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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
Thinks Taxpayers Meeting
Was a Flop
Producers News.

Producers News.
Readers:
read the articles in the Produc-
ers News in regard to the Taxpayers
Association meetings. 1 began to be
interested in 1t so / went up to An
telope to that meeting Feb. 18th.
The first thing on the program
was the membership fees. was
about to go to the front to join
when I discovered that all the burgs
from Homestead to Plentywood, with
French and his associates, were well
represented. BY this time / took
another thought on the matter and
concluded to wait for a while to get
better acquainted.
The more 1 saw and heard the
more Disguised I became.
1 began to think 1 was in an abb
sent minded professors asylum ra-
Their than a taxpayers meeting.
Those birds had possession of one
side Of the house-and they did it
ii all-there were just a couple who
run" the thing. There were, as far
as / could see, two classes present
One, the gue-short-minded
who wagged their tongues like a
little dog wagging his tail and bark
ing at a bird, with as much judg-
ment aus to the benefit to a taxpay-
er-tney were doing 1t all.
And there was the other class, the
Observation-Disclosures. AS ]
could see by the expression in their
brow, these people were unable to
get up and express themselves SO
well but thought a whole lot, and If
they did but-in, the tongue waggers
would start to try to make out thew
knew nothing. So it went.
Summing he whole up, ii was only
the supporters Of our present system
of grafters strengthening their pres
ent situation Of corruption under the
guise of the taxpayers. I suppose
those birds think that IL the farm
ers were driven out they would sur
vive just the same; perhaps they
would, but mostly on wind
Not being a member I did not feel
like butting in but my heart did
ache to ask Mr.. French and fine
commissioners if they thought n
logical to penalize the poor man who
had misfortune per cent on ton
OF per cent per month on delin-
quent taxes, or in other words TO-
and take this same money and loan
II to the banks for ONE per cent ,
Good business isn't it9
Mr.. French proposed to raise a lot
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

more money with taxes on cigarets
and tobacco. a Medicine Lake man
proposed to put on a tax of 25 cents
per drink on mOonshine and j. S.
This would relieve the taxburden
somewhat.
Also l would have liked to have
had French explain how it is that
he pays his ranch and farm hands
anywhere from their board up to
$40 per month for twelve to sixteen
hour labor per day, and hire men on
the county road and road machinery
who are incompetent to hold a job
on a farm or ranch under any cir
cumstances, who put in eight hours
do four hours work and receive from
four to seven dollars. Also, why is
it that some of these draw $3.50 per
month during the winter months
when they do nothing only soak up
heat in the pool halls and help wear
out the cards. If he were as eco
nomical with county road work as
he is with labor on his ranch and
farm. our roads would cost us much
less than one-half of what they do
Now that secondhand mouthpiece
of Dolin and that round head that
runs II. is Hopping around about
Hans Hardcrsen as chairman of the
Taxpayers Association. 1t is true
That Hans is using poor Judgment
in accepting that position for fact
They know it is a flop and that il
has flopped under the disguise of an
organization of the farmers and
therefore they will put the flop on
Hans, so as to get the blame or
someone else.
Now the Plentywood- Herald, Do.
Inns secondhand mouthpiece, smftes
the farmers; says they are all req
Anyone who sends to Sears Sawbuck
is red. then he must be exposing
himself somewhat and must be al
home with the reds, for fact he
buys more from the mail houses for
his ability than any farmer does ]
buy from the mail order houses for
/ must. as we mus tsave "a, we car
in order to navigate. Furthermore
we get better quality goods for less
money.
AS to Taylor, we know ne is slip.
perry, but he must be to hold his
own. being alone among Who'll,
gang of them. He must be slippery
to locate the inside track of sucl
corruption and graft that he sees
A HOMESTEADER.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
BOIL EN- IN OIL

