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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

more votes than any of the other fellows and you
are it, no matter if you steal them or buy them,
just so you get the votes.
Those of US who do not care for the presidents
job could just well be millionaire as not; 1t
even looks to be easier than being the president
Of course this here working 1880 years at 81 BOO
per day or even 90 years at $4,000 per hour is
little too slow. But if you get thousand men TO
work for you a thousand days-no, that is also too
slow. you get hundred thousand men to work
for you and pay each one $100 per day less than
he really ought to have, then you make mil
lion dollars every ten days, and the beauty of it
is that all that money is yours because you were
the one who earned it and everybody will say so,
even if you are good-for-nothing who never did
five cents worth of useful work in your life.
But, after giving it second thought, probably
are better off leaving things the way they are
and be meek and contented and if someone slaps US
side of the head just turn the other side too
and let them slap US some more. In that way we
are sure of getting our reward after we die.
The milionaires are going to get themselves in
to hell of fix and feel sorry for them. They
do not seem TO be much worried over the old story
about how hard it is fir the camel to get through
the needles eye. They do not seem to realize what
they are up against. What great fun it will be fol
the rest of us sitting there watching Rockefeller
and the rest of them trying 10 crawl through thai
needles eye and not be able to make it. The kcl
we will get out of that should be worth lot to us
so probably it is best letting things go the way
they are.
"A DAGMAR FARMER.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
BELIEVE 1T OR NOT
"a Contributed EditoriaN

IF Won were born when Christ was born 1901
wears AGO and went to work as soon as you were
horn and worked 800 days each and every year up
iii This day and if you received 81 500 per day IoI
vour work and if you never spent penny, but each
dav took the 81 500 and put them in pile, your
nile TODAY would not be as big as the pile Of some
IF our richest millionaires.-Read that again De-
fore you call me liar
If YOU worked eight hours per day and 300 days
per wear for 40 years and received $10OOO.OO per
hour and never spent any of it, just put it IN !, a
nile YOU would not be worth much as Rocketell-
er or Henry Ford.
If good mechanic is asking S150 an hour peo-
ple are kicking; it's way TOO much for any one 10
get for his work. If the same man got to be a
millionaire and received $4,000 per hour nobody
would kick. He only getting what he was
earning and what he was entitled to, even II ne
was not working at all.
What fools are anyway, sitting here worry
ing over how we are going to pay for our next
load of coal when could just well be the pres
ident of the United States or millionaire We
live in a free country and have been told many
times how we are all born equal and all have the
same chance in life We all have the chance OF
being president of the United States. That have
learned in school, and all have the chance OF
being millionaire getting $4,000 per hour.
Probably we do not all so much about the
Job of being president of the United States other
wise that is easy enough All you got to do is gel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

shipful country folk What cared ne about lie"
extra gallons of gasoline? When that well came IN
WELT would be merely more success to the
credit of the public spirited Lard
But something seems to have happened and the
public no longer knows of Lard the big oil man.
He is now merely known editor, taxing MS
editorial line from "Horse Thief Kelly, l.. D. On
stad, Mckee and Burley Bowler. What fall, on
my counrtymen!
This is no laughing matter, fellow citizens. While
some people say that it well that the Plenty
wood Redstone Holding Company is rid of man
like L. S. Olson, there others who think differ
emily Some people say that Lard interfered with
the promoters in their efforts to acquire the CAPT
tai to dig the we'll to pay sand. Others say that
Lard was defending the interests of the investors
when he took the punch in the eye from the oil
man and rolled all over the lobby of local hotel
looking for place to escape from the welldirected
blows of the entreprenneur. However that may be
it is reported that Lard is in bad standing with his
former associates in the holding company and that
most of them now feel that with Lard in his
er, public confidence will be restored and that
spring will see the drlers again at work in Archer
without fear of losing their hats and coats, while
engaged at their tasks.
The Producers News does not see any good reas-
on why Archer is not just as liable to shoot gush-
any other spot in Montana. We hear that ge-
ologists enthusiastic over the possibilities, tho
geologist whether the drilers strike oil or Ignite
as long he gets his fee.
But it's just too bad that his associates did not
see fit to have Lard on the board of directors He
would be good fun if nothing else.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

