The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-02-15
By LEVERNE HAMILTON,
Thompson Falls

AHCAiPoOh
Maybe I'm just plain dumb but there
is something about this business of re-
porting the news, as it is practiced by
| the newspapers and correspondents
that l can't get through my thick head.
[ recall that just a few days before
| Hitler launched his attack on Russia,
read an account, L think in the Billings
Gazette that those Goddess Russians"
| had killed off, or thrown in Jail all the
priests and preachers and destroyed all
the churches, then within day after
the Hitler invasion began the same
paper reported that "all the orthodox
churches and all the christian churches
of Russia were praying for the success
of the Russian arms"
For some reason that | can't explain
unless it is due to my feeble intellect
those two reports just didn't seem to
make sense. Did Hitler put the fear
of God" in all those Russians and
make christians of them" over night?
If so he was a better evangelist even
than Billy Sunday and the churches
should have put him on the payroll
But even so, where did all those
churches come from? My experience has
been that you can't build much of a
church in twenty four hours.
Even today the problem has "got me
stumped,' one day the papers tell us
about that iron curtain" surround
and the impossibility of getting any
information through it, and within a
few days the same papers will come
up with an article telling us every
thing that has transpired behind that
"inpenetrable iron curtain How thev
get this information is something I
just can't "savvy." Must be there's
something in that idea about Super
man" being a newspaper reporter
Now the papers tell us that Russia
has a whole flock of concentration
camps. Well, if the newspapers say so
I guess maybe it's the truth. Anyhow At
torney General McGrath believes it and
has been doing something about it, Re
MEMBER a few months ago someone ask
ed General ike" about security and he
replied that the best place to find Sc
curity was in Jail. Well that evidently
started McGrath's thinking machinery
and he decided that if Jail was good
g concentration camp would be even
better and Immediately began build |
ing a few. According to recent au-
thentic reports from Washington, we
now have three completed and a fourth |
well under way.
Yep! If those dern radicals are so |
blamed anxious for security we'll give |
en- plenty. Also We'll show them con
founded Russians that they can't get |
ahead of US either. Every time they |
build concentration camp We'll build
a bigger one. Well show the blighters
that they can't beat good old American
democracy at anything, especially at
building concentration camps.
Naturally concentration camp
serve the best interests of our
democracy unless it was filled so We'll
have to devise sure method of filling
hem. J. Edgar Hoover hasn't come
Ip to administration expectations in
hat line. He said he could put the Il
niger on twenty thousand at a NOM
,nt's notice. but of those four that II
jumped their bail" we've got only one
back and the MeXicans claim the credit
or that, so we'll have to provide some
stimulus that will move ]. Edgar to
and drastic action. I und-
,rstand that the three Macs (McCarran
1cGrath and Mccarthy have gone in
o a huddle so we may expect some
ruly momentous developments in the
immediate future. l think we may
hortly anticipate that each resident
f this great land of the free will soon
eceive a QUESTIONABLE reading some
What as follows:
"Gr-r-r-r- eetings (sucker): n
For the purpose of determining the
'atriotism and loyalty of all inhabi-
ants of Free America, and to provide
safeguards against any SubverSive ac-