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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
Suggestions on Farm Relief
bya Daniels County Farmer

more effectively ana economically,
by leasing enough wheat land and
taking the cultivation Of same out
OF production, rather than advising
and insisting upon our cutting the
ano SuTuroI 9uem9rsdsp Isq4ous uIu9
pu8s s3uem&xsdsp euo uxu7 e8geIos
millions OF dollars to boost the pro-
duction Of an already ruinous sur
plus, which the Almighty God him
both through drouth and flood.
Surprising that the government
would authorize the farm board TO
use some so or 20 million dollars and
lease about one-thdrd Of our wheat
land for about. say three years. Our
production should then come down
to home consumption right away.
The farm board could use its pres
emit holdings to regulate future
prices with 7 ann quite sure any
time the farm board announced
such q policy (and we had an embar-
go on wheat) prices would go mp
board has on hand TO pay such lease
fer two or three years. Stin the
rniT1ers and bakers coufd furnish the
bread TO the consumer at present
prices and make fair profit at that.
Or . tax OF about &c per pound
on flour ground for home consump-
ton should suffice. OF course the
money should BY right be taken out
OF the federal treasury, but I be-
neve that II President Hoover Is too
great an engineer to- permit con-
gress to engineer any such idea. Al
though It would require only about
one-third per cent Of the national
budget TO finance such lease In a
few years other means may be de-
vised TO balance production.
A federal license system with q
federal quota might later be worked
ont but ft would take longer snd II
may involve a change In the federal
constitution which the leasing sys.
tenn should not require.
II any one Of yop readers have
any plans IN mind that look better
than mine, please let MS hear It
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

Reserve, Montana,
April Is, 1881.
Producers News,
Gentlemen.
l have talked lately to quite a
few merchants and business men.
They all think the farmers should
cooperate to make better business.
Now that, l believe. in fact. We
should all cooperate bnt not for
profit alone and not for one side
for a one-sided affair skins some
one.
Now if the business men mean
to cooperate, why are they going
to vote a ten cent gas tax on the
farmers. 1t looks thin and bad for
them to work and whine for more
taxes and more expense for the
farmers. Of course they sit nice
They can raise their No. 2 cans /
cent and No. 10 cans 10 cents and
sugar 25 cents and shoes so cents
per pair and the ten cent tax is
taken care of by the ones who CO.
operate to buy their goods. But,
Mr.. Business man. YOU surely know
that farmer can't raise his wheat
or butter and eggs TO cover his 10
cents land by voting referendum
S5 over. 10 cents il certainly will
be. You just vote for each tractor
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
DUTCH WINDMILL
By RUTH FISKE (Age 3,

Editors Note: The D.,
News does not make A ucers
publishing poetry because ~ 'bI,'lce Of
ent day twaddle is mechanicaII,, Pres
structed, meaningless and of Goa
does not come from the bao. U.oufss
poetry of the past but the for a.
ing verses create such cloon iOE'
picture of small child gazino, cut
a windmill that it strikes ne up a.
ing OF interest to our more roo,,,ooe o.
tive readers.) '"eulta.
y = = = y y
| am a windmill straight and +.p
| look upon the ground 50 smaI an,
| see the little children play'
They are so happy and so Gav.
They always are a jolly LOT,
From the biggest to the SMALL
tot. ''''S'
l am so high up in the air
People can see me from most -.
where.
My master feeds me every dav
But I don't get fatter anyway
Sometimes l keep the water fro-
the land
And people think me very. YER
grand.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
MAKE U.S.SR. SCAPEGOAT
By SCOTT NEARING, Federated Pres,
written in Berlin. }

