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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-25

Rimbaud grinned and said.
"Stromberg knew I'd beat his
draw"
Sure" Bonn agreed, .and now
you've got the Injun sign on him.
same as he's had it on all of us.
excepting for Sam Maiben. Strom-
berg never scairt Sam much. and
we was depending on Sam to ram
rod our fight agin Roman -Four.
But he had to hightail it.p
He glanced at Eve, who sat near
tine back door, which she had
opened. did you tell him how
they framed Sam?" Bonn asked.
When she shook her head. he
explained, The law is after Sam.
Swede Severide noticed q yearline
steer with a brand that had been
worked over from q Roman -Four
into a Boxed nj, which IS Sam
Maiben's brand. From what Swede
said. it was botchy job and one
you couldn't help from noticing
far as you could see il. Swede told
Sam about it, figgering it was an
other of Strongerg's tricks to
make US Spanish Strip folks look
like a bunch Of thieves. That's
been Stromberg's way, all along
to accuse US of long looping Ro-
man Four calves and nagging a,
Sheriff Robillarde to arrest us on
suspicion. Well, Sam rode out and
shot the steer, intending to bury
! the hide SOS there'd be nc
| trumped-up evidence agin him,
He was skinning it when Hugh
Jubal. Roman Four's ramrod, and
Sheriff Robillarde came riding to.
wards him. There was nothing fol
Sam to do but run"
d IMBAUD grinned. $50 I 60
IN mistaken for a wanted COW
! thief" he said, and wondered why
the name Maiben seemed familiar
Must be one of the men he'c
/ played poker with at the Shiloh
Sam is no thief" Eve objected
very positive about this. Hes an
honest, Woodworking man whit
refuses to knuckle under for Lew
Stromberg."
Its just Lewis way OF pushing
Sam of his place and making j
look legal" Charley Bonn ex
planned. I'D be willing to bet tina
Hugh Jubal worked that brans
over, drove the steer to Maibens
range, and then went after Sheriff
Robillarde. That's the kind o
trick he'd be apt to play. being |
| man that's slicker'n COW slobber,
when it comes to dirty work"
! Has Maiben left the country?'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-25

Charles Schnitter, Michigan
State fencing coach, wen the ma
tional Turner Society's foil and
sabre championships in 1895.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-25

tras. and central casting would
enlist collegiates for . days work
In the studios. One day We had Q
dream cali.
We worked on MiIler's last pic
ture. Orchestra Wives" The Job
required dancing with beautiful
girl extras 10 the music Of the
Miller band. II seemed q shame
10 take the studies money. but We
did.
That era disappeared when MI.
Ter was lost On . London 10 Paris
flight during the war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-25
SENATE PUBLICATION

WASHINGTON ~ - A limited
edition that is certain to find de-
voted readers throughout the coun.
try win roll from the presses in
a few days.
II is a list of 10s.000 TO 10000
federal jobs not under civil serv.
ice status-therefore eligible for
distribution by Republicans.
The publisher is the U. 5. Sen.
ate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-25

The biggest edge ever achieved
over . Michigan State basket
ball team coached By Pete NeweIi
was the ~ points By which
Illinois won, s4-ez. Last season.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-25

During World War I. ne poptifs.
tim q Alaska decreased sharply
and TIE growth II population VS.
rot resumed until about 1924.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24

the other, into war; by sinking our
ships on peaceful voyages.
In spite of so years of Imperialism,
even though our armed forces are in
40 countries (where they are often
hated), the people of America want
peace.
We are traders, just as the British
are. The British are trading with Rus
STA, Poland China and others. Yester-
days news said France was selling $39
million of goods to Russia. We have
253 million pounds of butter in Ma
tional Refrigeration. Millions of us
drink tea. Chinese love butter. Why
not get our tea direct from China in
stead of paying Amsterdam and Lon
don profit for getting it for us?
We are making more tractors than
we use. China would swap tea for Il
million of them.
Will the Democratic party learn and
abjure it's errors before the coming
Republican depression brings the
threat of Communism?
L hope the leading Democrats will
do so, but they probably will not. If
they do, McCarthyism has such a hold
on the ignorant voters, they will be
afraid to speak out.
1t is all a mess.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24

