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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-03-14
100000 CASES RUM
ENTER U.S.. MONTH
LYSAYSCOAST GUARD
166 Sea-Ging Vessels In Service.
SlS,653,989 Sought for "BOOze
NAVY .

loo Sea-Ging Vessels In Service:
SI5,o53,S89 Sought for "BOOze
Navy"
Washington, March 12.-One humid
red thousand cases of liouor are
Struggled into the United States
monthly by rum-runners of the At
lantic and gulf coasts, according to
coast guard officials charged with nre-
venting the traffic.
1hls estimate was given 10 the
mousse appropriations subcommittee
winch drafted the deficiency bill re-
ported Saturday allting an additional
vice.
In testimony before the sub-com-
mlttee February 25, Commander Root
OF the service who had made a spe-
cal investigation of rum running ac-
Invites said:
The smugglers high sea forces at
present consist of "a steamers. and
16z sailing vessels, ranging in size
from 80 tons 20 5000 tons. Scno off
these vessels are capable of speeds
up to - knots. The majority fIV for
elgn flags. The auxiliary crafts for
making short contacts consist of sew
eral hundred gasoline driven craft
about 80 per cent of which are oood
for % knots. ''ie sCOu
WIN our present force, during the
past = months, we have baen abIe
20 put out OF business by capture or
oCheIWlSe, l53 vessels. We have cap
OCfed the equivalent of $1,000 cases
OF hquor and caused 10 be iettisoned
under hre an amount estimated at
10000 cases." 81
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WOLF CREEK NEWS

Another big whist game was hold
at Nels Okstendalh's place Saturday
evening "Ihe Reservation PLAYERS :,
Clarence Gilbertson and CI ~ III,
marsh dld better than in the former
games There We're some striped ami
mas on OoOh Slde. The score was ID
70 IN favor of Wolf Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. NJ. MacInness wore
callers at the Dan Campbell home
Fletcher and Herman Callahan Wis
lted with WmMacInnes Sunday
H. McCalister. Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. D. NJ
Machines were callers at the II r
French home Monday
Dan Campbell and JASPER Pbelne
accompanied H. B. French to Red
stone Saturday, from where he went
70 the PlentywoOd hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pace and family
visited at the Charles Grant home /
east of Redstcne Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. Cromwell i laor;y,.
house at the Phelps ranch for q few
days. . ="
Jos. Lukovitz of the reservation
was transacting business in Redstone
Monday.
Dan Campbell had busy dav
uesday as several were in to get n
grinding done
u. N. Machines was a Redssone
business visitor Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Marsh Of
smoke !, Creek are visiting relatives in
this community.
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O''hgs Results
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COMERTOWN FARMER
THINKS FARMER-LA-
Dor PARTY IS ONLY
REMEDY FOR PEOPLE
Says Farmers and Workers Should
Organize mo Independent Party in
Order to Split the Big Interests
Between Two Parties.

The following letter from H. P.
Foster, CcmertOwn farmer, sets
forth The why of a farmer-labor par
". He also pays his respects to the
Bankers and Lawyers:
Dooley, Mont.
February 5th, 1924.
The Producers News,
Gentlemen:
1 sure am very much pleased to
know that you are exposing the So
called bankers, which are in reality
only The tools Of the Wall Street
system. The poor fools, together
with their advisors, the lawyers (?)
have been handing out this bunk to
the public, until they have succeeded
III making paupers of themselves.
which really is a shame On after
having served their Millionaire mas
ters so well.
Now, until these simpletons get
together with the more ignorant ele-
ment Of our country and wake up 10
the fact that when they cut off the
source which produces all the wealth
OF this nation, that they are SLOWLY
but surely putting themselves out of
business, We will continue to 90 bank
rupt. But when they wake up and
find that most Of them are broke.
they will then help to build up the
farming industry, instead of giving
the Wall Street billionaires more mil
lions at the expense of our farmers
and workers.
| think The new party idea is a
good one as we will be able to dis
tinguish the wealth producers from
the parasites, or as j. w. Anderson /
puts it, we will have one party for
the exploited and one for the exploit
erS.
In the past the politicians have
managed to keep US about equally I
divided between the two old party |
machine system, as the big financial I
centers contributed as much to one
party as to the other. Now, if thew
continue the two old parties, lhey
viii split their forces against us.
/ see in talking with some of our
farmers. especially those that nave
been getting the canned dope from
the bankers, that we should start an
campaign to set them
right befre Big Biz gets a chance to
put COOl-edge on 'em.
Yours for government reform,
II. p. FOSTER.
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WHAT Is ADJUSTED
COMPENSATION?
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE So
CALLED BONUS"