Washington-(F P)-It is quite
possible that some of the handful
of progressives in the House and
Senate will be enlisted in the
Southern labor organizing cam
paign which is now being launched
from Birmingham headquarters.
Rep. Huddleson of Birmingham is
one of the few pro-labor men from
the South now sitting in Congress,
and the suggestion has been made
that he could well afford to make
speech in his home city, urging
the workers in all its industries to
enroll IN the movement for a high
er standing of living, wider civil
liberties and the safeguarding of
the right TO regular employment.
If Huddleston is persuaded to
get into the campaign, Sen. Wheel
er of Montana and perhaps Sen.
Dill of Washington, Democrats.
who owe their political rise to
their pro-labor Identification in
past years, would then be induced
to go to North Carolina or Geor-
gia or Tennessee to carry the same
gospel. LaFollette, Norris, Frazi-
er, Howell, Blaine and other Re
publican progressives will not be
invited to share the job; the Amer
lean Federation of Labor's general
organizing committee is convinced
that only Democrats and non-Cath-
olics can be effective speakers in
the Old South when modern indus
trial relations are to be proposed
to a highly emotional public.
That this attempt to create a
strong labor union movement in
the textile tobacco, coal, steel and
other industries in the South will
be stubbornly fought by politicians
as well as by organized employers,
the kept press and a great major
lty Of the clergy, is assumed by the
organizing committee. Men with
Irish names or Irish features are
to be kept out of the hard-sheIl
districts and on the other hand all
and opinions favorable to improv-
and opinions favorable to imprvo-
ing the earning and living stand.
ards of the workers, town bv town
and industry by industry, viii be
drawn upon. The South is to be
made to discover that its own An
glo-Saxon stock is worthy of a fan
higher plane of living than is now
accorded it.
tbs ar, about 1co organizer.
/ have been selected by the various
national and international uninns
to work in this Southern drive. mn.
der the direction of the centra1
committee made up of Paul Smith
w. C. Birthright of Tennessee anf
Vice President Gorham of fbe
United Textile Workers. Most =,
these men have been instructed H.
their own organizations executives,
to do general organizing work anr
not TO confine their efforts n ~
creasing the membership az tba;,
own unions, in the present cam.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
IN LINE WITH MODERN
TREND

Editor of the Producers News.
l hear that the pastor of the
Congregational church plans to
have dances in connection with re-
ligious ser vices. While this has not
been confirmed / have reason to
believe it is true and if so / wish
to congratulate our go-getting
Congregational divine on his rec
ognition of the spirit of this age.
l know for a fact that many people
go to church nowadays not because
they are interested in drowsy SER
mons but because they think it's
the proper thing to do. Most men
of my acquaintance are indifferent
to religion and many of them at
tend services to please their wives.
The reason for this growing in
difference is not due so much to
spiritual weakening as to the fail
ure of preachers to realize that
this is fast moving age and that
many forms of competition tend to
distract the masses from their spir-
itual duties.
/ The moving picture houses have
done more to wean people away
from the church than any other
factor. Then there is the radio
Splendid programs come over the
ether and families prefer to spenC
the evening in the privacy of theil
homes to taking a chance on a dull
sermon.
\. Magazines such as Liberty, Life
Judge, The American Mercury anC
Plain Talk are VIGOROUSLY cynica
regarding religion-Liberty in par
ticular. 1t takes evolution fo
granted which leaves no room 70
the Christian deity. The churche
must wake up. Many people will,
am sure, be brought closer to tn
church by means of clean health,
amusement. They will come b
dance and remain to pray.
"A ~Non-denominational Christian
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
LET THERE RE ONT

