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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-11

which mergers are responsible for the loss of en-
ployment by thousands of rail workers. Appar-
emily Heating does not know that, if he does,
regards it as blessing to the rail workers.
The letter also says:
"When a man big enough to deal with
problems affecting the welfare of the
people of the whole world was needed,
Herbert Hoover was chosen and delivered
the goods
when a man big and honest enough
to deal with the Mississippi flood situation
was needed, Hoover was chosen for the
job and it is being handled by him in the
interest of the people"
AS European food administrator, he choked the
Hungarian revolution of the people, and placed
into power the hangman of the people, the de-
testable Harthy, who is his creature He used his
position as food administrator to save European
capitalism against the raging revolt of the masses
everywhere. The strangulation of the liberties of
the Masses is held up by the railchiefs as noble
ect
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LABOR SELLS OUT TO HOOVER By John Gabriel Solt

He performed great service liius But n
flooded regions of the south last yea sorters y
whom? Why for the New Orleans Ids InsS"
loan mongers and the mortgage put - pay b
of obtaining government compensatory o Congss
farmers for the criminal neglect OF sn nt.ndng =
men who grated millions, while pr told y
build safeguards for floods, HOC osam.slyes -
farmers that they could mOrtga sZ ' orleans y
50 thew did "Labor" holds this PERM n mercy.
farmers Of the South, as fine s act 0odtica b
Hoover is, in every fibre Of his , pos He ;
an enemy of the farmers and wO YORK. While ,
moreover. a very militant imperialis' Unable to !,
true that for long time, he an' or deuo,,
vet during this period Of vaci Ii.1, and
admirably the interests Of capitalism Darty fog 7
;sm' He cared nothing at all what , paiS he
carried nor did the imperialists VIE .;fe iresd0'
50 long as he was permitted to SUM America =
EurOpe md consolidate tbs power o hest pOiH
perialism everywhere. He is the EFF If
that capitaIim has thrown up for i'S'
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CALIFORNIA
My dear Mrs. Henry N. O'Neill,
Placerville, California.

My dear Mrs. Henry N. O'Neill,
Placerville, California.
From your letter in the last Pro-
ducers News / see that have made
you Fighting mad," and l like the
way you are splitting it out.
You are just little mistaken when
you say: "I'll bet he didn't know what
"a tree was before he came to Califor-
MA" | was born in a forrest, my ia
ther was a forester Of capital cities
| have visited l can mention Copen-
hagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Berlin, Lon
don, Paris, Panama City and Washing
ton, d. G. | have crossed the pond
between Europe and U. S. seven times
and / am not a sailor, nor was / ever
sent over there by Uncle Sam. l have
been in AZ of our As states, have cross
ed Canada from coast to coast, have
killed crocodiles in the jungles of Pan
anna and picked bananas off the trees
in Jamaica where a bunch costs 25C
and an apple 10c. Have hiked across
the beautiful mountains of Norway
from coast to coast; along the Rhine
with its vineyards and old pirate
castles build on top of its steep cliffs
I never used flying machine but al
ways stayed pretty close to the GROUND
and did not always travel by night.
have seen trees before. / simply coulC
not help it.
! My trip to California this sprint
was not the first one, 1 have beer
, there before. What have you ther,
/, that is so wonderful? You have san,
deserts for hundreds of miles where
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-11
POWER CONTROL
POINTS WAY TO new
ERA OF PROFITS
By ALBERT F. COYLE

Secretary, All-American Cooperative
Commission
New York-(FP)-A resident of
Tacoma, Wash, recently told me that
his entire electric bill for heating,
lighting, cooking, running the family
washing machine and boiling the cof-
fee for breakfast was but SIC for the
cold month Of December. The same
amount of electricity consumed in the
city of New York would have cost
him more than $205.
Tacoma has a municipal light and
power plant that has almost COM
pletely paid for itself, besides con-
tributing generously toward the ex-
pense of running the city government.
New Workers on the other hand are
gouged by a private electric combine
that charges "all the traffic will
bear"
We live in an electric age. Not only
daily comfort in our homes but also
the prosperity and efficiency of every
! industry in the nation are closley tied
up with the electric power question.
Cheap electricity means low manufac-
turing and transportation costs and a
U6LI0T SIduUdIQ u l1NluS LUZ CilS mass
es of the people. Electric light and
power are so vitality necessary for oul
social and economic progress that the
men who control them for private
profit have the community by the
throat.
Power Control by Raushenbusl
and Ladder, is the most readable dy
manic and convincing discussion O
the electricity problem that has conn
from the press in years. The book i
not given to theory but bristles witt
lightning facts. 1t shows how tn
propaganda technique fthe powe
trust is poisoning the sources of pub
lie information through the press a
well as by lectures, books, fake sci
entific studies" and lastly by the radi
now actually under the thumb of tn
+ power trust itself.
Power Control also reveals VIII
public regulation of the electricit
combine has utterly failed, even tn
the presidential candidate Herbel
, Hoover praises it loudly. The stat
regulatory bodies are either hobble
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-11

