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THE HERALD-NEWS
ihe Pioneer Voice of The Community
ESTABLISHED IN Ul3
Continuation of The Wolf Point Herald, The Roosevelt
County News, The Fort Peck Leader, The Wolf Point Pro
moter, The Roosevelt County Independent
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Wolf
Point, Montana, July 11. 1940, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE (
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Billings, Montana August 24, 1942 j
We urge the Congress that
proper measures be taken, so far
as it is consistant with speedy
victory, to reduce to a minimum
expenditure for non-war pur
purposes and to eliminate at
once all non-essential govern
mental activities, to ensure a
just and fair distribution of the
burden of War, to make certain
that no one profits unduly from
the War, to impose rigid re
straint on inflation and to insure
constitutional guarantees vouch
safed in the Bill of Rights, '
We advocate an Old Age Pen
sion plan to be promulgated and
definitely set up in anicipation
of the depression that could fol
low the War-
We, the Republican Party,
realizing the National need for
Rubber, recommend and urge,
that our Government support the
production of Rubber from Ag
ricultural products, to the end
that our National needs be sup
plied
We urge that suitable legisla
tion be’ provided for the protec
tion of the families of the men
in the armed forces and that this
be done immediately.
The Republican Party recog
nizes .nd realize that the pros-
perity and the stability of our'
State is dependent to a Large ex
tent upon A(ojcultural produc
tion. We endorse a program that
will give returns to Agriculture
on an equal basis with labor and
industry. We pledge our repre
sentatives to sustain and build
the Sugar Beet Industry that has
been developed in the irrigated
and livestock districts of Mont
ana.
The Republican Party com
mends the loyal, patriotic and
unstinted efforts of the great ma
jority of organized laibor in pro
duction essential to our victory
in this war, and we urge that our
Government take drastic action
to end the coercion and disrup
tion of the united effort of a ma
jority of organized labor that the
men in the Armed Forces may
be properly protected.
The Republican Party recog
nizes that forty-seven percent o<
all the votes in the Nation are
cast by Women The primary in
terests of Women voters are the
promotion of sound, efficient and
clean government, both locally
and nationally, plus a moral ob
ligation wherin the home, the
family and the community may
be affected, and the Republican
Party is cognizant of these tacts-
The Republican Party agrees in
principle with the Rieorganiza
tion plan as recommended by
Governor Sam C. Ford.
We commend the Mining In
dustry of the State and especially
the small miner for the work
done to assist in the prosecution
of this War, and we pledge our
Congressmen, when elected , to
do everything possible to assist
in the development of that in
dustry.
Oil from Montana oil fjelds is
vital to the prosecution of the
war effort in the Northwest It is
vital as our only close and pro
tected source of supply for the
Alaskan front. We insist that the
Federal Government take im
mediate steps to increase oil pro
duction in these fields, making
whatever special adjustments in
drilling regulations, priorities for
materials and in price increases,
as may be necessry to insure at
once, the largest possible increase
in production from this stategic
source of oil supply.
Member Eastern
Montana Frees
Association
Because the question of tariffs
and reciprocal good neighbor ar
rangements will be so dominant
after the War, it is of the great
est importance that men who be
lieve in protection to American
! industrial, labor and agricultur
al interests as a principle, be
chosen from Montana, where all
three are of vital importance,
rather than to return those who
merely pretend to support these
interests and who continue to af
filiate with a party that in the
, last analysis is a free trade par
ty. Such a position is neither hon
cst nor consistant. By election
of a Republican to the UnitecT
States Ssnste and Republicans to
the Lower House of Congress,
from the first and second dis
tricts, Montana people need have
no doubt as to what their posi
tion will be on a question that
takes precedence of all others.
We therefore urge the election of
Hon. Wellington D. Rankin to
the United States Senate and
Hon. Howard Hazelbaker and
Hon. F. F. Haynes to the Nation
al House of Representatives and
Leonard C Young to the Rail
road Commission. Hon. Lewis R.
