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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1936
Page
6
The speaker argues monetary metals can help repay national debt and stabilize the currency. Global return to the gold standard seems unlikely. other nations lack demand for our gold. Managed trade replaces international gold settlements, so gold and silver function as a domestic reserve whose value depends on how the nation uses it.
Rev John A Ryan, noted Catholic economist and professor at the Catholic University of America, spoke at a San Francisco conference called by Archbishop Mitty to examine industrial problems from a church perspective. He denounced distorted patriotism and urged national rather than partisan regulation of industry, defending New Deal measures as humane and American.
The United States has committed to buying large quantities of silver from China after abandoning the silver standard. The silver purchase aims to hold $1 of silver for every $3 of gold, drive the price adjustments, and build reserves, while gold remains abundant enough to cover currency needs. Observers question the future use of surplus gold and silver as the world contemplates a return to a common monetary standard amid shifting price levels.
A critique argues radio is not the Fifth Estate and lacks rights like the press. It contrasts radio’s commercial limits with journalism’s advocacy for human rights, noting Payne’s view that newspapers champion liberty while radio cannot. The piece also jokes about censorship and references a lobbying by Senator Nye and rural farm mortgage issues amid broader media debate.
In Maine New York C V McGregor owns a maple tree judged two centuries old. The eighty foot tall tree with a sixtyd foot spread faced potential removal when highway blueprints planned concrete coverage. McGregor urged altering the blueprint to spare the tree, proving engineering plans can bend to protect a valued tree.
An editorial fragment reflects on pruning and renewal as metaphors for life art and love. It recalls a wedding tie to a bulb that rooted after neglect, celebrates youth’s bloom, and argues depth comes from sorrow, patient partnership, and endured long years of shared life.
The World Owes All is real progress to men who were willing to suffer. More then it will ever admit to the anonymous worker. All its advances to men who were discontented. Most of its improvements to men who have never been adequately paid. Its greatest inspirations to those who owned least of all goods. Its highest hopes to those who have lived the lowest lives.
A fragmentary account quotes John Spivak praising Italian correspondents while detailing the dangers under fascist rule. It describes censorship, forced silence, and brutal punishment for dissent, including remarks on La Madama and the regime’s control over media and travel. The piece references trials, exile, and the fear of torture for challenging authority.
Fragmented quote heavy passage references Joe Louis and James Montgomery Flagg, noting expectations of a heavyweight clash and public interest in who can endure and counter such figure. The text hints at Braddock and Louis as prominent names in boxing lore and nationalist imagery.
Mr Spivak interviews President of the Confederation of Labor, detailing claims that Italy prospers with kept wages, child labor may rise, and fascist control tightens. Descriptions of emigration, censorship, and the regime’s terror tactics echo Sinclair Lewis’s critique, with warnings about English policy and colonial ambitions.
A collage of editorials from several papers laments dinchotomy between old time cracker barrel philosophy and modern retail concentra tion. They discuss the shift from rural stores to chain distributors and the cultural loss of community space. They also urge focus on youth employment and national enterprise while warning against overreacting to economic change.
A compilation of editorial excerpts and opinions arguing against ambitious public works and prohibition policies. The pieces critique New Deal expansion, the Quoddy Canal, and U.S. liquor distribution in Virginia, asserting impracticality, taxation concerns, and public skepticism.
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