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Montana labor news., 1933-02-16

return with them. In which case the
applicant for made work must wait
until the roads are passable again,
which may be sometime in March be-
fore he can get a days work at $3.50
per, minus $1.00 for transportation?
Sorry, but this is our system.
The system, the presiding genius
patiently explained to me, was the
same the social organization at st.
Paul, Mimi, had successfully applied
for years, and so the government of
economy and efficiency had trans
planted my informant from the side
walks Of st. Paul to the land of gum
DO, bayous, and alligator swamps.
Up in st. Paul the investigator
visited ten or twenty homes of appli-
cants in one day, by bus, street ear,
or taxi. Cost Of investigation per APP
plicant, perhaps ten or twenty cents.
While down in the Delta it may cost
anywhere from five to ten dollars to
bless a worthy applicant for made
work with one day of work a week at
$3.50 per, minus $1.00 for ~transporta-
ton, not including salary, transpor-
%tation, and upkeep of clean, upstand-
ing Swede from st. Paul and lady lieu
tenant from Minneapolis, MINI.
But what is charity without system T?
Montana labor news., 1933-02-16
CHNOCRA
AND THE
TIMES
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any given commodity can be meas
ured. Why not then substitute energy
as a medium of exchange rather than
money?
Electricity flowing through a pipe
or over a wire can be measured; so
may energy be measured, and to that
extent and for that reason it might be.
| don't know hat it would be. 1t
might be a more suitable medium Of
exchange than money. | do not know.
No other man knows. But this | do
know: If you haven't any money,
as a medium of exchange, it is far
from satisfactory.
Now the Technocrats claim this
with our productive power what it Isl:
With a social structure scientifically
planned and operated, with the price
system abolished and energy used as
a medium of exchange, that every hui
man being capable of working four
hours a day for four days a week
would be entitled to and receive a sal
airy equivalent of twenty thousand
dollars a year.
Twenty thousand dollars a year, es-
pecially to a man who has been out
of a job a couple of years, may sound
fantastical, impossible, even unjust
but not so to me. 1t seems to me a
far more equitable arrangement than
the present where a comparatively
few men possess practically all the
wealth and the balance of us are driv-
ing head-on toward the poor house.
There are critics, of course, plenty of
them. Show me a plan that was ever
proposed that hasn't had critics and
cynics and knockers and fault-finders
and snifflers. Christ himself was not
only criticised when his opinions con-
flicted with those in power-he was
crucified as well, and so must ever
Montana labor news., 1933-02-16

in shelter by the builder, each willing
ly accepting the notes in payment Of
their goods.
These notes would pass from hand
to hand, always performing a benefit
cient and necessary Exchange serv-
ice"
In due time the administration
presents tax bills representing service
rendered by it to the people and the
people pay with the government credit
notes which have been redeemed in
food and other goods by them for the
administration. Thus four billion dol
lars of government credit notes would
be fully and finally redeemed each
year without the aid of bankers, brok-
ers or expense other than the prepara-
ton of the notes. Why not pay all
government operating expenses with
these good circulating notes instead of
issuing interest bearing treasury
notes?
Let this be our entire money sys-
TEN, so simple, so complete and so
efficient. Thus we release, enamel
pate the American people from bond
age to the Federal Reserve Oligar-
chy, from business depressions and
unemployment.
Let the American people rise up in
force and demand our constitutional
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, as our worthy ancestors
did before us. Let us rid ourselves of
this vile, corrupt, Federal Reserve
leach, which has been preying upon
the lives and happiness of u people
for years.
REPEAL THE FEDERAL RE-
SERVE ACT.
Make GOVERNMENT CASH IN
STEAD OF CHECKS OUR NONE
TARY POLICY to emancipate the
people from bondage to those merci-
less money barons.
Sincerely yours,
CHRIS YEGEN.
Montana labor news., 1933-02-16

