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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
ENGINEERS WORKING
ON FLOOD CONTROL
IN GLASGOW REGION

Glasgow, Aug. 24.-Two parties
of United States army engineers
arrived in Glasgow to survey the
country drained by the Missouri
river.
Five men make up each of the
parties, headed by VIM. P. Bush
nell and A. w. Gregg. Sam Neff,
area engineer, has arrived to take
charge.
Starting last April at Kansas
City, the crews have been working
up the river. Before coming to
Glasgow they were stationed at
Mobridge, S. D. Now they are
working in the Dry Creek country
southeast of town and will go west
to Squaw and Telegraph creeks
The survey will end at Fort Ben.
ton, if present plans are complet-
ed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Bearings Need Tightening

In County Attorney Bakewell's
mind the buildings on Mig Collins
old place has been walking all over
the county lately. Mysterious calls
have come to him at all hours of
the night and caused much worry
and loss of sleep-at times he has
found it necessary to arouse the
sheriff's force from its peaceful
slumbers.
In order TO solve the mystery a
hearing was held before Judge S.
E. Paul this, Friday, morning. but
after Attorneys Blackwell, Greer,
Babcock, Sheriff Madsen, Ex-sher-
Tiff Salisbury and Tonsorial Artist
Moe all had their little say the
Court was hopelessly confused
Blackwell asked for a restraining
order against somebody prevent
ing them from doing something
they never did or intended to do.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
GRENORA BANK
ROBBED FRIDAY
7 Asst FRIDAY afternoon a couple

I Asst FRIDAY afternoon a couple
l. men parked a Ford sedan in
front of the bank at Grenora.
Several men sitting on the steps
of the bank talked of hard times
while the two holdup men entered
the bank, locked the cashier in the
vault, walked out and drove away
with what they had been able to
get hold of in a hurry, which is
said to be about $1,000.
1t is reported they dropped a $40
bill on the floor as they left the
institution.
The abandoned car is said to
have been found abandoned near
Circle, Montana and it is thought
the hold up artists at that point
doubled back on their trail and
went back to Wolf Point.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
TAXES ON CARS
EXCEED VALUE
Official of National Automobile
Association Says Levies Against
Automobiles are Too High.

Washington,-That the tax levies
on the average motor vehicle thru
out it's life amount to 1880 of
the average value of the behicle is
one of the outstanding findings of
the national taxation committee Of
the American Automobile Associa-
ton.
when the point is reached that
any form of property pays taxes
in excess of its value, it becomes
a question of how long that form
of property and the services de-
pendent upon it can stand the
strain" Col. Sidney D. Waldron of
Detroit, chairman of the A.A.A.
national taxation committee declar-
ed. He continued:
"The average motore vehicle on
the street, according to compre-
hensive charts developed by our
committee, has an average value
through life of 25.48 per cent of
its purchase price. The purchase
price of the average motor vehicle
in 1880 vas $808. If the average
value of vehicles through live is
applied to this purchase price, it
will readily be seen that the value
of the average vehicle on the
street in 1880 was $205.88.
"Now the tax levy on the aver
age vehicle in 1890 was $37.72
The vehicle has an average life of
seven year. On the basis of the
tax rate for the last year the av-
erage vehicle through its average
life of seven years will pay taxes
in the amount of $264..04, or 1885,
per cent of its average value
namely, $205.88.
"Thus we have a situation today
where one form of property of vi
tai Importance to the business anC
recreational life of the communit!
and with limited life pays taxes
in excess of the actual average val
ue of the property. Here is one o.
thee outstanding anomalies in tn,
history of taxation. Limitation o
the number of motor taxes leviet
and the placement of the power t.
tax in the state alone. as set fort
in the tax principles recently enun
ciated by the American Automo
| bile Association, would render
much easier to prevent tax dis
termination against the motor We
hicle owners in the years immedi
ately ahead"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
BOYS ALSO HAVE OTHER EX-
PERIENCES ON TRIP TO
HELENA
By the County Agent

