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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

A drop in railroad expenditures in
volvlng the jobs of thousands of en-
ployees is predicted in a statement by
the bureau. of railway economics
based on reports covering the capital
expenditures of class-1 carriers the
first three months of the year. The
bureau, an employer body, forecasts
expenditures for the entire year at
the lowest level since 1922.
The bureaus figures afford one ex-
PLANTATION of the slowing down of in
dustry which has been noticeable since
the beginning of the year. The enor-
nous purchasing power of the rail
road industry furnishes to the finan-
clers an effective device for speeding
up or slowing down the countrv's
economic life. Through orders for
cars and locomotives, rails, structural
iron, tools, machinery and other sup
plies the railroads afford jobs to
something like 100000 workers in
addition to those directly employed in
transportation.
Capital expenditures of the rail
roads for new equipment, additions,
etc. the first three months of 1927
amounted to S155,022,OOO, a decrease
of $10,678,000 compared with the
same period of 1926 and of $14,278,-
600 compared with 1925 Capital au-
thorizations for 1927 as of April /
amounted to $724,853, 900 compared
with 1921, $4,000 the same date in
1926 and $75O,OOO,OOO in 1925. From
these figures the bureau estimates
that expenditures for the year will
run between $7OO,OOO,OOO and $780,.
100000. Last year railroad capital
expenditures totaled $885,O86,OOO anc
in 1928 $1,059, $4,000.
The reduction in railroad expendi
lures is reflected in the state of de.
preston which prevails in the rail
way equipment industry which il
turn involves a reduction in orders fol
steel. In the first half of 1927, &C
cording to the U. S. department o.
commerce, locomotive manufacturer,
built only $40 engines, compared will
9O1 the first half of 1926. In Jun,
they had untitled orders on thei
books for only 1893, compared witt
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
Property Beware

Two landlords are sentenced to
exile on a small island off the coast
of Cicily, to all intents political pris-
oners for two years. Another is con-
demned to live for two years under
police control. All because they ex-
acted rents above the maximum fixed
by the state. Storekeepers punished
for making undue profits. Such
things happening in fascist Italy, sup
posed bulwark of capitalism, suggest
that the right of the individual to
use his property as he chooses is due
for severe limitation in the coming
world order.
These, drastic measures are Incl
dents in the deflation policy of Mus
solini. The theory is that so far as
possible wages, prices and rents shall
come down in proportion as the value
OF the money unit is raised. The bur
den of the transition is not to be
thrust entirely on the workers simply
because property is in control.
This theory, however it may be
carried QUIT is in strong contrast with
postwar deflation in the United
States. Here it was left to the fin
anciers operating through the federal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

The years 1866 saw the peak of
railway equipment orders with Ball.
315 freight cars and 6,265 locomotives
ordered in 1905 and 31O,315 freight
cars and 5,642 locomotives in 1906.
Equipment manufacturers point out
that this irregularity of railroad or
dering not only intensifies the fluctu-
ations in the country's industrial ac-
tivity but also increases the cost of
equipping railroads.
From labor's standpoint the present
handling of the enormous railroad
purchasing power is unquestionably a
menace. 1t renders one important
branch of the metal trades very diff
ficult to organize and by intensifying
depressions it tends to undermine the
wage standards. But this can hardly
be changed until the control is taken
from the profiteering interests. I'm.
der unified control this great power
could be handled in the interest Of
stability.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
THINKING

PROFESSOR James Kennel, dean of New York
University says scientists take too much for grant
gu concerning that strange substance water. which
we understand "as little as we understood oxvcen
lou years ago." He tells you: eff the active constt
uent OF ar were hydrogen instead of oxygen fires
would De extinguished by sprinkling gasoline ON
them instead of water and fireproof BUILDINGS
would De built of solid parafine" A drop Of wa+o.
IL a mysterious thing. Magnify its diameter from
an eighth of an inch to 1OO,OOOOOO miles in diam
eter' and the molecules of water would become
visible, each made up of two atoms of hvdrooon
ana one atom of oxygen, each atom little solar
system IN itself, forever indestructabe. and exist
ing from all time, as far as we know.
because of vast distances inside that dron Won
would need telescope. With it you could see IN
sac OF the atom electrons revolving around a nuc
IeuS at the centre of each atom TRIILIONS OF
TIMES IN SECOND. Water is mysterious and
SO IS everything matter, force and consciousness
Ihlhgs we do not know are more numerous than
those we do know. 1t is not certain that we actu-
any know anything. We are here and don't know
now we got here-must leave and don't know
where we are going.
we harness and use the electricity, but don't
Know what electricity is while we create it arti-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
ANY HOW PROGRESS

