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Evening star., 1923-08-31
FORMER FOES WON
TO rule OF SOVIET
Name of Lenin Cheered at
Meeting Attended by
AriSt0CratS.
BY f. A. MACKENZIE.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright 1929.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1929.
MOSCOW, August 3l.-Two inter-
esting contrasts show up in Russia's S
recent developments A society which
consisted of former opponents of boil
shevism now desires to cooperate
with the government. Censorship
upon printed matter coming into the
country is more severe than In the
most drastic Czarist period.
The former anti-bolshevist have
just held public meeting In theater
here. Two thousand persons pre-
sented an average of forty cents each
to listen for four hours to solid
talk on foreign politics. The audi
ence was composed largely Of the
professional classes. They applauded
references to Lenin and the soviet
system enthusiastically.
Aristocrats Attend.
The speakers included Count Alexis
Tolstoy, RusSias foremost younger
author, who has just returned from
exile, and Prof. klutchnikor. former
minister of finance under kolchak.
European issues were discussed with
considerable freedom. The chief OF
police was on the platform. He was
not in uniform. Such meeting was
unthinkable even year ago. 1t is a
sign how political life here Is broad
ening.
But s to the censorship of printed
matter many fantastic tales are
heard. The writer's personal expert
cnce upon rc-entering Russia does not
lack it's amusing side. The inspector
at the border seized all papers, books
and documents. He cleaerly was not
acquainted with any language save
the Russian, and apparently not much
Russian, for he refused to pass Rus
sian grammar after opening 1t.
The Saturday Evening Post was con-
Gemned. \ volume of George Bernard
Shaw'S plays, bound in red leather. was
allowed to pass through. while II. G..
Hergesheimer's latest novel. bound in
white. were taken away. Even numer-
Gus Russian documents, duly stamped,
were declared unpassable, while snap
shots OF the writer's children were
taken away almost without scrutiny.
Such banalities happen apparently
without the approval of the central
authorities.
Senator Kenneth McKeHar of Ten
nessee has just made lightning trip
of investiga tion through Russia. He is
leaving Moscow today. He examined
into the possibility of disposing of a
part of the Tennessee cotton crop here.
Il find Russian conditions better
than ! expected" he said. They ap-
parently are improving. I have been
much impressed by the absolute order
Gates the stability of the present gov
ernment. Beyond that l prefer to say
nothing. My experiences are not yet
sufficiently clarified"
Evening star., 1923-08-31
CONTEMPT Is CHARGED.

Mrs. Sallie Grace Brooke yesterday
filed petition in the District Supreme
court to require her husband, Will
liam West Brooke to show cause why
he should not be adjudged in con-
tempt Of court. Through her attor-
ney, Dora Palkin, Mrs. Brooke de-
clared that her husband was in
arrears of his alimony payments
ordered by the court March 20, 1921.
Evening star., 1923-08-31

Spain has a bull-fghting school at
Salamanca.
Evening star., 1923-08-31

1t is a different thing to say many
things and things to the purpose.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07

Bureau Federation. Yet in view OF
the intensive propaganda being waged
by the daily press to show that the
farmers are improving their cond ll
lions, the figures are highly instruc-
tive for all farmers.
In the four-year period eff 1919
1922. Mr.. Graves shows a continuous
decline in the gross sales of the farm
products. In millions of dollars the
gross sales of farm products declined
from 1880 in 1919 to S4,523 for the
wear 1922. In the same period the
gross sales of livestock fell from
So, 622 ,OOO, 900 in 1919 to $2,256, 100000
in 1922. During these years animal
products fell in gross sales from
$2,114,OOO,OOO to $1,700,O00,OOO.
In view of the rising cost of living
this condition of steadily declining in
come for the farmers is becoming still
more unbearable to- millions OF the
rural working masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Farmers Distress Showed
BY Increased Bank Failures

