The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-21


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n. Names will be withheld on request.
much more than the service rendered
by the few. Never did so many pa,
of that profit" was not based ON the
program of compensation for service:
rendered, but on water" and the
state citizens water at that
Just where do those "flabby folks
live? If memory serves correctly, the
town with 1.-THE Richest Hill on Earth
was the only town or city in the state
that received very close to million
dollars of government money, to re
place, a high school building thai
should have been replaced Is years be
fore the political currents" did the
job.
The writer was one of a committee
from the Lions club of Butte to in
spect the old high school building in
the winter of 1929, before the high
prosperity of that period had started
to recede, and we and other commit
tees from various civic organizations
found students crowded into many
rooms that had no ventilation what
ever, and had been formerly used for
storage space only. The youngsters
on "The Richest Hill" are hardy
though, put bunch of lambs in places
like that and they would not survive
very long.
Well, to sum up-we have not heard
of the IVA being forced by our fed
eral courts to write off stock to the
tune of any amount, to say nothing of
and the authority were certainly
forced before the various courts often
enough by the poor 'down-trodden
power-holding companies" to discover
if there were any "colored men hid
ing in the wood-pile''
Now, strange as it may seem, the
governors of the various states COW
cred by the IVA were not aiding the
poor hydro-electric companies there
like the governor of Montana was
when the case of the ownership of the
Missouri river in Montana, was being
tried in the courts.
A few foot notes on IVA No
floods since construction, retail sales
increase 500, bank deposits 76qo,
bond purchases 1879, population in
crease on equal basis, income in
creased 800, and income tax pay
ments 1870, recreation and fishing I'M
limited
Rainfall much greater than in the
Missouri river drainage area where
100 million dollars of flood damage
was done in 1914, mostly in the states
Of Missouri and Kansas and a likewise
of damage occurred in Louis
lana early this year.
On only 700 million dollars of bor-
'owed capital that is being paid back
With interest, as well as all taxes that |
we're formerly paid, to municipalities,
titles, counties, states and the federal |
government, by private corporations.
The people of the Tennessee valley |
las reversed a process of decay that |
las destroyed a hundred civilizations
rom the time of Babylon down to
spain. Eleven million people from
very part of the world have gone
here to investigate, gaze in wonder
hen applaud.
A like development along the Mis-
ouri and it's tributaries will furnish
O wears of pOSt-War work for 2OO 000
nen and permanent homes and
ealthy, happy employment for 6OO,-
90 new population in the nine states
overed and Montana's proportion
hould be between $4,000 and $4,000,
4 the next five years
If estimates of life insurance COM
anies are true, that every person of
n average age of 80 years is worth
10000 to our industrial production,
len Montana's wealth would be in
reased one billion, five hundred mil
on dollars. With total for the nine
Lates of eighteen (mind you) billions
dollars of new wealth for an invest
lent of only-one billion 1884, mil
on dollars
Now the question: If all the So
allied private, hydro-electric utilities !,
in the United States, COM :
med could raise, that amount of mon
Y of their long profits" would they :
SIX it, decidedly no. $
Conclusion: All of the people of the +
1Vernmnnt of the TTnitad Stafac ORC S