The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-07-30

serve IuHu WHICH Is Set dSltle Tor tne
guaranty of the existing wage rate.
If for any reason wages Of maritime
workers are forced down ny bad trade
or unemployment the decrease will be
made up from this emergency fund.
Twelve officers and AZ men make
up the cooperative crew Of the
Crema, which brought cherries, lem-
ons, garlic and pumic stones from
Palermo.
THE FAR EAST "TRIP"
Announcement by the war depart
ment of the names Of the members o
the house and senate who sailed from
San Francisco, following the Demo-
cratic national convention, upon the
United States army transport Great
Northern for a voyage de luxe to the
Orient at the expense Of the nation,
is awaited with much interest. The
distinguished passengers are paying
$3.50 apiece for passage, food and 9TH
er shipboar1 expenses. while the &C.
tual cost is said to be somewhere
above $4,000 each. lightweight pas
sengers took advantage of the graft.
Twenty others backed out when the
facts began to gain little publicity
They are going to stop first in
Hawaii and then go on to the Philip
pines, to China, to Japan and to Vlatl-
ivostok, it is reported.
These Oriental tours are always
planned by members of committees
that have to deal with the Philippines
or Hawaii, and they are announced
rs official investigations of condi-
tions." In real life they are elabo-
rate pleasure trips, only occasionally
marred by a serious word from some
protesting element that brushes
aside the social frippery to insist
that the statesment open their eyes
to some especially vicious situation
in our colonial governments. There
are receptions, paradcs, balls, con-
ceits, lawn parties, sightseeing ex-
petitions, but precious little work.
And they get away with it, year
after year, at public expense.
FARMERS LACK CARS
F. W. Cathro, manager and direc-
tor general of the Bank of North
Dakota. who is here on business, re-
ports that the railroad tang!e will
probably cause many farmers in the
Northwest to leave quantities of their
threshed wheat in the open this WIN
ter, because nearby elevators will be
unable to receive it. He finds that
a considerable amount of the 1919
wheat crop has yet to be removed
from elevators in his state, and that
for more cars with which to
handle it have been met with a wholly
insufficient supply Of rolling stock.
'"The crops this year will be big
one" he said. 1.-THE only drawback
now in sight is the grasshoppers, and
it is not yet certain that the damage
they do will he very great, taking an
average of the state. If we could
get transportation, we would have one
Of the best years the Northwest has
ONE MEXICAN'S EXPERIENCE
When old Porfirio Diaz was over
thrown in Mexico, his postmaster
general was kicked out by President
Madero. When Hue,ta murdered; Ma
dero this official was restored to pow
er. Then came the C.lranza regime
and the postmaster general lied I"
where. stripped Of his
great landed wealth, ne borrowed
enough money 10 oDrn 4 boarding
house, which he called the "Chapul-
tepec lnn."
Postmaster General Rurlcson hclpl
ed him to get ,!i> staff in the board
ing house line, because the cd Mex
lean mad actual',' paid NJ to the
mi cd States a l,.lance f :, ni'iien
dollars du. III rrsto:;,e .lcp.r: '"ent
when Huerta was freshly installed in
power. When Hucrt:l heard Ct the
Of so much money to the
Yankees he threw his cabinet officer
into prison and kept him there for
eigh. months.
The ',:her day there Gaze Il tclc-
:; ram from Professional President dc
Ia Huerta. VIII" is supposed to he
offering to restore the oIa