The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-11-28
BRENTWOOD COMMERCIAL
CLUB
By HANS RASMUSSEN

The Plentywood Commercial Club held their ban
gueI' 1t was well attended, well conducted, and
nope some good will derive from it. The treat
OF the evening was reserved to the last-"Our'
Senator spoke. He thanked the commercial Club
Tor the splendid vote it had given him. and he had
a reason to. Yes Lars is ours all right | was
wondering II he has offered any thanks for the
votes ne got out Of Reserve, his home precinct
1he banquet was more of a county affair so /
kept my mouth shut. If it had been local Plen-
tywood affair l would have asked for the floor
and would have said something like this:
Mr.. Chairman, members of the brentwood Com.
merclal Club: have lived in your town for the
last eight years What little have made have
spent In your town The last few years l have
provided for my family here, not from anv money
made In your town but from money made in other
towns. call 1t your town, for the reason that /
have not learned TO feel quite at home here yet
When | 60 to your Commercial Club banquets l
feel like do when l go to your churches When
go to your churches and see who are there and see
now the same people perform outside of the church.
l don't feel at home in the church When l 90 to
your banquets and hear you say wonderful things
about all getting together and boost for the town.
make it bigger and better place to live in. And
when L see how you perform in between your ban
quets then don't feel at home at your banquets.
You have In your town a mill several families
are living off that mill They are paying taxes
they are helping build up your town. Besides, the
mill is bringing lot of extra trade to your town.
which otherwise would go somewhere else If the
people of brentwood had their saw about it. that
mill would have closed its doors years ago. Peo-
pie who never bought pound of Andy's flour will
knock 1T, just for the purpose of running the mill
and the people it supports, out of town. Still you
VIII talk about making this bigger and better
town. If anybody make better bread than my
wife, | would like to know who it is You could
not get her to use anything but PlentywOod flour.
You have IN your town a bakery. 1t is getting
harder and harder for it to exist In order to drive
that concern, and few families out of town
or on the bread line, you import bread by the truck
loads from other towns. You even give away
bread free to everybody in order to get your bak
cry to close its doors that much sooner.
In your town you have a printing plant. This
you are boycotting and hampering all you cam
You are longing for the day it would close its
doors and another three or four families woulc
leave your town get on the bread line When
some people go over to North Dakota and bring
Lack to your town several thousand dollars worth
Of printing, other people from your town go over
there and try to prevent them from getting it.
Some years ago, some people practically made
your town present of a building of which you
were in need-the Farmer-Labor Temple This
building has brought more people and more out
side money into your town than anything know
of. The people who built it never expected and
never did get any benefit out of it in dollars and
cents. It is you business people who are getting
the cash returns on that investment and YOU are
boycotting the Temple you are trying to see if
you can shove some taxes onto it. You are doing
what YOU can to get it to close its DOORS
You are chasing some booteggers out of town
and protecting others. Chasing people out of town
don't make the town any bigger, that l know Of
# it makes it any better, that don't know.
When you build garage you import people from
other states to Go the work, while YOUR own people
sitting around sucking their thumb. If your
people did that work the money would be
spent here. As it was, several Thousand dollars
went to some other state and you did not get a
srlell of it.
WI 4 you Gig sewer, it is aga a people from
Olner stGte. who get work and I away with The
money while your people are laying awake
nights trying to figure out how they can get away
from your town and go place where they can
make living. Build up your town-keep y9ur
money at home-sounds nice when you say it to
the farmers.
When two sets of candidates run for
office and down in the bottom of your hearts YOU
know who would the county affairs best and
most economical, you don't vote for them no. you
vote for the others You don't want the county
run economically, you want it like you run
your town.
Now, If you want to do something if it is not
all talk about making your town bigger and bet
ter place. why don't you try and get the county to
land the contract for building the State Highway
through this county? There is a quarter million
dollars or more slipping away from you and the
people of this county. quarter million spent in
this county viii come in mighty handy at any lime.
After all have said, you might be able to un-
derstand that have reasons for not feeling quite
at home in your town yet thank you.