possible edu-
cational benefits to all Montana chill
1ren"
Present Pressing Problem
Judge Erickson cited the condition
IF Montana's roads and highways as
another Immediately pressing prob
em that must be faced by the next
and governor 81 have
Just completed trip from Helena
around through Missoula, Poison, Kali
spell and Browning.
All of the roads were bad but those
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
States Wallace Convention
Set For June rs, Helena

More than 200 Wallace supporters
are expected to converge on Helena,
Saturday, June 26, to participate in
the new party convention which will
draft a platform and select delegates
to the national convention in Philadel-
phia, July %, "A and %. State con-
vention sessions will be held in the
House of Representatives chambers
at the state capitol and will get un-
derway at 10000, State Executive Sec
rotary Chef Kinsey has announced.
Other business of the convention
will include reports on organizing
activities III the various counties of
the state; reports by members of the
board of the state Wallace for Presi-
dent committee; discussion of the po-
litical issues facing America in this
year of 194S.
Committee chairmen thus far ap-
pointed by the executive board to get
the convention underway include:
Rules committee: Chairman, Ray
Graham, Great Falls Mine-Mill &
Smelter Worker;
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
SYMPTOMS OF the COMING bust"

nothing set by for an emergency
hand to mouth is his plan afterwards.
In 1947, one-half the sales of cars,
refrigerators, radios, etc, were on the
instalment plan. 20 per cent of the
people had the same income in 1947
as in 1916, but the cost of necessaries
had risen much. 60 per cent. had a
larger income in 1947 than in 1916,
but the higher cost of living was
putting them seriously in debt Many
/ in the east last winter saw mighty
cargoes of coal sail for Europe, paid
for by gift from the U. S. Treasury,
while they and their children lacked
coal to be comfortable, or even well.
Marshall in Role of a
"Don Quixote"
Some of the congress who voted for
the Marshall plan are Te-gaining their
sense of humor and see that it is all
a practical joke or hoax, that the war
scare, was like Don QuiXote charging
the windmill, thinking in his blind
Jolly it was a deadly enemy. Some
see that our vast cost to arm Chang
<ai Chek resulted in the black mar
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18

Platform committee: Chairman
Larry L. Price, Great Falls carpenter
and vice president of Cascade County
Trades and Labor assembly:
Structural and implementation com
mittee: Chairman, Harold Ridenour,
Bolton, member of Montana Farmers
Union state board;
Publicity: Chairman, Harry L. Bill
lings, Helena, Peoples Voice and
AFL Typographical Union.
The meeting will be called to order
at 10 a. m. and will be Immediately
followed by the selection of chair
man and secretary,
Present officers of the Montana
Wallace for President committee are:
Ole Sanvick, Kalispell, president;
Chef Kinsey, Great Falls. executive
secretary; Vera Foutch, Great Falls,
treasurer; Joseph LaLiberty, Helena,
chairman of labor committee ]. M.
Glass, Lewistown, chairman of agri-
culture committee, and Mrs. Catherine
Lavalle, Billings, chairman of the
committee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
tom j. DAVIS OPPOSED
STATE EIGNT-HQUR
DAY LAW

Montana has many laws providing
for an eight-hour day in various oc-
equations including one applicable to
retail store clerks
Safeway Stores. Incorporated were
charged by the county attorney of
Park county with having worked a
retail store clerk longer than eight
hours in violation of the law.
Safeway Stores was successful in
having the law thrown out as uncon-
stitutional, in the district court of
Park county. The case was appealed
to the supreme court of Montana.
Tom Davis appeared for Safeway
Stores, filed his printed brief in the
supreme court and argued the case
orally before the supreme court when
it was heard in 1888, cOntending the
law was unconstitutional "a fragrant
violation of all the constitutional prin-
ciples of the United States and of the
State of Montana, Mr.. Davis de-
clared.
The case attracted statewide in
terest, Wellington d. Rankin appear
ing as attorney for the Montana State
Federation of Labor argued in the
supreme court that the eight hour day
law was constitutional and valid.
The supreme court rejected the
arguments made by Davis, and held
the eight-hour day law to be consti-
tutional The decision will be found
in Volume 100 of the Montana Re-
ports, page 1872, which is in nearly
every lawyers office in Montana, a
permanent record showing that Davis
worked and fought against labor. He
was willing to destroy the eight-hour
day
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
JMBiA River LOSS
;0ULD have Been
AVOIDED

