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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-04-20

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ALSO choice sh3~lngs Of Patent
Leather and cher Oxforcs ard
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20

The vigorous prosecution of pub
lie Improvement work is regarded as
an effective means of insuring en-
ployment particularly to unskilled Ia
Dor, in the transition period from war
to peace. AS the benefits of improved
highways are immediate to say moth
ing of the great desirability of having
labor employed and money active, it
is believed to be better to go ahead
with road work wherever it is needed
rather than wait for a period of low
prices.
BY July 1, 1919, there will be avail
able from the federal good roads fund
approximately S588.00 for expenditure
on Montana highways, and it is the
hope of the commission to have con-
struction work so far advanced as to
permit marketing the 1919 crops over
the improved highways.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
MUST APPLY FOR
LOANS BY FEB.
AID CANNOT BE OBTAINED
FROM FEDERAL SEED LOAN
OFFICE AFTER FEBRUARY /.

The Federal Seed Loan office at
Great Falls announces that all appli-
cations for seed loans for next spring
must be in by February 1st. No ap-
r:lcations will be considered after that
time. Farmers whose credit and fin
ancial abilities are impaired by the
two years of drouth SO that they can
not geet seed otherwise may get
loan of five dollars per acre up to 100
acres. Information can be obtained
at the banks or farm bureau commit.
teemen. The Farm Bureau has no in
formation as to how these applications
can be handled now that the County
has no County Agent. The Bureau is
endeavoring to find out what can be
done SO that farmers of Sheridan
County who need this aid may get
their share.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
FARMERS TO MEET
AT GREAT FALLS
EQUITY CONVENTION AND CO.
OPERATORS CONGRESS Will
MEET AT GREAT FALLS ON
JANUARY 20.

Farmers and men interested in the
development of Montana farms am
farmers will gather at Great Falls on
January 20, for the purpose of at
tending sessions of the Equity Con
ventoin and Co-Operators' Congress
which will cover a period of five days.
The opening session of the Coop
orators Congress, which occurs on the
evening of January Goth, will be dig
nified with the presence of Governor
Stewart. A special program for that
evening has been arranged and it is
expected that the balance of the ses7
sion will also prove highly interest
ing.
It is clai1nd by those in charge of
the Congress that it will be attended
this year by at least fifteen hundred
representative farmers from through
out the state. This increase in attend
ance over previous years, which has
been around the thousand mark, is
attributed to the fact that keen in
terest is being evinced by the farm
er in the governmental program of
reconstruction which follows the war
He knows that he as a farmer has
big task yet before him, he knows
that the demands to be made upon
him will be many and he wants to
learn more about the part he is to
play. Knowing this, those placed in
charge of the Congress have invited
several men of nationwide renown TO
appear on the program. These men
will talk on different phases Of the
subject and it is expected that there
will be some interesting developments.
Numerous matters of Importance to
the farmer will be brought up at the
annual Equity convention and the
Of that organization is
said to be planning to send a strong
to the Falls.
1t is hoped that the coming con
gress will meet the mark set by the
one held last year which eclipsed all
previous efforts and the committee in
charge is working hard toward that
end.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
By V. E. Michel

