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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18

est themselves in professors of economics engineer
inc in their local colleges "Have him lecture on your
subject to his classes" said Ayesworth. "Once in
while it will pay you to take such men, getting five
or six hundred or thousand dollars year, and give
them retainer of two hundred dollars per year
for the privilege of letting study and consult with
them For how in heavens do anything
in the schools of this country with the young people
growing up if have not first sold the idea of edu
cation to the college professor"
More subtle methods favored in the report of the
Great Lakes Section, Committee COOPERATION, for
1861 Each state representative it announced, "was
assigned the task of arranging for personal contact
with such faculty members in each university college,
junior college and normal school in his territory
would permit these institutions to learn that certain
facilities data and service at their disposal 1t
was agreed that this should be done personally, by
company executives rather than by writing letters. 1t
felt that the purpose of the committee would be
better accomplished we let the proper in the
schools know hat they could to the industry for
statistics lectures and counsel that might assist stu
dents interested in industry"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
HOW ABOUT SHERIDAN COUNTY?

Daily papers over the state have been carving head
lines the past week: Montana Road Investment &c.,
100000 By End of Season."
Most of these papers of course are published in the
western part of the state and directly interested
because good roads are being built from city to
city
Bat how about Sheridan County?
IL was said that few miles of road would be built
out Of Scobey this year and few miles out of Gull
Dertson But work is progressing slowly although as
tne daily newspapers report many millions of dollars
are to be expended this year in the state But still the
people of Sheridan county are paying the cent gaso
line tax every mile their automobile travels over the
rough and ruty roads of this county, besides paving for
the extra and tear which such roads TO their
machines.
And from all appearances this condition is going to
last for long time unless something is done about it.
By the time the graveed highway reaches Pentywood
at the present rate of building, many mddle-aged ct
zens will be old and no longer able to enjoy the
good roads when they arrive but in the meantime they
will have been paying the Scent tax on gasoline For
whom?
The question is easily answered by any one who has
taken the time to watch the road building programs
over the state and the connecting highways between
the larger cities of the west where the state politicians
make their homes and from which cities they were
elected to office with the aid of the voters of eastern
Montana.
No doubt the money that is now available
is insufficient to the whole state with graveed
highways at this time but the present method is by
far too slow and should be remeded at once by bond
issue other measure and then the state should be
distrcted that each part would get its fair share
the good roads and not have to wait until the people
of this section have become too old and feeble en-
JOY travelling over the good roads, have passed
away. 1t is not pleasant to the average citizen of
Sheridan county to dig down and pay all the way up to
5O cents extra every time he fills his in order that
people IN the western part of the state may ride
roads without bump rut for miles and miles while
he has to jump and bump so miles of poor high
way In order to reach improved road and has not
miles of improved graded and graveed highway in his
county
This is election year and the people again have a
vote They voted for good roads at the last election
Now is the time to find out whether we are going to
have them in the future or wait for fifteen Of
twenty years while the western part of the state gives
US the horse laugh.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
Daniels County All Club
Has Large Membership

Scobey.-County Agent F. H Smith
announces that the All club boys and
girls turkey club, which was promot-
ed this spring, is now completely or
gained with SO members. The pur-
pos of the club is to grow improved
turkey stock to replace inferior stock
now In the county. Eggs were obtain
ed from the best turkey breeders in
the state.
The club has been financed by the
First National and Citizens State
banks of Scobey. Boys and girls en-
gagged IN this work are: Donald VIE
digger, Burl Logan, F1axville: Grace
ferguson, Tom Davis, Keith Robin
son, Scobey; William Marble. White
tan; Gladys Butler, Scobey; Alice
Chiccoine, Four Buttes; Irene Bureau.
Whitehall; Irene Ferestad. Janatte
Pittinger, Ida Pittinger, Scobev. Er-
ling Bjarko, Ole Bjarko. Peerless.
Gladys Thunem, Leo Rosenau, T 41S
B. Dahl, Louis Parent, Beatrice Par,
ent, Anna Jansen, Pauline Rnroa+ -
John Hudyma, Leslie Downing. Iol, mis-,
Gilbert, Scobey; Mildred Iamotte
-Four Buttes; Ross Wilcoxen Viva,
Helton, Edith Helton, Scobev T,,ne
Johnson, -Four Buttes; Francis Snvd dc,
Scobey; Marjorie Ring, Whitehall. 3.
more England, Elsa Bastian, Scobev,
Roy killenbeck, Four Buttes: Arj;t
Wlltfong, Roland Wiltfong. WhitetaiI
Bernard Kemp, Scobey.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
THE POWER TRUST BENDS THE TWIG
By Lawrence Todd In the "New Republic"

