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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
(BY VIM. FERGUSON)

Yakima, Wash, Aug. t.
These are Just a few small
mutterings from farmers
just chance remarks in de
everyday conversations with
farmers as go from house
to house.
1. ''WeH, / think Roosevelt
is alright. He is doing all he
oSn, but if things don't urn
out alright, l am afraid the
people will revolt"
2. MY taxes were $17O last
year and my income was STA.
We can't go on this way all
tie time. Some hing has got
to be dome. l haven't been
able to pay taxes for three
years" y
3. ga farmer sent a carload
of sheep on consignment and
the railroad sem! bill for the
freight. The farmer wrote to
the company and told them if
he ok a ride on the train
and didn't have a ticket they
would throw him off. Why
didn't they do the same Wi h
the sheep.
4. Il had a lot of cherries
and 50 | hired them picked.
| paid a cent a pound for he
picking. | hauled them down
to he warehouse. and then
they didn't want them and so
| had to haul them back and
feed hem to the pigs. How
in hell am l to pay taxes and
water that way. Something
has to be done, bu' I don't
know how, and l have been
sold out SO often that l am
diacorra ged."
5. A man and wife work
hard. They save a Thousand
dollars and buy land. Then
comes the crisis. The wife
goes insane with worry. The
man sticks it out a while
longer and then commits sui
eide.
6.'SfI got a $1.65 for my
crop of apples las year but
they won't give me water for
my whole crop SO | have to
borrow money to pay for the
water ON my land"
z. Il had 10 sell my hay for
81 a ton last year, but farm
ers on the coast got such a
small amount for heir milk
that they could not buy hay
at thai price, SO their cows
starved to DEATH"
8. 81 have got $500 in the
TETON bank. Roosevelt de-
clared a bank holiday. Now TIL
bank is open and taking in
money but l can't get my
money out and will lose my
land because I can't pay The
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
COTTON ACREAGE
CUT BY POVERTY
Cotton Surplus Results
From Destitution of
Working People
(BY ]. E.l

Bull, Idaho, Aug. THAT pic
ture of blowing under cotton in
your issue of July % is true to
life. was raised in the south.
You stated under the picture
Figure it out if you can" I have
it.
Some 10 Or IL years ago / was
In the office of an ex-mayo1 of
Bull. He was talking with an
other businessman and they did
not see me come into the office.
They were talking about the farm
ers' wives dressing as good as the
city mems wives. The country
was sure going to hell. That con-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11

position of station agent here for
he past moLth has taken a po-
sltion at b cinvilIe.
I'D Christensen is taking medical
treatment for badly injured eye.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lund returned on
Monday from an extended trip
thru the western part of the state.
Mrs. Aage Jacobsen is confined
to her bed this week.
Viggo Christensen is secE6 man
at the Occident Elevator for the
season and Hans Peter Madsen is
second assistant at the Farmer
elevator.
Mrs. HendriksOn spent a few
days at the Geo. Lurd home this
week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Soft Coal Miners on Strike

Pttsburg, Pa. Aug Tiers of thous 2nds OF
miners are still out o. strike in western Pennsyl-
vania despite the pledge Of Lewis president OF
the United Mine Workers of America, to RoOSe-
welt that they would re urn 10 work. The strike
is in the hands of the miners, with rank and file
commi tees elected by the miners themselves ir
change
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Attack Strikers on Relief Job

Oklahcma City, Aug Twelve strike lead
ers were arrested here today wheE 100 police at
tackled 700 workers a Federal relief project
Two of the leaders were ridden out of town. The
workers are or strike under Communist and So
cialist leadership. Tear gas was used IN the at
tack. Five hundred workers Immediately re-
assembled ard made preparations for further
spreading of the strike.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Attempt to Starve Rebel Peasants

Hong Kong, China, Aug. 6.-An aFfe Tip.ed
starve the Communicated peasants OF - me
province into submission has been star1eu Con
Canton government under the Leadership - s-.rser
aral Cian Chat Tong. A blockare OF inc -. :,
has been ordered. This attempt VIII lsn force
attempt to crush these peasants by military
failed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Roosevelt Threatens Armed Inter
vention in Cuban Rebellion

