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The Washington times., 1923-09-27

Cleveland Park, on Porter st.-Five
rooms and tile bath; a. m. L.: detached
garage: $126.
The Washington times., 1923-09-27

81 Seaton st. n. e.-Corner house. Z
rooms and bath; a. m. T.; porches. Rem
per month, $50.
The Washington times., 1923-09-27
THos.. E. FARRELL

- Member Washington Real Estate
Board 'asV ~: 80.
SS7 Woodward Building ~ Main 7ss
The Washington times., 1923-09-27
Automobiles For Hire

PRIVATE appear. cars for all occasions.
lowest rates. Trips special Expert
driv. inst. White 'chauffeurs Line. SO.
The Washington times., 1923-09-27

2314 1st, n va rooms and bath a
m. t.: second and third floors arranged
for housekeeping apartments: garage an
the rear rent only $110 per month.
The Washington times., 1923-09-27

OURISMAN
CHEVROLET SALES co.
625-633 III st. N. E. Line 642
Northeast Home of Chevrolet
This only comes onSe year. A great
sacrifice--your gain.
FOR 10 DAYS ONLY.
We will dispose OF trade-in cars in
stock al this time at a saving OF 25 to
so per cent. Do not pass this up.
CHEyROLETS = TOURINGS.
SEDANS. COUPES. ROAD
STEERS, TRUCKS.
FORDS--COUPEE, SEDAN6,
TOURIN NGS, ROADSTER6.
TRUCKS
Marmon Touring Saxon Touring.
WHY'S Touring, F. B. Tourings
Every car in excellent condition.
Terms to suit-you'd be surprised
WE TEACH TO DRIVE FREE
Open Evenings and SundaYa
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

Hon. +. c. Goudy has removed to
Denver and will engage in the prac-
tice of the law. He has opened an
office in the Opera House block. The
Times extends a hearty welcome to
the brilliant young advocate and
politician. and wishes him success
full and lucrative future.-Denver
Times.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21
THlRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
THIS DATE

Orion Cheney arrived from Santa
Fee Saturday.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21
Something to
Think kAb0uf
THE OLD CIRCLE
By F. 4. WALKER

THE natural inclination in man.
when he is lost in the woods, or
is houndering around in business for
which he Is not qualified. is to move
In circle.
The carrier pigeon flies straight to
his destination; the horse goes un.
guided through the darkest night to
his stable.
man may have genius or merely
ordinary talent. but II he cannot move
straight ahead. think clearly and keep
his mind upon his work, he is plodding
around and around. arriving at the end
Of the year at about the same spot
from which he started. still befuddled.
and decidedly less courageous.
Such a man, and there are thousands
OF them. is not built for success. He
Is apt to take no reckoning Of his prog
rcss until some one beside him who has
been thinking effectively in straight
lines moves up to where opportunity
Is greater and reward is richer.
This rude awakening causes but a
temporary shock to his numb sensibill-
ties. lasting perhaps day or two. but
producing In him no material change
for the better
II my serious doubt rs to his ability
should come 10 him at such time as
this, 1t IL instantly banished as too
hurdensome. and he continues his aim
less trnt in the old circle.
He doesn't ask himself whether he
Is dependable. whether he thinks con.
Structively or whether he thinks at all.
He doesn't ask whether he is given
I" watching the clock and stealing
away frequently from his work to In
hal. the aroma OF his fayori,e Gig.
arctic.
He doesn't ask whether lie In all his
time in his present position has mad.
single suggestion OF value to his
employer.
All. no! He has the faculty Of avoid
Ing dubious obligations. especially those
that would he likely to impose upon
him sn additional stroke N work. or
Interior. with his plans for pleasure
among his night associates.
Such man Is not qualified for
straight thinking or straight going. He
is not capable OF handling things with
intelligence and In the depths of his
heart he knows II.
He is failure, and for no other
reason In the world than his own per
verseness In moving In the old circle
wandering about the best part Of his
life In the wilderness.
-. n,s. BY Meciur. Newspaper synd:esss)
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21
HARRISON SUCCEEDS
CLEVELAND