In the six business days, October
23rd to 10Th, tWenty-four business
banks closed in the Minneapolis ter
ritory. Many peoples believe that this
serious condition ended with the bum
per crop of farm bank failures two
years ago. But at no time before
have so many banks failed. Besides
for every bank reported failed, accor-
is one bank that is to be classed doubt
full.
The inability of the farmers TO pay
old debts and the depleted cash re-
serves are given as the cause for this
collapse. Of these closed banks one
was in Minnesota, two in Montana,
and twenty-one in North Dakota.
We wonder why Coolidge's farm in
vestigatOrs have overlooked this op-
portunity to show that the farmers
are getting more prosperous day by
day as the 1924 elections approach.
Most interesting of all is the fact
disclosed by these failures that the
poor farmers are the ones hardest
hit. Most of these banks were small.
They had as depositors the poor
working farmers who have very little
to put away after the railroads and
grain gamblers and packers get
through with them. Nine were small
banks whose capital was $4,000 or
less. The total capital of the "a
banks was less than half a million
dollars and their total deposits a
little over three and half million
dollars.
Investigators of the conditions of
the farming masses the country over
who do not play the role of political
pawnbrokers for the big interests of
the capitalist class report similar dis
tress prevailing in all the farming
areas
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
AGAINST
AMERICAN TARIFF

That Canadian grain merchants and
commercial interests are becoming
aroused over the alleged misuse of
the milling in bond" feature eff the
American Tariff on wheat, is indicat-
ed by an item recently appearing in
The Corn Trade News, a prominent
English paper. 1t is alleged that
Canadian grain, shipped into this
country under bond, to be milled and
re-exported, is diverted into this coun-
try, while lower grades of American
wheat are substituted for shipment
abroad, thereby allegedly defrauding
both the United States government
and the farmers of this country, and
defeating the legitimate purposes of
the Tariff.
The item referred to is as follows:
"a Royal Grain Commission is now
sitting at Montreal, and both millers
and merchants are giving evidence.
Mr.. James Carruthers, a leading grain
merchant of Canada, complained that
Canadian Hard Wheat is substituted
in shipments through the United
States, the good Canadian wheat be-
ing retained for bread making, while
interior United States grain was sent
overseas as first class Canadian
wheat"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Grave European Situation
Worries American Capitalists

Our banking and manufacturing
class is becoming acutely disturbed
over the European conditions. A lead
ing financier has remarked that "the
unemployed of America are now in
Europe but that the European unem-
ployed will soon be here"
Germany a victim of capitalist
bankruptcy. Senator King reports
that the granaries are filled. SHINES
is growing richer minute by minute.
But the German working masses are
starving. A complete rupture OF the
Entente is expected daily.
The economic Reorganization OF
Europe is proceeding apace. Latest
estimates of the Department OF Com
merce show that even in CzechO-Slo-
vakia whose prosperity has been high
ly advertised there are 107, 800 unem-
plOyed receiving state subsidies and
66,100 out of work receiving help
from private sources. In Germany
unemployment is on the climb. In
England, Scotland, and Switzerland
the conditions are no better. The con-
ditions in Poland are especially bad
according to the Department of Com
merce.
How critical the situation is can be
seen from the chaotic condition Of the
exchange. The Polish mark fell from
100000 to the dollar on September
Both to 1,575,OOO cn October 31st.
The downward trend of the Spanish
Peseta is continuing steadily. The
German mark is off the exchange
map. Even Sterling has gone down
to the extremely low level of $4.28.
In the face Of all these signs of
ruin overwhelming Europe our ruling
class has only one solution to propose.
This is an American receivership for
Germany and perhaps the other
countries-a receivership guaranteed
by American battleships and bayonets
and the corpses cf the farmeRs and
worlingmen who will again be sent
"over there" to fight for national
honor and democracy"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Cotton Interests
Organizing In CONGRESS

Congressman and Senators of the
cotton-growing States are going to
organize a bloc in the next Congress
to defend the interests Of the big
cotton-growers. On November Both,
these Senators and Congressman will
get together. They will devise ways
and means to do for the Southern
Cotton Barons what Capper's farm
bloc did for wealthy farmers and
against the poor farmers. Represen-
tative B. G. Lowry Of Mississippi has
sent out he call.
The moving spirit of this proposed
cotton bloc in the Senate is Senator
William J. Harris of Georgia who has
been a prominent figure in Southern
banking and insurance business for
many years.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Privately Owned Industry
Takes Tool from Workers

