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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13
What Do You KnoW?


1. What is radum?
2. Who was Eugene Scribe?
3. How long have the Bolshevists been in
power in Russia?
4. Mexico has had two emperors? Who
were they?
D. Artificial legs have seldom or never been
made of cork? Why were they SO
called?
g. Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Z. What was the Mnotaur?
8. What is "a laverick in the lift?
o. What language is spoken in the island
of Guadaloupe, in the West Indies?
10. Who was the great general Of King
David?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13
COMMENTARY

~ should i com come '%H unto t'0ime9 mes' 'i my isfd
TN THE mill country
Where the streets clomb
BY kirk and market
There was my home.
There from wise teachers
Patience | learned,
Waiting till truth be
Rightly discerned.
Still to that teaching
Weary I clave.-
Shall not Messias
Nightly save?
Then at that moment,
Loves maid was shown
In the hill-country
In small town.
And to the gathered
House of my kin
Came she. exalted,
Suddenly in.
Then said I: "Whence now
Should this thing be
That my Lords mother
Cometh to me?''
While in her glory,
Near as she trod,
Sang she: My soul hath
Magnified God"
Charles Williams, in the New Witness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

The student who carried $4,000 worth
of radium around in his vest pocket without
knowing either its nature or its worth NAV
congratulate himself that he did not lean IN
against a soda water counter and break fbe
tube.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13
TT CHEERS us to see Mr.. Roosevelt

HEERS US to see Mr.. Roosevelt
= move to place in the growing COM
pany Of big and little statesmen who ap-
pear to have made themselves familiar
with suggestion repeated at frequent
intervals on this page within the last
few weeks, while almost everybody was
too busy damning one side or other in
the strike controversy to recognize the
fact that patience, justice and an hon
orable regard for the rights of both par
ties in industry require far more than a
surface study Of labor unrest and its
causes. Mr.. Roosevelt echoes the belief
expressed in these columns when the
steel strike was called.
The logic of the argument is clear.
Labor organizations on the one hand and
the men who direct great industries like
the mines and rail systems on the other
have achieved sort of power and in
fluence that the general public cannot
regard without some misgivines, es-
pecially when it is apparent that differ
ences like those existing in the coal fields
are to be left to settlement by devastat-
ing trials of strength and methods of
attrition applied to the country at large.
Strikes and lockouts do not assure
justice to anybody. They give victory
and advantage only to the strongest.
The wrongs and grievances that NAV
animate one side or the other are never
intelligently scrutinized. 1t is no won
der that we have begun to talk of indus
trial barbarism.
Congress, for the benefit of the country
and Its safety, will have to set up a new
code of industrial relationships and define
new moral and legal principles which
labor or capital may not violate in the
future without inviting public condem
nation and disgrace.
Then we shall be rid of strikes. The
accident of poverty will not serve to
weaken the case of men who strive for
living wages and the right to care de-
Gently for their children. Nor will
fanatical agitators again find it possible
to threaten the industrial life of the
country with disorganization and paral-
ysis.
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No matter how unwilingly they acted.
the leaders of the miners have done the patri- J.
otic thing and deserve credit 1t is so much
easier to do the hamboyant than the wise
thing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Woo bury. y. J,
mere AIN breaks into the news
No Such Place because it's servant
girls, who are receiv-
ing double the wages they received n wear
ago. are demanding more. But the town
that will merit first page display is the town
that has no servant girl problem.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

A dispatch from Constantinople by way
of Berlin tells of plot to depose the sultan
of Turkey. There are one or two other pos
sible world events that we might view with
less calm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Delegates to the in
NO COMPROMISE ternationa labor con
WIN EVIL ference are undecided
whether to favor the
acceptance of the peace offer of the Russian
soviet government. Americans who have
had experience with the mind workings of
soviet believers in this country will suffer
no udecision
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13
Sir William Osler is Il, at his hopD0

