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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
In the Wake of the News

derakng job that ought to improve the home market for
his company's products.
For Hoover's emphasis upon the sacrifice involved in
LeggeS taking any than 100000 year calls attention
the underlying for the enactment of farm relief leg
sation-the grossly unfair and unequal distribution OF
wealth and of income in the United States Millions of farm
families producing the nations food supply live the edge
of want Hundreds of thousands of farm tenant families su
fer year after year from lack of adequate food clothing shell
ter and medical care well suffering deprivation of edu
cationa and general cultural opportunities.
Hooves conception of the farm problem that Legge and
other of the privileged group have chance to do
great service for the farmers the farmers view is that the
nation has duty repair the wrong which its granting of
Especial privileges to the Init Harvester Co. and hundreds of
other corporations has done to every farm family
That farm relief as administered by this board will be
dictated by Legg that the members nominated by farm
organizations expected to listen and agree with him all
occasions limited two of personal publicity issued
lat the White House. This publicity is series of quotations
book by GroSvenor ClarkSon, euogZng the doara-
ear men under the title Industrial America in The World
War; Legge made general manager of the Allied Pur-
chasing Commission under Bernard Barch and he proceeded
to run things. Thus:
When he spoke debate ended for somehow it almost al
appeared that he right Besides it known
TO all with whom he dealt that his decisions ultimate
less the circumstances under which they made were fun
damentally altered.
Then too, with him fnaity asperity. de-
csion clothed in nevitabty and gently stated wins willing
acquescence Such Legges decisions and always mper
sonal They felt personal trumphs il
contest of wits and words they oraces of the pre-
destined
Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board then will b.
the whole board He will hand down the Oraces of the predes
tined But will he pay off the mortgages millions of farms
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

BY LELAND OLDs, Federated Press

Well now, even the cows are re-
ported to be finding jobs less plen-
tiful as the result of the American
drive for increased per CAPITA pro-
ductivity. At least that is the i'm
preston gained from a statement
by c. w. Larson of the Natl. Dairy
Council. According to Larson, the
increased demand for milk in the
last seven years would have pro-
vided jobs for 100000 more COWS
if dairy farmers had not succeeded
in speeding up their milk produc-
ers.
Through increase in production
per COW brought about by breed
ing, feeding and management, the
dairy farmers have increased pro
duction SO,O00,000,0O0 pounds with
5,S4O,OOO fewer COWS that It would
have been necessary to house. feed
and care for under the average of
seven years ago."
Larson goes further, pointing ont
that it will be possible to 90 on
supplying an additional population
OF at least 100000 each year for
the next 40 years without increas-
ing the number Of cows. This would
require raising the average produc-
ton per COW to $500 pounds a
year, whereas COWS have already
been bred which average three or
tour times that production.
All this viii mean greater gain
to the dairy farmer, for the cow
tnat produces $500 pounds Of milk
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
FARMERS TURN SOUR EYE ON RELIEF LORD

Washington (FFP) --Aexander Legge president of the
nt Harvester Cothe harvester trsthas been named by
Pres Hoover to be chairman at $4,000 year, of the Federal
Farm Board created by the farm relief act The White House
does not assert that the farm organizations proposed Legg
name Tor In the board but claims that $50
chairman And Hoover emphasizes that the four other
6ers OF the board thus far selected proposed by the
farmers.
In making public the name of the chairman Hoover epha
sized his idea that private citizen before entered
pubic service at such personal sacrifice Legge MAX
ng de estimated that Leggs salary head of the harves
ter concern was not less than 100000 year. Yet Legge was
SO devoted to public duty that he willing to take beg
gary qlOOO Tor while IN order that he might help to
store prosperity to American farmersl
Inose mons OF American farmers whose net cash
gS are under $500 year and have looked the
may not enthusiastic over TeOces sefsacrice as
Hoover wants them to be- In some farm organizations the
question va" De raised as to whether Legge is not in fact m
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
GIVE MONTANA TEACHERS A
CHANCE

