The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-04-19

rope JOnn AAlIIS latest encycHca
"Pacem in Terris'-Peace on Eartl
issued nine days ago calling for dis
armament among the nations. 1t wa.
carried in full by the good grey New
York Times. The American Catholics
have an urgent task to get the en-
cyclical into the hands of everyone
possible as quickly as they can. There
is still time, brother!
In Montana the best report on poll
teal activities came last Saturday
night when more than 200 Democrats
gathered to hear the reports from
Washington via Senator Lee Metcalf
and Congressman Arnold Olsen.
Olsen confined his remarks to the
Montana scene and observed the
change in administrative attitude
since he was Attorney General and
John Bonner was Governor. The only
problem then was how fast and where
to build the University system. The
University is the key to the develop
ment of Montana-if we don't have
the engineers and technicians we
can't attract industry.
A beginning of industry develop
ing from the University fountainhead
was pointed to by Olsen as Mon
tronics in Bozeman. They are present
ly building low frequency radio sets
for the atomic submarines of the
Thresher and Polaris type at $4,000
per set. Montronics has an average
payroll of $4,000 per employee per
year.
1t used to be that people were at
tracted to the University by trying
to have good laboratories and helpful
attitude from Helena. Never was
there the rejection of the intellect
or limitations on the liberty of think
ing at the University. Quite to the
contrary, the policy was to expose
the students to everything and let
them pick the right way.
Olsen told of the successful efforts
of Montana State College prexy R. R.
Renne, on leave as assistant to the
Secretary of Agriculture, to obtain
a $4,000 cooperative fisheries re-
search grant for Montana. Only two
other states received help in develop
ing their fishing resources.
Democratic state chairman Fred
Barrett agreed with Olsen that not |
all the spectacles were on TV. The |
biggest tragic comedy was the big
bad Easter egg laid by Gov. Tim
Babcock in the Borden affair. Bar
rett understood that we "got little
dentist here in town..
(The New York Times also reported
on Birchism and the influence DR..
Gordon Doering has over Gov. Bah
cock in the struggle of liberals and
extremists to control the
University system.)
Barrett warned that a good many
accept the John Birch
Society philosophy of agree or get
out.
Senator Lee Metcalf Immediately
went to the world of peril-Berlin,
which might explode in a war that
would wipe out mankind-to South
east Asia where the shadow of China
s a more important peril than Rus
,ia. In South Wet Nam 100000 men
ire under infantry training. Soldiers s
ire dying every day. American sol
HERS.
Metcaf reported the great victory
We are winning in Cuba. Khrush- !
:hev's risky enterprise to produce '
communist showcase in Cuba failed 1
Tut he may have succeeded in divert $
ng our attention from the powderkeg '
# Latin America. The Cuban econ
my is down $3.50. Food production S
Iown 1870 and the sugar crop the {
owest it has ever been.
The 20O,0O0,0O0 in South America
yho live in sickness, economic and r
Mystical, are dynamite on our door C
tep.
The real danger is our slow growth
n comparison with Russia and the
common Market countries and their j
eighbors. We still have 5.29o I'M
mployed-one in twenty-while
Vest Germany has IL of one per T
ent unemployed. In France and r
Jether countries many have two b