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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13
The WASHINGTON SCENE
By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press

IS doubtless, a good deal of bluff
in their claim to this power. They
are confessing that the process of
organizing business into disciplined
groups has reached the point where
a central group can discipline ev-
eryone.
Hurley's challenge to world-busi-
ness is a fitting accompaniment to
this confession.
"All that is necessary to pre-
vent war;" he says, as for the
great industrialists TO act upon in
formation they already possess as
to the essential community of in
terest among the great business Or
CARNATIONS of the world. The bust
ness leaders of the world today
are in fact an international econ
omic republic :. Any modern ma
ton could be paralyzed by the re-
fusal of the business organizations
in other countries to sell It ten or
twelve essential raw materials such
as iron ore, copper, rubber, nickel,
aluminium, newsprint pulp, oil,
tungsten, chromium and mercury"
To prove his point, Hurley names
Teagle of Standard Oil of New
Jersey, and Deterding of Royal
Dutch Shell, as being the actual
dictators as to whether motors
shall have fuel; Ryan of Anaconda
and Franque of Belgium control
copper, on which the use of cleo.
tricity depends; Firestone in the
United States and Miller in Eng.
land are lords of rubber supply. He
then names the steel kings, and
says that it would not be hard ia
pick six men who domintae the
worlds coal supply.
Thus Hurley discloses an actual
present, active general staff fol
capitalist dictatorship 10 govern
ments throughout the world, re-
CARELESS of the size of the nations
they represent. He ignores the
existence of the working masses OF
mankind-in this assertion of a new
internationalism. Nationalism, the
ancient sop to industrial discon-
tent, is inefficient when it leads
toward war, which in turn disturbs
worldwide investments. Hurley
appeals to the international Cham
Der of Commerce to take action in
the name of "the condition of in
ternational commercial and indus
trial interdependence which ex-
lists"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13
AS WESEEH

CONTINUED frOm page One)
country in the world. They had
played square with me and I
would play square with them.
When | was fighting the British
Empire they made a reservation
m behalf Of Ireland and declared
that since they did not recognize
the British government, Ireland
was entirely within her rights IN
waging a war of defense. 1 would
nave TO find some country where
my friends were not tied up with
a hot of commitments and turn
McGinnis loose on it.
$50
BY this time the Captain was
beginning to hose confidence m
me. When he mentioned the sum
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13
LAuRoS
Fire EN- ALL" Says
Irate Correspondent
Dagmar, Montana.

Dagmar, Montana.
December, 1929.
Editor, Producers News:
Having read the Contributed
Editorial" in the Producers News
of November 29th by "a Dagmar
Farmer" l took the advice given
therein and dug out my old tax
receipts, and l agree with a Dag
mar Farmer that they make very
interesting reading. In comparing
the Levies made for Bond Sinking
Fund for the different years, and
keeping in mind that Lower
levies means lower taxes" I find
that the levies have been as fol-
lows:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

DRY concerning Pennsylvania venal-
ity. Why not concede it-as Penn
sylvania does and let it ride? But.
no, they have to talk and entertain
themselves. This, in its extreme
form is called senatorial courtesy.
They pin a flower on the victims
heaving chest before they cut his
head off! That's It'll
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

Washington - (FP)-More sig
nificant to the future of mankind
than any bill or resolution to be in
troduced in the new session of
Congress, now starting, is the dis
covery by organized business that
| it is capable of checking a busi-
ness panic-in other words, that it
now constitutes an economic die
tatorship within the United States.
That is the meaning of the assem-
bly, of industrial chiefs summoned.
at President Hoover's suggestion
by the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States to meet in the
capital Dec. 5th. Bankers will be
present too, but bankers are now
adays an appendage to big bust
ness quite as often as they are its
masters. Oil, steel, motor vehicles
these industries buy up the sup
er-banks and use them as weapons
of industrial warfare.
Dictatorship of this country by
organized capital is not a big
enough idea to satisfy Edward N.
Hurley, wartime chairman of the
U. S. Shipping Board. He pro-
poses to former Premier Theunis
of Belgium, president of the Inter-
national Chamber of Commerce,
that the 1.-TWO or three dozen men,
who today control the worlds sup
ply of motor fuel, steel copper and
other essentials to a machine civil
lization, shall band themselves to-
gether to forbid all further wars.
BY merely refusing to permit the
essential raw materials to go to
belligerents, Hurley announces,
these few men can dictate that no
more wars shall take place. Big
business will have secured its own
future against the hazards of arm
ed force.
Proletarian dictatorship has been
anathema to capitalist society ev-
er since it won a homeland in Rus
STA in 1917. In all democratic
countries, for the past II years.
capitalist control of the economic
life of the peoples has beck
strengthened by the appeal foi
safeguarding of the power of tn.
majority, exercised through the
ballot, while assuring the rights of
the minority. Now comes a public
confessional by the leading indus
trial magnates of the country that
they possess the power of giving
or Withholding jobs, and of making
or unmaking the economic health
of 125,000,000 Americans. There
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