Knox as Clerk of the Supreme
Court.
We feclUhat there is need for
more performing and less reform
ing more giving and less gabbing
that military gains are more nec
essary than so-called social gain
to which the present administra
tion frequenty refers- During the
war we must be prepared to give
up some of our economic and
som of our political liberties,
but we must always keep in mind
thei they must be restored im-
mediately upon its termination.
If the huge War bureaucracies
are not dismantled after the war
our struggle will be in vain; if
we win th war and lose the Am
erican system of government we
will have lost the war regardless
of the military outcome.
Our concern for our country
and devotion to its institutions
are deeply imbedded in Republi
can traditions. We stand ready
to serve in any capacity, to real
ize a complete military victory.
In attaining this result party pol
itics as such have no place in our
thinking and acting We pledge
our whole-hearted support to the
President, our Commander in
Chief. We assure him that we are
ready and desirous of respond
ing to every command, every re
quest. to the end that the war
may be vigorously prosecuted
aand victory attained.
W* si
* farmers Inion
Croia lannisal Association
TO DWELL IN UNITY
GOVERNMENT WILL BUY
FIGURE IT YOURSELF
NOT LIKE LAST FALL
HOW IS IT DONE?
Any evidence of concerted act
ion and united effort is always
welcome to a co-operative-mind
ed person. You get the feel of it
in the Psalmist’s words: “Behold
how good and pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in
unity!” We have just had a sam
ple of that spirit that, in the
words of Longfellow, “Makes the
heart rejoice.” Seeing that the
price of Durum -the kind dam
aged hv almost perpetual rain—
was sliding down the scale and
The Heraid-Newa—Wolf Point, Roosevelt County, Montana
GET IN THE SCRAP TO WIN THE SCRAP
POUR IT ON 'EM, WITH YOUR JUNK
This list of vital materials
needed — things they make —
has been issued by the General
Salvage Section of the War Pro
duction Board.
The program for a nation-wide
'crap Harvest is under way on a
bid fair to repeat last year's dis
asrous experience, M. W- That
cher.our general manager, went
on the air over three radio sta
tions in North Dakota and one
each in Minnesota and Montana,
and told the farmers —co-opera-
tive and others—“ Don’t sell your
No. 4 and No. 5 Durum because
it does not qualify for Federal
loan " In effect he said: Wait a
while until I can get to Wash
ington and see if something can
b? done about it.
• * • *
Well—what happened? Those
farmers did iust as he asked. It
was unity: it was united action.
Shipments of low grade Durum
dropped off to a mere trickle!
Ni v r was anything better seen
in organized acceptance of the
voig’ of one leader! They must
trust him—and that trust will ne
ver be betrayed-Then he went to
Washington last week and he
fought it out with Goverment
officials and wangled from them
—aidedby Secretary of Agricul
ture Wickard. who signed the or
der—a floor under the price of
this damaged Spring wheat and
Durum !It is not a loan value—it
is a purchase price. The govern
ment will buy damaged No. 3
Durum and spring wheat as
well) at a small discount under
the 1942 loan value. Last year,
under similar conditions, the
price of this wheat went 20 to 30
cents below the market. This
year it can not go below the gov
ernment fixed price, based on
she 1942 loan value. Some differ
ence. brother!
• • • •
As to durum, a 13 cent dis
count applies to damage by fun
gus.Hackpoint and sprouting up
to 7 percent, and the grain must
not have more than 14.5 percent
moisture. But suppose the dam
age amounts to 8 percent? Then
the discount at which the gov
ernment will buy it. increases to
14 cents—increasing one cent for
each one oer cent of damage a
bove the 7 percent. Figure it out
for yourself. The loan value of
No. 3 Durum is $1.29. If the
wheat or Durum you have is dam
aged 8 percent, 14c from $1.29
is slls a bushel. They can’t take
it away from you for less than
that. That’s the meaning of a
FLOOR under a price.
