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The producers news., 1927-07-22
LAW OF CREATION

1t is easy for the superstitious to imagine that
mature" or the demons" or whatever thew chose
to blame, IS working against this earth.
There have been sunspots, total eclipse of the
sum- extraordinary weather all round the earth,
floods electrical storms, earthquakes.
France and British Islands within a few days
had poured down upon them 1OO,OOO,OOO tons of
ram with terrific lightning and thunder
II the earth were as small as Noah thought it,
and flat as ne supposed it was the 1OOOOOOOO tons
OF water would have called for another Ark.
IF ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if
make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there -
David wrote thus in the 139th Psalm, and the
latest earthquake news reminds US that if we
take the wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost part of the sea" we shall not escane the
power that rules all creation.
Three weeks ago there was an earthquake in
Australia, the other side of the earth aggravated
by loud explosions, buildings badly shaken. . last
week earthquake news came from ancient PaIae-
tlne' quake deadly in its effects, destructive II
ancient buildings, hundreds are dead, 100 killed
"lthm the Jerusalem area Bedouins of the dasar,
were terrified by earth movements lasting forty
seconds Some Christians will learn with disn,ay
that the dome of the famous shrine containioo The
SaWor's tomb was badly damaged
mat should not disturb them
Oh the contrary, it proves that laws oovarnir .
'e universe including this tiny earth, work evenly
"ltnout magic interference everywhere.
The producers news., 1927-07-22
Exit Democracy

Prime minister Baldwin's recanta-
ton of the government proposal to
write the capitalist ohgarchy which
rules England into the constitution
should not blind the workers to the
powerful world movement against de-
mocracy. The financial upper class
IS prepared to discard so-called pop-
ular government whenever labor be-
comes sufficiently class conscious to
use the vote to control the modern
economic state.
The startling proposals for reform
OF the house of lords offered bv the
British lord chancellor in the name
OF the government were a maneuver.
Later, with the appearance of conces-
slons, the tory government will un-
doubtedly carry through most of its
proposals, which also represent in
the main the ideas of the liberal mar
ty. Both old parties stand for the
pre-eminence Of private property and
wish a constitution which will block
Socialist measures whenever the La
Dor party secures a clear mandate to
reorganlze the country in the inter
ests of the workers.
The real aim of the government
says the Manchester Guardian. 'is
TO restore to the house of lords the
right to keep the conservative party
IN power even when it is not in Of
The producers news., 1927-07-22
Cooperative News

The United States appears as a
backward nation when measured by
the cooperative test, according to a
review of cooperation as a world
movement issued by the U. S. depart
ment of labor. The departments fig
ures, obtained from 35 countries,
show more than 100000 cooperative
societies, and in 20 of the 35 coun-
tries a combined membership of more
than 44,500,000 persons. These fig
ures are recognized as incomplete.
The cooperative movement includes
credit, agricultural, consumer, insur-
ance and housing societies. Consum-
er cooperation is the biggest factor
in the movement, although agricultur-
al producer cooperation is growing.
The department says:
''The consumer branch of the
movement has spread practically
throughout the world. The figures
presented here cover more than
$4,000 such societies in p cOun-
tries, some 27,000,OOO members, and
yearly sales exceeding S5,5OO,OOO,-
600. The wholesale business in 1925
of the wholesale societies of 21
countries aggregated more than
S8OO,OOO,O0O and the value of goods
produced by 10 of these in the same
year more than 100000, ,OOO."
The memberships and yearly sales
OF local consumer societies in 1E
countries, chiefly as of 1925 and 1926
were:
The producers news., 1927-07-22
EDITORIALS
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
Capitalists Awake to Farm
Problem.

Big business is tackling the problem
of the balance between farm and fac
tory under capitalist industrialism. 1t
may succeed either in making agri-
culture a coordinate branch of capi-
talist industry or in subordinating the
Independent farmer to an intensified
capitalist dictatorship.
Chief economist Virgil Jordan of
the national (employer) industrial
conference board, addressing the ma
tional fertilized association, says:
''The agricultural situation today
is not merely the result of the war.
There is strong evidence that our
agriculture has been increasingly
tagging behind the rest of our econ
Omic life since the beginning of the
century, which marked the begin
ming of our rapid industrial devel-
Opment.
'The prosperity of the past few
years has not been so widely diff
fused as is sometimes imagined.
Though the city worker and the
city industries are prOfiting today
by the cheap food they get at the
farmers expense, all economic ex-
perience shows that they cannot
evade paying their board bill. tho
it may take another decade for the
farmer to collect it.
''FrOm the point of view of the
national economic welfare we need
the maximum production of both
groups. The great problem is how
to prevent this maximum prOduc-
tiOn, which is to the national ad-
The producers news., 1927-07-22
Whirring Rail Speedup
Increases

