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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
TOBACCO FARMERS REFUSE TO ACCTS
MISERABLE PRICES OF TOBACCO TRTN

ton cost in Kentucky is , :,
variant at this cost. Nsa
At the same time the br..
bacco companies, dictatinS T.
price of raw tobacco To tba d
ers, are making record prof;. AN
following four big profits u
ing the following surpIps '.s
dividends, depreciation and d's
were paid. American Tobs... coo
$91, 100000; P. LOrillard e.
100000; Lggett & Mver. ~ ,.' ~
co Co., $2O,OOO,OOO and R lO0'~
Olds, $55,OOO,OOO. The A i, H.l'
Tobacco Co. alone made
earnings of $49,S45,37O in '' ,saI
an increase of 43 per cent owe, \
earnings and profits of 1929 20 D
LEXINGTON, Ky.-15OO -.
0'eu 'oO@cco farmers halted a,
opening burely tobacco salo,
four warehouses on Dec. III NJ
action was caused by the drn .na
buyers of the Tobacco Trust ~
ing the price paid to the fs, wv
down to almost half of that !,
last year and below the cO,. !,
raising the tobacco. VI
The farmers marched from
/ warehouse to another, and Nv IS
liant mass action forced the ~.
, ayers to stop the sales. IT,
leader, George Weiner, of Geo,s A.,
town, was twice arrested BY noS.
thugs called out by the Tob....
Trust but the farmers both finn.
T. tore him away. So great was 4,
! militant pressure of the fam.r
! that the police were utterly -
= prepared, and indeed, at one war.
house two policemen were eisrts
by the farmers.
This mass action at Lexinyh
warehouses follows similar dewa,
strations in other parts of Ks
lucky recently. On Dec. LIST
y Owensboro, 5000 farmers, ma
- nearly desperate by the ridiculop
:, ! ly low prices offered them A
their tobacco, forced the clOsh
!, down of the warehouses. On D,
u 2, at Henderson and on Dec. 3
Scottsville the same thing h,
pened. The action of the Owe
boro farmers forced the wa
houses to open a week later v
~ a slight increase in prices.
- The farmers must learn, hc
&c ever, that any small concessl
Il. wrung out Of the Tobacco II
u cannot be increased, or even ma
tanned, unless they organize thu
selves into Committees Of Act
% representing all the small
90 middle farmers, for Organil
81 solid resistance to the robbery
~. the Tobacco Trust. For more
'Ot formation write to the In
Farmers League, Box "a, Super
ne Wisconsin. Read the "PrOdu
as News" official organ of the !
Isl led Farmers League.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
LAND UTILIZATION POLICY Is
BANKERS ATTACK ON FARMERS

ownership" should be "REFIN-
Ed" The oppression of the farm
ers by the state, the appropriation
of their land by the sheriff should
be refined" Making plumber and
appropriation refined"
The Interest of the Robbers.
And FINALLY they propose,
after having discussed the meth
DDS for handling the land of the
farmers which has been acquired
by the state, that 'land be kept in
private use as long as the public
interest was served" This pub
lie interest" of which they talk is
under capitalism the interest of
the capitalist class. They propose
that the land appropriation policy
of the state be governed by the in
terests of the bankers and the
mortgage holders-the policy that
is now driving thousands of farm
ers off of their land.
Insane Asylum Judgment
They then made one further at
tempt to create the impression
that there is the possibility Of san
Iity in agriculture under capitalism.
Running counter to recent
changes in department of agri-
culture policy, the conferences
suggested that the national,
state and outlook work be con-
tinued and expanded, that the
best judgment as to the supply
and demand outlook for agrl-
cultural products in different
parts of the country in the year
ahead be put in unequivocal and
y understandable language as a
basis for determining adjust
ments in land use."
: It is one of the basic laws o
capitalism that there is never an,
idea of the supply and deman
outlook, there is no possibility o
any such outlook which will com
close to the actual conditions a
they develop. This is capitalist
insane production.
This insanity in production is RI
Elected in the terrible crises whic
have been a part of capitalism e0
er since its birth and which al
y now more terrible since betwee
3 the ability to produce and the pa
e of that production which II
y masses can get, such a terrib
= chasm has developed.
e The conference proposed to p
ID the outlook for capitalist produ
ton and consumption in "unequi
v ocal and understandable langual
st as a basis for determining adjus
IL ments in land USE" The only "u
a equivocal and Understandable
es statement that can be made abo
In capitalist production is that it
il insane, and no one can tell fro
Is, one year to the next where
g crazy path may lead. On such
insane basis they propose to e
termine adjustments in land us
= The entire attempt is TO prove
! the farmer that the system is
/. insane.
q Acreage Reduction
IS Then came acreage reducti
y cleverly hidden behind ma
9r phrases.
"The whole conference was {
! acknowledgment Of error in Il
- former belief in an indefini
~ continuation of rapid growth
- population which ultimate
- would press on land resource
i Instead, agriculture is now Sc
IN to have excess producing c
= pacity. A surplus of the la
itself is depressing agricultu
A land utilization policy a
.loV program are considered nec'
lhe sary to curb present Overprodl
leIs ton as we'll as to conserve t
mas nations most important
ici source"
also agriculture now seems
eth have excess producing capacit
bile While millions starve. while
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

