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cards with stamped return cards
attached are on the way to boys
whose entries have come in.
There are only three questions
on the card to be returned. A
check mark will answer either of
the first two regarding participa-
ton in the derby.
do you have a problem on
which you need help?" is the
third question.
The chairman hopes there
won't be any cards like one he
received last year. To this same
question, one boy wrote "yes" -
and then forgot to put down his
name and address. Entrants
whose names have not been pre-
viously announced, include:
Michael Speiser, 10, of 5624
Madison street, Bethesda, Md,
John CarrutherS, jr., Is, of 45ls
Dorset avenue, Chevy Chase
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-AP wirephoto

Furtseva are both dedicated
Communists and personal
friends. The current dispute
appears to be nothing more than
normal concern on the part of a
regional leader for the interests
of her section.
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Soap Box Derby Entries
Reach Record of $50

record $50 entries have The Star the 1856
Washington Area Soap Box Derby.
The deadne registration Monday morning
may higher.
Soap Derby sponsored by The Star
association with Metropolitan Chevrolet and the
District Department OF the American Legion.
Chairman Bailey has announced that post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-08
Arabs Own Forms

JERUSALEM.-More than 80
per cent of the Arab farmers in
Israel own their own farms.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-12-21
Jewish Monitor Scored
For Unethical Practices

the Southern Jewish Weekly
sends each advertiser a complete
copy Of IFS newspaper.
In an interview with a repre-
sentative of the Southern Jewish
Weekly, which publication a
prominent Jewish leader in Bir-
mingham has been receiving for
more than % years, it was point
ed out that Joseph Gallinger,
owner of the Jewish Monitor, has
found it highly lucrative to solicit
funds for his own personal and
private charity" by using the
term rabbi" in his solicitations,
with all funds received going di-
rectly into his own pockets.
Assailing this practice as un-
ethical. the high-ranking Jewish
leader deplored the "schnorring''
of Gallinger. who dupes business
people into contributing TO a
rabbi" whom they naturally as
sumo is representing some sYna-
gogue because of the misuse of d
title which designates religious
leadership.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-12-21
Birmingham, Alabama

He urged the Southern Jewish
Weekly to expose Gallinger so as
to put a stop to this nefarious
practice, which is seriously jeo-
pardizing the good will relations
of the general public and is
causing the illustrious name of
those in the rabbinate to lose
prestige.
A letter sent to US by a promi-
nent Birmingham Jewish leader
declared: Some time ago your
paper printed an article scorching
certain rabbis who participated in
racket operations. In an editorial
note you defended the rabbis of
the Southern territory. and lauded
them generally for the splendid
public relations work they are
doing in the South building up
good will between Christians and
Jews.
''There is, however, one rabbi
I know-Joseph Gallinger of Bes-
semer-who is an exception to the
statement that you make. This So
called rabbi has made small
fortune for himself in selling ad-
vertising by using the title rabbi
to further his own personal pro-
motion for his own private gain.
I have talked to a number of peo-
pie who were duped into thinking
that his solicitation was for the
benefit of some synagogue activ-
ity since he used the term rabbi
in selling them.
IF you print this letter it may
serve to warn the public against
such surreptitious conduct. Why
can't m Rabbinical organiza-
ton put a stop to this?
81 am enclosing my check for
S5 renewing my subscription for
another two years. AS the only
Jewish weekly newspaper serving
Birmingham, you deserve every
ones full support and co-opera-
ton"
The Southern Jewish Weekly
has been forced TO expose the
nefarious tactics of Joseph Gal
linger and Abner L. Tritt. opera
tors of the Jewish Monitor. so
that our readers and advertisers
may know the true facts.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-12-21

The Jewish Monitor-w c h
boldly claims to be: "Alabama's
Only Jewish Newspaper"-is pub
1ished only a few times during the
year.
Advertisers of the Jewish Moni-
tor receive only a single sheet,
purporting to be part of a regular
newspaper. All legitimate publ
cations-such as the Southern
Jewish Weekly-send the adver-
tisers an entire copy of the issue
in which their ads appear.
One of the purposes of legiti-
mate Jewish newspaper is to ac-
quaint non-Jews with the full
score of Jewish ideals. traditions
and beliefs leading to a better
understanding among all religious
groups. It is for this reason thai
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Montana Politics