When promoters started to drill for oil at Arch
er last fall and dig for money in brentwood and
vicinity there was great rejoicing among the cit
henry and high hopes were held that the operations
of the pioneer diggers would be crowned with suc-
cess
The wheat crop had failed and the prospect for
prosperity was gloomy, even in the DAYS before
Col Sheridan, hero of the world war and Corn.
Winters sent an army of occupation into PLENTY
wood to wipe the smile off the scofflaw's face and
the beam from the eye of the bootician. But still
there was hope. We might strike oil.
And there is no reason to give up hope vet.
Thanks to the enterprise of the editor of the Red
stone Review the citizens of this well newspapered
town were treated TO a report of a recent meeting
of the stockholders of the Plentywood- Redstone
Holding Company, the title of an organization
which specializes in purchasing leases in the vicin
lty OF the wildcat at Archer According to the re-
port the directors of this company are still optis
TIC though many will regret to note that the name
OF our successful promoter, Lard S. Olson is miss
ing from the roster of the newly elected board
AS the presence of the stormy petrol is signal
10 the mariner that he may expect bad weather.
the association of Lard s. Olson with a business
venture is an omen of success. We have known
Lard since he Joined the Nonpartisan League when
ne saw by the signs of the zodiac that the farmers
were about to come into their own politically. He
knew good thing when he spied it and tho he
never got farther than justice of the peace and his
legitimate emoluments in that capacitv were not
munificent, he at least showed that he had nose
for a gnod thing, even though he keeps his nose
well up in the air.
Ever since then Lard has been a bowling success
In al his business ventures He was one of the first
20 see the possibilities in the oil scheme at Archer
ana SO eloquent was he in painting the geological
virtues of Archer from the oil mans point of view
that the canny promoters took him u-to their hos
ON and bought him for much on ne hoof, pro
Vlded lac Kept on hoofiAg end beefiny.
AS result of Lards vocal efforts. Peep. Al
mean and ala became awar, of the possibilities %
sheridan county as an oily Ell Dorado Lard work
ca hard and honestly for his small salary of s125
month and mileage. And Lard did some driving
Even when visiting the drilling operations on Sun
days ne kept his motor running while he sat In ms
limousine taking the bows from the awed and wor-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

paign. The central committee
hopes to put at the task of organ
izing the steel workers in Birming-
ham and the textile workers in the
Carolinas some of the cleverest or
ganizers from other trades-men
experienced in dealing with dis
cOuraging handicaps, possessing a
courage, persistence and good hu-
NOR that will save many a situa-
ton from the ruin planned by pro-
vocative gunner and "best cit1-
zen" mobbers.
Federation headquarters has no
thing to say as to the project
launched at the Toronto conven-
ton, last October, to raise a fund
of $1,000,000 to finance the gener-
al operation of this drive. The fact
is that money is hard to get, when
the Federation approaches its af-
filiated unions. Proposal of a levy
of, say, 20 cents per member on
2,750,000 union members, to raise
S55O,OOO, sound simple but it i'm
plies unity of aim which does not
exist. Levying a per capita tax on
any labor union makes trouble, es-
| pecially in recent years of "strict-
ly business unionism. Officers
who urge such an assessment apol-
ogize for their action, and fear its
retribution when they again run
for office. Generosity in union
meetings is less than in the pio-
neer DAYS of the movement. The
Federation will not ask for a gen.
eral levy, even to unionize the
South. It will not raise any con-
siderable part of s1,000,000 for the
lob. It viii rely on its affiliated
unions to maintain their organic
ers in the field. and it will do with
out an adequate publicity office,
statistical staff, etc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

AGREES WITH MOE AND HILL
YARD
Editor. The Producers News:

Editor. The Producers News:
AS far as / am concerned l
would not care if there wasn't a
barber, doctor or a bootlegger in
the world. / don't shave, drink or
eat meat and never have any need
to patronize either of these profess
sions. But it seems to me that the
letter in your paper last week by
Moe and Hilyard hit the nail on the
head. If l wanted shave-which
the Lord forbid would go to a
place where l would be sure that
everything was of the best. A few
cents more would not make any
difference to me. This business of
low prices is what is hurting
things. Keep money in circulation,
Pay high wages and then those
that get the high wages will spend
| it for other things. How can a mas
ter barber pay a living wage to
his help unless he charges a reas-
enable price for his shave? If the
BARRIERS must cut their prices theI
the restaurant keepers, the moving
picture people, the merchants, The
doctors and the lawyers will be ex
pected to cut theirs. Who will b
the gamer? Nobody. Competition
you say. Bunk is my answer.
would like Moe and Hilyard t.
give the name of the business mai
who took his boy where he coult
get the cheapest haircut. / woul,
ike to ask that man, whatever h
is selling, why he doesn't cut hi
prices, no matter what they ar
now. / bet he'd walk as far to col
lect ten cents as he walked to saw
it on hair cut.
The Bearded Bey of Outlool
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
VERMONT RUM RUM Law
DECLARED INVALID