We print below the complete
story of the struggle of the tobac-
co farmers in Kentucky against
the tobacco trust which we re-
ported two weeks ago:
GREENSBORO, KY. - Shouting
their anger at the manner in
which the Owenboro Loose Leaf
Tobacco Co. was taking their
tobacco at starvation prices, three
thousand embittered farmers broke
up the opening tobacco sale Of the
the season by hurting apples at
the auctioneers and at w. c. Crab
tree, vice president and general
manager of the Owensboro Tobac-
co Co.
AS they saw the tobacco crops
snapped up by the dummy buyers
of the various tobacco trusts at
prices almost half of what they
had received last year, the farm
ers interrupted the auctioneers
with shouts of "You can't take
our tobacco that way!" They
Threatened to wreck the ware
houses unless the sales were stop
ped Immediately.
Taking advantage of the power
ty and desperate straights of the
tobacco farmers, the buyers haC
squeezed the price down to $40
per 100 whereas last year it haC
: been $8.47 per hundred. The re
sentiment of the farmers wa
brought to a fighting pitch a
the prices were forced down con
tinuously in spite of the fact tina
the manufacturers of cigars an
cigarettes had reported 1880 an
the first half of 1881 as two o
c the most prosperous periods in tn
history.
Misled by government propagaT
y da for acreage reduction, the fal
!. mers adopted a unanimous resC
= luton not to raise any tobacc
: next year. A mass meeting {
- the local courthouse also adopte
- resolution to appoint commi
= tee to ask James c. Stone, chat
man of the Federal Farm Boar
~ for financial backing in the t.
~ bacco pool which they are organi
~ ing.
/. The tobacco sales were postpol
Z. ed until Monday with indication
~ that the farmers would keep the
of crops off the market entirely sin
the prices offered are insufficie
II even to pay for the cost of cul
nt walton and haulage.
&C Price Ruins Farmers
Kentucky leaf tobacco sold f
n $16.72 a hundred pounds in 49,
,e- the highest year and was fore
en-, down to half that figure in 49,
en- In 1923 and 1927 the farmers G
$3.50 and $11.27 respective
m hundred pounds on their crop. T
20. ruinous drop in tobacco prices
eet manipulated by the Tobacco Trr
k shows that in one year from 19
mo to 1929 the price of leaf tobaC
las was forced down from a naho1
average of $40 in 1928 to 80
W. hundred pounds in 1929. The pr
of this year has been cut to 5 q
ON a cents a pound in Kentucky q
net Virginia tobacco growing distriC
er That this price spells act
are starvation and ruin for the M
on. of small tobacco growers can
hat seen in the fact that the aver;
leir cost of growing leaf tobacco
ISIS Virginia this year was estima
hat at 10 cents a pound. The prod
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

