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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

or three American meCnanlCAl eu- gineers whose companies had had no such foresight. They lived in two-room and bath apartments in the regular Soviet apartment houses and couldn't even ship in American cigarets. Moreover they were paid in rubbles. Today in | half dollar. It often will not buy tent of that, because the best goods in Russia can only be bought for dollars now.
 If you were an American in Moscow you would belong to one of the three official divisions of foreigners.
 1. You might be an electrical exjert or an insulator specialist. If so you would hold a govern ment food car emitting you to trade at the store for engineers and specialists.
 2. You might be a journalist and hold food card on the jour- nalist and embassy store. 8. You might be transient | business man or salesman and come under the category of tourist. They | hold no food cards and usually live and eat at a hotel. Last sum- mer there were 10000 tourists. Both of the stores on which the government issues food cards for foreigners are much better stocked than the Russian co-operatives.
 The specialist group in Moscow have quarters assigned them by the government. One electrical group has a whole apartment house to it. self, with all the electrical equip ment they want to bring in. They even have mechanical refrigeration in a city that has no ice to sell individuals!
 This group seldom mixes with the other groups. While the men travel or are attending to business in the capital, the women find time rather heavy on their hands. They are little closed corporation that viists back and forth, plays bridge with each other. and reads the home town paper much more carefully than they ever did here.
 Social standing depends on the amount of food they can ship in to Russia. Their husbands rating decides this. They are seemingly unconcerned with the Russian life | that BO6S On dDOuL thCtils ~ 0C- presses them and they ignore 1t. They even teach their Russian maids to cook American" If you are a journalist. you do not fare so well in some ways. The Soviet government makes no | living provision for you. You can not afford to take a room for long at the Metropole Hotel at $6 a day anl around $3 day to eat there. Apartments are next to inn possible to find.
 More likely after securing the town, asking everybody you meet and walk',-g miles you will find either a tiny room alone or just a cot in somebody else's room.
 
 I visited a newspaper woman In Moscow. She lived in a 10 by fl room, four flights up. In her room were a cupboard, sofa, a table, desk, dresser, bed, small bedside table, wardrobe trunk and three chairs. There were about two square feet in the center to turn around in. She had one of the other five women in the apartment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

!. Some likt it. Others do not. But a typical American business man. |a 'Babbitt" we met at the Metro pole bar one night summed up this feling that many have.
 ''FIello, Peter," we all greeted him. Someone said to him, Hear you ar& going out to Berlin tomOr- row night. Guess you won't be sorry to have a steak dinner at the Adlon ?''
 well, I'll tell you" Peter an swered. ''The delay in this mo- mans land is enough to give you nervous prostratiOn. get so tired of scratching when I have to SO into small towns that I don't know what to do. And the monotony of the food sometimes makes me wonder why eat. But drab as it is, do you know. I can't get even as far out as Berlin without wish ing I was coming back!"
 (THE END)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

There are approximately 10000 in Russia today. You would find that youcould buy the best Russian .cigarets which Russians themselves cannot buy. You could stay at the best hotel, travel on the best trains, and trade at Torgsin, the only we'll stocked store in Moscow. This privilege comes from the might of your almighty dollars.
 For Russia needs foreign money .to nay for the millions of dollars worth of machinery she has bought in Europe and America to forward her five-year plan. She needs it, too. to pay the American and Eu- ropean experts she has hired to help install this machinery. One good way to get dollars is to ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

change goods with you for them.
 All Russians understand why you
 are privileged. and do not resent 1t. How you live and what you eat depends largely on what reasons
 you have for being in Russia. Down at Dneiprostroi, I was amazed to find little American colony that
 loked exactly like a New Jersey suburb. There was a charming six
 room brick bungalow for each fam | fly, built according to American
 specifications with bathrooms. fire 1 places, tinted walls and the only screened porchest the length and
 breaths of Russia.
 Colonel Hugh Cooper got all this in his contract. He also got his men the privilege of shipping in American canned goods. For dinner ! down there one day we had Q de-
 licious five course meal, all out of American canned goods! Colonel Cooper also specified that his corps
 must receive pay from the Soviet government in dollars.
 At Karkov visited the homes
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A SERVICE lNF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