st. Paul, Minn.- Although the tele
phone companies of the Twin Cities
claim that they are unable to pay
their girl operators, now on strike
more than $1.60 to $3.50 per day, they
did pay 100000 in dividends to stock
holders during the first nine months
of this current fiscal year.
This has been brought out in the
hearing before the state railroad ana
warehouse commission on rate In
creases. The company asked this
commission to grant rate increases
amounting to S2,300,000 annually
They said this was necessary to meet
the wage demand of striking en-
ployes. However, they openly admit
ted that they proposed to pay their
workers less than 100000 Of the pro-
posed $2,30O,OO0 for which they asked.
During the strike the companies
have hired whatever strikebreakers
they could secure and have paid them
two and three times the amount for
which the strikers worked during the
war as patriotic measure. The COM
panies have come out fatty now,
stating that there no longer is strike
and attributing crippled service 10
federal control, in an attempt to dis
gust the public with Uncle Sans
management. Strikers declare that
the strike has ceased to be a walkouC
and that it is now a lockout. They
furthery cite instances of credit for
groceries being suddenly shut off.
They blame the companies for this.
Telephone companies officially de-
clared that they would never take
back the strikers because federal con-
troll prevents. Strike leaders, howev-
er, have called the hand of the COM
panies by demanding to see the in
structions received from Washington
for such stand. The strikers claim
that this move by the company is de-
signed to disgust union circles with
federal control and that it is entirely
authority.
Believing that the calling of the
companies hand in this matter can he
lone only at Washington, the strikers
nave started move to have Secretary
Burleson asked on the floor of the
1ouse as to just what instructions re
gave the Twin Cities telephone COM
,anies. At the same time it was
stated that President Gompers of the |
American Federation of Labor has
,een in conference with Secretary
3urleson regarding the Twin Cities
situation.
Miss Julia O'Connor, president OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
Two Important Bills
|. Up Before The House
ONE YEAR HOMESTEAD ACT AND
MATTER REGARDING EXTEN-
SION OF FINAL PAYMENT SOON
TO BE DECIDED.

The passing of the Myers bill ir
the senate to extend the time allowed
Fort Peck settlers. to make final pay
ment for their land leaves the matter
now up to the house of representa-
tives in congress.
The bill is one of great Importance
as it effects thousands of settlers on:
the Fort Peck reservation. The past
two years the settlers who have come
to this large reserve to locate home
and settle have had the misfortune to
experience two consecutive crop fail
ures, thus putting a burden of ex-
pense on their shoulders.
Many letters have been sent by
prominent individuals and commercial
clubs in this part of the state to Hon.
John NJ. Evans and to Jeanette RAN
kin urging their support and cooper
alton in securing an early passage of
the bill in the house.
This matter is of interest to every
body, farmers and business men, and
every effort used in getting the bill
made a law will greatly aid the set
tiers.
Another important bill has passed
the senate and is now before the
house. That is the Myers Zone Year
Homestead Bill" Indications now
point that this viii be made law.
Lieutenant Governor Mcdowell of
Montana is now at Washington using
every influence to secure the early
passage Of this bill.
Both bills viii greatly benfit Mon
tana, and people are urged to do all
they can to help secure their passage
BY writing to Miss Rankin and Con-
gressman Evans regarding them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20

throughout the Rhineland, a double
headed government composed of revo-
iutlonsts on one side and officials of
the lmperiaLstic regime On the other,
Who for the moment are WORKING.
more or less together for the common
good.
In Cologne, for example, the old
burgomaster and his staff are still at
their posts in the city hall, while near
by are the officials of the revolution
ary committee. Between them the af-
fairs of the local government are
tnreshed out and the business of the
city is kept moving. The same situa-
ton exists in other cities and towns.
10 add to the still more winding Ia
Dynnth there are besides the party
Which desires annexation to France.
at least two with distinctly differen-
Ideals. One of these is composed of
liberal Democrats and Socialists who
want to see the establishment of a
great republic which will include not
only all of Germany but Austria with
Berlin as the capital.
The second grocp is composed Of
the Catholic Or CcrtY:zt PARTY which
is said to desire E--c~i-h Westphah-
an republic.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
TEL uEPE1ONE WORKERS
AND PUBLIC MTST JSFD
Twin City Companies Resort to Any Method
Of Beating Employees and Increasing Profits