THE All LIVESTOCK Judging
team which represented Sheri-
- dan county at the Montana
State Fair which was held last
week at Helena, won third place in
competition with Fl other teams
from the state. The team consist
ed of Olvin Hole, Torlief Aashiem
and Vern Hancock from the Re
serve All live stock club. Earl Hol-
je of the same club also made the
trip with the boys. Although the
boys were fortunate in winning
third place in the livestock judging
contest they were not so fortunate
in other ways as two of the club
members were victims of pick
pockets while attending fair and
had to spend the greater portion OF
the time without funds.
Evidently the pickpockets consid-
cred Torlief Aashiem and Ear
Hole the more prosperous of the
group. Therefore they were re
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
COMPLETEPLAN
FOR THREEDAY
FAIR IN VALLEY

Glasgow, Aug. 3D. The Valley
County Fair will offer three days
of educational features In IL de-
partments free shows, four carni-
val attractions, horse racing, dane
es, $500 in prize money and $1,000
in premiums. One hundred dollars
will be given away every day Of
the fair. There viii be horse races
daily on the parimutuel plan.
Five judges have been announced
and the Judge for school exhibits
will be announced soon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Helena, Montana,
AuO11cf A 1871

Helena, Montana,
August 4, 1881.
To ]. E. Erickson,
State Capitol, Helena, Montana.
THE CRIME which was commit
ted against the school funds Of
this state, in the matter Of oil
leases, and which was referred to
during the campaign of two years
ago, may have been treated as
POLITICAL
With politics out of the way tenn
pOrarily, the measure of Honest
John" may now be taken accurate
ly, but only to serve the purpose
of public enlightenment. The pre-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
A SAFE IS NOT SAFE
ANYMORE

In some mysterious way some
one entered the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. A. o. Opgrande one night
early this week and opened their
safe and got away with $4,000.
The safe was built into the wall
in the basement. In front Of THE
safe was a writing .tesk with the
written combination to the safe
stuck away in one of the pigeon
holes. Very likely the $500 will
be put in circulation by someone
familiar with Mr.. Opgrande's writ
ing desk while he sheriff and his
deputies are looking for ciles.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28

depression, desperation and
bewilderment have caused many
people to wonder why and how
such could occur in land of over
production and plenty.
The present economic situation
is clearly an outgrowth of thous-
ands of unlawful schemes design
ed 10 mulct the people and to en-
rich the profiteers. The success
of these schemes, piloted by a COM
paratively few, and measured in
billions, has pauperized the poor
people while those of moderate cir
cumstances have been and now are
CONTINUED on page FOur)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28

fee gives portions of its substance
to said famished and said portions
are doles.
When the federal government at
divers times furnished money to
buy food for starving Chinese,
Belgians, Armenians, Rumanians,
Russians and Germans-hundreds
Of millions of dollars-the govern
ment gave portions of the sub
Continued on page twO)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Railroads Slashing Rates TO
West Coast for Passengers

Chicago, Aug. 24.-Railroad pas
sengers who travel from eastern
cities to the Pacific coast on the
five Saturdays starting Aug. %
will be offered round trip lower
berths for $50, the Pullman COM
pany announced today.
The reduction of approximately
Is per cent will be an experiment
in attracting additional railroad
and pullman business it is said.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
THE DOLE, THE DOLE, THE WICKED DOLE!
IN THE DAYS of julius Caesar

IN THE DAYS of julius Caesar
/ the dole was a share or portion
distributed among the poor as
a gratuity. It's meaning today is
practically unchanged. 1t is a
share or portion distributed as a
gift of charity. Another name for
,doles is limited aims. One might
say "Hooverized aims"
Every man who feeds a poor,
hungry person gives a portion of
his substance and said portion is a
dole.
Every woman who gives a hun
CRY human being a handout at the
back door gives a portion of her
substance and said portion is a
dole.
Every charitable association that
gives to each Of the famished in
bread line half loaf of bread,
a bowl of soup and a cup of cof-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Woman Assaulter Given
90 Years at Lewistown

Lewistown, Aug. 21.-Describmg
him as a menace to society OF the
worst type, a public enemy ana
vicious in the extreme. Judge 4.
A. Baker Thursday sentenced wal.
ter Jipinich ii serve SO years at
hard labor in the state penltentla-
nv for criminal assault and robbery
of Mrs. Dudley Powell "Wednesday
morning.
Pipinich waived all time and at
torney rights and pleaded guilty.
at 2 o. m. Thursday.
He seemed stunned at the sen
tence. Court officials say it is the
longest prison term ever given u
Fergus county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Canadian Cafe Exchanges
Meals for Wheat; SOC bu.

