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Evening star., 1933-11-05
Radio Partly Blamed.

Radio Partly Blamed.
Our people tend increasingly to "fall
for" words and slogans In this way
One reason for the increase in tendency
Is perhaps the radio, which makes il
easier to address all the people at ONT
time. easier to bring us all into one
intellectual herd. easier to start us al
moving as a herd, in one direction, the
direction desired by those who devise
the words and slogans. Consider the
record Of the last 10 months.
In January a word, a wholly new
word. blazed across the country-'tech-
nocracy" Do you remember it? That
was going to end all our economic ills
make US all prosperous and secure
"Technocracy" lasted only few weeks
In April another word, imitation" got
under way; it stopped in a little while
but just now imitation" is brought for
ward again as a dream word. The early
wave Of the word imitation In April
was interrupted by another dream word
so rapidly do they follow on each sa
international conference" the London
conference, and as a product OF Inter
national conference" there was to be
COffenC1eS.
a dream world OF prosperity, comfort
and security. The reality Of the Lon
don conference turned out to be no
equalization of currencies-and no
progress toward idylIc content.
Doubts n. r. A. Results.
Then in June Gen. Johnson came
forward with his Blue Eagle" and
until r
long enough to let us be aware by this
are not going to carry us into a world
of perfect economic happiness.
Any one who was mature during the
war can recall several words and
phrases. many Of them invented by
President Wilson, who was quite sin
cere in wishing to bring about the
conditions which his phrases implied
There was self determination" and
''the war to end all wars" and make
the world safe for democracy" The
dream into which great masses OF man
kind were put by the magic Of these
phrases is not now happy memory
Advised to Think.
The lesson for the average man, fol
his own good and the common good OF
I'LL, ID llOG w pClAl1t AAAA4oSAA w ~
waved by a wand into a dream, not to
fall for" words and slogans. Avoid
thinking in words; think In things
Instead of dreaming. think. Turn
these magic words around and look at
the other side. If you reverse the word
credit" Gas used in "installment
credit') you find the other side of II
Is debt And the reality evoked by
debt" is very different from the dream
evoked by credit" I don't much like
skepticism-but skepticism is the pre-
ventive of disillusion. It is the disin-
fectant of dreams And If we must
choose between skepticism and dtsl-
lusion. by all means let us have skep-
ticism.
Finally, there is a real problem for
the thoughtful here. The radio has
made it easy to start masses OF US
moving in one direction. The quick
ness with which we all turn ourselves
into a herd, or into hive or swarm
and the speed with which we dash
first in one direction and then in an
other, and all on the stimulation not
of reason but Of slogans and dream
words-that Is q new phase OF this
American democracy.
(Copyright, 1887
Evening star., 1933-11-05
PUBLIC URGED TO THINK
INSTEAD OF DREAMING
Writer Sees Danger to Country in People
"Falling for' Words and Ideas
Which Fail to Materialize.

sion. Dreams always do. I need not
cite the details Of the cold gray dawn
of the morning after"-it Is known to
all of us, q sad awakening which has
lasted now nearly four years.
Failing for" Danger.
If any one wishes really to become
seriously apprehensive about our Amer
lean democracy. an occasion for fear
about the future lies In our increasing
proneness to fall for" words and slo-
gans. to be put into q state of dreams
by any one who waves a word and a
symbol at us. Some thirteen years
ago. some Of the very best persons in
America, persons completely we'll
meaning, waved the word "prohibi-
ton" at us. The dream that prohi-
bition was designed to cause was to
United States, complete cure for all
time OF the evils of alcoholic drink.
Presently, that dream ended in disillu-
sion. We found that prohibition as a
thing. as an actuality, was quite dtf-
ferent from the dream that had been
evoked by prohibition the word.
Thereupon some other perfectly we'll
meaning people waved a new wcrd
at us. This new word was repeal" 4"
and the dream evoked by repeal is
the wiping out of all the evils that
arose under prohibition. Presently the
disillusion inherent in this latter dream
will be upon us. We shall have to
face the problem of liquor and its
control. the difficult and delicate bal
ancs between freedom for the indi-
vidual and restraint by the State
we shall have to face that problem as
a thing, not as word; and we shall
have to deal with it In terms Of reality,
and not take refuge In a dream that
some magic word or other will solve it.
Evening star., 1933-11-05
Teachers, Breaking With Cabinet,
Stun Paris by Grim Pacifist Stand

