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

Fleeing the Farmers

Editor the Producers News:
1t seems incredible that the
members of the Farm Relief Board
with the resources of the United
States government at their back
should stand idly by and see the
American farmer robbed blind by
the grain gamblers and never raise
hand or a voice in their behalf.
Incredible, but true.
In order to make their plans eff
fective the grain gamblers leased
every available inch of space in the
elevator terminals. The Farm Re-
lief Board has taken no steps 10
remedy this situation. President
Hoover, who during the election
campaign last fall talked farm re-
lief until it hurt, but has not done a
thing to stop this robbery of the
farmers. The next time the ora
tors of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties come around to get
the farmers vote they ought to be
told that the farmers have beer
fooled often enough; that from
now on they are going to rely or
themselves and organize their owl
political party that will represent
the interests of the producers anC
not the interests of Wall Street
and the big and little grain thieves
A COMERTOWN FARMER.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

They will discuss the war between Standard Oil
and Royal Dutch Shell, the latter an appendage Oh
the British Government They will discuss tne
struggle between British and American interests
in Central and South America, the Monroe Doctrine
and the proposed canal thru Nicaragua. They
will discuss the grabbing of the worlds oil supply
by John Bull and perhaps the possibility OF UrganF
zing a united front against the Soviet Union Iney
will discuss the international bank the unwanted
child left in the Bank of Englands back yard by
the Young Plan. They will discuss battleshps
submarines, war planes, poison gas and other re-
finements of modern warfare. They will discuss
naval bases.
And after they are thru discussing, after Mac
Donald soaks up tremendous gusts of praise from
friendly enemies" the capitalists of both coun-
tries will sharpen their fangs and go after each
other with greater energy than ever. Peace con-
ferences are simply sparring matches. The differ
ences between England and the United States are
rreconcilabe. There are so blind those
who refuse to see. Let the pacfists gurgle about
the noble intentions of Macdonald Let the jingoes
wall over the threatened reduction of the U. S.
navy. That's their diversion profession the
case may be. But let the workers and farmers of
this country stop and think. 1t is they and their
sons who will provide the cannon fodder for the
imperialists of both empires when the buge of war
sounds the note for another world debacle. They
must not allow themselves to be hdded by the
phrase-mongering of such experts as Hoover and
Macdonald
England must fight the United States leave
the ring minus the trident of naval supremacy
When Britain loses naval supremacy her far-flung
empire is doomed. Her historical policy has been
to smash her most powerful naval rival She wiped
the Spanish armada off the seas, with the aid of
| hurricane. She disposed of the French navy in
the days of Napoleon and permitted it to re-
cover its relative strength She destroyed the
| Dutch and Danish navies in succession. She went
out to dispose of the German navy in 1914 and
succeeded with the aid of Wall Street. She con-
nived at the sinking of the Kaser's flotlla in
Scapa Flow lest the ships be divided among her
loving allies. 1t is Uncle Sans turn now.
The next war will be corker. Get out the
hymns of hatei The old strafe the Kaiser car
be polished up and chanted by our next crop Of
"four-minute- men," Change Wilhelmn for Georgt
and the stuff will sound all right.
Macdonald is here not to bring peace but to Sc
cure a breathing spell for his British imperialis
masters. He is the best possible man for the joI
and the presence of the Tory ex-chancellor, TIL
Right Honorable Winston Churchill means that al
wings of British capitalism will be well represent
ed at the sparring match.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
FARMERS TO BE RELIEVED

The farm relief movement has reached sorry
pass the farmers must fight to prevent being
relieved of the little they have left Vigorous pro-
test has issued from the farm organizations against
the proposed tariff bill which the administration
forces have planned to pass.
The Farm Board appointed by the president pur'
suant to the law recently passed by congress has
proceeded in a cautious manner to disburse the
funds made available for its activity; farm Orga-
nizations must proceed along pretty well defined
lines to, share in any benefits and these are Oi
doubtful nature.
The most serious phase of the entire matter is
the tariff bill pending, which will greatly in
crease the price of everything bought by the rar-
mer and will only in an insignificant degree ado
to the price of the farmers products If fraud
was ever attempted any element of the people
the present tariff bill undertakes such in the bold
est manner.
OF course the progressives going to MAKE
the fight but it looks like the administration vii
be able to line up majority, and President HooV
er, who has been considered a rather liberal pro
tectonist has not voiced any dissent and will prob
ably sign the bill, which will stake from them tina
have not and give to them that have" Some da
the farmers will learn that their interests are no
in harmony with big business and will join force
with organized labor to reverse the economic OF
der. The Minnesota Union Advocate.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
A Friend In Outlook