Denver Times: Mr.. Cleveland
takes very disparasing outlook of
the future. According to his idea
the country is on the brink OF chaos I.
Anarchy and Communism are rear
ing their foul heads in the nation.
and threatening dangers surround
US. Let the defeated heavyweight
possess his soul in peace. The man
who Will assume the rcins of Gov
ernmcnt on the fourth OF March as
sisted In bringing this country ou,
OF a choatic condition into which
the Democracy had plunged IL. Ger
tainiy Anarchy and Communism are
not more to be dreaded than was
the bloody spirit OF rebellion which
Benjaminc Harrison helped Ia
strange. Mr.. Cleveland Is unn.c.s.
sarily alarmed. Ne will be surprised
to find how nicely the country can
get along without him. The sun
will shine as brightly and III. birds
Will sing AS sweetiy as OF yorc
Whatever trouble the future may
have In store for us will be over
come without him--hc never will
be missed.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

ed menace to civilization in West
ern Colorado.
Just a few minutes gefore the old
chief died he called Gus. his son. to
him and asked to be taken out to
the bank OF the White River. where
he was iaid on his blankets. and
died among the willows OF the
stream upon which he had passed
the most of his life. To the last
he was an Indian. and a child OF
nature. when the darkness OF death
gathered fast about him h. de-
manded to be carried where he
could see the sunlight. breathe the
pure air and hear the music OF the
running waters.
Thus dies the last OF the Colo
RADIO Mohicans.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21
CHIEF coLoRow DIES

Tuesday. December lith. 1855.
Colorow the noted Chief OF the
White River utcs. died at the ouray
Indian Agency on the Green River.
Utah. OF pneumonia.
He is supposed to have been over
eighty years old at the time OF his
death.
Colorow reached a celebrity which
few Indians attain outsid. OF Indian
literature. and with his death passes
Into history an important compon.n,
Of coiorado's annals. He was known
to all old settlers. could never con-
form TO other than q nomadic life.
and at all times fought tn. re-
atraints OF reservation existence. lie
was extremely iswiess. and his impu-
dcncc knew no limit. ~. was chief
Of the entire tribe Of White River
and Yampa utrs. but being Indirect
iy Identified with the aicck.r mas
sscrc Of -. was dcpo.rd by the
tribe through the Vaccinations Of
Government officials.
A. the time Of tho breaking up Of
the White River Agency hr refused
eo b~ removed 10 the Utah Rcscrva.
tioa In Utah. ~ specified by the
treaty. asd at once deserted the
tribe. followed by sbout forty OF hts
family asd family relatives. Since
that time. aad uatii the severe lee.
900 received In August Of 1887 At
the hands Of the Colorado National
0uard. he and his followers remaia-
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

Monte Vista is now the shipping
point to and from the Conejos and
Loyten mining camps. 1t is lively
times among liverymen and team
sters. The great Conejos mining
boom can hardly be held back un-
I'll spring.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

We hear that II. II. Marsh is tax
ing the lead in the erection OF a
stone building for our public lib
rary. Mr.. Marsh is wealthy. pub
lic-spirited citizen and having set
his heart on a public library will
soon astonish Monte Vista by his
liberality for this very important
public enterprise.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

The splendid pair of bays that
General Bloomfield drives take the
ribbon for speed and endurance. He
made n remarkably long drive one
day last week-some say so or 80
miles-but they came in fresh and
apparently good for 20 miles more
II necessary
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

DIR. r. D. Taylor has bought the
Caldwell property on Bronx Street
where Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Stephens
are living.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21
Avoid Amsetation.

