The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02

p stee > pdIHcClcaIly ana puDncly ulSp
ance" on such matters as farmer CO
and the adoption of certain parts o
Legion policy. He also raised object
the Legion in the position of "aping
Graybilrs letter to Shore follows
"Mr. Chester X. Shore
Department Adjutant, American
Legion
Veterans and Pioneers Memorial
Building
Helena, Montana
Dear Comrade:
''This is addressed to you as De-
partment Adjutant and as Editor of
The Montana Legionnaire. Copy IS
going to Commander Saboe.
'.How have the Mighty Fallenl
almost wept at the Executive Com
mittee of my American Legion dis
gracing US all by some of the reso-
lutions recently reported in the press
and later in The Legionaire. Why
need we display so pathetically and
publicly our antiqueness and our
ignorance? We count ourselves good
Americans now show extrem-
ism TO the point of absurdity? 1t is
for shamei
1--WE been a member of the Legion
for some Al years last past. I've been
a commander, adjutant and service
officer. I've been for helping ex-
service men and women. And of
course | like our work with youth
Scout troops, baseball, oratorical con-
tests and the like.
But why do we in Montana
now need to try to cover the whole
spectrum, whether we know any
thing about the subject matter or
not, and when in some instances
we are actually opposing our main
objective through the years, Ma
tional Defense?
"Take for example Agriculture
(Resolution 81. Does the Executive |
Committee now claim some divine |
guidance aiding it in a solution of
this troublesome problem? Are We
wiser under Orville Freeman than |
under Ezra Taft Benson? Do none of
the Executive Committee remember
Herbert Hoover's efforts, or tic
wheat in Montana? Or are we just
dupes for smarter operators who use
us as front for partisan political
If we have any farm prob
lem wizards hiding within or behind
our Executive let's name them and
see from whence their wizardry
''Or take the coop movement. Here
our ignorance isn't just ordinary, it's
absymal What has the Executive
Committee against the Associated
Press, the Railway Express, all the
argest insurance companies, many
Of the largest hardware, lumber, gro
.ery and other business wholesalers
all co-ops, called Mutuals in some
Eases? Don't our leaders have some
dea of what free private enterprise
s? Are they against our coop saw
ngs and loan associations, the REA
md RITA, the Great Falls Credit Bu-
eau and Great Falls Shippers Asso-
OOtl any VI bAiC l@<NSSoSAN~ =
belong to the Montana
Club, a coop in the restaurant and !
liquor business? Can they name any !
ederal income tax exempt organiza-
ion in Montana? Before the Legion
makes pronouncements like Resolu- /,
ion Number 5 some one ought to /.
earn just a few of the most ele- :
nentary facts about co-ops, such as
he facts that co-ops are free private >
Enterprise and favorite device of
Big Business as well as Little Busi-
less. City Folks even more than Farm
'eople. If any of the Executive Com
nittee really want to know just ask
he President of the American Bar
does now. Nothing l
more American than our business Z.
eople and others working problems J
ut on cooperative basis. Let's not l
e silly
"But the worst of all is when
our Executive Committee sinks to