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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
THE PRODUCERS NEWS

o,on,v every night in the week and all day SUNDAY.
Mavbe this is because the PlentywOod cniel -
,ol;oo and Border Patrolman "Ted" Winters always
ston there to tank up when going to the resort, y
fcer Winters, though he can find old Gust Oi0O,.
At Doolev and his coffee pot and safety razor Can
find this man, nor can Bob Smith, e
The Sheriff can't find Creighton's caravan y
booze that comes into Plentywood weekly MAKING
its deliveries to everyone who wants it-he Is sum
a good sheriff-Oh, my. yes
Although he did make gesture for the Dene
eit of the Outlook Ladies Aid, he having promiseu
so much over there, he has never yet disturbed i0
TRANQUIL afafirs of Medicine Lake, and he WON'T
that's Dolin's town.
There is poker being played in Plentywooo' anu
Outlook and Medicine Lake and Dooley and Arcnei
and Westby and Raymond and Redstone ana Nc
serve and Antelope and Daleview, but it is cieah'
decent poker and not the immoral sort OF poker
that was played during the red Taylor SALISBURY
regime says the Plentywood Herald.
The girls at the Chicken ranches" don't 90 I'M
moral things any more, anyway they do it IN
way that is different and not so shocking to tne
minds of the good ladies, since Hans Madsen De-
came sheriff
There is nobody in jail-not because there is no
more bootlegging, no prostitution, no more
petty thievery, no cattle stealing, no more
crime, but because there is one at the sherl11
office fast enough to catch cold, not to suggest
stopping criminal There is one case on the GRIM
nal docket, a hang over from the red regime, a
case dsinterred long years after the alleged act
took place for pure Spite and to make it appear
to the public that the so-called Taylor-Salsbury
regime condoned such practices. But there has been
nothing done about the seduction of twelve OF
fourteen year old girls in Plentywood by married
men, and there wont be.
1t is too bad to drag Sheriff Madsen through al
of this mire-for we know Hans is doing his best
No one expected much from him sheriff, mucf
less u.s. And we would not be so unlind as to have
mentioned the matter had not the Herald raised
the issue. Ones fool friends are often his great
est liability.
Hans Madesn is a good farmer, he was neve
meant for a sheriff. He will go back to the farr
next election and we believe that he will be glad
get back whree he knows his stuff.
Hans is learning that it is possible to go too ia
in campaigning-one might by accident be electe
and be expected to make good
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
will. TO CREATE SOCIALISM, IS
TENSE IN SOVIET REPUBLIC UNION

places been falling with the growth
of industry and the inclusion Of
hordes of fresh rural workers IN,
used to factories. Methods are
needed for training these new re-
cruits into labor, and the socialist
rivalry helps. But it has far wiz.
er meaning.
Today's newspaper has several
examples. "The cottonseed oil mill,
largest industrial establishment in
Bokhara, challenges the oil mill Of
Kokand to socialist rivalry based
on a 1870 increase Of production
and a TO cut of COSTS" This
means that the workers Of the Box.
hara mill, after many conferences,
have decided that they can make
these mentioned Improvements, and
they challenge Kokand to do as
well or better. Kokand accepts;
joint delegates formally sign a
contract of rivalry and the ngts& y
on. 1t is now every workers DUTY
to do his "team work" to see that
absences and labor turnover are
reduced to minimum, that short
cuts are made and a good record
established.
The civil service employees N
the finance and taxing departments
of the Tadjik Republic challenge
the finance and taxing departments
of Hoent, Bokhara, Surkhan-Dana
and Kasha-Daria to socialist rival
ry, based on swift fixing OF taxes
a minimum of peasant complains
elimination of arrears, and lVVT
collections.
4 The department of gOvernmen.
industries, anticipating widespread
economies through this socialist Il
valry, decided yesterday that ave-
of such economies should 60 a
once into a fund for the collective
betterment of workers living an0
cultural conditions.
: A column or two daily is deVOF
! ed to these challenges. WORKERS
) from the Urals send kilograms y
Stain congratulating him and 'H
nation generally on their success
2 in reducing absences. There az
not lacking caustic criticisms. MOLE
: the less the movement goes over q
: Liberty Bonds did in war time,
Nor is the interest in building
5 socialism confined to this phenclIl'
4 enon. A book claiming that so ..l
/, ism can be practically built wlln J.
: Is years, and offering figures y
prove it, was so rapidly exhaus'sSl
5 that it went through several ,.
e lions within a few weeks. WorSs y
7 who had grown stale with Oens y,
!. ing that the revolutionary cfans =
0 were over, and that all now -. =
h manning was a steady but Vs1I
: slow climb towards distant gV ~
n are now being stimulated WIN . =,
d belief that a hard but snOi i.S.
: struggle may bring the aim qui''
z ly. .tbn,.
This carries with it an enI. u y.
e asm which ignores the fact i tnsl X X
S davis bread basket is only tlllsa tiD y
J. standing in line and pr res Tim.
: coupons. Others, who lack tns !, sI M
a illus of constructive labor, uO tSg
: ignore these discOmfortts; orfsr.
b complain with determined s %sIss
= onism. Hence the increase IN -
e struggle
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
Rv Anise. Federated Press

