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Evening star., 1927-11-18

Thomas Jamison Co., and unoccupied,
no visible damage"
"15I1 d street northeast, owned by
Thomas Jamison, unoccupied; skylight
blown off. roof and walls badly dam.
aged, and several window panes
broken. $500.
"1513 u street northeast, owned by
Thomas Jamison CO., and unoccupied,
roof blown off, rear porch blown down.
interior damaged badly by water and
several window panes broken, $4,000.
"1515 d street northeast, owned and
occupied by Ruth McCrey, top Of house
blown off, level with the top of win.
dows on second floor, rear porch
blown off. interior and furniture bad.
ly damaged; occupants forced TO move
| out. $4,000.
"1517 D street northeast, owned by
Thomas Jamison Co, and unoccupied,
roof badly damaged. and partly blown
Off. interior damaged by rain water,
1000.
"1519 d street northeast, owned by
Thomas Jamison Co., and unoccupied,
roof badly damaged and partly blown
off, top of rear porch blown away and
interior badly damaged by rain water,
81 800.
Rain Causes Damage
1921 d street northeast, owned by
Thomas Jamison Co, unoccupied;
roof partly blown off, and badly dam.
aged; interior damaged by rain water
and top of rear porch blown away.
81 800.
1923 u street northeast, owned by
Thomas Jamison Co., and unoccupied:
| roof badly damaged and interior dam.
/ aged by wateF 1880.
"l452 d street northeast. grocery
store, owned and occupied by Orezio
Fagnoni, large plate-glass window on
Fifteenth street side and small plate
glass window on d street side broken
by flying debris, $500
Benning Road Losses.
1887 Benning road northeast, oc-
cupied by Anysis Dyson, roof blown
off and front Of house blown out,
81 900.
1885 Benning road northeast,
owned by Saul Aronoff and occupied
by Lester Perry, roof blown off and
front of house blown out, $4,000.
1888 Benning road northeast,
owned by Saul Aronoff and occupied
by Mary Murphy, roof blown on and
front OF house blown out. $4,000.
1881 Benning road northeast. oc-
cupied by John Petrone, roof blown
off and front OF house blown out,
50 900.
1929 Benning road northeast.
! owned and occupied by Jennie How
ard, roof blown off ard front OF house
blown out. $4,000.
1897 Benning road northeast, oc.
cupied by Mary Lou Slmms. roof
blown off and front Of house blown
out, 81. 1000.
1925 Benning road northeast.
owned and occupied by Annie Wilson,
roof blown Off and front or mouse
blown in. $4,000.
1923 Benning road northeast
owned. and occupied.byI. outset Luokett.
Evening star., 1927-11-18
Macdonald in Failing Health.

LONDON. November IS [F).-The
health of Ramsay Macdonald. former
Labor premier, is still causing his
friends some anxiety and the Labor
leader is still under medical super.
vision. but his condition is not so bad
as has been reported in some papers.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
WHAT A PAY ROLL!
(FrOm the Helena Independent)

The Producers News (Plentywood) says the
newspapers which are ridiculing and abusing Nav
or Thompson of Chicago are the paid agents of
the King of England and every one of them are
either being paid directly their real owners are
receiving money from Great Britain to spread the
wicked propaganda in that country
What payroll that old king must have but he
should be able to put just more editor on the
list and then The Producers News would be good
Only the other day the bishop of London ex-
pressed the fear the American school children are
being taught to hate Great Britain and all her
works. Here we have a contrast the bishop of
London against Red Flag Taylor, of Plentywood,
Montana, who joins Big Bill Thompson in twisting
the lions tall
The fact is there are so many writer's seeking to
cook the bunk out of history, that the thing is
rather well done and nicely Drowned around the
edges. Many of the great men of the revolution
have been painted selfish and noisy busybodies,
and our early national heroes have had consider
able of the starch taken out of their stories.
On the one side have many expressing the
fear that were about to annex to merry England,
admitting our mistake about teas and taxes and all
that. On the other side, equally insstent, are
those who are expecting war with Great Britain
anv moment, the way anti-British propaganda is
being disseminated in this country.
Let's not get too excited about this. We don't
hate King George and the crop-headed parliament
at all. Neither we bending the knee in tribute
to them.
We're just couple of nice countries, trying to
get along and we won't have any war at all unless
the Producers News greatly increases its circula-
ton and Bill Thompson is taken more seriously.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
Economic Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
Boss Gun Boonns

