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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
CELEBRATIONS AT.
POPLAR JULY Al

Poplar is advertising a Fourth
of July celebration that promises
to be the largest and most attract
i've in northeastern Montana this
year. It's most unusual feature is
the admission price, which will be
81 for adults and BIC for children
under 16 for a full afternoon of
events which would ordinarily cost
much more.
Included on the 81 program are
two baseball games, horse races,
an automobile race, and a 26-
rounG boxing carr. In ADDITION
there will be a $500 display of
fireworks in the evening and the
band will furnish music all day.
Other attractions will be a mer-
ry-go-round, two airplanes, and the
usual assortment of carnival feat
ureS.
The first ball game, between
the Poplar and Scobey Junior
Leagues, will open the 81 program
at 1920 a. m. The other ball game
during the afternoon will be be
tween Poplar and Wolf Point coun-
ty league teams.
The race track on the Fort Peck
Fair Grounds is being put into
first class shape for the horse
races and for the free-fOr-all au.
tomobile race.
Concluding the program is a 26-
round boxing card. Frank Delgel
of Poplar will fight rounds will
Al Acheff of Minot. Frank Charg
ing Dog will battle Chief Pedro o.
Devils Lake 6 rounds. Young Ru
dy HIM of CulbertSon will bt
matched with Kid Kelly of VOL
Point. Preliminary bouts will fill
up the balance of the card.
All events will be held at tn,
Fort Peck fair grounds at Popla.
on July 4th for the single admis
sion of 81.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
WHY WE'RE LATE

The past four weeks the Produc-
ers News has been reaching its
readers very late due to the fact
that the printer has been serving
on the jury. The services of a re-
lief man had been secured but at
the last moment he was unable to
come due TO conditions over which
he had no control. 1t was then too
late 10 secure another printer and
we have been struggling along as
best we could until after the adj
journment of court. We shall en-
deavor to get back on schedule the
coming week SO you can all have
the Producers News to read over
the weekend.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

One important and potent Ro-
tartan here had thirteen banks UNI
der his direction. They busted
every one of them. The papers
had a lice story about the broken
banker, how he rose "from the
bottom" and all that. A check
drawn on his bank now is about as
valuable as a coon skin coat in
the Tropic Zone or a one piece ba-
thing suit in Greenland. A drug
gist was telling me however that
the banker probably had some of
his jack slowed away where the
probability of security was some
what better than in his own bank.
The bankers daughter came into
his store to cash a check. The
druggist viewed te piece of paper
with alarm. The lady pointed to
it with pride, saying, "This is O.
K. 1t is drawn on the Blanketv
Blink Bank, Mount In
diana" Get a load of that fellow.
workers!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

