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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16
BAIT, ADS CROWNED ON

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-
"Bait" advertising has grown to such
proportions that Federal Trade Com
mission publicly warned consumers
about it, December 8. Be on your
guard. ETC cautioned.
if one store advertised product
at much lower price than other
stores;
if the sales clerk is reluctant to
show you the product advertised;
If you're told the advertised
product isn't as good quality as you
can get in a similar, more expensive
product;
if the clerk tells you that the
product is only floor
sample and that you'll wait two or
three weeks to get one like it; or
If the bargain" merchandise is
sold out in suspiciously short time,
"but let me show you something else
even better"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16
WILLIAMS URGES PLANNED
FEDERAL AID TO SCHOOLS

BALTIMORE-(A FLNS) -Michi-
gan Governor G. Mennen Williams
called for a s166 billion federal aid
for schools program over the next five
years to be financed by foregoing re-
auctions in the federal corporation
income tax and increasing it if neces-
sary.
Williams said continuation of the
present 81 per cent rate, and if neces-
sary an increase of one per cent up
to an estimated Sc per cent at the end
of five years, is reasonable because
it is only through such expansion Of
the education system that busl-
ness and industry would be able to
satisfy their needs for more and more
and still more trained men and
women"
In an address to the Maryland State
Teachers Association Williams pro-
posed the following program:
Spend 81 billion year for the
construction of elementary and sec
ondary schools in addition to the 81
billion he said the states are now
spending.
2-Spend $500 million year for
college and university construction.
Spend $500 million the first
year and up to s1.9 billion in the
fifth year for school operating funds.
4-Spend 5000 million a year for
adult education.
Spend from $3.50 million to
$3.50 million year for the education |
Of unusual and exceptional children.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16

The Republican press has been busy
the past few weeks publicizing what
seems to be a major rift in the Demo
cratic ranks on several major issues,
the most important of which is oil.
Mostly Republican editors are feel
ing sorry for Jack Toole, State Demo-
cratic Chairman, who, they anticipate,
may have to battle for his position
over the question of CONSERVATISM"
VS.. liberalism"
Last week in an editorial in his
CUT BANK PIONEER PRESS the
well-known Republican dissenter Dan
Milestone opened up the sore in the
Democratic body polite and applied
a portion of salt.
Mr.. Milestone raised an interest
ing question which he pursued one
step and then stopped.
He said, g. it enchants me TO
speculate as to where these moder-
ates will finally find a political home
after their Punishment"
He doesn't conceive they will find
retreat in the Republican party, how
ever he is fatalistic about their need
for "Restful Harbor."
| don't think Mr.. Milestone is
very worried about what happens to
the conservative Democrat who lapses |
into silence between elections like |
the sap in tree and then runs out |
at election time and gets things all |
sticky. The Republicans have the same
kind of characters in their ranks.
The people who find themselves in
a dilemma are the Liberals if the
Democrats go conservative What
would the Liberal and Independent
voter have to choose from if, for in
stance, both tickets were to have an
Foil interest" candidate for Gov
arnor?
Where does the Liberal and hide
pendent go then? Where is their
'Restful Harbor''?
If the Democrats don't go Liberal
hen there isn't much use in voting
or them, because it becomes a mat
er, merely, of patronage and power
or the man who is in and has no rela-
ion whatsoever to a philosophy of !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR
federal AID"

The same inequities we had in Mon
tana prevail as between states; New
York state, for instance, has a per
capita income of better than $4,000;
California and Nevada also have per
capita incomes of over $1,000; Missis-
sippi's per capita income is a little
over $500, that OF Arkansas about
$3.50.
Obviously, educational opportuni-
ties in these states are not equal. A
two hundred dollar per child expendi-
ture in New York takes less than ten
per cent of the per capita income.
The same expenditure in Montana,
which has per capita income of
around S1,700, takes 1870; in Mis-
sissippi it takes 259o of the per capita
income. This does not harmonic with
the ideal to which America is COM
mitted-democracy and equality of
If the people in the cities and states
having twice the income of others
could be said to possess greater wis
dom, greater ability to produce and
more ambition, there might be an ar
gument-via the old individualistic
philosophy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16
SELF-SUFFfCIENCY OF
ANOTHER DAY is GONE