M. Carl Hookstadt of the Depart
ment of Labor has just completed an
interesting study of the heavy toll
taken from the workers engaged in
industry. present indications point
to an exceptionally large number of
accidents for the year 1923-in some
States more than ever have been re-
ported" says the November Monthly
Labor Review.
The estimated annual number of
industrial accidents is 2,453,418 and
the total number of working days lost
is 227,169,97O. Taking the average
wage per day as $3.50 Mr.. Hookstadt
finds minimum wage loss of ST.
022,264,866 per year. To this should
be added at least $75,O0O,O0O the
workers spent for medical and hos
pital service.
1t is especially significant that the
unskilled workers, the workers who
draw weekly wage averaging from
$24 to $50 are the ones who suffer
most. Coal mining has the highest
rate of fatalities. 4.08 per 1000, next
to lumbermen and woodchOppers
whose accident rate is 500. The
steam railroad workers have a fatali-
ty rate of 2.25 per 1000, the ware
house workers 2.84; iron and steel
1876; water transportation. 400; and
the electric light and power workers
top the list with an accident rate of
5.73 per 1000 workers employed.
Of the above fatalities, 81 ,232 were
death; 1928 permanent total disabili-
ty; 105,629 permanent partial dis
ability. and 2,324,829 temporary to-
tai disability.
Of course these heavy losses in life
and pay to the workers are not consid-
cred by the employers in their esti-
mates of the big profits the working
man annually grinds out for them
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
STATISTICS OF STATE
GOVERNMENT
EYPENDITURES

Washington, D. c., December 8,
1923.-The Department of Commerce
announces that the costs of govern
ment for the state of Montana for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1922,
amounted to $8,281 ,224, which was a
per capita cost of $500. In 1917
the per capita cost was $3.50, and in
1914, S7.O6 the totals of these years
being S4,220,151 and S3,173,644, re-
spectively. The per capita cost for
1922 consisted of expenses of general
departments S799; payments for in
terest. SO.56; and for OUTLAWS. 1914,
more than two-thirds Of which was
from highways.
REVENUES
The total revenue. receipts for 1922
were SIS, 457 ,638, or $14.29 per capita.
For the fiscal year the per capita ex-
cess of revenue receipts over govern
mental costs was, therefore, 5000.
In Montana, property and special
taxes represented 26.1 per cent of the
total revenue for 1922. 23.1 per cent
for 1917, and 1913 per cent for 1914.
The increase in the amount of pro-
perty and special taxes collected was
1873 per cent from 1914 to 1917, and
500 per cent from 1917 to 1922. The
per capita property and special taxes
were S7.72 in 1922, 1922 in 1917 and
S2.87 in 1914.
Earnings of general departments,
or compensation for services rendered
by state officials, represented 10 per
cent of the total revenue for 1922, ST
per cent for 1917. and ITO per cent
for 1914.
Business and ncnbusiness licenses
constituted 14.3 per cent of the total
revenue for 1922, 28.7 per cent for
1917, and 1913 per cent for 1914. Re
ceipts from business licenses consist
chiefly of taxes exacted from insur-
ance and other Incorporated ccmpa-
MES, while those from nOnbusiness Ii
censes comprise taxes on motor We
hicles and amounts paid for hunting
and fishing privileges.
INDEBTEDNESS
The net Indebtedness funded and
floating debt less sinking fund assets)
Of Montana was $729 per capita for
1922, S1.91 for 1917, and 1888 for
1914. Of the bonds issued during the
year S3,299,000 were for educational
purposes and $21 400 for veterans
welfare.
TAX LEVIES.
For 1922 the assessed valuation Of
property in Montana subject to ad
va crem taxation was S456,20O,2TS;
the amount of taxes levied was ST.
los, 487; and the per capita levy,
$3.50.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07

pcrations under intolerable conditions
is proved by the fact that these con-
Germs are largely operated on the Up
en-shop plan.
Among these anti-union corpora
lions who have prospered at the ex-
pense of the working men are the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.,
and the U. S. Steel Corporation.
After paying preferred dividends
the U. S. Steel Corporation had a sur
plus of $57,475,3 BAL. The surplus that
that the National Biscuit Co. had
available for common dividends was
double what it had in the same period
for 1922.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Industrial Profits

