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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
The Devils to Paw
Bv Leland OIds. Federated Press

By Leland Olds. Federated Press
A European crisis, sure to broaden
into a world crisis, in the spring of
1929, is the prediction of the British
economist, George Paish. His analy
sis of the situation is worth studying
now that economic activity in the
United States appears to be on a
footing which grows constantly more
precarious. If Paish is correct, lit
tie more than year hence will see
America deprived of Europe as an
outstanding market for its surplus
goods and surplus capital.
Paish points ont that prior to the
war European investments in Russia
totaled about S5,000,000,000. This en-
titled Europe to receive each year a
tlibute of nearly $3OO,OOO,OOO in Rus
sian products, chiefly wheat, rye, flax
hemp. A similar $3OO,0OO,O00 flowed
into Europe annually from America
paid in raw cotton, food stuffs, met.
ais, etc.
Europe balanced its budget and re
manned solvent largely because it re
ceived this huge tribute in goods with
out being forced to give its own pro
ducts in exchange. The Bolshevil
revolution and the fact that Americ;
has become creditor nation instea
of debtor killed this income. Now
on account of war and postwar debt
to America, Europe must send tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02

end, after some worry and commotion, yet they
always know that Joe is in the chair and that In
their plans he is factor they must consider, and
that is something.
People do not die of dry rot when Joe is in the
chair.
With Dixon candidate for governor, it just
naturally comes about that Wellington Rankin will
be the man who will be the republican candidate
for United States senator against Burton Wheeler,
and will succeed that gentleman if young George
Bourquin does not nose him out of the democratic
nomination which if he does of course will alter
the situation considerably.
Last week Joe delivered Washington's Birth
day talk over in Butte which was followed by a
republican love feast at Helena at which all Of
the old war horses gathered.
Things are shaping.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
What S the Matter With
Agriiculture

a vice-president of General Motors
and the chairman of the Int. Accept
ance Corporation.
This commission admits that the
agricultural industry is getting worse
rather than better. It says: "There
is evidence. that real, as we'll as
money, costs in the industry are ris-
ing; that we are not keeping our old
superiority over competitors; that the
fertility of the land is being impaired;
that many if not most farmers are
year after year failing to secure a
return equivalent to that which can
be obtained in the city by workers of
no greater ability; that the compare
tive advantage of other industries is
rapidly increasing; that the obstacles
to the extension Of markets for farm
products are growing more effective;
that the difficulties of improving the
organization and methods of agricul-
ture are increasing; that the year by
year fluctuations in the price of farm
commodities are growing ever more
severe and are increasing the haz-
ard under which the farmer carried
on his occupation; that tenancy is
) increasing; and that the quality OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
By Leland OIds, Federated Press

By Leland Odds, Federated Press
Drastic reorganization of agricul-
ture on national basis appears in
evitable to the big business interests
but they don't want the lines of this
reorganization laid down by the farm
er. They want to make sure that the
solution of the farm problem enmesh-
es the farmer more securely into the
fabric of capitalist industrialism.
However radical the big business pro-
posals, one plank is sure to be found
in their platform, rejection of the
McNary-Haugen type of legislation as
setting dangerous precedent.
The viewpoint of big business is
most thoroughly expressed in the
recommendation of the business
mems commission on agriculture, Gre
ated about year ago by the nation
al industrial conference board and the
chamber of commerce of the United
States. The membership of the com
mission included the chairman of thu
board of the st. Louis-San Francisco
railway, the president of Westing
house Electric, the president of tn
National Bank of Commerce of 81
Louis, the president of Quaker Oats
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02

