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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-08
have been caught since the OPS
freeze order of January &C."

have been caught since the OPS
freeze order of January &C."
The profit figures of the big meat
packers, however do not reflect signs
of any squeeze. The National City
Bank in its April bulletin reported
that net profits after taxes of l 9 meat
packing corporations increased 81
per cent in 1850 as compared with
1949. They Melted $50, $4,000 last
year as compared with $32,419,000
in 1949.
| Armour & Co. is the only large
packer which has as yet reported
first quarter profits for 1851.
Showing no visible effects of any
squeeze, it's profits after expenses
had more than doubled as compar-
ed with last year and it's net prof
its after taxes were up 38 per cent.
(NOTE: Armour profits for 1850
were 35 times greater than for 1949.
-P.V. Editor)
NO SHORTAGE OF MEAT
In endorsing the rollback order
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan
said to the House Agriculture Com
mittee:
at is necessary to keep the great
meat packing industry in operation
and equalize meat prices at retail
levels -
Though the newspapers have contin-
ued to carry dire predictions of "meat
famine" ahead, unless meat packers
are given further concessions, the
US. Department of Agriculture re-
ported in it's DEMAND AND PRICE
on May 2:
Meat production during the rest
of 1851 IS expected to exceed last
year by a greater margin than the
small gain realized in the first
quarter. Considerably more pork.
slightly more beef, but less veal,
lamb and mutton than last year are
in prospect for the months ahead
Meat consumption per person for
the entire year may be 2 to 3
pounds larger than the 145 pounds
in 1850"
81 am under the impression that
he professors and packers of this
ountry are now doing pretty we'll on {
he profits they are presently receiv-
n.y." declared Rep. Cooley 3D., NC). $
peaking on the floor of the House t
May 81 he gave this summary of {
)iSalle's testimony before the Com t
littee on Agriculture:
when l asked him the question
what margin of profit he had left b
for the producers of beef cattle, t
he was utterly at loss and he II
had no answer i. . Then we asked l
him who would receive the benefit S
from the rollback in prices, what /
part would go to the professor and t
what part to the handler, and he is
was unable to give us the break t
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and lambs, and 10 per cent of the
swine killed in the corresponding per-
iod of 1850. The effect is, of course,
to freeze the monopoly position of
Continued on Page Two)
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u. S. Department of Labor Recognizes
US. Department of Labor Recognizes
Farm operators and Assistants
As e|IIIed Workers

The selective drafting of men by few county,
Selecve boards in the state has raised questions
what additional steps be taken deerments
Hardship and by skilled agricultural and industrial
workers after county boards have ordered report
induction
Unbeknowns to many there machinery available for such
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consumers "some $500, 100000 of
the 7,000,00O,O0O spent annually
for beef" AS the program went in
to effect, however, the N. Y. TIMES
MAY 15) stated, "The result was
disappointing to housewives Z. who
had hoped to find price tags gener-
ally lower" 1t reported that lone
large chain issued a statement to
correct this reaction" and, in its
statement, the chain store expressed
surprise chat some housewives had
gained the impression that meat cell
ings in general are being lowered to-
day by OPS edict"
HOW THE ROLLBACK WORKS
Two days later the TIMES was
forced to acknowledge that, instead
of lowering prices or even holding
the line, the meat packers were actu-
ally boosting their wholesale prices.
The headline over its story of May
IT, stated:
Wholesale Meat Prices Jump
Despite 'Rollaack' at Retail; Res
taurants and Consumers are
Squeezed as Packers Get Higher
Ceilings by Selling Only Pre-Cut
Beef"
The TIMES reported that "beef
prices at wholesale jumped II cents
a pound this week" and said that, in
order to take advantage of the high
er ceilings allowed on pre-cut beef,
the meat packers ''were selling beef
only in fabricated cuts at the higher
ceiling prices"
Meat Price Lids Zoom Today"
read the headline of the NY COM
PASS MAY 14) in heralding the
new beef program.
TO FARMERS CUT
Under the slow, four-month long
rollback scheduled by the OPS, the
meat packers have already been ord
cred to cut prices paid to the farmers
for cattle by 10 per cent, and two adj
1itional cuts of 4 y per cent each
will go into effect on August 1 and
October 1. Not until these later
cuts take effect, the OPS says, can
any part of these reductions reach
he consumers. While the OPS ex-
presses hope that "by the fall of Il
-951 the housewife will be paying C.
rom to 10 cents less for beef" it II
las made no definite provision to il
make certain that the August and S
October reductions are passed on to
he consumers. D
For many months a concerted III
effort has been made to turn the
consumers against the farmers by
blaming the farmers for the rising
cost of living. Now that beef
prices are being rolled back at the
farm level but raised at the retail
level, the OPS lamely explains that
the immediate 10 per cent reduc- I
ton" is to take the meat packers
"out of the squeeze in which they
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-08
ops roll BACK" RAISES PRICE OF BEEF TO
METROPOLITAN CONSUMERS

