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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20
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A TAXPAYER WAKES INDIG.
NANT OVER COURT HOUSE
NEPOTISM
Plentywood, Mont,
Dec 10 1920

Plentywood, Mont,
Dec. 10, 1929.
Dear Mr.. Editor:
/ have something on my chest
and just have to get it off. 1t is
about the family circles at the
court house. This seems to me to
be one of the meanest and most
contemplate state of affairs that
possibly could happen at this time.
When / cast my vote for Carl
Peterson, Mr.. HOLMAN and Miss
Singleton / considered them very
capable and well meaning people.
Campaign stories were to the eff
feet that they would put their fam
lilies into the court house if they
were elected, but l did not believe
them, and did not pay much atten-
ton to it as everyone had work
and everyone seemed to be in a
prosperous condition. But the con-
ditions now have brought my at
tention to these family affairs.
Here in Plentywood and all over
Sheridan county are hundreds of
people without work and barely
enough to eat and Christmas will
be just another day with them
And right here at the court house
sit officials with their families Dl
with wives of business men draw
ing double salary, and whose jobs
if given to a head of another fam
lily would feed and clothe hungry
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20
THTE MAN WHO MADE HOOVER
JS OFT

William S. Ware of Pennsylvania, senator-elect
the man who cinched the nomination of Herbert
Hoover at Kansas City last year, was considered
too unclean to sit in the senate of the United
States because the solons of that august body
found after investigation that his system of pur-
chasing votes efficient that that of his
rivals; that, in other words, tho he spent less
money on his campaign than did his rival, Pepper,
of the Mellon Grundy- Fisher machine, Vares vot-
stayed bought and Ware won. Something had to
be done about it.
Enter Grundy Joseph R. Grundy, king of lob
byists and proud of it, the big dollar and dough
of the Mellon Grundy- Fisher machine has now
been commissioned by Melons governor of Penn
sylvana to fill Vares seat and the senators who
voted against the seating of William S. Ware the
mass vote buyer, voted to seat Joseph R. Grundy,
whose platform calls for the Acknowledgement of
the states where agriculture dominates machine in
dustry.
Listen to a few "Grundyisms" and then mediate
on the ways of politics and the hocus pocus of
American democracy.
eff it was not for the unfortunate pro-
vision in the constitution that gives each
state two senator's say unfortunate be-
cause it was great compromise mat got
our constitution through-they (the back
ward states) probably would not be heard
of at all.
"Now, for these men Senators of back
ward states) that represent so little in the
national economy to find fault and to OBJ
struct and to try to destroy policy which
has been responsible for building up great
reservoirs of taxation that have been for
the great benefit and advancement of the
country, it seems, it is a tragedy, almost
TO mankind"
There is the fellow that the majority of the SEN
ate picked a substitute for Ware V
Ware may know better the next time than to
beard the mighty Mellon in his den. Ware NAV
have gotten quite thrill out of stealing a march
on the secretary of the treasury when he rushed
the nomination of Hoover at Kansas City and left
Andy holding the empty bottle But tho the mills
OF the gods grindy slowly, they grind mighty fine
Mellon abided his time. Ware can sit by the Allan
tic waters at his Philadelphia Jericho and dream
of Warwick the King-maker, the Last of the Bar
ons. Grundy will sit in the senate and make tar
ifs tho he may not have had the pleasure of max
ing president
Oh woe is Varel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

People speak with pride about
having a godo memory when thew
have a faculty for remembering
well. Nature is kind, for investiga-
ton will show that people, as the
years pass, remember the pleasant
things and the other kind slip a.
way into forgetfulness. A wise
people were the Egyptians. They
called that faculty to forget the
unpleasant and retain ENJOYABLE
memories, "Nepenthe," and claim
ed to have a drug that would give
that sort of relief from old sor-
rows and griefs. The drug was su.
perfluous. Time is the drug thar
strains out the harsh and bitter
and leaves the kind and sweet
hence all possess good memories in
treasuring only the good.
There are exceptions. Some
nurse their sore spots and treasure
old grudges. They are to be pitied
for no matter how well thew ra-
member they have bad memories
Pray to be delivered from sucb
This columnist has a memorv
which at times is disconcertirs :,
and requires repression of a Cal,
vanistic severity. The other dav
the governor of Louisiana muster,
ed the militia to eject an appoin-
tee out of office. Immediately in
tractible memory took hold and re-
viewed the time when Gov Holm
Burke used militia to remove Tor,
Poole from office in the state cant +
toll at Bismarck. No bittern ~r,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

