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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27

In 1909 MIR. Pade put up a good
set OF buildings where be is now
living after acquiring the land
from his father. With the cards
stacked against him, like all other
workers under the present system,
he has been struggling to make a
decent home for his family Of
six children. In August 1882, a.
mortgage on the land held by the
Old Line Life Insurance company
was foreclosed, and a delinquency
judgment for $1,331.O9 taken. The
agent, Rhodes, gave Mr.. and Mrs.
Pade to understand that after the
period for redemption expired en-
August 1888, they could rent the
farm as long as they wanted to
do so. On the strength of this
promise, Mr.. Pade filled his barn
with hay this last summer and
made other preparation for winter
When the time for redemption ap-
preached Mr.. Pade was surprised
to receive notice that he must va
cate. Finally the agent offered to
rent for cash but demanded. a
mortgage on Mr.. Pade's feed and
other grain. This would. of course
leave him without the means d
carrying on his farming opera
tione. :.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Insurance Co. Tries to Evict
Farmer Who Lived on
Farm Two Decades
FORECLOSED In 1892
y. F. l.. Organized for the
Purpose of Hating
This Eviction

LEOLA, S. D., Oct. 9.-ArOused
by the threatened eviction of E. l.
Pade, farmer living about five
miles southeast of this county seat
town, farmers from all parts Of
Mcpherson county and northeast
ern Brown county poured in here
todly, determined to prevent this
farmer from being driven from his
home.
The Old line Insurance COM
pany, represented by a Mr.. Rhodes
its agent, and Hugh Agor, an Abb
erdeen lawyer, had brought evie-
ton proceedings against him In
justice court. The hearing WIS
set for today.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27

RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION,
50 PER YEAR
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
symptoms

The symptoms of the disease in
human beings are: nausea (feeling
sick-to-the stomach); vomiting,
cramps in the abdomen, and diarr-
hea (loose bowels). This comes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-14

~ Science Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-Right
in the middle Of the campaign that
is necessary to bring food and drug
legislation up to date in this coun-
try, the food and drug administra-
ton staff has prepared, in the de-
partment Of agriculture -headquar-
ters here, chamber of horrors"
consisting of deceptively packaged
foods. poisOn-loaded cosmetics and
quack remedies, with attested and
Photographic evidence of their evil
effects.
one of these has already become
a classic: The cure" for diabetes
made from common weed, the
glowing testimonials of its users bal
anced their death certificates.
Perhaps the most pathetic of all
the testimonials, is one written after
the victim was already dead: his
widow wrote it; and so touching
was her faith in the worthless fluid
on which her late husband had
wasted his money at SIP a bottle,
that she offered to recommend it to
other diabetes.
BY Way of Relief
BY way of comic relief, there is a
female remedy" known and adver-
tlsed for many years. 1t published
claims, and the testimonials of it's
users, still assert its great value in
the cure of many specified diseases.
But even under the present law
it is not permitted to tell lies on the
label, so the bottle itself bears this
masterpiece of slippery phraseology:
Recommended as a vegetable tonic
in conditions for which this prepa-
ration IS adapted" That is, it's good
for what it is good for
The prime horror in the whole
collection, however, is not shown to
the general public. 1t is a pair of
photographs: the first of a really
beautiful young woman, the second
taken some weeks later, after a
poisonous eyelash dye had nearly
blinded her and had permanently
disfigured her whole face.
Cheers for First Lady
It is so repellant that even the
tough-stomached scientists in the
laboratory don't care to look at it
second time.
But recently, Mrs. Roosevelt, an
ardent crusader in the cause of the
bill, visited the exhibit. She was
given a glimpse of the two photo
graphs. Immediately she comman-
deered them.
And she showed that particularly
atrocious consequence Of the greed
of one pirate of business to cabinet
ladies, senator's wives, business and
newspaper women, Junior Leaguers,
and any and all who came her way.
1t may make delicate nerves
squirm ~ but it is surely winning
feminine recruits to the support of
the Copeland bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-14
Injured in Fall at Station.