Getting more work out of fewer
workers continues to be the answer
OF the railroads to the wage increases
OF the last IL months in the Industry
according to the interstate commerce
commission C, wage report for April
Ihls speedingup underlies the max
ing OF profits close to the record
breaking 1926 level.
The railroad wage bill for Anr;1
1877, amounted to $243, ,652 463. an in
crease of only 0.2%6over April. 1926
when the total was S242, ,943.370. Buf
tne number of employees had been cut
$40, having fallen to 1.7584
Inc average railroad wage for
April Oh this year was S138.5O a
month Lnoanath compared with $136.1O in April
1926. These figures cover ali en-
pioyes including executives and off
Gals. Gals The average wage of the l.
900, 5,5O7 workers employed on an bour-
month. % VAON''1-O q
The shopmen continue IN be tbe
cmef victims of the attempt of the
rallroads to make profits at the ex-
Pense OF wages but the train and
engine service men came in for a
considerable share of the layoffs. Be
tween March and April the carriers
ialq OH oloO shopmen and 6865 train
ana engine service employees. The
April iayotfs also included 1O11 clerks
ana lz9S miscellaneous transportation
department workers. On the other
nand the maintenance Of way depart
ment took on 45,158 additional work
erS,
The producers news., 1927-07-22

flee" This purpose is avowed by tie
lords who spoke on the proposals
The people OF this country" sail
the duke Of Northumberland, an out
standing owner of the country's aG
deposits, mo longer believe in dene
craey as a principle at all"
Lord Sumner pointed out that a
parliament act, which curtailed tie
power of the house of lords, was al
very well between conservatives and
liberals but that a socialist gOven.
ment would have a long list Of das
TIC and farreaching measures.
"The real enemy" said lord Monks
well, ''is democracy"
Viewed as a whole in the Light q
this latest proposal, the program d
the tory government of England hs
striking resemblance to the sboh
tiOn of democracy by quite Oths
means in fascist Italy. Like the ltas
ian program it includes the desH1s
Clon OF the economic power Of Ifs1
unionism, the invasion Of local gov
ernment by the centralized power q
the state and the establishment Of 1
conservative government independa
of popular suffrage.
George Young in Lansbury's Lazy
Weekly describes it as an attemp!
impose a "dictatorship Of the p'oD
teeriat."
The producers news., 1927-07-22

vantage and to the adv.n.
the individual producer. fr0S.g f'age Of
ing the relative economic O'u lnlG
of either the agricultural a. pGSlll0a
trial group as a whole" u HldOS
This problem is insolublo
nomlc order organized for tbo 4, a e'0,
of a small but enormonel, we plott
minority rather than for i wealth.
interchange of the products ,'' s9ltOal
and factory workers. ' VI Tan
''Ehe time has come N
of the American people, 'Te life
warns, "as it has come befo,o' 'oFdan
history of all great nafions u the
we must deliberately and When
formulate a national aprion1le IlseI!
policy. We must make 1ul'aral
minds as a people whether 7 Oh
going to continue to sacrifio afs
agricultural development. or ','OJ Mo- oq
er we are going to adopt tba "ae!s'
we are going to adopt tbo saisi
and wiser course of bringinas salei
agricultural, industrial and s OG
mercial life into a well 5., CON.
and cooperative RELATIONSHIP i''S''ed
The solution can be woTi.,
only if American democracy 'a !, on
able Of extension into the newas i 8 sag
OF economic government Coa a.. lei
ton between farm and facto,.P GUUPar'
be wroked out under fa,90o.y sO,y !, e ga
control of the economic forcaa ,,-e',lao' y !,
nation. Otherwise these forooo ~ u "a
be the playthings of great t'lfTs fSs.s. VI
overlords now dreaming of ;Daaola a3
empire. P" won.
The producers news., 1927-07-22

