The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1962-05-24
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Dear Mr.. Fields:
OF the 800 feed grain farmers
in Glacier County only 81 OF
them signed the state-issued All
Is and returned them TO the
state office. Over 100 returned
them unsigned with appropriate
messages enclosed. This Is a very
cOmmendable act on the part of
the feed grain producers who are
still unwilling 20 accept the
State Committees unrealistic
normal yield base, especially
since the rumor was started that
IL the farmers refused to sign
they would lose feed grain price
supports and possibly lose their
feed grain acre base. The State
Committee would have US be-
lieve they are all-powerful, but
they nave not been granted that
much power, yet.
George Johnston, member Of
the State ASC Committee is busy
cOndemning the present county
committee for being unable TO
present all of the facts of the
feed grain program, and has
been advising the farmers who
come 10 him for an explanation
of the program TO 60 to some
other county ASC office for this
information.
The truth Is that George does
MT understand all of the pro-
gram himself; no one seems 10.
The reason the county commit.
tee can't present the facts is be-
cause the State has completely
ignored the county committee,
and has not presented the facts
of the program to them. No one
seems TO have the nerve 10 come
20 Glacier County with the neces-
sary information.
Sincerely. Kyle II. Momberg
Editors Of the hometown news
papers of America favor repeal
Of the 10 per cent tax on pas
senger fares on railroads. buses
and boats by a margin Of 70 per
cent TO "a per cent, with the re-
naming 3 per cent having no
opinion. That is the result Of a
poll conducted by The American
Press, a magazine for hometown
newspapers.
This tax. let IL be remembered,
was a World War ii emergency
measure. which was suppressed 20
expire az wars end. But it's still
on the books. 20 the detriment
Of these carriers and everyone
who patronizes them.
Let's get rid Of it-nowl
-- All totslitsrian regimes term
themselves Peoples Republics"
or something equivalent. BY this
camouflage they attempt to make
Il seem that their primary OBJ
iective is 20 advance the vel
fare Of the masses. whereas the
capitslistic states exist to pro-
vide luxurious living for the
weslthy few.
What's the truth of the natter
Well. not long ago Fidel Cas-
tro. a confirmed Marxist. irnpos-
ed the most stringent kind Of
rationing on the Cuban people.
Soviet Russia, for all its vast
land area and population has an
acute food problem, as no less
an authority than Khrushchev
has made clear in public adj
dresses. And in Red China, &C
cording 20 Stewart Alsop, the
people are actually slowly starv-
ing - and they're pitfully short
az other necessities than food.
He writes: "Cloth - is ration
ed at the rate Of three or four
feet per year. A single chick
en- costs about one-fifth of a.
heavy urban workers monthly
wage. and one wadded coverlet
costs a month and a halls wa
ges.- He also says that protein
that vital source OF mental and
physical health ard endurance.
has all but vanished from the
diet OF most Of the people of
China
This is what communism. for
all its empty glowing promises.
gives the people = while supple
menting II with a diet Of terror
and oppression.
Newsweek prints a line a dis
gruntled taxpayer wrote 10 the
tar collector: Now know what
the president meant when he
said" ASK net what America
will do for you-aSk what you
can do for America"
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