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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

For one, they will have strengthened
the bipartisan nature of our foreign
policy, demonstrating better than
could be done in any other way the
national solidity back Of the Marshall
plan. For another, they will have
proven that three-thumbed efforts
radically to change our economic sys-
tenn appeal to only very negligible
number of our people. In a way Mr..
Wallace will have served his country,
but he also will have made pitiable
exhibition of himself.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02
SWANTON

Mr. and Mrs. Charles f. Lewis, of
near Swanton, entertained with a
miscellaneous shower Saturday, Au-
gust IS, in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gearl d. Thomas who were recently
married. The couple received many
gifts. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Steiding, Lois
and David Steiding, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dane Hamilton, Billy and John Ham
ilton, Mr.. and Mrs Raymond burst
and son Richard, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Ward and daughter Ruth. Mr.. irwin
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

Herman and daughter Geraldine, Rob
ert Salesky, Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Wilt.
Miss Dolly Wilt, Miss Anna June
Wilt, Donald Wilt, Miss Arlene Wilt,
Louise Lewis, Merit Wart Miss Eve
Ign Wilt, Miss JEANNE Lewis, Chas.
Lewis. Jr.. Miss Shirley Lewis, Paul
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02
Evangelistic Services Begin

Evangelistic services have begun
at the Pine Grove Church of the
Brethren, 8 miles north of Oakland,
with Rev. B. NJ. Rollins as the evange-
list.
Services are being held nightly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

That, was true in the Theodore
Roosevelt movement in 1912 and the
La Toilette movement in 1924. But
clearly no such support was behind
Mr.. Wallace. With approximately the
highest income in farm history there
is not the slightest demand for Mr..
Wallace among the American farm
ers. AS for organized labor, his
candidacy has been repudiated, first
by the big CIO unions, such as United
Steel Workers and United Automobile
Workers, and then by the two great
garment workers unions-the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers, whose
convention branded the Wallace
candidacy as disastrous to the vital
interests of organized labor" and the
International Ladies Garment Work
ers, who indicted his candidacy as
Communist inspired"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

We are, Of course, to be congratu-
lated on the prospect that no such
evidence Of Communist progress is
likely to be given or that any such
thing as the Wallace movement will
last beyond the 1913 election. Looking
back, it seems remarkable that there
ever should have been real appre-
hension about it. In recent years no
third party has appeared on the
American scene except with the sup
port of the organized farm and labor
groups, resentful because of economic
conditions and antagonistic to what
they regarded as the excessive con-
servatism of the two major parties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02
Wilt, Misses Joye and Carol Sue
Lewis, and Nelson Ward.

Henry Wallace was literally peltcl
with tomatoes and eggs while he
spoke to citizens in two North Caro-
lima towns.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
BY FRANK r. KENT

downright by The Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by per-
MISSION,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

Now it has been repudiated official
ly by the CIO as a whole and by the
American Federation Of Labor, whose
executive council unanimously OPP
poses the "false liberalism of Mr..
Wallace and his third party" In adj
dition he is violently opposed to the
exceedingly vocal, though politically
impotent, group of former intimates,
ex-jobholders and sons of the late
Franklin Roosevelt who pompously
call themselves "Amelicans for Demo-
cratic Action" Their futility was
shown by the stupid effort to draft"
General Eisenhower and thus ditch"
Mr.. Truman in the Democratic con-
vention. But their opposition to Mr.
Wallace shows there is no sentiment
for him even among his former as
sociates and friends of the New Deal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

Thus, without the support of labor,
farmers or professional liberals,
Mr. Wallace's strength appears who'll
ly confined to the Communists and
crackpots. If he demonstrates in No
vember there are not enough OF these
to matter, he unwittingly will have
performed a real public service. lie
and his Communist hackers will have
done all the things they least wanted
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