outfit of invioIate sanctuaries, long closed seasons on vanishing species, e total prohibition of "baiting game to kill 1t, and the treacherops Use of live decoy birds. Although this little army has been very poor ly financed, it has used its stock of ligic and. reason with powerful effect. The list of victories that have been won for it's causes is really too long for adeQute emu meration here.
 It is now quite beyond dispute that President Hoover, congress, the department of agriculture, bio- logical survey and the state game commissioners of more than 30 states are thoroughly aroused to the perils of our native game, and acting with the veteran defenders of game and sport. The headquar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

red and orange-costumeG men for the whole evening. From n on there was a gypsy chorus cf s5 gaudily dressed singers and dam cers. of this dinning room was the American bar.
 You seldom see American chii- dren in Moscow. Life is too hard for them and the health hazard too great in the opinion of most parents. The helpful spirit of the Americans in Moscow is seen in the way anybody stands ready to take anybody else's children out and put them in school in Berlin, Switzer- land or Paris.
 Life for an American in Moscow has much of the frontier aspect to it. You get used to expecting and giving help when anyone needs it. You get used to doing many things for yourself that you never did before, Ne3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

shop and cook for her.
 Moscow tries to offer Americans and other foreigners some social life. A sidewalk cafe opened while I was there. Sometimes there would be. 15 or 20 Americans gath cred drinking tea or eating Ice cream. Usually that crowd meant one of the number was flying out to Berlin the next morning and this was ''auf wiedersehn."
 The Metropole Hotel, which charges dollars for everything, kept it's majestic dining room open for service every night until two a. m. Sometimes it was a saddening spectacle, the huge room, built to accommodate 300, with its vaulted dome of glass mosaic and below 1t sparkling fountain, with every table set and attended by a waiter, and one single man eating lamb chops and grilIed tomatoes!
 They maintained an orchestra of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

The last of IF remarkable ar ticles by Julia Blanshard, stan writer. whom NEA Service and The Democrat sent to Sovient Russia to get the biggest story in the world today. No casual tourist stopping at fashionable hotels and travelling de luxe, she lived with an among Russians as they went about their daily lives under their amazing social and economic system. and here she presents the story of people, not the story of a cause.
 By JULIA BLIANSHARD Stan Writer for NIEA Service and The Democrat, Sent to Soviet Russia Especially For This
 Series.
 (Copyright 1881, NEA Service. Incl If you were an American living in Moscow, you would discover that proletarian Russia knows how to treat q privileged class.
 You probably would belong to that class, Only foreigners do
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27
FIGHT FOR LESS
 | GAME KILLING
The Nation Thoroughly Aroused to Unwarrant.
 ed Killing Jainb0ree
REFORM ARMY SNAIL

Stamford, Conn. Nov 27--For seven years d small but powerful army of game defenders has been working, and also lighting. to arouse the American people to the necessity to put important reetric. tions upon game killing, and to save more breeding stock, literally at the fnuxzles of the guns. Unhap- oily for the ard-boiled spOrtsmen and the commercial defenders Of big killing privileges, the reform element stands on the solid grouno of favor to sane and reasonable sport. The charges of "sentinaehtai- ism' and "fanaticisn" will not stick to them.
 Briefly, the defenders of game and decent sports have fought for lower bag limits, shorter OpensgeA- sons. . great national and state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27
Miss Irene GOble
 at Temple Hall
Will Open Two Weeks
 Evangelist Meetings Sunday Afternoon