Senator-reject William S. Ware of PENNSYLVANIA
was not considered fit company for the inmates of
the upper house of congress. When he appeared
to take the oath, the "Sons of Wild Jackasses"
brayed loudly and then kicked him out into the
landscape. This is not justice. Wares crime con-
sisted of paying higher price for votes than his
rivals.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

what you might properly call an accident h.u
pened TO young lady in the war and state dsa-t
nent building in Washington. The cbarn,;ro- Ill;
was lodging male admirers when she tr;nnas I',., s
bottle fell to the floor releasing flood - ' TT
soOk The unsOlved mystery is: was The ~. -.
INTENDED Tor the army or Sec. Stimson Tbat :
what the peepul would like to know nat Is
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

MRS Doran, wife of James, prime prohibition en-
'OIeement' drinksl Her cocktails are said b he
saels1ymg' She has prepared Book of Juices for
ule social season. The lady has made a great dc
0OVery-the sockless cocktail "Mince ME i deli
eiOus without brandy" she SAYS and. then h. a.
way OF afterthOught of MADE PP0PFPI w
heres smacking our lips at you Mrs. Doranl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

been flexed 26 times. Five times it
was lowered-and you'll enjoy this
on live bob-white quail, paint
brush handles, cresylic acid, phe-
mol, and crude magnesite. 1t was
raised q times. The farmer got
increased duty on wheat, flour,
bran, butter, swiss cheese, butter
fat and cream. The rest went to
the Eastern manufacturers, Ia
raises, among them being the in
.srease to $1.121s a ton on pig iron
which every farmer pays on his
machinery, even to the spade and
pitchfork. The senate set that
duty back to rs cents a ton, from
which Coolidge had raised it when
ne vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill.
You can see how awkward it is
going to be if there is no way left
to hoist the duty after Congress
has adjourned. There might a
pinch arise which would REQUIRE
several products of the Industrial
East to get more protection and
how could it be done? Is this a
system? How can the Republican
party call all good men to its aid
If it has no way to reward them :?
The senate will please come to or
der. Has this honorable body no
regard for the life or future pros
perity of the party? While we're
waiting for an answer let us 90 on
to something else. We should get
all hot and bothered about it.
But the senate is already in ac-
ton on the Ware case. Ware is the
Pennsylvania patriot who is charg-
ed with buying his seat in the SEN
ate and having it pulled out from
under him just as he was sinking
into it. 1t is sad reflection upon
modern bushes morals when a man
pays out good cash and gets abso-
lutely nothing except a lot of harsh
names for his investment. What's
the country coming to, anyway?
The senate refused to postpone
consideration of his case and then,
this is the good bit, the press dis
patches say: "As soon as the re-
suit was known members began to
speak on the case" It is so like
Harry LADDERS story of Sano, !
McNab's wedding: "First we dined /
and then we wined and then everv-
body had something to sayi"
What all the talk was for no one
can make out Not a single vote
will be changed by a speech as the
senators well know. Perhaps thew
want to refresh the country's MEM
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

What all the talk was for no one
can make out. Not single vote
will be changed by a speech as the
senators well know. Perhaps they
want to refresh the country's mem
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

As to the tariff-oh, yes, we are
still hanging around that moss
covered bucket - the President
says: Give agriculture what 4
wants and in doing so, don't forget
the boys who supply the sinews Of
war IN the campaign, and for heav-
ems sake, hurry up and have it ov-
er with" But he sticks closer than
a brother to the flexible provision
of the law, which the senate CoaIi-
ton struck out. He wants It bacl,
IN and so does Mr.. Grundv. Pic
business lobbyist, and Senator Reed
of Pennsylvania. It is their last
hope If the senate sticks to tbe
schedule it has written.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

