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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30
SOCIETY
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day after tomorrow at the Shoreham
Hotel will be in honor of the Minister
of Finland, Mr. L. Astrom, when new
films of Finland will be shown. The
secretary of the legation, DR.. Milo ID
man, will give brief talk of the pres
ent day conditions in Finland. "Diplo-
matte Sunday evenings are by invita-
ton only. and the Shoreham Hotel ball
room is always crowded to capacity.
Among the prominent guests who will
be present are the Minister of Vene-
zuela, DR.. Arcaya; the Minister OF
Lithuania, Mr.. Balutis; Charge DAT
flares of Panama and Sonora de CheYa-
lier. Counselor of the Venezuelan Lega
ton Mr.. Luis Churion; the secretary OF
the Lithuanian legation, Mr.. M. Big
donas: Secretary of the Venezuelan
Legation Senior Pedro Marquee, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. John Q. T1lson OF
Connecticut, Representative Morgan G.
Sanders of Texas. Representative and
Mrs. Clark Burdick of Rhode Island,
Representative and Mrs. Edgar c. Ellis
of Missouri, Representative and Mrs r.
G. Simmons of Nebraska. Representa-
tive and Mrs. John M. Nelson of Wis
consin, Representative and Mrs. Edward
2. Almon of Alabama, Representative
Franklin F. Korell of Oregon and long
list Of other distinguished members of
the Senate and House and social Wash
ington.
Miss Trumbull will return to WASH
ington tomorrow from a short visit with
Gov. end Mrs. Clifford Pinchot at
Harrisburg. ~
Mr.. and Mrs, Edward G. Yonker of
Chevy Chase entertained "a guests at
dinner Saturday evening at Hotel Oak
land, Oakland, Calf
Mrs. Homer Lee of New York and her
sister, Mrs D. G. Haldeman of London,
England, arrived in washington yeSter-
day for weeks visit at the Mayf1ower,
part of which time will be spent in
taking short motor trips in the vicinity
of the Capital.
Mrs. Wilton J. Lambert was hostess
to a party of Is at luncheon in the
crystal room of the Willard yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. williams of
Geneva, N Y, are at the Dodge Hotel
during their brief stay in the Capital
Miss Katherine Nettleton of Derby
Conn, who is at the Willard while in
Washington for several days, entertain
ed a small company at dinner at the
Willard last evening.
Amusing Play to be Given
Tomorrow Evening at Y. w. c. A.
Forty girls of Washington will appear
an the YolaV "Tha Poor Nit hv p I
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Miss Nell M. Hunt of Oklahoma City
is at the Dodge Hotel for several days
and is accompanied by Miss Hazel VIM
cent of Mutual, Okla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Mrs. Wilton J. Lambert was hostess
to a party of IS at luncheon in the
crystal room of the Willard yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Williams of
Geneva, N. Y, are at the Dodge Hotel
during their brief stay in the Capital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Patriotic Conference on National d.
fense being held at Constitution Hal
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall of Hub
bard Woods, Ill, will be at the May
flower until the end of the week. They
are accompanied by their daughter
Miss Janet Marshall of Bryn Mawr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Mrs. Homer Lee Of New York and her
sister, Mrs. d. c. Haldeman of London,
England arrived in Washington yeSter-
day for a weeks visit at the Mayf1ower,
part of which time will be spent in
taking short motor trips in the vicinity
of the Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G. Yonker of
Chevy Chase. entertained "a guests at
dinner Saturday evening at Hotel Oak
land, Oakland, Calf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

Miss Trumbull will return to Wash
ington tomorrow from short visit with
Gov. end Mrs. Clifford Pinchot at
Harrisburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-30

The Connecticut State Society will
give its first dance of the season in the
Willard this evening. DR.. Charles E.
Morganston is in charge of arrange
mentS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
BANKERS, GEOLOGIST, SCHOOL
TEACHERS

