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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
FRIDAY, AUGUST %, 1929
SHERIDAN COUNTY SMILES

Despite the unprecedented dry weather which has
visited Sheridan county since the first of June,
farmers and business are looking over the
situation with good deal of optimism.
The crops in most places are exceeding the
pectatons of month ago and while the yield will
be below the average, it is believed that with
fair price for wheat, the county will be in a fair
condition financially.
Harvesting is rapidly nearing completion and
the farmers are looking forward to heavy rains
this fall to change the conditions which existed
last year when winter set in with the ground bone
dry.
The more optimistic farmers and townspeople
voice the opinion that bumper crop cannot be
pected every year in Montana and that bumper
crop would also have had its drawbacks in an
precedented low prices because of the huge
plus of wheat hand from last years crop.
The yield from summer-fallowed land this year
has again demonstrated that to be the only way
to farm in Sheridan county and has demonstrated
its worth to those who had forgotten its value
during the years of ample rainfall.
So the farmers of Sheridan county again
displaying that admirable pluck of the pioneer
days. when faced with hard situation They are
carrying a smile and getting ready for crop next
year when the surplus wheat will be off the mar
ket and good price should be secured
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
LET'S HAVE IT NOW

We understand that several miles of highway
are to be built on the Culbertson-Scobey trail in
the near future, and that contracts for same will
be let some time this month.
1t would be fine thing if it could be arranged
TO have this work started at once and give employ
ment to local farmers and workers during the
period between harvest and winter time.
But we doubt if much work will be done this
fall in Sheridan county. Better wait until next
spring when all the local citizens again busy
with farming operations and a crew from else
where can take the tax money to other realms,
to support towns and institutions who most prob
aDiy -.savo.>lrever contributed cent toward the
road fund financed by cent gasoline tax.
In this day of cold business transactions, things
not done that way, but repeat it would be
fine thing if the local people could help build
our highway and thus keep at least part of the
money that has gone to the state highway com
mission back into the county again.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
Is SAILORS MEET
DEATH IN Collision

London Aug. 18.-Fifteon
sons were drowned whine the g per-
ish steamer Ogono and the P Sps1'
tug Kings Cross collided i; D'iI Is
North sea 30 miles off Hnr.Ssne
early this morning. Oef
The Ogono was struck am;a.,,
and sank in six minutes. o;';p
the crew of rs no time to i Sulng
the life boats. The Kings S rs
succeeded in picking Up eight H ro0S'
bers of the crew who cl1no " -
life boat and two others sf,r /" =
ing in the water. The droTslsl, ,
included the captain and ali " oss
GERS with the exception of Sell Cnl
Mate Ugalda. The Ogono NC USi
bound from bilbao to MiddlasS".sSS
ough with a cargo of iron ''D W.:
ore. The Kings Cross, which S S.lG
her bow badly damaged. Isn IsC
the survivors at Grimsby tb;a -
ternoon. al
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

Editorials appearing throughout
the nation in the labor press have
made the American public aware
that another Haymarket case, an
other Mooney frameup, another
Sacco-Vanzetti tragedy of class
vengeance, may be in the making.
North Carolinians are discovering
this comment. 1t makes them I'M
easy. They begin to confide to
their northern friends that they
''hope" that the jury picked al
Charlotte will not be composed OF
anti-labor fanatics of the Ku Kluz
type of mentality. But they con-
fess a fear that the jury will lis
ten only to the prosecution with
its demand for exemplary punish
ment of the communists who dar
ed stir up strikes in the south.
AS a sample of the labor pres
comment which is coming to thu
attention of North Carolina, her
is part of an editorial in the Au
gust 9 issue of the Nebraska
Craftsman, published at Lincoln b,
Joseph Gilbert: Q
"The fact that in this particula
place the fight is being waged b
communists should make no dit
ference to trade unionists. Thes
men and women, regardless G
their political beliefs, are engage
in organizing the slaves in tn
south for the purpose of securin
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
Settlement of Old Debts and Pro-
paganda Questions Halt Farley
For Present. !.

