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The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-05-02

Both of these men are products
of the capitalist system of pro-
ductiOn and distribution. AS long
as the profit system exists, so
long will we have petty-reform
mlllionaires and wealthy pOliti-
clans who dispense charity in
order to keep in political control,
which in turn is their means of
acquiring wealth. That the lat
ter class is curse is admitted
by all except the poor that take
the cOrrupting charity which is
doled out. AS to the refOrmers,
it is gratifying to note that even
on-sOcialists now admit the fail
ure of their efforts, if not of
their entire philosophy. Reform
ers have centered their efforts
largely upon the elimination of
petty graft. They have ignored
the fundamental causes of power
ty, slums, crime and graft; they
have tried to wash away the eff
fects. Many refOrmers have un-
dOubtedly been sincere; but in
the face of the evident failure
of reform" they can no longer
be refOrmers and remain sincere.
Yet many will continue to be re
formers" because they will be
forced to remain so by bread
andbutter necessity, thereby be-
coming hypOcrites; and many will
remain refOrmers from lack of
intelligence and backbone.
Nothing will make conditions
better except the removal of the
causes of our social ills.
Nothing will remove our social
ills except the collective owner
ship sndS democratic manage
ment of things collectively used
and private ownership of things
privately used.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-05-02
GERMAN MUSIC AND
GERMAN AUTOCRACY

The Minneapolis Orchestral AS
ISOLATION did itself proud for pa.
triotism last week by changing
Wagner program Of the Sym
phony orchestra to a general
program. We understand that
this action was taken after con-
ference with the State Public
Safety Commission. Since we
are at war with Germany we must
bar German music from our con-
certs, is the reasoning of that
far-seeing Safety Commission.
Other patriotic purists are ad-
vocating and succeeding in bar
rinng the study of the German
language from the public schools.
These patriots must have been
too far back of the President
to hear him when he said that we
are not fighting the German
people but we want to crush the
German military autocracy. AS
matter of fact, the press, the
pulpit, and all the governing
bodies from Congress down, are
directing everything against the
German people and their language
and art, rather than against Prus-
sian autocracy. Initiating the
Prussian governmental autocracy
they bend their energies fighting
the German people The attack
on the music created by persons
OF German birth is characteristic.
The whole affair would be
ridiculous were it not for the
mass of implications involved.
Shall we discard all the contri-
buttons made to the world by
| Germans because we are war with
German autocracy? Shall we
throw out of our medical schools
our knowledge of tuberculosis
because the celebrated German
Koch discovered the bacillus tu-
berculosis? Shall we let our
syphilitics die because the Ger
man Ehrlich created Salvarsan I?
Shall we cease to read the works
of Goethe, Schiller, and Heine
because they were German born I?
Shall we tear down the monu-
ments erected to Carl Schurz, the
statesman?
We must use common sense
in this matter as in everything
else connected with the war. We
know that after this war we will
have to accept the German peo-
pie into the family of nations
again. And their scientific and
literary and artistic contributions
to the world will again be avidly
sought after. And what people
! create, no pfonlbltlonS or sup
pressions can destroy.
IN this matter we find abso-
lutte confirmation of our charge
chat this is not war against
the Kaiser's militarists and to
establish real democracy, but is
rather a battle for commercial
supremacy. The contset is to de-
eide whether British, French and
American imperialism is to rule
the greater part of the world or
whether German imperialism
shall have that privilege. - The
New Times, MINI.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-05-02

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surrender, send Is cents to the
cooperative News, and one will
be mailed you.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-05-02

Use Clausens FAVORITE COZ
FEE 35c b., 3 lbs. for $1.0O. None
better-M. H. Clausen, 1913 Rock
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The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-05-02

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The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-05-02
EVERETT COOP
Holds Quarterly Meeting at For
um-Manager Makes
Report

Last Monday evening the Ev-
erett Cooperative Society held
its quarterly meeting of stock
holders. The report submitted
by Manager Worswick showed
the progress made by the society,
and should be source of en-
enlargement to all The Share
Capital now stands at 81, 474,68.
The net worth of the Society is
$2,088.39; the net worth at the
commencement of business was
only $500 This is remark
able growth in eight and one
half months.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
HOME BURNS WHILE ON
VISIT WITH HIS SISTER