"SOlOns at Helena seriously proposing law
providing 80 years Imprisonment as the minimum
for bank robbery-by outsiders, and they would
prescribe heavy penalties for coarse irreverent
people who would make remarks about bankers
and their methods" says Miles Romney in the
Western News in speaking of John Schntzler's
banking bill
Touching the subject of bank robberies, the as
sertiOn is ventured that fully 80 per cent of the
money that has been purloined from banks in Mon
tana during the past 40 years, has been chiseled
from the inside.
"Embezzlement manipulation of receiverships,
mergers and what not have taken the lions share
entrusted to banks by depositors and stockholders
IN this state. very insignificant percentage has
gone to the burglar or two-gun man. Compare
the total with the total distracted by insiders
from the closed banks that litter the annals of
the state.
eff Montana is to protect the banks let the legis-
lature borrow page from Chinese statutes pro-
viding that banker who betrays his trust shall
have his head cut off, or be boiled in DILL"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

CONTINUED from First Page)
and plenty of tanks-the trucks
were put on the road and the
farmers trade solicited. Though
the crop was short, the business
was large and though grain prices
were low, collections in the fall of
'29 were fairly good. The enter
prise promised to be money
maker.
Things were harmonious enough
the first year. The board met off
and on and talked things over
with Manager Jensen and approx
ed of what he did. The second
stockholders meeting occurred on
the third Saturday of February
1880. Mr.. Jensen read a very
rosy report of the years business
and the prospects for the future,
showing net profit for the year
of 40 per cent. 1t was a splendid
showing and everybody was pleas
ed. Mr.. Jensen then came for
ward with proposition. He pro-
posed that the dividend be not de-
clared at that time, but the money
retained until after collections in
the fall of 80, as there were pros
poets of increased business and the
money would be needed to take
care of it and because there was
lot of money out that had not
been collected in the fall of '29,
because of the adverse conditions.
So a motion was adopted by the
stockholders to defer payment of
dividends until collections after
the coming harvest, though there
were some who opposed the idea.
The old board of directors was re-
elected and the same officers.
Trouble Brews
The board met off and on dur
ing the spring of 1880, on the
regular monthly meeting date, but
Jensen never called the members
together, just talked things over
with them and sent them home.
At the July meeting, the board
was called to order, reports heard
that were not satisfactory, a mo-
ton adopted directing the mana
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
BLACKWELL WANTS A
RECEIVER FOR THE
CHICKEN RANCH

County Attorney Grant Bake
well came into court the other day
and asked Judge Paul to appoint
a receiver for the famous mig
Collins Chicken Ranch" The
learned county attorney represent
red that someone was removing the
buildings that are on same, now
under a federal abatement. The
court set a hearing in the prem
ises for next Monday morning al
ten o'clock, when evidence will be
introduced.
Some time ago Blackwell filed
an action in the district court To
set aside the deed conveying the
property to Rodney Salisbury and
to vacate the mortgage which At
torneys Paul Babcock and T. w
Greer have on the property for at
torneys' fees, and issue an execu-
ton against the same in liquida-
ton of the fine that the court as
sessed against S. r. Collins when
he was found guilty of "attempt
to commit rape" in the sum Of
two thousand dollars. The action
will be heard at the next term OF
court and will be fought to the
fast ditch by the above attorneys.
The petition for a receivershiI
is a new wrinkle and the proceed.
ing will be followed with interest
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

unemployed is un-American. MRS.
Walkers 10 living children, two
grandchildren and her jobless hus-
band and herself have had to live
on the $3.50 a week earned by a
daughter, plus SO a week earned re-
Gently by q young son. Their rent is
long overdue and three in the far,ni-
~ have been seriously i'll.
&E4&a
SCHOOL CHILDREN srARvE
This same evening of the Hoover
reception and the walker attempt at
suicide as a cure for starvation. the
Monday Evening Club, Organization
Of social workers OF the national
capital, was discussing the fact that
thousands of school children in the
District Of Columbia are going TO
school hungry, because their parents
are unable TO get work. One optiufst
reported that the unemployed who
are registered at government free
employment offices in the capital
are "only" $4,000 at present but Ends
ala not dispose Of the admitted iaclr
OF food In the homes OF an army
OF school boys and girls.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
The WASHINGTON SCENE
By LAURENCE TODD. Federated Press

