The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-21
Propaganda


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nothing to sell the public, yet they
spent hundreds of millions of dollars
| for advertising in papers, magazines
and over the radio. Since they had
first of all, they had to keep the pub
lie informed that they (the manufac-
turers) were performing an ultra-patr1-
otto service to their country; second,
the advertising costs were deducted
from their income tax returns; third,
their propaganda stooges (radio, news
papers, magazines) had to have money
to continue their existence. Example,:
Here's an old copy of TIME 1.-THE
News Magazine" 1t has ITO pages,
$50 columns. / find SIS full page adj
vertisements, &c full column ads; to-
tai, n pages of advertising, leaving
total of 33 pages of reading matter,
including propaganda. A copy of LIFE
GAG pages, including cover and 81 IL
pages of advertising. Is it any wonder
that BUSINESS shapes the policy of
publications like that, in their dealings
with the public? Now, hold minute!
am coming to the most Satanic prop
agandist of all, The National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers (NAM) and
their propaganda agency, the National
Industrial Information Committee
(NIIC). This group of high-powered
high-priced publicists has the purpose
of: Quote, Bringing together repre-
sentatives of industry and leaders of
four Of Americas largest and most in
fluential opinion-moulding groups
clergymen, educators, farm and wom-
en- leaders-is the objective of one of
MICS most important and successful
action programs" Their most recent
report shows that leaders to whom 30
100000 farm men and women look for
guidance, 10000 clergymen, Protes-
tant, Catholic and jewish who guide
the spiritual life of 55 million church
members, the educators of 80 million
school children, and the leaders of
the thousands of clubs and societies
to which two-thirds of Americas wom-
en- belong are being contacted. The
$4,000 teachers who instruct our chill
dren in social science have been espe-
cially selected as spreaders of this
propaganda, since it is they who large
ly shape the children's minds on polit-
ical and economic matters The pur-
pose of course, is to lead the young
to believe that business is a Holy insti-
tuition; and the bigger, the holier.
This propaganda committee also
boasts that it provides material for
the weekly newspapers that circulate
chiefly in the small towns and rural
communities and serve about SO mil
lion readers. A complete elaboration
of the report submitted by this COM
mittee would fill two or three issues
of THE PEOPLES VOICE, so to sum
up briefly, here is what. it means. The
propaganda department of the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers is
trying to influence the farmers lead
ers to its point of view, contrary to
the interests of the farmers them
selves. They have tried to invade the
pulpit with their propaganda, with
what success the Lord only knows.
They are trying to poison the minds
of women through their club and So
cial leaders, perhaps with all too much |
But worst of all, through |
teachers in the public and parochial |
schools, they are attempting to poison |
the minds of those youngsters, upon
whose shoulders will fall, in the near
future, the burdens of both govern
ment and business. And to do this
they are spending millions of dollars