The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-15
Short Shots

BY WILLIAM J. PRIEST, Livingston
Missouri Senators passed constitu-
tional amendment providing for rals-
ing the wages Of legislators from sl'9OU
| to $500 a year, over the protesls ol
senator's who stated being senator
( was an honor not a money making
proposition. Isn't that the same cry
raised in Helena by the companies ana
their representatives at the last legls-
| lature? We all know that laborer IS
worthy of his hire and we lost money
on a lot of Legislators this last ses-
sion. Even the United States Senate
proposes increasing wages ten thou
sand dollars a year. Some increases to
judges, etc will run as much as SD
900 a year. Ike takes time off for Golt
and cuts out the coffee hours for the
help.
In Amagansett L. l., last week farm
ers buried million pounds Of spuds
after giving away 100000 lbs to girl
Scouts and charitable organizations.
The Republican party started its rec
ord for conservation in 1872 under
President Grant when they set aside
Yellowstone Park. President Benjamin
Harrison in 1891 esta blished the first
national forests. President William Nc
Kinley in 1897 signed the act under
which national forests came 70 be ad-
ministered. President Theodore Roose-
Welt threw all his weight behind the
present forest reserves when he said:
.'In the administration of the for
est reserves it must be clearly borne
in mind that all land is To be devoted
to its most productive use for the
permanent good of the whole people
and not for the temporary benefit
of individuals companies and
''yhere conflicting interests must be
recOneiIed, the question will always
be decided from the standpoint of
the greatest good for the greatest
number I'm the long rum"
President William Taft in 1911 passed |
the law which enabled the east as well |
as the west to have national forests. /
President Coolidge in 1927 had a law |
passed setting aside federal game ref |
uges for migratory birds and regula- |
ton of federal fisheries. The first pub
lie power and multiple purpose dam, |
Hoover, formerly Boulder was author
zed under the administration of form
sr President Hoover.
Remembering Republican Senator'S
Couzens Of Michigan and Norris of
Nebraska to preserve and enlarge these
gains, and supported in their efforts
~ Democrats, il is a sad comparison
With the Eisenhower set w that has
means Montana alone will lose an esti-l
mated 200 million dollars, which win
rave to be made UP by the small tax
'ayer). The forest and grazing lands
long with the synthetic rubber plants.
he Shale oil plants, the Atomic plants
which cost us billions of dollars are
lated for similar treatment. And now
he grape vine says, take the post Of
ice department out of the red by
urning it over to private industry TO
andle-at a profit? 1t al happened
While we watched for a mink coat
compare the present regimes record
Nth those Of former Republican Presi
ents.
The voters Of London realized they :
ad been handed a lemon. on May 8th I
aboT gained 2S5 seats while losing
/; the Conservatives gained 50 and Z
'st 212. When the total vote was in, I
abor won total Of ISL seats in the t
ondon borough council while the Con- T
had only 3S9 seats. t
What the Republican Senators and 0
representatives. in Washington do not t
sem to realize is the fact they would I
ever have been elected only they were p
4 Eisenhower's coat tails. The dele I
ates did not want Taft for President a
DIV have him for four years and il c
lything happens to Ike and Nixon, 0
aft will be on top of the world. a
Secretary of the Interior Mckay, Sc G
lring the appointment of the FPC of Il
rome K. KuykendalL formerly a mem o
of the State IF NaGhfDlfQn IN