Bv Anise, Federated Press
Moscow - FP)- Not for some
wears have | noticed such an IN
tenselv active twill to create So
cialism'' as is at present obvious IN
the Soviet Union. 1t is accompan-
led naturally, by sharpening OF
class struggle, and great violence
of criticism on the part OF those
persons actively engaged IN Great
ing the new industry and the new
society. In other words, some OF
the psychology of early revolution
ary DAYS has come again, replacing
the rather slack normally which
has been prevalent of late. !,
The internal party fights with
Opposition" and fright tendencies
have tended for several years to
make it difficult to see in just
what direction communist policy
was tending. No one today can any
longer miss the obvious signs: the
pressure for grain-gathering IN the
villages is leading on the one hand
to a rapid increase in collective
farms (Kol-hozes) and on the other
hand to an embittered criticism by
those richer peasants whose grain
is taken at prices fixed by the gov
eminent.
In the cities one notes on the one
hand the ratiOning of nearly all i'm
pOrtant food products and textiles
from bread, tea, butter, sugar t.
cotton goods; and on the other Z
tremendously accelerated speed OF
Observation-Disclosures Give yeaI
plan" about which all active work
ers have gone crazy with enthusI
asm, while the carping critics be
smear it with irony. The TIVE
things, obviously, go together. Tbs
tremendous Five Year Plan for in
dustry can never be attained unless
the whole consuming population i
rationed, and the surplus used Il
buy machinery. Without rationint
a small surplus of goods would b.
insufficient to keep down prices, a
private dealers are strong enough
to corner such surplus. Only al
extravagently large surplus in tn
hands of the government or a plal
) of rationing could meet the situa
ton and give all available resour
ces for industrializatioin. Such ha
been the drastic plan, which
r cursed by housewives, viewed wit
alarm by sympathetic foreigner;
; but soberly and approvingly okay
ed by reasoning workers.
The number of collective farm
D has grown to $4,000 during tn
past year; they now supply owe
TO of all the marketable grair
They are the peasants response {
the taxing differential with whic
e the government urges him into co
: lectivity. Friends of mine living o
the VOlga have noted the marke
e increase and speak of it as OccuI
: ring especially within the past ]
{ months.
: In the ranks of city workers til
campaign of socialist rivalry"
the order of the day. Foreign crit
les claim that the croy for ICON
t petition and labor discipline" is
e confession of falling production III
S der socialism. There is this muc
e truth about their claim, that pre-
r ductivity per worker has in som
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16

A prominent Plentywood mana member of the
holiness gang" has been making remarkably reg
ular protracted visits to certain nice looking
married lady here in Pentywood this winter, spring
and summer. It's none of our business, but we
der if the relations are higher and more patonic
than when engaged in by "Reds"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
ESSEX WINS COVElrD
ENDURANCE TROPHl

