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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25
Poverty, Hunger, Driving
Forces Behind Revolutions
BY JOHN McGUFFEY, Roman

Evidence accumulates that poverty
and hunger are the driving forces that
are producing revolutions in our age.
At the meeting of the Food & Agr-
cultural organization (FAO) of the
UN the president stated that three
fifths of the people of our world do
not get enough to eat. The economic
committee reported that while food
production had increased per cent,
the population had increased 10 per
cent Hunger is winning the race.
Henry George in his book PROGRESS
& POVERTY, pointed out that this
widespread condition was caused by a
feudalistic landlord system which had
existed for ages in most parts of the
world. He showed that in most of the
ancient civilizations, which are now
classed as backward countries, that in
their early history the peoples of these
countries were making inventions and
developing new ideas. but as the wealth
accumulated, ii was gathered into the
hands of the few This was especially
true of the land The peasants and
the workers became so poverty
en- they had no time to invent things
and develop new ideas. The ruling
classes were well satisfied with their
position and didn't want any change.
They We're stand patters.
During the last two or three centuries
the western nations, through colonial
ism and exploitation have added to the
impoverishment of these peoples. They
grabbed the natural resources, virtual
" stole them. the British had been
doing in Iran, and worked the natives
at starvation wages. They sold them
machine made goods and this destroyed
the market for the hand made goods
of the natives. This fact was empha-
sized by Gandhi in his appeal to use
the hand loom.
our two world wars have intensified
this condition by creating a scarcity
of goods. Along with these conditions
there has been a slow awakening
among the masses of these backward
peoples that these conditions are the
cause of their misery.
Mr.. Justice William o. Douglas, af-
ter his trips through South Asia, re-
ported that the people of every village
from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, |
were asstir with new ideas. A report
err in an article in the u. S. NEWS &, |
WORLD REPORTS, said that in Egypt |
wherever you would find a group of
these peasants gathered in the field, |
in the village, or in the city, someone |
would be reading to them from a radi |
coming determined that this exploita- !
ton must stop 1t was these condi-
tions that caused the revolutions in |
Russia, the revolution in China, and is |
now stirring up unrest in half dozen |
other countries.
1t is feudalism and colonial exploit
tation that are the causes of all this
poverty ignorance and social unrest.
They are the institutions that must be
destroyed. What is America going to
do about it? What can be done?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25
Truce Propaganda
A Sham?
BY LOwNDES MAURY, Butte

Early last summer the big Brass"
in Washington realized that the MAORI
ty of Americans were Disguised with
the Korean war; that to maintain their
political control it was necessary to
pretend that they favored a truce
they did not declare for peace and get
ting out of Asia, as Ex-Presidnt Hoover
broadcast that they should have done.
They figured (and perhaps correctly
that they could keep their spigot in the
Treasury open if they should make a
specious pretense that they wanted, by
q truce, to stop the killing of our brave
boys in Korea.
Some are beginning to think this
is all sham, a framed-up, propaganda,
job. Six months have been wasted Our
casualty list has grown above that of
our war against Japan. Billions have
gone into war waste. Sixty days after
talks began at Kaesong, against the
solemn agreement an American plane
bombed Koreans in the area agreed
to be safe. This was done just as
final agreement was said to be close
at hand.
The talks" moved to another place,
and our Press pretends that truce
is close at hand An American plane
flies over Soviet territory near Vladi-
vostock. 1t is shot down. OF course,
Americans are angered. But why was
this plane flying over Soviet soil? Was
it to create an incident" to excuse, in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25

