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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16
School of Agriculture's New Home

School of Agriculture's New Home
A long felt want at the State col
lege at Bohemian was filled when the
old gymnasium, which was vacated
by the athletic department moving
into the fine new building recently
completed, was turned over to the
School of Agriculture. The old gym
nasium, says Professor c. N. Arnett,
vice-dean of the school of agricul-
ture, will be remodeled for use as a
stock judging pavilion.
Work of remodeling the old gym
nasium already has started and it
will be ready for use in a short time.
Where athletic shoes n c trod a
hardwood floor, cattle will be exhib-
tied in the future. The inside of
the building is being rebuilt and
when finished will have a seating
capacity of 500 persons.
"There was a big need for a stock
judging pavilion here" says Profess
sor Arnett. at will not only be valu-
able for it's class room but can also
be used to a good advantage during
the farmers short course and other
such programs of the department."
The old stock judging quarters, in
the COW barn of the farm, will be
retained as a class room.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16
Coast Market Firm

ed by the corporation, but until that
time arrives the corporation will con-
tinue to do its duty in the matter of
aiding the farmer and stock grower.
Diversified Farming Best
II have visited the Kansas City,
Denver and Cheyenne agencies and
found crop conditions generally sat
isfactory and grass unusually good
throughout Colorado and Wyoming.
There is unquestionably steady i'm
provement. The sheep man is re-
covering from his losses in a very
encouraging way. For the cattle
grower, recovery is slower as is also
the case with those engaged in mixed
farming. Present wheat prices are
disastrous for the wheat grower who
must market his crop at once. I am
hopeful of somewhat better prices in
the not distant future. 1t would be
better for us if, under present con-
ditions of low world prices, we grew
less wheat and did more diversified
farming. 1t is also highly important
that we have an orderly marketing
program, not a general holding for a
long period, which might be disas-
trous, but a program under which
wheat would be marketed through
out the year. Some of the wheat CO.
operative associations have carried
out that kind of a program success
fully and advantageously.
within the last year, without
pressure, the net repayment of loans
in excess of new loans made by the
corporation have been about $780,
600, 900, part of which represents
actual saving and reduction of debt
by the farmers while a small part,
perhaps, represents transfers of debt
to local agencies"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16
CHEAP LAND AIDS
STATES FUTURE
CLYDE PARK FARMER POINTS
TO ABANDONED PLACES
IN EAST
Says He Would Rather Have Five
Acres Here Than 100 in Michigan
or Illinois; Boys Attracted to the
Cities by High Wages.

"I would rather have five acres OF
land in this section of Montana than
100 acres in either northern Michi-
gan or some sections of Illinois," de-
clared Fred G. Sumner of Clyde Park
upon his return from an extended
visit to the states mentioned. Mr..
Sumner declared agriculturiSts OF
those sections are having troubles
greater than any suffered by Mon
tana ranchers.
Abandoned Farms
eff the Montana farmer can just
play even and keep his head above
the tide for a very few years, he will
come out far on top of the heap, as
compared to the e~asterner," Sumner
said. "Talk about abandoned farms,
don't let that worry you. 1 visited
a section north and east of Grand
Rapids where in a 75-mile trip I saw
rs abandoned farm homes, the places
that men have made money farming,
and that are we'll improved, but they
have abandoned for the reason that
the farmer cannot longer make a
living on them. And this is the rea-
son: when they were first developed
and set out in orchards, while the
trees were bearing the fruit, the ram
cher was cutting down timber from
adjoining land which he sold at a
profit. Today that timber is all gone.
His fruit trees are still bearing, but
whole they Ire producing, he hasn't
the assistance to pick his crop and
market it and the battle for a live
Iihood is such that he, like those who
used to pick his fruit, finds it more
profitable to go to the city and work
in a big industrial plant"
Mr.. Sumner told of the situation
in Illinois, where with a large corn
crop, but poor wheat and hay, the
latter caused by drought in May, the
farmer finds it impossible to keep
his boys away from the high wages
offered in industrial centers and he
finds himself compelled to work
down to his old age with such help
as he can His boys are done
with farming and receive larger
wage than they think they can make
by following in fathers footsteps.
Land values in the east have suffer-
ed three times the deflation eXper-
fenced in Montana for the reason
that they advanced to so great a fig
ure as compared to the prices asked
and paid in Montana. Many farmers
in Illinois and other eastern states
are worse than financially ruined
because of a loss sustained by buy
ing high-priced land. Land that sold
during the war at $500 an acre, Mr..
Sumner said, can now be purchased
for as low as 1926 an acre.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16

