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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27
MURK wficoMfs srAssrNs VISITS

Editor have frequently been critical Of Minneapolis
Tribune militant support Republican
public office especially
Presidency
his criticism Minneapolis
of giving Humphrey and Freeman front
ridiculous
July a. well proved the falacy of his statement
Every reader Of this article
this type OF statement and unfair" commentary hts
Of fair play and appreciation.
Staascn evidently 1907 kept pressboth its editorial
and page policy He well reputation
developing having Minnesota political
dictator.
Harold stassen job Washington which
doing we'll the subject considerable
criticism Politically Harods
that Republican friends
ridiculous statements Murk ss57 Lincoln 81 N.
w., Minneapolis. Minnesota
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27

signed the Southern manifesto OPP
posing civil rights legislation.
on the Senate side" the Dis
trict Of Columbia Committee Is
chaired by the veteran Matthew
NJ Matt Nicely of West vir-
ginis, an outspoken friend OF civil
rights Senator Joseph Frear of
Delaware. the only other South
erner on that Senate Committee,
Is rated as friendly" to CIR iegis-
iation. No indignation inquisitions
are anticipated from this source.
Abernathy Stiles
Mississippi's CongFessm n
Thomas Alternately, speaking from
the forum OF the Congressional
Record, recently accused Northern
congrcSSmen who are publicly
backing civil rights legislation Of
social discrimination" against
Negro Congressman. which sounds
silly To us.
We have always figured" that
unlike professional political and
other public contacts, social con-
facts are ones own business Mr.
Alternately. for example. might be.
personally. quite unwelcome as a
guest in any number Of homes, in
Guiding many Negro homes, But
We have observed that Congress
man Dawson Of Illinois, Mr.. Abcr.
nathy's Negro colleague on the
DtSic-loaded House Committee for
the District. serves there without
friction. lie docs not, thereby
have To invite Mr.. Alternately
home 70 dinner.
y. Y. Rep. Hits CIR Biu
The embattled South rose and
cheered on the Floor Of the House
last Thursday. when a New York
Republican sponsor Of the CIR bin
offered = motion to strike out the
hllrs enacting clause OF
oil proffered legislation.
The Congressman. William r.
Miller Of Niagara County, ", Y,
who served as an assistant prose-
cutor at the Man war criminals
trials in Germany. declared that
he WAS acting in utter sincerity"
His switch was promptly par
ned by Minority Leader Joseph
Martin, Of Massachusetts,. who
warned his Republican colleagues
against the consequences Of fol
lowing Southern Democracy into
the defeat Of the hin already
weighed down by serious and face
tious amendments most % them
irrelevant
As wr went 10 PRESS. later thar
usual II seemed likely that debate
in the House would continue into
Saturday. with death in the Sen
ate JUDICIARY COMMITTEE or BY
hhbustsT on the Senate Floor. q
tor~gua. conclusion.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27
Letters To The Editor

Editor Enclosed please find check year good
Hail. r. winona
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27

by Mrs. Armentha Nicely
We wrote a Southern Manifesto,
Framing racial hate.
We found fine words for vile emotions
And made them sound sedate
We explored limits undreamed of.
States Rights. unnamed or Gray.
To keep dark citizens unclaimed
In a democratic way.
We set tho stage and gave our puppet
The high words he should say.
But suddenly One cut the strings.
And kicked the props away.
The puppet fell; the world deplored
It's wickedness and sin:
But only God could see the hands
That set the stage for him.
We said the spite words. pulled the strings
But stll our hate play fell
Think you Il was the hand OF God,
Consigning 10 hellH
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27
(From Letter In Christian Science MONTH

From Christian Science MONTTOR)
perhaps a elegant commentary the human race
something sell and someone
evelng
violently opposed to Indignation said
prospective front door believe
going around to the back door, And
Negro people business both
and Negro sell. increasing day.
taking place without people being aware
southern business firm
going had the prefix Miss Mrs or Mr.
used In ten that has
without the prefix OF
straw wind direction A Virgtnian
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27
Frank Adams New School Board
President

