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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
Regarding An Ugly
American

The great goal of Democracy is to dc
what is needed by responding to the
will of it's people.
Both Communism and Fascism speak
with forked tongues. Their real inten-
tion is ito ruin the people and this fact
they carefully conceal.
The master plan of the Ike-Benson
Administration was to balance Amer
ica's economy by cutting the fat from
Americas farmers and so they sque
our great mass of farm population from
the land. Yet we have a glowing twelve
page letter from Ike and Mamie and
another from Ezra Taft Benson telling
all that the Administration planned to
do for American farmers.
The big business oriented Committee
for Economic Development has another
master plan. They were the Farm Blu
reau food professors behind the NO
Vote campaign. They know wheat
farmers cannot survive on half income
we cannot meet the increased farm
expenses even by planting our total
acreage.
It's time to fight back. The needs of
Montana's people can never be met
until We ruin a few people like Jack
lCorette. Our master plan requires no
secrecy and no forked tongues. Every
citizen. in Montana, except the 1unatic
John Birch fringe, knows of the monop-
oily power used daily in this state by
Montana Power Company, Anaconda
Copper Company and the big Oil Com
panies. We can look north to Canada
and see solution-Montana Power
could serve US well as a state-owned
utility. 7rs
Let's start with a centennial slogan
that looks to the future:
Montana's needs can't be met,
Until we ruin Jack FCorette.
HAUGE, Turner.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12

He always says 'We did it,. But
people who live around Huntley-if
you take the trouble to ask them
will credit Max Mathews for much that
has happened around town.
From the time he came there %
years ago next September (''I thought
I'd stay till the following spring, +"
he'll tell you with wry GRIM this
leathern faced man with his quiet
voice and deliberate manner has had
two thoughts uppermost in his mind ::
1. The improvement of the bust
ness he was brought there to manage.
2. The improvement of the COM
munity he chose to call ''home'
To many people town like Hunt
ley (pop. 25O) is little more than a
wide place in the road-a road which
now, incidently, bypasses the town
completely. To Max Mathews, how
ever, it's a warm place in the heart.
Ask the people there. They'll tell
you. THEY'LL tell about how Max-to
borrow his own words "got into
things.
The petition, for example, to make
the late Earl Mead Huntley's un-
official mayor and Mead's famous
dog-catcher licenses which went to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12

| One way to correct this increasing
ly unsatisfactory situation is, Of
course. to replace Mr.. Noting. The
President has now decided to name
Henry Cabot Lodge, the former Re
publican candidate for Vice President
to this delicate position. Mr.. Lodge
is best remembered for his strong
and stubborn opposition to Soviet
maneuvering at the United Nations
Whether he can use the same tac-
tics in dealing with the ruling group
in South Viet-Nam, or whether more
flexible tactics are needed, Mr.. Lodge
will have to decide when he acquaints
himself with conditions in the coun-
try. Mr.. Lodges speciality is not
Asian affairs. 1t will take him some
time to learn what he is up against.
1t would be desirable to put a
new ambassador on the job, but
this alone will not solve the prob
lem posed by our relations with the
Diem dictatorship. The basic need
is to convince the peasants and the
Buddhist majority that we are not
welded to any dictatorship, that we
are not in their country for pur-
poses of colonialism, and that we
favor genuine social democracy, in
Guiding land reforms.
The only way we can do that is
to begin working with the large num-
Der of intelligence, anti-Communist
Vietnamese democrats, who fully
understand that Communism offers
them nothing. They can see what hap
pened in Cuba after Batista was over
thrown and they have no desire for
repetition of the Cuban catastrophe.
Where Mr.. Noting appears to have
rendered a disservice is to make it
appear that we must "sink or swim
with DIEM. He has made it appear
that there are no alternatives to Diem.
Less partisan observers believe there
are thousands of educated Vietnamese
who are pro-western.
But for how long?
If we turn our backs on the genuine
uemOCTdIS IilcIS Wall COuiS a CiiiiC
when they say ga plague on both your
houses and neutralism may seem at
tractive. Information coming out CT
Vietnam indicates that neutralist
sentiment is very much on the up
swing. With Diem tottering and the
Communists continuing their pres
sure, such a development presents
clear and present danger to the West.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
By FRANK SMALL