From FACTS FOR FARMERS,
The rolback of of
be veal lamb pork. effec of tn
order date has been roll back
while actually increasing the
AT the of the a rolback V.
of the Office
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skilled men duQ/Or hardship
cases to use in seeking defer
ments, or, if once indicted, to
secure release from the armed
forces.
This machinery has been set up to
make the term "selective service"
have meaning; to determine whether
man is more valuable to the ma
tional security by being in the armed
forces, or by being deferred to pur-
sue his skill. To aid in this, so far
as agricultural workers are concern
ed, state and county mobilization COM
mitees have been designated by the
US Secretary of Labor to assist local
draft boards in an advisory capacity
in determining the desirability of
prospective draftees being deferred to
continue farming operations.
The machinery set up under Select
i've Service proper for drafting or de-
ferring men includes:
J.. The county draft board
2. The county appeal agent. (Most
Montana counties now have such
agents-attorney serving with
out fee-to advise men sched-
uled for induction as to their
rights. grounds for deferments,
etc.
3. The state appeal board.
4. The state selective service di-
rector (Adjutant General S. H.
Mitchell, Armory Building, Hell
ena.)
In addition, there is the above
mobilization committee,
and, in case a man is indicted there
is also available a strictly military
procedure for securing release after
once being indicted into the service. |
(See below
Should the county board refuse to
grant deferment on occupationaI or
hardship grounds, there remains the
light to appeal to the state appeal
BOARD which meets monthly in Hell
ma. The appeal may be made by
he draftee, his parents, employer,
II even the County Mobilization COM
nittee. A single dissenting vote on
his five-man board leaves the way
pen for the taking of an appeal to
'elective Service headquarters in
If no dissenting votes
re recorded by the appeal board,
hen only one state selective service
venue remains open for further con-
Iteration of the case. This avenue y
) the office of State Selective Ser
ice Director. {
The state director can, if he thinks
case warrants it, recall the file
any man scheduled for induction s
rom the local board for further con-
Iteration or for sending the file on
Washington, thus postponing in {
uction until a final decision is G
cached. c
(Note, in addition, a prospective f
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-08
down. But we do know it will not
go 10 the consumer"
PACKERS BENEFIT FROM
ORDER

PACKERS BENEFIT FROM
ORDER
To this Rep. Belcher r., Okla
added the comment:
"The gentleman heard Mr.. Disable
say that the reason for having to roll
these prices back is because the farm
ers would not sell the live animals to
the packers at a price at which they
could make a profit :"
While all of the furore over roll
backs has been going on in public,
the OPS has quietly issued Amend
ment No 4 to Distribution Order No.
l, which fixes quotas on all live
stock for slaughtering plants. To
begin with, the order provided that
the quota for individual slaughterers
is to be 80 per cent of the live cat
tie, 80 per cent of the calves, sheep,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-06-08

