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Evening star., 1928-06-17
MAGMA CHARTA DAY
OBSERVED AT BANQUET
Local Affair Is One of Similar
Meetings in All Seven English
Speaking Nations.

The District of Columbia Branch of
the International Magma Charta Day
Association held a banquet at the La
Fayette Hotel Friday evening. Mrs. NJ.
De Glare Berry. vice president of the
local branch of the association. who
acted as toaStmistress. explained the
purpose of the organization as being
purely social in character. with one
meeting every year in all of the seven
English-speaklng nations She intro
duced the following speakers of the eve
ming: n
Mrs. I'D ard Hodgkins. Capt. r. T.
Craven, NJ Eli Helmick. Gen. w. E.
Horton, Mrs. David Caldwell. Col H. c.
Reisenger. Samuel Herrick. Dr. Marcus
Benjamin. Mrs Redwood Vandergrift,
Daniel Smith Gordon. Judge Charles p.
Howry. Fred p. Myers. Mrs. Theodore
Tiiler, Mrs Clara McCreen. DR.. J. B.
Bullock, Rufus Pearson Miss J. Giffen
and Mrs. Merchant Mahoney.
Evening star., 1928-06-17
A Mountain Of Flesh.

The largest animal Of the present
time is the blue whale which attains
length of 80 feet and weight Of 80
tons. A herd of cattle equaling It's
weight would need for their mainte.
nance more than half square mile of
fertile pasture land blue whale
swimming at high speed travels at
rate of about 30 miles an hour, using
approximately $50 horsepower
Evening star., 1928-06-17

been elaborately decorated by leading
artists. Attention has been paid to hy-
gienic details. and an excess fare of
only 70 cents Is charged on a first-
class ticket.
AS the train Is scheduled each way
during the daytime, passengers are
treated to magnificent view of the
Rhine panorama from the rivers
mouth to its source
Evening star., 1928-06-17
KANSAS CITY BANK
BANDITS CONFESS
Three Held in Theft and SIay-
ing of Policeman Admit
Crime, Chief Says.
By the Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, June le.-Confes-
sions have been obtained from three OF
four men arrested in connection with
the hold-up of The Home Trust Co here
Wednesday and the Staying of James H.
Smith, traffic patrolman. Lincoln r.
Toyne, chief of police. said today.
Charges of murder and robbery would
De r1led against Tony Mangiarcino, Carl
Nasello and John Messino. named as
actual participants in the hold-up,
Toyne said. while Maurice Nagle. who
admitted renting the automobile used
In the robbery, and his wife would be
charged as accessories.
At cache east of the city. where the
$4,000 loot from the Home Trust Co.
robbery was divided, officers found a
submacfine gun, a Sawed-off shotgun
and a number of pistols. believed to
have been used in other flold-ups here
Police said information obtained from
those held would lead to other arrests
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
ANACONDA BOOSTS WHEELER
AND ERICKSON

The Anaconda Copper Mining Company which has
monopoly most of the daily newspapers of the state
of Montana, is coming out strong for B. K Wheeler
for u S. Senator and John E. Erickson for Governor
The taxpayers of Montana who do not believe in the
ruling of this state by that huge octopus will cast their
vote against Wheeler and Erickson on general princi
pies They believe that any that the Anaconda
Copper Company supports is good to vote
against They feel that the buying up of the publicity
organs of the state by the copper and interests
is another step toward fastening the control of big bus
mess over state affairs.
Naturally the people of this state resent the effort
of the Anaconda to gain and hold the rens of
ment in their hands.
The approval of any candidate by that company is
sufficient for any taxpayer to give that candi
date wide berth election day when he marks his
ballot at the polls.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

