The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-06
As We See 1t
NV Tom 0'FIaherty

rusland-The soldiers bonus
Ole &c passed by congress over
OIL ."rIe veto. Demos was m1ghtier
HOW; ,,,e than the House Of Nor
ths congress- feared the soldier
gan IN the next elections so it was
Vo ,SS.,,a tn ease a few hundred mill
mt of the pockets OF the rich
ions a,oy1ers Coolidge in one Of his
ttaA!p,,Iaea sermons asserts that We
tlos nrotect peoples rights. May
- is only a coincidence but they
% protect the rights of the
saT people who own most Of the
.-sealth Of this country.
r,orgress Will adjourn without
ling done a darn thing for the
nlia.o-,,n1oved. Senator wheeler has
.uIat-odrced q resolution asking for
SIoo 00o, 0oo for the starving urban
gIremployed. That sum, while only
trif1e will not be appropriated
Sv congress. AS Coolidge said re-
entity nobody is entitled to what
he has not earned. Nobody except
az rarasite of course. The S2O,-
ooo no appropriated by congress
~ drouth relief seems to be glued
to Andrew MELONS pants In or
Ss. 20 qualify for a loan a farmer
Tnnst have ample security. This is
sbout the most tragic joke ever
nniled off on the farmers. I sup
nose they'll vote either the Demo-
cratic or Republican ticket again
newt wear. And if Bill Foster runs
FOR president on the Communist
t;cket the poor farmers will say it
woud be throwing away their votes
70 70 Communist. They. will learn
in time.
Tho will Rogers is pretty much
of a court jester, sometimes he
dsres to turn 1oosS crack that
rings the bell. He observes that the
big boys say it is bad economy to
pay the bonus money now but he
asks if entering the war was a
stroke Of financial enius. well it
was-for the big boys. Will does
not seem to understand that what
is bad for the exploited classes is
oftentimes good for the exp1oiters.
The war made hundreds of brand
new millionaires and increased ten
fold the wealth of most of those
who had already arrived. War pays
the big fellows. That is why they
are paytriotic.
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Bank robbers are doing more
worrying nowadays than at any
time in the history of the profess
sion. Robbing a bank is a mere
bagatele compared to the other
brain-feverish concerns of the bold
bad man who beats bank officials
10 the safe. Even bank robbers
deposit their savings but where 60
find a reliable financial institution
today is q search. Scores of New
York bank officials are under in
dictment and the number of bank
officials thruout the land who have
gone south with the funds entrust.
ed to their care is legion. It IS a
good joke on bank robber to have
some anaenlic cashier take to the
gag tAbarets with his loot. PRO.
fessional bank hijackers are only
pikers.
***%A
Judge Jean Norris of New Yorl
is woman as you may twig by hel
cognomen. When she was elevated
to the bench. the incident was hal
ed as marking a new milestone fl
human progress and civic decencJ
and liberals gurgled over the vista
Of judicial sanitation that Mrs
Norris's election opened up. Nov
we learn that the lovely and OK
tord-accented Tammany lady is NJ
better than her male compeers. il
fact it has been shown that she wa
more brutal in dealing with WON
en- offenders framed by sfHic
squads" than her male associates
And 1t is broadly limited that sh
was not above profiting financial,
from her position. She boosted
yeast product for considerable.
OF $1,000 and her picture in flow
ing judicial robes appeared i
scores of magazines. Woman suf1
rage was a just recognition OF tn
right of women to have an equs
voice with men in government. Blu
TIME has proven that women al
no more immune than men 8rol
the corrupting influence of capital
ism
$%& 80
Unemployment in France, w,nic
was non-existent four months az
has now reached the million mari
France has 90 per cent OF tn
worlds monetary gold supply an
shallow-pated economists attribute
frances freedom from the curse {
unemployment to that fact. I'll
united States holds 40 per cent {
the worlds monetary gold suppl
but this country has the bigge.
unemployed army in the world, tt
not relatively in proportion TO IL
population. German leads hel
with five million. Germany's el
tire population Is approximately
millions. England has three mil
Ions out Of work out Of a tot
population Of As million. The
Is no unemployment in the Sovt
Union. Amt the Bolshevtki orfu
SSs sO0
Hoover declared that only a fe
hundred veterans needed the none
Well, here In Cleveland on MondA
March 2, $50 vets were in line
a. m. and 2,642 applications HI
been filed. If they don't need
they act as if they wanted 1t an
how.