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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

it. 1t was rather that of enabling the
citizens to better pay their share of
government expenses.
AS for the present, probably no
place is the climate so unfavorable as
in America for government enter
prise. Industry in general and the pow
er trusts in particular, have succeeded
pretty we'll in making government en-
terprise, for whatever purpose, seem
too dangerous to tolerate. Just now
they seem determined to make it we'll
nigh impossible for the people to even
control the development and use of
their most precious physical heritage
the natural resources.
The end result is that we are SEEM
ingly destined to rely almost exclusive
ly on direct taxes by the people for
all government revenue. Seemingly,
we are going in the direction of not
using the government even for max
ing the Individual better enabled to
pay his taxes.
What we are facing then, as of
now, is a huge tax structure. AS con-
sequence, it is imperative that more
and more thought be given to taxa
ton.
The people have the right, of course,
to delegate a few trusts to process,
distribute and control the availability
of the necessities of life They thus
also have the legal right, in this way,
to deprive themselves of the best
chances of raising revenue. But when
it comes to the matter of divesting
themselves of the title to the natural
resources which it took nature mil
lions of years to produce that is some
thing else. In my opinion, one can not
pass title to what he alone does not
own. These natural resources, it is
believed, were meant for all and NOR
ally belong to all not only of this gen
GRAFTON, but also to the children of
generations yet unborn.
We Americans have some far-reach-
ing decisions to make.
We are blessed with an abundance
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

Besides that, labor organization
in spite of Taft-Hartley, and two
years of Republicanism, is not what
it was 80 years ago. Laboring men
l believe, will not stay unorganizec
and unprotected.
Would the Company gain from let
ting Mine-Mill fall apart when CLIO
with money and power hovers closely
to pick up the pieces? And AFL-
perhaps in cooperation with John l..
Lewis would waste no time in at
tempting to organize the one-time
Federation of Miners?
Or is there a political implication?
The price of lead and zinc have been
depressed. Is the Company trying to
impress Washington, D. c.? Could
this strike hurt the Republicans in
the election?
One old timer from Butte thinks
the Company might be pressuring for
higher lead and zinc prices. He says
that all the Company is interested in
is making money, that if they make
enough money they don't care how
high wages are. Reports show that
the prices of lead and zinc are inn
proving with every passing day. Will |
4 sufficient increase end the strike? |
If the Company doesn't care
whether this strike is settled soon,
Why?
Suffering in Butte because of the
trike is already extensive. The min
rs and their families are suffering,
usiness is in agony.
If it is no secret any place else
nat the Miners are willing and anx-
Jus to negotiate a settlement, it is
o secret to the Anaconda Company.
The mining industry elsewhere has !
,ttled with their workers-every- {
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

ment of England did attempt a rather
ambitious program of rapid socializa-
ton. The results are still debated, but
whatever benefits or failures can be
charged, the present government did
not undertake to undo all the work
Of the Laborites. Those steps taken
to make the individual more able to
pay taxes were undisturbed largely.
Here in America government enter
prises have been confined largely to
states, cities and other municipalities.
Several states have had monopolies
on liquor and have thus been able to
raise considerable revenue. Several
cities throughout the nation own and
operate their light plants and water
systems.
During the thirties and forties, after
the, near collapse of our economy, due,
q at least partially, to an overemphasis
on capital investment inducements and
corresponding neglect in providing
purchasing power for the people,
there was a definite trend towards
government enterprises.
Here again, the object was not so
much the idea of getting government
into business as such. 1t was more a
question of improving the lot of the
millions then unemployed. Govern
ment works were initiated to provide
jobs and purchasing power.
1t was during this period of de-
preston that SO much work was done
on the large Tennessee Valley Author
ity. The idea behind the Valley De-
velopment was to build dams, restore
the eroded valley, generate power for
the people, provide fertilizer and in
general put the people on their feet.
Other projects undertaken to better
the economic and social position of
people were the REA, to bring electric
power to rural areas, to bring them
telephones and to provide means for
restoring overworked land.
Again, here in America, govern
ment enterprise was aimed not so
much on having the government earn
its revenue directly by means of prof
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