Papers issued in Moscow and
London last week by the respective
governments revealed a serious
hitch, but not breakdown, in ne
gotiations for resumption of nor
NAL relations between Britain and
Russia.
The hitch, as in SO many pre-
vious cases of a similar kind, was
due to the desire of the British
government to discuss the ques-
tons of debts and propaganda as
preliminary to appointing ambas-
sailors.
The British statement said that
Right Hon. Arthur Henderson,
minister of foreign affairs, in his
original invitation made clear his
desire to discuss with the utmost
expedition procedure for settle
ment of outstanding questions in
Guiding debts and propaganda, and
presumed that the dispatch to Lon
don of Valerian Dovgalevsky, Rus
sian ambassador to France, meant
that he was authorized to discuss
these questions. 1t was said Mr.
Henderson explained to the am
bassador that he was anxious dur
ing the parliamentary recess to
set up the necessary machinery
for dealing with the debt claims at
the reassembling of parliament in
October.
SOviets Could Not Accept
The Russian ambassador replied
that his government thought the
best method was immediate ex-
change of ambassadors and that
the Soviet government could moi
at present accept the proposals of
the British foreign secretary, but
would refer them to the next SEES
sion of the praesidium of the CEN
trail executive committee.
The British statement that His
Majesty's government holds to its
desire to resume normal relations,
gives the text of the notes ex-
changed.
The Soviet Reply
The Soviet reply, received on
July "a, said that in view of the
fact that the British invitation
aimed at preliminary exchange
of views, exclusively regarding
"the procedure to be followed in
subsequent questions, and not an
actual discussion" the Russian
ambassador at Paris was instruct
ed to proceed to London.
Finally on Wednesday Ambassa-
dor Dovgalevsky handed a note TO
Mr.. Henderson stating that the
Soviet government had done every
thing to facilitate a reapproach-
ment but that the fact that Mr..
Henderson had stated to him that
it was impossible for the British
government to re-establish normal
relations before solution of out
standing questions, shows that the
British government does not de-
sire or is unable to bring about
resumption of those relations.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
Frenzied Finance Of Power
Trust Is Dealt Severe Blow

er project by the company which
bids for a lease of a federal pow
er site for the legal term of 5O
years. Under the law the company
must hand over its power plant to
the government at the end of the
so wears, and it shall receive from
the government the sum it actual
" and legitimately paid for con-
struction, less any amount that
NAV have been laid aside from
earnings, under government regu-
lations, to wipe out this charge. 1t
is the aim of the law to have the
plants come into government own
ership, free of all cost, at the end
of the so years. Frenzied finance
by the power trust has included
the failure to lay aside reserves
for the purpose, thereby making
the earnings appear higher ano
hence promoting higher values fol
their stocks on the market. Selling
stocks is one of the latest gratis
of the power trust magnates.
In the case of the insult attemp
to get a lease on the Cumberland
Falls site, which the city of Louis
vile desires to retain as publ
park, the Russell opinion definite
" cuts off from the pre-licens
capital charges an item of $3.50, 90
for engineering and supervision
and another item Of $25O,OO0 TO
purchase of lands as a substitute
park to be given to Louisville. Tn
government position is that it wi
) not pay the cost of engineerin
l overhead, which is mere paddin
: of accounts, and it will not pay fc
: a real estate bride to the city
: cease its opposition to insults pla
: for a power dam at Cumberlar
t Falls.
Sen. Couzens, chairman of II
e Senate Interstate commerce cor
: mittee, who has been empowert
h to investigate the whole powr 81
il uation, made public the Russo
: opinion after carefully studying
% Democratic senator's, watching Il
/ fight of their friend Gov. Roos
o welt of New York against the po'
! er trust in the st. Lawrence Riv
: region, promised to take an acti
v part in the coming probe.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
Bcono1rlicErn1s
AWWETSELS
49, Weekly Comment
A Industry and Finance