But these are not the reasons for
their higher incomes. America has
lost not only the sense of community
but the self sufficiency of the olden
times. Communities are now only so
in name. The whole value of the in
dividual's production no longer re-
mains at home, often not even in the
county or state.
Generally larger part of the ulti-
mate value of his production goes to
the stockholders of companies which
are domiciled in the the richer states
and cities. They are the professors,
the transportation companies or
others that operate on a national
scale. The foreign companies like
those in the insurance business, to
give but one example, get consider
able of their earnings from Montana,
but the earnings are not necessarily
divided among its citizens. They go
to the stockholders who are likely to
reside in New York.
So wealth is now produced on
national scale. Since this is so, the
taxes raised from this wealth where
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16

ever it is should be distributed on a
national scale.
The World War probably as much
as anything else taught us the reality
of education as national problem.
Youth from all states were drafted to
defend the country. In the lower in
come states, with little opportunities
for training in public schools, the per-
centage of reflections ran very high
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16

I oSiiiid ihS dHu III iiuiiiS q ga 3
no there's no room in "Restful Har-
Dor" for my kind of Liberal.
Humor was added to the political
scene this week when a group OF
Montana citizens were flown by Navy
plane to San Diego to see the Navy
at work. Mary M. Condor, Superin-
tendent of Public instruction, and
Ken Byerly, editor of the Lewistown
Daily News and poet laureate of Fer
gus county found thmselves seated
side by each for the ride down and
back.
Mary and Ken have, for the past
umpsteen years been fighting like a
cat and a dog. Ken has written poetry
about Mary and her travels, among
his forms of criticism of the State
Superintendent.
Harry absolutely refuses to print
poetry in the paper, so if he prints
this little piece of mine don't try to
improve on tit is lousey, know
almost as bad as. what Ken writes
but / just couldn't resist:
Mary and Ken rode to the sea
In beautiful flying boat.
Said Mary to Ken, Glow can it be
"We're side by side and this
thing still floats?"
Said Ken to Mary, at must be joke,
"When they surely know how
we feel,
''But | might as well hang up your
cloak,
eve can't do much but go thru
with the deal"
Then Mary to Ken as they sat side
by each,
II can't walk away till we reach
the beach,
so forget you don't like me and
pretend we are friends,
'sTill we get home and your
pretending can end"
80 Mary and Ken rode high in the air,
For hours their truce was
maintained up there,
But its still a dilemma who would
ever dare
To put side by side such an
unlikely pair.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16
Union Employees Help
Company Financially

CINCINNATI, Ohio-Over 500 un-
ion employees of the Hamilton Tailor
ing Company here are lending $780,
600 to their employer in a graphic
demonstration of labor-management
solidarity in the United States. The
company was short of cash after some
recent acquisitions.
The company does a s7,000,000 .
year business.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16

"Bait" advertising is way to lure
customers into the store, ETC says,
and isn't honest merchandising. If
ETC discovers a firm using "bait"
ads, it orders the firm to stop. If the
firm violates the order, it is subject
to a $5,000-a-day penalty.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16
By ]. M. PETERSON, Poison


The National Educational Confer
ence called by President Eisenhower
went on record as strongly in favor
of more federal responsibility for the
financing of the nations schools. Ac-
cording to the news reports, the reso-
luton met with little opposition and
much less of the old fear that the so
called federal aid would mean Wash
ington control of our local schools.
This resolution, passed by the near
ly two thousand delegates, should not
surprise anyone. 1t was a natural out
growth of the growing conviction that
America is one big family and not
multitude of semi-autonomous COM
peting communities. And, as America
accepts the one family idea, education
becomes national problem which
calls upon the nation to take action.
Much of the old opposition which
was so strong even ten or twenty
years ago, may have been due, in part,
to the unfortunate use of the term
federal aid" as meaning outside
help for the less fortunate or less
capable or industrious. The term was
and is now an unfortunate misnomer.
The delegates thus merely ac-
knowledged, in public way, that the
responsibility for education and equal |
opportunities for education is with |
the federal government. As a conse-
quence, the whole nation must be
used as the taxing unit.
The arguments for the nation as
the taxing unit are the same as those
used in Montana few years ago
when the people asked the legislature
to make the state assume responsible
ity for a larger share of the school
costs.
IN RIGHT DIRECTION
At that time some counties and
some districts could get along very
well with low levies for schools. Other
and districts were unable to
provide standard educational facili-
ties with even intolerably high taxes.
Some districts had to tax themselves
three or four tines as heavy as others
to provide equal facilities. The old
have not been wholly
erased. But when from forty to fifty
per cent of the cost of education is
provided or raised on the state level, ]
we are going in the right direction. Ii
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-16