mar be, on a smaller scale, who does
his own thinking.
Many of the critics l find are eco
nomic writers who for forty years or
so have been trying to put over their
own theories on the public, and having
failed, they are sore at the T%echnocrats
who are apparently having better luck.
The Technocrats may be wrong, but
how many so-called economists have
failed to prove their contentious? The
proposed social system may not be
perfect, but tell me, is the system
under which we operate now perfect?
Scientists may be cold and calculating
and be lacking in some element of the
human touch, but are politicians per-
feet creations-even the Butte var
iety-and immune from the vice of
selfishness?
| said | would talk on "Technoc-
racy and the Times" I've tried to
explain the salient features of tech
nocracy. 1 submit the times speak
for themselves. Everyday | meet
people who are absolutely and posi-
lively up against it; people who I'M
der normal conditions would have nice
homes, keep their children nicely
dressed and live in everyway like hui
man beings have a right to live. Not
now, they haven't the means of liveli-
hood; they've lost their job and not
only that, far too many of them have
lost their savings through some bank
failure or other or through the fail
ure of some other institution which
should have made their old age Sc
cure. They're on the street now.
They're seeking charity and nc part Of
the fault is their own.
Technocracy's proposition is simply
this, or so it seems to me; We're all
in the same jam; we may have a job
today and no job tomorrow; we may
have three meals today and tomorrow
none; we were all put here by the
same creative intelligence. Why
shouldn't we then cooperate and en-
joy life rather than compete and pull
out the props under our social system
in so doing, and like Sampson of old,
be buried in the wreck of our own
making.
Is this a time to be narrow minded
and intolerant and prejudiced and big
goted, and say the old system is good
enough, when two hundred thousand
children are tramping over the coun-
try hopeless and homeless; when four
teen million men, according to the lat
est statistics, are out of a job? Is it
a time to say Everything is 0. X.
Let good enough alone?"
Everything is not o. K, and it's
your duty and my duty, so far as we
are capable of doing it, to help estab-
fish a system that will more nearly
equalize opportunity and provide the
needs of life not only for the classes
but for the masses, and be it Tech
nocracy or something else when we do
find something that makes for such
a system, we should be for it unani-
mously.
II am for men," said Henry George,
the great single-taxer in a speech at
Madison Square Garden. We could
all remember those words with profit
and if we could all say the same thing
conscientionsly and mean it the world
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Science Cuts Corn Use

4 AODERN science must bear the responsible
iVI ity to large extent for the problems of
the corn farmers. Department of Agriculture
officials estimate that fully 10000, 900 acres Of
corn land are now producing corn in excess Of
the demand which would have existed less than
20 years ago. The advent of the tractor and
auto truck meant the passing of some 1000.
600 horses and mules from farm work. animals
which consumed the harvest of about Is, 600, 600
acres of corn land.
In addition to this, modern scientific means
of hog raising has brought about a change in
feeding practices which requires less corn per
100 pounds of hog meat than was required Z
few years back About 100000 acres of corn
have been saved hog raisers.
These 100000 acres, with their normal
market gone have helped to contribute to the
problem of a corn surplus which has depressed
prices of that grain to ruinous figures for the
past several years.
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Johnny Abpleseed5 Memory LMgers

Johnny APPLESEED has been gone these
many yea out his memory still fingers on
in Indiana and Ohio where this romantic figure
Ct the early days Of the nineteenth century
pursued a career Of great eccentricity but en-
gendered in a real desire for service
Johnny Appleseed as he was a1ectionately
known felt called upon to propagate apple
trees in the wilderness Born. so the belief
went in Boston in ITS, his rightful name was
Jonathan Chapman.
Every year during cider season, Johnny Wis
ited cider mills in Pennsylvania and collected
great sacks Of seeds. Loaded with these he
set out en- foot for new settlements in Ohio and
Indiana. where he sought out proper locations
in the woodlands nearby to set out his seed.
Whenever new settlement was established, the
settlers sat around and waited for Johnny to
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Comes Down by the Ton

