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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
DROUTH AID INDORSED

The demand Of Congressman Baer
and Sinclair to have congress appro-
pirate funds to aid drouth-stricken
farmers has been Endorsed by the
northern division of the American Red
Cross.
| Sinclair's bill providing drouth re-
lief was pushed aside for political
reasons. The committee which hand
led the bill cut short the hearing on
relief for the starving at home to
listen to appeals for aid in Armenia,
Austria and Poland. The Riddick
bill, which practically confines drouth
aid to Montana, has received some
attention.
The Red Cross opinion that some
thing important must be done has
been gathered from study Of the
drouth areas in North and South d.
kota. It's Investigations find many
farm families, as well as the stock,
in a starving condition. They lack
horses, feed and seed to undertake a
new crop and in the meantime the
| family has no income to live on. In
North Dakota, where the League leg
! islature empowered counties to make
feed and seed loans, several counties
have reached the constitutional linn
it.
In otherwise good farming sections
little timely aid would enable these
unfortunate farmers to continue in
the work for which they are best fit
| ted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
LABOR LEADS FIELD
MST.PAUL PRIMARY
BIG VICTORY SHOWS STRONG
SENTIMENT AGAINST COR.
RUPT POLITICS,

St. Paul, Minn.-Canl;,iatc of the
Working Peoples NonpArtis;m Poll
teal league won a signal victory in
the city primaries I,ec, on March 16.
William Mahoney, l:,hor's nominee
for mayor, received 10,903 votes in
a three-cornered light, 1908 more
than his nearest opponent.
All four of the laonr nominees for
the city council led the race. Two
ex-service men were next in line and
the present councilmen barely Sue
ceeded in getting nominated at all.
Their totals ranged about 1000 Under
those for the labor candidates.
Twelve councilmen We're nominated,
from which list six will I've chosen by
the people at the election on Nav 4.
LIKELY TO WIN
Mahoney is conceded to have
splendid chance for election ut that
time, because the chief issue raised
is one for and against the bipartisan
political machine which has controlled
the city, and Gilbert Guttersen, the
eliminated candidate, opposed the ma
chine rule as we'll as Nlahoney.
Mahoney, therefore, will draw
many votes of people outside of the
labor ranks who are anxious to see
their city freed from corrupt ma
chine rule.
L. c. Hodgson, the present mayor,
who ran behind Ma!,nney with S,9S5
votes, was originally elected with the
support of the independent labor vote
in 1913. He has built ~ consider
able popularity, but his genera: re-
cord was such that the Working
Peoric's Nonpart;san Political league!
lii not choose him for the present
contest.
Hodgson decided to stay in the race
however, and thus definitely breaks
all connection with the labor move.
ment. He is now supported by the
eleemnts which opposed his first cleo
ticn.
The contest attracted unusual at.
tention because it gave the first clue
as TO sentiment in the state hearing
en- the struggle between tie farmer.
labor alliance and The special inter
ests in Minnesota
The Working Fcoole', Nonpa,t:sar
Political league IS expected to jrir
With the farmers Noupart'san league
in nominating state ticket, and the
splendid showing just made Indicate:
final success 20: their joint effolts.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
TO TEACH OR
NOT TO TEACH

This is the question that is now
confronting thousands of teachers and
one that has been decided negatively
by many. So many, in fact, that it
is really difficult for a principal or
superintendent to secure teacher,
even poorly qualified, at superior
salary.
The time to consider this matter
fairly and squarely is now; not next
fall when all good teachers have made
contracts and only few left-overs
are available. A poor teacher is a
poor investment at any price, and
superintendent and school boards are
now learning this lesson as never be-
fore.
The reason for the shortage of
teachers is obvious. If we consider
the following points we must agree
that the teacher who has turned to
other vocations has simply shown
good bushes Judgment. First, the
teachers work with pupils and par
ents is often discouraging and unsat-
isfactory in immediate results. in the
second place, school work is often un-
der superintendent who is unappre-
ciative, and for an indifferent School
Board. In the next place teachers
services are in demand for only three
fourths Of the year, which means a
three months period without salary.
Last and most important OF all, the
salary attached to such work is not
thrift wage, and in many cases not
even living wage.
Certainly conditions must be chang
ed and the man of business, father,
mother, as we'll as the members of
the Sschool Board, must make an
active effort Let every reader do
something toward making teachers
work more attractive and his salary
more inviting. Only by such concert
ed action can we hope to secure COM
petent, capable teachers for our Mon
tana boys and girls. A duty in this
direction rests on each and every citi-
zen of Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
DU POINTS FEAR DEPORTATIONS

