The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-04

rean peace negotiations the Magazine
carried a strange note of optimism; for
example; arms orders will rise, not de-
! cline. Rearmament is long range, aimed
at the time of eventual showdown with
Russia. Not related to Korea. Korea
will go down as a major war, fought
Iby U. S. but not won. and all this
time we have been regarding it as a
police action"
After a summary of the arms spend
ing thus far the magazine continues
"Thus still to be spent in 1923; 1898
billions. This is a guarantee of high
level business activity into 1858. There
will be no cut in these funds, mSre
probably an increase u. S. is COM
mitted to rearming itself and to help
in rearming it's friends" This is a
general invitation to Big Business. See
what Uncle Has for us, come on let's
get ours.
Further on in the News gram" we
find this gem of hope-"Congress COM
ing back soon, will not do much in an
election year." Judging from past ex-
perience we might add with consider
able truth-"or at any other time"
on the following page under the
heading whispers" I encountered a
real puZzler,- the statement that J.
Edgar Hoover had talked the Presi-
dent out Of an idea that his organiza-
ton (the FBD should undertake the
prosecution VI ABUSES Ol the puDllc
trust stating that his organization
(FBD is not one to appraise evidence
and prosecute wrongOders."
| am still puzzling over this state
ment of J. Edgars. Just what IS his |
organization good for anyway? OF |
course it has chased down a few COM
mics and kept some of the witches and |
gobblins away in recent months but
does j. Edgar mean that they are not
''wrongdoers." We have been given the
impression by the papers that these
commies and fellow travellers were
really tough characters but now j.
Edgar says his organization ais not
one toaprosecute wrongdoers." Some
thing, in that statement just doesn't
seem to make sense. All, Well! It's
probably asking too much to expect
sense from a politician or head of a
government bureau anyhow.
UUnder the caption why the Scan
dals Grow" 1 found this pungent para
graph-"A franchise, subsidy, contract
or tax adjustment may be worth mil
lions to the one who receives it.
1t may put his competitor or would be
out of the running. Thus
the temptation to use a fee or a favor
in the right spot in the expectation of
swinging an official decision in the
right direction" Tsk, tsk, tsk! Such
things in this land of free enterprise
ualism. It's enough to almost shake
ones faith in our good democratic in
isn't it?
Feeling my confidence in our amer |
can way of life" slipping, I discarded
he magazine in disgust and picked UP |
1 copy of the Spokesman Review and |
was greeted by this flaming headline |
WASTE, GRAFT, SAPPING EURO |
2EAN AID PROGRAM, SOLON SAYS.
5ubhead "ELLENDER CHARGES HIGH |
Up us. OFFICIALS ABROAD LIVING |
LIKE PRINCES"
Reading this article a ray of light | |
began to penetrate my thick skull II
begin to have a better understanding | |
IF the purpose of the Marshal Plan |
md similar proposals. Those dumb |
foreigners" just don't savvy the "Amer-
can way of life. They've been con-
ent all these years to muddle along |
grafting never realizing that there
we're bigger things in life and great
II worlds to conquer" so we had to
end over a bunch of American bureau
rats to show them how to do things
m a really magnificent scale. and since
European nations didn't have suffi-
ient funds to permit of doing things
n the style to which our opponents
If rugged individualism have been
accustomed" we set up the Marshal
Plan and similar programs to show
hem the latent possibilities in our
american democracy. Now if the idea