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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

Union and they do so with impun-
ity.
The British troubles in India did
not end with the peace conference.
They turned Gandhi loose but fail
ed to release the majority Of the
$4,000 Indian fighters who ara rot
ting in Jail. Their game is to split
the national front and in all prob
ability they will be successful-just
as they were in ireland. The only
real revolutionists in India are
those who stand for a soviet repub-
lie. TIeCfandhists simply want
bourgeois republic with a lot or
fiddle PADDLE of getting back to the
old spinning wheel, wearing lo1n
cloths and perhaps going without
hats. The Indian revolution is de-
veloping tho. The organization on
/ powerful communist party in India
is the necessary prerequisite Tor a
successful revolution.
| The conflict between the Hindoo
and the NLoslem is greatly ezagger-
ated. OF course it is not all pop
pycock as the priests of both sp1r-
itua1 hocus pacus joints find @t GO
their interests to keep the masses
uuarreling over whether a dog is
more. sacred than cow or vice YER
sa. The ignorant Hindoos would
rather bite a baby's ear off than
slaughter a COW and il you throw a
dog at q Cody Moslem he will cal
his shirt and probably slit your
jug1ar vein. So the British get {
lot of religious Moslems and Hin.
docs to engage in animal-throwine
contests. But those people are nc
more foolish than were the Orange
men OF Ulster and tho Catholics o.
] south of ireland who Drawlod oveI
the respective merits of the pops
and William of Orange. After all
the cow is good to eat (sbmetimes,
and a dog is good for something
but william of Orange has lonS
since fed the worms and His Hoh
ness does not look like palatabl
morsel,
What do you make of this Wat
son2 "Wheat easy. Corn easy
things pretty well mixed up alright
If the bankers can sell the whea
and corn at no matter what pric
they make easy money and VIVA
J. with Legge, and Hyde making face
at the Board of Trad and til
''business section of sns Farmer
Union backing Legge and Hoove
at all costs. the poor farmers ar
nothing if not "mixed." What al
the middle class farmers going
a do anyhow Are they going to lin
up with the working class or wit
the capita1ists2 It is true that out
side of the communist movemeI
the workers of America have ~
shown no inclination to move any
where except to wherever the cap
. tails spell binders urge them
But they will because they mus
Intelligent farmers who are at tt
!. mercy of the exp1oiters had bett'
start to think their problems owe
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

dered. Mrs. Blacklidge, who as col
lector of internal revenue for this
district was responsible for the care
of $3.50, 900, 900 annually of U. SANS
money, is charged with taking"
her good friend Litsinger, member
of the Board of Review for fifty
grand. The lady claims that Lit
singer was in on the deal. They
are both cogs in the political gang
organization of Senator Deneen. So
what promised to be a nice juicy
scandal is no longer even mention
ed in the funny" columns. The
little departures from tho conven-
tional of the upper classes must be
hushed. It may be possible that
some day the American workers
might come to the conclusion that
their betters are no better than
they should be.
It is generally believed that
President Hoover is responsible for
Smedley Butler of the marines for
insulting" Benito MGssolfni.-- But
Ter declared in a speech that as
long as such mad dogs as the Duce.
were at large, war was inevitable
and therefore we should be prepar-
ed for carnage. He added that he
was told by a friend that Benito
ran over an dkilled a child while
! travelling in an auto at seventy
miles per hour. 1t is doubtful if
Mussolini. one of the best adver-
tised propagators of his kind in
Italy, if not in the world, should
show so little consideration. for
child life, but why the American
government should make such
fuss about the matter needs expla-
nation.
The explanation may be that Mr..
Hoover fears that if Buffers speech
goes unchallenged and unless Ben
ito is cleared Of the. charge che
stocks of the Black Shirts may run
into a bear market. While our plu-
tocracy does not yet feel the need
for the establishment fthe fascist
method of operating the capitalist
system, the time may come when
they will be forced to ditch theil
spurious democracy and resort to
the Mussolini system. And you will
notice that officials of the Ameri-
can government never hesitate tc
Islander the leaders of the Soviet
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06
The WASHINGTON SCENE

imports has written Pease that "All
this work is very helpful in support
of my bill" Pease prints an extract
from Oddie's letter, to aid in the re-
cruiting of members for his Blue
Shirts. The fact that the findings
of the Fish Committee majority, as
we'll as the more moderate report OF
Rep. Nelson of Maine, minority
member failed to support any charg-
es against the Soviet trade repre-
sentatives, or to prove that convict
labor is involved in Soviet-American
trade is ignored. Pease and Odd1e
are infinitely scornful of dry facts.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

