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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

New Bedford, Mass. Aug. TO-
President VIM. Green of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor today
warned of ga rebellion of the army
of unemployed which will upset
our present political system, unless
industry and government cooper
ate with labor" in the current in
dustrial depression.
Green spoke before the 10th an
nual convention of the Massachu-
sets Federation of Labor.
Stressing the seriousness of the
unemployment situation. President
Green asked: care we going to
make it necessary for workers to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

erintendent's office. There ga a
Mrs. Debing. When came down
the street l met healthy, portly
booking gentleman. Ny neighbor
said, Il wonder If that is the new
minister" But some one said.
Heck, mol He looks healthy be-
caus he's live don his wife's meal
ticket for ten years now" That
was Mr.. Debing. Another matter:
Why should we taxpayers keep two
Petersons when we have men that
have starving families. smart men
that can fill those jobs on less pay
Why don't the business men from
PlentywOod and other Sheridan
county towns look into this and
take some action7 It looks seri-
GUS to as farmers.
Yours.
"A HOMESTEADITE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14
To the Producers News:

10 the GTOuuCeTS NEWS
The New York Journal of Com
merce as quoted at page 5 of the
August 8th Literary Digest states:
There is no longer any valid ex-
cuse for delaying the process of
scaling down wage payments after
the radical and permanent changes
that have occurred since the indus
trial depression became pronounced
and worldwide"
Reading between the lines said
statement admits that industrial
depression has been added to farm
depression; that prices now paid
farmers for their products have
reached a new permanent low lev
ell; that it is the purpose of inter-
national capitalism to scale down
wage payments to permanent world
levels.
1t is we'll known who lose when
wage payments and farm product
prices are slashed but it is not
well known who greatly profit
thereby.
Capitalists, Bankers and Usurers
Have the Same OdOr
There is a class of people under
the American form of government
that is politely called capitalists.
1t includes bankers. Their true
name is usurers.
Usurers from time immemorial
have been in bad odor. Cato the
Censor, a Roman farmer, general
and statesman, nearly half a cen
fury before the birth of Christ, in
a discourse to his sons about Occu-
pations, said: at is at times worth
while 10 gain wealth by commerce
were it not so perilous; or by US
ury, were it equally honorable.
Our ancestors, however. held and
fixed by law that a thief should
be condemned to restore double
the usurer quadruple." By that
| it is seen how much worse a Ro-
man thought it to be usurer than
a thief.
Usurers Work to Make Debtors
Dollar Cheap
Usurers continually strive t.
make the lender dollar dearer anC
the borrowers dollar cheaper. The
more cheap debtor dollars it take.
to pay a dear creditor dollar, the
greater the gain Of the usurer
For example. a farmer owns {
wheat ranch. It's average yield is
20 bushels per acre. In a giveT
year, wheat sold at one dollar pei
bushel. He mortgages his farm
for $50 per acre for a term o.
two years. He pays off half thu
mortgage the first year. Depres
sion overtakes him the second ant
wheat drops Is cents a bushe
There is yet SO per acre due oil
said mortgage and it would TAX
40 bushels of 25 cent wheat Z,
pay it-twice as much wheat as i
would have taken to pay the mort
gage at the time it was made. H
can't borrow more on his farm
He can't pay. The usurer take
said farm at SO per acre, altho
intrinsically, said farm is just a
valuable as it was the day the US
urer loaned the money on it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

would make a stiff fight against
any Interpretation if subject to a
test in the courts, and Russian
sources already are threatening re-
prisals against United States
trade-a cessation of buying-if
the plan is carried out here.
Present tariff law provisions
prohibit importation of any goods
made by convict labor and on sew
eral occasions, shipments, particu-
larry of lumber and pulpwood have
been held up at ports but none ev-
er had been kept out.
Customs officials in explaining
their proposed Interpretation of
the law, cited a decree of the SOW
let cmmissariat of labor, issued
last fall, which says that skilled
worlmen who refuse the work Of
fered viii be put to doing unslill-
ed labor and if they refuse this
will be removed from the employ
ment register. To be stricken
from the employment register
means that the worker loses his
food book, depriving him of his
right to buy at stores and is driv-
en- from his lodgings. This, Gus
toms officials say, constitutes fore.
ed labor.
Russia does not have a large
stake in her sales to the United
States, except that the United
States offers one outlet for the
products she is pouring into tn,
markets of the world in the effort
to pay the way for her five yeal
plan.
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Who Gains When Wage Pay
ments and Prices for Farm
Stuff are Relentlessly Cut?