Miss Irene Goble, undenomina-
 tional evangelist, singer and speak CT. will open a two weeks cam
 paign Sunday afternoon at 3:SO
 o'clock. Her subject for that time will be 'Is The Bible True?" In the evening at 7:30 o'clock q drama Is to he presented entitled :
 Birth of Christ" during which Miss Goble will sing from 33 to 80 religious songs and old hymns. evening presentations are free and the public of Waterbury is cordi- ally invited to attend. All persons interested in singing in the choir are requested to met Miss dobIe after the s:30 service Sunday aft ernoon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27
Educational CIuB's
 TlhanIEs iving Party

The WOmen's Educational club entertained its members and euasts at q Thanksgiving eve party raihb0w room of Hotel Waterbury. The committee of arrangements inc cluded Miss Sophie Kramer, Mrs. Jacques Green, Miss Paula Dorf- man, Miss Thelma Zackin and Miss Cecil Glider. About fifty couples were in attendance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

tsrs of Che un6IIicIal army oz ae- fanss fn at Stamford. Connecticut, and the Permanent Wild Life Pro- toctiun Fund has for eight years been the chief burden-bcarer. Like the list of successful efforts. the list of allied organizations, news papers. magazines and percentages Is too long for publication here, but they have been quite we'll set forth in the publication of the Fund.
 While it yet too early to pre- dict the future, it really begins to look as if all this bitter battling to save some. of our native game for posterity to at least look at is going to save something worthwhile. But the Oldestcampaigner, Dr. Horna- day, is yet very pessimistic about 1t, and openly fears total disappear ance of nearly all our wild game by 194O. We have with us about 7.5OO,000 sportsmen, with more a. coming.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

They're a long, long way from homo and in the strangest of all lands, but they arc privileged be- cause they are needed there. This picture shows a group of Ameri- can engineers at their club in Moscow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

It has been estimated that Co- lombia's waterfalls could he har- messed to produce more than 4,- '0OO, 900 horsepower.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27
An Ideal Christmas Glft TOT Tne Ffome! And-YouII Save More in One Year on Laundry than
 the Entire Price of This Wonderful Washer!

o not eonfse this Washer with sma weakly constructed washers built to at low price This washer the equal in performance appearance and construction to any on the market at up to double this special pricel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-27

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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10

OF them by the rival capitalists And in the midst
OF this debacle of agriculture there is not single
voice raised in congress with proposal that would
ameliorate the disaster that has overtaken the
farmer. Senator Borah proposes shipping the
Farm Board grain to China or burning it while
Sen. Watson resurrected the election campaign
Equalization Fee export scheme which was put in
storage as soon as the votes were counted.
Despite the boasted efficiency of American cap
italism the productivity of its machinery and the
genius of its financial and industrial over lords it
is Hopping around like winged duck in puddle
Instead of seeking rational methods to overcome
the present crisis it is relying on economic Chris
tan Science.
Hard times are only psychological!
1t is true that these hard times do not take a
feather out of the plumage of the wealthy exploit
ers. They are living in luxury and making profits
while ten millions of wage earners and four times
that many dependents are in want But if this
keeps up for few years more-as it is likely to
then there may be feathers flying.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10
What Does Gov. Erickson
Know About Debenture?

Dagmar, Mont,
March 31st, 1891.
Editor Of the Producers News:
see In your paper of March 20
where kilograms were sent to Gov.
srnor Erickson and the Montana
highway commission to find out
tnelr opinion about House Bill lS0-
II 1t carries a 10c tax or not
was over in Dakota ana baord
Motner Bloor speak. She is a COM
munlst and seems to be quite well
INFORMED It seems as though some
one should write to her and ask her
opinion on the matter. for one
would rather take her word for il
Inan Gov. Erickson's or the highway
commission.
Erlckson was never considered IN
DC anything but a second class Law.
yer ana the highway commission
S uont Know If they would know :
law when they see it.
100 olIrerent parties have asked
me, out l tell them that don't
know. but they might as veil W.
LOT II anyway as six million dollars
is not very much money for : Nc
state or wealthy farmers like Mon.
lana 10 pay the bill. Besides it will
snow tnat our credit is good and If
VIII give more money to pay the ov-
erhead expenses which seems ~ he
the most important nowadays. Siv
million to gether with the sly mill.
ION, we voted on ourselves at fhe
last election will only make twelve
mliIlon dollars which is not very
1 don't think three or four hun
oreo dollars extra taxes for the av.
er1se FARMER should amount to much
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10
CONVICT LABOR-WHERE2