VIM. Campbell, who with his fam
lily had motored to the western part
of the state to visit his sister and
family, returned home. Wednesday to
find his home in ashes.
Early last Tuesday morning Joe
Ostrich, who was breaking with a
tractor in a field nearby, looked up
to notice that the granary las in
flames and fire was just breaking
through the top of the house.
Nothing was saved and the loss
was complete, amounting to about
$4,000, leaving the family in a very
embarrassing situation. It is report
ed that there is some insurance.
The fire is thought to be the work
of some frebug, or there had been
no fire in the house for several days.
B. E. Corporon, in the employ
of the United States department of
Agriculture, who has been in Sheri-
dan county ora couple of weeks or
ganizing the county auditing asso-
citation, left Tuesday for Malta,
where he will organize an associa-
ton. before leaving for the state of
Washington, to continue his work
there.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
NOW NONPARTISAN SPEAKER.


I. E. Worley, who is organizing
for the Nonpartsan League, reports
that the farmers picnic at Peerless
a wee..1 ago last Sunday was a great
success. Postmaster Burke of SEQ
hey was one of the speakers, aas was
also Mr.. Worley, who spoke on the
program of the League, after which
he signed up several new members.
About three hundred farmers from
Valley and Sheridan counties were
present. There was a ball game be-
tween Scobey and Peerless teams,
the Scobey team going down to de-
feat From there, Mr.. Worley mas
invited to Wolf Point, where he
spoke at an enthusiastic Nonparti-
san meeting held by the farmers
at that place. He, here, signed up
several new members for the Lea
que. At both places Mr.. Worley
told of the Farmers own paper, the
Producers News, and sold lot of
stock in the Peoples Publishing Co.
and got lot Of subscribers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
OUR PARISH is AGAIN DIVIDED.

Plentywood Lutheran: In spirit
and working fellowship our large
parish has, always been united, but
because of ats growth we have again
been compelled to divide and create
new parish. Last time it was the
northeast end, now it is the west
end that forms the new parish. This
new parish will consist of two pros
porous congregations, Zion at old
Oiville, and the Lutheran church of
Scobey, besides the three mission
places of FIaxville, Madoc and Fair
view. The prospects have never
been better In our field of labor than
they are this summer. A large num-
Der of new members have been added
to several of the congregations. 1t
is, therefore, very important that
the new man be obtained as soon as
possible. The committee that has in
charge the calling of a pastor has
met and made the necessary arrange
ments to hare man called at once.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
Boys Serious War Work.

Here is letter to the United States
department of agriculture from Sc
rious Oklahoma boy of ten who is do
ing his level best to help Americas
food supply. He is doing it as mem
Der of the Boys Pig and Corn clubs
Because his example should be an in
spiration to other workers, young and
old, and because of the stimulating
spirit of his philosophy the letter is
printed here in full.
well, | shall tell you about my pig
1t Is looking pretty dressy since have
been feeding it digester tankage. 1t
looks like it were fixing for trip. 1t
carries it's tail curled, and walks as
proud as If 1t were expecting to see
town. Now I shall not disappoint
him. / shall carry him to Stigler to
our contest the 18th. / tell him don't
know whether he will get to ride on
. the, trains or not, but for him to eat
all give him and I will do my best to
get ride on the train for him. He
carries his fat nicely and walks up tor
his meals like little boy and eats all
he can. 1 feed him corn, oats and
tame weeds, and the wastage from my
fathers table since my digester tank
age gave out. He seems to think 1t
Is good. The funniest thing is to see
him eat and look at me and grunt as
if to say Early, you are so good to
me-everything furnished. All / have
to do is to walk up and eat He does
not realize that soon someone else
shall eat him. OF course it must be
funny to me andsI am loath to think
of that grand trip / am fixing up for
the poor pig. He is doing his best.
Nov If he wins me no prize shall
never be sorry about feeding him. for
he shall help be comfort for my
mother and little brother at home be-
sides enjoy his being here While
am member of the Pig club tell
him he must not let me get beat, for
this is my first effort to do anything
in the club work. But it is true il
do get beat shall only keep trying.
My two older brothers won Valuable
prizes last year in the corn and cotton
clubs. / shall keep trying. j. feel
sure can win something some day. 1
have one acre in corn this year, one
acre in kafir corn and am preparing
my exhibits, also my seed kafir corn
and corn fol. another year and shall
send in my report and essay when the
time comes
THE chinch bugs got in my kafir
corn, and the drought came on my
corn, but mother says must be pa
-tient. She says those that have no
misfortune die of young age. / have
always found my mother true and I
shall be patient until get through.
am ten years old and can always ana
work to do.
EARL
s-s.s ~Garland, Okla"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
view mexico Retains Title to Lands,
Getting Million a Year for
Schools.