Again, railroad man is earn
ing Sc per day. His job seems
reasonably dependable. He wants
home as a part of competence
for old age. He buys one on a
sale contract to pay specified
sum monthly. He bases his month
ly payments on said contract up
on a wage payment of % per day.
Perhaps he puts all his savings for
years into said contract and i'm
provements to make his home
more comfortable. He meets his
payments promptly until depres-
sion comes. His employer lays
him off or gives him part time
work. In either case. he can't
meet the payments. He is not to
blame. He is just another of the
victims of depression. Finally,
through coercion of usurers, his
employer scales down wages to a
parity of price paid farmers, that
is, world level wage payments. By
that unconscionable trick, the us
urer takes the workman's home
and all he has paid on it.
Special Privilege Laws Cheaper
Dollar of Workman and Farmer.
The chief contrivances of usur-
ers to cheaper the value of the
dollar of workmen and farmers are
high tariffs, property taxes, Fed
eral Reserve Banks, National
Banks, the Federal Farm Board
and the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission. All said contrivances are
special privilege laws designed fol
the purpose of taking tariffs, tax,
ess, usury and carrying charges out
Of the value of the dollar of the
worlmand and farmer. That leaves
said dollar with little debt paying
or purchasing power.
Organized Control People See On
ly Loss of Purchasing Power
Organized central people thinl
of the unemployed and the bank
rupt farmers only in terms of pur
chasing power. It is conceded tina
such loss caused by unemployment
and ruinous prices for farm pro
ducts mounts to staggering fig
ures, yet, that loss is trifling whe1
compared with the permanent los
of workmen and farmers by reas
on of slashing the prices of wha
they sell and the shrinkage in val
ne of their property by cheapeninj
their dollar. Workmen and farm
ers could forgive temporary unem
ployment or temporary low price
for farm products but they cal
never forgive those whose cunning
conrtivances DESTROYED the deb
paying power of their dollar an
because a cheap dollar would no
paw off a dear dollar took ava
from them the savings Of the bes
wears of their lives-savings whic
thew looked forward to as a com
petence for old age. Hundreds an
hundreds of thousands of workme
and farmers have been so robbed
scrapped by organized control an
dumped by their government o
the junk-heap of human poverty.
F. L. WILLIAMS,
Miles City. Montana,
August 18th, 1881.
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SEES REVOLT UNLESS The
VAST HUNGRY MULTITUDE SFED

raid stores because their children
are starving? Can the financiers
and the wealthy feel secure IN
their homes when millions are hun
gry?"
Way Out
Distribution of work so that ev-
erv man shall have his share, even
if it were necessary to reduce the
work week to three days, mainten.
ance of the present wage scale and
expenditure of government monies
for public works were cited by Mr.
Green as means of solving the un-
employment problem
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14
EMBARGO SPLANNED ON RUSSIAN
PRODUCTS TOU.S. AFTER JANUARY

TREASURY Officials in charge
of enforcement Of the customs
laws are planning to seek a
drastic embargo against all Rus
sian products beginning January /,
next.
The plan as exclusively reveal
ed 30 the United Press is to at
tempt to shut out Russian products
by a liberal Interpretation Of the
tariff act, especially those provi-
sions effecting goods produced by
forced or indentured labor"
The argument customs officials
plan to use is that all labor in
Russia comes under this category
because Of its non-voluntary and
draft character under the five year
plan, and because Of the penalties
imposed if the soviet industrial or
ders are not followed.
Opposition of American business
men who sell to Russia forecasts
heavy pressure upon Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon to prevent any
such Interpretation of the law.
The administration. on the other
hand, will have support Of those
interests in this country whose
products suffer from competition
with alleged Russian dumping and
whose representatives in congress
at the last session sought such q
blanket embargo BY direct act Of
congress on all Russian imports
particularly oil, lumber. mangan
csc and coal Aa
Russian commercial representa-
tives in this country, headed BY
tn eAmtorg Trading corporation
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

