The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26
Syverud Castigated
By Dagmar Farmer
(By a Dagmar Farmerl

skies came the announcement in |
the Plentywood Herald two weeks
ago, that Edgar Syverud had ac-
cepted the position as editor of the
Herald, the most reactionary news
paper ever printed in Sheridan
county. No one out here, who
knew Syverud, had ever thot that
ne would sell out to anybody at
any price, but it appears that Polk
from Williston, with his superior
mind and convincing ways with
men as with women) was able to
talk Syverud into accepting, in the
belief that he (Syverud) would
become the long-looked for Moses,
who would lead the people of Sher-
idan county out of the wilderness
of debt back into the promised
land of prosperity.
And so Polk evidently laid out
for the new editor a program Of
flag-waving with emphasis on the
waving) and Of wage cutting, not
only on county officials, but also
the school teachers, most of whom
were cut down this year (some as
much as 20 per cent? and who
couldn't make enough teaching TO
ever pay for their own education
of high school and summer school
at the present pay and honest but
credulous as he is, Syverud could
not see that the whole saving
wouldn't amount to much more
than the graft Polk is getting out
of the printing contract and what
the Producers News offered to do
the printing for, and in his excite
ment over the appointment, he is
forgetting that good place to
start cutting down on county ex-
penses is right in the Herald Of
flee.
No one will deny that the coun-
ty officials should be cut down.
. There is no reason why we should
: be paying war time salaries to q
/. few in times when many people
4 depend on the Red Cross for then
living. But this is not a new idea
: For a long time it has been cur,
r rent talk at political discussions
Il and whenever a man can't think Of
anything else to say then he viii
y bring that up, but Syverud brings
o it out like something new and i
{ the commissioners should wake VI
S and start cutting, then l suppose
o he would take all the credit, fig
S uring no one ever heard of sucl
a thing until he mentioned it.
r Syverud in his first editorial ad
n vocates- that now we should qui
d fighting like cats and dogs. AL
It good citizens should come to tn
e aid of their country. That sound
IS fine. But while Syverud wa
Ie thinking up catchy phrases abou
patriotism, someone else was ar
parently writing for the iron
page without his knowledge an al
ticle TO offset his editorial and a
n tho Syverud says in his "Piece
that his writings may at times bt
a. come radical, there is nothing rae
&c zeal about the front page-in fat
II the whole thing is nothing MOI
- than political fit about count
10 affairs, past, present and futur
20 the portent of the whole outburi
4; is that unless we leave it all
the writer Of the article (probab
: Polk himself) then we will nev'
!; have anything but graft and pol
- tical corruption.
of The complex Of some people
- funny. Here we have the highe
&c bidder TO the county printing a
= vising Sheridan county resident
{. that he has the only bonafide idei
:. worth considering for the futur
= If this person really thinks
- can get away with that, then he
fool, or else he thinks we a
- all fools here. But from some
,,, the statements he makes in his q
IlIl ticle, I am inclined to think he
the fool.
This unknown writer to t
= Herald states that Sheridan coo
ty is not bankrupt. How does
get that way?
: I don't know what else Y
would call it when nobody war
the county warrants or our bon
either; even the county offici;
,. are apt to go hungry unless th
; can trade bum warrants for fot
And who is this foreign perst
who lives either at Williston
Scobey to tell Sheridan cour
residents 10 move out if we do
like it here. IF he thot this "
such grand place, why don't
live here and spend at least p'
of his graft with the rest Of us
He also wants TO know "wh'
do we 90 from here" and WI
4 he in one breath tells US TO uni
= in the next, he is doing his best
Z" disrupt and stir up class-hatred
But If he stays here until n
fan. we win show him where
is headed for.
Out here IN Dagmar, we
wondering how long Syverud y
last as an editor. Not very L
ma IS NV o7ness. The Herald IS J
,.a, roinp ~ efs'' IN. II possible,
HIP his repute Son ond ~ soon
$3.50 4ho4 ;c In-a cv,-ey7pd will get