Editor, The Producers News:
I wish to take exception to the
letter in last weeks News signed
by Gan Outlook Farmer" attacking
your excellent publication for show
ing up the county administration
that promised so much and has
done so little in the matter of law
enforcement. | think it is to the
credit of The Producers News that
it has won the enmity of the "good''
hiiackers and bootleggers that your
correspondent setms to think so
highly of. I agree with you that
prohibition should be enforced i'm
partially or not at all. l also agree
that it cannot be enforced, but why
discriminate against the little pig
ger in behalf of the big one? The
real farmer in Sheridan county is
against monopoly of every kind. /
wish the Producers News success in
its great fight for the farmers anu
against corruption and hypocrisy.
Go to it. The people are with you.
ANOTHER OUTLOOK FARMER.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
FRIDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1929
BIOLOGISTS GO FOSSIL HUNTING

We are informed by the esteemed Great Falls
Tribune that party of biologists out looking for
trouble discovered what are believed to be the old
est fossil remains ever found in Montana. The
find made along the south fork of the Flat
head river in the Cambrian formation and are
known trilobrites. Appropriately enough the
head to the story reads: GOLD FOSSILS DISCOV-
Erred IN FLATHEAD."
With all due respect to the eminent biologists
we suggest as humbly as possible that they were
wasting their time. They could find more fossils
in one day in Helena than could be mearthed in or
around the Flathead river in year. Also goodly
collection of flatheads. The farmer who expects
relief from the Hoover administration believes
there is any more difference between the Repub-
lcan and Democratic parties than there is between
tweedledum and tweedledee might, in the interests
of posterity, jump into the Fathead river. there to
lay until biologists of future age search for
curiosities 10 adorn their museums with.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
FIVE DAY WEEK IS
.INAUGURATED In
The SOVIET UNION

MOscow.-The soviet government
published a decree Wednesday rev.
authorizing the calendar. Under
the decree which is effective next
Sunday, the following things will
happen:
The year will have 70 weeks of
five days each.
Workers will get one day rest In
five, but their employment will be
so arranged that only one-fifth of
the populace rests at the same
time.
The universal day Of rest will
therefore be abolished.
Work days will be half an hour
longer 10 make up for the increase
in rest days from So to 70 yearly.
All religious holidays will also be
abolished.
Only three holidays will be cele,
brated-May 1 and Nov. 7, anniv
ersaries of the reolution, and Jan
22, day of mourning for Nicola
Lenin.
SCHOOLS VIII be ReOrganized
Schools and all instructions will
be reorganized under the decree Al
soon as possible. Many factorie
already have adopted the system.
Residents received the order witt
mingled surprise and resentment
Probably nothing since the revolu
ton has so closely affected the lif,
of the ordinary Russian as the new
calendar, which will transform tn,
nation into a productive unit i
which the hum of machinery vii
be unceasing.
j Engineers and economists pre
dict greater production and pros
perity through the uninterrupte,
use of machinery and an improve
ment in the morale of the nennI
because of the more FREQUENT res
days.
1t has been suggested that th
DAYS of the new five-dav week \
called zone day." "Twodav. an,
so on.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
A VISION OF THE FUTURE