United States annually a tribute of
more than $800,000,000.
To meet interest obligations and
pay for imports, according to Paisb
Europe should export annually manu-
featured goods nearly S1,500,000,000
in excess of prewar. This is impOs-
sible, if only because the worlds man.
ufacturing equipment, especially in
America but also in Japan, India and
China, has vastly increased.
The bankers, both in Europe and
America, has postponed the crisis by
piling loans on loans. The new loans
to Europe by America in 1927 are es-
timated at close to S1,000,000,0 900.
Paish asks how long Europe can go
on borrowing from America and an
swers, "Less than years. The cri-
tical time will come in the spring Of
1920"
Europe will then, in Paish's opin-
ion, face bankruptcy.
What will this mean to labor in the
United States? For one thing, out
of U. S. exports totaling S4,865,000,-
600 in 1927 Europe took $2,314,000,-
600. In spite Of this factory produc.
ton and employment in the United
States declined while farmers suffer
ed for want of profitable markets. L
, Paish's analysis is anywhere nearl!
; correct labor should beware the idei
! of March in 1929,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
What Ais Great Britain

dustry, the original foundation of
British capitalism, shows it almost
hurt. The demand for wa0e
cuts and longer hours in a last effort
to hold foreign markets is signifi-
cant. But more significant is the cot
ton industry's necessity of writing
down its capitalization. Where capt
talism is healthy it is constantly
writing up capitalization in anticipa-
ton of larger profits.
Indian purchases of English-made
cotton goods increased slightly from
1926 to 1927 but the value fell off
sharply. The shipments to India in
1927 totaled 1,652,514,600 square
yards but this compares with 3,057,-
$4,000 yards in the last prewar year.
The demand for English cotton
goods in other fields of the empire
shows a similar decline from prewar.
In 1927 China took only 103, 1875, 900
square yards compared with 1858,
600 yards in 1918, Egypt 159,884, 900
compared with 266, 1925, 900 and Tur-
key and Syria 91,655, 900 yards com.
pared with $50, TAP 900 in 1913. Eng
lish exports of cotton goods in 1927
totaled 4,117,683, 900 square yards
compared with TOTS, 252.000 in 1918.
In the last 9 months of 1927 the
English cotton spinning industry av-
eraged about $3.50 of capacity opera
ton. In 1924, tire last year for which
census figures are available, the Eng
llish cotton industry showed 1920 few
er workers than in 1907 and produc
ton down 1870. The cotton spinning
companies have reduced outstanding
capital by about third since 1920.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
By Leland Olds, Federated Press

Il
The boycott on British goods,
against the latest coercive measure of
the imperial government, shows that
the cornerstone of the British eco
noric empire is getting loose. AS the
provinces undermine the economic
bonds of the empire the vigor of Eng
liSh capitalism will be slowly Slapped.
Unemployment, wage reductions, more
unemployment, population increas-
ing Y supported on unearned income
distributed in dividends or doles,-so
the story of decaying empire will re-
peat itself.
The slow decay which the boycott
by the Indian nationalists will hasten
is reflected in 2 articles in the weekly
Commerce Reports of the U. S. de-
pa1 tment of commerce. One deals
with the decline in British trade with
India, the other with the cotton indus
try's difficulties in England.
The report on British trade with
India shows that the English share
in total imports into India fell from
an average of $3.50 in the last pre-
war years to 1870 in the fiscal year
1926-27. In recent years the British
decline has been steady, the English
share being $50 in 1924, $40 il
1924-25 and 51q6 in 1925-26.
In the Indian market England i,
faced not only with the growing com
petition of other capitalist nations
particularly the United States ant
Japan, but also with Indian -roduc
ton.
The report on the British cotton IN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02

the farm population is undergoing
progressive deterioration. "a
The commission finds this Dau siC-
nation the result of many factors
some of them Fundamental and CON
nected with the gradual change OF Che
country from an agricultural to pre-
vaiIing industrial nation" 1t sug
gests that while farm prices ana Idllu
values were harder hit In the, posi-
war deflation than prices IN otheI III
dustries, certain major elements III
agricultural costs have continued d.
uneconomically high levels. lhese III
clude state and local taxation, lnte[-
est rates, transportation costs, whlch
have increased following the restofa-
ton of the railroads to private man
agement and the genreal cost OF us
tribution.
The commission makes the interest,"
ing admission that the shifting OF the
United States from debtor to a cred
itor nation, extension of tariff "ro-
lection to manufacturing and the IN
crease in the tariff level in postwar
years have further increased the dill
2 ficulties of American agriculture
both in the foreign market for its
:, products and in cost of production. II
says: "The enormous increase in gov
ernmental and private foreign III
= debtedness to the United States has
compelled the debtor nations to reduce
E their imports, increase their export!
and become more self-sufficient in re
: spect to agricultural products. Tn
It full effect of this change has been de
d ferred by continual foreign loans am
! is likely to be more apparent in tn
:, future"
u The commission recommends gradu
II ally diminishing trade restrictions an
y tariffs on manufactured articles whic
" tend to increase agricultural costs o
: to reduce the foreign market for az
~ ricultural products. 1t recommend
Id the organization of farm stabilizatio
IN corporations through the cooperate
" of farm organizations, private bus
ness organizations and federal far
. board, each supplying part of the cal
r, ital. 1t recommends the develOpmel
n. of national policy of land utilizatiC
he by an endowed national agricultur
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
EhEDORlAL
SENsT1-=5~
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
IS DIXONS HAT IN THE RING?

