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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
PUBLIC POWER PAYS DIVIDENDS In
REPUBLICAN NEBRASKA

1913, $780, 1873 profit for the own
ers.
Get this also the report further
states: "This was achieved despite
the fact that on April 1, 1943, the
OPPD reduced it's residential rates
so as to save it's customers $780,
| 900 annually. The 1948 rates re-
duction was made possible without
any reduction in quality of service
or any deferment of financial obliga-
lions or system maintenances .
that means full personnel to main
tain the system"
Rochester, Mimi, shows the same
degree of efficiency and low rates
with their public-owned plants. The
same conditions would prevail in
Montana if the state should take over
the public utilities and gas.
Maybe the railroad commission
will investigate, to find out why it
takes so long to heat a kettle of
water on gas.
Nebraska ranks with Vermont as
a staunch Republican state with SEN
ator Wherry Gan undertaker), who
states he is responsible for burying
OPA remember the battle cry of
the Republicans Supply and De-
mand" will govern the prices of meat
and they will all drop as soon as the
channels are filed. Nebraskans are
rated as hard headed business men
and farmers and they are the ones
who bought the utilities in their
state, looking ahead twenty years
when the profits from their utilities
will reduce taxes on real estate by
bringing in large industries with
cheap power at the sources of the
raw materials.
Just what are we waiting for in
Montana? For Vermont and Maine
to show us the way? Washington is
doing it right now in their support
of the eva. We have a liberal
governor. Let US vote in a liberal
house and senate to support Gov
ernor Bonner's detectives. You
have the votes, which money cannot
buy. Let us use them, but, to do
so, first you must register.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
By WILLIAM J. PRIEST
Livingston

| Here is the knock out punch to
those in Montana who oppose pub
licly owned power and transmission
lines and it is administered to them
| by the Omaha World Herald one of
the most reactionary papers in the
United States. You all know that
Nebraska bought up all the power
companies in Nebraska and are
doubling and trebling the develop
ment of new generating plants all
the time.
The city of Omaha created the
Omaha Public Power District, OPPD.
They issued bonds, which were
bought by New York banks, and one
condition was that the books and
equipment and plants of OPPD must
be examined every two years by an
outside auditing and engineering
firm. Omaha hired Burns & Mac
Donnell, Kansas City, who have just
finished their survey. Here it is:
"Policies formulated by the directors
are sound and conservative. "Prac-
tees established, fair and equitable
and in keeping with other utilities
of equivalent scope" Crates are ade-
quate to assure high grade electric
service at lowest cost commensurate
with sound business practice: "Dis
trict is well insured $22,577,334
coverage"; Customers are benefit
ing from public ownership; "Expan-
sion program costing $18,500,000
under way" MacDonnell's report
covered SO pages full of charts etc.
OPPD has total assets $57,829,000
at end of year.
Get load of this: SIN 1948 the
system accumulated net earnings of
$2,688,480." This brought the ac-
cumulated earnings since they bought
the set up in 1916 to the end of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
FhRM-LAB0R GROUPS ALL
OUT In SUPPORT OF
eva PROGRAM

Centralia, Wash. = Meeting re
Gently at Centralia, Wash, leader
of the northwest's major farm-labol
organizations pledged their all-ou
support to the final drive which viii
make the eva a reality.
No. / item discussed was the forth
coming joint congressional hearings
on eva, which will be held through
out our region two weeks after con.
|gress adjourns.
cts our job to help show the
committee that the people of the
northwest want CVA," asserted
James T. Mari, secretary of the Ore
gon Federation of Labor.
E. M. (EdD Weston, president
of the Washington Federation of
Labor, and Morton Tompkins, Ore
gon Grange master, agreed that
private power and other selfish in
terests would do everything they
could to confuse the issue.
All the farm-labor leaders who
have spearheaded the eva campaign
for several years agreed that crea-
ton of a eva was in sight.
"All it needs is one last push from
the people of the Pacific northwest"
said Henry P. Christensen, Washing
ton Grange master. "And they're
going to do it!'
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
Burn or Bury Dead
Animals Promptly