the operators department of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Wire
workers, has denied that federal au
thorltles have restrained the corr
panles' freedom in any manner. She
callms to have assurances from thor
oughly competent and reliable sources
that Postmaster General Burleson has
denied that the companies have been
deprived OF their local autonomy IN
any degree. Other labor leaders de.
clare that the companies are hiding
behind the present elastic federal con-
troll OF telegraphs and telephones to
clrcumvent the demands of their
workers.
e. W. Robinson, president of the
In-State company, which operates ar
exclusive telephone monopoly in St.
Paul, while the Bell system operates
in Minneapolis, is authority for the
statement that "none of the strikers
VIII be returned to their former Jobs,
except those employees who have been
deferred from returning within the
specific time through fear, intimida-
ton or threats on the part of the
strikers" He adds that the "man.
agement of the local companies, act
ing for the government, will carry out
these instructions"
However, President Robinson fiatlv
refuses to divulge any kilograms or
their purports wherein he got any au-
thority from federal authorities for
this position He merely declares that
he got the instructions and he refuses
to be more explicit. 1t is pointed OUT,
however, that the clause of the Gin
structions" regarding strikers who
were "intimidated" leaves a very
large loophole in what might just as
well be made an alright lockout.
II. FL. Broach, organizer of the
workers union, explained the recent
'near settlement" of the strike. He
says that the workers were promised
at their old jobs, with
28 per cent wage increase contingent
upon the companies being granted
their demanded rate increase. The
strikers, he said, We're not to be dis
,riminated against because they had
struck. Strikebreakers were to be
given no preference.
However, when the workers report
I'd for duty they found that the strike
breakers were given wide preferences
over them. The strikers were to be
compelled to start with the company
Is beginners. They baked, and the
strike was resumed with 200 more
strikers than before. The new total,
3roach says, is 1000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
FRITZ NYOUlST GIVES
LIFE FOR LIBERTY
SHERIDAN COUNTY BOYS NAME
APPEARS ON LAST WEDNES-
DAYS CASUALTY LIST

Wednesdays casualty list contained
the name of Fritz Nyquist. 1t is
stated that word was received a few
days ago by Mr.. Nyquist of Froid,
that his youngest SON was killed dur
ing the fighting of October 5th. Fritz
has two brothers also at Froid, but up
to the time of his enlistment was his
fathers companion and helper for
some years. He also has two brothers,
Peter and Algot Nyquist, who live
northeast of Glasgow.
Fritz Nyquist was about % or "a
years,old at the time he gave up his
life in his country's service.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
NORTH DAKOTA READY
FOR GREAT REFORMS
Amendments Now Declared Passed Open the
Road at Last for Farmer Program

Cidte may be judged from the amend
ihents passed. Important limitations
&c the organization Of cooperative
companies are removed. The legisla
ture is allowed to establish sfa+o-
managed hail insurance system and
co levy flat land tax on .unimproves
as well as improved land to cover
part OF the cost after the precedent
set by the Canadian laws. -Four of ths
flVe judges Of the state supreme court
are declared necessary to declare )
law unconstitutional A very demo-
cratic initiative and referendum has
oeen provided. The methods OF
amending the constitution are made
easier. Another amendment allows
tne legislature to exempt improve
ments and personal property from
taxation. The debt limit of the state
is raised from the absurd limit of
S2OO,0O0 to allow for the building of
the contemplated state-owned enter
prlses. The state will be able also. it
is thought, to relieve some of the ex-
cess interest burden Of its farmers og
nnanclaI system made possible bv
THIS amendment Another amend
ment allows the eounty and city, prac-
tically for the first time, to own pub
lie utilities and to make improve
ments by direct labor.
BASIS FOR DECISION
The decision of the canvassinr
board that all the amendments had
passed was based on thorough and
opinion by Attorney Gen
eral William LANCER. He cites, Tor
instance, a decision of the North Da-
kota supreme court written by Judge
Spaulding in 1908, or seven years be-
fore the Nonpartisan league was con-
ceived of, holding that the phrase of
the constitution, call the legal votes
cast" means all the votes cast on the
The court held that no
egal vote could be cast relative to a |
measure before the people for adop-:
ion or rejection except it was cast
sor or against the amendment.
In other words, no vote cast for
governor or any other candidate or
Measure could possibly be a vote
against the amendment under consid-
,ratoin. Such is the only reasonable
nd democratic Interpretation that
ould be put on the phrase. What the
pecial interests put over in Minnesc-
a, on the other hand, which is made
o much of by the press, is well illus
rated by the vote there on the initfa-
i've and referendum in 1916. Although
his measure received a majority Of
hree to one of those voting, it did not
econe a law. Again in 1913 the peo~
lie returned a majority for prohibI-
ion, but this again failed because of
he absurd court ruling in that privi-l
ege-ridden state.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20

