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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30

The rally of Young Americans fol
Freedom (YAF) had a hard timt
of it in the programming days be-
fore it came off earlier this month
reports THE NEW REPUBLIC
'First, General (Edwin) Walker was
dropped from the program at Sena.
tor Goldwater's insistence. Then Sen
ator Dodd sent his regrets. Finally
the brightest star, Noise Tshombe
wasn't able to attend because the
State Department had denied his visa.
Tshombe's presence might have
been embarrassing anyway"
says Mr., in view of his charge late
in February ''that the United Nations
had interviewed in Katanga for the
profit of U. S. capitalists
But, the absence that interested
Mr. editors most was "that of Sal
b. Hoffman, international president
of the Upholsterers international
Union. When the Young Americans
for Freedom, Inc, appealed TO him
to support their rally, Mr.. Hoffman
declined with an explanation worth
quoting at length:
81 am certainly interested in the
fight for freedom. For some so
years my international union, and
for some AZ years l, as an individual
union officer in every type of post,
paid and unpaid, have battled for
freedom from want, freedom from
fear, freedom from tyranny of ar
bitrary authority on behalf of the
least educated, the lowest paid, the
most lowly born of our population,
the thousands of industrial workers
following my own and my fathers
trade.
''For 40 of those years, since their
first appearance ON the American
scene, my union, like the AFL as a
whole, and |, have been notable for
our recognition and continuous re-
both in our union and pub
lie life, and now internationally, to
the Communists, who, though they |
frequently speak to us falsely in the !
name of various freedoms, are free |
dom's bitterest foes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
Since 1858
Since 1858
NY Municipal Power
system Makes Third
Reduction In Rates

American Public Power Association
Residents of Boonville, N. Y,
have been given their third rate
reduction since Boonville first re-
ceived power from the ST. Law
renee Project in September, 1858.
The first reduction totaling $16,-
600 annually went into effect in
1858: the second, again totaling
$4,000 a year, went into effect
in June, 1860. The third reduction
amounts to $4,000 per year.
Residential consumers will save
an expected $1,000 per year
under the latest Boonville rate re-
duction, an average decrease of
about 80. Commercial customers
will save about $4,000 per year,
an average reduction of 1919. The
cumulative effect of all three re-
auctions is estimated at $4,000 in
1862, due partly to increased
power usage.
Chairman Walter Weeden of the
Boonville Municipal Commission
and superintendent Charles Wet
more said in statement that the
complete savings which Boonville
enjoys as a result of its contract
with the Power Authority of the
State of New York for St. Law
renee power now are being turned
back to users of electrity in Boon
vile in the form of greatly reduced
electric bills.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
Montana Cattle
Count Down

HELENA-As numbers of cattle
advanced nationally to record high
as of January 1, Montana dropped in
rank and the mid-continent states
gained. Drought and grass-water
short conditions are a major reason
for Montana's drop.
Montana is 10th with 2,112,000
cattle, compared with 2,155,000 a
year earlier. Texas, Iowa and Nebras-
ka ranked one-two-three. Texas had
9,660,000.
Montana ranked 18th in beef cattle
with 100000, compared with p
028,OOO a year earlier. Texas was
first with 8,712,000. Montana ranked
seventh in beef cows with 1,126,000,
compared with 1,131,o00 year be-
fore. Texas was first with 4,496,000.
The Montana Stockgrowers maya
zine also reported a 15-year sum-
mary showed Montana had 1,S47,000
cattle in 1948.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30

from page z
''Now, there are many who will
argue, and have heard many
argue for the past several years,
that these figures indicate hydro
electric power is now longer as inn
portant to the nations needs as it
once was and that our overwhelm-
ing dependence on thermal genera
ton has minimized the value of
hydro sites and hydro developments
in any national power plan. / want
to make it very plain that the Fed
eral Power Commission does not
agree with this theory.
| also want to make it plain that
the statutes under which we are
charged with the guardianship and
development of hydro-electric sites
have not been repealed or weakened
Except through administrative &C
lions which can now be corrected)
nor do we think they should be weak
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
Hydro Development In

ened or repealed. On the contrary,
we feel growing sense of urgency
with respect to hydro-electric de-
velopment because so far as we can
see into the future hydro will con-
tinue to be the lowest-priced electric
ity it is possible for us to generate.
1t is also the only type of generation
that adds to natural resources, rather
than depicting them. Thus, as the
ratio of hydro-electric capacity to
our total requirements shrinks, it is
increasingly necessary to develop
every hydro-electric site to it's maxi
mum potential to help reduce the
overall cost of energy and conserve
other sources of energy.
I do not have to labor the point
with this audience that low-cost
power is a dynamic driving force
in the stimulation of any economy,
whether regional or national, and
the Federal Power Commission, as
a part of the federal government,
has a UNIQUE responsibility to see
that this precious resource is de-
veloped to the utmost.
The foregoing remarks explain
why the Federal Power Commission,
as it is presently constituted, has
been taking new look at some of
it's procedures related to hydro
electric development
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
Attack Regimen
Advertising Claims

DENVER-(CNS)-Taking Regi-
men Tablets isn't an "easy" way to
lose weight, Food & Drug Admins
tration declared last month. The ag-
ency charged it's false and misleading
for the firm to claim that it's product
can shrink a persons appetite and
result in dramatic loss of weight with
out changing his diet.
FDA questioned claims that reduc-
ers can melt away excess poundage
with Regimen while eating their ia
vorite foods with 'gusto." FDA also
attacked promises of weight loss in
a few days and claims that this loss
would be permanent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30

VANCOUVER, B. C.-Residents
of British Columbia have long known
their provincial premier, William
Andrew Cecil Bennett, was not the
common garden variety of politician.
But they didn't realize the degree of
difference until National Leader
Thomas C. Douglas of the New Dem
ocratic Party told them:
"You have the only premier know
of who can get money from the rich
and votes from the poor by promising
to protect them from each other"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
Republican Doctrine Clashes With Facts

show that government spending ir
the United States is not out of line
with spending in other advanced in
dustrial nations.
Nineteen hundred and fifty-nine is
the most recent year for which ade-
quate comparative figures are avail
able. In that year in the United States
total public spending federal, state,
locaD was 1873 per cent of the gross
national product. AS this includes
national defense, public education,
highways, police, hospitals, and what
not, can it really be said that spend
ing less than 80 per cent publicly puts
us on the road to, or anywhere near
the road to, socialism and commu-
nism? Can it really be said when
of this 80 per cent which is spent
publicly over half goes to purchases
from private firms producing for
profit?
AS a matter of fact, in public
spending we are behind Belgium
(29.3 per cent?, Canada $50 per
cent?, France (33.5 per cent?,
United Kingdom (34.9 per cent?,
Sweden (35.7 per cent?. In West
Germany the latest figures are for
1857. That was before the big rise
of German defense spending and
at that time the percentage of pub
lie spending was slightly bigger
than ours CESS per cent?.
Yet West Germany is regarded by
many as the shining example of a
free capitalistic economy.
But, it will be said, while defense
spending is necessary, the real creep
ng socialism is the money spent for
social security, veterans benefits,
government interest, and cash subsi-
lies. For the United States the ratio
If such payments to gross national
product was 7 per cent in 1859.
The Canadian ratio was 81 per
.ent. The United Kingdoms ratio
vas 11.2 per cent. The West German
in 1857 was 12.1 per cent, the
Belgium 1876 per cent, the French
6.5 per cent.
There are other comparative fig
Tres which could be cited.
All of them point to the conclus-
ion that as compared with the add
vanced industrial nations of the
world the ratio of our public spend
ing is conservative.
There is no hard factual basis for
he theory that we have turned our
ack on the free economy and are9
n the high road TO socialism and
The latter-day Republican propa-
anada does not work for the very
nipple reason that it is not true. l.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
FEDERAL POWER ENDED
VIRTUAL INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY

Before you or most of your mem
bers were born, lived and worked in
this country when there was no pro-
lection against the arbitrary will of
an employer or his foreman, whose
power over the economic life of the
workmen was so great Chief Justice
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
SOMETHING LACKING IN
THEIR EDUCATION

while some of your officers and
presumably, your members also, arc
too young to have borne any par
in this battle against communism Oh
to even have firsthand experience
with this struggle or with fighting
off the real article, / have no doubt
that your education and advantages
in today's America have insured that
you are arrayed with us against these
obvious foes of freedom. But when
| read you program, find some doubt
as to whether your political education
has taught you all of the real his
tory of the unfolding of freedom in
these United States. With all of the
certainty of youth, you assert the
superiority, in accord with the genius
of the Constitution, of State power
as against Federal powers. | seem to
remember that a hundred years ago
it was State powers which guarded
and perpetuated the institution of
chattel slavery, and that it was Fed
eral power alone that destroyed this
institution of complete denial of
ilSCuOtl. Aiiu, dlSo lSiHShiOSI tiiStI
Federal power alone was able to wipe
off the books of the most vociferous
of the States now asserting the sac
redness of State power, such infamous
laws as the Black Codes, which even
in 1865, after years of costly Civil
War, still made it capital offense
to teach black man to read and
write.
'As read my country's history,
every major subsequent advance
made since the legal extinction of
slavery by Federal enactment, and
aimed to remove its odious REM
nants in law and practice, has re-
quired the use of Federal power.
GAS trades unionist, certainly
know that every major advance in
my lifetime, in freedom from want
and economic oppression of the peo-
pie who earn their bread with their
daily labor, has been by the exercise
of Federal power, frequently not
only at the expense Oh, but, as in the
case of slavery, over the bitter oppo-
sition of State powers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
YAF Given Fatherly Advice
Fiqhters For Freedom

Taft once declared that the very tone
of voice, independent of the words
used by the master to his worlmen,
could constitute intimidation. 1t was
Federal power superseding State
power that ended virtual industrial
serfdom in big industry.
81 am certain that your two listed
keynote speakers, Senators Gold
water and Tower, do not understand
the whole and indivisible nature CT
the freedom you assert.
81 have listened and heard them
speak only for that portion of free
dom which is useful for the already
rich, well born, well educated, pow
erful and comfortable.
Cali of this brings me to inspect
your more elderly advisers. At least
two of them spent long years for
warding the Communist cause in lit
erature, in teaching and in labor,
while organized elements, like my
union and myself, were fighting that
Communist offensive, including their
part in it. These are high-grade intel
lects and they are properly welcomed
back to freedoms side. But they, in
all proper humility, might we'll refrain
from lecturing organized labor in
such patronizing tones, as John Dos
Passos and DIR. Bella Dodd have I'M
pardonly done. to those who only a
few years ago were holding the line
against the Communists, while Dos
Passos and DR.. Dodd, in communism's
era of much greater domestic strength
than now, were passing up the am
munition to our Communist foe.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker is also
on your list. remember that in the
days of the great illusion about So
Wet cobelligerency on the part of
almost every large section of Amer
lea, except organized labor, Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker came back from
a visit to the Soviet Union, with its
slave trade unions,
and publicly praised to the skies the
treatment of labor IN
the territory of our great Soviet ally
as compared with the presumably
softness to organized
labor back here in the United States
of America. | have never heard Mr..
repudiate that wartime
nonsense and may l be forgiven for
doubling if he has even understood
the nature of freedom here, except
an anarchiac, selfish individual part
of it, which is no guide for you and
me, any better than he understood
what he saw in Soviet Russia in war
ime.
81 will not send you money, since
the men you sponsor as speakers
and their supporters didn't seem
to need it the last time ! looked.
| do send you much more valuable
advise, and the cost of time, brain
sweat and effort to boy merely
educated in tax-supported Phila-
delphia schools and the hard col
lege of the labor movement, is so
considerable, that feel like a very
generous man."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
Ansco Film Union-Made

Ansco film is the only union
made snapshot film, advises the
Union Label & Service Trades De-
partment of New York City, which
urges union members to use the
product in preference to other
films.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30
By WALTER LIPPMANN, as re-
printed in Congressional Record from
CORPUS CHRIETIE (Texas)
CALLER-TIMES