Although Montana liberals suffered
a great defeat when Arnold Olsen
failed to win the Governorship and
Mary Condor failed of reelection, the
campaign these two fighters put up did
bring the issues squarely home to the
voters with the result the Democrats
will have control of both houses of
Legislature for the first time in IS
years. In addition, Condor and Olsen
did much to draw very clear line of
demarcation between Republicans and
Democrats, on the basis of issues, thus
giving new vitality to the two-party
system in Montana.
Reelection of Lee Metcalf and cleo
ton of Leroy Anderson to Congress
give Montana the only solidly Demo
cratic Congressional delegation from
any state outside the South. 1t is ex-
pected that Senators Murray and
Mansfield and the two congressman
will give much impetus to securing
passage and Presidential approval of
to get construction of Vel
lOwtail dam underway.
Lou Boedecker's untimely passing,
On Christmas Day, took from the DEM |
)crats one of their newly-elected state |
and also took the only man |
belonging to organized labor off the
Railroad & Public Service Commits
lion.
The internal upheayals in both par
les which marked their 1856 state
resulted in the liberal
wing of the Democrats selecting the
lew chairman, and the Republicans
licking a man who they consider has
efinite political possibilities for the
ioYernorship in 1860.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28

counts in its Indictment, including the
charge that they had improperly tried
to influence a U. S. senator.
Their employer, Superior Oil Com
pany of California, also pleaded guilty.
1t could not deny that Patman and
Neff were it's agents; if they were
guilty, so was the company. The firm
paid a $4,000 fine.
Neff said he got the money from
Patman. Patman said the $4,000 came
from the personal funds of Howard B.
Keck, Superiors president Keck was
never considered guilty.
A Senate investigating committee.
headed by John l.. Mcclellan OZARK,
also treated the matter gingerly. 1t
saw IAN attempt to influence by politi-
cal contribution the vote of member
of the Senate" But it could find
neither bribe nor an attempt to
bribe"
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
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tical expediency was legislation pro-
viding for additional federal aid to
education, and legislation to safeguard
the civil rights of millions of Ameri-
cans, particularly our large Negro
minority.
A Presidential veto, because of ques-
tfonable lobbying activities, of the no.
torious natural gas bill probably saved
gas consumers in excess of 5000 million
annually Although expressing SYM
pathy with the gas industry's desire
to free itself of Federal Power Com
mission regulation, the President We
toed the bill because of what appeared
to be attempts to buy Senators votes
by lobbyists for oil-gas companies.
This legislation is slated for reintro-
duction in the up-coming S5th Con-
greSs.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Creeping Strangulation"
RESTRICTIONS ON TVA F0REsEEN IN
IkE'S BUDGET MESSAGE

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NRECA)-
President Eisenhower's mid-January
budget message is expected to ask for
adoption Of an amended Administra-
tion plan for self-financing of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority.
The giant multi-purpose project is
also expected to be asked to pay all
it's power revenues into the Treasury,
in an amended version of the plan pre-
sented by the Budget Bureau last year,
according to Capitol rumors.
Rural electric leaders successfully
fought a similar proposal last ses-
sion. This proposal is opposed be-
cause it would preclude use of power
receipts for building additional gen.
Grating capacity.
The Administration, however, is ex-
pected to contend that the self-finan-
cling plan is the only guarantee for
of iva power facilities.
During the last session of Congress,
both House and Senate affirmed TWAS
right to expand generating facilities
With power revenues.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Agriculture

Ezra Taft Benson and drought were
the two biggest headaches of Montana
farmers in 1856. Benson hit them all,
the drought only the counties of the
eastern third of the state.
The Presidential veto of the 80 per
cent price support bill, at the insis-
tence of his Secretary of Agriculture,
assured Montana grain growers of a
continuation of the Tightening cost
price squeeze, and is depriving main
street in much of Montana of millions
of dollars in farm purchasing power
each year.
Montana farmers, making the best
of farm legislation remaining on the
books in spite of BenSOn'S efforts,
again voted to restrict their planted
acreage and for marketing quotas, IL
order to preserve some semblance of
stable farm prices.
Retirement of Don W. Chapman as
president of Montana Farmers Union,
because of poor health, saw a gallant
fighter for agriculture and liberal pro-
grams generally temporarily remove
himself from Montana public affairs.
His successor, Leonard Kenfield, had
10 years of experience in assisting
Chapman in the leadership of the
15,000-family strong farm organization,
before assuming the top MFU post.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
WOULD Be C0RRUPTERS OF US.
SENATORS GET WRISTS SLAPPED

