The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-06-07

sending Hearst or Scripps Howard
editor to Butte and ripping He'll out of
Ho6blns and 'you ALL" "He can't"
sad another important parsonage,
Sanner saw that he had two years
contract with the present editor"
The See-Saw Care
In Helena, NARROW and Erickson,
company Governor, meet in a back
room In a residence near the capitol.
-Dld you see that article the Free
Press had on the appointment of the
Commissioner of Agriculture, said
the old man. eyes and did you
see the reply Campbell had, pointing
out that l represented the flour mills
and had you appoint Stafford to the
job Why that Campbell editorial did
us more harm than the editorial in
the Free Press. eyes," said Erick-
son, 81 am afraid we are being cruel
fled between two political rogues."
All the members of the outside pub
lie did not know that NARROW had long
tried to get Campbell out of the edi-
tOrial chair of the Independent" and
the willy, chinless Scotchman had re-
taliated by getting the editor of the
Free Press to give him a "set up" so
that he could put the Helena shylock
sin the SOUP"
In Arizona
In an office building in an unnam-
ed town in Arizona. Several men sit
: around a table and hear a financial
! report of the richest copper mine il
the world, the Omitted Verde.
Amongst them sits Will Clark Just
back from Gay Paree. Melons are
: cut and all feel happy. Finally one
: OF the men leans over and says, "WHl
/ why do you keep up the newspaper
l war on Kelly and Ryan. You know
/ that we work with them in the Cop
per Export corporation. They hav,
: treated us nice and the splendid divi
4 dends that we are getting today ar,
/ due to our connection with them.
Y There is much talk back and forth an,
e the upshot is that Will Clark is as
: sured of check for all his losses
: The control of the papers pass, not in
e to the hands of the hated Anaconda
S Company, but his brothers and sister
S and his lawyers. A cool million passe
o and he goes on his way.
: A square jawed San Francisco law
il yer steps into the office of the Mon
e tana Free Press in Butte. "I'm Nc
e Inerney, attorney for the Clarl
Y heirs" he informs the office force
e ''Henceforth l am in charge and Ger
e ard is no more" He calls Del Keith
Y managing editor of the Free Press o
a the carpet. you're fired!" he bark
e at the man who stood by Clark whe
e the Miner staff were quitting hiI
r like rats a sinking ship. Two day
e later he shut down the Montana Ere
e Press and the Daily Northwest an
S the Billings plant. The Clark paper
e disappeared from the scene.
, The above in brief is a short histor
d of the Clark adventure in journalism
l. His success was remarkable up to tn
It time that a renegade was put
IS charge. From then on the downfa
g of his papers was as rapid as it Wa
# regrettable. Never has a man wit
1t SUCH high ideals made such a lot {
lie mistakes. He tried to run newspaper
with pawnbrokers, junk dealers an
is the soiled and discredited human gal
It cuckoo writer's from the Anacond
g press. Running a newspaper is
is highly technical job. Technique an
Il knowledge of mass psychology a
IS enter into the game. A liberal pape
like the Free Press should be
charge of a crusading editor WI
m would keep the public instructed an
ID entertained. The gouging of the pul
Id lie by the oil trust; the exorbital
a. telephone rates; the discrimination {
IS the railroads against Montana shiI
re pers: the robbery of the public by Il
W Montana Power Company ard the a
he temrted looting of the public domat
Id by the Rocky Mountain Power Con
De panv are all things which should
I'd ruthlesslv exposed. Instead the pu
~ lie was RECALLED with an odd editori
at telling the people that the AnaconC