By Lawrence Todd In the "New Republic"
Hearings conducted by the Federal Trade Commits
sion in recent weeks under the authority of the Senate
resolution of inquiry into the utility industry have
brought to the attention of the country problem
in its educational system. This problem is the grow
ing influence in the public schools and colleges exer
csed by the associations of pubc-utiy corporations
The revelations which have been made give us pretty
picture of college professors kept the utilities pay
roll long they "rght' the question of pub
lie ownership of brought to bear in every pos
sible way the authors of text books dealing with
this subject of attacks the character of opponents
on whom, of course the deadly label Bolshevistc has
been pinned, of writers paid to their pens on behalf
of the public utilities in opposition proposed leg
isatOn regarded by them inimcal to their welfare
such as the Swing-Johnson bill for Boulder Dam.
In its organized form, this effort to mold the minds
of the pupils in the public schools and the students in
the colleges and universities is yet ten years old
The National Electric Light Association created its
Committee Cooperation with Educational Institu-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
SCHWAB'S MINERS
UNDER KNOUT
By Robert W. Dunn, Fed. Press.

by ROBERT w. Dunn, Fed. Press.
Pittsburgh.-George Spolski was
born In the Ukraine So years ago. His
Vanzetti like mustache tells his Uk-
rainian peasant origin. Like Vanzet-
II, he is a bachelor. He now lives in
the town of Slickville, Westmoreland
County, and is one of those workers
with whom Charles M. Schwab told
the senate committee, he never has
had any trouble.
But contrary to the steel kings tes-
tlmony. George Spolsh is now on
strike with $40 other miners against
the Bethlehem Mines Corp, which
dominates Slickville. They came out
April 10 at the call of the Save-the-
Union Committee and Immediately
faced the coal and iron police, Mr..
Schwab's own private Cossacks.
George was sittir~ in his boarding
house eating bologna with two fellow
miners a few days ago when three OF
these Cossacks broke through the door
and told him to "come along. When
George 'flourished his arms" as the
Cossack described it before the
sources court, the Cossack slapped
him with mace. He was then drag
ged along with his comrades to the
mine company's office. A company
doctor put in a few stitches. The other
miners were "sent home" by the mlne
superintendent, the private CossacA
testified later and George was Iodgee
in the company lookup. A charge Of
disorderly conduct was placed agalns'
him. Next day he was released OF
bail and brought back to his poardme
house in an undershirt and sfllrt tna'
had been soaked in blood.
I sat in at the hearing before tns
justice of the peace. The scream
who is both a coal and iron ploicema q
and deputy sheriff, testifled enae ~
didn't know whether George was
striker or not. cit wouldn't make an.
difference with us Officers" ne com
mented. He also alleged tnat ene s9 7
of profanity George and his comIaoe
were using was 'not fit for iaoy Y
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18

hear" Whether it was Ukrainian
profanity the sergeant did not say. He
admitted he had entered the house
without warrant, that he had Slapped
George and that the latter had been
drinking. Three of Georges friends
testified that he was a sober striker.
The company justice of the peace
did his duty. The presence of an In
ternational Labor Defense lawyer pre-
vented him from going further. GA
dollar and COSTS" George groaned at
the injustice. The private Cossacks
were satisfied. They had taught
George a lesson. He would sit in his
boarding house and eat BOLOGNA.
In the same town lives Mike Mrow-
SEQ. He brings me a notice ordering
nm to appear and pay his county
road tax-S8.60' and his township
road tax-$21.50." 81 pay tax. / can
no walk on road / pay for. This
American freedom" he remarks with
voice full of emotion and disoust.
The coal and iron police refused to LET
MN walk on the road he had paid for.
Not only do they drive strikers from
the road but a few days ago Romeo
Koca was standing on his brother-in-
laws porch doing nothing. A Schwab
Cossack Jumped out of motorcycle
slde car and chased him from the
porch and beat him with a mace. He
showed me his bruises.
Other miners from Sliclzville were
beaten while on the way to the gro
Gerry to buy food. They were pointed
out to the coal and iron thugs by the
company superintendent. Wives Of
miners were assaulted on their own
porcnes. And Joe Marinelli, the new
secretary of the Save-the-TTnion orour
OF ISlickville, and his young wife and
enid came within an inch of deatf
ene other night when bomb went of
across the road from their home
plainted by someone who hates joe:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
MONTANA CERTIFIED
SEED POTATOES