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-Two
oil lobbyists were each fined exactly
the same amount that one of them Of
fered Senator Francis Case R-S. d.
during the fight on a natural gas bill
last year-$2,500
This was the price they paid for ex-
posure of their lobbying efforts Yet
these efforts, President Eisenhower
said, were so arrogant and so much
in defiance of acceptable standards of
propriety as to risk creating doubt
among the American people concerning
the integrity of governmental pro-
cesses."
The two lawyers, Elmer Patman Of
Austin, Texas, and John M. Neff of
Lexington, Neb., agreed December IA
that they were technically" guilty of
violating the lobbying act by failing
to register.
The government dropped all other
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Montana Miscellany

Two of the hottest issues discussed
by Montana people generally this past
year have been the gasoline price in
vestigation carried on by the Montana
Trade Commission, and the veto of
the $5,O0O,0OO Yellowtail dam right-of-
way resolution.
Major oil companies are currently
screaming bloody-murder over charges
by the trade commission that they are
in conspiracy to fix gasoline prices
at unduly high levels in Montana One
after another is publicly pro-
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Montana Labor

Several matters of great Importance
to organized labor in Montana trans
pired in the last II months. Most i'm
pOrtant of these being the merging
of the AF'L and CIO at a historic con-
vention late in April While the merger
is now an accepted fact, there is still
q very major segment of the Montana
labor movement unaffiliated. Until
such time as Montana Mine-Mill is
accepted into the mainstream of labor,
organized labor will not have as strong
a voice in Montana affairs as is it's due
as major Montana population group.
Many are also questioning the wisdom
of some of the provisions of the new
state AFL-CIO constitution which had
to be approved by the state merger
convention in order to secure a charter
from the AFL-CIO national body. These
provisions delegate to the high brass"
Of AFL-CIO altogether too much au-
thority over what were formerly semi
autonomous state federatiOns and
councils
Montana Mine-M Mills rank-and-file in
1856, as on several occasions in past
years, let it be known in no uncertain
terms that they preferred their own
union to affiliation with
the United workers-AFL-CIO |
In elections in Butte, Anaconda and |
Great Falls, Mine-Mill administered |
very decisive Jurisdiction election de-
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Power of Facts

Nine-tenths of the serious contro.
Yersies which arise in life result from
misunderstanding, result from one
man not knowing the facts which to
The other man seem important, or
otherwise failing to appreciate his
point of view. A properly conducted
conference involves frank disclosure
OF such facts-patient, careful argu.
ment, willingness to listen and to con.
slder.-The late U. S. Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
SOCIAL SECURITY TAX
GOES UP JANUARY |

District Director of Internal Reve-
nue. Thomas NJ Robinson this week
reminded Montana employers that re-
cent amendments have changed tax
rates under the Federal Insurance Con-
tributions Act (Social Security and
filing requirements under the Federal
Unemployment Tax Act.
New FICA rates on wages paid on
or after January 1, 1857 will be 2H
per cent each for employers and en-
ployees, total of AZ per cent, Mr..
Robinson said.
The changes in the Federal Unem-
ployment Tax Act, he explained, pro-
vides that employers who had four or
more employees on at least one day
of each 20 calendar weeks during 1856
will be required to file Form $40 by
January 81, 1857, The filing of Form
$40, Annual Federal Tax Return of
Employers, was formerly required of
employers who had eight or more en-
ployees.
Mr.. Robinson said that copies of this
return have been sent to most of the
employers in this district. However,
he suggested that employers who have
not received this form by January .,
obtain copies from the Internal Reve-
nue. office at Helena, Montana.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28

testing the accusations pointed at
them by the commission. Suffice to
say, few Montana people are taking
their protests very seriously. For some
strange reason Montana motorists
cannot understand why our gasoline
prices are the highest in the nation,
and that, when Montana-refined gaso-
line is shipped outside the state for
distribution it drops severel cents a
gallon in retail price.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
1q56-An Eventfu| Year.

