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The people's voice., 1948-10-08
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STEAM ROLLER AGAINST SCHOOLS
By DANIEL S. McCORKLE

When the Citizens Committee Education met in Helena
October s and 2nd there hope for harmony Many help
full suggestions had been made earlier sessions and
ments reached for plan of voluntary consolidation of schools
through the state Coming from the people themselves in
the several countless the ideas sound and constructive
But the National Association of Manufacturers and allied inter-
have decreed that the people of Montana to have
voice the running of their schools and under unfair
sault the bright picture quickly faded.
II have steam roller working Aptly with this
exclamation S. G. Hammond of Saltwater called aen
ton to what going What want to know continued
Mr. Hammond, 's whether school at Fshtal is going to
have it's board of directors to it,
Leonard Kenfied, Cascade county's delegate of
those who voted not to when the bills of the NAM
substituted for the hitherto worked out by the
committee. Rising to explain his VOTE the spotlight fo
cused again the main issue Mr. Kened demands that
schools they desire insists that school districts shall
not be abolished without consent of local communities
House bill No. 124 rejected by the 947 legislature but
roller bills back by the committee for consideration
Counties whose citizens informed not likely to
abolish all Montana replace
them with huge school districts and centralized control Like
Mr. Hamond of Saltwater county, they likely to know
they will be better off if they keep their school board to
run their school.
There time to return to the wholesome for
voluntary Consolidation where needed agreed upon in
earlier sessions of the committee But the NAM put large
Of money into getting the plan for House bill No. 124
and is still pursuing its intention to take the control of the
schools out of the hands of the people, be that the
must be fought out in Montanas legislature next winter
Among certain interests the desire for toaaran control
very strong.
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

much of North China, and are extend
ing into Central China.
There is not a Russian soldier in
China. If the Chinese want commun-
ism, it is no business of ours.
In the SATURDAY EVENING POST
an article from the American Naval
Base in China says we control the
harbor, but all around several miles
away, the Communists control. The
article says the Communist rule is
better for the common people than the
rule of Chang. Do we favor bad gov
ernment?
Perhaps the Marshall Plan is max
ing Communists in the Orient at the
rate of so million a year
In LIFE last week is a photograph
of mob in Paris carrying a banner
with "A bas le plan MARSHALL (To
hell with the Marshall Plan).
They Must Love Us -.
The us. News says that in Turkey
the cost of living has risen 500 per
cent The poorer Turks must love us.
We have spent ten times the congress
sional appropriation there-one thous-
and million instead of one hundred
million dollars, but for war, not i'm
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

the big capitalists cannot alter
their plan in time. Dewey and
Truman both favor following
the plan further, because each
alike is a spokesman for the
vast commercial interests of
America.
If one reads the body, not just the
headlines, of the reactionary press, it
is seen clearly that the plan is a fail
ure; that the best hope is the election
of Wallace, the second best hope, that
the complete breakdown will come too
quick to get us into the war to which
it is heading us.
"Prestige on the Skds" -.
From the UNITED STATES NEWS,
David Lawrence's reactionary sheet,
October 1, we learn that "U.S. pres
tige and influence in the Far East are
on the skids"; that France is using 35
million dollars of the Marshall Plan
to reconquer Indo China; the Dutch
are spending 54 million dollars of our
money to re-conquer Indonesia. That
further damage to American prestige
is done by pouring American money
into Nationalist (Chiang) China; and
the Communists in China number $50
million. occupy all of Manchuria and
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

RaIston Purina Co., and formerly the
e. G.. Cherbonnier vice president of
chairman of the MANS Committee on
Cooperation with Agriculture; George
Anderson Eastwood, chairman of the
board of Armour G Co., and director
of the Pullman Company, Crane Co.,
Montgomery Ward, American Meat
Institute, and the us. of G.; G. En-
.erson Markham Of the General EIec-
trio; Philip Winston Pillsbury, presi-
dent of PiIsbury Mills Inc, and direc-
tor of Northland Investment Co.,
Wayne Knitting Mills, Sutton Land
Co., Sargent Land Co., and Kearsarge
Land Co.; and Harper Sibley, director
of Western Union Telegraph, Ameri-
can Surety Co., N. Y. Life Insurance
Co., and formerly president of the
us. Chamber of Commerce"
High Profits-The Real Reason
Referring to the widespread stories
in the press that high food costs arise
from government price support pro-
grams the conference, in their press
release, charged that "the profits of
the big food proc cessors tell the story
Wheat prices have dropped but
bread prices have increased and the
net profits after taxes of the three
Continued on Page Eight
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