to harvest is to utilize them to
the best advantage, whether that
meant plowing them under or turn
ing cattle into the fields. Mr..
Krebsbach said one acre plowed
under now is worth 10 plowed next
fall. He urged farmers to plow
as soon as possible so the land will
absorb more moisture. He cited
the experience of 1928 and 1924.
The former crop was almost a
failure and the next was good. He
said the feed loan is of little value
at present as farmers have no need
to buy feed now. What they need
will be feed for their stock this
winter. He said that in spite of
the poor crop the average per cap
tia Indebtedness in the Vida COM
munity is muc less than formerly
that there is 100000 less in loans
than five years ago and he assert
ed Twin City banks would rather
carry eastern Montana farm paper
TIM from any other state in the
union because Montana always has
faculty of coming back.
F. B. Duncan of the agricultur-
al department of the Great Nor
them railroad told of the Malta
conference. He said Secretary
Hyde was limited by law in his
handling of the drouth situation
but that both he and Gov. Erickson
are concerned. "Your problems are
our problems" he said. eve must
keep our heads, look forward anC
carry on. l believe we have the
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win" 0ackOO,s
The Great Northern rail-,
resolutions adopted, was "lIsa /,
carry stock feed into dr ~ GIs't \
freight free. R. D. Wo Nun q,
the traffic department a o,I ;
that fixing rates was in t JnpI /,
of the interstate commer .,,e Il
mission. He said Other e,
are in nearly as hard shan. ,,uo'';s
farmers and that the a s
can't take care of the fam ,al.''', y
the expense Of the other na
AS a means of REDUCING ps so
was suggested that McCo,.sA e'
ty lands be reappraisaJ q
Hanson, northern McCons d
farmer, could see no usa =. ''e'
to the expenes of reapnro; :; 90
as the levy would have TO h 49, &c
if the valuation of the Land n i 1.
duced.
Clyde B;xbe, Under Hsnt.
Mrs. Harold Bawden are
mittee to handle Red Cros. @
work in the north end NJ W
county. '''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

Madrid, Aug. g. Anew series
of terrorist outbreaks alarmed the
capital today. Five bombs exploded
in telephone line manholes and Do
lice frustrated other bombing plots
IN the vicinity of government build
ings, where the constitutional as
senlbly is in session.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

reference with bailiffs was a SER
ious offense, punishable by six
months sentence for contempt Of
court.
The Row
The riot started when a crowd
prevented municipal court bailiffs
from evicting a 72-year-old negro
woman. Before sufficient police
had arrived to break up the mob.
three negroes had been shot and
killed, another supposed rioter ser
iously wounded and three police
men injured.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

Organized refusal by iObless workers to pay
rent and by farmers to pay interest on mortgages
was advocated recently by Benjamin c. Marsh of
the Peoples Lobby as means of forcing govern
ment relief for destitute workers and farmers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

Antelope, Mont,
August IL, 1881.
Dear Editor Taylor:
l notice that in your last paper
"a Hungry Farmer" tells us that
he gets 2-3 cents per day for a
family Of four. Now l am getting
aid from the Red Cross and am
also only getting IS per month for
myself, wife and two children. /
have done little more figuring
than "A Hungry Farmer" and it
figures out to be 81 Of one cent
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

Tales of starving unemployed in the United
States so touched the hearts of number of ma
tives in CAMERON, West Africa, who have little
enough of money or food of their own, that thew
raised the sum of $3.77 and sent it TO New York
last month to help the Starving Americans"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-14

per day for each of US. Now am
telling you that S-7ths of one cents
worth of groceries per day is slim
living and l am also soon going TO
be hungry. l agree with you "Hun-
CRY Farmer" we are going to have
to help ourselves next winter.
Respectfully,
1rr~r =. =.
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Married Woman on County
Payroll While Others Starve

Homestead. Montana,
August 8, 1881.
Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Gentlemen:
| don't get to your town often
but the other day I had TO get
some school work done IN the Sup
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The Producers News 50 n,
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NIELS C. SUNDSTED
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New Slib.On
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ca.

