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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
NOW WHAT WILL THEY DO?
(sweet Grass News, Big Timber.)


Announcement was made last week that the AnacOn-
da Copper Mining Company has bought the Montana
holdings of the estate of the late Senator Clark Inc
deal represented an expenditure of about $7OOOOO and
included mines mills street railways and newspapers
The general public will be especially interested In
the sale of the Clark newspapers, more especially the
Butte Miner This is the only Montana daily paper OF
wide circulation that not formerly owned by the
Anaconda and was thorn in the flesh. w. A. Clark
Jr is the manager and he dealt the big company lot
of grief during the recent primary campaign and was
instrumental in bringing defeat to most of the copper
candidates for state offices.
It is the general belief that Mr.. Clark was sincere
in his attempt to remove political control of the state
from one company and return to the people VINO nave
allowed themselves to drift along without paying much
attention to the situation, while the big company has
gained control of practically every department OF the
state government.
No one denies that the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
and its allied interests entitled to liberal consider
alton in all matters affecting taxation and government
policies. They have heavy investments and large pay
rolls pay lots of and should receive fair treat
ment at all times Montana would sustain a severe
loss if it should lose the A. c. M. and the Montana
Power company.
By the same token, the companies would be in a
much less envabe position it not for the natural
resources of the great state of Montana which they
have been given permission to exploit The state is
entitled to the same fair consideration the com
panies 1t should be $3.50 proposition
Just why the big company is ambitious to anC
control every daily newspaper in the state is mystery
to the average person who looks at the situation clear
ly. majority of the papers operated at loss
and the company is called upon to make up deficit
What is the object of this apparent squandering O.
money? What does the company hope to receive il
return for this expense? Is it good investment? L
it good politics?
From on so long the company maintains it
string of papers, every candidate for office who i
supported by those papers will be marked as cope
man and will be opposed by the agricultural interests
Since it has become knowledge that the bi
company every daily in the state the papers hav
lost prestige and circulation The inside story of tn
Montana Record Herald since it was sold to the CON
pany is pathetic. It's circulation has dwinded to mer
nothing and its readers pay no attention to its poit
cal offerings So it will be with every company owne
daily.
To gain popularity, to make more money, to be MOI
against unjust attacks to regain lost public Fl
vor and patronage, the company would do we'll to sc
all its papers, get out of the publishing business an
devote itself to cooperate development of the stat
Sooner later the higher-ups will see the wisdom
this plan.
Now that they have gained absolute control of Il
newspaper field, what will they do
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
THE HERALD LAMENTS SELECTION
OF SALISBURY

The mud singing contest has already started in the
Plentywood Herald with Taylor and Salisbury the main
victims of the campaign to date.
Of course the Herald hid behind the skirts of the
Daniels County Leader, edited by Burley Bowler at
Scobey which is even dscredted in Daniels county be-
cause of its fantastic dreams put into print.
The Herald is printed and perhaps edited in Plenty
wood although doubt the latter, and if it wants to
put on a personal campaign of calumny, it would be
honorable according to the general public if they
came out themselves and attacked Sheriff Salisbury
and the rest of the candidates put up by the farmers
They have shown their sentiment and desire and of
the farmers used to having their candidates
abused by the enemies of their movement.
But perhaps people in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones and mayhap there is family skeleton slowed
away in the deep dark closet of the Herads official
force that might not bear the light of day.
Anyway lively campaign seems to be looming up
with Taylor and Salisbury bearing the brnt of the at
tack of those who hate and fear the farmers move
ment, but the big guns have not started to boom in
the offensive of the farmers against those who would
again strange Sheridan County with heavy indebted
and high taxes in order that they might benefit
thereby.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
THE IRONY OF FORTUNE