II 10 highly desirable that you
should he one man. all of one piece.
and appear ou'wsrdly such as you are
William Law.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

Mrs. Chester seneff left Sunday
night for an extended visit with rel
atives and friends at Grand Island.
Nebraska.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

Probably one hundred carpenters
are at work in Monte Vista, and
yet the demand exceeds the supply.
The cry is for more house room and
better business accommodations.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

F. l.. Bishop returned Wednes-
day from his eastern trip.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21
REWARD

A reward Of $500 will be paid
for information leading to the
arrest OF party molesting Christ
mas wreaths on ornamental light
posts.
c. S. ANSON,
Chief of Police
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

A big strike in the Mammoth
mine has set the Conejos camp
crazy.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-12-21

Mr.. Fassett moved into his new
brick residence Saturday. This is
one of the most complete and beau
tiful residences of town and speaks
well for Mr.. Fassett's business pros
perity and enterprise as a citizen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
Who owns THE GOVERNMENT?

The unity between the Stock EX-
change and the White House has Of
ten been questioned by some people.
1t has been most often questioned by
those whose interests demand that
the close illicit relations between Wall
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue be
hidden.
But our worthy contemporary, the
ably-edited Locomotive Engineers
Journal; printed an editorial in it's
December number which puts the
apologists of the sanctity of our
peoples government "hard up
against it.
A United States Senator from Ohio,
defeated at the last election, blandly
announces that he is the attorney for
Is railroads. A Secretary of the In
terrier, after giving our rich public
oil reserve to the Sinclair-Standard
Oil interests, resigns from office to
represent these interests in interna-
tional deals. A director of the Inter
state Commerce Commissions Bureau
of Finance, after getting through a
permit for a terminal station grab
which three members of the Commits
sion had previously declared was
contrary to the public interest, re-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
WHAT UNEMPL OYLMENT MEANS WORKERS

All government findings tend to
point to a steady and rapid increase
in our army of unemployed. If the
present rate of increase is maintained
for few months, early 1924 will
bring misery and suffering to millions.
What unemployment really means
to the workers is often lost in the
shuttle cf government statistics and
Investigations. But the findings Of a
study of unemployment and child well
fare made by Emma Octavia Lund-
berg for the Children's Bureau of the
United States Department of Labor
tell a woeful tale of the unspeakable
distress that unemployment brings to
the workers.
Says the report: "The investigation
made by the bureau shows that unem-
ployment not only carries with it i'm
mediate deprivation and hardship but
leaves a burden of debt and disccur-
agement for the years to come.
Besides, the deprivation of material
needs, there is suffering that perhaps
can be understood only by those who
have themselves been the victims of
the dread uncertainty and fear that
besets a workingman's family when
the father is laid off, The most inn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28

signs to become chief legal counsel
and vice president of the chief rail
road concern at a salary many times
larger than the government ever paid
him. The efficient head of the United
States Reclamation Service is removed
from office in violation Of the Civil
Service law, and his place given TO a
man who has directly represented the
big western power companies In their
grab for public water rights"
The editor captions this editorial
"UnpUnished Treason" We just can't
see how these gentlemen are guilty
of treason against a government
which is owned body and soul by the
class of which they are members and
which they serve.
The question we would like to pose
is this: Who owns the government
anyway? We would venture to ans
wer this question, for we find it very
simple one. But since it is so simple,
and since everybody knows that this
government is owned by the class that
exploits and Expresses the workers
and farmers, we will not answer 1T.
We do not think it is necessary to
answer it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28

portant feature of unemployment is
its effect en- the family mOrale-the
father idle about the house, unset
tied, disheartened; the mother going
out to work if she can secure it, and
using up every bit of her strength in
the double task of providing for the
family's maintenance and caring for
the household and the children; the
children suffering from the depression
and uncertainty of what the future
may mean, which is even more to be
dreaded than the discomfOrts of the
immediate present"
Congress is preparing to spend
$500,000,00O on "pork." In one day,
December 18th, 118 bills were intrcr
duced in the House alone. Not a
single one of these bills dealt with
the problems Of unemployment. About
sixty of them were bills to dispense
the hundreds of millions of pork.
Yet it is only a matter of a few
months when unemployment in all its
brutality will menace millions Of work
ers. The miners, the clothing work
ers, the workers of the copper indus
try are already feeling the pinch. We
need but keep the above picture of
destitutiOn in mind for a short while.
Many Of us will soon live it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
MILTTARISM ON RAMPAGE

