The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-23

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! can divide us. Hatred, jealousy and
2 lies, not bombs are the greatest
threat. We are amazed at the great
debac1e between nazi and soviet, but
we know that before it came, the one
furnished the fire, while the other
icanism. At the end, the thing will
be going on again unless we extin-
guish it forever.
, In Germany, they cut your head off
: for treason. Our congress and public
, are far zoo squeamish for that, but
we must give to the nazi for economy
and efficiency The same characters
which were criticising and stirring up
trouble in the last war are doing the
same thing now Some were put in
Jail, some chased out of town. If we
had used the nazi system, and just
whacked off their empty heads, how
much better off the country would be
today! L. R. c.
1t is quite true, as Ray Carol tells
us in the July 18th issue of the Record
Tribune, that people get mixed up
about communism. It is also true
that people get mixed up about other
things, some get mixed about Chris
tianity, others about politics, others
about patriotism and still others about
various other subjects. And SO, since
SO many people get mixed up" about
so many subjects, l suppose we
lab Ir,tt he foN
Ray for being so thoroughly mixed
up" about all of them.
However when one sets himself up
as an expert to differentiate between
bunk" and facts" he should at least
make certain that his own facts are
not bunk and his bunk is not fact If
one has no original ideas of his own
he should be extremely careful from
whom he borrows them.
We find in study of humanity
that our most sincere Christians take
their Christianity for granted They
don't find it necessary to make a
great "to-do" about it or carry pla-
cards announcing the fact that 81 am
a Christian" We find also that quite
often those who make the greatest
profession of Christianity for public
show, have an Interior motive in so
doing, and what they do speaks so
loud that we can't hear what they say.
| And so with patriotism, the 'ros-
trum strutter" the "chest FOUNDER"
and the heavy flag waver" despite all
their physical and oratorical acrobat
les, still do not convince us of their
sincerity. 1t takes concrete action to
convince us and when we see our
economic royalists indulging in the
heavy flag-waving with one hand and
raking in the shekels with the other
while at the same time calling on the
poor to sacrifice, we are doubly con-
WINGED of their insincerity.
If there is any truth in the theory
that divine providence rules the
world, the fact that each individual
is born with a mouth is evidence of
the fact that that individual is by d.
vine law entitled to a living The
additional fact that each individual
comes equipped with two hands and
other faculties is indicative of the fact
that the individual is entitled to an
opportunity to utilize those faculties
in the service of society, or in plain
words he is entitled to a job. This
Is what Ray terms bunk.
"The fact"-"All the rich people
in the country couldn't pay for the
defense program for two weeks" An
additional fact which Ray fails to note
is that all the rich people in the
country couldn't EARN enough to paw
for the defense program in a million
years.
wall Street CONTROLS politics-La-
Dor controls politics." 1t matters lit
tie which of these two statements we
accept. The outstanding fact is that
politics and elections are carried by
votes and since Wall Street corpora
tons dominate and influence voters
to their own detriment by controlled
press 1t makes no difference where
the nominal control lies.
"A man will hire his neighbor-if
he is worth his wages" In some in
stances farmer or individual en-
ployer will pay a man what he is
really worth, or so much of that sum
as he can afford. But how about the
industrial employers? Here are few
facts which Ray has evidently not
discovered. During the year 1910, ac-
cording to their own reports the fol-
lowing corporations made a NET
PROFIT on each individual employee
as follows: American Telephone and
Telegraph $52S per employee, General
Motors 1917 per employee, Standard
Oil of New Jersey $4,000 per en-
ployee, and DUPONT 1920 per en-
ployee. These are just a few cita-
tons. In plain language then Du-
Point employee who probably received
less than $1,000 per year, produced
1920 additional after all expenses
were paid, which the Dupont COM
pany appropriated. Why try to kid
ourselves into the belief that these
are altruistic or actuated
by philanthropic motives? They are
after the almighty dollar and if Ray
doesn't know 1t, then we are very
much mistaken as to his I. @. Incl
1ently, if l undertook to tell just
4 small portion of the PROVABLE
facts which l have gathered about
he activities of corporations, both ma