1t is pleasant to learn that this nation spends
more on public schools than on any other govern
ment function-not excepting the cost of keepine
ready for war.
Our public schools cost two thousand million
dollars year, about one-fourth the total amount
spent for public purposes.
Two billions year seem great deal, but it is
not much really. Public education on which the
luture depends, absolutely costs less than twenty
dollars per capita.
And, by the way, it costs less than half the
money spent on cigarettes.
That last is encouraging fact. It proves
that when the people want thing thew get If.
somehow other.
Just now, they want the best cigarette. Some
DAY they will decide that they want the best nos
slDle public education. Then they will spend ten
ollllons and more year for it instead of two
billions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
Building Boom to End

Building trades workers should pre-
pare within a year to meet attacks
on the wage standards they have won
since the war. Signs are multiplying
that the building boom will let down
sufficiently to provide the surplus la
Dor that may be used to undermine
union conditions. Bricklayers, lath-
ers, plasterers, etc., may be the next
victims after capital has settled with
the once powerful mining branch of
the A. F. of L.
The second half of 1927 opens with
building activity on the down grade,
according to reports received by S.
w. Straus & Co. from 481 cities and
towns. Building permits the first
half year fell from 5,O3O,O7O in
1926 to $2,034,6 ,939 in 1927, a drop
of nearly 10 per cent. For June 1927
the figure was 1851, 719,O88, compared
with SAL, 051, 1851 in June 1926, a de-
cline of Is per cent.
From these official records, says
the Straus report, it is apparent that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
NOW WE ASK YOU,

LOO many noisy marriages, too many quiet d.
yorSes' says the Rev. DR.. Stetson, rector of New
OK trinity Church, that looks from Broadway
gown wan Street to convenient dock on the East
Dr: StetsOn fears that we may initiate Soviet
nuSsla' where divorce is granted without oues-
'sOn' and that our government will some dav
make polygamy legal. -e uaS
ne also deplOres the power of sex appeal
scientists on the other hand, say the one dan
ger threatening the human race is the nossiblo
aylng out OF that same sex appeal, in which caso
mere would be no more children, and the race
would fade away i"0e
:. wnat power was it, or what appeal, that in Dr.
o'e'sons opinion brought about the MARRIAGE of
Adam and Eve long, long ago? y
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
BLAn COAN BLARES

The natlona capital had hoped tbst
the last had ben smelled of the moi; a'
some Blair Con. But this b LUIS
man of the former Attorney Gen oaluy
Daugherty IN lerpetrating some Of i
his blacklist corruption, is back a0si n
dragging another dead cat beb T
him. This time i is Blood Mon f,riiiu
book which exposes "the plot aos;nst
civilization known IS bolshevismSG must
A flashback of Oan shows him :,
the palmy days of Harding. Dano5o -
ty and the little g1een house On ''I 2
street where Coan learlv WORE - :
groove in the threshold. He was tba
back alley politician who did Dauob
erty's slickest sleuthing.
He was detailed by Daugbertv r.
aid Burns in securing eyidence IN IA
Tense of the oil grafters. Burns We.
fired from the department of Justice
by Daugherty's successor, it is saA
when he found that federal detae'
tives had been working under CoaD
spying on United States senator,
Burns and Coan also did lot Of dirtv
work in fighting labor, helping to a..
stroy the shop unions in 1929
Now Coan shows up with a book IA
prove that he is still sleuthing. Blooi
Money, on sale of course for real
money, reveals that Moscow is !
huge psychopathic ward, dominated
by egocentrics who in the United
States would be under observation BY
alienists or confined behind bars Of
asylums for the criminal insane
Coan may even be angling for lob
in Kellogg's bolshevik bogey-huntng
state department, to Judge by the
blurb, which continues, Especial at
tention is given to the far flung re-
lationships of the red CONSPIRACY
Its activities in the Orient, and eS.
pecially in Mexico, Nicaragua and
other hot spots in this hemisphere
are described"
There is no record that Coan made
his startling discoveries in Russia
and so progressives are wondering
where he got his latest dope.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