Hyde PARK, New York. Aug. 9.-President
Roosevelt virtually threatened that if the
struggle against the Wall Street government
continued in Cuba the Uni'e ed States would in
tervere with armed force. This followed on
an interview of Roosevelt with he MachadO
ambassador to Washington, Oscar Cintas.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
French Taxes Slump Sharply

Paris, Aug. 2.-Taxes collected during the
first six months of the French fiscal year were
673,OOO,O0O francs Currently about $35,19S OO0
lower than during the same period of last year
In June import duties alone showed decrease Of
more than 100000 francs Currently about &c.
1SS.00O). This is rocking the gold standard and
the financial stability of France.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Britain Hits Wall St. Bankers

London, Aug. 1.-THE floating of Canadian
lean Of $75,000,00O in LONDON is 2no her step IN
the struggle between British Imperialism and
Wall Street. This transference of Canadian fl
:ancing from Wall Street to London, the first in
20 years, is the answer of the British empire to
the collapse Of the World Economic Conference.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
German Working Class Leaders to
Be Framed

New YOlk.-Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff.
Blagio Popoff and Vassil Tareff, who go on trial
III September on the frameup charge Of setting
fire to the Reichstsg, will not be allowed their
own lawyers to defend them, according to dis.
patches from Berlin. The criminal division of tbs
Supreme Court his appointed three lawyers of its
OwH choosing to carry through the legal farce
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Investigation for Camouflage

Chicago, Aug. s-The department of Agri-
culture is going to make the investigation Of the
grain market crash in July the "most sweeping"
ever. This play will be staged, not in order to
reveal the basic rottenness of the present market
structure but to camouflage it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Militant German Workers
Face Axe

Berlin, Aug Two revolu iorary worker,
Paul Iolz and F. SzezO6y have been senterced r.
ceath in the Berlin courts on the charge that tber
laided 4 public house frequented by Hitler's Nazi:
In accordance with Premier Hermann Georisvs
recent decree, the sentence is to- be carried out Nv
beheading them with an axe.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Trade Unionists VIII Fight
No-StriExe Edict

New York, Aug. 6-Ore of the NJ iii asks
of The trade union conference to be held In Cleve-
land on August 1927, called to fight against the
Roos ev1lt slavery code program, the MIA, VIII
be TO develop the wides resistance ard mobill-
cation against no-strike edct just ssued by ROose-
vel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Japanese Plan Permanent Occupa-
ton of Manchuria

Tokyo.-Reorg anilatiOn and reinforcement Of
the Japanese forces in Mancnui7a are being plan-
ned according to newspaper Nichi Nichi which
generally well informed on army policy The
army leaders have decided on wholesale reOrgan'
zation to make occupation of Manchura perma-
nent
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Tokyo Prepares for War
Manoeuvers

Tokyo, japan, Aug. ALI lights will have
to be ex,inguished sometime on Aug. 9, 10, H.
when the air attack is made on the city as part
Of the coming naval manoeuvers. When sirens
are sounded it means The approach of the "enemy'
planes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
French Open Air War ManOe Nv :

Paris, Aug. THE French impe r.-.~s0 boz
chosen the Metz region, right at the Oei 1s bser
der, for its military air manOeuvers' WIZ ;umsns
Aug. / and will continue to Aug liz =. tsbe
fleet of bombing and pursuit planes N As ~
part in day and night exercises 81 w.
eral anti-aircraft batteries.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Flee From French Prison
Colony

Pork of Spain, Trinidad, July SO.-S.r..
starving fugitives from the French penal coI.su
on Devils Island arrived today at San FerDonss
Trinidad, after II days on the Caribbean II
small, leaking bca'. They had taken no food e.
their voyage cross the stormswept area.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
British Capitalists Demand Increased
Naval Armaments

London, Aug. S.--The naval programs Of the
United States and Japan have found reverbera-
tons in Great Britain. The capitalist press Is
demanding increased arnaments as a means o.
struggle against these rivals.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Powder Box on German-Austrian
Frontier