The new struggle that has developed since the
war, IN Europe, and there are signs of it in Ameri
ca, is struggle between the fascist. repre-
senting the great property holding classe S
and their flunldes and camp followers. on
the one hand, and the workers as represented bv
the labor unions, the left Socialists and Commun-
lists on the other. The old idea of democracy
seems to have been discarded
The fascist advocate an absolute dictatorship of
capital; the abolishment of parliament and mu-
ncipal bodies, and the substitution of an execu-
tive committee of capitalist la corporation board
OF directors, who with the dictator, without cleo
tlons and without mandate, and without responsi-
Dllty to the people, rule absolutely, from the ton
down TO the most minute municipalities all off
GERS and magistrates being appointed
Oh Che other hand the labor unions and peasant
bodies demand soviet system-a government bv
representatives of labor and peasants. with an
executive committee and commissars of great
power elected out of the executive committee which
is selected out of the body of the soviet assembly
which is elected and not appointed. subject to re-
call all the time.
Inc 1asclsts abolish all labor unions. and coon
eratlves and peasant organizations The govern
ment IS OF, for and by the capitalists. and nro-
perry holders. The Communists would abolish The
cdpllallst as a class, entirely and substitute .
mass government for a class government Ttal,
Is the example of one idea and Russia is the ev-
ample of the other
In austria the struggle between the two fac
1ons brought on an insurrection in Vienna the
latter part of last week. The government is +rv-
lng TO destroy the unions, which called oanoro1
strlke. The government is supported bv the fas-
clsI' and labor by the communists
LABOR is demanding the expulsion of +ba foe
ciSts, the capitalists are demanding the a1n,ls;o
OF the communists 1-''
The struggle in Vienna ended with o0,,,r
Use WIN labor getting the best of it and with tbe
fascists in the hole. i'ii VIC
Inc fascist and the communist oronns
growing stronger and stronger. in ENGLAND a,d
rance and Germany and all of the smalIor -
LIONS OF Europe while the other grouns arc bo;no
elusned between them. Baldwin Is trJ,ino. - oLo1
iSii uenocratc government in England aoains+ A.,
next elections and the supremacy of +ba Ioo,.
y =. ana france would do the same In the United
states there are signs of growing oppression h, A.
ruLng class-the great rich class. Tn +in,o 49,
s'ruggle VIII develope into an open clash baro
"nen tne worker and poor farmer will line -, -
one side against the plutocracy and the rich far,
erS on the other side and the age old ba++1o -
tween the exploited and the exploiters will !,
!ougnt out again. This great struggle is Of bord
IN Europe. 1t will be longer before =
America o0uls IN
Inc vienna lnsurrection is but the forernno, a.,
y what IS ABOUT to occur in western Europe
The producers news., 1927-07-22
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL. FDT1
CATION
Continued from last week.

Ihls robbery descended, of course, first of all
upon the small and weak countries and peoples
"hen all the colonies had been snatched up and
The whole world had already been divided up
among the imperialist punderers, preparations be
gan Tor a great fight among themselves for the
re-parttlon OF the world and for the seizure from
one another Of the richest districts of the home
ands-a life and death struggle between the great
capitalist states
lhls great imperialist slaughter of 1914-1918
was preceded by tremendous development of
mllltarism and navalism in all the capitalist
countries.
"a WHAT is NILITARISM AND NAyAIJSM2
This is the policy of augmented and uninter-
ruptedly increasing ornaments of the modern
capitalist states which create and sunnort enorn,
Gus armies and prodigious navies, and expend col
ossa sums on their upkeep so as to best serve tbe
grabbing policy of military Imperialism
Under mihtarism we understand the mad expen-
dltures of imperialist states on the armv: under
navalism, the prodigious expenditures on the navy
particularly in England). In the latest period.
we have to add the enormous expenditures on the
military air fleet
In tne race OF armaments one state drives on
'le o1ner ana strives to outstrip and surpass it.
AS a result there grow up the gigantic military
enterprises and trusts of the cannon kings (the
Putllovs, Krupps, Armstrong;, Vickers, Schneid-
ers etc., who gain from this armament race col
ossaI proIlts and riches and become interested in
Che hndllng and carrying on of wars
Ihe budgets of the capitalist states begin more
ana more to be swallowed up by the expenditures
on military needs, and for the lack of means and
msu11lclency of income from taxes, the states run
INTO tremendous debt, and pay colossal interest
70 the banks on the loans. The expenditures on
preparations eat up in capitalist states huge
ana continually Increasing portion of the nation
al means. In England for example. in 1904. out
OF every S1OO of the government burget, $3.50
Went Tor the army and navy, $22.5O to meet gov
ernemt debts and to pay interest on the loans,
ana only S237O remained for all the civil depart
ments. Isarist Russia spent colossal sums on
military expenditures. In 1914 the budget of the
military and naval ministry reached 975 million
gold rubles, l. e. considerably more than one
'nlrd OF the whole government budget.
On the eve of the imperalist war of 1914-1918,
Win the near prospect of a bloody slaughter, the
race OF ornaments between the big imperialist
countries became particularly feverish
From 1912, for example for every two battle
snlps built by Germany England built three for
herself.
lhls armament race, taking place openly, be-
lore the eyes of all, showed clearly that a ire
mendous slaughter was quickly coming on.
Continued next week.
The producers news., 1927-07-22