Washington = (FP) Owen d.
Young, chairman of the board OF
the Radio Corporation of America
and self-confessed director of its
policies, sat at one side of the long
table in the hearing room of the
Senate interstate commerce COM
mittee, explaining the benevolence
of his work. Yes, he felt that the
exclusive contract running until
1915 with the British and French
wireless and wire monopolies, and
until 1861 with the German mon
opoly, were in the line of progress.
Yes, it was true that neither of
the two rival American companies
could handle radio business to
these countries during the period
of his company's contracts. And
if Congress would repeal the aa~
forbidding mergers of wireless
with cable communication systems,
he would carry out the "prelimin-
airy understanding" reached last
February in Paris between the Ra-
dio Corporation and the Interna-
tional Telephone & Telegraph Co.
This deal contemplates a sale of
the entire trans-oceanic business
of Radio, for stock worth about
$97, 100000 to the 1. T. & T.
Sen. Dill, author of the present
radio law, began analysing the
source of this huge price. Young
admitted that Radios actual in
vestment was only about $25, 000,-
600. But, said he, it did not earn
anything for 13 years, on the first
100000, so the investment
should be figured at about S35,000,-
600 by compromising the earnings
that should have been madel Their
there were patent right values thai
ought 10 count as another $4,000.
600, making $4,000, 900 in all. Thi.
would be the investment used as &
basis for fixing rates for service.
Dill, Wheeler and Chairman
Couzens disputed this easy infla
ton of $25, 000,0 900 into 100000, 900
but they soon passed on 10 the re
naming $57,000,000 of price. Dill
asked whether, if Congress per
mitted the merger, Young woulC
agree that the government had {
right to determine the rate-makine
base, and also the sum which coulC
be paid by the l. T. & T. to Radio
for its overseas system. Youns
replied firmly that he would never
agree to let the government de
termine the sales price; all h,
would concede was the rate-fixinl
base at $40,0O0,000. He declared
his stakeholder had right t,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

lead to government control of ae-
rlculture, an undesirable thing. II
the present loan scheme fails, he
says, I'VE shall keep on striving
until we secure adoption of such a
plan" The McNary-Haugen plan
is the only one. 1t lifts the sur.
plus, does not encourage over-pro.
duction and makes every producer
a member without playing favor
ties as the present plan does. Low
den is not fooled by the loaves anL
fishes that always did draw the
crowd.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20
Friday: December 20. lo,.

children Snns6s II These people r'>
homes nome ). and they draw draw !. i've IN fl.
from the taxpayers W, their nral
enough to give them ~. We're roy
tney repay with nt nj, me pOsifSN'
5 dCT 5h Ell .f fellow man. 'J 4. 'e9te@ss
Christmas day IT Ef IS lad laden tsSs, Il
picture of a destitu my wish that
raise raise. up before 't theme family sy ma
might haea have relieved il mat nat SS
Just wS;.t share "a of the official AMY theS
to have. intended tb'SS
! hope this destituto
point the finger of sSsI family VII
for thier selfishness 1 IN fSi.a at then
member the picture as T IoSy,. will u
remain In public Office 'O ~ as tier
the salaries, instead Of and Ss, hog d
tent with their own and M U 0ill co..
other %s family a! a chance y giving ,lgs a.
The finger TO scorn :; - live.
n ing 9;,. pointed at a. the Pe ts nov b.
HOLMAN families and ; e1:n sAi
because of Miss SinpIet rOU,ulgnaHN
a married woman in her V off fesp9U
mas a husband well able S n ICE VIZ
her. !. Perhaps they do NOT = suppod
but 1t is. l for one, and NV NOV 4
our vote. w gave Asa
l also blame the conrt,,
slcners for allowing a Sat- s'a ~
fairs I: to exist, because i al y y
flee holders are so devoid 4 - s1e D.
that they will live fat on Il r. a1 70
payer money and let their '4 s.n ~
man go hungry for want q, 's : y
they should step in and 81 s.r I
it shall not be. l have the I S,.. Sa
respect for Victor Anker s S.SI Y :
strange to me that he hasn't M ~ J
something before, and | sIss V Sa
that French and Iverson wsy. 40 ~
big men to let such a condition titan % .
list. '" q
Hoping you will give this n,.
in the interest of some poo, 'p y
needy families in Sheridan ' cors ~
/ remain ''ulV
A TAXPAYER
Who Loves Fair Pl,v
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

