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The producers news., 1919-09-05

jor Leo Horst. It will h. ,
:. shat the above letter does Moved not
that there was no other Horde O' say
A. C. Horst. iy to
1his !, is sample of the proDay.,,
OF the Montana Loyalty League @aaa 10
also a sample of the dope n,,sI. sT ana
by the Pioneer Press. '''Sned
Major Leo Horst graduated
the Fargo college and went to won, aao,a
for the league. He was prosson,ol mork
by the "paytrioteers and +bo b''Iuted
robbers" for seditioi but the o.. 0aOy
dismissed by Judge Amidon ' was
which time the Major enlisted :; alIer
army. III ehe
After he was discharged IN
he spoke all over the state fou 'une
league after refusing an offer to 'ne
for the |. V. A. at $50 a meeting "tls tsA
offer being made bv Attorney Ceno1's s, Vie
LANCER, the renegade. '"l
1t is likely that the Fargo Fo
or the Grand Forks Herald passad ~"
bet like the above to be discovo,o1,
the Montanana Loyalty League
The local friends which the Pioroo,,
Press quotes as criticizing tbo NJ.
may, himself, be suffering from
faihng mentality if he ever was .nos
sessed with such thing.
It's a safe bet that the above gaD-
tleman was a member of tbo h.
guard and trench dodger.
The producers news., 1919-09-05

Reports show that already manned
soldiers returned from France are to
be found seated on the paths leading
to the national capitol at Washington
begging for aims. The ingratitude of
princes is proverbial, but the ingrati-
tude of republics passes understand
ing. Yet, because the farmers of
North Dakota, by Legislative action,
have placed a tax of one-half mill
upon all the property in the state to
raise fund which shall prevent the
soldiers of this state from coming
to want, the patriots who hooted "pro-
German at the same farmers, have
urged the taxpayers of the state to
defeat the farmers program and ac-
tually used that tax as a means of
"ghosting' taxpayers from voting in
approval of the law.
Thus we have those who shoutae
loudest for the defense of our coun-
try shouting louder yet when the peo-
pie are asked to give of their store
to the boys who have saved democra-
cy. There are more things than
beauty that are merely skin deep, and
the gang politicians patriotism is one
Of these.-Bottineau IN. d. Courant.
The producers news., 1919-09-05

the Adjutant General of the United
States:
The records of this office show
that there is no officer by the name
Of Major A. c. Horst. There is no
officer by the name of Major A. G.
horst. There is a second lieutenant
arthur Carl Horst, Signal Corps, dis
charged at Yale University, Decem-
ber -18, 1918. He had no foreign
service. His address is shown as
S625 California Avenue, Pittsburg,
Penn. There is no record of Major
A. c. Horst of North Dakota
"At a picnic at Three Forks, this
man, advertised as Major A. C. Horst
still wearing his uniform as an officer
of the U. S. army, said: :. ~
I have won my stripes by serv-
ing my country in France. and what
is more I won my promotion from
the ranks of private because was
recognized as an authority on polite
al economics and especially on indus
trial democracy
3But the war department says that
there is no such person as Major
The producers news., 1919-09-05

School teachers, college professors
and even those JEWS rabbis whose
chief work is killing chickens .ro
organizing.
The travelling statesmen are r;oh.
now trying to organize for protection
against the everlasting ginger talk of
salea managers.
All these things are signs of the
times.
The so-called individualism has die
appeared.
Society is more complicated.
Henceforth things will be done bv
groups and in terms of groups.
The man not protected by organi.
zation is a prey.
Fewer and fewer of US will be 80
foolish as to try to go it alone, but
the going will be better.
The producers news., 1919-09-05

What the farmers and workers
nave had to say hasn't amounted to
tWo-DIts with the politicians, because
as a matter of plain fact, it hasn't
been worth two-bits in terms of nol;
Tics. We. can't blame the machine
manlpulators for not paying fictitious
prices. The talk with the Independent
organization kick in it, however. will
pun down some big bargains
The producers news., 1919-09-05

