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The people's voice., 1952-10-17
''WHO SHALL PAY FOR THE ROADS?
. State Senator RICHARD NEUBERGER. In Harners

NEUBERGER, In Harpers Magazine
Roads, we are now $4,000 miles be-
hind in replacing obsolete and haz-
ardous roads, and the breakage is
mounting steadily as trucks pile up
25 per cent of all highway mileage.
Only 13 per cent of the bridges of
the country's major trunk roads, says
a congressional report, are rated to
sustain twenty-ton trucks, though
his weight is legal in every state and
throughout the country as a whole
the average weight limit has been
inched upward to slightly over thir-
ty tons. More than 10000 spans
should be reinforced or rebuilt, but
the cost would be enormous.
The fact of the matter is that the
country's traditional method of fl
nancing highways has broken down,
with respect to both equity and ade-
quacy.
When Oregon adopted the first
Continued on page three
The people's voice., 1952-10-17
SCHOOL LUNCH FOODS
Distributed

School lunch menus for Montana
children will be augmented by the
addition of cheese, canned tomatoes
and peas, and tomato paste, the Pro
duction and Marketing Administra-
ton has announced.
These commodities have been pur-
chased with funds made available un-
der Section 6 of the National School
Lunch Act to augment local food pur-
chases. Allocated to Montana for
distribution to schools participating
in the school lunch program are H.
400 pounds of American processed
cheese; 41,400 pounds of tomato
paste; 87,628 pounds of canned to-
matoes, and 1856 pounds of can
ned peas. The peas were purchased
at Red Lodge while the other prod
ucts come from out-of-state points.
The people's voice., 1952-10-17
McCARRAM'S khIkE-hAILL HEARINGS.
A 'NAUSEATING SPECTACLE

SALT LAKE CITY = Presiden
John Clark and three other Interna
tional officers of the Mine-Mill ant
Smelter orkers have summed up the
performance of Senator Pat McCar.
ran and his Senate subcommittee in
three days of hearings" here as a
"nauseating spectacle.
The union officials, three of whom
had been called to the stand to testi-
fly, called attention to the 'large
number of anti-labor, un-American
identification marks displayed by Nc
Carran and his committee.
The comments were made jointly
by President Clark, Vice Presidents
Orville Larson and Charles Wilson,
and Secretary-Treasurer Maurice
Travis.
at wasn't hard', they said, "for
Senator McCarran to admit in the
presence of 200 people in the hear
ing room that: i don't care about
the Supreme Court'p'
'It wasn't hard for Senator Nc
Carran to refuse to even answer our
demand that rank and file
union members be permitted to tes-
tify, formalized in a petition signed
by over 5000 American workers
which we presented to him
they continued.
eve noted that McCarran and his
huge staff had to dig back into an
cient history in order to find stool
pigeons and renegades willing to tes-
,ify against our union and it's lead
srship. These hearings have furn-
shed ample proof, if proof were
leeded, of the solidarity, unity and
understanding of our unions member
hip. The Committee was unable TO
'roduce a single rank-and-fiIe wit
ess to testify against the union and
IS leadership they pointed out.
Senator McCarran tried, during
he course of the hearings, to claim
hat the concentration camps in
lorence, Arizona; Tulelake, Cali
The people's voice., 1952-10-17
Federation OF LABOR
BOARD SAYS nNOu TO
PROPOSED GAS TAX BOOST

The Montana State Federation
of Labor executive board cannot
go along with the Initiative pro-
posing a one-cent increase in the
gasoline tax paid by John Q. Pub
lie. This was revealed by Presi-
dent James S. TIMBER following an
executive board meeting in Hell
ena Saturday.
At the recent federation con-
vention in Missoula delegates voted
opposition to the increase. Later
this was amended to: opposition
unless other motor fuels received
a similar increase in tax.
The executive board, after hav-
ing considered the recent ruling by
the Attorney General, and follow
ing study of vehicle tax statutes,
came to the conclusion that pres
ent laws do not ensure equitable
taxation on diesel oil and other
motor fuels, in the full meaning
of the convention action.
The people's voice., 1952-10-17
EDITOR OF LABOR" SAYS farm
PLANKS TO Be Big POLITICAL ISSUE
CUP Vice Presidential Candidate Nixon Voted Against Soil
Conservation, Power Projects For Rural EIectrcaon
Reprinted From R. R. LABOR"