| am burned up at the Editor OF
the Independent Record for his Sun.
day tissue of the Day. column, and
he isn't even my editor.
What's Robert Miller doing? Try
ing to provide philosophy teachers
with examples of irrational logic
Faulty thinking? The one Sunday was
beauty.
He has two members of the Board
of Public Institutions lined up to help
him scuttle the Soldiers Home at
Columbia Falls because Mrs. John
Cromer, Bozeman housewife, says
that the vets are getting $4,000 from
social security, pensions and other
sources, and Milo F. Dean of Great
Falls is depicted as saying need for
the Home is questioned under present
policies.
Present policies? The board has
had one meeting. Whose policies?
Gov. Tim Babcock's dictums of poor
mounting to save legislative appropri-
atoms in order to turn more surpluses
over to the bankers in perpetual in
terest-free loans? The reservation of
patriotism to John Birch Society
meetings and not a note of Montana
thanks to the doughboys of World
War / is. a strange new policy. But
maybe this is the time to get rid of
the Soldiers Home because some of
the veterans of World War III might
be thinking they need such place
with the general economy dipping be-
low their minimal expectation.
The present policy must be, Chow
cheap can you get"? This is a laudable
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12

motive for the grocers who advertise
in Mr.. Miller's paper. Everyone wants
to see carrots go from seven cents
to six cents and the Independent Rec
ord back down to five cents a copy
instead of a dime but when that sort
of policy is applied to institutions of
the state which serve the only real
value there is-God's people-it not
only borders on the Nazis' policies
which were defeated by American
soldiers in World War lit is
Fascismiii
The Galen Sanitarium also comes
under attack by Miller who uses no
less an authority than DIR. William
F. Cashmere, Republican Senator
from Lewis and Clark, who reports
that the sanitarium has declined be-
cause it no longer takes only tubercu-
losis and silicosis patients but is used
to take patients from the Boulder
Training School and Hospital. It's al
most too bad that tuberculosis is be-
ing removed as a scourge to mankind.
1t would be terrible note / suppose
if they started cure for cancer
there.
The attack by Miller on the State
Hospital in Warm Springs is about
the shallowest thought l have seen
printed. To think the Governor has
the timerity to censure MSU students
who put poor grade stuff in the Ven
ture magazine and not publicly casti-
gate Miller for his lack of knowledge
or of deliberate twisting of fact last
Sunday as to the value of the state
hospitals indeed revealing "pres-
emit policy.
The inmate load is down, but be-
cause of the effectiveness of the work
being done, not because of the lack
of need for the institution. This is
social device which is operating eff
fectively and now is not the time to
hamstring it.
The Issue of the Day concludes
with more make 'em pay vindictive-
ness toward the Boulder Training
School and Hospital and the Twin
Bridges Childrens Center. Darn peo-
pie are unloading their children on
the taxpayers.
Taxpayers, Mr.. Miller, are not vol
untary contributors such as your sub
scribers and advertisers. They are
citizens and organized groups from
whom the state takes what rightfully
belongs to the state. Aren't you happy
about your taxes, Mr.. Miller?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
New Report Shows Progress
Of Saline Water
Conversion Research


Sea water conversion demonstra-
ton plants now being operated by the
Interior Department are producing
fresh water in the range of 81 to
$125 per thousand gallons, and this
cost is expected to be reduced to so
cents per thousand gallons or less,
Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall
said recently in submitting to Presi-
dent Kennedy the 1862 annual report
of the Departments Office of Saline
Water.
The 163-page, illustrated report
provides information on the several
major process groups on which re-
search and development work was
conducted last year, as well as pre-
sentation of the status of the demon
stration plant program.
Copies of the report may be OBJ
tanned without charge from the Of
flee of Saline Water, Department of
the Interior, Washington 25, d. c.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12

WASHINGTON, D. C.-If you
want full employment you've got to
use every gimmick possible. Ernst
Michanek, Undersecretary of La
Dor for Sweden, told Senate sub
committee that television announce
ments are made in his country list
ing job vacancies just as you would
weather broadcasts. Unemployment
in Sweden varies between l and 2
per cent of the labor force. 1t varies
between 5 and 6 per cent in the
United States.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12