MISUNDERSTANDING the whit
er social season at the White House
20 q colorfu1 and charming close"
the society editors announced in
Washington papers on Feb. ~,
president and Mrs. Hoover enter
tanned at a small but brilliant re-
ception last night. It was the cli-
max of q series Of six similar func-
tons, but the smallest, less than
one thousand guests attending"
MOTHER COMMITS SUICIDE
On another page in the morning
paper was an item from tina larger
segment Of local societys "Il Luck
and Poverty Lead Mother Of IA 60
Try Suicide. Husbands Unemploy-
1tenT FOR Year, Debts, Care of the
Cra1dchildren, Daughter In Hospital,
Provo TOO Much for washington Wo-
n'aa" y sss4nsd that Mrs. walker,
nv-ag few blocks from the capitol
building drank poison just as the
grand march was starting, at the
other end Of Pennsylvania Avenue,
IN honor Of the president who In
-@tsta that federal aid TO the hungry
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

ger to have an audit, and report
to the board at the November
meeting when it could go over the
matter generally, after which they
would pay the 1929 dividends.
Fall came and harvest and col
lections, but there was no audit
and nothing said about the divi-
dends. Jensen had one. excuse aft
er another for not having board
meetings. Members of the board
insisted on the audit as ordered
as there were a number of bad
accounts developing and there was
a question about the stock out
and whether it had been paid for
Jensen opposed and the books
were never available when the
board was about.
Finally on the third Saturday
OF November the board, Hans Har-
dersen acting as chairman, went
TO the oil station but Jensen flat
ly refused to have a meeting, re
fused to attend the meeting, gave
excuse that secretary was sick
and could not find records. The
board then agreed to delay meet
ing until board sat on December
9th. The board came together
again; Jensen again refused to
produce books and records; or
dered the board out of the station
and turned out the lights. The
members met together in special
meeting, Monday, January 9Th, for
a show down. All members of
the board were present except Pa
lutzke. The members had had
an attorney call the meeting to in
sure its legality. Jensen again re-
fused to hold the meeting or to
produce records; 10 pay dividends
or have audit; saying he would
have a meeting when he was pleas
ed to call it, called the members
of the board vile names, ordered
them out of the office, threatened
to beat up on them and raging
hike a mad bull chased the board
off the premises.
The 40 per cent dividend was
never paid except to the few who
owed the company and applied il
on the debt. Jensen has given
out that there would be a Is pei
cent dividend for the year 1881
but it has not yet materialized.
Board Gives Up
After this meeting, the board
gave up in disgust and did not try
to meet again. Jensen seems tC
have the business in his own nit
The stockholders think that Jen.
sen is freezing the farmers out
and flimflaming them deliberate.
ly out of their money.
The next episode was the thiro
stockholders meeting which occur
red last Saturday, Feb. Fl.
Several of the stockholders have
hired an attorney and will take
the affairs of the corporation to
court where they will be aired.
After the December meeting
Jensen Cancelled a lot of the stock
where the notes taken in settle
ment hadn't been paid and return
ed the notes. The company did mol
pay patronage dividends SO those
who had not paid their notes will
not participate in any porfits, i
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
Friday, February, II, 1881
THOUGHTS FOR CHRISTIANS
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

Judge not that we be not judged For with
what judgment We judge, we shall be Judged
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you again.
"Be ware of false prophets, which come to
you in sleeps clothing, but inwardly they are
ravenng wolves.
aye shall know them by their fruits Do men
gather grapes of thOrns or figs of thistles
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good
fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit
neither can a corrupt three bring forth good
fruit
every three that bringeth not forth good
fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
!!!l!!!
Wherefore, by their fruits we shall know
them"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
FARMING STARTS IN
SHERIDAN COUNTY

Magnus Lee. farmer in the
Antelope territory, pulled out
his drill and tractor Wednes-
day afternoon and started to
seed wheat. By night he had
enough seeded for bread and
seed for 1892, reports o. b.
HOven.
This is the first seeding in
Sheridan county for 1881 and
it breaks all seeding records
for northeastern Montana and
perhaps the entire state and
possibly the northwest. Farm
ers are noting and will watch
the results of this early seed
ing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
PRIMARIES AND CONVENTIONS