By adding a small figure for the
average rental value of the farm
home the department gets SIT as the
average annual wage per farm family
in 1929 and compares this figure
with the average factory wage of
$1301 for the same year. 1t also
points out that while the average fac
tory workers wage is now 29o higher
than III 1920 the average farmers
return is 279b lower.
The departments report also re-
fleets the tremendous shrinkage in
farm values since 1920. 1t esti-
mates the total value of all farm cap.
ital used in agricultural production
Jan. 1929 at $58, 431 900, 900 compar.
ed with S58.299, 00O,0 900 the year pre-
vious and S59,712,000,000 on Jan. 1
1926 On Jan. 1, 1920 the figure was
SIS, 459,O00,O00 so that farm capital
has shrunk about 261A % since 1920.
Deducting borrowed and rented cap
ital the department figures the in.
vestment of farm operators at $32,-
191 100000 in 1929, a shrinkage Of
more than 311k% from 1929-20 wher
their investment amounted to Sat-,
065, 100000 The actual farm opera
tors have horne the heaviest share
of the deflation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
TUNNEY AND POPULARITY

Gene Tunney, who by hard work in popular art
made himself rich and famous within fewer years than
takes most artists get started has discovered that
we exact peculiar payment for the popularity we be-
stow This prize fighter must long ago have become
tired of having it said in the newspapers that he read
books; but now, what with getting engaged and start
ing for tour of Europe foot with Thornton Wilder
ne seems to realize how deeply he is in trouble When
ne set sail from New York the other day he is repre
sented as having looked must unhappy For as he got
out OF his taxi and approached the dock he suddenly
found himself the target for dozens of flash light pho
tographers and movie men, whose shots and clicks fol,
lowed HIM even up the gang plank to the deck. AS
ne moved along behind escort of police he is said
70 nave drowned unpleasanty at the press of adirng
shoulders about him. and when as he attempted r. SION
ms name to whatever documents one executes at the
last moment on Shore HIS hand was prevented FROM +b
free movement of champions flourish he grew dis
tlnctly red in the face with anger To the ranorto~s
ne had nothing whatever to say and Undated that he
hoped ne would be unmolested by the European nres
Even then our newspapermen got in their good work,
There were books in his cabin" thew onietl -.
marked next morning
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

Though the gross income of agri-
culture rose 10 in the crop year OF
1929 American farmers are still
contributing to city prosperity by the
low return they receive for their Ia
Dor and their investment. According
to the U. S. department OF agrlcul-
lures annual survey of farm earnings
the average farmer received scarcely
half the wage paid the average fac
tory worker while his return for CAPT.
tai and management would be un-
earned as to profit at all by the aver
age industrial capitalist.
The department reports the gross
receipts of the agricultural industry
in 1929 was $12,253, 100000 COM
pared with $12, 127, 100000 in 1926-27.
For the year 1925-26 gross farm in
come amounted to $12,415, 000,0 900 and
if we turn back to the year 1890
we find a gross farm income amount
ing to SIS, 10000 900. But that was
before the New York financiers had
decide to engineer the sharp deflation
which threw thousands of farmers in
to bankruptcy.
The net income available for all
farm capital employed and for pay
ing farmers to manage their industry
amounted in 1929 to $2,669, 000,0 900.
This compares with $2,494 100000 in
1926-27 and $3,082,OOO,O00 in 1886
On the total capital investment in the
industry the yearly return for CAPT
tai and Management was 4.6% in 1927.
%, 4.3@o IN 1926-27 and 5.236 in 1926
rs. But if go is allowed on capital
borrowed by farmers and TO on rent
ed farms, the average farmers return
on his capital shrinks to 3.4e6 IN
1929 compared with 2.9% the pre-
ceding year and 1870 in 1925-26.
Expressed as a reward for the av,
erage farm operator, says the fedora
report, income available for capital
labor and management amounted tt
1886 compared with 1852 in 1862
and 1922 in 1886. If interest is al
lowed for the farm operators invest
ment the average reward per famil!
for labor and manage ment amounted
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
Court Kills Curb on lob Rake-off

