The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-09

Mad Hatters, to get us into ;
struggle with the Soviet Union
we are not really in a struggle
and there is no danger of oul
ever getting into such a strug
gle unless we attack Russia
One mad general lately pub
lished that we should do so.
But we are in serious rivalry will
Communism for mighty prize, the
studious conclusion of mankind as tt
whether on the whole, the Communist
or capitalist systems of economy pre-
sent the greatest good to the largest
number of people under the respective
systems.
Where two neighbor boys are each
two college students are striving to
win first place, the honor will not go
to him who spends his time abusing
the other fellow, but to him who
feeds and curries his calf, or to him
who studies hard and guards his own
health.
Ordinary common sense is as useful
to direct domestic and foreign ma
tional policies as to regulate private
life. Moscow seems to have seen
clearer than we have that it is
rivalry, rather than a struggle be-
tween the U. S. A. and the u. S. S. R.
since VI day The consequence is
already putting us so far behind, that
we are trying to bride the judges,
lie, the people of France, Italy, Aus
tria, Greece, Turkey, by the Marshall
Truman plan-giving away seventeen
billion dollars, much needed to pay
the mortgage of 25S billion on our own
farm, and feed our own calf.
We are getting nowhere. We are
losing ground Make an inventory.
We have sent to Greece direct, and by
700 million dollars to support
a puppet king. Our money has bought
furs from the Soviet forests, fountain
pens and jewelry for effete Athen- !
ians. The King holds the cities, the
Communists hold the mountains.
Greece is nine-tenths mountains.)
Eight weeks ago we released Italy |
rom 1.3 billion dollars, and the Com
nunists carried the election in Rome
~ small majority a week later.
We lent (gave) Britain 81 billion
ollars last year. Last week Britain
ought from Russia and will pay for
$4,000 tons Us million bushels) of
hines that Britain is paying four bill
on dollars to buy and socialize her
abroad system. Socialism and Com
lunism have many identical features.
4 fact total Sociaizing of all means
production communications and
transportation is Communism. Our
wn highway system is purely Com
lunistic. Sweden, people as well
ducated as ourselves, against our
lily protest, a year ago joined the
oviet sphere by a five year close [
'ade agreement. She seems content
18th the plan. Norway is now con-
dering following Sweden. Finland, |
D far the only honest nation about
ur debts, is in the Russian sphere,
ut Moscow does not prevent her from
leeting her payments to us. Den
larks cabinet had to resign and hold
n election about Communism. The
communists lost out there, however.
There are now in the Soviet sphere:
stonia, Latvia, Lithuania, two-fifths
Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
ugoslavia, Albania, Rumania, Hun
airy, Bulgaria, roughly, $50 million
eople-almost as many as in the
nited States. They are not hungry.
hey are not crying to us for food.
| fact, Joseph C. Harsch, on the staff
II eighteen years of the Christian
cience Monitor, in Harper's for De-
ember, narartes his visits last sum-