Federal aid is to continue. For the sixth time
this measure is to demand the attention of Con-
gress and the President-and unless all signs fail
the next Congress will again put it up to the Pres
ident to give agriculture some sort of relief or
assistance, else have the party face vital issue
in the 1928 election
Concluding a strenuous two-day session, in
which agricultural leaders representing farm or
ganizations from dozen mid-western and South
ern states participated, the Northwestern Agricu-
tural Conference at St. Paul last week passed a
resolution demanding that the McNary-Haugen
Farm Rehet Bill be enacted into law at the next
session of Congress- Further: another resolution
was unanimously adopted requesting the House
Committee on Agriculture to meet before the reg
ular session of Congress and have the McNary
Haugen bill ready for Introduction when Congress
cOnvenes
Senator Brookhart of Iowa. Congressman o. J.
Kvale Of Minnesota and many members of Con-
gress from mid-westen and southern states were
among the speakers at the conference and virtually
all urged unremitting effort to gain full equality
for agriculture. 1t was declared the administra-
ton had Clearly repudiated the platform on which
it was elected in its failure to give relief.
So with our Flood ReHef-Farm Relief; Bank
ers laying barrage or the groundwork for tariff
revision downward" scheduled Immediately after
electon) and the usual presidential year manoeuv-
ering of party leaders, the December session OF
Congress promises to be merry.
The producers news., 1927-07-22
CROP PROSPECTS BOUNTIFUL

Sheridan county never looked better In its his
tory than its does right now.
There was lots of moisture last fall, there was
plenty of snow last winter, in fact an unusual
amount of it, there being so much that the cattle
could not rustic their living on the fields and the
automobile could not run from December until the
middle of March. The spring was excessively wet
so wet that it nterfered considerably with plow-
ing and caused a lot of late seeding Since the
middle of June the showers have been local but
nearly every section has been visited and it seems
that the rains are timed just right to do the
most good, coming about every week ten days.
AS a result the plains are one boundless emerald
of such rare beauty and color as to be beyond
description, that must be seen to be appreciat-
ed. Those who have never seen the plains as they
this year have missed picture of indescribable
charm. The plains when they are their best are
incomparable-and that is what they are this
year.
The prospects for a crop are perfect. The
wheat stand is even, we'll stooed, and while there
is not too much straw, the heads are large and
thick and stand so even that the plane of their
tops looks like some vast cut green stone, and
this is not field, it is all of them.
The rye and flax and oat fields are just as per-
feet The rye harvest starts now in a few days
and will be the largest and best average this sec
tion has ever produced.
The grass and hay crops are bountiful-there is
an increasing acreage of forage crops seeded in
Northeastern Montana every year, and there is a
noticeable increase in the acreage of sweet clover
and some of the finest fields ever grown are to
be found in the county this season. The corn crop
also is very good with the prospects of a splendid
yield in spite of the lateness of planting as it is
growing very rapidly due to perfect growing
weather of the past few weeks.
The potato and vegetable crops are also perfect
and heavy yields of these are promised if all goes
well from now on.
Of course we are not out of the woods yet, and
it is still too to crow, but we are all flappng
our wings and commencing to strut a little-for
the hail season is nearly over the hot wind DAYS
are past, the nights are cool and the DAYS warm
though not too hot and there is plenty of wind to
prevent rust. Anything can happen yet, but the
prospect, we said before, were never better nor
more pleasing.
Ii all goes well, in another month, the wide
prairies will change from emerald green to a
panorama of rich yellow gold as far as the ewes
can span. The merry ccks-clicl of the harvester
Will be constant music, then will come the rows
OF Shocks and the whir of the thresher-and there
will be hustle and hustle everywhere
There will be many fields that will yield forty
bushels of wheat to the acre if present indications
materialize.
Then we come to the price If the price i.
what 1t should be, a dollar and half bushel
there will be golden stream into this country this
fall and Northeast Montana will take on a new
life, the results of bountiful harvest and gen
eral prosperity.
And the country needs it.
The producers news., 1927-07-22
GLASGOW MAYOR
RESIGNS CITY
BUSINESS JOBS

glasgow, July 18.-Mayor Carl M.
Ackermann has given his resignation
20 tne city council, to take effect
august 1. Harry Magruder, alder
man from the south side, was appoint
ed py the council to fill the vacancy
Tor the remainder of Mr.. Ackermann's
Term and 1. II. Markle was appointed
Magruder.
Mr. Ackermann has also resigned
MS posltlon as manager of the Lewis
Weoum drug store, effective the same
date and W. B. Hawley, Shelby, has
0een engaged to fill that position.
mr.. Alderman will first take a vaca-
ed later.
The producers news., 1927-07-22

