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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18

a n d non-factual information on
wholesale power rates, interest rates
and taxes and false claims that they
cam provide all the power the nation
needs.
"T'he power utilities also take cred
it for electrifying Rural America. To
quote from one of the ads:
From about the turn of the CEN
furry until 1885, the investorlowned
electric power companies, co-operat-
ing with equipment manufacturers
and farming groups, pioneered in
electrifying rural areas
Those only vaguely familiar
with the facts in the 1905 know
that the commercial power inter-
ests refused to provide electric
service to the nations rural areas,
a situation that prompted govern
ment action and the establishment
of REA and the rural electric CO.
operative movement. At that time,
only about one farm in ten had or
could get central station electricity.
"The new, advertising project of
Lhe commercial power companies is
being placed by ECAP. This is the
first time that ECAP has hit directly
ait the rural electric cooperative pro-
gram.
"Many of the rural electrics,' the
NEWS points out, are buying most
If their wholesale power from a num-
Der of companies that have contrib
lted to this ECAP advertising fund
hat lis being used to injure the rural
electric co-ops."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
MPCo, Other Utilities, Launch Ad
Attack On Rural Electric Co-ops

Many of the country's commercial
power companies, including Montana
Power, are banding together to fl
nance an expensive, nationwide adj
vertising program in 1868 ahmed at
discrediting and distorting the role
of REA and the individual rural cleo
trio co-operatives, reports National
Rural Electric Coop Association
NEWS.
Altogether there are more than
one hundred private power companies
involved in the Electric Companies
Advertising Program (ECAP) anti
rural electric cooperative propaganda
campaign. Two other private utilities
providing service in Montana: Mon
tana-Dakota utilities and Pacific
Power & Light, are NOT on the list
of those cooperating in the ECAP
advertising barrage.
Several of the profit power COM
bine's propaganda ads have already
been published in number of period
;cals of national circulation" the
NEWS continues. ''They contain the
familiar theme of attack: misleading
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
0ufmigration

The South is paying heavy penal
ty for it's segregation policies. Almost
1.5 million Negroes left the South
in the past decade to settle in the
North and West. Mississippi lost the
most, a total of $4,000. Many of
these are younger people, educated
in the area. In some Southern states,
there is concern about the movement
northward of white and Negro youth
seeking better job opportunity.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
Rural People Aren't Farmers

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Out of every four rural residents in
the U. S., only one lives ON farm,
Calvin Beale of the u. S. Agriculture
Department. said here last month.
Some of the others have "meaningful
agricultural connections" but mil
lions do not, Beale said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
TIES TO NAM AND
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Loneliness will never afflict the
NRTWC. 1t has established close and
permanent family ties with the NAM
and Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber, in 1861, set up its
own Special Committee on Voluntary
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
United Nations, World
Communications Center

THANK God we can talk
with the Communists, in the
United Nations! Thank God we
could talk with them during
the Cuban crisis, exclaimed
Rev. William Startling at the
t'armer-Labor Institute in Great
Falls last Saturday morning, in
emphasizing how imperative it is the
UN be strengthened in the interests
of world peace.
Rev. Startling is pastor or the West
Side Methodist Church in Great Falls.
Taking issue with those who would
destroy the UN, the Fortnight Minis
ter pointed out that if Communism
went out of existence tomorrow.
wed still have all the problems we
have today we'd still have the
problems of hunger and disease ="
rampant throughout much of the
world.
Saying the real enemies of peace
are hunger, fear, ignorance, super,
stition, disease, and distance, Rev.
Startling contended that the ''UN
must be strengthened because the
problems of the world are much
too big to be handled by one or two
nations alone :"
The speaker placed particular en-
phasis on the UN as communications
media in pointing out that separation
is the great evil to overcome that we
must learn and understand the prob
LENS and aspirations of people every
where.
The UN, too, is the only agency
the nations of this world have which
can eventually supervise the general
disarmament which must come if we
are to avoid the possibility of nu-
clear holocaust which, conservatively
estimated, would wipe out 70 to 80
of Americans alone. Although |
the military mind figures such sacri-
flee would be necessary TO ensure
victory for this country in such |
war, Rev. Startling emphasized that
lllOSc poOPlC llOL CApCltudOlC
don't want this :. want more
than this for my children, for the |
of the United States, for the !
of Russia, for the children
IF Cuba y"
To those who think that if the So
iet Union were kicked out of the
JN, we in the United States could
breath easier, Rev. Startling asked,
what good is a gadget-filled para
Use in hell of international insecur-
typ"
HAVE BEEN REMISS
Noting that the churches by and
arge. including the Methodist Church
md the World Council of Churches,
re solidly behind the UN, the Great
FALLS minister expressed the thought {
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
The Money, The Menace
The Men The Money, The Menace
Common Goals Unite Right ingers,
RTW Forces In Anti-Union Crusade