All members of congress have re-
ceived from the palatial Offices of A.
Coleman du Pont, in the Woolworth
building, New York City, three page
circular letter on the immigrant labor
situation. It is addressed by the In
ter-Racial council, holding what was
formerly the Hammerling syndicate
of editorial pages of the reactionary
foreign-language press, to its men,
bers. These members, listed on the
back, include some hundreds of big
manufacturing and exporting con-
Germs who are interested in control
ling both legislation and labor sup
ply.
This circular quotes the statement
of Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton Caminetti that there will be no
more "Soviet arks," and adds this re-
mark: Nothing that has been done
since 1912 has stirred more misun-
derstanding among the millions of
unskilled laborers of foreign birth in
this country than the sensational raid
ing of aliens for deportation. y
To many foreign born the action ap-
peared another form of alien batting,
ignoring the fact that in most in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
PACKER COMPETITION"

At a recent hearing before the
house committee on agriculture on the
Kenyon-Anderson bill to regulate the
meat packing industry, William Col
yer of the federal trade commission
brought out some figures not hither.
to made public. These figures, show
ing almost no variation in the rela-
tive total amount of business done
by each of the Big Five packers be-
tween 1902 and 1916, were as fol-
1oxvc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

A committee appointed by the Brit
is parliament is engaged in survey
ing the amount of money made by
individuals during the war period.
The object is the entirely reasonable
one of asking all those who piled up
wealth, while others were giving
their lives or treasure, to help wipe
out the national war debt.
Governments all over the world ap-
pear to have made a pretty sorry
mess of the problem presented by the
war profiteer. From their recent his
tory one might conclude that it is
impossible for respectable govern
ments to put any damper on the evil,
but England, along with some others,
also Possesses an impossible war debt.
And having to choose between the
two impossible England is planning
to tackle the first.
This may occasion surprise, fear
and horror in our conservative cir
cles, but no sound argument can be
advanced against it. We suspect that
before long a number of other gov
ernments will most reluctantly get
around to it. The Nonpartisan league,
which has consistently advocated this
policy since 1917, may we'll claim
credit for having formulated a neces-
sary world policy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
MILLIGAN-HANkEY

NJ: B. (Ber) Milligan, chief deputy
in Clerk and Recorder Dryers office
at Mondak, and Miss Grace Hankey
of Fairview, were married at Glas-
gov last Sunday, according to reports
that reached this city the forepart Of
last week. The happy couple returned
to Mondak M onday and are receiving
the congratulations of their many
friends.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
Men Wanted to Sell Groceries
Selling Experience Not Necessary

One of Worlds ladgest grocers,
(capital over 81 600, OOO.OO) wants am
bilious men in your locality to sell
direct to consumer nationally known
brands of an extensive line of grocer
les, paints, roofngs, lubricating oils,
stock foods, etc. No capital required.
Write today. State age and occu-
patton. John Sexton & Co., 1852 w.
Illinois St., Chicago, Ill.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
NEW RAILROAD PRINCIPLES

