The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-08

go to the various countries of TIL
is about the same kind of an ANNA
in India she may have hump, as sh
: is in this country, that the basic prof.
lens of farmers are about the same
That farm people, for example, wan
the same basic things whether the
live in Russia, or China, or India o
the United States. And if we begin t
get real international understandin,
then it will be much more Difficult
for those boys who wear the striped
lpants and make the cocktail lounge!
international diplomacy courts to ge
us into trouble again.
Education, of course, is the only
lasting answer and the only positive
answer for democracy. Democracy car
not function without universal educa
ton. We ought to be spending billions
for planning and rebuilding Europe;
not on the basis of our own narrow,
basic concept of how people should
behave in those areas and what they
should believe but on the basis of
what will give them the highest level
Of economy it is possible for them to
have, not on the basis of what our
money will do to rebuild the lives of
people who live in Germany and Eu-
rope and elsewhere in the world and
how their living standards can be
raised And if we do that our legiti-
mate business won't have to worry
about business being muffled
Must Break Up MonopoIies :
Next, we must attack and break up
all national and international mono
poles and that strikes again what
said. 1t strikes right at the heart of
the whole foreign policy issue which
in the past has been too often written
by representatives of Standard Oil
and other corporations which send
their dollars beyond the borders of the
United States and too frequently de-
termine our policy. 1t seems to me
that we ought to investigate the Mid
die East carefully and see just who
has what at stake there. We find out
that the United States and England
along with some smaller countries
have 709o or 500 or 800 of the oil of
the Middle East.
We must fight for a World Food
Board which is coming up very
strongly now to stabilize agricultural
prices on world basis, to stabilize
of the food we grow so
we won't be burning wheat or corn
in this country while people are going
hungry, to bring a balance between
agriculture and industry.
Must Have Real Full Employment
=" AS | have said before, we can
not expect to go very far in this coun-
try in being a major influence in the |
world in the right direction unless we |
are willing to take the steps neces-
sary to have full employment in this
country. Not shallow, narrow thing
ike the present Maximum Employ
nent bill which was cut to ribbons by
he Tafts and other reactionaries but
/ real dynamic one in which all of us
lold ourselves responsible to our gov
to see that our natural re-
sources like the Missouri Valley are
developed and that we do have full
whether private indus
ry does it or whether we, the people,
evelop our human and natural re-
ources to do it. We must have a
FEPC to give an equal op-
to all the people of this
ountry. America talks about a demo
racy around the diplomatic tables of
he world but her morals and customs
t home is that she is denying demo-
racy democratic opportunity thru
oil tax and through Unequal and dis
practices in employment
nd social strategy to millions of her
itizens and we as citizens just have
} face up to the moral responsibility {
having at least the elements of /
in our own country if we 1
re going out to the world to be the 1
reat symbol in the world for demo-
racy
Basic Responsibilities !,
" Our basic responsibilities, as 9
see it, are these: First as l said !,
rovide adequate food for all. Second :
:, to conserve and build soil. And
ext, and | think this is the most i'm +
ortant of them all, is to participate
total society, social economically | \
nd politically. The Montana Farmers
Mon is a long ways down the road ;.
ut we as farm people on the whole 4
ave very largely lived in isolation. +
physically we have been somewhat c
olated, but more than that in the 4
ain our agricultural colleges and h
lucational institutions have for all n
ese years put the emphasis on COM u
ODDITIES, dollars and things and not a
! human beings q
Sec'y Anderson Should Resign r.
We have the right to have a +
ice in and control of our own pro- il
am. It's shocking how far down the s.
ad Secretary Anderson has tried to
owe away from farmer control of our O.
'ricultural program. He has attempt Il
by various devices, financial and n
herwise, to practically decapitate Ii
destroy at least the effectiveness a
the farmer-elected committees by
ducing their expenditures, by not q
them to participate in a p
of policy-making decisions by get el
lg their opinions. You all know that al
asked for his resignation because W
ought he was building centralized n,
reaucracy but more Importantly IA
an that our conventions have been m
ry clear on the necessity of having ii