Wall Street. You can't ho..
Wall Street" This statement j..
plies that the investor who INV,
stocks in Wall Street is plaving
game Of chance. He is placing IA.
money on turn of the roulette
wheel.
Wall Street, however, is simnlv q
meeting place of buyers and sellers
Stocks acquired there represen,
ownership in property and need in.
volve no greater risk than that in.
cident to transactions in any other
property.
Many individuals who lose monev
in Wall Street inject their own ella.
ment of chance by acquiring stock
on thin equities-small margins
They are simply betting on day-to.
day fluctuations. They take little
note of the future progress of q
company, but are specializing ON
price changes resulting from i'm.
mediate supply and demand or cur.
rent news.
l have never found a substitute
for wisd m and patience. By wis.
dom l mean a knowledge of a com.
pany's prospects based on careful
study or acquired from reliable
agencies in investment research
And l may define patience as a
willingness or emotional ability to
ignore current price change in a
general trend.
The average Iayman Is furnished
with = good cross-section Of the
stock market, and can fully grasp
the complications involved in max.
ing a sound investment by a study
of conditions Immediately surround.
ing him.
Some enterprises in his commu.
nifty show increased net profits;
many are just holding their own
while a considera BILE number art
constantly operating at a loss. Some
individuals are good managers ant
are honest all the time; some en-
joy fair business judgment and ar
honest only when it is convenient
while Others are Just naturally in
efficient and unreliable.
Stocks bought in Wall Stree
represent ownership in propert
located all over the world. Thei
future price trend depends on man
agement and outlook for the com
pany rather than on the will Of a
imaginary market manipulation
Copyright, 1929
Market Wetsel Bureau, Inc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

Washington - (FP)-What part
will the trial of the Gastonia cot
ton mill strike leaders, on charges
of murder or conspiracy to muir
der, play in the industrial and po-
litical changes of the next few
years in the cotton textile states
of the South?
That question is constantly be-
fore the minds of senator's, con-
gressmen, mill owners, press cor
respondents and absentee southern
capitalists in Washington, as the
date for the trial at Charlotte
draws near. Will North Carol
ina jury, inflamed in its prejudices
by the most impressive battery of
prosecution lawyers ever called in
criminal trial in that state, senC
IA labor agitators to death or tc
long terms of imprisonment? AnC
if the jury does propose this
wholesale repression of pioneers Of
labor organization in the mills, will
the result be a widespread revol
of mill workers who thus far have
remained quiet?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

That the Intelligent and better
element" of the North Carolina
nubIic is strongly in favor of Civ
ing a fair trial to the accused la
Dor agitators, on the specific
charge laid against them and with
out reference to their political be-
liefs. is the claim put forward in
Washington by men who look with
bride to the days when North Car
DINA was a dominant factor in the
Wilson administration. But jose
phus Daniels is no longer in the
cabinet, Claude Kitchen no long
err leads the majority in the House
and Walter Hines Page and Sen
Simmons no longer expound Anglia
Saxon democratic ideals to war
enthused world. North Carolin il
the capital today stands for The
senile anti-radical fears of Over
man, and the pro-corporation IN
I trigues of the lettering Simmons
behind whom stand the Duke pow
err and tobacco magnates, the cot
ton mill managers and the trium
plant record of these forces in kill
ing the Child Labor Amendment.
On the other hand, North Caro-
lima, as reflected by its spokesme-
; in Washington, is eager to cate
J the latest hint in profitmaking. |
J the condemnation and execution o
a group of labor agitators, guilt
| of defending their lives against al
' tack by drunken police, will prov
costly to business, that DANCE
r must be considered. Every Mort
Y Carolina politician and lobbyi'
: and press correspondent in the cal
E ital is listening for opinion fro
the north as to what the outcon
e of this trial should be, from bu
g mess development standpoint,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

want to tell you that 1 am work
ing in the direction of establishing
permanent connection between
the workers (there are about 5000
of them) of the Kiev depot, first
traffic division of the South
Western railroads and the workers
employed in a similar industry in
your country.
With proletarian greetings,
I. SAKALE-POPOVSKY.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