!, Washington, June Ex-senator Muir
of Montana told the senate today
that Columbia river flood damage
could have been completely avoided
or, at least, held to a minimum of
damage" if a comprehensive plan for
the control and development of the
river and its tributaries, which has
been urged for many years, had been
in operation. He added, "The whole
sale destruction, social dislocation,
and economic loss caused by the flood
is reflection on the intelligence and
capacity of the congress to meet the
problem of major floods in America y
He pointed out that such a plan
had been blocked because of "the
pressure of powerful Hobbies in Wash
ington", and asserted that if con-
gress would Surrender to the private
power lobby and provide a program
of river valley development under
which all electric power developed
would be sold direct to the private
utilities at the bus bars, the fight
against integrated authorities would
end Immediately"
The Montana senator also warned
the senate that destructive floods on
the Missouri river could be expected
soon and called for action on his res
S. J. Res. 1877 pending in the
senate public works committee, which
would create a review board to report
to the president and congress on the
cost and result of work done by the
Army Engineers and other federal
agencies in the Missouri valley
Murray emphasized that congress
should do its warning job-and its
correction jOb-now. Later it will be
too late"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
Big SANDY H0N0RS ART
LAMEY AT Dinner

Arthur F. Lamey of Billings, candi-
date for governor on the Democratic
ticket, was guest of honor at a dinner
party June 16 at Big Sandy, his home
town. according to James G. Holland
of Havre. secretary of the Lamey for
Governor club.
Son of a Great Northern railway
section foreman, Lamey lived in the
Havre-Big Sandy area for 81 years
before moving his law practice to
Billings in 1911. Lifelong friends of
the Democratic aspirant for governor
will be hosts at the homecoming
party.
Lamey's itinerary for the week fol-
lows: Lewistown, June 16; Havre,
June II; Helena, June IS, and Mis-
soula, June 10.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18

complete control for assigning and
transferring workers from place to
place and job to job like so many
checkers. 1t would be necessary "to
control people the way you control
materials" the Business Week blue
print says.
THIS is WHERE the ''inexorable
logic" of naked compulsiOn" comes
in. The big business chart for the
next war says: mo compensations"
for workers. Drawing people to new
jobs with higher wages is ruled out.
Forced labor, "compulsion, will be
the order of the day. Under the war
program, a super big business-military
authority teh like of which this coun-
try has never seen will tell workers
what jobs to take, under what condi-
lions to work and how much pay
they'll get. Workers will be told to
keep their ideas under their hats and
their mouths shut.
You might think this would happen
only If the country were actually at
war But even under the militariza-
ton program of the present "cold
war the meaning of the Taft-Hartley
act and the Mundt bill, the anti-red
witch hunts and deportations, are
made clear III this statement in Bust
ness Week:
AN intensive armament program
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18

1.-The memorable logic of the
situation" says big business in
this report, would leave no
substitute for naked compul-
sion"
The magazine article makes it clear
that another war means direct wage
cuts for workers. Referring to the
general increase in worker incomes
during the last war in the form of
higher wages and overtime pay, the
article explains that those increases
were given by big business as "incen-
tives" to attract workers to jobs.
But" the report states fatty, that
wouldn't be true in a third world war.
The extent to which our whole econ
omy would be overhauled and ruthless
controls placed on workers is mapped
out in the statement by contrasting
the situation in 1889 as it existed be-
fore the last war and now MObiliza-
ton for World War ii began in a sit
uation of general unemployment, idle
resources and unused productive ca
pacity. Military production then
meant opening and expanding closed
plants using resources and attracting
workers from place to place with the
incentive of higher pay.
Today our plants are producing to
capacity with relatively full employ
ment A big increase in military
preparations now would require sharp
cuts from civilian to military produc-
ton. tight ALLEGATION of resources and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18

Judge Left Erickson, candidate for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, in the opening speech of his
campaign at the annual picnic of the
Teton County Farmers Union at Cho-
teau, Sunday. June IS. called for a
change in the method of financing
school costs.
In taking the present governor to
task for what Judge Erickson said
was his complete failure in eight
years in office to advance the solu-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
Preview of World War IIL.

