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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
BY 7. w. ANDERSOM
FOOLING THE FARMER S% !: >S'
Farmer-LabOy Party q !.

OF men who have travelled all over tbo
it must have cost many thousands Of An 'ae adyOs
tain this money did not come from faa andtb
Milling Trust and Packers Trust could IIarmers
nance this movement, just as thew fnonos ' aod h.
ton Of the Farm Bureau for both tboso ae orga
in their interests and not for the banof4 movements
If in doubt read the testimony of Mr. Cro o. The f
isative representative Of the Farm Rno. ,oler ae
ton on the Laid and Norris Farm Relief '~ a.. IN Wa@5
his testimony favOring the milling and l'gaSuea Al
the railroads and big business in oeno,i P'AeS g
All this is in perfect harmony with tba r.
the money trust of America to dominate n liked policy
organizations and the farm leaders Of t5o la paa
What has become of the farmers ,vboot touuIly
when it was reaching position where if pU@' j@
enough to benefit the farmers it is nractsan De &
and we see little about it in the papers wbio ~ G'
of the wheat growers have run off after fiji. T v e
Whisp-Why? "A7-is
In all fairness it should be remembered Hbo4
est men are supporting this measure but tbo ln
msled and deceived and do not understand A. nave peg
pose of this movement is to protect the Mlors
ers and perpetuate our present fake tariff on Fa
reasonable to suppose that they will publicly 5 n'a
together with its traitOrous leaders who have nr.
Abandoned the farmers wheat pool lust as # y..
to position of power and influence
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08

Ihere are something like sixty million dollars of these
funds for which the banks have been paying less than
per cent interest Under the terms of the bill credit
could be extended only for productive purposes all spec
uatlve loans being expressly prohibited. The business
was to be conducted at cost.
The bankers fought the bill, spending not less than
forty thousand dollars to defeat it. The Republican and
Democratic parties each fought it. Both parties were
literally financed for the purpose. The president of the
Farmers Union, John W. Batcheler Joined the bankers
and politicians IN opposition to the bill
OF course, the people got what they voted forbank
failures They are bitterly repentng their foIlv
They would for State Bank now because thew have
discovered that the state banks which were said to have
their deposits guaranteed by the state are not SO
tected The guarantee is simply that of the associated
banks They assess themselves 25 cents on every hind
red dollars to pay the depositors in failed banks Every
bank keeps its proportion of this fund in IT'S own
VAULTS so as to make that it will have the money
to pay It's depostors when it fails It is great Joke in
this time OF crisis There is about 100000 in this fund
and the banks that open have the fund There Is
more than five million dollars tied up in failed banks and
the number OF failures is increasing every day. fine
prospect for depositors
The state and its counties have millions of dollars do
posted IN the banks Nobody knows Just how much loss
has been sustained already. or where theeend will no
The state authorities give out word The counties in
some instances are trying to protect themselves with the
bonds Oh old line eastern guarantee companies
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
Statement to the United Mine Workers CoDr,.s
(By the Workers Party of American

Statement to the United Mine Workers Convent.
(By the Workers Party of American
gress to make these demands and fight for them an,
fight of the whole miners organization for this n
The passage Of law compelling operators to nsv9.
to unemployed will Immediately relieve the sufpTn
existing IN the coal industry The six-hour day and n
day week will help solve the unemployed problem m
standardize production in the coal fields OnvnaHmr
ton Of the mines will bring permanent solution ALA
problem of overdeveIopment and mismangaemeDt Fr A.
operators.
Miners: This is real program for the coal njuar
This is real program for the coal miners.
Naturalization! The six-hour day and fvedav vsl
Immediate unemployment relief from the coal operator
delegation to Congress to demand passage Of a4
laws This is your program. Make the fight in Vu
Convention. Get something real out of the cODvnsr
for the miners.
The miners must save themselves!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08

rons of the bank are permitted to deposit money and
check against their own deposits, but cannot draw any
money they had no deposit before the state took hold
The Sioux Falls Trust & Savings Bank is therefor
closed, but the state of South Dakota is running the
bank. This approximates an experiment in communist
winch would have been considered as rank treason; les
than year ago, when the bill for state bank was be
ing fought by the Republican machine, the RepuOi@
politicians, the Democratic politicians, the capitals
press and the president of the Farmers Union
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
NO FUNDS,
AND NO CREDIT.