present, however. the only d.
at government interference botnpt
property owners and their nr ~S"oen
has been made in the case of PIerty
lords" VI land
Here is certainly a breach WIZ.
may widen until the sanctit,, winch
vate property in the capitalist - Phi,
follows the divine right of kin.as sense !:
the discard. Inevitable changes :; INTO
economic organizations of societ \, e sne
exposing it as just another are
preached in the interest of s myt0
class seeking to retain power Si. aai
privilege. snd
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
Economic Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
Railroads to Spend Less Money;
Omen of Depression

667 in June 1926. Similarly in the
first four months of the year car
builders turned out 1921 freight
cars, compared with 28,271 the same
period of 1926. In May they had on
their books orders for 1922 cars as
compared with untitled orders for
81, 437 in May 1926.
The irregularity of railroad pur-
chases over a period of years is
shown in the following figures fol
freight cars and locomotives ordered
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
BARROW VISITS RUSSIA


: ChicagO-(FP)-Atty. Clarero. .
barrow and Secy. Arthur Fis SI0e
: Of the Emergency Foreign Po 5IieI ,
Conference, both of Chicago. bavs
joined the technical staff Of +be ,
American labor mission to Pno ,,;e !,
ant other countries which saiia lS !.
this week. Darrow will join Fra ,roI !.
T. Walsh in studying soviet Ia ,r i.
and is social effects while Fish, +.
will ievOte himself to public MT; A..
tiles. Paul H. Douglas of the In .
iversit of Chicago is anot5a, .
membe of the missions Technical :
= ..staff. al
-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
COOPERATIVE HOTEL !,
IN ENGLISH CIIlb'

London-(FP)-The British .o Mn n
erative movement is now breaklniS Co.
to the hotel business. The nOsS ;rr 3
operative Society is now gathsslI+slIl IN
capital of S35O,0OO to build a nov 100
London. The hotel will have :. o'o oiuled
rooms, many with bath. It i rate rates
to provide rooms at reasonaOibeo st la
and at the same time insure ~
Dor conditions for the stall
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
MONTANA POLITICS

Inc political situation in Montana is peculiar
anu because OF this it is exceptionally interesting
everything is a guess-a question.
What is Joe Dixon going to do?
Is Fiat Head John Erickson going to run for
governor again on the democratic ticket or is ba
gong to run for United States senator?
Gan Rankin win the republican nono;no+;on e.
united States senator, and is he going to try for
is again? ~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
WISCONSIN LABOR EN-
.DORSES BIRTH CONTROL

Wausau, Wis.-(FP)-By roll t IN
vote the Wisconsin State Fed Fedora. \
of Labor, in its annual convention ..
Wausau, has gone on record loi ne
moving all legal hindrances 70 4.
giving by doctors of birth c0llIlO .,ote
formation to mothers. Inc 'G Il.
which was preceded by vigorous ne
bate was about 2 to / in favor u lron.
resolution. The resolution was p 4
sored by the stenographers uliiOH
Milwaukee.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

ficially with falling water or burning coal. We
use mind soul and don't know what that is.
We hope for Immortality but are not sure about
it. We talk of solid matter, and know that it is
made up of infinitisimal aggregations of electric
particles.
Nevertheless, we get along fairly WELL A little
knowledge seems to suffice
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

We are informed that both President Coolidge
and Vlce-President Dawes fairly deluged with
fishing tackle as gifts when they announced their
vacation plans We might mention here that 'our'
vacation starts week after next.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

Camden, N. j., School Board votes that women
school teachers may smoke occasional ciga-
rette-but not about the school buildings Evil
IDENTIFY 1t is possible increased fire insurance rates
which causes the board to rule cautiously
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

President Coolidge is keeping the newspaper
boys 50 miles away from his Black Hill camp. Read
backwards, that 81 is 23-which is the old skidoo
number. Now we wonder?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

