The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-04-09
My Two-Bits Worth !.
By LEVERNE HAMILTON,
Thompson Falls

| Thanks to the kindhearted co-opera-
| ton and assistance of good neighbors
and friends / am now located in my
new cabin, have garnered another type
| writer and am again in a position to
| resume my favorite indoor sport of
| making nasty remarks about the lido
| syncracies and inconsistencies of the
| human race in general, and Republic
| can (Would be) economists in particu-
| lar.
L can again laugh at the assinine
antics of Joe Mccarthy, or I could if
so many of his dupes didn't take him
so seriously, [ can also laugh at the
predictions of the Eisenhower econo-
| mists who tell us that prosperity is
just around Ooh heck, you know where).
L can smile at the fears of the poor
SapS who think that the RooshianS are
just about to drop a stink bomb on
every little community in the old
U.SA and have been deluded, or de-
deluded themselves into thinking that
by joining the GOO. and watching for
that particular plane they could keep
our territory smelling sweet as it
smelled before the Republicans took
over control Shucks, if the Rooshians
had any intention of such an attack
the plane lat the speed they now can
traveD would have it's major target
all 'stunk up" before the GOO. OBJ
server could get to a telephone and
dial a number. I sometimes wonder
how high ground observer would
jump if some blasted practical joker
set off firecracker behind him when
he was keeping his lonely vigil in
his lookout tower.
Back in the roaring twenties' I re-
call that the great engineer" told us
there would be two chickens in every
pot. Later we woke up to the fact
that we didn't have the pot Cor a
window. These days the great pres
tidigitator" (McCarthy) tells us we
have two communists under every bed
Ct think he's just been looking in the
old fashioned hotels) and with soup
lines in several of our major cities
we may soon find ourselves without a
bed.
And the long winded explanations
of the Eisenhower economists as they
sling their twelve-dollar words around
in attempting to tell us there will not
be any more "recessions" or if there
are they will only be temporary and
why. Shucks, the capitalist profit sys-
tenn economy is geared to recurring
depression and contains within itself
the cause of boom and bust cycles.
An economist, if he is willing to face
the facts should know this and know
the reason for it. He should also know
that this same profit system economy
which we call capitalism contains with
in itself the seeds of its own destruc-
tiOn and that the present world I'M
rest which the Eisenhower common
tators columnists, and economists"
attribute to communist propaganda is
simply a manifestation of the transi-
ton to a more sensible economic sys-
tenn, a transition being brought about
by the recurrence of those boom and
bust" cycles.
Sometimes wonder if it would not
be beneficial to this human race" if
some sage brush philosopher or hill
billy" out in the sticks took time out
from chasing the elusive jackrabbit
and explained a few things about eco
Monies that the Eisenhower economists
either don't know or are unwilling to
admit 1t wouldn't be too difficult. AL
most any farmer, if you can start
him thinking along economic lines
and getting down to the fundamentals |
can analyze the problem and come up
with quite a number of answers. The |
main trouble seems to be that the. av-
erage member of the working group |
doesn't realize that he is as intelli- |
gent as he really is. He has somehow |
acquired the idea that because some |
professionally educated man has built
a reputation for himself as smart |
lawyer" or banker or executive that |
such a man is gifted with all the brains |
that God left lying around loose, so he |
ic narfact1V willing to let the pro- |