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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-30

The Polish postoffice service ras
one unit for every $500 persons.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-30

STRAYED or stolen-Bird dog pup:
white with black head and bohbed
tail. Reward. Phone l409W.
D-26i
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

sion that the Senator is pointing
his trembling finger at Taylor and
The Producers News-that was to
be expected
However, The Producers News.
and Editor Taylor are not guilty.
1t may be Of course that Banker
John in the condition of mind that
he seems to be in, may imagine
that we are-that too, is to be ex-
pected. We had always understood
that John Schnitzler was a very
rich man. We understand that he
has collected 10 and II per cent
and bonuses for the last quarter
of a century with the deftness Of
a genius; and have we not read
that John says that he can make
plenty of money raising wheat at
so cents the busheI. So we have
never had either a reason or an
occasion to make a disparaging re-
mark about his financial ability or
the enterprises with which he Is
connected. Johns delusionS to the
contrary notwithstanding.
However. we do confess that
Johns noise about his financial
strength and TIE sort Of shop" he
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
Neediest Cases Appeal Draws Attention
to Rotten Social System
By SCOTT NEARING, Federated Press

The New York Sunday Times of December
published its 18th annual insIallment of Neediest
Cases. Each year, early in December, this collection
of CHASTITY family histories appears and year after
year the wen-to-do drop penny in the New York
Times hat and go their comfortable way, feel
ing that they have done what they could.
The Times special writer's, who handle the Hun
dred Neediest stories make great point of the
innocence of these victims. They are men, women
and children who suffering from hunger and
exposure, not through any fault of theirown, but
because of some event like sickness, accident or
death or unemployment, that is quite beyond their
control
These Hundred Neediest, the Times writers as
sert the victims of poverty for which they are
in way personally responsible. They do not take
the next step and point out obvious fact that the
great mass of poverty is the direct result of a
wage scale so low that, living under it. families
cannot be anything else than poor.
The New York Industrial Commission publishes
a monthly list of wages in the chief industries In
practically all of the chief lines of manufacturing
in New York City and New York state the aver
age weekly earnings are less than $780, In some of
the lines they are less than $40.
The other day talked with New York worker
who had what he called "a good steady job" He
was an able-bodied, intelligent, semi-skilled man,
working an eleven hour day and receiving S2250
per week.
In families where such man is the sole bread
winner, as he was IN this case how can they es-
cape poverty? Such wages are poverty wages, and
even an unframed mind is quickly led to the con-
clusion that so long such wage scales are paid,
poverty must continue.
There is another notable fact about this Hundred
,Neediest appeal. AS year have gone by, the need
has grown. The Times fund helped IA families in
1912; 202 in 1920; $40 in 1925 and ass in 1929.
Through these Is years New York City has grown
immensely in wealth. Year by year. with the in
crease in wealth, there has been an Increase in
poverty.
This year is exceptionally bad Never have there
been so many breadlines; never such numerous and
such urgent demands upon the charity societies;
and this year follows Immediately upon the heels
OF the greatest period of prosperity in the history
OF the United States and of the city of New York.
Men and women must be blind indeed who can
not see the relation between this rising tide of
wealth and the growing spectre of poverty. In the
richest city of the richest capitalist nation. after
years OF such poverty the American ruling class
mas never known, poverty looms - more menac.
ing than at any time in two decades
Yes the poor need bread, and without il thew diel
But that is not the real need The real need i
Tor group Of men and women in America with
the vision and the courage 10 build form of So
ciety from which poverty, like every Other nIa01'e
viii have been banished
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