sequently I have been able to predict
with sometimes uncanny accuracy Gas
several acquaintances have said) the
course that Russian policy would take.
The history of the struggle of an al
most illiterate and severely oppressed
people against the tyranny of the Cars
and the Duma (the representatives of
the exploiting classes) is one of heart
break, suffering and herioc effort and
| commend its study to the lovers of
liberty in any country as an example
of what herioc people will endure,
and undergo to obtain a measure of
freedom The Russian achievements
during the last thirty years and par
tlcularly the almost single-handed re-
sistance which she offered to Hitler
(While waiting for a long-delayed "sec-
ond front) is an indication of what
a people can accomplish when they have
thrown off, Cor believe they have
thrown Off the tyrant's yoke.
[ believe I can say without fear of
successful contradiction that Russia
does not now nor at any time desire a
war On the contrary, PEACE would be
her greatest ally Having eliminated
the profit motive" from her economy
Cor largely 500 she can successfully and
advantageously compete with any and
all capitalist nations for the markets
of the world
ihio our capitalists readily realize,
and faced with (for them) a rapidly
vanishing profitable market they will
resort to desperate methods Gust as
our induStrialiSts do in serious Strikes)
to remove their most dangerous COM
petitor
Further on in his report Harsch at
tributes the dispelling of this fear"
(Which never really existed) to "the
accomplishments of General Dwight D..
Eisenhower" Coming as it does short
ly after the general himself had be-
moaned the little thus far accomplished
and stressed the magnitude of the task
before him, and coming almost stimuli
taneously with the announcement that
"Barkis (Eisenhower) is willin' ., to
run for President if drafted by the re-
publicans, one begins to wonder if this
isn't another piece of skillful propa-
ganda to give a boost to the man whom
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25
Needs Voice To Know State
Political Set-up

The Peoples Voice: Find enclosed my
money order for $780, for which send
me the Voice for one year.
Have just been reading an old copy
of the Voice, nearly year old, and
find it interesting and Informative, de-
spite its age.
have been keeping well up on world
happenings, but have neglected to do
the same on affairs on the home front.
Think it about time / looked into
things here in the state as there is an
election coming up. l want to know
how best to vote and who for, and
think the little old Voice will give me
the best dope on that.
The paper / have just been reading
is the issue of March 8, 1851, with the
first of three articles by Lowndes
Maury. Sure would like to have the
other two, as ! think he hits the nail
on the head-most of the time at least.
/ don't think we can better our lot
much by voting either Democratic or
Republican, unless they run as a
PEACE candidate
Yours for a better world of Peace
and Understanding.-R. II. COOK,
Grantsdale.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25
Less Unemployment Than Usual For This
Time of Year, Says UCC Chief

years ago. Another comparison is
furnished in unemployment insurance
claims, of which there were 5000 as
of January 5, as compared with g.
400 year ago and more than 10000
two years ago.
"Out-migration of idled workers."
Mr.. Miller says, ''to seek jobs in the
national armament program accounts
for part of these differences. Areas
where construction of government
dams and other facilities is concen-
trated furnished most of this migra-
ton. Induction into the armed SER
vices also depletes the number of
available jobseekers and of claim
ants for unemployment insurance"
Estimates of industrial employment
in Montana as of December Is, pre-
pared jointly by the unemployment
commission and the U. S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, show decrease of
only 1900 from November, a smaller
than normal seasonal swing. Severe
weather encountered after that date
caused widespread lay-offs in con-
struction, logging, and other out
door jobs, accounting for a rapid
rise in number of jobseekers as the
month closed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25
An Engineer Comments On
Reclamation Propaganda
By E. J. PARKINSON, Great Falls
Consulting Irrigation Engineer


Propaganda has been developed in
the last 20 years or so, into a science
Nations throughout the world are us
ing it more and more, our own includ-
ed Even our different government
agencies have learned the value of it
in keeping themselves in business and
expanding their operations
The effectiveness of propaganda is
often as much in what is not said, as
in what IS said. That is, only a partial
statement of facts can often be more
misleading than untrue statements. A
good illustration of this is in the news
release by the Bureau of Reclamation
on Nov 80 1851, which was carried in
most of the papers throughout Mon
tana They stated that the 1851 crop
production on all Bureau irrigation
projects east of the continental divide
in wyoming, Montana North and South
Dakota, was valued at $40, 100000, the
highest since 1947.
so FAR, so GOOD. The figures are
undoubtedly correct, as far as they go.
The propaganda is in the implication
that there would have been NO produc-
ton had it not been for the irrigation
facts withheld that are so misleading.
The big question that naturally arises
is: What would these lands have pro-
duced WITHOUT irrigation? Or to be
more specific, what is the increased
production due to the irrigation that
costs so many millions of dollars?
To illustrate, let us take the Sun
River project of S4,950 acres in Teton
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25