syndicate the delegates of the teach
ing unions present at the congress all
expressed similar anti.militaristic views
and avowed their decision to teach
pacif1sm.
(Copyrisht. 1897
Evening star., 1933-11-05

right to evoke deterrent fear with re-
lation Of the ruinous outcome Of another
war. There is enough fear already. 1t
IS fear which is the cause Of war All
the pomp and circumstance Of glorious
war spring from a secret pallor in the
bowels Of a people. They are afraid
that something, which Is never strictly
deflnable, will happen to their great
disadvantage. and therefore seek what
they call security" The general and
the admiral, in the last analysis, are
only the deceptive decoration Of what Is
craven in the multitude.
These disarmament conferences" are
Evening star., 1933-11-05

PARIS.-Of the 125 900 teachers and
professors of France. 10000 since the
end Of September have been In conflict
with the government, and with the
Chamber of Deputies reconvened, they
are preparing a direct attack on Pre-
rier Edouard Daladier's cabinet through
the insurgent deputies. Anatole de
Monzie minister of public instruction,
has particularly aroused these teach
ers. who openly threaten to strike un-
less their claims are satisfied.
Evening star., 1933-11-05
That was IS years ago. What good

came out of millions OF slain and the
destruction of an amount of material
wealth which is inca1culable? Every
body knows now what good came out OF
it-not enough to cover with butter the
bread of one workless mans child. Only
ruin and grief came out of it; We can
do no more now than console ourselves
Evening star., 1933-11-05
tate. Science has unified the globe. Y

the old and ferV1d natlOnal1SmS commune
in their activities uncontrolled by any
thing but desire, though this were
the eighteenth century, then we shall
wreck our planet. I for one, don't be-
lieve II will come TO that: but salvation
means an1efort Of will.
Evening star., 1933-11-05

HERE we are at last, in a year
when 1t Is necessary to explain
that this Is the anniversary OF
the day when the last shell ex-
Evening star., 1933-11-05
BY GASTON NERvAL.

TIME FORTHCOMING Pan-Ameri-
can Conference at Montevideo
will be unable to avoid discussion
i of the very important problem
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
MANY INJURED In
WIND STORM AT
BAINVILLE MON.

Bainville, May ga tornado
nado swept through the main
street of this town late today, in
Turing a dozen persons ard de-
molishing or damaging 10 build
'ings. Communication lines with
the surrounding territory were
down.
Bailaville was i'm darkness to :
night. Whether the storm struck
nearby farms was not Immediately
known.
MANY INJURED
S. Mortenson, elevator manager
suffered a skull fracture and was
in a critical condition. john Gelle-
and section foreman. was the only
other person seriously injured.
Most of the injured persons We're
in a cafe whels the tornado struck
The building was demolished.
Other structures wrecked In
Guided a warehouse and office OF
an elevator, a barber shop, three
filling stations and a garage. Sew
eral other business buildings were
damaged and four large gasoline
tanks were blown down. Two ele-
vatOrs were unro0fed.
DIR. John Wright of Williston, N
D., and two nurses hurried to this
place to aid DIR. Stephen Eyansciicf
of Baihville in treating the In IA
iured. -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
CROOKED DEAL PULLED BY
RESERVE BANKER

a cashiers check for the amOun,
and send it to Axei Andreasen IN
Minnesota as payment for the
wheat.
After a while Paul received a
letter from the farmer in Mime
sofa asking him why he hadn't
sent the money as promised. Tha.
is the time Paul found out there
was something rotten, not in Den
mark, as the saving goes but, with
the Dane banker in Reserve.
What did Paul fi:hl? He found
that the banker had never sent
the money to Minnesota rs he
promised. George LuLd had ac-
tually stolen the $48.50. A law
yer might be able to find a nicer
word for it, like misrepresentation
or something III that line, but the
meaning is the same.
Instead of sending the noaev as
the agreement was, George Lund
had grabbed the S4S.5O and had
applied the amount on a combine
ncte of Paul Mouritsen's held by
the bank, not fully paid.
Someone might say that the
farmer here has a clear case
against the banker and S hould
take it into court. A farmer
never has a clear case agairkt a
banker no matter how clear it is.
the banker knows that the law and
the judges always stand ready 30
help him in a fight against a
far1er IN matter what kind Of a
crooked deal he has pulled.
While the banker is enjoying
the use of the $4s.50. two more
farmers and a good little girl in
Seattle have lost all the conf
dence they ever had in the rotten
banking system under which we
live. Trusting bankers with morey
Is something most of us have done
to our sorrow. George Gund
Reserve has proven himself to be
no better than the rest of the class
to which he belongs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
Coffee an

