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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

mttee on applications from stockralsers anu i"iei
for increases in the tariff rates farm produc'S
stock and meats The farms and ranches OF Moi.ana'
as well as the farms and stock farms of the resi- o e
country are directly in competition with those OF oner
countries and their prosperity depends upon sufcent
tariff protection prevent foreign producers
ing them in the markets of the United States
Representatives of farmers and stockgrowers asso-
Citations and other organizations for the protection OF
farming and stock growing in this country appeared
before the committee and offered testimony to show
that higher tariffs necessary. They were oppos-
ed by agents of the chain stores, meat dealers and
other middlemen of the east who Indifferent TO
whether the farmers and live stock protected
or not.
Nothing is obtained without fight with opposing
interests and those fasteners who live by selling farm
products naturally trying to make the returns to
the farmers and stock growers small possible, in
order to enlarge their profits The middlemen
entitled to fair returns for their invested capital and
their enterprise But it is mistaken policy to hold he
tariff rates low that the Argentine stockmen with
100 million CATTLE may injure American growers or
foreign farm products flood American markets and
break prices.
Fair adjustment of the tariff rates farm and live
stock products to fully protect the farmers and
stock growers of the country from destructive foreign
competition is a wise policy and the only Jpn
which the general prosperity of the country is based
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

these are not the ordinary type of
directors: bankers, trust officers, fl
duciary managers and such important
stockholders, who have only vague
and general information of the execu-
tive direction of corporation. On
the contrary they are active execu-
tives in the company who have spent
their daily lives with it for years, who
are just as concerned as the average
director for the welfare of the COM
pany and much better informed as to
what is good for it."
Replying to an attack by. T. M. De-
bevoise, Rockefeller attorney in this
fight, Stewart emphasizes the con-
trast between the absentee owners
and the actual administration. He
says: "What have Debevoise or
Rockefeller, Jr., to say in regard to
future earnings. They have never
visited refinery or sales station or
producing property of the company,
nor outside of one or two officers or
directors do they know a person in
the entire rganization. The present
organization took the Indiana compa-
ny in 1918, at that time worth $170,-
100000 and in 10 years, without ask
ing a cent from the stockholders has
made it into company worth about
$9OO,OO0,O0O, during which time it
paid out over $2OO,OOO,OOO in cash
dividends"
what" he asks, shave Mr.. Debe-
voice or Mr.. Rockefeller, Jr., done in
this regard? Have they helped in any
way?"
Rockefeller grew up as the crown
prince of the country's richest CAPT
talist estate. Stewart drove oxen OF
his fathers Iowa farm. The issue il
: the demand of the ruling class for alb
: solute loyalty on the part of its un
5 derlings, loyalty which will accep
: decapitation in its service with mur
i muir.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15
Articles
By Leland Olds Federated Press
Industrialized Farms Increase

Industrialization of Iowa farms un-
der the direction of production engi-
neers or efficiency experts is steadily
increasing, according to j. S. Russell,
farm editor of the Des MONIES Regis
ter. Corporate interests are taking
advantage of the slump in land values
to create units which give annual re-
turns ranging as high as go on the
investment. Russell says:
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
land in the state are owned by cor
porations and thousands OF acres are
operating by these corporations with
hired labor. By means of a system
of supervised tenancy several insur-
ance companies and other owning
corporations are bringing their farms
back to a standard of fertility and
productivity that has resulted in an
increase in crop yields and presuma-
bly, in land valuation.
"There are in operation in the state
today several examples of chain farms
operated entirely with hired labor and
on a basis which entirely eliminates
the individual farms as social and
economic unit Several more are be-
ing contemplated"
The outstanding example of the in
dustrialized farm in Iowa, according
to Russell, is the Adams ranch neal
Odebolt in Sac County. There is q
grain farm of more than 1000 acres
operated as single unit with hired
labor. Much of this labor is appar.
emily of the unskilled, floating bunk
house type that is customarily asso-
ciated with railroad construction OF
the logging camps. The common mess
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15
The WASHINGTON Scene
By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press

