The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-06-20


100000 Worth of Army Meat to
Russian Cooperative Societies.
Senator Gore Would Prevent Pack
Il ers from Selling Paper as Meat
II Senate Votes so to 1 in Favor of
Ireland.
8 Washington, D. Crank Van
derlip's resignation from the presi-
dency of the greatest bank in the
4 greatest banking center in the world
shas set the financial experts to look
Ing more anxiously than ever before
at the European gnancial crisis, ov-
er which Lloyd George and Clemen-
sceau are now desperately quarreling.
Il Vanderlip came home from Europe
with his warning that the whole up
per layer of European civilization
NAV collapse and fall in, due to the
bankruptcy of France and Italy, and
1.-THE serious condition of British fin.
ances. He told the bankers in New
York that the credit of America
must Immediately be given the bust
ness men abroad, rather than the
governments, if Europe was to be
saved from a "confagration." The
outcome of his warnings and plead
a ngs was that he was forced out of
the presidency of the National City
bank.
Since his dismissal from his high
q post in Wall street, Vanderlip has
delivered several speeches, and in
each he has followed up and empha-
sized his first message. He says that
government loans to European gov
Aernments will not save Europe from
collapse, but that if American credit,
machinery, materials and fuel are
] quickly supplied to European manu-
facturers and builders, there is still
chance that what happened to i'm
perial Germany as the result of the
war will not happen to monarchist
Italy and business-ruled France as
the result of bankruptcy and indus
5trial paralysis and hunger.
JOHNSON BOOM MATCHED
Hiram Johnson's friends announce
a conference of state leaders at San
Francisco to organize the fight for
his nomination for the presidency
next year by the Republican national
convention.
This move has been made after a
careful survey of the field of non-re-
dictionary candidates. 1t is generally
felt that while the liberal element
would have more implicit faith in
Senator La Toilette than in any 9TH
er American as the candidate of a
party sincerely DESTROYS of enlight-
ened and constructive work in the
national administration, the Wiscon-
sin progressive could not be nominal
ed. The kept press has poisoned the
public mind against him, and it will
several years for the effects of the
poison to disappear.
Kenyon is proposing series of
] labor measures, which are of a liber-
al sort, but he is not enough of a rec
ognized leader. Cumm1ns is out of
. the race. Norris is in the same class
with Kenyon-he is content merely
to disagree with the standpatters on
few measures; he will never declare
open war upon them and their orga-
] mzatiOn.
SOLDIER STRAW VOTE
Recently a transport arrived from
France, bearing the 313th regiment,
which was recruited from four east
em states. A poll Of the presiden-
tial choices of the men and officers
was taken during the homeward voy-
age, and among the Republican can
didates Hiram Johnson stood out
/ with 500, as comparde with 155 for
Lodge, 242 for General Leonard
Wood, and 70 for General Pershing.
Democratic votes were divided-Wil-
son 500, Clark 297, McAdoo 1874, Bak-
er so. Among the other candidates
were Debs ITO, representing the So
cialists; Gompers 68, representing a
labor insurgency, and Bryan As, rep
reSenting the Prohibitionist element.
Senator Johnson was greatly pleas
ed with this showing Of his Republi-
can strength among returning sol
diers from the eastern states and
with his having beaten President
Wilson by 70 votes. The call for his
"hat-throwing party followed imme-
dIately.
MEAT SOLD TO RUSSIANS
Secretary of War Baker has auth
orzed the sale of $25,000,00O WORTH
Of the meat supply not needed by the
army to the Russian Cooperative
Societies purchasing committee. Ar
E~gument now wakes warm in official
Washington as to whether this deal
means that Baker is the first official
to try to get American food into sow
ct Russia, or whether he is trying to
furnish big supply of provisions to
. the reacti0nary armies that are hight
ing to crush out the soviet republic.
Baker himself declared before a
house committee that the purchasers
are doing business both in anti-soviet
territory and in soviet territory, ana
that probably some of the meat would
get into soviet Russia through the
cooperative Societies, whose mem
/ bership before the war was nearly
3O,OOO,000. There are other officials,
however, who point out that Hoover
has had five shiploads of food wait
ing in the Baltic for the capture OF
Petrograd by the reactionaries, and
that even though Petrograd's people
Starve the allied policy requires that
the food blockade against soviet Rus
STA shall remain absolute to the end.