Lethbridge, Alta, Aug. 24.-One
Lethbridge Cafe operator win ex-
change meals for wheat, another
evidence that the days of barter
are returning. This restaurant,
one of the leading ones in the city
instructs its farmer patrons to take
their wheat to the elevator, get
receipts and he will allow them 50
cents a bushel for all they deliver.
He gives them back coupons IN
change good for further meals.
Theatres, weekly newspapers and
other business firms are also TAX
ing produce in the present emer-
gency.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Pestilence and Starvation ScourgeOrient
Senator Couzens Offers a
Cold Million for Relief

Detroit, Aug. "a A gift of one
million dollars for unemployment
relief in Detroit next winter was
promised to Mayor Frank Murphy
Saturday by United States Senator
James Couzens, republican, Michi-
gan.
Couzens' offer is contingent upon
the ability of the mayors unem-
ployment committee to raise an adj
ditional $4,000, 900 from other pri-
vate sources.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
GREATEST CATASTROPHE nj 5000 YEARS

Hankow Aug. 2l-Death, starvation and pestilence
salked through overwhelming of China today
flood waters that have swept thousands to death and
made upward of thirty million homeless swred in
what is the greatest calamity that has befalen China in
three thousands years of recorded history.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
TheProgressives

By Attorney Jess H. Stevens, Great Falls, Montana
The supreme issue, involving all others, is =
the encroachment of the powerful few upon y
: the rights of the many.-Sen. LaFollette,Sr 3
HAS been conservatively estimated that at least So
OOO residents of Montana will have to be provided
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
NOTICE!

There will be a meeting Of
Local Secretaries and Commit
teemen of the United Farmers
League at the Farmer Labor
Temple in PlentywOod, Thurs
day afternoon at one O'Clock,
September 3rd. for the purpose
of electing a county board and
transacting btherbusiness mat
ters. All Executive Secretar-
les and Committeeman are re-
quested to be present.
RODNEY SALISBURY,
Acting Secretar.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28

would the Governor hold up his
hands and say "The state has not
any money, so there is not any use
calling the Legislature in special
session." Would not all of the
members of the legislature prompt
ly ad gladly ask for special ses-
sion, and offer to serve without
any per diem pay? Why wait
until this calamity is upon US?
Why not prevent the crime that
will undoubtedly be caused by this
Continued on Page TwO)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
AID PROGRAM FOR THE
RELIEF OF TEN MILLIONS UNEM-
PLOYED Is OUTLINED BY CLIFFORD

Head of American Telephone and telegram Companv
Is Named by President Hoover to Direct Relief Work
this Winter National Drive for Local. County
and State Funds to Relieve Distress Among Nations
Ontortunates- and Newspapers VIII be Used to
Stimulate Responsibility Among People.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28

Destruction of this great
inland city of modern China
was threatened by the rising Yang
tse river and general exodus Of
its population Of close to a million
was in progress.
Several hundred miles to the
north the Hwai Ho river was
spreading out over thousands of
square miles in northern Honan
Anhwei and kiangsu provinces,
Eighty counties were reported in
undated, lowlands, villages and
crops were destr>Ved but no esti-
mate of the loss of life was avail
able from the north.
The Hankow area was enguBed
and the seriousness Of the situa-
ton was augmented by the con-
slant stream of refugees pouring
in from other inundated sections.
On RATS made of house doors or
other material, in long treasured
family collins and in sampans, the
fleeing natives arrived. Some cwed
their lives TO the use of crude life
preserN ers made Of goatskins, M
flated with air.
Ha7kow, Aug. o. One-third Of
the entire population of the flood
devastated Wu-Han area has been
''killed, is hopelessly diseased, or is
certain to starve," an official state
ment said today.
Wu-Han includes the three sis
ter cities of Hankow. Wpchang and
tIansan, separated by rivers which
JON &c make the ,na!n course Of
the Yangtse.N The population Of
the cities alone is approximately Z
million and a half, with millions Of
others in surrounding agricultural
districts.
Marking, Aug. o. Disease Il
taking a terrific toll among Yang
tse valley flood sufferers.
A statement of the situation wa
.. given by DIR. J. Fl. Liew, chief o
the Marking health service:
, unless there is immediate reIie
of a gigantic scale the people o
? the Hankow region viii die Xix
: flies.
2 Typhoid, malaria and chOler
CONTINUED on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
CHINESE FLOOD HORRORS BEYOND
DESCRIPTION: DEAD BODIES FLOAT
BY THOUSANDS ON BROAD RIVERS