Major General Smedley Butler says that when
the United States government wants competent
secretary OF education in Haiti it picks fellow
VINO can't read or write but who can tell dollar
Dill by the feel of it. We do things better on the
big mainland When we started in to enfarce (this
is brand new word brother lino-Ed) prohibition
we selected our biggest and best distiIer Mr.. An
drew Mellon, to supervise the work
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

Down in Australia there is row
between the miners and the mine
owners and the mines shut down.
The government of New South
Wales stepped in, took over the
mines and had them running in
short order. Again that good mem
Dry! Gov. Frazier of North Dakota
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

there, for Burke was our choice
three times for governor and Tom
Poole, Ernie Wanner, John Kauff,
Billy Hotchkiss and others of a
tribe of young pirates indicted US
into the ways of America in our
way together through the thorny
paths of learning. It is a wonder
we have turned out as well as we
have and survived with that start.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

MissOula, Mont.-(UP) III
only fatality on the two vssLs
practice march taken BY 200 al
diers to Seeley lake and rshr~ w
was a mule who first saw the Tgs
of day in 1897.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

A deputy sheriff and lawyer one day
Went out on farm near here
And big load of wheat the two carted away
They left the poor farmer quite bare
The sheriff and lawyer were proved IN the rlgnt
BY twelve jurors who thot it was punk
For the farmer to swear that those fellows were
tight;
That indeed the two blighters were drunk
Perhaps Burley, the Briton, is right, on, hee, haw
When he says that our jurors don't know
How to wggle their way thru the meshes OF law,
Or to jump over walls high and low.
That agilebrained lawyers oft place IN their way
To addle their brains into funk
But they care not jot or a team-oad OF hay
If the whole darn world got drunk.
To jury it matters not much you can see
Who loses his wheat or who don't,
For Bourbon on breath they don't give G. D.
They won't have it that way; no. they won't.
Let the lawyers raise hades over ethical points,
The jurors don't care for such bunk,
They'll repair to their favorite spirituous joints
And the blighters will promptly get drunk.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

sent up a couple Of soldiers to each
Ignite mine where there was
trouble, took it over and started
coal mining when the patriotic
mine owners were trying to help us
win the war by freezing us to
death, The funny part was that the
stockholders were said to be better
satisfied with their dividends after
the two militiamen took hold than
they had been before under eco
nomic rule of private management.
That is no sort of memory to have
and it is a case of Jaw fergit il"
or somebody will be calling US Dol
shevist once more as in the good
old days.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20
The Week
By SAM'L HILL

All About Nepenthe.
"Aw Fergit IT."
The AtabOy Stuff.
He Dare Not Squeal.
Cooperative Suicide.
LOaves and Fishes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

At the annual meeting of the
United Farmers of Ontario in
Toronto this month some matters
of interest to Northwest co-opera-
tives were discussed. H. S. Arkell,
livestock commissioner, Dominion
Department of Agriculture, talked
about the essentials of co-opera-
tion and pointed to the cause of
failure. He said: TT has been
startlingly found that any devia-
ton from the simple economics Of
practical cooperation has ended in
disaster" Fl. A. Gilroy, president
of the organization, attributed the
decline in membership in Ontario
to the fact that "the company is
drifting away from the principle
of cooperation" That is what
this column has been trying to
pound into the heads of the coop
eratively minded farmers of the
Northwest. Any time you move
away from the true cooperative
principles and dabble in subsid-
iaries and abandon patronage divi-
dends and control of the Drganiza-
ton by the members you face dis
aster. When you turn a simple
democracy into an oligarchy you
have begun cooperative suicide.
Shutting your eyes to it won't
change the fact.
Finally here comes Governor
Frank 0. Dowden, who insists that
the equalization fee may eventual
ly be necessary. He seems to re-
gard the present Farm Board
scheme as a make-shift which NAV
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