A vision of the future rises. see our
country filled with happy homes, with
firesides of content-the foremost land of
all the earth.
see a world where thrones have
crumbled and where kings are dust. The
aristocracy of idleness have persisted from
the earth.
/ see a world without a slave. Man at
last is free. Natures forces have by sci
ence been enslaved. Lightning and light,
wind and wave, frost and flame and all
the secret subtle powers of earth and air
are the tireless toilers for the human race.
see a world at peace, adorned with ev-
cry form of art, with music's myriad voices
thrilled, while lips are rich with words of
love and truth-a world in which no exile
signs, no prisoner mourns; a world on
which the gibbet's shadow does not fall;
a world where labor reaps its full reward;
where work and worth go hand in hand;
where the poor girl trying to win bread
with the needle-the needle that has been
called ''the asp for the breast of the poor"
lis not driven to the desperate choice Of
crime or death, of suicide or shame.
l see world without the beggar's out
stretched palm, the miser's, heartless
stony stare, the piteous wall of want, the
livid lips of lies, the cruel eyes of scorn.
see race without disease of flesh or
brain-shapely and fair, the married har-
mony of form and function-and, as !
look, life lengthens, joy deepens, love cam
opies the earth; and over all in the great
dome shines the eternal star Of human
hope.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
WIRKKULA CASE }
UP BEFORE JURI

international Falls, MIMI ~ Dr,rI
The Koochiching county use b
jury today, had only one " Tbis
consider-that of Emmett ,. = nsH,s
"a, United States customs IaiiIs .
man, charged with h.. S5oGaD BIZ
death Gust Henry WlrAAu
Falls. had ks
convicted on a liquOr. f I,,np b
killed on the night OF JUN iirsd .
when his automobile was vas, IiS
by White on a ROAD iI bore N
patrolmen, suspecting I .aissmUtsi :
bile bile contained o liquor, ! at WRjts "
lag down the car, ana an;Iod to dep
Lewis L. Drill, =. Minpss's
district attorney foi HubsS
T KooeSic hing county a tttssTmsi
W Will pa ask E'i for trial in a sssaTnary
ter mIFsUiit that at If an in .arisd
the county court here
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
DROUGHT HAMMER
DOWN U. S. CROP
BELOW AVERAGI

Washington, Oct. 1.-The depart
ment of agriculture in its OcleM|
1 report on the agricultural aiS|
ton today said the total yield :
crops this year probably will 70
about 6 per cent below the " VA|
average because Of the seven
drought during most Of the sud
mer. u
Although September rain; !, % D
ally broke the long dry spell =
situation in the Pacific nOrInHs'
the department said, is st IL n
Gus and ranches have had dnls
ty in preparing their land Tor S'
ter wheat.
Vegetable Crops dit
Effects of the dry season, tnss
port added, are evident among !
vegetable crops also. The F ~
crop is estimated at about ~ n
100000 bushels which is one o. = I
smallest crops in ten years, =. y
tai car lot shipments Of the y
sons fruits and vegetables ua.,
August and September fI ~
around Is per cent smaller ~
last year. -. a
The commercial apple crop y Y
forecast by the department Ia n
month at 29,5OO,OOO barrels, s ~
is about 100000 barrels less s.. = +
a year ago. Apple prices, sai y, !
partment said, this year ha's siS ~
running about so per cent ~
than last year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
Liked the Fight

Editor, The Producers News:
I take this opportunity to con-
graduate the promoters of the
boxing exhibitions that were given
in the Farmer-Labor Temple last
Saturday night. l am a travelling
salesman and have attended MANY
fights, big and little, but confess
that / got more healthy fun for nv
money at last Saturdays fistic con-
test than at any I have hitherto
attended. 1t was good-natured
fighting turnout and the bows
FOUGHT. I'll tell the world.
Since l assume your sports edi-
tor will give a complete report of
the exhibition I will confine MYSELF
to a few remarks on the main ho,,t
Let me say that Tommy Crone-
a real boxer-was lucky in surviv-
ing that third round. That man
Hueth has a wallop that lands
something like a kick from a hnII
~ = fsfgsr, = ics<
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
AND THERE WAS CRASHING OF
TEETH