Whenever you see anyone from
Butte these days the first question
asked is, How are things going in
the Striker" The interesting thing is
not the question, because after all,
there is strike going on, but the
answer. No matter who you talk to
the sum and substance of the answer
is the same-"What is the Company's
gamer"
Well in advance of the strike every
one talked about how the Company
was going about in a mehodical man
ner getting ready for it = coldly
methodical = setting up fences-put-
ting in pullman cars and refrigerator
cars, etc, the latter two, | was told
to maintain personnel if necessary.
We even heard they had set up big
television set for entertainment for
behind the fence" personnel. From
the first it was nerve wracking, l
guess.
The same stole attitude continues
to prevail. The Company has not so
much as flickered an eyelash, they
have made no offers on which the
Union can move for a settlement, in
spite of rumors that the Union would
settle on a reasonable basis.
Why?
Some say to break the Union .
that in 1920 the Company broke the
Union and it was a dozen years or
more before it was revitalized But s
what would the Company gain by {
breaking Mine-Mill? 1t has been said |
that Big Business finds it to their
advantage to deal with Unions that t
are on the firing line of the left-wing i
front-that accompany n
in times of stress is al
ways ready made. s
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
Second of a Series)

Modern governments have used
many devices for getting the revenue
required to carry on the functions dele
gated to them. In Europe, several
states are engaged in various kinds
OF enterprises. They own public utili-
ties, telephone, telegraph, railroads,
generate and distribute electric pow
er, own forest lands and maintain
monopolies on such items as liquor
and tobacco.
A few Of these enterprises were
entered into for the specific purpose
of providing the government with the
power to earn profits with which to
defray expenses. A monopoly on liquor
and tobacco does just that.
An illustration of the productivity
OF liquor monopoly is close at hand.
Tax Systems of the World reports that
Montana's earnings in the liquor BUSH
ness for 1851 was we'll over the three
million dollar mark
Generally, however, Europeans have
not put their governments into bust
ness merely or solely for the purpose
Of earning revenue directly through
profits. Government enterprises like
the generating and distributing of
electricity, the ownership of forests,
and public utilities, have, of course,
provided the government with major
sources of revenue.
Initially however, the thinking
seems to have been more on what gov
eminent enterprises could do for reve-
nue. in an indirect way. The demand
was for protection against monopo-
listic practices and for retaining the
peoples title to natural resources.
Thus the Individual it was argued,
would be in better position to pay
his own just share of government ex-
penses. Cd
More recently, the Labor Govern
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
BUTTE MERCHANTS BACK STRIKERS WITH
FOOD, Cash, OTHER help

ACM does finally decide to bargain
in good faith with it's more than
5000 striking miners and smelter-
men in Butte, Anaconda and Great
Falls.
Cash contributions and other dona-
tions will reach the strikers and their
families if sent to Butte Miners
Union, Miners Union Hall, Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

where but Butte, Anaconda anC
Great Falls.
Why?
Someone else says there are strong
pressures on the Company to settle
l. because the markets for Anaconda
products are being captured by com
petitors, 2. from local business people
who find selling at a stand still. Well,
No. could only be pressure on Ana
conda by Anaconda and that looks
like nose biting for face spiting, and
No. hasn't impressed the Company
to date.
In the next legislature the Com
pany can talk poor mouth because
of the "costly strike" Above and be-
yond normal strike costs to the Com
pany they are faced with decision
recently out of the Unemployment
Compensation Commission that costs
S35, 900 week.
Welfare funds in the affected
counties are gone, according to re-
ports.
The pressures that are building up
1T this point are turning against the
Company and still they make no move
hat will make it possible to end the
trike.
Why?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
INDIANA STATEWIDE
COOP SALES UP 1920

INDIANAPOLIS - (CNS) - In
diana's central supply coop feels no
recession" In the year ending Au-
gust 81, Indiana Farm Bureau CO.
operative Associations sales ran 1870
ahead of the previous II months.
August sales were 1870 ahead of last
year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
P.S.-Women's Feet Larger