If the situation were otherwise it
would be dreadful indeed. For a Wal
lace vote large enough to be the bal
ance of power on election day in any
important state would mean that
forces directed by the only potential
enemy we have in the world We're
strong enough to influence the choice
Of President Of the United States.
1t would mean that Communists here
had made real progress in their SIMS
ter campaign to undermine our sys-
TEN of government and bring about
a condition of economic and political
chaos.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02
An Inviting Service

One Of the gratifying signs Of the
times is that, two months before the
election. it is generally agreed that
the Wallace candidacy is a "bust."
There now appears slight chance that
Mr.. Wallace in November will poll
enough votes in any state to affect
the result in that state or to prove
anything except that after all this is
not a nation of fools
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

The latest poll, taken for Fortune
Magazine by the experienced Mr..
Elmo Roper, shows Mr.. Wallace the
choice Of only three per cent of the
voters. This, on a basis of a total
vote of 55,00000O, would be only l.
650.0O0-an utterly insignificant
showing. Actually, if he polls only
three per cent of the vote it will be
cause for general rejoicing. If, in this
country Of more than 145,000OO0
heterogeneous and largely unreason-
ing people, the Communists and the
crackpots, combined, cannot muster
more than that percentage at the
polls, the tribute to the national
soundness and sanity will be clear
and convincing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02

Since his so-called convention in
Philadelphia the whole Wallace move
ment has shriveled in Importance Mr.
Wallace himself has shrunk as a po-
litical figure. The ineffable Mr.. Rex
ford G. Tugwell has indicated a latent
intention to desert. The idea that be-
fore the election Mr. Wallace, per-
sonally, may withdraw because of the
completeness Of the Communist con-
troll of his "third party" has been re-
vived. The suggestion is heard here
and there that he is becoming increas-
ingly confused mentally.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

Lewis & Clark county progressives
are strongly opposed to having candl-
dates other than Henry Wallace and
Glen TAYLOR on the Montana ballot this
fall Harry L. Billings, chairman of
the county chapter of Montana Pro-
gressive Citizens of America announc-
ed Thursday following lively meet
ing of the organization Wednesday
evening.
That the local groups sentiments
NAV be known to delegates from other
counties to the founding convention OF
the Montana Progressive party to be
held in Helena September 4, the Lewis
E. Clark chapter drafted and unani-
mouslv approved the following action:
To the chairman of the convention
for the organization of Progressive
rarty in Montana.
Lewis & Clark county chapter of the
Montana Progressive Citizens of Am
erica in a meeting held in Helena,
Montana, August 25, UNANIMOUSLY
agreed to the following:
1. That it would be disastrous mis-
take of Judgment to name other candl-
dates such as for state offices on the
progressive party ticket in the forth
coming campaign;
THAT the delegates from Lewis &
Clark county be directed to oppose
anv such plan should it be proposed
Of the convention called to meet in
Helena on September A.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
PEACE OR WAR

variance between social and economic
iinventiveness.
The new world makes it impossible
for any group to have peace, abun-
dance, security, and health without
being willing to share these things
with others. The good things and the
bad things of life are or are not
Either all people have them at least
to some degree or no one and no
group can be sure of enjoying them.
If this premise is correct, then it
must be perfectly clear that our mar
velOuS economic productivity is only
part of total progress; that with
economic progress there must be a
corresponding social-ethical growth
which not only permits but guaran-
tees to all the people a share of the
benefits of productivity
Progress defined as the extension
of the power of man over his environ
than the power to secure the basic
survival needs 1t includes power
over large number of other environ
mental forces that make for good or
evil
A major part of the price of further
progress is demand for a
examination of the fears, |
hates, and suspicious that
now hinder progress towards the full !
development of people. These retard-
ing forces must be known for what
they are, not inevitable weaknesses !
over which there is no control, but i
false notions taught us and often pur-
posely innoculated, to serve as a
for social injustice.
THE MAJOR TASK
To cross this morass of false no.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
TAYLOR TO Make TWO
APPEARANCES IN
MONTANA