The elevation OF Frank Adams presidency
lis board OF education deserved promotion public
Frank Adams received FIRST hand knowledge public
system by Is
not hests" :" place the Interests the school children
Of other special interest,
Ncrsed OF the public
apohs he public
worthy OF far public attention he
This remembers that
ton leader led successful programs place
group fairly and qusry rcxioas
bigotry organizations
Adams attracted long ago concern
relations willingness
Of citizen matter how humble threatened
election
of public schools wherever
public education
support understanding
The to crcise the methods by
Minneapolis city council anes.
TO Mr. Adams should allowed Obscure
Adams worthy long school prr
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27

The decisions Justices
public opinion
difference the world rantngs heard
n Security
Taking particularly Chief Justice Senators Nc
Cahy sought identity Supreme under
President Esenhoers first appontee with either yielding to Com
influence being incompetent
Mccarthy Eaand short the Chief
Communist party member but that he had
haired positions taken by the Communists
obviously defend itself but there
nothing Attorney Browne other high Ad
the and telling the country
howe dangerous reckless game u.s.
nothing outstanding members Of the American
living presidents exampefrom back
the Supreme Court
follow the example of Paul A
OF Washington University
me address o this very subject
Mundts McCarthys and
utterly unhnkabe!-st Louis Post Dis
pate
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27

II looks like "nes plan keep
critically
tho White
post
which cabinet
cabinet
breathed with
However Stassen promoted observers the Stan
phenomena waiting
q healthy Is feeding him
when the bite Monday with his
expected and hardly who has followed stan
than decoy who who
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-07-27
Utterly Unshinkuble

Three United states senators Republicans Mundt
Carhy and Democrat Easandhavc shocking
the integrity the United
made attack
remains outrageous thing
Can be that other members
this dangerous drmagogy4
Fair Supreme not only wholesome but
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

the tax structure needs good going
over. 1t is going to be done before
too long, and l would like to see Pat
Gilfeather sitting in the Attorney
Generals office when it happens.
Every corporation has legal coun-
sci that will be fighting for them in
any reorganization of the states tax
structure. They have legal counsel
that costs hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The only counsel the people
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

of Montana will have will be in the
Attorney Generals office. 1t would
behoove us to plan on putting some
one there that we know will work
In our interests, and we must also
remember an Attorney General has
to want to work for the people. He
can also just sit on his hands and
let our interests go down the drain.
That is why Arnold Olsen has been
such wonderful Attorney General.
He represented the people rather
than letting the corporations walk
ruff-shod over us.
Pat Gilfeather would also be such
an Attorney General.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
THIS YOU'LL WANT TO READ

as Caesars ghost; often the only
way many a radio announcer or
commentator kept eating was by
swapping theatre tickets with
friendly Mattresses in exchange for
a square meal.
"My First 100000 Sponsors"
contains much of the quiet humor
which has endeared Edwards to
Americans. But, humor is not its
only forte. At times it is deadly
serious even though it doesn't seem
so at first thought because of the
authors easy style of writing.
Montana listeners of Edwards
who were greatly dismayed when
Edwards lost his AFL sponsorship
late in 1854 will find in the book
the acknowledgements power play
among labor moguls which finally
terminated several highly success
full years of selling" organized
labor to the American public, by
the son of one-time Illinois Gen.
trail RR "carknocker". On this,
Edwards does a masterful job of
putting down on paper how lily
served is any supposedly demo-
cratic organization by the dead
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
Editor Suggests

Frank Edwards, the radio COM
mentator who for more than four
years humanized the American
Federation of Labor in the minds
of millions of Americans, has writ
ten a book-a book which should
go like wildfire once people know
of its publication.
"MY FIRST 100000 SPON-
SORS," although an autobiography
of a man who from 1850 through
1854 was "must" listening in thou
sands of Montana homes, is much
more than an autobiography in the
accepted sense. 1t is literally the
history of radio from the days
when radio station operators didn't
have five cents worth of credit, up
to the present.
AS Edwards so abundantly
brings out in the books earlier
chapters, it wasn't financial re-
Enumeration which made many
young men in the twenties and
early thirties stick grimly to their
determination to go places with
radio. When he started out-and
for a number of years afterward
"a paycheck often was as elusive
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
STRAiNING AT A GkAT

