The people's voice., 1939-12-13
Apples and
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plorable situation in Cleveland, Ohio
| But not a word. They don't want the
people here to know that there are
people, neighbors of theirs, with fam
lilies that have to live on 4c a meal.
| Or that there are others, without chill
dren. that are forced to exist on ap-
pies and flour, and usually not enough
of that to go around. This condition
surely doesn't exist because of panic
of food stuff here, as the farmers have
their elevators full of wheat and there
are tons and tons of fruit being des-
troyed. 1t can't be because we are
short of gold in this country as we
have caves down in Kentucky full of
it. It must be the workings of de-
generate minds that thrill at the sight
of misery, want and destruction of
fellow man. The people of Montana
should be gathering their forces to
offset this damnable situation before
it reaches here, as it surely will.
In the Record Herald of December
9th appeared his notice:
Contributions, small or large, for
the relief of the people of Finland
are being sought in Helena as else
where throughout the nation in re-
sponse to an appeal from ex-Presl-
dent Herbert Hoover, who is organ
iZing the relief activity. The two
local banks, the Chamber of Com
merce and the two daily newspapers
of Helena will act as sponsoring and
clearing agencies for funds collected
Io1 rThio 10 dnnn
to eliminate overhead costs and al
low all funds donated to go into the
relief effort itself"
1t seems strange to me that Mr..
Hoover has to go all the way to Fin
land to find people in need, when we
have hundreds of thousands all around
us that are on the ragged edge of
starvation 1t seems to me that this |
crowd of humanitarians |
are some of the same bunch that have |
raised such hue and cry about the |
relief question in this country. There |
was something about balancing the |
budget, high taxes and that relief was |
the morals of the work
ng people in this country. Now |
,an't see why if relief will degrade
IN American citizen why it won't have
he same effect on a citizen of Fin
and But maybe they will get diet
If fish in Finland and it will have a
lifferent effect than apples and flour
n this country. | can smell rotten
ish now. | think the scheme must
ave Matched in a fish cannery.
| really believe that the business
nen of these United States are going
o be the salvation of this country.
don't mean that they are going to
all the council together and sit down
0 figure out how to put food in the ]
omes of the destitute No, they are {
ding to force the common people to |
ave themselves. Not through kind
ess of heart is the business man I
ding to force the people to save
themselves from starvation, but t
trough their own selfish ignorance. S
hey are going to defeat the system V
ley are striving so hard to hold a
ont think there is any danger in I
elling the powers-that-be of their mis- v
Ike in forcing the common man as
ley are too damn egotistical, as a b
hole, to change their ideas. Because t
[ the hundreds of years that they n
ave ridden on the backs of the pro- D
ucing class they have come to the
inclusion that they are the best C
,deo riders in the world To them a
is unthinkable to even consider that v
lie people might some day hump a
eir backs and toss them into the Il
nd underneath the feet of the mob
BEN BUCKLEY. t.