1t is possible the nature of this
column that it alternates between
receipt of pat on the back and
a poke in the face. Let us take the
"ataboy" stuff first and hope there
wont be room for the "to heck with
him" cracks at the end. Young
Phillip F. LaFollettt is out after
chain banks. Seems as if the sub
ject has been dealt with in this
column along the same lines. List
en- to Phillip, who is more like his
old man than his older brother in
physique and style: "Chain banking
is a bold challenge to Americanism
and democracy. They are trans
forming independent employees in
to hirelings, cutting salaries below
living wages, menacing collective
bargaining, and would if they could
turn the worker into an industrial
serf." His brother, Senator Robert
NJ, has begun publication of "The
Progressive" a weekly newspaper,
in Madison and its main theme is
the evils of chain banking. Con-
gresham Goldsborough of Mary
land brought the matter up in
Congress the other day by pointing
out how the chain banks were IN
position to control the credit of the
country and draw from the rural
districts the money needed for le-
gitimate business needs there. This
column saw it first, but it is nice
to have the other fellows back us
up.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-20

Do not think that chain banks
are negligible. There are close to
1000 of them with resources of
nearly Is BILLION dollars. There
are 270 chains. Minnesota alone
had 435 chain banks when the last
report was made in October and
North Dakota and Montana are not
far behind. 1t is time somebody
was saying something, even tho
State Senator Dell Patterson of
North Dakota wants to wait until
the banker boiler. A chap with a
gun aimed at his midriff and his
hands up in the air really is not in
good position to make much Of
a noise.
The Alaskan., 1929-12-13
ART OF LETTER WRITING

Nov, Miss Blog," boomed Earl Dinner. president of the Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Com rany, to his blonde. frecklefaced stenographer, T want you to understand that when I dictate a letter want you to write it as l dictated, and not the way you think it should be, b'gosh! Understand?
 "Yes, sir," replied the freckled Blogg, meekly.
 "All right-take a letter" said his worship the mayor.
 The next morning, o. U. Squeez, of the Squeez Flexible Soap Co.,, received the following:
 MT. O. K. or A. J. Something. look it up, Squeez, president of the Squeez, what a name, Flex- ible Soap Co.,, the gyps, Detroit that's in Michigan, isn't it?
 Dear MT. Squeez, 'emmm; You are a He'll of business man. No, start over. He's a crook but can't insult him or he'll sue me. That last shipment of soap you sent us was of in ferior quality and I want you to understand. An, no, scratch that. I want you to understand An, that unless you can ship furnish, ship no, furnish us with your regular soap, then you needn't ship us any more, period or what the heck ever the gram ar is, and please pull down your skirt. This damned cigar is out again, pardon me. And further more, where was I? Nice bob you have. Paragraph The soap you sent us was not fit to wash dish es, no make that dog with com. ma, let alone the laundry, anc we're sending it back period Yours truly. Read that over, n' never mind; I won't waste an, lmore time on that storage egg I'll look at the carbon tomorrow
 Just sign my name. We must g
 out to lunch soon, eh?"
The Alaskan., 1929-12-13