draftee can always enlist the aid of
his Congressman to secure further
consideration of his case, in Wash
ington.)
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or livestock farms, performs such
tasks as scientific feeding and Sc
lective breeding, rotating pastures,
operating and maintaining dairying
equipment, sterilizing containers and
equipment, and maintaining sanitary
conditions in barns;
Knows overall farm operations
including when, where, and how
crops should be planted, cultivated,
sprayed and harvested. May deter
mine when and where products will
be marketed. Trains and supervises
casual and seasonal workers during
planting and harvesting.
PROCEDURE FOR SECURING
RELEASE AFTER INDUCTION
Procedure for securing release
from the Army is outlined in the
following letter from Secretary of
Agriculture, chairman of the Ma
tional Agricultural Mobilization Com
mittee, to State Mobilization Chair
man, R. ]. McKenna, Bozeman:
Under Army procedures, enlist
ed personnel may request discharge
through established military channels
by addressing applications to their
Commanding Officers. Army regula-
lions provide, however, that discharge
of enlisted personnel on the basis
of the Importance of their civilian
occupation to the National health,
safety or interest, is granted only
when recommended by an authorized
Government agency. When the re-
quest reaches the Adjutant Gen
eral of the Army he refers it to
the appropriate civilian Department
"To date the Adjutant General has
referred the files on several individu-
ais to this Department for certifica-
ion. These are cases in which the
Individual is applying for discharge
BASED on his farming activities. 1t is
'elt that these cases will have to be
carefully checked and screened be-
ore we can certify the need for re-
ease from service with the Army.
Cor each case we will need data from
'ur county offices which will give
is information to judge the case.
these data will include factual in
related to the following cri-
eria:
81. Is the farm producing sub
stantial quantities of essential
farm products for market.
"2. Is the farming enterprise large
enough to furnish full and
adequate employment for the
individual, except for seasonal
or temporary Interruptions.
go. Does the applicants experience
and background fit him to per-
form the managerial or skilled
farming operations contem-
plated.
a. Have all reasonable efforts
been made to find qualified
replacement for the applicant.
IS. Has or will his absence result
IN significant loss of produc-
ton for market.
"In evaluating the facts with re-
rd to specific farm operation, con-
deratlon will be given to additional
ctors such as performance of Gus
m work for other farms.
THE factual information on the
eceding five points, accompanied
the recommendation of the local
utilization committee shall be sub
Itted through the State Mobiliza-
IN Committee Chairman to this Of
Re for our use in making certifica- ,
IN to the AdJutant General.
mo such programs have been es-
blished by the Air Force and Navy,
discharges of enlisted personnel
ON these services are handled by
I'D commands"
, 1951-01-19

MONTGOMERY, Jan. 10 (AN-
P)-Four white men, all residents
of Autauga county, were arrested
here last week on charges of arm
ed robbery and assault of an elder
ly blind Negro man.
The victim was Arthur Davis of
Birmingham. Arrested were Yves
ley Downs, 20; Warrick Smith,
Fl; Clyde Fry, 20 and Wiley Fry,
"a.
According to arresting officers,
Davis and a companion George
Massey, were picked up by the
quartet on the pretext of aiding
the two men to reach a filling
station to fix a flat tire. Enroute
to the filing station, the two men
were assaulted. Massey managed
to escape and ran for help. Davis,
however, was severity beaten about
however, was severely b e a t e n
about the head with a tire tool
and jack handle, robbed of $35
and left lying on the highway.
The four robbers were taken in
to custody IL hours after the as
sault had been committed. Police
recovered a pocketbook and S33
of the stolen money.
Meanwhile, Davis is in st. Mar
garet's hospital receiving treat
ment for his injuries. He was
, 1951-01-19
ACROSS THE DESK
BY The DESKMAN

football season can be more en-
b%arassing to a southern governor
than a lynch-less year!
In the crucial basketball game
between Dunbar and Roosevelt
high schools tonight The Deskman
leans a little towards Dunbar, not
because he is perjudiced against
Roosevelt but because Dunbar is
named for the famous poet, and
The Deskman must keep this in
mind because National Negro His
tory Week is coming up next
month.
ACCORDING TO the Division
of Foods and Diaries there is a
big traffic in horse meat in Ohio
and its got to stop. None of the
horses we know could be reached
for comment at presstime, Ito
quote an erstwhile editor).
Still on horses (the subject, that
isl we see where a state official
advises closing race tracks to end
gambling. The gamblers we know
could not be reached for comment
at presstime because they we're all
out making bets the horses they
told you to bet on won't win.
, 1951-01-19
ASKS PRAYERS

NEW YORK, Jan. II Pope
Plus XII has asked Catholics to
pray this month especially for an
"~incerase of missionaries in Afri-
ca" according to the national Of
flee of the Society for the Propa-
cation of the Faith here.
, 1951-01-19