aroma on their respective breaths.
Mamma and papa noticed and dis
approved. They put the girls on
the pan and when they confessed
they got the moonshine at the
place Heavy is said to be operat-
ing with Ed. Powers gack, the
irate daddies filed a complaint, and
Teddy Winters and Otto Wadell
raided-but the place was tipped,
so the feds did not find anything
didn't expect to. Shortly after
the raid Heavy" and his partner
had confidential chat, and then
the refreshment parlor resumed
operations. Folks say that after
they get a few of the biddies broke
in. a chicken ranch may open.
Yours for pure womanhood,
A. CORN.
- -
Here comes our old friend AIDE
line with another letter that ought
to hold Mutt for a spell it's a
knockout
'Overtheresky, N d.
'Mr. Alonzo Mutt
"Well Mutt, l am coming back at
you again.
GLOW can a man who has had
the privilege that you have had,
take the stand you do? :,
"And furthermore, If you VIII
read of conditions as they really
are in Russia, can you wish such
conditions for your family to say
nothing of your neighbor! we
are getting a taste of what you
want when one woman buys all the
newspapers in one city and part
in another to gain her own polltl
cal ends. It's an outrage on Ou
civilized nation. Read some of tn
real conditions in Russia" and SCI
if YOU have any manhood left Il
you: ADELlNE'
Poor Adeline is little confused
She refers to Ruth Mccormick, tn
daughter of Mark Hanna, who wa
the republican candidate for Unit
ed States senator in Illinois las
: fall and defeated by j. Hamll
ton Lewis, the sartorial demOcra
:: Adeline is wrought up because
: Ruth's behavior. Yet Ruth an
Adeline have exactly the same pC
! litics and ideas about Russia. The
I are terrible over there where eV
+ erybody has job, and where tn
: people own their own gOvemme1
; instead of bunch of plutes {
o over, here where people starve
!. the midst of plenty. Adeline sent
: clipping from the Fargo Forum r
g porting a debate between Met
|, odist sky pilot and a medic wi
, had travelled in Russia. The SIX
2 pilot was against Russia as usuf
/ The doctor was for Russia. Anot
g err clipping was an excerpt fro
'The Pentecostal Evangel' CO
l. tanning an article titled, "Sovi
7; Russia's Attack upon God"
I. Blanche Koon.
1t Adeline thOt that would era
e old Nutt-but old Mutt is is fu
IS ny: he thinks that God can Ia
ls care of himself alright without t
Is IS help of Blanche or any other Koo
re God is a pretty good old scout
re if you leave him alone, he wO
to bother you, tho he must get a
h fully tired of all these fello7
I talking all the time, trying to t
at him what to do and how to do
y as if he were always getting {
IL on the wrong foot to the great d
TO- tress of the sky-pilots. Me a
he he God, we get alonge together fiji
er I just SEES, God do yer best, do
er. bother about me, I'll jest tag alO
and whatever va SEE goes. / M
ion er seed you, but them that KIN
| about you SEES as how 20
lre there land knows everything, VIII
of I don't, and that va can do eve
thing, if yer wants to- amt t
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06
LUTHERAN CHURCH

o. Melvin Simundson, Pastor
Services next Sunday at Plenty
wood at IL a. m. Archer at 2:30 p.
m. and Outlook at p. m. The Plen-
tywood League will meet next Sun
day at p. m. Everyone is invited
to come. A good program is assured.
Services Feb. Is at Plentywood at
IL a. m. Dooley at 2:S0 and Antelope
at p. m.
The Antelope Aid will meet in the
church parlors on Thursday, Feb. IL.
Mrs. Iverson is the hostess. All are
invited to this Aid meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06
BANKS SOLID AS WHAT ROCK