Health authorities are warning
farmers to dispose promptly of the
carcasses of animals who die on the
farm. Owners usually get rid of
larger animals right away, but some
farmers are inclined to be careless
about poultry.
They warn that dead birds can be
a dangerous source of disease if they
are left near a barnyard. There are
cases known when the carcasses of
these dead animals have been re-
sponsible for many instances of swine
tuberculosis.
Poultry flocks have become infect
ed with fowl cholera or fowl typhoid
from the same source. Authorities
advise farmers to bury or burn all
poultry carcasses.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
FPC HEAD DOUBTS PICK SLOAN WILL
DO Maximum development JOB

With the demand for power al
ready exceeding the limited supply
which will be produced under the
Pick-Sloan plan, REA co-ops through
out the Missouri Valley look with
more than passing interest at the
proposal of Nelson Lee Smith, chair
man of the Federal Power Commits
sion.
Over IL billion kilowatt hours of
electric energy could be produced
annually in the river between Sioux
City and st. Louis, he believes, if
silt could be kept from coming down
the river. The FUC heads proposal
would provide a series of low head
dams, which would provide slack
water navigation using but fraction
of the flow under the Army engi-
neers' open flow plan.
The silt that he wants to get rid
of is the top-soil off the farms of
the Missouri Valley.
The u. S. Department of Agri-
culture wants to keep that soil
where it belongs. One of the
methods it proposes to help this is
to build $4,000 to 10000 check
dams in the small streams and
100000 farm ponds to obtain more
uniform grazing and to conserve
the range and pasture lands.
1t would sound logical to keep the
water and silt on the land so as to
permit the low head dams to develop
abundant cheap power and stable
navigation-but when Missouri river
development plans are III the hands
of four or five jealous, quarreling
Washington bureaucracies, there is
little logic.
w. G. Sloan, co-author of the Pick
Sloan "plan" and chairman of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
Revised Rural Phone
Bill Passes Senate

Senate committee approval was
given last week to an amended version
of the Rural Telephone bill passed
by the house last month. The bill
would provide loans to rural phone
companies and co-ops.
The revised bill contains several
restrictions not included in the house
bill. duplicating" lines were ruled
out by the senate group, and the in
terest rate was upped.
If the new version of the bill is APP
proved by the full senate, differences
will be settled by house-senate con-
ference.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07

Missouri Basin Inter-agency commit
tee, condemns the Department of
Agriculture program by saying that
the farm ponds would Seriously
jeopardize the water supply for prof.
ects now planned"
That is a different tune than Pick,
Sloan, Aandahl, and Lemke sang
when they assured us that there was
plenty of water for everybody. MVA
advocates have long pointed out that
it would take most of the water to
keep the navigation channel open.
The Hoover commission found plans
were made without even knowing
how much water there was.
Governor Aandahl, incidently
might be little bit embarrassed
If that is possible-why he con-
tinues to back the Pick-Sloan plan
when it would deny farmer the
right to have a pond or a dam
across the creek for watering stock
or keeping a pair of ducks-to
say nothing of cheap, abundant
power.
Perhaps we will find out just who
is back of this plot to give our water
away, which the North Dakota gov
ernor seems so anxious to serve.
Chairman SABBATH of the house
rules committee is calling for an in
vestigation of the Army Engineers
lobby, which he says has 1900 lob
byists registered and spent $2,000,-
900 the first quarter of 1949. 1t
would not be bit surprising to find
the private power trust mixed up
with this power lobby.-N. D. Union
Farmer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
Sports1nen-
CONTINUED from Page one)