PORTLAND, Ore.-Women's feet
now average full size larger than %
years ago, according to report to
the Ohio Chiropodists Association.
Nine out of ten adults have some sort
of foot trouble, according to another
report to the Association, but only
5 per cent do anything abut it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
Providing Government Money

of natural resources, the value of
which we can hardly grasp. These re-
sources were entrusted to us for prop
er use. We can retain possession of
them or we can try transferring their
title to an impersonal trust. If we re
tain possession of these invaluables
we also retain the power to regulate
to process, to conduct enterprises. In
this way, we retain the best, the most
logical way of providing revenue for
the government, directly through en-
terprise or indirectly by using the re-
sources for the benefit of all.
Now if we divest ourselves of all
these opportunities, think we should
do so with open eyes.
By being stampeded into a give
away plan through fear of "Socializa-
ton we may find it also impossible
to socialize the information necessary
for people to judge we'll in choosing a
just, equitable, and adequate tax sys-
tenn.
We may find that we place the i'm
peISoHdI CIuSCS III tempting posi-
ton; the riches, prestige, and power
we heap upon them might prove ire
slstible. They could, conceivably, so
use their influence on the moral, edu-
cational and religious forces that a
just tax system would be we'll nigh
impossible to achieve.
No one has the moral right to will
ingly place himself in servitude. To-
talltarlanism, as a goal, whether eco
nomlc or political, is indefensible.
Neither ethics, religion, or biology or
even our business society, can offer
anything to defend it.
(Note II Europeon government en-
terprise is not the result of a sudden
wild enthusiasm for socialization 1t
is an historic growth extending back
more than hundred years, demand
that natural resources shall belong to
all the people-not for one generation,
but for those of the future as well.
additional Chapters in Subsequent
Issues).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

Number of milk cows on U. S.
farms in June of this year totaled
22.5 million head. This was about IL
per cent greater than in June year
ago.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

By J. NJ. PETERSON, Poison,
Tax Consultant, Joint Tax Committee,
MSFL, Farmers Union & Mine Mill
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01

CommunlSm'S "full-bloWn ven
ture into anti-Semitism," Mr..
Schultz said, was started in
Czechoslovakia and reached it's
elimination last Spring in Ru-
mania with mass arrests involv-
ing "such a large number of Jews
as to constitute virtual mass ter
ror." "It was a planned and cal
culated move to wipe out all YES
tiges of Jewish communal and
spiritual life," he declared.
"One cannot be good Jew and
a Communist" MIR. Schultz en-
phasized. ANY more than one can
be a true Christian and Com
munisf. Judaism could never bed
nor board with Communism. They
stand in direct. violent conflict
with each other. The Judeo- Chris
tian tradition is a powerful anti
Communist force-it is spiritually
anchored in the free world. That
is the meaning behind the Com
munist charge of 'cosmopolite.'
In the Prague trials in 1852, Mr..
Schultz pointed out, "the Commu-
nists worked up a case of con-
spiracy against the defendants
most of them Jews-by gathering
their trumped evidence from an
old fake document, the Protocols
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01
YOM KIPPUR
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

Copyright, 1854, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. 1nc.)
Sometimes I just can't make
out why the whole world doesn't
flock to Judaism, when we have
so much to offer them. Take the
matter of Sabbath. The good Jew
keeps Saturday, and living in a
non-Jewish environment, doesn't
work on Sunday either Result,
he has two days of rest. What
other religion offers this oppor-
tunity?
Or take fasting. / don't know of
any religion that affords the OPP
portunities for fasting that the
Jewish faith provides.
Fasting did enjoy little vogue
in early America, as conse-
quence of the Hebraic influence
on Puritan thought. Thomas JEFF
ferson recalls in his writings how
during one period of the prelimi-
nary struggle that preceded the
American Revolution, the "pa-
triots" or revolutionists as we
would call them today, proclaim
ed a fast day in order to arouse
the people. Nowadays, there are
occasions for arousing the public
to solemn thought too-but no
one seems to think of proclaiming
a fast. Instead, they issue a re-
lease to the misrepresentation is
cut down to two paragraphs and
printed on the ship news page
and that ends the matter.
We Jews have tremendous
amount of fasting background.
MY father. a good religious Jew,
must have tasted, not one day in
the year, but probably as many as
ten or twenty days in the year,
especially on Yom Kippur.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01

