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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
WILL UTILITIES CONTROL our DESTINY?

Has one of the greatest American
reform movements failed? Have Util-
ity monopolies corrupted public of
ficals until they now control the reg
ulating bodies which are supposed to
protect the public?
Many persons now living can re-
member the bright hopes aroused
when, against bitter opposition by
utility magnates, regulatory commits
sions were created. People figured
that telephone, gas and electrical con-
sumers would have someone to rep
at fair levels.
Let's look at examples of the fair
ness as exercised by some of our reg
ulatory bodies:
Federal Judge T. Allen Colds
borough disapproved a gas rate boost
which had been granted by the dis
trict of Columbia Public Utilities
commission.
The judge was very blunt. His opin-
ion was a bombshell. Nothing like it
had ever been heard in Washington.
In granting the rate boost Colds
borough said the commission officials
were arbitrary, cynical and illegal"
Moreover he suggested that regula-
tory officials act the way they do
because they hope to get jobs with
utility companies which pay more
than the public.
Goldsborough said utility interests
control the regulators in many
places besides Washington. q wonder
if he could be referring to Montana
Yes, the utilities control practically
every regulatory commission in the
country. This is shocking statement
but it can't be successfully ques-
toned.
That Telephone Rate Case
Let's go back to the hearing by
our Railway and Public Service Com
mission on the telephone company's
,equest for an increase in rates. Our |
commission didn't offer one shred |
# evidence to refute the misstate-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

ments of the Telephone Company.
Our governor and attorney Gen
eral though, were right there on
their toes and gave the commission
some very valuable information that
should set aside this application for
a rate increase.
Havre-Shelby
Less than a year ago the congress
passed legislation for the building of
the Havre- Shelby Transmission Lines,
which would give consumers electric
ity at a much reduced cost. Contracts
were Leland materials assembled.
Now comes word that the appropria-
tons committee headed by Senator
Carl Hayden has rescinded the action
of the congress and are withdrawing
all appropriations for the building
of the Havre Transmission lines by
the Government.
This is about the most viscious
sellout the people of Montana that
we have ever had to contend with
Every interested person in the state
should write or wire their senator
protesting this wilfull sellout of the
people of the state
Yes, Doctor Melby, one time presi-
dent of the State University was right
when he stated that Montana was
but colony, MIXED and dictated
to by Wall Street and our local cor
porations. THE OLD TIMER.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

Completion and operation of
Havre-Shelby line, as a public
power project, is necessary to the
supplying of cheap power to Nor
thern Montana. AS you all know,
cheap power will bring new indus
tries, thousands of jobs, and ex-
banded local markets. This also
means a broadened tax base and it
adds up to our great chance for a
continuing and growing prosperity.
"The Havre-Shelby line is self
project that will finally
restore to the us. Treasury every
dime appropriated for its construc-
ton. The small minority element
that has engineered this reversal of
national policy, at Montana's ex-
pense, is most powerful. Senator
Murray will need every evidence of
public support that can be furnished
him if the people of Montana are to
save this key project.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
BUTTE CLERKS WANT new
OFFICE BUILDING NAMED
FOR SAM w. MITCHELL

Taking notice that thee new CAPT
tol office building is yet unnamed,
the Butte Clerks Union have launch
ed drive to have the Board of Elk
aminers designate it the "Sam w
Mitchell building.
In pointing up why they feel the
Governor and Attorney General
should so honor the Secretary of
State, the Clerks call attention to
Mr.. Mitchell's many years of faith
full service both to the union move
ment and the general public of Mon
tana.
Mr.. Mitchell, before being elected
Secretary of State in 1882, was an
active leader of the Clerks Union.
His affiliation with organized labor
dates back to the year 1901.
In making the request to the state
board, and in appealing to other I'M
ion groups to do similarly, the Clerks
resolved that,
"In recognition of the faithful
work our present Secretary of State,
the Honorable Sam w. Mitchell, and
for his long and continuous work for
The Labor Movement, both as an ac-
i've member and as a State Official,
hat fitting and lasting memorial
De named in his honor. This act can
oe accomplished by the naming of
he new state office building for him,
he Sam W. Mitchell building.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
SPORTSMEN BACKING
HAVRE-SHELBY