such as occur in waterspouts and tornadoes,
in condensing and carrying aloft great guam
titles of rain, which subsequently falls when
ened as, for example, by striking the side Of
q mountain.
Meterologists now know. however, that most
cloudbursts are merely violent thundershowers
The paradox that an enormous amount of
water falls in these showers, although the
clouds overhead contain comparatively little,
requires a word of explanation. The most
remarkable feature of a thunderstorm is
terrific uprush Of air within a limited area at
the front of the storm. The vertical blasts in
this region carry up vast amount of water
vapor, which cools and condenses rapidly into
raindrops each Of them millions of times as
big as the tiny droplets that float in the
clouds. In still air these drops would fall at
once to the ground, but the rising air currents
keep them aloft.
Thus large quantity of water accumulate3
at high level until a weakening of the up
ward currents. which often occurs quite sud-
denly. permits it to fall. This is especially
likely to occur when a travelling thunderstorm,
which Is fed by rising streams OF air from
overheated ground, passes over the cooler sur
face of mountain, where the air has not the
same tendency to rise. Thus is explained the
special frequency of cloudbursts in mountain
GUS districts.
PROBABLY the most DISASTROUS clouopurSt on
record was the one that occurred in the Xii
Peninsula of Southern Japan on August 19,
1899, during the passage Of typhoon The
resulting floods drowned more than 500 per-
sons and. it is said. destroyed the property of
fully 100000. Nearly 9.5 inches Of rain fell in
two hours.
CEvERAL notable cloudbursts Of the nine
- teenth century in our own country are de-
scribed in Gen. Greely's American Weather"
Near Wickenburg, Ariz., a cloudburst caused
the Hassayampa River from being perfectly
dry at sunset August 6, 1881, to be stream
Continued on Fifteenth Page.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

"Yor father" said Mrs.. winters again,
means what he says"
Spoken Of e your father" Mr. winters
assumed dignity that he never reached other
wise in his yifes conversation. In that role
he became an authority whose word was law.
And under these circumstances Mrs. Winters
went about ON tiptoe as II some one Of i'm
portance were about to die.
Anita sat on the front porch The light OF
. Midsummer moon shone full upon . slip Of
paper she was absently turning over and over
In her hands. It was Miss Willetts List Of the
greatest classics Of all the ages.
CONOvERS DRUG STORE was crowded
They were all there-even to Brick Thurs
ton. who was sulky. Anita greeted them all
as II she had been out of town for long long
while
I'm SO sorry" she said gently to Brick. IT
wanted to 60 to see Greta Garbo tonight. but
had to help mother. Honestly did"
Sure" he said. "Only thought you sounded
sore"
She looked at Brick tenderly. They would
be friends all their lives she thought It was
funny how fond she was of the gang. They'd
all gone to high together and probably even
when they were middl.-aged they'd still ali
be friends.
The door swung open and closed All the
nickel trimmings on the soda fountain swan
in silver lights in the mirror. The faces in
the mirror were blurred-and laughter in
the place rose high in cool. bright. rushing
waves
Bill Townsend swung himself up to-a stool
at the other end Of the soda fountain. He
looked in the mirror and Anita looked in the
mirror. The mirrored Bill smiled suddenly
at the mirrored Anita. She bent her head
over her strawberry ice cream soda. He Or
dered marshmallow banana split and she
knew his eyes were wandering past Eddie Con-
overs ear to her eyes. She sputtered over
her straw and rosy bubbles of soda few from
her glass. She glanced into the mirror again,
indiderently, and there he was. But she didn't
look at the actual BM
He vanished in a silver blur and absorbedly
she poked at ball Of vanilla ice cream with
long handled spoon.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

benefits to be derived BY a curtailed harvesting
program.
Naturally the greater the production, the
greater the total cost of production and with
prices declining as production went up the
margin Of profit dwindled until actually loss
occurred. A reversal Of this trend meant prcs-
perity, but that reversal was not obtained
through urging and argument.
It IS for this reason the processing tax Ii
to be placed on wheat to be paid to those
farmers who cut back their acreage during the
next two years by 20 per cent or whatever
figure is deemed necessary after final survey
of the situation. The tax is being levied now
in order to provide funds to pay the benefits
next year.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