Innsbruck Austria, Aug. 9.-The situation =.
the Ge1man-Austrian border has become ipcroo.
ingly terse. Patrols on bo.h sides of the bor5a,
have become motorized. War may break cut >,
any time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Arizona Votes Wet

Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 9-ArizOna voted today
about four to one liz favor of repeating the 18th
amendment ard became the 21st state to vote
that way.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
General Strike and Rebellion Against
Wall St. Rule Spreads Thru Cuba

Havana, Cuba, Aug. "a state of war
was officially declared by President MachadO
turnout Cuba today as the general strike and
uprising spread through the country. Troops
were called in to patrol the streets of Havana
instead of the local police who are not even
reliable enough for MachadO DdssensiOn is
spreading t.Iu the ranks of the army also.
Twenty persons were dead as the result of
sIaugh er in front of MachadO's palace.
Twenty more are dying and 100 have been
wounded by gunshot. The strike which started
with the bus drivers has spread to every phase
of economic life and the city is paralyzed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11

12."I tried to sell my place.
1t cost me $4,000. Now I
can't sell IL for what the
buildings cost me-"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
Belgium May Recognize Soviet
Union

Brussels, Aug. 6Y-Belgium is near recorn;.
Of the Soviet Union, it was reported here in ''n
sequence Of the recent visit of he Soviet Amb.a'
dor to France.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
GETTING THE NEW
DEAL

They think that if the farmers
wives dress as good as the wives
of the businessmen the farmers
and their wives will get swelled
head. Then the farmers will not
be good serfs. When the farmers
wives are forced to wdar one
calico dress a year with no under
wear, the new deal will be over
and we viii have good times.
The farmers will appreciate the
crumbs that fall FROM their mas
tiers table. And who is their mas
ter? Who is the dictator? Who
can raise or lower the price of
wheat? Who controls the govern
ment, the army. the navy, and the
crumbs that fall from the masters
table.
The House Of Morgan and the
House of mellon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11

! dition could rot or should not last.
So here it is-farmers' wives must
not dress as good as the city mems
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
Income Taxes
Local and National

Once again efforts are being made to fos the Dis
trict a local tax incomes.
Taxpayers of the city cannot rally too quickly or 100
Yorcbly against the inqutous proposal.
It is astounding that after the exposure of the workings
of the Federal income which has taken place in the last
few months anyone should again propose that add
tonal tax incomes be made effective in the National
Capital
The local income proposition is put forward on the
ground that would substitute for the tax ntangbes
which has worked satisfactorily.
AS advanced this time by Senator William H. King chair
man Senate District Committee the proposal IS much
the that which came from the nustrlous Mapes
committee two years ago.
Together with other FINDINGS that committee the pro-
posaI at that time with gnominious defeat
Why Senator King who in general is most consderae OF
the District should resurrect the proposal now is mystery
The imposition of local income the District would
result double taxation the class of our residents who
are least able to pay it.
The man with moderate income who just managing to
get by would the victim He already pays the Federal
Government dsproporonate tax his income and under
the local law he would be asked to another such tax
The evils of the Federal income tax law fresh in
the minds of all to lead to believe that local income tax
law would any better administered equtaby I'M
posed.
AS William Randolph Hearst pointed out the rich
evades the income tax the poor avoids and the
fortunate with moderate income is the victim.
There hope that the Federal income tax will be wiped out
as should be manufacturers sales tax substituted
conditions local income
should not get very far.
As proposed substitute for the tax ntangbes those
who suggest local income tax entirely lose sight of the
pose of the intangible tax.
That tax aimed those of great wealth, those who
have immense fortunes in income yielding securities locked
safe deposit boxes The local income tax would not be
aimed them although they able to but would be
aimed at the average Government clerk.
It is claimed that the intangible tax law cannot be
forced Possibly true although it has been effective
in other communities and might be in this amended
and vigorous and attempt made to enforce it.
Let not substitute tax the moderately for
tax upon those who able to pay.
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
Good Will Toward Men!
The Christmas Message