By SCOTT NEARING of the Federated Press
After the recent disastrous failure of the Bank
of United States Thomas w. Lamont, one of the
Morgan partners, said that the banks were as solid
a rock. Maybe. But there are rocks and rocks
Often, in the springtime, when the frost is COM
ing out of the ground, you can stand in an open
cut and see the rocksEdes disintegrate and slip,
down, down, toward the foaming stream that will
grind up these fragments of the eternal hills and
carry them into the sea-
Is this the kind of rock that Lamont had in
mind
Does he feel the breakup that is going on dur
ing this springtime in the DEVELOPMENT of a world
wide workers society? 'tfs se-
Are his solid rocks slipping, slipping toward the
rushing current of the labor movement-to be
ground up and deposited in the whirlpools and rap
ids of revolution?
Suppose take look at this solid rock of
United States industrialism- the banking system.
Bank failures have been rather frequent in
United States economic history Between 1900 and
1913 the number of failures was.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06
BANK CRASH NEWS IS
CRIME IN LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles-FP- James Muir
ply, 20, was jailed for selling the
Daily Worker on the streets of
Los Angeles because it contained
a story of bank failure sin New
York. He is charged with a mis-
demeanor punishable by a fine of
$1,000 or a years imprisonment,
or both, for Circulating false ru-
mors regarding banks" which
would be "derogatory to the finan-
cial condition or affect the sOlven-
cy" of any such institutions.
The boy, first held on suspicion
of criminal syndicalism," will be
given a hearing the latter part Of
the week when he will be repre-
sented by Leo Gallagher of the In
ternational Labor Defense and the
American Civil Liberties Union.
His bail was set at $1,000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

HELENA Textbooks in geog-
raphy, physiology and history for
use in elementary schools of the
state during next six years adopt
ed by Montana text book commits
siner: cost is S500.OO0.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06
CHURCH NOTES
LUTHERAN CHURCH
(Redstone)

c. G. Tjomsland. Pastor
At Redstone Sunday afternoon at
o'clock, Feb. 18th.
Bring your boys and girls for the
10 minuate instruction in the fun
damentalS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

During the post war decade, with the Federal
Reserve System we'll established and prosperity IN
full swing, the average of bank failures per year
was 489, as compared with average of SO for
the decade before the and of SO for the war
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

LEWISTOWN-Sabine Production
Co. of Pittsburgh, who financed a
test for gas on Armells structure
near here, reports the discovery of
100000 cubic feet of gas.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

were from Comptroller of Currency.
From 1914 to 1929, inclusive, Dun re-
ported 4,773 failures, the Comptroll-
err, 1881 For 1880, Dun reported
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

During the decade before the Federal Reserve
system was organized the largest number of bank
failures in any one year was $50 failures in 1908.
The yearly average for the period was 96 failures
Between 1900 and the economic collapse of 1907,
bank failures averaged 70 per year Between 1907
and 1912 they averaged 116 per year
The Federal Reserve System was organized In
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06
AS We SEE IT

Continued from First Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

9S4 failures. Federal Reserve, 1924
suspensions las in Meanings article.)
w. A. Crane. of r. G. Dun Co
saws, II can not account for the diff
ference"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

*These figures differ from Colston
e. Warne's in issue of Labor News
for Jan. II, 1881. because these are
from r. C. Dun's reports; Warne's
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SQUIRREL FOOD

CONTINUED from front page)
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Sen. Oddie of Nevada, who seeks
a general embargo against Soviet
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
HUNTER HEADS
VALLEY COOP
Debt Moratorium Endorsed
BY Association
Directors
fBy staff Correspondentl

WESLACO. Sept. l2.-C. Il. Hun
ter of FL Ja-din was elected presi-
dent OF the Valley Vegetable Co
operative association at a board
meeting here today. to succeed
George Warren.
Warren resigned recently 10 be-
come manager OF the association
The Clarence Farmer debt mora
forum was endorsed bv the board In
resolutions to Gov. r. 8. Sterling,
Rep. II. l.. Leonard OF Hidalgo county
Rep. Milton West or Cameron county
and Sen. Archie Parr.
The Farmer plan would cancel
debts for one year and would prohi-
bit foreclosures and suits on real
property. II was termed "the most
conceptive piece OF legislation ever
offered. enabling the farmer to save
his home and farm" in the resolu-
ton.
The federal farm board plans or
~ganization OF a national sales
agency for coop marketing. A mem
Der Of the federal board Is expected
in the Valley Oct. l to hold meet
inRs OF memberships In all Valley
cities.
The Valley Vegetable Cooperative
association has launched plans 70
construct packing sheds over the
Valley to handle truck and vege-
table crops.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
LONG SAYS CAN
MAKE l G