New Mexico has retained title to
Its lands. AS a result MANY cattle
ralsers, crowded off by Spectators
from the privately monopolized lands
or other states, are making use of
New Mexicos public lands. Thus we
get another object lesson showing the
responsibility of land monopoly for de-
crease in our meat supply and for the
rising cost OF living. New Mexico's
enlightened policy is proving profit
able to the state. From the rental
of It's land it has derived a revenue
OF $1,098,000 for the eleven months
ending with November 1. For the cur
rent month $25O,OO0 more is antici-
pated.
This entire revenue goes to the
school system. Had the land been
sold, it is not difficult to see that
most of it would before now be with
held from use, while the state would
long ago have spent the money it had
received. This is the case where the
sale policy has prevailed. But the
mistake is not irreparable. Through
land value taxation it is possible for
states and communities to get, in the
future. the advantages a prodigal
policy has lost them in the past. And
the advantage need not be confined to
certain lands set aside for the sup
port of the schools, but to all that have
any value
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
farmer GAN INCREASE INCOME
THREE-FOLD BY MARKET CONTRI
AGRICULTURISTs LOSE BECAUSE OTHERS FIX PRICE
MANUFACTURERS WIN BECAUSE THEY DIRECT
SELLING END OF THEIR BUSINESS.

If the farmers business were run
as we'll as the business of the manu-
facturer, the farmer would receive
over three times as much as he now
gets for his product. This statement
is based on facts and figures pre-
pared by the United States Govern
menr.
The farmers output buiks stipend
ously each year as the most valuable
national asset. Why does not SO much
wealth coming from his hands leave
him wealthy?
ucts the farmer raises has nothing to
do with what he retains, because he
specializes on certain crops and cam
not live on what he produces, but
has to sell it In order TO live There
fore, he is wholly dependent on the
PRICE of what he sells and the
PRICE of what he buys. Between the
two he loses the vast bulk of wealth
he produces because he has lost con-
troll of PRICE FIXING.
ny SluStSs
The other fellow fixes the price
and incidentally fixes the farmer
Through the neat little trick We call
PRICE the farmers enormous wealth
is taken over bodily each year by the
fellow who controls the price and
the farmer Is left with an income
smaller even than the wage labor
er's
In 1910, 6,631 SOP farmers and their
help, an Industrial army of more
than 12.000000 workers, employing
$40 ,991 ,449, 900 OF capital, produced an
output that kept the nation alive and
In comfort for year, but was Incl
dentallv PRICED by the other fellow
at $5,4S7,000,000 as it came from the
hands of the farmers At the same
time the manufacturers. employing
7,678,57S men and $1S,428, 270 900
worth Of capital, produced an output
that did not perform nearly so vital
function, hut incidentally SOLD for
s20. 672, $500
Manufacturers Well Organized.
This enormous discrepancy in re-
turns is solely matter of PRICING.
The farmer let the other fellow at
tend to the matter OF prices and con-
. fined his efforts to PRODUCING;
the manufacturer was well organized
and devoted at least half his attention
to marketing and getting good
price In a large measure he con-
trolied his own marketing and de-
termined his own prices. He was as
good PRODUCER and an EIGHT
TIMES BETTER SELLER than the
farmer
That PRICES are the paramount is
sue with the farmer is evidenced by
the fact that big crop years often
hiring less money than poor crop years
and farmers oftener go bankrupt on
big crops than on small crops. Usu-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
BOY, GIRL, JOIN A
CLUB-RAISE A Pig

Will you raise pig for sol
diers-you, boys and girls on the
farms; and you, boys and girls
in the suburbs who have space
available? The United States
department of agriculture is
seeking to enroll 100000 boys
and girls in pig clubs this year
Junior soldiers of the COM
mfssary." If $4,000 members of
pig clubs produced 100000
pounds of dressed pork last
year, how much pork Will 200,
600 members turn In to the ma
tional larder In 1918? Every
boy or girl who can do so should
raise one or more pigs for Uncle
Sam and thus furnish the meat
supply for a soldier. Ask your
county agricultural agent about
this opportunity or write to the
director of extension at your
state agricultural college.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
War Profits.