Is Joe Dixon going to run for something this
fall?
That is the great question agitating the political
waters of the Treasure state.
Some say he is and others say he isn't
Then those who say he is are asked, "for what" ?
Then there is again great speculation. Some won
der whether he is going to run for the United
States Senate, go out after Wheeler's toga-DlXonI
has been in the senate and knows what it is like;
some wonder if he is going out cunning Tor the
governorship again, he has been In the governors
chair and knows how that feels, while Others II
he is going to start at the bottom in another po-
Itical career and run for the legislature over IN
MissOula county.
Everyone is entitled to a guess-Joe isn't talk
ing. He just "dont' choose" to talk He is let
ting the other fellows do that and they are doing
a heap of it. In this way Joe gets his political
advertising, like Henry Ford, Free as thing of
public interest. Dixon and FOrds are always q
subject of interest in Montana.
One of Joe's bitter end enemies over in Helena,
says "Joe will be a candidate for governor or the
United States senate or anything else, alright that
is not beneath his dignity incompatible with his
disposition, providing somebody furnishes the buss
and the gasoline for the race, and graves the road
for him: in such a condition he will run, but Joe
never runs at his expense.
So if that gentlemans contentious are correct,
in order to determine what Joe will do is to find
out if there are any who is willing to furnish the
buss and the gasoline. 1t looks if there is just
such person in this state, we believe it is a
very safe bet that Joe Dixon will be candidate
for the republican nomination for governor in the
July primaries and of course if he is, he will be
nominated. Then in November he must defeat the
tall Swede from Flathead county, which we opine
will not be difficult this year.
The governor has not made good on any of his
economy promises and the people are tired OF nj
bovine disposition and his oxlike servility to tn
copper interests of the state who bagged him AM
dragged him from the serenity of the Flathea
country to minister unto them at the state house
John don't seem to fit the chair anyway and is al
together too slow for Montana. The people ar
going to send him back to the tall timber com
autumn where he will be much more at homc
Say what one likes about Joe Dixon-he is al
ways busy, and while the Montana Power and til
Anaconda Copper Mines may have their way in tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02

foundation. 1t also recommends GER
tain changes in taxation, agricultural
credit and railroad rates to favor ag-
riculture.
The proposal of national policy
for land utilization is the most revo-
lutionary in the program. This would
involve curtailment of private proper
ty rights on a huge scale. The farm
ers may we'll ask: Why not apply the
same policy to all natural resources
in order that they may be most eff
fectively used in the interest of tn,
nation?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
HORSES

1 Stack of hay / lot Of potatoes
/ bundle hog netting, 10 rods
1 bunch of wood / log chain
l galvanized water tank
l GUNNER smut machine lbansk
l DeLaval Cream Separator, No. L
l grindstone l blacksmith outfit
1 small tent 1 brass cylinder, lu
Some galvanized pipe and cdH
pump
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
RUSSIAN OIL PRODUC-
TON GOES WAY UF