The mere hint from President Grace
OF Bethlehem Steel that the steel
industry might be forced to reduce
wages echoes ominously throughout
the lana. Is it the first gun in a gen
eral drive to reduce the level of Amer
lean wages?
The discussions centering around
the fall meeting of the iron and steel
institute are more ominous just be-
cause the country's steel captains pro-
test that they do not want to cut wag-
es. They are being forced along an
unwelcome course by he irresistible
current of world capitalism heading
for decay.
The leaders of capitalism are open
advocates of high wages as a stim-
ulus to business. They are more
afraid to begin drive on wages than
in 1920 when there were no outstand-
ing billions of consumers debts Great
ed by instalment payment plans. Big
business tremble at the thought of
what may happen to this new element
in the credit structure if the flow of
wages decreases.
They honestly 90 not want to cut
wages, yet the situation is rapidly
approaching the point where under
capitalism they cannot help it. U. S.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
r. R. Employment Police Not
Much Affected by Union Plan

Interstate commerce commission
railroad statistics again raise the
question whether shopmen have real
ly gained increased stability of en-
ployment on roads which have ac-
cepted the Encouragement COOP
Grafton program. The contention that
such cooperation means better en-
ployment was advanced to counter the
criticism that wages are no higher on
carriers where such cooperation pre-
walls.
Charts in the wage report for Aug
ust show for leading systems the
course of shop employment August,
1925 to July, 1927. The chart com
pairing shop employment on the Bal
tlmore d Ohio with the PENNSYLVANIA
IS significant because the B. & O.
took the lead in cooperating with the
union while the Pennsylvania, under
Atterburys direction, led in the fight
to make the railroad shops non-union.
The trend of shop employment on
both the B. & o. and the PENNSYLVANIA
has been downward since March.
1926, but the decline came earlier on
the B. q 0. On the other hand at the
end of the period employment had
fallen somewhat more below the aver
age on the Pennsylvania than on the
B. & o. - ''i0
In tn months March-June. 1926.
shop employment fell off 91b% on
the B. & 0. as against a reduction of
The producers news., 1927-11-25

less than $50 on the PENNSYLVANIA.
by September employment in B. & O.
shops was more than 11@o below the
March level while in the PENNSYLVANIA
shops it was still at a level less than
90 below the peak. When the year
ended employment on the B. & o. was
down 1870 and on the Pennsylvania
less than go.
In the 2-year period the range of
employment on the B. & o. was from
about $40 above the average in
March, 1926 to 10 below in May,
1927. The lowest figure meant that
about 14@o of the shopmen EMPLOYED
at the peak had been laid off. In
Pennsylvania shops the correspond
ing range was from 686 above aver
age in March and April, 1926 to 11%
below in July, 1927. Here the low
est figure meant a layoff to about
1910 of the workers employed at the
peak.
If we take employment in October.
1925 as 1000 we find that employ
ment has fallen to about the same
degree on both roads with the falling
off beginning about II months earli-
er on the B. & o. than on the Penn
sylvania. On this basis July, 1927.
shop employment stands at 8926 on
each system. The attitude of the
separate managements toward the
shop unions appear to have little af-
tect on their employment policies.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
IMPLEMENT CONCERNS PROFITS

The steadily mounting profits of the big farm
equipment corporations show one wav in which
New York finance is getting its share of the slow
ly increasing purchasing power of the farmers. :"
says Leland Olds of the Federated Press. "These
profits are byproduct of the advancing indus
trialization of agriculture especially calculated to
whet the appetite of Wall street Financial writ
ers are exutng in the fact that these enterprises
are rounding out what will undoubtedly prove the
best year in the last decade
international Harvester, the giant of the in
dustry, showed 1926 profit of $24,O88, 900 after
all deductions for taxes depreciation and interest
This was an increase of about $4, 900 over the
preceding year. 1t was more than double the pro-
fits of 1923 when the swag amounted to S1O-
274OOO
Deere Co., next in point of size, reported a
1926 profit of 1852, 900 compared with S4.514
600 in 1925 and $1,789,OOO in 1928 While the
Case Threshing Machine Co. showed a 1926 profit
of $3,S17,OOO compared with S2,973, 900 in 1925
and only $634,OOO in 1923.
These three companies after passing through
the period of depression in farm purchasing pow
er' are again presenting their stockholders with
return which will mean extra dividends and stock
dividends In the future The profit of the Har-
vester Trust, after allowance for 7@6 preferred di
Wdends gave the common stockholders a return of
l972% on their normal investment or about 2496
II allowance is made for recent stock dividends
Deere Company's profit, after paying regular
preferred dividends, meant return of 291a9s on
the par value of tn ecommon stock while Case
Ihreshing Machine also gave its stockholders
return of more than 2O9e
The profits of these farm implement con-
Germs year by year since 1918, as tabulated in the
Chicago Journal of Commerce, were:
Farm implement
The producers news., 1927-11-25