The headline on this editorial shows that there
Is something rotten in school affairs in eastern
Montana. It shows that there is a complete 1sck
OF state pride somewhere. It shows that scbool
boards do not appreciate the fine normal schools
established IN Dillon and Havre al great axnense
TO the taxpayers to educate Montana Girls and
OCss ,Of the profession of teaching. These normal
seloOls are equipped and directed in such a way
.ne graooate teachers turned out every year
a. - give montana pupils better essential educa-
IN % MAKE their way IN this state than the
suu1es OF any Minnesota, North Dakota or Iowa
colleges, not excepting even the universities - 49,.
states mentioned. VI 'HS
Yet it is necessary for State sunAv;r.sus,u. :.
Public instruction Ireland and her ,s, -.
deputy, Mr.. Moe, Sheridan COUNT hoy - - 49,
whole state is proud of, to auueal 10 scool p.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
FILIPINOs STILL WANT FREEDOM

Washington (FP)-Camilo Osias, the resident COM
missioner IN Congress from the Philippines denies that his
people have abandoned their of national ndepend
ence.
We still believe that independence the only solution to
the problem Osias told The Federated
Press Il am convinced that economic and political considera-
tons requires that Congress devote its talent and time to
deeming Americas pledge-made to us by we
shall be free and independent"
When asked whether Sergio Osmena and Manuel Quezon
Filipino political leaders, had not ceased their independence
agitation since Henry L. SmsOn secretary of state was
made governor general of the islands, Osas replied that was
not the fact.
He produced letter from Quezon declaring that the Fill
pnos would gladly tariff duty their sugar exports
to the United States if thereby they could gain independence
lie quoted also independence resolution adopted by the leg
sature last winter and another similar demand voiced by the
first general convention of business the Philippines
which met in February of this year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
CITY POWER PLANT A GOLD MINE

Kaukauna, Wis., -FP)-Why Sam insult spends fortune
propaganda against public ownership of electric utilities
understood when the following statement of Mayor W. c. Sui
ivan of Kaukanua read This northern Wisconsin has
publicly owned and operated power plant in operation
1922 that has proved gold mine profits besides charging
average rate of less than &c lowatt Mayor Sullivan
writes:
The history of the of public owned utility
reads like fairy story With original investment of $780,
600 in 1912 plant has book value of 100000 and
selling value of S2000000 OuN plant has earned high
$50 900 profit year and is tremendous financial
success.
During all these years have been in operation have
given the people lower rates. better service and turnd back
to the city treasury approximately S300,000."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
LAUNDRY GIRLS WIN STRIKE IN BUTTE

Butte, Mont-(FP)-Afer six weeks strike, featured
by solidarity seldom equaed in Butte the workers of the four
principal aundres back work again with 50 and $3.50
pay increases the credit of militant action The girls get
50 week than before with the minimum SO week
while in the washroom and the manges the increase is
$3.50 and the mems minimum is $25 week Drivers and col
lectors did not share in the gains
Not only did the laundry workers stand solid but they
supported by their international office and by nearly all the
local unions other trades in Butte while cooperators
getting ready to launch coop laundry permanent basis
when the bosses caved in
Scheduling the heavy trade losses of the subbon employees
the Montana Labor News adds Gas to the loss the workers
sustained in effort to greater measure of justice
it only be said that they used to it. strike the
only recourse at times"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

THREATEN PROF
TEER PROBE!

Washington - (FP)-La I
Sen. Wheeler OF Montana 2
says he is going to inyestigl,s
labor conditions in the textile :
other basic manufacturing =
tries that now demand tariff ?
lection, the members Of The ?
gressive group in the Senate 2
planned a series Of one-mal -
into big business financing AZ
Dor policy.
These prOgressives are not p
bers of the finance eonEz
which is preparing the tariff
revision. They cannot ques11
witnesses who are testifying
the needs Of the various in-E
for higher rates Of duty. BIZ
are sending for information 2
the capitalization, surplus, 70
wage scale and other -
facts concerning the tarif-is'
porations. Some of them F'1
to visit mill towns and max
sonal inspection Of mills, q
and the workers tenemenE
Too much need not be sTS
of these investigations, M.,
since Wheeler, LaFOllette an
zier, among the progTesiT:s
arranging to conduct sst1
hearings on Indian reseEV:s.e ..
the Northwest, under Teso.l,-
the Senate, before that O'-
sumes its session on AugA
Brookhart IS conducting paiN5
graft hearings in the SouI1
/ ris is resting in the VIZ
woods.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
Giant Strides i'm Power Use
Speedup Output
By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press

