The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-31
PLANS FOR A LONG WAR

that Prussian Princelings, have been
swash-buckling over the entire world
land the rest of Germany tool since
they invaded Austria under Bismarck
in 1866.
Gregor Mendel (the dear little
monk who in his little garden became
immortal by discovering the law of
the hybridization of exploited
by Luther Burbank as his OWN wrote
of the Prussian invasion of his peace
full village in 1866. "The Prussians
entered Brunn on July IL and their
billeting was extremely oppressive
Horses, cows, sheep and fowls were
carried off in great numbers; so were
fodder and grain-with the result that
even well-to-do landowners have been
reduced to beggary The invading
soldiers occupy the beds, while the
regular inhabitants lie on the floor
or sleep in stables"
After rs years as successful plumb
erers, they figured that they could rob
the world. That spirit is what we
have to conquer. And 1t has grown
mighty big. To destroy it will take
supreme effort of every man and
woman of the faith that to the pro-
Queer belongs the fruits of his toll.
What We Can Do
In Montana, our needed OFFENSE
products from the farm are wheat,
meat, potatoes, wool and flax. The
common folks will do their part. Our
shortage, If there is any, will be due
to lack of help from our chain banks
and other credit sources These are
already refusing credit to decent farm
ers because they prefer to get de-
posits here and invest deposits of
Montana folks elsewhere. Unless
they reduce their interest rates and
help the farmers and stockmen, big
and little, they are un-American, they
are greedy traitors to the plan of win
ming the war, they are drones in the
hive.
From our mines, the offensive war
that we propose now to carry on,
needs copper, zinc, lead, manganese,
chrome, tungsten. There are unde-
veloped deposits of all these offense
metals. The spirit of mining adj
venture of the pioneers has gone. I'm
less a customers credit is good for
the amount anyway, there is not
bank in Montana that will lend a
thousand dollars to develop the most
promising ore body And yet If it
were not for the mines fifty percent
of the banks in Montana would be
broke in a year. Wages must be
more than good. Men are not COM
modify. l hate to think of 1t, much
less write it, but there will be sad
losses of young men in this war.
If the draft is not for those below
81, the words of Woodrow Wilson are
sensible: "As many should stay in
college as can do So" Our govern
ment is not so liberal in providing
free college educations as the Soviets.
Wages should be high enough to rem
edy this oversight. At college, chill
dren from working-me families do
better than children from the homes
Of the very rich. In the air service,
college men are preferred for pilots.
The Russian language should be at
,nce taught in our University. In
year our young men may be fighting
tide by side in Asia with boys from
Moscow.
We, both men and women, drink
90 much alcoholic liquor | myself
Ike an occasional drink, but 1 know
hat the boosted state income from
liquor is not profit. 1t measures loss
f efficiency. 1t is clever plan
Whereby the big interests shift the
Expense of running the state govern
nent on to the wage-earners. No
tate can drink itself rich. Neither
an any person. | would not again
ote for prohibition, but 1t did help
Yin the other war. Even before 1t
ecame the law, the intense agitation
Or it caused sobriety. This checked
taste. Anything that checks waste
clips wins a war.
The investigation" will probably
how that our fleet was crippled at
earl Harbor because the commanding
Ulcers were at a drunken gold
raid" ball in the Royal Hawaiian
otel In Honolulu some miles away.