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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
Modern Miners March Recalls
''Blanketeers"

The march of several thousand I'M
employed British miners on London
timed to coincide with the opening of
parliament in November, recalls a
similar demonstration by poverty
stricken Lancashire textile workers
just ITO years ago., known in history
as the march of the blanketeers.
These blanketeers, so called because
they carried blankets in which to
sleep alonk the line Of march, started
for London with petitions calling for
a change in the government and for
manhood suffrage. They believed
that these 0elitical changes would
amellorate the unemployment of pow
er machinery. They were treated as
revolutionists and dispersed by troops
and upper class militia with several
hundred arrests.
The march of the miners is being
organized in South Wales by A. J.
Cook, energetic secretary of the min
ers' federation. The purpose is to
call attention to the misery and de-
graduation in British coal fields" The
marchers will carry petitions to Prime
Minister Baldwin and the house of
commons.
'sThe seat of trouble from which
miners suffer-" says Cook. sis Lon
don. This march is planned with
the idea of rOusing the nation to
an understanding of the tragedy of
the British coal fields"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
COLUMBUS DAY

Wednesday, October twelfth, was the anniversary
of perhaps the greatest event in the history of the
world
1t was the four hundred and thirty-fifth anniver-
sary of the discovery of America by Christopher
Columbus-or to be exact, the sighting of land in
the way of the island of San Salvador in the Gulf
of Mexico.
When we say greatest event in the history of
the world say so advisedly, fully conscious
that the statement is strong one.
But what event? What policy? What struggle
IN the record of the races, up to in Importance
In the modification of the lives of the people of
the world, than the crossing of the Atlantic, the
discovery of land and untold resource and the
setting in motion of those undertakings which
eventually proved Galileos theory that the world
was round and not flat thus upsetting even the
theories expounded in the Bible that the world
was flat and the only sphere existing and the cen
tire of the universe which the sun circles about ev-
cry day. in the great vault of which the twinkling
stars were set.
This exploit of Columbus revolutonized the geo
graphical, the astronomical the theological theo-
RES entertained by the civilized peoples of the
world; changed the trade routes and world econ
omics-the eyes of the world turned from the east
to the west
The discovery of America marks an epoch-the
closing Of the pages of all the past and the open
ing of the book of modern times
1t is well that we keep the day. We will keep
1t more and more the historical import of the
event is more and more comprehended
Columbus is symbolical of the spirit of America,
-symbolical Of that spirit that never SAYS fail
Columbus is an example to those of us progress
slves who IN the universe of politics and economics
seek new world-a better place for all to dwell
IN He teaches us not to become discouraged in
the face of the seemingly most insurmountabIe OBJ
stacles, but to keep our course to the west until
we finally arrive at the port of which we have
dreamed for so long time
The great, beloved Eugene " Debs, used to
close his appeals for better world, and INSPIRES
MS disciples to further and continued effort bv the
masterful and dramatic recital of the famous poem
written by Joaquin Miller, and one of the most
inspiring poems in the English language, entitled
columbus which we reprint here for the inspir-
alton OF both young and DID, in order that thew
may comprehend Columbus and his exploits.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
AROUND WORLD IN TWO DAYS

Amundsen and Mobile continue their argument or
quarrel as to which deserves the credit for the dri
gible flight over the North Pole
Mobile says "Mussolini ordered the flight: Itali-
ans made it possible and built the dirigibles and
ran the airship. Italy deserves the credit"
Amundsen, in book just published, says that
ne deserves the credit and that Mussoini admitted
it.
Of course Mussolini is going to claim all the
credit for the Italians that he can-but the world
asks, why did Amundson go along on a purely
Italian venture? Why did not Mussolini have the
ship built and Mobile sail it without bothering with
the Norwegian, and why was the ship not named
Rome instead of Norge? 1t looks to us as if this
is some more of Mussolini's cheap suff.
But what interests Americans most is that while
Amundsen, great and deserving of credit as he is
and Mobile, unheard of before the balloon flight.
who had long start, were getting ready Com
mander Byrd young American, jumped into his
plane ana flew over and around the North Pole
twice, the first man that ever did that
Commander Byrd, who speaks about flying with
some authority, says the real plane eventually will
be liner with ten motors, going 500 miles an
hour, able to fly five days without stopping. Such
ship could cross the ocean in six hours. andd flv
around the entire world in two days, going Jules
Verne's Around the World in Sixty Days., SIS
days better
Millions living will see that machine. and
even greater machines.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
Economic Articles
By Leland OIds, Federated Press
Butler Getting Heavy Swag
Despite Slump