While the farmers are having the
devils own time making ends meet
and the workers are being threatened
with wage-cuts and shut-downs, the
merry dance on dividends goes on
and the orgy of profits shows no
sign eff a let-up.
For the nine months ending Sep
TENDER Both, ten industrial corpora
lions showed a combined balance
available for common dividends of
$164,539,971. against S9O,272,73O in
the corresponding period of 1922.
This is a gain of $74,271, or 80 per
cent.
That the bulk of these giant profits
is due to the fact that the workers
are compelled to labor for these cor
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
In The Wake OF The News

State in the Union, but Rhode Island
just now offers a mighty big lesson
in the first principals of political &C
ton to the workers and poor farmers
OF the country.
The Republican Party, the govern
ing party in the country, has time and
again come before the masses and
asked to be entrusted with the man
agement and operation of the govern
ment All too often the workers and
farmers have listened to the fruadu-
lent pleas of the capitalist politicians.
An examination Of the PERSONAL of
the Republican State Central Commit
tee discloses who the real owners of
the Administration party are.
Of the So members of this Central
Committee more than two-thirds are
directly or indirectly connected with
the textile industry, public utility and
banking corporations of the State.
One Of these owners of the Republican
Party is a director in Is banks, rail
ways. textile companies, and manufac-
turing concerns. He is the director of
several and the president of two tex
tile corporations. Another stockhold-
er in the Republican machine is an
officer in 13 companies; a third men,
Der is affiliated with eight concerns,
four of which are textile firms.
Rhode Island has long been consid-
cred a State of oppression and cod
fish aristOcracy. The government of
Rhode Island is securely in the hands
of the peoples who do nothing for a
living but own the machines used by
the workers. This is the real reason
why the textile operators were able to
send 600 National Guardsmen, five
companies of Coast Artillery and a
machine gun company against the
strikers at the cost of over $4,000
daily in the textile strike of 1922.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Haitians Favoring Independ-
ence Arrested By American
Military Forces

Joseph Mirault, one of the National
ist Leaders of Haiti has just arrived
in New York to inform the National
Association for the Advancement of
COlOred People of the outrages visited
upon the Haitians by the American
military forces serving as the agents
of our big bankers and business men
trying to enslave the country.
Such prominent advocates of Hal
tian independence from the cluches
of American imperialism as the Joli-
bOns brothers, Ellie Guerin, Antoine
Pierre-Pual and George Petit have
been put in jail by the United States
army of occupation.
What is more, in their wanton
attacks on the Haitians the military
forces have prevented all cable com
municatiOn with the United States.
A rigorous censorship of all outgoing
mail has also been forced on the Hal
tians by the troops.
Dollar democracy at home means
dollar diplomacy abroad. The Hal
tians are learning this lesson. The
price they are paying for it is an aw-
full one. The American army in the
service of our imperial bandits is a
stern schoolmaster.
Yet, one might ask Washington
what happened to the much-vaunted
principle of determination" for
which SO many worl1ingmen and far
mers died on Flanders field and ii
France?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Farmers Earnings
Show Steady Decline

In a recent issue of the well-lnOwn
financial paper, the Annaplist, there
appeared a very interesting study Of
the farmers earnings. The investiga-
ticn was made by the statistician, Mr..
L. M. Graves, of the reactionary Farm
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
WHY PITY THE POOR FARMER:
LET'S RAISE MORE HORSES

Williston, N. D., Dec. 4.-Discourag-
ing returns have just been received by
several Mckenzie county farmers who
jointed in the shipment to st. Louis
eff a car load of horses.
J. w. GOodall says he had to pay
$500 freight charges over and above
what his horses brought, while an
other who contributed two horses re-
ceived net returns cf 10 cents per
horse.
Similar shipments in past years
have at times at least resulted pro-
fitably. and this is believed to be the
first case of the failure of a shipment
to pay the freight charges.
Try a Want Adj 81 briD0e ros,Its
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07

Pacific Co. of Dover, New Hampshire,
to force them to run additional ma
chinery per man.
The workers are bent on prevent
mo the bosses from forcing them to
turn cut so per cent more at the
same wages. The employers are
threatening to shut down the mills in
order to force the working men to &C
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Little Rhode Island-A
Bic Political lesson