~A~0
Basil NJ. Manly, former joint chair
man of the national war labor board,
has become a contributing editor to
the Searchlight, which has begun
merciless expose of the campaign
year activities of congress.
In an article on Labor and the
Esch- Cummins Bill" Manly sums up
his comment thus: "Sufice it to say
that this railroad bill, which / pre-
dict will become the most burning is
sue of this generation, combines the
cleverness of the devil with the ruth
lessness of the Hun. It's financial fea-
lures overturn all previous rules with
regard to the rights of vested inter-
ests and give the railroads security
owners a perpetual lien on the poe
textbooks of the American people and
the wages of their employees. The
universally evil effects of this legisla-
ton will WELD the 100,000,000 COM
mon people of America, regardless Of
occupation, into a cohesion which they
have never known. The day Of reck-
oning for this legislative crime will
yet come"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

FOR SALE-Six horses. Two five
years old, and four older Broke
ready for field; two sets harness
and Sulky Plow all for $4,000.
HANS HARDRSEN, box 81, Arch
er, Mont. 50-t2
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
Percentage PERCENTAGE

IL IS 1nueeu marvellous That during
these ID years of strenuous" COM
petition these great business organl-
cations were unable to change their
relative positions in the race more
than ! y per cent, and equally marvel
GUS that Attorney General Palmer,
with these figures before him, could
not discern the packer monoly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

During the crop year ending Aug
ust 81, 1919, to which the above fig
ures apply, the number or line ele-
vators decreased from GLIB to SGT, and
the number of farmer-owner elevat-
ors increased from 356 to 800. The
line elevators averaged receipts Of
1862 bushels of grain and the farm
er elevators 140,179 bushels, or near
ly double.
With the exception of the Equity
exchange terminal elevator in St.
Paul these thriving farmer-owned To-
cal elevators have to sell to their old
enemies in the large cities. And an
other great step in advance will be
made when the farmers and workers
capture the state and put up a few
state-owned terminal elevators to give
service at cost.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
ARMY COURTS ATTACKED


ROYAL johnson of South Dakota Of
fered on the floor his amendment to
the Kahn military bill, as drafted by
General Ansell, to abolish the old
system of courtsmartial and to intro
duce modern and humane principles
into military courts. Baer and Sin
clair of North Dakota were support
ing johnson. Mondell of Wyoming,
the majority leader, was much agitat
ed at the amount of support which
the men from the Northwest We're
rallying on this amendment. Mon
dell knew that the retention of the
barbarous caste system in the army,
as demanded by the general staff, de-
pended on their maintaining the old
Prussian-B British system Of military
"justice," in which the soldier charged
by an officer with violation of the
articles of war has only one chance
I'm four of escaping punishment.
Kahn, chairman Of the military at
fairs committee, raised a point of
order on the amendment, claiming
that it was not germane to this army
reorganization scheme. Speaker Gil
lette upheld him, in spite Of the laugh
with which his claim was greeted.
johnson appealed from the ruling and
tells were named to count the votes.
AS the line of Johnson's supporters
began filing past the tellers some of
the old Republican gangsters began
to call out, "Mob rule! Mob rule!" at
the younger men who were rebelling
against the general staff order of mill
tary courts. Their sneers and brutal
attitude struck number of men so
unpleasantly, as they confessed after
ward, that they voted against the
chair, although they had intended to
support Gillette's ruling.
The chair was sustained, and SOL
diers in the army will remain the
plaything of courts which are, as
Secretary Baker has said, conducted
rather to maintain discipline than to
administer justice.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

Such news as comes through con-
corning the attempt of reactionary
elements in Germany to overthrow the
existing government by force does
not give a distinct picture of what is
going on. Since the armistice Ger
many has been governed by coali-
ton between the majority Socialists
and the Catholic or Centrist party.
held together by radical economic
Such a combination between group
held together by radical economic
views and one grouped around a re-
ligious institution was considered ar
tificial and bound to break up. Two
other groups hostile to the two men,
toned above were waiting for an op-
ening-the big business-junker group
and the more radical independent So
cialists. Each of these was waiting
for the other to start something on
the theory that the one which started
would get licked and the other come
to power.
The business-junker crowd evident
ly got tired Of waiting and struck
first. The government called gen.
eral strike to protect itself. And now
there are reports that the revolution
lists are losing their grip. If they
do lose the success of the general
strike weapon may give Germany 9
much more radical government thar
it has had for the past year.
In the meantime it is interesting tt
note that our controlled press is moi
struck with horror by this revolution
Of the so-called upper classes, which
so far has included bombardment Of
the working class district Of Kiel
Have they at last found good revo
luton?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