Observation-Disclosures -
grown certified seed not ~ Montana.
nave gained an enviabIe reUNt.. which
southern and western marE ett.anOn in
increased this season. acc ,Me:S' will be
ports received by the STATE u. to le-
publicity. Two counties PSINSlon Of
and Powell are adding the DSeoaOvSerhead
10 INDUSTRY to their agriculhvrua, pOta-
gram this year and will ioiD d pro-
counrleS OF the state in the I Trna othe,
OF the high quality certified 'Ouustlon
which Montana is fast beco,o~,;SS SEED for
IN potato growing centers noted
the most prominent prodmc+;nma many Of
tiers of commercial potatoes ' In cen.
great part on outside distriCt rpehd IN
After a months tour of t5@
growing sections of the sontb POVatO
). Courtlce, agricultural deveiornnnS.ng
agent for the Northern Pacif;oo S!1n
company, Billings, and E F railway
tension horticulturist of tbo i %, ex-
State College, report that t5 montana Ma
tana seed seems in every wav We ert mon
trict. VI the dis.
Montana grown certified CO.,
tatoes of the Bliss Triumnb ecu Y po'
have made an excellent sbon,; variety
Texas this year," says Mr. Gong ongs..n
Fields inspected in Texas were oT luce
ed from a carload of Bliss TriIpn ,ali'-
donated b. Montana growers fo ,ilp G
sake of the experiment IT, aOr tne
men was distributed under tbo S Snlp-
ton of J. F. Rosborougb Of t t,e T Tlec'
A. and M; College, in several Texas Texas
counties through the county o IsAaS
who selected men to whom tho "S soa
toes were given for demonsratf;OossaS'
The seed was planted in comn 's'lEls.
with texas grown seed and seed 't fror1
other northern states. ~ IiOnl
In general the Montana seed sbo,.,
up as GOOD or better than otbe e,,V no1
thern ~rOwn seed and was far cnn mOt'
or to southern grown seed rivino f ~
ter stands, thriftier growth and Oe 81
ways appearing a month to six Tos T.
IN advance of southern seed planto,
on the same date. '''''''
MI COurtlce says that the utmos
care should be exercised bv Monies.
growers to keep disease condit;on
down to the minimum, if thew WIEN '' !
hold the confidence of the sontbor
growers because the extent to which
slight infection will null under {,
vOrable conditions of the sontb i :. i
most unbelievable.
Mr.. COurtice enthusiastically slot.
that there is large potential mari ,,
for a gradually increasing quantity
Montana certified seed potatoes
Texas.
The Yakima district in Wasbinvt,
will undoubtedly prove a profifsb
market for Montana seed. With II
in view L. c. Campbell, agricultur
development agent for the Nortbe
Pacific has arranged a series of reel
rocal tours for Montana and Wasbin
ton potato growers to take place
July and August. A number Of Was
ington growers will be given the .
portunity of visiting Montana the L
ter part of July to inspect fields
certified seed potatoes and in retl
Montana growers will tour the Y;
ina Valley early in August.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
Farmers May Profit Much
By Protein Content Prices
Many Millions of Additional Income
Is Expected if Crop Prospects Ma
terialize, Declares Commissioner.

