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The producers news., 1929-10-18
WAGNER GETS AID FOR POWER PROBE

The interstate commerce COM
mittee inserted into the resolution
the clause permitting federal coun-
sci to retain any information with
the consent of the federal commits
sion involved. This clause is un-
derstood to be formal only. On the
New York probe commission is in
cluded Frank P Walsh, former
Joint chairman of the National War
Labor Board and famous investi-
gator and trial lawyer.
Wagner submitted to the Senate,
in support of his resolution, let
ter from Gov. Roosevelt, explain
ing that his inquiry was to be di-
rected to rates and general conduct
of the companies, and especially to
holding companies, which are now
immune from state regulation in
New York.
The producers news., 1929-10-18
-InaHoS
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He Wants Another Fight

Editor, The Producers News:
While in barber shop in Minot
| picked up copy of your paper
and read of the fight in the Labor
Temple between Tommy Crone and
Max Hueth. Having seen the fight
myself can say that the report on
the front page was excellent and
so was the letter from "a Travel
ling Salesman" spent a few
uaIs md Plentywood looking
around Tor a HIu5Es - form anO
expect to be back again before
long. When are you going to havt
another fight? While some people
say that boxing is brutal form OF
sport l am of the opinion that
when proeprly conducted-as ii
was in the Farmer-Labor Temple
it has an uplifting effect on the
community and encourages young
people to develop themselves physi-
cally and morally, because only
those who follow the Golden Rule
can hope to excel in any form OF
sport.
join with "a Travelling Sales
man" in congratulating the pro
moters of the exhibition.
"A FIGHT FAN.
The producers news., 1929-10-18
POWER TRUST LOSES PROFESSORS SQUAD

Washing ON (FP)-Uneasy un.
der the spotlight of the Federal
Trade Commissions inquiry into
propaganda by the power trust
against public ownership, the squad
of college professors mustered by
the National Electric Light Asso-
Citations to make a survey of rela-
tions between the utility interests
and the colleges and universities
has finished its pob and announced
ITS t own v deeease e: i It Jjtar il 81 81 the epic Pic
aaire sare. - Not even the $4,000 salary,
plus expenses, allowed to former
Dean o. G. Ruggles of Ohio State
University now teaching at Har-
ward, made up for the fact that.
public opinion attached him to the
power companies.
The foreword Of a 154-page re-
port ON this survey-"of the extent
of instruction in public utilities In
colleges and universities, Of the
industry's interest in college grad
yates, and of willingness and abili-
ty of utilities to cooperate with
higher educational Institutions" is
signed by Ruggles as director, and
by Is other educational members
of the N. E. L. A. committee on
cooperation with educational insti-
tutions.
Activities Under Suspicion
"While. the investigation of the
Federal Trade Commission is still
incomplete and the Commission ha:
presented no report on its find
ings," the say, "it is apparent thaT
the great diffusion of responsible
ty among numerous COMMITTEES
and Information Bureaus which
characterizes the industry in it
educational activities has added ii
the difficulty of freeing some o.
these educational activities from
the charges of lack of good faith
improper propaganda, and of prac
tice subversive of the public wei
fare.
"Until this situation has beel
The producers news., 1929-10-18

Editor, The Producers News:
I notice that Hoover's appoint
ment of Legge and the entire COM
mittee has been confirmed by the
senate agricultural committee. This
is just what I expected. Those
capitalist senators make a lot OF
noise but that's all it amounts to.
The fact is the majority Of the
farmers no longer have any faith
in them. It's about time they
should wake up and do something
for themselves. Your editorial,
Easing It Into The Farmer" hit
the spot. Let's have more like it.
"A PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
The producers news., 1929-10-18

Washington-(FP) = Chairman
Couzens of the Senate interstate
commerce committee. announced
Oct. 1 that his committee would
recommend adoption of the Wag-
ner resolution, directing the Fed
eral Trade Commission and the
Federal Power Commission to rem
der aid to the New York state COM
mission which is probing the pow
er trust situation. This resolution
directs that the two federal COM
missions give to Gov. Roosevelt of
New York and his commissioners
any information contained in exhi-
bits, reports and other documents
secured in the course Of their m
vestigations and studies, unless
counsel for the federal bodies shall
otherwise advise them as to partl.
cular documents, and to otherwise
give assistance.
The producers news., 1929-10-18