The banks failures are reflection of the condition of
the mortgaged farmers. People cannot pay obligations
due the banks if they get nothing for their labor The
paper held by the great majority of the banks-al of
that which hung over from tmes-and this con
stitutes the bulk-has little equity in it.
The efforts of the War Finance Corporation have
failed The establishment of the intermediate Credit
Banks, in connection with the Government Land Bank
machine deliberately framed to take up the frozen credits
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08

of the local banks and unload their bad paper on the
government, cannot the day. The paper held by
the bank is just valuable are the farm assets-but
no more So it is practically worthless In one instance
that of the failure of the First National at Messing
ton Springs, which of the rottenest of the long
line OF recent failures Overures being made to de-
postOrs to take ten cents the dollar for their claims
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
BANKRUPTCY COURTS
COURTS BOOMING

While the banks thus popping everywhere steady
stream OF broken farmers crOwdng the bankruptcy
courts And this in spite Of the agreement of most of
the lawyers made with the banks over a year ago not
to take bankruptcy of the farmers This closed
shop agreement of the lawyers and bankers does not
work There are enough honest lawyers who are scab
bng on the SYSTEM that the farmers are having that
much relief in the where they can raise ENOUGH
money to pay the court costs.
All of this is making a profound impression on the
minds OF the farmers and industrial workers. And it is
taking the starch out of the retired farmers and town.
people of small means All their conventional ideas about
the sacredness and stability of the capitalist system are
beng rudey shaken They becoming ready to listen
to talk OF change of the system And the fellow who
shouts warning against the red flag the Third nterna
tonal and Communism will get the same kind of a laugh
Which that sort got just after the Russian revolution
when they thought they would the farmers out of
the NOn-Partisan League by calling them Bolshevks
The farmers promptly called themselves BoIshevis And
II the Communist cry is raised the farmers will probably
admit and adopt that designation Our farmers are not
afraid OF names. They know there are no farm mort
cages being fOrecosed in Russia.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
"BACK-DOOR"
STATE BANKING.

The irony of the situation is shown bv the fact +o
the state against its will has been forced into the hank
ing business The failure Of the Sioux Falls Trust E
Savings Bank compelled the state officials to 90 into t
banking business-through the back door
The state has much money tied up in that bank and
the Guarantee commission took the institution I'M
der the charge of the State Banking Commseioo pn4
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
THE LESSON
LEARNED

These conditions are making rapid changes II ,.5
minds of the farmers and industrial workers. nv
ships Of the past year, and the certainty OF gea o
ships during the coming year, have opened U5l ocp
to the necessity for fundamental change III ~ bsa
omc system Fifty years of agitation couu NV md ac
accomplished such progress. Now they lSsn love vel
cept. Without the conditions, they would lo' Nov
coined anything that proposed needed cl1 ia would
realizing that any change must be futile VIM" are abo
leave the Wall Street crowd in cOntro-mey
ready for a farmers and workers government
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
THE STATE
BANK BILL

Two years ago the South Dakota NOn-Partisan League
initiated bill providing for State Bank with branches
IN every county, and giving authority to the Commission
created by the law, to establish other banks where the
people petOned for them. All the state and other pub
lie funds were to be deposited in these public banks
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-08
ALL ILLUSIONS
VANISHING

Meantime the illusions of the farmers and WORRIES
are rapidly passing away. They take kindly to the P
gram OF the Farmer-LabOr Party, fayOring hVe3~
extension on the payment of farm debts and lana ~
the users-which they regard as their only hope lo '
future. have letter from one farmer who has an0
started the slogan eff we cannot get stay the4 v
heck, we'll never pay"
Reverting to the loss of their land through 1ols@ H.
ure, 1t is common to hear the expression that -
United States had never sold an acre Of land OF aO'
an acre to be homesteaded there would be no mOlg4
farms, and no tenants except tenants Of the gO's
ment, who could remain through their lives, ana
tain that their children would have land to use VIZ
they passed on, and be unmoested by any money O''
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
COMING EVENTS
Jan, 20-2S-Atlantic Union Conference
of Seventh DAY Ad,cnt ieta Cra.i.asz