Coincident with the announcement few weeks ago
of the new silver anniversary model of the Buick Motor
company, to light pathetic little sketch in an
exchange newspaper telling how the inventor orig
inaor of the which has carried his for
than quarter Of century has been dropped by the
wayside by tickle Dame Fortune.
It is to the effect that David Buick who in 1895 IN
vented and brought forth the auto which still bears
his name is today at the age of a. living in poverty
and obscurty, earning meager living as an INSTRUCT
or in mechanics in Detroit school. Poor health caus-
ed him to sacrifice his stock in the Buick plant when
it was worth practically nothing Then the plant pros
pered and some of the shining lights in the auto world
today whom Buick had let in partners, "cashed in
and became multmiiOnaires But they have lost sight
of Buick-and so had the world until Detroit news
paper reporter found him and printed the story. 1t
shows how in the coldblooded business world, friend
ship has habit of stepping out when riches step in.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
JUDGES AND BOSSES
JOIN AGAINST LABOR


Fall River, Mass.-(FP)-Courts
Joined police in the offensive against
striking cottonmill workers when four
Textile Mill Committee leaders were
given six month sentences. They
were DR.. James p Reid of Providence
William Sroka of Passaic, Samuel
Wiesman and Jack Rubenstein. Reid
has long been prominent in efforts to
organize mill workers in southern
New England. Sroka was an official
in the Passaic Textile Workers joint
council after the 1926 strike.
Judge Hanify's solicitude for Fall
River mill owners was thinly DISCUS
ed "The time has come" he said in
passing judgment on the picket lead
ers, when something must be done
to restore Fall River, always a peace
full community, to that condition a
gain and for that reason / am inn
posin gsentences which | believe will
restore that condition" There had
been no serious violence in the strike.
Fall River police have banned all
picketing before four struck mills ana
arrested IA strikers who dared to
form lines. At the sight of strikers
police reinforcements are sent and
picket lines broken up. Police Chief
Feeney has boosted that by these tao
tics he has "broken the back of the
strike"
! Feeling is running high against po
! lice as the result of drowning of little
Johnny Madieros, 6, while his parents
were picketing. Police rode into the
swirling crowd before the mill gates
To escape the horses hoofs the boy
: dashed through fence and fell ovcr /;
bluff into the river. The boy drown
, ed as mounted police were breakins
! up the lines, too busy at their VOL
: to hear his cries.
Strikers blame the police for i It'll
: Madieros' death. Heavy reserves wey
, hel din readiness as the body was ia
= ken from an undertaking establish
: ment to Portuguese cemetery Oil tn
s. outskirts of Fall River.
In New Bedford the police, ate
: permitting picket lines for weel
= suddenly arrested IA Textile CoMlc
> and Textile Mill Committee pickct.
: Police travelled in cars from mill t
mill, breaking up all picket hle
!. large and small. Following rhen
= union leaders reorganized the lire
!. and were arrested. Among them Va
= Frank J. Manning, confidential seen
- tary to the A. F. of L. Textile Coul
- Gil.
Police figures show more than l0f
y arrests in New Bedford in efforts
- break up mass pick7ting. Many l9ar
- ers have been arrested doZen tam
u and have sentences totaling as high
~ two vars hanging over them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

We are inclined agree with correspondent OF the
Daily Northwest. We will become more excited about
raise of the gasoline tax from TO cents when the
price of gasoline in Montana is reduced to figure ap
proximatng that of Minnesota, where gas sells around
10 CENTS or in Portland where it has hit 1914 cents
Something is wrong in this situation, decidedly wrong,
when we remember the proximity of oil fields within
and without the state and the distance of oil fields
from Minnesota. Here is something else mentioned
by this correspondent worthy of notice: "The state
highway commission furnishes automobiles for some OF
its "whte collared" employees who run around IN
speeding roads Last summer one of these gentlemen
in Mssoula traded in set of tires that had run only
few thousand miles, got at the expense OF
tAe state Of Montana, and pOcketed the rebate paid
for the old tires of the gas tax went for real
road work, would not need to look around for
other tax the gas consumer. Help along in this
fight, please."-Butte Miner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
REPORTS PADDED SAYS N D. PAPER

civilian County IN. d. Farmers Press)
With the most extensive hail damage ever known in
North Dakota and eastern Montana and with the saw
fly and black rust making their appearance in various
sections, there to be for the reports
Of bumper crops being sent out by federal agents Since
the beginning of threshing in South Dakota the ex-
pectatons of big crops there have gone glimmerng,
and the average is only 10 bushels Owing to the
false reports Of immense crops prices have gone down
below the cost of production and there is than
humorous basis for the saying that wheat is planted
in the spring. mortgaged in the and lost in the
fall"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
Co-operatives Found Very
Little of Coolidge Prosperity

