The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18

a S1,000,000,00O annual appropriation
for farm rehabilitation and ownership
loans, together with "super-tax" OF
large land holdings as the solution
to the problem of migrancy.
Testifying before the house inter
state migration investigating commit.
tee, Msgr. Ryan asserted that laws
against migrancy are futile, since they
do not touch the heart of the problem
Chief cause, he said is the fact that
10000 farm owners in this country
are yearly becoming farm tenants.
Hitler discharges" Badoglio
Those who claim to have some
knowledge of what is going on in
Europe see in the resignation of
Marshal Badoglio and the shake-up
in fascist command something more
than a confession that all is not going
so well with the Italian Balkan and
African campaigns. They see the fine
Italian" hand of Herr Adolf Hitler.
Badoglio never has been considered
as "Mussolini man." But he has al
ways had strong hold on the Italian
people, who revere him. Knowing the
resentment the Italian people will feel
over his dismissal (the report that he
resigned at his own request can be
taken with several grains of salt) II
Duce must have been in great straits
to have let him go.
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any more heart for this war than did
the great masses of Italians, who have
never trusted their German neighbors
anyway. Now, with anti-war feeling
in Italy mounting as the result of mill
tary reverses, the bombing of Italian
cities, and the failure of the promised
quick vicotry to materialize, Mussolini |
has now found it necessary to turn |
the military reins over to a general |
that the nazis can depend upon to
10 their bidding. The nazis will now
issue the orders to Italian troops and
naval forces
The Badoglio resignation" is prob
IDLY the tipoff of a spirit of great
'estiveness in Italy. And when res
iveness sets in, Hitler wants to have
'harge of affairs-and Mussolini prob
IDLY wants him to-
current Capital Chatter
The general land office has pro- i
nulgated regulations assuring that the t
lights of men called into service will {
e protected in demonstrating, mining, t
or other activities on the public do t
lain under federal land laws. The '
Inited States will insist on having 6
to say, after the conclusion {
I the present war, about the kind /
world we are going to be expected j
live in. War prosperity will not b
Dive the farmers problems, says t
outs Bean, counselor of the bureau fl
agricultural economics, since it will
ot provide markets for surplus farm C
'oducts and jobs for surplus farm "
Dor. Rep. Clare Hoffman, Michigan, h
ould not fight the dictators, he says, fl
It'll we have established democracy e'
this country--and by establishing 81
'mocracy he means outlawing the L
osed shop. Evidence submitted by L
B. |. Chief j. Edgar Hoover to Of
e effect that Grant Cannon, field in
aminer for the N. l. r. B., has N,
adical tendencies leaning to COM &c
lnism' because, among other things,
has studied anthropology, seems W
be conclusive. The next logical bl
,p in combating radicalism should Et
a law prohibiting the teaching of de
GEOLOGY. That word has an "omin- wi
5" sound. It's a great world: Big VIZ
siness men getting bigger defense GU
ltracts than they can handle-small an
siness men begging for defense con- ms
cts that they can handle but cannot tn,
of workers pacing the co
in quest of work that they Ing
mot get-and the defense program are
the greatest industrial land on are
tn admittedly tagging. mol