The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-11-22

But life is not all as pleasant as
that. A letter from North Dakota
insists that Myron w. Thatcher
broadcast over KFYR at Bismarck
a clustering sort of speech on No
vember z, in which he bawled out |
a grain man named Tenney OF |
Minneapolis, the editor of the
Farmer-Guide at Watford, N. D.,
and the writer of this column. 1t
is hard to be abused and threaten
ed over the air in a state where
a fellow lived man and boy for a
bout 40 years and where every
body knows all that's good ano
bad about him.
But you can't get mad at Myron.
He was not really tearing US to
pieces. He was attacking himself.
All his life until now he has been
a flat tire. Now, with success in
his grasp, he looks within himself
and sees his own frailties and
fears he will lose all the grandeur
he has gained. He is a pathetic
figure looking furtively over his
shoulder at a past that may over
take him and ruin him just when
he is on the heights. The sad part
is, it is likely TO do just that. Men
do not gather figs from thons
nor grapes from thistles. Success
does not follow on reiterated fail
ure. So Myron flares out at those
he thinks might be responsible foI
his future collapse and in rage
would put the blame, as we all do
on somebody else. If all he says Of
his power and his organization, his
control of the Federal Farm BoarC
and the intermediate Credit Banl
is true why howl at an obscur,
column writer and the editor of ;
country weekly? This column ha
attempted to warn the farmer a
gainst trusting Thatcher and hi
tribe too completely. 1t has no per
sonal animosity to satisfy, it ha
no big salary to conserve or higl
position to guard. Without bias j
repeats the Irish admonition t
the farmer: Cir hivins sake kap
yer oye on the ca-at!"
Which recalls another lette
from North Dakota-oh, yes, the
are all writing now-advertisin
pays-which informs US that Ed
tor Kicker of the Farmers UniO
Herald of Delaware addressed til
convention in Bismarck and tol
the assembly. "You are the creal
of North Dakota" then paused in
pressively and said it agai
Knowing their prediction fl
cream and how good they are ;
skimming it, it may be impolite
mention cats in the same sentenc
Yet, like Kicker, perhaps it is a
right to repeat the Irish warnir
about keeping an eye on the f
lines.
There were men in that conve
ton listening to Kicker and Tha
cher who will recall the meeting
the House chamber at Bismar
at the close of the 1923 legislati
session when representatives
the leaders of the Nonpartis
League gave every assurance tn
# the Courier-News was makil
le ends meet and was safely and fl
re ever in the possession of the far
le ers. About 80 days later their dat
l. was sold. Nobody knows to Il
st day who got the money. But t
ID farmers didn't. No use crying ov
n spilled milk but don't be the cres
l. too often. It's a bad habit.
in The astonishing thing is I
at that the cooperative movemt
Id continues and grows despite
IN setbacks. The amazing thing
IS that it grows in spite of its lie;
Id ers. The principle is right or
IN could not survive. Every time
err swerves from its course it con
: cropper. Even today though
u has lodged away from patrons
, dividends and one man vote q
is tangled up with big busin