Data Sheets" of hysteria about
radical plots in this country-Palen
decided that Shearer was a splen-
did agent for Inc armament crowd.
But he suggested that instead of
financing himself through selling
advertisements in his special page
to the shipbuilders, Shearer should
go directly on their payroll. And
that is how Shearer came to ham
die the $140,000 lobby in Washing
ton which puj the Jones-White
merchant marine bill, with its sub
sidy for the shipbuilders-through
the 69th Congress.
From this achievement it was
natural that Palen and the other
shipyard executives should move
on TO The Geneva naval confer
ence. They now solemnly declare
they sent Shearer to Geneva mere
ly to look on and report the "trend"
of events. They deny that they
wanted or expected him to influ-
ence that trend. They deny they
read his reports, which were chief
ly mass of invective against nav
al limitation plans. When he re-
turned they paid him the last OF
his $25, 1000, secretly. In six months
Palen and President Ferguson o1
the Newport News company made
a $4,000 "loan" to Shearer, on his
unsecured no. which their compa
ny now holds. Later on, they paiC
him for another lobbying job il
Washington. Still they maintain
the pose of innocence, but canno1
explain their secret dealing.
Shearer wrote Ferguson letter
after his return from his confer
ence-busting activities in Geneva
In this letter he reminds the snip
builder that GAS you are aware,
was in possession of British doc
ument, so amazing" that it wa
taken to the Navy Department
chiefs and photographed. Sen. AL
len was unable 70 draw from Fer
guson any admission as to the con
tents of the document. Ferguso
admitted the further claim o
Shearer, that they were partner
in the work of putting the 15-cruis
| er bill through Congress.
| "In this work which you describ
as patriotic" observed Allen, "yo
paid over to Shearer S1S,931, an
the lesser part of it went to hi
observing at Geneva. 1t reall
cost more to be patriotic at hon
than abroad"
The producers news., 1929-10-18
GASTONIA AND MARION-A
STUDY IN CONTRASTS

The textile workers of Gastonia, North Carolina,
are engaged in a struggle with the mill barons for
more wages, shorter hours and better working
conditions. The textile workers of Marion, North
Carolina, are engaged in similar struggle The
GastOnia strike is led by the National Textile
Workers Union under Communist direction The
Marion strike is led by the United Textile Work
ers Union, an A. F. of L. organization under the
direction of socialists
The Gastonia strikers have put up a militant
struggle recognizing the fact that the local gov
ernment authorities were the agents of the mill
owners that the fight was political as well as econ
The producers news., 1929-10-18
NAVEL INFECTION IS
CAUSED BY BACTERIA

Bozeman.-Sore mouth of lambs
lip and leg alterations in ewes
foot-rot and navel infection d
young lambs and other rather com
mon diseases of sheep are al
caused by the same bacteria, ac
cording to DR.. Howard WelCh, vet
erinarian at the Montana Expeh.
ment station. At different times
one or more of these diseases cause
rather serious losses among lambs
and sheep. Last spring navel in.
fection of young lambs was one Of
the common sheep diseases and
some sheep men suffered heavy
losses. The use of clean straw b
lambing sheds and treating the ns-
vel cords of lambs with iodine
practically eliminate losses, the
veterinarian advises.
The producers news., 1929-10-18

Washington (FP)-Out of the
sweat of its thousands of under
paid and spy-ridden workers, and
out of the high profits of contracts
for warship construction, the New
port News Shipbuilding & Drydock
Co. and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corporation each provided a fund
for the secret corruption of public
sentiment throughout the United
States in favor of bigger expendi-
lures on the navy and on a private
ly owned-but govemment-subsi-
dized-merchant marine.
And when public sentiment re-
volted against this senseless refus-
al to limit armaments, and Presi-
dent Coolidge reluctantly arranged
the Geneva naval conference of
1927, more money taken from the
The producers news., 1929-10-18
The WASHINGTON SCENE

By LAWRENCE TODD. FEDERATED Press

exploited and de-uniOnized workers
in these plants was applied to
breaking up that conference.
These are the outstanding facts
of the first hearings in the SEN
ate committee probe of the Shearer
naval lobby scandal.
: Sbearer. h an adventurer of the
flag-waving, pacifist-hating type
tHo ~ world war, first came under
the the notice of vice-President Palen
Of olfs tbe ,so' Newport News concern thru
hi his az aggressive big-navy talks be-
WIZ W. Sbearer engaged q page
maSzlv mn1I for for six months In the New
w;rI vsJHiy notorious fOr Its
nal narn l,a used Tsed by Fred Marvin, red
ba?fer Page us and exploiter of the "paily
The producers news., 1929-10-18
Censors Clause in Tariff Bill
PIentYWoOd, lO-l4-2y.