Marc Danielson, local p T.r,
dealer informs the Producers .I,. "sol
that he has received infOr r-.neb
that Andre MOrel, noted ..Hs
driver, won the beautiful A Ans B
trophy, the most coveted ps b
the fea annual French tests wi Thtc7b s :
finished with his Essex, .; :mo Tbs
ienger, without penalisaa "a ~ 'Esse
second prize also went mt. to 1o az gr1i
which also finished the net ,VD : sings
and gruelling tests without
mark against it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
TOMNLEY,S NEW JOB

A dozen or more years ago, A. &. Town.
ley's was name to conjure with up here
in the northwest. AS the leader of the
Nonpartisan League movement, he was
not only the absolute dictator of political
affairs in North Dakota but threw a long
shadow across South Dakota, Minnesota,
and Montana. Not since Jerry Simpson
and the populists had any man played a
more conspicuous part In a widespread
agrarian uprising. Townley transformed
North Dakota into a laboratory where a
number of highly experimental socialistic
tests were made. His word was law and
the farmers of the northwest willingly
paid millions of dollars into the treasury
of the organization over which he main
tanned autocratic control. He made and I'M
made governors, congressman, United
States senator's and thousands of lesser
officers. Politicians either feared him or
went on their knees to pledge him their
unwavering loyalty In return for the sup
port which he was able to render. Then,
the various enterprises which he father
ed in North Dakota began to wobble and
Townley gradually faded from the picture.
The Nonpartisan League is now but little
more than memory, although no one can
deny that some of the changes which it
brought about in agricultural economics
were permanently beneficial to the farm
Ing INDUSTRY Oh the TOUR STATES III WHICH
the movement played such an influential
part in several successive elections. After
resting quietly in the shadow of oblivion
for several years, Townley had emerged,
this time to fight against the "evils" of
prohibition. Once more he is going out a.
mong the embattled farmers, not to
preach salvation from economic slavery
but to rescue them from the tyrrany of
the Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol
stead law. 1t will be interesting to OBJ
serve the efforts of the old war horse.
He knows all of the tricks of the public
speaking trade. He has the voice, audac-
ity, broad understanding of bucolic hui
NOR, pretty good working knowledge of
mob psychology, vast disdain of facts.
After he has finished, his audience is like
ly to think that the Volstead law is re-
sponsible for bank failures, farm disast-
ers. drouth, pestilence hail and wild oats.
Arthur win give the old fashioned, red
nosed temperance lecturer" cards and
spades and yet make him leok like a nov
ice at the game. If he doesn't, indeed,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16

The lower house of congress
provided for an import duty of SO
cents per bushel on flax, the SEN
ate finance committee proposes to
reduce this from SO cents per bush
ell to Sc cents per bushel. The lead
ing spirit for this reduction is Sen.
Smoot of Utah who is so enthusi-
astic for high tariff on sugar.
Just why Sen. Smoot is for this
reduction is obvious-the linseed
oil manufacturers don't want it.
The biggest half of the flax used
for the paint oil, linseed oil man.
ufactured in the United States is
imported. Linseed oil itself is high
ly protected so as to keep out lin
seed oil manufactured abroad COM
ing in competition with American
manufactured oil, but the manufac-
turers do not want high duty on
flax seed from which linseed oil is
taken: because that raises the price
of flax in the United States and
produces revenue on the imported
seed, the raw material which they
use.
Now Sen. Schnitzler of Roose-
Welt county, republican national
committeeman for Montana has
written many letters to citizens OF
Montana for the purpose of pro-
7 noting a protest against the pro-
E posed cut by the senate committee
He is asking all farmers oragniza'
lions to take immediate and active
steps against this move.
e Sen. Schnitzler's letter to Sen
e Taylor of Sheridan county in re
r gard to the matter is printed be
low.
" THE LETTER
Froid, Montana,
) August 8, 1929.
+ Hon. Charles E. Taylor,
! Plentywood, Montana.
Dear Mr.. Taylor:
1t has come to my notice
II that the Senate Committee has
n recommended the reduction of
er the tariff on flax from 63c a
M bushel, as fixed by the House
- Committee, to Soc. Since we
OIL grow a surplus of wheat IN
~ the United States, it appears
IS, only sensible that a portion OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
ToWNLEY TURNS 'wET"