But after figuring a bit, you
say: “That ain’t so much of a
much.” No? Last year when that
damaged wheat came rolling in
to the terminals at the rate of
400 cars a day, you took whatev
er you could get for it. It was
nothing to have to take 20 cents
to 30 cents a bushel less than
market for grain of the same
grade undamaged This year as
oon as the farmers learn about
the floor being put under the
price, the same and even abigger
number of cars will come rolling
in to the terminals. Why should
there be more cars this fall? Be
causethe crop is larger—more
wheat and more Durum was pro
duced, so the U. S- Department
of Agriculture reports. The far
mer who was trying to produce
food for the world would have
take it in the neck this fall as
he did last, but for the order
signed lat week in Washington
at the insistence of M W Thatch
er, fighting spearhead of the Far
mer's Union.
• • * •
Believe it or not—unity is not
i only “good" and “pleasant". It
pays off in cash When there’s a
leader calling the signals and the
whole teary responds as one man
it’s no trick at all to make the
distance in less than four downs.
When the farmers respond with
the unanimity they showed in
this instance it is an inspiration
to their leaders and they feel re
paid forthe time they have ex
; P nded. the struggle they have
made to get what should have
been had for the asking. Obsta
cles are not made to stymy us but
to provoke us to effort and there
by make us stronger and more
confident. The rock in the path
that seems to block us we take
and make the hearthstone in the
home of the family-sized farm.
The tree that was athwart our
path to a fair return for our la
bor we take and make into a
floor und< r our price- How is it
don 1? By working together—by
everlasting unity.
big scale and residents of this
section, especially the farmers of
Roosevelt and McCone county
will answer the call and cooper
ate 100 S in making the harvest
of scrap materials equal in abun
dance with the bountiful grain
crons of the year.
If all could be made to real
ize just how badly this scrap is
needed for continued production
of war material, we know they
would respond. There are thou
sands of tons of scrap iron scat
tered over the prairies in this
section. It should allbe gathered
up and delivered to shipping cen
ters.
Watch this paper for further
announcements of the Junk
Rally.
SCRAP IRON AND STEEL
The following items will pro
vide an amount of scrap equiva
lent to the scrap normally re-
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firs LET ’EM HAVE IT!
Here’s a scrap we stay-at-homes can all get
into. Uncle Sam’s calling for action on the home
front. That’s what we’ve been waiting for, isn’t it?
If you’re an average sort of
town family you’re supposed to
have 100 pounds of scrap metal
lying around your premises —
scrap that will do a real job in
a torpedo.
If you’re a typical sort of farm
family you’ve got something like
1,000 pounds of idle scrap —
enough to make a considerable
mess in Herr Hitler’s back yard.
Talk about “second fronts”!
From fields, attics, parks, cellars,
backyards, garages, alleys, shops,
kitchens, closets, will come...
screws, bolts, nuts, keys, iron
fences, ancient cannon, hair pins,
coat hangers, town water towers,
abandoned bridges, machinery,
tools, pipe, auto parts —anything
and everything made of iron and steel.
Give ’em the works —and don’t make the mis
take of flunking you can’t do it! You will be
+ Yon’S And MS information about
how to diapcM at your rcrap mMal.in
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q red to' produce the steel used
in the militai-y machines men
tioned.
Old flatirons equals 2 steel hel
mets or 30 hand grenades.
{Electric irons equals five 37
mm anti-aircraft shells.
Old wood or coal kitchen stove
equals ten 4-inch shells.
Set of skid chains equal twen
ty 37-mm. anti-aircraft shells
Seventy five sets of chains equal
one 16 inch projectile.
Five bathtubs equal one
one-half ton truck.
Lawn mower equals six 3
inch shells.
Set ofoldgolfclubs equal one
.30 caliber machine gun.
A refrigerator equals twelve
.45 caliber submachine guns. Si
xty one old refrigerators equal
one light tank.