Washington.-(FP)- Only moder-
ately prosperous was 1927 for cor
sumner cooperative societies in the
United States according to report
made public by the U. S. Bureau of
labor statistics. The most notable de-
velopment of the year was the in
creased attention given to training
employees and executives in account
ing, cooperative practice and bust
ness procedure.
Seventeen stores in the Minnesota
iron district have formed the Mesaba
Range Cooperative Federation, which
will conduct educational work and will
act as joint purchasing agency for its
member societies.
On the other hand the cooperative
stores in the bituminous coal fields of
illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania suf-
fered severely. Members of these So
cieties have almost ceased to have
any purchasing power, the govern
ment Investigators report.
At Dilonville, o., the New Coop
erative Co., is counted the largest NIL
ner cooperative store in the country
1t was started in 1908 by 80 Bohemi-
an miners who contributed $lU each
to the share capital and VINO eacn
gave labor to construct the building
| for the store. In the first year the
sales were $4,000. In 1921 they were
over 100000 and in 1926 they Were
$542,854. Paid-in capital was only
$30,880 but the society had reserves
of $92,957 as a result of care1ul man
agement and loyal patronage Dy lts
membership.
After the coal strike began IN Apri
1927 the miners began to ASK creol'
from their store. This continuSu un'
til it became too dangerous 70 1le SO
ciety. All possible overhead EXPENSE
were cut off and stocks were allo"eC
to run low. The total BUSINESS II
1928 was only $S72, 199 and t9e mana mana
ger, for the first time in 10 year
was compelled to ask for creui' hrOn
the jobbers and wholesalers. -
Other cooperative societies q n st;,
given some aid and the, stoLs y s'A'
running, though seriously crippieu'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
1923 PROTEIN TEST LESS
THAN 1927 is REPORT

Poplar, Aug. 23-Early data on the
protein situation throughout the state
indicates Montana's wheat will aver
age slightly lower than in 1927. The
average of GO samples received at the
Bozeman laboratory before August 16
indicates an average protein content
of IL per cent.
Some further light is shed on the
protein situation by the results of
few tests of field samples taken in
the southern and eastern part Of
North Dakota. The average of Is
samples from is counties was 1906
per cent.
The Bliss laboratory at Bainville
reports a range of protein tests from
11.20 to 1856 with a probable aver
possible to locate high or low testing
possible to locate hig hor low testing
areas from few samples submitted
it is believed that the western part
Of Roosevelt county will show a finel
average Of more than 13 per cent
while the eastern half will average
IL per cent.
eff the farmers in the spring wheat
area dump their wheat on the market
as rapidly as did those in the south
west, low prices and premiums ma!
continue until most of our crop is OF
the market" is the opinion of mar
ketiug experts. Rin space on thu
farms for high protein wheat will II
a measure solve the proposition.
The wheat situation on August 1
may be summarized as follows:
Future prices lowest in five years
Cash premiums lower than las
week but higher than this time las
year.
All information to the present dat
indicates that farmers might prof
by holding high protein wheat an
studying the market
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
LEAVE 1T TO TIME
(Cut Bank Pioneer Press

When Joe Dixon appeared at the Republican cOnven-
ton at Helena recently to deliver the keynote address,
the applause was thunderous the delegates jumped
to their feet Not so long ago few of those so eager
to pay him homage at the convention doubted and dis
trusted the measures he conceived and had passed;
measures that have poured five million into the
state treasury. There is something inspiring and
tanning about all this something for doubters and Gym
les to ponder One need not moraze much about it.
1t is Simply the of strong with clear vision
having his high hour in tme-he great establisher of
all human values
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