Nowadays when convict labor is mentioned
the uniformed individual thinks of the Soviet
Union, where it is alleged by Hamilton Fish. Mat
thew VOL and other purveyors of anti-Soviet prop
uganda that men and women are forced to work
In lumber and other undertakings of the U. s. S.
X. under slavery conditions. That these charges
are false must be known to the government of the
United States, but since the government is the
executive agent of the money barons it ignores
the facts and acts on the basis of the falsehoods
Hence embargoes and other restrictions against
the importations of Soviet commodities into the
United States
1t is a legal axiom that if man seeks equity
ne must come into court with clean hands That
IS legal fiction of course. He had better come
into court with highly-paid and competent law
yers But accepting this fiction for the sake of
argument there is country in the world less JUS
titled to charge another government with permit
ting convict labor to be employed in its industrial
projects than the United States.
In the southern states it is notorious fact that
convict labor is generally employed and under con-
ditions worse than those that prevail inside penal
Institutions On the turpentine farms of the south
on the roads and in the cotton fields unfortunate
victims of vagrancy are pedded out to EMPLOYERS
to work their time with balls and chains on their
legs and the modern Simon Legrees standing be-
SIDE them with lash ready to apply it at the first
sign OF weakening effort the part of the slaves
Not only in the south is convict labor EMPLOYED
Last year The Producers News carried a resolution
passed by the Cascades Trades and Labor AS.
sembly calling the attention of the Farmers Union
to the fact that binder Irvine produced in the state
penitentiary of North Dakota was being sold in
large quantities by the Farmers Union to individ-
ual farmers Those who produced this Irvine in
the Bismarck prison received only a few cents a
day for their labor.
And we note in the Cleveland Press of April .
dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, stating that
probe into the conditions existing in the Ohio re-
formatory at Mansfield has been requested bv one
OF the senators. The senator stated that he has in
his possession evidence that convict labor was
sold to Rchland county official and that grain
raised on state farm by convict labor was sold
on the market in competition with grain raised
under average conditions of employment.
Why is there not an outcry against this state of
affairs In the United States? Is not the silence of
the government and the so-called organizations
Tor the protection of anything from ownerless
mules to homeless dogs positive proof that the
alleged employment of convict labor in the Soviet
lumber industry is a smoke screen designed tn
cloak the enmity of our ruling classes to the Sow.
let form OF government it exists in Russia?
If charity begins at home it is well that our gov
eminent should clean up its own doorstep before
It essays the role of crusader for right and ms.
tice in other countries.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10
sLAaHoS
-SsESd------su------s4
Conspiracy, Highway Rob.
cry or What?