Dead Cannot be Counted and Vast Hordes are Fleeing
by Every Imaginable Conveyance from Inundated
Areas-Five Hundred thousand Dead in Three Sister
Cities of Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyan-FOur Hum
bred thousand Refugees In Hankow = Famine and
Pestilence Sweeping Great Valley.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
the thoughtIess TO blame

IT is A SIMPLE RULE among
the thoughtless to blame the
head Of government for many
financial calamities. Some are
even so needless Of causes as TO
Law at the door of government all
failures in the production of use,
full things. Realizing how absurd
it usually is to hold government
responsible for failures Of produc-
ton (the cause of famines In times
remotely past) many refuse to try
out mentally how far bad govern
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28

Washington, Aug. 25.-The federal program for relief
OF distress among ten million unemployed next winter
WI be national drive to raise local funds Walter S.
Clifford named by President Hoover to direct relief work
announced yesterday. In brief the plan is to stimulate
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28

Mrs. Ed. VanHee and children,
who have been visiting at the Van
Hee homes in Plentywood the past
two weeks, returned to her home
at Antelope Sunday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
SchnitzIer Called East

Froid, Aug. 23.- Senator John
w. Schnitzler has been called to
Washington, D. c. to attend a
meeting of the federal farm board.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
Blame Him.
BY II. Lowndes Maury,

John ERICKSON MY 10, JOHN
WHEN FIRST WE WE'RE ACQUENT
YOUR FRIENDS WERE MIGHTY THICK,
JOHN
BUT NOW THEY ALI. HAVE WENT.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
FORMER HELENA OFFICIAL RECALLSOn
SCANDAL SUGGESTS CALLING SPECIAL
SESSION LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR

Frank j. Edwards former Mayor of the City of Helena
Several Times Candidate for Governor the Best Post
ed and Most Noted Economist in the State, Sends
Letter Unanswered by Governor to Press for
Publication
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-28
IT is A SIMPLE RULE .amoni

T. X 4 4 + 4 a
Evening star., 1931-12-20
Employment in Motion Picture Houses
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Just as 1t Is the ambition OF nearly
every child to have a job In candy
store at any wage at all or even for
nothing, so at somewhat later age it
is the ambition of not few young peo-
Pile to become ushers in motion picture
theaters. Insatiate in their attitude to-
ward the thrills Of the screen, the op-
portunity of remaining in its proximity
with no out f-pocket cost seems more
than enviable. And to be paid in ad-
dition-well, can life offer more
The United States Bureau Of Labor
Statistics, perennially concerned with
what the working people of the Nation
are doing, what they are earning. how
they are treated and their working con-
ditions, has looked into motion picture
employment and found out some inter-
esting facts.
1t takes good many employees to
run the modern movie house The
public sees the dOOrman and the plati-
num- haired cashier who. like an in
eXorable Atropos, cuts the thread OF
tickets spun out Of the nickel plated
fountain of admission. 1t sees the
uSherS, most Of whom dwell under the
delusion that they, themselves, consti-
tute more moving exhibition than
anything on the screen.
ouG Lllc pUUliC OOtS IlOL see Lne mdnV
other workers. The modern big city
movie house is a far cry from the old
outdoor affair Of the modest nickelodeon.
1t must be manned like an opera house.
While the movie remains the principal
attraction, many motion picture thea
ters also offer incidental vaudeville
shows. The larger ones have organs
and many still have pretentiouS or
chestras, although the introduction Of
sound pictures has displaced some Of
these.
There must be electricians and re-
pair men of all sorts. There must be
cleaners who appear like ghosts of en-
tertainment after the feast has ended
and the lamps expire. There are lots
Of people who work for movies who
have no opportunity whatever to see the
show.
Few Employees See the Show.
Actually, the ushers are the only
ones who get a real break In the first
place they are enabled to adorn them
selves, usually at the expense of the
theater proprietor, in gorgeous attire
Usually their uniforms strike at COM
posite Of L'Aiglon, a West Point cadet
and a visiting fireman. Once clad in
these habilinents they give themselves
so exalted a recommendation that even
the heroes of the films are watched
with tinge Of condeScension. And
what do you think they make? From
"a a week for those who work only
through the day to s2233 a week for
those who work from deWy morn until
the last dog is hung along about mid
night But they do have a chance to
see the show. They may be interrupted
now and then by duties like showing
people 10 seats, telling them there are
no seats, telling them to go over and
stand at the head of the third aisle.
or helping to look for lost gloves or
chewing gum. But they do see the
show. They usually have a week in
which to see it so they can, on subse-
quent showings fill in any gaps which
have been caused by adherence to their
own art.
Evening star., 1931-12-20