Washington.-From the law office
of Elihu Root in New York City, it
seems, came the first hint that Hen
ry l.. Stimson, once a member of
Roots firm, would be Hoover's first
secretary of state. That word ''first"
is important in the designation of
Hoover selections, because the form
er chief of the American Relief Adj
ministration has a long record of ex-
pertinent in the fitting of men to jobs.
If the high-spirited Stimson is ap-
pointed on March A to head the state
department and if presently he is
found by Hoover to be unsatisfactory
in the working out of the commercial
expansion plan which the White
House will promote, then Stimson will
not stay in the cabinet.
Secretary of war during the last
two years of Taft's administration,
Stimson has the brand of extreme re-
publican conservatism upon him. The
painting IN the office of the war de-
partment chief shows lean, English
looking man in riding togs. His rec
ord as governor general of the Phil
ippines has been one of gathering
more power into the hands of the
American rulers and inducing the
former leaders of the independence
movement to become leaders of a CO.
ionlal policy instead. His record in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15
The Oil Scrap

One of the ablest corporate execu-
tives in the United States fighting
back when the great absentee owners
try to make him the scapegoat in a
capitalist mess suggests new aspec
of he class Struggle in America. The
years Immediately ahead may witness
an increasing division of interest be-
tween the trained administrators who
govern the various branches of the
American capitalist enterprises and
the functionless multimillionaire aris-
tocracy. which claims the sovereign
ty.
The lineup in the battle for control
of Indiana Standard presents the is
sue in cleancut fashion. On the one
side the Rockefellers, j. P. Morgan
the Hardness family and a majority
of the old estates associated with the
Rockefeller fortune. On the other
Robert w. Stewart and the entire adj
ministrative personnel of the big cor
poration.
The attitude of the hereditary own.
ing families, who see in Stewards at
titude something akin to disloyalty
to the crown, is reflected in New
York Times account of the Rockefel
Ter, ST., influence. The Times says
cit was learned yesterday at thu
Standard Oil building that the eide
Rockefeller regards Stewards atti
tude as an affront and the word ha
been passed along to all his connec
lions that every possible effort is t
be made to wrest control of the Stan
dard of Indiana from the presen
chairman" On the other hand, tn
Chicago Journal of Commerce says:
"It is significant that every mem
Der of the board of directors has gon
on record unequivocally as being con
pletely in accord with Col. Stewart
position and as commencing his il
, tegrity as well as his ability. An
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

hall and bunk houses are a feature OF
this capitalist enterprise.
Russell lists other of the more i'm
portant examples of large scale Iowa
agricultural enterprises operated eth
er under a system of supervised ten
ancy or under a managerial plan en-
ploying hired labor. His list includes
the Brenton livestock farms in Dallas
and Polk counties, the Collins Farms
Co. with headquarters at Cedar Rap
ids, the Maytag Livestock. farms In
Jasper county, the Keller farms in
Cerro Gordo county, the Ellis farms
in Floyd county, the Shaugart live
stock farms in Story county, the
unz-Benson-Ochs Co. in Kossuth
county, the Macarthur farms, the
Wagner farms and farms in O'Brien
county managed by L. G. Chrysler fol
a Davenport syndicate.
Russell calls attention to the fact
that nearly every bank in the state
now owns from to 20 farms and
speaks of a movement on foot to es-
tablish in each bank competent ag-
ricultural adviser not only to look af'
ter its farms but also to advise eli
ents. Summing up the whole situa
ton he says:
"The most noticeable development
in the changing trends of land own
ership and land operation in the state
is the recognition of the value of the
production engineer or efficiency ex
pert whose duty it is to introduce i'm
proved agricultural methods, cut pro
duction costs and increase return
from Iowa land"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15
GIRL IMMIGRANTS
TO CANADA DIVERTED
FOR WHITE SLAVE1Dv