WASHINGTON COSs,n
By LAURENCE TODD Fed Press.

Washington.-Har Chandler, own /
or of the Los Angeles Times, gave a !
significant political luncheon to Her
bert Hoover, republican presidential
candidate, April % at the Metropoli-
tan Club in Washington.
Harry Chandler inherited the Los
Angeles Times, with all 1t traditions
of malevolent warfare upon trade
unions, public ownership, civil hber-
ties and human enlightenment In gen
eral. from his late father-in-law, Gen.
Harrison Gray Otis. Among the
items in this inheritance was a hatred
of Hiram Johnson, because johnson
started his political career of warning
against the ownership of the govern
nent of California by the Southern
Pacific railway. The bitterness of the
Times feud~ with Johnson was increas-
cd nv the fact that Johnson, in his
earlier period, was counsel for the
Teansters Union in San Fracisco, and
made a political alliance with the bulk
of organized labor in the Bay region
What has Hoover to do with the
; Times-Johnson feud? Why, tn
Times has found in Hoover just tn
man TO break down the Johnson labo
alliance. which has somehow held to
gether for the past 18 years, desplt
5 Johnson's growing conservatism. Or
ganized labor in San Francisco ha
9 Suffered through direct assault an
n through betrayal by some Of it ow
y leaders. In its weakened condition
! has chung to Johnson, while Chandle
- arrogant in Los Angeles, has gloate
= over the fall of "bolshevist" republ
- can elements in the state. And no
Herbert Hoover appears as the Coo
idge cabinets nominee for the pres
&c dency-the post which Johnson soug
-, = in earlier and more insurgent time
" For Chandler to play host to Hoovt
~ foe of Johnson, in the national capt.;
y is the Chandler idea of Roman Il
-. umph.
Y A dozen California republican eC
es tors, on their way home from the !
Il II sociated Press meeting in New Yol
IL attended this Chandler luncheon. Tn
IL asked questions which Hoover answt
+, ed in strict confidence, as to hi at
20. tude on certain public issues, in ca
AZ he should become president. BoulC
OH Canyon dam was not mentioned.
III. this hand-picked gathering it was t
lot itly understood that Hoover is opp
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THE AGE OF WONDERS
From The Christian Science Monitor