The economic crisis is deepening in capitalist
Europe. British exports show further and heavy
declines; unemployment Is increasing even in
France.
Italian, German, Belgian, French and British
capitalists cutting the wages of textile work
ers, railroad workers. miners, transport workers,
Each wage-cut reduces the purchasing power and
50 intensifies the crisis.
Only in the Soviet Union are wages rising; only
there is production increasing.
The masters of capitalist Europe must find some
explanation for the crisis-some devil upon whom
to lay the blame. Soviet Russia was the logical
scapegoat, and among Soviet crimes. forced labor
was picked upon as the one most likely to win
popular following in continent devastated by I'M
employment.
The BOlsheviks no longer eat their children. or
nationalize their women or spit upon God but they
dump forced labor goods.
Energetic and widespread Is the capitalist prop
uganda against this new "Soviet menace" Spe-
caly is this true in Great Britain which is sti1l
the center of capitalist resistance to socialist con-
struction-
At widely advertised Albert Hail meeting in
London, Winston Churchill and other conservatives
demanded that the labor government should adopt
measures that would exclude the products of Rus
sian slave labor.
The Anti-Soviet Persecution and Slave Labor
League has issued appeal to the British public
against the Russian horrors"
"More than 1O0-Arch Bishops and Bishops die
by inches in these woodworking hells; more than
10000 priests, ministers and rabbis are there CON
demned to death" The appeal further points out
that the English people taking advantage of
this slave labor when they use cheap Russian
wood which is "spattered with the blood Of mar
tyrs"
The appeal continues "Our daily bread is made
from the wheat torn from the mouths of starving
Russian peasants" After shooting off these fire
works, the appeal gets down to the heart of the
matter. workers in this country have lost their
jobs and employers have lost the savings of a
lifetime direct result of the free Importation
of these slave-developed goods" From London al
so comes the news that in the near future an in
ternatiOnal conference viii be called to organize
general boycott of Soviet products The British
Trade Defense Society, which is taking the lead in
the movement expects to have the cooperation of
similar organizations in France, Italy and other
European countries.
The widespread and increasing disorganizatior
Of capitalist economy, side by side with the uhe-
nominal successes achieved under the Soviet five
year plan make the issue so decisive that it can
no longer be ignored
Each month capitalism shows itself less and less
competent to provide the ses with the neces-
saries of life. Each nc Soviet Union fur.
Their demonstrates the eller 81 roci,lis,
construction
Even in the most backward European countries
the working masses are aware of this contrast be
tween failing capitalism and evolving socialism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
"THE LEGGE SHOW CONTINUES"

Miles ROmney in the Western News, Hamilton
Kavalh county, speakes under the above editoris
head, of the Republican party program of whes
acreage reductions as promulgated by the far1
SOard in the following trenchant words:
Joseph c. Stone, new chairman of the
Federal Farm Board, is out stumpng in
the wheat states, continuing what the
former chairman called his 'Legge
Show" urging the farmers to cut down
their acreage at least 20 per cent But
the Department of Agriculture reports
little reduction. Only about per cent
cut on a total crop of 8S2 million bush
els, entailing surplus over home produc-
ttion of 1872 million bushels To this must
be added 275 million bushels carryover
from last year. purchased by the govern
ment and now held in storage at a cost
of so million dollars per year
''Not bright prospect for wheat grow
~ars'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

ed TO the presentation Of th.
cent gas tax contentious 80 Ten.
done in the "News" of NrarcS aoH
That more people may unSs,.i<s 0th
BIZ 49, I wish that yo1, ssaae
send a copy Of that issue ~ would
following enclosed list of 10 ths
inent Montana citizens. pron.
Truly yours.
b. G. WHITE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
PREDICTS RIGID IMMIGRA.
TON LAW FOR U. STATFS

Washington. FTP Angrily p.
plying to the attack made by Rev
Dickstein of New York upon Ii.
rigid exclusion policy of the immi
grafton bureau under the HOOyp,
administration, Chairman JohnsO,
of the house committee on immi.
grafton in the last congress declar.
ed that the new congress win en-.
act a still more drastic immigra.
ton law.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