savings, cannot withdraw their money. Over 2Oz
million dollars in deposits are involved
So serious is the situation that the leading bank
ers of Wall Street held an all night conference al
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, In an at
tempt to correct" the situation The closing OF
these SO branches of this New York bank gives the
lie to Hoover, Mellon and Barnes claims that the
ITO bank crashes which occurred in November thus
year alone IN the south and west, involving $780,
900 900 were sectional" matters and do not affect
the general banking system of the United States.
To date, excluding the Bank of the United States
there have been 7S4 bank failures this year In
the United States, involving 317 million dollars In
deposits It has been the boast of the capitalists
and their spokesman that the present economic
crisis different than previous ones In that the
banking structure was not affected The huge IN
crease in bank failures over the 192O-21 crisis
shows this to be lie out of the whole cloth. The
situation now is comparable to the 1894 and 1907
crises, which were accompanied by heavy bank fail
ures.
ering a merger with other banks in New York
The merger attempt failed The true causes behind
it have not been made public. For the working
class the closing Of these SO branches is frought
with serious consequences. Most of the branches
were in working class districts. There is mass
employment, and thousands of the depositors were
living on their few pennies in the bank.
The boast Of the American capitalists about the
savings of the American workers obviating the
necessity for unemployment insurance is receiving
death blows. The talk about the banking system
coming out of the crisis unscather is overwhem-
ingly smashed by the record number of bank fail
already reported. The Journal of Commerce,
an important Wall Street organ, some time ago
made survey of the banking situation and ode
plored' the difficult position that many banks
were in.
The bank crashes are part of the fundamental
and depp-going crisis Of American capitalism. The
financial structure of world capitalism is serious
ly affected. The HAIRY failure in London involved
one billion dollars. The Oustric crash in
France is rocking the financial system of that ma
ton
There is little doubt that the closing of the Bank
of the United States will have far reaching results
That the big imperialist banks stand to gain as a
result of the liquidation of the smaller and weak
er banks is admitted by the National City Bank
bulletin for December 1880, when they say that
bank failures are "the natural process by which
the weaker units forced to hquidate or to
merge with stronger Institutions
The economic crisis of American capitalism is
getting deeper shaking the sterilization of the en-
tire system. The workers are being made to pay
in wage cuts, in unemployment and starvation
IN speed-up and in threatened loss of their few
pennies scraped together by sweat and toll Every
where the workers, in connection with the growing
number of bank failures, must raise the demand
for the payment of all small depositors in full.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

Mt. Olive, Ill-FP- In accord
ance with her last wishes Mother
Jones was laid to rest December 8
in the little miners cemetery of
Mt. Olive by the side of the boys
shot down by operators gunner in
the Virden massacre of 1898. Gray
haired survivors of the massacre
acted as pail bearers. Twenty
thousand coal iigga : representing
every mine local in central Illinois
marched five abreast in 4 line two
miles long from the tiny church
Through the rain to the side of
the grave where the body of the
century old miners leader was
buried.
Forty thousand miners, their
wives and other unionists made the
pilgrimage from the Illinois coal
fields to see the body of the fiery
organizer whose name was synon-
ymoas with the militant organic
ing tactics which characterized a
past epoch in American labor his
tory. They moved slowly, silently
through the flower-banked Odd
Fellows hall to pay their last tri-
butte TO Mother Jones. In one day
nearly $4,000 passed the bier
wherein lay the white-haired fig
ure Of Americas most outspoken
and best loved labor organizer.
Conspicuous by absence was any
tribute, floral or otherwise, from
the general offices of the Indian
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
JOHN SCHNITZLER

This week John Schnitzler, of Froid senate,
from Roosevelt county, National Committeennsn
from Montana, famous county banker eminent ao-
il ai and distinguished explorer of the &C.
leSual areas, felt it necessary to publish two
column screed on the front page of Harrv PAIL
and Burley BOwler's paper, telling the world what
man ne Is. and IN fit of mental ALTERATION gave
expression to exaggerated and unrestrained 49,
worthy OF drunken fishwife. That John should
pa.romze the organ of the erotics mentioned above
Is thing OF no surprise though the uuhIic oarar
ally Is amazed at the-wen to be as kind as nos.
slDre-aooney TRADE published in the @chipuv rsp
mere Is only one conclusion inferable from fhs
scurr1ious screed which he published over the MIR.
ported statement of the State Bank of Fro;d an5
OF the Schntzer Corporation, and his orand;oss
reIerence to himself, and from the shops that he
puphshes from time to time, and that Is that
sonns mmd rather than his enterprises. is failing
anyway ms references to snakes and viuers. liz.
arcs and red eyed dragons are symutomat;c
Just what It Is that irritated John we have No
i1ea one might infer from his vitroIic and rsrns
pung and lncoherent diatrbe that Somebody whom
ne refers to as snake has been QUESTIONING tbs
Sweeney OF his business enterprises This sc6;v,v
rag up the street of course jumuS at tb enejsI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