who was then Republican nom inee for sheriff of Big Horn County. With him was Robert TelloWtail, a brilliant, educated Indian who had just been defeat ed by a very few votes in the pri- lnaries for Congress. These were highly intelligent men, educated ren, able to fill public office. They took me up to their attor- 1ley. He said he had not doubt i,l the world but that an injunc- ton would be granted. The le- gal action was pressed and the Indians horses were saved.
 The Indians there told me of the awful tyranny and oppres- sion under which they were nv- ing. They described how they had tried to get a petition to Washington asking the removal of the superintendent. The peti- ton had, of course, to go thru his hands. So during political meeting on the agency grounds the Indians called the superin- tendent out and presented the petition to him in the presence Of the whole meeting. He was 50 enraged that he tore it up, then and there, and trampled 1t under foot.
 At which the attorney gener- al of the State arose in deep in dignation, protesting sternly E gainst this outrage.
 TT could scarcely believe my eyes, he said, when I saw the superintendent of the reservation insult this gathering as he has done this day. As attorney general, one of the chief law of fcers of Montana, I have never before witnessed such conduct. !
The Alaskan., 1929-12-13

All men, and by this sacrifice he made for the Polish nation a
 place in the heart of America.
 Some of the best minds and pa
 triots of England drew away
 from the mother country and es-
 tabliShed for themselves new
 leaders of the American Revolu- ton. They blazed a new trail
 for the establishment of Ameri-
 can freedom and American iber
 ty for an English people, What
 better example of true American
 patriotism do those in this coun
 try have than the people of En- gljSh ancestry who made sacri- fees for American freedom? From France came Lafayette, followed by thousands of soldiers with French blood in their veins. They, too, fought for the new American principle and made a place for the French blood in the great bulk of American citi- <enry What better claim to the American doctrine can any peO- pie have than the sons of Italy, who gave to the world ChristO- pher Columbus, the first to make known to the Old Continent the existence of this land favored of God? After all. America is a and composed of all races and of all creeds. who unite under the doctrine of pure American ism.
 Tn closing I should like to make one plea-that is to forget these abstract barriers of race and creed and come to the full realization that we are Ameri- can citizens with the same pri- vileges of participating in the glories of an ideal Government. It cannot be ideal without your help, and it can not continue to be democratic without the in terest of every American citi- zen.-Congressional Record.
The Alaskan., 1929-12-13
MOONEY IS INNOCENT

pery real purpose of cloaki1g these conspirators' dynamiting activities against a friendly na- ton.
 Everything being equal, Flick ert would have been among the defendants in the Germa ntrials
 but his services to powerful groups in San Francisco is the only thing that saved him from going to prison with Bopp and others"
 In his letter to Senator Schall Monney says:
 T sincerely hope that you will prosecute this matter to the lim- t of your ability, not so much to injure others but to show the depths that some interruptions public officials will stoop to ac- complish their purpose, for it was Ficker't plan to use my gal lows as his platform to cam paign for the governorship of California. My one hope is to be thoroughly vindicated of this false charge. Mere freedom means nothing with the finger of doubt and suspicion pointed al me for the rest of my life"
The Alaskan., 1929-12-13

It is cases of this kin-utter de- f1ance of the rights of people which cultivate violence. In tearing up that piece Of paper, that petition representing your WShes, he ignores you. The right of petition by dependent people has always been recognized It was used by our forefathers to present their grievances. The Government teaches the right of petition. He should have taken your petition, as he is your re- presentative, and sent it, with out comment to Washington
 On the Bad River Reservation at Odanah, Wis, Rev. E. P. Wheeler, a white missionary who grew up on that reservation among the Chippewas, told me briefly how the Indians there had been stripped of their tim Der.
 '"The lumber companies, thru cOnnivance of the Government Indian authorities, got the pr1- vilege of cutting this Indian tim Der as fast as their big plants could cut it and giving the In dIanS a dole which did them no good and great harm, crippling tlleir initiative and defeating .he purpose of the reservaton- the industrial education of the Indian. I have seen this reser- vation decline from wealth to pitiful poverty. The adult In dians have lost all their timber. Their money for it is about gone. Soon they VII be left stranded. Next winter some of these Indian here will go hungry"
 To be Continued.
The Alaskan., 1929-12-13
REASON TO LOSE

The United States Merchant Marine Corporation reports an operating loss of $13, ,665,000 for the fiscal year of 1929 as against a loss of $16, ,OOO in 1928. One trouble is that the best ships on the paying lines were "given away as Christmas presents with Uncle Som financing their purchase and operation.