In G Z we are backing a petty
king g has workmen killed who
Sol merica once followed the
frienu4, = ad of Roosevelt,-nOw that
of Mexico and Argentina. General
Marshall himself was greeted in Bo-
gotta with mock Nazi salutes and a
riot in which 700 people were killed.
Our bankers re-armed Germany af-
ter War l. They are now trying to
repeat the job. Russia says never
again, that our first job caused the
death of 20 million Russians.
Ex-senator Wheeler says we will
soon recognize Franco. This may be
true, or it may merely be that, "the
wish is father to the thought
Next year the Military demands 20
billion dollars. The commerce be-
tween Czechoslovakia and the Soviet
Union is almost 400 million dollars.
There is what the fight is about. That
is why in peace we are drafting our
youth for war,-to enable 60 families
of America to exploit the world by
selling abroad the surplus product
which our farmers and artisans pro-
duce but under a false system of dis
tribution, cannot enjoy.
All the while there is a county of
10000 people in South Carolina where
there is only one little cottage hospi-
tai in a doctors yard, and 1900 chill
dren went to school in an abandoned
church until the roof fell in.
Are freight rates on wheat in Mon
tana being raised to pay the extra cost
of feeding a part of Berlin by air.
plane? Or just because Wall Street
runs Washington? Or Both?
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

phone monopoly, insurance organizations and
agents. the freight lines, and if need be, an
Increase in real and personal property taxes.
The news story in the daily press about
the Governors marvellous solution of the fl
nancial problems of our public school sys-
tenn, was, strangely enough, not featured in
the same manner that the Governors pontifi-
cal, albeit ill-founded, arguments against the
MVA, are always blazoned with big head
lines on the first pages of the corporation
news" papers. This story was obscurely
tucked away on the inside pages, and this
may be considered an indication of just how
the corporations and Governor Ford plan on
putting his program over. The statement by
Ford was probably intended merely to open
the subject SO that the multitudinous stooges
and paid employees of the Montana Power
Company throughout the state would not
have to broach the subject "cold turkey to
the voters. And these voters, perhaps, would
have candidate for the Montana legislature
next year, suggested to them, favorable to
everything that the Montana Power Company
and its affiliated interests desire, including
the sales tax.
Obviously, the Montana Power Company
the banks and other financial institutions and
the insurance companies and agents, fear
any effort to raise more money by taxes as
they realize the profits they make by eXploi-
tation of the people of the state may make
them particularly vulnerable as sources of
increased taxation. They also know that
once sales tax can be perpetrated- and we
mean "perpetrated' the great mass of the
common people, and especially the low in
come groups will be the principal victims.
The declaration of Governor Ford, favor
ing the imposition Of sales tax on the people
of the state, is further evidence that he has
parted company with the majority of those
who first elected him Governor. He has now
become the peerless Leader of the privi-
legged
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

candidate, Henry A. w allace,
who spoke the first night of
the conference at a mass rally
at Wrigley Field.
At a press conference held after the
conference, Wallace charged that the
80th Congress forced the Commodity
Credit Corporation to dispose of the
ever-normal granary storage capacity
(which we worked so hard to estab-
lish," and he assailed the Truman ad-
ministratiOn for cooperating by turn
ing the CCC over to the private grain
dealers and big professors. Farmers
are being double-crossed by the priv
ate grain traders" he said. land are
being forced to sell their grain crop
this year at prices below the guaran-
teed support level, simply because the
bi-partisans wrecked the ever-normal
granary. Now selfish interests are
out to steal the farmers grain crops"
Delegates charged that the -"eat
less" proposals of the war-makers go
hand in hand with the program of
the NAM and Chamber of Commerce
spokesman who are now urging that
from "one-fourth to two-thirds of the
nations farmers be eliminated from
commercial agriculture.
Among the signers of this back to
scarcity report" the report said, "are
The people's voice., 1948-10-08
Reprinted from THE PEOPLES VOICE of
December IA, 1915

Governor Ford, probably after long per
iod of straining his statesman's brain cells to
find ways and means of improving the flnan-
cial situation in our school system, has fin
ally solved the perpleXing problem and an
nounced his mastery solution this week, to
a state organization, the Montana School
Boards Association, at its annual conven-
tion December IL, 1945).
The great solution that his mighty brain
has evolved is a SALES TAX.
In making the announcement of his stu
pendous mental achievement he stated that
additional revenue for school funds from pres
ent sources is remote. By that he probably
meant, that other possible sources are Gun
touchables" because of their political power
and influence, so the bulk of the burden must
be passed on to the little people to carry.
He quoted figures on what can be accom-
plished by Sales Tax as additional revenue,
citing the experience of Washington and
California. But the figures did not disclose
the hardships experienced by the low income
groups in those states to meet the additional
drain of the sales taxes; the ragged shoes
and clothing that had to be worn more days
by them because of the sales tax; nor the re-
duction below the always too low standard of
general living, imposed on many of the peo-
pie, by this sales tax which is so pleasing to
the wealthy.
Governor Ford apparently cannot con-
ceive of any increase in the net income taxes
as a means of securing more funds for our
educational system. He has given no
sideration, so far is known, to recommending
an increase in the rental rates charged on
state grazing lands, present rates since 1888
having brought loss to the school system of
approximately $2,4OO,00O. Nor have we
heard of any effort by him to increase taxa
ton on the net income in the state of public
utilities, banks, foreign landlords, the tele-
The people's voice., 1948-10-08
Farmers Not To Blame For
lnflationary Prices

