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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
BUTTE +. u. COOP HELD
ANNUAL Meeting SUNDAY

Stockholders of the Farmers Union
Trading Company of Butte, Saturday
evening held their annual banquet and
meeting in the Boulevard Fire Depart
ment Hall. Carl Meyers, Deer Lodge
farmer, and president of the co-opera-
tive presided at the annual meeting.
Walter Good, senior fieldman of the
Farmers Union Central Exchange,
read and interpreted the annual aud
it of the cooperative, and also show
ed the new Central Exchange tech
nicolor picture, "This Is Yours. This
picture a twenty minute sound film,
prepared under the guidance of
John Mckay, formerly of Bozeman,
but now public relations director
for the Central Exchange, provides
graphic exposition of what this
regional cooperative is.
A Report on the Co-op's current
business and future prospects was
made by manager, Lowell Jones. Mrs.
Harry L. Billings also spoke briefly
on the Educ. Coop Publishing Co.
and its publication the Peoples Voice
The Farmers Union Trading Com
oany, of Butte is rather unique among
in Montana in that it |
S both a marketing and consumer
Coop. Principal farm crop marketed
~ the more $50 Coop member, is
potatoes grown in the Deer Lodge
Valley, and in Madison, Silverbow
nd Beaverhead Counties.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
Butte Miners Want None
OF Mundt-Nixon PROPOSAL

Members of Butte Miners Union
No. 1, by unanimous action We'd
nesday, April IL, voiced strong dis
approval of the proposed Mundt-
Nixon legislation and urged Mon
tana's congressional delegation to
line up as one in defeating this
thought control measure
Although ostensibly aimed at null
lifying the civil rights of a compare
lively small minority, the terms of
this latest Mundt-Nixon concoction
are so broad that, should the proposal
become law every labor organization,
every farm organization, and every
political organization other than the
party in power could be outlawed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
Sees Network of Electric
Transmission Power Lines

A federal power system stretch
ing from Seattle to New Orleans
has been pictured by a power ex-
pert. He says it would be compare
lively simple to extend the system
eventually from coast to coast.
Assistant Secretary of Interior
William E. Warne outlined the plan
in a speech at Chamberlain, S. D.
Warne said the big Missouri basin
electrical transmission network now
building will be "integrated'' and
Bonneville power system in t h e
northwest and the southwest power
administration which extends north
and west from New Orleans.
Add the IVA setup, says Warne,
and the government will control
coast-to-coast power grid blanketing
seventeen states-the biggest single
power hookup in the nations his
tory.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
EXT PAKADE CON TNUES
ANOTHER TOP NOTCH
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVANT
TO LEAVE MONTANA

Marjory V. Young, Hospital Stand
ards Consultant, State Board o
Health, has resigned effective May
Is. Miss Young has accepted an adj
vanced administrative position in the
east.
Prior to coming to Montana two
years ago, Miss Young was admins
traitor of the American Hospital,
Chicago. Her previous experience in
clud d administration of several
large hospitals, survey of Hospital
Standards in South America and a
survey Of administrative practices and
standards of all large hospitals in
five eastern states for the Canadian
Government.
Miss Young was graduated from the
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal:
graduated with degree in business
and hospital administration from the
University of Western Ontario. Fur
Their graduate studies included special
work in Guys Hospital, London, Eng
land, and the Royal Infirmeries of
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland.
Miss Young has been twice decorated
by foreign governments for her work
in hospital administrative fields.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
SCALP SELkE," is WAR CRY OF
IRATE HI-LIhE CITlzEMRY

Havre's needs than Chancellor Selke.
One other objection voiced by Hi
Line people is that DR.. Vande b.
CART was not given hearing before
being fired. For man to give Fl
years of his life to school and
community then to be fired is called
an Outrage"
Announcement of few day ago
that Chancellor Selke is seeking a
new president for Northern Montana
College brought loud outlaws from
Hi-Line people. maybe he can get
Mortimer Snerd," one resident said.
"That's what he wants-a puppet
that will move when he pulls the
strings"
Mccain, Renne, Should Resign
One lawyer said yesterday, "Chan-
cellor Selke gives as one reason for
the firing, that three other Univer-
sity presidents threatened to resign
if Vande Bogart was not fired. Well
then, the lawyer continued, "Chan-
cellor Selke should have showed them
to the door-if they won't play ball
with DR.. Vande Bogart, they should
be thrown from the game"
Many more comments on the fir
ing were heard also, but most of
these were unfit to appear in print.
1t is clear however, that these resi-
dents are not just talking, but are
fighting mad and are going to do
probably ask Selke and
crew to resign.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
CASCADE CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP
REPORTS ON ANTI-MUMDT Bill DRIVE