Significant changes in technical
production factors must have taken
place in American industry around
1920 to account for the sudden
jump in productivity per wage
Garner in the succeeding years.
This is the conclusion of L. P. AL
ford in an analysis of technical
changes in manufacturing indus
tries preparde for the Hoover Com
mittee on Recent Economic Chang
es. Afford shows that from 1919
to 1927 industrial productivity in
creased $3.50 whereas in the pre-
ceding years it had increased only
4.79o. This means an average an
nual increase of 6.79o since 1919
compared with about a quarter of
10 a year between 1899 and 1919.
The first significant change to
catch the attention is the increase
in mechanical horsepower per work
er. Between 1899 and 1919 pri-
mary power per worker increased
To or 2.35@o per year. Between
1919 and 1925 the increase in pow
er available per worker was 30.99o
or about 10 per year. If contin-
ued down to 1928 this means that
the 10 years following the war
saw as large an increase in this
factor as the 20 years preceding
The possibility of increased power
per worker, however, Affords an
alysis shows, arose from a whole
series of technical changes develop
ed by industrial research. New
products and materials were dis
covered, new manufacturing ma
chinery and material handling
equipment invented and methods OF
utilizing waste devised. The use
of electrically driven machinery
spread rapidly. Working condi-
tons were improved to enable the
worker to hit the pace with a mini
mum Of fatigue and strain.
A survey which brought answers
from 500 manufacturing concerns
showed 52fo of them with definite
research programs and an addition
al 10 with testing laboratories. OF
the research programs 679o aimed
at improved product or service, Sc
per cent at reduction in production
costs, 400 at development of new
fields of application, 300 at devel
opment of by-products and new
materials and go at new products
Expenditure on research was found
to average about $4,000 per firm
and TO be increasing.
Among the new products and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
NEW TARIFF HAsTENs sOYIET RECOGNTTION

Washington-(FP)- Thomas, of Oklahoma, who last
year returned from Russia convinced that the United States
should recognize the Soviet Union for commercial reasons
declares that the HawleySm tariff BILL when it be-
becomes law will be big factor making recognition fact
hs tariff legislation is going to result IN the loss of lot
present foreign markets. he told the Federated Press
The European countries whose products preparing
exclude from this country by higher tariff duties organic
ing to deprive US OF our European markets.
l"Fifty American business men this to tour
Russia survey the commercial possibilities there When
they return shall probably hear report from them that
will do much the last doubt of other business
as to folly of the policy pursued by the administrations
of the past ten years."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
KEY PAYTRIOTEER OUT OF cash

New York-(FP)F- R. Marvin professional patriot
key to the Key Men of America and champion redbaer has
discontinued the publication of Daily Data Sheets These
aboraey mdexed purpoed to give daily reports to business
and acute patriots concerning the progress the radical
movement in America They consisted chiefly in lengthy
prints from radical publications. and the mental wanderngs
of open shop editors.
The market for such services sharply debated when
Marvin was found guilty of ibelng Nine Roska Schwi-
er 1t established then that much of the information
he sold to business tainted at the and utterly
unreliable.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

materials put on the market since
1918 the results of industrial chem
istry are perhaps of outstanding
Importance. Best known is prob
ably rayon as a substitute for silk.
Others are various cellulose pro-
ducts including non-shatterah4e
glass and lacquer, various metal
alloys including stainless steel, ell
ectrical device including B-battery
eliminators, various rubber and
resinous products, etc.
New processes have cut the cost
frefining edible oils TO one fourth
that of the old methods, have re-
duced the cost of recovering borax
to less than 1919 of that in 1919,
have resulted in an annual saving
of 100000 in the production of
filament material for radio tubes
and of about S50,000,000 in the
durability of auto tires, and have
resulted in the recovery of about
100000 pounds of copper per
year previously wasted. These are
but few striking instances among
the many listed by Afford.
In the field of industrial power
the most important change has
been the rise to 1870 in the per-
centage Of factory power applied
through electrical motors. In 1893
only SO of factory power was cleo
trified, in 1914 1890 and in 1919,
55fb. Approximately half of the
power used in American factories
today is purchased from central
power plants. Increased efficiency
in the production of power has also
been an important factor. Be-
tween 1919 and 1928 the amount
of coal necessary to generate q
kilowatt Of electricity was cut from
80 pounds to 1.76 pounds, a reduc-
ton of $3.50.
American factories are installing
new machinery wherever it can be
shown capable of returning its cost
in % years or less. Especially i'm.
portant have been the elaborate
conveyor systems used to reduce
handling costs in mass production
In the field Of working condition:
have come new safeguards fol
plant and machinery, better illum
nation, heating and ventilation
and facilities for serving food. Al
these changes have had for theil
objective the increased productive!
of the worker which is necessary
to the permanence of the prof
system.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
Friday July 10, 10,