Ovid Thall 50, Otterbein, was
taken to city hospital early today
to be treated for injuries sustained
when he fell downstairs at union
station.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-14
'QUACK CURES
SHOW NEED FOR
PURE DRUG BILL.
Death Certificates FIanked
by Testimonies of
Remedy Users.

This is the fourth Of series Of six
articles on the Copeland Pure Food and
Drug bill. The fifth will appear tomor-
row.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30

have got TO the point where we simply can't
put UP with it any longer. And what is hap
pening In New York is an object lesson for the
remotest county courthouse, town hall and
state capitol in America.
Foreign observers long have predicted that
If the American democracy broke down the
collapse would begin with the municipal gov
ernments. Are We beginning to witness that
collapse now2 Is the cold wind that howls in
from Manhattan island going to he a destroy
ing cyclone that hnds us with no storm cellar
handy?
Or are We going to have sense enough to
clean house on all Of our political machines;
sense enough to stop listening to demagogues,
to elect capable public servants instead of cor
ruptible politicians, to demand service instead
Of fair words and, thereby, to replace the
weak link in the chain with one that will
stand any pulp
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
POWER RATES

XXTATCHING the various elements of the
w new deal take shape these days is a lit
tie bit like peering into a test tube in which
a chemist is attempting al entirely new, elab-
orately complicated kind of synthesis-with
the added factor that at least a few of the
chemists on the outskirts are not dead sure
that the whole mess won't presently blow up
and wreck the laboratory.
Some of us find one part of the expert
ment most interesting, and some of us find
another: but certainly one of the most strik-
ing in its potentialities is that being conduct
ed at Muscle Shoals.
A great many reasons were advanced for
the Muscle Shoals program while it was be-
ing debated, and one of the chief ones was
that it would serve as a yardstick by which
electricity rates could be measured; and it is
pretty evident now that the authorities are
going to do everything they can to make the
yardstick a good one.
1t has been announced already that con-
sumers of power from Muscle Shoals will be
charged, on the average, 2 cents per kilowatt
hour.
The significance of his figure rests upon
two facts:
First. that this-according to power au-
thorities at Westinghouse just a little more
than half the average power rate for the ma
ton last year.
Second. that the Muscle Shoals authorities
are taking the utmost care to make the re-
turn they will receive from their sale of power
equal to the return a privately owned utility
would have to receive in order to meet fixed
charges, taxes. interest and depreciation.
These rates." says David E. Lilienthal, di-
rector of power development at the Shoals,
have been computed on a conservative basis
to cover all the costs of furnishing the serv-
ice. including operation, maintenance, depre-
citation and taxes. In addition, we have made
provision for interest and retirement. although
such provision is not required by the Tennes-
see valley authority act.
It is easy to see how far-reaching the eff
fects of this experiment might be. If the
plant at Muscle Shoals, operating under pre-
cisely the same financial conditions as a pri-
vate utility might operate, proves able to sell
electricity for half the rate the private util-
tiles charge, the general public is likely to get
a new attitude toward utility rates in gen.
eral. It isn't hard to see why the power
trust fought the Muscle Shoals project
so bitterly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
COMIC RELIEF

DERSONS with democratic tendencies some
l. times wonder just why England continues
to support the luxury of a peerage. Now and
then ONE individualistic member Of the peer
age u%nwittingly will furnish the answer-or,
at any rate, an answer.
There is, for instance, the duke of Devon
shire, who made a little speech at a horse
show in Derbyshire the other day, in the
course of which he unleashed a die-hard old
Torys dislike of the age of modern inven-
tons. The auto was the chief object of his
attack; he called autos foul, sinking things
and horrible brutes making life hideous," and
he added:
When I first knew this horse show we
came here as gentlemen, and not as crashing
cads."
And there you have it. 1t must be almost
worth while for a nation to support a system
which produces old gentlemen who can make
speeches like that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
THE LIQUOR TARIFF