Well be darned if our brief and restrained re-
view of county politics in last weeks issue under
the snappy title: Damned if he does-Damned If
he Doesn't" did not stir up hornets nest among
those elements in the community whose chief
stocn-trade for years has been casting aspersions
on the farmers administration and maligning the
men who held office under it.
The scandal mongers who found no charge vile
enough to hurl at their predecessors writhe
because we lift the lid and let the farmers have
whiff from their political sewers
They want things hushed up and covered up We
are creating discomfort they say. We are arous-
ing the citizenry. They would have the people for
get the unfulfilled promises made last fall when
the county going to be rid of all evil-doers,
be they hijackers, gamblers bootleggers. They
won the election on this fake issue and that
they settled down around the pottage they want
to be left in peace to enjoy the fruits of their poll
tical duplicity.
The Producers News is not in the shopping bust
ness AS repeatedly stated we do not believe that
the prohibition law can be enforced or that boot
Logging be stopped long the curse of
prohibition is saddled on the country. But we are
opposed to MONOPOLY in the booze business
any other business. We believe that the little pig
ger has as good right to operate the bigger
and better-paying pigger. Let the law be enforc-
ed against all or let them all
The Producers News is opposed TO bootleggng
the logical result of prohibition. Poisonous alco-
hol is debauching the youth of the nation and
bringing and suffering into homes that
never experienced the curse of drunkenness be-
fore this pernicious law rammed down the
outlets Of the American people by bgots and fan
atics. To remedy this evil support the program
Of the American Temperance League which pro-
poses to place the sale and distribution of liquor
under federal CONTROL system that has proven its
worth in Canada, Sweden and other progressive
countries. The grafters and political boodlers
want prohibition, but the common people are
acquainted with workable method TO get rid Of
it and its attendant evils they will give Volstead-
ism short shrift.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
SOLTIS SURRENDERS
ON CHARGE OF I,IPr

Minneapolis, Oct. 1.-Jnbr
Soltis, who managed the aIda-r.SS
ic campaign of Frank J, Es.sl,
in the sixth ward last sprino o'', y
rendered Monday to the couS NJ ~ y
torney's office after learninS y Y
had been jointly indicted with a.
kal on a charge of criminal nv M
Soltis was arraigned on this chs,a.
late Monday before District Ing
Matthias Baldwin. He pleads Y,
guilty. On motion of Ed ] c1s
assistant county attorney, Il.
was set for October 18th S"s
was released on $3.50 bail uanSi i'.
the trial. Herkal also is at libs-t
on bail awaiting trial on OcSS,
II. The charge grew out Of 4
distribution of campaign literatw
said to reflect on the candidarv ,
Alderman John Peterson.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
WITH THOSE IN HIGH PLACES

It is quite in keeping with "the high and deep
blems of international peace" that Ramsay Mac
aid and Herbert Hoover should select the "aut-
\tinted mountains and valleys of Virginia" to
ISIS the issues that treaten to bring on war
Zen the United States and Great Britain un-
peaceful solution is found. The "high and
mode of expression is Ramsay's
the inspiring influence of the Businesses
irginia, the executives of British and Ameri-
AN imperialism will try to come TO an agreement
which will permit both empires to continue the ex-
ploitation of their and colonial peoples to the
great glory and profit of the capitalists of both
countries undisturbed by the nightmare of war be-
tween them. Their efforts will be as futile as
Canute's attempt to hold back the tide with his
broom.
We will read good deal about the "broad prin-
eiples of Anglo-American relations" about the
blood that is thicker than turtle SOUP about the
great desire for peace that animates the "peeuuls"
OF both countries and similar tommyrot. But we
are ready to wager that Ramsay and Herbert will
talk about more tangible things. Both know that
the only serious wars ever fought by this country
with an outside power prior to the "war to make
the world safe for democracy were fought with
England and our British blood was Just as thick
tnen as now and were our heads. Both know
enat all wars in ancient and modern times were
.ougnt over economic issues. over loot to be kent
Dy one side or to be grabbed by the other
mower and Macdonald viii discuss the Chinese
situation, where British and American can;ta1 boo
neen lighting for supremacy for several wars
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
DRAGON REFUSED
COURTHOUSE TRp