AT a debate in the university of
Minnesota SO voted for and three
against the resolution "That the
members of this assembly will un-
der no circumstances fight for the
flag or their country"
And the government can draft
men but has to buy mules.
And 1000 farmers in Polk coun-
ty Missouri, assembled at the
court house and declared they
were going to drive their cars
with the old license plates another
wear.
And rubbing your head with
liniment makes it smart.
And little Johnny said that a
ground hog was a sausage,
And a big daily democratic news
paper saws: 1--WE are rapidly APP
preaching the point of complete
collapse in our school system,
And the stranger asked the boy
where that track was going to, the
boy said cit is not going anywhere
we Just keep it here to run trains
on.
And the Tucker baby is still q
boy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
SFE ROAD TOLIFE" AT ORPHEUM
THEATRE SATURDAY, JUNE 3
THE BEST PICTURE EVER SHOWN IN THIS
PART OF THE COUNTRY

Here Is what the National Board
Reviel, If Motion Pictures, Of
Nv York City says about the pic
,"re we will soon have a chance
to see re ra,,a,.l,
oble film, original, powerful and
aapamatic Treating Of the home
iass bovs who in predatory bands
roamed the streets Of the Russian
.;ties after the war, and how they
' . gathered IL, fed arh tnined.
Tba Road to Life shows that
fim If meaning can also be in
Intensely exciting and entertain
ina Theme, sound and photo
~rSanbic technique combine to give
'iis film its really unusual quality.
T. i in the first rank of Russian
r;nematic achievements"
There will he several shows dur
mo the after~oon and evening in
@,der 10 take care of the large
Crowd expected Don't wait for
the last show but he sure and
come early and etav fer the dance.
All are talking about Road to
life" and everybody wants to see
il If YOU miss it now you might
never have another chance.
Iursh will be served bV the Y.
2 l. at the Farmer Labor Temple
from 5 to Z o'clock.
A 25-cert dance, good music,
will be held at the Farmer Labor
TEMPLE after the show.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
MILLIONS STARVING WITH THE
WAREHOUSES; FILLED

able to buy them and their for
mer employees walking the street
In search of employment.
Workers who know all about
making shoes are walking around
half barefoot begning for a job of
making more shoes.
The farmer gets two cents per
pound for the hides that make the
shoes If he buys a strip of the
leather from the cow hide they
charge him 90 cents a pound for
it, If he buys shoes made from
the same leather they charge him
about So per pound.
So we have a surplus Of shoes
end hides.
In the middle states where we
raise sheep, hogs, wheat, corn and
potatoes we find that hogs are
worth 2la to 31a cents per pound
in st. Panl, That in shipping the
sheep at many points the railroad
companies demand freight paid in
advanre for fear that the sheep
won't bring enough to pay the
freight to the terminal.
In Montana and the Dakotas
where we raise the very highest
grade of dark wheat it is up to
40 cents and still climbing. Well
the farmer hasn't got any to sell.
80 it means he can pay so much
more for the flour he has to buy.
Flour prices always advance out
of proportion to the price of wheat
all the time.
Oh yes, if you was fortunate
erbugh to get a seed loan and
want to buy some seed from the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
(BY RODNEY SALISBURY


Bernard Shaw says that the
rest of the planets are using the
earth f1r an insane asylum. Well
let's see. Out I'M California the
fruit raisers are up roofing thou
sands of acres of fruit trees in
order to create a shortage so that
those few who are able to buy can
pay more for less.
And | suppose those 10 million
and their dependents who are UNI
able to buy at any price, it won't
make much difference to hem.
They haven't seen fruit and their
children haven't had the necessary
apple a day to- keep the doctor
away" for many moons.
So there they have a surplus of
apples!
Down i'm the south the farmers
have to sell their cotton for five
cents a pound and it takes 20
pounds of cotton to buy a pair
of overalls. The girls that work
in the cotton mills 10 and ~
hours a day for a mere existence
can buy but few cotton dresses,
and can't buy fruit at all.
So they have surplus of not
ton. The farm boards advised the
southern farmer that he could
remedy his condition by plOwing
under every third row.
In the great manufacturing GEN.
teTs- of the east warehouses are
bursting with a surplus of shoes
and other manufactured goods
with over half the population UNI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26