1000 the total of $1O,73O,OOO which
these owners received in the pre-
war years 1909-1913.
The year 1920 markedd the peak of
New Bedford mill dividends with a
total of S8,950,000 or more than 4
times the average for the years 1909
1918. For the 5 years 1917 to 1921
the total was S33,437,000 averaging
Sc, 100000 a year compared with 49,
$4,000 in the pre-war years. Since
1909 these cotton mills have provided
the owners with a cash income of
$73,172,000.
Another table published by the de-
partment shows that the exhorbitant
mill profits of the years 1913 to 1926
resulted from prices for cotton cloth
pushed up until in 1920 they reached
a peak more than 5000 above 1914
Such prices were wrung from a gov
eminent engaged in the conduct OF
war and from workers struggling to
meet the rapidlyq mounting cost OF
living with inadequate wages.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
CALVIN'S SOLIOUOY

To choose or not to choose; that was my problem
Whether it be better to be President again,
Enduring all the ire of farmers seeking farm relief
Which | in veto message did declare uneconomic;
Or to retire with campaign platforms undetermined
and seek job at half millionvper- so It's
rumored-
Discretion bade decision, and that promptly,
Hence my announcement: 81 do not choose to be
A candidate in twenty eight" Signed, Calvin
Coolidge.
now let the politicians rave and seek the reason
Which lies behind these words of plain and simple
diction.
do not choose to comment. Let me go and fish,
And ponder great commodities that are backed by
organization,
While yet these midwest farmers know not all the
power that lies
In adequate cooperation. Ere they wake
And feel their power exerted in the nation, have
finished,
BY problems over. l have chosen
An unwelcome guest or bad cold are two Of
the best things going.
The man doesn't live who is disappointed in his
obituary notice.
The reason so many of these modern efforts are
"flop" is because they're based on Skunk"
Why go all the way to Geneva for disarma-
ment conference.-the Chicago right here al
home?
Two difficult places to find straight flush
On the face of We modern flapper-or in poker
game.
The seat of most of Uncle Sans troubles these
days is somewhere between the 18th and 10Th
amendments
Why should science go to such trouble in search
ing about for accurate lie detector. Any wife
will do
Europe is wrong. America is not ruled by pet
ticoats If they'll come over here they can see fol
themselves.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