special conference of the Progressive Party recently
held in Chicago, struck the monopoists who are
the buck and the blame the farmers for high
prices and demanded that the monoposts themselves should
stand and have their profits counted"
the delegates attending the discus
problems with the Progressive Pary Presidential
The people's voice., 1948-10-08

ne PIckSloan plan by reading Col. Jerome G. Lockes
Conclusions of an Engineering Study :" on page
and studying the Photograph on page 8, it becomes
readily apparent that Mr.. SIoan's Bureau of Rec
lamation has been left out far as much new irri-
cation is concerned. Mr. Locke's year-onu study
reaches surprisingly similar conclusions to those
reached by the Public Affairs Institute Washinqton
De- and published in "The Bio Missouri, Hope of
Our West" although the studies were conducted in
dependenty of each other
For real insight to the magnitude of the
crime being perpetrated against Montana by Gov
Ford and other leading Republicans in promoting
the unsound Pick Plan, COL Locke's study will prove
invaluable to all Montanans interested in the great
opment of valley. Please read.
The people's voice., 1948-10-08
Marshall Plan Is Witheril1a Away
BY LOWNDES MAURY, Butte

In The Peoples Voice when the Marshall Plan first
nounced predicted would result in mpovershment of Amer
ca create enemies for result in failure that attempt of
single nation to control by without merit the policy
of other nations Europe and the Orient would result
bacle that would be historic.
The sad feature of the already apparent breakdown is that
The people's voice., 1948-10-08
RAMIFICATI0NS OF THE PICK PLAN

While the proposed development
monty known as the PcsIoan reading
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est possible development our valley. Pleas
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-10-01
Washington Notes
Continued From Page ~
fure prosperous and make it an
attractive vocation.


They realize that should agricul-
ture slump into the doldrums, other
segments of the nations economy
eventually would be dragged down
along with agriculture.
For this reason, they probed the
whole question of farm price sup
ports and the road government farm
credit should follow in the years
ahead.
There is a feeling among them
that farm credit can be taken from
beneath the mothering wing of the
federal government and placed in
the hands of the farmers themselves.
FOOD VS.. POPULATION
The u. S. department of agri-,
culture hazards the guess that
in the long run American food
output is likely TO increase at
least as much as the nations
population-provided prices stay
high.
Raymond P. Christensen, Bureau
of Agricultural Economics expert,
says, however, that even if prices
fall, food production probably would
not drop much.
Americas farmers are now pro-
ducing at the highest levels in his
tory. So long as output stays near
present peak or goes higher, the
problem will be how to make full
use of this greater capacity, Chris
Jensen says.
ALLIANCE DEEMED UNHOLY
A joint USDA-1and grant col
Iege committee, named two
Year ago to report on extension
programs. policies and goals. has
recommended separation of re-
1ationships between extension
service and any general farm
organization. such as the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau federation.
The committee declared it was
mot sound public policy for extern
sion to give preferred service to any
farm organization or to be in a
position of being charged with such
actions"
FB and extension service were
urged to voluntarily end such re-
lationships where they exist
MORE PIGS SOUGHT
The largest spring pig crop
since the war years of l942-43
is the goal set for Is4s by the
u. S.. department of agriculture.
Farmers are asked to produce Co.
10000 pigs, an increase of II per-
cent or nearly 100000 more than
the 1913 spring crop.
USDA officials said although this
years record corn crop would pro-
vide enough feed for an even larger
pig crop than the goal announced,
the number of sows and gifts avail
able for breeding this fall and winter
will be a limiting factor in spring
pig production.
LESS WHEAT EXPORT
USDA foresees a gradual drop
in American wheat exports. The
amount of the decrease depends
partly upon the nations III
nancial and political role" in
global affairs. the department
said.
The report noted Europe's pc,
capita wheat consumption may APP
proach prewar levels, requiring
less imports from this country.
With prospects that exports viii
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27
Alcoholism Is
 Great Problem Among Natives
(By Vern Haugland)