Reprinted From R. R. labor"
The farm 'planks" in the plat
forms adopted by the two parties at
their Chicago conventions will be a
big issue in the coming campaign.
Both Republicans and Democrats well
remember that it was the farm vote
which provided the margin for Tru-
mans surprise victory in 1948. More
over, interest in this issue has been
increased by two important develop
ments.
One is the bitter attack by Taft
Republicans and Byrd Democrats on
Charles F. Brannan, able and hard
working Secretary of Agriculture,
particularly their attempts to pic
ture him as the author of something
mysteriously dreadful which they
call the "Brannan Plan"
The other development is an
amazing and unprecedented per-
formance in the past session of
Congress. Both the Senate and
House, by overwhelming votes,
threw "out the window the recon-
nienda ations of the two big farm
organizations, and gave the Farm
ers Union what it asked.
FOR LANDLORD FARMERS"
The "Big Two" are the National
farm Bureau Federation and the Ma
lonal Grange. The latter has been
The people's voice., 1952-10-17

fornia, and five other places are
merely left over detention centers
from World War III. The fact is that
nearly a million dollars has been
spent on these concentration camps
just in the past year to make them
ready to hold hundreds of thousands
of decent Americans, including es-
pecially trade unionists, as soon as
McCarran and his friends five the
signal!
-"The further fact is that these con-
centration camps were built specifi-
cally to carry out the provisions of
the Infamous McCarrana Act of 1850,
and we have documentary evidence
to prove it," the four officers COM
mented.
"'We tried valiantly to get the
Committee to listen to what we had
to say about the policies and pro-
cedures of our great union. Every
time we opened our mouths, McCar-
ran banged the gavel and shut us
off. By actual count Senator Nc
Carran banged the gavel to shut off
our witnesses 723 in three days.
"We repeat the statement which
Cice President Larson had to fight so
hard to get into the record:
The International Union of
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers does
not engage in political strikes, and
I al
claims or implies that this union
its officers have ever tried to or
ganize or call political strike is
merely trying to create headline
sensation
Everyone of us refused to ans
yer certain questions and quoted the
fifth Amendment to the u. S. Con-
titution as the grounds for our re-
usal
Suppose we had answered yes
o these bear-trap questions? We
Jould then have given up the protec-
ion of the 5th Amendment. That
1eans we would have opened the
oor to qustions about every piece of
MON business, the name of every
rlend and association, in short, ev-
rything the bosses would like to
now. And that we refused to do.
The 5th Amendment, as the u.
. Supreme Court once said, is "a
protection to the innocent against
needless, unfounded or tyranni-
cal prosecution That was WHY
we stuck by the 5th Amendment
all the way" they concluded.
The people's voice., 1952-10-17

progressive in some parts of the
country, but the Farm Bureau speaks
for big landlord farmers" and has
long been led by reatcionaries allied
with Big Business and the Glory
wing of the COP.
That was evidenced years ago
when a former president of the Bu-
reau was discovered sitting in on Sc
cret sessions of the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers, old foe of la
Dor unions and progressive farm leg
islation. 1t was proved again recent
~ when the Bureaus present presi-
dent, Allen B. Kline, was exposed as
sitting in regularly in "Power Trust
Lobby" meetings where attacks on
the farmers REA electric "co-ops"
were being plotted.
ASKED SLIDING SCALE"
This year, Kline and Grange
spokesman asked Congress to junk
the law under which prices of the six
basic commodities s'-corn, cotton,
wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco
have been maintained at 90 per cent
of parity with the average price
Of industrial products farmers buy.
Instead the leaders of the two
big farm organizations demanded
sliding scale" under which farm
prices could go as low as rs per
cent of parity.
The people's voice., 1952-10-17
M0NTANA'S HIGHWAY )
PAY FOR Them?
1853 Legislature Has Its Work All Cut OUT Montana, Too,
Needs Ton-Mleage Method For Taxing Big Trucks