From The Christian Science Monitor
Aviation and wireless vyng with each other for
first place in this age of wonders No is sig
nal development recorded in the than thrilling
advance is reported in the other and although is
complementary to the other, friendly rivalry is car
rying both forward with amazing rapidity along the
path of human endeavor
Flying, for the moment, is in the ascendant The
fact of the epocha flight of the Bremen from Europe
America is barely appreciated before there breaks
suddenly upon the public notice the OF the
cess of the Wilkins polar venture, with valuable mete
oroligica observations and data arctic wastes II
is within the memory of the present generation wheI
the of successful arctic trip would have take
months to emerge from the silent spaces OF the north
graphic account of an exploration the day after
it happened would have been considered impossible
Now such an achievement is taken for granted
Wireless has to be the connecting link between
the explorer and the res tof the world The airpIane
is his vehicle of transportation wireless his Of
contact with his fellow Who shall say that more
than the fringe of the possibilities of wireless has been
touched? Papers and depend it for their
news The day is not far distant perhaps, when whole
pages will be transmitted by wireless and the distinc
tive features of great papers published simultaneously
and in identical form in all the capitals of the world
Genius is apparently expanding its best energies in
the mechanical field In age has it shown such stu
pendous results. Liberty in promoting communication
and encouragement in research have given spur tc
progress. No longer is the individual exposed to the
torures of the Spanish quisition because he invents
strange mechanical figure No longer are the Stephen
forced to promise parliamentary committee tina
the speed of locomotives shall not exceed ten miles
hour in order to permission to build railroad
Every assistance is given to the inventor to the
search worker to the of vision and the rousing
frain of Shelley to have come home to men wit
redoubled vigor:
Rise like lions after slurnber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth, like dew,
Which in sleep have fallen on you.
One thing is certain, knocking the weather doesn
improve it.
Beggars Brussels have to keep books but here the
to keep moving.
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from the ocean for the rich peODs
where they live in castles of the moz
fantastic design on the mountain sids
with roads costing fortunes leading 70
the place, with niger chauffeuR
green lawns, palm trees, flowers "a.
lore and loads of imported booze IN 4
the cellars, with big iron gates that \
you and l can look at from the out Y
side.
You have fruit and lots Of it. You
ship the big juicy ones to New YOk
and keep the little sour ones yourself
and it is very little you eat Of
You get bananas because you can raise
them. You raise potatoes not fit TO
eat and import good ones from Idaho
and still better ones from Montana
My children eat more and better o.
anges in Plentywood than they ever
did in California. Here they would
eat nuts until they nearly burs-3
| California they have a two bushe sax
standing before them and never @A
at them.
When fall comes and the rest Of Us
take a rest your hills get green al
your weeds start growing-you nave
plenty of them. When we enjoy oaI
spring your orange, lemon ana onN
groves are standing there with leaves
and ripe fruit, your wild oats ana
other weeds are waist high and OafIq
, about ready to cut. You have y
spring, but you have mosquitoes al
plenty of bugs and must spray YOU
trees everlastingly first for one 'nns
! and then for another.
NY children go to school out tn5 4.
E They like their teachers and Ike W. w
r schools, but they are counting '. '.
t DAYS till school is out so they can y
e back to Montana again. Since y
e turned here l have talked win S' d,
d al people who have sepnt par, o. y.
e winter in California. They all as'iFt
there is nothing TO go Wnu' w NJ.
d is a little different with you ~. ~
y O'Neill, you are one OF tne e., aor
n daughters and like all other CaILo oia
l. ans you help to boost, most Sa,,a HI Ss
sons and daughters never nave us Sg
= outside the state but boost any, Y N
J. trying to get people to come Tal h n
IF spend lots of money, ana VSi tsEs
70 is a very interesting state 70 81 hi
t. look at but there are other pla .,.s.
N as interesting and when II c Uut vpr
RS digging for living you nave a Its 4
= much to offer in California ai' 49,,
a. Don't be so hard on the PI t;oo 4
re News now because it is prlnTIHa .Sod
it bunk I am writing-yOu anu anu Tha
1r be thankful we have UaPs at md
lr we can get our names IN P \ Iet
n am glad you are reading II !. tbe fe
lie kiss and make up and CAL wv
Id off. ;ooerely.
On Yours very slilco''''
HANS RAsNusSS
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NEW BANK IN MEXICO

Mexico City.-A fifth agricultural
bank opened in Cauautitlan with an
initial capital of 10000 pesos. With
this bank, the Mexican government
expects to further the cooperative
work among the farmers and also to
secure better marketing conditions.
This bank in the state of Mexico is
the fifth in the chain of cooperative
agricultural banks organized by tine
Gales government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-11

