The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-05-05
This One Appeared In Kaimin :.
peoples Voice" Not So Sweet In
Some Cases
BY GEORGE REMINGTON

Over in Helena, an opinionated little tabloid sheet
known the Peoples Voice is published a week
1t claims to be the voice of liberalism in Montana and
sashes freely at the kept press" and the "presst
tutes of the state for suppression of the It, of
course, would not think of suppression
Actually, the Peoples Voice is an unattractve
hodgepodge of clipped stories, the contributions
of few amateur columnsts, letters from any crack
pot, pooroom pink who feels like blowing off a little
steam, and long editorials by Montana's political pun
dit and shining liberal" knight, Harry L. Billings.
Voice Berates
So while the Voice berates Montanas daes for
suppressng the facts it completely ignores of the
biggest state stories of the year. practically ignores
other and then disorts the facts of the second in
recent editorial.
Readers who rely on the Voice as a source of news
would never know there had been major controversy
in the state highway department Why this story
ignored? Most likely because some of the facts
brought out in the hearing not altogether favor
able to the present state administration which the
Voice supports.
Nor has the Voice. except in its last issue given
much play to of the most controversial matters
in the history of the state-the $5000000 university
bond fight But in its April IA sheet the Voice weeps
bitter tear the firing of NMC's Pres G. H.
Vande Bogart the heads of the larger units of
using steamroller tactics, and calls them caesars
who would take direction from the elected board
of examiners, anyone else, if such did not agree
with their self-eXalted pontfcation how the tax
payers money to be spent In all, the editorial
took very unknd attitude toward the larger units
Voice Emphasizes
The very fact that the Voice emphasizes the 'elect-
ed' board of examiners shows how warped its reason
ing is in the dispute the funds ALLEGATION. The
grave issue to be decided is whether higher education
funds should be left the political whims of elected
officers or to non-partisan board of experts.
1t looks though the Voices liberalism" is being
drowned in pool of sentimentalty. AS the Voice
panders itself to the nighttime Farmers Union support
which finances the paper, it wounds Montanas higher
educational system And still it attacks the "kept"
press
True Liberal
One would expect true liberal to be pro-educa-
ton. One would expect him to be well informed to
realize that the modern trend in education is toward
consolidation of units, not continued dversifcaton
One would expect truly liberal newspaper to oppose
the forces that causing sectional schsm in the
state. But then perhaps the Voice feels it would be
guilty of inconsistency if it tried to up for
Arne Osens botching of the gambling situation with
one hand Gas it has) while it slapped him for his ac
tivity board of examiners with the other
This sympathy for Vande Bogart is getting tire
some. So what if he fired without hearing?
Does boss have to give every undesirable employee
hearing before he fire that employee? Vande Bo-
CART employe of the state board of education
The board his boss. Obviously Vande Bogart
couldn't cooperate with the board the other employees
of the board or his faculty, he fired
If it takes few dismissals to get the states educa
tonal mess Strengthened out, then I'm all for them
It's time the future welfare and happiness of Mon
5anas youth to be tossed about as political
oigskn.