Chicago-Two young bandits held
up the David J. Fried manufacturing
jewe1ry offices on the seventh floor
of a State street building and escap-
ed with a box of unset diamonds
valued at between $15O,000 and
100000 and other jewels which
they snatched from a safe.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16
SURPLUS BUTTER
GOES TO COAST
OREGON MILK COMPANY SENDS
REPRESENTATIVE INTO
MONTANA
A. T.. Brown of Portland Predicts a
Continued Firm Market for Prod
ucts of the Dairy; Better Crops
Means Some Will Neglect Cows.

Montana's surplus butter is find
ing a market on the west coast mar
kets, much of it going to Los Angeles
and San Francisco, according to A.
l.. Brown of Portland, Ore, repres-
~entative of the Oregon Milk com
pany who visited Great Falls on a
buying trip.
Alternate warm and cold weather
has interfered with milk production
slightly this season and the amount
marketed has reflected this, he said.
Future Outlook Good
Mr.. Brown predicts a continued
good market for dairy products.
Good crops mean that many of the
farmers will neglect the dairy, he
said. Fewer COWS will be MIXED
and those MIXED will not be stripped
so closely. The result will be that
careful farmers and dairy men can
expect a continued firm market.
With better crops of grain, more
milk will also go to feed hogs kept
for fattening on the grain.
Production of surplus butter in
Great Falls runs at about a carload
a week and Mr.. Brown expects this
to be about the amount of his pur-
chases. He remained in Great Falls
for 10 days. He already had spent
some time on the Milk river project
and visiting creameries in that vicin-
ity.
Coast Market Firm
The coast market is unusually firm
for extra grade butter, the buyer
said, but Montana butter cannot
meet this requirement since extras
are made from sweet cream by the
coast creameries. Shorter hauls, bet
ter roads and cooler weather makes
this possible on the coast, he pointed
out.
Entering the butter market is
of an experiment with the
Oregon Milk company, Mr.. Brown
said. The company is the largest
producer of ~unsweetened condensed
milk in Oregon and only recently de-
cided to enter the marketing of but
ter and eggs.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16

Two men were looking at q kan
CARGO when an Irishman said: beg
your pardon, sir, but what kind Ct
an animal is that?"
One of the men replied: '"That is
a native of Australia"
Good heavens" exclaimed the
Irishman, "and my sister married
one OF them!"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16

Chicago1William G. S%purgin, the
fugitive president of the Michigan
Avenue Trust company who fled to
Mexico a few days before a bank ex-
aminer closed his institution on July
FL, 1921, is reported to be negotiat-
ing for a chance to return to Chicago
to face justice.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-08-16

Lewistown-Mrs. Louise Riggs, a
resident of the Moore section for
over 80 years, is dead at the age of
SO years. She had been a resident
of Montana for more than so years.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
SEWERAGE PLANT
is AWARDED TO
ENGLISH BROTHERS

English Brothers, general contract
ing firm of Champaign, at bid price
of $490,000 was awarded the combined
contract of constructing the sewerage
disposal plant and laying the inter
cepting sewer for the Urbana- Cham
paign sanitary district.
Local labor is gratifed that this
local improvement will be constructed
by a local company that employs
union labor.
The contract was given following a
conference between the firm and the
board of trustees of the sanitary dis
trict that lasted until late Tuesday
afternoon.
English Brtohers were the lowest
of the bidders for the contracts with
bids of $113,191.85 for the vitrifed
tile intercepting sewer and S427 ,455.50
for the disposal plant. But after con-
ference with the trustees and due to
the combining of the two jobs the
contract was let at price of $490, 900.
The contract was signed Tuesday
and work will be started simultan-
eously on the two jobs within a few
days. with the prediction that the
work will be finished next fall. The
intercepting sewer will be according
to contract with the tile of over "a
inches of cement and under "a inches
of vitrified tile.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
BACKWARD LOOKING
NEW SOUTH WALES
STATESMAN SCORED