From Nov. 10 to 81, "steps were
taken toward forging construc-
tive national land utilization poll
cv'' in a conference which took
place at Chicago. The conference
was called jointly by Secretary Of
Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde and
the land grant colleges and uni
versities. The national farm or
ganization, colleges of agriculture,
federal farm board, branches of
the federal departments of agri-
culture and interior, the fam
press, credit agencies and others
participated IN the conference.
The central theme" of the con-
ference was "the relationship of a
sound program of use of land ard
soil resources to solution of the
general farm problem of adjusting
production to demand"
In this task which the confer
ence set for itself is contained the
open admission of the bankruptcy
of American agriculture, the de-
cay of agriculture under capital
ism. The United States has an
"overproduction" of agricultural
products under capitalism. The
task which this conference set fol
itself was NOT how the toiline
masses of city and country might
get these products-how demand
might be adjusted to consume thii
vast agrarian production but how
this vast production WHICH Is
NEEDED BY THE MASSES II
THE UNITED STATES, might b
cut until it equaled their ability t
purchase all of it.
This is the slogan of decay!nl
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of acreag
and production.
The steps taken by the confer
ence regarding policy were, as re
ported by the Montana Farmer,
the following:
"The conference agreed that
a complete classification and In
ventory of the land resources OF
the nation should be made as g
basis for deciding the proper
use of each area. This shoulC
social and economic features Of
each area as well as hpysicl as
poets"
This part of the program is on
intended to mislead the farme
that there is some sanity possib
under capitalist agriculture. Th'
use words that would mean som
thing in the Soviet Union but a
only empty phrases in the Unit
States.
If such a classification were e
er made it would under capital
agriculture be useful only for t
purpose of gathering dust as
printed report in so many volun
in the libraries of the nation.
the Soviet Union such a classi
cation would be a basis for dee
for actions tending to improve
riculture.
Unifying Tax Oppression
'0The growing problem of ts
delinquent land was recognize
in a recommendation that Il
federal government take Il
lead in unifying state polici
for handling lands acquired
tax delinquency or by 9th
methods of acquisition. 1t ur
ed federal and state action t
wards refining the scope a
methods of transferring land
public ownership and defini
the character of lands til
should soon or ultimately be ;
quired by governments. 1t {
vocated that land be kept
private use as long as the pl
lie interest was served"
The conference proposed
that the acquisition of lands by
state be stopped and the farm
left in possession of their i;
but that the state policies
handling lands acquired in
manner be UNIFIED" II
proposed that the Scope and m
DDS Of transferring land to pI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

poor, because we have faith in
the generosity of the poor"
This is the program of this
agent of the capitalist class who
two years ago led the anti-religi-
Gus attack on the workers and
farmers of the Soviet Union.
The toiling masses thruout the
world demand that the rich and
not the poor, the exploiters and
not the exploited, shall pay for
this crisis, that the capitalist class
must carry this burden for which
it and it alone is responsible.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
SMALL RANCH

CONTINUED from Front Psgsl
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with her daughter. Mrs. Louis M Ather-
ton. at the Lodges her Summer home
at Titles Point, in Swampscott
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Harrison OF
Washington are at the Blumer cottage
at West Manchester for the balance Of
the season.
Mr.. and Mrs Presley Morgan Taylor
are at Sycamore Farm at Hamilton for
a visit with Mrs. Taylor's mother, Mrs.
Clarence c. Williams Of Washington.
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Williams have been
at their Hamilton estate. in the Myopia
district, since early in the season,
Former United States Minister to
Canada and Mrs. William Phillips will
leave Highover, their North Beverly
home. overlooking Wenham Lake. Mon
day for their usual stay at their camp
on Lobster Lake, Me.
Mr., and Mrs. John Caswell iT., OF
Washington. who have been visiting Mr.
Caswell's mother, Mrs John Csswell. at
Round Plain Fare at Beverly Farms.
have gone to Old Point Comfort. where
they will spend the balance Of the
season.
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Program at North Shore
Abounds With Sport Events
Many Festivities Are Called Of When Expected
Visit of Mr.. Curtis and Party Fails
to Materialize.

next day to visit the Vice Presidents
daughters. All of the affeirs were can
celed and the invitations were recalled
but there Is promise that the Vice Presi-
dent and his party will come to the
North Shore later in the season end
the hospitalities extended will take
place as originally scheduled.
Church fairs en- the North Shore have
been vary successful this season, despite
the adverse economic conditions. The
e1Tden party for st. Johns Episcopal
Church at Beverly farms Melted over
$4,000 and the party for Christ Church
Episcopal at the Rock Maple estate OF
Mrs. George ven L. Meyer at Hamilton
netted over $500.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F, Moffett of Wash
ingicn have been at the Turks Head
Inn at Rockport for an August visit
on the North Shore.
Mrs. j. c. Baxter of Washington is
at Straitsmouth Inn at Rockport. Miss
Ethelyn b. Chase has been at the Ed
ward in Rockport, and Mrs M. A. Gus
tbs Of Washington has been at the
RockaWay at East Gloucester.
Mrs. william Phillips, wife of the
former United States Minister to Can
ada, opened Highover, her Summer
home at North Beverly, this afternoon.
for a meeting Of Essex County women
to discuss plans to promote temperance
and constructive legislative reform.
There were a number OF Washington
Summer colonists in the company. The
speakers included Mr.. Phillips, Mrs.
Marion Booth Kelley of New York City
and Mr. Matthew Vol, vice president
OF the American Federation of Labor.
The annual Summer exhibition of the
North Shore horticultural Society viii
open Tuesday in Horticultural Hall. in
Manchester. and will continue through
Thursday A number of Washington
cOttagers will be among the exhibitors.
The annual cruise of the New
York Yacht Club to Marblehead will
start Monday. A dinner party will
be given at the Eastern Yacht Club to
the flag officers of the visiting club by
Commodore w r. Aldrich of the Mar
blehead Club Tuesday evening An at
tractfve race schedule has been ar
ranged for Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gannett of
washington are with their daughter
Mrs Clarence Birdseye in her new
home at Eastern Point, Gloucester. for a
part of the season.
Mr.. John e. jerks of Washington has
been at the Tudor at Nahant for a
short stay.
Mrs. Charles W. Porter OF Washing
ton is on the North Shore for visit
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SCIENCE ASKING
FOR MORATORIUM
Progress Held Too Rapid for
Research Workers to
Adjust Selves.
BY Gable to The star.