The 5000 member Rocky Noun
tain Sportsmen's Association, Butte,
added it's voice to the drive to save
Havre-Shelby lines, by dispatching a
100-word wire to Senator Murray
yesterday, reports association presi-
dent John Stanton. The Sportsmen
emphasized that cheap power pro-
duction and distribution will lure new
industry to Montana. New industry
means new jobs for Montana work
ers increased markets for farmers
and little businessmen, and a broad
end tax base for all divisions of gov
eminent in the state.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

Radio appeals by Montana REA
Coop association, Montana Farmers
Union, Montana MVA and eva as
sociations, Montana State Associa-
ton of Plumbers & Filters, and Cas-
cade Trades & Labor Assembly, eli
NAKED by five-minute appeal We'd
nesday afternoon by Gov. John w.
Bonner over a 10-station hook-up,
are indicative of the widespread sup
port which is fast developing behind
the restoration drive.
Montana people, the state over, are
fast realizing how important public
power generation and transmission
facilities are to the future well-being
of the state, and are beginning to re-
spond in great numbers by commun-
ications to our entire Congressional
delegation. Two paragraphs from
Governor Bonner's radio talk point
eddy sum up the necessity for COM
pletion of this vitality important self
liquidating project:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

against Asiatics. The rejected suit
or sung, "If she be not fair to me,
what care l how fair she be-"
If the Soviet Union, East Germany,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Hungary, Czecho-S lovakia, Romania,
Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, Albania, China,
Korea, Japan, form a United Ma
tions and will not let us join, then
any war which that body wages on
America is just like any war against
my Country.
The Monroe doctrine is America
North and South for the Ameri-
cans"
Asia for the Asiatics''
The Japanese were hated by all
continental Asiatics. But the cry of
asia for the Asiatics" helped them
conquer in a few months three mil
lion square miles and drive the Brit
ish out of Singapore. Singapore was
thought to be the best fortified place
in the Orient.
The present crisis is pregnant with
too much catastrophe for the Tru-
man Cabinet to handle. We need
the best brains in the country. The
Peoples Voice has predicted for two
years that our foreign policy would
bring us war-and bankruptcy.
Our fatuous press whines that
North Koreans are plotting Soviet
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
SUTTON STATES HIS
PLATFORM IN BID FOR
CONGRESSIONAL BERTH

Andrew G. Sutton, Billings attor-
ney and a candidate for the Demo-
cratic second district congressional
nomination, this week advised the
Voice as to his position on number
of issues.
Sutton pledges support for: repeal
of Taft-Hartley Act, expansion of
social security, lowering old age in
surance age to 60, higher old age
and unemployment insurance ben
efits, Montana labor for Montana
construction projects;
Expansion of rural identification,
wheat and storable commodity sub
sides, soil conservation program, pro-
lection of wool grower, sugar beet
subsidy;
Constant market for veterans
housing mortgages; better, cheaper
and more housing for all families;
Free enterprise as opposed to mon
opoly, stopping Communism in Amer
lea, returning government to peoples
elected representatives.
Sutton opposes: potato and per-
ishable farm commodity subsidies,
idlers on government payroll, MASTERS
of taxpayers money.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
Prelude To SLAUGHTER .
titled to have his views accepted
WITHOUT ANY PROOF!