Such is history. Now we are dedicating to ma
trlotlsm the house in which Barbara FrietchiA did
not wave flag at Stonewall Jackson's troo6s as
they did not march down that street in which the
house stands
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

1hree hundred miles an hour-five miles a
!. nlpute-l4O feet second" is Navy-Iieut. VIII
mans hope with new mechanical skyrocket air
plane All that is worrying us is how the timers
are going to be able to see it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

inns is the health age, says an exchange. Girls
are taxing long walks for their complexions-since
Cne drug store moved to the other end % M
Street. O - Nuain
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

a scotsman and Jew differ inasmucb as on
IS a Scotsman and the other Jew.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

lean purchases of foreign properties.
These other phases of the extension
of the American investment empire
are included in the $13,OO,OOO,OOO to-
tai of the Foreign Policy Assn. which
was prepared by Max Winkler of Ber-
iron, Griscom & Co.
Winkler estimates that in the last
z years American investment has
been growing at an average rate of
more than $2,OOO,OOO,OOO a year and
that for the A years 1926 the total
was $6,29O.7 54,OOO. His figures show
that present distribution of American
capital through foreign securities
publicly offered in the United States
as follows:
Foreign CaDitaI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
is McCHORD WORTH THE
MONEY?

The interesting case of Charles G.
McChord is typical of a growing type
of high governmental official. It is
chronicled of McChord that in the
year after he quit the interstate
Commerce Commission he made 10
times as much as he did in ~ years
, Of commerce service. His salary was
$4,000 year, and so it figures out
neatly that the Van Swearinga
brothers, dizziest opponents Of fren.
zied railroad consolidation, paid him
at least 100000 for II months ser
vices, Immediately after his reSiga-
ton.
The question arises, did McChOn
make an undue sacrifice during his u
years with the commission, or did
that service make him just so much
more valuable to the Van Swearingen
spectators, who are trying to make
fortune Of $5O,OOO,OOO out Of two
streaks of rust known as the MCKEE
Plate? And is it just the ethical
thing for an Interstate Commerce
Commissioner in charge of decisions
on railroad mergers to resign his loo
in order to help put through t1e
country's biggest merger, presumably
through his connections with members
of the commission and his knowledge
of the commissions attitude on mei'
gers in general and the Van SWearm'
gen merger in particular?
McCHORD PRACTICE GENERAL,
1t is harly fair to pick on McChOlo
for he but typifies the growing Pra,r
tise of buying government Ottlclals
E. L. Dokeny at one time had tnf~
Wilson cabinet members on his pay,
roll. The Van Swearingens have nO'
only McChord but Newton D. BAKER
the pacifist whom Wilson picked "
be secretary of war. Il,
The truth seems to be that ~
crude black satchel brides are DeIs
superseded by smoother, less :.
jectionable device. Instead OF cly%
ing the government officials PAM
the latter day magnates offer t esn
swell jobs when they resign liO'
strategic government positions
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

OIICsIII capital IS leaving the
country because a surplus would force
1t to serve the people at low interest.
which would insure high real wage
Tor labor. 1t is invading countries
where it can demand high return at
the expense of cheap labor. And it
expects American workers to defend
Its right to exploit this cheap foreign
labor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05

IS. DID THE IMPERIALISTIC WAR OF 1914-1S
SOLVE THE FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADIC-
TIONS BETWEEN THE GREAT IMPERIAL
IST POWERS? (See Explanatory notes
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-01
Weather May Halt
Girls Ocean Hop

NEW YORK, Nv. ", Oct. 1.--(F>-
DIR. James III. KimbEll. weather bu-
reau metecrologist, today sounded
the unofficial knell cf further trans
Atlantic flying thin year JUST ~
Ruth Elder and George wv. Halde-
man were making final preparations
10 take off for France Ia the mono
plane American Girl
II wouldn't want 10 say he tcId
the Associated Prnss, athat there
won't be any good flying weather in
October, but the chances are against
IL, and right now ntIncsphoric condi-
tions are 90 much worse than che
very worst experienced by any OF the
past seasons fiiers that there ia mo
comparison. 1 don't know what Mins
Elder may decide 20 10. but / am
printing on the weather map today
that conditions are decidedly unfav.
cradle"
As DR.. Kimball was making this re-
port word came from Curtiss Field
that Miss Elder and Hsldeman were
moving s4the American Girl from its
hangar to the Roosevelt Field run
way, from which LindberRhr Cham
berlin and Byrd took off for Europe.
They said the task OF fneIinR and
provisioning was 90 be begun inn
rediately and that IL they considersd
conditions favorable nc q o'clock they
would hop off at that time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-01
FRENCH Send
TARIFF REPLY
Contents Not Reveal
ed; Being Forward
ed to II. S.