(Cut. Bank Pioneer Pressl

The Company" is reported to have purchased the
Clark properties in Butte with them the Butte Miner
which is part of the Clark estate. This move may
have been influenced by the attitude of the Miner in
the prediction campaign. The Miner whose editor
is the brilliant satrist, Martin Huchens, simply wiped
out the Erickson-Anaconda strength in the colorful
mining camp and in Mssoula the New Northwest, an
other Clark paper did similar great service to Mon
tana. 1t is now the information of this paper that
Clark is spending million for the establishment
of another daily in Butte Well, Clark ought to have
considerable fun in this venture. He is said to be
worth around Is millions We know quite intimately
a number of Montana editors who have heaps of fur
on less.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
HIGHWAY SLAVERY IN MINNESOTA

To-day, however, in place of the slave oiling under
the lash for small pittance in the building of roads
the in ancient and medieval times, the la
Dor involved in road building is to very great ex-
tent skilled, experienced labor, receiving higher
pensation than in any former area"
In these words c. M. Babcock, state commissioner
of highways, put the best fact possible situation
that is deporabe and indictment of present day
conditions. He speaking at the convention of the
State Federation of Labor.
1t is doubtful indeed whether laborers working on
Minnesota highways for from 80 to at the most 40
cents an hour any free free as were
those who built the roads in ancient and medieval
times.
On the pitful wages road contractors pay laborers
can have no economic freedom, little home life and
nothing of comfort
1t is not the workers on the highways alone who
affected by the desperately low prevailing in
that work. The deplorably low wages paid on the
highways tends to depress the wages of all common
laborers throughout the state of Minnesota
The state and the municipality presumed to be
model employers paying the best of wages Instead,
the state of Minnesota in its highway construction is
the worst of employers in the state.
1t is excuse to say that the state does not hire
these workers, that they employed and paid by
contractors The state is responsible for the
that it could fix a minimum wage that contractors
would have to agree to in bidding but best of all it
could build highways under the day labor system and
end of poverty wages without increasing
to any extent the cost of construction.
Mr.. Babcock seeks support for bond issue of $780,,
100000 to be used for highway construction. If the
contract system is to continue in the building Of high
ways it exists in highway construction at present
the $2OO0OOOO would to considerable extent be fol
the purpose of perpetuatng poverty among laborers
1t is the workers on the highways who have paiC
most dearly for the Minnesota system of highways fol
they have been compelled to work for wage that de
MES them everything that makes life worth while.
No state is in position to boast of its highway;
when they represent the poverty and oppression that
the with highway construction in the state of Min
nesota.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

Now that both Hoover and Smith have given their
acceptance speeches and the farmers have been
ised everything in the shape of farm relief but what
they want the big boys will get busy and start the
big hurrah which after all will end victorious for
them, which ever wins But many poor "boOb" will
his fists to settle argument to which is the
best for president in his opinion before the elect
ton is over and spend the next four years waiting for
the promised land.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

s+N MlOa aux National BaDL
S'aIls tear-gas protection SYSTEM n
III, Great Falls1Building record !.
July reaches all-time record NJ sod for
$40. 0'OIu OF $685.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

Great Falls-Beacons will be con-
structed every 10 miles by U. S. f2g
air mail route between here and Salt
Lake City.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

lot of politicians who make fond predictions along
about the first of August wake up after the first frost
to find that it only midsummer nights Dream
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

With all the advance polls being taken on the COM
ing election lot Of candidates taking their medi
cine through straw-The Flint Daily Journal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31

Conrad Continental Development
Company opens 300 barrel Gjullin oil
well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06

