Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-01-19

have il. Ii is the heighth Of ego-eetentricity IL assume
that 1t is not as much one white mans concern a.
another. The fact is that more money is tbeing spenr
today and more agencies are busy in honest efforts
to relieve human suffering everywhere in the world
than ever before in human history. Let the Commun-
lists be given full credit for their part in this worthy
undertaking.
But when they would add TO human misery
such as it is, realized war. from which most of these
scrambled eggs would run away. they reveal conyin-
eingly the full extent of their delightfully."- impressive
and obvious insincerity.
Meantime, it would perhaps be unfair to judge
Communism in the abstract by the scamps. cadgerS
and incoherents who rather haltingly voice its prin-
-eiples in this section and Invariably wind up by pass
ing the~hat.
Every new political movement is beset by these
gentlemen. They are most conspicuous in our Upper
Missouri Communism. The other extreme-may be
found in such profound. sincere and logical thinkers
as the great Einsten. And scamps. eadgers and inco-
herents are not confined TO any political group. All of
our political groups reek with them.
The task set for intelligence is TO neutralize
them. not by shooting them. hanging them from the
bridges or drowning them in deep rivers, but by
sanely evaluating what they have TO say, and giving
them exactly the credit due them, as it is dictated by
calm thought and careful reasoning.
Listen intelligently to our Upper Missouri River
Communists. Say them not nay, when they would
speak in the public places. There are some fine. well
meaning, distracted people among them. if there are
a few scrambled eggs. Ignore not the hat when ii is
passed. Give a little something, if you can afford il
yourself. Be XII. We pass this why but once. All
flesh suffers, whether 1t is capitalist flesh or Com
munist flesh. Misery does not occur exclusively in any
one strata of society. We have M Il of wealth and
position jumping out Of seventh story windows. They,
too, are scrambled eggs.
Yet all the time God is in his heaven. a fact our
Communists deny, even when the term is used figur-
atirely. They will have nothing TO do with God. They
would take away from humankind a great inspira-
tional value that through long ages, and despite err
rant abuses, has contributed much to console they
who suffer in the spirit and in the flesh and they
would put nothing in its place. They would bring us
war and dictatorship. Imagine choosing a dictator
from suca leaders,
Listen to our Communists at least once, more if
you like. Once. however, will be enough for the aver
age man or woman who still has the priceless gift of
being able to think and reason, sanely, as an indfy-
idual.
And when 1t is all over do not forget that after
all we all struggle toward one great common end. Tt
is increased human happiness and opportunity, In
the darkest Of times, in hours when personal conf
dence in everything is shaken by the sheer force OF
cataclysmic events that none Of us clearly understand.
do not fail to remember that after all most OF the
troubles we survey for ourselves in this strange adj
venture we call life, never really happen. BE kind
and reasonable to our Communists There are only a z
few of them. Yet wherever a few are gathered to-
gether You viii always find exploiters, men who pass
the hat. And the group does not need to be exclusive
" Communistic.