Gordon Campbell, geologist, discoverer of the
Kevin-Sunburst oil field, made "goat" and
sent to the penitentiary at Leavenworth for fol-
owing the customary practice in manner of pro-
curing leases.
While in the "pen" Mr. Campbell observed that
he the only geologist there, while there were
one hundred bankers among the involuntary guests.
Now comes the Montana legislature with a dis
play of brilliant ideas, and mandates that school
teachers must hold up their right hands, and that
banks and bankers must be lauded to the Skies
Strictly modern and up-to-date, in the midst of
hunger and unemployment, the legislature takes
':free speech" away from the people, while crook
ed bankers take their savings away from them.
far better remedy for protection of the limo
cent and the uniformed, would be to remove bur
glar alarms from banks to school houses, or else
to require each convicted banker to take his burg
lar alarm to the "pen" with him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
By Anna Louise Strong

THE BIGGEST STORY on earth today is the
/ story of Russian farming. While farming in
the rest of the world slips into chaotic bank
ruptcy, subject to risks of weather and the great
er risks of markets, the Russian farmer produces
on advance orders from his government, with
fixed price and credits loaned him a year ahead.
If his crop fails, it is covered by crop insurance
And the time is not far distant when the state will
order in andvance not only wheat, but cotton, po-
tatoes hemp tobacco livestock, telling each region
what kind of crops are wanted and in what guam
tty
Dangerous power? Certainly! There will be
shortly in the world a nation which could flood
the world with wheat, if it so desired But they
will not desre-not at present prices. They don't
care to go broke, any more than other farmers.
Last year they produced wheat, to solve the ma
tiOn's bread problem. Next year they turn at
tention to livestock cotton, hemp, tobacco They
actually intend to farm one-seventh of the earth's
surface by system of advance ORDERS fixed prices
and crop insurance, taking the gamble out of farm
ing
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
IDAHO WAKING UP

The larger press in Idaho is probably as closely
muzzled as the press in Montana which is owned
by the Anaconda Company and operated by push
buttons in the head office of the Montana Power
Company. According to The Roberts Sentinel
small weekly of Jefferson county, Idaho of date
Feb. II, events are happening in Idaho which do
not get over the associated press wires. From
this paper one learns:
"a band of more than one thousand
farmers cheering at every suggestion of
tax relief marched on the state capitol
Wednesday and presented series of de-
mands for tax relief
"One Of the demands was the passage
of the bill taxing power, one mill per Kill
Owatt; another demand was the passage
of a graduated income tax; another de-
mand was to make the telegraph oOmpan-
les and railroads pay higher proportion
of the tax; another demand was to relieve
certain of the smaller farmers from all
taxes of every nature"
We also learn that the progressive candidate
for governor who was defeated two years ago, H
F. Samuels, mounted the steps of the capitol a
Boise and addressed the embattled farmers in sup
port ftheir immediate demands. The governo
G. Ben Ross, attempted to answer the farmer
meeting. Many of his statements were met wit
jeers from the farmers.
1t is pleasure to note that the farmers max
DEMANDS and do not make PRAYERS or PET
TIONS as they do in Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
Friday, February 20, 1881
THOUGHTS FOR CHRISTIANS

And one came and asked him, master, what
good thing shall | do that l may have eternal
lfe?"
And Jesus said unto him, "If thou will enter
into life, keep the commandments" And the
man sayeth unto Jesus, which,"
Jesus answered, "Thou shalt do no murder,
thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not
steal, thou shalt not bear false witness; and
honor thy father and thy mother: and thou
shalt love thy neighbor as myself"
And the young man answered Jesus, saying:
Cali these laws have kept from my boyhOod
up to now; what yet must I dO?"
Jesus said: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and
sell what thou hath, and give to the poor, and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come
and follow me-"
But when the young man heard that saying,
he went away sorrowful, for he had great pos
sessions.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, verify l
say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter
into the kingdom of heaven. Once again ] say
unto you it is easier for a camel to go thru the
eye of a needle than for a rich to enter in
to the kingdom of God."-The gospel according
| to Matthew, CHI 1916 to "a paragraphs inclu-
| sive.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
LAND is FLUID