Jan, 20-2S--Atlantic Union Conference
OF seventh Day Adventists, Spring
field. Mass.
Jan. estate Chamber of Commerce.
Augusta.
Jan. S0-31-Twelftb annual conference
of Maine Grange Lecturers at State
House, Augusta.
Feb. 6-Fair officials annual meeting,
guests of Cumberland County Agri-
cultural and Horticultural Society
at Portland.
Feb. Maine Sportsmen Fish and
Game Association annual meeting.
State House.
Feb. 7-9-Maine State Checker Tour
nament, Auburn.
Feb. 7-9-U. of Nj Winter Carnival.
Feb. 7-e-Bates Winter Carnival.
Feb. 12-13-Meeting of Western Maine
Fruit Growers Association at Au-
burn
Feb. 14-March S-Coast -to-coas st trip,
Sponsored by Portland Ad. Club.
Feb. 14.16-Auburn Winter Carnival
Feb. 22-23-Winter Carnival, Damaris-
Feb. 25-Mar. Annual Portland Auto
Feb. 25-27-Chizzle wizzle.
March l2-Democratic State conven-
tion. Lewiston City hall.
March 51-April Annual Farmers
week at the College of Agriculture,
University of Maine. Orono.
June 14-1S-240th Artillery, c. A. e.
officers school. Fort Wright. Long
Island Sound.
June 1s-21-Field Artillery school.
PresQue Isle.
June 23-2s-s6th Infantry Brigade Of
f1cers training school Camp Reyes.
Augusta.
June ef-Democratic National conven-
ton New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
Olden Knights Were
Small Sized Men /:

Cleveland. Jan. 21-(By A. Ply
Suits Of armor worn by knights Of
old would fit tightly on the average
high school lad of today Few men
now are small enough to squeeze into
the coats OF mail at the Museum of
Art here.
Men of the Middle Ages must have
averaged about 1870 pounds in weight,
believes William NJ. MiIliken, cufator
OF decorative arts, who also ffnds that
rounded paunches did not thrive I'm
the age of steel corselets-ats least
among the fighting men.
Workmen have just assembled the
latest acquisition for the museums
armor room. a rare suit of mail for
man and horse. 1t was worn by n
gallant Of the 18th century. Dents
ih the plates show the armor suffered
lusty blows. Yet the wearer Had
waist line of only 80 inches, a calf 10
inches In circumference and would
wear q No. 8 shoe in modern foot
wear.
VIRTUALLY all medieval arnror Is
correspondingIy SMALL says Mr..
Milliken. 'tIn European galleries There
Is hardly suit Of mail that would fit
the average sized man of today.f
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
English Dancing Companions
Cost Sixpence Measure