0P) Special Washington Service)
 WASHINGTON, (PJ - Alcohol ism among the 35,000 EskimoS, Aleuts and Indians is one of the greatest problems in Alaska, inte- rior department experts on the northern territory agree.
 But, one of them said prohio;- tion is by no means the answer.
 The subject of liquOr-drinlklng g by the natives has been among topics discussed behind closed doors at the departments l0-day conference on Alaska, which end ed last week.
 Officials made these comments:
 Willard w. Beatty, education director for the Indian bureau: There are many Americans who think it's fun to get an Eskimo or Indian drunk, to bait him as a Spaniard bait a bull There are plenty of natives in the slums of Juneau or Ketchikan who got l. QUOT for the first time from friends among the irresponsible whites"
 Don C. Foster, chief of the Alas
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27
PRIEST RIVER CAGERS TOURING ALASKA

SEATTLE, LP)-Coach Irv Mor- gan and a six-man squad of Priest River, Idaho, high school alumni are flying 10 Alaska for basket ball games against three Alaska prep teams.
 Morgan said the team is sched- uled to meet Sitka High School to- night, tomorrow and Wednesday nights, Petersburg High Thursday and Friday nighst and Wrangell Saturday night.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27

ka Native Service: Next to the Distric: of Columbia, Alaska has the highest per capita rate of li- quor consumption in the United States. The chief victim of this is the native He doesn't buy a drink, he buys a drunk.
 'The Aleuts, particularly, can not ;ake alcohol. The natives are naturally a good people, a very fine people. I know of no factor that is so devastating as, or will exterminate them more quickly than, liquor.
 Tn all of Alaska liquor is the greatest single factor retarding the development of the Indians, the Eskimos and the Aleuts."
 Foster, contending prohibition wasn't successful in the States.
 There should be no bars, nc cocktail rooms in Alaska. A pack age store business, like those of Oregon and Washington, might provide better control"
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27
FIVE MORE B-5o BOMBERS TO FAIRBANKS

TUCSON, Ariz., (P)-Five more B-5O bOmbers will leave Davis Monthan air force base here for Fairbanks, Alaska and ArtciC tests carly this week.
 The planes will be from the 65th bomb squadron of the 43rd bomb group.
 Four B-50's of the original group sent to Alaska returned Saturday after a fifth had crashed. Ten creWmen were killed in the crash.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27
Communication

tCOntlnued from Page One) to the regular session, the expense to the Territory of a Special Ses- sion will be greatly reduced.
 So that no time need be lost in getting down to serious considera- ton of the pressing problem which confronts us, the Attorney Genreal of Alaska will furnish for your consideration immediately upon converting drafts of several pro- posed tax measures he has pre- pared in his capacity as Legisla- tive Counsel in response to re- quests from members of the Leg islature.
 Proclamation calling extraor- dinary session for January 6, l949, issued December IT, 1948, reads as follows:
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TERRITORY OF ALASKA OFFICE OF THE ACTING GOV- ERNOR OF THE TERRITORY
 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, public necessity re- quires (as set forth in the written notice to members issued here with that the Legislature of Alas | ka be convened in extraordinary session,
 THEREFORE, I, LleWellyn M Williams, Acting Governor of 1 Alaska, by virtue of the authority vested in the Governor of Alaska i by Section 6 of the Organic Act of Alaska, as amended by the Act o1 Aparil 18, 194O, Chapter 1O5, Sec ton l, 54 Stat. III, 48 USCA Sec. "A.
 DO HEREBY convene the Nine -eenth Legislature of the Territory of Alaska to meet in extraordinary session at the City of Juneau Alaska at 10 o'clock am. on Thursday, January 6, l949, and to remain in session until and includ- ing January 22, l949. for the fol- ' owing objects:
 i To consider and act upon legis- | lation to provide such revenues ! for the Territory as the Legisla-
 ture may deem necessary or ad-
 visable to remedy the critical fi-
 nancial condition of the Terri : tory of Alas'Ia.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, | f the undersigned, in the absence ot the Governor of Alaska from the ! Territory of Alaska, have hereun- to subscribed my name and af- fixed the Seal of the Territory of Alaska this 17th day of December, l948, a. the Capital City, Juneau, Alaska. .... Llewellyn M. Williams,
 Acti,o 1f
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27
Perry Kungek. an employee of

Perry Kunsek. an employee of the Alaska Airlines was badly beaten and robbed last Thursday by ,hree unidentified men. Both he military and the civil authori- ties are Investigating the case, but as yet no suspects have been found.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-27

The present value of Stradivari- us violins, made by the famous l7th Century Italian violin maker, ranges from $5,00Or to -SI0O000.
Evening star., 1948-06-20
sEAsHoRE PROPERTY.

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ocean-front cottage, 3 rooms, kitchenette,
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1894 Rockhole rd.; 5-rm. cottage. toilet.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-Lovely comfort.
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Evening star., 1948-06-20
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Evening star., 1948-06-20
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