Steel 3rd quarter profits barely met
the interest of dividends on the big
corporations inflated capitalization.
Bethlehem and Republic steels are la
boring under even greater difficulties.
Hints that we are on the verge of
another period of deflation come from
other industries. And that the situa-
tion in this country is linked with
that in other capitalist countries is
suggested by the statistical depart
ment of the British electrical manu-
facturers association which talks of
the danger of unparalleled world de-
preston:
France, Italy, Spain, Austria,
CzechOslOcakia, Holland and of
course Great Britain" says the as
sOciatiOn, "are depressed, while the
upward movement of production i'm
Germany, Sweden and the United
States has come to an end and de-
cline set in. Unless some effective
check is interpOsed on the part of
industry world deflatiOn will set in
with world depression on an unpar-
alleled scale until the policy of ad-
Justment comes to an ond or bank
ing policy becomes sufficiently elias
tic to allow greater latitude. in the
definition of the gold ratiO.'
The producers news., 1927-11-25
WHEELER is A CANDIDATE
Dawson County Review

dawson county ReVleW)
b. K. Wheeler, our junior senator, has thrown
his hat in the ring and told all of us that he
wants to be reelected next fall
Of course this announcement has not caused any
surprise but the amusing side of it. at least to the
Republicans, is the deep gloom it has caused among
many of our Democratic brethren
The Old-line Democrats just love Wheeler! It is
sweet pleasure to them to get out and beat the
tom toms and whoop it up for Wheeler Wheeler
who thrust the Democrats to one side three years
ago and ran with LaFollette on the third party
ticket! Wheeler-who in 1920 was Nonpartisan
and fought the Anaconda tooth and TAIL Wheeler
who is anything at any time that looks best to
him, who uses all men for his personal advantage
and then forgets them, Wheeler-who pretends to
be bosom friend of Labor and still has the fond
est support of the Anaconda today! Oh, how they
love him!
They love him so much that many of them. like
several local Democratic leaders, are too busy when
he comes around to introduce him or even to dine
with him! But will venture to say that after
he has received the Democratic nomination these
same friends" will sit the platform with him
and toot the horn for him-even if it gags them
to do it,
The producers news., 1927-11-25

cy might be taken on profitably, and a filling
station put out in front of the parsonage A
moving picture show featuring all of the late SEN
sations could be put on in the church proper dur
ing week day nights-to raise revenue to pay for
the expense incidental to providing salvation for
the members and thus furnish it almost if not
entirely free to the membership. If this failed
to raise the required revenue, there are other
lines yet that could be exploited
We enjoy the consistency-or lack of it-of
some of our citizens-even if we do have to carry
over our Christmas card stock, while the busi-
ness is sent out of town and our printers are idle
ana the Christmas card idea of supporting the
church is deucedly clever.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
What Other Editors Say
Clipped From Our Exchanges
OUR SENATORIAL BOYS COME
HOME.
(From Butte independently
rom Our Exchanges

Senators Walsh and Wheeler having enjoyed
their summer holidays in foreign parts-the form
er in Geneva and the latter in China-have return
ed to this poor benighted State of Montana to
look over the natives and incidentally to pay some
much-needed attention to their political fences
These fences are in wretchedly bad shape and it
would to us that it will require more than
the combined political acumen of our Senatorial
brace to effectively repair before the next election
the tremendous damage which these fences have
sustained In recent years There is no enthusiasm
manifest IN any locality of Montana for either of
the gentlemen but the chill blasts of adverse cri-
ticism are not unlikely to assume the proportions
of Tornado between now and election morn The
storm OF dlsapproval against these men has long
been gathering in force and intensity and is des-
tined soon to break So therefore, Tommy Senior
and Burton Junior come merrily marching home
The producers news., 1927-11-25
MUZZLES
Magruder-Summerall.