Is, 551 to 1896; and Mi.,'
2S3 to 1852. 'u Alichigsa, u
90 The tractor alope.p
mas released 10000. nays Bsks
land formerly require GIyVV acFss i
horses and mules, but u.5 70 Is
support meat and mill ITnieh d,
Gasoline has been sp i--s aniasa. hi
feed IN the north" 'l'ed &,
bake, Baker points out that -.
chasing power of the ~S.t me p.
er's bushel is probabIv" n neat fas
than 1t was in 1896. H 10 gres.s
the United States is mo lTlds u
with an overwhelming e sa, Tag
plus which can only b t ZOO. 3
by inducing the Amer It w
to eat more animal proJ-,a. poop
require greater acrea0s ~ WIKI
creased expectation. T5; " BY i
present time seems out tn =: At i
question. Of 4
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
Valuations increased

Helena, Mont, July IL Y,
tons placed on properly y -. y.
ern Montana counties by -
are higher than those Of !. III /:
T. Stewart, chairman Of 2. 4
board of equalization, repol 4. \,
today after a trip along y {.
line. He attributed the hg--
uations to increased impFo \ 4
personal property and he'O'
stock.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
AUNION
VIEW OF Henry
FORD'S System

st. Louis-(FP)-How n.
self-advertiser and anti.ur;c. S'sZ
plOiter, Henry Ford, looEs !. 4
intelligent trade unionistc = Z
gathered from the leading - - I
in The Railroad TeIes,...ti.
monthly journal of the o.:
Railroad Telegraphers.
when Ford made his dr,-..
ic announcement of the S a.,
the Railroad Telegraphe, 49,.
che did it. not because he
philanthrOpic but to build r,
buying power among comma
Dor, so that labOrers cOuB =
his cars-very few Others vo-S
1t is more than a decade -,
Ford made his dramati. !.
nOuncement of the S. day. =
ficient time has elapsed !,
many to forget the promises 4.
as well as the other bunk snil.j
them. But some of us rsrs-
Der and remembering look am
us and see what?
The refusal to hire men ~.
they reach a certain age. a ~.
tise INDUCED in by Mr.. Fri
more and more men being f,,,j
out Of industry BY Mr.. For
idol, efficiency; mass products
requiring less skill and brsal,,
men physically and mentaly \
see the world facing the oue,b
81 chronological unemployus
uue to the following Of 4
FOrd's methods Of industr
general unrest and uncertst.
greater than ever; INSANITY n
: suicides increasing and The =
= tire labor movement diseuziv
as the chief problem before (
: the necessity of providing vlu
:. and means TO care for tn
: wrecked in lives and hopes /
e age limits, introduction Of s1s
i improved machinery and 'nai
: ern' methods of production.
y eve see all that nov in en-
d ence more than 10 years a
Ford changed the MOdyatiGi
+ industry"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19
FORTRESS FOUNDED TO FIGHT LABOR

Chicago FP)-Charges long made by organized labor
that the foundation of Fort Sheridan 25 miles north of Chi
cago in 1888 antabor of Chicago capital
s who purchased and decided 1885, to the government
the plot OF ground where stands Fort Sheridan The
added glory that such fort would give Chicago was their
avowed purpose In reality according to Edward P Brennan
who has made an extensive study of Chcagoans and who
sisted IN street changes in 1908 and 1913 their was
to have troops at hand riots such the one
1871 which Cen Sheridan had suppressed and the Hayar-
ket riot in 1886"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