Commute
be f
o OF n labor
isn't it il it S
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
THE MONEY TREE AND SOME
OF THOSE WHO WATER 1T

Money is no problem for NRTWC.
Since its function is essentially propa-
gandistic, it does not-nor does it
need to-deal i'm millions. The most
recent years for which figures are
available are 1859 and 1860, during
which the committee collected and
spent more than 100000, the bulk of
it ON educational" materials.
1T collects funds ON a sliding scale
dues basis. For individuals, 81 year
and up; $25-$6O for small businesses,
$50-$10O for average size concerns,
500 and up for larger companies.
The big money for RTW comes at
the state level. Some of the sources
are eye-openers. In Ohio, for ex-
ample, in 1853 the open shoppers got
big boost from the extreme right
wing Committee for Constitutional
Government. The one-time chief of
Cog, Edward Rumely, was notorious
for the inferior quality of his patrio-
tism. He was convicted after World
War l for his wartime activities as
German agent.
The Toledo branch of Cog, in a
letter dated May 1, 1859, dunned
Ohio businessmen for contributions
of more than $500 head to aid the
union-busting RTW campaign. Among
signers of the letter were big indus
trtialist members of cog, one of them
the president of Champion Spark
Plug Co.
The flood of RTW funds in the
states, of course, comes from bust
nesses, the state chambers of COM
MERGE and state NAM affiliates.
In 1858, when scab law promoters
were rebuffed i'm several major in
dustrial states-among them Ohio |
and California many millions were
poured into the anti-worker crusade. |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18

pdiSH.
Though it has appeared under diff
ferent aliases Plan in the
i920s and now "right-to-work" the
character and intent of the original
open shop drive has been changeless
over it's 60-year history.
Not to be outdone by it's Siamese
twin of reaction, the United States
Chamber of Commerce in 1921 joined
the NAM crusade when its president
declared: eve stand for the principle
of the open shop. Since then, the
NAM and Chamber have been insepa-
rable in their determination to "res-
cue'' American working people from
the iron dungeon of trade unionism
by throwing them key labeled fright
to work.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18

that until recently, Christianity has
been remiss i'm facing up to and Civ
ing moral leadership in solving the
desperate problems of much of the
world.
Christianity, he said, has in sense
allowed Communism to become "the
conscience" of much of the world,
because the christian churches in
the past have failed to be true to
t h @ r ideals. Fortunately, the
churches are awakening.
Communism, he continued, has
offered hope, when many times
hope was denied the underprivi-
legged. 1t has brought a contest to
the Christian churches, he contin-
ued, contest which they are be-
ginning to meet; a contest which
will strengthen and renew their
dedication to a basic concept of
Christianity, the Brotherhood of
Man in all of its qualifications.
The Christian churches, he said,
are strongly backing the UN because
it provides a means of assuming our
responsibility in helping to guide the
world.
Idealists, whether in the churches
or elsewhere, he said, chad better
make their voices heard in the world
today, for, even though some in
,inuate that being zone worlder is
a dirty word, we ARE one world to-
lay, and YOU better believe it,"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
HAVEN'T LOST ANY
SOVEREIGNTY

Despite the fears expressed by the
"right-wing" and many other unin-
formed people, Rev. Startling doesn't
believe we have lost any of our SOW
ereignty because of the United Ma
ions. In this connection, he pointed
out that such Americans as the late
Senator Vandenburg and Rep. Charles
Eaton, both Republicans, had played
major role in the drafting of the
UN Charter. (For more ON this see
UN box, page 8.-Editor).
He said he couldn't understand
why some Americans "find it so hard
to believe I'M world organization
or in world government, recalling that
all during our history we've found
we had to consolidate in order to de-
velop the kind of union we now
have. The 13 colonies found, he re-
minded, that loose federation would
give us neither strength nor preserve
our freedom.
Commenting briefly on the emerg-
ing nations of Africa, Rev. Startling
said that Christian churches are very
proud of the fact that most of the
African nations are represented in the
UN by men who are ''the products
of our mission schools. These mis-
sion schools, he believes, are making
ga real contribution to world under
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
HAVE BEEN REMISS

