The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-10
State House Beat
FRANKLY SPEAKING
By FRANK SMALL

I guess that some of the most in.
teresting and productive debates are
those which a guy has with himself
Take for example the across the bot
tom of the page statement our editor
places on the editorial page, "The
man who does not read has no adj
vantage over the man who cannot
read".
Right away get into difficulties.
Should those who read assume an
advantage over either of the dor
mant factors? Before you can take
another step you have to start de-
filming the terms of the question and
you come up with the imponderables.
You start knowing maybe more about
yourself than the question of adj
vantages.
Every day l go to the Capitol and
read those who are reading. They
read me off or read me ON. This is
the advantage of not being able to
decide whether you are one who
would not or could not have an adj
vantage by being able to read. A
very moot point but one l appreciate
for myself.
Now, if there is am advantage in
being able to read it would be well
for thee, dear reader, TO use the ad-
vantage to acquaint yourself with an
advantage / have gained from read
ing. I have made friends with a very
nice old fella-Pope John XIII.
My friend John is first class
writer and / can believe what he says
even though | am not attached to
any particular religious persuasion.
The fact that he uses good plain
Latin to write in and that / don't
read word of it, doesn't interfere
with the fact that he is my friend.
Last year I gained a nodding
acquaintance with him for his master
full fMater ct Magistra" but he has
won me over with his "Pacem in
Terris".
Peace ON Earth. He has spelled it
out so that it can be reality for
all of us. Which is a considerable
of spelling.
y
My friend John will not take Of
Tense if l go ahead and change the
formal style in English to column
talk because he knows / have to make
a living, too.
John XIII starts out a comment
that an astonishing order of things
Just plain is. Take for instance TV.
What is an every day fact now was
Just still over the horizon when we
we're all busy trying to do Hitler in.
John says all these things lot bet
Ter but l will try to give you the
yist of what is going on in his latest
Not only is this order among the
forces of nature but also man. But
John says that the laws of nature
ire not those of man. The laws of
nam spring from the nature of man.
In order ito realize what these laws
ire you must first grant that every
human being is a person. If you can
zee that persons have rights and
Iuties of their own it is not possible S
OF you W NlOldCS tllCll WfOfOoO Wv
ating your own rights and duties. a
John is emphatic about the rights o
f humans. It's not just the encyclical G
orm of writing. He means ut, by p
rod. P
Besides food, shelter and clothing, d
umans have right to security in p
asses of sickness, inability to work, V
old age, unemployment,
r any other case where you might
,ok like you would not be of adj e
antage TO others TO associate with 81
on. ~ y
How very different his attitude t,
compared to House Bill 1T which s,
ays that the State of Montana doesn't b
ave to accept the responsibility for a,
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