Copenhagen, Dec. 18.-The German
armistice has been extended until :
o'clock on the morning of January II
and the allies have notified Germany
that they reserve the right to occupy
the neutral zone east of the Rhine
from the Cologne bridgehead to the
Dutch frontier, according to dis
patch from Treves.
Cologne, Wednesday, Dec. ia
new and striking element has been
injected into the already complicated
political situation in the Rhineland by
the alleged organization of a secret
party which is working for the annex
alton Of this German territory to
France. Overtures will be made to
the French government, it is said, to
take the Rhineland into France on the
same basis as Alsace-Lorraine.
There is only one development in
the intensely interesting problem be-
ing slowed In the rich country west of
the Rhine with Cologne as the politl4
cal capital. There is, in the first place,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
.ARMISTlCE HAS Been
EXTENDED UNTIL JAN.
Complicated Political Situation Exists in the
Rhine-Land, New Annexation Party
Is Formed

Copenhagen, Dec. 18.-The German
arnistice has been extended until !
o'clock on the morning of January II,
according to a dispatch from Treves.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
FOR
MONTANA HIGHWAYS
|rOVe Employment to UnsIxiIIed Labor.
'Oped to Complete for Use i'm Hauling
Next Falls Crop

Il. ; Oec' 18.-In a communica-
| !, from the Office of public
4 VIA department. Of agricul-
h. 1e state highway commns-
!. PREDICTED that an excess Of
sa,t,.,l ~ will be expended for high
Il A.. ucnon purposes in the
|lsiisee during the year 1919.
"a sqon s is based upon the fact
j. y. ,ands already available,
|eyl' '1lca 1a,a will be made avail
u u lsi lsis' will aggregate $780,
M b.a "nlch amount not over
\ ,nss nss been expended.
h Sval of priority restric-
D. pTay my construction mater
dpi'i.aar War Industries Board, the
l apbssssr ssration and the United ted
rsas' days s,,., Council a great re-
'ullding should result.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20

Nelson. saloon, and inflicted deep cut
on his head with a rubber hose. Eli
gle, after hitting Larson, evidently
made tracks for Dakota, as it is re-
ported he is now at Kenmare.-Do Dooley
Sun.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
By A. B. Gilbert