of the Learned Elders of Zion"
This fantastic forgery describ-
ing world Jewish conspiracy"
he said. was cooked up by Rus
SLAMS more than so years ago and
has been completely discredited
as one of the crudest hoaxes in
history. The Gear exploited il for
stirring up pogroms and the Nazis
leaned on it in their anti-Semitic
propaganda. The Communists re-
vived the big lie for the propa-
ganda experiment at Prague, dis
guised as a court trial. to impose
false judgment on the Jewish
community throughout the world.
The confessions forced from the
Prague defendants reveal striking
parallels. both in language and
substance. with the imaginary
fraudulent Protocols.
''Have the Communists adopted
the document for other uses? One
of the Protocols says this:
Throughout all Europe, and by
means of relations with. Europe,
in other continents also, we must
create ferments, discords, and
hostility
Gould there be a more accur-
ate description of Soviet foreign
policY?"
Describing the plight of B'nai
Birth lodges and their members
behind the Iron Curtain, Mr..
Schultz said:
while B'nai Birth never ex-
listed in Russia proper. it flour
ished in Poland. Rumania, Czech
oslovakia. Bulgaria and Austria.
as well as Germany. until the out
break of the war.
'There were 10 B'nai Birth
lodges in prewar Poland; 6 in
Czechoslovakia; in Bulgaria;
and so in Austria and Germany.
Those of our people who sur
vived the Nazis. were victinlized
by a cruel and ironic fate. They
were given much to hope for from
a war of Liberation. But they were
liberated from one evil only TO be
caught in the moose Of another.
After their freedom from the Maxi
yoke. these B'nai Birth members
labored TO form some semblance
of a Jewish community. and re-
established lodges in Czechoslova-
kia, Rumania and Bulgaria. Dur
ing this same period new lodge
was founded in Budapest. num-
bering about 1000 members. It's
existence. however. was short
lived.
'The Communist re gimeS,
under one pretext or another, ar
rested the B'nai Birth leadership,
confiscated B'nai Birth property
and totally wiped out every YES
tige of B'nai BIRTH organizationai
life.
1--WE labor under severe handi-
caps in seeking to help our B'nai
Birth members behind the Iron
Curtain. Many of them are suffer-
ing acutely at the hands of their
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01
Communism Attacked
By Jewish Leader

Henry Edward Schultz national
ton League of Bnai Birth appearing before special
the House of Representatives singing
munist persecution Of Jews and other
Iron Curtain Mr.. Schultz testified before Special
ittee Communist Aggression headed
Republican Representative Wisconsin.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01

SENATOR HERBERT H. LEH-
MAN, OF NEW YORK, WILL
ADDRESS THE NATION on
the Message of Israeli radio
program, Sunday, October 3,
1905 am, EST, it was an.
nounced this week by DR.. Maurice
N. Eisendrath. president of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, which presents
the program each Sunday over
the facilities of the American
Broadcasting Company. In his
address, Sen. Lehman will COM
ment ON the American Jewish
Tercentenary and will discuss
the significance of the High
Holydays. The worship service
on the broadcast will be con-
Quoted by DR.. Jonah B. Wise.
rabbi of Central Synagogue,
New York, who founded the
Message of Israeli just twenty
years ago.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01
PLAIN TALK
ONE SUNLESS MAN
BY ALFRED SEGAL