CONTINUED from Front Page)
how it will relieve the unemploy-
ment, how it will finish the road
program sooner, how it will match
the federal money which will 9TH
erwise be lost if it is not, how it
will bring tourists to the state who
will help pay the tax to retire the
bonds, and will bring in and spend
money in the state, etc.
PAPERS QUOTE EACH OTHER
The next day the newspapers
supporting the measure repeat the
statements of the day before or
quote some one else to the same
effect after which these papers
quote each other saying the same
thing. They studiously avoid the
plain statement of the law and
never quote sections and 9 of
the referendum. All are sure the
law does not mean what it says
in plain English.
All of this is to convince the
voters by mere repetition that that
which is false is true. The need
of workers for jobs is exploited
all of the time knowing that the
hope of securing a job and wages
is bound to win in these serious
times thousands of votes that 9th
erwise would go against the meas
ure. The officers and politicians
quoted are very careful to make
statements in such way as to
provide an out in the future when
time proves that what is said a.
gainst the debenture is true.
What is desired will then be ac-
complished and the disclosure Of
the facts will be futile but these
officers can deny their part in the
fooling of the public.
PAYROLLERS' CAMPAIGN
The man. in charge of the public
ity in favor of Referendum 80 is
John Dexter. He is connected with
the state college at BOzeman at a
salary of $4,000 per year, accord
ing to "Uncle Sam" Hampton in
the Belgrade Journal He is now
giving all of his time writing the
/ favorable stories and interviews
appearing in the Montana press,
at the expense of his work at the
college.
A few days ago the Great Falls
Tribune carried a story stating
that T. L. Sorenson, president of
the Eagles lodge of the state
would take the matter up with his
lodge members to boost 81. B. 45O
or referendum 80. Sorenson is
chief clerk in the state auditors
office at 5000 per month. 1t would
seem that he ought to keep his
nose in his books while drawing
pay from the taxpayers.
+, In Sheridan county, as in most
other counties, the clerk and re-
corder is carrying on an active
campaign for the act. by mail, us
ing county help to get out his cir
cular letters, using county stamps
and stationery.
Thus it IS that the taxpayers are
tapped to influence them to vote
for a measure that: many of them
are opposed to. The opposition to
the measure has no such advantage
but must pay out of their own
i pockets to get the facts before the
people:
Many Letters
i The Producers News is receiv-
ing many letters from over the
state compimenting it upon its
disclosures to the public of the
purport of the referendum.
Benjamin Writes Too
Representative H. E. Benjonain
Of Toole county, a democrat. who
has been in the legislature several
terms, who has introduced the nv
dro-electric tax bill in several ses-
sions of the Legislature writes the
following letter which should be
read carefully by every voter.
RoUsE OF REPREsErrArxvxs
State Of Montana
H E BENJAMIN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
Constitution Must Be
Amended

More to the immediate point,
discovery was made that until the
federal constitution shall be a.
mended there will be no chance of
re-employing millions of jobless
workers through forced reduction
of daily working hours. The con-
stitution today stands as an inn
pregnable defense of the privilege
of the owner of capital to grind
and starve the workers as he
pleases, by debating terms of en-
ployment and discharge of work
erS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
In the Matter Of the Estate
of
MARTHA SMITH, Deceased

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
That Saturday the End day Of NAY
1881, at ten (10) o'clock in the fore.
noon of said day. and the Court.
room of said Court, at the Court
house. in the City of PlentywoOd
Sheridan County, Montana. have
been appointed as the time and plac,
for proving the will Of Marth,
Smith. Deceased, and for hearinl
the application Of VIM. Erickson foi
issuance to him of letters of admin.
istration Of the Estate of said Mar
tina Smith, Deceased, with the will
thereof annexed.
WITNESS MY HAND and the seal
of said court this 14th day Of April
1881
c. B. PETERSON.
Clerk of the District Court
First Publication April IS. 1881.
Last Publication May /, 1874.
HOWARD NJ. LEWIS,
Plentywood, Montana,
Attorney for Petitioner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
Congress Gould
Fix Hours

That is a proposal that congress
be empowered to order, for ex-
ambIe, a five or four hour day in
the textile or steel industry 50
that more workers may get an op-
portunity to earn wages. 1t is de-
signed TO enable congress to handle
unemployment without resort 10
payment of large sums in unem-
DIoyment relief or unemployment
insurance benefits. 1t smashes
straight through the existing con-
stitutionaI privilege of private en-
pIoyers to employ men-except in
interstate commercially number
of hours possible. It's weakness is
its narrow scope. Congress needs
power also to deal with minimum
wage scales and with all other es-
SentiaT conditions Of Industrial life.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