< Not available.
The percent of the population ,r,.
piled through consumer coonsr.si. "A
societies, according to the renort ,r.4'.,' y.
les from 10 in Argentine m "a Es m
In England. The figures for otig A.
important countries are DenmarE ia n
per cent, Finland 4O96, Hungary Inc
Switzerland $3.50, France BOZ. m.
sia 3O%o, Belgium POO, German H
per cent, Sweden 2O96 and the UTHS
States 2.536.
Other types of cooperation add CO.
siderably to the number Of cooDsn.
tors particularly in Denmark, Ii6
Russia and the United States. M
combined totals for these cowhis
are Denmark 865,OO2 cooperator8. h.
dla 2,5O7872; Russia 19,129O2S ml
the United States 2,815,28O.
The producers news., 1927-07-22

Compared with April, 1926 uls. ~
were 28,486 fewer shOpmen, ~ ~
fewer engineers, firemen, conGuca.i n
and trainmen, 1435 fewer CLERKS q 4
2432 fewer transportation depai.lnlir ioir.
employees. But the number Of li15 %.
tenance of way workers was uP :
924. !,
Railroad employment and P@ia hi
month by month since Aprn
were:
The producers news., 1927-07-22

10 you remember how enthused the people were
pack IN May, 1927, when flyer by the name Of
Llndbergh made an airplane flight from N. Y 70
Farls Huh, the gang was laughing about it this
morning when we hoped down to Africa for .
little elephant hunting before breakfast
The producers news., 1927-07-22
McNARY-HAUGEN Bill AcAMI

~, Dack comes the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief
Agriculture in general and mid-western aor;
culture IN particular, is aroused and the battle fo
The producers news., 1927-07-22

reuelal agents cought three New Jersey bootleg
1s.1, sgiS VINO dumped sour mash in stream which
A''ieu 'ne Ilsh. Evidently dead fish tell tales
The producers news., 1927-07-22

The table shows that N .Ssruttir y
the promises of railroad IL fIucts
to stabilize employment, t tns II Oss1
tion from peak employment Febrg
ber to the lowest point n II, i5Qe0
involved laying off neafls 3 xibIe
men. By their proposed. a. Ia are 4,
1O-hour day the executives .,pion I
working for changes in, in ultiffh u tie n
to accomplish stabilizaueOIIe IIeTsl.
est possible employment ~
The producers news., 1927-07-22

The reason youth no longer respects gray hair
IS because most of them are dyed black
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-10
SPORTS
Done BYOWn
BY NORMAN Z BROWN

~ - W@
Once more British boxing devotes
have high hopes Of having q real
heavyweight fighter - possibly o
champion.
Their enthusiasm for the sport is
revived by the prominence Tom
Heeney is enjoying these days.
Heeney has just been matched TO
fight Jack Sharkey in New York.
Nov. Is, and the winner will figure
prominently in later battles leading
toward another heavyweight title
affair under the auspices Of Tex
Richard and his gang.
Heeney is a British subject. He
hasn't set the world on fire yet as a
fighter. He has fought Paolino Uzcu-
don, the Spaniard, twice. The YER
dict in the bouts were disputed.
Heeney was given the edge by many
fans. however.
Heeney's most convincing act was
his recent sudden knockout victory
over Jimmy Maloney who started
Jack Sharkey on his road to temper
airy fame and a questionable foul
Charley Harvey, manager Of Heeney
insists that the husky is ready ane
anxious to meet Dempsey right nov
ahead Of Sharkey. But most any
fight manager would be like that.
However. a match with Dempsey
would loom for Heeney overnight
were he to knock off the still some.
what cocky Mr.. Sharkey, who Ia.
been subdued but twice in his life
once by Dempsey's blow to the CHR
and once by Gene Tunney's drawing
room conversation.
Heeney has what may prove to be
a tough fight ahead of him before
he meets Sharkey. That is a battle
with Johnny Risko of Cleveland. The
: pal! are booked to meet at Detroit