Sydney, New South Wales.-Fed-
eral Prime Minister Bruce, successor
of William Hughes, has declared for
"a return to normal conditions" and
receives this whitening reply from the
Australian Worker:
"Mr. Bruce, our flapperish prime
minister, has announced his policy. He
is going to get US back to normal
conditions
mot forward to better conditions
than we have ever known, not straight
on to previously unattained pros
we have left behind us.
What a policy for young man,
who should be seething with a spirit
of impetuous progress
Blackjack! Like senile decay,
that crawls and hobbies in the pastl
"And this dandy of retrogressive
instincts is the arbiter of Australia's
destinies!
"Who would have thought such an
anti-climax possible four years after
the war that we were fervently as
sured would crown our sorrows and
our sacrifices with a new world?
I'VE have at the head of our nation
"a young nation, with its face to the
rising sun-one who was born of
that nation, one who is lowered him
self with the wonderful gift of youth,
and he tells us that he is going to lead
us-backward!
mo more humiliatin0 announce
ment could be imagined, coming from
the lips of the leader of a democratic
state.
Hitherto reaction has always made
a pretense of progressive intentions.
For the first time in our history it
candidly exposes its hand.
"Our young swell of prime minis
ter, with his hair parted down the
middle, and spats on his feet, this
Beau Brummell of politics, is fired
with an ambition To lead nc-hnnl, ~
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
PRIVATE LABOR
AGENCIES FITCH
STATES JOBLESS

Sacramento, Cal.--Attorneys for
private labor agencies are in this city
to aid the fiOht of these agencies
against state regulation. Three bills
on this subject are pending in the
state legislature. Some lawmakers
are surprised at the opposition the
labor agencies can mass against regu-
lation in any form, though it has been
shown that more than Sl,000,000 is
annually taken from the pockets of
workers who are least able to bear
It The fees charged range from 10
per cent to one-half Of the first
months pay. Teacher agencies
charge from to per cent of the
first years pay of the successful APP
plicant.
Many agencies do an annual bust
ness of from $4,000 to 100000. They
have woven an atmosphere of service
and humanitarianism around their
gouging of the workers that has even
fooled some members of the legisla-
ture-who, it is whispered, are very
easily imposed upon when it suits
their political purpose.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
STEEL TRUSTS
LOW WAGE RAISED
4 CENTS AN HOUR

Lots of publicity in the papers
these days about how the steel trust
is taking care of its non-union help.
We are told the trust has raised
wages IL per cent! But we are not
told the trust raised wages from 36
cents an hour to 40 cents an hour.
Oh, no! that would never do. The
trust must be protected in its philan-
thropy and the small wages las well
as its high profits) concealed.
New York.-With a blare of trum-
pets, the steel trust announces wage
increase of IL per cent to its com
mon" labor. This is an increase of
cents an hour, or from 36 cents
to 40 cents. Last year the trust made
a profit of 39,653,455, after all
charges and interest were paid.
In the trusts official announcement
no mention is made of the low wage
paid this class of workers, but EN-.
phasis is placed on the IL per cent
which sounds better to those who have
visions that steel trust labor is paid
81 and So a day.
The trusts policy will be accepted
by other mills throughout the country
These corporations bemoan the short
age of labor, and insist that they have
free access to the Balkans and eastern
Europe, the source of the cheapes
white labor in the world, and which i.
willing to work for SO cents an hour
Mill owners have been forced t,
! raise wages even to 40 cents to holt
their labor. Almost everywhere els,
this grade of labor is receiving from
90 cents an hour up.
The reason for the 10, IL, and 1.
hour day in the trusts mill is again
shown. Workers can not live on /
wage of $500 for l0-hour day, AM
they are forced to work longer hour
to receive living wage.
With fine irony Judge Gary ha
been quoted in the nublic press as de
claring that the 12-hour day is en-
forced in the trust mills because tn,
| workers demand IT,"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
SENATE APPROVES
FULL APPROPRIATION
FOR THE UNIVERSITY