fairly open to question that, at least
in the absence of a grave emergency,
the fixing of prices for food or cloth
ing, of house rental or of wages,
whether minimum or maximum, is be
yond the legislative power"
Here is a striking exhibition of un-
social capitalist legal theory. If the
people want to eliminate profiteering
in certain fields they must change the
basis of the constitution from protec-
ton of property to human welfare.
Justices Stone, Holmes and Brandeis
dissented from the decision. Stone
says:
'Ticket brokers and employment
brokers are similar in name; in nc
other respect do they seem alike to
me. To overcharge a man for the
privilege of hearing the opera is one
thing; to control the possibility OF
earning a livelihood would appear to
be quite another. And l shall moi
stop to argue that the the state has
a larger interest in seeing that its
workers find employment without be-
ing 1IITPvS~l--r----y- Ill., - eaoinor +ba
its citizens are entertained"
In a sense the majority of the court
is more consistent than Stone. Once
let down the bars and it will be rea
lized that the state has large in
, terest not only in employment anC
wages but also in what those wage.
will buy in food. clothing. housing
and even entertainment. The com
plete regulation of all business as al
all-inclusive service would follow.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1928.
FARMERS AND WORKERS
CANDIDATES

Monday of this week the names of candidates for
every county office filed at the Clerk and Record
ers office to be placed the Independent Ballot which
will before the voters of Sheridan County at the
fall election.
The candidates were endorsed by coalition of the
FarmerLabor and Progressive Farmer forces at con-
venton held in Plentywood August IL and it de-
cided to go the Independent ticket at that time
The delegates present represented practically every
voting precinct in Sheridan county They also repre-
sented the working people and farmers who feel that
they the great majority in this county and have
right to have in office those who they feel will look
after their interest and not the interest of the select
few who hope to gain materially by putting their
henchmen into office.
The nominated on the Independent ticket are
well kown for their integrity and have proven at all
times to be the friends of the farmers and workers
They have been drafted by the producers because of
these qualities. No has anything to gain by their
election except the farmers and workers themselves
They have axe to grind They are not put up by
anyone who could possibly have anything to gain per-
sonaly by their election. They owe allegiance to no
one but the farmers and workers who elect them
vi course every citizen in Sheridan county will re-
ceve consideration at their hand whether he be bank
er, businessman in any other line of business But
when questionable proposition is put up to them by
people who hope to gain thereby they are in position
to turn the offer down flat without fear of other in
fuences being brought to bear upon them to close the
other They will safeguard the interests of ont
side parties. And after all practically all of the busi
ness OF the county is transacted with parties other
than farmers and workers.
Do not let yourself be fooled on this issue. Studv
IL carefully and then ask yourself who is behind the
movement fighting the farmers government Then
make 1t point to find out. We are satisfied the in
vestgaton will prove to you that the onlv ticket 70
vote in Sheridan county is the Independent BALLOT Vote
it straight.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
BRENTWOOD IS PLENTY GOOD

Visitors coming to Plentywood are unanimous in
Their opinion that they have never seen city the size
OF Plentywood with the large amount of business
transacted and the number of people on the streets
at all times of the day. Many different business en-
terprises have their eye on this city and an unusual
growth is promised in the coming few years.
Enterprising merchants have made brentwood the
trading center of Sheridan county The brentwood
school system draws large numbers to this city to edu
cate their children.
In this rapid growth the progress of the citv must
keep up with the rapidly extending business Greater
atentlon to traffic rules and building requirements
must be paid by the city. The streets of the ctv have
20 be kept up in proportion to the increased traffic and
tne commercial club has to be busy body with all
members participating in order that new ideas for the
retirement of the city may be worked out
Already the city council has passed ordinances re-
gardmg the building of fire proof structures in the
main business districts and other improvements are
contemplated by the city fathers.
In this development every citizen should take an ac
i've part If you have good idea for the furthering
Oh business activities let it be known The commercial
club will be glad to receive the suggestions and act
upon them according to their merits
Pientywood is growing fast and it is going to grow
raster Let every do his part to further the slo
gan' Plentywood is Plenty Good"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
OLD GANG HOLDS CONVENTION