The Phelps-Dodge corporation
formerly Phelps, Dodge & CO.., OPP
Grating copper and lead mines in Arr
IONA and in Old and New Mexico, re-
ports net income available for stock
holders in 1917 of $16,940,379 after
allowing for state and federal taxes
and $6.613,959 for depreciation and
depletion"
The profits of $16,940,379, com
pared with the average annual peace
profits of s7,442,339 (1911-1913), show
excess wartime gains of s9,497, $50 for
1917.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
Farmers to Establish Supply Hoo
Chicago for Many di
Stores. e.

The American COOPERATIVE !!
ton with over twenty retail BIZ
in operation and with !
branches located in Chicago, !
and Everett, Washington, has I
ed its campaign for Coz
Wholesale Supply House, to 70
ed in Chicago. The new ear
Is meeting with favor with D
its present stockholders, DC
with outside cooperative o.
tons and numerous subsS
have been received, the suO& i
are void if the entire amOul
secured.
With it's own wholesale .
number of retail branches Do
idly increased, the American
ative Association will becOn'n
the most influential busines2l
prises Of the country. e
Aside from supplying It's
customers with what they 70
association also markets all
farm produce, through its n
branch, as high as thirty cal
produce having been sold in ~
besides a large number OF lUF'
ments consisting of poultry,
ter, veal, etc.
Another venture, the sua
which is practically assured !
Enlistment of a large Ses' 9
where farmers can ship then
cleaning and testing or fol ,
The associations main OD
Wausau, Wis, and with ID,
of successful growth is nss
present disturbed business
without faltering. Purchase :.
made in large quantities, 10
of its own branches as w .
other cooperative custop =
business of this Associative
one-half million per month
ed Farmer, Wausau, Wis. :
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14

ally the worst year for a fam.
year following a bumper cron
PART OF THE BUMPER CPo.s
STORED AND USED AGAINST
THE NEXT YEAR.
Market Fixers Take surpIu /
1t is significant that the Doe.f
the middlemen to determine urio.
farm products has increased IN 1
tically the same ratio as the NJ
tivity Of the farmer has inc,,~
through the development of fam
chinery. E
Since the Civil war, the uraN
ity of the farmer, according IS
thentic estimates, has increa,la
fold. This enormous gain, wbiS Il
erwise would have made the ~,
wealthy, has been absorbed h,,
middlemen and big business I'M
the increasing power of the Lam
control the finishing and mar
of farm products and Determines
The individual farmer is Just ,a
he was fifty years ago-a haMf
ed toiler struggling for a bssas
istence. Id
Farmers Neglect Selling s,ai
When the great finishing andyh
keting facilities we're original i
arated from the farm and pas, !,
the possession of big bushes |,
and the middlemen, the farmer
himself Obliged 10 specialize n =
gle crops and depend on the ) nu
them for living. But the INN "a
selling end of his business vale
opolfzed by these middlemen re-
business. They tried to mah.te
believe that PRICES were Iro
mined by the law of supply ssa
mand, so that they could
natural law" for the poverty ~
farmer, while they controlled :
through monopoly. III
What Organization VIII 20
The manufacturer with an
ment OF better than eighteen Al
dollars sold his product for mort
twenty billion dollars. He bshel
$12,195, 015,000 for raw materhI t.
ing $S,572,527 900 as the vaIusb +
by manufacture. This is Al pb;s
on the capital invested. y
The average investment ps
in the United States Is $64A-
average value per farm for
products is 1868. Without Z .
any deductions for raw matetken
1868 worth of products revss
less than IA per cent on ths,ot:
OF the investment. II the Eiife
received THE SAME REL rss
PRICE for his products th1,na
manufacturer receives. the pNtq,s
the average farm, instead d. i
worth 1868. would be worth s.ssss
This is three times as much Al
Is getting now The farmEn
organize to establish public -
OF the market.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
Crane on TownIsy'

DR.. Frank Crane, write
licist, says. Anything thai
up the old, traditional
that have come to mean W.
phrase making, is WELCOME
Townley and his co-woIg
shown us the way. Al
convention he said, the ~
troll 35 per cent of the "
country; labor controls ap
cent: a combination of the
ments would make itself ~
out the nation"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
FIVE FINE HORSES EAT
POISONEDOATS AND DIE

Harry Whitish lost five valuable
horses as the result of poison the
latter part of last week. He had
returned from Plentywood, where he
had secured supply of gopher poi
son and when he unhitched he left
the poisoned oats in the buggy
where the horses got to it and ate
some OF it, death soon resulting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
STEEL TRUST FAILS.