He was standing just behind her.
"Yours?" he demanded IS he picked Up =
pink paper check that lay on the counter.
She nodded, unable to speak. He did things
awfully well, she thought Another man would
have argued about the check-fussed about It.
IL helped her up the curbs and down the
! curbs. just casually putting his big hand
under her elbow. He was very sophisticated
about that, she thought.
When Conover's Drug Store was three blocks
behind them, he began helping her pei.
manently. She had turned her heel
Cray high heels" he said.
They smiled at each other They were
walking slowly now and little unsteadiiy
This is terrible" she whispered. You know
about our famlies?"
He nodded.
But that isn't going to make any dinereaes
with U.s." he said.
moo"
See here" he said hercely, I've never had
chance-never had single chance to talk
to you-or take you out or anything"
Il know" she said earnestly.
You're sweet You're darned sweet"
That's just your line she said.
mo. No, honestly, haven't got any line.
I went sort of wild in Detroit, but I got tired
Of all that I don't feel like that about you.'s
She understood this curious remark.
How long have you-have you-"
"Felt this way? All the time, Anita. If I'd
ever had a break"
II know she said
Il won't let our families separate ls!" he
promised suddenly and loudly
"Of course not. But you'd better leave mo
just by the hydrangea bush. There's no good
their getting upset"
Its a darn shame having to sneak
around like this!"
''Of course" she said soothingly But we've
got to sort of-sort of arrange it, Nobody can
ever expect their family to understand any.
thing"
ITS funny thing about EN-" he agreed
thinking it over.
Whereupon in secrecy and in happiness tlae
two walked on in the direction of the hydraneea
bush.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1933-07-30

paratus for registering the rate of rainfall.
So far as measurements go, the world rec
ord for hard shower is held by one that fell
on April S, 1926, at Opid's Camp, about $500
feet above sea level in the mountains north
east of Los Angeles. The little weather sta
ton at this place Is equipped with self-regis-
tering rain gauge Of recent type. second
|gauge. intended for installation at another sta
tion, had been placed temporarily few feet
away when the shower occurred. The greatest
rate of rainfall registered by one instrument
was l. .03 inches in one minute, while the other
Showed 092 inch.
That decidedly heavier downpours than those
lust mentioned sometimes occur is inferred
|from the great amount of soil washing some
times observed after intense showers, not only
lin hilly or mountainous country, where the
flow of the water is concentrated by the effects
|of SLOPE but also in comparatively level regions,
where huge cavities are made in the ground by
the mere impact Of the falling water. Follow
fng cloudburst that occurred near Scranton,
pa, in July, 1914, G H. Matthes, well known
hydraulic engineer, found several of these holes
on the high brow Of mountainside, with no
collecting area above them from which the
water could have flowed. They were from
three to five yards wide and ten yards long,
Some remarkable cloudburst cavities in the
British Isles have recently been reported by
John Glasspoole, an English meteorologist. One
pf these resulted from an afternoon thunder
storm in 1916 on a moor in the County OF
Durham. Eleven years after the shower its
Effects were still strikingly visible. On a gentle
slope the top layer Of grass and peat had been
washed away to depth of about four feet
bver an area Of 20 by 40 yards. On the Chew
OTIS, in July, 1898, the upper layer of peat
bver an area of from 80 to 40 acres was plowed
LIP by rain to a depth of some five feet and
piled in enormous masses.
In the literature of a generation more
hgo the heavy showers now called cloud
bursts are often described as 'waterspouts"
wen when occurring far from any body Of
water, and at one time number of scientific
authorities ascribed these torrential down.
'-~ ~ tl', action Of atmospheric vorticS5,
Evening star., 1933-07-30