"Naked compulsion-that will be the method of handln,
workers sin another in a cold war."So
BUSINESS WEEK. unofficial of big business in ead
article of a ISSUE
incentives" workers from job another
industry another, the would be
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-06-18
On the Party Fealty of Sam Ford

I'm order put him squarey the record and try and
keep him there, ii suggested that the appropriate party
leaders invite him enroll a member of the Republican
party and insist that he issue proclamation of conversion
and adherence Dan Milestone, eXGOP National Commit
teeman from Montana.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
God-Made Conditions


wish to call your attention to the fact that
The Stars editorial, New Party Keynote" was
incomplete in its implications. True, perhaps,
Mr.. Howard would have been shot in Russia
for attacking the government but he would
have been shot for attacking the government,
not for being a Negro.
Mr. Howard-and his fellow Americans OF
.color-will not resent the villification heaped
upon them by their political opponents. That
is part OF the game which even the President
is heir to- Bitterly and rightly. however. will
Mr.. Howard and all his race resent the humiiia-
tions they must daily suffer because Of their
color.
What Negroes seek from America-what all
men must be seeking before the United Ma
tions Commission on Human Rights an end
to barriers and limitations and sesregations
based on conditions which are not removable
or improvable le"-conditions which are Cod
made. w. DozIER.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Not Using Negroes

To the Editor OF The Star:
Twice during the past ten days have seen
letters in The Star expressing the opinion that
white people are never friendly to Negroes
except through desire to "use" them re-
gret this sordid view of white people and wish
to speak in their defense. since l am one OF
them.
In examining my own reasons for friendly re-
lations with members of other groups and races.
1 can list the following: Simple amiability; a
desire to know interesting people; desire to
exchange professional knowledge with gide
variety of colleagues; a belief that race Is
superficial matter, and knowledge that scien-
tific study has proved it to be so; and. finally.
a simple regard for elementary principles OF
decency and fairness.
None of the reasons listed shows a desire
to "use" anybody. Yet will not claim to be
entirely unmoved by considerations of self
interest After all. we Americans of old Colonial
stock are minority group. Who can tell when
somebody will start segregating us?
WENDELL BROOKS PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
A Strictly Local Emergency

The Republican leaders say I'VE do not
intend to consider routine legislation or
open the pandoras box of the legislative
calendar" Ordinarily such a pronounce
ment would mean exclusion of all strictly
local business from the special session.
It should not mean that now. The Dis
trict of Columbia, governed exclusively by
the Congress, is facing an unprecedented
budgeting mess. This special session
should do what it can to straighten 1t
out. The discrimination against municipal
employees should be removed by granting
to them the same cost-of-living salary in
crease voted for their fellows in the Fed
eral Government. A sales tax should be
promptly approved by the Senate-it has
already been approved by the HouSe-and
collections should begin as soon as possible.
These two steps are of vital Importance.
The significance Of Budget Officer Fowler's
statement to all municipal department
heads last week should be understood.
Even without the salary increase, to which
Congress is morally committed, we shall
be operating we'll over million dollars in
the red this current fiscal year. With the
salary increases, this deficit would exceed
$1,000 000 The following year it would
exceed $20000000. And these deficits are
threatened under drastic budgeting pol
Icy which disalloWs all strictly new con-
struction and practically all new positions.
The conditions now result from dilatory
procedure in the regular session which de-
layed consideration of tax legislation until
the last minute, when it was easily blocked
by a sole obstructionist in the Senate. 1t
is the responsibility of the majority leaders
to correct matters now, while there is time,
and avoid what can become disastrous
situation later on
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Those THINGS Are FLYING Aqoin

1t Is a good thing that something new
has been added this season to the flying
saucer stories Nothing Is so dull as last
years styles in flying Saucers. The new
crop of hot-Weather tales is better authen-
ticated, too. They range from descriptions
of two-decker rocket with fiery wake to
varied reports of strings of pearls" or
Silvery plates meandering over the Atlantic
Coast.
The aWesome rockets were glimpSed in
places as far apart as Yakima, Washing
ton; Alabama, Georgia, and Indiana. The
most colorful descriptions came from the
pilot, copilot and passenger of an air.
liner flying over Alabama. They said the
thing looked like Buck Rogers space ship
with two rows of square windows and
tail spouting flames of binding brilliance
They estimated itS speed at from five to
seven hundred miles an hour. 1t suddenly
disappeared in the clouds after cutting a
caper or two near the plane.
The phenomenon of the pearls was wit
messed by many persons in the vicinity of
Asbury Park, New Jersey. Two flyers took
off to investigate the what-is-it but found
that they could not reach the high-hying
objects. However, some unimaginative
scientists at Princeton University punc-
tured the mystery by announcing that
they had sent aloft earlier that day a
string of silver-colored theological ball
looms, carrying neutron- measuring instru-
ments. Nothing more has been heard of
the pearls along the beach resorts.
But the mystery of the flaming rockets
remains. The Navy, always matter
fact, has offered a possible solution 1t
seems that naval technicians have been
testing a three thousand mile an hour
rocket in New Mexico. The controlled
missile is equipped with radio and devices
for checking cosmic radiation and other
conditions. If any of the Navy rockets ever
went aStray, they presumably could travel
clear across the continent in short time.
All in all, it might be just as we'll if the
Navy kept its suggestions to itself. 1t would
be too bad if the enigma were cleared up
until absolutely necessary. For what would
feature writer's and copy readers have to
relieve the summer doldrums If 1t were
not for flying saucers, sea serpents and
such?
Evening star., 1948-07-28