You have read the Presidents
message. Yes, you havel There
are few men outside the proof
readers on the newspapers that
published it who have time 30 alb
serb II thousand words. Well, then
you read that part in which he
calls for enforcement of prohibi-
ton and denounces all who select
the laws they will obey or break
enemies of society" That has a
wider application than the prohibl-
ton law. 1t never seems to occur
TO anybody that the fellows who
evade the law against branch bank
ing by creating chain banks are
enemies of society. Bootleg bank
ing is no better for the country
than bootleg booze. The Pharisees
Of today continue the practices of
1900 years ago. They give then
tithes of obedience to the law
the anise, mint and dill of garden
truck-and withhold their dues 70
the weightier matters of the law
Justice and mercy and faith. And
they wonder at the increasing I'M
rest and the growing insecurity Of
life and property
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

The flexible provision permits
the President, by and with the al
vice Of the Tariff commission -
raise or lower any duty 80 me-
cent. Flexible is the right WI 81
for it. Your knee is flexible an ~. !. !
is your arm at the elbow Rnt u tr -
and bend them the other vsr,
Since April 1924 the tariff ny
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13
The Week
By SAM'L HILL

TheIrregular Session.
HOOver's $4,000 Words.
Down where the Tariff Has a
Bend Ini
Sandy McNab's Wedding.
Flowers for Ware.
The Farm Boards Boss.
The regular session of Congress
started Tuesday, Dec. 3. Many peo-
pie are of the not unwarranted op-
inion that it is so-called because
the session just closed was so COM
pletely and entirely irregular. De-
ponds upon the viewpoint but
from the regular Republican it was
all of that. 1t uncovered the must
atrocious case of Big Business in
secret sessions of senate commit
tees writing the tariff; it disclosed
the blacklist sort of lobbying con-
ditions; it endorsed the Old Guard
sending its leader Watson into re-
tret, causing Moses to call his
playmates "sons of wild iackasses"
In a fit of unguarded rage; and it
took the machine-made tariff bill,
tore it into tatters and quit before
1t finished the job of sewing the
new garment. If that does not
qualify the session for the name ir-
regular we should demand that the
senate investigate to find who has
been tampering with the defini-
tons in the dictionary.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13

Continued rrom page one,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
LIMIT ASKED ON
PAY OF MAYORS
Senate Bill Sets Top at
$500 Annually.

New maximum and minimum
limits for salaries of officials of
Indiana cities of over $4,000 popu-
lation, except indianapolis, are pro-
posed in a bill Senator Roy M.
FTriedley, Muncie, has introduced in
the Indiana senate.
The salary of mayor would be
fixed at 5000 annually, which
might be increased, by ordinance, to
not more than $500. For other
city officials the minimum salaries
and amounts to which they might
be increased by ordinance, would
be:
City controller, $500 to $4,000;
deputy controller, $1,000 to $4,000;
city clerk, $4,000 to $4,000; deputy
clerk, not more than $4,000; city
treasurer, $500 to $4,000; deputy
treasurer, 81, 300 to $4,000; city judge
$500 to $4,000; members of board
of works, $4,000 to $4,000; board of
works clerk, 81 800 to $4,000; mem
bers of board of safety, 5000 to
$1,000; clerk of board of safety,
$1,000 to $1,000; city civil engineer,
$500 to $4,000; city councilmen,
5000 to $1,000; city attorney, $4,000
to SIS 600; and members of the park
board, not over 5000.
The salary scale would become
effective Jan. 1, 1880, by provisions
of Senator Friedley'S bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
SENATE indian
INQUIRY HALTED
Hearings Are Suspended by
Lack of Funds.

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. - The
senate Indian investigating COM
mittee today suspended further
hearings until more money is voted
by the senate.
"Only sufficient money is left to
care for regular committee expenses
until the end of the month";" Sena-
tor Frazier said.
An additional appropriation of
$4,000 has been asked and the reso-
luton has been in the hands of
Senator Deneen, chairman of the
senate committee ON audits and
contingent expenses, for two weeks.
Although Deneen had said his
committee would meet yesterday, no
session was held.
st expect that a meeting will be
held some time this week." Deneen
said.
Deneen again refused to discuss
reports charging that he was delay
ing committee action because the
Indian investigators had inquired
into a New Mexico contract signed
by Secretary of Interior West. De-
neen aided in getting Vests ap-
pointment confirmed by the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
81 WIN DIVORCES
2O4 Suits for DEGREES Are
Filed During January.