Helena, May 12.-Proetin content Of
Montana wheat will probably mean
several million dollars to farmers in
this state this year, providing present
crop prospects materialize, but farm
ers should remember that improper
sampling breeds dissatisfaction be-
tween buyer and seller, says an an
nouncement made this week by A. d.
Bowman, commissioner of agriculture.
Samples of grain sent in for testing
to the state laboratories not fairly Ia
ken or contained in a paper sack II.
stead of an alright container, will
vary to considerable degree, a series
of experiments conducted by the de-
partment indicates.
There has been much confusion
among farmers of the state regarding
protein testing Mr.. Bowman says
Samples sent in from the same ON
or the same field may show consider
able variation in protein percentage
between two or three Laboratories. 10
determine definitely the causes, we Ie-
Gently made a number of experiments;
We took a number of samples ana
packed each sample in an alright con-
tainer. We sent these samples to 1OW
different laboratories. Here are int
results: Sample No. l, Rocky Noun,
tain, on 1876 moisture, 12.4S; on lo1
moisture, 1852; sample No. 2, MOE
tana Flour Mills, 12.43; sample NO . .
Montana State College, 1880; sanP7
No. 4, Great Falls, 12.45 on 10 mos
ture. -,
at does not seem humanity posslO!e
to get samples that will test more UNI s
formly. Later we took a ials .
number of samples. Some OF Ine;s
we sent to different Laboratories IL
paper sacks and others in artlgnV COu
tanners. The laboratories all suOs.@lt
TALLY agree on the protein cohIem
when the sample is in an alrtigh' CO WI
! tainer; they do not agree When s hi
in a paper sack for the reason '. ase
the moisture is evaporated before s =,
testing can be completed. Inc pay.
container samples show a higher ~ N
tein content, often cents or mOLe .r +
protein value per bushel. The aep an.
ment is becoming more and more S0 syi
WINGED as a result of these e1 HponH
ments that all samples tested :S II
be plainly marked as to the kllU me-
container. We believe a UNIFORM lLo "a
thod should be adopted by all ls iOSrr.
tories, by all grain dealers ana ma ptOs sent
ers whereby all samples OF Wng a. cent
, in for protein testing should Os
; in the airtiOht containers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
MORE PAY PROPOSED
FOR WAR DISABLED

Observation-Disclosures in the
compensation paid veterans of the
world war who were blinded or total
ly disabled for any work would be in
creased if Rep. Victor Berger's bill,
introduced on May z, were enacted by
congress. The raise for the totally
disabled would be to $3.50 a month
from $500; for men blinded, to $3.50
from $3.50; men who lost both eyes
and one or more limbs would get 5000
a month.
Although the world war was the
result of European capitalistic and ma
tlonallstlc rivalries and hatreds," Ber-
ger said in explanation of his bill,
and none of the pretexts of those
who dragged us into it have been
achieved, the men who went into the
slaughter and came out with eyes and
limbs gone cannot be compensated
sufficiently. The least we can do is
pay them enough to secure them
against want.
Our generosity, if that is what it
is to be called, is all the more iusti-
fled when it is recalled that these men
with very few exceptions, did not 90
voluntarily. They went because the
law said they had to go. 1t was done
In obedience to laws with the making
of which they had nothing to do. AS
a matter of fact, they had lust voted
Wilson into office because he kept us
out of war
Our men were conscripted and Gent
to France, that is if thev were NOR
If they were rich they were commits.
stoned in the naval resercve or giver
swivel chair jobs here. So
Convinced as / am that we commit.
ted a crime against our peonIe and
against the nations of the world wbe her
we permitted international harL eor
and munitiOn makers to plung US into
the W war 90 | am am. equally convinced thai
ed can afford to paw and sboni t III az,
quired to pay, along with the p 81
teers, the minimum reouirem ~ RsOt =
those who have been disabled fol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18

Leases of oil lands are said to have
been awarded by word of mouth bid
ding, by government agents to big oil
companies with which they maintain
ed cordial personal contact. Tribes
have been impoverished by the taking
of their last funds for public road con-
struction. Graft and cruelty and in
difference to law, on the part of the
Indian Buerau representatives, are
charged by many tribal spokesman.
The subcommittee and CLAWS will dig
into the whole record, regardless OF
the dismayed protests that already are
rolling in from the agencies. Many
western senators are hostile to the in
quiry, but have not dared fight il
openly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD. Fed. Press.

by the House, is scheme for scrap
ping the governments merchant fleet
by means of bargain sales, and then
loaning S250,00O,000 at very low in
terest rates to shipbuilding companies
for construction of new vessels. IT
is the pet scheme of the private ship
ping crowd which has been fighting
the trade unions. The Senate bill.
known as the Jones bill, provides for
a permanent aforementioned and
government operated merchant ma
rine. 1t is now reported in the capi-
tol that Sen. Jones of Washington.
sponsor of the public ownership plan
welcomes the chance to accept the
House measure in conference, and
hopes the senate will adopt it without
discussion. His hopes, if he has any
are due for heavy frost.
Senator Frazier of North Dakota
Nonpartisan Lacquer, has launched
his lnvestlgatlon-as chairman of the
committee on Indian affairs and of its
special subcommittee-into the treat
ment of the Indians by the Indian bu
reauln the Interior Department. Lou
is r. CLAWS, who won fame in the
Ballinger-Pinchot battle over the giv
ing away of government coal lands II
Alaska, in the Taft regime, has beer
chosen to direct the inquiry. Mem
bers of tn especial subcommittee au
thorized by the Senate to make a re
port are Frazier, Wheeler of Montana
LaFollette of Wisconsin, and Pine an,
Thomas of Oklahoma. The first thre,
are candidates this year for reelec
tion, but will devote part of tn
summer to tn etask of tracing tn
facts as to the care and neglect 0
property and funds amounting t
many hundreds of millions of dollars
winch the government is supposed t
be preserving for it swards.
Oil is one of the main sources o
Indian tribal wealth in the southwes
and In the Rocky Mountain state:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18