General John J. Pershing, Chief Of
Staff of the United States Army and
one of the chief military advisers to
the owning class of the country has
Just issued a most dangerous appeal
in behalf of militarism.
The General wants more soldiers
and more money with which to put
afeld an army that shall be powerful
enough to safeguard the interests of
the employers at home and abroad.
He wants the regular army brought
back to 10000 men and $4,000 Off
GERS. The National Guard must be
raised to 100000 men.
There is already an Officers Re-
serve Corps of $1,000. This is a
strong basis for the development of
a strong military caste in the country
to serve the interests of the ruling
class. What is more, in his message
on the budget to Congress, the Presi-
dent has asked for fabulous sums to
finance and maintain the giant mill
tary machine that Pershing wants.
Of the estimated expenditures of
government funds in the next fiscal
year, there will be spent, according
to Coolidge's plan, only 1859 cents
out of every dollar for civil functions.
Nor is this paltry sum entirely de-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
In The Wake OF The News
THE FURRY IN THE HOUSE

After holding up the organization
Of the House of Representatives for
two days, the so-called Progressive
bloc in Congress surrendered to the
reactionary Republican leaders.
An agreement has been reached
by which a thirty day moratorium
has been decreed. During this truce,
members of the Rules Committee may
bring up proposals for the revision OF
the House rules. Other members may
then make amendments to the rules of
procedure from the floor
In the meanwhile the reactionaries
have taken complete undisputed con-
troll Of the key committees. The pro-
gressive made very little, if any, eff
fort to win more important places for
their group on the committees which
actually govern the House. At the
outset it appeared that the progress
sives would be able to get together
at least sixty members. When actual
organization of the group was reach
ed only seventeen responded.
Throughout the furry the Demo-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
PITY THE POOR RAILROADS

evaluation that is inflated by billions
of dollars-the net operating income
of this class of railways for the first
ten months of 1923 shows total of
1921, 075,6 800 or at a rate of $50 per
cent. Compared with last years fig
ures for the same period this is an
increase of $207, SAT 200 or almost "a
per cent. In the Southern district the
annual rate of return to date is 600
per cent on many hundreds eff millions
of dollars of watered stock.
Pity the poor railroads and remem-
Der these figures the next time the
railway capitalists ask for higher
rates. Remember these startling pro-
fits the next time the workers ask for
an increase of wages in order to make
ends meet. We should not be sur
prised to find some already losing
money when the farmers press for a
reduction of freight rates. Above all,
let US keep our eyes on the Govern
ment and watch it help the railway
owners crush the workers asking for
decent wages and working conditions
and see it appear helpless before the
powerful rail kings foisting on the
bankrupt farmers robber freight
rates.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28

Four per cent lost their farms
through foreclosure or bankruptcy
almost 5 per cent gave up their farms
to creditors without even going thru
the sham of court action. 1t is only
the involuntary leniency of the credi-
tors which has prevented an addition
al Is per cent from going into bank
rutcy. 4, -ugt4B, PRlt
All in all, approximately 100000
farm owners in the above States have
been driven into the status of a hope
less, dispossessed peasantry. Close
to $4,000 farmers have actually lost
all title to their farms. Montana, Ida
no and Wyoming were the hardest hit
with loss of nearly 20 per cent.
Many questions could and should
be asked from the ruling class of
this country regarding this dreadful
situation that is forcing the farmers
to desert to the cities by the hund-
reds of thousands. In 1922 alone al
most 100000 left the farms for the
cities. What is more, in 1922 the
farmers had to pay in taxes a sum of
money equivalent to what they had
received for their entire wheat, to-
bacco, oats, and half the potato crops.
The farmers 1922 tax bill was the
gigantic sum of 81, 100000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28