London, Jan. IA. p. by MaiD-
Greater London is going dance crazy.
The whole city. from its foggy heart
to its standardized suburbs, abounds
with public dance halls and sup
posedly private dance clubs. where
anybody with clean shave and eve
ming clothes can pay the price and
become a member on a moments no.
tice.
Hammersmith, which begins where
the fashionable West End ends, Is
perhaps the greatest rendezvous in
the world for dancers who are middle
class but happy. It's "Palais de
Dance" has provided room for hun
drc6s of x-trotters nightly for
years, and now a few blocks away at
Olympia there has been opened 1.-THE
biggest dance floor in the world"
1t is big enough to keep 1000 couples
off one another's feet simultaneously.
The opening night 5000 people rushed
in before o'clock and the doors had
to he shut on 1900 more men and
maids and matrons who wanted to
come in out Of the mist.
Just north of the theatre district.
where he~e are many dancing clubs
for those who can ignore the expense
and do not mind having their style
cromped bv enroaoching tables
adorned with champagne bottles,
there Is a dance club with several
thousand members. Every night, Sum
days as well as week days. II II
crowded Tea-time is dancing time
In the West End for hundreds who
have nothing else to do with their
afternoons. and in many OF the hotels
the afternoon dancers have hardly
left when the night crowd begins to
arrive.
East OF the East End dance clubs
are springing UP on almost as large
a scale as West of the West End.
The inhabitants Of East Ham will
soon have a ballroom for 500 couples.
and Cricklewood already has a SINH
lar place to satisfy its rhythmic i'm
pulses. So has wibledon and WiIles-
den Green and many others.
About nine-tenths Of all the tunes
danced TO In these private and public
bathrooms Of London come here from
America. Usually IL takes several
months for a fox-trot or blues to
make the voyage hut. at that London
can laugh at the Continental capitals.
for in some Of them the dance or
chestras still satisfy the patrons
with "AIexander's Rastime Band"
while every fiapper In England has
known about the scarcity Of bananas
for months. +. American musicians
make up most Of the better known
dance orchestras. for somehow Euro
peans have never learned TO play
jazz music well enough to satisfy the
discriminating.
TS q. rnt reoe~aarv 70 taxa a Girl "a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
Bates Outing Club
Real Active in
Winter Sports Life
(SpeciaI to Kennebec Journall

Especial to Kennebec JournaD
Lewiston. Jan. 21-The Outing
Club is taking it's usual active part
in the winter life of the college.
Skiing, snowshoe hiking. skating and
tobogganing are being promoted.
A space has been cleared near the
hockey rink for skaters and Johnny
Baker '2s. versatile football and
baseball star Is on hand daily to
teach the ambitious difficult tricks on
the ice. Johnny is the ablest fancy
skater the college boasts and Is well
al le to fill his Office. Eight tobog-
gans are available and wait only
for sufficient snow for their use. A
slide Is to be constructed on Mt.
David as soon as the weather per-
mits. Snowshoe hiking Is proving to
be one of the most popular forms or
physical work with fifty men regis
tered for three hourly hikes a week.
This is carried on under the guild
ance of the Outing Club. Another
accomplishment of the Club Is the
securing of two cabins. one at No
Name Pond and the. other at Sabat-
tus Lake for the accommodation or
hiking parties. Both cabins have al.
ready been the scene of week END
parties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
STAR HURLER DEAN
BALkS AT CONTRACT
OFFERED BY GIANTS

New York, Jan. z1-wayland Dean
star pitcher Of the Louisville club OF
the American Association, recently
purchased by the New York Giants
today returned unsigned the 1924 con-
tract sent him by the National Lea
que champions. Dean, who thus be-
comes the first Giant holdout, inform
ed the club that financial terms offer
ed him were not satisfactory.
Giant officials did not reveal wheth-
er Dean was dissatisfied alone with
the salary terms or whether he want
ed a portion of the purchase price.
which was said to have amounted to
the equivalent of more than $4,000 in
cash and players.
His case recalled the fact that the
Giants experienced difficulty signing
another expensive pitching recruit a
year ago, Jack Bentley, whose re-
lease from the Baltimore Orioles cost
john McGraw about, $4,000. Bent
ley demanded share Of the pur-
chase price and did not report until q
settlement was made with him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
Million to Be Spent
On Rockefeller Estate
For Country Club

New York. Jan. 21.-One million
dollars will be spent converting into
an elaborate country club of national
scope the estate of the late William
Rockefeller, near Tarrytown. N. T..
for which a syndicate. headed by
Frank II. Hitchcock. former POST
master general. is understood to have
maid 81 500, 900. The total cost. $780,
900. probably represents the largest
outlay ever made in this country In
such n venture.
The 400 acres Of the estate will per-
nit construction of a complete re-
creational retreat overlooking the
Hudson in the Westminster hills. one
hour by train or motor from the city
and accessible to ocean-going yachts
Two 1S-hole golf courses. outdoor
and indoor swimming pools, yacht
ing and canoeing. tennis courts
stables to take advantage of numer-
Gus bridlepaths and various facili-
ties for winter sports are items in the
prospectus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
Pioneer Governors
Prophecy Comes True