Senator Glen H. Taylor, candidate
for vice president and running mate
of Henry A. Wallace on the new Pro
gressive party, will make two appear
ances in Montana the first week in
September. Sen. Taylor will speak in
the Billings Junior High School audi
forum, Sunday, September 5, 500 p.
m, and in the armory at Poplar, Mon
day, September 6, pm.
Issues of the campaign and proposals
of the Progressive Party for peace,
freedom and abundance, will be dis
cussed by the Senator.
This speaking engagement is part
of Mr.. Taylor's western campaign
tour. He is being sponsored by the
Montana Wallace for President COM
mittee.
The people of Montana will have the
opportunity to vote for Wallace and
Taylor. A founding convention of the
Progressive Party of Montana will
be held in Helena, September 4, to
place Presidential electors for the new
party on the ballot.
Following the completion of his Mon
tana tour, Senator Taylor will leave
for New York to join Henry Wallace
lat a gigantic rally in Madison Square
Garden
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

The newspaper fraternity of Mon
tana lost one of its most colorful
members when {. r. Holderby,
known to all his many friends as
"Pinky", former publisher and edi-
tor of the Tribune at Shelby passed
away week ago. He was recog-
nized as an independent thinker.
fearless in expression and yet kind
Iy and tolerant. His weekly column
"SidesWipes" in the Tribune, at
tracted wide attention and a host
of constant readers.
While $50" has been written to
the writing and publishing career of
"Pinky" HoIderby, he will live long
in the memory of his many friends
in Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
BY ISRAEL EPSTEIN
in Allied Labor News

If ever the failure of U. S. govern
ment policy was good for the Amer
lean people, it was the complete col
lapse of the war crisis over Berlin.
It's lack of success" probably saved
millions of American, and other, lives.
An ultimatum to Russia followed by
military demonstrations and by war
if these produced an incident was
the type of showdown Washington
favored. The plan was abandoned
only because the Russians held onto
their nerves and the western Euro
peans, whom us. brass hats had ear
marked as allies, showed plainly that
they neither would nor could fight in
such a war.
This is not an unsupported conclu-
sion by your columnist or para
phrase of left-wing charges The Tru-
man administration now stands ac-
cused of picking fights in Europe by
such varying well-informed sources as
Harold l.. Ickes, Pres. Roosevelt's
secretary of the interior, Walter Lipp-
mann, top Republican foreign policy
writer, and others.
Ickes, in the New York Post OF
August 4, said in his usual direct
manner that Truman and his war
mongers have dimmed the hope of
peace"
OUR "MISCALcULATED RISK" :.
Lippmann revealed in the New York
r. hot fft1re
were not able to deliver an ultimatum
about Berlin because western Europe
is in no condition to face war" He
blamed the whole Berlin crisis on
the miscalculated risk" undertaken
by Secretary of State George c. Mar
shall and British Foreign Sec Ernest
Bevin in trying to set up separate
west German government-with the
certainty that the Berlin show would
follow.
David Lawrence. another top Re-
publican commentator who is pub
Usher of United States News, said
flatly in the New York Sun August
4 that the Russians had sought no con
flct in Germany.
again and again the Russians have
indicated desire to talk with the
western governments Lawrence
wrote recalling the Smith-Molotov
notes last May. Again and again the
democracies have indicated that there
was little to talk about &. The Rus
slams evidently started the Berlin
blockade as a means of altering the
existing situation and forcing some
kind of conference. They have sue
ceeded"
Even George Sokolsky, much more
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
STRONGLY OPPOSES
full PROGRESSIVE
SLATE OF CANDIDATES
Dear Mr.. Bruce:

Dear Mr.. Bruce:
l agree in every detail with your
editorial "A Word of Warning" in the
August goth issue of The Voice.
AS chairman of the women's COM
mittee for Montana and member of
the national committee, | exhort the
Progressive Party of Montana NOT
to put any candidates, except WAL
LACE AND TALYOR, on the ballot
in November!
/ hope the convention September
4th will not make the serious mis-
take Of proposing candidates for Of
flee, EXCEPT president and vice pres
ident of the United States on the Pro
gressive party ballot. - Very truly
yours, MRS. ART. LAVELLE, 1914
Poly Drive, Billings, Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
By J. NJ. PETERSON. Poison