Senators Larson and Curvant have introduced
bill in the senate providing for closed primaries
Closed primaries mean that at primary elections
only republicans can help nominate republican
nominees and democrats democratic, and this de-
sirable regulation is brought about by requiring
the voter to declare his party affiliations and sign
the entry on the poll-book opposite his name and
party designation, when he is handed the ticket of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
SPECIAL SESSION BOGEY

The nationwide propaganda against special
session of congress, according to Labor organ of
the Railroad BrotherhOods, comes from Crooked
Big Business and corrupt politics" The power trusb
and the Oil Shale Grabbers and all the other ex-
plOiters want congress out Of the way-they are
especially fearful of the new congress fresh from
the people.
Parliament in Canada, Great Britain, France and
Germany is in practically continuous session-why
should the American congress be considered such a
plague?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

OHILDREN will fret, often for no
- apparent reason. But there's al
ways Castorial Harmless as the recipe
IN the wrapper; mild and bland as il
.astes. But its gentle action soothes
youngster more surely than a moro
powerful medicine.
That's the beauty of this special
;hildren's remedyl It may be given
The tiniest infant-as often as there
5 need. In cases of colo, diarrhea or
similar disturbance, it is invaluable.
A coated tongue calls for just few
drops to ward off constipation; so
does any suggestion of bad breath.
Whenever children don't eat well,
don't rest well, OF have any little
lpset-this pure vegetable prepare
ton is usually all that's needed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
TEACHERS FED CHILDREN

During the early part Of the whit
or great many teachers gave
money from their own slender salar-
les to buy breakfasts and lunches
Tor children under their care. In the
month OF January the Board Of Ed
ucatton voted that the Parent-Teach-
ers Association should assume the
cost OF feeding these youngsters
whose parents We're no longer able
TO do so. But the Parent-Teachers
Association had no funds with which
70 meet the rapidly growing demand
Tor aid. The Community Chest has
been called upon, although that fund
Is far from adequate for the usual
local charities.
DENoUNCEs STARVATION
POLICY
Under these conditions, DR.. John
A. Ryan, director Of the social ac-
ton department OF the National
Catholic Welfare Conference. has
broadcast sermon denouncinq the
failure OF the government to provide
1000 and clothing and shelter for
the unemployed. Ee declared there
was no assurance that business
would revive during the coming
summer. He urged a building pro-
gram Of five billion dollars TO be
financed by o bond issue, as the
governments duty to tina unsmploy-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

there are any, those who gave all
Of their patronage to the company
and in some cases the dividends
claimed to have been earned would
have paid the notes and more.
Stockholders say the company
has about $4,000 invested in the
business.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

SHERIDAN Elmer Biekford
has moved his plumbing establish
ment TO Rudolph Flick place off
Water street.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27

ed, at a recent conference Of church
leaders, and in this sermon ne said
that sour entire civilization Is SUI
fering from an exaggerated notion.
Of the value of property, ana G fail
ure to emphasize human rights ana
human justice"
49, -
PEOPLE sTARvE EVERYWHERE
SEN. walsh of Massachusetts gave
notice, in the senate, OF a motion
to discharge the finance committee
from control of his bill approprtat-
ing one hundred million dollars TO
be given to the several states in
sums matching the amounts they are
expanding this year In excess OF
their normal cost of relief to the
destitute. To the press he conced-
ed that he had little chance of get
ting action on the bill before con-
gress adjourns, altho conditions OF
want and suffering in New England
and in all other industrial regions
are growing steadily worse.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
CATHOLICS, JEWS AND PRoTEs-
THAT'S

Direct appeal was made Feb. II
to Pres. Hoover by Father Ryan,
Prof. John Dewey of the Peoples
Lobby, and Rabbi Israel of Balti-
more, son behalf of millions of chill
dren whose health is being impair
ed and whose vitality is being dan
gerous1y reduced by undernourish-
ment," to ask Congress to provide
one hundred million dollars for i'm
mediate relief.
On the same day Baltimore, 40
miles distant, was seeking $500, 900
from private donations, the city and
state, to feed its own starving un-
employed. ~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
EUeTy HeUU Ford is equipped TCith
four HOHd0iIEe dOWbEe-0cEiHg
hydraulic shock gbSOrberS

