The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-11-16
Bureaucrats
CONTINUED from Page one)

| from FhEst OneI
either politically or socially, has had
its bitter opponents, as for example
an income tax law, election of sen
ators by popular vote and granting
| it was first proposed that the govern
ment construct highways and canals
(before there were railroads) and i'm
prove our rivers and harbors, such
expenditures of money were opposed
by many, on the grounds that it was
had not yet been COMEDY However,
the construction of highways and i'm
provement of rivers and harbors is no
longer opposed on the ground that
such development of needs is uncon-
stitutional, socialistic, or otherwise.
pended, and the present congress is
about to appropriate $500 million dol
lars for river and harbor improvement
alone. How much of that great sum
will be spent in Montana? Probably
not one cent. Toll roads and toll
bridges were formerly constructed by
private enterprise and the public had
to pay tribute to their owners for the
privilege of using them. These pri-
vately owned roads and bridges have
long since been relegated to what
President Cleveland dubbed "innocu-
GUS desuetude" harmless disuse) and
have been replaced by marvellous
system of highways free to the use of
all. Socialissic? Maybe so, but we
prefer it the present way.
The Rural liberalization Admins
tration, one of the New Deals social
istic" agencies, has brought electricity
to tens of thousands of farm homes;
a service that so-called free enter
prise" passed up because it did not
show the possibility of profits With
out government aid, millions of peo-
pie, because of their location, or for
other reasons, might have gone with
out electricity and all its benefits, for
ever. Opposition to all new depart
ures intended for human betterment,
whether conceived and executed by
federal or state governments, or by
both jointly, brings to mind the old
man of 80 years, who upon being
asked a question, replied: yep, I've
seed many changes in my time, and
by heck I've been agin every one
of EN-"
1t is my humble opinion that cor
poration serving politicians, greedy in
dustrialists and other foolish oppon-
ents of progress are doing more to
promote socialism than all other fac
tors combined. In the words of an old
time negro preacher, "the world do
and all the forces of reaction
will not be able to keep it from going
forward to better living conditions for
its inhabitants no matter what shib-
boleths they use to combat it.
Now to the fourth, the argument
that creation of a Missouri Valley |
Authority would create a corporation,
with powers destructive of popular |
rights under eminent domain; an issue |
interjected by Senator |
Wheeler Does Senator Wheeler mean |
to brighten people, by implanting in |
their minds the idea that a corpora |
ton, as SUCH is a dangerous thing |
and is to be stunned as an evil? His
letter to Mr.. Wight, seems to carry
that implication. Corporations are
created under charters granted by |
of the states. There are
tens of thousands of corporations in
this country, few of which can be
definitely classified as bad; many are
useful in numberless ways, and hun
dreds belong in the classification of
benevolent and charitable Institutions
The Tennessee Valley Authority is
not only corporation; it is several
one of which, the Ten
nessee Valley Associated Co-opera-
ives, Inc; was created to aid coop
eratives in the IVA area; another
The Electric Home and Farm Author
ty, Inc, was created to cooperate
With business, in an effort to bring a
vide use of electricity, at low cost, to
consumers throughout the seven Ten
lessee valley states. Both of these
corporations are of the useful kind,
md as result of their cooperative
Efforts, many thousands of homes have