The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-18

on the question OF present need TO,
conscription for military training il
this fair land of ours The PEOPLE,
Voice is the voice OF God, fully ap
prove the substance, If not the form
of your editorial, "Adjectives."
While you admonish Mr.. Burns no
to be reckless in your use of adjec
tives, aren't you bit reckless your
self in that respect, and in that same
editorial? Your reference to "Pro
crustean laws" sent me, and perhaps
some more of your reasonably literate
readers, running to the dictionary t.
| find out about Procrustes and his
laws. 1t appears, from the diction
airy, that the guy was nothing but g
legendary character; a Greek robbel
said to have tortured captives by
stretching their limbs if not short, OF
cutting them off if too long, to fit a
certain bed. Horrible yarn, isn't it:
Sounds almost as bad as some OF
those atrocity stories of World War
This explanation may be helpful to
some of your readers who do not have
a good dictionary at hand, may forget
| to look it up when they find one and
| thus one of the main points of your
editorial will be quite lost to them
they, like me, being unfamiliar off
hand with Greek folklore. We have
plenty of our own just now to keep
us busy trying to figure it out It's
other name is propaganda.
And just because Mr.. Burns SHES
a brickbat at you do you think you
are justified in referring to a mis-
spelled word? If you are going to
keep that up you will scare all your
correspondents away, unless they are
prepared to put you on the back and
tell you that you are just little bit
of all right and not for from absolute
perfection That isn't editorial
cricket Editors are supposed to be
able to take brickbats as well as bou-
quets and both with a smile; also to
correct errors in spelling and in gram
mar and not make them a subject for
ridicule just because the communica-
ton in which they occur rubs the edi-
torial fur the wrong way. l hope
you'll correct any such errors you
may find in this before, if and when,
you print it. How about your own
"prejudices and Procrustean laws of
conventional thinking rules the men
tai patterns" etc. in your editorial,
Adioatiunc'2 Mind IN
fault just trying to point moral
after the manner of that one about
the beam and the mote. Matt 7,
1-5). Besides, all such errors may be
Printers make them
as well as editors, as you must we'll
know. So if you find any errors in
grammer or in spelling in this, ere
member its the type that's bad, don't
lay the blame on me-
Your reprinting of that article, zone
War at Time" by one Oscar Amer
niger, whoever he may be, from Amer
lean Guardian, whatever it may be, is
a more serious matter 1t will not be
if, by reason of such re-
print, many of your readers, without
questioning your right to do so, most
seriously question the wisdom of do
ing so. Whether true or false in it's
music to the ears of Hitler and Goer-
ing Great Britain at her worst, and
her worst was pretty bad, was an
angel of light and of mercy when
with the powers of dark
ness that rule Germany, France, Hol-
and, Belgium and Norway today
Westward the course of Hitlerism
-akes it's way. 1t comes nearer to us
Ill the time. In helping Great Britain
stem the tide of terrorism we are not |
lighting her battle but our own, and |
our mistakes of World War l have
whatever to do with the pres
INT case any more than our then who'll
y unjustifiable military interference |
against the Russian people in their
struggle for liberty has anything to |
10 with it. If Great Britain goes
Town in the present struggle it will
,e our turn next. The whole tone
md spirit of the Ameringer article
which you reprint is to the effect that
We should stand idly by and see Great
Britain conquered so that it may be
,asier to conquer us, because, for
Doth, Great Britain resisted us in our
truggle for independence and ia
-ored the South in our war between
he states. That is the core and kerr
eel, too, of all the Fifth Column and
Jazi propaganda in this country And
7hether you intend it or not, and l
ont believe you do, since you reprint
he Ameringer article without disap-
rowing comment, and on your edi-
orial page, the conclusion is natural
hat the sentiments expressed in the {
rticle are also the sentimentsof The
copies Voice. If that be true, and l {
ope it is not, The Peoples Voice will l
e a great disappointment to hundreds {
t its present readers and it will,
long with Ford and Lindbergh, de- t
erve Hitler medal {
WALTER AITKEN,
Bozeman, Mont {
Butte, Mont 7
|. S. Bruce, Q
Ha1ana Mont =