big cactus sticks up here and there
like a big fence post. You have Ba-
kersfield with plenty of oil and where
the sun simply baRes you to crut.
You have rain galore at times, the
rest of the year you have none, you
must everlastingly irrigate and
sprinkle or your beautiful flowers and
grass will burn up, your trees get COW
cred with a coat of dust and look
more like a hay stack.
You have mountains with snow on
top and narrow canyons with crooked
roads carved out on the mountain
sides where you can it in your car and
spit down in a stream several hun
dred feet below and where you can
break your neck if you are not care
full. You have narrow valleys with
mountains all around where it is hot
and where people are making a des-
perate effort trying to make living
by tilling the soil and living in un-
painted houses.
You have swamps and irrigated land
of the very best kind, where you car
raise six crops of alfalfa a year fol-
which you pay $500 per acre-anC
where women are figuring on getting
a job in the canning factory part Of
the year in order to make both end!
meet.
You have land sharks who grab VI
the land and sell it to suckers from
the east for several times what it i
worth.
: You have fruit trees which when i
blossom smell like woman all primp
up and powdered; you have acres an
acres of them, so no matter what di
1 rection you stick your nose it is tn
t same smell-you sometimes wish flo
: a skunk to come along in order to &c
: a change in the atmosphere. TIL
S trees are nice to look at, still ther
: was a doubt in my mind if | woul
: trade them all for my little crab app
: tree in Montana.
d You have hunting grounds, grabbe
IS up by the rich, with "No Trespassing
Il signs, where it cost you $500 to joi
e the gun club in order to keep the con
s. mon herd out.
re You have good roads and far b
L tween them, where the driver sees n
IS thing much but the car just ahead
&c him. | have counted as many as
IS cars per minute going past one poir
y A man can walk all day long {
lie your highways with thousands of ca
Ie passing and nobody picks him up
S. you would not find that in Montan
l. All along your roads where there a
Id few trees and a spot of grass
| costs money to stop and park yo
Id car. You have toll gates as yo
bridges and toll gates at your mou
lg tains where it costs you nice lit
IN sum to get through You have Z
re missions where you charge admissi
I'D to see the junk on the inside.
You have sea shore with bree
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POPLAR MAN WOULD
GIVE LOAD OF WHEAT

Editor Producers News:
If you will take up contributions to
send carload of flour to National
Miner Relief Committee, will come
across with load of wheat for same.
EDWARD WILLIAMS,
525 Poplar, Montana.
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INaRo8
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Letters intended for publication IN
this column should reach the Producers
News the fore part OF the week. They
should not be long and should bear the
name and address Of the writer. Com
munications written over nom DE
panied with the name Of the author.
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ed to anv goverr,. '"'e
Inc ;e: power business. That a entry into
sition of the Los Angeles InaS r. Is the %
Is desperately fighting I'M lime, which
johnson bill. Nor wos me Swine
recognition discussed! - iaOOr union
While Hoover was vivir,.
ly satisfactory" replies ~ eminent
questions put to him bv - ~ the test
g z Time element, Sen. Job Los An,
the capitol, was vainly tryin 1,Se On At
cure support for the nassau: sng 70 Sc.
Boulder Canyon dam biII 'f tSgs Of The
senate t in this session. While ihiIoq "a th Y.
has the nominal approval Of f pr me bill
Coolidge it is to be sidetraossssls
Chairman Smoot of the fin r,Scked By
mittee, close friend of C1l ooESe con.
the pretext that plenty Of time On
pc mad Tor debate on the tax raS, must
bill. In the House, the ma aeuuctoa
locked up in the rules com r,uS;suie is
Chairman Smell, and there i w;S By
main. Coolidge and Hoover WI, TI' ls'
llcly regret" that Congress "" ~, PUB
act. The Imperial VALLEY will Nj uu not
other year without flood nrot g a.
and the Los Angeles regicn will ViiTIl'e y
other year without the wata s ~ A.
cheap electric power that are 49,. ana
to its development. ~ ''Seaaal
With the same cynacism tho Il
, tisan reactiOnary bloc in the T Tip
and Senate will prevent action ~ mO "
= anti-inJunctiOn bills between now NJ y
= the summer adjournment, altbon,SS IN
! hOll call vote on an IL junction HI; HS u
q be given in the Senate. Tbi H'D r ,la
! was pledged last December nv tbo ,-G "
" Guard to the progressives as S' n \
! price Of securing the progressiv.
i support for republican >: ganizatioD
n the Senate. The progyessiyes s''T i
s. little to choose between The two !.
y of big business politicians. and
IL made this bargain. However n
L knew the Old Guard would stran,
!. the injunction bill in the House /
u they were not mistaken.
u =
ey Howell of Nebraska, progress,
r. republican, public ownership adyo,
IT, and expert, has been renOminated
sc over 10000 majority, against
Ter massed opposition of organized b
In ness. Yet on his office wall in
ac- Senate office building hangs a {
os- paign portrait of Warren c. Hard
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One thing is certain, knocking the weather doesn't
improve it.
Beggars Brussels have to keep books but here they
nave to keep moving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-06
Tjre.Trap Hotels.