They look as II they were hand.
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Sizes "a to 40.
The wool skirts are in black,
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26 to 81 waist measure.
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THE transposition of the Raman spectrum
to q musical scale offers no real dificulty.
The answer Of most scientists to the proposal
to do this would What Of it?" or why
bother?"
So they never tried 1t. And thus 1t was left
to DR.. Andrews to wonder If perhaps hidden
harmonies are to be found in the spectra. For
the essence Of harmony is In the relations be-
tween the vibrations Of the several notes, not in
the actual number Of vibrations of a single tone.
BY a simple trick it is possible to get a very
good idea Of what atoms would sound like If we
could tune our ears to them. DIR. Andrews
noticed that the Raman frequencies when di-
vided by . constant number, 10000, 900, 600
(Which is the velocity Of Light, gave rates OF
vibration corresponding 70 notes at the top Of
the piano keyboard. These are well known to
physicists as the wave-numbers OF the lines.
BY reducing these musical notes two octaves
the whole spectrum can be brought to the mid
die of the piano. A 'light-sound" table based
on DR.. Andrews figures shows how this IS done.
The eagerneSs with which DR.. Andrews
translated some well known Raman spectra Of
substances by this means on to the musical
chefs may well be imagined. Now, for the first
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number Of vibrations made each second by
some part of the molecule.
Models were constructed at the Johns Hop
kirs laboratory by DIR. Andrews and others TO
help in explaining these vibrations. The
molecule models were made Of steel balls and
springs. DR.. Andrews played with these CULVER
ing models a while and found that by trans
posing the Raman shift vibrations the various
natural vibrations Of the model could be OBJ
tanned. The Raman spectrum is the physicists
musical score Of the atomic symphony.
The success of this work gave DIR. Andrews
the idea Of transposing the spectra into sound
vibrations
Sound. like light is also vibration; but In
o different physical medium, the air. The Vi
brations Of light travel in the ether. whose real
nature is sim mystery to physicists
There Is another important difference between
sound and light. The vibrations Of the parts
Of O molecule causing light waves are about q
million million million times more In each
second than ordinary for sound vibrations.
Sound vibrations begin IN the vocal cords OF
instrument and travel out as waves. Noise Is
irregular vibration. Music Is rhythmicaIiy re-
curing vibration, anywhere from 20 to 1909
cycles per second Twenty would be o scarcely
audible rumble, 900 the shrillest squeak.
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time. man would hear the music Of the
spheres"
Benzine, water, alcohol, gasoline and wood
alcohol were among the first substances tried.
Decidedly characteristic and sometimes pleasing
effects were obtained. Wood alcohol, in sharp
contrast to the grain alcohol, had q vicious
sound curiousfy in keeping with its drastic eff
fects.
A significant link between chemistry and
music has thus been forged. To every chemical
substance there corresponds Rannan spectrum
and, therefore, q possible combination Of must-
cal notes.
The notes for given substance can be writ
ten or played as a chord, that is simultaneously,
or as O melody consecutively. How much Of the
strange relations between our common expe-
rience Of these substances and their atomic
chords Is due to coincidence and how much to
Or. Andrews musical art it is not easy to say
oHhand
Composers who seem to be hard put to 1t to
unearth bizarre material may be expected to
welcome this unexpected assistance from science.
without making any assumption as to the
significance Of q given chord 1T Is perfectly
possible for them now to go In search Of In
spiration to the laboratories Of physical optics
where the Rannan spectra are being measured.
Soon We may be listening to Gershwin's
'Dimethyl-aniline Sonata"
Wagner had a method in writing his operas
which might well be used in this connection.
He attached q theme to a person or idea and re-
peated this theme each time this character or
idea REQUIRED. Such themes might well be
chosen from the Raman spectra by composer.
The entrance of the snappy vamp, for in
stance, would be heralded by the chord of iron
oxide, Fes o. Cor rouge played by the oboe.
cold IN the head would be symbolized by the
aspirin motif, the heroine by geranial a con-
stttuent OF rose perfume, a mosquito by citro-
neIla. The chords of alcohol and gasoline would
no doubt fnd wide use in a modern compost
ton.
A II. this may seem far removed from serious
science" But suppose you look back again
for moment
Why do some combinations Of tones sound
pleasant, others harsh and discordant? This
question has been puzzle to physicists and
philosophers throughout history.
Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher,
was fairly near the answer when he sought for
the causes Of harmony in the occult miraculous
power Of numbers-especially simple numbers.
TN listening TO music" said Leibnitz, cele-
brated German mathematician, 1.-The mind IS
counting without knowing It,"
Think that over. Doesn't It take us very
near to q scientific meaning Of these chemical
melodies? And very near to nonsense too?
along with one OF 400 per second sounds very
octave above the second. On the other hand,
Continued on EiOhteeDth PGUe As3
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Hoe0 a bhms Hopkins
.UniversityPro-
fessor 7ransPoses
Vibrations ofAtoms
Into Musical Scores
to Make NezU Har-
monies Which You
CanPlay on Your
Piano.
BY d. LINDSAY WATSON, PHI. d.