Two weeks this publication under title of "a RELUC-
TANT VOTE FOR INITIATIVE 55 emphasized the need for
the legislature making complete overhaul of laws pertaining
to the taxing of heavy commercial trucks
Since then have had attention called to article
in the October issue of HARPERS MAGAZINE Shall
Pay For the Roads by Oregon State Senator Richard Neu
berger.
imposition of the first weight ton-mleage) method
for determining truck taxation through Oregon egsa-
ture Since then several other states including New York and
Idaho Others have enacted similar truck laws.
number of the points he makes in his article applicable
Montana Oregon These most forcifuy
for drastic revampng of Montana laws which presently
heavily in favor of the trucking interests and against
Montana people and the durability of our highways.
Here excerpts from this timely analysis the nations
highway financing problem by Mr. Neuberger:
The people's voice., 1952-10-17

In contrast, the little Farmers I'm
ion, which speaks for small working
farmers" urged that the parity price
"floor' be held at 80 per cent. Con-
gress granted that request.
Kline also demanded a drastic
slash in the money which pays for
th e Committees" democratically
elected by the farmers themselves,
which handle the soil conservation
program. Congress turned him down
Continued on page four
The people's voice., 1952-10-17

Dy OlCSOii AObclOt oSllclbOl isl lOli<AlAl|
AS he drives along the road, the
average motorist develops and almost
pathological hatred of trucks. They
crowd him into guard rails and they
blot out his view of the traffic. ahead.
Against his better judgment, he risks
life and limb to pass them when they
are slowed by hills. He has a lurk-
ing suspicion they have increased
greatly in number. AS they bear
down on him with the bulk of
freight train, he knows they have in
creased in size. But he does not
know the crowning indignity: the fact
considering the weight of his vehicle
he is paying approximately three
times as much for the use of the
roads as the proprietors of the big
gest trucks.
The fees and taxes collected for
the use of Americas highways assess
the owner of four-door Ford sedan
an average of thirty-four cents to
move one ton of his cars weight one
hundred miles over the open road.
The operator of truck k-andtrailer
combination sixty feet long pays only
twelve cents for the same ton-miIe
accommodations. The sedan weighs
a little over a ton, the commercial |
rig around thirty tons. And, to un-
derline the unfairness, it is weight |
that is responsible for most, of the
cost of our roads.
A subcommittee of the United
States Senate Committee on Inter-
state Commerce reported recently:
Experience has shown that an
adequate pavement surface to
carry passenger cars and trucks up
to a licensed capacity of one and
one-half tons may be built for
$4,000 per mile. Pavement sur
faces equally serviceable for heav-
ier trucks with licensed capacities
up to twenty tons cost about
$4,000 per mile"
And it might be added that some
states, under the stress of wartime
defense transportation emergencies, j.,
nave authorized trucks which gross !
lot twenty tons but over thirty-five. /,
In pushing up highway mainten- c
lnce costs trucks are even guiltier.
Before he moved on to the Senate,
James H. Duff of Pennsylvania told
lis fellow governors:
Truckers are causing a ratio
of deterioration on our highways
of sixteen to one in comparison
with private drivers"
A new York State study estimated
hat sufficient funds to improve &c.
90 miles of roads for passenger cars
,ould prepare only 737 miles for
eavy trucks. F
According to the Bureau of Public tt
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-06-01
Members Say "Best Convention YETI
StockgroWers Elect
Milburn President
By LARRY GILL

SOME 600 STOCKHOLDERS
gathered in the mile-high Mining city
of Butte last week for the 68th an
nual convention Of one of Montana's
oldest and largest organizations, the
Montana Stockgrowers Assn.
Convention speakers wed for at
tention with bearers of reports on
the weather. "A good rain in Hardin,
it's pouring in Billings, raining at
Lewistown, a soaker over Bitter Root
way and "a heavy shower on the
Madison" So while the grass got
greener all the time, conventioneer's
bent an ear toward the speakers
platform in the Silver Bow room. BY
weeks end they agreed it was per-
haps the outstanding meeting Of the
decade.
At the concluding session G. r.
(Jack) Milburn, Grass Range, was
elected president, succeeding c. K.
Warren, Deer Lodge. Dan Fulton,
Ismay, was elected first vice presi-
dent; ]. S. Bremen, Grant, second
vice president, and E. A. Phillips,
Helena, reelected secretary. Dale E.
Metlen, Armstead, was elected to the
executive committee and Len Nc
Donald, Geyser; F. J. Browne, Pol
son; Rep. w. A. D'Ewart, Wilsall,
were reelected. William Mackay,
Roscoe, and Gene Etchart, Glasgow,
are holdover members of the board.
1900 Active Members
In his address of welcome Stock
man Lawyer r. D. Corette stated
that both Butte and the Stockgrow-
ers were old and big, and both were
now grown up. H. H. Lord, Philips
burg stockman, in his response
pledged the power and prestige OF
the organization with goals for the
benefit of all rather than those things
best only for the livestock industry
President c. K. Warren, Deer
Lodge. commented on the growth Of
the organization to it's present 4,80C
active members. Secretary E. A
Phillips, Helena, reported on the fl.
nancial stability of the organization
but pointed out that at least 5000
Montana stockmen were eligible fol
membership in addition to the
nearly 5000 present members.
Featured speaker on the first day.
program, May %, was association
member, Honorable w. "A. D'Ewart
Wilsall, eastern district congressman
He told Of the legislation affecting
the proposed foot-and- labora
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-06-01