Ossinins, N. y, furnishes the latest
instance of tragedy incident 10 the use
of ancient buildings as hotels. A cen-
tury-old structure was fired by an in
cendiary early Thursday morning and
the flames spread so rapidly that three
of the thirty-five inmates were burned
to death The building was frame
construction Of three stories and attic.
vertable firetrap. It had no fire
escapes and was in no wise protected
from the flames. II went like finder
and 1t was miracle that many more
people were not killed.
These old firctraps. used rs places of
public accommodation arc to be found
I'll over the country. especially In the
older sections. They have become land
marks. Fire regulations have been as a
rule adopted and in some cases applied
to the extent of requiring outside metal
ladders and the installation of fire en-
tinsuishers. But so f1imsy is their con-
struction. so old and dry and fire-invit-
ing their materials that not even these
precautions when they ere adopted. arc
of much avail.
Every holocaust would seem to suffice
to ceus, racing OF all OF these death
traps wherever they exist. But after
tie first reaction Of horror the impulse.
Il 1t eSistc. to take warning and to re-
duce the danger by prohibiting the use
Of these structures for public accom-
mediation passes. They continue to be
tolerated. Perhaps In some commu.
mites political influences are exerted to
permit their use. In others indifference
on the part o! public officials operates
to continue the peril
In every case where flretrap of this
character is allowed to remain in Use
for the housing OF numbers of people
until II is burned and life is lost. the
responsibility should rest squarely upon
the municipal authorities. who in prob
ably every instance. have the power to
prevent continued occupancy and In
vitatlon 10 tragedy: Prosecutions of not
only the owners OF such buildings but
Of the public officials who allow them
to remain In service would perhaps
stimulate general clearance and tho
elimination OF one Of Americas most
shameful evils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-06
will run amuck ruthlcssly with the con-

will run amuck ruthlcssly with the con-
ventions and proprieties during his term
Of Office. to give Newbaryport Its full
measure of punishment for It's failure
to safeguard itself against political dis
aster. II has we'll earned this expert
ence by its neglect of duty in Novem-
Der. The man was not a pretcnder
He showed himself In his true colors
during the campaign. a roughnecS. In
competent. The town took him as
&c. But II will be- no Joke when he
plays ducks and brakes with the city
administration.
There have been numerous instances
of this sort of political Stacking and
many freaks have been raised to public
Office in consequences. The communi-
tics and the States that have suffered
these experiences have rued their re-
missncss. Sometimes they have tried
10 imp-ach md remove from Office these
accidents" but the process of rcdemp-
;io1 is always difficult. The harder 1t
is to get rid of a public nuisance the
more the community that suffers from
or . should be stirred to assure itself
against future mishaps of the same
kind by diligcnt duty he polls when
ever the time comes to choose public
Officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-06
Another Chance,

Strict ss are thc Baumes laws Of New
York they do not seem 10 hold ANY
terror for Sam Klein, He goes right
along with his criminal ways and is
quite bored at having 10 appear In
court every 50 often 10 answer for his
sins, Kle.n'a caEu3iness seems 10 be
justified at that. because on his latest
appearance before Judge on a charge
Of robbery he received sentence OF
only iiltle more than year despite
record That dates back To 1919, when
he was sent 10 the feforinstofy for
twentyrons months as an incofrigibie
minor Since then he has appeared In
one court or another ten times. This
tn his record.
On July 4. 1918 he was sentenced Ia
nlnetesD months IN a rff0rmatory for
dis0rdfriy conduct; arrested July 7,
1915, for attempted grand larceny anu
the case Was dismissed, sentenced
September 3, 1915, ~ reiormalofy fGf
dlt0fdsfty conduct, sentenced aaaln
Oet1bef ~, 1918. for dis0fderilness, sen
fenced 10 Elmirs Hffefmat0ry August ].
1919, for grand larceny, sentenced Sep
tember 3, 1921, for disordsily conduct
sentenced June 10. 1922. 10 TWO years
aud two months in fsLate's Prison f0r
/ grand larceny, arrested November 4
1925, for impsiring the morals Ut Z
minor, but was discharged and sen
fenced July ~, 1877, IN I'VE months In
The yorkiolss for diEorderiy conduct
From digofdprjy conduct Ia impuiyira
the morals Of minor with few
charges u grand larceny thrown IN, |,
| The unsspsry ree9fd 0f this habiiia
criminal, Why In the world he IL nal