The state game warden did moi
tell the knife-and-fork characters
that the state of Pennsylvania kills
more deer on legal licenses every
year than the entire deer population
of Montana. Neither did he tell
them that the sheep and cattle inter
ests carry a year-around campaign
to kill off wild game animals, so as
to provide more cheap forage for
their herds on the public lands.
Neither did he tell them that the or
ganized livestock people even went
so far as to claim that elk and deer
were transmitting anthrax to domes-
tic livestock, and should be slaughter
ed for that reason!
Every sportsman who goes into the
mountains during the present season
Of the year can find great hillsides
covered with mountain mahogany
"buckbrush" as sometimes called
almost untouched by the deer for
which it is the principal winter for
age. He can see the scarcity of deer
sign in such areas. He knows more
that Lambeth does, but he does not
get space for nothing in the daily
press to tell what he knows, because
he does not have a powerful indus
trial organization with an axe to
grind backing him upl
The intelligent and alert sportsman
will say to Mr.. Lambeth: We do not
accept your statements as fact with
out proof; they are contrary to our
own observation. We do not accept
your opinions at all. Every one of
us is as much an expert as you :.
maybe more!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
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WORK PROGRESSING
RAPIDLY ON HAvRE-
SHELBY PROJECT

Stringing of high tension cable
on the Havre-Shelby transmission
line project will be underway by
August l, reports Harold Ebaugh,
manager of Hill County Electric
Coop, Havre.
A progress report on other parts
of t e construction program
shows:
Poles will be in place for 53
miles of the SO miles total length
of the project by August 1;
x Poles for 10 additional miles of
line will be strung out and ready
for placement by the end of July.
: And, by the same date, So miles
of crossarms, framing, ETC., will
have been erected.
More than SO men are present
ly at work high-balling this first
Havre-Shelby contract through to
completion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
TIMELY REQUEST

Willard Fraser this week wired
the President to Immediately insti-
tute action freezing consumer
prices.
In view of the TO-, 20 and 80
per cent jumps prices on some
staple food items have taken in
the past three weeks, Fraser's re-
quest is most timely-and-one
that should be followed up by all
of us, with similar requests to the
President.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

talk was made, not to sportsmen, but
to a luncheon club" at the Finlen
Hotel The prepared article was run
in both the Butte Post and Stand
ard.
Second, the statement was made
that "there is more big game in Mon
tana than at any time in the past 40
years.. AS in the case of the other
claim about game being in excess of
the proper amount, the game warden
avoided giving his authority for the
alleged facts, or going into any de-
tail which would permit him to be
pinned down and made to "put up
or shut up"
This propaganda is clearly design
ed to accomplish two things:
/. To Iull sportsmen into secur-
ity by the claim that we have so
much big game, they need not be
alarmed at the prospect of pro-
grams for slaughter . such as
that projected for Yellowstone
Park last winter which will be
proposed later in the season;
2. To inculcate in the mind of
the public generally that the game
warden is an expert on the subject
of game management" and en-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

major war against a weak lit
tie country. The administra-
ton has by-passed the Consti-
tuition. 1t knows that Congress
is afraid to assume RESPONSE
bility.
The day it began, Sen. Lucas, SEN
ate majority leader, said, GAS long
as we do not invade North Korea, it
is not a war of aggression" In two
days we bombed the capitol of North
Korea. 1t is now a war of aggres-
sion.
Five weeks ago the South Koreans
held an election. This went against
our puppet President, Syngham Rhee.
John Foster Dulles flew to Korea.
He saw that our crowd could not long
hold legal power. All of North Kor-
ca was against US, more than half
of South Korea is against us. The
South Koreans want US out, so they
deserted in regiments in the first few
days. Perhaps most of the $11O mil
lion in arms which we sent recently
to South Korea was inventoried for
North Koreans and left where they
would get it when they would come
Neither North Korea, nor South
Korea, nor China, has seat in the
United Nations. They sought it. Be
ing rejected, they regard war by
the United Nations on themselves as
any other war by western power
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
By ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPORTS
MEN, BUTTE

The propaganda build-up for the
1850 slaughter of Montana's wildlife
is in full swing. According to the
daily press, R. H. Lambeth, State
Game Warden, made a talk to knife
and-fork club in Butte on July 18th,
which was notable for two statements
of alleged fact:
First, that the state generally is
carrying" as much game as it can
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
Haure-SheBy Fig
Be Won, Senate