Washington Up In legal
opinion covering SO pages of dis
cussion of history of federal wa
terpower legislation and the pur-
pose which congress intended it to
serve, the accounting division of
the Federal Power Commission,
through Solicitor Charles Russell,
has dealt a staggering blow to
power trust frenzied finance. This
opinion was submitted in conec-
ton with the insult application for
the power site at Cumberland Falls
near Louisville, KY. But it applies
equally to the $50 other federal
power sites now the object of ap-
plications made by various power
interests. Unless the power lobby
shall find a way to set aside this
ruling, about half a billion dollars
of water power will be squeezed
from electric utility valuations II
this country.
"From a review of the decisions
of the courts which must be fol
lowed, supported by the argument
presented in the house at the TIM
of the passage of the Federal Wa
, ter Power) BILL" concludes Rus
sell, "the reading of the act cal
lead to but one conclusion, and tina
is that here is specific direction t.
the Federal Power Commission +
insert in capital account the actua
legitimate cost of construction, lin
tied by the actual amount o
Z money paid therefor.
"This automatically dispense
with the proposition that there ca
: be included in these capital az
: counts lump sum or percentage OV
E erheads for engineering, superv
Z sion, management, financing, d.
n velopment, etc. Such items cannC
It be and must not be included. =. +. .
J. "It is my opinion, and you a.
;, advised to find, the actual legit
: mate cost of construction of eaC
e project, eliminating therefrom g
s overheads mentioned, except as d
fined in this memorandum, and
limit each item to the actual dc
lars and cents that entered in
the actual legitimate cost of co
struction of the project"
This ruling refers to the pre-
n cense valuation placed upon po'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
WHAT THEY SAY

The following editorials in reference to the
American Temperance League selected from
bale of clippings of articles and editorials that
have appeared in the press of North Dakota, Min
nesota, and Montana since the launching of the
American Temperance League at Plentywood a
month so ago:
The first is an editorial from the Duluth Herald,
the big Duluth evening paper, on Monday, July
29th:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

1t might be well for those good-minded people
who say that prohibition really prohibits and
tnat temperance is gaining over the land to tale
the old bus out some Saturday night and visit
Ine various places where dances are being held
IL WIN probably shock the sensitive nerves of the
Denever IN the present prohibition law, but it will
40 them good There is no use in shutting our-
serves up IN little world of our own and then
shouting 20 the house tops that certain evils do
not exist W
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

in the conditions of complete iso..
lation and hatred on the part OF
the whole capitalist world towards
us, we could not achieve more, but
even these achievements proved
possible for us only because the
workers, having driven out their
parliament, the constituent assem-
bly,, a few hours after its birth,
started upon the road of the class
struggle.
In conclusion, dear comrades,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
Negotiations Between Soviet
and England Strike a Snag

tions so complicated and conten-
tious as mutual claims and coun-
ter-claims. These new circum-
stances, which were not fore
Swallowed by the British govern
ment's note of July II, required a
fresh examination of the question.
Hence the foreign commissariat
finds itself compelled to ask fo1
fresh instruction from the praesidi-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23