Bond Issue Four and One-HaIf |
Per Cent Gallatin County Bought |
by First National Bank of Butte"
Can independent hOuse.) Gala
tim COunty's credit has always
been good. The rate of interest
Is fair. 1t is a likely investment
for large capital. 1t is a good
sign of returning independence in
Montana. None of the interest
this bod issue will be divided
In Minnesota.
The large banks Of BOzeman
are in one or the other Of the
mergers. They did not buy it.
They, for two years, have been
running an institution, unadapt-
ed by nature to the needs or
wishes of the community they
serve. For want of better word
"m-American" tells the story of
their present merger plan.
What is in the minds of all the
merger bankers can not be learn
ed from their words. They know
the quip of Machiavelli: Lam
guage was invented to deceive"
DemeanOr reveals. Three weeks
ago the fountain head and NOV
ing spirit of the mergers MAR
lOwe)- not of particular person
al interest to the public himself,
but as a speCiman entered a
dining car at Helena, He was in
timately acquainted with fifteen
of the twenty persons at tables.
He is not by nature msOciable.
He fretfully sought a table by
himself; pulled out the Wall
Street Journal; DOred over it;
penciled it; eyes moved from
stock to stock; made little calcu-
latiOns; annOyingly drummed on
the table; wrote a telegram; tore
it up; ate little OF nothing; hur-
ried away.
If the telegram had been to his
New York Broker to sell every
share of stock he held, and he
had sent it at Clancy and he had
put part of the proceeds in Gal
latin County Bonds, he would be
five dollars the share better off
by now for selling them, and his
depOsitOrs' money would be doing
Mntana people some good - and
JUST AS SAFE.
The officers of our independent
banks seem to enjoy better pOise,
The heads are usually In their
places of business. They have
time to explain to any old lady
how to collect a five hundred
dollar insurance policy or how t.
safely send Willie a ticket home
when he is stranded in California
They are running a normal bus
mess, useful to the communities
they serve. They realize tina
they make many warm lastiR,
friends.
B. F. White of the First Ma
tiOnal Bank of Dillon was tn
most popular and respected MAJ
in his county for forty years. FL,
weathered through panics. Fl,
seldom insisted on mortgages
His expression was eff a man.
note is no good his mortgage i
bad too" He was a hard heade'
student of stock raising, farming
and markets for cattle ant
grains. He gave good advice II
his patrons. He would instantl,
have fired any employee caugh
peddling stocks to a depOsitOr On
secret commission. He neve
advertised 'This bank recommend
purchase of corporate trus
shares at eight dollars or Ana
cOnda at eighty-seven dollars.
He was not In any competing lin
with his customers. His ban
grew in power and popularity, hi
customers prOspered with Whitt
Yet the same institution, unde
merger methods, is rOHndly hate
/ by many of its old patrons, sti
compelled to deal with it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
HORSE THROWS BOY
ARM is FRACTURED

Milo Arneklev, IA, son of Mrs.
Inga Arneklev of Antelope, was
thrown from a horse, painfully
fracturing the bones of onearm.
The misfortune occurred near the
r. r. LELAND farm house. Mr..
LELAND brot the youth to the Me
mortal hospital Immediately where
the bones were set. The young
man is still at the hospital but is
mending rapidly and will soon be
in a condition allowing him TO re-
turn home.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
Red Cross Asked for Aid

The Sheridan county authorities
driven by the serious situation ex-
listing here, have asked the Red
Cross for a $4,000 per month ap-
preparation for aid to feed those
who it is believed will be needy
in Sheridan county the intervening
months between now and harvest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

The government knew all about
Als racket for the past ten years
but did not lift a finger against
him. Rivals were slaughtered en-
masse by his gunner. Anti-Sa-
loon Leaguers who declare that it
IS sinful for the government to get
part Of its revenue from the LIQUOR
business in the good old-fashioned
way, praise the government for
making Scarface cough up some of
the jack he derived from his broth
els, gambling dens and moonshine
business. The government and Ca
pone have evidently entered into
a sort of gentlemen's agreement.
IN newspaper circles it is said that
Al will get a few years and come
out Just in time to catch the next
wave Of prosperity, if such a phe-
nomenon arrives. His conviction
on a guilty plea is a great boost
Tor the local politicians who have
been working hand in hand with
MN for the past ten years. A
small town bOOtlegger expects tx
get raided once in a while ever
tho protected. The big fellows ex
pect similar treatment but not 81
often.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

Herbet Hoover comes out for a
moratorium on war debts. Andy
MELLON IS in Europe talking things
over with the heads of European
gVernments. Hoover fears that
NE present financial crisis in Eur
Tpe may bring about the Social
revolution. He acts to save CAPT.
.allsm as the Federal Government
sc'ed after the war. At that time
the capitalist system in Europe
W. mas lettering. The millions of
"aWH Street saved it then. Now
q greater crisis threatens Europe.
again Uncle Sam steps in as a
SavrOus. The government that has
.elused to give one nickel to feed
81 Sle starving millions in the United
S Ssstes does mot hesitate to put
;1nIiOns into the Golfers of foreign
mperlalist governments, lest the
o"Ofkslmgclass should rise to power
=" the ruins of capitalism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