behind me and I'm riding barge
no there's no room in "Restful Har-
Dor" for my kind of Liberal.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
Public Employees To Vote On Social Security

Continued from Page One)
part in the election. 1t is necessary
to have an absolute majority in
each unit voting and those who are
eligible to vote and do not exercise
their prerogative will have been
considered as voting mo-"
This statement was signed by Wv
ian Burr, president, Legislative Coun.
Gil of Public Employees; John Aus.
treng, president, Local AL, State EN-
ployes; Larry HI. Christensen, Liquor
Control Board Warehouse; Alex Nc
Dermott, secretary, Legislative Coun-
Gil of Public Employees; Vernon A.
O'Leary, president, Local 467, State
Department, and Frank Muir
ray, clerk, Supreme Court.
To implement understanding of the
program, meetings have also been
held at which competent authorities
on the Social Security Act, such as
Stewart Thomas, District Manager of
SIS in Helena, appeared and explained
provisions of the law.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE
OF AFFIRMATIVE VOTE

In addition, explanatory pamphlets
such as an excellent one put out BY
the Legislative Council of Public En-
ployes, have been distributed which
handle the Social Security proposal
in question and answer manner
This particular six-page pamphlet by
way of series of 80 questions and
answers, explains in simple direct
terms why it is of utmost Importance
to all state employees and their fami-
lies that they vote affirmatively at
Mondays referendum.
These questions and answers, de-
signed to correct misapprehensions
and allay fears of what supple
mental security coverage might do
to PERS and the stake most state
employees have in that retirement
fund, show, for example:
Question: If we obtain Social Sc
curity, will we still have our Public
Employees Retirement System?
Answer: Yes, we will have both the
PERS without any reduction in it's
benefits, rights and privileges and in
addition will have the Old Age and
Survivors Insurance through Social
Security.
Question: Are Social Security bene-
fit payments subject to income tax?
Answer: No-and that, of course,
increases their real value. Next time
you're looking at a tax table, add
Social Security to your present in
come and note the difference in would
make if taxable.
Question: | am young, single |
girl, what are the advantages of So
,ial Security to me?
Answer: You will not always be |
young, and you may not always be
ingle. At age 65 you will receive re-
irement after working 10 years and
will build up lump sum death bene-
it payable to those who bury you.
,ou may have dependent parents, age
5, surviving who would receive
Monthly benefits. You may quit teach .
ng or State service and enter private
Employment in which event you would
ever qualify for maximum retire
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07

ment because of lost years between
1855 and time you enter private en-
ployment. You may get married, and
may later have children who would
draw survivors benefits at your death
provided you were currently insured.
Question: If / become covered July
1, 1866 and work 10 years and quit
could ever receive benefits?
Answer: Yes, at age 65 you would
be eligible for some benefits for the
balance of your life and also lump
sum death benefit would be payable
to the person who paid funeral ex-
penses up to a maximum of $255. In
addition monthly family benefits and
survivors, benefits would be payable
as illustrated in Questions 10 and 20.
Question: At age 65 what would it
cost to buy the same $98.50 per month
for life from private insurance COM
pany?
Answer: Approximately, $4,000
and to buy $4,000 per month for your
wife would cost an additional amount
of approximately $4,000.
Question: If | am "fully insured
is there a benefit for dependent par
ents, age 65, in case of my death?
Answer: Yes, if the employe leaves
no widow, dependent widower or child
who could ever become entitled to
benefits, each parent would receive
q of the primary insurance amount.
Question: Many State employees
were in military service and were
covered for Social Security at the
rate of $3.50 per month. Is this servz
ce ever lost in calculating benefits?
Answer: No, neither military serv-
ce nor any other employment in COW
cred jobs is ever lost in crediting your
account. Military service, if needed,
will be used whenever you retire to
alculate your benefits.
Question: My husband is already
overed under Social Security. What
dvantage would there be if become
overed under Social Security since
e is already covered?
Answer: You may improve your
enefits due to coverage in your own
light. Also, lump sum death benefit
1ould be payable up to maximum of
255.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
HELENA MINERAL SOCIETY
MEETS THIS weekend

