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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24
Retarding Progress for Profits

Reports from Washington indicate that already
considerable talk about outawng the atomic bomb by inter-
national agreement placing in the category poison
AS engine of destruction to prevent the
of atomic SUCH has considerable merit also has
its grmy numerous side be noted that socaled
total war; proposed to be limited that will not be
terminated quickly For many the industries which
quick termination by the of the atomic against
Japan, must have come rude shock
That the development of of atomic energy to replace
COAL water power oil and the present electric will be
delayed the greatest extent in all countries which profit
economy control is clearly evident For constructive
instead destructive purposes will have look nations
like Russia where production for and not for profit the
ORDER for the development of this basic for
agent for higher standard of living.
According stories about the development of the
atomic bomb while Great Britain and the United States
served patent rights for government CONTROL the mpca
ton clear that private industries also were interested the
patent rights Thus while the atomic bomb was developed
cost of two billions of dollars of the taxpayers
private industry stands to harvest of profit from
future development of this for whatever is made
of it.
However, may be considered fatuousy ridiculous that
this country or Great Britain can control scientific
ment extent that the of
troll for of atomic be limited to the two of them
admittedly Germany the threshold of perectng the
bomb progress along the line had been made
in other countries, such Sweden for example Moreover
while Russia has given of investigation of atomic
energy possibilities being one country which is particularly
adept at keeping its counsel is far from unlikely That
its scientists rated high such would have been completely
overlooking its possibilities
AS an argument for maintaining peaceful international
relations the nations of the world should be that
size of the country and large population and great material
no longer can remain the controlling factors in wa
ing effective small group in the smallest country on
the globe they the knowledge and materials for
the manufacture bombs could dictate the world
And peaceful international relations not carried and
another is precpitated, the human on
EARTH the earth itself may be obliterated
the other hand the scientific knowledge and the new
discovery of Harvesting this basic developed for the
of power, the human may enter of al
standard of living and we'll being before dreamed Of
By its people might be enabled to really LIVE not just
striving to MAKE A LIVING.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24
The Aftermath

Now that the is over, future which should be
brightly promising for the American people, is instead for
many millions of Them couded with uncertainty and mgvng
conservative estimate places the number of unemployed
eight million by late this coming winter Among these will
be large numbers of discharged sercemen unable to find jobs
and who will begin wondering everything perfect about
America they had been told and generally had believed
Observers predict depression during the coming
months which will be felt by business well the general
public They predict that will become evident
in the of 1916 when industry will have reconvered
the production of goods quantity when the
optimistic predict business boom while the backlog of
savings built by steady employment and fair during
the being exchanged for goods This OBJ
viously, cannot very long period of time
Meanwhile have private enterprise propagandsts and
their countepars trying to block effort by
the people through their to plan for full employ
and make adequate provision for the
Employed unemployed because WE (the government have
failed to institute economy which would employment
for all in the production of disable goods Indeed, have
made protest. when representatives with
urgent legislative work facing them, went vacation
When congress finally assemblies again. it probable that
liberalization of unemployment benefits will be effected
possible that the intended to provide
for full employment by maintenance of the present status of
the national income will be enacted into law.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24

educational plant that prvaey-con-
hoed subservient the everyday whms of group
lively such things technology socialism, when
the words nnocen whispered likely to send the Board
Directors into cat fit?
And expect the usual answer don't
know
American education right now today directed toward
one goal-making living. Not living MAKING living
And there much difference between these two
as thefe between night and day. The personal self
conferred exclusive stagnant The other VITAL inclusive
cialminded, dynamic. How to live? We don't know.
face it, We know little about HOW to live than
about the various Ensten theories Yet to school,
graduate with honors together little hoard
fore else beats it. De drbbe bits of it
and there to build reputation for responsibility the
community We die. What have left behind? Usually
just spot for else step into
No. We don't know the first rudments of HOW to live.
The socalled progressve schools step in the right
direction, and important But far they
roed by local gossip prejudice and politics. just far do
they fall short of the goal-fundamental education
We told and crediby that remember but ten per
cent of what we hear We fifty per what
And remember ninety cent of what we DO.
entire school system constructed that IS
of all instruction through the medium of sight Small
wonder them that the normal child of school quickly for
half of what he learns There is little experience to be
reading of the struggles of other people, Real expert
only way-by DOING And personal expert
ence and time the greatest of all teachers.
Noted educators have recently back from Russia.
One might them Immediately proceed to shoot the
Russian system full holes They don't One might expect
them at allocate Russia second in the field
education They don't What they HAVE done is point
o that the Soviet system education FAR SUPERIOR to
They point and again that the Russian system
flexible objective in its approach That Russian
schools longer subject outside from all d
That the phenomenal gains in iteracy ratio in that
during the 25 little short of miraculous
things accidents? No. They were PLANNED that
way
lG is the unforgvabe SIM we might educational
system worthy of the name.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24
MVA Coming To the Front