Some things people do to help %
bowels whenever any bad Dream,
feverishness, biliousness, or :
lack of appetite warn Of cons1P
ton, really weaken these orga1SS
Only a doctor knows what WE
cleanse the system without hal%
That is why the laxative in yOJt
home should have the approval y
a family doctor.
The wonderful product, known =
millions as DR.. Caldwell's SyIT
Pepsin is a family doctors Pr
scription for sluggish bowels :
never varies from the Original Pr !.
scription which DR.. Caldwell WIZ VIZ.
thousands of times in many ysIi
OF practice, ard orc i
reliable for men,
dren. It is mad
other pure ingrediei %
pieasant-tasting, and can torn ,l,r
habit. You can buy this pOP~
'axative from all drugstores.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

The Mountain State Telephone &
Telegraph company will expend
100000 for improvements and ex-
tension to telephone service in Mon
tana-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
Article Xxx Already
Proposed

The Federated Press called at
tention some weeks ago to the par
tial facing of this problem in H. J.
Res. 514, by Rep. Crosser of Cleve-
land, proposing a constitutional a
mendment to enable congress to
force shorter hours in private in
dustries. This proposed Article
Xxx reads: ITO promote the gener-
al welfare the congress shall have
power to reduce the number of
hours of service per day for which
contracts of employment may be
lawfully made"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
Progressive Conference DiscOV-
ers There Is No Way to
Shorten Hours

Shorten Hours
Washington-FP- Out of the
progressive conference came a lot
of superficial press chatter con-
corning the scramble for position
in next years presidential race,
but scarcely a word about the one
serious discovery developed by the
economists who took part. That
discovery was that the owners of
American industries have no in
tention of improving the condition
of the workers by planned stabili-
cation, by reducing the daily hours
of labor in order 10 give jobs to
more people, or by increasing the
wages in order to restore the buy
ing and consuming power of the
nation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
Progressive Conference Failed
to Demand Specific
Amendment

Father John A. Ryan pointed
out the need for a constitutional
amendment before unemployment
can be solved. But neither he nor
any other member of the confer
ence ventured to demand a specific
amendment, or propose that the
committee on unemployment meas
ures draft such a challenge to the
existing pretensions of private
property. The standing committee
on unemployment and stabiliza-
ton is to create subcommittee for
effective action. however, and one
or more of these subcommittee
will be compelled to face the sit
uation between now and December.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

The Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Geut1emens
have received several copies OF
your paper and have read them
very carefully and I win saw that
am pleased to know some one an
the state viii publish something a.
bout the other side OF such meas
ures as Referendum NO. as. It oft
en- seems to me that wa of Mon
tana have no thought OF what a
loan viii cost or accomplish inst
so long as We can get tina money
now.
This bin, If it can be called such.
is requesting of the people TO
place an additional debt upon
themselves of 5000 900 at SCI In
terest; but win IL be only $50 in
terest3
If I see this right and under
stand the federal road building
plan it win be much more thgn
this.
as 7 understand the deal Il viii
work out something like this; Ev-
cry time we pay 44c in Interest
the A cents is lost to oar state
roads plus Sc cents of federal 40
every time we pay SO cents in in
terest the Ssc is lost to our HIGH.
ways plus SLIP Of federal aid.
In all we viii LOSE by borrow.
ing this money about POUR MILL.
ION D0LLARS or about four hun
dred miles Of 20 state, highways
Of hard surfaced roads.
Is this good business7
These are some Of the things
we should all give some tlIouohi
To at this time
The balance of the aneazurs
should be read very carefully by
each individual voter befoxs hs
casts his vote.
Yours truly,
II. Z RENJARErN
ANOTHER LETTER.
Among the numerous articles
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
The WASHINGTON SCENE
By LAURENCE TODD. Federated Press

of the dictatorship of money, and
the dawn of the age of social re-
spOnsibillty for the welfare of the
people, so emptily phrased in the
preamble to the federal constitu-
ton. 1t is acknowledgement that
the evolution of big business and
of scientific knowledge applied to
production has become too de-
structive to the safety of the COM
mon man to be longer tolerated as
an irresponsible private power
within the framework of the ma
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Thu
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DIS.
TRICT OF THE STATE OF MON.
TANA. IN AND FOR THE COIN.
TY OF SHERIDAN.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