Word from Washington this week that the Senate Appro
raton Committee had repeated its performance of Aug
1949 In turning thumbs down. the HavreSheby transmits
sion line the signal for people all walks of life Mon
to join together militant demand that the committees
action be overrdden on the Senate floor.
Farmers workers. little businessmen state officials
acting of Senator James Murray the floor
fight started yesterday funds
many other public power projects.
kilograms by the hundreds have been pouring Wash
ngton protesting the committees action
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14

and in some cases
more than the land
will stand. He gave
no details, named
no places, referred
to no reports, and
in general refrain
ed entirely from so
committing h i m =
self that anyone
could put a finger
on a specific al
legged factand chal-
lenge its proof. If
he did mention any
specific fact, the
newspapers d i d
not report it. The
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
Make Henry Wallace Secretary of State
End the War In Korea
By LOWNDEs MAURY, Butte

the invasion of Korea had been put vote of the Amer
lean people, 80 per cent would have voted against it.
"The Congress shall have power declare war" IT, S.
Const., Article I.
All members of the House must face the voters Novem
ber The majority of them afraid to either
this The President feels the pulse Congress- The chief
Congress- we are in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-14
SKIBBINS NOT CONVERTED

just ip eese,any Of you good folk bewidered by
the zbar netNdfa AfnneD CfEFrW ednesday that this
bins his regular program please don't
get any ideas that Secretary of the Montana Power)
Havre-Shelby a public power project.
While can't definitely prove it, I the "Hon.
jerry continues to be just mbued with the power
philosophy ever.
hope this removes any confusion surrounding this
matter, and am Mr. Skibbins will appreciate this
bit of clarfcation.-HLB
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

clal Rabblnlca1 court examined
the details of the case. AS long,
however, as the civil authorities
failed to provide penalties for the
offenders, the Rabbinate's indie
pendent practice often remained
ineffective 81 in e Jewish marri-
ages need not necessarily take
place before a representative OF
the rabbinate and are valid and
binding even when not accom-
panied by a lie Ems e from that
body.
The recent influx into Israel of
several hundred thousand Jews
from countries of the East, where
child marriages are the rule, has
made the need for effective legiS-
lation in banning such marriages
all the more urgent. Among the
Jews of Yemen, for example,
40, 900 of whom emigrated into Is
rael during the past nine months
girls often marry at the age of
1912.
While the Knesseth is debating
what c tt o n to take to remedy
this lamentable state of affairs,
the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has
announced it's own. impending
PRONUNCIATION of TGkkGnoth (reli-
gious enactments) and a Herein
(ban of excommunication) on all
who would marry, or perform a
marriage, contrary to them. In so
doing the Chief Rabbinate would
merely be adopting the practice
of rabbis of earlier generations.
Already in Talmudic days we find
a ruling that a marriage though
valid may none the less be de-
plorable because it took place at
too early an age and should be
discouraged. (see Kiddushim, Al.
Even Haezer Chapter 81, section
81. Mere validity of a marriage
does not guarantee it's suitable
ness. Hence rabbis, since Gaonic
times have never hesitated to
fra me enactments forbidding
marriages under certain circum-
stances. (See Frieman's classic
work on Marriage and Betro-
thaD.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15
Child Marriages
BY RABBI JACOB GOLDMAN

BY RABBI JACOB GOLDMAN
The Government of Israel is
proposing legislation aimed at
checking abuses connected with
child marriage. Not only among
the Arabs are there cases which
in effect are tantamount to the
sale of girls in a form of child
slavery but similar, if excep-
tional, cases have been known to
occur among oriental Jewish
communities. The Mandatory
Government, mindful perhaps
of the ineffectiveness of such
legislation in India, was at the
best only half hearted in its
attempts to deal with this prob
lem. AS far as the Jews of Pales-
tine had been concerned, how
ever, the marriage age had been
steadily rising due mainly to the
Chief Rabbinate refusing to grant
marriage licenses to girls below
the age of Is save in extra-ordi-
nary circumstances when a spe-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15
LEGAL NOTICE