Land today IS a fluid in Russia as water rights
are in western irrigation states. A village of
a thousand families throws its lands into one big
piece of perhaps 10000 acres. Every villager
keeps his Gland rights" but he doesn't have
special piece of land any more than our western
farmer has special piece of water from the ir
rigation ditch. His Gland rights" mean the right
to a certain proportion of harvest.
To get this share of harvest he has to work, as
he worked before. But instead of wasting half of
his time wandering from tiny piece to tiny piece,
and working with one old nag and wooden plow,
he works in a field gang of his neighbors with
modern machines. His fright and duty of work.
is also proportional to his land rights and to his
hope of harvest; he works under field manager
whom he himself selects. He finds that it takes
less than half the work to produce the same har-
vest as formerly; then he turns attention to pro-
ducing better harvest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
YOUNG FOLKS ARE PEOPLE

The young likes it, partly because it frees
MIN from domination by his dad. No longer does
he postpone marriage, or bring his young wife in
to the patriarchal home to be bossed by the Old
Man. He works and gets his harvest share and
land rights the same as anyone else. 'Now is the
time when young folks also people," said one
of these young men to me. With one blow the
need to slave under dads orders till the age of 40
and then inherit the family acres, removed.
This year hundreds of Russian tractors, thus
ganized, finished one sowing in the south of Rus
STA, and then thrown north on special trains,
at passenger speed and did second sowing in the
spring in Siberia costly method not to be
regularly repeated, but showing what a nation
can do when it plans farming as a nationwide
feeding business.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
RAISE WHEAT BY CONTRACT

"H the peasants autonomous l asked chow
can the state order them to produce certain
crops?"
"The same way all orders are made in business
advance orders with loans. If we agree to pro-
duce what the state wants, we get loans for seed
and impements-new tractors, threshers, combines.
We get reduction of taxes. We know in advance
what we'll be paid for harvest. And if our har-
vest fails, we get insurance"
The fixed price for wheat to the Russian peas
ant has been from 81 to $1.2O per bushel for the
past three years. Comparison with American
prices is difficult, for America quotes prices on
Grade wheat delivered in grain centers and then
deducts for cheaper grades Russia quotes price
for low quality wheat delivered at the railroad
and then adds premiums for carload lots, high
quality, prompt delivery at a specified point.
RUSSIAN PRICE $1.2O BUSHEL
For first class wheat promptly delivered in car
load lots, the collective farms have been getting
$1.20 bushel.
That's not the whole story. In return for de-
livering wheat on such contract, the Russian
peasant gets machinery and city-made goods also
at controlled prices. Often he gets farm machn-
cry below the actual cost of production, while the
state factory making machinery runs temporarily
at loss while attaining mass production. 1t i;
cheaper for the state to take a loss on farm i'm
plement plant than TO raise the cost of wheat.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20

save rent, fuel and lights, and let
Jim pay his own office rent or go
without one. And when Frank |
French wants to take a trip ano
90 on a big spree and meet a new
Jane, let Frank pay fer it outa
his own pockets, instead of taking
the money outa the tax payers
pockets. And something about
Niels Madsen. Let him pay fer
his own junkets. Those trips
Frank and Niels take cost taxpay-
ers about 800 bones. Just the
things l called attention to would
save the taxpayers about 1000
bucks a month-another thing:
There are a lot of county poor
operations the poor can get along
without, and live longer, that costs
lot of money each year, that the
taxpayers might look into, and
when they have attended to this,
we may be able to think of some
thing else.
"Oncet there was a gal wanted
to go fer swim but her mother
told her to hang her clothes on a
bush and take a sun bath. Some
way or other this taxpayers asso-
citation makes me think of this gal.
No. John, Mutt is not against The
Taxpayers association, marry a bit.
Mutt jest thinks they ought to
function, and probably if they
make noise like they meant bus
ness everybody would join.
IS
"Say, John, did yer ever hear OF
the smart guy who made a wac
. running the cat and rat ranch"
, "Yea, l dunno"
! "Member he fed the rats to the
cats and after skinning the cats
E fed them to the rats"
! "What 'er bout him ?"
: "He's in the breadline nowl"
1 Glow come ?"
c "Well, va see, the rats increase,
: faster n the cats and men the cat
= starved to death count of owe
. production of rats, an the rat
: starved to death count of so man
q dead cats"
: "Yaw."
. $50
My old playfeller Tom O'Flahel
&c ty, who usta site around and tai
n to me so solemn like sometime
: who is now milling round mOngS
/ AL Capone's gun men, lows til
n school marms are okay an thu
,e "readin,' writin' an 'rithmetiC
70 amt necessary any more fer Il
% less most of the kids read I
If what's put out nowadays the mo-
20 they know-readin's a handica
: and deaf and dumb ones can g
= over what most of 'em are int
If ested in nowadays. You tell III
s Tom, you know how!
= 4 = =
4, Train 'em to stand patiently
IN the soup line, live on 10 cents
ii day, vote for Hoover. and salu
the flag, and you have 'em prepa
ed fer a useful life-we dol
want any of this here communis
RI what makes yer want pie now
or stead of in the sky.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
NOT so FOOLISH!

