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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
We Can't Wait Too Long

All Of US, no matter from what land our par
ents came. no matter in what way We may seyerally
worship our Creator. must stand shoulder TO shoul=
der IN a united America We must stand for a
reign Of justice for both big and small. We must
Insist on the maintenance of the American standard
OF living Theodore Roosevelt.
INTO the midst of the broiling economic revolu-
ton in which this country is now engaged have been
tossed several cross currents.
With one hand We are lifting prices. hoping,
yes praying. that a rise in wages will follow.
On the other hand, the prices of our agricul-
ruraI products week in and week out continue to
waIlow at miserable lows.
While the east has its worries as its business
men see stocks piling up, reserves of goods and con-
Sumable materials growing faster than the pace
which i being set by wages. even under the sign of
fhe Blue Eagle, let not the west be forgotten.
Our here in the west--the vast 5territory this
side Of The Mississippi-probably lies a solution for
all of that about what the east is concerned.
0ut here in cur plains and mountain states we
hare the greatest consumers of lnxuries and neees-
sites in the world-but they are strapped. Sure,
they have been given aid in seed. and feed and farm
Ioans-aid-so much Of it that their very bellies
reek With It. No more do they want of that sort
or thilg.
e only there were a price for hogs, for cattle,
for grain-the pent up buying power of this plains
aH9 4aAAAV sVNsh0n Jul LITERALLY EOubit Up lHe
reserves created by the rapidly paced manufacture
r. goods In the last three months.
Soon. it will be too late. The farmer has to
Iiv-he has to sell some of his grain, what little or
II there Is. He has learned how to struggle along
and will through another year, IL he has to.
But. 4 struggling, penny-pInching farmer tand
only such when he has to be1, Is the greatest bar
TO economic recovery. However, Ii that same farm
= today had even a dollar for his wheat: ten-dollar
cattle and ~five-dollar hogs at his market point. he
would gladly spend as he always has. and when the
farmer has spent. then has there been prosperity.
A. Theodore Roosevelt safd-"% = . reign OF
Justices fer both big and small = :
Yes, thefarmer is small, Individually. He can
not organize, or least he hasn't. He can't adopt
codes and raise his prices. Only by the prices being
raised for him. can he take his place in the rapid
pace with which business Is moving.
We have seen government activities In the last
four months which ten years ago would have been
hailed as a revolution. And today, that farmer OF
ours finds himself badly outf1anked on the economic
front.
II IS high tfme-now-this month before all of
the grain is gone-before the cattle are sold off for
fall. that something be done for the agrarians' aid.
What can be done Is not In the province of this
humble writer to suggest.
This much is certain-a government which has
should be able, now that 1t has entered commodity
markets-to bully the prices of farm products
JUST a little bit.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
Time We Acted

In every other sizeable community in Montana.
crews OF workers are out, gathering N. r.. A. pledges
from those who have not signed-enforcing the pro-
visions Of the codes on others who have.
Here in PleEtywood hang many signs.
Here In brentwood there is much misunder-
standing about the codes OF the several branches OF
trade and business.
Let someone lead-if we are to make those
S.R.A. signs mean what they should, let us have
sOme0ne-some civic unit-take the lead and see
that all are enrolled In their pledges for recovery
that il special codes are necessary In some lines
then let them be drafted and put In force at once.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
FARMER WRITES on
ALLOTMENT PLAN

In accordance with the AgricuE-
tural Adjustment Act. the purpose
The compensation for 1893 Il rs
fishing and maintaining a balance
between the production and CON
sumption of wheat. and that the
the average wheat produced the last
chasing power. In terms of com
modifies. which the farmer buys
After much study. ! arm convinced
that the Plan can do that. but find
to my regret much unfairuess in
its regulation
The compensation for 133 il IS
cents a busheE for 54 percent of
the verge wheat. produced the lass
IS years by the Individual farmer
The government has for the LAST
5 years advised the farmer To rut
his wheat acreage The farmer
lContinued on Page Ffveg
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31

