The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-30


but it also makes them over con-
fident.
Were More Generous
The officials of this company,
for awhile after this brilliant coup
d'etat were slightly more gener-
Gus in their treatment OF widows
orphans and cripples.
But there soon appeared evidence
that the bee that stung Heinze
was after them. For a short time
the New York boys gave Fritz the
glad hand-the expression a
"come-on" arose in New York in
1907.
Most of the Twin City bankers
had passes on the Northern lines.
Wheat was bound to decline in
price. The saturation point was
at hand in automobiles, radios and
washing machines. The Twin City
boys said: Copper seems to be
holding its own-let's get the
Montana crowd to take US in on
their copper"
Minnesota has rival organiza-
ton to ours. Minnesota for the
Minnesotans." A wise old mem
Der advised the youngsters not to
go into the copper industry with
the Montana boys. But he said:
you boys for generations have
been trained in banking on a big
scale through railroad mergers, re
organizations, foreclosures, power
developments. If you do not do
something quick we are in serious
trouble anyway. The copper boys
are flush and eager to play. Get
them into big banking deal with
yourselves"
The Green SDectacles
Our committee predicts in few
years a new by-word-"c Clever as
Twin City Banker" instead of
smart as a Philadelphia lawyer
The Twin City boys used the pass.
es to Montana and our boys have
traded a pillow horse for gross OF
green spectacles.
Our committee had difficulty in
finding out what happened then
No member of the committee
made the trade" though MANY
members of the o. B. F. did.
A majority of the committee
thinks that our big strong Local
banks only bought stock in the big
merger. If so, not so much dam
age has been done-our boys are
good losers, or winners. They car
spend the profits (?) or forget
the loss.
A minority, however, of the com
mittee reports that the actual
stock control of our splendid Mon.
tana Banks (the only ones in the
United States which met checks
with money in October, November
1907 has been sold to two corpor-
ations of the Middle West.
The minority report is hard to
believe. This would give these cor
porations power to replace the of
ficials of our local banks with
strangers and take the good re.
serves, held for temporary de-
pressions in mining, for tidine
over bad crops or prices of wheat
Should Ask Questions
If the minority report is cor.
rect (and the way our boys are
trying petting economy on Work
mems Compensation indicates K
the committee that they are soul
about something-when flush the,
are, or think themselves, gener
ous) one of our boys had better
become a friendly plaintiff ant
ask our supreme court whether tn,
entire thing is not somewhat a
gainst public policy; (before tn,
Minnesota boys say, TT is daylight
buy some more chips and we will
have another game another night
One hundred seventy thousan,
dollars the year more for Work
mems Compensation will not ad,
much 10 a market loss of 80 pc
cent in six months on a four hun
dred million dollar bank merger
Withholding nickel from Will
for the Sunday school plate /
small help for a bad Saturda,
night at poker.