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

Anonymous letters will re-
/. Names will be withheld on request.
cused from military service because
of alcoholic hearts" while the draft
boards vigorously comb the nation for
young men who have, by temperance,
athletics and work, made worthy, use
full citizens of themselves. If these
FOUNDERS being excused are too sick
to fight, they should be drafted and
put to military work. This would
cure some of them and make them
good Americans against their will.
And, if work killed some, it would be
no greater loss than the death of de-
cent young men under arms. 1t is
just grievance when parents of indus
trious young men see their boys taken
from gainful labor while some rowdy
sons of neighbors are excused for al
coholic hearts Cor venereal disease).
The speed limit of 35 miles an hour
has, of course, cut automobile acct
dents by one-half Rates of liability
insurance companies have not gone
down. The insurance companies con-
tinue to increase their reserves (for
the directors to dabble IND by 5 bill
lion dollars annually. One way to
pay the national debt Cat present 95
billion would be for the government
to go into life insurance and forbid
competition. If the public absorbed
through government the billion an
nual insurance spread between gross
premiums collected and gross losses
paid, the interest on the bonds we are
buying could be handled without tax
alton, and sinking fund made in
addition. But, it is hard to imagine
such a turn-about from the present
run the governments (national and
state) to where the governments
would run the insurance grafters into
production work.
1t was predicted some years ago
on the floor of the senate that ''the
President would become a dictator
and permit no elections in 1912"
That was when Wheeler was an actu-
al person and not, as now, just kind
of rallying name or slogan of
sort of Tammany Club in our midst
Democrats, Republicans, monde
scripts who can make more, with less
work, in some office than by labor
or in a profession.
In view of "ex-president" Wheeler's
rapid decline nationally and locally,
his natural impulse not to donate any
of his own wealth to the cause, his
free mailing frank having been found
on bags of mail by the FBI when they
raided the office of Veireck (now in
the penitentiary), and for other good
and subtle reasons, members of this
BUND of world-be statesmen calling
themselves wheeler Men" are seri-
ously thinking of deposing Wheeler
as Grand Sachem and, for the good
of the order, bestowing the Ratchet
and head-feathers on Rankin, Ford,
Clements or Coca.
However, the potent allies of the
Club-the corporate interests of Mon
tana-are refusing to nominate any
CduQludlC yCt. uO ClOfSl clnObS
the corporate heads are holding back
to see from the ballots in November
the Club, as a camouflage of
their own political activities, is worth
what it costs. If Haynes, for con-
gress in the eastern district beats
Gas seems probable) O'Connor, life
of the Wheeler Club; when
Murray, with one son in the army,
one in the navy, and one in the air
service, beats Rankin, with no sons at
all in the army or navy; if the rail
roads, chain banks, insurance COM
panies, mining and power companies
are frustrated in their attempt to de-
feat Judge Angstman for reelection
TO the supreme court, simply because
he has never listened in the Montana
Club to their sweet "chin music" but
mas dealt from the top of the deck
equal justice to the humble and high
alike = why the Wheeler Club will
simply fade out from lack of cor :
Dorate doles and failure of the COM
)any-owned newspapers to put on the
ront page in bold type Gas it once
lid an account Of a fight at Bolton
Wheeler's dog and another
log.
The Rankin Twins in politics, like
most people, fail to see anything ridic-
llous in their own conduct. One
roted after Pearl Harbor to simply
to Japan; the other, posing
Is an inspired military strategist, is
cling us how to run the war
Many of these corporate chieftains,
hough at times badly biased, are
,retty good Americans. For instance,
Wendell Willkie. Four years ago he
vas head of Cities Service-Insull'5
Id gigantic holding company. He is
different man since his visit to Rus
ia. He sees new era dawning in
he world-the age of cooperative eff
ort, the Federation of the World
poken of by Tennyson. Many who
re now clever executives for private
y-owned industry will honestly give
heir brains and training to organizing
nd running successfully the inevita-
lie change impending as soon as the
yar is over, when 10 million men will
ave no employment and the govern
lent will have to set them to produc-
ion for use, not profit. The corpora
ion executives simply won't have
ime to listen to crafty little pin
eaded politicos bent on feathering
heir own last years nests. These