The ACMs MONTANA STANDARD day last week
Citizens for Olsen Rally Cut Bank full front page
announcing in big headlines that Arnold Olsen
"Grilled Booed" by his audience.
How much the copper companys daily to wshful
thinking bold relief when last weeks CUT BANK
PIONEER PRESS off the Said the PIP: "a poiti
cal gathering here Tuesday, under the direction of the Citizens
for Olsen Club opened quiet tone by the
featured speaker and ended tumuous crosfre ques
tons popped the young attorney general ntespersed by
boongs twice. said to be by the
the Presbyterian church basement"
Hardly merited large front page headlines, did it?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
Editorial
Johns Memory Must
Be Slipping

According Associated Press dispatch in last Friday
Helena INDEPENDENT RECORD, John Bonner told Ana
conda audience that reelected governor he would
higher compensation payments and higher cos
we'll that occupaona disease be placed under
the Workmen's Compensation Act"
Bonner said that when record shows that
urged the legislature to attain these objecves
When did John Bonner urge the legislature
occupatOna diseases icoS the Work
mems Compensation Act?
He didn't do it in 1949. He didn't do n1951* He served
term. There special sessions.
hadn't intended mention this, Bonner
peddng the line that he DID the legislature
paona disease under workmens compensation the record
must be set straight.
may every intention asking Leg
aure sicosis under the comp He have had
intention of it, and including the Saturday before he
deliver his State of the State the legislature
He asked the then Industrial Accident Board Chairman
Walter Coombs and myself to that particular egs
ae offer suggestions and criticisms
Walter both extremely grated think that at
long last there the chair who had the
throw down the gauntlet the Anaconda Company
lobby.
what happened? When delivered his of
the State message all reference placing cos other
deleted All he asked that Sicocs be granted higher
monthly assistance payments from Public Welfare.
That dear readers how John Bonner urged the lega
ture occupaona disease legislation while he the
Montana
Indeed am happy him now promise to recommend
enactment of such legislation But when he he asked
for its while he governor conclude that
either Johns is failing him badly should take
Bonner advice reported that AP dispatch from
Anaconda: "The should be swayed by idle prom
during a n election "-HLB.
1928;
legislative recommendations in 1949 and 1851
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
ONE AND ONE

Despite Herbs efforts, the Yanks
won nine to five. And in the House,
in the record vote taken on the effort
to override the Presidents veto of
the farm bill, the score was one to
one. Metcalf voted to override the
veto. Representative Orvin Flare
voted no.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

hand of entrenched bureaucracy.
Copies of "My First 100000
Sponsors" if not available at your
local book store, may be purchased
directly from:
BALLANTINE BOOKS
101 Fifth Avenue
New York 3, N. Y.
The book will be available in
both paperbound pocketbook edi-
ton at 35 cents a copy and in hard
bound cover at $500 a copy. Pub
LEGATION date is May %.
NOTE: For the benefit of
those who from time to time in
quire as to what Edwards is doing
now he is conducting a tele-
vision news commentary over
WVTV, Bloomington, Indiana. His
program is right at the top of the
Hooper Rating" among radio list
eners in a 42-county thickly set
tied area.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