The Steel Trust has failed in the
hour of the nations peril and cannot
begin to handle the governments war
orders. Result: the government is
preparing to control the production
of steel. This all round failure OF
private industry to meet the present
situation Is causing millions to think
who never thought before,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14

The Minneapolis millers dropped
their prices more than 81 a barrel
when Uncle Sans Investigators be-
gan to snoop around. They only
hurled back the charge of disloyal-
ty when Mr.. Townley showed by fig
ures that they were profiteering.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14


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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14

failed. When the war is won and an
accounting is made, as is bound t.
come, no less can be said of such chill
dren of this country than "they did
their share"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-06-14
Many More Of Sheridan County $
Continued from Page Seven)

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1875 Morgan Morton N --NsA Archer Mont
1916 Dillon Mark Eden Valley, MINI.
1879 Smith, Donald Stanley Wise
1880 Park Cubertson, Mont.
1881 Klies Christopher ]. Tyler Mimi.
1882 Loughln Karl Poplar Mont II
1888 Martin Albert p Frod Mont
1883 Snyder George --------- Iandusky Mont
1853 Johnson Peter o. Big Lake, r. T.
1894 .m.onson Theodore --.---.Debo,
Rasmussen, Dagmar,
1000 Havorsen, Henry -Scobey, Mont. 81
2oo7 yoncs Walter --------------- Wimbledon, N. D.
1884 Sorenson Lauritz E. -Plentywood Mont
-oz7 Harrison Frederick E. Gonvick, MINI.
zo5I Jc1:s, ----.--.Couer dAlene, Idaho
2049 Mooney, Flaxvle. Mont.
2059 Frederick, William -~----.---.D ooley, Mont.
2o63 William Henry ------------- Ambrose, N D.
Johnson Nj. Scobey
I2072 Mccoy, Walter .Cuberson Mont.
077 lchake John Lake,
z079 Jacobsen Ellis --------------- Poplar Mont.
2o82 Leet, Frank H. Plentywood Mont
-oS3 Hamilton, Charley -~-.------. -Cuberson
zo89 Peterson, Benjamine Poplar Mont
2093 Lapodula, francesca ------. Chicago, Ills.
2os6 Hagstrom A. Whitehall Mont
Clang Hedge S.. Dysart,
2111 Noum Karl Gardner, N D.
l2114 Lamsli, Joe ----.----.-.-- Plentywood
2124 Brekke Gunner Julian, Mont.
237 Allen, Warren George F1axvle,
213S Dillon Francis E. .scobey, Mont.
2144 Fritz William A. Frod Mont
2147 Stenberg Andreas Alliance, Nebr.
215O Sannes, Ole --------~-1.----. Erskne MINI.
2153 Back Lien Roland ----.------- Genock Wyo.
2154 Collins Thomas Armenia N. D..
261 Jenson Ernest B. West Fork, Mont.
267 Kveset Carl ---.~---.-.---.- Homestead,
2168 Knudson, Havor ------------- Gedvlle Sask
217o Beverly, ---------~----. Scobey Mont.
Ralston, Harold Marshaltown Iowa.
Gravlie Edward Thief River Falls MINI.
2183 Stevenson Russell Minneapolis, MINI.
219O Lorenzen, City,
2198 Forsyth James Cubeson Mont
223 Skogg, Name Edwin Big Lake Mimi
224 Karlgaard, Oscar Spokane, Wash
2215 Summeli, Austin N -Scobey, Mont.
22s Ross, Robert .Scobey, Mont
2231 McAllster, Robert Poplar Mont
1892 Woods, George Fred ---- Aian No.
2287 Quaranta Mike -4a Upper Levee ST. Paul. MINI.
Nelson, Christopher ~.~-~--~. ogwego Mont
2249 Lewerenz, Henry R. Cuberson, Mont
251 Olson, Helmer C. Duluth, MINI.
New JOSeuhW Archer Mont