Well, Al CapOne is. liable to
spend a few years in Jail after all.
Al is taking it in good form. His
business, like every other business
was hard hit by the economic de-
preston. Furthermore, he is get
ting too fat and mentally sluggish.
His rivals were thinking up new
schemes to get rid of their beer
while Al was spending most of his
time boiling on the sands in Miami,
Florida. While up-an' -at-'em boot
leggers were devising handy beer
packages done up on five gallon,
air-oOOled cans. for home delivery,
Al was sticking TO the old methods
and losing mney. His vassals were
kicking. The government finally
stepped in to save Al from a knife
IN the ribs and from bankruptcy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
WestIand Oil Company Is
Erecting Super Station

The Westland Oil Company is
constructing and building its oil
station at the corner of Main and
Fourth street, or the old First Ma
final Bank building, into what it
is pleased to call "super station"
The station when finished will be
about twice its former size and
will contain a grease rack and
car washing rack.
Ole Hippo, carpenter, of Plenty
wood, the official oil station build
er for the Westland Oil Company,
assisted by Carl Brenden, is ding
the work which it is planned will
be completed by the first of July.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
FARMERS OF THE NORTHWEST SAY
DROUTH AID Is IMMEDIATE NEED
lHlers OF the Soil Tell Secretary Hydes Man, Brown.
mat Large Area In Montana and North Dakota Now
Is In Very Serious Predicament.

Williston, June 25.-Commissioners Of e;obt North
Dakota and Montana counties today told federal depart
ent OF agriculture representative that their farmers need
immediate help because of drouth Chairman Frank
French OF the Sheridan County board of commissioners
represented Sheridan county at the meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

of the deplorable conditions
in his section of the county,
saying that many because of
practical crop failure for the past
year, and facing a complete crop
failure this year, are now starving
or are facing starvation soon, I'M
less something is done to furnish
these people relief. He says con-
ditiOns are as bad in the south
eastern part of Sheridan county
now as they were last fall and.
winter in Arkansas. There will be
no grain crop and no feed for cat
= 80 - ##* #&&s
DAGMAR FARMERS HOLD y
DROUTH RELIEF MEETING -
The farmers of the Dagmar .
= country, deeply concerned over
the drouth conditions this year
following the drouth of last year
when there was no crop In that .
area, and facing starvation for
themselves and cattle, called
= meeting at the Brotherhood HAN
Thursday night, and decided TO
send a delegation to the county
commissioners at the special ses-
sion Saturday to ask them to ap-
prOpriate $500 for mi11et seed TO
be distributed among the farm .
erS-$1o worth to the farmer
to plant for hay for the cattle. .
It is said $40 will buy nli1Iet
seed for 40 acres.
saAAS aaS1sa -
tie. If it rains there may be some
chance to raise feed if the farm
ers can get seed, which they have
not, nor the money to buy. Larson
believes that organized action is
better than individual action and
urges people TO get together at
once to formulate definite plans
for relief.
Rep. Larson's letter is printed
below and the Producers News
would be pleased to hear from
others on the same subject from
other parts of the county where
similar conditions exist.
| THE LETTER
1
Plentywood, Montana.
Dear Editor Taylor:
Here I am again. but this time
q little different. believe that
some of the people in this COM
munity are about on the brink OF
starvation including myself, as i
don't know II will be able to hold
out very much 1ongar. which may
be good news to some people IN
Sheridan county as well as else
where. The only thing left is what
one can get out Of a few chickens
and cows. but the way It looks
now there VIII not be- feed FOR
either chickens or cattle in a very
short time. Pastures are drying
} up and very few farmers win be
: able to get a single load Of hay rol
winter feed unless rain comes SC
people can SOW something ana raise
feed for stock If they can get the
seed to do IL with. Ths way It looks
now no crops Will be harvested
for grain.
Some folks have told me that
non 81 un I'aEe Four
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
Robert Larson Calls on
People Of County to Form
Organization for Relief

Says Farmers in Southeastern Sheridan County are Hun
cry Now, with no Hopes of Crops Feed for
and Petition State and National Authorities for Re
lief = Prefers Organized Action to Individual Action
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

The Producers News received a letter last week from
the Hon. Robert Larson who for four years. represented
Sheridan County in the Montana State Legislature telling
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

idly.
Carl and another brother were
trying to hold the roller back as
the truck was hauling it down
hill and in some way slipped under
it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

