The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-16
THE SPECTATOR

| So many queer events are happen
ing Some high school student may
correct my memory, but it seems that
when the Athenians sent messengers
to Sparta asking help: THAT Xerxes
was marching to enslave the civiliza-
ton of Greece to the Totalitarianism
of Persia" the Spartans answered
that the moon was not in the right
phase, that they could not march for
80 days, it would be bad luck.
The glory of Marathon and Salamis
belongs to Athens. The Churchill
government about the Second Front
resembles the Ephors of Sparta But,
as to courage, Dunkirk, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Crete would indicate
that perhaps the old Spartan courage
of the English people does not now
reside in the mother country. 1t has
emigrated to America, Canada, Aus
tralia and New Zealand.
Stains disappointment in Moscow's
allies means the Churchill govern
ment and England
We are keeping Japan from stab
bling Russia in Vladivostok and ST.
IBERIA. We have saved Australia and
New Zealand We have sunk more
than one-half of Japan's navy. We
will soon be in strength to invade the
Philippines.
The loyalty of the Filipinos to us
shows that our hegamony of those
islands has been just, not arrogant as
the English in China and Malaga or
the Dutch in Java, nor married by
promises unkept as English rule in
Hindustan. Debt reputation in 1928
was correct symptom of English
decadence.
The railroads were open from Muir
mansk to Stalingrad Perhaps the ar
rival of our immense convoy to Muir
mansk four weeks ago permitted
American planes, tanks and drugs to
help stem the nazi tide at Stalingrad.
To the German soldier, the old song
of the Volga Boatman means Charon
ferrying Hitlerites by the hundred
thousand across the Styx to eternal
peace.
Uruguay to Hudson Bay and Alaska
is united in the cause of Freedom as
never before. Some works done I'M
der the strain of war will serve well
when peace comes A mighty high
way, except ferrying around some
jungles in Central America, from Fair
banks to Buenos Aires will cement
the friendship of the two American
continents, besides giving perennial
joy to tourists of each.
1t is small wonder that under the
strain of the most terrible war ever
Of written history, there is little, very
little, concern about our local affairs
in Montana.
New expressions and words are
coined and soon become current.
Their meanings are at first not agreed
some of us, the preventing of work
men in essential war industries from
changing home and occupation for
higher wages. A needy mother, who
told that the raise in rent from $21.50
to $4,000 the month on the model
slum clearance government homes in
Butte meant the moving back into
shacks or shortage of fuel, shoes and |
groceries for many families of min
ers this winter, meant the Freezing |
of Labor and that she was opposed |
to it. Wages are higher, it is true;
but that project was intended to lift |
the standard of living of low income |
give them and their children
some of the comforts and little lux
uries that other families enjoy; it was
not money-making scheme of the
government, entering private indus
try. All over the country "rents must
not be raised''-this by decree of the
government that raises rents on its
.enements.
Many idle, unattached, drunken,
young, pool-hall loafers are being ex-