BY Gable to The Star.
PARIS. August 15.-President Hoo
yer has set fashion All the world is
talking Of moratoriums. And not only
in the financial and economic senses.
In France. for instance, scientists of all
denominations are now asking whether
science would not do we'll to call mora
torium
There is growing conviction in the
scien, inc world here that a holiday
would be OF benefit 1t is pointed out
that in scientific fields as in many
others, there has been sort of over
production. In the last few decades
progress has been so breathlessly rapid
that 1t might be well to pause while
and take ock. as it were.
Old Studies Obsolete.
If man OF SO who finished his
scholastic studies at 20 had the leisure
to compare his text books of 80 years
ago with those of a son at college today,
he would find that virtually all he
learned In science has become obsolete.
Since the man OF so ended his studies
the world has seen an entire change in
science, both theoretical and applied
with radio-activity. vitamins. waves and
rays OF all kinds. knowledge Of the ac-
ton Of interStitial glands. the quantum
theory and the undulatory theory All
branches of science are affected
physics, chemistry, cleo richly. biology
medicine. surgery
All have been revolutionized by one
discovery after another. SO much SO
that the question is being asked here
whether we realize fully what has been
discovered. its import and its practical
value. In this Connection many French
scientists agree with recent atements
made in America. notably at the annual
convention OF the American Medical
Association, that every new discovery Is
exploited so promptly by commercial in
terests, and at the same time so blatant
ly. that even prudent men OF science are
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BEVERLY, Mass, August l5,--Swing-
ing toward the apex Of activities, the
week for washington colonists Oh the
Mas c''usetts North Shore has been
one o. Ire most interesting of the sea-
son. Famed for its sport, there have
been many attractions. including ta2
Yacht races at Marhlehead, Manchester
and Gloucester; tennis at the Mont
serFat. Nahant and Cape Ann Clubs;
golf at Myopia. Essex County and Bass
Rocks Clubs and polo at the Myepia
Club at Hamilton. For art lovsrs the
exhibitions 1T Marblehead Annisquam.
Rockport and Gloucester colonies proved
alluring.
Mrs. Henry Pratt Mexican opened
her home. Willowtree Farm, at WSn--
ham, Monday for an exhibition oil
drawings and miniature busts, and Tues
day evening Mr.. Harold Bauer gave
recital in the West Manchester SUM
rner home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Morss for the benefit OF the Beverly
Farms Music School, in which many
of the colonists are interested. The
Cape Ann Follies played before rep
resentative audience in the Moerlano
Casino. at Gloucester, Wednesday ana
Thursday evenings under the auspices
of the Bass Rocks Golf Club,
The annual Fakirs Ball OF the
Gloucester Society of Artists at Haw-
thorne Inn, at Eastern Point, THURSDAY
evening. proved es usual, gay as Wen
as colorful affair. Last evening moving
pictures taken at the recent Ialr OF ~.
Johns Episcopal Church at Beverly
Farms. supplemented by an entertain
ment. was an enjoyable event Tonight
the Paris Players presented Expressing
willie" before a large audience IN the
Ascension Memorial Church parish
house in Ipswich.
There was much disappointment In
the North Shore colonies over the in
ability of the Vice President, Mr..
Charts c. Curtis; his PARLIAMENTARY
and his sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward e.
Gam, to visit here this week. where
a round OF entertaining had been plan
ned In their honor. Mrs. jacob Leanoef
Loose was to have entertained the Wis
ltors at SEA Rocks one OF the snow
places of the Eastern Point colony In
Gloucester. End a large reception for
which 800 invitations had been sent
out was planned. Mrs George Evans
Tener of Sewickley, Pa. who Is sum-
mering at Arbarra- by-the-Sea at East
ern Point. was to give a dinner party
Monday. Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. God
FREY Lowell Cabot of the Oaks, at BeV-
erly Farms. had planned luncheon
and that evening Mrs. Loose WIS 10
have given dinner party at Sea ROCKS.
The wednesday program included a
short dinner for Vice President Curtis,
given by Senator David 1. Walsh at
Swampscott, while Mrs Loose had plan
ned a luncheon for Mrs Gam. MT.
and Mrs. william H. Coolidge were to
have entertained at a dinner party
Wednesday evening at their Blynman
farm estate at Magnolia, and the wash
tngton visitors were to have left the
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are determining the conditions Of the
phenomenon, but the phenomenon itself
remains unreVealed. Consequently our
knowledge continues experimental, and
experiments demand INFINITE eonfirna
ton and confederation. Therefore a
moratorium. by which is meant the
preparation OF q sort OF general balance
sheet. OF scientific knowledge. would re-
mind the world that real progress is
slow and that the true scientist believes
in modesty and prudence.
Copyright, 1850
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Coconut Drops.