Springfield, April Without {
dissenting vote the senate today
passed Representative Little's bill ap
propriating $10,500,0O0 to the Uni
versity of Illinois for the coming two
years and also Representative vii.
liamson's bill appropriating $4,000 tc
the University, or as much thereof
that accrues to the state for the bene-
fit of colleges of agriculture and me-
chanical arts.
While the senate was giving favor
able consideration to these bills the
house was passing Representative
Springer's bill appropriating $4,000
for the purpose Of establishing and
maintaining an agricultural expert
mental station in Cook county, which
shall be controlled by the University.
The Little and Williamson bills now
go to Governor Small for his consid-
Grafton. The Springer bill will go to
the senate for final action by that
body.
Organized labor took an active part
in the passage Of the University ap-
preparation bill. At time when there
was danger that the bill would be
slashed to the extent of over a mil
lion dollars, the Twin City Fedora
ton of Labor passed resolutions ask
ing that the whole amount asked for
be granted. These resolutions were
forwarded to the Illinois Federation
of Labor and to every central body in
the state, whereupon statewide
campaign was launched for the great
er progress of the University.
The bill now requires the governors
okeh to become law, and it is extreme
ly doubtful whether the chief execu-
tive will withhold his signature, espe-
cially in the face of the unanimous
action of the senate.
Yes, organized labor believes in
higher education.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
RAILROADS SEE
BOOM; ABANDON
HARD LUCK STORY

Railroads that formerly claimed
to be so hard up they would have to
cut down wages or raise rates are
now talking in different tone. They
predict the biggest business ever
transacted, and in fact are paving the
way for the presidential election to
come year from next fall. Of
course there will be big business
at least from now until after the
presidential election. No material
thing can prevent it except Wall
Street, and. Wall Street is for the re-
election of President Harding, and
President Harding cannot be re-
elected unless period of prosperity
makes the voters forget the period of
unemployment they have just passed
through. So Wall Stree thas decreed
period of prosperity, and the rail-
roads have shut up about hard times.
And so it goes. But, will the peo-
pie forget?
New York.--At a meeting of the
American railway association in this
city plans were discussed to handle
the largest volume of traffic in the
history of the country. The boom is
expected to be at its height in 0cto-
Der when the output Of farms, factor
les, mills and workshops will break
all records.
The railroad managers made no
mention of the usual poverty and hard
luck story that of late has become as
ISOLATED with meetings of railroad
managers and financiers.
There was nothing said about "the
Strangling of the transportation sys-
tenn and the destruction of initiative
and individual effort" Instead, the
railroad managers announce that
since January |, 1922, they have au-
thorized $1,540,000, for improve
ments and equipment, to meet the
growing demands of commerce. The
money is being raised, said the rail-
way association, largely through
borrowed money on the abiding faith
in the fairness of the American peo-
pie and a reliance on the continu-
ance of the policy announced in the
transportation act of 1920 as meas
ure of reasonable protection to in
vestment in railroad property"
This sentiment is in contrast to
previous declarations that the rail-
roads have their backs to the wall.
Now we are told that the fairness of
the American people" can be relied
upon, and that the transportation act,
with its guarantee of interest on in
vestment, is satisfactory to the rail-
roads.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
STOCK SELLING TO EMPLOYEES
IS FIRST-CLASS MONEY MAKER

By an individual employer, but not
b. a corporation with its absentee
ownership that hungers for profits.
The most significant feature of
selling stock to employees is that it Is
only practiced by anti-union con-
Germs, or those concerns which have
a strong leaning that way, and which
are building up an organization Of
Owners with the purpose in mind
of embarking on the so-called amer
lean plan"
And the more intense the corpora
ton is in its anti-unionism, the more
intense it is in stock selling to en-
ployes, and the more it thunders in
the public press on its love for these
employees.
Trade unions and employers who
recognize trade unions both have
definite ideas on democracy in indus
try, but they neither delude them
selves or the public.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20
BILLS PENDING
IN THE ILLINOIS
LEGISLATURE