Washington, D. C.-Orders by the
federal farm loan board to the farm
loan banks throughout the country to
make no more farm loans for the
present is the first result of the suit
to test the constitutionality of the
law creating that institution.
A bank director brought suit in a
federal court at Kansas City to pre-
vent his bank from investing in farm
loan bank bonds on the ground that
the tax-free clause and the whole
bank law as we'll are unconstitutional.
He failed in the lower court, and in
January the case was argued before
the supreme court of the United
States. The high court has not yet
rendered it's opinion.
Even if the court is favorable to
the farm loan bank the suspending of
business at this time, when farmers
are seeking money for new crops and
when banks are contracting credit, is
a national misfortune.
If the court holds that the law is
constitutional except for the tax-free
clause applying to joint stock land
banks as we'll, the practical result
will be nearly as bad as completely
unfavorable verdict. The law COM
pels the federal farm loan bank to sell
its bonds for not less than par and q
Az per cent bond on these terms will
not appeal to investors.
The great success Of the federal
farm loan bank has excited the farm
mortgage brokers and increasing ef-
forts have been made to hamper ii
not destroy it.
Any decision the supreme court
may make could be cleared up tor
the bank by a congress willing to act
quickly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
SOCIETY LEADERS PUZZLED

The national capital has just passed
through a siege of anti-Bolshevist
parlor meetings and club lectures
conducted by the social patrician ele-
ment which seeks the favor Of the
state department. Every one whose
daughtre has married a count or
whose husband is willing to become
minister or ambassador at foreign
court has been listening to Major
Washburn, Captain Hugh Martin of
Mississippi and Captain Egbert-re-
turned to tell the awful truth about
the destruction of home and property
rights and the "crackling of the fiber
of civilization" in Soviet Russia.
In the midst of the excitement the
biggest of American exporting and
trading interests that seek the trade
of China and Siberia, and that own
the Asia magazine, bring out an elab-
orte number of that publication de-
voted exclusively to clarifying the
Soviet regime and its works. Charles
M. Schwab and Standard Oil and the
Pacific Mail Steamship company are
prominent among these "red terror
promoters.
Several of the ladies, after three
lectures and an hour with this maya
zine, have taken train for winter re.
sorts to seek mental balance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

Reports of the Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission show that
in the last year far1ner-owned local
elevators, which comprised a little
less than rs per cent of the total num-
Der of local elevators in the state,
handled 1873 per cent of the grain.
The figures for the different kinds of
local elevators are as follows:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

The province of Alberta has had
another successful year of state hail
insurance. During 1919 1,6O9,314
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

Law Creating Farmers Institution Attacked on
New Principles for Vested nterestsPowder
Trust Against Deportation Of AensRed Cross Sees Need
of Federal Aid for Drouh Farmers-A New Point the
Packing Trust.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26
The Week

Labor Wins In St. Paul
Germany's New Revolution
Farmers Elevators in Minnesota
England Starts Profit CONSUMPTION
Hail Insurance in Alberta
The victory Of the Working Peo-
pies Nonpartisan Political league of
Minnesota in the st. Paul primaries
on March l6 is one of great import
ance to the whole state and to the
progressives Of the nation. In July,
1919, St. Paul elected Oscar Keller,
the labor candidate, to congress by
big pluralities over his two machine
opponents.
Now it has given William Mahoney
first place in the race for mayor by q
plurality of 1908, and all of labor's
candidates for council are far in the
lead of the rest Of the field. The city
elections come on May 4 and unless
all signs fail the city will have an adj
ministration representing the COM
mon people and united to the corrupt
machine which has fettered st. Paul
for more than generation.
Like all of our large cities, and our
smaller cities too for that matter, St.
Paul has what is known as a machine.
That is, the vice element, the saloons,
the utilities, the small and large
criminals, tax dodgers and all others
needing special favors of public Off
Gals unite for self-protection against
the great mass of honest citizens, and
so long as the citizens are not effec-
lively organized the unholy alliance
of pludering business, vice caterers
and crooks rule the city.
The entrance Of labor into politics
offers the citizens of St. Paul q
chance to escape their protected
crooks, and many outside of the ranks
of labor are turning to this one meth.
cd of escape.
The vote also means that St. Pau
is reasonably safe for a Nonpartisar
farmer-labor state ticket.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-26