Bill Campbell in the sIndependents IN ranl,, ~
an article by Bill Dunn in the Daily WORKER said
That ne did not support Carl Riddick for the u s
Senatorshlp against BERTHE Wheeler As a matter
q TACT ne 6rags that it his editorial showing
Ia n-loGlek neid membership IN the Nonpartisan
League that defeated Ridd;ck For once rre aorea
with Campbell He opposed Riddick after the An
aconda Company bosses made up their minds that
wheeler would be more useful stoolpigeon in
washington than he was in Montana
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

a year requires the same overhead
and the same barn space and the
same labor as the cow producing
5000 pounds. What is more, the
lows producing 5000 pounds :
year actually consumed only 400
more feed than the COW producing
half as much milk. In this, Larson
points out, the cow differs from the
ordinary industrial machine which
normally requires twice as much
raw material to turn out double
the product.
For the grain farmer, the in
creasing productivity of the dairy
cow is just one of the factors in
tensifying his problem of overpro-
ductiOn. People are consuming
more milk and less grain, but the
increased consumption of milk does
not bring a corresponding increase
IN the consumption Of feed.
At the same time the growing
substitution of tractors for horses
and mules has cut into the grain
market at the same time that it
has made profitable the cultivation
OF 100000 additional acres. In
tne northwest states, the number
OF tractors on farms increased from
1o4,S48 IN 1925 to 228,311 in 1928.
For the Individual states the in
s sc were: Minnesota, 26,774 to
ooV 81 North Dakota, 17,4S3 10
y Il goo; South Dakota, 17,425 to
@l'Sl1; Montana, 6,602 to 14,S28;
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

One good thing about the climate in Montana is
that it is mfavorable for flies to come until Aug
ust so we can swat the golf ball all during this
month.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

Norway IS opening this month its first tourist
camp. Evidently the good people Of that country
have acted without investigating the tourist camp
business in the United States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

Illinois proposed law prohibiting the sale of
machine guns within the state. thus forcing ham
dts to violate the laws on their wav tn vrort,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

Wnen the Grer Hibbins or the hurry Buffers or
other professors talk in favor of World Courts or
League Of Nations it is wen to remember that the
ole English land pirate, Cecil Rhodes, left lot of
money to pay their bills.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
Personals

Mr. and Mrs. John E. R. Keevers and Joseph O'Brien of Stanley street, are on an automobile tour througE Canada.
 Miss Rose Senk, Veronica Pot ash, Bronislaus Potash and Mrs. D, Niezgoda and son, Dominic, have gone to Southampton, l.. l., where they will be the guests of MT. and Mrs. B. Stepnoski.
 Miss Mary O'Connell has returned from Bayview Heights, Milford. after spending the week with pr. and Mrs. D. w. O'Connell.
 Miss Estelle Eissrig of Burritt street is spending two weeks in Pitts. kurgh, Pa.
 Mrs Gerald Crean and daughter, Mary Ellen, of Homestead avenue, have returned home after spending few days with relatives in South ington.
 Miss Gertrude Markie of Bassett street and Mrs. N. G. Stephenson of Linden street have left on an auto mobile trip to Washington, D. C., Where they will visit with their sis ter, Miss Viola Markie.
 Park Superintendent and Mrs Clyde Fllingwood will leave Satur- day for North Paris, Me, where they will attend a reunion of the Filing weeks vacation touring New Eng land later.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
NOTICE

The Board of Adjustment will hear the following petitions for zone changes on Wednesday evening. September 4. 1929, in Room POS, City Hall Building, at 7:30 o'clock.
 Petition of Stephen Robb, ct al. for change of zone from Residence 'C' to Industrial, on the east side of Cherry Street below Ellis stre :.
 Petition of Minnie Hagcarty - change of zone on the east side of High Street from Residence e. to Business "C''.
 Katherine Skelly, ct al.-changa of zone on South Main Street from Ash Street to Mill Street from Business "B" to Residence "C".
 Church of Holy Cross-change of zone of all land on west side ol Pennington Avenue. north of Biruta Street, from Business 'B" to Resi- dence "C".
 Michael Ginsburg for change C. zone on East Street at corner o Florence Street, from Business "A to Business "B".
 August Egsert-extension of Busi ness 'B" district on north side 0 | West Main Street westerly to in clude Nos 463, 465 and ACT Wes Main Street.
 | BOARD OF ENT, Thomas Linder, Clerk.