The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-08-27

Washington, D. C.-Doctor Ladd's
report to the people of the Northwes,
that the arm Bureau federation is
going to tackle the job of Kidding til
country of the useless middleman
either through co-operatives on ire
mendous scale or by the North Dako-
ia method Of state ownership of mar
keting facilities, has created a near
panic in lobbying circles in the ma
tional capital.
Here the Farm Bureau federation
has been supposed to be wholly or
namental and standpat body, created
in many places by the active aid of
chambers of commerce for the pur-
pose Of preventing the farmers from
falling under radical influence
The idea that body SO big and pros
porous and SO capable of getting what
it goes after, should ever 60 after
anything that the profiteers have nail
ed down, had never before occurred
to the minds of the dinner-dance
statesmen who draw thousands a
month from the food gamblers to
keep them "in touch" at Washington.
They are going to look into this
federation is shown to be getting ac-
league they are going to turn the
case over to the Public Ledger, the
Chicago Tribune and Bill Taft.
A NEW CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Congressman Doremus of Detroit,
who led the forlorn hope of the house
Democrats who opposed the repeal
Of the Panama canal tolls act some
years ago, is announced as manager
of the Cox campaign in the West,
with headquarters at Chicago. Dore-
mus is a typical big-city Democratic
politician, reactionary to the last de-
gree, and past master of the tricks
of the vote-catching trade. He has
remained Il defiant wet, a persistent
worker for high tariffs on automo-
biles, and /: value uadviser of every
big corporate interest in his BALI
wick.
At the time Of his battle with
President Wilson over the canal tolls
issue, DoremuS was chairman of the
Democratic congressional campaign
committe. He gave up that job at
the end Of the year and permitted
the party to notice his absence.
Later, the White House made truce
with him. and now that Cox has come
ganization the Detroit sachem is call
ed upon to show how II practical cor
poration lawyer can run Il practical
business mems campaign.
HOUSING PROBLEMS
Housing experts see little hope Of
relief for the homeless people Of New
York state in the suggestions for
emergency housing laws which the
leaders at Albany have Civ In out
since Governor Smith summoned the
Legislature in special session to deal
with the housing shortage.
State Senator Lockwood, in charge
OF the program, says that the first
measures will be on exempting from
state income taxation all mortgages
on buildings erected Tor dwellings,.
Next will be law granting prefer
entail treatment of building permits
for dwellings,, which is intended to
make labor and material more avail
able. There is measure which
would lower the taxes on dwelling
houses and apartments.
In the tenement and cheap resi-
dence districts, however, there is be-
ing agitated demand that the leg
islature shall follow at least one step
in the path opened by North Dakota.
That is, they want state constitu-
ed which will permit the state to sell
bonds to raise funds to be loaned to
persons wishing to build homes.
Another scheme talked Of is the
establishing Of Il series of state
building and loan banks, on the plan
of the farm loan banks.
HUNGARIAN GOES HOME
Charles Huszar, former premier of
Hungary and emissary of the Horthy
terrorist regime to the United States.
has taken tip from some scores of
massmeetings held by Hungarians
and Jews throughout the country and
has departed for Europe without hav-
ing faced even one OF the 600 public
meetings he had scheduled. His
campaign to "arouse America" in sup
port of the white terror government
at Budapest has collapsed.
There are long-headed European
diplomats here who say that the
state department was given some
startling evidence as to Huszar and
advice that his presence here would
merely tend to destroy American
prestige on the continent. Countries
that shelter men held responsible for
wholesale massacres of educated peo-
pei, workingmen and Jews are no
longer considered enlightened by
Europeans in the mass.
The state department. most relic
tantiy-for it loves its decomposcd
royalists Of every sort--hlnued Illus
gar his hat
CROPS WITHOUT CARS
Big crops in the eWst will save the
nation from any serious monetary
trouble this year, say the Optimists
who deal out the figures
But the interstate commerce COM
mission is still worried on the car
shortage, and the failure Of the rail-
road employees wiz. have been on