Newcastle, Ind, Sent
Stephenson, former grand G
of the Indiana ku Elux ill., ase
not be allowed to take an ~lSn vi
ride outside of the walls ~ h
state prison at Michicar VI i y
where he is serving a life 81 CO.,! w J.
for murder, according to o'ass Sl
of Judge John H. Morris IN : u Tpins
County Circuit Court here a.. nsa'
Judge Morris overruled wa!
to issue of subpoena for St ny'l'
sons appearance as a witoa spase !
the case of Earl Gentry, wss
suing John H. Kiplinger. Rn "iIo
Ind, attorney, for an accou0 s.
on a charge that he paid an ..a
sive attorney fee. judge Me- W.
ruled that deposition con I;V''
obtained from Stephenson, u
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
MONTANA BANKERS
In MERGING SPRDI

Minneapolis-Marking its hidl
entry into The Montana bankn,
field, the Northwest BancOrUOr
ton has acquired control Of M
Great Falls National bank Of Greet
Falls and the Union Bank & TuS
Company of Helena, it was an
nounced by Edward W. Decka.
president of The corporation.
Addition of the Montana bah
increases the number of mstih
tions in the group of 80 and thsi
combined resources to SS6O,OOOQM
Purchase of more Montana bank
will be announced within isT
days, Mr.. Decker indicated.
The Great Falls National banI
has capital and surplus Of $SO,al
and resources of more than s.
100000. Lee NJ. Ford is presidai
The Union Bank & Trust CON
pany of Helena has capita i
$250,OOO surplus and profit
$275,000 and resources Of ahl
100000. H. McKenan is pres
J dent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

The Irish Free State government has established
rigid censorship over literature. This is not of
fered as argument against Irish freedom. 1t
is merely submitted as proof that the Irish have
no more freedom than have the citizens Of Boston
Massachusetts,.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
Friday: October II, ION

lead them to such len0th.
be replaced by amaz .ssas shoa
senseless folly that ma l,snt !, at d.
heve that they wer 'a ss8s then then !
covery or detection. NJ lion a.
lleving he can get awal fot
crime; But the brains Of ". wiz
industries should be aw W Caf gst
lnescapable hOusetOps, Of d,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

When Ramsay Macdonald arrived on the Beran-
garia, the New York police band struck up "Rule,
Britannia, Rule the Waves" And when His Maj
esty's servant was received at city hail. one of
Mayor Walkers deputies read from a scroll in loud
tones, "The Right Honorable James Ramsay Nc
Donald, prime minister of the United States" It's
always hard to know whether Mayor Walker and
his merry joking in earnest
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

loaded so many inanities in his article on the
American Temperance League as he did in the cur
rent issue of his monthly four-page sheet.
In conclusion we would refer MIR. Knutson to the
program of his own party, the Communist party
Of the U. S. A. which has gone on record against
the 18th amendment and in favor of temperance In
the use of alcoholic beverages
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

The Rev. H H. Clark whose love for Mrs. Min
ME "Ma" Kennedy, mother of the delectable Aimee,
was first accepted and then spurned sued his form
er flame for $4,000 damages on the ground that
she had "ruined" him. We don't weep. The Rev.
erend gentleman could have walked back as better
men than he have DONE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
PRISONERS ON STRIKE

Phoenix, Ariz., Sept.-Twenty-
seven federal prisoners in the
Maricopa county jail went on a
food strike after two hours of riot
ing last week. During the disturb
ance food which had been served
Tor the evening meal was thrown
out OF jail windows into the street
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11
Detroit Bakers Sign Up

Detroit-(FP)-Local 20, Bak-
arv and Confectionery Workers
Tnfl. Union, has signed the Miller
shon and Local " has signed an
other Miller bakery, both In De-
tro;t after a hard tussle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

William Allen White of Emporia rises to demand
in the name of the people of Kansas, that the
states favorite daughter, Mrs. Molly Gam, be
done the right thing by at social functions ar
ranged in honor of Ramsay Macdonald. Dolly
should worry. If she didn't have to fight her way
to the gravy her clipping bureau would go bank
rupt.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

A headline announces that the senate is in the
fifth week of the tariff debate. The great verb
and adjective rodeo is hitting its stride.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-11

Yet here were the wise and veal
tiny OF the nation whispering in the
inner chambers treason to their
country or planning fraud against
It as blithely as though it would
remain forever a secret. Amaze
ment that their greed and cumming