Good will toward men
this Christmas Day that message is in the hearts and
minds of us ALL
It is the message which leads all to better things,
which cements our relations with nghbor acquaintances
friends and business associates
It is merely thought for this festive occasion It is
goal toward which should strive throughout the year
Never there greater need for the acceptance Of this
quotation than at the present time
Our Nation has passed through difficult crisis
In the trying times mems faith has been shaken Man
belief in his fellow has reached low point.
That faith belief have been somewhat restored by
the valiant and active efforts which in the last few months
have pointed the way a rebirth of economic safety
We have long way to 60 upon that path
The going will be easier and the arrival faster If we use
good will toward our guide and as our staff
No man is perfect whether he occupy humble an
exalted position.
Let us accept the human raes admit that ourselves
possess them well as others.
Let us look upon others would have them look upon
u.s. acknowledging their will do the right thing as
we have the will to do the right thing
Do not look upon good will toward men, as merely few
words pleasant but without substantial meaning.
Those words have meaning, very definite and allim
portant meaning .
AS we learn the meaning and put it into practice will
our wav lighter and the lives OF all more pleasant
Let there be ION EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD
MEN"
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
ONCE OVERS

to meet the requirements in
his or her own case.
The greater the income the
greater the demands due to
position; but close figuring still
is going on and on a larger
scale.
The man who has money
has little use for a spendthrift.
He knows the outcome of
such fooliShness.
Therefore don't be so in.
sistent upon paying all ex-
penses incurred as host when
out-of Extraordinary plans are
carried out at the guests sug-
gestion.
Don't be a gold digger, but
play fair.
It is as silly to spend too
lavishly as it is to be too mig
gardly when setting the pace
is your privilege.
Copyright. 1885. King Features
Syndicate, 1nC.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
The Human Side of the News
White Rajah of Sarawak-Aga Khan, Prophet
By EdlUin C.. Hill

, old Sir James, who won a king
dom by valor-and his descend
ants, who have held it by
wisdom.
It's a curious twist of life by
which plump Asiatic in spec
tacles, literally worshiped by
millions of human beings, re-
mains a leading social light
and sporting figure in England
and in Continental Europe.
A decade ago the Aga Khan
was amusingly described as
"the flirting prophet in swallow
tails" He's about sixty now,
of average height only, but
inclined to obesity, as these
Oriental magnates often are.
He has gray hair, and his big,
dark eyes bulge behind his
horn-rimmed glasses.
Spiritual Leader
If he isn't the worlds rich
est man, he is certainly close
to it. He has hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, and a religious
follower for every other dollar.
At least 100 million human be-
ings include him in their pray
ers as they kneel facing the
East. when the muezzinS in
their minarets cry out the old,
old call to prayer: Allah, il
Allah, Allah akbar!"
All the Moslems of India and
Of East Africa venerate this
extraordinary person, because
he is the forty-eighth in direct
descent from Fatima, the daugh-
ter of Mohammed. He is the
spiritual leader of all this mass
of people, and the very water
from his bath and the soil that
is trodden by his Bond Street
shoes are sacred.
Maybe these prayers helped
him that day, a few years ago,
when I saw him proudly lead
ing his great horse, Blenheim,
past the royal box at Ascot,
while King George and Queen
Mary smiled upon their dark
and princely subject from the
great Indian Empire.
1t was in December, 1929.
that Andree Carron. tall. hand
some French brunette, became
the Princess Aga Khan. He
had met her in the Paris shop
where she was employed. She
is "a now and is not a Moham
medan, declining to renouncs
her Catholicism. When report
ers interviewed her at the timG
of her marriage, she said tartly.
Il know what I'm doing. In
81; no baby"
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
Civilian COnServatiOniStS
Brighten 100000 Homes
By James T. Williams, Jr.