Seasonal reductions of force dur
ing December and early January re-
duced employment totals in Montana
on the normal winter pattern, but
produced less unemployment than
common at this season of the year,
according to M. Joe Miller, chairman
of the unemployment compensation
commission. Mr.. Miller points out
that there were 5000 jobseekers list
ed in employment service offices as
of December 26, compared with $500
year before and with 10000 two
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-01-25
NY "Two-Bit's Worth"
By LEVEVRNE HAMILTON,
Thompson Falls

Well, well, will wonders never cease
We now learn from a no less reliable
source than Joseph G. Harsch, writing
in the Christian Science Monitor for
January that, according to the head
line, WEST STOPS QUAKING AT
| RUSSIAN SHADOW"
According to Mr.. Harsch who "has
| just returned from a swift survey of
! the European countries west of the iron
curtain i. the old dread of the Soviet
| Army . the fear that Europeans
might wake up any morning to find
Soviet soldiers patrolling their streets
from the Elbe to the English Channel,
isn't there any more.
Strange isn't it that special CORES
pondent has to make a special trip OF
this nature to discover something that
| many of us who remain at home and
study the situation impartially already
knew?
Many of us who have been following
the course of world events with real
ly open mind could have assured Mr..
Harsch that that fear of the Soviet
Army" not only wasn't there anymore
but that in fact, so far as the common
people were concerned, it has never
been there. Fear there undoubtedly
was, and is, but the fear is only in the
minds of the exploiting classes and the
innocent dupes among the workers both
here and abroad, who have been so
foolish as to swallow without careful
thought the propaganda of those same
eXploiterS and their SubServlent press.
Further along in Harsch's report l
find this: "An American who goes TO
Europe from the scene of the 1851 ar.
guments in Washington over rearma-
ment, blinks and wonders what has
happened to all the assumptions upon
which he started his journey. And
well may he wonder. Having placed
his confidence in the reports of the
subsidized news purveyors, both of the
press and radio, he may well be start
led to discover on arriving in Europe
that he has been proceeding upon an
assumption that was totally false. Now
don't misunderstood me, I wouldn't for
the world accuse our newspapers and
radio commentators of deliberately
lying Cat least, not over 95 per cent of
them) but their manipulation of facts
and distortions of the truth is some
thing marvellous to behold
While several of my critics, and at
least one antagonist in the legislative
assembly often accused me of 1T, hon
esty compels me to admit that | have
never been a communist, nor could l
honestly classify myself as even
fellow traveller but I have long been
keen observer of Russian affalrs.
Even in my pre-high school days at
the beginning of the century l was at
tracted to the struggles there through
a reading of Tolstoy's works and the
story of the old Russian "nihilist" re-
bellions and having always been par
tisan and sympathizer with the under
dog" even though the battle was thous-
ands of miles distant, L followed the
struggles of the Russian people with
great interest and probably more close
~ than the average individual. Con-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17
Interrace Group
Elects Directors.
Publication Editor

CHICAGO NC)-James Guinan
of Harlem Friendship House, New
York, was elected director of the
st. Peter Clsver Center in Wash
ington, d. c., at the annual council
meeting of representatives and
chaplains of the Friendship Houses
of the United States here. Mr..
Guinan of Dearborn, Mich, will sue
ceed Mary Huston, founder of the
Washington center in 1948, resign
ed.
Florence Hassing of Mount {
Angel, Greg, was elected director
of the Blessed Martin Friendship
House in Portland, Greg, to sue
ceed Ellen Rehkopf. who founded
the Portland house in June, 1851.
Mabel c. knight was reelected
editor of the Catholic lnterracialist,
publication of the Friendship
Houses. The national organization
is composed of Catholic laity who
work to promote interracial justice.
1t was founded by the former
Catherine de Kolyshkine, Baroness
de Hueck of Russia, now the wife
of Edward ]. Doherty, widely
known Catholic author and news
paperman.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17
Hacaii adopts Released Time
Program In All Public Schools
Territorial Commissioners Act When Attorney
General Declares Move Constitutional