NllCchell-Ma -Magruder-SummeraIl
Remember those three names,
They represent a great truth CONCERNING orr Ma
slohal Defense: in the air-on the sea-and on
land. anu oii
we have just witnessed the final cbanter IN tho
puohc dlsciplining and humiliation of one Of tbe
ABOVE trio for telling the people what he tbopcbt
was the matter with his department
rigader-General Mitchell-Assistant Chief o+
Cne Army Air Service was two years ago dronned
from ms command and denoted for TELLING boy1
.ne Army and Navy bureaucrats were tbrottIiro.
the infant air service.
MaJ.-Gen. Charles P. Summerall biobes+ ,or1.
ing officer of the U. S. Armv-was n,,,,ora1
pack to Washington in the midst of an ingnection
tour OF army barracks because he said at San
Dlego' Callt, on October lit have seen cor-
man prisoners housed in better quarters than o7r
a american soldiers are now occupying His criti-
,-ll Iisn was against niggardly Congress which
Aeeps the soldiers quartered in novels that wonld
no. De tolerated in logging camp.
ADMIRAL 1. 2. Magruder wrote an article for =
ud@gazlne IN which he said we were spending 5000
OoO'VOO per year for a $2OOOOOOOO Navv-wbicb
,I lu not include the appropriations for new sbins
re was relieved of his post, ordered to Wasbing-
'on-and now is awaiting orders" which lil,oI,
means ne will have nothing to do but warn, H.
eTls T ul.n the retirement age creeps up on him.
1sh 1t about time such high-handed n,o+hoJa
were ended? There is no place for M1sso1in; 49,
The producers news., 1927-11-25

Even deducting the losses of the bad wears
iSzI and 1922 when the farmers were going
bankrupt by the tens of thousand, these three
companies have made combined profits totaling
over SloO,OOO,OOO in the years included in the
table. international Harvester alone has made
profits totang $125883OOO in that period or about
lIo%o on its entire 1919 property account.
All companies are so well buIwarlxod with
surplus profits and reserves that they do not need
10 go TO money lenders for working capitaI In
ternational Harvester at the end of 1925 bo5 oot
working capital totaling $169 4O2 900. an incraaso
OF $26,OOO,OOO over 1923. Harvester's net WORK.
ing capital exceeds the entire par value of its ont
standing securities. Deere & Co. reports NOT
working capital totaling $35,SO3,OOO and Case
1hreshng Machine total of $18921 900.
Sales of farm equipment companies in Septem
ber according to the Chicago Federal Reserve
Bank, were 1920 ahead of last year. For the
year thus far they are running about 2a6 ahead of
1916 and 39% above the average monthly sales
Tor the years 1923-25. 1t is on the basis of such
1lgures that financial writers predict record pro
Its for the industry in 1927 Especially as farm
equipment manufacturers have followed the gen
eral trend Of industry, constantly reducing the
number OF wage earners required for a given ont
put" W" 0"'
IN other words the Farm Implement Conopanies
are making money even if the average user of their
lnaCnlnes are going into bankruptcy
The producers news., 1927-11-25
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDU-
CATION
CONTINUED from last week.

3. WHAT WERE THE PRODUCTION METH
obs OF SOCIETY UNDER PRIMITIVE TRI-
BAL COMMUNISM?
Although the activity Of the first human society
was uninterruptedly bound up with the use of i'm
pements, at the first stages of its existence this
society used negligible number of implements.
Implements had not yet made the man; he only
used whatever he found around him, as result
of which the development of production methods
went on very slowly. The use of fire took place
at very early stage of the development Of human
society. Fire was discovered accidentally; for
this reason fire was not made at first, but only
kept going, and carried from one place to anoth-
er The making of fire took place at later period
OF development of human society.
Labor in the primitive communist organization
was used almost exclusively for the acquisition
OF food and for the struggle against wild beasts.
lms was the basis of the economic activity OF
primitive communist society. On account OF the
extreme limitation of requirements and the eX-
ceedingly low methods of production, the power
OF nature over the primitive society OF human
beings was limitess- Thus in primitive, tribal
communist society," Man does not rule over Nature
Dut on the contrary, he is in complete suoJecVlon
70 her and his emancipation from slavery 70
Nature, goes on step by step together with ene
development of the implements of labor
Continued next week.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
FRIDAY, November D n,