able of the real value of the
Civilian Conservation Corps TO
the youth of America and to
the thousands of homes which
they left for the road in
search of work to help relieve
distressed parents"
From a conservation camp in
Illinois, a member of the corps
writes:
"TO give an adequate cOncep-
ton of what the C. c. C. has
done for me, 1 am impelled to
describe the background leading
up to my connection with it.
First, imagine yourself as a
young man of good family, well
educated, happy, prosperous and
surrounded by everything that
makes life worth while.
"Then imagine yourself torn
from this environment and
driven like a hunted dog
through four years of unem-
plOyment, hunger and famine,
ending in the complete and
utter degradation of a homeless
bum.
Turning Point
'T was losing faith in every.
thing that goes to make life
worth while. The day a social
worker met me in a Springfield
IllinOis) flop house and per-
suaded me to Join the C. C. c.,
was a turning point in my life.
was almost physical wreck.
Within 80 days 1 gained 80
pounds in weight. AS a citizen
l am transformed. Govern
ment is a hateful thing to a
bum. 1t has removed from my
door the specter of want.
"What more natural than
that my old radical tendencies
are being replaced by the stir
rings of some of the finer at
tributes of good citizenship. In
forestry I have for the first
time found work that appeals
to me. Life in the G. C. G. has
restored my faith. Spiritual
life can not exist for a man
forced to live like a famine
driven WOLF"
From a camp in New Mexico
comes the record of "a home
and harvest saved" by the
money sent back by one of the
younger members Of the family
from his earnings as member
of the Civilian Conservation
Corps. II feel we are doing a
great work." he writes. Il knoE,
we are helping thousands o.
worthy but poor parents anc
paving the way for the genera
tions to come"
During his campaign, his pro-
posal to set up the Civilian Con-
servation Corps brought Mr..
Roosevelt the criticism and rldl'
cule of his political opponents.
In three hundred thousand
homes this Christmas season
the President is receiving the
gratitude of the family for the
national benefaction which the
Civilian Conservation Corps has
proved to be.
copyright, 1898. The washinEtoA
Times.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-25

ing, GLORY to Elsle Robinson
God in the highest and on earth
peace. goodwill toward men!"
Lovely words-two thousand
years old. But would they ever
come true? Watching the night,
T wondered.
Christmas again. Fifty times
I've seen it come and go. And
on the first Christmas that I
can remember there came a
starving man to our door. So
lost he seemed, standing shiv-
ering there. with the gray dawn
at his back, and upon his face
a bitter darkness, which I
could not understand.
Behind me there was the
warm room - exciting smells,
holly, cranberry, sage-the gilt
ter of the Christmas tree be-
yond the door. How strange
The Washington times., 1933-12-25

Christmas Day was the
brighter in three hundred thou
sand American homes because,
by prevailing upon Congress to
provide for the establishment of
the Civilian Conservation Corps,
President Roosevelt was able to
give three hundred thousand
Americans new start in life.
The high expectations of the
President in proposing this new
national enterprise to Congress
have been more than realized
in all the thirteen hundred con-
servation camps that have been
established all over the United
States.
The President predicted that
the type of work that the Civil
ian Conservation Corps would
do would prove of definite
practical value, not only through
the prevention of great financial
loss but also as a means OF
creating future national wealth"
Spiritual Value
"The Civilian Conservation
Corps" he said, "will conserve
our precious natural resources
It will pay dividends to the
present and future generations.
It will make Improvements IN
the national and State domains
which have been largely forgot
ten in the past few years OF IN
dustrial development"
But the Civilian Conservation
Corps is doing more than this,
as President Roosevelt said it
would. more important" he
said, than material gains Will
be the moral and spiritual value
of such work. The overWhelm.
ing majority of unemployed
Americans, who are now walk
ing the streets and receiving
private or public relief, would in
finitely prefer to work"
The Presidents faith IN the
rank and file of his fellow cltl-
zens is fully shared by the Army
officers who command the Con
servation Camps throughout the
country. The applications for
membership in the corps lar eX.
ceed the quota of the several
States. Thousands of letters re-
ceived by the Government from
the young men attending these
camps afford convincing eVl,
dence that "the moral and
spiritual value" of their work
are even exceeding the material
gains to the Nation.
All of these letters are in
tensely human documents. Sew
eral of the best of them appear
in the current issue of Amer
lean Forests" which is publish
ed by the American Forestry
Association. This association
offered prizes for the best let
ters written by enrolled mem
bers of the Conservation Corps
on the subject What the Civl
Ian Conservation Corps Has
Done For Me-"
These letters "form remark
able narrative of human expert
ences." They are the best
spoken evidence thus far avail