The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03

EultOl hcducIS COlunu
Would it be very much resented if
we should timidly suggest to the con-
ltributOrs to this department THAT:
the Finn VS.. Russ war seems to be
loveri
Ear Away and Long Ago." by Hud-
son, is a grand book, and the history
lof Finland is long and gullorious, no
doubt. BUT for me, well I'm more In
terested in HERE AND NOW" by
any of you and I'll read all you care
to write on that subject.
Humbly yours,
H. ELWOOD O'THOMPSON,
Reidel, Montana.
Dear Editor,
l am writing you a few lines. AS
you know, great event is approach
ing us and it will roll around before
we know it. That is, the coming cleo
ton. 1t won't be long until that grand
army of political patriarchs will be ap-
preaching us from every angle. They
will visit the town people, the farmer
people, in the wheat fields, the stubble
fields, the gardens, and down at the
barn, or most any old place we are
liable to meet them. They will give
us a little cigar, and perhaps have a
little basket of compliments to hand
out. We will soon know the history
of all the family, and the pedigree
from the Oldest son or daughter down
tO 1itf1o Willie TI,ou will no co around
the compliments, by telling us we have
such lovely tractors, such elegant
shacks and wonderful carburetors and
exhaust pipes and such big kernels Of
wheat, and the Lord knows not what
else. But | venture to say, that some
of them will not mention to you or
us as to how we are going to get
cost of production out of those big
kernels of wheat
| One time the writer had a number
| of candidates to approach him, not
| all at the same time though. There
were eight of them all running for the
same office And, oh how pathetic it
was. And I was thinking about lot
of other things, and they got me all
mixed up, and l promised all of them
would vote for them. 1t worked fine,
because when election day came
around, there came terrible storm
so | was unable to get to the polls
to vote for any of them. So none of
them could accuse me of lying to
them, as yau know providential hind
RANGES excuse a person. | presume
that was one time the Lord was with
me. | don't know how you are on
those complimentary handouts, but
they are hard for me to endure. They
sometimes remind me of two words
when | was boy growing up and
going to school l used to think there
was distinction between the two
words, "Matador' and Senator" But
as the years of old daddy time rolled
by / found out the two words had
the same meaning, zone who throws
the Bull" But then, few years after,
some of Dr. Noah Webster's decend-
ants, or somebody, drove along and |
placed some amendments in that book |
tinction between those words. For, |
understand in recent years that "some
of the Senators" do not wrestle with |
the bull And if they do make mis-
take and cut down the cherry tree
they go direct to papa and tell him
the truth about the whole thing.
Something else l had in mind was
a number of years back in the 1880s
or COS l am not exact as to the date,
a bunch of fellows up in New York
or Washington got together and set
up an extension service apparatus,
and the object of that apparatus was
to teach the farmers how to grow two
blades of grass where one blade grew
before. But that apparatus did not
work out SO hot because some of those
slick aristocrats up in New York and /;
and Chicago that de- I;
signed the apparatus got one of those '
blades of grass away from the farmer !
before he got it planted and then took !
the other one away from him before t
he got to market with it. The result
was the poor farmer didn't have any {
pasture left, but the pathetic side of 1
he incident was that when those
'atherly designers got through with
he farmer he didn't have anything I
eft to thrust into his belly, he just {
had to lie down on the ground and
est until some good samaritan came
llong or some tender-hearted candi- v
late to give him little cigar or give t
lin a drink out of a bottle Of some v
beverage. That OF
course would revive and strengthen t
he good old gent, and enable him to a
proceed on to his destination.
But now then, if that extension serv- a
ce apparatus that those slick de- v
igners built had cost of production d
Program and a crop control program, n
nd a worthy crop insurance program, b
s it should have, hanging on the G.
ther end of the apparatus, as we tt
all 1t, the chances are that farmers
you'd not have been left by the way "
ide for that candidate to worry with a
md drinking up all of the candidates m
oothing syrup when no doubt the T
andidate needed 1t all himself to Iir
rown his own troubles, but after all, Lin
ONE Of those slick aristocrats may
OF be so bad as we understand. One Lee
( them, gave away a flock of money CT
} build school house, a church, or lit
but then one OF them did a,
OF do quite so well. He had to set In,
/ high chair for several days and st
nswer a lot of questions, bunch I'm
{ fellers was asking him. Something
bout not paying some money IN on pr