PIentyWoOd, IU-I4-zJ.
Editor, The Producers News:
The Producers News should use
its influence against the censorship
clause in the Hawley-Smoot tariff
bill, sec. 305.
1t is a patent absurdity TO in
vest customs officials with power
to pass on any matter pertaining
10 literature or to censorship of
imported books as seems to be in
tended. Urge your readers to write
their representatives in Washing
ton.
Yours truly,
John A. Stahlberg.
The producers news., 1929-10-18

New York scientists have found
in a cave in southern Southern
Utah a boomerang, a boil of cot
ION and a mummy. Until now the
boomerang was believed to be a
weapon only found in Australia
and the Malay Islands. The mum
my is of course indigenous to
Egypt. Hence these finds in Sena-
tor Smoot's state may be signifD
cant. The senator is chairman of
the finance committee which has
attempted 10 give the country an
other tariff of denominations. If he
will only remember the Payne-Al-
drich atrocity of the Republican
party in 1909 and its consequences
which insured the election OF
Woodrow Wilson and Democrat
ic administration, the boomerang
interprets itself. The boil of cot
ton can have no other meaning
than the Democratic South. The
mummy must refer to those mori.
bund politicians like Senator Bing-
ham of Connecticut who tooi
agents of the trusts into secret
meetings where the tariff was be
ing written by the high priests Of
protection. If the Senator from
Utah heard about the cave he mus
be impressed by the omens O
Utah.
The producers news., 1929-10-18

Mr.. J. C. Taylor, director of the state extension
service, is an optimistic mortal. He may be a
farmer in his spare time but if he is not, he
should be. He says that Montana farms on the
average will show as large an income this year as
in 1928 in spite of the light crop. We hereby in
vite J. G. to Sheridan county to cheer us up bit
The producers news., 1929-10-18

There are vague mutterings
among the Militarists against Pres
ident Hoover. He may be a good
business man and an executive they
say, but he is hurting business
the steel business. How can the
country prosper unless So cents out
Of every dollar paid in taxes TO the
United States is not spent for past
and future wars? We must look
out for the fu ure. The only way
to do that is to spend millions with
the steel trust in guns and battle
ships. But here come a lot of
Pacifists rejoicing that Prime Mill
lister Ramsey Macdonald, of GreaC
Britain, and President Hoover are
getting their heads together to cut
off the trade of armament makers.
Hoover, says the passionate mill
tarists, is showing his Quaker up
bringing. 1t is his weak spot. If
/ he has his way he country will be
utterly defenseless and the steel
trade will be an utter ruin. 1t is
all very depressing and if the pros
perity OF the United States gives
out it will be because the President
has crippled its founda ion, the
steel business. Charley Schwah
and his campfOllower Willie Shear
er begin to think Raskob was right
Everybody took the story that
|, the Nonpartisan League was re-or-
, ganizing in North Dakota on g
membership basis with a grain o1
salt until-well, they saw it in he
!. Fargo Forum. The old girl has
, been running along for some time
; in the doldrums. There was moth
ing to say since the League haC
been declared defunct. Thing
were terribly dull. But tince re-or
ganization work started the Forum
has perked up quite bit. In fac
the old thing has come to life
When it began to capitulate all tn
money the Nonpartisan program
has cost the state and 10 poin
with terror and horror to the awfu
/ cost-everybody west of the Re
! River knew that the farmers ha
resumed business at the old stan
and had renewed their pledge
'We1l Stick" 1t needed only tina
, to confirm the strange story of tn
The producers news., 1929-10-18
The Week
BY SAM'L HILL

By SAM'L HILL
The Omens of Utah
RaskOb Was Right?
Thousand Dollar Suckers
Two Senators in Danger
st. Paul's Old Habit
Fighting InsurrectOs
The producers news., 1929-10-18