e. s. Ambassador Sumner WeEies
is credited with scoring a triumph
in bringing about a settlement in
Cuba which did not neeessitata
active American participation His
conferences with the various fac
tions and assurance from Wash
ingt0n that be proceeded with the
full support OF the administration
led TO 4 situation where ever the
supporters ri President Mzchado
realized that has ~aEedicaTion was unr
avoidable.
I'm order thai readers may un-
derstand the position OF this oun
try in regard 10 Cuba il should be
borne in mind that the Monroe
Doctrine. which bars European in
PREVENTION i'm this hemisphere.
places upon this government In oh
legation In respect TO other eOun-
tries and that the Piatt Amend
ment and the. Cuban Constitution
authorized the United States to in
tervene to preserve Law and order
as a definite and direct response
bility-
Moreover, since the construction
OF the Panama Canal. the strategic
importance OF Cuba is nog under
estimated as will be readily recog-
nized when one recalls the naval
base at Guantanamo
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
N@ Rosd ~
EBette1J
.HeaItR@
Remedies for Headache

Gimme a dope and a tablet of
aspirin. said the pale anemic
| girl as she almost fell into q chair
at the drug store.
The writer looked her over and
saw that she xas underxeighf.
with dark circles under her eyes.
When she had gulped down the
dope. with which she washed down
the tablet. she began TO tumble
with a cigarette ease. Her hands
were unsteady. and there was a
noticeable tremor-
Now here was a girl who ~as on
the high road { 4 complete col
lapse. unless she meHded her ways.
II was evident 70 the eve OF the
physician that her sleep was IL
regular and insufficient. Her food
was not the right sort. her body
was underuourished. and her nerves
disordered. She felt let down- She
said that her head aehed-
Instead of changing her method
Of living. she was TRYING [ o silence
the cries of pain from misused
nerves By taking pain killers. which
not only did not improve her con
s,..au 80. n.m - -
MANY of the drugs on the mar
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Some rsrna aso !. main rau,.r4r
wa r.,ss mr. fine market and unf
only advertised sn atom main buf If
vas arsra1gv labeled - brain
food Many nnthinE5ng r.aonle
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i vas arrnIae< I'm reality If
rontasnas q dangerous srng which
only danr4~sed tha nerves hr,s
the heart also Surh drugs are al
poisonous. and If taken in
sufficient quantities will cause
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
" II A PROGRESS
SPECIAL BLUE EAGLE
FARLEY WOULD PROSECUTE
WHEAT AND COTTON
~HOME-ONNER'S LOANS
CUBA AND THE u. $.

Progress on the NRA codes con-
tinues with what seems TO be a
perceptible slowing up and 1t begins
to appear that General johnson will
have to lnaugerate a vigorous cam
paign to arouse public opinion
While considerable progress has
been made towards lining up in
dustry and business behind the
short week and minimum wage,
some tagging seems apparent to
this observer and a bit Of hesiten-
cy seemed to pervade official circles
last week.
General Johnson is expected to
announce this week a system where-
by employers honestly unable to
comply with all the provisions OF
the Presidents emergency employ
ment agreement will be able TO get
a special Blue Eagle with a chev-
ron on its breast, showing the ex-
tent and reason for the exception.
He insists that not many employers
are cheating the code and de-
clares that a drive against the "un-
important chiseling fringe" will
come soon. He Is especially anxious
to line up the women Of the coun-
try In order that they will support.
through their buying the employers
who are giving the workers jobs.
PostmasterzGeneral Farley ex-
presses the belief that employers
can be prosecuted under the mail
fraud statutes for violations of the
codes they had signed. He express
es the opinion that any man who
signed the Presidents reemploy-
ment agreement and the certificate
OF compliance and then deliberate
ly turns his back on the pledge
would come within the classified
ton OF those who use the mail for
fraudulent purposes. This is prob
ably true. If the employer makes
use OF the special official MIRA
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
AeffuBm