Noting that the churches by and
large, including the Methodist Church
and the World Council of Churches,
are solidly behind the UN, the Great
Falls minister expressed the thought
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
A NATURAL HAVEN FOR
THE "FAR-OUTERS"

Through the years, the open shop
movement has been a magnet for the
ultra-reactionaires of the American
right wing. Indeed, without them it
would be as dead as vaudeville, for it
is the ultras who today carry the load
for state RTW movements.
A professional right-winger, Vance
Muse, was among the first to employ
the phrase fright to work" as full
blown slogan. Muse helped organize
in the 1930s the infamous Christian
American Association, an anti-Negro,
anti-Semitic outfit. In Florida (1944)
and Arkansas (1947), the first two
states to pass scab laws, Muses. hate
mongering CAA played an important
role. Muses. activities often were
helped substantially by DUPONT money
and finances from Alfred Sloan of
General Motors.
In the thick of the Arkansas battle,
TOO, was the Veterans Industrial As
sociation, founded by strong arm man
James Karam. A strike-breaking or
ganization for hire, it had the sup
port and cooperation of a power
house of today's right wing, George
S. Benson, president of Harding Col
lege, Searcy, Ark. Benson and his
college are the fountainhead of right
ist films, literature, strategy. (See
editorial, "MPCo. Contributed YOUR
Money -, page 4.-EDITOR.)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18

Among members o f NRTWC's
board of directors with close ties to
the extreme right are: Rev. Howard
E. Mather, Armenia, N. Y, leader
of the Christian Freedom Founda-
ton; Rev. Frederick G. Fowler, Du-
iuth, Mimi, speaker at meetings
of Billy James Hargis' Christian Cru
SADIE and director of Christian Free
dom Foundation; industrialist Charles
E. Daniel, Greenville, S. c., member
of the rightist American Good Gov
eminent Society; Eugene B. Ger
many, Dallas, Texas, president of
Lone Star Steel, ONE of the big do
nors to right-wing activities.
Nearly dozen former directors
of NRTWC have long histories of
association with way-out right-wing
causes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-18
ENTER THE NATIONAL RIGHT
TO WORK COMMITTEE"

Ten years after the war, II states
had adopted RTW, and the time was
ripe for formation of a national front
group. Thus, in 1866, founding of
the National Right to Work Commit
Tee was announced. Its character can
be judged by the heralds who trum-
peted it onto the scene. One was
North Carolina industrialist E. S.
billiard, presently an endorser of the
John Birch Society and of the Man
ion Forum. The other was ex-Rep.
Fred Hartley, Jr., whose name en-
dures as the far end of the Taft
Hartley Act. Hartley himself once
listed as sponsor of political action
conference organized by the late
Merwin X. Hart, holy name in right
wing circles.
Hartley was president of the newly
formed NRTWC, LATER became chair
man of its advisory board, and after
1858 appears to have severed formal
ties with the group. billiard was the
first chairman of the
board, has remained as director.
Another of THE prime movers in
the early days of NRTWC was Will
liam Harrison, disgruntled railroad
worker. He served ais executive secre-
tary from 1866 to 1861 and left to
become executive vice president of a
far-out right-wing crowd in Indiana,
he Council for Individual Freedom.
He has since moved on to another
1ightist outfit, the National Labor
Foundation.
Joining NRTWC i'm 1861 as vice
president and director of information
vas Glenn A. Green who had put in
IL years as chief assistant to the
mentioned George 5. Ben
on. Under Benson, Green produced
films widely circulated By
HE John Birch Society and other
rallucinated groups. Green is an adj
nitted member of JBS.
The Republican., 1963-10-31
GORTNER