Tho now famous 10 amendments t,
.onstifution Of North Dakota
~si,b enable the majority of the vot-
:, there to carry out their plans fol
botter democracy, have passed. Thi.
!, bqen officially declared by the
tate canvassing board. :,
From the day after election there
t,s been no doubt that the amenu-
r,sn+s received a majority of the
,,+es cast on them. Final count shows
/, majority of from $4,000 to $4,000
ar each measure in a total vote of
|pa than 10000. But taking advant-
900 Of q court decision in Minnesota
h tbe effect that an amendment to the
nrstitutiOn had to have a majority of
II votes cast, the special interests
end their press have widely proclaim
IA the failure of half if not all the
amendments in North Dakota. The
E5ect Of this was to give the peop e
Ecsde of North Dakota the false in,-
tsssion that the League farmers had
spcted their own program. The Min
Bnsota decision, Of course, has no
! barring in North Dakota, and that
tate, as well as South Dakota and
Wisconsin, have decisions of long
Handing holding that only a MAORI
a Of those voting on the measure is;
n eded.
& READY FOR REFORM
Il North Dakota, consequently, is now
aly to put into law what has been
expressed will of its people for
a SIX years and what venal politi-
bus and cleverIy designed constitu-
pal limitations have prevented up
DOW and would have prevented in
tatey had it not been for the great
ague revolt. In 1912 the voters Of 1
Hh Dakota declared for state
A elevators and mills by a four
one vote. This was declared UNI
sqtuhonal. In 1914 they amended
institutional to allow this meas
Fa four to one vote. This was
N tAWarted by the politicians.
lalled to enact the necessary leg-
lloh Then the League captured
HlS election, and the measure
san thwarted by the holdover
sors.
y tne holdover senator's have
routed. A majority of the SUI
court is responsible to the peo-
NY Tor election. The constitu-
4s been definitely amended. The
J, nave thus cleared out all the
privilege nests, and the state
y On new legislation for the
u people which will set the pace
whole nation.
1aDAENTS FUNDAMENTAL.
i fundamental character of the
= which North Dakota is to I'M
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-12-20
assaults OLE
1AhS0N AT D.3t,LEY

t and H. ss4, issue for Bill Elgie
II peta,0 battery J on Ole Larson,
|stsclsa' Larson. Elgie, it ap-'
Larson in the H. M.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-04
MODERN FARMING
ON BIG SCALE
NEAR ELGIN
| ,4OO-ACRE RANCH
TO BE CULTIVATED
Big Farm Tractor and Most
Modern Machinery to
be Used.

A l, 400-acre ranch near Elgin
is being put under cultivation in
one body by Los Angeles and
Elgin men, and will be put into
corn, beans, milo maise and other
staple crops.
One of the latest types of farm
tractors is beings used in plow-
ing the land, and other late i'm
proved farm machinery is also in
use on the big ranch, and the
experiment is being watched
with interest by ranchers in this
entire section of the state.
These interesested in the pro-
iect are j. M. Miller & Son and
Roy Spraley of Los Angeles, ard
Jerry Hettler of Elgin.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-04
1000 ACRES PUT
INTO BEANS
AT NORA
DEVELOPMENT OF A
NEW INDUSTRY THERE
Methods Used In Famous
California Bean
District Used.

Mr.. A. nj. Conard who has a
large tract of several thousand |
acres of land in the vicinity of
Noria, a station about seventy
miles south of Nogales on the line
of the Southern Pacific of Mex
leo. arrived from Los Angeles
Sunday, and the gentleman
inf ,rmed The Oasis yesterday
that he had shipped ahead a new
tractor for use in the farming
operations of himself and his
associates in the vicinity named,
and that it is at Nogales now,
with every prospect for crossing
over the line shortly en- route to
Noria. The tractor mentioned IS
the second that has gone into
Sonora for use on the Conard
lands within a couple of months.
/
The syndicate of which Mr.
Conard is the head has planned
and is carrying out farming upon
an extensive scale. This season
there will be plowed and planted
into beans no less than 1000
acres of land, and they are
doing it in the most scientific and
approved manner. as develope d
in the bean growing districts CT
Southern California, about 81 n
Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura,
etc.
Under the method pursued the
land is broken by double disk
plows. That permits the water
from the summer rains to soak
into the ground thoroughly. Then
after the rains the land is plowed
and narrowed until pulverized
finely, fitting it most Thoroughly
for terminating the seed. Then
seed beans are drilled into the
ground. With the thorough pre-
preparation Of the soil and con-
servation of the water the grow
ing plants thrive vigorously,
mature rapidly and yield great
returns. In the matter Of rain
fall these Sonora lands have.
about 800 advantage over SINH
lar lands, devoted to bean culture
in San Diego county, California,
where large and profitable crops
are raised with far less precipit-
alton. In San Diego the average
precipitation is about IL inches;
in Sonora it is about l6 inches"
This new enterprise is circu-
lating considerable money in Ne