has been peddling of late, would
Justify anyone's becoming saspi-
cious. 1t sounds ike the maise
many another has made when in
an embarrassed situation: for m
stance, the line that T. L. Beisek=
err used to peddle near the close Of
his career. He pasted in the door
of the old Sheridan County State
Bank a legend to the effect that
two millions dollars were behind
it. Sheridan county lost $150,00O
in that bank. And the sunshine
he is peddling is bad in two ways:
First, one wonders what's the
idea behind it and, second, whe-
Their his brain is softening just a
trifTe. Neither of these suspicious
are conducive to confidence.
We hope that the Polk organ
collects for this front page publici-
ty. They should get it in advance
for we know of publicity that John
has contracted for that he settled
for at about a 300 discount, be.
cause he had the party in hole
and was not above doing it, even
though he has just coolies of gack.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

apolis faction of the United Mine
Workers, although Pres. Green,
frmer miners secretary, sent a
floral wreath. No acknowledge
ment came from John L. Lewis to
mark the funeral ceremonies of
the woman who was the biggest
factor in. organizing the West Vir-
ginia miners and who fought side
by side with miners in Illinois and
a dozen other mining fields.
At the memorial services on De-
cember z, 500 miners and their
wives crowded into the Odd Fell
lows temple while 5000 outside
heard the services through ampli-
fiers. Station VIGIL owned by the
Chicago Federation of Labor,
broadcast the orations of Father
Mcguire of st. Viator's College
and Sec. John lei. Walker of ehs
Springfield faction Of the United
Mine Workers. IL
Every local union of central Il
iinois had its delegation on the q
mile procession to the union GEM
etery on the edge of townwhere
are buried the miners shot down
in the Virden massacre of 1898.
Six bands marched in the process
sion. All places of business in Mt.
Olive had been closed by order Of
the mayor.
Scores of labor officials attended
the funeral.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

modities 1t has discovered thru in
veStigation that groceries sell for
about $3.50 less at Archer, Ray
mond, Dagmar and Reserve than
they do in Plentywood, while
staple drygoods is ever so much
cheaper still. Many Plentywood
people right now buy their GRO
ceries at Archer because of the
saving.
Now we find that at Lewistown
and Great Falls, Montana, the
prices on the following items are
advertised as follows.
Sweet corn, 25 cents a can in
Plentywood-5 cans for 40 cents
at Great Falls. Coffee, pound, steel
cut in cans, Plentywood As cents
Lewistown % cents-Great Falls
81 cents. Tomatoes, large can,
heavy pack, Dagmar Is cents
Archer IA cents -Plentywood %
cents-Great Falls IA cents.
Lima beans: Plentywood 25
cents per pound-Great Falls 1914
cents a pound. Sweet Potatoes in
Plentywood 80 cents a pound, Lew
istown 8 pounds for % cents
Peanut butter, pound jar, Plen-
tywood 80 cents, Lewistown Zoe.
Red Salmon, PlentywOod Accents
and same can in Lewistown %
cents.
And here are some more Lewis
town prices taken from the Dem
ocrat News of December 10th: De-
icious apples, big, S1.S5 box
Fancy Jonathans S1.95 box. Nc
Intosh apples, box S1.39. Carrots,
10 pounds for % cents; parsnips
pounds for % cents; Small
squash 8 for 25 cents; rutabaggas
pounds for 25 cents; grape fruit
fancy Florida, 8 for 25 cents, 6 fol
AZ cents; oranges 4 dozen for SO
cents; grapes, 8 pounds for 2s
cents.
/ : Christmas candy 10 cents the
pound; celery 1S cents the bunch;
fresh chocolate drops 1 pound fol-
Is cents; American cream cheese
pound 80 cents; walnuts Is cents g
pound. Peanuts, fresh roasted
pounds for 49 cents.
The above are the prices adver-
tised abroad. Sheridan county con.
sumers can compare the prices
they are asked with them. 1t viii
be enlightening.
And when they go home. they
can figure out just who is knock,
ing Plentywood.
! Next week we viii make a com.
parison of merchandise prices
charged by Plentywood merchant:
and the mail order houses.
Farmers who get so cents fol
their wheat will appreciate aftel
studying these figures the Plenty
wood shirt.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
PIentyWood Prices