Montreal = (FP) = Charoo.
young girls from continental f. mat
coming to Canada as immigran+. N I
frequently fallen into the bana nave
persons of i'll repute and never r 10 VI
ed their proper destinations Sa-
been publicly made by Able Pb;;~
Casgrain, Catholic Chaplain of Tnrl p'
grafton at Quebec.
"The system by which vopno
eign girls are brought into the oo 1Vf'
try is not properly organized n;O ul'
ton, it is just traffic." the Abho s5s
ed. English speaking girls are S %oS
looked after. The government is ir Sea
esteG in them for at least a wear 'T 81
cause most of them come here nnS 81
a reduced rate scheme as aomsSEess
20 English speaking families in Isr ,ss
cities and have to pay back tbs;s
fare within a year" u
Indicating a pile of letters WIFI,
told of girls who had not reaches
their destinations, Casgrain eonti~
ued: "Alien girls, who do not snsaL
English are engaged as domest;o.
mostly by aliens and are routed :"
farms or remote towns. Some ~
tempt has been made to keep cberL
up at Winnipeg, but the appalino
truth remains that a considerable
percentage fail to report at all"
Noticing that Lithuanian girls yer.
destined for farms around Montreal
and considering it unlikely that tbs
French Canadian farmers would h
hiring domestic servants in Eurons
the Able asked the parish priests 4
investigate. These investigation;
showed the girls were evidently brOt
out on forged applications. Lithu
anian priests were then. asked to tn
to locate them in Montreal, but an
peals in their churches were in vain
Again, noticing a succession O
pretty girls booked for house d
Bender street, Vancouver, the Abb
got a report from the mounted polio
that the place was ga rendezvous o
the fast SET" It's proprietor has bee
in the police court more than once.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

other maritime nations, regulating the
status of neutral trade on the seas
III time Of war. Britain has never
conceded any definite right on the
part of other nations to freedom of
the seas when she was at war; she
claims that her very life may depend
upon the search and seizure of pre-
tended neutral ships by her navy. Sc
curing of such treaty will be mon
umental job for the most skilled of
diplomats. If Herbert Hoover en-
trusts the task to man who has as
many military associations as Slim
son, the appointment must be given
with mental reservations as to the
freedom of action which the president
will allow his cabinet chief.
(!
Hoover has tackled his first diff
Guilty in dealing with congress, by
summoning to conference in Florida
Chairman Smoot of the senate finance
committee, head of the higher tariff
bloc in congress. Smoot wants tar
iff boost so general and so high that
every manufacturing industry in the
United States will feel its effects
Of course he comedies that farm pro-
ducts must also have a higher tariff
Bankers who have an eye on future
payments of interest on foreign loans
] are becoming worried over the high
er tariff movement in congress. Hoov-
er has been a friend of the manufac.
turers, but he now realizes that tar.
iff increases endanger the present bal
ance of exports and payments, anC
threaten the cost of living of every
one. Dislocation of the whole stand
ard of living by big change in tar
iff rates, the low tariff economists
are telling Hoover, will be bad fol
his administration.
If this hig tariff rush is to be stop
ped, Hoover will have to stop it. Con
gress seems all set to offer an eco
nomic challenge to the world to mattel
its new naval challenge.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Anaconda Copper agents in trying to make it an
pear that Butte workmen not strong for anv con-
dtlon that would be for their betterment make the
assertion that none of the representatives of the miners
are there working for them The huge copper octopus
mas the fear of the "rustlng card" system instled
INTO the very heart of the Butte miners, and have
placed them in position where they dare not call
their soul their own. And this is in America. The
land of the free
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Now that the Producers News stockholders are
ly all dead moved away something else has hap
pened to them, according to a pipe-dream printed in
of contemporary newspapers those still living
should feel that their investment has increased about
600 per cent. We've seen "dope" work that way be-
fore.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Other cities of Montana are following in the wake
OF Plentywood and organizing Isaac Walton Clubs that
our wild life may be preserved and the future genera
tons given an opportunity to enjoy the things which
we have today, and which are fast disappearing be-
cause of needless waste
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

AT least one part of the population of Plentywood
are not condemning the cold weather-these are the
coal oarons miners and haulers who have been doing
thriving business the past month Well we are clad
70 near we have prosperous purely home industry
Due tnat does not mean that wouldn't welcome a
day in June.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Do not forget the Firemens dance next Friday ev-
ening. The boys have given Plentywood excellent
service the past year and deserving of your pat
ronage. One good turn deserves another
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

The United States spends annually
for construction and maintenance of
highways, exclusive of city streets,
nearly 81, 800, 100000, according to the
chamber of commerce of the United
States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Llndbergh has successfully opened up the air mail
route with Panama and has again demonstrated that he
is either the luckest the best aviator in the world
his long successful trips have placed him in class
by himself
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Florida seems to have drawn most of the big boys
this winter, says newspaper headlnes-We they have
got to make up in way for the floods and storms
which often visit the Florida coast.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Rumors are heard in Plentywood that Joe Dolin is
figuring on making Medicine Lake the big town in
Sheridan county since Plentywood has gone dry.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