never dared, either to answer our
letter of June 10, 1949, or to agitate
the question further. :. . AS matter
of history, i. the wild deer of Cali
lfornia were infected with foot-and-
mouth disease from domestic stock,
and not the reverse. "a considera-
BILE correspondence has been carried
on with government agencies, with
| the result that not one instance has
been cited to us of wild game infect
ing domestic stock with any disease
whatever.)
Are not we sportsmen justified in
regarding the authors of this vicious
propaganda with suspicion, when
they promptly turn their coats and
pretend that they want to conserve
our game animals? Last May they
wanted to slaughter the game ami
mails because they were too sick to
have around. Now, in September,
they want to slaughter them because
they are so healthy they have over
reproduced themselves. Only on one
point are the livestock people con-
sistent-THEY STILL WANT THE
SLAUGHTER. The reason they gave
last May boomeranged. Now they
have invented different reason. Do
we not justifiably suspect that the
last reason is just as false as the
first?
After all, we want nothing but a
democratic process for determining
the facts. We just don't want to
have false findings forced down our
throats by interested predatory cor
porations putting the heat on the
game commission. We just want to
see the evidence, and as matters now
stand, we know they will not show
it to us.
Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Assn
JOHN STANTON, President
ANN BLAIR, Secretary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
Food For Strikers
Continued from Page One)

apples it can haul away in it's own
trucks. This means that tons of
apples will be available.
7. The Farmers Union local at
Opportunity, Wash, has already set
up food-collection depot at the
farm of one of its members. One
truckload of dried beans has been
sent in, along with large quantities
of tomatoes picked by union teams
which went into the area.
8. The rich Palouse area of west
ern Idaho-eastern Washington is
known as one of the richest wheat
producing areas of the nation. In
addition to wheat, this area is
heavy producer of peas and beans,
and it is the latter that Palouse area
farmers have particularly made avail
able to the union.
: The beans include the familiar
"navy" bean, pinto" beans, red and
Great Northerns. The peas are
green, dried and split.
9. A. A. Fisher, secretary of the
Washington State CLIO council told a
Mine-Mill strike representative the
following: Joe Zurich, president of
the Clio Fishermen's union on the
West Coast has pledged direct con-
tributions of deep-sea fish (including
salmon). The seafood will be col
lected at central points, canned at
union expense and shipped in to
strike headquarters.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
CARE Holiday Pack

Special holiday packages for needy
European families are available again
this year through CARE-Co-opera-
ative for American Remittances to
Europe.
The package includes turkey,
plum pudding, and just about all the
fixtures for Thanksgiving or Christ
mas dinner. 1t can be sent through
CARE, 20 Broad ST., New York 5,
NY, to any European family for
$3.50.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
By MAX WERNER

from Cne IN. I. DAILY COMPASS
Without direct threat to tht
United States, the Soviet atomic
bomb has already wiped out the At
lantic Pact.
For years the Soviet strategists in.
sisted that the atomic bomb CAN.
NOT win a big war, while the ma.
jority of the American experts as.
serted that the atomic bomb is q
decisive weapon. Now, that the
Soviet strategists cannot start pre-
tending that their atomic bomb has
become the decisive weapon against
the u. s.; while the American strate-
gists can hardly believe that in Soviet
hands the atomic bomb is weapon
of little Importance.
The world now knows that Soviet
applied science, Russian military
technology, has passed the severest
examination. The Soviet Union has
now the entire complex of modern
military power and super-technology
There are no longer any substantial
gaps in the Soviet armament system.
Chapter by chapter, with the atomic
bomb, the Soviet Union has almost
everything in the military field that
the United States has. The pace of
Soviet atomic armament has been
amazing. General Groves, who be-
lieved that the Soviet atomic bomb
would require Is to 80 years, was
wrong. DR.. Langmuir, who foresaw
in December, 1916, that the Soviet
atomic weapon would be ready be-
tween three and five years, was
right.
The change in the structure of So
Wet military power is, of course, of
tremendous Importance. For years
Russian land power, the army, had
to make up for the Russians lack of
the atomic bomb. Now the Soviet
Union has both, the strongest land
power and the atomic bomb. If the
atomic bomb was NOT de-
cisive against the Soviet Union when
Russia had no atomic weapon of its
own, then with the appearance of the
Soviet atomic bomb our bomb is even
less OF decisive weapon. Still the
Soviet Union has not won the tech
biological competition against the
United States. If the American
A-bomb cannot crush the Soviet |
Union, then the Soviet A-bomb can
much less crush the United States.
The Soviet atomic bomb has not |
changed substantially the u. s.
Soviet balance of power, but it has
changed deeply and finally the re-
ationship of power inside Europe. 1t
mas neutralized Great Britain and
has written off France as partner
n any coalition against the Soviet
Union.
The majority of British military
experts believed that after World
War ii, Great Britain became indie
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
Wolf Point Co-ops Pay
Thousands In Taxes