BATON ROUGE, La, Sept. H.
R)-Gov. Huey p. Long tonight
told the Texas legislature In a ra-
dio address that he could show
them how to keep Gov. Sterling
from vetoing a bill they passed for
cotton prohibition. and urged the
Lone Star lawmakers to enact his
cotton holiday measure or nothing
at all.
In another b~roadcasted address
In support OF his no-crop proposal
to aid the cotton industry. Long
again assailed Gov. Sterling or
Texas for the latter's antagonism
toward the plan.
you legislators pass a law pro-
hibiting the growing OF cotton" he
asserted, land I'll show you how
TO make Gov. Sterling sign IL. just
stay in session. Refuse to adjourn.
He'll sign that bill faster than a
duck ever went TO water.
II know a little about that. I
have beer through that sort Of
thing mzseH.r)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13

FRENCH AIR ACE
IN CRASH
Paris- Flight Ends
In Wreck, Two Fliers
Are Killed

MOSCOW. Sept. ~. R-Joseph
Lebrix. noted French aviator, and
his mechanic. Rene Mesmin. we're
killed when their airplane Hyphen
III in which they were attempting
a record nonstop flight from L.
Bourget to Tokyo. crashed in a
field near the mouth or the river
Tanit. In the vicinity OF Ufa, at 8
a. M. today.
Marcel Doret. co-pilot OF the
plane and its third occupant. saved
himself by a parachute iump.
DELAY in identifying the two air.
men who we're killed was caused by
the fact none OF the populace az
ufa could understand French. "A
dispatch received here said. how
ever. that all assistance was being
provided for D0ret bv an official Of
the Bashkir republic who went 70
the scene with a doctor.
Fighting heavy fogs. clouds and
rain from the moment they cross
ed the soviet frontiers. the aviators
passed Moscow last night and faced
q continuation OF bad flying cnndi-
tons for several hundred miles. They
were unreported after FLYING here
until word came or the catastrophe
which befell them approximately $50
miles further on.
Two months ago lacking n day
the same trio barely escaped death
when their motor failed because OF
carburetor trouble while they flew
through a midnight storm IN mid
Siberia on their first attempt to set
q new distance record.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
Mythical Lost Continent
Is Studied BY Scientists

knowledge OF their origin NAY make
It possible 10 forecast weather condi-
tions far In advance
Another mystery Is the strange
life story OF the eel which travels
thousands OF miles to a point some
where south OF Bermuda to breed.
and die. Their young find their way
abck to the rivers Of Europe and
America and, in turn. follow this
pulling life cycle.
In discussing the question or ocean
depths and whether they have
changed materially through the ages.
scientists at the institution revealed
that the vanished continent. Allan
It's. II II exists. is probably buried be-
meath no more than 10 inches OF
sediment az the oceans bottom.
II. beneath the sediment now over
lying the supposed site OF Atlantis,
Is found soil OF a character existing
on dry land. IL may thus be con-
Guided that this land was elevated
~thousapds of yearS a2o,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13

WOODS HOLE. Mass. Sept. II.
R-An answer TO the riddle Of the
mythical lost continent. Atlantis
may some day come from the labora-
tories OF the new oceanographic In
stitution here.
From test tubes and glass jars
containing sea sediment, strange
fish. plankton ttiny sea life): from
temperature records. soundings and
other data gathered by two sea-go-
ing craft. the Asterias and the At
lantis. will come answers 10 many
strange problems.
Henry B. Bigelow, professor Of
zoology at Harvard University. rs
director, and among Other members
or a distinguished staff Is Sir HUI
bert wilkins.
The institution will try to explain
the power that keeps great ocean
currents like the gulf sream flowing.
If IL Is proven that these currents
have the pronounced effect or cli-
mate that theoEiGta maintain moEn
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13

paper men Immediately after pray
ers. which lasted half an hour. In a
cement-floored room the press
awaited him. Gandhi grinned ard
so did the reporters. Then the Ma
hatma sat on a chair. slipped his
feet out of his sandals. curled his
legs I'D under the long warm robe
and shivered.
Perhaps you have a message for
England after your welcome?" an
English newspaper man said.
Haven't ! given messages enough
today?' Mr.. Gandhi replied.
II Is improbable. he said, that he
will 80 10 America.
Friends have told me that Ameri-
can wouldn't know what to do with
me-" he said. Il should like to 90
but I feel ! can speak most use
fully to America by doing my work
in India
He added. however. that he might
change hts mind, explaining If my
inner voice SAYS to 60 I ehsu 81
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
Gandhi;s Loincloth DratUs
Filters in London Sums