Since the successful organization meeting held July
and at Omaha at which assembled representatives of
the 10 Missouri valley States interest the MVA has rapidly
the front and the matter being discussed in of
widely circulated magazines In it's issue of August
11th Golfers carried enightening article the Ten
Valley Authority and the wonderful achievements of
that authority showed that of the bterest opponents
of IVA inspected that authority with the idea of crczng it
but found doing such marvellous job that they returned
home praising They condemn. They returned to
praise This applied to officials of private
panies and members of the Chambers of Commerce.
Life Magazine of August Is had article of eight
with pictures of conditions prevailing in the Missouri valley
The Missouri river from Three Forks where it formed by
the confluence of the Jefferson Gaan and Madison to the
point where emptes into the Mississippi 247O miles long
AS it and its tributaries leave the mountains it is crystal clear
but through the plains it becomes the Big Muddy
designated If properly harnessed in its upper reaches
there plenty of water for irrigation development and
navigation. half way job, it will be developed without
overall authority will permit the mountain water
and flood the cities and farms it's lower reaches
Practically all of the critics of MVA expound their the
without knowledge of conditions If would
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24

Editorial from "Stars and Stripes')

editorial from "Stars and Strlpes)
When Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in his recent
Los Angeles address, assaed that American minority which
has been whoopng up talk of with Russia he voiced
sentiment which finds quick response American fight
ing
which find little hard to understand
at this distance certain yocferou within the American
and public has already started talk of with Russia
With the signing of the San Francisco charter in which
fifty nations pledge themselves to work for Russia
gether with America has taken the first step toward settlement
of the many complex problems which plague this sick earth
1t good time to evauate position in the
scheme of things and pledge ourselves sympathetic
considered attitude toward friends and neighbors
1t is admitted that most Americans find the Soviet political
philosophy incompatible with American traditions 1t
derstandab that Russian allies view democratic
But there nothing the action of either Russia America
indicate that these two powerful countries desire anything
less than friendest Of relations
We assured by government that its contacts with
Russia have been cordial Those who interpret
every Soviet in screaming headlines dabolca and
warke gestures and who egg this hostility which leads
playing directly into the hands of the
Certainly the who fought from the west while the Red
Army driving from the east have nothing but affection
for the Russian people.
Big bluff rugged Russia just awakening to it's strength
playing diplomatic game with its bare knuckles showing
The game however, differs little from the welgloved dplo
macy practiced by other nations for many
But they develop in their strength and maturity the
Russians to be awakening also to their responsibilities
in the family of nations.
Americas fighting whom would fall the personal
tragedy of have antagonism toward Russia On
the contrary they admire and respect the Soviet forces which
assumed so great a role in the victory Germany.
We have comrades the battlefield, American and
Russian blood together with the blood of nations has
been shed to win the European peace.
Men who fight together plan together Ivan and
get along Let's have lot of volunteer trouble
between succeed in separating through suspicion
and intolerance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS


World War II has awakened Southland to its indus
trial possibilities the has been done own
Northwest
Listen to the 1880 writeup of Georgia funeral by
Henury W. Grady and how well applies to what
Northwest is still up against:
The grave dug through solid marblebut the marble
headsone from Vermont 1t pine Wilderness but
the coffin from CINCINNATI An iron mountain
Swallowed it, but the coffin nails and and shoves
from Pittsburgh With hardwood and metals aboundng the
corpse hauled that from South Bend
Indiana hickory grew nearby, but the pick and
shovel handles from New York The cotton shirt the
from Cncnnatt the coat and breeches from
Chicago the shoes from Boston, the folded hands encasd
white gloves New York. And around the poor neck
that had borne all its living the bondage of lost
tuy twisted cheap cravat from Philadelphia All that
the South contributed to the funeral of Of its the
corpse and the hole in the ground"
Local industries in greater numbers is the only
Opportunities wasting right here at home Wenachee
World.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24