THE POSTWAR ECONOMIC SITUATION OF
THE DIFFERENT CAPITALIST GROUPS?
The previously explained grouping of countries
according to the character of their economic struc
ture and the degree of their economic stability
serves as the source of a crisis which is insur-
mountable for capitalism.
The capitalist countries with superfluous produc-
ton are faced with this situation Either to leave
disntegrating Central and Eastern Europe to its
fate, raise up tariff barriers at home and then
draw into the system of capitalist economy those
regions which have so far been lightly touched,
namely: the colonies, China, oSuth America; or to
work towards the rehabilitation of the economy of
the underproducing countries Central and East
ern Europe) by giving them tremendous credits,
and throwing open the frontiers for their manu-
features.
The first path unquestionably leads to the social
revolution in Europe, to the dictatorship of the
proletariat i. e., the economic emancipation of
countries with 300 million civilized population.
The revolution in Europe would inevitably be fol-
lowed by revolutionary movement in part of the
colonies which America would be counting, and
then the struggle against American imperialism
might have fatal consequences for her.
AS for the other path however alluring it may
be to capitalism, it is certainly doubtful whether
it could be realized. The economic rehabilitation
of Germany, Austria, Poland, Asia Minor, the Bal
kans, ETC., would put forward first of all the ques-
ton of the annulment of the interallied debts and
the curtailment of Germany's reparation payments.
But this would require an economic and financial
effort on the part of France of which she is hard
ly capable
On the other hand the possible development OF
the European countries in case they were given
credits might take the direction of increasing the
export of their products to exactly those countries
with overproduction, countries which themselves
suffer from a superfluity of commodities what
would happen then? These countries, America and
England, say, having granted credits would have
to receive interest and payment l. e., get back
their money in the form of commodities and
neither America nor England which are already
suffering from overproduction, could permit that.
The contradiction of this situation can De seen
from the fact that America for example, insisting
on the payment of the allied debts, or france IN
sisting on the reparation payments from Germany
at the same time fence themselves OIL by every
kind of tariff wall against the import OF commod-
tiles. America from the allied COUNTRIES france
from Germany. England from Germany and
France.
Therefore neither the first nor the second path
can lead to the goal towards which the Dourgeolsle
and the social-democrats are strivng-ehe rena-
Utilization of capitalism.
Continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
MEXICAN REVOLT AN ~
OTHER MILITARIST PLO'


= Washington-(FP)-D is Ppayt.
= received at the State Dep' ~
= ment confirm the early press y.
ports. that the SerranO-GoneA n N
= volt in Mexico, while using "a
= argument that Obregon haa +5s
4 right to run for reelection Y h
= presidency, is in fact an uprl tsa1
= of military leaders rather -
y of masses of the people; ,rev.
x Back of the revolt, the me- .1 x.
= can government sympathl1ce-l4ib
+ sert, is the enmity Of the .e Ca'c sI.
= politicians toward Presldeni, reri-
$ les, and the anger OF the f.or that
= can oil operators who fear Nor
= the policy of Ambassad0I, rovico,
y row. newly appointed to \. Mex Tsx-
3 will be more friendly to inc =
+ can administration. .hington
: that at the f rising was hastsnle59 rep
+ the news that Morrow woa you TNsx
\ resent the United States az ~
+ co City.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
COLUMBUS"

Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind, the Gates of Hercules;
before him not the ghost of shores
Before him only shoreless seas.
Inc good mate said Now must we prav
For 10, the very stars are gone
brave admiral speak, what shall sav?'
Why, say, Sail on and on"
wy men grow mutinous day by day;
MY men grow CHASTITY wan and weak"
Inc STOUT mate thought of home, SPRAY
VI salt wave washed his swarthy cheek
what shall say, brave Admiral, saw.
we sight naught but seas at dawn ?"
why you shall say at break of day:
san on! Sail on! Sail on, and on!"
Ihey sailed and sailed as winds might blow
-, ontll at last the blanched mate said
why now not even God would know
Should | and all my men fall dead
lnese very winds forget their way,
TOR 0od from these dread seas is gone
NO" speak, brave Admiral speak and saw
de said: "Sail On Sail on, and onln
lney sailed They sailed, Then spake the mate
de curls his lip; he lies in wait
With lifted teeth as if to bitel
brave Admiral say but one good word:
~ what shall we do when hope is gone?D
Inc words leaped like leaping sword:
SAL on! Sail on Sail on, and on!"
Then pale and worn he kept his deck.
And peered through darkness All that niobt
vi all dark nights! And then speck-
A light light A light! A light
II grew, star-lit flag mfurled.
1t grew to be Times burst of dawn.
lie gained a world; he gave that world
Its grandest story: "Onl Sail on, and onlD
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD. Fed. Press.