Would it not be a generous gesture for the
company that owns most of the dailies of Montana
to erect building at Missoula to house the school
of journalism? The students naturally would learn
early in life to appreciate the bounties and ben
eficences of this patriotic organization and later
when they stepped out of the school and onto the
editorial tripod, there wuld be no cause to worry
over their mental attitude toward the proper
guidance of the states destnies by wise and high
minded industrialists.-Dan Milestone in the Cut
Bank Pioneer Press.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20

the senate as a symbol of Ameri- /
can contempt for II Duce. Some of !
the biggest organizations OF Ital-
ian-Americans were preparing to
back his candidacy. Hoover, who
had directed the abject and hasty
apology sent to Mussollnl, became
alarmed at the possible conse-
ouences of a trial which would en-
able the American public t repudi
ate this apology. And he prefers a
whining Davis to a rolllcklng, dis
respectful soldier as henchman.
So the trial was hastily revoked
before it began, and Butler was
pulled down into the natural OBJ
security of a general of the Marine
Corps.
Butler Had Record in Haiti -.
While it is a pity that an Amer
lean referendum on HOover's supple
kneed attitude toward the fascist
despot could not be had, yet the
record of Butler as a soldier in
Haiti, as disclosed by his own tes-
timony before the Mccormick COM
mittee of the senate some years
after the war, is proof enough that
he is not an ideal type of popular
champion. His name is anathema
in Haiti because he directed the
dissolution, by soldiers, of the con-
gress of that republic, in defiance
of the Haitian army, drawing his
! full salary as an officer of the U
| S. Marine Corps and an additional
$3.50 a month from the Haitian
treasury. The American state de-
partment wanted to prevent the
Haitian congress from adopting {
new constitution which would pre-
vent Americans from buying VI
Haitian lands. The congress was
in the act of adopting this con
stitution under the very guns o
the American occupation. Instead
Of honestly declaring war on Halt
or openly Selling the capital an,
arresting the members of congress
the Wilso administration put i
up to Butler, who wore a Haitian
uniform, to betray his trust t.
Haiti by forcing the Haitian pres
ident to use Haitian troops t
break up the session of congress
before the constitution could b
approved.
Chased Haitian Congress with Gun
1t is not easy for black men i
the Caribbean to stand up, unarn
ed, and defy the violence of so
diers commanded by an America
officer, especially an officer Of tn
marine corps who has not II
slightest comprehension of tt
rights of a people who are n,
white. Only when the presidin
officer at that session of the Ha
tan congress in joint assembly
the man who now is president {
the restored republic-felt a pi
toll against the back of his hea
and heard the order to stop rea
ing the articles of the constitute
and get out of the chamber, d
the negro legislators give way.
Butler only a Soldier
Whatever Smedley Buffers pl
vate opinions of the wisdom
fairness of the role he felt himsf
obliged to play in that shamef
drama of imperialism, the fact I
I mains that he was the obedie
and cheerful servant of an int
national crime. He was as mu
4 an agent of despotism as any {
ficer on the staff of Pilsudski, Il
turing the minority deputies in t
fortress of Brest-Litovsk, or
any Italian army officer, turn
jailer for Mussolini. He was t
soldier type that does not questi
orders.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
HEADED TOWARD
ANOTHER DROUTh