HE almost startling rise in wheat prices dur
ing the past few months, checked somewhat
during the latter part of July, is a difficult
thing to understand in view of market condi-
tions for wheat. For several years past, even
back into the Coolidge administration, wheat
farmers in this country were warned continu-
ally that the United States could not be a
wheat-exporting nation for many years to come
OF course some wheat viii always be exported,
but the warning called attention to the fact
that the wheat farmer could hardly hope to
do more than find local market and he was
told that he should scale production back to
the basis Of domestic consumption Despite
this warning, production has been maintained
at tremendous pace until this year even with
crops cut by drought, Winter and Spring wheat
crops were ample for all domestic needs for q
year.
In fact, so great is the present carry-over Of
wheat from last year, not one bushel need have
been raised to supply the domestic market.
In recent statement, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace predicted that exports Of Ameri-
can wheat and flour will hardly reach IS ,0o0,-
GOO bushels, just about one-tenth of the carry
over from last year.
The European market is almost closed The
various nations involved in the World War
came out Of the war far in debt and deter
mined to restrict as much as possible imports
from the United States, which emerged from
the war period a heavy creditor nation. High
tariffs, restrictive quotas and other methods
were used to limit wheat imports and every
governmental aid was given to stimulate pro-
duction Of wheat within the borders of each
nation.
In the period of 1919 and 1920, European
countries, exclusive Of Russia, produced about
900 900 900 bushels Of wheat. During the pres
ent growing season the crops are expected to
total / SOC, ,000, 900 bushels.
The world carry-over, which averaged around
$50 000, 900 bushels in the five-year period end
ing in 1927, has increased now to more than
soc, ,000, 600 bushels, Of which at least half will
be held in the United States. That situation
is none too encouraging The only solution
appears to be curtailment Of output. The old
law Of supply and demand appears to hold the
answer to the problem, but the difficulty Of
bringing about voluntary reduction has been
fatal to all urgings to cut back. Either the
average farmer hoped to reap fortune by
producing large crop while others cut their
crops or else they have been unable to see the
Evening star., 1933-07-30

arrive knowing that sooner or later he would
appear with his inevitable pack of seed.
Wherever he went he was greeted cordially
by the settlers and the door was always open
to him. In his entire career he was never
known to harm anything living. Although the
woods were beset by animals and Indians he
walked unarmed and unharmed. bearing al.
most charmed life. Even the Indians grew
to know him and looked upon him as a great
medicine man, particularly in the later years
OF his life when he went about clad only in q
long garment made out of sacks
In 1912. spreading the warning that Hun
had been defeated and that the Indians we're
coming IN large force. he was credited With
having saved the lives of many settlers.
Johnny finally died in Indiana in the cahin
OF settler in Allen County, death coming in
the Summer CT l847
Evening star., 1933-07-30
Bread Prices Watched

THE unusual amount Of attention being given
] bread prices at the present time and the
particular watchfulness of the Department of
Justice is based on the expeEi.nces of the period
from 1909 to 1913.
At that time, although wheat prices actually
decreased as much as so per cent, prices Of
bread advanced 10 per cent. With that pre-
cedent to consider, the administration is de-
termined thstl rising prices for wheat shall not
be used as an excuse to take unfair advantage
Of the consuming public.
Evening star., 1933-07-30

1nis state of affairs lasted for several days.
Whenever Bricks battered vermilion roadster
drew up, in its loud way, before the house,
Anita ran out with little shrieks. Then sud-
denly, she told her best friend that it was
sin to encourage people and that she wasn't
going to do it any more. Whereupon she en-
couraged four other youths simultaneously,
only to discourage them in fashion that would
have had the Borgias paling with envy.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
VETERAN MERCHANT
DIES AT HOME HERE
Bartholomew Rosasco, 70, Had
Been in Delicatessen Business
Since 1884.

Bartholomew Rosasco, one of Wash
ington's oldest merchants. died yester-
day at his home, 2426 Fourteenth street
after a long illness. He was 78 years
old
In 1884 he moved with his wife and
two children to Washington from Balti-
more and opened fruit and delicatesser
store at 1915 F street From this address
he moved to 1884 Fourteenth street
where he was in business 25 years OF
more.
His first wife died in 1911. He later
married Miss Mary Bragassa Of Lynch
burg, Va Mr.. Rosasco retired from
active business in 1925, after the sudden
death of his son Louis, who was in
business with him. He was born in
Genoa. Italy, on January 2, 1855, and
at the age of IA years came to this
country with his widowed mother, set
ting in Baltimore.
He is survived by his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. o. Harrison and
Mrs. E. j. Brodt, and two sons. Noel F.
and Joseph A. Rosasco. Funeral services
will be held Tuesday morning at st
Paul's Church, with interment in St
Mary's Cemetery.