Ier of the Tennessee river for the Gen
eral Electric power monopoly there
by preventing any governmnt COM
petition which would cut rates for
electricity in half. Blocking of the
Boulder Dam construction means pre-
vention of government development
and sale of power in the southwest.
which would cut in half the rates
now paid for electricity in that region.
Killing of the Walsh resolution would
prevent exposure of the gigantic pro-
TITS and growing control of national
government by the General Electric
combine
In the index to the Electrical World
Its Washington correspondent. who
gave the luncheon in honor Of tba
power trust lobbyist, is credited with
the unsigned attacks on Sen. Hiram
Johnson and other promoters of the
Boulder Dam bill in the last session
of congress. '''-O-'
In the rules established by congress
Tor the press gallery, it is provided
That persons desiring admission to the
press gallery shall state in writing. in
their application, that-among other
thlngs-they ARE not employed. d.
rectly or indirectly, by any person
or corporation having legislation he
fore Congress" 'iO'i
DOUBTLESS the Electrical World has
no legislation before Congress bnt ifs
anxiety to promote the LEGISLATION de-
manded by the power trust lobbv Is
this luncheon. Aiiis'iicliig ol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

Doc Cook of North Pole fame, from his cell in
the Leavenworth prison. asks U. S. Supreme Court
70 reconsider" lower courts denial of probation.
Iakng Doc at his word it is possible the court
does not know whether to believe he is there or not
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
CORTELYOU AND HOOVER
FIGHT PUBLIC OWNEP GUN

Meanwhile George B. Cortelvou
mead OF Consolidated Gas and chair
man OF Newcomb's Joint Committee
declares IN a Cleveland speech that
the private corporations in the utiIitv
ileid are going to maintain their omen
LOBBY IN Washington. And into the
! u press writer's at the capital
y pourllg an ever-increasing stream
al documents which have been writ
ven 70 prove public ownership a men
ace 70 american institutions.
herbert Hoover does his part. In
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

An Englishman, flying at about the rate of five
miles minute, wins the air speed championship
for 1927 We wonder if an Irishman was chasing
him?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

Tuning in on thought waves, the same as on ra-
dlo waves, is possible, says a French scientist.
Well, here's to the professor and our wives. May
they never meet.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
HELLO, SENATOR
NEWCOMER"

Washington (FP)-" Meet Sena-
tor Newcombw
That was the cordial invitation Civ
en- to picked list of Washington cor
respondents summoned to a luncheon
on October 3 at the Metropolitan
Club-Washington's nearest approach
to club for millionaires.
Paul d. Wooten, correspondent for
tn electrical World and other Nc
Graw-Hill trade journals, was host.
He felt that Senator" Newcomb had
been so helpful to him that the other
press men ought to get acquainted
with the Senator" and learn how he
could assist them also.
SENATOR REPRESENTS
POWER TRUST.
And who is Newcomb? He is coun-
sci, which means lobbyist in Wash
lngton, for the power trust, the cleo
trio and street railway combine and
the gas combine. These groups are
united for lobbying purposes in the
Joint Committee of National Utility
Associations. He had with him at
this luncheon Maj. Richardson, like
wise employed by the joint committee
and formerly in the military intelli
gence service. Richardson is to hand
out dope" to the press.
What do they want in Washing
ton? Why, they want, as Newcomb
told the hand picked group to get the
Muscle Shoals power question out of
the way. Also they are opposed, in
the case of Boulder Dam, to having
the government enter into competition
with the private power companies.
The small stockholders, Newcomb
suggested, would suffer. And then he
voiced a bit of ridicule of the Walsh
resolution for investigation of the
power trust and it scontrol of govern
ment and business in this country.
MUSCLE SHOALS HAUNTS
POWER TRUST.
Getting Muscle Shoals out of the
way means the grabbing of Muscle
Shoals and the rest of the vast pow
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

BY GOSH. THIS IS s sud- z !
He-'I hear you are sJqr .
married. When, may l avn # your
She-"You may ask now
sure you love me.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL EDU-
CATION
CONTINUED from last wee