ONE of the jobs the next congress Will have
~ to tackle will be the matter of deciding
how much of a tariff to levy on imports OF
hard liquor; and when the matter comes up
for consideration it should be pointed out that
importing liquor is on a different basis from
importing other commodities.
When prohibition ends, the ~distilling in
dustry in America will be in the typical "in-
FAINT industry class. Congress will be urged
to give it ample protection; to put the import
duties sky-high so that the money Americans
spend for liquor will go to American produc-
ers and not to foreigners.
But we might also consider the fact that
doing that will simply create a large liquor
industry in this country with a vested inter-
est in any future steps we may want to take
on the liquor question. Might it not be wise
not to give Our distilleries too much protec-
ton? wouldn't it, in other words, be a good
thing if the liquor manufacturing trade
failed to grow to the size it had before the
prohibition era?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
JUDGE SEABURY'S VERDICT

NOBODY has better right than Samuel
~ Seabury to denounce the proposed Nc
Kee candidacy for mayor of New York. Judge
Seabury, back from Europe, tears to pieces the
Farley-Flynn plot with a vigor and precision
worthy of the man who chiefly made fusion
possible and who believes fusion can win.
We agree with Judge Seabury that with
all signs pointing to an overwhelming Tam
many defeat it is little less than a crime to
attempt to divide the anti-Tammany forces"
We agree with him that Mr.. Flynn is merely
using Mr.. Mckee to put over a weak Bronx
ticket and rivet Flynn control on the local
Democracy instead of Curry control. We are
with him in his staunch belief that:
Neither Farley. Flynn, McKee, nor any one
else can, in this critical moment in the life
Of the city, betray the interests of its people
and get away with it"
The only thing we question in Judge Sea-
bury's statement is his apparent acceptance
Of "the reputation" (of the Mckee candidacy
by the President and MI. Farley.
Hands of" is not reputation. Not after
the harm already done by Messrs. Farley and
Flynn in slyly building up the impression that
the Mckee candidacy can be sure of the Pres
ident's approval and support. I ssaMM
Only the President himself now can stop
the spread of this impression. If silence does
not affirm, neither does it deny. Politicians
are skilled in putting their own i~nterpreta-
ton on neutrality-and in persuading voters
to accept that Interpretation.
The Republican side Of fusion is showing
~frankness. neutrality-suspicious., unity. There is
urgent need of these qualities on the Demo-
cratic side.
President Roosevelt. leader Of the national
Democracy. can not afford to compromise his
great and deserved prestige by even seeming
TO sanction Democratic d~eviousness and dis
ruption in the situation confronting New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
UNCLE SAM. SALESMAN

JINGLE SAM has had to act a good many
unfamiliar parts this year. One of the
strangest Of all, however, seems to be the
combined role of salesman and price -hxer
which he has undertaken in connection with
Mr.. Roosevelt's negotiations with the rail-
roads and the steel producers.
What apparently is going to happen is that
the railroads are going to buy something like
700, 900 tons of new steel rails. They are 60
ing to get them at a price substantially lower
than current market quotations. And it all is
going TO happen because Uncle Sam decided
to make it happen.
Uncle Sam, in brief, acted as salesman,
purchasing agent and price arbiter, all in one
moment. The result is going to be all to the
good for everybody concerned. But the old
gentleman has certainly been filing a new role.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
:: The Message Center =:
say and will defend to the death your right to say it-vOhaire :

Some of the largest and leading
concerns throughout the world have
ben using the multigraphs for years
to duplicate printing. If a thing
isn't right it isn't worth worrying
about because it will sooner or later
prove itself wrong. Multigraphs
have proven themselves for the pur-
pose which they are bought.
There never has been a multi
graph sold that some printer didn't
go around crying about it because
it Just means he will have to go to
work and find a new customer. HUI
man nature, isn't it? If j. E. K.
ever has been in any branch OF the
service he will no doubt know where
to find sympathy. I presume that
j. E. K. is a printer, so when ne
was referring to numbskulls he was
probably thinking of printers and
not m~ultigraph operators.
Paper stock is a small part OF the
cost of printing, so no one need fear
about wasting a few sheets. Multi
graphs are not paper destroyers as
j. E. K. thinks. Before he writes
another article he had better in
vestigate a little farther and get
the true facts about the state dupli-
eating department and its multi
graph operators. How about it,
Democrats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
THE A. F. OF l..