New YOrk-FP-SOviet Oil pro-
auction for 1927 was the highest
annual output for rs years, Off
cial figures received by AmtOrg
Trading Corp, New York, show.
AmtOrg represents in the United
States the Soviet Naptha Syndicate.
Production for the year was 1O,-
$4,000 metric tons.
MOdernizatiOn of the oil indus
try has been pushed in the hast
year AmtOrg reports. More rotary
drilling was done and new refiner-
les were erected.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
THE WORLDS LARGEST LAW SUIT

on: the solution of which concerns the economi
I'd political history of this nation as no othe
,oblem has ever affected the career of any cour
y in the range of history.
1t should be carefully read and studied by ever
ne. We quote:
cit appears rather odd that no greater
public attention has been attracted to a lit
lie lawsuit involving the interstate COM
merce commission hat has been called the
biggest law suit in the world. Upon the
result of this suit hangs the disposal of
sum of money staggering beyond belief
and which will have vital bearing upon
the future prosperity of the American peo-
pie.
"Under the transportation act of 1920,
the law governing the proceedings of the
interstate commerce commission it is pro-
vided that any railroad that earns m or e
than per cent annually net, on its fair
value" must pay half the excess to the
United States government. To illustrate,
say that the value of the road is $1,000
600, and that it has earned per cent or
$4,000 in a single year. The first 100000
would go to the stockholders along with
one-half the remaining or $4,000 in all.
The remaining one half of the excess or
$4,000 would go to the government of the
United States.
''Now as to the law suit. The st. Louis
& O'Falon railroad is a little coal line
nine miles long and running out OF East
st. Louis 1t is owned by the Busch fami-
ly of st. Louis The law suit is the result
of an attempt on the part of the inter-
state commerce commission to collect
some $4,000 from this road alleged to be
due to the government The case has
been won for the government in lower
court and it is to be appealed to the United
States supreme court.
''The entire case with its stupendous
possibilities hinges upon the definition Of
the word "value" in the transportation
act.
"The interstate commerce commission
says that the value of the st. Louis &
O'Fallon road is 100000 and that the
government is entitled to everything above
per cent return on that sum. The road
claims a valuation of $1,300,00O. Some es-
Inmates are far higher. Anyhow the road
contends that the value is so high that
under the law it has no excess over 6 per
cent to divide with the government.
''The interstate commerce commission
hold that railroad is worth in substance
what it costs. The railroads claim that a
road is worth what it costs to reproduce
it in these times and that it may even be
worth much more. This is known as the
reproduction valuation.
"Now let us consider the possibilities of
this suit in billions. The interstate COM
merce commission has fixed a tentative
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-02
HOUSEHOLD GOODS

l U-sO-Na Iron Range, 1 sDru
cot, ] Singer Sewing Machine !
mattresses, 4 beds with spring,
dining room table, l chiffiOner, /
wash stand, l long flower taas
l kitchen table, 1 S-day cloci.
big stone jars, l ice cream fream
new, l organ, lot of fruit iars
15-gallOn churn, dishes, and mann
other articles too numerous \
mention.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01
{ INJURED NEAR.
FREDERICK

FREDERICK, 3D., Oct. Three
Washington:ans were injured in an
automobile accident at Hyattstown,
Nd. about Is miles from here last
night
They are: Frantz Seibers, of New
Cut Road, body decorations and PROB
able internal injuries; Mrs. Ada
Carlton, 1900 block New Hampshire
Ave. N. W., fractured jaw and
decorations on the head. and Miss
Margaret Brown. of Mt. Rainier,
Md, injuries to the shoulder.
Seibers and Mrs. Carlton are in
Frederick city hospital Miss
Brown was treated there but re-
leased. None of them is believed to
BE critically injured
Two other occupants of the car
escaped INJURY. They were Miss
Rose Brown and Irving Deakons,
both of Mt. Rainier. s
The accident occurred as the car
Griven<b.' Deakons skidded off the
road. crashed into guard rail and
overturned, Motorists brought the
injured to the local hospital
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01
WOMAN .SCARES
Off ROBBER

Mrs. Irving Fararoff, S100 block
Stanton Road S. E., Is not afraid
of bandits. She proved this Satur-
day night when a robber entered
her husbands store, leveled pistol
at her and commanded her not to
move while he robbed the cash reg
lister.
Mrs. Fararoff is impulsive. Her
first impulse after receiving the
robbers command was to throw a
heavy weight at him. So she did.
The weight whizzed by the hold up
mans head and crashed INTO the
wall.
Realizing that he had made a
greVious error when he ordered q
woman to remain quiet, the would.
be hold-up man began backing
toward the door, shooting at Mrs.
Fararoff. When he reached the
door he turned unceremoniously
and fled. Police believe his pistol
was loaded with blank shells.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01
Car Victim Says He's
"Quite All Right"
Then Dies