The Cascade County Civil Rights
Committee, which has taken the lead
in campaign to defeat the Mundt
bill in Montana, reports that the
movement is daily gaining moment
UNI. Recently Gov. John w. Bonner
and other leading Montana states
men gave their support to the drive
in signing an open letter to the Presi-
dent and Montana Representative in
Congress urging defeat of this bill
and of any other legislation designed
to curtail our civil liberties. Among
the organizations which have joined
in the campaign are:
The Progressive Party at its state
convention in March passed a resolu-
ton condemning the bill and sent
wires to Representatives
Following that, the Cascade County
Trades and Labor Assembly, the Great
Falls, Building Trades Council, and
Carpenters Union Local 286 endorsed
the Progressive Party resolution.
The Montana State Farmers Union
sent letters to all locals informing
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21

them of the dangers of the bill and
urging that they take action.
The Cascade County Farmers I'm
ion passed resolution and sent wires
to Washington.
The Mine, Mill and Shelter Work
ers, Local Is, Great Falls, and Butte
Miners Union No. passed resolutions
against the bill
The Cascade County Civil Rights
Committee is sending speakers to all
trade unions and mass organizations
in Great Falls acquainting them with
this Infamous bill and asking that
they do their utmost to help bring
about its defeat.
The Retail Clerks Union AFL Lo-
cal 81, Great Falls at their last mem
bership meeting, went on record OPP
opposing the bill and attending mem
bers signed petition to that effect
Individual members attending the
last Electricians local meeting here
sent post cards to their representa-
tives.
The Cascade County Civil Rights
Committee is continuing this cam
paign, and hopes to bring many other
local unions, organizations and in
dividuals into this fight.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
united Sp0RTSMEN TO
MEET I'm LIVINGSTON,
SUNDAY, APRIL 80

Legislation proposed in the grant
ing of authority to deputy game ward
ems to search cars, and the forest
service proposal of a two weeks
slaughter of does and fawn this fall
will undoubtedly come in for some
rough handling at the next meeting
of United Sportsmen's Association,
states Walter Martin, Livingston, as
ISOLATION president. The new sports
mems association will meet in Liv-
ingston, Sunday, April 80, ten o'clock
a. m. in the Elks Lodge. Host club
for the occasion will be the Yellow
stone Sportsmen Association.
Other matters of vital Importance
to be taken up at the meeting will
include recommendation to Governor
Bonner on big game season for this
fall; the trapping of beaver and
other fur bearing animals; the mi
gratory water fowl season; the over
grazing of our public lands by the
livestock interests, and the Yellow
stone Park elk herd.
From the outcome of this meet
ng, reports President Martin, it is
loped that Governor Bonner will
re given true picture of conditions
detrimental to wildlife in Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21

Ole Gunderson, veteran wheat
grower of the Power area, and vet
eran state representative, this week
announced his intention of seeking
the state senate seat presently held
by Charley Bovey.
Gunderson in four sessions, 1941,
43, 45, and 40, hit batting average
of 1907 for the people in the first
three sessions, and, in the 1949 SEES
sion scored $3.50, Bovey, in two terms
in the house, 1943-45, hit 6796 for the
people in each session. In the senate
in 1947 Bovey scored 679o, and, in the
1949 session, 44qo.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
TRANSFERS COUNCIL ASKS
HEARING FOR PRES.
VANDE BOGART

KALISPELL, April 16, The statt
| board of education should reverse it,
decision of last week and grant Doc
for G. H. Vande Bogart hearing,
is the opinion of the Montana Coun-
Gil of Transfers, as voiced by reso-
luton here today.
DR.. Vande Bogart, it will be re-
called, was dismissed from his po-
sition as president of Northern Mon
tana College at Havre by the board
without benefit of hearing although
he had served in an apparently salts
factory manner for twenty-one years
prior to the boards drastic action.
The Transfers also approved reso-
lutions urging Governor Bonner to
appoint representative of organized
labor on the state highway commits
sion; recommended to local unions
that welfare and hospital plan be
put into effect for business agents
and other full time union employees;
and urged vigorous campaign to de-
feat congressman Wesley A. D'Ewart,
a staunch supporter of the Taft
Hartley Act.
Frank Birmingham, Butte was re-
elected council president. Other of
ficers reelected were Norman Sloan,
vice president; Austin
Thompson, Great Falls, secretary
Maurice Holmes, Billings,
recording secretary, n d Walter
Drost, Havre, trustee. Holdover trust
ees are John Mogus, Anaconda, and
H. G. Norwood, Bozeman. Sixty-four
members from IL local unions attend
ed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
By WOODY LAUGHNAN
Editor, Liberty County Times,
Chester