Townley was quite well known IN Montana
but the gentleman, himself, was thoroughly
known in North Dakota, and is still remem-
bered by most of the citizens OF that state'
perhaps not too fondly.
At that time Mr.. Townley had the state
east of us "all sewed up" in his Sociallstlc
enterprises. and if there ever was boss
Mr.. Townley was it. He ruled the politics OF
the state, named its governors, United
States senator's, congressman, judges ana
most of its county officers. Farmers VINO
Joined his Nonpartisan League paid hun
dreds of thousands of dollars into his COT
fers for they believed that they had found
in him a real Moses to lead them out OF
their tribulations. North Dakota's present
United States Senator was an offspring OF
the Townley regime, and served as COVER
nor and ruled as governor just as Mr.. Town.
ley showed him the way.
But Mr.. Townley's state mill, state banks
and countless other schemes began to wob-
Bile seriously; in fact they all but bank
rupted North Dakota, and when the crash
finally came Mr.. Townley faded away. In
passing it might be well to state that DUR
ing the heyday of his prosperity Mr.. Town
ley had quite a following in the state OF
Montana.
Now Mr.. Townley is back again; right
here in Montana, but on totally dlfferent
mission He is not attempting to communlze
the farmers of our state but he is offer
ing our people new doctrine of temper.
ance;" a cross between the limitations OF
the Volstead act and the old saloon. He
emphasizes the statement that the old sa-
loon has gone forever and no one desires It's
reinstatement. Mr.. Townley takes the role
of a moral crusader and he knows how to
Crusade" if anyone does.
Third we reproduce excerpts of an editorial
bearing in the Grand Forks Herald, Tuesday,
Both
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-23
GREAT GAIN OF USSR WORKERS
is THEIR ANSWER TO ENEMIES

The following is a letter from
Soviet railroad worker. He wants
to hear from American workers:
Dear Comrades:
You surely know already that
more than a year ago we started
on the road of a cultural revolu-
ton in the USSR.
We, the workers who lived in
the former despotic Russia with
her arbitrary rule, drunkenness, il
literacy, with her tolling church
bells on every street and corner,
understand very we'll that eleven
years of the dictatorship of the
working class, of which four
years have been taken from us by
the civil war and the foreign in
tervention, is far from sufficient
to change all humanity and turn
them from semi-savages into a
cultured society.
Answer to Enemies
That is understood also by our
class enemies, who see very well
and who know that had there been
no October revolution, Russia
would not have made in hundred
years such progress on the road
to culture as she has made during
few years, thanks to October,
1917. Nevertheless, they SANDER
us, saying: what kind of culture
is there when the Bolsheviks still
have illiteracy, there still is pros
titution, there are beggars, long
queus at the dispensaries, drunk
enness, swearing, etc.
There are defects and Difficult.
ties, of course, but l will give sew
eral examples which will truth.
fully illustrate that the cultural
revolution in the USSR is not q
slogan, but a real concrete thing
which is being done right now.
Education for Workers Children
Yes, we still have illiterates
that it true. But it is also true
that on South Western railroad
where l am working as locomo.
tive engineer in the Kiev depot, in
1913 there were 5000 railroad
workers children attending schools
and now there are $4,000 of them
In 1922 at the station Kerosten
where | came by train in the ca
pacity of engine driver, was orga
nized public work on Sunday, il
which | took part. The railroad
workers and their families tore
down the wooden barrack built BIZ
the German army of occupation il
1918 for their soldiers.
The boards were carried to an.
other place for the construction Of
a temporary school. Now they
have built at Kerosten a new
school, a regular palace, the like
of which has never been seen al
any railroad station, not even al
the capital, in czarist Russia. Sucl
school buildings have also beer
constructed at Khristinovka, Uman
Birzula, Bobrinskaya, etc. We
think that this is a sign of cul.
ture.
Fight Prostitution
We still have prostitution, this
child of capitalism and religion, il
is true. But in Kiev an investiga.
ton was made at the labor ex.
change, and 209 women who had
been engaged in prostitution and
then registered at the labor ex-
change in order to get honest en-
ployment, have been put TO work
on different jobs. The very fact
that former prostitutes registered
at the labor exchange is regarded
by US as sign of culture.
We are aware that the strugola
against prostitution can be effec-
tive only when economic measures
are taken, and that is what we
are doing. Besides, educational