n By GRETCHE
E. D. MacHaffie of Helena is run
ming for state representative on the
Republican ticket in Lewis & Clark
county. On the back of his campaign
cards he has the words:
Drive Carefully
The life you save may vote
Republican.
Cute, huh?
Edna Human, Republican candi-
date for Secretary of State, who was
recently injured when she ran into
the side of an MP. freight engine
outside Livingston, has been moved
to Butte, according to reports from
the Governors office. She had to
have surgery on her left shoulder,
and the exact condition of her hip
is not clear to the un-medical mind,
but it seems as of now she will be
on her feet again in a couple of
months and in trim for the general
election campaign.
1t is too bad the oil companies
can't find some way to pump and use
the tears John and Hugo are shedding
down their "dry holes" Add to it
the seven candidates on the Republi-
can ticket and one on the Democrat
ticket for Public instruction. Give
them a lease at II % royalty and
they might start a salt packing fac
tory as an industrial development |
project.
We have heard opponents to Pat
Gilfeather are telling people he is
an Indian. Pat is running for At
5orney General on the Democratic
ticket. When Pat heard it he just
laughed.
Bringing race into a campaign is
an artless tactic, but not uncharacter-
site of politics.
Once a man named Moe ran for
office in Montana and his opposition
old people he was a Chinaman. Mr..
Noe was upset, which isn't unnatural.
Pat Gilfeather isn't. Pat isn't In
lian, but he Is the type of person
Who would consider such heritage
IN honor, I am sure.
But then office seekers don't come
much finer than Pat Gilfeather,
either, in my estimation.
Nor is state government new to
He has become an ex-
vert on taxes over his % some years
f legal practice, not by having chos-
n the subject, so much, as having
ad it given to him through cases
n which he worked. First he was
ssistant to Vic Bottomly when Bot :
only was Attorney General; then +.
rhen Dick Bottomly became county :
ttorney of Cascade county and tax j.,
arose out of laws passed :
the 1855 Legislature there was
eed for special assistant with more I
ian passing knowledge on the sub =
sct. Pat Gilfeather was put on the I
ID. !
Pat and were talking about a I
lies tax and he said Everyone is :
gainst sales tax, but lot of things Z
ay happen that will force one as E
desperation move if we aren't on
lard against it."
He says it isn't enough just to 5
: against a sales tax. ?
He thinks moves now being made Z
the courts and through blocking o
instructive taxation legislation are I I,
,signed to lead to our present tax V
ructure falling apart, which if ac- p
will leave no alternative !,
1T sales tax. n
1t is like J. F. Reid, chairman of Ii
e State Board of Equalization says, C
|
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

II By VIC REMEMBER, of the Of
Montana has three Senators now.
Herb Plews of Helena, (and East
Helena-both towns claim him) made
his major league debut last week as
second baseman for the Washington
Senators.
One of the few Montanans ever to
make the major leagues, Herb started
his career in the bigtime by smash
ing a single off the ankles of the
Yankees pitcher Konstanty to bring
in score and become the first Wash
ington pinch-hitter to get hit this
season.
Representative Lee Metcalf took
the House floor Tuesday to tell his
colleagues about Herbs achievements
and promising future. The congress
man had watched Herb grow up
through sandlot and American Legion
ball in the state capital.
ONE AND ONE
Despite Herbs efforts, the Yanks
won nine to five. And in the House,
in the record vote taken on the effort
to override the Presidents veto of
the farm bill, the score was one to
one Metcalf voted to override the
veto. Representative Orvin Flare
voted no.
AID FOR INDIAN COUNTRY
Recently Senators Murray and
Mansfield and Representative Met
calf asked Senate Laber subcommit-
tee to include "Indian country" in
legislation which would provide fed
eral aid to depressed areas. Last week |
they were advised by Subcommittee
Chairman Douglas that eve are |
the bill so as to make GER
tain that it will include Indian areas
in great need"
MURRAY FOR MOORHEAD DAM
A few weeks ago the Bureau of
issued a report on the
Moorhead Dam on the Pow
der River, below Broadus. While it
was being distributed the Powder
again overlooked its banks, washing
out the Moorhead bridge. Replace
ment cost is an estimated S150,000
to 100000. Senator Murray sent
he editor of the Powder River County
Examiner a letter expressing his
agreement with the
Examiners headline: "Need Is Seen
or Moorhead Dam - Threats of
floods Can Be Controlled By Con-
truction of the Moorhead Dam /
Which Would Also Impound Water
or Irrigating Valley Land"
In his letter to the Examiner the t
enator urged Montanans to study the I
Powder River program. The !
Bureau of Reclamation plans must I
re reviewed and if necessary modi- c
led by the states of Montana and i
Wyoming and local interests then /
resented to Congress. There, Sena- c
or Murray promised, the Powder
liver development would get "prior- O
" consideration" before the Senate +
Interior Committee which he heads. k
HARLIE RUSSELL STAMP
ne CnTee MOHCdUd democrats ldSC
eek asked Postmaster General Sum- I
lerfield to reconsider his objections,
lated last year, to their legislation s
'hich would authorize a postage o
amp honoring Charlie Russell,
[ontana's famed cowboy artist. They D
sked the chairmen of the Senate
nd House Post Office Committees
, also contact Symmetrical on behalf
the Russell stamp, stating that
that can be done in behalf
commemorative stamp to honor
lie of the Vests greatest artists
ould be greatly appreciated by the
eople of Montana and admirers of
uly great western art"
SMALL
Two weeks ago Army advised the
ontana delegation and I reported
this column that Army has a new |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
FARM CREDIT SITUATION