HON0LULU-(NC) - A released
time program of religious instruct
ion for pupils in Hawaii's public
schools has been authorized by the
territorial school commissioners.
Pastors and directors OF the Con-
fraternity of Christian Doctrine
are now meeting throughout the
islands to make plans for Catholic
participation. At present Catholic
public school pupils receive in
struction in catechiSm classes held
after school hours in public school
claSSrooms.
The new program was authorized
following a ruling by the territorial
attorney generals office that
Hawaiian statutes relating TO re-
leased time do not violate the
Constitution as interpreted by the
Supreme Court last April. At that
time the Court handed down a de-
ciSion declaring legal the released
time program of New York.
MANY PROBLEMS
The Rev. John H. Mcdonald,
S. NJ, diocesan director of the Con-
fraternity of Christian Doctrine,
commended the attorney generals
office and the school commission
ers.
But he also pointed out that the
new program will present many
problems both to schools and par
isheS. These include, he said, locat-
ing sites for released time classes,
providing teachers and proper
adult supervision, enlisting the
aid of Catholic adults in providing
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17

transportation, and determining
whether or not released time is
preferable to the present program.
Hawaii's first released time pro
gram was introduced in 1912. 1t
provided that public school chill
dren whose parents wished ii could
receive religious instruction for
one hour a week during school
hours in a public school classroom.
In 1947, by which time 5000
Catholic and 1000 Protestant chill
dren we're enrolled in religious
instruction classes, the program
was curtailed by the territorial
commissioners of public instruct
ion. The 1947 restrictions provided
that religious instruction classes
could be held on only one day a
week and during the last hour of
of the school day. These provisions
applied largely to Honolulu. Most
other areas continued under the
1912 program.
In 1948. following the Supreme
Court decision in the McCollum
case the entire released time pro
gram in Hawaii was abolished
While Territorial attorney General
Alderman declared the program
unconstitutional, he ruled
that public school classrooms could
be used for religious instruction
classes after school hours if school
authorities and Staffs took no part
in them.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17

ly DARK Page, Tbel
Columbia
Sea "a mouChe
Sellout. The
IIy Obiectionsbl. In Part
Inside the Walls OF
Folsom Prison
Island Of Desire form
erly Saturday island
Kid Monk Bsroni
Lady Says No. This
LAffaire tFrenchl
Las Vegas Story. The
Lemon Dfop Kid, The
Let's Make IT Legsl
Light Touch. Ths
Lilli Msrlene
Little Egypt
Losn Shark
M"
Macao
Magic Face
Man With a Cloak,
The
Man with My Face.
The
Maniacs on Wheels
British
Mating Season. The
Millionaire for Christy,
4
Mil on the 20 (ltslisnl
Model and the Marri-
age Broker. The
Models Inc.
Murder Without Crime
Ny Forbidden Past
Native Son
No Room for the
Groom
No Place for Jennifer
British
No Questions Asked
Obsessed British
IN the Riviera
One Big Affair
Outcsst of the Islands
Outlaw Women
Pandora and the Fly
ing Dutchman
Path OF Hope iltslisn)
Payment on Demand
People Will Talk
Phone Call from q
Stranger
Pickup
Pier IS
C-Condemned
Girl from Msxims
High School Girl
Hoboes in Paradise
fFrenchl
HOLLYWOOD Burlesoue
lndiscretions tNou-
yeau Testamenti
French
It's All in the Mind
Fools Of Desire
It's Forever Springtims
iltslianp
Jungle Stampede
just q Big Simple Girl
FRENCH
La Ronde tFrenehl
Istgko
Lovers Of Verona, The
iFrenrhl
| overs Return
iFreneht
Mad Youth
Msnon tfrenehl
Marie du Port
renchl
Merry Chase fltKlisnl
Miss Julie Swedish
Nom and Dad Side
show
M Life fformerly Ee-
stasy
Nais tfrenehl
Nine Bachelors fIls Et-
sient Neuf Cellba-
tatires fFrenchi
No Greater Sin Social
Enemy No. u
No Orchids for Miss
BlHndish British
oh. Amelia lFrenchl
Paris Waltz, The
(Frenehl
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17
Officers Elected
AT ST. Nincent's