tory and the need for more perma-
nent leasing procedure for federal
lands SO that needed improvements
might be made by the user. D'Ewart
did not confine his remarks to live
stock matters. In brief, concise man.
ner he discussed appropriations,
taxes and corruption in government.
"You may think" he said, that
I wander far afield when discuss
appropriations, taxes and corruption
in government while talking on live
stock legislation This is not the
case. These huge appropriations
come out of the pockets of people
like ourselves throughout the coun-
try"
Congressman D'Ewart pointed out
that approximately one-third of the
national income goes for the sup
port Of government.
Taxes Take " Of All
''This MEANS he said, chat when
you drive 100 steers down the road
to market, 33 of those belong to the
tax collector. When you raise 100
acres of wheat, the government has
a first mortgage on 80 Of those acres.
If you are a businessman, third
of your effort over the year is de
voted to supporting government. If
you are laborer who works eight
hours a day, two and three-fourths
of those hours are contributed to the
government and are not available
to you for the support of your family
for better living or even to pay nee
essary expenses. Under these cir
cumstances, you will understand that
with these huge taxes and this bur-
den of debt, the waste and extrava-
gance and Encouragement in public
office, reaches right to your farm OF
ranch, your business and your hours
of work. It is time that all of us
resolve to give more thought, more
time, to see that one third Of the eff
fort that goes to government yields
richer, a better, reward in gooc
government.
Other speakers on the first session
were S. C. Hyatt, president of The
American N a tional Cattleman':
Assn, Hyattville, Wyo., and E. S
Booth, secretary Montana Railroad
commission, Helena.
Industry Not Out Of Balance
Mr.. Hyatt discussed variety O
problems confronting the stockmen
and said that the cattle population o.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-06-01

AUGUSTA. ...... Austin j. Christian
BILLINGS ....... Tom Felt, RoIIa Duncan
BOHEMIAN. .......... Mountain Machinery
BUTTE ................s.....L J. Whelan
CIRCLE. ................ Fred Mccartney
CULBERTsoN. 80. sorby Implement Co.
CUT BANK ....... Farmers Trading Co.
DEER LODGE Beck Equipment Co.
FAIRvIEW Collins Mercantile Co.
FORSYTH. ). Tom RaIston, Norman stortz
GLASGOW $1,000. Pioneer Lumber co.
GLENDIVE. East-Mont, steel BIdgs.
GREAT FALLS. ~. Montana Steel BIdgs.
HAMILTON. go Hydro-Point Engineering
HARLEM. ............. z. p. EkeEren, Inc.
HAvRE ................H Haas Implement Co.
HELENA. ......,....... Duncan q Son
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Swedish Textiles

The National Collection of
Fine Arts is showing another
FIRST" in the foyer of the Nat
ural History building. National
Museum. On the heels of the
large exhibition from Finland,
a display Of Swedish textiles
opened last Wednesday. ar
ranged by the Potomac Crafts
mems Guild in cooperation
with the Swedish Embassy here.
It is the first comprehensive
exhibition of its kind to be
presented in the United States,
and will be circulated by the
Travelling Exhibition Service Of
the Smithsonian Institution.
A majority of the exhibits
were sent over from Sweden,
especially for this show. In ad-
dition, several importers Of
Swedish arts and crafts (Bon-
nier's, Hambro House and
Schumacher in New York, and
Elizabeth Hunter in San Fran
cisco) have contributed hand
some examples.
The beSt-known names in
the field of Swedish textile de-
sign are represented in the
collection, which comprises
wall hangings. rugs. furniture
and drapery fabrics, some by
Josef Frank having the colors
Of jewels; linen and cotton fab
RIGS by the Jobs family, in de-
signs Of delicate light coloring,
inspired by the Towering
meadows of the Nordic summer.
Homeeroft League
From the Swedish Homecraft
League has come a collection of
table linens, embroideries. lace
edged mats, aprons and knitted
goods, all representative Of the
provinces where they were made
from old patterns handed down
from generation to generation.
The league and 80 homecraft
societies throughout Sweden,
salvaged these patterns from
oblivion early In this century
an undertaking Of inestimable
value to the revival Of the ma
tion'g homecrafts.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
Eric Sevureid