The Rockhounds will have thei,
regular October meeting in the
YMCA on Friday, October at pm
During the summer months, the ex-
hibit of rocks and minerals has been
arranged in special cases for display.
On Friday evening, Forrest Owens,
past president, will conduct an auc-
ton of duplicate specimens and sur
plus minerals from the collection.
Some of the members of the Helena
Mineral Society have donated cutting
material and rocks for trading and
auction.
The Helena Mineral Society is con-
sidering the possibility of sponsor
ing course in geology during the
winter months.
The president of the Society is An
nette L. Lewis. Cliff Smithers is vice
president and Ruby K. Lee is secre-
Oscar Hanson, pro-
gram chairman; Mrs. Ray Guthrie,
publicity chairman; Charlotte Top
ping, hospitality chairman; Mrs. Earl
J. Murphy, federation chairman; DR..
Hilda Johnson, membership chairman;
Mrs. Marion Koldzjeski, historian;
R. d. Rouse and Carl Tintinger, field
rips; Oscar Larson, education.
The Helena Mineral Society is a
of the Northwest Association
If Neurological Societies. The So
.iety welcomes all interested Rock
hounds, young and DID,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
LARGE FLUCTUATIONS in NUMBER
OF JOBS, MSU RESEARCH SHOWS

Seasonal fluctuations in nonagri-
cultural employment are discussed in
the September issue of Montana Bust
ness released by the Bureau of Bust
ness and Economic Research at Mon
tana State University. The bulletin
points out that climate and custom
are the prime factors in seasonal
variations. Montana's climate, subject
of greater extremes and longer and
more severe winters than in many
areas, contributes to a greater sea-
sonality of employment in the state
than in the United States as whole.
During the years 1948 through
1854, the typical seasonal variation
in nonagricultural employment in
Montana has ranged from an index
of 93.3 in February to high of 104.5
in August. With 100 equal to average
monthly employment, this means that
employment typically varies from 81
per cent below the one in February
to 4.5 per cent above the one in
August. In terms of numbers of work
ers, these percentage figures repre-
sent a variation of from 10000 be-
low the average to $500 above. or
a typical seasonal increase of 5000
workers from February to August
for the period 1948-1954. AS employ
ment increases in the state, the sea-
sonal fluctuation in number of work
ers will also increase, although the
percentage variation will tend to re-
main about the same, unless signifi-
cant change in the industrial structure |
of the state should occur.
Seasonal patterns of employment
among the various industry groups in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
FPC WON'T RE-ExAMINE
ITS HEELS CANYON
GIVEAWAY

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
AS expected, Federal Power Commits
sion turned down the plea of farm,
coop, and labor union groups to re-
consider its "give-away" of Hells
Canyon to Idaho Power Company,
September 20.
National Hells Canyon Association
Immediately said it would file an ap-
peal from FPC's decision in the Dis
trict of Columbia U. S. Court of APP
peals. MICA has so days to file and
must meanwhile raise most of the
100000 the suit will cost from inter
ested groups and individuals.
In making its decision, FPC said
MICA had presented no new facts
that it hadn't looked at already.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
GOVERNMENT RESUMES
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS FOR
POWER FIRMS, OTHERS