For years The American Legion
has advocated the enactment of a law
to adjust the compensation of the
men who served in the armed forces
OF the United States during the World
War. In its stand in favor of Adjust
ed Compensation, the Legion has CT
ten been denied the same privileges
of expression thai have been granted
opponents of the measure. This
pamphlet, prepared bv the National
Legislative Committee of the Legion,
presents briefly and accurately the
underlying principle of The bill, the
effect the bill will have when enacted
INTO law, the nature of the bill and
the character and fallacies of the op-
position to the bill
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i fl0D2 but adds d that it !, :
will 1in not support i5Si m *, that s'P Ply
community coaPg' where is every ne@ nj serve lis
0eneftted by his i a55orlsR.'ss restod a s55
Natl Comm.n,,sJo JOHN R. OHM.
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LITTLE BROOK
Little BROOK
Written by Eighth Grader of Doolev
School

Little brook, little brook,
Where do you flow
Dashlng and splashing the whole dav
through.
WI Singing and dancing as you 90.
Where the people do know
N, I our color is as blue as the slzv:
The ducks will be soon SWIMMING
here by and by.
Poplar Roosevelt farmers plan
war on gophers. pan
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compensation is adjusted is therefore
false.
WHAT COMPENSATION WILL Do
EOR THE NATION

It will allay the dissatisfaction
existing among veterans and dispel
the sense of injustice they now feel.
1t will cement their faith in their
country and cement the faith of our
future soldiers and sailors. 1t will
insure that the money be spent in
productive channels, quickening trade
and industry.
THE PRINCIPLE ENUNCIATED
BY WASHINGTON
The Father of this Nation estab-
lished the principle of adjusted COM
pensation. George Washington's
words to the Continental Congress
are as apt today as when they were
written. He said: "A soldier reason
ed with upon the goodness of the
cause he is engaged in, and the in
estimate rights he is contending for.
hears you with patience and acknow-
lodges the truth of your observa-
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Conrad Carload poultry shipped
from Pondera county to Chicago
company
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SEN ATOp Do,,-- Negl0l
BACK 70 70 SE6 MOVES

Ro S1fSfs' pt MaEea 10 lo-senat,r D..
this f5 Of vd the town Of ' circIsa and foD1d
months Last so 59 absence Of ff'o ofp5t
and a Z n o7le yves. ern part Of decided to
me- planned to go into t tbsaa titus where
ness VIC GARY bua,
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
Public Opinion on Current Topics
AS Reflected in Iowa Newspapers

from editorials appearing
rejecting Hawkeye public opinion current topics View
subjects
publication that The Iowa Fiery Cross In
the views expressed.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
MOVIE CONTROL
1.-THE BURLINGTON Hawk.Eye)

The churches and reform agencies
which are urging federal control of
moving pictures have very good in
tentions in the matter. In their
opinion a federal commission of sew
en- members, with certain powers
conferred by congress, could regulate
and improve a number of existing
faults in the movie industry.
The work of the commission would
be to inspect and license films for
interstate and foreign commerce.
Although it would not require sub
mission of all films for license, it
would prohibit the carriage and
transportation between states, or the
expectation to and importation from
a foreign country, of any unlicensed
film.
The plan seems sound in many
ways; yet the public can't get away
from the idea that having pictures,
like books and plays, are things
which should be regulated by normal
standards of decency and art, and by
educated public opinion rather than
by censorship boards or commissions.
1t has been said that the moving
picture industry, after making a no
bic effort at self-reform, gave up the
effort, and that it's National Board of
Censors and it's thirteen national
standards for producers are meaning
less. 1t is also generally believed
that the system of distributing and
exhibiting pictures is not so fair to
theater managers and public as it
should be.
In spite of all these deplorable
fscts-if they really are facts-it
must be admitted that pictures are
getting better. In the past year or
two there have been a few notable
productions which have come very
close to satisfying the critical de
mands of good taste, art, drama and
pictorial beauty. Producers have
worked hard to bring out something
really fine and the public has re-
sponded with enthusiastic approval.
It seems likely that in the long run
this sort of control will do far more
to elevate moving pictures than will
the most carefully devised system in
volving control by a small group of
authorized census.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
(MarshalltOwn Times-RepubIlcan)