all-time record of 1,707, 900 BUSH
els? other agricultural products are
in similarly large supply. Administra-
ton leaders object to supplying gov
eminent storage for the surplus. They
want it to be stored on the farms by
private industry.
When one examines these points of
similarity to those of the past two
decades, one wonders what our Repub-
lican statesmen CD will do about it.
Will they take a leaf from the New
Deal book and start paying the farm
er for Not Raising Hogs" blowing
under every third row of corn and
paying him for not raising corn to
feed to the hogs he was paid for mot
raising"
Remember how the Demos gave us
the so-called alphabet soup? The NRA,
FERA, PWA, WPA, and BVD?
Remember how they built bridges
over places where there were no
rivers? How they would build a bridge
and then dig a channel for the water
to run under it? How they dug holes
one day, filled them up the next and
dug them in a different place on the
third day? How they spent days gravel
ing roads on which there was no travel
and building roads to places where
no one wanted to go if he could pos
sibly avoid it?
And how-irony of ironies-they at
last resorted to the desperate meas
ure of building privvies for people
on relief rolls--such is the logic and
consistency of the capitalist mind. One
wonders if it will be again.
However, with all their faults this
much l will say for the New Dealers"
what they built, no matter how fool
ish, unnecessary or useless was built
substantially-it lasted. Today you can
travel over the deserted dry land ter
ritory of eastern Montana and still
see hundreds of those government
privvies doting the landscape where
farms used to be. The houses and
other buildings may be gone but the
privvies still remain. A monument to
the New Deal administration and a
mute but eloquent testimonial to the
inconsistency of the capitalist mind
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
Protest Proposed Bump In
Great Falls Bus Rates

Mr.. John Henry Chairman,
Mr.. Leonard Young,
Mr.. A. B. Middleton, and
Montana Railroad, and Public Service
Commission,
State Capitol,
Helena, Montana
Dear Sirs:
We, the directors of The Montana
Old Age Pension Association, Inc, do
earnestly protest against the increase
in bus fares in the City of Great Falls,
which is requested by the Western
Transit Corporation of San Diego, Cali
fornia, the Corporation which operates
the Great Falls City Bus Lines.
We ask you to bear in mind that
Montana'S old people who are in need
of assistance, are dependent upon buses
for transportation. We want you to
know that the health and happiness of
our old people will suffer if their
ability to travel is restricted and cur
tailed by the proposed increase in bus
fares We insist that these old people
ought not to be sacrificed, merely to
increase the profits of a corporation
beyond reasonable limits.
We hope that the citizens of Great
Falls will be given justice by the de-
cision you render.
and we are submitting it for publica-
ton, in order that all good citizens
who concur in it's appeal may unite
with us in looking to you for justice.
Respectfully submitted, July 16, 1858,
THE MONTANA OLD AGE PENSION
ASSOCIATION
Signed:
DANIEL S. McCORKLE,
President
JOHN MUIR,
Vice President
ESTHER CURTIS,
Secretary, Great Falls
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
NY Two-Bits Worth
BY LEVERNE HAMILTON,
Thompson Falls