If anyone wants a lesson in the
elementary principles of cur great ma
tiOnal game of politics as it is played
by those who are the stars in the great
sport let him turn to Rhode Island.
Rhode Island is the smallest
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
Textile Workers Resist OPP
orators Productive Schemes

At meeting of the New England
Conference of the United Textile
Workers of America resolutions were
adopted against the attempt of the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07

this 1i resort to ts6fe the sessu terms n,
likelihood of a bic s re Is ~,
textile industry. Struggle in S' !
10 cents a line per PEI i iss o5lns' 'esut,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07

Try Want Adj, ii brings results.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-07
SSED VALUATIONS AND
TAX TEVTEC

For 1922 the assessed valuation Of
property in Montana subject to ad
va crem taxation was S456,20O,27S;
the amount of taxes levied was ST.
1O5,487; and the per capita levy,
1885.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-16
WILL. WOMEN BECOME
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
Famous Woman Writer Says
College Girls Are Winning
Way In Big Business

NEW YORK, Feb. -5.-Who viii
be the captains of industry a genec-
alton hence; Who viii don the man
ties Of Rockefeller, Cary, Morgan ana
Schawb? asks Hortense Saunders, wo-
man journalist.
Answer-the ladies, says Ror-
tense.
For, she says, men are stepping out
of the white collar field and the
college girl is replacing the gum
.hewing fapper in the stenographic
world.
But with a purpose" warns Mrs.
Helen Spier, placing manager of the
women's department Of the American
Employment Exchange.
To-day l find jobs for more girls
with college degrees than withou,
them" she says. But the colleg,
girl with her languages, her eXuen
sive training and her degrees ism
going out as a stenographer at $25
a week just because she loves
click of the typewriter keys or !
cause she's looking for a rich hus-
band.
"She's looking for place for her
self in the business world. She
knows there are as big opportunities
for her to make a million as for men
if she'll start quietly at the bottom
and make her place. Stenography is
the bottom rung in her career.
''You can get first class stenog-
rapher with a college education to-
day in New York for 500 to $25 a
week. A good private secretary may
be had for $50. But you can't keep
them at that figure, once they've
made good.
"And you can't keep them from
going ahead.
"The day is gone by when women
are going to stand by and watch men
grabb off the big fortunes. A decade
or so from now it will be as much
fun to make your million as to marry
it."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-16

Blanche Ring and Charles Winnia-
gers engagement at the Rylander
theater on Saturday, February 81,
promises to be one of the most suc'
cessful of the present theatrical sea-
son from the flood of mail orders that
arrived at the box office of the Ry-
lander theater today. These two
musical comedy stars have attained
great popularity. in their tours
through this section of the country.
GAS You Were," the name of the
musical play in which they are APP
pearing this season, is said to be even
better entertainment than they pre-
scented last season en- tour. 1t is
heralded as laughing show, with not
a dull moment from the rise to the
fall of the curtain. Miss Ring and
Mr.. Winninger are bringing the orig
inal New York production, and the
costumes and stage settings are said
to be unusually good for road at
traction. They have a company of
thirty persons, and surrounding the
two stars are a score Of clever enter.
tainers, and rafting good singing
and dancing chorus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-16

gerald tracked his own brother and
brought him back to justice.
According to reports, the young,r
Fitzgerald, also of the Royal North
west Mounted Police, fell from grace
and after being admonished by Sergr.
Georges Mardeaux, proceeded to IL;
more authority and further entangle
himself by coveting the wife Of The
inspector. When this came to the at
tention Of Mardeaux, he decided to in
vestigate for himself, and comil'c
upon the pair unexpectedly, the ire
sponsible Fitzgerald, in order to Shield
himself from disgrace and the inspec-
tors wrath, killed him.
By the peculiar exigency Of fate
the duty of tracking the murderer fell
upon Corp. Bob Fitzgerald, and then
ensued the man hunt, with the eide
brother in pursuit of the younger
The chase led through the frozen vast.
nesses of the bleak Northwest unsil
brother tracked brother-the ties OF
blood forgotten in the rigid code d
the Kings law, and the law Of the
North-Get Your Man! How, by .
ruse, the tables are turned. and the
murderer finally apprehended is to be
seen in 81 Am The Law, coming to
the Rylander Theater Saturday.