We will publish contributions 10
the Letter Box which are ON
subjects OF general interest Re
iigious controversy and personal
mud-slinEinE are barred Letters
must he signed but signatures viii
not be u4ed III zuthsw 80 requests
except where obviously unfair Re
member. The Herald may or may
not agree with views expressed in
this column
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
GETTING DOWN 10
STACkS"
THE CRUSADE OF 1898

1t is always true that one half
the world does not know how the
other half lives. II might be added
neither is it greatly concerned. Life
has become so complex in so years
that no Individual can grasp more
than a small part of the signifi-
canoe of what is going on around
him. Mere men have a tendency TO
| get into ruts. TO follow the lines OF
least resistance. and BY instinct TO
think of their own interests first.
Il is all most natural. But there Is
coming a change. Ii is being forced
Upon the people for most serious
consideration. Only three years ago.
or perhaps a little more a. great
a sociological authority as Arthur
Brisbane was saying in his column
published in hundreds of great
newspapers that when the army of
unemployed passed the 100000
mark it had passed the danger line.
He did not mean that danger of
social %upheayals had passed. He
meant that at that point society
itself was accepting a hazard born
of desperation that quite possibly
carried definite consequences for
lack of vision and the failure TO &C
cept sympathetic responsibility for
the plight of the distressed, and do
something about it.
Time has proven that as good
and sincerely interested an author
ity as Mr.. Brisbane was wrong. To
day we have + .000.0 600 mem
ployed. None of the things that Mr..
Brisbane feared have happened.
That Is a fine tribute TO the pa
thence. sanity and love of their
country and its institutions of the
American people. Quite probably
when the history Of this period Is
impartially written ii will record
that no people in any time have
women who have born the brunt OF
this depression, cheerfully. uncom-
plainingly. and in a spirit indicating
in the great majority of eases the
utmost resnurcefulness. Speaking
of patriots, and lest we forget. let
it be remembered there are thou
sands of them in the bread lines and
that they have given a splendid
demonstration OF their Faith in their
country, their love of 1t and their
willingness TO suffer for 1t.
In Montana we are more forum
ate. w have suffered nothing like
some sections Of the country have
suffered. Our general conditions
are far better than they are in the
larger industrial eenters. Tnem-
ployment Is great In all cities. The /
bill for relief Is higher. There Is
much more Of real suffering-more
distress.
You may think people in Sheri-
dan county are as bad off as any
place-that we shall be hard-press-
ed to get through the winter. But,
could you take a trip to other sec
tions, see hundreds OF men with
out a place to lay their head,
thousands standing in lines before
employment offices of mines and
factories looking for work, see
hundreds losing their homes be
cause OF inability 10 meet pay
long overdue. experience the
tangs OF hunger that come TO those
who must be satisfied with the
meagre morsel passed out In bread
lines-no, you would not want to
Montana and Sheridan coun-
ty.
It will be said and 1t can be said
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-08-31
Slacker-Hypocrite2

THE blue eagle and the pledge accompanying 1t
are expected to mean what they say. There has been
some cheating under the protection OF this emblem.
Administrator Johnson has given G-7aly warning
that business concerns disregarding their p1edges
will be deprived OF the right to use the emblem, and
that when the eagle leaves, 1t won't come back"
This is 4 serious threat. No business cares to be
sfigmatized as a Stacker and a hypocrite. Depriva-
ti0n Of the eagle will be a serious handicap to any
doubtless be depended on for adequate punishment,
without further action by the MIRA The siackers are
doubtless a rather small minority. Here Is a curious
fact. Prohibition. written solemnly into the consti-
tuition. backed by federal legislation and strict en-
forcement efforts. failed. NRA, which Is apparently
a more drastic interference with individual initiative
and property right is succeeding far more complete
" through voluntary cooperation. The difference is
in the last two - Inter Lake.
There are millions of unemployed who want no
charity and there are other millions glad to get II.
The man who makes profits without rendering
service to society Is a menace and should be out
Eawed.
Our own experience Is that when you owe a man
money he will come to see you quicker than when he
owes you
Circulation, meaning paid up subscribers. ia
what makes newspaper advertising different from
circulars and ought to be what an advertiser buys.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26