That strike of actors and actresses
is curious development.
The fact that they are striking
surprises the public more than the
things they are striking for.
Acting is regarded as one of the
brainy professions far removed from
the ranks of what we call ordinary
labor.
They are of that class which is told
over and over again that they must
help the plutocrats keep down labor
and the farmers.
Yet they have organized, and,
worse yet, as the big New York pa
pers see it. affiliated with the regular
labor unions.
And still worse, their strike is man.
aged by the heads Of the labor orga-
nlzations in the different cities.
The producers news., 1919-09-05

A man who has grown suspicious
OF the way state affairs are being
handled these days, whimpers in our
ears that there is method in the de-
lay III f7feshlns out the peace treaty.
1t peace IS nrt signed before we en-
gage 10 that wal with Mexico the
ofaIt law wi! still be in efrest. Has
shis man sr1elt a rat or has he simp-
" lost ialea ln-the COOL intentions of
the big interests.
The producers news., 1919-09-05
The Chautauqua

There was a time when the Chau
tauqua was high class educations
institution.
But that time is passed.
When it was an educational insti
tuition we used to hear from the plat
1orm such men as Bryan, Roosevelt
La Toilette, Dolliver, Debbs, Hill
quit, st. John and other national not
ables representing all sides and al
shades of thought of the nation.
1t brought an opportunity to heal
the leaders first hand and to find out
from their spoken word their attitude
on public questions.
It is claimed with a considerable
Of truth that the Anglo-Saxon enjoys
hearing both side, or all sides, of any
and al issues.
The same thing is probably just as
true of all other people-for know
ledge itself depends upon investiga-
ton, and the Anglo-Saxon has no cor
ner on information
By bringing the leaders of thought
on adj religious, political or scientific
issues to the citizens of small and
inaccessible places, rare oppor-
tunity was given these people to hear
the leaders and form their own con-
ciusicns. -
In those days the Chautauqua was
not an incorporated, profteering,
money making circus, it was a high
class educational institution, such
that any self respecting citizen felt
honored to support +.
But times have changed.
The Chautauqua has degenerated
into vaudeville circus, presenting on
its platform as g9Gat speakers, OBJ
scure men of no sttc, ding or respon-
sibility, or ever .-lorality-fro they
aae for the moct. part impudent and
) cheap propagand.sts, who no doubt
peddle propaganda for any outfit that
has the money-that is the advantage
Of putting out ninth raters of un-
known and obscure erigin-our noted
men could not az<feId to stoop to such
depravity.
The musical talen and other vaude-
vile stunts, is, for the most part,
considerably inferior to the beer hall
entertainments which were afforded
in the cities in times past as a prize
with a glass of beer and a sand
wbch.
The Chautaueua of today is al
cheap, money-making street side
show, put over by a bunch of 4 ex-.
7. N. c. A. con peddlers, who hire
just as cheap talent as they can "get
by with, and then with lot of "hot
air and sawdust publicity, !" sponged
from the poor unsuspecting news !
paper man who has been hypnotized
into believing that he is contributing
ms bread and butter to the upIiftt !
and advance of his. fellow citizens,
this so-ealled chautauqua, proceeds
to baliyho and make change in the
same manner as Lemon Brothers, s
The producers news., 1919-09-05