! ed. Construct a chain of many lakes,
that will help to cool the torrid air
of dry period, increase evaporation
of moisture, right in the locality where
the rain is needed, and not have to
depend altogether on vapor clouds
from the Pacific ocean, that may be
carried elsewhere by adverse winds
Help to generate more electric ener-
gy at. less cost than now, save our
dwindling timber and fuel supply,
build new homes and new business
enterprises on the spot where needed
to supply the new farms and increase
in population that will accrue.
is the estimate for all of the states
in the Missouri River Basin and Mon
tana's share to begin with should be
$4,000. If life insurance companies
estimate that persons of an average of
30 years, are worth $4,000 to our in
dustrial production then Montana's
gain in new wealth would be $780,
100000 in people, and property added
and the Basin states as whole, would
gain Is billion dollars in new wealth
in people besides the new wealth of
property.
Investment to gain above benefits
and new wealth-only one billion,
73S u million or 1860 of the new
wealth. OF course, only the United
States government could or would
furnish that need sum to forming a
backlog of 10 years employment for
100000 men, or add more men and
complete the job sooner and stop
waste and loss of crops in the lower
reaches of the river Those food crops
would be needed, especially, if the
drouth should come to the thirsty
lands above, where the surplus water
should be kept. All of this improve
ment in human happiness for 1860
of the estimated whole (Reclama-
ton and Flood Control Engineers Els
innate, a complete COST
Why - The Mountain States Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company have
paid net of go for years on shares
of stock in that company, even
though there may be "some water
in the stock, and not irrigation water
either.
The development of the Missouri
valley will be acting on natures first |
law, understanding the oneness of
men and natural resources, the unity
Of land streams, forests, minerals,
industry and mankind There
must be men up and down this Mis-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24

August 6, 1915.
Believer Realty Co.,
Park and Montana Streets,
Butte, Mont.
Gentlemen:
| herewith enclose you a check for
$4,000 for policy of Associated Indem-
nifty Corporation on Mrs. Maury's car.
The price of this policy is outrageous,
to say the least 1t is only because
of my friendship for your firm that
1 pay any such price as this for this
policy.
| have before me the insurance re-
port of our State Auditor. 1t shows
that in 1912 in Montana there was col
lected in premiums for liability in
surance $1,139,3 9825. There was paid
out in losses $243,296.75. That on
automobile property damage and col.
lision there was collected in prem
iums $425, 06618. There was paid out
in losses $196,881.17. From these fig
ures it appears to me that by State
Insurance adding $500 to each Ii
censed car in the state, all of these
losses could be paid out of fund,
and a little money left over every
year, and just because of your exorbi-
tant rate, I shall, at the next session
of the legislature, see that a bill is
introduced to eliminate such compan-
les as this from the state of Montana
by active and most persuasive public
competition.
Cordially yours,
LOWNDES MAURY.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24
Think 1t Over
By Wallace E. Smith in Action for Human Welfare

BY Wallace E. Smith in Action for Human Welfare
talk going the rounds regarding the reedu
cation of the Germans There will shortly be much of the
regarding the re-educaon the Japanese But when
when will get around to the re-education of the
Americans?
liberal educators in this country today agree
thing They tell there should be radical change made in
educational system They decy the perversion of much
educational plant by local politicians and petty Rookie
They foresee the day. and correctly when the Amer
student will absorb democracy with his book vtamns not
nationasm When he will digest goodly amount of social
mndedness along with his regular dosage of howtomakea
When he will leave the university with broad
only of wne and but economic
social affairs racial cooperation and business ethics
But when, when, do start?
One may honestly ask, how do go about teaching
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24

visit the IVA rshand information they will change
their ideas become advocates of authority develop the
Missouri Valley, if they honest But too of them
their opinions Chambers of Commerce and other
CARNATIONS dominated by the interests Should the
MVA eliminate power development from its there
would be objection to it. But farmers with the benefits
of Rural Identification would thus be sold down the
and this the advocates of MVA will not do On the other
hand they want cheaper under REA which the
company thwart by erecting competing lines of their
The MVA will be great aid to further REA extension
with cheaper rates-The Yellowstone.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-24
Editor Voice:

Editor Voice:
If the next seven years ahead are
and to the writer's mind the indica-
lions are, that they are-to be years
of little or no rainfall, during the
normal crop season, in the Missouri
river drainage states, then here are
two suggestions that will help to re-
lieve some of the hardships of farm
ing in the areas of those states with
out irrigation, if the drouth periods
do occur. If it does not occur, we
have a needed structure of Progress.
First, the establishment of MVA and
the full development of the Missouri
river drainage project as rapidly as
possible, to put irrigation on five mil
lion acres of new land consisting of
100000 in Montana, 1,250OO0 in
North Dakota, 100000 in South Da-
kota, $4,000 in Wyoming, $4,000 in
Nebraska and $4,000 in Kansas Colo
RADIO with more than 100000 acres
and possibly some in Missouri if need
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independence

at is belief that there independence for the
individual when government controls the basic of
production and this what would happen if the eva
to become Iaw.'-LakevieW Examiner.
How much independence there for the individual when
basic of production controlled by prvate
prise dictated by holding companies We the
ment, not? Haven't right to control own
of production? Where did the private monoposs get
that right? How much control do have under them?
get of it? Ask the people of the Tennessee
valley whether they have lost independence under IVA
They have not only independence but prolific prosperity
neither of which they had under private exploitation The
Examiner should to find editorial which mix
dope logicaly.-Captal Press (Ore.).
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souri, valley, who with vision that
transcends the past, who recognize
that the Missouri is one BIG RIVER,
and one big problem-shaping the des-
TIMES of our people, the same as the
Nile shapes the destinies of the people
there.
Earnest study and appraisal of IVA
and the many benefits gained there
from will convince any thinking per-
son of the need of the establishment,
now, of the Missouri Valley Author
ity, and the full construction, there
under, as soon as possible
FRANK E. BEALL
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Whitefish, Mont, July 81, 1915.
Mr. H. S. Bruce, Managing Editor,
The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont.
Dear comrade, inclosed you will
please find check for $2.O5, two and
five one-hundredths for which please
send the best paper printed in Mon
tana to Thomas Moore, 1921 Fourth
street, Whitefish, and for your in
formation, if you don't know which
paper l mean make it The Peoples
Voice as it is all good from start to
finish. | was real sorry to hear that
Winnie got defeated but Wheeler and
Hitler and Francisco Franco I believe
are shedding more and bigger tears
than | am. Now be sure and don't
send this man an A. G. M. paper as
he doesn't want to fatten a bull to
fight himself and his buddies the COM
mon work at which takes in about
$3.50 of United States
Comradely yours,
j. p and MARIE E. CAVANAUGH.
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Dear Editor:
This is the first letter l have writ
ten since the special election, June
fifth. l stressed in that campaign
that if D'Ewart was elected he would
work and vote for the interests of the
corporations and chambers of com
merce. In congress he voted for a
bill to cut out the price control next
January first, had it passed it would
have left the consumer at the mercy
of the business interests, and infla-
ton. His vote was cast for the bene-
not? not for the people, the consum-
er whom Mr.. Graybill would have
supported. The vote to kill the OPA
Chill introduced by Senator Taft was
for Mansfield Cd. Mont.) Against
Churswith Or. Colo), D'Ewart Or.
Mont.), Gillespie Or. Celo), Hill Or.
Colo.) and Rockwell (R. Colo.). We
must realize the Republicans are sole.
ly for the business interests and NOT
for the people.
In democracy the people must
stand together for the common good,
and not just for their own selfish in
terests. Politicians work to fool the
people. Divide and conquer, is their
method. l believe it was a few enc
mics before the June fifth election
that Miles O'Connor spoke over the
air supposed to be for the benefit of
Senator C. Graybill, he stressed very
much what good man Mr. D'Ewart
was. l thought it was rather a strange
way to work for Mr.. Graybill. My be-
ng liberal and churchman l con-
slider Mr.. DEwart's record in the
state senate (75 per cent for the G.
If c. and corporations and only 25 per
cent for the people,, to perpetuate
injustice misery and want, only good
nan for the corporations and business
and not a good man for the
of humanity.
This political machine is going to
tut up Democrat for congress in the
econd district in 1916, and we should
ret Mr.. Graybill to run again. There
re many reasons why we should run
1r. Graybill again. The fight next
ear will be fought out in the Demo
ratio primary election and l am ask
ng all liberals, consumers, farmers,
nd ALL christians (of all parties)
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