Residents of the Hi-Line are mad
enough to bite nails this week with
the firing of President G. H. Vande
Bogart of Northern Montana College.
A Hi-Line state representative said
yesterday that the firing of Dr. Van
de Bogart was the work of a "politi-
cal bum of a chancellor who runs up
and down the state melting trouble. :"
Hi-Line residents were banding to-
gether also this week into one group
which will fight the firing to the last
inch. At a special meeting in Havre
Friday, delegates from II Northern
Montana communities voted to use
every means possible to ge DR.. Vande
Bogart rehired.
Delegates from the eastern section
of the Hi-Line called for the immedi-
ate firing of Chancellor Selke. One
delegate said, "Chancellor Selke is
behind the ALLEGATION squabble and
realizes that if he can use his in
fluence to fire DR.. Vande Bogart that
he can eventually close the college
here at Havre."
Biggest grippe of Hi-Line residents
seems to be that Selke has only been
in office scant four years while
DR.. Vande Bogart has kept his vigil
in Havre for nearly Fl years. 1t thus
seems to these people that DR.. Vande
Bogart should know more about
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
the Department of Agriculture
Purely Academic Question

Lne department. OF Agriculture
Purely Academic Question
You raise question about my
statement which pointed out that any
business concern has full freedom to
make patronage refunds to it's Gus
toners if it so desires. | cannot agree
that the payment of patronage re-
funds to customers by other business
concerns constitutes any real threat to
the Governments revenue think the
point you make is purely academic
Do you think it likely that business
generally - profit-making organiza-
tions-which make money for their
stockholders out of their customers,
will adopt the same policy as service
Observation-Disclosures co-operatives
of making refunds to those custo-
mers based on patronage?
| feel that if all business concerns
would adopt such a policy it might
require some revisions in the tax
structure. However, many students
Of taxation take the position that the
making of such refunds would not
decrease the total amount of wealth
produced but would, on the other
hand, result in wider distribution of
wealth, increased demand for con-
sumers' goods, more employment and
more production d..
You questioned my consistency in
stating, first, that change in sec
ton 101 respecting farmer co-opera-
tives would result in only a little adj
ditional revenue" and second, that
"any attempt to change the tax stat
us of cooperative associations might
tend to arrest the further growth
of farmers marketing, purchasing,
service and rural electric co-opera-
tives, and detrimentally affect the
financial structure of many farmer
co-operatives.
AS | pointed out in my statement
from which those two statements
we're quoted, the estimates as to the
revenue that would result from re-
peal of section 101 were made by the
Treasury Department.
| also indicated that this change |
would be "forerunner of more dras-
lie changes that might seriously I'M
lermine the entire cooperative struc-
ure and adversely affect the en-
ire agricultural industry"
Well Founded Apprehension
This apprehension appears to me
o be well founded in view of the
ressure being eXerted not only for
he repeal of section 1O1 but for
he imposition of taxes on co-opera-
YES patronage refunds which ,
o other kind of business is called
pom to pay.
In this connection, | would like to /
all your attention again to a point
/ my previous statement: |
'The battle being waged by the q
ational Tax Equality Association L
nd its affiliates is really over the S
lestion of who will market the prod t
cts of farmers and who will fur p
ssh them with supplies and services. a
hey are not concerned with preser- a
alton of the family-type farm, nor 1
it'll real tax equality. They want to a
axe it more difficult for farmers +
market their own products and
ly their own supplies. They and e
cir supporters want to go back f
irty years and establish for them f
Ives through the imposition of un- 7
ir taxes a more lucrative field Il
+ middlemen." r.
a.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
'ELIMINATI0N'- mot EQUALITY IS
aim OF ANTI-CO-0P GROUPS

of
of discriminatory the House Ways and
Means
March 24) Since them Noah Mason, (R-L)
Secretary asking Qualification number of
statement Hghighs from the Cong Mason by
be
the reader in developing better understanding
al taxing of farmer co
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-04-21
rmer co-operatives:

Hon. N. M. Mason
House of Representative
Dear Mr.. Mason:
-. You asked what / meant when
| said at must be recognized that a
change in the tax status of coop
eratives has long been advocated by
those whose real objective is to des-
troy co-operatives through the dis
criminatory taxation of so called
earnings or amounts distributed by
co-operatives as patronage refunds"
There is no question in my mind
but that the organized opposition to
farmers co-operatives hopes to cripple
them substantially and eventually put
them out of business.
Elimination, Not Equality, Is
NTEA Aim
The advocates of a change in the
tax status of co-operatives under the
guise of "tax equality" do not advo-
cate the payment of income taxes by
hundreds of thousands of partnerships
in this country, even though on the
basis logic, they would need to do so
if they were to be consistent They
do not urge the taxation of trade
discounts and rebates, the non-co-op-
erative version of patronage refunds,
in the hands of the selling corporation
They show no concern over the tax
loopholes now under study by the
Committee. 1t is evident, their pur- /
pose is not tax equality, but the elm
ination of cooperative competition
by the elimination of co-operatives
as business concerns.
You question my statement that |
co-operatives constitute an effective |
force for combating monopolies. The |
operation of efficient farmer COOP
erative associations tends to give |
concerns a type of |
competition which is distinctly salu-
tory. For example, upon the estab-
lishment of an agricultural co-opera-
tive association, even the farmers
served by homeopathic concerns
are usually substantially benefited
through more reasonable margins.
History has shown that farmers act
ng alone are ineffective in COM
batting monopolies, but that by act
ng together their effectiveness is
strengthened.
You ask if l would support an
amendment to the Capper-V olstead
Act which would give to the Attorney I
General of the United States the ,
functions under the Act that are now [
'ested in the Secretary of Agricul- t
ure. l am of the opinion that such t
n amendment is undesirable for r
he following reasons: I
In the first place, the Attorney
General now has the authority to C
roceed against cooperative violat- L
ng the antitrust acts, and he has done
o in a number of instances. In the \
econd place, the function of the a
ecretary of Agriculture under the q
apper- Volstead Act relates solely u
} farm commodity prices, function n
hitch believe properly belongs with I
Evening star., 1950-09-29

The 14th annual rose show OF
the Potomac. Rose Society. to be
held tomorrow and Sunday in the
National Museum, Tenth street
and Constitution avenue NV,
promises to set a new record.
For not only Is the show sex
pected to surpass in size and quail
ity any rose show ever held in the
Potomac area" but the society
will be host to the American Rose
Society.
The show will be free to the
public tomorrow from 4 pm. to
10 pm. and again Sunday from
10 am. to 8 pm.
Special classes exist for entrants
who have not exhibited previously
and for those who have not won
first prizes for roses in any show
Officials declared anyone who
grows roses in this region, ire
spective of PRS membership, may
exhibit and there is no fee. There
are mere than ITS prizes.
Three Groups Planned.
Exhibitors will be divided into
these three groups: those growing
up to 35 rose plants; those grow
ing from SO to 100 plants and
those who grow more than 10C
plants. There will be numerous
classes for specimen blooms and
classes for arrangements of the
flowers.
Trophies are on display in
Guides, Blackistone's, Schaeffer's
and the Nosegay Flower Shop.
The foyer of the Museum-the
Constitution avenue entrance
will be open to receive entries from
8 to II am. tomorrow. Judging
will start at 1:30 pm.
1t. Col. R. K. Windham is chair
man of the show committee, while
Charles c. Montgomery. PRS
president. is vice chairman. One
of the exhibits will be a compe-
tition by garden clubs.
Judges Listed.
The judges are:
r. H. Anderson, Lynburg, Va;
Arthur c. Barret. Washington;
Paul Bauer, Washington; Pardon
w. Cornell, University of Md;
Capt. Walter S. Diehl. Washing
tonton; Harry L. Erdman, Her
shey, Pa; Conrad B. Link. Uni
versity Of Md; Frank Prevail,
Washington; Richard L. Ruffner,
Alexandria, Va; James B. Shanks,
University of Md; DR.. Freeman
Weiss, Washington; Wilbur H.
Youngman. The Stars Garden
Editor. The arrangement judges
are Mrs. Herbert Gregor. Washing
ton; Mrs. Frederick w. Lang, Ken
sington. Md. and Mrs. Perley G
Nutting. Washington. The visiting
judges are DR.. Charles v. Covell,
Oakland, Calf: c. E. Pfeister,
Chicago. and Arthur F.. Truck,
Tulsa, Okla.
The American Rose Society,
holding its first Washington con-
vention in 10 years. will have its
headquarters at the Shoreham
Hotel. More than 500 amateur
and professional rose experts from
all over the United States and
some foreign countries are ex-
pected to attend.
Dedication at 5:45 pm. Sunday
Of the Shoreham Hotels rose gar
Evening star., 1950-09-29

den, created through joint efforts
of the PRS, the hotel and COM
mercial nurseries, will be a high
light of the meeting.
A. C. Barrett, 4719 Brandywine
st. NV, is registration chairman.
Two meetings of the convention
are open to the general public
without registration. The first
will be a school for apprentice
judges tomorrow at 8 pm. at the
National Museum auditorium and
the second Is at 8 pm. Monday
when B. Y. Morrison. acting di-
rector of the National Arboretum,
will speak on early Organizations
Evening star., 1950-09-29

of Roses in the Potomac Area" at
the hotel.
Rose culture and related horti-
cultural subjects will engage the
attention of the four-day con-
vention. A meeting at the Agri-
culture Departments Beltsville,
Md. station and a tour of home
gardens in the Potomac area, busi-
Evening star., 1950-09-29
Potomac Society Schedules 2D Show, Starting Tomorrow

ness meetings, luncheons and
dinners will be prominent on the
convention program.
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