Antelope, Feb. Is, 1881,
Editor Of Producers News:
Saturday, Jan. 81, 1881, a lawyer
by name of Greer from brentwood
under protection OF Sheriff Madsen
without starr entered the place of
Mrs. J. .. Brensdal to force a coll
lection on notes due. The notes were
given to FoSs & Reep of Grenora. NJ
u. Tor machineries. Greer who r.
the lawyer for Kavon who has been
running over to Grenora to buv
these notes and Greer looking over
the mortgages given and recorded an
brentwood thought, Here Is a goat
to be skinned" They both need
money these hard times.
Kavon and Greer agreed or CON.
spired" with Foss & Reep that Ka-
Won should have these notes. know.
ing yer ywell what Kavon would do
Reep never asked for money fron
MRS .Brensdai who had signed the
notes. Kavon and Greer did not want
to talk to Mrs. Brensdal about the
notes. so Saturday, Jan. 81, Greer
and Madsen. republican elected. and
a mechanic came to Mrs. Brensdal
who was milking COWS and told her
the machinery was theirs and they
had come to take it. 1t was the first
notice she had and she was at home
alone as Mr.. Brensdal was gone 10
town. Mrs. Brensdal had never seen
the sheriff before-he had no star OF
other identifications
Mrs. Brensdal asked if they would
would not wait until Brensdal got
home, but they refused. Greer told
his mechanic to start the tractor
and hoop up all the machinery in
volved. BY chance a neighbor boy
was present. He ran over to old man
Solberg and told the story. Solbers
three years has moved about on two
crutches and is blind in one eve. He
revealed he had some money in the
Dooley bank stored away for funeral
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10
Friday, April 10, 1881
A UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Hans Rasmussen in his inimitable way has beer
giving you a lot of advice about taxes and Other
things IN the columns of the Producers News. Les
our readers may think that Hans Is the only per
son in the world who groans under the weight Of
his taxes we hereby publish the following special
dispatch to the New York Times from its Wash
ington correspondent:
Washington, April g. John A. Vom-
acka, a Minnesota farmer, sat down the
other night and figured out his difficult
ties in paying his taxes out of the returns
from his 2SO-acre farm, and then wrote
Representative Conrad G. Selvig, Repub-
ican of Minnesota, about the situation he
faced.
The amount of his taxes he said was
$306.54. To produce this he must sell 10
300-pound hogs, or 500 bushels of oats,
or 1900 bushels of barley rye, or 500
bushels of potatoes, or 600 bushels of
wheat, or 81 must milk ten cows for nine
months"
Give cows would produce the amount
given but l must milk five additional in
order to procure funds to buy the feed for
the entire ten" he went on.
"At the present price of farm land and
the present rate of taxes, I am compelled
to purchase my farm from the County
Treasurer once about every nine wears
and, in addition, | must keep the build
ings in repair, insured, ETC. So l am not
real sure whether l am an owner or lust
a tenant.
And then comes the gas tax, the auto
tax, the hunting and fishing fees etc
as we go merrily on.
Think 1t over and see if you can figure
out what the future has in store for u.s."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-04-10

besides here in Sheridan county I
expect we perhaps are behind each
about one hundred dollars that the
county commissioners have already
spent and we will have to pay later
on. But small sums like that don't
amount to much when people have
lots of money
If this referendum bill carries and
it should get to burden some of us
here in Sheridan county. we should
be able to move over the line into
North Dakota where they don't have
such bills and gasoline costs a great
deal less than here in Montana. If
may be that we better write to Gov
Erickson about it, 1 don't know in
cases like that if he charges for his
legal advice or not, or if he does
little things like that in his official
capacity but from my way of think
ing matters of that nature have got
nothing to do with the governors Of
flee
If anyone is to pass on a law T
was thinking it would be the su-
preme court of the state of Montana
and not the governor or the biohN
way commission, and until that 10
uone, no one can do any better tba,9
TO read the bill and judge for him
self what is in it
II Senator Donovan saws that -
makes a double or 10 cent tax 7 u,iiI
take his word ahead of anv of al
rest that have been mentioned ' H''
Tar: Sen. Donovan is a LAWYER 80 80
nigh standing in the state Rut -
the people want to pay the hill T
am not opposed. IF it gets too bsrd
IN Montana I don't live far from f fba
soaoe line, so it wont make much dif.
, ference to me in this matter. am
more interested in that Eroni-
French doesn't spend too noucb ia1 TX
looks as though the grand inrv ~ ~
roosevelt county thinks the conmi 81
sloners have spent too much Of tbo
peoples money I hope our co,,n me
commissioners wont spend too no,,ois
Tor l for one believe our tsTas a,a.
high enough now AeS are
Yours very truly.
ROBERT TAPSoNr