New York is struggling with the
problem of religious teaching in the
schools. Iowa is considering the
absolutism Of Bible reading as part
of the daily school program.
The fact is that educational lead
ers are aroused to the necessity of in
struction in religion and spiritual
matters. The material has over
whelmed the spiritual in the educa-
tionai system. We have become so
materialistic and individualistic that
we are falling off to an alarming ex-
tent in that citizenship which in
cludes the nation and the state with
the individual and, the class.
The situation in New York city is
Of course different from the Iowa sit
uation only in the number of COM
municants to the differing creeds.
Jews and Catholics are in larger
numbers there, though perhaps &C
cording to population no more Cath
olics, but certainly more Jews. The
vital point in the whole matter
whether in New York or in Iowa, is
to preserve the right to worship and
religious study according to con-
science and faith and not to force
study upon the children of the COM
mon schools that shall take on the
appearance of interference with
creed or faith of the children so con-
cerned.
However, considered as a mere
classic and not as a work inspired of
God, the Bible is one of the greatest
literary accomplishments of the ages.
1t deserves to be studied by all creeds
and all students. The main thing is
to avoid even the appearance of
force and intolerance in the schools.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
May Look for Lost Treasure
Buried in Northern Iowa By
Survivor of Custer Massacre

height, Nelson fell in with a small
detachment of Clusters men and for
time was engaged in conveying
wagon trains through dangerous ter
ritory.
When Custer made his last stand in
the basin of the Little Big Horn, Mel
son was within earshot of the battle.
All that fatal day, the adventurer,
whose gold is believed to be buried
in Iowa soil, watched the ebb and
flow of the battle tide from an en-
inence overlooking the bloody basin
in which was staged the most thrill
ing, wild and savage drama ever
enacted in the history of the west.
After the battle was ended he was
five days in finding his way back to
safety in the breaks of the bad
lands. During the five days he was
without drink or food, save the
slight nournishment derived from
chewing the buckskin fringe Of his
coat, and eating his rawhide shoe
strings. He alone escaped out of the
death trap in the Little Big Horn
the sole survivor of Clusters last
campaign.
During the mad and lawless days
days of gold in the Black Hills, he
became a prospector and a miner in
the camps at Lead and Gayville. He
was credited with having amassed a
fortune of 100000. This is believed
to be buried in Iowa.
In the summer of 1884, ten years
after the discovery of the gold in the
Black Hills, a stranger called at the
Wheeler ranch near Wheelerwood,
Cerro Gordo county. He was not an
old man, but his hair was white as
snow. He obtained work on the
place and remained all summer He
gave his name as Thomas Nelson and
explained that he was from the
west. The late Charles Van Note was
in charge of the ranch at that time.
His son, r. M. Van Note, is now 4
resident of Fertile, few miles from
Mason City. He recalls the days
when Nelson worked for his father.
He remembers that he always car
ried a revolver" said Mr. Van Note,
land people said he was miner from
the west. One day a neighbor came
to the farm and found him in the
barn counting gold coins. He had
the money stacked up in a high
pile.
Then he put the money all back
in heavy bags and fastened them to
leather belt. 1t was rumored about
that he kept his money buried some
where on the ranch. A year or two
later it spread about that he was I'M
able to find his buried money. He
remained in Cerro Gordo county for
10 or Is years and spent most of his
time on Lime creek, travelling up and
down the stream. He joined the
Klondike rush in 1897 and was never
heard of again"
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
MAKE iowa BIBLE
BILL STATE Law
SAY CLUB WOMEN
Endorse Measure at Board
Meeting of Federation
of WOmen'S Clubs
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
Custom Has Removed Holy Writ
From School Room and Net
Law, 1t Is Said