Well bet the local postmaster chuckles to himself,
even though he isn't particularly fond of the Producers
News when he reads of the circulation bunk be-
ing peddled by opposition papers. He knows
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15
MONTANA IS INTERESTED

(From The Montana Free Press)
Montana is interested in the hearings now be; h,d
at Washington before the house ways and means conn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

the errand on which President Cool
idge sent him to Nicaragua was one
of delivery of an ultimatum to help
less liberal government to surrender
its arms and baandon its resistance
to American occupation.
(! ! /
If Stimson is to be secretary of
state the country will probably wit
ness a tendency on his part to give
to American diplomacy a coercive
tone. Not merely the white mans
burden but the Americans burden of
responsibility for setting the rest of
humanity right, will be discovered.
And in that tendency lies trouble for
Hoover's commercial plans. If the
new president is to make South Amer
-jca commercial colony of the Unit
ed States, developing for the profit
of North American investors the wa
ter power, railroad, mining, timber
sugar, coffee and other resources OF
the southern continent, the state de-
partment will serve him best by suave
politness and d show of respect fol
South American culture and sovereign
rights.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-15

The senate has just declared by a
vote of 81 to i that it desires the new
administration to negotiate a multi
lateral treaty with Britain and the
The Washington times., 1929-10-03

SfCO DOWN S25 MONT Il
Steafns 8 Coach. An auto worth while,
having new rubber. $3Q5. LOG tn g. ~.
4QOE. WHIPPET, s27 4-d00r Sedan. Ain-
DOAO iehed IA attractive blue Dtico.
Tires practically new; motor in excellent
condition: mileage very low. A real bar
gain. ensV terms Open evenings.
1923 L 81. N. w. Phone North 1920
The Washington times., 1929-10-03
JOHN A. fpna1RT.rN

Funeral services win be held to-
morrow at 10 q. M. at Hysonkss I'M
dertaking Parlors for John Al. Crome.
lin, who died Tuesday at his home
in Mount Vernon, N. II. Interment
win be in Glenwo0d cemetery.
He was born In Washington, where
he received his early education. on
his fourteenth birthday he received
the distinction of being the youngest
employees IN the u. s. senate report
ing room. Whii6 there Ne assisted
David WoiEs Brpwn, then 0fGIciaI
House reporter, In the peteection Of
4 system ot shorthand which allowed
him to take dfctatiOn at the rate u
approximately 200 words minute.
After. two years 0f that work he
entered the employ sof the American
GramophOne Company, where HIS
rise WAS rapid. IN sixteen years he
rose to be general manager of the
company.
Surviving him are yElis widow. five
children, Roland Paul, Dorothy
Donald and John, and four sisters,
Miss Lillian Cronnelin ana MrH Rp-
sale Cromelin, Of this city, Mrs.
Blair shoemaker, oE Franklin Park,
Va. and Mrs. Elizabeth Wiernii1, Of
Chicago.
The Washington times., 1929-10-03

u. i q : I
Charles and Mary II Andersen, b0ys
Otto ana Aebekah NAeckee, bay
Ryerets n. and NiIdfed 81 Neisons
wiiIlam and aEyrtis u. hFeiss. 49,
Marion end Edna a. Money boys
Fre1eFiek Z and Il Albers
Boy
Morris ara Anna Il. BacAer, boy.
Rose a8d Mary u. MurfhN girl
Alaxinstllian II afd Dettha Mons
nas;id 8. ana virginia petnG kiEl
John G.. and Helen q. MacNab, girl
Georka 4 md Blanche Gotthardk
ciArkn y. ana naxeI. r. Jones, eiFf.
Frederick p and EVELYN p Whise.
Edwsra asa Hsisa >. Brodasan.
John b. ana Dorothy Bnrrett girl.
Harry ard Ida Saith gifl
Alfred w. And Gertrude stranghans
girl
ElhaoA r. ana Edith =. Cooke, RirL
Edward Z. and Jennie Taylor gfri.
Clarko w ard Eudora @. Colemans
Paal p. ana Mafearst Il catlest girL
Andrew 4. and Ida r FIIliAma
Melvin Z. and Ruin II. Han, elrl.
John J. ana MarBaret q Osconnof.
Cornelius ana sally. A. Bell boy.
Mack and Bertha Boyd, girl.
John aAa IseAorA Cold, kifls
James, and Thelma Grayson.. girl
The Washington times., 1929-10-03
DEATH ~ /
CmARI.nn q LII.

