The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-12-23
My "Two-Bits Worth"

Now isn't that just like free enter
| priser"? e. j. wants my Two-Bit's
/ Worth for his nickel. Yes, E. J. MUST
be slipping. Few free enterprisers" are
ever satisfied with &c little old five
| hundred per cent return like that Look
at the two or three thousand per cent
that most of them got in the purchase
| OF government ships, the Provo steel
plant and similar deals. And f. ]. talks
about government giye-aways. Yes. I've
found ONE OTHER point on which
can agree with e J. He slipped with
BOTH feet and if the Democrats will
glance casually up that side hill they'll
probably see him sliding down into
their camp with both feet waving in
the air and prepared to out-shout the
most vociferous Democrat on the Re
publican give-away program.
Yes, I'll freely concede that there is
much waste. incompetency and ineffi-
ciencyf in many, if not all of our govern
ment programs Gas / said in a previous
communication have seen it personal
ly in my brief experience in such work.
and 1t is attributable mainly to poll
teal pull advancement of ineffi-
Gent and sometimes crooked) indi-
viduals because of their political in
fluence) and to pressure by outside
for that two or three thousand per cent
PROFIT on their investment. That
waste and inefficiency can only be cor
rected by a more attentive and a1e+ t
public in the choice of their admins
traitors of public business and funds
and further drive toward a PLANNED
ECONOMY.
But in his railing against waste and
inefficiency E. j.. overlooks the most
expensive and wasteful item of all.
The Expenditures for War. And that
goes for not only our own country but
To take the most fragrant examples
look at the u. S. and Russia. Russia
fears an attack by the United States
(and why shouldn't she when she sees |
our nation building air bases complete |
ly surrounding her and hears the anti |
Russian propaganda carried over our
radio and in our news columns and |
Consequently she spends
billions preparing to defend herself |
from possible aggression by the u. S.
We, listening to our war mongers
Dreying on our own fears of possible
armed attack by Russia, passively ac-
cept their conclusions and assent to
and even urge their demands for more
md larger expenditures for more in
,truments of destruction (from which
he free enterprising war mongers
make an exhorbitant profit and which
10 not add one iota to the bettermeut
# the human race.
If one tenth of the effort expended
IN both sides for more and bigger arm
Lment were exerted in a sincere, hon
st and persistent effort to eliminate
var and destruction and stablish better
between nations, this
asst expenditure could be totally elm
mated or reduced to minimum.
So much for returning two-bits for
nickel but I can assure E. j. that
don't mind that for in my experience
S a farmer and rancher l found that
when farmer produces one dollars
Worth he has to sell it for about twenty
ents so I've become used to that rate
f exchange
Do you wonder e. j., why Til go for
arity for the farmer, at least till
omething better is offered? A nickePs
yorth of constructive suggestion"
long that line would be appreciated.
= LEVERNE HAMILTON, Thompson
'alls