Blu. if Progressives of the North
west want a slant at the trend !,
political thought in this re0ioD
they should watch with care tSs
fight on in the Seventh district n
Minnesota between young Paul ]
Kvale of Benson, and James {
Morrison of Morris for Congr,,
on October 10th. The withdrawal
of one Democratic and several Ps.
publican candidates leaves the line
down straight between the old line
Republican and Progressive. IF
outcome is as generally expected
and Kvale wins it can be reason.
ably argued that Progressivism has
seen its deep tide and has begun
to return and to recover the tern.
tory it has for a time deserted.
Western voters who have seen and
felt the cruel tender mercies Of the
Eastern Republicans know nov
that they have no hope for any
consideration unless they send
fighting insurrectos Congress
The producers news., 1929-10-18
Friday. October is, 1879

resurrection of the -
Forum is full of pitv sgue. sa% % Rs
suckers" and spreads 40 IOr the "Sls
their return-with an 'ae as. alarm 4
ness; In the old davs we ! to bud.
Oa ong business poured moDs,. sse,rriaa
campaigns CAM against the fancy fancy hs
may start doing it again itairmets /
the ls, Forum sees is not 4' IL. WAa
suckers but the thousorSs we Sls
suckers who will rush bu u dols
the state once more from 70 !" save
munlsm' m I Socialism s. and BoIsh.Co Ss Con,
It looks like a fat year aPr'issneviSS
Forum after several ratbaC aOf Tie
ana hungry ones. Now is n. leN
for all good men to come = - 'ae Y tine
of the said old party. 70 'Ae aid
What's this? What's tb;.,
tor Lynn ]. Frazier attao,.. ,S Sena.
Farm Board and reiterates' :. Tie
lnaction was part Of a nlo. mat il
the farmers of the Nortbwss.." |" fob
20 to 40 cents a bushel on ~ iron !.
wheat. Instead of giving - nm ae,
aid and helping to move tbop prompt
gamblers wheat out Of IN tSos gran
minals, the board remained T ;e let
and let the farmer be robbed dI'aCIlv y |,
Is about what Senator Gersld ~ I
Nye said, so it would appesr u a
the North Dakota senators va
agreed as to the methods nsed a q
year 20 get the farmers ny mn ~
away from him. Much as Uue Sa
people would like to belisvo inol y
Senators are on the right tr... y
is difficult TO do so. Here s'H i n
ron w. Thatcher, Friend ~ y !
Farmer in st. Paul who has y y y
that there is no plot TO roh = I
farmer. How do the Senator. y
around that? Are they not ts,s
chances? If they dare contraI .-ni
+ the Mussolini of $4,000 or % %
, Northwestern farmers are thew ;
! likely to be removed from offioa
: the earliest moment. They are
curing desperate political risks
Thatcher turns thumbs dnwn
them and orders hem remo,
; from their seats and his prese
: for insubordination it will be /
I too bad. st. Paul once did dict
J who would represent North Ia
: ia in Congress and it Just can't
e over the habit.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-02-07
TWO MEN HELD FOR
MURDER AT TURNER

Chinook-Sheriff G.. w. Fleming
returned from Miles City Monday af-
ternoon with Sam Lewis, 81, and
Gibson Langhorne, 81, who were
lodged in the county Jail here and
will be charged with complicacy in
the murder of Frank M. Murray at
Turner, last November ID.
Murray was shot and killed when
five men entered the Dalton pool
hall at Turner and robbed the men
in the place. The bandits escaped in
a car which later served as a clue by
which the suspects were traced.
Lewis and Langhorne have been
held in the county Jail at Miles City
for the past two months on another
charge. Sheriff Flemming and Coun-
ty Attorney Harry L.. Burns have
been working on the case and have
made trips to Miles City and Jordan
investigating their connection with
the crime.
The prisoners have been identified
by citizens of Turner as being two of
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-02-07
DEPORTEES TAKEN
FROM COUNTY JAIL

Chinook-The Blaine county jail
lost some of its inmates Tuesday,
when immigration officers came down
from Havre to get five aliens who
have been held in the pail here for
the past three months. Four of the
men will be sem 10 New York on the
way to their home countries in a
prison coach attached to No, 4. The
other man will be held at Ilavre for
further investigation.
The men have been model prison.
ers and were very industrious in
keeping their quarters in the Jail in
good condition. The Jail has been
reprinted and kalsomined as a result
Of their Industry. The men came
from various parts of the British
Isles. and were deported for having
entered the country illegally across
the Canadian line.-Opinion.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-02-07
-NGTHENINC THE CRIME LAWS