Sir William Osler is III at his home in
Oxford, England which suggests to every
paragrapher in the world that if he had only
said what he was credited with saying some
few years ago about the duty of every man
to shuttle off when he reached forty-or was
it thirty ?-why-why bless us, what an
excellent paragraph it would make
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13
Fjxinu the Furnace

Silas Pegg ordered his winters coal in
April. His name was inscribed on page Is
of the coal company's order book. On Sep
tember 8 he learned that the company had
delivered all orders up to page G. There was
possibility then that he would receive his
coal late next spring. But it CHANGED that he
knew a chap who had cousin who was a
friend of a man who had intimate business
relations with the proprietor of a delicatessen
store whose wife was the sister of the junior
partner in coal firm, and he learned that
by paying cash he could get eight tons of
nut coal within ten days; and he really got
it. So when the days grew cold he went into
the cellar and interviewed the furnace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

The one redeeming feature of bad ac-
cident is that 1t usually brings to the front
some hero; and the accident to the Reading
Railway ferryboat was no exception.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Herbert Hoover's words are as direct
as his deeds. The Poles of Buffalo now
know exactly where he stands
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Lloyd George is said
Ahhunho 10 TO have made a pledge
Lose HIS 'oD to Francesca Nitti
h a I h Adriatic
question will be settled in a way consistent
with the honor of Italy and the interests Of
all the Allies, John Q, Compromise is about
to get in his lcks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13
A YOUNG IDEA SHOOTS

new relationship must be realized
between the employer and the cmploye
in public service corporations.
such workers owe duty to the people.
But it is equally plain that tho people
owe special duty to them. Before we
become many years older the Govern
mont Of the United States will create
courts with authority to en-
force their decrccs courts Of equity and
Justice to settle these controversies .-
Franklin ID. Roosevelt assistant sccrc-
tnry of the navy. in an address to the
knights of Columbus in this CITY.
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Hot heads and sore heads may balk at
resuming work in the mines, but cool heads
and clear heads will lead the way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

They walked right out and turne,
around and walked right in again"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

smart slap on the wrist by the Fed
eral Reserve Board is sufficient to keep Wal
street from Mysteries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Life is just one menacing thing after
another 1t was the Hun in 1918: il is
the Red in 1919.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

And we venture the belief that Uncle
Sam will see ia it that the miners get a
square deal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

BRUSSELS stores are selling women g
clothes imported from London via airplane.
Prices are probably way up to match the
transportation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is crclu-
sirelV entit;cov to the use for republication
Of all nCirS dispatches credited to ii or not
othericiSe credited In this paper, and also
the local nclrS published therein.
AH riohtS Of republication of special dts
patches herein arc GlSo reserved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

The question suggests itself that il
China is willing to leave the Shantung mat
ter to the league of nations, why shouldn't
we?
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The political dopesters are busy in
Charleston, 8. c.
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1t was very nice furnace big and
healthy looking. Mr.. Pegg was proud of it.
In previous winters he had fed it well and
it had always given him a warm welcome
when he paid it visit. He used to declare
that it had no bad habits. that it neither
drank nor smoked. Occasionally he would
deal it hand at poker, and the success
with which it would draw fairly delighted
Mr.. Pegg spite of the fact that he, and he
alone, paid for all the chips. 1t is true that
some mornings after hot time it had a
horrid appearance and the glOries of the
night before were as ashes in it's mouth
And clinkers. Mr.. Pegg knew about the
clinkers He was dentist to the furnace, and
when he surveyed its fine, open countenance
he extracted most everything from it except
satisfaction When the bars were down his
vocabulary grew hot. When his vocabulary
grew hot the bars were down For non
drinker they had fine collection of bars in
that cellar.
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Time Will
Bring Sanity

Only on the 'hypoth
iime VIII esls that war h rs
Bring Sanity made them mad cor
one understand why
Frenchmen should cry Long live Leniue !"
and Long live the boches :" as tbey are
reported to have done at Dorian. a small
industrial town in France.
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Evil in the
Original Package

The fight of the di-
b'H IN the rector of the Penn
origlhai Package sylvania Bureau of
Foods against the
calder bill, now pending in the United
States Senate. deserves the serious attep
tion of the public and the public's earnest
backing. Not all the states have been SO
careful as the Keystone State in securing
for the people good food for good money
The Calder bill. which makes interstate com.
merce party to adulteration. will. il
passed, nullify all the good the state has
done in this direction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Back to the mines !"
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But thai was last winter and the winter
before.
This winter things were different Some
time in the summer the furnace had con.
tracted chill from which had not recoy-
cred; from which II refused to recover IT
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-13

Government in the immediate future
is apparently to confne itself to govern
ing--that is, it is going to preserve
order and protect the worker and the
employer from unjust and indefensible
interference and it is going to insure to
every one the enjoyment of the right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
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Member of the Associated Press

~ Address oil Communications to ErcnirO PrJH
Lcdocr. LmdcncMdrmcc SaMarc. RLl!ndcLnh-n.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16
ThezzRailroads

If the railroads are something of
a burden to Uncle Sam under the
present one-sided arrangements, they
are an impossible burden to the pri-
vate interests VINO would take them
back. Tie plain truth is TINT the for
nler owGcts can not take them back
without generous help from Inc e
Sam They were MIXED dry by the
fnarr .ers before the government
took them over, and the high re-
Turns guaranteed have been paid out
in dividends. Roadbeds and rolling
stock were not renewed as they
should have been to meet the coun-
try's needs, and all this neglected de-
probation must now be met.
The fnanciers are talking about a
"frst loan of S700,000,000 and high
en- rates. Beyond the first loan they
see a second, third, etc. But if the
government is to supply the new
capital and assume the risks, what
is the sense Of parting with the
management. No business man
would think Of doing such thing;
yet business men as a whole are
somewhat favorable to having their
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

government do this thing which has
no other motive than financiering of
the Wall street pirate type.
The government, beset, as it is with
hostile, influences, has none the less
been able to make great savings in
railroad operation Consolidation OF
lines made possible the meeting OF
our hitherto impossible freight prob
lem during the war. The dropping
of expensive arrangements and o.
railroad insurance were other steps
in the right direction. Congress fool
ishly or perhaps with malice afore-
thought, put heavy taxes on freight
and passenger rates, but even with
these vicious taxes freight and pas
senger charges have kept far behind
the ad"an~e Of other prices.
TO be sure, savings have been more
than G'sspitated by the fat. allow
auccs made t. the owners by con-
gress, by equipment company prof
teering, etc. The solut.or however
is obviously not a return to private
management which admits it car
not swing the job alone, but elimin-
alton of the present enemies of eff
flclent government operation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16
An Attack on the Land Problem

California is another of those
states who desire for growth and
prosperity meets the solid wall of
LAND speculation. It's cities have
grown rapidly because of climate
and somewhat because of intelligent
planning, but it's back country is un-
developed. The farming that should
feed the cities and increase their
volume of business Is held back
sometimes because the would-be
farmers do not bite on the idle land
owners propositions and at other
times because those who have bitten
at double or triple what the earning
power Of the land warrants fail to
hold on.
Its. state immigration and housing
commission is now trying to wrestle
with the veil and it is proceeding
with more than the customary intel
Hence. 1t admits that the widely ad-
vertised colonization scheme is fail
ure SO far as real solution is con-
cerned. After three years of efforts
So farmers and 81 laborers have been
established by the colonization work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