-uE American Federation of Labor, meet
i inc Monday in convention. has a right to
foel cbestv over labor's recent and sudden
achievements. Labor has burgeoneo m'o
more power in six short months than h1ty-
three wears of bitter struggle have won for the
workers.
Today. under the NRA, labor theoretically
&c an eoua1 with management in the new ma
cbirerv for industrial self-government. Its
right to free collective bargaining is so cop
ner riveted that an employer who wll1uIly
sets out to prevent organization finds hlnseH
crosswise with the law. Labor's theory thaV
surplus labor must be absorbed in shorter
work hours and that buying power must be
built I'D through higher wages has been ac-
cepted bv both government and industry.
Under this theory hours have been shortened
measurably in thirty coded industries ana
reduced to thirty hours a week in public
works: the labor of some 100000 children
under is outIawed: 100000 jobless returned
IN work: minimum wages established in some
If the most depressed industries, and sweat
shons virtually abolished. On paper, at least
labor has won a bloodless revolution.
But. as federation leaders well know, their
fight for economic freedom and security Is
Just started. And from now on the effort Is
pretty much UP to labor.
The federation is growing like a nowban
under its recruiting drive. President Green
saws that since March S24 new charters and
100000 new members have been added to the
rolls. but membership still is we'll below the
1920 high of 100000.
The federation's program is a militant one,
yet the Two most progressive groups of or
ranized workers-the railroad brotherhoods
and amalgamated clothing workers, re-
main outside its membership. Inclusion Of
these groups would not only strengthen the
federation numerically, but would vitalize it
with new blood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
SATURDAY. SEPT. 30. 1888.
BETTER TO KNOW

THE senate committee on banking and
L currency takes up again next week its i'm
portant work Of Investigating banking
practices.
There Is reason to believe that the dra-
matte hearings Of the spring and early sum-
mer will prove to have been only a modest
introduction to the real revelations in store
for a country trying to get to the bottom Of
its economic mystery. Somewhere. before We
can take the path to permanent prosperity,
must be found the answer to this question:
How did it happen that a nation, apparently
soaring to undreamed-of heights Of prosperity
one day. awakened the next TO find itself
headed downward into an almost 0ottomless
business and industrial depression? The
answer. many believe, will be found only
through searching examination Of our great
financial institutions.
A good beginning has been made in this
direction. but the senate has a long way yet
to 90. It is not a job to be completed IN a
hurry. The committee must be prepared to
follow any clew its investigators may have
turned I'D during their summers work. II
must be prepared to close its ears to soft sug-
gestions that further questioning Of the
bankers is likely to disturb confidence and so
retard the business recovery so desperately
desired. There will be no real recovery until
real confidence has been obtained, confidence
resting on knowledge.
Senator Fletcher. chairman Of the commit
tee. announced. after a conference with
President Roosevelt during the spring that
the INQUIRY would be extended into the stock
market. That will take time. It likewise Will
take a larger appropriation than the COM
mittee h far has requested. In its partial
report to the congress in January. the COM
mittee should be prepared to ask for funds
with which to make this investigation as thor
oueh as humanity possible.
The committee need have no DOUBT that
the country wants this research completed.
In 1928 and % the American people may nave
felt il was fun to be fooled. But they have
learned it is better to know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
PRICE OF POLITICS