PARIS, Oct. 1.--tR-France's re-
ply to the latest American memoran-
dunn regarding the tariff question
has been handed to Sheldon White
house. the charge d'affaires, and will
be forwarded 20 Washington today.
The agreement between Mr.. White
house In behalf Of the embassy and
M. Bokanowski, representing the
French governments was that nothing
would be allowed to reach the public
as to the character OF the reply until
1t has been received In Washington.
The reason for this. IL is said, was
that some embarrassment was caused
both the French and American gov
ernments by the published summaries
OF previous notes on the matter.
The translation OF the reply had
not been completed ut noon today and
the process Of coding IL was still 70
be carried out. Consequently II II
expected that the note will hardly BE-
available nc the state department n
Washington before Monday morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-01
Headlight War
On In HidaIgo

The war on poor and Improper
headlights On automobiles trAYk wv
tbs main highways after dark. - ~
cd here somNtime ago BY X. r. Is1
ler. Cameron county traffic .o
has been carried Up intns Ill
county, according - %sormation
Joe n. Kneits, division highway
officer. conferred with HidalRo Of
ficers Saturday with regard 10 tho
headlight situation, and received
their pledge 60 cooperate with state
officials i'm stamping out tha menace
Of improperly lighted cars.
The war ON the light situation ig
expected 20 start Immediately As has
been the case here, particular atten-
tocn IN 20 be paid 10 the one-llght
drivers and 10 glnrinx headlights.
During the past 90 days Offiser
Sadlnr has made many arrests for
violation cf these lawn here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-01
San BENITO,
DONNA WIN IN
CAMESFRIDAY
Others Games Tied AS
Teams Battle For
Honors in Valley
School League
By GENE MULH0LLAND

With record breaking attendance
and good games reported from al
most every town where games were
played, the 1927 scholastic football
season got under way In the Valley
Friday. Early predictions Of q BAN
ner grid year for this section were
strengthened by the interest shown
BY the fans and the extremely good
work Of several Of the teams.
Brownsville was overcome by the
irresistible crimson tide Of the
Harlingen Cardinals and went down
to defeat beneath a 25 70 IL score.
Edinburg took q terrific drubbing
from the San Benito high school
team, losing 80 to 0, and Pharr-San
Juan kicked the old dope bucket
higher than the cost Of living ~
holding the highly touted McAllen
gridsters to a 6-6 tie.
Otherwise everything came out
just about as had been expected.
Raymondville, new conner i'm the con-
ference with Pharr-San J7an. showed
bit more strength than had been
expected by holding Donna to o "a
to 3 score on the Raymondville field.
Over at Mission the Mercedes and
Mission teams battled through a
brisk contest to u ia tie.
Many At Harlingen
One Of the largest Brownsville del
egations ever to have attended a
sporting event in the Valley jour
neyed mp to Harlingen for the game.
OF the estimated 1000 persons at
tending at least half that many
were from this city. Downtown
streets here were practically desert
ed after I o'clock.
A strong wind blowing out Of the
south throughout the afternoon had
almost az much TO do with the way
the games were played as the play
ers themselves. This was especially
true at Harlingen, where the weather
was ms near ideal for the sport OF
eOllegiates rs fall weather ever gets
in this section.
Merciful clouds obscured the blaz-
ing sun almost from the instant the
first whistle blew and the strong
breeze further tempered the heat. A
few drops Of rain that fell during
the final quarter had the huge crowd
in readiness to quit the field the in
slant the game ended and Is minutes
later the hundreds OF automobiles
had found their way through the va
rious exits leaving the Fair grounds
Continued on page four.)