credit is that it is public function,
and YET PRACTICALLY ENTIRE.
LY IN PRIVATE HANDS, and
therefore is not open to all on demo.
cratic TERMS
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT
THAN THE. INTEREST RATE is
THE FACT CHAT MANY WHO
ARE ENTITLED TO BUSINESS
CREDIT CAN NOT GET 1T Al
CERTAIN uMES-
North Dakota has probably led the
way to remove this great evil by its
central state-owned bank, and a
gUernment-ovned system for tie
nation making the central reserve
banks actually state-owned and man
aged, with pawers such as the gov
eminent finance corporation has, had
during the war, would cover natinnal
credit needs
FURTHER THAN THIS, WE
NEED TO PATCH UP THE GOLD
STANDARD AS A MEASURE OF
VALUE OR FIND A SUBSTITUTE,
so THAT PRICES MAY NOT
FLUCTUAfE. IN RESPONSE TO
SUCH AN ILLOGICAL THIMh AS
THE GOLD SUPPLY e
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

Land is bought at the speaulators'
price, and the spectators In general
were favorable because they thought
any colony would raise the value of
the surrounding idle land
In a recent report the commission
points out that in Los Angeles coun-
ty alone, within a few miles of the
city Of that name, are CSC, 3S1 I'M
plowed acres suited for dry farming
and 358,719 acres for which water
might be obtained. Many Of the big
estates come down from old Mexi-
can grants or railrosd grants. Near
ly 5000, 000 acres in eight counties
are owned by only 2T9 individuals
and corporations e.. :
AS a solution the commission rec.
ommends a raduated tax upon LAND
values, with exemption up TO q Ger
tain value, and taxes ON a rapid,
increasing scale for the larger es
tates. Also il would have lane
survey in which the county assess
ors would gather statistics on siz.
of land holdings, number of land
holders, etc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16
ALIAS SUMMONS;

I'm the District Court of the, TWEEN
tIeth judicial District of the State
of Montana, in and for the County
fof Sheridan.
lack A. Kjelstrup, Plaintiff, VS..
Charles w. Turner, and Hazel
Turner, and f. A. Wainrich,, De-
/ PENDANTS.
The State of Montana Sends
greetings to the above namedl de-
PENDANTS, and to- each of them.
You are hereby summoned to
answer the complaint i'm this; action
which is filed i'm the office of sthe
Clerk of this Court, a. copy OF whies
is herewith served upon one of you
in each County. wherein any, of you
reside, and to file yolEr answer and
serve copy thereof upon the plain
tiff's attorney Within twenty days af-
ter service of this Summons exclusive
Of the day If serviee;: and in case
of Your failure to appear or answer,
judgment viii be taSen against you.
by default, for the relief demanded
ia the complaint. This action is to
foreclose a real estate mortgage
made by the defendants, Charles w
Turner and Hazel Tuner to Jacob
Woellstein, on January 20, 1919, and
by the said Woel1stein assigned to
plaintiff. in the sum of $4,000, dus
December 81, 1917 no part of which
has been paid; for a judgment
against the defendant, Charles W.
Turner for the total amount due, in.
GLIDING all costs, taxes, ETC., anc
against the other defendants that
they be required to set forth the
amount of their interest in said rea
estate, and that they be compelled
to have their claims in and to sale
real estate adjudicated and deter
mined; for a decree of this cour
adjudging that said real estate bt
sold and the proceeds applied on til,
amount due to plaintiff, and for ;
deficiency Judgment if any exist. ami
for execution thereon, all as mor'
fully appears from plaintiffs veri
fed complaint on file herein, t,
which reference is hereby made fc
further particulars.
Witness my hand and the seal o
said Court this 18th day of May A
d. 1919.
4 )SEAL( o. r. GIRARD, Clerk
By P. F. TANG, Deputy Clerk
HOWARD M. LEWIS,
| Plentywood, Montana,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
i First publication, May Is, 1919.
I Last Publication, June 6, 1919.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