Sentiment in favor of the passage
of the compulsory Bible reading bill
by the Iowa state legislature is gain
ing ground in many quarters.
Last Thursday, 200 members of the
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs.
gathered in Des Moines at a board
meeting unanimously adopted a re-
solution calling upon the state iegis-
lature to enact the bill into law.
VIII Haze Influence
1t is believed that the stand OF
the women's organization will carry
much wait with Iowa solons, for the
extent of the Federation is wide
spread in both the urban and rural
sections of the Hawkeye state.
Mrs. Flora f. S. Barley of Boone,
chairman of the federation's Biblical
literature committee, Trained the re-
solution which was presented to the
board members by Mrs. w. w. Lit
tell, of Des Moines. Mrs. II. w.
Spaulding, of Grinnell and Mrs.
onded the resolution.
Text Of Resolution
The text of the resolution is as
follows:
Whereas, the Iowa law providing
that the Bible must not be barred
from public schools, has not been
changed in the past sixty years, Gus
tom has virtually removed it from
the school room;
Whereas, the Bible is not only our
greatest teacher of morals, and con-
tains the greatest code of ethics
known; but is also the worlds treas
ury of literature;
Therefore, be it resolved that the
board and committees of the Iowa
Federation of Women's Clubs here
assembled, representing more than
10000 women, favor the bill requir-
ing the daily reading of selected por-
tions of the Bible, without comment
in the public schools of Iowa.
"And concurring with the National
Education association in the follow
ing: We do not do this in the inter
est of sectarian instruction of any
kind, but that this real book may
ever be the teachers aid in the in
terpretations of history, literature
law and life-an unrivalled agency
in the development of true citizen
ship, as we'll as in the formation OF
pure literary style"
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
None Stir But the Guilty
The Power of
Suggestion

LOST CREEK, w. VA, March 10.
Boy, fetch us a reinforced can
teen; and il you have any doubts
as to the power of suggestion, lis
ten to this:
An electric train bound from
Clarksburg to Weston, was speed
ing swiftly on its way. Seat
ed comfortably on one of the large
seats was a man sleeping peace
fully. Beside him was a woman
with a baby in her arms, and be
tween them on the seat was a
nursing bottle. When about to
alight from the car at one of the
stations the woman discovered
that she had forgotten the bottle
and started back after it.
A man sitting near the doing
passenger said to him in a de-
handing voice: Hand me that
bottle" The man awoke startled
and clawed furiously at the win
dow lock with one hand and wig
gled at his hip pocket with the
other. There was a crash of glass
and a ding-a pint flask broke to
atoms on the hard ground.
The now wide-awake man did
not join in the laughter that fol-
lowed the incident. The car was
far away from the scene of the
accident" before he ,ventured to
remark: 81 thought we never
would leave that station"
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14

MASON CITY, Ia, March 10
There is considerable speculation
among the old settlers here as TO
whether the Thomas Nelson, recently
reported dead in Alaska, is the same
Thomas Nelson who buried fortune
of 100000 in gold coin somewhere
in Worth or Cerro Gordo county 40
years ago. He left here in 1897 to
join the Klondike rush and has never
been heard from since.
There are many living near here
who remember Nelson intimately.
They believe there is treasure buried
somewhere in the upper Lime Creek
valley, probably on the old Wheeler
ranch near Wheelerwood.
Thomas Nelson was a man with a
history that read like a romance. He
was a man of mystery, grizzly
giant towering six feet with hair
sweeping to his shoulders. There
had been tragedy in his life "a great
wrong or hurt, of which he never
spoke.
A native of Connecticut, Nelson
worked west in quest of gold in 1871.
He landed in the Little Big Horn
country prior to the discovery of the
yellow metal in the Black Hills.
While the excitement was at its
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
Respect for Law
Is Greatest Need
of Present Time

MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, March 10.
Respect for established law is the
greatest need in America, District
Judge II. d. Dickinson told eight
women and Is men, members of the
March grand jury, today, in charg-
ing them that your work should be
faithfully and scrupulously perform
ed, with a zealousness that is proper
tionate to the needs of the hour"
What the land needs is more res
pect for the law" Judge Dickinson
told the jurors. 'Tf law is bad, if it
is law that public opinion will not
support, then let the public change
it. No law can stand for long that
is not supported by the public. But
whether law is supported or not, it
is an expression of public opinion as
long as it stands on the books. We
must have respect for the law, or we
can't have much Of anything"
Judge Dickinson urged jurors par
ticularly to beware of any attempt
to use your body for political or par
tisan purposes"
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
KldnswomenDenied
Right of Attending
Funeral of Member

HARRISBURG, w. VA, March 10.
"A precedent was established here
today when the Rev. Charles f. Sta
ter, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, of this city, refus-
ed the Women of the Ku Klux Khan
the privilege of attending a funeral
service in the church.
This is the first time in the history
Of West Virginia that any branch Of
the Khan has been denied the privi-
lege of attending a Protestant insti-
tuition, it is said
Mrs. w. B. Darling, 3S Ash street,
who had been a member of the
church many months prior to the
Rev. Mr.. Stater's advent and who
died a few days ago asked that she
be given Klan funeral. She was
member of the Women of the Ku
Klux Khan.
A representative of the women's
organization called the Rev. Mr. Sta
ter over the telephone and asked him
if the women's order might use the
basement of the church to robe in
prior TO the funeral
In reply to this the minister is
said to have stated that he would
rather that the women would not
come into the church ROBBED" When
interviewed by a correspondent for
this newspaper the Rev. Slater said
that he did not refuse the women on
account of them being Klanswomen,
but on account Of them wearing
masks. According to the women's
representative nothing was said
about wearing masks. The Rev. Mr..
Slater further told the writer that
the matter was a personal one be-
tween him, the minister, and the wo-
men and that he would rather that
there would not be anything said
about it in the papers. In connec-
tion with this it might be said that
robed choir furnishes the music at
the First Methodist Episcopal church.
Funeral services were held over
the body of the late Mrs. Darling at
the First Methodist Episcopal church
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The
Rev Charles G. Slater was in charge.
Following the services at the
church the body was taken TO the
Masonic cemetery where the Women
Of the Ku Klux Khan took charge
and where the customary Khan bur-
ial ceremony was carried out. About
400 robed women were present at the
grave.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14
INVESTIGATING MUNICIPAL
CANDIDATES
(Rurlinpton HaMk.ENel

While many citizens who insist that
Burlington shall always have the best
of everything, have high hopes that
the City or Business Manager plan
will carry at the March elections, it
would indeed be a misfortune if their
confidence would make them neglect
their plain duty of picking the very
best men possible for mayor and
councilmen at that time.
The history of the business man
ager plan has been that it has gen.
orally met defeat at the polls the
first time it has been put before the
voters. 1t is such a decided depart
ure, this thing of putting modern
business methods into the city gov
eminent, from what the public has
become familiar with that there are
always many good citizens who are
disinclined to make the change. Even
some of those who most bitterly OPP
posed changing from the old FEEDER
al system" to the commission plan,
now admit that they were in error
But they fought that change, and
may be counted upon to fight this
change. Added to these are some
who, for selfish reasons, object to
seeing the business management plan
put into effect, and they with their
followers and other beneficiaries of
the present system, will undoubtedly
make a very formidable opposition
on March 3lst.
1t therefore behooves every good
citizen, whether or not he favors the
new plan, to carefully examine into
the character and qualifications of
the men who offer themselves as can
didates for the five elective offices,
mayor and councilmen.
Remember, that these men, if
elected and no change is made from
the present system, will have control
of the biggest business in the city,
the city itself, Upon them will de
pend, to a great extent, what your
taxes will be, what your special as
sessments will be, what influence will
be thrown about your boys and girls,
what encouragement will be given to
strangers to come to Burlington to
make their homes. They will have
the spending Of your money and the
enforcement of your laws. Other cit
les and other citizens will know you
through them and form their opin-
ions of you and of your city through
the acts of these men you select and
entrust with your affairs.