Art Noll of Raymond was in
town Wednesday.
Nern Sach0w was again seen ON
the streets Wednesday.
%
II. Z. Rasmussen of COmertown
was shopping here Wednesday.
Mrs. Chas. Strubeck of PlerMv-
wood is reported i'll in bed at this
wdting.
John Boulds has been busy
Olanting lot of potatoes on the
Salisbury place.
Rudolph Nelson, farmer north
of town drove in Wednesday to do
some shopping.
%
Chas. Norton fiHbm the Medicine
Lake country was a business caller
here Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Larsen are
the parents of baby boy born in
the local hospital Friday.
Otto Grantham and Simonl Han
sen, of the Raymond country
spent part of Wednesday here.
Mrs. Rev. S. l.. Almlie is the
mother of boy born in the local
hospital last Sunday morning.
%
Miss Alice Jacobsen left by car
for Great Falls last week where
she has accepted position.
Pete Marron was seen 9n the
streets the first part of the week
after being confined in bed all
winter.
Mrs. Dave Nelson, living is
miles east of town, started out to
walk to town Monday but caught
a ride part of the way.
Lloyd Bolster, young son of Geo,
Bolster was taken to the hospital
Wednesday evening and operated
on for a bursted appendix.
40
The condition of Mrs. Knud
Spoobek of pagmar, who was
badly burned while burning weeds
orl the farm, is slowly improving.
sd
No bellboys to tip at the Beau
fort Hotel 112 3rd Street South,
opposite Federal Building, Mime
apolis, 75c, 81, $3.50 per day,
marking next door.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
(BY HANS RAsMUsSEN)

On one Of the incest farms west
OF Dagmar lives Paul Mouritsen
and his family, He is one of the
first settlers in that part, is we'll
known and ore of the most re-
spected.
For many years he has done his
banking business at the Reserve
bank with George Lund. If any
body had told Paul that George
Luid was not any better than any
other banker Paul simply wouldn't
have believed it. Wasn't George
a Dane just like himself, and had
he not kept his bank open while
others had closed theirs
This banker was not like the
rest Of them, he was a friend Of
the farmers, he was ole of the
few who could be trusted and Paul
trusted him to his own sorrow. To
him 1t had to be proven that
George was just as low and tricky
as the rest of them, that it isn't
nationality or friendship that Is
what counts with barkels, but just
money.
Paul MouritSen was going to try
out different kind of wheat. AxeI
Andreasen in Minnesota was rails
ing the kind Of wheat that Paul
wanted, so he ordered the seed
from him, telling him at the same
time that he did not have the
money right then but would send
it shortly after. The wheat was
Shipped and Paul received It, The
bill was $48.50.
Paul Mouritsen's daughter is
working in Seattle, Wash. LII or
der to help the folks out she sert
home to them what she could
spare. which was $40, to help pay
for the wheat.
To the $40 Paul added another
$3.50 making it a total of $4S.5O.
This amount he deposited with his
banker, George Lund in the Re-
serve bank, with the understand
irg that George should make out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
WHEN COOPERATION FAILS THE
POOR GET THE BLAME

ton from your appointed men. 81
the people Just weTA and hehed
themselves. They didn't sneak in
there in the dark, men and women
went there in broad daylight. or
DERBY and respected people, thew
took what they needed and RIO
more.
Lay the blame for doings like
mat where it belongs, right at the
door of your judge and relief com
mittee.
For months a shipment of bed
blankets has been locked up in
the court house. 1t has been kent
as a secret, they were sent here
TO be distributed amOng the mosE
needy people, now they are Just
about gone, politicians have been
sneaking them out among their
friends. That is the wav YOUR
three and four hundred dollar a
month cooperate with the people.
That the Herald is deferhing
those holding the money bag Is
no more than could be expected.
never did that paper take a stand
for the depressed mass of the peo-
pie. 1t admits that the great
majority are not objects of charity
Of its own choosing" but it OBJ
lects to that this majority gets
back even part of what has been
taken from them.
We are demarhing more because
we need more and because what
little we get is only a small part
OF what has been taken away from
us without our own choosing.
The Herald criticizes our de-
mands but fails to point out what
Is wrong with them. Wouldn't
our people and our cOunky be bet
ter off if more money was scat
tered among our people and spent
by them? Wouldn't cash relief
be much better for our people in
general, except a few big store
keepers? Will working off relief
received last winter bring about
prosperity or food for the one who
does it. Ard, if the farmer should
be compelled to work off his part
why shouldn't the store keeper
work off his?
These are a few of our demands
which we are willing to defend as
being correct.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
NOTICE!