Last Sunday afternoon good representation of the
die hards of Sheridan county in Pentywood to lay
plans for the coming campaign.
According to all reports the meeting the persona
fiaton of despair. Gloom prevailed the assem-
bage and private conferences the order of the day.
Leadership was an unknown quantity The fusion of
the democrats and republicans disturbed the atmos-
phere and the result caused down cast countenance
the face of those who would control the county for
the coming two years after the election this fall.
The old gang in Sheridan county is in bad way in
deed Their efforts to play both sides of the fence in
presidential election has resulted in discord among
the ranks. Supporting democratic candidates in many
places the ticket while trying to still keep up the
resemblance of being republicans the presidential
issue and county affairs has borne results that cannot
be remedied
The would-be county dictators are hopeessy split
and the candidates nominated by the farmers and work
of Sheridan ounty will go by the biggest ma
jority recorded in the last ten years.
1t is too bad that every voter in Sheridan county
could not have been present at this meeting and look
ed over the personnel of those present They then
would have had real insight into who is who in the
ranks of those who opposing the farmers and
workers candidates the Independent ticket and who
after all the real boys who will take charge of the
county if their candidates are elected Among them
were Lard S. Olson, Jack Bennett Joe Dolin Banker
Powers, j. w. Mckee and Oscar Collins
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

Labor is a commodity to be bought
and sold by brokers like a theatre
ticket or bale of cotton This feat
ures the U. S. supreme courts knock
out of the New Jersey law to fix fees
charged by employment agencies. The
law had been upheld by the highest
courts of New Jersey.
The New Jersey act required per-
sons operating employment agencies
to obtain a license from the state
commissioner of labor and file for his
approval the fees to be charged. The
federal supreme court considers an
employment agency not of sufficient
public interest to warrant govern
ment price fixing. 1t says:
1T has never been supposed, since
the adoption of the constitution, that
the business Of the butcher, or the
baker, the tailor, the woodchopper,
the mining operator, or miner was
clothed with srch public interest that
the price of his product could be fix
ed by states res ulation. One does
nv 1890 1890 P-~r~-sJ --1---:--aer
to the public use or clothe it with
public interest merely because one
makes commodities for and sells to
the public in the common callings OF
which those above mentioned are in
stances"
The court holds that the employ
ment agent is a broker whose business
"does not differ in substantial char
acter from the business of a real es.
tate broker, ship broker, merchandise
broker or ticket broker" 1t contin-
ues:
"The interest of the public in the
matter of employment is not differ,
ent in quality or character from its
interest in the other things enumer-
ated; but in none of them is the in.
terest that public interest which the
law contemplates as the basis for leg.
islative price control. Under the de.
cisions of this court it is no longer
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

bllity for world peace than !.
nave mad If the United STE .t Would
Joined the League of plates had
now n most other nations "'iU a .Fot
the weak and put-upon count especially
look and appeal to the ITy uit09l viii
TO protect them from anv aug States
war As the sponsor of t hanger g. q
and as the richest, most cue Ste Treaty,
least involved empire on secure er and
United States become arbit sSf(h. Tie
putes, in. every direction Who. o. dis.
Overlooking investments ba vae re. her
One exception to the Ioro gone gl
governments sUernt e; t; that will seek Ame si
Will be the Soviet Union. ffttsS ro1l
be that of critic of the folI W. ~ fOle wi
ing to abolish war while keorisagfe s'
heavy ornaments. But tba ing y
condition will be that of a 5vu.m man
SS@ as eonSeif family claiming US nj,
Will be argued against earIv P paf;I?
ton. The metal trades unio oH.il lCs
get into the peace fight. infaS. WI
their own gains but mindful of yrsS :
wide consequences. y "O'lC
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
WILL ROGERS PROM
ISES AN EARLY DISAP-
POINTMENT IF WINNER
Says Farmer Needs Punch in Jaw if
He Believes Either Party Will Care
About Him After Election.