We will register with Clerk of Circuit
Court Duval County, Florida upon re-
ceipt of proof of publication of this
notice, the fictitious name to-Wit:
THE STEAK HOUSE"
314 North First Street.
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
The parties interested in said bust
ness are
FRANKLIN J. LEFT
DAVID IRONS
S. William Goldstein, Attorney
GA Graham Building
Jacksonville 2, Florida
(Sept. Is, %, 20, Oct. 6, 1950)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

Marriage and Divorce in Israel
are decided by religious law and
in respect of Jews are under the
exclusive jurisdiction of the Rab-
binate. Besides the moral power
of the herein, which could only be
effective among religious Jews,
the rabbinate Gle arly has little
means Of preventing child marri-
ages and even less of remedying
matters once such a marriage has
taken place. Nor can the civil au
thorities annul such a marriage
which is religiously and hence,
since in this sphere religious law
is the law of the land, civily valid.
Government must therefore con-
fine itself to amending the Crimi-
nal Code and increasing the pen
alties for offenders, which would
include rabbis officiating at such
marriages. Government, however,
could find a way of inducing the
parties to such a marriage to dis
solve it by voluntary" divorce,
by reducing the penalty in such
an eventuality. The Chief Rabbi
nate has in f a ct suggested that
judges be invested with discre-
tionary power to recommend
mercy where divorce is agreed to.
The inducement to u h agree
ment, namely the desire to escape
the heavier punishment, would
not be considered coercion which
in Jewish Law invalidates a di-
vorce. At all events even coercion
would be justified where the mar
riage was originally declared by
the Rabbinate to be undesirable
since the divorce fir o m being a
mere prerogative of the parties
becomes a duty which may be
enforced.
In Talmudic days marriages at
a tender age were favored and
even considered praiseWorthy.
The Chief Rabbinate has now set
the minimum marriage age at Is
years and day considering ear
lier marriages today as immature
and detrimental to the health of
both m o h er and offspring. A
string of Poskim could be quoted
who took recognition in their
days of such a "nishtanu haeetim"
Ga change of time) which showed
itself in the deterioration of the
hardness of later generations.
(see especially Magen Abraham,
Chapter 576). Rabbi Yehuda Ha-
hasid in his Ethical Will cautions
his community against continu-
ing the practice of early marri-
ages. although our ancient sages
declare that it is meritorious to
marry early, allowances must be
of present day people. Our gen.
Grafton is a weak one and we can
not be expected to marry at so
early an age os did our hardy
fore-fathers." (See Beer Haytayv,
Even Haezer, Chapter l, Para. 81
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-09-15

Figures President Nef Henrietta
before boarding National
the Holy Land bid farewell W Director the Latin
lean Department Jewish Agency for Palestine eden
Figures few to Israel the guests Israeli Foreign Minister Ohe Sha
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-12
"G0p'S BEST ASSET" BACK ON HILL, READY TO C0UNTERATTACK
President Ends Fifth Year as Chief Executive
 Comments Made

WASHINGTON, April 12 - R - President Truman ends his fiftf year in office today in what hiE friends describe as a confident happy-warrior mood
 The sun-tanned President, fresI from a vacation in Florida, appar- ently is ready to carry to the people a nter-offensive against Repub- lican attacks on his Secretary oi State and other COP assaults. . Picturing the President as in wig orous health, Senator Lucas of Illi- nois, the Democratic leader, gave T reporter this description of Mir. Tru- man.
 He is confident and in happy frame of mind. He thinks conditions throughout the country are good He thinks world problems are not insolvable. He is ready to fight foi his program"
 A Republican reaction to MT. Tru- man was expressed by Senator Brewster of Maine, chairman of his party's Senatorial campaign con- mittee.
 We still consider him the Repub- licans' best asset"