editorials of a city daily, could get
the same information with ease and
profit from paper in his native
tongue. By all means give the child
rem an opportunity to make English
their native language, but let US not
in doing this deprive the parents,
whose minds and tongues were al
ready formed before they came here,
of such information and culture as
they can secure in any medium what
ever.
The 1000 Red River valley farm
ers who own the Grand Forks
american are going to publish a
Norwegian weekly to serve those
of that nationality in the Northwes:
and indirectly serve all of us because
i will be progressive paper along
Nonpartisan league lines. The full
news service of the Grand Forks
american will be available for it. I,
will put the gospel of progress in
the medium which those Of Norwe.
gian birth can most readily under
stand.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16
TENfERUY CAREn FOR

i Nothing could be, more touchy than
the tenderness with. Which the mod
;ern accountant canss for the sacred
little dollars invested by the owners
of economic opportunity The dollar
once invested is preserved, defended,
and safeguarded by every eonceiv-
able devie. Risk is reduced. Ia
come is assured. The, dDllar is i'm
mortalized and the interest upon it
is perpetustedL.
The Conn Products; Co has just
issued its annual repant for 1918.
This report shows operating profits
of "a millions anH other income of
more than half a, million, making a
total income of SIS, $685.. 953. This
money represents the prices paid by
consumers for the aorn products out
put, minus the cost of labor and raw
materials and repairs. In the ordin-
airy sense OF the word it is s"profts."
From it THE BeeKkeepers deducted
interest, saxes, and insurance amount
ing to $500 600. Then there was
taken away a depreciation fund of
1854, $3.50 Capital is immortal but
the macldises wear cut. In order to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

other organizations whose secrets
are almost never revealed to the 90
per cent. The masters also have
their agents I'M every branch of the
working class movement, sending
daily and weekly reports of what the
workers are DANG. The masters
know their own business and. they
also .,now the workers business.
An Illustration. has just come. 10
hand in the form of a letter. on. "The
Movement to Organize the, Furniture
Workers" This. letter, prepared. and
sent out by ''The International Aux
iliary Co., with offices in New York..
Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Pitts
burg, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Buffalo
and Detroit gives in. detail the acti-
yities of the Workers international
Industrial Union and the. effolts
made by the American Federation. of
Labor and by various A. Il. of L.
locals. The report gives details as
to names of organizers, thec method
by which they work, the number of
workers in eacn of the. local unions,
the amount of money in the treas
o1ASSS CSSs ~ SIoO CIlpllcAS1AEo OH
unmistakable drift towards RADICAL
ISM" The letter. ends with this
sentence, "The Employer who is in
closest touch with its progress ann
thus in the best position to antici-
pate the next move will serve. his
own interests"
The masters are eternally ON. the
job. They kn0w what they ana
about and they know what the work
ers are about. Their. spy system is
more, complete and more far-reaeh-
ing its organization than that, of the
late Russian Gear. To this indns,-
trial espoinage,, the woriaers have
only one answer solidarity and or
ganization." However crafty, naw-
ever we'll organized they may be, the
masters are only 10 per cent, the
workers make UP the, other. 90 per
cent, and when they get, ready to
act, the 10 per cent will. have. only
one choice--to- accept.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

charge is deducted from income. A
replace ithem when their period of
usefulness is gone this depreciation
TEN
charge Of half million dollars was
ma :e for Special arc extraordinary
lbsSex- War taxes were - mil
lions. After ali of these deductions
the net income was $8B52,4OO. From
this two millions wers- deducted for
dividends, leaving a surplus of 61s
Imillions. The surplus from previous
!. years was $I3,341 ,342.. This added
I to the, surplus ,eof the current year
makes a total surplus of s24,s05, 1863.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-16

The worker with AM incero.
$1,000 or $500 a year would !" y
to reflect upon these facts, ANA WI
ask himself what would hannsuu y
he were to demand the same er ~,
ton for his life and the we'll I've y
of his family that the modern 'saas
poration accountant demands f., U ?
collars committed to his care u NJ, q
out going into detail, it NAV "iq !
said that the city worker who : D
ing to support a family of a. WIFI Y. y
tbEee childrep would be- compeIIe5f ~ y
ask his employer for d wage of@ss
less than. $1,000 per year. ae