and-well whatever 1t was that Einstein
meant to convey. What Is to be said
about this syllogism, just emitted by
the savant:
Our theory arises quite readily from
consideration of five vectors in the four
dimensional continuum. There follows
from that "five-curvatuie" of space
which is analogous to the Riemannian
curvature and which bears a similar re-
lationship to the laws t the unitary
field that the Riemannian curvature
does to the relativistic equations of the
gravitational field alone
All, we'll, there is really nothing to be
done about 1t. While the world waits
to be classified and analyzed and hy-
pothesised to the complete satisfaction
Of everybody it must just go right along
trying to pay its bills and to keep :ts
cyclone cellar in order as refuge from
the conflicts that occur between the
continuous and the vectors.
Evening star., 1931-12-20
Reed of Pennsylvania Analyses the
ign Debt Situation in Frank Terms

collecting the debts on the original
promised basis. we would be getting this
year not only the S250.000 600 which We
have postponed. but $3.50 100000 more
We are letting Europe have that $3.50
100000 for nothing. That brings our
tCtal of assistance in Europe just now
to ST 450 100000.
We also have put $75,000,000 this
year of new money into Europe into
long term investments. That brings our
total to 81 ,525 900 900.
Finally, We have maintained free
gold market and Europe has been able
to withdraw gold from the United States
al will. That Withdrawing has been
oone on a large scale. Europe took
from us last Summer some 500, 900 900
OF gold. She took it just as We got it
through trading and banking operations
We do not complain. Still, since we
were charged with boarding it. we per-
hapS can legitimately observe that, in
stead of boarding it, we were engaged
even during our own immense depreS-
sion and distress, in holding it instantly
available to world demand. The $780,
100000 Of gold that We thus supplied to
Europe might accordingly be added to
cur total of present assistance to Eu-
rope. 1t would bring that total TO ST.
225 100000
They should be grateful. Or should
they not?"
They should not" responded the
Senator with great emphasis Il mean
We ought not to say that they should
be and we ought not to expect that they
viii be. George Washington observed,
after much experience in dealing Will
enemies and in dealing with allies in
international affairs that it is vain to
expect gratitude from nation to nation.
That observation remains accurate to-
day and there is no indication that it
will ever Ceaso to be accurate No ma
ton ever exhibits gratitude for loaning
done to it or for fighting done on its
behalf or for any other service. 1t
would be wise if in international affairs
we could get rid OF such words as as
slSt9nce' and generosity and gratitude. ;
They do not correspond to any past,
present or prospective realities"
Thus the Senator and his remarks
are here presented not only because thev
come from a most distinguished politi-
cal regular" but because they repre-
sent the views. it would seem TODAY. of
a strong majority of all Senators and
Representatives. in the Congress.
whether regular" or "insurgent." The
consequences in Europe. it is believed
here, may be profound and immediate.
Europe. in the matter of debts. has
been approaching us indirectly through
publlclsts and prcpagandists 1t may
now approach us directly through notes
from governments. 1t may now di-
rectly fatty say We can't pay" That
seems likely to be the next era in the
debt question.
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