It must not be supposed from
the foregoing that English cor
respondents have monopolized
the field Of telling Americans
what makes them tick. We still
have around a Yank or two
capable Of judging the local
scene. For instance, Eric Seva-
reid, NBC news commentator. A
collection Of topical essays culled
from the last 3 minutes and so
seconds of his admirable night
ly broadcasts will soon be avail
able in a book called I'm One
Ear"
All the work Mr.. Sevareid,
author Of "Not So Wild a
Dream" had to do for his pres
ent volume was to go through
his files and pluck out the
choicest of his sidelights on the
passing scene. He did so at the
encouragement of his listeners.
II hate to sound like a poll
tician saying SO many of my
friends have urged me to run
that I am reluctantly seeking
office" says Mr.. Sevareid, "but
the fact is that I did get an aw-
full lot of letters asking me If
these commentaries had been
printed anywhere"
1t is just possible that here we
will have Americas answer to
AliStair Cooke. Mr.. Sevareid's
listeners are confident, anyway.
Evening star., 1952-07-06

The Friends Of Textile Art
Association has also contributed
to the revival Of interest In en-
broidery and weaving in Swe-
den. It is represented in the
current show with a collection
Of textiles Of varied uses.
From the province Of Bohus
has come a collection Of hand
knitted sweaters, cardigans and
mittens of silky wool, much in
demand for skiing in Sweden.
The production of these covet-
able knitted goods was first or
ganized to aid the wives of job
less stonecutters on the west
coast of Sweden in earning
money for their needy families.
The above will provide a hint
of the variety and scope Of the
exhibition currently at the Ma
tional Museum.
Supplementing the textile ex-
hibition is one of Swedish Book
bindings, a collection of ap-
proximately 100 books assem-
bled by the Swedish Association
of Master Bookbinders and the
Swedish Institute in Stockholm.
In addition to machine-bound
volumes produced during the
last few years, there are a few
examples Of the hand binding
techniques Of the 1920s and sos
as well as of today.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
What's Coming

Lovers Of the novel, who have
had pretty thin time this sea-
son, can look forward to some
relief in the fall.
Evelyn Waugh has writer
"Men at Arms" the story Of a
romantic soldier in a beloved
regiment. It Is due October IA.
Edna Ferber's Giant" a big
novel about a big State-Texas.
naturally-will be a Book of the
Month Club October selection.
Margaret Kennedy. author of
"The Constant Nymph." and
more recently, Lucy Car
michael" and gone back to the
regency for the setting of ''Troy
Chimneys" which will be along
in November.
Another novel about Texas
stirring up considerable advance
interest is ''Sironia Texas" by a
new conner named Madison
Cooper.
Evening star., 1952-07-06
The Shining Tides
BY Win Brooks.

(WilliGp M0rro1D: $3.50.)
This salt-sprayed melodrama,
set in Cape Cod, concerns eight
people in pursuit Of each other
and a big fish. The cast includes
such tried and true types as a
kindly priest, woman with a
past, a miserable Portuguese
braggart. a stingy banker. a
shrewd Judge, and a nice girl
engaged to the wrong man. The
fish, a fabulous striped bass
named Roccus, (whose private
life is chronicled in "Sea Around
Us" style) eludes them all
for the summer, but turns out
to be the unwilling agent for
most of the violent action Of the
plot. This includes murder, fishy
bootlegging, an unscrambled ro-
nance and hopeless addiction to
surf-casting, which is appar-
emily a very violent kind Of
obSeSSion.
The Shining Tides" the work
Of a Boston newspaperman. is
readable and very likable. The
only element in it that is at all
likely to give summer readers q
start is that the language is now
and then as salty as the atmos-
phere. M. Meg.