being at hand went about to
hunt down one sinless man. If I
found him. I thought it might be
spiritually profitable for my CO.
religionists TO have look at him.
to mediate upon his virtues. to
set him up as an exemplar.
In schul on Yom Kippur they
would be putting their souls in
order and resolving how to live
in the year to come. Maybe they
could model their lives after the
pattern of this sinless man.
hunted him everywhere as
went about town. At the Wheel
cocktail bar I came upon Mr.. A
and. after the customary pleas
antries I asked him. Gould you.
perhaps be the sinless man I'm
looking FORE"
"What's the idea?" he inquired.
I told him: Because of Yom
Kippur I was looking for sinless
man that he might be the model
for all others on Yom Kippur.
"Segal," he replied, you're
talking to the wrong guy. l got
plenty of sins and who amt? And
between the two think a bit of
sin is all right. If we didn't have
sins we wouldn't know what's
good"
So Mr.. A and I went on TO other
matters. such as Mccarthy.
Same day I was at lunch with
Mr.. B and told him what was
looking for +. "You may be the
very man, considering you are a
big shot in the schul, its president
even; besides being chairman of
this and that in the complex of
Jewish organizations, to say moth
ing of your being president of the
Anshe Giborim cemetery, and,
anyway, you are a decent sort.
You may be it,
You don't know. the half of
it." he answered. Between you
and me I have lots of sins that
aren't visible even when / stand
up as chairman or POSTMASTER be-
fore the whole crowd. under the
bright lights"
We'll" 1 said, 81 guess that's
me, too. People who know a col
umnist only in print get the idea
he is like a saint, and are they
fooled!"
Next day I found Mr.. C in the
shower room of our gymnasium.
There we are all in the nudity to
which we were born: you might
say we see the naked truth of
each other. In that status Mr.. &c
wasn't much TO look at. though in
street clothes he makes quite a
respectable figure. The shower
room seemed the very place TO
uncover a sinless man.
Anyway, from what I knew of
Mr.. c in his private life, as well
as this very public life of the
shower room, l felt he might
measure up. He was nobody in
particular in our community but
1 knew him as a fine gentleman,
and a gentleman-as l have read
lis the noblest work of God. A
man is very humble who even
when he detests this column, tells
me so with apologies.
you may be the man." ] said.
but Mr.. c laughed -. Eff you're
looking for a sinless man. I don't
fConfinued on Pace 81
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Copyright, 1854, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01

of a grocery store on the west
side of Chicago. There, 1 have
something in common with
Mr.. Balaban. We, too, lived at
the back of a store, an old
clothes store. In fact, a whole
generation of East European
Jews lived at the back of a
store. A day will come, per-
haps, when some American
historian will find that the
residence "back of the store"
was as significant in the
growth of America as the log
cabin was for earlier immi-
grants. The back of the store
was close, stuffy, generally
cold in winter and too hot in
summer, but it was not at all
bad. The very intimacy which
the cramped quarters created,
sharpened, I believe, ones fel-
low feelings. Perhaps this ex-
plains Mr.. Balaban's continu-
ing interest in the Jewish hor-
lions of his childhood and Is
rael.
The Balaban grocery was
no supermarket. The children
got work outside to help keep
the family. One day, Barney
Balaban and his mother Wis
tied a "nickelodeon," as the
first movie houses were
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01
Bnai Birth Testimonial To Barney
Ba|aban Also A Tribute To Israel

called. 1t was an old store
with several scores of camp
chairs. Moving pictures were
not respectable in those days.
Mr.. Balaban recalls that,
when he and his mother en-
tered, he hoped no one would
see him.
But the mother of Barney
BaIaban was tremendously
impressed by one thing-that,
unlike her grocery store, the
people going to the "nickelo-
deon" paid the nickel before
entering. That made a pro-
found impression on her.
Children" she said, "thiS
is the business to go into"
Mrs. Balaban did not know
it, but she was one of the few
far-sighted people those days.
Few people then had any ap-
probation of the future of
movies. She was a true piO-
neer, deserving a niche in
America for her vision.
Barney Balaban has this vi
sion too, for he has been in
the forefront of the motion
picture world from its earli-
est days. He introduced most
of the motion picture houses,
building, 1 believe, in Illinois
alone, something like 100 mod
ern movie theaters. He was
one of the first to foresee the
future of television, and he
did not rest merely seeing it.
He acted. Paramount Pictures
has a big stake in televisiOn.
1 keep on thinking of the
blindness of most people to
the future of moving pictures
when Barney Balaban entered
the field. I wonder if there is
not an equal blindness today
about the immense future of
Israel.