scarcely give heed to others safety.
After few reckless drivers had been
compelled to yield up their right to
drive, the rest of that category would
assuredly become more cautious. The
right to drive is more precious than
most folk appreciate, If they have
never been placed under restraint.
Nor would the insurance operate
solely to benefit the good drivers. In
the long run it would tend to protect
the incautious or the reckless driver
against himself. There is nothing so
tanning to some persons as the GER
tainty of penalty. Let the road men,
aces once understand that they stand
in danger of losing their road priv
leges. and they are likely to drive the
highways with an eye to their own
continued enjoyment of reasonable
uses thereof.
The driver license is not urged as
a cure all for highway evils. 1t is
proposed only as means of regulat-
| ing users of the roads and streets.
| Nobody wants or expects It to be a
revenue producer. 1t would be an
instrument of control, and that is all.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26
people killed in the United States or


people killed in the United States on
each holiday?
The answer is that the morbid sta
tistics you may notice each day fol-
lowing a holiday are brought into
being by dearth of other news.
b Usually little happens on holiday.
The next mornings papers are par
ticularly hard pressed to find some
thing on which to put headlines.
Someone once conceived the idea of
checking up the country and adding
all the fatalities together.
In country of 120,O00,000 quite a
number of people die every day. The
figure is quite impressive. For in
stance papers announced that 400 peo-
pie had met violent deaths over the
Christmas weekend.
Some particularly dull day we plan
to find out and announce to startled
world how many people died from
slipping in the bath tub or biting
their cheeks or something. The re-
suit should be quite gruesome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26

100000. In 1890. the first year OF
the depression, these payments rose
$1,O08, 100000 to $500 200. 900. In
1881 they were still $500, 0OO. 900,
and in 1882. with returns still incom-
plete, the figure was $1,000. 100000.
Meantime, what was happening to
the incomes of the wage Garner and
salaried man? The Business Week,
a conservative publication of the
world of business and industry, pub
fishes the following estimates:
In 1929 total wages and salaries
paid were $53.252. 100000. In 1890
they had dropped nearly eight bill
lions to $45.5O3. 100000. In 1880 they
registered a decline of Is billions to
$37, TAI 100000. Again, in 1882, with
a 25 billion dollar decline, they rested
at $2S, 232. 00O. 000.-only little more
than half the figure for 1929. And
it is upon the thus badly debated
wage and salary worker that the sales
tax advocates want to place further
burdens by forcing them to pay the
major cost of government and unem-
ployment relief through sales taxes
on the necessities of life.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26
NtINNESOTA'S HERO.OF-THE.WEE
1.-THE Minneapolis Starr

While we're dispensing loud and
patriotic praise for Minnesotan's
achievements in such diverse fields
as art, politics. hog-calling and music,
why not pause to direct verbal nose
gay to one Theo Zieman of Fairmont,
Mimi?
The name may not stir recognition
in the minds of most. Zfeman is
neither a sculptor, a flagpole sitter
nor a bacteriologist. His deeds may
not reverberate down the corridors of
time. But sufficient to hold his name
in honor and admiration is the fact
that he is Mfnnesota's grand cham
pion corn grower for 1882.
In state where good corn is raised
as a matter of course, that's gen.
uine achievement And in a state
whose major agricultural product
year by year is aiming toward higher
quality standards, his record serves
to keep the goal not only high, but
| attainable. Congratulations, Mr.. lie
man!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26
ACTIVE MAN CHOSEN