SO N-S"""-
Following services at Bethlehem
Chapel Of washington Cathedral,
which were held this afternoon
with the Rt. Rev. James 4. Free
map, bishop Of Washington n
charke. Charles J. Bell, widely
known civic and charitable worker.
was buried 81 Rock Creek Gene
terry.
While the washington Stock Ex-
change was adj0urned n honort Of
the dead banker and the entire
financial and banking fraternity paid
him tribute, his body was brought
to HIS estate. Twin Oaks, by his
family Tuesday night.
HIS widow, Mrs. Grace ,. Bel,
was &c his bedside when the end
came. She came here for the SER
vices with her two daughters, Mrs.
Julian "A. Ripley and Mrs. Gran.
vile n. Fortsscue, and her son,
Robert w. Bell, All Of New York.
The active pallbearers were CO.
workers u Mr.. Bell. They are Cor
coran Thom, Howard Moran, Charles
=. Howe. william Il. Beale, II. r.
H Siddona, David y. Houston ana
Damn Fnbsr, the senior officers az
the American Security and Trust
Company. and Clarence Al. Aspin.
walIs president Of the Security stor-
age Company.
The honorary pallbearers viii I'm.
clade David =. Barry. w. 8. C0rby,
Charles c. Glover, 5r., Senator Fred
erick Fl. 0illstt. w. b. Hibba, wal
Ham r. Ham, Richard Al. Harlow.
Gen. Henry 4. Allen, Justice u. q.
Sanford, DR.. Harry II. Kerr, Charles
~. Marsh, Clarence r. Nornent.
Albion X. Paris, Howard 8. Rec
side, 3. r. Saul. Edward j. Sell.
wagen, Col. WrisIey Brown. %.
Porter and 4. Thomas Duniop.
The Washington times., 1929-10-03
WEATHER II

tsor Eastern RAnhsyivaniR, New Jer-
sey, DelaWmre ana AEAfgl&1G. el1ady to-
Atghts Frid6g partly cloutiy ana con-
tinlled eool; fresh west and northwest
Ts.Y1NG wRArf1KR rOREcAsr
Fer the District 81 Columbia. soSns-
what overcast tonight FRIDAY Fair;
nst mnch ehanEs II tenn mpefatafAs ta0d-
crate WeAt and nofthwest winas
Fer Nlrginia. fair, possibly llGht frost
tAir. not Aueh chAnge Is Temperature:
m0derate 10 fresh west Winds.
WAAhlngton. p. g, to Long Island
iftsrhooh. fresh vest ana northwsst
gihdH, poastbly strong at tlnee near
koAe lAland pp te' five tAolhahd feet
On Friday the weather VIII be partly
overcast with fresh northwest winds.
washington 70 Nerfolls, VAL Artly
0vefcAsts this Afternoon, Ereall west and
NORTHWEST winds up te five thousand Reet.
on Friday the weather will be partly
overcast with moderate northwest winds.
bvSfeaaf 1hia Aftern0ph. Moderate north
sst ginds ssssPs fresh assE ~. Ncrtell !. :ak
keRtlA variable Wlndk near Atlanta ard
moderate West hear Norfolk
VFaahinet6n, D. sc.. te DASt0A. Ohio
eartIy eveseas e oysTeass thss hss 'tss sfssr-
Ss5,d fsef. Oh Fifiday the weather VIII
IS partly overcast with moderate ncrth-
west ana north Winds
LOCAL TEaHPEaATURKs
Yesterday Today
4 3. Sa.,...s.... sale 4. nhs....Gsss 81
3 p. m.s,s.ss..s ssis e m..ssssssss.esss
Dsnaulares FFom Normal
Accumulated excess Oe Temperature
hf0rA yan. !. 1879. ete degrees.
nxcess ~ temperature since Oct !.
1879. } degrees.
Accumulated dtfleleacy oe. preeipita-
lioB slncs Jan. 1. 1889. e.s7.
Excsss q prscipitatioa alnce Oct 4
The Washington times., 1929-10-03

Fraheis Z. An6 Marie G. DsobkA. hoy.
boy.
The Washington times., 1929-10-03
nEATHa

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