There were more than twice as
many marriage licenses issued as di-
vorces granted in Marion county in
in January, according to figures
made public by the county clerks
Office today.
Ninety-seven divorces were granted
by the circuit and superior courts.
Marriage licenses were issued to 273
couples. But 2o4 divorce suits were
filed, putting the number Of divorces
applied for and granted twenty
eight above tho number of licenses
to wed issued.
Women were more frequent VIC
tors in the divorce courts than
men. Seventy-seven women won
divorces while only twenty men were
given separation DEGREES.
Circuit Judge Harry o. Chamber
lin led the judges in divorces
granted with thirty-two, but Supe-
rior Judge Linn D. Hay was a close
second with twenty eight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
CRASH VICTIM GAINS
Shortridge Pupils Condition
Is Reported Improved.

Dorothy Lewis, 16-year- old Short
ridge high school student, injured in
an automobile-train crash at the
Thirty eighth street Big Four eros
sing was reported somewhat i'm
proved at city hospital today.
Her mother, Mrs. Frank T. Lewis
Lawrence, Ind, who was driving the
coupe in which they were riding,
was reported in serious condition.
The mother was severely bruised,
her back was injured and internal
injuries are feared.
Miss Lewis, although still in a
critical condition, may have escaped
a skull fracture and may have a
chance for recovery, hospital at
taches said. The girls right arm
was torn off, her left leg injured,
her scalp lacerated and one finger
on her left hand bruised and broken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
S. DIE IN RIOTS
500 Injured as Hindu Out
breaks Continue.

By United Press
BOMBAY, India, Feb. 8-Re-
newed rioting between HinduS,
Pathans and Moslems in Bombay
brought the death roll to sixty-five
at noon today.
About 500 were estimated to have
been injured in the riots which be-
gan Monday, ostensibly because
Hindu millworkerS believed high
born Pathans were kidnapping chill
dren to be buried in newly-con-
structed buildings as offerings to
the gods.
Reports spread through the city
early today that several mosques
and temples had been desecrated,
and a fierce fight between Hindus
and MoSlems followed. Two Hindus
were said to have been killed In the
fight while about twenty were in
iured,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
CITY PLAN
Cincinnati Official to Talk
on Manager Form.

o. Adair Harrell, assistant to the
city manager of Cincinnati, and
Claude H. Anderson, local attorney
and city manager advocate, will dis
cuss the city manager form before
the Indiana Engineering Society
dinner tonight at the SEVERN. Cliff
ford L. Harold, Chamber of Com
merce commissioner, is president.
The dinner will close the forty
ninth annual state session. The city
manager form was adopted in In
dianapolis by a 6-to-1 vote and be-
comes operative in January, 1880.
Reading of technical papers ano
election of officers was scheduled for
the afternoon program. Speakers
today include: l.. w. Bruck, InSley
Manufacturing Company; G. B. Fos-
ter, Foster Engineering Company;
H. A. Glover of the Knox Consoli-
dated Coal Company, and Professors
r. B. Leckie, H. L. Solberg and A.
w Cole of Purdue university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
Moorhead's Plan for New
Board, and Children
Farming AssaiIed.

Defeat for the Moorhead bill pro-
viding a new board of trustees for
the Knightstown Soldiers and Sail
ors' Orphans home was predicted
about the house of representatives
in view of the bitter opposition dis
played at a public hearing on the
measure Thursday afternoon.
The bill, now in the hands of the
house judiciary B committee, after
passage by the senate, provides for
appointment of a board of four
trustees by the Governor without
the present requirement that they
be veterans of the Civil, Spanish
American or World war. The meas
ure also provides for forfeiture of
control of children in the institution
by parents or guardians, so that
the children may be adopted or
placed in private homes.
Alumni from the home and pre-
resentatives of veterans organiza-
lions filled the house chamber and
appIauded defenders of the presente
system of management.
James Lamkin, an alumnus of the
home. challenged Senator Robert
l.. Moorhead, author of the bill, to
show him a post of the American
Legion favoring the bill, despite the
claim that the legion was SPONSOR
inc the measure
"Ill tell you why the senate
passed this bill,' Lamkin declared,
Because the author is antagoristic
toward a former member of the
upper house who approves the pres
ent arrangement, and because they
want to throw control of the
Knightstown home to the state
board of charities"
Lamkin, Joseph Morris OF Gary,
department commander of the
Spanish American War Veterans;
the Rev. Homer Dale, pastor of the
Hillside Christian church, Indian
apolis; Russell B. Harrison of In
dianapolis, former state senator, and
Thomas A. Daily, protested enact
ment of the bill.
All deplored tie provision permit
ting adoption or farming OUT Of
children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08