:; Ihose who still believe that there
u y principle difference between
we VIE republican and Democratic
p parues should note that Hoover
IG1tHisGlted the leaders of both DO
c m.cai wings of Wall Street on the
question p,,s of declaring a moratori-
P Pm on war debts. Democrats and
TTSpuoncans endorsed the move.
me tmey want to save the robber sys-
I'm t5ln on which they fatten. If
P ,ere Is a distinction between the
nepuoncan highwayman and the
an; s4.i:iOcratic confidence man it is a
O'S'lnctlon without a difference.
II Tapa and II Duce are still at
Cis. Inc conflict between the Fas-
government of Italy and the
COntinued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26
LOCAL MARKETS

FRIDAY, JUNE &c, 1881
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-26

.,o..s to every man and nation
+be moment to decide,
-. strife of good with falsehood,
-or the good or evil SIDE"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
DRINK CURE HOSPITALS HAVE
FEW PATIENTS
w. C. T. U. Investigation Shows
Few Drink Cure Hospitals
in the Country

The national Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union has made q special inyes-
tigation of the various branches which
the Kelley institute lists as nourishing.
In press release some weeks ago an
nouncing the results of the investigation
the statement is made that I'VE can not
find 100 alcoholic patients in the entire
list; whereas the average rate of patients
for the Kelley cure prior to prohibition,
according to their own figures, was more
than 5000 patients a year in addition To
patients at hundreds of other institu-
tons"
The w. C. T. U. says that there are now
"a dozen branches Of the institute, most
of them very small, some with no patients
when we investigated
cat Des Moines, Iowa, we could locate
the Kelley institute only after consider
abel search. There were no patients and
no physician on the premises. Between
seven and ten inebriates applied for treat
ment at the Des Moines institution last
year, a contrast to the saloon era when
Iowa had fluorishing Kelley cures at DeS
Moines, Red Oak, and Burlington; also
Neal institute, competing liquor cure at
Des Moines. In 1905 the state itself estab-
lished an inebriate hospital at Knoxville
which operated for twelve years at cost
$3.50 first time inebriates AS soon as
Iowa went dry in 1916, admissions to this
state inebriate hospital declined so rapidly
that between 1918 and 1920 there were
only twenty-five admissions and the state
closed the institution on December l, 1919,
with only eleven patients. The buildings
were leased to the government as a hos
pital for veterans just as the old Kelley
building at Dwight has been leased for the
same purpose.
''At Denver we found not a single Kelley
patient. The manager says business is not
as good as it was before prohibition. He
can accommodate a dozen only.
"At Kansas City there is room for ten
patients and three are on hand
can inquiry at the Kelley institute at
Greensboro, N. c., shows an average of six
patients At the institute in Dallas, Texas.
there are no patients, but accommoda-
tons for twelve patients"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE COMMENDS ENFORCEMENT
EFFORTS

sidious paid propaganda, by men in
high official positions, and by news
papers and magazines owned or con-
trolled by liquor interests; and
Whereas, The liquor interests have
continually and repeatedly INSTRUCTED
the enforcement and administration
of the prohibition laws both state and
national, by continued and repeated
charges of corruption, fraud and in
efficiency, against the departments
and officials charged with the admin
istration and enforcement of the pro-
hibition law both state and national:
therefore, be it
ReSolUed, BY the house of represent
tatives, the senate concurring, that we
do most heartily and sincerely COM
mend President Hoover and the dry
leaders of both parties for their loyal
and determined support of the Eight
zenith Amendment and the enforce
nent of the Volstead act; be it further
ReSolUed, That the clerk of this
house be directed to mail certified
copies of this resolution to the presi-
dent of the United States and to the
governor Of this state.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
WILL BE TO The FORE
Prohibition to Furnish Much Dez
bate for Next Congress