The Producers News has said
that things cost more here than
in other places. The little painted
lady down the street rushes to the
defense of the so-called merchants
and denounces the farmers paper
for exposing the hi-jacking of he
people of this section IaEIcg times
like these. The faemirS 0f the
farmer, those who would pick his
bones, say that the Producers
News, when it calls attention to
PlentywOod Prices, is knocking
Plentywood. We wonder if it is.
The Producers News contends
that these unjuStifiable prices for
the things which the farmer buys
the Incompatible stupidity of these
ridiculous small town petty bust
nessmen, who would bOycotte the
farmers paper for protesting in
behalf of the farmers, are those
who are knocking the town - in
fact killing it deader than a door
nail-and not The Producers News,
which would bring about a condi-
ton that would bring people here
instead of driving them away.
Probably no place in the world
could be found the outfit" to be
found here. They do not know the
simplest basic principles of mer-
chandising: they know nothing of
community building: they mark
goods up as prices fall: they spend
their money advertising in Wolf
Point, and at election time vote
for Medicine Lake: they boycotte
and kill every home industry in
the town and fight the farmers,
their customers, at every excuse.
We say these men are the enc
mics of Plentywood and them
selves, and not he Producers News,
BY their attitude and policy they
drive the farmers to send their
money away, and why should they
not when every merchant in town
is doing that very thing when he
can save a dime-a survey of the
mail order business right now dis
closes that four dollars is being
sent away to where one is being
spent here. No wonder brentwood
merchants stand about and suck
their thumbs, while their goods
lay on their shelves. When they
do advertise their sales most OF
them don't cut prices. Every wo-
man knows that and laughs wher
the ads come out. Plentywood's so.
called businessmen think they car
get away with this stuff.
! When business passes their dool
they blame it on to The Producer:
News.
The Producers News is going t,
publish each week a comparison o.
Plentywood prices and the price:
at other places, on different com
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

girls attended from Sheridan, Dan
iels and Roosevelt counties.
The home demonstration pro-
gram. this year Is conferred around
the family food supply. With an
income less than usual there il
greater need than usual for max
ing sure that money is spent wise
ly for groceries and other essen
halS. The women of Sheridan and
other counties realize that a
knowledge of food values, feed
preservation, brands, methods of
buying, ETC., will aid them in more
wisely expanding their food money.
Hence the home demonstration
agent and the foods and nutrition
specialist have been requested to
give guidance In this in order that
good health may be insured at the
least possible cost.
Special attention will be given
to the utilization of home grown
products. Later in the year help
will be given with care, repair and
relnodeling of clothing.
With interest increasing in Al
club and home demonstration work
IN three counties the demands on
the district home demonstration
agents time made it imperative
that the territory covered by he
district agent be reduced. The a.
Variability of funds from the de-
partment of the interior at Wash
ington, d. c., made work with In
dians possible in Roosevelt county
which made it possible for Roose-
welt county to employ a full time
agent which relieved the district
agent beginning in May of this
year from working in Roosevelt
county and left her free to devote
half time. each In Sheridan and
Daniels counties for which each
county now pays $500 or travel
and demonstration expense. The
salary of the agent is paid from
federal funds.
Vacation Camps
Three Women's Vacation camp:
have been held at Brush Lake anc
have served not only as a means
of acquainting those who ATTENDED
with the newer phases of home
demonstration work but they have
been a source of inspiration anC
recreation.
Homemakers in Sheridan county
will do well to continue their HON,
demonstration club work during
the long winter months which ar,
ahead. Attending a club meeting
often helps to break the monoton!
of housekeeping and gives renew
ed courage and energy to attacl
the daily tasks which are essentia
to family comfort, health and hap
! piness.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
Friday, December l9. 1880
DIVIDENDS VERSUS PRINCIPAL

The Echo of Alexandria, Minnesota is having its
troubles too. The paper is furnishing its readers
with a lot of local news and advertising and its
shareholders with 1870 dividend.
Some of the shareholders says: "Let US have
more advertising and more dividend" Others say:
ITO hell with your advertising and your dividends.
Let US have a paper that stands for something
and Is worth while reading"
So now they are going to have shareholders
meeting and fight it out.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
MORE BANKS BLOW UP IN
THE PAST FEW DAYS