CONTINUED from last week.
H. WHAT CONTRADICTIONS RESULT FROM
THE POSTWAR ECONOMIC SITUATION OF
THE DIFFERENT CAPITALIST GROUPS?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
Friday, October ID ro,,

his speech at the openin
kadio- Telegraph Conferess.O o. the Inf
as being in accord with t5 agsnsot
mental genius of our nao1 e3e ,fupds.
ne IS photographed with gn9G NIUE An3
Is OF Newcomb's lobby at e G; Dsy,
Davis was made a men - MS side
American delegation in t tS; Of tie
~. nee, his his friends say, in nus CO confer
handle" the public-ownersSGilnd order %
nent of the foreign deiegsssanllp sent,
was formerly an aide r. 9@ ~ Davis
power matters in the hoover n
partment. Now, though diil raeif De,
lobby, he is again given al' director director Of !
authority. - sOVemmentsI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

Wednesday, October twelfth was the anniversary
of perhaps the greatest event in the history of the
world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
R0TARIANS HEAR PRAISE
FROM NEW GOVERNOR
Ridgley p. Melvin of Annapolis
Makes First Visit to Washing
ton Since Election.

The making of friends among men
through its membership and the re-
sutant promotion of good will be
tween the peoples of the world is
enough to make Rotary worthwhile
and to warrant the clubs existence.
Ridgley p. Melvin of Annapolis, COVER
nor of the thirty fourth district of
Rotary, told the Wash 'ngton club at
it's weekly luncheon meeting at the
Willard Hotel yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Melvin visited the local Rotary
club yesterday for the first time since
his election to the office of governor
Of the Rotary Club district TO which
the Washington club belongs. He
smoke on THE Practical Application
of Rotary Ideals" and included among
the clubs practical advantages the
promotion of friendship. He urged
the local club to keep its roll filed
with members of the various bust
nesses and professions recognized by
the movement, so that it's meetings
will he true forums in an exchange of
ideas.
1t was announced that one of the
clubs four annual night meetings will
be held at the Columbia Club Septem.
Der 2s. preceded by goh tournament
on the clubs links.
William Everett. president, presided
at yesterdays luncheon meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
EMERALDS MAY AO0RN
WOMAN'S FALL DRESSES
Heralded as Among Chief OF
Worth Attractions for the
Evening Costumes.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS Up. -Emeralds, heralded for
several months as increasingly impor-
tant in the world OF precious stones,
are the keynote Of several evening
dresses in the collection Of Worth.
The famous hrilliants and glittering
emhroideres of this house have given
way somewhat in the new collection to
large emerald colored stones in the
forms of brooches, buckles and orna-
ments.
Chains of semi-precious stones. in
Guiding topaz. acquamarine and tur-
quoise. are used by several dressmak-
ers as integral parts of their evening
dress designs. The fiat. polished
stones are set in narrow rims of gold
or silver. and the chains are from is
to "a inches long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
BARRICADED SLAYER
OF BROTHER GIVES UP
Virginian's Attack, in Which Fa.
ther Is Beaten, Blamed to Old
Family Grudges.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, September Is.
Leo Madigan, who barricaded him.
self late yesterday after shooting and
killing his elder brother, Robert, and
beating his father, John Madigan.
over the head with A shotgun, sur
rendered to county authorities today.
He said he feared residents of the
double toll gate neighborhood would
kill him. The father regained con
seriousness last night, hut his skull
is fractured. Young Madigan broke
the gunstock and bent the barrel
on his fathers head when the latter
grappled with him in an effort to
disarm him. Neighbors said he had
threatened to Kill younger brother.
also. Old domestic grtldges We're said
to have prompted the attack while
The father ami stain son We're SOW
ing wheat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
WOMAN, IS, FREED.
Blind Husband Held in Staying at
Virginia Poorhouse.

BLUEFIELD. w. Va. September
Is LP.--Mollie Whit. IS. was back
in the poorhouse Of Tazewell County.
Va, today, acquitted of killing Scott
McGruder, 70, there six weeks ago in
quarrel over a tattered bed cover.
McGruder was stabbed
But through her testimony. given
in Il TaZewell Circuit Court yesterday.
her. husband, Gus Whit, a blind
banjo PLAYER. will be tried on muir
der charge in November. Husband
and wife were indicted together
Whit had expressed the hope his
wife would be convicted with him.