The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-29

vices. LUZ MS SER
; Any organization that Town,o,
! ! Is connected with that has fees ~
! gets money in any way is wron %. "
; ana 20 give Townley any none
rat Salaries for Fatheads
The Association Aga;nat
Prohibition Amendment = 81; Cne
ed also by fees and donations , &c i
the Anti-Saloon League and 90 IFS -
speakers and managers are no;d
mats all right: their officers anj
speakers are not Townlev +hO
thelr salaries are plenty fat fo o
'T TWO, VINO nave not half the ability.
!ownley and Upshaw put on y
series OF debates. 1t was a c;rcnS
says the Forum. They did No
good. Townley and Tnsha ~
charged admission. That was aTI
wrong. Even. Upshaw is M oood
because he debated with Town1I LUu
Io'WInley should have paid for The
naiis' the advertising and the trav.
ellIg expense, spoke for notbino
and asked his friends to feed him
That is the way the Form, doas i.
never. e'er'
And in no case and under NJ
circumstance should Townlev ever
get any money: if he does its dis
honest: he should never +aIe
cent under any circumstances Tho
should neither eat, sleep or wear
clothes and he should always nav
cash in advance.
such is the Forums continuous
confusion of contradictions
The Forum, itself, does not want
money, it never takes anv. Town
ley gets it all. 1t runs for The
exercise: it publishes for the snort
OF -lt-glYes its space away and
pays the boys to peddle it free to
anybody that wants it. Its print
ers work for the exhilaration. and
the editors abide on Olympus and |
are nourished with nectar at the
bounty of. the gods.
In the tongue of the times the
Forums line is bologna" tho
like the lady with the louise on
ner bonnet, it doesn't know it, or
is sure its readers don't.
Now We're Getting Hot
Must the Forum always be 50
damphoollsh whenever and where
ever Townley is involved. Does IFS
editor believe its readers are all
feeble minded, and the rest of the
people saps? Does the egotistical
ass who pens its editorials think
that ne is the only sapient being
on the wind wept plains of North
Dakota.
The Forum yaps and yammers
about the money that Townlev has
collected from the people of the
flickertail state: it would persuade
you that he has taken more money
from the farmer and others in
North Dakota, than all the usur-
ers, gougers, hi-jackers and short
changers that have sported over
the open spaces combined and is
JAoO III WGdlLu.
AS matter of fact Townley is
broke: he was broke when the
Nonpartistan League closed its
doors. He gave his time and tai
ent to the farmers of the north
west and quit without penny. He
walked out of the Jail at jackson
where he was put by the paytrio-
teers and profiteers to destroy his
prestige with the revolving farm
ers which he was leading, desti-
tute.
TownleX did not make nor save
a red cent out of all the farmers
activities in the northwest, and
weary and disillusioned he retired
to private life and turned to pri-
vate business.
Maybe Forum Scribbler Got Stung
He did not feel inclined to starve
he must do something. He turn
ed his energies to the oil game.
Thousands of people have lost
money trying to find oil and will
continue to do so. Every wildcat
well that came in was a specula-
ton. And yet were it not for the
pioneers there would be no oil in
dustry. 1t was never wicked to
get money and dig for oil until
Townley did it. Some North Da-
kota money lost drilling for oil
did not pass thru Townley's hands, !
but the Forum never mentions
that-likely its editorial yammerer
has nibbled himself: maybe he has
a Townley note, which would have
been very fine if Townley had
found oil.
The Forum tells how much
money Townley raised for explor-
ing for oil, but says nothing about
what was spent nor questions the
way it was spent. Townley gave
his hackers an honest run for their
money. He did not find oil. He
lost and they lost.
There are paid lecturers in Far
90 every week which is considered
quite alright by the Forum: But
we repeat, nothing that Townley
does is ever right.
Debates Worth the Price
The Forum admits that the de-
bates were mighty good evening
entertainments They were.
have paid twice the money for half
as much and felt that l got my
moneys worth. Just to think OF
it: the audience paid the price of
an admission to bum picture
show, to hear two of the best
speakers that ever travelled over
the state of North Dakota discuss
the question foremost in the minds
of the public today.
And there were applications Tor
hundreds of states that could not