This has been a sort of "Inter-
natioal Rejection Week" Red
China rejected a UN proposal for
a scease fire" in Korea and the
United States rejected China's
plan for a "Korean Settlement"
The Deskman is glad today is Fri
day because the UN won't have a
chance this week to reject U. s..
demands to brand the Chinese ag-
gressorS as aggressors.
Ohio's legislators are going to
crack down on relief and jobless
pay chiselers, and if the law MAX
ers have their way, reliefers who
don't need relief, and jobholding
jobless-pay collectors will not only
be fined heavily, but will languish
in durance vile long enogut to
learn that it isn't safe to steal
money from the state-not in
small sums anyway.
ALABAMA'S new governor is
a man of action, even if his first
act as governor does seem silly.
Governor Gordon Persons first Of
ficial act was to call for the scalp
of Auburn Football coach Earl
Brown, whose team didn't win a
game last reason. Why a gameless
, 1951-01-19
JACKSON CONFINED

A former supervisor in the Day
ton office of the Ohio State En-
ployment Service, Riley Jackson
of Springfield is confined to the
Veterans Hospital here, learned
today.
, 1951-01-19
MAKES HOUSING GIFT

ROME, Jan. II Pope Plus
XII has given a second donation of
SO million lire ($80,OOO) to the
Village of st. Francis, a housing
project for the poor situated south
of Rome on the road to Ostia.
, 1951-01-19
Four Face Charges For
Assau|tinq Blind Mm

blinded years ago in the coal
mines near Birmingham. He cur
rently operates a rooming house
and cafe in Birmingham and was
enroute to Montgomery to visit
his sister.
Evening star., 1951-02-25

Two German farmers now use
mouth organs to soothe sows
which refuse to feed their young.
Evening star., 1951-02-25
Rally Tonight 10 Open
Red Cross Fund Drive
In Washington Area

Red Cross flags flying over
Washington signify the formal
launching of the 1851 fund cam
paign tonight in the Washington
area.
General Chairman Everett j.
Boothy. who is asking the area
to contribute $1.3 million this
year. will open the appeal at a
mass meeting in Constitution Hall
at 7:45 am. From $3.50 to $50
pm. the Theater Guild of the Air
production of Father of the
Bride" will be broadcast from the
stage.
The Washington program is in
advance of the formal opening
of the $85 million nationwide
appeal. That will open at a New
York rally on Tuesday night to
which President Truman will ad-
dress a radio appeal from the
White House at 10:55 pm. (EST)
Play to be Televised.
Washington's Constitution Hall
program will be small counter
part of the huge Madison Square
Garden rally. The radio play.
starring Spencer Tracy, with Eliza
beth Taylor and Joan Bennett,
also will be televised.
! Chairman Boothby emphasized
that the goal here this year has
been set at Is per cent above last
years quota of 81 ,039. 900 because
of the expanding program the Red
Gross has embarked upon" The
increase has been necessitated by
the urgent demand of the blood
program, civil defense training by
Red Cross, and the requests for
more volunteers and other services
in the military and Federal hospi-
tails in the area.
"Our armed forces on land. on
sea and in the air have doubled in
size," Mr.. Boothby reminded. "The
Red Cross must double-and triple
to meet its obligations. This Is
the responsibility of all Of us. 1t
is through our gifts that the Red
Cross can continue its service in
this emergency period"
Washington. particularly, has
witnessed great increase In serv-
ice activities since the start OF
the Korean war.
10000 to Solicit Funds.
Tomorrow, about 10000 volun-
teer Red Cross workers will set out
to solicit funds throughout the
Metropolitan area. This includes
Alexandria, Arlington. Fairfax and
Prince William Counties. Va, and
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, Md.
The solicitors will cover business
concerns, residences. Government
offices. and stores during the cam
paign month of March.
The first general report lunch
con will be held Friday. March 2,
in the United States Chamber of
Commerce Hall of Flags at 1890
pm. Former Ambassador Joseph
A. Grew, general campaign chair
man in 1947-48. will be guest
speaker. Subsequent meetings will
be held each Tuesday and Friday
during March.
At tonight's rally, Constitution
Hall will open its doors at 7:15
pm. Wounded service men will
be among the guests. Music will
precede the speaking program and
fill in the gap until the broadcast.
Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, presi-
dent of Radio Corp. of America,
will be one of the speakers. Dur
ing the Theater Guild broadcast
there will be talks by E. Roland
Hartman, president of National
Broadcasting Co., and Irving S.
Olds, chairman Of the United
States Steel Corp, sponsoring the
program.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
This and That