such celebrities as Bob Hope, Bing
Crosby, members of Congress, promi-
nent military figures and other celeb
rites in the news can be attributed to
the work of Max. Organization of the
Valley Baseball League is another
thing they'll mention. 1t included six
teams from Billings, Huntley, Shep-
herd and Worden. And the two parks
the one near the highway and the
six-acre park in town which has be-
come Huntley showplace. And the
bill which Congress passed several
years ago granting American citizen
ship to Lupe Gonsalez, Huntley rail-
road worker who was about to be de-
ported by immigration authorities.
"He's good citizen, said Max
and enough people in Huntley agreed
with him to convince Montana's Con-
gressional delegation.
Max came to Montana in 1927,
ten years after service in World War
with the LIST Infantry Divisions 18th
Regiment. The red, white and blue
bar you'll notice in his lapel marks
the award Of the Silver Star gallantry
in action during the Meuse-Argonne
campaign, where he also picked up
Purple Heart and the French Foura-
gerre award from Marshal Henri Pc
tain. He was following construction
work in Montana when he heard the
job as manager of the Yellowstone
Valley Electric Cooperative was open.
That was in 1910. Mathews smiles his
slow smile and says, 81 didn't know
anything about electricity, but |
learned. The five employees which
the cooperative had then have grown
to twenty-five.
Ask him what he feels was the most
notable accomplishment of the coop
erative since he took over as manager
and the answer won't be slow in
coming. "About fifteen years ago
we started policy of employing four
college students each summer. If
they got along, we promised, we'd see
them through college,. The program
worked. Today twenty-three college
graduates, all summer employees of
the cooperative, are scattered all
over the country, mostly with jobs as
engineers, says Mathews. But he
is quick to add it wasn't one-man
job. eff credit goes to anyone, it
goes to our board of directors who
realized the programs Importance. 1t
goes to our employees who worked
with them and it goes to the COM
munity for it's cooperation.
There may be only ten businesses
in Huntley, says Mathews, but there
are an awful lot of good people land
an awfully lot of good causes to sup
port. Mathews has been Democrat
all his life, but he has never run for
office and has no desire to. His only !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
3'OFF LIMITS" TO
AMERICAN REPORTERS

AS matters now stand American
reporters are being kept out of areas
where fighting is going on, although
American troops are doing much of
the fighting. While our men are prov
ing quite adept in jungle warfare,
American casualties continue to
mount.
American newspapermen are also
barred from areas where they can talk
freely with Vietnamese and learn for
themselves the degree of loyalty, if
any. they feel to the regime.
From0the best information avail
able it seems to be only a matter of
time before the regime will collapse
internally, not because the Commu-
nists are so skillful, but because
democracy" bears no resemblance
to democracy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12

ambition is that of the thousands of
Max Mathews of the thousands of
Huntleys all over the country-to be
good citizen. Recently Max was
awarded the FLA plaque naming him
an honorary farmer of the Worden
FLA
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
How To Make NeutraIs
Of Allies

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The United
States government now has over
$4,000 men in South Wet Nam anc
spends over $1,500,OO0 daily to sup.
port the regime of Ngo-D inh-Diem, q
tyrant who bears close resemblance
to the unlamented Cuban dictator
Fulgencio Batista.
Diem, who supposedly is fighting
the Communist Viet-Cong, has been
accused by the Democratic party of
Viet-Nam of inprisoning more than
100000 anti-Communist democrats in
the past eight years and of putting
somewhere between half-milhon and
a million of his countrymen in con-
centration camps. The charges re-
main uncontradicted.
His opponents accuse him of
spending about $4,000 yearly on
public relations" in the United
States. The figures are conserva-
tive. Since Diem has already col
Iected about two billion dollars
from u. S., it is reasonable to as
sumo that it is our money that is
being used to tell us how lucky we
are to have Diem on our side.
At the present time Diem is en-
gagged in religious war with the
Buddhists who make UP 80 per cent
of the population. Some idea of how
intense feelings have become was
evident from the spectacular case of
a Buddhist opponent of the regime.
This man cremated himself in a pub
lie square in a spectacular demonstra-
ton of disapproval of Diem's repres-
sive measures against his co-religion-
lists.
1t has long been obvious that Diem
and members of his family do not
command the respect or the loyalty
of the peasants, whose support is
needed if the Communists are not
to take over the country.
American reporters who have tried
to find out what is happening have
run into fierce opposition not only
from those associated with the re-
gime, but also from the American am
bassador, Mr.. Frederick Noting, who
continues to back the dictatorship.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
READERS FORUM