Montpelier, VT, Jan. a. The
disclosure provision of Vermont's
inhibition enforcement law, re-
p1,iring those found guilty of in
toxication to tell where they pro-
cured their liquor, was pronounced
constitutional by Chief Justice
caorgo NJ. Powers in an opinion
hsnded down in the Vermont su-
MEME court here today. The act
Tos nassed as an amendment to
ne 4 8 enforcement law by the legis-
I IslI in 1921. In declaring it IN
l aon usat;tutional Chief Justice Powers
J ALI "the legislature of Ver-
o usont. in its zeal to add strength
u t,0a the Vermont prohibition law,
ss43te rnO to take from citizen
a' sa,.t # the privileges guaranteed
a pa him under the constitution of
Vermont"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
HIP POCKET ANTHOLOGY

When sharp competition first hit this town
And the ranks of the bootleggers rent
The people looked on with scowl and frown
AS if on them plague had been sent;
While the booticians bickered the prohibs looked
wise
Pretty soon the rum sellers they d roll
But who would have thot or cen dared to surmise
That they d bring in the Alley Patrola
The Lassez faire era now seems gone for good
1t is Auf Wiedersehn for free trade
There's no longer a safe place in old Plenty1wood
For lad to make love to fair maid
And doctor with doctor in battle is locked
BARRIERS fight Ger the citizens roll
With the thunder of battle the city is rocked
Despite the brave Alley Patrol.
This bard sends call out to all the good folk
To walk in the path of the Lord
leave quarrel and strife the rube and the bloke
And to live in love, peace and accord
If you don't mend your manners before many days
You will all find yourselves up pole
For the lawyers will get you in more than two ways
\ And you'll still have the Alley Patrol.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
PROFESSOR WILSON
WILL LECTURE ON
FARMING PROBLEM

Bozeman, Mont, Jan. 1S.-Mon-
tana farmers who are good bust
ness men and efficient in their
methods and who are located on
good land where conditions are
favorable for large scale, low cost
production will be able to compete
with farmers in any part of the
world in growing wheat; others
had better start now to work into
those enterprises or combination
of enterprises to which their To-
cality is best adapted.
M. L. Wilson, head of the de-
partment of agricultural econom-
les at Montana State College, and
one of the nations leading agricul-
tural authorities, expresses this
opinion. The subject of world
competition in agriculture will be
discussed by him in a talk on Rus
STA and the Worlds Wheat Supply
on the opening night of Farm and
Home Week which starts February
3, at Montana State College, Boze-
man.
Some Will Be Forced Out.
Mr.. Wilson is not an alarmist
when it comes to wheat production
| in Montana. He believes that GER
tain areas, where the most eff.
cient large scale methods can be
applied, will be able to meet any
competition the world may offer
On the other hand, he believes thai
farmers who insist on specializing
in wheat production in small units
under conditions unadapted to thu
; most efficient methods and ma
chinery will be forced out of tn
race. Their one hope OF remain
ing IS farmers, as he sees it, is Il
! start now to-gls lilly work int
livestock or other adapted enter
| prises where there is a bette
chance of competing.
His conclusions are based on hi
observations in Russia and othe
] European and Asiatic countrie
last year. He points out that i
Russia, with its untold millions o
e acres, the Soviet government ha
: launched a movement to industrial
: ize agriculture which undoubtedl,
e will have profound effect upol
: the world wheat market. Develop
n ments in the Argentine and Cana
: da add TO the intensity of the i'm
a pending struggle. according to tn
: Montana Economist.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