History especially under a capital
list economy, has a distasteful habit of
repeating itself. Not always of course
in the identical pattern but with suf-
ficient points of similarity to enable
the close observer to note the trend and
to some extent anticipate future occur
enceS.
Remember the days of the Grand
Old Republican" (Harding) adminis1
tration? The most notable accomplish
ment of that administration was the
Teapot Dome oil steal (of the govern
ment naval oil reserves.)
See any similarity to the present
Grand Old Partys" deal in the Off
shore oil matter?
Remember what an effort silent
Cal" (Coolidge) made to donate the
Muscle Shoals Tennessee Valley de-
velopment) to Henry Ford or to the
Power Companies?
See any similarity to the present adj
ministration's Hells Canyon dam site
and proposals to dispose of govern
ment dams to private industry?
Remember how with the election of
1928 Herbert Hoover (the great En-
gineer) fell heir to an unemployment
problem which derailed the "Engi-
neers" entire train. How Herbie in
desperation called the major Industrial
lists to Washington and pleaded with
them not to lay off any more en-
ployees? And how the industrialists
fairly made their shirt tails snap get
ting back home and laying men off?
Do you discern a faint similarity in
the fact that Alaskas governor re-
Gently warned workers to stay away
from Alaska because Alaska already
had an unemployment problem?
Remember how in the late twenties
Liberty bonds sold al So cents on the
dollar? And how the farmers credit
was kicked into the creek? Note any
similarity in the fact that the treasury
has boosted the interest. rate making it
cost the debtor more for a loan?
1 have often wondered why they call
ed the Republicans the hard money
party" 1 see now. It's because they
make it hard for the working stiff to
get.
Remember how in the late twenties
and early thirties the farmer was
getting 2hc for his hogs while his
costs for equipment were still going
up?a Note any similarity in the fact
that in the past two years farm prices
have skidded downward by 1870 while
farm costs have increased by $3.50?
U. S. News reported in February
that The farmer on an average will
get a smaller proportion of the ma
tional income than in any year since
the depression bottom of 1892" APP
parently the prediction is correct
Remember how in 1888 Roosevelt fell
heir to Herbie's unemployment prob
lem along with another problem which
our capitalist minded economists term
ed "over- productions" See any similar
ity in the fact that today with carry
over the wheat crop will reach the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
Can the Democratic Party
Come Back?
BY LOWNDES MAURY, Butte


When the three Democratic Sena-
tors resigned from McCarthy's witch
hunting, book burning, Clergy sland-
ering, rabble-rOusing, smelly war mon
gering committee 10 days ago, it was
good sign of returning sanity of
the Democratic party.
Our junior Senator Mr.. Mansfield,
after years of folly in voting IS Bill
lion to Chang kai-Shek, comes out
now for closing the spigots of the
Treasury that have poured out $38
billion for foreign military aid But he
wishes this done two or three years
from now, instead of 2 or 8 days from
now. However, the gesture indicates a
lucid interval q voted for Mike.)
The starting of the war in Korea
was the prime cause of the defeat of
Stevenson last November The opposi-
ton used clever tactics in suggesting
that Gen. Eisenhower, if elected, would
close this terrible chapter in American
history. Many voters were deluded.
They were willing for him to- give
away billions of barrels of nationally
owned oil if he would only stop this
war. More sensible voters knew he, a
Military man, would not stop the war,
but would give away the oil.
Stevenson is clever, but his mind is
not profound When visiting Asia he
made a press statement favoring not
only war in Korea, but pralSlnS the
French war in Indo-China. Just as
Henry Wallace consigned himself to
oblivion by early announcing his ac-
cord with Truman about the Korean
war (when he could have kept silent
and become the biggest man in Ameri
ca), Stevenson belittled himself in the
eyes of the World and sane Americans
by his war statements in Asia.
The best chance for the Democratic
party to return to power is to admit
the error of Truman in starting the
Asiatc war, to recast it's foreign
policy. vote to admit China to the
United Nations. The Soviet Union
would disarm if we would disarm.
They offered to in the old League of
Nations. They have been offering to
do it ever since. They have armed
against our Atom bombs. They doubt
less have as many of these as we have.
Only yesterday high U. S. Military
expert said they could reach 60 per
cent of their targets, if they tried to
bomb American cities. Our only safety
lies in world disarmament.
The Republican party with McKin-
ley started us on the road to Imperial
ism. The Democrats, Woodrow Wilson,
trying to get us to enter the League
of Nations, Franklin Roosevelt, pray
ing for the United Nations tried to
keep our nation peaceful-even though
Kaiserism forced one, Naziism forced
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
I Consumer subcommittee
Requested by Gillette

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Senator Guy M. Gillette (D-Iowa)
continued his long campaign to get
consumers recognized in Congress by
introducing seven resolutions last
week to create seven special consumer
subcommittee in the Senate. Gill
lette and 26 other senators proposed
to create a consumer interests COM
mittee, but their bill was recently
shelved by the Senate banking COM
mittee.
The new move, he said, doesn't
abandon the fight for such a commit
tee. Rather, it "calls the bluff" of
opponents who blocked the proposal
by saying subcommittee should
handle consumer problems, he said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
MONTANA FARMERS UNION
MEMBERSHIP AT new
HIGH In 1853