The Forum" is open to all who
wish to express an opinion or present
facts on any subject. Limit 500 words.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
Tribute To Long Time Electric Coop Manager :.
Ask About Him In HUnfIey

By ADDISON BRAGG, In Billings GAZETTE
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-07-12
WATCH ON The POTOMAC

By ROBERT G. SPIvACK, Washington, D. C.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24

III rOTeIhdn or parable ana OF
poetry.
What strikes many a person as
odd is not that Jesus told stories
as His favorite way of making a
point. Many others have used the
same method. The odd feature is
the reason that Jesus gave, why
He used parallels so much. Most
people would think that putting
truth into stories would make it
easier to take.
sat loWIy doors"
Now there is some truth in that
There is a patented device for
administering medicine, called by
the drug company manufacturing
it, "spansule." Everybody has
taken capsules; that's a fairly
large dose at once. If patient is
allergic to capsules, if a strong
medicine makes him sick, or if
he has to take several kinds of
medicine, then the spansule may
be just the thing, for it is filled
with various kinds of medicine,
and some take much longer to
melt than others, so the span
sule" is a neat way of giving med
icine half the day or longer, in
many doses, but all at once.
Parallels are a little like that
The parable is a spansule; it is
easily swallowed, and the patient
doesn't realize how long it will
stick with him. He keeps remem-
bering the parable, and thinking
about it, and while it may need
some time before the man can
absorb the new truth into his sys-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24
CRELLIN

About 135 persons attended open
house at the Crellin school The
new three class room school has
been occupied for the past two
weeks with an enrolment of 81
pupils, The old school building is
being sold at public auction on
Saturday, February 2nd, at 10 a. m.
Mrs. Della Welch and son Cliff
ford, and grandson Tommy, spent
Sunday evening with her sister,
Miss Evelyn Dewitt.
Mrs. Marshall Sanders, of Oak
land, was a Monday evening Wis
itor of Mrs. Oscar Shaffer.
Kenneth Knots, Akron, was a
Saturday evening visitor of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman WEIGH
Sunday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Lewis were Mr.. and Mrs.
James Christenopher and family,
of near Swanton, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Lewis and daughter Vir-
ginia, of Danville, Md
Mr.. and Mrs George Knots, of
Winchester, Va, spent Saturday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Knots
and family.
Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Dewitt and family were
Mrs. Daisy McCabe and daughter,
Mrs. Lester Shockey, of Baltimore,
and Darrell McCabe, of Youngs-
town, o.
Edward Dewitt, a sophomore at
Frostburg State Teachers college,
is spending several days with home
folks.
Donald Bowman, OF Toledo, O.,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
David Bowman. Robert Bowman
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24

Laurel Run Church of God,
Friendsville, Rev. Howard L. Pentz,
pastor. 10 a. m, Sunday School; IL
a. m, Worship Service. Sermon by
the pastor.
United Pentecostal, Sang Run,
Rev. VIM. Feather, pastor. Sunday
School, 10 a. m; Evangelistic Serv-
ice, 7:30 p. m; Young Peoples
Service. Wed, 1880 p. m.
Grace Brethren Church, Acct
dent. Rev. Frederick Crawford.
Sunday School, 10 a. m; Worship,
IL a. m.
Wesley Chapel. Worship End
Sunday, 7:3O p M; 4th Sunday, IL
a. m. Sunday School every Sunday,
1890 a. m.
corinth Methodist. Worship, 1st
Sunday, IL a. m; 3rd Sunday, 7:30
p. m.
Bear Greek Church of the Breth-
rem, Accident, Roger Fike, pastor.
Sunday School, $50 a. M; Worship,
1890 a. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24

returned home after spending
several days in Toledo with his
brother and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edwards
and son Ricky. were recent guests
of her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. o. Liller. in Loeb Lynn.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Graham and
family, Washington. D. c., spent
the weekend with Mrs. Oscar
Shaffer and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Friend. of
Washington, D. c., were weekend
guests of the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay COlaW and
grandson, of near Deer Park, were
Saturday evening visitors of Mr..
and Mrs Homer Shaffer.
Mr. and Mrs Harold Lewis, of
Corinth. spent Friday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Jordan and
family
Pamela Bolvard, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Frank Bolyard. who
was patient in Garrett County
Memorial hospital Oakland. re-
turned home on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs Burl McCarty. of
Morgantown. visited relatives here
on Sunday, and visited the latter's
sister, Mrs. Laura Uphold, who is
very i'll in the hospital at Oakland.
Robert Shaffer spent Sunday af-
ternoon visiting with John Horch-
Ter in Cumberland.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ford and
family and James McNemar Wis
tied Mrs. Fay Shaffer and sons
near Masontown, last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Ashby and
Lee Ashby, of Waynesburg, o..
visited friends and relatives here
last Thursday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24