: the Greatest Show under the Su
Today, showing Jumbo, the most gig
antic elephant in captivity and Dia
valo the Daredevil in his death defy
ing leap"
And also let us consider the metho
, OF doing business, the clever, "shel
game" method of peddling their "Gol
Brick"
In true revival meeting style tn,
public is asked to sign up a guaran
tee, an iron clad note in the sum O
$3.50, in order to get this circus tt
agree to come.
The Chautauqua claims that this
amount just covers expenses.
If the number of tickets sold does
not amount to the guarantee, those
who sign the note have to dig UP the
deficit out of their own pockets.
Then those who signed the note
are designated the local committee
and they elect chairman.
The local committee then puts in
lot of valuable time for which they
get no pay whatsoever, peddling tic,
kets, importuning their friends, and
making general nuisance out of
themselves, in order that the amount
llof the guarantee may be secured and
that those who signed the note may
come out financially whole.
The committee peddles and posts
all of the advertising.
The local papers are touched for
several hundred dollars worth of
space.
Everybody is worked to a frazzle.
An expert con man puts the game
over, and the air is kept charged all
the time with shop" about communi-
ty service, and at the psychological
moment another batch of signers to
another note is secured.
When the guarantee. is made and
the tent opens for business, seventy
five per cent of the single admissions
goes to the show and twenty-five per
cent goes to the local committee to
pay whatever expense there may be
in putting on the entertainment.
In the end, however, the Chautau-
"a gets all of the money.
The Chautarqua people have made
an immense fortune with their show
and how could they help it, for they
never show unless the money is paid
before they come, or as well as paid.
We have heard great deal about
SIG suckers in the past couple years
who have made Townley rich! And
now, what about the wise fish who
sign up Chautauqua guarantee?
Those whales who are making Ell
ison- White rich-fabulously rich.
And just as an additional thought
these Chautauqua people leave no
money in the county or city; none of
hem live here.
The Chautauqua has taken no less
han $4,000 out of this section of the
country that by rights should not +
lave gone this year-and for what?
The producers news., 1919-09-05

NOW that the high cost of living is.
sue has at last come to the surface
oon I be surprised if. you see a lot
OF wild men running around and veil
ing: Look at the farmer! Look at the
retailers! lsEs!sL Look at the workers!" When
you are are looking that way you can't
see the big profteers. 9soii
The producers news., 1919-09-05

How marvellous are some Of the de-
lenses of the packing trust! When
the federal trade commission brings
out that the trust controls 73 per cent
OF our meat products, the trust
spokesman grow red in the face from
their heat in calling liar and declare
that the trust controls only So per
cent. The man who is accused of
stealing a dozen chickens, when in
reallty ne got only eight or ten, prob
ably burns likewise with moral in.
dlgnatlon at the injustice done him.
The producers news., 1919-09-05
F / SHOULD DIE TONIGHT

IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT
Eugene Secor, prominent -.
farmer living near Forest City,
! Iowa, who was gored to death by
bull on his farm last June, was
the author of the following
poem: , >s4 II
An atom in the vastly universe.
A bit of star dust in a field of light
Am /; nor would the world its course
reverse
If I should die tonight.
The air is full of spirits of the past,
Spirits that once in flesh were clear
to sight,
Forgotten all, as l shall be at last,
If should die tonight.
But deeds, not men, are what alone
survive,
Pure thoughts are angels clad in
garments white. ..f.
Will words OF deeds Of mine remain
alive
If I should die tonight?
Shall one kind act, one unremen1-
bered wrong,
One helpful word by me to cheer
the right,
One phrase remain to speed the truth
along
If I should die tonight?
Of all the ones | know who call me
friend
Would one, just one, for life keep
memory bright
With some sweet thought | spake
while here, Or penned,
If | should die tonight?
The producers news., 1919-09-05

AS things turn out, the guarantee
minimum price for wheat means only
a guaranteed loss for the farmer
The producers news., 1919-09-05

j do the same work without the inter.
vention of the stockholders.
Their efficiency, measures in terms
of dollars wrung from consumers and
and workers employed, is just the
opposite of real efficiency from the
point of view of society.
AS we grow in wisdom we will
take the ownership and management
out OF hands whose efficiency consists
in getting the best of us, and then by
hiring production experts We will en-
deavor to reduce the costs of rth.
products. *
Then every time one of these mines
or factories finds more efficient way
of doing things, there will be an in
crease in social efficiency.
The California Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs is running down the rea-
sons why California products cost
more at home than in. other states.
But California people should remem-
ber that as between states the price
disadvantages are about even. She
pays less for bread than
North Dakota and less for coal than
Colorado. Trust and railroad rule
likes the distant markets best.
The producers news., 1919-09-05
MOTHER GOOSE UP-TO-DATE