Membership in the Montana Farm
ers Union for 1868, as of last week
stood at 14,793 dues-paying families,
reports Ralph Cook, Great Falls,
state retary-treasurer. The pre-
vious high membership total came in
1949 with slightly over ten thousand
dues-paying families. Farmers I'm
ions continuing and almost single
handed fight for adequate price sup
ports and other farm programs de-
signed to keep family farming pay
ing proposition is credited as major
reason for increased farmer interest
in the organization.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
BY ALBERT H. JENKINS in Labor

By ALBERT H. JENKINS in Labor
In addition to putting through new
"give-aways" of the peoples proper
ty, the present Administration is at
tempting to block legislation which
would stop old give-aways. Here's an
example,:
Several months ago, Senator An
derson (D-N. NJ and Congressman
Hope (R-Kans.) introduced largely
similar bills 'to protect the surface
values of lands within the national
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
Short-Shots .
BY w. j. PRIEST. Livingston

BY w. j. PRIEST, Livingston
Those who voted for a change from
| the good old days and are wondering
why the wife cannot make the pay
check cover the bills, here is the an
swer. These prices appeared in Daily
papers of May 30, 1910, just 13 years
ago:
Skinned hams zoe h., lean bacon 1Sc
h., pork roast 13c h., stock salt $13.95
ton, lard lb. pkg 53c, Edwards coffee
19c h., Airway coffee l lib. lac. lb.
S9c, Shefford's cheese lb. 49c, lem
ons 45c doZ., Coca Cola Sc
Rep Price 3D., Mo- has blocked pass
age of a bill introduced by Rep.
| D'Ewart of Montana. Price stated
"D'Ewart's Bill would merely define
rights to claimant and the Govern
ment prior to patent of mining claims
1t would not restrict the patentee's
present right to full title both on the
surface and below ground" (Is D'Ewart
contemplating filing for some state Of
flee and needs added support) Price
further stated present mining law
allowed a mining claimant to obtain
fee simple to, standing timber worth
$4,000 to 100000 by investing only
$1,000 in assessment and survey work
and then paying $50 for a 20-acre
tract" Of you can't grab the forests
it a piece at at time).
July 18th Congress passed and sent
to the White House a bill making it
now impossible for anyone to buy his
way out of the Army. This repeats an
1890 act permitting enlisted men to
purchase discharge (This act did not
permit draftees to buy out, only en4
listed mem.
State law permits working of prison
ers on the streets of a city and sur
rounding area within two miles of the
city hall. American Federation of
Labor has always opposed the competi-
ton of prison made goods with I'm
ion Label merchandise and also the
use of prison labor competing with
the labor of those who work for the
cities and counties The new Mayor
and Aldermen in Livingston have gone
all out in using prisoners with one eX-
ception, Alderman Klipstein, member
of Railroad Brotherhoods Machinists.
All unions should take heed of the
necessity of nominating and support
ing Union members for every public
office.
Have you dropped a postcard con-
veying your beefs, on giving away for
est lands under the guise of mineral
claims; or changes you want in Old
Age Pensions Health benefits, etc.
to Senator Murray, Senator Mike Mans
field or Rep. Lee Metcalf? They do
appreciate getting your comments and
they need your backing. Your letter or
card carries a punch. Keep swinging.
AFT. NEWS REPORTER shows five
Machinists were elected as Mayors of
their respective cities. These are Woon-
socket r. l.; North Las Vegas, New;
North Platte, Neb. Clearwater, Kans.,
and Warwick, N. Y.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24
D'EWART INTRODUCES ANOTHER
"GIVE-AWAY" PROPOSAL