WASHINGTON, d. .C.-(CNS)-
The administration will go on giving
fast tax write-offs to power COM
panies, oil refiners, aircraft makers,
railways, and many mental producers.
Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flem-
ming announced September 20 that
these groups can continue to get
certificates that will allow them to
charge off new plants and equipment
in five years instead of the useful
life of these facilities.
ODM thus allows these firms to cut
down their income tax and, in effect,
get interest-free loans from the U. S.
treasury.
Flemming suspended most fast tax
write-offs August IL, shortly after
Treasury Secretary George M. Hum
phrey complained that these gifts
were cutting too sharply into federal
revenues.
Flemming indicated that no new
fast tax write-offs will be granted for
airport facilities, gas and oil pipe
lines, oil storage tanks, or ore ships.
Also. railroads can get certificates
only for boxcars they buy, not pas
senger cars or diesel locomotives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07

Montana vary considerably. Contract
construction and lumber are among
the most seasonal, with weather the
chief determinant. Some industries.
such as retail and wholesale trade and
mining employ their largest number
of workers at times when other in
dustries are curtailing their employ
ment. Without these variations from
the more common pattern, the over
all seasonality of employment would
be much greater.
Montana Business notes that the
amount of seasonal unemployment
is not so great as might be expected.
Many seasonal jobs are filled by stu
dents, who want work only in the
summer, and housewives, who may
work only during the canning season
in a fruit or vegetable processing
plant or during the Christmas rush in
retail store. Still seasonal unem-
ployment is a problem in the state.
Some communities dependent largely
upon single seasonal industry under
go serious slumps in business activity
during the lay-off period. The cost
of unemployment insurance is in
creased. The desire for steady year
round jobs may also be a factor in
the loss of population in the produc-
tive age group to other states.
Careful planning for the slack
period by business, expansion of exist
ing nonseasonal industries and de-
of new non or contrasea-
sonal industries are suggested by the
University publication as possible
ways of lessening the overall season
atty of employment in Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
UTAH CO-OPS URGE
Federal Dam
in HELLS CANYON

| SALT LAKE CITY-(CNS) All
Fl directors of Utah Cooperative AS
ISOLATION called on their four senators
and congressman, September "a, to
back a high federal dam in Hells
Canyon.
Senator Arthur V. Watkins (R-
Utah) earlier said he felt Hells Can
yon development should await g.
state compact regulating use of Snake
River water, SO as to protect the
rights of farmers and cities near the
river.
The co-op's directors agreed this
would be desirable" But, they point
ed out, Federal Power Commission has
already approved Idaho Power Com
pany's plan for three small dams, so
damming the river won't await
compact.
The co-op's directors said if Utah's
delegation in Congress backs Hells
Canyon, "such action will help con-
solidate favorable support for the
Upper Colorado River project"
Neither Watkins nor Wallace F.
Bennett (R-Utah) are among the 80
senator's sponsoring the bill to build
Hells Canyon.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-10-07
COURT TEST OF FPc'S HELLS CANYON DECISION PUTS
ISSUE S0UARELY in CONGRESSIONAL LAP

and its third in nine years. The fed
eral high dam would be completed II
eight years-sooner if necessary.
Groups backing high federal dam
IN Hells Canyon have asked FPC to
reconsider its decision. If the com
mission refuses, they'll take the de-
cision into U. S. court of appeals.
Eventually, their suit may reach the
U. 5. Supreme Court. Thus, they'll
suspend FPC's decision.
But neither the courts nor FPC
itself can decide to build the dam.
Only Congress can decide this.
Costello's invitation is still open
IF Congress feels the commission
has not performed it's function in the
public interest f. -
Congress will decide. 1t has a
chance to fully develop Hells Can
yon as long as the courts hold
FPC's decision in allegiance. After
that, the high dam, half million
kiiowatts, cheap power, and new
economic opportunities are gone
forever.
Thirty senator's are sponsoring a
bill to build the high dam. Several
others have indicated their support.
But Senate interior committee is
split right down the middle with SEN
ator Russell B. Long (D-La.) holding
the decisive vote.
A House subcommittee has already
approved the bill. 14-13.
It's up to Congress to decide the
tate of Hells Canyon. And the people
make the Congress-through personal
contact, their letters, and the ballot
,ox.