The world desperately needs peace
1t needs a long period of peace to
serve as a bridge to span the next
difficult morass over which people
must now pass to achieve further
progress.
This morass consists of the danger
Gus social or culture lag evident for
some time. For at least hundred
and fifty years. economic produc-
tivitiy has been progressing at far
greater speed than social ethical
growth. Particularly since the advent
of the industrial revolution, capital
ism has wrought marvels in the eco
nomic sphere. 1t has given people
ar inestimable increase in their power
over nature to satisfy their material
needs, the basic survival needs. These
huge chronological Announcements made
during the first hundred or hundred
and fifty years could hardly have
been dreamed of by even the greatest
minds among the ancients. Where
once it took from seventy to eighty
people to produce the bare subsistence
requirements for themselves and the
other twenty or thirty, the ratio is
now practically reversed. III medi-
cine, education. recreation, political
ideas, and health, great ARRANGEMENTS
have been made.
AS a result of the great progress
made in education, medicine, and
technology, it would now be possible
for most people, especially in Amer
lea, to truly have abundance.
Yet, in the face of these vast po-
tentialities for the richer life in ma
terial things, there is poverty for a
large section even in America, poor
health and woeful lack of education
al opportunities for many. There is
war and fear of war; there is hate,
underlined fears, suspicion and inse-
curity.
THE CULTURAL LAG
What is holding us back? The an
swer is to be found in the cultural
lag, the comparatively slow rate OF
social-ethical progress as compared
with the rate of economic progress.
Three startling facts are sufficient
to illustrate the dangers of the great
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
BERLIN FAILURE" PR0BABL = AvED'
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN ! rs
1iscreditable RepubI

u1ScfeulJaDle RepuD Is sIiIeT WHoul
congressional in Z tors once
branded as a labor x paid stooge
for the National Aso.-s Of Manufac-
turers, added light on the subject. An
old Russia-hater, Sokolsky neverthe-
less said in the New York Sun that
no Soviet war preparations were in
evidence. He accused Truman of
"pinpricks, alarms, crises, designed
to scare not the Russians but the
American people for campaign pur-
poses"
That isn't the way you read about
the Berlin crisis in the papers, includ-
ing Republican papers. when it was
in full blast The reason the facts
now come from Republicans, and even
from creatures like Sokolsky, is that
the get-tough policy has failed and
somebody must be blamed come cleo
ton time Actually, if you remember
the Bipartisan foreign policy" the
fault was no more the Democrats
than the Republicans'-an no less.
Both gambled with your life and will
do so again, given the chance
To get back to these writer's last
minute discoveries. there is something
else worth noting. in the Lippmann
piece. Lippmann has at last told us
that one major aim of the Marshall
plan is TO keep eastern Europe in
her age-old subsection to the west, and
the colonial countries eternally under
the rule of white supremacy.
NUB OF ERP REJECTION
1.-The European recovery program
he wrote. required a restoration of
trade between the agricultural East
(of Europe) and the industrial west
The kind of trade eastern Europe
wants. however, is trade that will
help it, too, to build industry-not to
remain rural slum That is why
it did not join ERP in the first place.
The Marshall Plan, Lippman con-
tinued. required also restoration of
trade with southeast Asia, one of the
regions of the western
European powers But the Dutch po-
sition in Indonesia. the French posi-
tion in Indo-China, the British posi-
ton in Burma and Malaga, are most
No hint here of the fact that the
southeast Asian countries want to be
2 "dollar-earning region" for their
own people, not for colonial masters,
and that the Dutch, French and Brit
ish position" Lippmann talks about
is the military position of slavehold
ers trying to put down local indie
pendence movements with arms.
WALLACE CORRECT AGAIN i
Even Republicans say these things |
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