| feats to the much larger union which
Headquarters in Pittsburgh.
"RIGHT-To-WoRK" BROUGHT
UNITED EFFORT
All Montana labor united as one
late last spring when reactionary en-
ployer groups attempted to put a
fraudulently named right to work"
measure on the November ballot via
initiative. With much active support
from Montana Farmers Union, labor
was successful in decisively defeating
the initiative bid with the measure
receiving less than a fourth of the
minimum number of signatures to gain
a place on the ballot.
Increased political activity also
marked the life of Montana's organ
lied workers in 1856. Of Is state and
federal candidates endorsed by the
political arm of Montana AFL-CIO, the
rail brotherhoods and Mine-Mill, nine
were successful at the polls Novem-
Der 6.
Recognition, for the first time, in
both party platforms of the need for
of Occupationa1 Disease
legislation, was also another note
worthy event in the life of Montana
labor. After more than 40 years of
seeking such legislation, success may
not be far off.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28

The Budget request for IVA is also
repeatedly asking an appropriation
even less than the all-time low of S.
$4,000 approved for fiscal 1857. Earl
Ter this year, iva officials told the
Budget Bureau that in order to meet
increased electric demands, they would
require an additional 1-million XIV of
new capacity annually, 25O,O0O XIV over
the forecast two years ago.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
How Sound Is the Boom?
{ Economists Take q Look

$287 billion during the same period.
Thus while personal income went up
about 21 per cent, corporate income
went up almost 43 per cent-more than
double the rate of expansion in per-
sonal spendable income.
Analysing the distribution of per-
sonal income still further, we find that
wage and salary earners-the coun-
trys great consuming class-did not
fare as we'll as investors, much less
corporations.
Thus investment income, including
personal interest and dividend re-
ceipts, increased from $21.3 billion in
1852 to $301 billion in 1856. That is a
rise of Al per cent. Wages and salaries
paid out by private industry, on the
other hand, increased from $152 billion
to $1S7 billion, or only % per cent over
the same period.
A good case can be made that the
balance between the two sectors. in
vestment and consumption, has been
out of line and will continue to be so
as long as present tax policy is fol
lowed.
Already there are unmistakable
signs that consumption, which up to
now has been inflated by unprecedent-
ed installment buying, is beginning to
slow down. Since September retail
sales have been sluggish. Most of the
recent gains in production have gone
into inventory rather than consump-
tion. Housing activity is slackening
and with it sales of major household
equipment. Farm machinery is in the
doldrums. Steel production is at a
seasonal peak mainly because the auto
mobile industry is recovering from
last years production cut-back that
cost 250,000 auto workers dearly.
Unless new car sales and holiday
buying pick up inventories will get
top-heavy and production and jobs
will be cut back.
Further, there is a developing slack
n public investment despite the new
federal road program which will not
get into full action for several years.
schools, public housing have
)een slowing down rather than keep
ng pace with our needs. Voters ap-
proved over 50 billion of new bond
ssues on election day. But tight money
conditions and high interest rates are
ausing reductions in state and local
,ond sales.
MELLON TAX POLICIES
Most people now admit that the
reat big hole in our economy in 1929
5as due to the failure of buying power
D keep pace with our production pow
+. This was largely due to Andrew
Iellon's tax policies, the gist of which
as that the economy performed at its
est when there was lots of tax incen-
We for business investment 1t didn't
ork because expenditures for expan-
ion were cut abruptly when investors
)und productivity running ahead of
assumption. The only incentive that
Lvestors and producers respond to is
le incentive provided by a continu-
g demand for their products.
Today we are following a tax policy
lat is startling similar to that of the
sh 'tWenties. 1t is not too unreason-
,le to assume, as do many labor econ
nists, that barring war we are
9ading in the same direction.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
From LABOR'S DAILY