TN all the noise that is being made about the
i mayoralty fight in New York City you can
hear. if YOU listen closely. the ominous howling
of a very cold wind-the coolest wind. per-
hans that has ever shaken the fabric Of
American democracy.
Back of the frantic negotiations, campaign
incs and ~wire-punings Of the New York STU
alton. where the nations largest city tries
desperately TO get Tammany of its back. there
stands the simple and unpleasant fact that
our system of municipal government has come
perilously close TO breaking down entirely.
New York is proving-just as Chicago and
a host of other cities have already proved
that our familiar type Of machine politics is
totally inadequate to meet the problems of the
modern world.
For a great many years We have gone along,
tnnocently handing over our city. county and
state government to men who quite frankly
were not interested especially in good govern
ment. but whose chief concern was the build
ing I'D of their own political fortunes.
The results we're scandalous but while
times we're good we could afford them. or We
thought We could. The local government be-
came the weakest link in the democratic
chain. but the chain was slack during pros
perity and nobody minded very much. Now
the chain is stretched taut. The weak link is
being strained right TO the breaking point.
Machine politics. in other words, is as
anachronistic as one Of Columbus ~caravels. We
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
Disease May Result from Occupation

In the rug industry, a. recently
has been pointed out, hands are
brought repeatedly in contact with
the wool in tying knots. The work
ers suffer greatly from the irrita-
ton of the dust and also occasion
ally from anthrax from wool taken
from infected sheep.
Workmen in dye factories, par
t~icularly where aniline is much
used, sometimes suffer from acute
poisoning from aniline dyes.
The symptoms where such poi
soning occurs r peculiar blueness
of the lips and a deficiency of the
blood, due to this poison. In
chronic cases there may be marked
dizziness and loss of memory, as
well as tremors of various types.
Thus medicine today scans every
industry as to its possible dangers
to health, and working conditions
everywhere are being made safer.
1t is not surprising that the world
after 300 years should render such
tribute to the Italian physician who
first realized the Importance Of oc-
cupation in relation to health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
"LOW-BROW" MUSIC

DR. ARTUR RODzINsKI, director of the
~ Cleveland orchestra, says that high
brow" music has got to take off its soup-and-
fish regalia and make its appeal to the man
who likes to sit around in his shirt sleeves.
1.-THE idea that one has to be done out in
handsome clothes to hear a symphony concert
is f~oolishness," he remarks. And he adds that
he plans ito take our orchestra to the people
who need it most, the workers"
If more orchestra conductors had this idea,
it is a safe bet that support of the high-class
musical organizations in America would not
rest so largely on the backs of the wealthy.
In too many cases society has made musical
functions an excuse to parade in evening
dress; and the ordinary man in the street, feel
ing like a fish out of water in such a crowd,
simply stays away.
Genuinely fine music can be as popular in
America as anywhere-if the people who
sponsor it just take the pains to doff the
high hat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30

battling problem Of u age-how are
criminals made? Whatever it may
be, we al be sure that the real VIC
tim of Harvey is Harvey Bailey. No
matter what society has suffered at
his hands, the actual person upon
whom Bailey has preyed is Bailey
himself.
To be given long beautiful years,
and to use them only to promote
misery, w~ickedness and death con
stitutes the most tragic error man is
capable Of making. And so I say to
you that whatever they may call
themselves, or by what ever name
we call them, men like Harvey
Bailey are fools. Because no matter
what life does to us, there is but one
thing that can really defeat us-our
own behavior.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-30
So They Say

The Nazis have the conviction
that there is a likeness in the facial
representation of Christ and the
photographs of Hitler.-Rev. Stanley
High, Stamford, Conn.
General Johnson is not so much
an administrator as an evangelist,
little as he may like the part.-Prof
Philip Cabot of Harvard.
7 am just a common garden va
riety of American citizen come to
Chicago to see the fair.-Herbert
Hoover.
Waving Of wands will not suffice
to dissipate real economic problems.
u. S. Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace.
The first requisite for good diges-
ton is a pretty waitress.-A. A. Nc
Vittie, Denver restaurant man.
Spain is finished with royalty for
good.-Prince Of Asturias.