,~ PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.-Two
hours after he had told Memorial
Hospital authorities that he was
quite all right" and had refused
their advice to spend the night In
the hospital, Glenn Phillips was
found dead in a cell at the Rox-
borough police station, to which
he had been taken on charges
growing out Of an automobile
accident.
The car in. which Phillips was
riding. driven by BENJAMIN Tay'
lor. Fl. overturned when the steer
ing gear broke. Taylor was un-
hurt. Phillips was first treated
for minor bruises and then asked
to remain in the hospital for
further examination. He demurred
and signed the hospitals usual re-
lease slip. When his body was
brought back to the hospital death
was attributed to a fractured
skull
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01

T6BIEBSs IIUiA lGtAbSF 0SA y ~
Miss Ada C. Hand, model critic
and observation teacher, has served
her entire term as teacher OF De.
ginners. Her rooms were museums
of wonder and knowledge for chill
dren. laboratories for superintendent
and students of education, and clinics
for the young people who were pre-
pairing to follow her into the profess
sion.
COlOred MOnteSSOrri
She has been called the coiored
Montessorri, for she applied her
artistic abilities to inventing many
easier and novel methods of helping
the young mind over the hard road
of the three RS.
Despite the fact that promotions
in the school system followed eleva-
ton from grade to grade. Miss Hand
for years preferred to work with the
youngest children and colored par,
ents, who had themselves started In
her classes, Wed with each other an
nually in starting their own children
in her classes.
Catching and reflecting the spirit
of loving sacrifice of Miss Myrtlila
Miner. the young, white philan'
thropist. VINO in 1859, came TO
Washington with 500 and began
the work of teaching free colored
girls how to teach their own people
To read. to write and to sew and
garden, Miss Hand has passed
that spirit on to thousands who
have come under her guidance and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01
OAR. SUMMONS
To BE IGNORED

Another member of the Daugh.
tiers of the American Revolution
has been summoned for trial be.
fore the national officers of the
organization as an 'outgrowth of the
famous BLACK list" which created
such a furore at the time of the
continental congress here last April.
Mrs. Mary p. mcfarland, a mem
Der of the Parsippanong Chapter.
OF Mountain Lake. N. j., whose
name was linked with that of Mrs.
Helen Tufts Bailie. of Boston. in
opposing. the alleged d. A. r.
''black list" has revealed that she
has been summoned to appear be-
fore the national board of manage
nlent, but declares she will not
submit to the summons
The charges against Mrs. Mac
farland, she says, are similar to
those which resulted in the expul-
sion of Mrs. Bailie after trial
before the society's national officers
last spring.
Mrs. Battle had caused a sensa-
ton by charging that the chairman
OF the national defense committee
OF the Massachusetts D. A. r. was
circulating among the local chap
tiers lists of prominent persons to
be excluded as speakers at chapter
meetings because of their danger
Gus and un-American tendencies"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01
AmericanizatiOn Class
Will Open Here Tonight

Foreigners anxious to become
American citizens now have a
golden opportunity.
Free night classes Of the Amer
sanitation Public School will open
tonight at 1880 o'clock at the Web
ster School, Tenth and H Streets
Northwest. Registration will start
at GAS. Among the classes is one
for preparation for naturalization.
Classes for beginners and advanced
students are included.
There are special classes for per-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01

Here's diamond ring that sets new
standard of value in solitaires. 1t is by
every comparison the most outstanding
diamond bargain in our history. WE'LL
BUY TT BACK for $25-ITS FULL
VALUE-toward the purchase of a
larger diamond! A oa8
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-01
Woman Immigrant
Escapes Ellis Island

JERSEY CITY, Oct. 1.--Margaret
Carlyle, 80, = young English
woman detained at Ellis Island,
N. Y, may have attempted to swim
to the New Jersey shore in q break
for freedom, according to q report
made to Jersey City police by off
Gals of Ellis Island. Jersey Police
were requested to keep sharp look.
out for the fugitive who is believed
to have escaped from Ellis Island
late Saturday night. q few days
after arriving from England.