tenn, the parable stays there, in
his memory, it keeps talking to
him, and finally he accepts the
truth-indeed it may seem as if
he had always known (which
he would have rejected if it had
been presented to him as it Were)
raw. The poet Tennyson long ago
remarked that
Truth embodied in a tale
Shall enter in at lowly doors"
Truth unpersuasive
Oh, it doesn't always act like
that. Some men resist truth no
matter how it comes to them.
Put the truth bluntly, and they will
say NO. Put the truth in a tale,
a poem, parable, and they will
say, NOnsensel
But what has all this got to do
with Jesus? Simply that He gave
an unexpected answer to the ques-
ton why He used parallels; in
fact, He gave the answer before
any one got around to asking Him
why. He told stories, He seems
to have said, to keep people from
understanding what He meant.
He "seems to have said" but
probably was sarcastic in saying
it, that if He did not speak in
parallels somebody might believe
Him! Now we know that Jesus
wanted of all things to be taken
seriously, to be believed; and we
cannot think it like Him to keep
people deliberately from knowing
the truth that might save them.
And why NOT?
We must recall the conditions
under which Jesus taught. There
were the immense crowds, always
there; and there the few true
disciples. Jesus had to interest the
disciples, and interest others in
becoming disciples, and at the
same time wear down the curl
osity-seeking crowds. The parable
would do both. Some would find
the stories just silly or childish,
and they would lose interest. Some
would find those simple tales
amazingly fascinating, and would
stay around to learn just what
Jesus meant.
The question still remains, why
do some people listen well, some
badly and some not at all? Jesus
said it was like man sowing seed
on different kinds of soil. The seed
may be always the same; but
some sprouts and dies, some
never sprouts at all, and some
brings forth a great harvest. Truth
is a seed, and the harvest can be
great or it can be nothing. 1t
depends on the kind of person the
listener is. God never makes a
person believe. Thought-control is
an ambition of dictators and ty-
rants. God offers truth to all; but
only che that hath an ear" viii
pay much attention.
Biased on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the U. 5. A. Released by
Community Press Service0
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24
Truth In Stories
Lesson for January %, 1868

SOMETIMES jesus spoke in
- plain blunt words. At other
times He told stories. Of the two
forms His teaching took, people
have always remembered and
loved the stories rather than the
bare direct assertions. Mark, in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24

fact, says with
exaggeration we
can easily under
stand, that Jesus
said nothing in
public that was
not a parable. The
reader will find
even in Jesus
simple st state
ments something
of parable and of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-24

Swanton E.U.B. Church, Rev. Roy
Butler, pastor. Sunday School, 10
a. m; Worship, IL a. m, LIST and 3rd
Sundays; 7:30 p. m, End and 18th
Sundays. Prayer service, We'd,
7:30 p. m. Youth Fellowship, Thurs,
7 p. m. Missionary meeting LIST Fri
day of every month.
Guiding Light Mission, 8 miles
from Grantsville on Bittinger road
Rev. Lloyd A. Trout, pastor. Sun
day School, 10 a. m; Preaching and
healing service, II a. m.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, Mt. Lake Park. Sun
day School, 10 a. M; Sacramento
meeting, IL a. m. MIA youth pro-
gram Thursday, 1880 p. m. Relief
Society, 8 p. m. =
Haven of Rest EvangeIistic Tenn
pie, Rev VIM. Denny, Jr., Pleasant
Valley Grange hall, 2 miles from
Loeb Lynn. p. m. Sunday after
noon, Evangelistic service.
Mt. Lake Park cub, Rev. o.
w. Hull, pastor Loeb Lynn: LIST
and 3rd Sunday, 7:30 p. M; End
and 4th Sunday, 10 a M McHenry:
list and 3rd Sunday, II "a M; 4th
Sunday, 7:30 p. m. Paradise: LIST
and Bird Sunday, 10 a m; End Sun
day, 7:30 p. m. Mt. Bethel: End and
4th Sunday, IL a. m.