that the Communist Party was
taking control of his organiza-
ton and that it was costing him
votes.
Ralph Shikes. Progressive Party pub
lie relations director, informed CLIO
NEWS Editor Allen Swim that "Mr.
Wallace informs me that at no time
has he ever made any such totally I'M
true statement"
Shikes pointed cut that in 1914 the
House Committee on un-American Ac-
tivities had attacked CIO-PAC with
the statement that "the political. views
and philosophy Of the Communist Par
ty and the CIO Political Action Com
mittee coincide in every detail"
The House Committee added, Shikes
pointed out. that it believed that the
CIO-PAC represents in its main out
lines a subversive Communist cam
paign to subvert the Congress of the
United States to its totalitarian pur-
poses"
"knowing how untrue the above
statements were about the Go
PAC," Shikes said, ~ am shocked
to note a Clio leader and the Clio
News giving currency to similarly
untrue propaganda against the Wal
lace movement
Shikes pointed out that Wallace did
not even hold a press conference on
July "a, as charged by the Clio NEWS,
but that on July %, at the opening of
the Progressive Party convention in
Philadelphia, he read to reporters a
prepared statement on the question of
Communist support.
HERES THE PROOF knoll
WAS UNTRUTHFUL :.
The statment read by Wallace was
as follows:
according to the newspapers, I'm
getting a lot Of support from the
Communists. And the Communist
leaders seem to think they have to
endorse me every day or so. There's
no question that this sort of thing is
a political liability.
"The Communists oppose my adj
vocacy of progressive capitalism.
They support me because ! say we
can have peace with Russia. | will
not repudiate any support which
comes to me on the basis of interest
in peace. The Communists are in
terested in peace because they want
2 successful socialist experiment in
Russia. / am interested in peace
because want our American system
to demonstrate the enormous vital
ity of which it is capabIe-that VII
tally which is being wasted in pre-
paration for war.
"lf, during the war, we had accept
ed the idea that you can't work with
Communists, we might not have sue
ceeded in our joint efforts to stop
Hitler. If you accept the idea that
Communists have no right to ex-
press their opinions, then you don't
believe in Democracy And if you
accept the notion that it is impos-
sible to live i'm world with sharp
ly differing ideas, then you accept
the inevitabiIity of war. don't be-
lieve in the inevitability of war.
do believe in Democracy"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
Lewis & Clark Wallace Supporters Solid
Against Full New Party Slate

The foregoing is copied from the
minutes of the meeting of the Lewis
& Clark county chapter of the Mon
tana Progressive Citizens of America.
(Signed) HARRY L. BILLINGS,
Chairman Lewis & Clark County
Chapter, Montana Pea
Attest: CELIA MINUGH, Secretary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

tions which retard porgress and serve
as foundations of social injustice is
now the major task. The goal is not
to be achieved by mere facts alone,
nor through moral teachings. 1t re-
quires an examination of the opera
lions of social affairs, what it is that
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27
Falsehoods Peddled By CI0
PAGHead Exploded
Facts Show That Kfos Batting Is Part And Parcel
Of Same Witches Brew" Served Up By NAM

giving currency propaganda directed Henry Wallace
which sis of piece with the lying which have been d
by un-Amercan Committee and the anlabOr
against the CIOPAC in the past much against the
Wallace Progressive Party"
The Progressive Party referred to the August B issue of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

James Stewart Martin, former Decentralization chief in
Germany, and cocharman of the Maryland Progress
sive Party will handle the Progressive Party position
the question care winning the cold war;? Peoples
Platform CBS Sunday, August 20. Montana people
in this at 80 (MST) KFBB Great Falls
II 80 Butte time) KNOW Butte
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

Go NEWS in which PAC Dr.
rector Jack Knoll was quoted
as having said in a speech at
Cincinnati that on July "a
Henry Wallace at a public
press conference told reporters
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-27

To cross this morass of false no