viii have real str"gg, when :.
hands if the present stuggle on 0s Y
gress is to cOntin~a !, rate Of w
OF trans-Pacific traff;c tqalng ao.s
ing feature of our ny MY. The Oufst.s9l
Trade between the GTTISt%ar TIn;%sa cOmms...ai'
T6e 00o orient Or 9a,I has grown 1ya fronS States 5
Ihis trade he savs s''uou'OOO in Ss' lSSs
of Of oup pI tour our total imports so9 sGo9p't
The share of the Trr;..,
the total imports int CHIyed C1 States 4
creased from 6% in nv Io,6l nina has
1926 Corresponding ioro iDcS.to to lsS = +
case of the other { far INCREASES IN Il. II
kets have been JapaH 5oF eastern ny, y
Zealand, Z 1919 to III. + Brit%, zz%, New
to AZ, Malaga 29 10 39ot'lsh 9e India ;
East Indies 2@6 to 8c5 90 and Dut,S
Our ? keenest rival.
Ileld says Klein. ARE Grs.. s n n the
and Germany, althongSS SS'eat Britain
every, every European country practically oos
directly with one or an0,,n cOnpets
oil our export products, 'e1er 0. Group
est, est success success SO far in meetDgg f great si
competition g? from Europe o'SS.ng Sag this
IN China and Japan y Vpe mas been
American exports 70 A.,
machinery, $79,OOO,OOO worth Wort worth 70 o
motive mo- products and tires es'1 sId. 81 auto
GOO worth of petroIenn.' I' SIO6SOO,
$126, q oSO ,SOO, 600 worth of pa raw Products
Soo,OOO,OOO worth of iron @ ers cotton
products, $31,OOO,OOO wortS Tlr ana stee
Der, 100000 worth of Of VI wboI. o. hn
Hour u and $15,OOO,OOO worth b"nsat ne an
cloth. Such figures sng,ol. 10, 81 'Otto
widely distributed is tbe basseN ;ss hOl
exports from the United S,eIeS StstesS ! !
oriental markets. This troJo ~'S'eS
means jobs to about 3OOO06a aue ,S sloN
The extension of this traJe trad WORKER I, s.:.
to industry. 1t hangs preearion,,g,.l i T. gl''
the country's ability to continus ilrusly . :
rapid advancement of tecbnio ,r'!ae = =
consequent cuts in prodnrt;oU U wit
and improvements in ouaIit, O. l. cosl
put. Meanwhile the far esst u !. ou
Is being industrialized. '''' Use
The producers news., 1927-11-25
Labor Outputs Shows
Shows Steady Rise

The tremendous increase in +bo -
ductlvlty of American labor in 4 p,O' ~
last 20 years is again the subio.4 ulS V
a Y. S. department of labor b',t. st.,, y
ment based on figures in fbe desa.s sea's'
ment of commerce year hal pai., s
1926. These figures show tSat T. "
tween 1899 and 1925 the outppt y, y,
worker has increased 45G6 in agrilnI HI
ture, 1870 in mining and 4SS 4
manufacture and railroad transno,,.
ton. The acreage increase for III inv
groups was 1870. 81 :
"This MEANS" SAYS the denar
ment, chat for the major ndns
tries Of the country the total ant
put of 1925 could be produced with
not very far from one-half Bs
number Of workers which wonn
have been required under conditions
existing in 1899"
Between 1899 and 1925 the state.
ment shows, the number of agricll.
tural workers remained practically
stationary but agricultural output m.
creased 45@6. The number employed
In mining increased 779o and the out.
put of the mines 2489t. The number
of factory workers increased $50 and
factory output 1850. On the rail.
ways employment increased 9SS
while railroad output increased 1884,.
The chief factors producing this
huge increase in productivity, accord
ing to the department, are the aa-
vance in education and scientific re-
search, increasing use of capital in.
volving the development of machine
ry and power, mass production and
the elimination of waste.
The department shows that be.
tween 1870 and 1924 the per cent Of
the total population 5-17 years Of
CONTINUED on page FOur)
The producers news., 1927-11-25

Competition in all of the trade
areas of the far east has been keen
in the past and will be even keener
In the future. Fortunately for us,
perhaps, the purchasing power of
the orient has increased so rapid
lly that our gains in commerce have
been to only moderate degree at
the expense of our competitors.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
Commerce Expert Sees Market
Battle Loom in Far East

An increasingly bitter struggle be-
tween the great capitalist powers for
the markets of the orient is forecast
IN an address by director julius Klein
of the United States bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce. Speak
ing to the Seattle chamber of com
merce Nov. 10, on our new trade from
tier, Klein said:
The producers news., 1927-11-25

tics in running the American army, navy and air
services Sacrifices of men like Mitchell, Magrud-
er ana Summeral are unnecessary, wrong and
dangerous.
lhey serve notlce to all army and navy and air
officers that they must remain muzzled-or risk
their careers.
The producers news., 1927-11-25
az cold 0Oe0fher<

When Zero is the forecast, you'll
be glad you bought a Nash.
For even though you keep a Nash
IN an unheated garage, here's one
car that starts Immediately, and
then warns up TO smooth operating
efficiency in no time at all.
Nash has big heavy-duty starter,
an improved carburetor with antO-
matte heat control and then ther-
mOStatic control of the water cir
Culation which combine to pro-
duce almost magical results when
you press the starter.
Nash is a great cold weather car
IN other ways, too. The big, 2-Vay,
4-wheel brakes of Nash surround