The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-25
As We See 1t
Tom o'Flaherty

lOOO!i', uitb the object of having
snees, seiste " ships iunked and replaced
SOsUios % ,ors modern ones. when James
BY e"v mU' Macdonald arrived here
Eaia' : similar mission and poor
81 Ssosrer got fired. VI course
Sssy Snesls Is not on the payroll of
SaIIJ Sst5Iebem steel, so there is no
ioU Deanh WHY Schwab should pay
IeaSVb nm Sbearer hard cash for work
%Tln,,enonaId d., is doing for nothing.
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Tho Investigation of the naval
In -" promptly went haywire
oI pUU3 Shearer offered in evidence
VIZ sltr senate committee a copy
Os Os . secret British document on
a Imerican naval plans. The "bOmb"
"D well timed to the arrival of
wasnonaId. w. The Washington cor
.asUondent of The Producers
NoTs as if inspired by some holy
& rSost OWNED the reason for the
s1J5en adjournment of the naval
Iobbv ouiz. attributing it to Hoo
ro,'c % wish not to be embarrassed
n his flapdOOdle peace talk with
Macdonald.
Tho bio battleship men who
woro being trOunced by editors
w;tb tongues in their cheeks went
home and the senate started to
investigate every lobby that ever
hntton hOletl a senator. OF course,
ladies' and gentlemen, all this
0uizzing is for the benefit of the
sans out in the wide open spaces
The surprising thing about it is
that II is still able to work. But
as the old saying goes: "COws
NAV come and cows may go but
the "bull' goes on forever"
Thomas A. Edison celebrated
the golden jubilee of his invention
Of the inoandescent light and a:
MANY prominent PERSONS as We-'
able to break into the news cele
brated with him. Hoover, in
message to the great inventor, de
elared that scientists and invent
Drs "are among our most price
less national pOssessiOns." Tha
is true but unfortunately, Will
even the poor reap some benefIt
from the results of science tn
lions share goes to the rich. To
day. inventions and labOr-savin
devices tend to increase the arm
Of the unemployed. to increas
production without a proportion
ate increase in the standard {
living Of the human beings VIII
operate the machines. Some da
II will he different. The peOp
operating the machines will OW
them and they will be used
4 tighten the burden of labor for Il
workers and not merely to NAL
the rich richer.
Strange tho it may appear no
there was a time when the scie
tst was not held in such high
TEEN. The social standing of t
modern bOttlegger is as the Al
in height is to a mole hill, Co
pared to that of the inventor
feudal days. The church led t
war on him as it had led the fie
against everything prOgressi
until it was forced to become
handmaiden of the capitalist s,
TEN, and became one of its prC
tor a consideration. Capital
needed science in it's business q
the capitalists forced their cleri
acOlytes to reserve ther brimstt
Tor the yOkelry. Had Thomas /
son lived in the days when XII
gOveled before pOpes and n
we're stretched on the rack
using their brains to think W
ne would be lucky to escape v
his hfe. The world does m
after all.
a
Stock drops five billions
record bear drive" a head
Tells us We don't give a hoe
the bottom fell out of it and S
ed out. But it will come b
Ihe bulls will have their i'm
next week. The parasites
operate stock exchanges nei
weave nor spin, plant nor I
!e! they are better clothed
ied than the cast of a 500
screen drama. They are not
seraed with shorter hours
better working conditions.
'ne workers who enable thel
ea' and drink. worry about
prOsaic matters. Yet we
avs that prohibit black jack,
y pool, poker and what else
w Tall Street gambling is sa
Ihe sacred OK. W
$50
Policemen in uniform diree
irons to rOadhOuses and gam
Thts in Cook County, III
Inc Juvenile Protective AS
uOn' an organization that I
nVng by making periodic.
gOf's about vice conditions,
~Oesht care a hang if all
!yuhg IN the country we're
pOyed In factories at star,
wages, announces that rum
SolO to children in III
nSuses. The responsible
placed on the prohibition an
MS US by the Juvenile Assoc
~ bAaluc IL On UrOn
"n'',S S"gS 1t belongs? Prob
could not be enforced ey
mere mere were half a dozen ,
N ssa1 outfit impervims to Il
~ U,,' CON- But there are ple
S'neT evils in society tha,
eliminated before we \
E~g EOgT5ry aI fit for heroes to /
AnO the parent evil is can
%%a&
. we see a picture Of two
s,rls girls in the Chicago Her, i@y
Sn SS,ainsr !, making a bluff at
the streets-fOr pu
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