The activity of the stockmen Of Montana in seeking
f-ee effective action against livestock rustlers promises to
the necessary incentive for tightening up the criminal
dure of the state. Not only laws applying only to live
matters but general provisions Of the criminal code
4 y oc changed.
proposals are now before the legislature for the repeal
IL the indeterminate sentence law and the provisions for sus-
=nded sentences. The parole and suspended sentence laws
ave worked poorly. The parole act has come to mean no
{ urfs and juries. IF a prisoner is sentenced to one year, the
ro,e law automatically brings his release several months
/ fore the year is up.
The suspended sentence law has been often times used
g. 2 bride to get prisoners to agree to plead guilty. Suspend
sentences have been in some districts handed out with
tie discrimination.
Provisions for mitigating the severity of punishment
we III been based on humane ideas but in practice they
we operated to make the criminal class Indifferent to SEN
nc.a to the state prison.
There is a striking contrast between the Canadian and
flontana practice as Montana officers well know. We call to
sind a breed boy who is well known in Blaine county. For
,as life with him was one succession of thefts with trips to
>cer Lodge as a reward. A few months stay there weaving
.idles and other articles out of horsehair and he would be
OK tanning some other devitry. When winter began to
.nch re planned to break into Jail until spring. One day he
wandered off his range and gott over the line into Canada to
ok up some property that was not his. The Canadians took
m ii charge and sent him to a prison way up in the north
country for two or three years. When that breed boy got
lit, he reported to the Blaine county sheriff and told his
f.oubles. He had had all Of the joy Of life taken out of him
ior once and soemnly registered a vow that he never would
ct nearer to Canada again than the Great Northern railway
/ ackt.
IMPRISONMENT that merely amuses the confirmed GRIM
ilal certainly accompishes nothing in protecting society or
forming the criminals.-Havr Daily News.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-02-07
EASTERN NEWSPAPER
MAN TO BE MANAGER
PHILLIPS co. NEWS

Malta.-. Russell Larcombe of
West Winfield, N. Y, has arrived al
Malta and assumed management OF
the Phillips County News. Mr.. Lar
combe and his wife, formerly Miss
Anna Lee Survant, daughter of
Senator John Survant, made the trip
from eastern New York to St. Paul
by car in five days.
Mr.. Larcombe was previously con-
nected with the Evening News at
New Brunswick, n. j. He is a grad
uate of Colgate university, a member
of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
He served in France for a year and
a half, did civilian work with the
American Red Cross at Paris for
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-02-07
OWNED BY SIX HUNDRED FARMERS

A world famous Danish Philosopher (not Hans Ras-
fnussen) once made the statement that American humor
.onsisted chiefly OF gross exaggerahon.
Granting that what the philosopher said was true, a To-
cl propaganda sheet may we'll vie with Puck, Judge and
Captain Billy's Smoke House Poetry as a dispenser par ex-
{ Hence Of American humor. for its editorial stock IN trade
4ems to be little else than gross exaggeration.
We note particularly an editorial OF theirs IN their last
eek edition in which they serve notice on local advertisers
at their publication is owned by 900 farmers. These own
attend stockholders meetings regularly, take note OF
lat merchants advertise in 1t and OF course would be great
: offended if their publication was not given preference ov-
e. she Herald, etc, etc.
And the wrath of six hundred farmers is not to be dis
ined-provided there are six hundred farmers who are
ling to be a party to this tribute levying scheme.
Through the courtesy Of a stakeholder OF this so called
,.mers paper we have obtained q list of the names OF people
10 own stock in that company.
We counted the number OF stockholders.
There were 3d..
We noted the addresses of these stockholders.
We found that the number of Sheridan county residents
ina stock was l92. Of the remainder at least twenty
dead, thirty-seven are non-residents whose wherea-
IS we were unable to account tor; there were about
~ others scattered throughout the state, and OF the re-
der one was in an insane asylum, one in Russia, six in
ida and the remainder scattered in different states OF the
yaion.
Beside.-a goodly number Of the lo2 local residents
: men who have been maligned and abused by the publ
IN and are not particularly interested in it.
We couldn't help but lken the Six Hundred to that
II Hundred made famous by Tennyson's Charge of the
.,Alt Brigade 1t was so badly shot to pieces.
Owned by six hundred farmers small town stuff!
The Herald doesn't have to publish yelled threats or
~ listing and farmers wrath. nor does it have to resort to
' rats in the soup campaign to coerce patronage from
81 advertisers.
We seek subscriptions on the kind of paper we get out.
We seek advertising on the strength OF our subscription
n either respect we have no apology or false claims
= er.
he Herald solicits advertising with the guarantee that
the largest paid in advance circulation of any newspa-
Sheridan county. Ask to see our list.