best best weekly newspaOe,
northwest nc or indeed f n sr IN th
the country. l have any part q
dailies in every state i; Il X and
but yours is about tba ene union
gresslve publication tbo Oniy pro.
t IN cream of the news '% -. gVs
re and-this is VIII. t0r You
the best about it: it gives Sna y | Lie
Sheridan county NAV MS S say.
proud of the Prodncs,. wen wei b
nave n always been interested e \. !, ]
farmer-labOr movement f'eq IN The
ported the Nonpartisan 7 | SUP
its fighting avs. I am so, league h
that the old spirit seems 70 Sg
gone out of most of the NoI 70 b
san san, League papers. But your par.
still keeps the flag flvinS, u papa
up for what it thinks E I, :, ,;a SAND :
strikes from the shoulder a a,spt i 4
not fear the CONSEQUENCE. ana ,cOel
interesting. More power 's = II L
elbow, Taylor. l would Ike y You
you here. mt 70 med
Jack WithersrD0.
Deer IodCe Mop+o AP'OnS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
Deer Lodge, Montana.

MissOula.-UP- Recent tsd.,.,
bag limit reduction of dS. tLsOsisl
geese is of mutual benefit = - q. ~
sportsmen and the game, aeeo ~ .
to Tom Marlowe, chairman ~ ~
game commission. The fac, ~ =.
only Is ducks and 4 geese -, IA y
shot daily hereafter, will tend =
check the game bird decrease . =, :
at the same time, will guar r :,
good hunting in the future,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

The Prince of Wales while crossing the equator
contributed to the gayety of the aristocratc pas
sengers by shaving his attendant with wooden
razor The Prince would not get many laughs in
Pientywood with such tool even tho he performed
for nothing. Certainly not from the BARRIERS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24
A WORD OF PRAISE

Editor. The Producers News:
Since you publish letters attack
ing your paper, which shows that
YOU are rot afraid of criticism let
me say a word of praise for the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

The Dagmar Farmer says that if man received
$1,000 day for 1880 years and saved every pen
ny of it he would not be as rich as Henry Ford
right Well, that's something for Frank French
to worry about next fall.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-24

A Approximately IA miles Of ia
eral and State Highway betrss
Malta and DOdsOn has been gr !.
ed. 1E
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-05
Hope for "Hasbeens" in
Work of Rehabilitation

Once old shoes functioned better
than any other articles to cast after
weddingers to bring them good luck.
Those days for disabled shoes are
gone. Now they are turned into per-
fumery by byproducts company OF
Los Angeles.
Four and q half million wornOut
shoes of the Angelenos are converted
into chemicals annually. And 35O,-
100000 more are imported from other
parts of the country.
We have met some old shoes yet
In service that would seem to BATTLE
any perfume maker. 1t must take
considerable reformation and de-
bunking for them to qualify.
New Orleans has been the port Of
old rags from Europe for long time
and we can grasp the process that
makes them into paper. It is within
our understanding to conceive how
an old wreck of a car may be
smashed by trip hammers into bales
of old iron for the furnace. 1t does
stretch the Imagination to hear that
superannuated fyswatters, passe
alarm clocks, umbrella frames and
old bed springs may be transmitted
into something worth while. How
ever, 1t is not without the range Of
thought.
But the possibilities in old shoes
makes us ready to believe almost
anything. We are now beginning to
dream that some one will find a
place in the economy Of things for
jaywalkers, politicians and neckers.
Hope for every frazzled old bum is
born.-Los Angeles Times.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-05
Varying Opinions as to
"Books All Should Have"

There is house in Chelsea which
bears the intriguing sign, '"The House
of the Nine Books" The nine books
are those which, in the occupiers
opinion, ought to be in every home.
They are the Bible, Plato's IKE
public" Homer, Horace, "The Ara
bian Nights" Dante's "Divine Com
edy," Don Quixote," Shakespeare, and
Grimms 'Fairy Tales"
This is an interesting list, but now
many people will agree with itT Many
of us would like to substitute Milton
for Horace; and if Grimm is included
for the children's benefit, wouldn't
Hans Christian Anderson be better
choice?
But no two people would make out
the same list. What would you say
were the nine books that ought to be
in every home? Write them down
and ask your friends to do the same,
and you will be amazed, both at the
variety of the titles, and also at the
way in which some Of them occur In
every, or almost every. list.-LondoD
Answers.