The jury trial bills, House Bills
Nos. 235 and 236, introduced in the
Illinois Legislature at the request OF
organized labor by Representative X.
c. Ronalds, will be considered by the
Committee on Judiciary at hearing
originally set for April Is but which
has been postponed.
The old age pension bill-Senate
Bill No. 233-was reported favorably
in the Illinois Senate by the Commit
tee on Municipalities, Thursday,
April II. The hearing scheduled for
April II did not take place. On the
following day the committee decided
upon favorable action. The bill was
introduced by Senator Van Lent of
Chicago.
The Ronalds bill, providing for
state insurance in connection with the
Workmen's Compensation Act, House
Bill No. PIT, was taken up for hear
ing by the Committee on judiciary,
April 10, arguments in favor of the
measure being submitted by Repre-
sentative Ronalds and by President
John II. Walker of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor. Further hear
ings were held April Is.
The Turnbaugh anti-strike bill,
Senate Bill No. 90, and the Turn
baugh bill to increase the liability of
voluntary associations, Senate Bill
No. 81. now pending in the Illinois
Senate, were taken up by the Senate
Committee on Judiciary at hearing
April IL. After a short session the
committee decided to postpone the
hearing until April "a.
Resolutions providin~ for so-called
gateway amendments to the Illinois
constitution and also to the tax pro-
visions of the basic law will be con-
sidered by subcommittee of the
Illinois House Committee on Judic-
iary this week.
Representative Frank A. Mccarthy
has introduced Labor's Injunction
limitation bill in the Illinois House
of Representatives The bill will
probably come up for hearing in the
very near future.
A bill providing for amendments to
the Workmen's Compensation Act, as
drafted by the compensation law com.
mittee Of tie Illinois State Federation
of Labor, has been presented in the
Illinois Legislature by Representative
X. G. Soderstrom of Streator.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-20

CORPORATIONS are awakening to the
buying power Of workers, and brokers
and financial houses are facing new
competition.
The corporations are selling their
stocks and bonds direct TO employees
and are saving the costly percentages
and premiums formerly paid to fiscal
agents.
Only recently a large electrical cor.
poration in the east sold S5,0OO,0OO Of
stock 10 employees.
A saving Of at least 100000 brok-
erage charges was effected by this
method, as 10 per cent is practically
the minimum charge Of financial
houses when they take over stock
issues in bulk and dispose Of same TO
the public.
The half million dollars that is
saved is carefully concealed from the
public gaze. No mention is made of
il. as the public is led to believe the
stock is sold to employees because Of
lofty humanitarianism.
Publicity Of this snug nest egg
would remove the gloss from the cor
poration's publicity stuff on how 1t
loves its employees.
This stoek-selling method Is first
class business venture. II is more
economical than letting brokers float
the issue at a charge Of 10 per cent
and up.
When the stock is sold to employees
there is no commission charge. This
means a minimum saving to the cor
poration of at least 100000 on every
81 100000 stock issue.
Other advantages to the corporation
are mainly psychological. For time
this stock ownership may affect the
Judgment of some workers who mag
inc they are capitalists because they
own two or three shares of stock.
In time, however, these workers
will realize that the interest they re-
ceive averages, year by year, little
more than they would receive in a
savings bank or from a Liberty bond.
They will also realize that their
small stock ownership is used by the
corporation to continue the fiction
that they have a voice in affairs;
that they are parts owners OF the
plant.
They will also note the clever and
subtle propaganda that they must be
satisfied with wages and working con-
ditions, as this means greater interest
on their stock.
For instance: If a worker owns
three 800 shares of stock that pays
7 per cent, he receives $21 year in
terest. This is 50 a year, or rs cents
a month more than if he put that
money in savings bank or Liberty
bond.
And for this extra rs cents month
the worker must be satisfied with low
wages, poor working conditions and
keep away from trade unions.
This is what some people call i'm
dustrial relations" and industrial
democracy"
These workers will eventually
awaken to the price they are paying
for worshipping the anti-union en-
ployer's shibboleth.
Another claim industriously ped
died among these workers is that as
they save and buy stock they will
eventually own the corporation.
The answer to this fiction is that
printing presses can produce stock
blanks faster than workers can buy
them.
1t is not reasonable to suppose that
a corporation that denies workers the
right to join trade union will volun-
tarily cease exploiting these workers.
In very rare instances this is done