The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

and even after they know what a fC
homily is, too many regard it as OF
something to be borne, a minor af- C
Fiction. But a homily in print is
said to be most irritating of all its e
forms. Yet you can stop reading s,
and toss the paper aside when it Il
would be discourteous to rise up s.
and walk out of church. That the I
radio sermon has its good points O
has been claimed by those who s
have presence of mind enough to r
turn the dial when they feel them @
selves getting sleepy.
Now a newspaper column should
be bright and snappy and never
tend to induce sleep. That is why
homily is frowned upon in the best
newspaper circles. The newspaper
must be amusing and entertaining
and slide easily over things that
are annoying or vexatious. On the
odd chance that homily by its
very oddity may provide change
and be something new the irresisti-
BILE impulse shall have its way here.
If it annoys you, write the editor.
The paper does not belong to me.
All week long while the disclo-
sures of graft and corruption have
been playing like lightning upon a
? dark horizon at Washington and
& St. Paul, few sentences spoken
nearly two thousand years ago
have been reiterating themselves.
This is a golden text:
, There is nothing covered up
: that shall not be revealed; and
hid that shall not be known.
Wherefore whatever We have
said in darkness shall be heard
In light; and what We have
spoken in the ear in the inner
chambers shall be proclaimed
from the housetops.
For two whole days we have
read the amazing story of the in
trfigues of the armament makers,
the steel barons, against the peace
of the world from the lips of their
former high-priced agent, William
B. Shearer, before the Senate in
vestigating commit tee at Washing.
ton. Be certain of one thing: The
same powers that were able to use
Shearer's propaganda for war II
the greatest dailies in the United
States have sufficient power tt
prevent the American people from
knowing the complete story which
have been almost revolutionary il
its effect upon the public mind. Blu
you get a glimpse into the flamin,
furnace of greed and rapacity. Yor
heard the steel barons call Fran
B. Kellogg, himself once an attol
ney for the steel trust, Nervou
Nellie" in private. He had move
toward world peace with his multi
lateral treaties. You heard tn
name of that pious old crocodile
John j. Rockefellers, dragged int
the deal as interested in the ste,
trust and its profits. You saw til
steel barons shoveling out none
to prevent a limitation of arm;
ments agreement between the Uni
ed States and Great Britain ar
after they had prevented it, renet
ing on paying the agent who save
them their profits.
wv Turn from that debasing seer
~ TO the investigation of the CONNIE
AZ cial postoffice building at st. Pa
NM which shows that the building
Elv ready to collapse upon the 375 po
AAI tai employees who work in it.
RN deal was engineered by James
e~s Good, now Secretary of War
President Hoover's cabinet,
len' which a building slung togeth
'sN any old way was rented to t
lue1 Government at $4,000 a year
.en 1; 81 years on a lease that is n
VIII cancellable. No building inspe
- tion by the City Of st. Paul becau
"a the inspectors were told it was
g.. government building" and n
: - subject to state laws, when it W
nc nothing Of the sort.
aine Or examine the strange case
II, Morrie Miller, the phantom gu
WIN man" who was wanted for band
- ry and murder and yet who ma
~, ~ aged to escape not only facing il
.1 tice in st. Paul but in Califorr
-. and elsewhere by the peculiar blu
Oe ders of Minnesota authorities. He
-. the words of Buron Fits, distr
- attorney at Los Angeles and for
1 Ta er lieutenant governor of Calf,
an: MIA.
0i" | charge the death of David
, tlnk WITNESS against the mi
m;,, derer) directly to the politi
VIZ maneuvers and manipulations
80 the st. Paul authorities.
-. The conduct of the MinnesV
III, authorities from the Governo
' m office down, with one possible
,o1,, ceptlon, is an outrage on Anne
I re- can justice.
~ ung Attorney Fits charges that G.
Az ernor Christensen DELAYED era
ing an extradition until Miller /
mill been turned loose on fake S10,C
VIII bond.
Pre-, pre- Neither one nor all of tn
Us, ,,toJ things will stir the American D
owe o1d for,;l;. siieli Ie'llaIgy. II Is
.ople and n r,elrl,.S.a sOoly Win new act
or scene. There is no dan
+ho where there is no public conscier
' he or reaction. The penalty which
ca a past day might have been pror
anu and severe is not visible. But
piles up and when the day of re
" onlng comes as it did in France