Refuting charges of NTEA that
co-ops do not pay taxes, four Wolf
Point farmer co-operatives paid for
advertising space in a local paper
during the summer showing they paid
a total of $14,032.47 in taxes in
1947 and 1948. The co-ops listing
their tax payments were Union Serv-
ice Association, Farmers Union Lum-
Der Co., Farmers Union Elevator Co.,
and Farmers Union Oil Co., all of
Wolf Point.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07
Strategic Meaning of the Soviet A-bomb

feasible from the air. This was
stated bluntly even before the Soviet
atomic bomb. With the bomb in the
Soviet arsenal, the belief has become
military evidence AS Commander
Stephen King Hall put it, the British
Empire cannot be defended without
London. But London clearly cannot
be defended against the atomic
bomb
The case of France is even SIM
pier. France is not covered by the
British Channel, and cannot be de-
Tended by the U. S. : British naval
forces. The danger of occupation is
enough for France, but occupation
plus atomic danger must paralyze
France as a military factor. West
ern Europe is unwilling and unable
to take on the combined danger of
big land war AND hundred Hiro-
shimas. Calculations with France as
the core of Western defense operate
not with real, but with an imagi-
nary France.
Since last Friday no military illu-
sions are permitted. The illusion of
the backwardness of Soviet industry
in atomic bomb production should
have been the last one. The idea
that the Soviet A-bomb can be offset
by stronger French army is the
peak of self-deception. The U. S.
A-bomb cannot win the war against
the Soviet Union because of the
strong Soviet air defenses and Soviet
space. The Soviet A-bomb cannot
win war against the u. S. because
Of American chronological power.
But the Soviet A-bomb is decisive in
Western Europe.
Thirty Western defensive divisions
n full defensive strength have been
projected for 1854, but at that time
he Soviet will probably have hun
1reds of atomic bombs.
Obviously if the u. S. atomic bomb |
,annot guarantee Western Europe,
he French Army cannot defend |
Western Europe either. When, after
asst Friday, Senator George said that
he Soviet Union cannot be contained
With land armies; when General De
Iaulle stated that the Atlantic Pact |
eceived crushing blow; when Prof
.ssor Urey, the great atomic scien-
list, claimed that Western Europe is
low defenseless - all of them have |
,iven expression to the great mill
airy upheaval of our time. The At
antic Pact is a pre-atomic document.
The atomic bomb, an American
INVENTION, has not knocked out the
soviet Union. But it has written
if the military potential of Western
Europe, which cannot be defended
Y war any more. After new mill
airy facts have disavowed atomic
trategy as an instrument of West '
IN policy, diplomacy has to find a
ray out of the frightening impasse.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-10-07