The Report, current for some weeks be-
fore it became public, that A. C. Townley
was to speak for the forces that oppose
the present dry laws of the country, was
trs1e after ALL Townley is actually speak
ing for the "wets."
Personally, Townley is "dry." That is
he does not drink He has sense enough
to know that drinking is harmful, but ne
also has sense enough to see that millions
of people are going to keep rlgnt on
drinking until they also realize that IL is
to their own best interests to let Dooze
alone.
Other distinguished men are joining the
movement to have the Eighteenth Amend
ment amended and the strict dry law mod
Grated so as to premit system something
like that now in effect in the Canadian
province of Saskatchewan, where liquor
can be bought thru government establish
ments and carried away IN the original
package This is, in effect, pu.ung the
government into the liquor business, as the
"drys' claim, but it appears to be the only
remedy for bootlegging and wholesale
liquor running, as the proponents OF the
temperance movement see 1T.
Irwin S. Cobb, famous humorist and lee
turer, also is out for amendment OF the
prohibition amendment, and other famous
present dry law. There will be plenty OF
writers available for the "wets," and they
are the kind that know how to prepare
readable stuff-and make news that the
press can't turn down.
Townley is not beer guzzler, nor are
most of the other men-and women-who
will in the near future be classed among
the "wets" Some of these lecturers and
writers will be with the movement for the
e ! 4boro ie in II fOr them
without doubt. But even so, there can be
little doubt that most of them sincerely
believe tina a change for the better would
result if the modification of the Volstead
law can be accomplished, or the eighteenth
amendment repealed. The criminal element
of the country has taken charge of the
liquar trade and if there ever has been
a conscience in that trade there certain
lv is none now. One thing is certain II
"good" liquor-pure stuff-dispensed by
the government as in Saskatchewan,
bootleggers will soon vanish, and rank
poison such as is now the cause of many
deaths. with them
Such system is not as good as complete
abstinence, but might well be very good
step in the right direction. The hope OF
the prohibitionists that the young people
would not get the liquor habit under prohl-
bition has not been realized. 1t is easier
now for the young to get drink than IL
was formerly, and, what is worse, it is
considered "smart" in many circles to car
ry a hip flask
One thing Townley and all the other
"wets" will Accomplishing will focus
the attention of the country on the liquor
question. And as national problem this
is by far the most important this gener-
alton will have to struggle with.
From time to time the Producers News vii
produce such of these editorials taken from
UGH papers as the Duluth Herald, the Minnea
Journal, the st. Paul Despatch and numerous
r papers, which will be interesting and instru'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
SHERIDAN COUNTY'S SHERIFF

The Plentywood Herald in its enthusiasm to cast
aspersons on the so-called Taylor-Salisbury
gime in Sheridan county seems to embarass Sher-
if Madsen.
The Herald says we have a rotten bunch of
county commissioners but an Al sheriff-the Her
aid did not get the printing contract but does get
sheriff's legas, which Joe Dolin doesn't get.
The Producers News has been disposed to ignore
the sherffs office and let it go as it looks; with
the idea that the less said the better It felt that
the public did not need the Producers News help
in forming conclusions as to the efficiency of that
official
Sheriff Madsen has been in office seven or eight
months. We have yet to hear a complimentary
word for his administration outside of the little
clique back of the Herald office responsible for his
selection and election as sherff-not one. The pub
lie laughs when the sheriff's name is mentioned
and that is fact.
The Herald says:
''TOwnley could have attained a pretty
good picture of the failure of Prohibition
if he had appeared in PlentywOOd when
the red regime in the saddle and the
town was running wide open, but Sherid-
dam county has taken several long steps
forward toward responsibility since then.'
Sure, Sheridan county has; you bet.
Hans Madsen, when he running for sheriff,
made whispering campaign, along the lines in
dicated in the Herald. He had moral spasm with
the ladies about the Chicken ranch" near Plenty
wood which is still running as of yore even after
ne became sheriff. and besides that another ranch
er is breeding chickens right up in Hans own door
yard at Archer, evidently with Sheriff Madsen's
consent.
mig" Collins is still in Plentywood and is evil
IDENTIFY going to stay-Hans was going to run him
right out of town, so he told the ladies, but he
hasn't
Bootleggers are plying their trade in every back
alley. Girls are staying in the hotels Boys and girls
are polluted at the dances. Home brew is being
made and sold by the barrel-things are worse in
Sheridan county now than they were before, and
are getting worse, if possible every day and every
body knows it, even the Herald.
Hans Madsen said he would purify things or he
would resign, but he has done neither His deputy.
Bob Smith, was too busy at Brush Lake looking for
bottle of home brew rather than look after a car
OF drunken drivers that run over and killed bow.
to the lasting grief of the child's parents. The
drunken drivers have gotten free and will remain
so-h the capacity of Madsen and his force have to
be depended upon. Neither has he been able to find
the man on the shore of Brush Lake who MANN
features brew by the barrel and sells it
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
STANDARD OIL PROGRAM