CALLER-TIMES.
The soul-searching which went n,
among the Republican orators 0,
Lincoln's birthday did not bring fortl
that new image which they were al
seeking. Somewhere there is a block
1t prevents the Republican party
from getting to a position which i!
both conservative and popular.
The block, venture to suggest,
is that the Republican position has
been moved so far to the right that
the party has conceded to the Ken
nedy Administration not only the
left but the whole vast dominant
center.
rms has left the Republican lead
ers with no elbow room. and they are
squeezed into a corner where thew
can only say no. This cannot make
Tor popularity and for votes in a
country where the population is grow
ing prodigiously, where the way of
hfe is changing rapidly, where the
people, conscious of the huge pro-
ductive capacity of our economy. are
demanding that their crowded life
in the cities be made more comfort
able and more civilized.
The displacement of the Republi-
can leaders from the center to the
right has many causes. One of them,
for example, is the control of the
party organization by the old dodgers,
who have safe seats and keep ON be-
ing reelected. There is another rea-
SON which is that in recent years Re-
publican doctrine has been shaped by
theorists who are out of touch with
the modern world. Indeed, it would
not be an exaggeration to say that
it has been shaped by theorists who
do not know what they are talking
about.
These theorists have produced a
formula which discombobulates
Republican thinking. 1t is that lib
eralism and progressivism are the
high road to socialism, and that
socialism is the high road to COM
munism.
The extremists use the formula to
ay that the United States started
Town the road to communism when
he income tax was legalized in 1913.
But even the moderates, General Eli
enhower, for example, are deeply
of social security and the
Welfare state and of aid to education,
nd above all of the modern concep-
ion of the compensatory economy.
The difficulty about making a new
mage is that the Republican theorists
ave created such a false image of |
he Kennedy Democratic party that
here is no effective way they can
ppose it. Applied to the Kennedy
administration the formula of the
heorists of the right, that progress
ivism leads to socialism and social
I'M to communism, is absurd. 1t is
lily. Though Kennedy is progress
i've and liberal, he is also pro-
ound conservative, and only the be-
lddled theorists find that strange
nd hard to understand.
Their central theme, which is
also a central illusion, is that this
is spending its way out
Of freedom into socialism and COM
munism. But is it? have some
figures here which come from Prof.
F. M. Bator, a leading authority
pm the problems of government
spending. |
A big rich country spends more, {
course, than small poor country. {
he proper basis of comparison,
erefore, is the volume of govern
ent spending against the size of the t
Professor Bator's figures I
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-30

dom's bitterest foes.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06
James River OES
Installs Officers

SCOTTSVHLE, March % -
James River Chapter Order OF
the Eastern Star, No. 100 elected
and installed officers here Mon
day night. Mrs. Tom Allison was
the installing officer. New Off
Gers are, Mrs. James E. Cooken-
our. worthy rnatrUn; Tom Alliso-
worthy patron; Mrs. Owen Clark,
associate matron: Leslie Harri-
son. as ociate patron; Mrs. L. Z.
Baber. secretary; Ms. j. Il.
Duncan. treasurer; Mrs. Alex
Simpson. conGuctress: Mrs. W
R. 10 es, associate conductress.
Ar pointive officer: Mrs. Charlie
Patterson. chaplain. Miss Rosa
Gibbs. marshall; Ms. Claire
Thacker organist. Mrs. W. R.
Moore. Adah: Mrs. Leila Allison.
Ruth, ca. Mrs. Farley johnson,
Esther: Mrs. Roy Rakes, Martha
Mrs. w. L. Davidson, Electa.
Mrs. Leslie Harrison, Warder.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06
Howardsville

\. March 29-Callers in the z. W.
SnOddy home over the week end
were. M-Sgt. Hay N. Baber. Of
the U. S. Air Force Azores. Mr..
and Mrs. Ernie L. Baber, Of
Maurertown, and Mrs. Sidney
Baber. They also called on MIR
and Mrs. Lindsey Baber near
Hatton Fury.
A2c George c. Baber. Of q.
8. Air Force 1Tavis Base hos
pital, Calf. is On convalescmg
leave Of IS DAYS with Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Baber.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r.. Palmore,
announces the birth Of a baby
girl born March Is at Martha
Jefferson hospital, Charlottes-
vile. named Janice Marie.
Hubert Justus and his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Robert Barr. and her
son. visited his parents. Nh. and
Mrs. Justice near Greenville
Tenn. recently.
The regular amonthly meeting
Of the Beesville HID Club will
be held April 4. l pm. at the
home OF Mrs. Willard Bryant at
Glenmore. Mrs. Bryant is also
in charge of the devotional per-
iod her topic, the Easter Mes
sage. He is Risen. Mrs. Helen
McCraw will give the demons ira
ton Family Meals for club
bieS.
Mrs. Francis Harris. OF Glen
more, has been appointed by the
Goshen Baptist Church as the
principal Of the Vacation B ible
School to be held June Ills. The
associate principal will be the
Rev. Charlie D. Sterling, pastor
of the church.
Mrs. Sidney c. Baber and Mr..
and Mrs. Sidney T. Baber had
with them for the week end,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernie L. Baber
and their children. Marvin. Don
ME, Ann, Dorothy and Ernie. Of
MauertoWn. MSgt. and Mrs.
Hay N. Baber and their three
boys Rodney, Gregory, and
Brian. Of the Azores.
! Mrs. Wilbur Crews has return
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06
Rural Carrier
Position Open
At JetersviIle