Nor can the Kremlin count on the puppets
themselves. Potentially, they may all be
Titos, and even now the Gottwald regime
In Czechoslovakia Is said to be scheduled
for purge.
The fact that it is built on such founda-
tions as these suggests that the Soviet
Empire may be much shaker than has
been generally supposed. The Tito defec-
tion Is meaningful straw in the wind.
Conceivably, should great crisis develop
in Europe, everything the Russians have
erected behind the Iron Curtain would
come crashing down. At any rate, the
base of the edifice-terror and suppressed
popular opposition--seems hardly designed
to prevent collapse under exceptional
strains
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Letters to The Star
Press Freedom Under Wallace

Press Freedom Under Wallace
To the Editor Of The Star:
In the commotion over the "Guru letters" at
the fantastic Wallace press conference, hasn't
an even more bizarre feature been overlooked.
viz. Friendly Henry's stipulation at the start
of the conference that he would permit only
one, question per reporter?
Assume, as Mr. Wallace did in his ''if were
President" acceptance speech, that he is in
the White House. He holds a press confer
ence A reporter risks a second question to
clarity the answer to the first. This some
times is necessary, even with Henry's own out
givings.
What happens then? Presumably the Pres
idens is annoyed His rule has been violated
What does he do? What does the reporter do?
Does, the President Danish the reporter and
let down an Iron Curtain against his return?
Does he condemn the reporter to silence Tor
stated period or until he apologies and prom
ises to he a good one question reporter again?
Suppose the reporter won't play and claims
the President is engaging in discriminatory
obstruction of the free flow of news, thereby
endangering the reporters ability to pay his
rent and grocery bills. Suppose the reporter
takes his grievance to the Secretary OF Labor
(you name HIM or his employer takes it to
the Secretary of Commerce (who would that
beD. is he likely to get satisfaction? Suppose
he asks President Wallace's Attorney General
(guess who) to agree to the bringing of some
sort of suit in the Court of Claims, on the rule
that there is no wrong without remedy, will
he get it?
In other words, just how free would news
men be at a White House press conference
with Henry Wallace behind the desk?
PAUL SIFTON.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Sterilization of the 'Uneducable'

Sterilization of the 'Uneducable'
To the Editor of The Star:
Newspapers and magazines are giving great
deal of publicity to crime and juvenile delin-
quency. j. Edgar Hoover is quoted as having
said, "Lawlessness has taken on such proper
tions as to startle the imagination.' The effect
of the war may be considered as one of the
major factors, yet it plays role secondary to
that of the parents and the homes they make.
Being good parent is one of the most diff
cult jobs, requiring wisdom and common sense.
Figures from the 1910 census show us graphical
1y that those with the least education and the
lowest economic status are producing the most
children, and that the birth rate falls with
amazing consistency and regularity with an in
crease in years of education and improved
financial condition.
Psychological studies made on prisoners have
shown that at least IS per cent of our convicted
criminals have such low intelligence as to be
either feebleminded or borderline cases. In most
cases they have inherited their mentality. May
there not be direct relationship between the
doubling of crime among juveniles and the high
birth rate OF the uneducable?
Unless selective sterilization is incorporated
with other standard measures to stop the over
production of the mentally deficient, each sue
ceeding generation will find the problem is
pyramiding itself and becoming steadily more
difficult of solution. H. C. WOOD,
Princeton, N. j.
Evening star., 1948-07-28
Out Fishing

The sky seems larger when I'm out still
fishing.
Under its toideness troubles, mountain
high,
Grow smaller, and I cash my futile ,otshing
Into blue deeps OF placid lake and sky:
dro,on my black tonrorro,os tn bright blue.
Here, sky is no mere roof caught patch
50 small
TDo stars mould cro,od 1t; my nntram-
naeled DieD
OF 1t fnDites wondering on oil
The uniuerse turn my gaze on spaces
Where other worids and suns wheel on
unseen
Behind the blaze OF day. T1miAnr places
Fnde from my thought and, freed tron
all routine,
find serenity, counting ,Den-spemt
A day that lenves me--fsh or no-content.
kyLoIsE WADE HACKETT.