Seattle-FP- Journeying across
the flat western farming country
one gets a very vivid idea OF the
plight in which its population 11nd
itself today and the tragedy by
which it may be overwhelmed be-
fore this year of our Lord 1881,
and the third year of the reign OF
Herbert Hoover, supersenglneer, IS
over.
Nowhere in an all day ride did
we encounter so much as an inch
of snow and except in spots the
ground was absolutely bare, and
this in the middle of winter when
ordinarily the fences are covered
with snow drifts. Unless this lack
of snow is made up by. an extra
ordinary precipitation during the
rest of the winter and spring, next
summer will see another drouth
and crop failure in coun-
try already suffering from a COM
bination of drouth and the low
price of wheat.
Even so the Dakota farmers are
not yet in the same tragic plight
as the Canadian farmers. I am re-
nably informed that 10000 out of
100000 farm families in western
Canada are dependent on state OF
private aid for seed for spring
sowing, and for food between now
and the next harvest.
Little wonder that there is tall
of a 1000 Canadian wheat poo.
and that western American farm
ers are apparently ready for rad
ical political action. Indeed, therd
is much more radical talk among
all groups in the west than in the
eastern seaboard states.
The chief statistician of one OF
the western railroads said to me
"We fellows on the railroads hav'
been spending all our ti1ne thu
last few years figuring out hov
many men we could get along
without. It's time someone wa
figuring out how to put those mel
to work elsewhere, or we are head
ing straight for revolution"
People in all classes are tremen
dously impressed by the progress
Russia is making in both industr
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20

titled Butler that his troublesome
talking merits and receives the
unqualified condemnation of the
navy department, and for this ut
terance, which you admit, you are
hereby reprimanded."
Made National Hero
Trial by court martial, in the
open light of international public
ity for discussion of the savage
record of Mussolini, would have
made Butler a popular hero. In
view of the political situation il
Pennsylvania, where James J. Da,
Wis seems 10 be perishing of fright
lest he be not renominated mex
year, the general of marines had I
good chance of being tossed int
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-20
SQUIRREL FOOD
CONTINUED from front page)

to examine county affairs who are
supposed to know their business,
and something about the law, but
when one oft hese disinterested
guys examines the affairs of the
county, and finds things so rotten
they stink, Frank tells the tax
payers the examiner is nuts" and
wilder an a squirrel, and the tax
payers are sure that Frank is
right and the examiner is wrong.
Sure the examiner is crazier an
berbug with hockey pokey under his
tail. 1t now takes 20 dozen eggs
to pay for a membership in the
taxpayers league or five pounds
of butter or two bushels of wheat
but see all you get. Purity soon
you will get a buttn with Frank
French's picture on it to pin on
your coat and make you feel
proud
Seems t me like the taxpayers
league is a good deal like an ole
dawrg l usta have that would
cvhase his tail around fer hours
He never got very far nor accom-
plished very much but he sure go
a heap of exercise.
So %**
"Now there are a number o.
Chings the taxpayers association
could do besides chewing SINUS, an,
by the way, SINUS is bettern chew
in tobacco fer you save the juic
and now days one should save an
spend so as to bring back prosper
ity. You know, John, if we're GO
ing to cut down taxes we just a
most gotto cut EN- down, Or W
dn't get EN- down-funny as
may seem. Some folks thinks thu
is nutty an maybe tbs. But aboU
first thing to do it seems to OF
Mutt is to get rid of a lot of e.
pense and commence to run Il
county for less and less for a spel
Course you will have to get alor
, without things some of which v
might not miss very much. No
2 for instance: We could let t
, printing contract at bids and
: it to the lowest bid instead of "a
ing it to Joe without 'em. '
could buy the lumber 70 rthe cou
ty bridges cheapern we do; we c
buy oil and gas wholesale and
me bids and save bit like they do
the Cascade county; could buy it
the North Dakota and haul it OF
ut here in county trucks; we could
are vest every cent of sinking fl
money in school district warra
and make a lot. We could ]
warrants on the general fund Il
the as there is money in the fund
Tic stead of registering the warra
age and keeping the money in the b;
ave as old John is doing so as to
In take the money ont of the ba
IN and worry the ba~'-o-s We CO
Da- get along without county az
ght and never miss him, and then
lext could move the county attorn.
ID a office from Jim Wagner's build
INTO into where the county agent is,