forests" The purpose of these bills
is to stop greedy game which has
become so scandalous that it was
blasted by an article in the conserva-
tive Golfers magazine.
In brief, the article told how un-
scrupulous individuals apply for
mining claims" in Uncle Sans
forest lands, do no mining, but
strip off and sell the valuable tim
Der and otherwise plumber the peo-
pies property by all sorts of
"abuses" of the mining law.
AS LABOR reported, Senator An
derson introduced his bill to stop
those abuses. So did Congressman
Hope. Then something significant
happened.
D'EWART'S FAKE BILL
Along came Cong. D'Ewhrt
(R-Mont.) and introduced a bill
bearing the virtuous-sounding title:
"to define the Surface rights vest
ed in the locator of a mining
claim"
Incidentally-and this is import
ant to note-D'Ewart is the congress
man who introduced and is pushing
the "Stockmen's BILL" which would
turn over Uncle Sans national for
ests to a few big cattle barons and
make these public lands practically
hi 10
D'Ewart's Surface rights" bill is
strictly "phony." 1t does very lit
tie but put the old mining claim
law in a new language, and it
would do nothing to stop the theft
of the peoples timber or the 9TH
err abuses.
Why did D'Ewart propose such a
bill? Observers familiar with the sit
uation say he did so to head off the
Anderson and Hope bills, and thus
perpetuate the old mining claim
"give-away."
1t is also significant that, of the
three bills, D'Ewart's is the only one
which has received any action in Con-
gress. Secretary of the Interior Doug
las Mckay testified for this fake bill.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben
son, who has jurisdiction over the
Forest Service and is supposed to pro-
tect the national forests, has made
no move to expose or stop the
D'Ewart trick.
The House Interior Committee APP
proved the D'Ewart bill. This week,
however, the House Rules Committee
decided to delay bringing that meas
ure before the House until the House
A Agriculture Committee acts on the
Hope bill.
Enactment of any of the three
bills seems unlikely in this ses-
sion of Congress, but delay is
better than passage of the D'Ewart
bill. 1t would simply give a new
legal blessing to the old give
away" Apparently that's what Nc
Kay and other Administration Of
ficials want.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24

Mr.. ParkinsOn's statements re For
atty After three years continuous
use grazing permits are renewed auto
matically unless there has been gross
misuse and abuse of the peoples for
est lands. Under present USES leaS-
ing rules permit holders already have
what amounts to vested rights. The
D'Ewart bill would cause the FS to
lose all control over permits and would
open the way for some few stockmen
to buy up permits and set up baron
les not dissimilar to those of half CEN
fury ago. New men in the game, vet
Grams, etc, would have no chance of
securing grazing land, and thus would
be frozen out of the field.
- Mr.. Parkinson is critical of the
term land grab" being applied to the
E'Ewart bill. Anyone who has read
and studied it can come to no other
conclusion. 1t is the giving of legal
backing to the long time axiom of the
big stockmen that the public lands
were created for the exclusive bene-
fit of their industry. VOICE readers
have had an opportunity to read many
articles on this land grab" proposal,
including detailed discussions of vari-
Gus sections of the measure. Few of
them are under any illusions of the
real and very selfish intent of it, and
why it is grossly inimical to the pub
lie intereSt.-EDITOR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-07-24

I Or the co-ops might be called Tn
come Tax Grabbers," Labor might be
| called Wage Grabbers," etc. However
name calling is meaningless and proves
nothing, although many people seem
to think that it does. 1t is simply the
resort of people who are not informed
on the subject they are discussing,
don't know what they are talking
about, and turn to name calling to
hide their ignorance. They apparent
ly seem to think that offensiveness and
discourtesy are a substitute for facts,
reasoning and logic.**
1t may be a revelation to a great
many people that the proposed Fed
eral Grazing Land Act H. r. 4023, is
not a gimme" something for moth
ing bill at all. All that the stockmen
are asking is that their business be
stabilized by allowing them a perma-
nent instead of a temporary privilege
of continuing in the future as they
have in the past to pay the Government
the full market price for every mouth
full of grass THEIR LIVESTOCK CON-
SUME, thus contributing many millions
of dollars to the Government Treasury
instead of taking money out This is so
revolutionary that only the independ-
ent square shooting, stand on his own
feet Stockman can understand it,
In recent weeks nearly every publica-
tion in the country has broken out in
a rash of Land Grab" name calling
and opposition to this bill, without hav-
ing the slightest conception of what
they are talking about. 1t would seem
to be about time that some of our
western publications that should be ia
miliar with the stockmens problems,
would take up the cudgel in their de-
Tense. AS honest, honora BILE, under
standing western citizens, they are
anything but crooks and corporation
and are entitled to
square cut and a fair deal. - E. J.
PARKINSON, Great Falls.