Vermillion, S. D.-Special- The
bank of Meckling at Meckling, S.
D., eight miles northwest Of here,
closed its doors Tuesday morning
after a state bank examiner had
taken charge. Henry Taylor, Meek
ling and Vermi1lion banker, pres
ident of the institution had been
in active charge of the bank the
past eight years.
The public was amazed at this
failure as the Institution was be-
lieved to be as strong as Gibraltar.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
TWO Ho, OTHER SOUTH DAKo-.
BANKS CLOSE THEIR HiSH n'oCA

The Brown County BakiDrc
ParIg closed its doors - S eng Con-
closed. i1ieid LsO
The First National AMI -
National, oldest banks h Sou
s city, . south Dakota, were : S.So1
Tor repairs last SATURDAY. eOsed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

A tremendous shock was suffered BY the finan-
cial structure of American capitalism in the very
heart of the money capitol Of the United States
by the closing up Thursday morning of 50
branches Of the Bank of the United States Tens of
thousands of workers, many of they UNEMPLOYED
and dependent for their bread on their meaore
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

Work started on oons,-,..,-
the temporary guard rail- 49,. q
narrow stretch Of road Sa. me
Bozeman and Livingston. "een
Columbus-The Saltwater pc,,..
Association sold its ThanLsSSi-,i.,uIlyy
turkeys to G. A. Norris. local c S,srns
cry man. o'eAiil-
Livingston-The cornerstone ~.
been laid for new NationoI ~
Bank building. Fank
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
THREE MIDWEST
BANKS ARECLOSED

chicago; Dec. "a IT,
more small midwest 80
closed their doors TO-DAY.
In Iowa. the WASN'T -.
bank with deposits o. sIss
600 was closed By its dr..
ors. This was the seventh -.
failure IN Iowa within > S Dsa
In Illinois the First y,T... ~
al bank Of Sesser. cauisE.ss
at SIS, 900. failed to ou-- &c. -
business; in Wisconsin ~
State Bank o. Elroy with -
posts Of $4,000 was Co. =,
by the state banking den.,s
ment. Two other Wisrnr.;.
banks closed for reorvani,,
ton. were re-Opened.
Six banks in the Midv,.,
failed yesterday. Dec. IL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19

Relief for the Unemployed: Fundamentally we
are sound. Calvin Coolidge.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-19
Aches and
PAINS!

When you take Bayer Aspirin vou
are sure of two things. It's sure relief
and it's harmless. Those tablets with
the Bayer cross do not hurt the hear
lake them whenever you suffer from
Headaches Neuritis
Selds NEURALGIA
Sore Throat Lumbaqo
Rheumatism Toothache
When your head aches-fron ann
cause-when a cold has settled n
your joints, or you feel those deer,-
down pains Of rheumatism. sc;af;cs
or iumbago, take Bayer Aspirin ar5
get real relief. II the package sav. .
Bayer' it's genuine. And genuine
Bayer Aspirin is safe.
Aspirin IS the trademark Of R.v~~
manufacture of monoaceticac;des+er
Of salicylicacid.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
January Clearance of Ready
Ready to Wear, Coats and
Dresses.

Sometimes people think that
clearance apparel is undesir-
able-that it has no claim to
smartness. But just the OPP
posite is true Of the coats and
dress we will sell during this
January clearance Of Ready-to
Wear. Most beautiful, most
smartIy, they tell of the win
tiers mode. IF you would
boast Of wisdom in buying
you will purchase here to-
morrow.
Johnsons Store
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
Congregational Church

Inc Congregational People viii
hold their first service il their new
building next Sunday. One specia.
feature of this service will be some
pipe organ music On the Edison Com
oinatlon and Record machine. The
choir vii also have special music and
the pastor will preach on the topic
OF" What is The Church to society ?"
Sunday scnool at 1000 A. M.
Rally dinner on Friday, January
10th.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-02
Mrs Tom CrOne is
HonOred at Shower

A miscellaneous shower given Mon
lay evening by Myrtle Donaldson and
Mrs. C. F. Christensen at the Dom
aldson home complimented Mrs. Tom
Crone, a recent bride. Bridge was
the diversion for the evening which
consisted of three tables. The hon
nored guest received many pretty and
useful gifts from her many friends
present, which numbered fifteen.
Mrs. Crone is teaching near Dagmar
and is spending part of her vacation
with her sister Myrtle Donaldson.