"Al can hand the farmer a couple
of subway tickets and Hoover can
slip him blue print and that's all
either one can really deliver" says
viii Rogers, the anti-bunk candidate
for president. In this weeks Life,
where the cowboy humorist is making
his weekly appeal for support, Rogers
dlscourses on his rivals shortcom-
ings as follows:
Now that the notification -eere-
monies are over, with no refusals, we
can just sit down and figure out,
What was it all about Anyhow
The object of these notification
ceremonies was to tell Hoover and
Smith what the delegates did at Kan
sas City and Houston. And what DID
the delegates do at Kansas City and
Houston? They made couple of
things called platforms, and there is
no more difference in the two plat
forms than there is IN two musical
shows. How could there be- They
are both catering to the same voters.
! "They both want the farmers vote.
So what can they do but promise him
III poyuSub lOF IL Ihoe "~AA w
something in payment? The only
thing about the bargain is that the
farmer has got to help them first.
"I am the only candidate that is
running on either side that has ever
looked a Mule in the face (or other
wise) down a corn row. | know what
the farmer needs but | can't give it
tn him Rut 7 am going to tell him
before election that I can't give it to
him-and not afterwards.
"a vote for me means you VIII be
disappointed earlier than you viii if
you vote for either of the otner two
recent farmers.
"I can tell you in few words what
the farmers needs. He needs a punch
in the jaw if he believes that either
of the parties cares a dam about him
That's all the farmer needs, and
that's all he'll get"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

Do not overlook this vital matter. 1t is everyones
duty to go to the polls and show by his vote how ne
wishes the government of this country to be managed
from national down to county affairs. This should De
done while you thinking about it. In the rush
of fall work this may be forgotten and the big day
when millions go to the polls to register their choice
of governmental officials you will not be able to JOIN
your neghbors in using your right to name who Will
manage the destinies of this nation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

With the price of wheat below the cost of nroduc-
tlon the farmers of Sheridan county are not verv en-
thusiastc over the presidential timber on the renub
can and democratic tickets Neither Hoover nor Smith
nave Offered concrete evidence that thew will offer
any relief for this condition The people of Pentvwood
who derive their prosperity from the prosperity of the
farmers might well give this fact deep consideration
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
REGISTER NOW

AS election day draws nearer, the matter of who
will represent our interests in the nation state and
county becomes of grave Importance
Every citizen should give this vital subject much
study and know just how he going to mark his bal
lot when he goes to the polls to register his prefer
ence November 9Th
but every eligible citizen must register before he
can vote he did not vote at the last general election
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
Subscribe for the Producers Nsv

Dear God, l need You awful bad.
| don't know what to do.
My papa's cross, my mama's sick
l got no friend but You.
Them keerless angels went and hmm,
Std of the boy l asst, y Jug
A weenchy, teenchy baby girl:
| don't see how they dast!
And God, | wish't you'd take bs,
back; 'l
She's just as good as new;
Won't no one know she's second hand
But 'ceptin' me and You. ''''
An, pick boy, dear God, Yourself,
The incest in your fold,
But please don't choose him quite q
young;
I'd like him five years old.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14
Economic Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
Farmers Share Remains Low.

to $657 compared with 1886 in 1926
q and $500 in 1925-26.
The average farmers income for
capital, labor and management, and
for labor and management after de-
Quoting interest on his investment in
the years since 1920 was:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

Montana now has 10 oil refineries,
producing $4,000 barrels OF gasoilne
a day.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-14

Farmers Capital, labor After de-
income & management ductiOn of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
RALLY TONIGHT
IN WN-ltAMSBURe
Election Drive Hits
Highest Point

The final Red Night election cam
paign rally of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, scheduIed for the
Williamsburg section.wfll take place
tonight. S'%ls
Among those scheduled to speak
are A. Bimba, candidate for assem-
bly, in the 18th district; Alexander
Trachtenberg, candidate in the 14th
congressional district; Richard B.
Moore, candidate for congress in the
21st district; Herbert Fam, candi-
date in the 14th assembly district;
D. Benjamin, candidate for senate
in tie 7th district; San Nessin, can
cidate in the 9th assembly district !;
George Primoff, candidate in the 9th
assembly district.
This is expected to be the biggest
Red Night in the history of Will
liamsburg. Preparations are being
made to have red torch parades a
fleet of autos and trucks, squads Of
che ing and singing Pioneers, as
well as scores of placards bearing
the slogans and the platform of the
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