ONE of the fine things about driving the Ford is the
way it takes you the miles without strain fatigue
No matter how long the trip, you know it will bring you
safely, quickly, comfortably to the journeys end.
The seats generously wide, deeply cushioned and
carefully designed conform the of the body
Every Ford has specially designed springs and four
HOudailIe dOubIe-acting hydraulic shock absOrbers.
These work both up and down. They absorb the
force of road shocks and also provide cushion against
the rebound of the springs.
Other features that make the new Ford value far
above the price the Trpex shatterprOO glass wind
shield, silent, fully enclosed fOur-wheel brakes
than twenty ball and roller bearings, extensive use of
fine steel fOrgngs, aluminium pisOns, chrome silicon
alloy valves, tOrquetube drive, RustIess Steel and
unusual accuracy in manufacturing.
In addition, you many dollars because of the
low first cost of the Ford low of operation and
up-keep, and low yearly depreciation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-27
FARMERS OIL co.

CONTINUED from First Page)
Milford chronicle., 1931-07-24

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-09
Cost of Government In Texas

Gov. Sterling is q busy man. He has the oil white
elephant to carry. He has the huge appropriations
bills to either slash or cut or veto. A caStup Of all the
appropriations made by the and legislature discloses
a total OF $54,290,260 In comparison with the finan-
cial statement OF April ], the governors new fig
ures. including the latest taxes. show a net increase
of $~3,263,l26 due largely TO the tobacco tax and
slightly to the cement, sulphur increase and gas pro-
duction taxes"
Texas is said TO be the white spot on the map Of
the United States. Texas has a population OF 5000, 900,
Texas Is a six billion dollar state. Bank failures have
been reduced to the minimum in Texas. Great crops
of foodstuffs and feedstuffs are ON the way. For $50
years Americans have solved all problems and con-
quered all depressions and universities. 1t goes with
out saying that the people now on earth will walk
in the footsteps Of their forefathers. Not many years
ago all the deans OF gloom the wide world over pre-
dicted that the end Of civilization was approaching
They were false prophets. A better civilization was
born. Speaking OF world diplomacy. II IS said to be
"easy on the brain but Hell on the feet" Ambassador
Dawes predicts, first, a great wave OF optimism and
then a great whirlwind OF prosperity. you pays
your money and you takes your choice"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-09
IT. Girl of Films Retires
= y = = = = y Z =
Regain HeaIth-- Released
y = y = = x =
From Contract byC Company

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 9-tR)
The career Of Clara Bow as a
motion picture star was ended to-
day, temporarily at least.
Officials OF the Paramount Studios
announced last night they had
granted her request for a release
from her contract extending TO next
October and calling for two more
pictures.
Whether the girl who gave a new
meaning to the word 1T" win ever
be seen again In the films remain
ed problematical. An exchange Of
amenities accompanied the termi-
nation Of her six year association
with Paramount-an association
punctuated with numerous temp
estuous events which eliminated
recently in a nervous breakdown
which was given as the real reason
Or the severance OF relations.
In a letter notifying Ter that
the contract had been "torn up"
TO aid her recovery of health. 3.
p. Schulberg. general manager for
Paramount said. Il know your
career on the screen Is not at an
end and that you will 60 on from
this point TO greater triumphs."
Miss Bow, expressing apprecla-
ton for the friendly spirit marking
the dissolution OF the contract and
gratitude for conditions which
would permit her to regain her
health more quickly. said she had
no plans for her future In pictures
or on the stage.
At The time she requested the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-09
Predicts a Taxpayers Strike

AL the prophets OF gloom are on the road. Judge
Arthur J. Lacy OF Detroit appeared before the Nat
ional Association Of Real Estate Boards and predict
ed a taxpayers strike unless levies are lower and
made more equitable. He insisted that there should
be q holiday or half holiday in new road building pro-
grams and other projects which It IS possible TO de-
fer. He stressed that fact there are numbers OF town
ships, school districts and villages in America over
where there is a 10 per cent delinquency in the pay
ment of taxes due last year. Judge Lacy Is remainded
that the people now on earth are not going back to
the oxcart period OF civilization. oxcart' road trails
or the oxcart system Of transportation. His age is
as dead as the dodo.