Social Control of Private
CAPITAL Necessary

What must be done, then, is to
adopt a constitutional amendment
that will tear down this barrier
to restoration of the supposedly
inherent right of persons willing
and able to work, to earn a decent
livelihood. Such "a constitutional
amendment viii of necessity re-
duce the present privileges of pri-
vate capital. 1t must take away
the right of an employer to re-
fuse to reduce hours of work when
jobs must be found for unemployed
men and women. 1t must permit
congress to dictate standards of
earnings, and standards of condi-
tons under which the workers
will spend their years in indust-
try. In short, it must move toward
social control of all private CAPT
tai, on the safe basis of the need
of the workers to be assured the
opportunity to work and earn and
share in the consumption of the
national product Of wealth.
Remedy
Revolutionary
This is revolutionary, of course
1t marks a definite turning point
in American national theory of
the rights of private capital as "a
gainst human need. It is the end
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
SEN. B. c. WHITE ALSO

SEN. B. c. WHITE ALSO
And finally there is a note
from Sen. B. C. White, many
years in the Montana state sem
ate from Fergus county, an old
school Jeffersonian and one Of
the leading democrats of the
state, widely known sheep man:
BUFFALO CREEK SHEEP co.
Established 1887
Buffalo, Montana
march 2s. 1891
Hon. Charles 3. Taylor,
Editor Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Ny Dear Senators
BY chance my attention was can.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
IMuBoS
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A Line on Cooperation

Reserve, Montana,
April Is, 1881.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
ANOTHER LETTER.

Among the numerous articles
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17
100000 BOND

Continued from Front Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-17

H. E. BENJAMIN
TOole County
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12
NAUCATUCK
Rubber Ave. Sewer
 To Be Extended
Warden and Bmgesses So Vote at Special Meeting
 Discuss New Bridge on Oxford Road

as more and more men are being put to work daily. Last year the same system prevailed in relation to the installing of the sewer ag far as Woodruff avenue. Borough En- gineer Robert D. Beardsiey will immediately prepare plans and proflleS so that the work will get under way at once.
 This stretch of the sewer will not be as expensive as the first stretch laid, Engineer Beardsiey informed the board. In anawer to an inquiry by Burgess William Noble ns to the cost of the lob last year Mir Beardsley stated that he estimated 1t cost about 910 a foot. This 10 about double the regular assessment made by the borough. This great cost was brought about through the fact that about 700 to 800 foot of solid ledge was struck. The boroug engineer believes that no material rock excavation will be necessary for the balance of the sewer. The board voted when or- dering the sewer installed to have the assessment deferred for one year from the time of installation.
 Invited to Ball
 The board received an invitation from the Naugatuck Hose, Hook and Ladder company to he pres ont at the 42nd annual ball of the department to be held in Tano'a Dance Garden on Thanksgiving eve. The members of the board
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12

Judge John Richards Booth in the superlor court in Waterbury to- morrow for the appointment of n temporary receiver for the Nauga- tuck Bank and Trust company which was closed several weeks ago by tho state bank c0mmisaion- CT. Tho Naugatuck National bank ia acting as temporary receiver and 1t is belcived that the bank VIII be named the permanent receiver at this hearing.
 Legion Meeting.
 Commander rhom0s Reynolds of Naugatuck port of the American Legion urges all members or tho post to attend tho meeting to be held tonight at S o'clock in the Legion rooms. Important matters arc to como up.
 Expert tO bc Here
 Carroll l.. Bryant. field repre- sentative of the American Red Cross in life saving methods Will be in tho borough for the next three days Interviewing local swimmers. To-morrow night IL TX expected that Mir Byrnnt will give m exhibition in tho "" pool nt S o'clock.
 'IMr Bryant is recognized ns one of tho abiest swimming and lifo saving instructors in tho country.
 Democrats tO Meet
 A meeting of tho democrats or the second ward has been called for this evening at s o'clock Tn the borough court room. The meeting has been called by Ward Committeeman Pierce E. Freeman. The object of the meeting ia said to be to talk over plans for the coming spring campaign. All mem. bers of the party from the hccond ward nre urged to he present.