During the closing hours of the
annual meeting of the Minnesota Edi-
torial Association held in st. Paul
Friday and Saturday the members
chose Harold H. Barker, Elbow Lake
newspaper publisher, president of the
association for the next year. Mr..
Barker who is editor of the Grant
County Herald, is also member OF
the Minnesota legislature House
member. He is a we'll balanced man
of good judgment, takes his work
seriously and is regarded as high
grade man by his fellow members in
the House with whom he comes in
daily contact.
Mr.. Barker was elected to the Min
nesota Legislature in 1880 and re-
elected in 1882. His prestige in the
legislature and the fact that he pub
fishes a good rural weekly newspaper
and his desire to serve the craft
places him in a position of service
to his fellow newspapermen. Tha
| his tenure as head of the state editor
ial association will be success, a:
was that of the outgoing president
d. M. COughlin of Waseca, is the pre-
diction of newspaper men generally
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26
TAX COMMISSIONER APPOINTED

Announcement has been made by
Governor Floyd B. Olson that Harry
e. Boyle of Duluth, has been ap-
pointed a member of the State Tax
Commission. Mr.. Boyle will succeed
J. G. Armson of Saltwater, who has
been member of the commission
the past twenty-four years. the change
to take place on February 1st.
Mr.. Boyle is st. Louis county at
torney. He recently went as personal
representative of Governor Olson to
the st. Lawrence Waterways Confer
ence.
George E. Wallace was appointed
a member of the tax commission OF
three by Governor Olson two years
ago and with the appointment now OF
Mr.. Boyle, it gives control to the pres
ent administration. Gunnar B. Bjorn.
son, Minneota Mascot publisher, is
the only member holding over from
the Republican era.
The fact that Governor Olsons ad
mfnistration now has a majority vote
on the State Tax Commission places
definite responsibility with the ad
ministration and naturally makes fol
more harmony and cooperation be
tween the various departments.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26

Some weeks ago, soon after the ap-
pointment of N. w. Elsberg as state
highway commissioner to take the
place of Charles M. Babcock, the Du-
luth Free Press was rather incon-
sistent when it condemned the COVER
nor in the first part of its wrlteup
for his ousting of Commissioner BAD
cock and then almost in the same
breath it stated that the hope around
Duluth was that the new commits
sioner would be more favorable i'm his
allotment of road aid in the north
country. 1t seems that the main pur-
pose of the writeup was for the pur-
pose of condemning Governor Olson
rather than for any special liking
for Charles M. Babcock. 1t also seems
as though it is rather difficult for
some of the conservative newspapers
to consistently plead for their cause
unless at some time or other they
"kick over the traces" and let the
reader have an insight into their real
thoughts, to see that it is just propa-
ganda or mud singing. However, il
is hard to be consistent in arguments
when one hasn't much foundation to
stand upon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26
ROOSEVELT. IN ACTION
THE MINNEAPOLIS Starr

BY what is, in effect, his first
official act, President-elect Roosevelt
advises Great Britain that he will,
after Inauguration be pleased to re-
ceive delegation to discuss war
debts but such delegation must also
be prepared to take up the world eco
nomic situation.
This fits in exactly with RoOsevelt's
campaign proposals that the war
debts be used to improve our export
trade.
By pointedly ignoring France the
announcement which followed the
Hoover Roosevelt conference yester-
day gives that country something to
think about in diplomatic as well
as economic way.
The country's first glimpse of its
president-elect in action In the role
he is soon to assume Is reassuring
one.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-26
HERE'S HOW 1T WILL WORK
(Farmer-Labor Leader)

A cartoonist sees the allotment
plan," that is the agricultural relief
bill now before congress and which is
supposed" to help the farmer, this
way:
Old Man Farmer is lying on cot
desperately i'll. A nurse has attached
TRANSMISSION tube to his arm. DR..
Allotment Plan, over in the corner of
the room, has Mr.. Consumers sleeve
rolled up and is trying to lead him
to the other end of the TRANSMISSION
tube. The consumer is saying:
But Gosh, Doc, I'm not feeling
very we'll myself"
The allotment plan is something
like the tagger-your-work' plan,
meaning that the workers divide their
jobs. If farmers are to be made
prosperous the help will have to come
from some other source than the
empty pockets of the workers.