Old radiator equals seventeen
.30 caliber rifles. Seventeen old
radiators equal one 75-mm. tank
gun.
Eleven old washing machines
equal one one-half ton truck.
A kitchen sink equals 25 3-in.
shells. One hundred and seventy
WHY SCRAP IS SO IMPORTANT
First—Scrap iron and steel is
needed in the process of making
new steel from iron ore.
Second —A pound of scrap metal
melted together with a pound of pig
iron (made from iron ore) produces
nearly two pounds of new steel.
Railroads are breaking all records
In getting tremendous quantities of
iron ore from the mines in northed
Minnesota to the boats on Lake
Superior. The Great Northern Rail
way alone is moving nearly one
third of all of the iron ore that ia
being consumed by the roaring steel
furnaces of the Nation.
But iron ore is not enough!
Scrap metal is the urgent need!
The production of tanks, guns,
shells, ships, etc., for our fighting
forces is slowing up because of lack
of scrap metal.
Our Commander-in-Chief has
appealed to every American to search
out and turn in the last ounce of
scrap metal from his home, busi
ness and farm.
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Great Northern Railway
five old kitchen sinks equal one
medium tank.
Large ash can equals two .30
caliber rifles. Six large ash cans
equal one anti aircraft director.
A garbage pail equals 1,000
30 caliber cartridges. One hun
dred and eleven garbage pails e
qual one *75-mm. howitzer.
A wash pail equals 3 bayonets.
Ten wash pails equal one 60-mm
mortar.
Old farm discs (420 lbs.) e
quals 210 semi-automatic light
carbines.
Old plow (850 lbs.) equals 100
armor- piercing projectiles.
Five tractors, over 30 h.p. e
quals one medium tank.
Two 2-disc tractor plows are
equal to one 75-mm. tank gun.
One two-bottom tractor mold
board plow equals one 75-mm.
howitzer.
One spike or spring tooth sect
ions harrow equal four 4 inch
shells.
One disc harrow equals 10
anti- aircraft directors.
One one-horse cultivator equal
two 60-mm. mortars.
surprised how much you can dig up when you
swing into action. There’s that old hot water tank
you thought you might use some day. Right now
you’ve got the most important
job for it you’ll ever find!
Our boys at Manila, Wake and
Midway didn’t say “Can’t.” The
Russians hung on grimly to
Sevastopol until after 50,000
tons —more than thirteen 100-
car train loads of metal and ex
plosives—were hurled at them!
No mistaking, it will take a
lot of cold steel —and hot steel—
to tame that gang of internation
al brigands we’re tangling with, j
And that iron and steel is needed
NOW —every pound of it we can
dig up.
The all-out battle for scrap
metal is on! Sure you’ll volunteer,
and be one of the first to turn
in your quota!
And remind your neighbor, too.
They asked for it. . . Let's let ’em have it.
Thursday, October 8, 1942
Fifteen two-row tractor cult
ivators equal one light tank.
Twelve Mowers equal one 3
inch anti-aircraft gun.
Five haymakers eqral 1 armor
ed scout car.
Miliary Uses of Steel
Roughly, half the material
used to make steel is scrap. If I V4
millions tons, (2,500,000,000 Lbs.)
of scrap ’were collected from
farms, this would provide the
scrap necessary to make:
More than twice as many bat
tleships as there are in the world
today, or enough 2,000 lb. bombs
to drop 3 perminute from Flying
Fortresses incessantly for over 3
years, or enough 100-lb. bombs
to drop one every second of ev
ery minute of every hour of ev
ery day for over three years.
Copper and Brass
Lamp bulbs: 1,000 burnt-out
lamp bulbs equal 40 compasses.
Washing and ironing machines
equal 8 4-lb incendiary bombs.
One refrigerator equals 70,000
.37 mm. antiaircraft explosives.
One Vacuum Cleaner equals
31,000 .30 caliber cartridges