Drllllng will be resumed in Fenholt
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18

Washington-No sooner mad the
chopped down WEIGH salary increase
bill for federal employees passed the
House than President Coolidge's voice
was again raised in protest against
the appalling" total of expenditures
proposed by Congress. This measure
carries less than $20,00,000 annual
wage increase for 1876, 900 government
workers, in place of the $40,000,000
Wrist proposed as a fair adjustment.
Yet not even the vote of 281 to IA reg
istered by the House membership re-
strained the chief executive from ma
king a wry face.
In a statement issued after the roll
call in the House, the National FEEDER
alton of Federal Employees declared
that this bill is intended simply as
temporary relief pending a thorough
investigation by all available agencies
of the government with reports to be
made next December, in order that
the next session of Congress may have
before it authoritative data, upon
which comprehensive revision of the
entire salary scale may be based"
Thanks to the power trust lobby's
activity in stirring up the Arizona
politicians against the Boulder Dam
project, the filibuster against thai
public power and waer development
viii probably continue until the very
end of the present session. The bill
will go over to hte December session
But tn sword of filibuster cuts two
ways. Militarist measures such al
the s274,O00,00O naval construction
bill, the retired officers pay bill anC
various lesser items viii likewise b
blocked. Even the conference repor
on the merchant marine bill---if on
is secured-will have no chance unles
the senate shall set aside the Boulde
Dam measure. Already the big nav,
crowd is furious, and the shipping lob
Toy is desperate.
This White shipping bill, adopte'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
Only a Companion

Why did your pop say reminded
MN OF telescope 2"
because you're so casey to see
snlougn and you magnify everything
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18
SEN. METCALF HITS al I'M
PRISON LABOR BILL

washington-(FP-Sen. Metc tas1ti lie
ma sTs has caused t. S9.i be Ff a@ s
in the Congressional Ke TS, World
torial from the New YORK biIl for
striking at the Hawes-CoopeII s. IF from
exclusion Of prisOn-magdsi, de! goTSaiiil has
interstate commerce. TINS ~ III bv the
i for many asaS years been advocated ar ''
Ai The argument made agalGsss orssd
measure by the World, anu inusoral gov
bv Metcalf, is that the Ieu ussre With
eminent ought not to innas' sItt trade
the relatively small,' rnSyIoposed D
in convict-made goods as PiOf
this attempted regulation
He: 81 haven't the cheek
you -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-28
GEN. MALONE SHIFTED
TO 9Th CORPS AREA
He Will Be Succeeded at Fort
Sheridan by Brig. Gen. Lytle
Brown, Now Here.

An order issued at the War Depart
nent today relieves Mai Gen. Paul B.
Malone from further duty with the 18th
Brigade at Fort Sheridan, H.. and
directs him to proceed to Chicago at
once and assume command OF the 9th
Corps Area.
Gen. Malone will be relieved at Fort
Sheridan by Brig. Gen. Lytle Brown,
recently promoted and now on duty at
Washington Barracks as assistant COM
mandant of the Army War College.
Col. Frederick B. Shaw, y. S. Infantry.
has been relieved from duty in the
Militia Bureau, War Department. and
assigned to the I'd Infantry at Fort
Sheridan.
Maj. Gen. William LaSSiter. formerly
in command OF the 9th Corps Area at
Chicago, is now temporarily in COM
mand Of the Philippine Department
and will relinquish that command in
the late Fall 10 assume command OF
the 9Th Corps Area at For Sam Hous-
ton. Tex, as the successor of Mai. Gen.
Thomas @. Donaldson, recently retired
Other important changes later in the
year involve the transfer TO the COM
nand of the Philippine Department OF
Maj. Gen. Douglas Macarthur, now in
command of the Sd Corps Area at
Baltimore. and the assumption of the
latter command by Maj Gen. Fred w.
Sladen. formerly in command of the
Philippine Department and now on
leave OF absence.