Out-of-toWn relatives attending
Dan Lichty's funeral were Mrs
Harrison Yommer, Jonas Lichty
and family, Salisbury, Pa; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul StutZman and daughter
Josie, Hartville, o.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Pritts, Shaw, w. Va; Mrs. An
ma Bender, Donald Hershberger,
the Enos and Allen MauSts, Dewey,
Sam and Norman Beachy families,
and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hersh-
berger, Springs, Pa; Gerald Miller
and family, AtgIen, Pa; Mr. and
Mrs. Jonas Scheffel and children,
Somerset, Pa; and Elmer Yoder
and family, Springs, Pa.
Pallbearers were Freeman Lich-
ty, Willard Swartzentruber, Simon
Schrock, of Grantsville; David
Lichty, Cumberland; Paul Stutz-
man and Gerald Miller, of Ohio,
and Atglen, Pa
Nelson and Lovina CARRIER, Edna
Hershberger, lido and Lydia
Yoder were visiting in Ohio over
the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Slabach, of
Wellman, Iowa, spent from We'd
The Republican., 1963-10-31
Clipping Tells of
Tooth Anniversary

A clipping concerning the Tooth
birthday anniversary of a former
Garrett county resident, was re-
ceived belatedly during the week.
The item concerned Mrs. Frank
Ida Belle Rash, of Kawanee, ILL.,,
who noted her Tooth anniversary
on Wednesday, June ~.
She was born June IL, 1868, the
daughter of Henry and Phoebe
Hanneke Weimer, of Meyersdale,
Pa. Mrs Rash was orphaned at
the age of nine and reared by Post
master and Mrs Farrell, of Swan
ton. She was married to Hanson
F. Friend, a son of Fletcher Friend,
of Swanton, on May IL, 1887 He
died in January of 1890 One daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clarence Little, of Ke-
vance, with whom she resides,
was born to this first marriage.
Mrs. Friend and daughter moved
to Kewanee in 1890. She was later
married to Frank Rash, Sr., in
Kewanee on January 3, 1898. Mr..
Rash died in March of 1888.
One of the memorable events in
the elderly woman's life was her
participation in the opening per-
formance of Buffalo Bills Wild
West Show at the Columbia
Worlds fair in Chicago in 1893.
Cody had been introduced to Mrs.
Rash by her brother-in-law, Rob-
ert H. Haslam, known as Pony
Bob Haslam and Cody had been
Indian scouts and we're among the
first Pony Express riders. They
later worked as drivers and COM
munications men for Wells Fargo
Express company until forming
Cody's Wild West Show.
Haslam is known historically for
his 12O mile ride in eight hours and
10 minutes carrying a dispatch tell
ing of Lincoln'S election victory
over the other presidential candi-
dates.
Mrs Rash has worked with
flowers and cooking as hobbies
throughout her life until becoming
bedridden in 1859 She was a men,
Der of the KcWanee First Baptist
church, and later attended the
Church of Peace.
Mrs Rash has a number of nieces
and nepheWS still residing in Swan
ton and Deer Park, among them
Lee and Leslie ROdchcaver, Deer
Park: Grace Friend Warwick,
Pearlc Friend Campbell, SWanton;
Lawton Friend, Atlanta, Ga; Joe
Friend, Punxsutawney Pa; Charles
Friend. Fellowsville, W. Va. Olive
Friend LaWman, Cumberland There
are two grandchildren and one
great granddaughter.
Mrs Rash is the last surviving
member of the Weimer family. Her
sisters, Hattie, Jennie, Dollie, and
Eva, and a brother, William, are
deceased She credits her long life
to hard work, trust in God, and
being a good neighbor.
The Republican., 1963-10-31

Sisk were Sunday dinner guests of
Ernest Schrock and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Miller and
daughter, Grantsville, spent Mon
day evening with the Emanuel Mil
lers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Junior Stoltzfus
spent an afternoon at Albert Sisk's.
The Republican., 1963-10-31

Mark Swartzentruber, of Della
ware, spent Monday with his uncle,
ID. l.. Swartzentruber and daugh-
ters
Milton Beachy, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan Beachy, is a patient in
Garrett County Memorial hospital.
He had his appendix removed on
The Republican., 1963-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Petersheim
and Nelson Harsh took dinner on
Sunday with the Hesses. Mr. Hesse
remains quite i'll.
Will Sanders recently visited
Sol Snyder and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Martin, near Red House.
The Republican., 1963-10-31