Reading standing up is no good, and
seated reading may be called standard,
but it has its drawbacks.
What may be called supine reading
is the best of all.
There are even glasses made for this,
but most persons will find them expen-
sive and unnecessary.
The idea of these angle glasses is
to permit the reclining reader to hold
his head in comfortable position and
still see the book page.
Normally. the neck gets it,
Many bed readers have tried pillows,
of all shapes and sizes, and punched
according to the laws of physiology
and geometry, maybe even integral cal
culuS
1t makes no difference. The head and
neck are never exactly comfortable.
Just as travelling has its drawbacks, so
reading in bed has much to overcome.
Still. it makes no difference.
The sprawled out position keeps the
rest of the body at peace. and that is
necessary to give the mind full play.
1t is the mind. after all, that plays
the most important part. One does
not read exactly with the toes or the
elbows. The musculature has little to
do with it.
Reading while lying down is espe-
cially good for vacation, some think, and
even in hammock. which humps one
up in q terrible fashion.
Small books are best. and this no
Evening star., 1951-09-05

Some flowers" writes M. z. S. Of
Fort Trotten drive NE, "a bird bath,
trees, and thank the dear God above
us for these gifts"
Sometimes we forget our blessings.
Surely birds and trees are things to
be grateful for, but at times even the
happiest souls tend to forget them.
We are all so obsessed with getting
ahead, that sometimes we overlook what
is nearest and best, and easiest.
We are so used to struggling, so inn,
mersed in daily competition, that We
forget that not all life is straining.
Relaxing. too. has its good points.
What is relaxation for one, of course,
is not for another: every human has his
own ways of taking it easy
Usually lack of physical motion is in
cluded, and this brings us around to
reading.
AS long as there is education, OF a
sort, there will be readers and reading.
1t is amazing to hear the heated dis
cussions about the lack of readers, and
how teleyision will breed up whole
new race of human beings who never
turn over page.
Well. maybe!
AS long as there are letters, and words,
and paragraphs, and articles, and books,
there will be readers. at least that is
the way it seems to many.
The best way to read, Of course. Is
10 lie down.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Ben Bolt and the Free World

The San Francisco Conference is another
illustration of how the Russians always seem
to maintain the psychological advantage in any
representatives give excellent speeches and make
fine statements, but all the real news interest,
all the suspense, all the guessing about what
happens next, revolves around the Kremlin's
spokesmen. Somehow they manage to grab the
spotlight from everybody else A simple mo
comment" from Andrei Gromyko, for example,
or grimace, or an uncharacterstic twinkle in
his eye, is almost enough to win overshadowing
headlines. The whole thing puts one in mind
of Ben Bolt and Sweet Alice whose hair was
so brown-Sweet Alice who wept with delight
when he gave her smile and trembled with fear
at his frown.
Our side (Sweet Alice apparently is just
too non-aggressive to display calmness and
composure in the presence of the Soviet side
riddle inside an enigma. We think of him, too,
as a villain engaged in furtive enterprises and
forever plotting to undo us with nasty surprises.
Small wonder therefore, that he succeeds in
holding the center of the stage and stealing
scenes from the rest of the players at meetings
like the one now going on at the Golden Gate.
The psychology involved is really pretty simple,
and he makes the most of it. Maybe we all
should be less like Sweet Alice. Maybe we should
all stop batting our breath and relax, remember
ing that Ben Bolt even though he can make
fierce faces and utter impressive growls, has q
lot Of ham In him.
Evening star., 1951-09-05

edge existence Of the Continental Con-
greSs. He explained he was conferring
with the Americans. not as a commit
tee of Congress, but as gentlemen of
great ability and influence interested in
stopping the calamities of war"
Here Adams snapped: "Your lordship
may consider me in what light you
please, except that of British subject" ;"
Turning to Franklin, Howe observed:
Mr.. Adams is a decided character" :"
Little did he know, of course, that he
had tangled with a future President
of the United States.
Howe bluntly proposed that America
submit. lay down arms and give up her
independence. If SO, he was empowered
to pardon all who had rebelled, even
Gen. Washington. AS for redressing
Americas grievances, he felt certain
Parliament would agree to the necessary
reforms.
There was an element of grim humor
in HoWe's offer of amnesty to all Amer
leans who should lay down their arms
The sole exception to that offer was
John Adams. who was already pro-
scribed and was to be treated as a
traitor. But Howe was too much of a
gentleman, too anxious for success, to
take advantage of his guest. Adams sat