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Teachers recommends that the prin-
ciples and methods of cooperation
be instituted in teachers colleges
and other schools.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10

ernor of Alaska. Born and brought up in Alaska he must certainly be able to understand the problems Alaskans face
 He himself has been critic of the strictly political maneuverings of Gruening whose sole ambition is apparently to surround himself with powerful ma chine Howard Lyng realizes the dssenton and cleav- age these tactics bringing within Alaska and which maintain constant loggerhead against progress of the Territory. We doubt greatly if Mir. Lyng, an Alaskan by every conceivable qualification, would allow such dissention to continue
 Alaska is not the place for big time political machinatons such Governor Gruenng hopes to foist upon the people. These machinatons have been apparent at every turn, and manifest daily in new legislative bills which constantly call for boards and bureaus, the invention of the New Deal a means of pulling and power into the scope of government
 The pause in the headong rush to re-seat the gov- is indeed opportune for the people of the Ter ritory who still believe in old-fashioned democracy. They have brief but fast-wasng interval to present their to the people in Washington who have the final yes or in the naming of next chief.
 They should make all haste to do
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
20 YEARS AGO fHE {yf% EMPIRE
MARCH 10, 1929

MARCH 10 Assistant Cashier of his resignation position Petroleum
 
 Johnson arrived from Anchorage relatives In Douglas
 Walter appointed Assistant U. Attorney in Ketchikan National Committee E Fairbanks Kechkan as National Nearly damned Moose ahes taking George A. J F. Mullen A. and Charles Hawkesworth Steamer the next day with the south advertising S50 ironing with $0 worth O groceries purchased Weather: High low, 39; cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
NOW IS THE TIME

Regarding postponement of Senate action on the appointment of Gov Gruening, etc. the Anchorage News editorially says;
 The protest to Governor Gruenings re-appoint- ment for four-year term and the subsequent post ponement by high Senate committee should be suf- cient indication the holdover incumbent that he is no longer wanted Alaska's chief executive.
 It would solve lot of difficulties if Governor Gruening would tactfully withdraw, if such attribute can be associated with Governor Gruening
 Should Governor Gruening withdraw, an Alaskan, Sen. Howard Lyng, would accept the candidacy and should he be confirmed Alaska would have it's first native-born governor.
 Howard Lyng born at Sand Point in the Shu- magin Islands in 1891, and his family has owned mining property the Second Division for more than 50 years
 MT. Lyng certainly has the qualifications that has long been advocated for the man who is to be gov
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10
GENERAL WINNING TO HEAD DRIVE
 AGAINST CANCER

It. General Nathan F. TWining, Commander in- Chief of the Armed Forces in Alaska, will lead the first cancer drive hy the newly organized Alaska Division Of the American Cancer Society.
 The drive against cancer will be held during the month of April, des- ignated by Congressional resolu- ton and Presidential proclamation as Cancer Control Month.
 Gen. Twining's acceptance of chairmanship for the drive was announced today by the Command CT of the Alaska Division of the American Cancer Society, Mildred R. Hermann.
 General TWining in accepting the appointment as cancer chairman in- cluded a communique to the Alas ka Cancer Society.
 Cancer is an insidious enemy that can strike without warning and kill without mercy were the Generals words. Its onslaught is more dead ly than that of any weapon of war yet invented by man."
 Tn Alaska there is still much oi the spirit of the pioneer, and much of the open-handedness that goes with the spirit. I am confident that Alaskans will give generously to the American Cancer Society when called upon, and in doing so take their rightful places in the battle lines in this good fight against di- sease."
 Plans of the Alaskan division of the Cancer Society is to work through existing organizations for the first drive. Veterans of Foreign Wars posts have been selected with John B. Penman of Fairbanks named as general chairman for the VFW cancer drive.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-10

Sullivan had registered all his ob- jections, Secretary of Air Stuart Symington turned to him and said
 Are you going to support thi: bill when it goes up to The Hill John?"
 My course is all too obvious, replied Sullivan, which to those present made it quite clear that he would resign.
 President Truman, who was pres ent, obviously heard the remark, but said nothing.
 Note-Sullivan is reported as a possible choice for Secretary of the Treasury when and if John Snyder resigns. Sullivan once held the job of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Henry Morgen- thau, who eventually eased him out. Truman, who disliked Morgenthau, would like nothing better than to show what bad judgment Henry mad by re-appointing Sullivan to the Treasury.