Saturday. His brother-in-laW and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. John Kauff-
man, of Pleasant Valley, became
the parents of a daughter in the
Oakland hospital, Monday evening.
Memo Guengerich, Joni Miller,
Jr. and family, of Virginia; Olen
Schrock and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
The Republican., 1963-10-31

nesday until Friday with their
cousins, Sam and Lena Slabach.
They visited Blackwater and had
supper with John c. Yoder and
family. They spent the weekend
at Fentress, Va, and we're guests
of their cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira
Miller's 5Oth wedding anniversary,
The Republican., 1963-10-31

on Sunday.
Mrs. Paul Welch and Mrs. Anna
Bittinger attended Metzler's sale
near Bittinger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Heinrich, of
Indiana, spent Monday evening
with Simon and Henry Swartzen-
trllhpr
The Republican., 1963-10-31

Whooping cranes total is cut by
10 as % of them prepare to fly
north from Texas.
Four persons died as a bus in
California rolled 120 feet into a
canYOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-16
Here's the way to live!

Il HEARD THREE SENTENCES recently that went
through me like an electric shock. was listening
to talk by Max Eastman one afternoon when
heard him say: ITO live is good. To live wildly
is better. To live wildly together is best"
~To dive Is soOd." How fine to hear someone,
at last, telling me, simply that life good, that
Ishoud be grateful for the chance to weep, laugh,
sing. suffer pain, experience joy.
-Te Ise SisidIy % Better" How easily had
forgotten that to make life vivid you must ap-
prOach it excitedly, hopefully, zestfully tasting
crisp cold apples, smelling the subtle scent of
spring viOlets, watching the golden and scarlet
caprices Of a sunset, feeling with awareness the
sOftness Of silk, listening to the mysteries Of
music. The vividness is here, shining and singing
all about us, but we must work at tuning our
selves to it so that we can live afresh in apprecia-
ton and understanding.
so live Vividly together e SesG" This is
what we all know and usually forget. realized,
when heard the words, that would never have
been depressed had looked at the world about
me, savOred it, enhanced it and then sought to
share it, bringing what had found to someone
else. We live vividly so that we can have the
incompatible delight of seeking eagerly for
warmth and joy, not to hide it but to give what
we have discovered freely. have found that to
share these things with a wife, a child or a
stranger is to stimulate both Of US to seek the
goodness and brightness of the world.
Those three sentences made me realize =
again = what life really means.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-16

eovaR Fun the photo by Private Line
8; Aim Now for the Top Jobs of 1867 o. How
An Angel Animals ~; Miss America Miss Cooking
Your Family This Summer IA Modern
for Yourself 1si The Tent That House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-16
Circulation; 1900, Geo

BEN C. WRIcHr, President
EUCLID N. CovmcroE
Chairman Of he Board
JoHN C. STERLING
Honorary Chairman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-16
This Week

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-16

WmLIAM I. NIcHoLs
Editor and Publisher
I'd MCCARTHY. Managing Editor
NELSON cRUPPo, AT DisecioV
STEWART BEACH, Asa. % he Editor
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1963-03-15
PUGET SOUND SECTION
(Kent, Auburn, AIgonu, Sumner, PUyoIUp, Tocomo)
EvoIeigh CristoboI, Correspondent

sons, Richard, Vincent, Mich
ael, Joseph, and daughter, Man
uela. A brother Salvador, of Pa
cific; his mother, four sisters
and one brother in the Philip
ines. Rev. Merle Johnson 0ffici-
ated at the services at the Price
Funeral Home in Auburn and
internent was at the Auburn
Cemetery.
= =
It's twin boys for MIR. and
Mrs. Tony Nonan, Jr., of Au-
burn. Born January Is, at the
Auburn General Hospital, Au-
burn, and weighing 6 lbs. 7 ozs.
and 8 lbs. and ~ ozs. They
have been named Douglas Mark
and Bradley Michael.
Miss Christina Palma, of AS
ingan, Pangasinan, Pr. and Sill
yer R. Sonora of Auburn were
united in marriage at the
Catholic Church in Asingan by
Rev. Father Jose Ferrer, Sun
day, January 27. Mr.. Sonora ar
rived home Saturday, February
% by PAL plane. Mrs. Sonora
will follow after school session
is over where she is teaching.
= =
Relatives and friends were
saddened by the recent death
of Morrie (MOnicO) Estrada of
Tacoma, Sunday, February 3,
at Northern Pacific Hospital,
Tacoma. He is survived by his
wife, Evelyn; two sons, MOrrie
and David; and two daughters,
Marlene and Victoria; a cousin,
Domingo AgarpaO, Kent; and