II TAvE you ever tried gasoline your
piano? Or alcohol? Or water?
This is not household hint, but
a contribution to science.
La gaceta., 1931-05-29
SOCIAL ES
Madrid, Mayo 49,

>Iada entire Charlie Diaz y ell
ran "Callaye", campe6n de to-
dos los pesos. Pelearan hasta
que cualquiera de los dos caiga
rendido, ganando ell vencedor la
faja de campeon de cuatro vien-
tos. 81 Sr. Lorente suplica al
Gblico que, case de que ell
'iento venga del norte, former
ma trinchera de espaldas al
lism0 a fin de que no cargue
on los pugilistas haeia ell Sur.
'rohibido terminantemente Ian
ar al ring otra cosa que no
can reales o "niqueles."
iCuaI de los dos sera ell vic
orioso?
Hasta ell presente las apues-
as estan a favor del gigantic
"Callayo."
La gaceta., 1931-05-29
CEDE A UNA CUIRA DE GIN
co AMOS Ell CANCER DE
LOS HUESOS

Milwaukee, mayo 29.-En el
800 de los casos, ell cancer de
los huesos, enfermedad que ha-
&c tempo Sc considerable incu-
rable, esta cediendo a la "cura
de- cinco amos. en- la Universe
dad Johns Hopkins. Significa
la cura de cinco amos que Sc ha
Observable al enfermo durante
csc tempo y que la enfermedad
no Sc ha presentado de nuevo.
Las pruebas fueron expues-
tas anoche por Ell DR.. Jose Colt
Bloodgood, ell famoso es~peeialis-
ia. en- un mitin de la Secci6n de
Radiologfa de la sociedad medi-
ca del estado de Wisconsin.
La gaceta., 1931-05-29
PERSISTE LA TENDENCIA A
REBAJAR LOS SALARIOS

Washington, Mayo 29.-Los
informes recibidos en- ell De-
p%artamento de Estadisticas del
Trabaio, relacionados con cam
bios en- los salaries de los ia
bricantes que reportan men :
sualmente de su empleomania,
vienen a demostrar que en- los
meses de Ener0, Febrero y
Mario ha habido una notable
tendencia a la rebaja de suel-
dos.
Mientras en- cinco estableci =
mientos e igual ndmero de indus
trias Sc aumentaban los haberes
a l78 empleados, en- otros 175
establecimientos y 80 industries
la rebaia de salaries afectaba a
22.502 empleados.
La mayoria de estas reduccio-
mes Sc verificaron en- las indus
trias textiles, de maderas, HE
rr0 Y aeefo.
A un grupo de 4,500 hombres
que trabajan ell hero y ell ace
70, Sc les rebai6 ell salario desde
un 3 a un 20%, va ,317 made
reros y trabajadores de sierras
desde un 5 a un 20%. Tambien
sufrieron la reduction de TIN
9.4%, cerca de 1000 empleados
de sederias.