The Sidney herald., 1960-09-28

written. l am only doing my part
as a Law Enforcement Officer in
trying to make this Country of
ours safe to live in.
Respectively yours,
Wilbur Cornelia
Sidney Police Department
Sidney, Montana
To the Editor
Sidney Herald
This item in the Herald last
week about mosquito control
was the best news to us in a long
time. 1 used to say to my husband
SHOULD something ever come out
to get rid of mosquitoes, I'd be
the first to vote for it." After see
ing children with eyes swollen
shut and faces puffed UP that you
can't hardly recognize them and
can't eat or relax out doors in
the cool air in the evening after
a hot day OF even during the day
you can't find peace in a shady
place without these PEST tor
menting a person. Even the farm
ers are pestered constantly while
irrigating or haying most of all,
when sworms like bees come up
at you. A person can hardly
breathe and you'll make sure to
keep your mouth shut or you'll
have lunch or supper before you
get home.
We feel its about time something
is done to control these pests and
one dollar is such a small part to
what humanity has to suffer. Pm
sur most every parent with small
children will agree with us, water
user or not, will be out to help
fight mosquitoes. I'm sure you'll
agree with us that mosquitoes have
no choice, they bite the nom
water users as well as those that
use water.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reinhold Wuest
Savage, Montana
212-7th Street Sc.
Sidney, Montana
September %, 1860
The Sidney Herald
Sidney, Montana
Dear Mr.. Schwartz:
Recently, material was obtained
from the US. Attorneys office in
Butte, concerning Communist act
ivities in the Montana area.
In Communist publications and
study sheets which were used as
exhibits in the trial and convic-
ton of John Hellman under the
Smith Act, we find statements
such as the following:
"The majority of American
workers and small farmers are
good honest people who will one
day build socialism in III country
CUSA), regardless of how they
think at the moment"
These comrades" are criticized
because: "They substitute HOPE
Qdealism) for a materialistic APP
proach of leading people into
struggle and bringing them the
scientific theory of socialism"
To counterfeit this, the Com
munist plan of action (as present
ed in these documents from the
u. S. Attorney is partly as fol-
lows: "First we must remind our
selves that people will move on
economic issues directly effecting
them before they move on more
advanced political questions" "Our
program must have a conscious
class approach and class content
that will move the poor and mid
die farmers into struggle against
the capitalistic class"
Innocent or not, we can GER
tainly see this line of thought in
action. I feel one of the reasons
for Communist success along these
lines is that Americans in general
do not understand the personal
enterprise system.
We can test our understanding
by asking ourselves two questions:
"What do you think the owners of
businesses generally are getting
out of them in percentage Of their
gross revenues?" and, "What
should they get?"
In a recent survey of public
opinion. as reported in the Au-
gust 26 issue of "Life Lines"
thousands of Americans had these
questions put to them. The aver
age general answer to the first
question was that the. owners are
realizing twenty-five percent from
their businesses. To the second
question, the general answer was
that business should realize ten
percent.
The fact of the matter is that
the owners of businesses in the
United States, on the average, take
only four percent of their gross
revenues. This is less than half
of what the average American
thinks they should makel
This indicates a very serious
misunderstanding of the basic
economic system of the American
way of life. It also indicates how
easily Americans can be taken in
by these propagandists who pic
ture the American businessman as
a kind of vulture feeding greedily
off the productivity of the working
man.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Waiter