MT. VERNON - Students at st.
Vincent de Paul high school, Mt.
Vernon, recently elected the fol-
lowing officers:
Senior - President, Paul Losh;
vice president, William Peugh;
secretary, Rose Marie Meier;
treasurer, Shirley Steckler.
Junior - President San dra
Kolz; yice-president, Philip Ed
wards; secretary. Barbara Bidin-
ger; treasurer, Maurice Bouffioux.
Sophomore President, John
Farie: vice president, Frances
Fleming; secretary, Coletta Con-
don: treasurer, Janet Peterson.
Freshman Marilu Schlairet;
vice president, Henry Curtis;
secretary-treasurer, Elaine Faulk-
ner.
Student Council - Seniors. Shir-
ley Steckler and Alphonse Wunsch;
Juniors, Margaret McCann and
Charles Flynn; Sophomores, Mary
Ann Fronce and Donald Bitzel;
Freshmen, Lorle Porter and Da-
vid MouShey.
Blessed Virgins Sodality =
Perfect. Rose Marie Meier; vice
perfect, Carolyn Blakely; seere-
tary, Marilyn White; treasurer,
Helen Schroeder.
Catholic Students Mission cru
SADIE - President, Mary Jane
Ferguson; vice president, Will
liam Peterson; secretary, Mary Ann
Fronce; treasurer, David Moushey.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17

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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17

PLEASE This is the final appearance Of this par
tieuIar list of movies Please clip and for seeondrun
heaters New lisfings will appear for movies they
released The box Of ratings will appear period
esy.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17
Legion of Decency
Classification
MOVIES

1 Unobieetionabls for Gene
Hold That Line
Hoodlum Empire
It's a Biz Country
Jack and the Beanstsik
Jour de Fete French
Jungle Jim in the For
kisengs, Man OF Az
Tica
Lady With a Lamp,
The
Laramie Mountains
LAST Musketeer, The
Lovols The Solaiar
Saint English YER
sion
Ma and Pa Kettle at
the Fair
Man IN the " hite suit
Mutiny
Man from the Black
Hills
NJ Son John
Never Take No for An
Answer
Night Raiders
Night Stage 10 Calves
ton
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17

SYDNEY. Austrslis-Nc) = A
new college erected in honor of
Our Lady OF Fatima will be dedi-
Gated by His Eminence Norman
Cardinal Gilroy. Archbishop Of
Sydney during his visit to India
in December, it was announced
here.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-10-17

Two recipients OF scholarships
by the Physical Therapy Scholar
ship committee of the National
Foundation for lnfantile Par
atysis. New York, are now per-
suing studies which will make
them registered physical iherap-
lists Both graduates OF Clarke
College, Dubuque, la. Rita Ness
niger, Chicago (topl. is studying
at the School of Medicine, North
western University, Evanston,
ILL.,, and ksihy Leonard, DubU-
que, at Stanford University,
PsIo Alto, Calf. INC Photosl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-22
Key Book,

(WISE BLOOD, satrical novel
by Flannery O'connor, published
by Harcourt. Brace Co.. New York
City, 232 pages.)
ALI kinds OF strange emotional
manifestations and perversions oc-
cur In our modern world. Some Of
them label themselves religion,
and yet have little to do with re-
ligion In q dignified sense.
The author uses as her principal
figure to demonstrate one Of these
manifestations . disturbed badly
educated man from Eastrod. Ten
nessee. His father and his grand
father were rural preachers with
little formal education. In his ear
ly years he Is not given . rational
Interpretation Of the kindness Of
the Christ figure.
His grandfather tells the small
boy, with his dirty hands clench-
ing and unclenching 1t his sides.
that Jesus win have him In the
end. He Is redeemed and Jesus
isn't going 10 leave him forever. 50
. deep and wordleess conviction
grows in the 10y that to avoid Je-
sus Is TO avoid sin
-. he knew By The time 10
was IL years old that be was 90
ing 10 be q preacher. later he saw
Jesus move from tree 10 tree In
the back Of his mind, . wild rag
ged figure motioning him 70 turn
around and come of Into the dark
where be was not sure Of his foot
Ing. where be might be walking
on the water and not know Il and
then suddenly know II and drown"
The hero attends q country
school where { learns 10 read and
write. but that Il Ii wiser not -
do either. After the death II hjs
parents he goes into the Army. tsk-
Ing with him from his Eastrod.
Tennessee beginnings only black
Bible and q pair Of silver.rimmed
spectacies that had belonged - he
mother.
After the war he comes back 10
southern city. He then begins
his losing battle 10 avoid the Christ
figure. Preaching . Church With
Iout Christ he tangles with ser. Q
lrattietrxp Of an automobile, fake
preachers. and . young 0n
named Sabbath LILY Hawks W.
bankers for him.
The book IL IN interesting and
revealing picture Of psft II lie h
these United States. Some u ~
grim hamor and satire b very -
netrsting.