MOTHER GOOSE UP-TO-DATE
Old Mother Hubbard
Doesn't go to her supboard
10 hunt poor bone for her dog.
Now, she don't think it funny,
For she's spent all her money
To appease the profteer hog.
That little Miss Muffet
Once sat on a tuffett
And feasted on curds and whey;
Then a profter spied her,
Bought the shop that supplied her,
And, now, she can't eat 'em today
Profteer Ho1ner has worked up
On all that goes into pie.
He holds in his hand all the food III
the land.
And says. "What Fat Boy am l.
Frederick w. Smith
The producers news., 1919-09-05

Says | to myself, says 1:
'The Producers News is the paper 10
h7rx,n -
The producers news., 1919-09-05

The Canadian government has tax
en- over all the wheat crop, which it
will sell at prevailing world prices,
and it will divide any surplus OBJ
tanned from the business among the
origina producers. Looks like a
good case of Socialism" and shell
ben anarchy" as the anti-farmer
wise guy would instinctively remark
How can the rubes be trusted to spend
so much money wisely?
The producers news., 1919-09-05

Your Business is not worth Advertising it
For Sale-This paper brings results
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
COMMUNITY TREE
 TO BE BIG EVENT
Expect to Have One Thousand Voices Singing In Entertainment In
 Wilson Park

The community Christmas tree, which will be held at Woodrow Wilson park on Christmas Eve at 5 o'clock, promises to be one of the most unique entertain ments of the kind ever staged in Bir- mingham. This will be the initial ap- pearance of the community Christmas tree. and it is being conducted under the auspices of community service with the approval of the city commission, which will donate the tree.
 There will be community singing in which the Music Study club, the Peo- ple's Carol club. the various church choirs and Sunday schools, public schooi children and various other organizations will participate.
 It is expected that there will be more than 100 voices singing the Christmas carols on this occasion and a large num- Der of song sheets have been printed by K. E. Smith of community service, and these may be secured by anyone wishing them.
 A letter has been sent to all pastors in the city asking them to make the an- nouncement in their pulpits tomorrow and to cooperate with this organization in welcoming in the Yuletide by singing Christmas carols around the Christmas tree, which will be beautifully decorated but contain no gifts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
NEW BATTLESHIP WILL
 BEAR NAME "ALABAMA"

Washington, December 19-(Special)
 When two additional battleships are au- thorized. one of the two will bear the name Alabama" This was statement
 today by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of
 the Navy.
 When Representative OTrver of the Sixth
 Alabama district took up with Secretary
 Daniels the matters of having a new
 hattleship named in honor of Alabama to take the place of the old Alabama" now obsolete. the secretary gave him the information that all ships presently au- thorized had been named. MT. Daniels added that including these ships just authorized, the entire number of states were represented save one state. The next battleship authorized will bear the name of this unhonsred state. The second will be named Alabama
 When Mir. Oliver suggested that one of the new cruisers be given the name Ala bama,'' the secretary demurred He ex- plained that it was the policy of the navy to give only battleships the names of states and to reserve for cruisers more esthetic names, such as '1ndependencT Constitution" Defiance" etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

to his letter to Mir. Blackmon. had othei business requiring his attention.
 Alabama was the only state in which General Pershing. in at least one city was not welcomed in the name of tho state.
 Mir Blackmon said the reception to Gen eraf Pershing was a splendid affair, and that the people of Anniston are due great credit for the excellence of their prepara- tion.
 ''rhe general did not state to me his ideas regarding the permanent use to which the government would put Camr Mcclellan" said Mr Blackmon, "but he did state that he was pleased with what he saw. Furthermore, the general told me that his reception in Anniston was the most cordial and spontaneous that he had up to that time received on his itinerary"
 MT. Biackmon commented on the fonS- ness for 'possum and potatoes that Gen eral Pershing displayed in Anniston.
 After having indulged to his heart s content" added Mir. Blackmon, the gen. eral asked me if it would be agreeable were he to wrap up the residue and take it along with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