One-half cupful fat. one cupful sugar.
two eggs three tablespoonfuls sour
cream, one teaspoonful vanilla. one
quarter teaspoonful salt. one-half cup
coconut. two eupfuls -four and one
half teaspoonful soda. Cream fat and
sugar. Add eggs and cream Beat
three minutes Add rest of ingredients
and chill dough- Take tablespoonful
Of mixture and place inches apart
on creased baking sheets. Bake IL
minutes in moderately slow oven.
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him. The pastor previously was said 10
have refused to attend meeting Of the
deaconS TO answer charges OF making
remarks refieEting on women of the
button made TO African missions Rev.
Pinn refused to accept the order Of sus-
pension and attempted to preside at q
church meeting the court was told.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16
PASTOR is RESTRAINED
FROM FILLING PULPIT
Rev. James I. Pinn Ordered by
Court 10 Await Decision of
Deacons on Suspension.

Rev. James l.. Pinn, suspended pastor
OF the First Colored Baptist Church.
Twenty-Seventh street and Dumbarton
avenue. will rot be allowed to occupy
the pulpit until the meeting August "a
Of the board OF deacons, which will
hear charges against him, according to
an injunction signed yesterday by Jus
tice Cox in District Supreme Court
Officers and members of the church
had appealed to the court to prevent
Rev Pinn from continuing to act sS
pastor after the board had suspended
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swept OF their feet. Consequently q
moratorium would afford them time to
recover their mental balance.
The greatest possibility OF surprises Is
presented by medicine, particularly IN
the use of vaccines and serums For ex-
ample, the French Academy OF Medicine
periodically discusses the B. G. @. anti
tubeIculous vaccine for newborn babes,
and hears arguments for and against.
Conservative physicians suggest that not
until the babies have reached maturity
and have offspring will it be possible to
present conclusive data. In brief. those
who favor moratorium point 10 ana
phylactic phenomena and say. We are
familiar with the immediate effects of
vaccines and serums. but not always
with the after-effectS TO- 20. 80 years
la err Can we assert positively that VIC
know what changes are brought about
in the human organism by the intro
duction of vaccine or serum?
killing Soil Life.
Agricultural engineers are asking SINH
lar questions regarding the introduction
OF artificial fertilizers into the soil.
chiefly because there are so many by
products Of industry utilized. Some go
so far as 10 forecast a barren world be-
cause we are killing the principle Of
life that is in the SOIL
Scientists who suggest a moratorium
anticipate that they will be called retro
grade. They deny the allegation in
dignantly. They want to progress. But
they confess that at times thew are hesi-
tant They have a feeling their steps
are so rapid that they would not have
any time to draw back If they happened
upon Quicksands or a chasm. They de-
cir IN opf1 mr., their mad hut thew
would like to reconnoiter first Above all
things, they fear great danger in the
overcommercialization of science
Going further. scientists recall that
the primary use-life-oontinNes to
escape us. All our marvellous discoveries
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David Aitchison. sehooibcy at St
Abs. Scotland, who recently found two
ancient gold srrnlets. has received re
ward nf kI0g
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The tuts crop In tha Calcutta district
Is smaller than last year.