Lewiston. Idaho, Jan. 81 CA. Pr
Sixty years ago the first governor of
Idaho reviewed the 60 years that
had preceded him in the history of
the United States, with particular
reference to the Pacific Northwest,
and made a prediction of what the
succeeding 60 years would bring.
The review and prediction were
made by William II. Wallace and de-
livered to the legislature of the new
4 y created territory of Idaho. The
territorial capital was Lewiston, on
the site of which. at the confluence
of the Snake and Salmon rivers,
Captain Meriwether Lewis and
Lieutenant William Clark, officers in
the United States army, sent west
by President Jefferson, had camped
in 1904.
The address by Governor Wallace,
in 1854. cast back over the three
score years since white men first
had seen the spot on which 1t was
delivered, and told what he believed
the west might expect by 1924. With
fluctuations which might be quoted
from any ceremonious address, the
territorial executive, with the sigma
ture of Abraham Lincoln hardly dry
on his certificate of appointment,
began his talk.
~ Il congratulate you" he told the
legislators, upon those indications
of rapid and permanent growth with
which we are surrounded.
sixty years ago little did Presi =
dent Jefferson dream of what this
country would be today, and much
less did he dream of what, 1t will be
so years hence"
His listeners were a handful of
members of the upper and lower
branches. Not all the electees were
present. Representatives of parts of
the infant territory which now are
Montana and Wyoming had been
named by the voters. but to reach
the Legislative inaugural they had 10
choose between the trip over the
backbone of the Continental Divide
or journey from Virginia City and
Eannack to Salt Lake City, west to
San Francisco. north along the coast
to the Columbia and up it and the
Snake river to Lewiston.
With this difficulty of travel in
mind. the new governor made this
predictions: 1.-THE child is born who
shall see railroads and telegraphs
connecting our great centers of trade
with the Atlantic and Pacific oceans;
who shall not only see the mex
haustible mineral wealth of this
country developed. but shall see the
trade of Asia turned from its ancient
channels and the road across this
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-22
continent become the great highway

continent become the great highway
of travel.
HE shall see the states of the Pa
cific rival those of the Atlantic sea-
board in population and wealth. he
shall see a city located on the west
ern side of the continent by the
Pacific ocean surprising in trade
and magnificence ancient Tyre when
she sat as queen and her merchants
were princes, and cities in the in
terror surprising Palmyra and Per-
sepolis in the days of their glory.
He shall see the capital of the ma
ton removed to the valley of the
Mississippi, not four days journey
from either ocean. Then shall the
population of the mountain states be
counted by the tens of millions and
Idaho shall be one of the first of
states"
Remarkable was the accuracy of
the vision of Governor Wallace in
view of the fact that Lewiston.
virtually the only settlement in the
immense territory which was then
Idaho, excluding placer camps of the
mountains, had itself come into being
merely as trading post through
which were handled the supplies OF
the gold seekers.
Governor Wallace considered HIM
self an old resident of the coast
region. He had, after serving in the
Iowa legislature and holding federal
office as receiver of public moneys
in Iowa, Travelled west to California
and north in 1853 to the settlements
of Puget Sound.
In the Indian wars of the fifties
he had raised a company and COM
manded it in campaigns in the Puy-
allup and Snoqualmie valleys while
young Lieutenant Philip Sheridan
was Furnishing the redskins on the
Naches and the Yakima. In 1861 a
vacancy had occurred in the COVER
norship Of Washington territory and
Wallace had been named to the place
by President Lincoln. His tenure
was short. however, as he resigned
to seek place as Washington's dele
gate in Congress. When governor of
Idaho he followed n similar course.
and Rad hardly completed his hCp.-
full account of the giories he fore
saw for Idaho before he resigned rs
executive to wage a successful cam
paign for 1dahc's delegateship to the
national capital.
Governor Wallace was So years old
when he made his sixty-year review
and stxty-year prediction. He was
IS when he died, after living TO see
the beginning of the railroads and
telegraphs. tn" commerce from Asia
AMI the growth D: the cities nc had
phophcs'ed.