Now that Coolidge has broadcasted
his maiden Presidential speech in be-
half of the business interests, all eyes
of the big bankers and manufacturers
are turned on Congress. The rail
roads are especially anxious to get
away with the biggest possible share
of the subsidies and bonuses to be
congress. For years the railroad in
terests have widely advertised their
poverty stricken conditions. Their
propaganda agencies are preparing to
emit even more bitter cries of dis
tress this year for defensive as well as
offensive reasons.
In the meanwhile the report fixing
the net profits of the railroads for
October has been made public. The
figures tell a story that all workers
and farmers ought to take most seri-
OUsly in view of the Importance of
railway Legislation in the new Con-
greSs.
1913 Class l railroads made a net
profit of S102, 746,OOO last October.
This is an increase of ST., $4,000 or
II per cent more than the net profits
garnered by these capitalists in Octo-
Der, 1922. Accepting the tentative
valuation of the railroads set by the
Interstate Commerce COMMISSIONER
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28

voted 70 civil functions as far as the
workers and farmers are concerned.
The Departments of State, Commerce,
and Justice which openly work as
auxiliary agents of the capitalists in
varied fashions are among some of
the sc-called civil activities financed
from this pittance.
At least 87.41 cents out of every
dollar will be expended for war pur-
poses directly or indirectly-that is
to pay the cost of past, present and
future wars.
Thus, if Coolidge and Pershing
have their way the workers and farm
ers will have to continue paying for
and fighting the wars of their exploit
ers. Yesterday our army was sent
to Flanders; tomorrow it may be sent
to China; the day after, to the Phil
hppines; then the navy may be or
dered to steam at full speed to the
Mediterranean. And in the midst 70
all this paying and fighting by the
workers and farmers the troops may
be rushed into some strike zone TO
maintain the law and order of some
coal operator or Steel barons to main
tain the continuity of the flow of their
dividends.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28

Gratis just stayed on the side lines.
They were out to get everything for
their own machine. At the close of
the skirmish the seventeen Insurgents
were so tired of their attempt to re-
sist the reactionaries that they all
voted for Gillette as Speaker. Gillette
of Massachusetts was the candidate
of the standpatters. Congressman
Cooper of Wisconsin, the leader Of
the progressives, Joined hands with
the multi-millionaire Republican floor
leader Longworth, and the conserva-
tive Southern Democratic whip Gar
ret in escorting Gillette to the cham
Der of welcome.
We wonder how many such abject
surrenders to the reactiOnaries on the
part of the so-called prOgressives will
have to be endured by the mass of
workers and farmers before they take
steps to have their own representa-
tives in the House and Senate respon-
sible to a political party OF the rural
and city working masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-28
WHO IS WHO In CONGRESS?

An examination of the personnel of
the present Congress divulges the fact
that the overwhelming majority of
the Senate and House are members
of the whealthy class-the capitalist
class.
In the House there are 252 lawyers.
These are men who have, prior to their
entry into Congress, gained their live
lihoOd thru association with and serv-
ice to the property owning class of the
country. They are on the whole far
removed from the mass of workers
and farmers socially and economically
consequently politically. Then we
have one contractor, twenty business
men, one livestock man, eight news
paper men, ten real estate dealers,
one printer, one trucking agent, eight
manufacturers, one builder, seven
bankers, five insurance men, five mer-
chants, three lUmbermen-or an addi-
tional seventy one who are either de-
pendent en- or part of the employing
class outright.
Besides, there is the sO-called middle
class group totalling 26 and consisting
of a educators, physicians, a public
officials, 3 soldiers, teachers, 2 pro-
fessors, 2 engineers, 2 public utility
men, 1 chemist and 1 welfare worker.
Most eff these are thru years of assO-
citation and training actually part of
the owning class of the country.
There are about 70 unclassified.
Only twelve call themselves farmers.
Of course, these are in the main we'll
TODD farmers who could afford to get
into successful politics. There is only
one Congressman who is at all con-
nected with the organized labor move