The United Farmers League
viii hold its annual convention foI
the election of officers at the
Farmer Labor Temple June lO.Ihe
basis of representatives for dele,
gates from the county locals VIII
be one delegat to every 10 mem
bers or fraction thereof.
Secretaries of locals should I'M
mediately call meetings and elect
their delegates.
Art Wankel,
Marie Harlsen,
Hans Hardersen,
Rodney Salisbury,
Executive Committee,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
MOTHERS GET
NO SYMPATHY
FROM BENNETT
lBY PETER GALLAGHERl

AbH PETER GALLAGHER
Inc press of the country a few
DAYS ago carried a photograph of
a young woman lying in he'd wifi
n ne new born babe in her arms
l he news item underneath the mic
lure stated that the woman was
pennlless and shelterless and I'M
able to find a place wherein IN
give birth to her child; so unable
to delay the laws of nature tbis
child in the chilly hours of the
morning came into this world with
the hard and cherries sidewalk
serving as a stone on which to Law
its head. ~ '"S
This didn't occur i'm the land Of
RUSSIA to took place in our own
dear Urited States where civiliza-
tion is in power. Many people
shed tears when the horror 1f
this incident struck home but
these same people cry louder wher
II is even suggested that the svs-
tenn responsible for such horrors
should be abolished; and not only
that but they praise anybody who
VIII help perpetuate the brutal
features of this CHASTITY crime
against suffering motherhood.
In Sheridan county, for instance
when eXpectant mothers approach
ed the members of the Central
Relief Committee to make prepare
lions In some manner for the
arrival of their innocent babies
they were met with such remarks
Women have had children before
and no great fuss was made over
it," ii know women who have
had dozens of them and no one
knew about it," "You can not get
to the hospital so you must do
the best you can" "Bear up and
the next che won't be so hard on
you" This is a specimen of the
brutality with which mothers are
treated. And nIOW that a preced-
esnt has been established it Is reas-
enable to presume that old Jack
will say "Why don't you do as
the woman in Philadelphia did
have your children on the public
streets, and then maybe the papers
will give you some publicity"
Old Jack, however, loses no
opportunity to improve his own
conditions. With a fixed salary
of $500 a month from the govern
ment and reputed ownership in
lngwalsOn's store, he directs every
relief order possible to this store
with view to sharing i'm the divi-
dends, Not only that but he
peddles milk without a license
while farmers such as Elmer
Stambaugh is denied the same
privilege unless he goes to the ex-
pense Of building a milk house.
This and other things are what
the farmers must abolish. The
Commercial club is behind every
act of faW0ritism granted to old
Jack and opposed to every effort
of the formers to dispose of their
products I'M any legitimate way.
With the Commercial club are
lined up the county commissioners
arid yet the farmers have insisted
on electing such pliable tools of
the interests which have produced
so much misery and degradation
to the farmers and their wives
ard children.
If the last straw will break the
camel's back it is surely time that
the farmers begin to understand
the lesson. Organization is the
Only and safest way and the
United Farmers League is the or
ganizatiop that will undoubtedly
help you to- get out from under
the load of contemp which Bennett
and his followers have heaped on
your farmers. Organize for your
own protection.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26

cam put up with it much longer.
Judge Paul is also making excuses
for recommending him.
A woman told me the other day
that old Jack was the most hated
man in Sheridan county.
Let us not waste time comrades
hating any one. The Plentywood
businessmen are responsible for
his actions and they are all part
of a corrupt system called capital
ism. Hate the system!
We. the U. F. L. are fighting for
"a new social order ruled by the
workers and farmers. That is
our goal.
p. S. COmrade Wankel is not
member of old Jacks yes-men,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26
rIing Time for Govt
Loans Extended to June

oot Inc time limit for filing appH-
cations for government loans fnr
te,l following has been ex-
tended fr9m May 81 TO Jnrio 81
thhppiications must be made out so
.H me! VIII reach the government
oiilce on or before that date.
ood Loans can be he had not to ex-
S9oa Sl.oO per acre and not over
P'Uo tGr any one farmer.
Appllscatio'E blanks may be Oh
SaLhsd from local keymen Or Fred
Nick Of brentwood 9"