By the Associated Press.
GLASGOW. Scotland, September g.
How the British Army became so ex-
pert in locating and destroying German
artillery in the World War was revealed
here last night by Sir William Bragg,
president of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, at the
opening of that organizations conven-
ton.
An electric thermometer which regis
tered the temperature of puffs of air
occaSioned by artillery fire gave the
British experts basic figure on which
they could calculate the exact Where-
aboutS of the artillery, he said.
It was during the early years OF the
war that a group of young scientific stu
dents was assembled from the British
universities to devise and test methods
Of locating enemy guns, Sir William
explained.
Exact Time Measured.
They soon decided that what was
most needed was method Of measuring
very exactly the time of arrival of the
air pulse. due to the discharge of the
].
lines. If the relative positions of the
stations were accurately known it would
then become a simple matter of calcula-
ton TO ascertain the gun position.
Their own forces could then destroy it.
It so happened that an enemy air
plane came over the lines one morning
at daybreak One Of the science stu
dents, an officer, lay awake in his bunk
listening to the discharges Of the anti
sircraft guns and the more distant ex-
blossoms of their shells Every now end
then faint whistling sound seemed
10 be connected with the louder sounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-06
BRITISH SCIENTIST REVEALS
DEVICE FOR LOCATING BIG GUNS
Sir William Bragg Tells How Wakeful Off,
Ger Invented Thermometer to Spot
German Artillery.

! The wall of the hut vas of felt: it was
| in moor condition and there we're tiny
rents close to the officers head. The
gun pulses made feeble sound as they
came through.
Impulse ChilIs Hot Wire.
This started the officer to thinking
If the pulse was strong enough to make
sound it might be strong enough to
chill hot wire perceptibly.
A fine wire was made to carry an
electric current by which it was heated.
If it could be chilled by puff of colder
air, the resistance to the passage of the
current would increase accordingly, and
could be measured on a gauge. The
method was tried and found to be a
complete success. The faint impulse
of big gun miles away was made to
produce an obvious chill in the hot
wire.
After the session. Sir William dis
closed that the inventive officer was
his own son, Prof. w. J.. Bragg Of
Manchester.
Man has a soul, in the belief of Sir
william. In expressing this opinion in
his inaugural address Sir William direct
ly contradicted the view expressed to the
association last year by its then presi-
dent. Sir Arthur Keith who rejected
the idea of an after-life.
Science is not setting forth to de-
stroy the SOUL" said Sir William. shak-
ing his finger at the 5000 scientists
who heard him, but to keep body and
soul together"
Some persons. he asserted, thought
that modern science would destroy rev.
L. = = 49,
know how that could be said of the
student who stands daily in the pres
ence of what seems to him to be in
finite"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-14
CONDITION BETTER AT ST ANN'S; ASK
 FOR CLEAN LINEN

The oyerSs : i,ai,s.1d condition at St. Ann's hospital was materially relieved this morning when six in fluenza patients were discharged as well. Practically all of the beds are still occupied, but the peak of the situation seems to have been reached and if those attending the sick are not taken down themselves, the hospital staff and those who offered to help will be able to care for future patients
 It was pointed out however that Inc danger is by no means over and every precaution must be talk en to guard against the disease.
 Those in charge at the hospital said that they were in need of clean white cotton sheets and pill low cases. The material need not be new, 1t is only required that it be clean. Any such material, which the people may have and wish to donate, will be greatly ap- preciated, and should be taken to the hospital
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-14
H. D. SMALLER IS ENDORSED
 BY ATTORNEYS
Asst. U. s. Attorney En- dorsed by Local Bar As
 sociation for Promotion

Howard D. Stabler, for the past eight years assistant United States Attorney here, was last night unanimously endorsed by the local Bar Association for appointment as United States Attorney for the First Division, il was announced today by Henry Roden. President. The endorsement will be telegraph ed to the Attorney General of the United States and to Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Republican National Con- mitteeman for Alaska.
 The present United States At torney, Justin W. Harding. was nominated a few days ago by President Coolidge to be Federal Judge of this division. Upon his confirmation there will be a va cancy for United States Attorney.
 Mir. Stabler was first appointed to office by A. c. Shoup who was appointed in 1920 by President Harding. He continued under MT. Harding He is all ex-sersiee man serving in fhe T. s. signal Corps during he World War