JETERSVMLE, April I-An
examination for Rural Carrier
for the post office at Jetersvllle,
will be open for acceptance Of
applications until April "a. the
Civil Service Commission an
nOunced today.
Applicants must take writ
ten test for this position. They
must have resided within the del
livery of the office for one year
Immediately preceding the clos
irg date of the examination. In
addition. they must have reached
their 18th birthday on the closing
daet for acceptance of applica
tons. There is no maximum age
limit. However. persons who
have passed the age Of 70 may
be considered only for temper
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06
WHO'S Who Adds
z H-SC Alumni,
Total Now 1877

Seven additional Hampden-
Sydney College alumni are list.
ed in the 1862 edition Of WHO'S
Who in America. The number
doubles the previous high for ad-
ditions in any one year. anC
bri gs the total number Of alum
nj listed TO 1877.
The College consistently has
been among the first ten Of the
nations 1900 institutions Of high
er learning in tie percentage of
alumni listed in who's Who"
The new additions are:
William E. Blake. editor of the
West Virginia News Digest,
Chrleston, w. Va; Dr.. Oliver B.
Bobbitt. Jr.. chairman OF the De-
partment of Clinical Pathology,
University Of Virginia School of
Medicine, Charlottesville, John
A. Field. Jr.. Federal Judge of
the Southern District Of West
Virginia. Charleston. w. Va.
Also. Dr.. Thomas E. Gilmer.
educator, president of Hampden-
Sydney College; Dr.. E. c. Grit
fifth. professor Of economics,
Washington and Lee University
Lexington: Dr.. W. Edwin Hemp
hill, editor of the writings Of J0M.
c. Calhoun at the South Carolina
Archives Department. Columbia,
South Carolina, ard Dr.. Herbert
Trotter, Jl.. president Of General
Telephone and Electronics Lab
oratories, In. New York.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06
5 Forest Fires
In Buckingham
Since March /

BUCKINGHAM. April 2 =
Carter Taylor. chief Forest War
den Of Buckingham county said
today that there had been five
forest fires ii Buckingham
county since the first OF March.
when the fire burning law came
into effect.
Two Of these fires were set by
children playing with matches.
1T could have been tragic. he
said. and 1t was fortunate that
these children were not burned.
The other three fires were by
illegal brush burning.
In all five fires approximately
five acres of timber land we're
burned.
It was due to the response of
local people which resulted in
the early control of these fires
and in the small acreage being
burned.
Every one should remember
that all fires are their RESPONSE
bility and they should come to
these fires to help suppress
them.
The fact that there has been
very little wind this month has
been in their favor. Taylor said.
During this same period March
first. several warrants had to be
issued against persons burning
brush prior to the four p. m.
burning law and they had to pay
fines as determined by the court.
I'VE must protect our forest
products. said Taylor. 1T is
one of the chief occupations Of
the county and chief source Of
cash income.
He stressed not to burn trash
and brush before pm. and it
must be put out before u mid
night This runs ~ months.
| March | through May IS.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06

ed home from Martha Jefferson
hospital.
Members OF the Baber family
celebrated the birthday Of Mar
in E. Baber on March 10.
A mission study class for the
Sharon and Goshen Baptist
Church was held at the Goshen
Church Sunday March Is. 2::3
pm. for the Sun Beam Band. the
Girls Auxiliary the WAS and
the RA's OF these churches. jam
es Sn0ddy. director Of the RA's
was In charge.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-04-06

airy renewable appointments Of
one year.
Complete information about
the examination requirements
and instructions for fil.2g APP
plcations may be obtained at
the Jetersville post office. Ap-
plication FORMS must BE- filled
with the U. S. Civil Service Com
mission. Washington .. D. c..
and must be received or post
marked not Later than the clostEg
date