LONDON. Sept. II. RD-London's
east end slumS Uttered today az the
first sight of Mahatma Gandhi. the
scrawny little man who Is defying
the British empire.
Clad in a long white robe and
wearing his loincloth and sandles.
he disembarked here. Hundreds Of
east enders had been standing long
In the bone-chilling drizzle TO zee
him.
When Mr.. Gandhi arrived boobies
pushed the spectators back and he
was hustled into the building.
A few minutes later he appeared
on a little balcony. Then came the
good humored laughte r.
After Mr.. Gandhi withdrew, settle
ment from the crowd but when a
80 pieces Of baggage. Trunks. bags
and blanket rolls brought no COM
ment from the croyd but when A
tray filled with bottles OF goats milk
appeared there was more laughter.
NJ GaQdhi agreed 70 sec peWs-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
MORE TROOPS
ORDERED To-
Church FIGHT
Baptist Evangelist
Denounces Chief
Forces

JONESBORO. Ark. Sept. ZIP
Sixteen extra guardsmen. armed
with a machine gun. sawed off shot
guns and tear gas bombs. were dis
patched to the Rev. Joe LETTERS
tent tabernacle here tonight after
Jeffers had launched into a ee-
n%unciation Of the officer command
ing the detachment OF the Arkansas
national guard. The guard Is patrol
ling the streets here because OF a
facticnal difference in the First
Baptist church.
Immediately after the extra detail
Of guard sInen was dispatched to
the tabernacle. Capt. Harry z.
Eldridge, in charge OF the troops,
went into a conference with Mayor
III. j. Bosler with the announced
intention Of determining whether
charges could be placed against the
evangelist.
letters, IN his talk tonight,
charged Captain Eldridge had ex-
aggerated the situation with his
statement that bout Is armed men
attended services Thursday night
and challenged the officer to prove
the statement.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
DONNA DISTRICT
DECISION
Irrigation Legislation
Court Decides


EDINBURG, Sept. 12.-The e
Gently passed legislative act taking
the city OF Donna out OF Donna IrTi-
CATION District No. / was held n
constitutional by Dist. Judge G. w.
Thompson Saturday afternoon.
This decision was handed down in
the test ease Of T. w. Hooks against
the district. Hooks, a Donna resi-
dent, sought water from the dist
trict and the privilege Of voting in
the district elections. Judge Comp
ton decided the case in his favor,
holding the new law unconstitu-
tional.
He set out three reasons for his
decision:
The act was a special law and
no notice was given.
2.-The act impaired existing
contract.
3.-Act attempted to destroy vest
ed right of citizens TO vote.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-13
NEW DISTRICT
PLAN RENEWED
AT SAN BENITO
Committee Appointed
To Eliminate Bad
Features
(By STAFF CORRESPONDENT


SAN BENITO. Sept. l2.-Efforts
at forming a Valley-wide water con-
servation were renewed here Satur-
day night when leaders in the move
ment held an informal meeting al
the San Benito water district office.
A committee composed OF G.. III.
Swallow. Alamo: Neal ID. Brown,
Edinburg. and r. B. Creager Of
Brownsville was named TO eliminate
Objectionable features of the Valley
conservation plan which was de-
feated at a recent election.
Meeting Set.
The committee is TO submit its
recommendations at a meeting In
San Benito Wednesday night.
Saturday night Brown suggested
that the Joint association of Hidalgo
and Cameron county districts be
extended to include all OF the VAL
ley. Creager was OF the opinion that
this plan would not work.
Clay Everhard OF Pharr voiced the
opinion that all districts in the Val
ley could be gotten together in the
Valley-wide movement.
W. T.. A4ldCAcOls N4It4H k1lONI odAi
Benito engineer connected with the
International Water commission
stated 1t was imperative that the
Valley have some organization 70
represent 1t as a whole in the near
future.
Decisions Due.
He intimated that important de-
cisions were to be made in regard
TO this section in the near future and
that a representative organization
would be necessary.
II is likely that a valley-wide
meeting of district boards. city COM
missions and mayors will be called
on the conservation district In the
near future. 1t was indicated at the
Saturday meeting.