cially unable to construct their own cars.
 Tn a thousand ways the public may be served by a fund of this kind. It is no answer to say that it should not be provided because some particular road can earn more than per cent on it's value, and that it should be permitted to proceed as heretofore to gain all it pos sibly can irrespective of the interest Of the consuming and shipping public" Senator Underwood in the beginning of his address promised to discuss also the labor sections. But countless interup- tions on the part of inquiring senators made it necessary that he abandon his purpose. He expressed an intention, how ever, of returning on another occasion to the other provisions with which the peo- pie are engrossed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
Underwood Speaks On
 Income or Railroads
Tells Why He Thinks It Proper to Put Limitation Net
 Return Which Shall Accrue to Lines
By HUGH W. ROBERTS.

Washington, December 19.-(speciaD Section of the Cummins railroad bill, pending before the Senate, has, with the single exception of that section which I concerns labor and the right of labor to stroke, precipitated more controversial dis cussion throughout the United States than any other feature of proposed legislation which represents a departure in Ameri- can lawmaking.s
 2 Senator Underwood of Alabama, who
 garmly espoused the Cummins bill as a whole, despite the necessity of making csertain amendments to certain sections, as he sees it has discussed Section be- fore the Senate. His discussion consisted principally of answering the contention that the section imposed heavy burden on the shoulders of the consuming pub iic that 1t limited the power of railroads to make money, and that the creation of a fund for use by the Government in the interest of the public, which fund would accrue from surplus earnings of rail- roads, was contrary to American cus- toms.
 Regarding the necessity of guaranteeing to railroads an earning of $50 per cent, an increase of .28 per cent over the 522 which they earned prior to the war, Sen ator Underwood said;
 Il do not think that any senator, IT, respective of his position on the bill as a whole will stand and declare that we should cut down wages to meet the sit uation. We know the railroads cannot cut down the cost of their supplies, be- cause nobody else has cut down such cost. We know they cannot cut down the price of money, because they have the great government of the United States with its bonds competing with them in the money market. So I think that when sknators advance the argument that this hlll ought not to be passed because it is putting a great burden on the American people, there is no man who can come down to the facts embraced in this bill and sustain any such position.
 If that argument is not sound, and if the basis of rate making is reasonable. and imposes only a reasonable charge on the American public, what is the objec- ton to the bill? It is new. It is some thing novel. We like to walk out before the public, throw out our chests, and say that we are progressive, while our neigh bors are reactionary. That is modern thought and modern style. But, never theless, it may be stated as a fact that no man comes out with new proposition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20
PEPTO-MANGAN MAKES 4WARM'
 FRIENDS
Successful Tonic That Builds Up the Blood and Puts Color
 Into the Cheeks
Cold "Hand-Shakes" Remedied
Public Warned of limitations
 Real Pepto- -Mangan Always ' Bears Name "Gude's''

A cold hand does not mean warm heart, the old saying to the contrary notwith- standing.
 People whose hands always cold have insufficient warmth all over the body, be- cause their blood is thin.
 How can one express any warmth of feel ing when greeting friend by the clasp of cold hand? And how very pleasant is the warm hand-it is so eloquent of good feel ing It certainly does indicate good health.
 To live life to its fullest. need to be first-class human beings. and that means we should be sound in body and mind. The blood is the life fluid and when it is not right we cannot be well and happy, because must devote part of our time to wor- rying about our ills and aches. Every reader of this publication is aware of these facts, but probably not all know that in Pepto- Mangan they get help to better health. It is put up in both liquid and tablet form.
 Buy whichever you prefer of your drug gst. Be sure to ask for "Gude's" Pepto- Mangan. If the name .'Gude's" is not on the package it is not Pepto-Mangan. Get what you ask for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-20

How much better that is than to give him something trashy that will last but a few days or a cou- pie of weeks at the most. Right now we're better prepared than ever to supply every boy in Bir- mingham with such splendid and serviceable gifts as