According to an Associated Press dis
patch carrying a Washington, D. c., date
line Of March the Lame Duck session OF
congress just ended left for its successor
of next December plenty of highly con-
troversial liquor matters.
Authors of bills which automatically
died at the end OF the session will I'M
doubtedly introduce them again at the
first chance. Among those abandoned last
session was bill growing out of the Sug-
gestion of the Wickersham commission for
the trial of minor offenders without a
Jury. This bill, after having been passed
by the house, died on the senate calendar.
Two resolutions presented by Senator
Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, were lost in
the shuttle One would prevent the sale of
grape concentrates from which wine may
be conveniently made; the other would
make unlawful the possession of liquor in
the home "the burden of proof resting
upon the possessor.
VETS estimate that the increase in anti
prohibition force in the next congress will
bring the established wet votes in the
senate to %, and those in the house to 160.
This strength they suggested, might be
thrown behind resolution similar to the
one introduced by Senator Blaine, Repub-
lican, Wisconsin, to put into effect re-
vision of the Eighteenth Amendment Sug-
gested in the Wickersham report. It may
back also measure by Senator Copeland,
Democrat, New York, to loosen the me-
dicinal liquor regulations. Both proposals
failed to receive even committee approba-
ton in the present senate.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01

A resolution recently was passed by
both houses of the legislature of South
Dakota, commencing President Hoover
and the dry leaders of both parties for
their support of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and its concurrent legislation. The
resolution passed the senate with but six
dissenting votes and was endorsed in the
house in about the same ratio. This is in
deed gratifying bit of news, especially at
a time when a determined effort is being
made in the legislatures of several of the
states to withdraw state support to the
national prohibition policy, thereby ham
pering the job of enforcement. The fol-
lowing is a copy of the resolution:
A concurrent resolution relating to the en-
forcement of the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
Be it Reso1ved by the legislature of the
state of South Dakota:
Whereas, There is an organized, in
sistent and pernicious effort on the
part of the liquor interests of the
United States to discredit, break
down, and destroy the Eighteenth
Amendment to the constitution by in
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
SMITH STILL HOPEFUL

Flat declaration by Alfred E. Smith that
he would attend the next Democratic con-
vention and that prohibition has got to
be an issue" in 1882 conceded with elev
enth hour pleas for harmony at meeting
OF the partys national committee, March
4, according to dispatch from Washing
ton of that date.
Smith told newspaper men that he
would be present at the next convention.
What his purpose would be at the 1882
gathering he did not say but his statement
was interpreted on all sides as meaning
the former New York governor still was
very much in the 1882 political picture.
Smith denied reports that he was in con-
flict with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York, a potential presidential NOM
inee When asked if he favored Roosevelt
for the nomination he replied:
This is not the time to discuss that.
That is matter to be decided by someone
more important than I am and that is the
national convention. I expect to go to the
convention"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
WELL, 1T WILL MAKE A
DANDY LUNCH COUNTER

The Ne,U York Times, February "a, said
the Union League club had made provi-
sion for bar in its new club house with
expectation that the prohibition law soon
would be repealed. George W. Fraker, a
member of the house committee was
quoted as follows:
eve hope and expect to see prohibition
end very soon. More than three-fourths
of the Union League club are active vets
and prohibition can not die any too soon
for U.S."
More than 1000 persons visited the
club house at its opening. Departures
from the club traditions included din
ing-room and smoking-room exclusively
for women and gymnastic equipment fea-
turing mechanical horses.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
LITTLE RHODY STILL WET

The lower house of the Rhode Island
legislature unanimously passed a bill con-
veying to congress denunciation of the
Eighteenth Amendment as un-American
and crime-breeding. 1t also directed the
Rhode Island delegation in congress to
initiate and support legislation calling for
a constitutional convention, with view
to repeating or modifying the Eighteenth
Amendment.
Rhode Island, one of the two states
which refused to ratify the Eighteenth
Amendment
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01
DULUTH DRUNKENNESS
DECREASES

The clerk of the court of Duluth, Min
nesota, says that there has been a de-
crease of over SO per cent in that city in
the record of arrests for drunkenness since
the end of the open saloon regime. In
1916, the last year of the saloon in Du-
1uth, there were 5,154 arrests for drunken
ness in the city while in the year 1880 the
record of arrests was 2,132.