James E. Healy, prominent Butte attorney,
writes the letter reprinted below to the Producers
News in regard to the recent article relative to
Sen 7. j. Walsh and his candidacy for reelection
TO the American House of Lords:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16

A barber supply dealer T. say fgOid i
mems characters may " If thS
the shade and thickness men W.
hair. Now only the Da,O o his "bS
be able to escape having
read"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
TOWNLEY'S NEW VENTURE

Last week we announced that A. G.
Townley, former president of the Nation
al Nonpartisan League, had launched a
new organization-The American Temper
ance League-for modification of the Pro-
hibition Act.
Mr.. Townley selected comparatively dry
territory for the launching of his new ven
ture Northeastern Montana is populated
with Scandinavian-Norweg Danes
and Swedes. These people are at least as
dry as any, but no doubt since the COM
ing of the present prohibition system,
bootlegging, rum-running, operation of
stills and the making of home brew have
become the order of the day there as well
as elsewhere.
At any rate the newspaper accounts OF
the Townley meeting at Plentywood would
indicate that the Scandinavians of Sheri-
dan county, Montana, are ready for
change.
The Townley plan is to have the gov
eminent engage In the business OF as
pensing liquors as is now done IN the Scan
dinavian countries and IN the provinces
of Canada. "The slogan is to be said
Townley, Temperance by pursuaslon IN
stead of by coercion.
There is little doubt that the Townley
appeal will meet with hearty response
in Minnesota. The people of this state are
sick and disguised with the numerous
D6llR ny POAAOASAetAAS
forcement officials, to say nothing OF the
violations committed by the vendors OF
booze.
Under the guise of legality businessmen
oe the Twin Cities permitted by the
government to purchase liquors IN large
quantities each year. For example, the La
Sale Products, Inc, authorized under
its permit to purchase annually:
1904 gallons-whiskey.
1928 gallons -alcohol-pure.
1,072 gallons-wine.
$3.50 gallons special denatured 80 b.
Now, of course, we do not know what
becomes of the liquor. The government ap-
parently is not concerned over the dlspo-
sition of the BOOZE Moreover, the proh1bl-
ton department at Washington refuses
to give the people information on what is
being done by the department in special
cases and it is strictly mumm on who is
responsible for obtaining the booze per-
mits.
The Townley scheme possesses much OF
merit. 1t is likely to succeed. We do, how
ever, regret that the famous leader of the
Nonpartisan League is not going to de-
vote at least some of his time and energy
to the cause of public ownership of pub
lie utilities and farm relief. These are,
after all, the big issues.
The second editorial is by former Congress-
Tom Stout, in the Lewistown Daily Democ
News, the big daily of central Montana:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-16
Friday. August 10, 1929.


Probably no political move during the past couple
of years has arounsed the stir and caused the COM
ment that the launching of The American Temper
ance League with A. C. Townley at its head, here
at Plentywood a month ago.
The American Temperance League employed the
Pollock Clipping Bureau of Minneapolis, to clip
the press reports and editorial comments of the
northwest only, and the clippings have been COM
ing in bales.
The launching of this movement has surely put
Plentywood on the map in the United States and
the Temperance League program for the distribu-
ton of intoxicating beverages is coming to be re-
ferred to as the Plentywood Idea
Among the numerous editorial clippings we re-
produce the following. The first is from the Union
Advocate, Minnesota's leading labor paper: