The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-06-27

sickness and accident insurance; vo-
cational training for mutilated SOL
dlers; q land settlement project to
relieve congestion in the towns. and
q permanent industrial relations com
mission to collect and coordinate ali
Data on wages and conditions of en-
ployment.
AN ACRE WORTH 81. GOO 600
Is 100000 an acre a fair price
Tor land? Vincent Astor thinks II
IS not too much-When he is selling
It. The Farmers National Single
lax league furnishes the following.
details: When Colonel John Jacob AS
tor lost his life in the Titanic disas-
Yer ne lett to his son Vincent, by his
1llst Vile, along with other great
wealth, q piece Of New York real es-
tate, zoo feet on Broadway by 20I
1eet en- torty-third and Forty-fourth
streets, improved with BUILDINGS and
bringing an annual income Of $500
o00. This property had been in the
Astor family for three generations
and was probably a part of the old
sLong Acre farm. During all the
years since the original Astors inrni-
grated to America and managed to
secure lare part OF Manhattan
island, tais property has been grow
ing IN value with the growth and de-
yelopment Of the city. When the
bare ground sold the other day for
ABOUT $3.500,000 the people Of New
ork made Young Vincent Astor >
present of that pIincely sum.
REP UDLICAlJS FACE DEFICIT
The aviation section of the war de-
partment asked the present congress
Tor $4,000, goo TO spend during the
coming. year. The committee in con
gTess had decided to let it have $15,-
100000. BY careful study OF that
b1ef news item any one may obtain
the key to much that will figure in
the foreign and omestic policies OF
the United States during the next II
months. From all sources OF revenue
now in operation and reasonable pros
pect, the government viii collect S.
000,O00,000 this next year. Senator
Smoot and others figure that Uncle
Sam will have to spend no less than
$4,000, 100000 during the same pc
Rod.
The missing 100000, goo is Civ
ing politicians a headache already. II
is perhaps cource of secret salts
faction to the Democrats that thev
are noslonger directly responsible for
raising revenues. The Grand Old
party has come to bat just in time to
enjoy the postwar burden
The greatest consolation may be to
compare our lot with that of others.
When France adds all the German in
demnity in sight to her present
strained income she will still have to
add 1,200,000,000 francs of fresh tax
alton to pull through the fiscal year.
All that, provided the franc continues
to be worth 10 cents. 1t is actually
worth less than 10 cents abroad. and
that is why the French government
will not allow the French manufac-
turer to go abroad for materials to
resume industrial operations. Italy
is in the same plight. And unless in
dustry is resumed in both countries
very soon a sure collapse is in sight.
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE
Through the war risk insurance
bureau the government has written
about $40,000,000, in life insur-
ance for soldiers and sailors. That
is more than all the private insurance
companies combined have written.
That is why the private companies
are desperately anxious to have the
government turn the business over
to them, free, gratis and for nothing.
That desire may not be gratified,
however. The war risk bureau has
prepared a new policy to be substi-
tuted for the wartime contract, one
that is said to contain all the adj
vantages possessed by any private
company contract and others besides.
The department of justice is now ex-
aiming the new. contract, and if it
be approved congress will be asked
to provide for permanent business of
government insurance.
THE BERGER CONTROVERSY
Victor Berger, Socialist congress
man-eleet, continues his fight for a
seat in the house. The special COM
mittee of nine began early in June to
hear arguments from his counsel and
the attorney for the Democratic can
didate, Carney, who ran second to
Berger in the fifth Wisconsin dis
trict. Berger contends that he has
violated no law and. has not been
finally convicted of any violations.
Carney claims the seat on the ground
that Berger's alleged disloyalty made
/ him ineligible from the start. Ev-
erybody expects Berger to be kept
out and nobody expects Carney to
get in. The house is against both of
them, though for different reasons.
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