Representative Metcalf last week
asked a House Agriculture subcom-
mlttee to hold further hearings on
farm credit legislation. He seeks con-
sideration of bill he's drafting to
declare one-year moratorium on
Farmers Home Administration loan
payments. Senators Murray and Mans
field are preparing a similar bill
Representative Metcalf said that
during the Easter recess he "talked
to dozens of farmers who face bank
ruptcy because of FILA collection
policies. The result has been that
many farmers, particularly war vet
Grams who have entered the industry
in the past few years, do not even
have enough money left over to eat
or to send their children to school,"
The farm situation has reminded
one story teller of the old one about
the two policemen who came upon
knitting victim in an alley.
AS one of the officers bent over
the victim the other asked, "Is he
really hurt?"
1.-TWO of the wounds are fatal"
said the first officer, "but the other
one amt bad"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
MORE FLOOD CONTROL

The Army Corps of Engineers adj
vised the Montana Democrats, who
had inquired as to the corps pre-
paredness for expected floods, that
"this program is now in full swing
and work is already proceeding at
number Of locations throughout the
(Columbia) Basin in preparation for
the high water anticipated this
spring" The Engineers said they
plan to spend $4,000 in flood con-
troll work on the Clark Fork at Plains
and at Silver Bow Creek at Meader-
vile.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

LANC VI oChakOl LIS NioAidy
Charles w. Cooper, 100 North Main
Street, Helena, or Walter L. Henry,
Fort Missoula. Army now says the
Fort Missoula contact is Mrs. Jean
D. Joseph, Fort, Missoula.
INDEPENDENT VETS
Omar Ketchum, legislative director
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
took exception to a WASHINGTON
NOTEBOOK statement that the VFW
opposes the proposed Servicemen's
and Veterans Survivor Benefit Act.
commonly known as the Hardy Bill.
at is possible" he wrote, "some VFW
members, posts or departments, not
cognizant of the national organiZa-
TONS position . have asked some
senators to vote against the bill but,
if so, they did not follow the man
date of our last national encamp-
ment."
A check of Senator Murray's files
shows that hundreds of Montana
VFW members and many posts gave
the senator their views on the bill
and all of them opposed it. With the
American Legion supporting the bill,
and the Disabled American Veterans
in disagreement among themselves,
that means veteran organizations are
divided among and within themselves
on this bill. 1t looks like senators will
get heck from veterans no matter
how they vote.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

THE CO-OPS-THEY
BELONG TO THE USERS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK

By VIC REINEMER, Office Murray
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11

E. D. MacHaffie of Helena is run
ming for state representative on the
Republican ticket in Lewis & Clark
county. On the back of his campaign
cards he has the words:
Drive Carefully
The life you save may vote
Republican.
Cute, huh?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-11
ATTENTION, SMALL
BUSINE SSMEN

Two weeks ago Army advised the
Montana delegation and I reported
in this column that Army has new
program to work closer with small
businessmen, and that interested
Montanans should contact Lit. Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19
TVWon't Hurt Your Eyes But
Rest Them Now and Then

Planning to watch the political conventions
on television2
Then here are some common-sense rules from
the National Society for the Prevention of Blind
ness to help you avoid eye fatigue and headache:
l. If your eyes are healthy, Tv is no problem.
1t can't hurt your eyes.
2. Keep your picture in sharp focus and your
screen at eye level. Use SOFT indirect light max
ing sure the source of light isn't reflected by the
screen toward your eyes. Don't watch TV in a
completely darkened room.
s. Sit as far from the set as visual comfort
permits. The farther away you SIT the less your
eye muscles have to work at focusing the image
you see.
4. Your eyes may become tired after many
hours of televiewing, SO give them periodic rest
periods away from the set, One rule of thumb:
Those inevitable moments when the political
speech makers get mite too wordy will give
you ample opportunity to turn your eyes from
the screen and rest them for few minutes.