How soundly based is this business
boom" we heard so much about dur
ing the recent campaign?
No one is talking about a repetition
of the Great Depression of 1929. We
have great many "built-in" stabilizers
in our economy such as Social Secur-
ity, unemployment compensation, farm
price supports, public works shelf
government lending and insuring
agencies whose job it is to see that
we don't have repetition of the 1929
| bank failures and mortgage foreclos-
ures, and we have a huge defense
budget pumping $40 billion a year
into the economy, says the WASH
INGTON WINDOW COLUMN of Pub
lie Affairs Institute.
At the same time, it is startling to
note how economists seem drawn ire
sistibly into making comparisons with
what happened in the 1920s and what
may be happening now
One point frequently stressed in
comparing the era ending in 1929 and
1885 is the similarity of tax policy
goals. In both periods, Republican Ad-
ministrations tailored tax cuts to as
sure plenty of funds for capital expan-
sion, but attached relatively little i'm
portance to assuring that there would
be adequate purchasing power to buy
the goods that would be produced in
ever larger quantities.
TAX CUTS FOR BUSINESS
Thus, tax cuts for business and up
per bracket investors were justified by
both administrations more than twenty
years apart on the grounds that the re-
Sulting investment would produce |
new jobs" In a sense, this has hap |
pened today. Business investment in |
1852 was $26.6 billion and for 1856 was |
estimated at 1888 billion-a one-third |
in four years which is far
beyond the II to Is per cent increase
in production of goods and services
that might have been normally ex-
pected.
This tremendous expansion, a capi-
tai spending boom" it has been right
" called, has produced jobs for work
9rs in heavy industry 1t is largely re-
;ponsible for the inflationary forces
hat have raised the cost of living to
IN all-time high
Campaign orators pointed to these {
lew jobs and to this boom" with con-
iderable pride. But there is another
ide to this picture that also must be
Is our capacity to produce
.OOds as a result of all this expansion
citing out of balance with our capac- .
ty to buy? Are we building up a situa-
ion that, despite our built-in protec-
ions, may have some resemblance to
929? Some economists, particularly ,
abor economists, feel there is danger
nat we may be building toward such
possibility.
NCOME DISTRIBUTION +
Analysis Of the pattern of income C
istribution in the United States dur il
lg the past four years shows that &
and investment income has il
one considerably better than wages
nd salaries, which are the bulwark Il
consumption. Ii
Corporate income after taxes in 1856 a
1918 billion as compared with $26.5 o.
lion in 1852 Personal income after h
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
Price-Cost Ratio
Still Squeezes

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-In
the month ending November Is, farm
prices held at their previous level but
the cost of farm supplies continued to
rise. Hence the parity ratio of prices
to costs kept on sinking, dropping
from 80 to 81, USDA men said recently.
The people's voice., 1956-12-28
VETO UPENDED A
CONGRE ESSMAN

Yellowtail dam and the Presidential
veto were probably major contributing
factors in the shOrt-lived Congression-
al career of Orvin B. Flare. Eastern
Montana people realize that every de-
lay in construction of this 100000 kilo-
watt power dam means that much
more delay in attracting additional in
dustry to the district to provide jobs,
better business and a broadened tax
base. They've seen the beneficial re-
suits to northwestern Montana from
Hungry Horse and they want similar
business job tax improvements in
southeastern Montana. The key is de-
velopment Of YellowtaiIs power and
irrigation potentials.
Another story that made news and
sent shivers down the backs of rural
electric people was Montana Power
Company's refusal to sell additional
publicly-prOduced power to a federal
preference customer, Park County
Electric of Livingston. If the power
company could get away with such a
refusal in Livingston, REA people
wanted to know just what recourse
they'd have to stop further refusals
to sell power and thus meet the grow
ing electricity needs of their rural
(For latest develop
nent, see story elsewhere in this
ssue.)
SOME DARK CLOUDS
On the bleaker side, economically |
speaking, in addition to the farm i'll
,Ome slump continuing, was the sag
ling lumber market price which has
esulted in many smaller mills closing
Lown in the western part of the state,
hus throwing a substantial number of
umber workers out of work. The de-
line in copper price and the. cutting
ack of the work week in the non
errous metals industry has substan-
tally cut the take home pay of miners
I Butte and smelterworkers in Ana
onda, Great Falls and East Helena.
Two other developments augur well
IL the future of the Red Lodge and
Iissoula areas. Revival of the coal in
ustry as source of char, coal tar,
reosote and phenol oils used in MAX
lg plastics, will increase payrolls at
ed Lodge in the months ahead The
ew Koal-Krudes reduction works is
ated to begin operations in the Car :
on county seat town in February. In !:
-issoula, the decision of Waldorf :.
aper to build a pulpmill will be a :
lbstantial assist to more stable
in the Garden City area
LIB.