The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-03-10

g !. 4.
Letter to Telegram Senders
Ladies and Gents:
What is the sense in protesting
against the use of a blackjack when
at the same time you are pounding
yourself on the head with six feet
of lead pipe? Deluging state legis-
latures and the national congress
with wires demanding that some
thing be done about mock trials in
The Kremlin pattern is all very well,
but what about us all personally.
doing a little less cheering, hat
tossing and voting here on home
grounds for candidates for city,
state, and national office who are
known to be so far to the left that
a slight breeze could send them
over to the Moscow line2 Huh?
Is there anything screwier than
expressing indignation over the
Cardinal Mindszenty outrage, with
its threat to religion everywhere
on earth under communism, and
then taking it on the double to the
polls to vote into office leaders who
r not intellectually for the
American way?
Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty, not eternal tele-
grams. Americans must wage
this fight at the polls not at
the Western Union offices. Bal
lots, not wires or postcards are
Uncle Sans first line of de-
Tense If he is really indignant
over that Hungary trial and
wants to make sure that no .
court routines of that type ever
come to America. ,
If ! were a congressman ! would
answer all wires with a terse, Ere
ceived your telegram urging me
do something. Fine idea. What
are you doing besides sending
wires? Are you by any chance
among those millions of easily
fooled folks who by word, deed or
vote make the way easy for the
Communist routine in America?
Don't answer too fast. Sit down and
give your conscience a good check
ing up"
This country's Number One Looms
are the boys and gals who think
they can stop the reds" and
''pinkos" by Western Union instead
of by an about determination never
to support for any office govern
ment, labor union or chowder club)
any candidate who has a smile for
the Kremlin way. ALI Russia laugh
up its sleeve at that kind of n.y.
pocrisy. They love it and count On
it. And they have been getting it
from plenty of telegram senders.
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You can't stop by wire an evil
which you are not trying to stop
by your own love of country and
mental alertness. 1t makes no
SENSE
I don't mean to lay off kilograms
of protest against prosecutions Of
the church and defiance of all the
rules of human justice. They help.
But you're just performing in a
squirrel cage If you rush off a wire
of indignation in the morning and
dash off in the afternoon to vote in
to office some crumb you know
very well is the type who might play
footsie with Pal Joey.
There is no percentage in yelling
for the eradication of rats and at
the same time voting for loosen
storage of sharp cheese.
Yours for a little horse sense,
ELMER TWITCHELL
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Cuff Stuff
lima Dodo has a cold and says
she thinks she sat in the Atlantic
Draft. ~,
Herbert Hoover is in Washington
striving for a little economy in gov
eminent. This establishes him as the
country's foremost optimist.
Secretary Acheson says Wash.
ington is sympathetic toward
China in its present plight, but
will not issue a statement on it.
Anything Uncle Sam might say
now, in view of the many
changes in attitude, would seem
Chinese to all.
We heard a fellow complain that
there has been such a slump that
a fellow can no longer make a dis
honest dollar.
King George will name a royaI
commission to look into gambling