stances the leading agitations and
brains of the unrest were Americans
"a fact in part recognized in recent
report of the attorney general when
he stated that the Federal statutes
are exceedingly limited insofar as
they affect persons of American citi-
zenship engaged in radical agita-
tion.'
This Inter- Racial council is under
stood to be a Du Pont property, and
it's purpose to be the conserving of q
cheap labor supply for big manufac-
turers on the one hand and the up
building of a Du Point political ma
chine on the other. At Du Points
right hand, as associate managing d.
rector, is Miss Frances Kellor, who
organized the famous "Golden Spe-
cial," or millionairesses' political
train, which went across the country
for Hughes in 1916, it was a devastat.
ing success, from Hughes viewpoint
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1920-12-01
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
ON, SALE OF SEALS

Governor Cooper yesterday issued
a proelnpation Endorsing the Christ
mas Seal sale and calling on the peo-
pie of South Carolina to respond lib
orally to the appeal of the South
Carolina Tuberculosis asSocia ton.
The proclamation follows in full:
Whereas 800 citizens Of the state
ofSouth Carolina were stricken with
tuberculosis in the year 1919 and the
economic loss amounted to millions of
suffering, sorrow and poverty which
followed in the wake Of this dread dis
ease; and
Whereas, it is the duty of all the
citizens Of our state to- do every
thing within their power to prevent
the further spreading among our peo-
pie of this disease, which science has
proved to be prcventablc and curable,
and
.'"Whereas, thee South Carolina Tu-
'berculosis association has designated
the first week in December as "Tuber-
culosis wk and will call upon the
people Of our state for financial aid
through the purchase Of tuberculosis
christmas seals and bonds:
Now, therefore, I, Robert A.
Cooper, governor of South Carolina
do heartily indorse this effort on the
part Of the South Carolina Tuberculo-
sis association. and do call upon the
neople of South Carolina to respond
liberally to their appeal"
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1920-12-01
BANKRUPT SALE OF REAL ESTATE

NOTICE is hereby given that the
undersigned, as Trustee Of the Bank
rupt estate of J. ]. Shealy, Bankrupt,
pursuant to an Order of sale, passed
by Honorable II. n. Edmunds, Refer
ce in Bankruptcy. dated November
%. 1920, will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash on Mon
day. the 3rd day of January. 1921,
during the usual hours of sale, before
the Court house door. at Lexington.
S. c.. the following described real es-
tate. to wit:
All that lot. piece. or parcel CT land
situate. lying and being in the town of
Pelion, County of Lexington. and State
or South Carolina. fronting two hun
dred (2OO) feet on Main Street. and
running back two hundred and fifty
(25O) feet to Magnolia Street, bound
ed as follows: on the north by Main
Street. east by Pine Street, south by
Magnolia Street, and on the west by
an alley the same being the lot of
land conveyed to j. J. Shealy by
Mrs. Lessic II. Fort by deed dated
January II, 1917. and recorded in book
3-A. page 367, in the Clerks office for
Lexington County.
The above described parcel of land
has dwelling house on it and another
building or buildings and was former
ly occupied by the said J. j. Shealy as
Il residence.
Terms of sale: CASH. Purchaser
purchasers to pay for drawing of
rapers, recording the same. and reve-
nur stamps, etc.
l.. w. WISE. Trustee.
zimmerman, Graram & Callson,
ot-lO Attorneys for Trustee.