Hes a Princeton man, not a
Harvard man." she said. "And
another thing, he wasn't hurt
playing football"
Coulter is an invalid and news
papers carried stories TO the ef-
feet he was injured permanent
ly while playing football on a
Harvard university team. The
bridegroom is reported to have a
fortune estimated at ST.000,000.
Mrs. Coulter'S pare1lts could
not be reached to verify the
brides interview Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
SCOUT AWARDED 500
William McEwen Gets Scholarship

William McEwen Gets Scholarship,
Troops Observe Anniversary.
Annual Boy Scout week will be
observed here during school spring
vacation, beginning March 81, F. o.
Belzer, Scout executive, announced
at the Scout council executive board
meeting Thursday.
The board observed the nine
tenth anniversary of founding of
the Scout movement in America
and the fourteenth anniversary of
the movement in Indianapolis.
William Billy McEwen, Troop 3
eagle scout, was presented with the
Harmon Foundation scholarship,
consisting of 500. DR.. G. g. Miller
gave a report on Scout week being
held at Plainf1eld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
ROW LOOMS ON
LAWYERS PAY
Jose Gets Only $40; GiVan
Receives 1915.

Another courthouse legal battle
over pay of officials Ioomed today
when it became known that Clinton
H. Givan, county attorney, has re-
ceived 1915 for services during
January under a $4,000 year SAL
airy schedule, while Victor R. Jose
ar, deputy prosecutor, has only
been allowed $40.
Jose has not accepted his check,
which gives him the amount due
from Jan. 26 to the end of the
month. He filed a claim for about
$3.50 for services from the date of
appointment Jan. 10. 1t is eX-
pected that he will file a mandate
suit against Harry Dunn, county
auditor, and county commissioners
for payment.
The county council approved
Givan's raise from $3,400, Jan. &c
and also allowed Jose 5000 a month.
Givan received an approval claim
for a full months salary on the new
basis while Jose only was awarded
pay for five days work.
Givan is close to county COM
missioners, having received the re-
appointment as county attorney
after he became sympathetic to the
political cause of George v. Coffin,
Seventh district Republican boss,
with whom commissioners are
aligned. He received the increase in
pay q few weeks after he started
representing Councilman Paul s.
Dunn in criminal court. Dunn is
charged with perjury.
Givan has stated that there is no
certain salary for county attorney
and that the new order by the coun-
Gil sets aside the $1,000 budget pro-
vision for him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
.HE mystery which slrou

THE mystery which shrcuded
4 the courtship and marriage
of Ruth Mcconnell, indianapolis
girl, and Kenneth B. Coulter, New
York capitalist, apparently con-
tinues TO be drawn over their
married life
The couple, barricaded behind
guarded doors and drawn blinds,
we're ms-f.Sd last Thursday in the
home 3f the brides parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Mcconnell. 1923
Broadway.
They now are honeymoonirig at
Buchanan. Mich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-08
HOLD 3 AS THIEVES
Two Negroes Wounded by
BuckShot: One Escapes.

-Four alleged chicken thieves, Ne
groeS, we're greeted whit several
charges of buckshot early this MORN
ing when they are said to have en-
tered the barn of John j. Pastma,
1921 Perkins street. Two were
wounded, one seriously, third was
held for arrest at the point of a
shotgun, and the fourth member of
the gang escaped.
Those wounded were John Price,
1444 Minocqua avenue, and Charles
Andrews, 90, of 2451 Columbia ave-
nue.. They were taken to city hos
pital. Andrew Ellington, 20, of 1701
Vandeman street, was held until
police arrived.
The three were charged with en-
tering a house with intent to commit
a felony.