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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03
Pork Shipment Arrives
for Local Relief Station

A shipment of pork arrived at
the relief station here some time
ago and is now being distributed
among those who are not able to
buy. This is from the young pigs
bought by the government to be
distributed among the unemployed
and hungry. Then they threw
100000 worth of pork in the
Mississippi river not long ago
rather than give it to the hungry
people, so don't be bashful about
asking for your portion.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03
GOES ON
SPEAKING TOUR

Monday Charles E. Taylor left
on his trip to Chicago where he
will take part in the Farmers Ma
tional Conference as a delegate.
Between now and the time of
the Conference he will be speaking
at meetings arranged for him,
mostly in Wisconsin. John Boulds
went along on the trip driving the
car.
The county edition of the Pro-
ducers News will be looked after
by Hans Rasmussen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03
HERD OF COWS TO
BE PURCHASED; BE
CANNED IN BUTTE

New York, Nov. Gov. F. H.
Cooney of Montana announced to-
night that Harry Hopkins, federal
relief administrator, had indicated
he was ready to approve plans for
the purchase of $4,000 cows in
Montana at prices ranging from
$25 to $50 head, to be canned in
Butte.
The pb7n, submitted by Cover
nor Cooney at a conference with
Hopkins in Washington this week,
is designed to permit Montana
stockmen to obtain a price for
market in Chio9go.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03
NUDET COLONY ON TRIAL

ALLEGAN, Mich, Oct. 2S.-The
question of what constitutes in
decent exposuS~ tonight rose as
the principal issue in the trial of
Fred T, Ring, nudist colony pro-
prietor, the first case involving
nudism to enter Michigan courts.
Before a jury of elderly men
several of whom were asked by
defense counsel what kind of bath
ing suits they permitted their
daughters to wear-Ring's trial
opened in circuit court here today,
with prominent nudist leaders in
the courtroom and at least thirty
witnesses on call.
The Charge
Ring was charged with indecent
exposure following a Labor Day
raid on his Sunshine Sports club,
eight miles from here; in which he
and his wife with several colony
members, were arrested. Mrs.
Ring was not brought to trial to-
day.
One of the days principal wit
nesses was Mrs. Mary Angler, who
has summer home near the camp
and who was one of the original
compliments. She testified that
from her home she saw people
H.going around stark naked"
Haven't you ever visited the Art
Institute in Chicago and seen
nudes there" asked Hoffman, on
cross examination.
ayes, l have" said Mrs. Angler,
'but they weren't hobnobbing with
each other"
''What do you consider 'hobnobb-
ing? asked Hoffman.
playing handball and communi-
cating with each other" said the
witness.
She said the nudists kept to
themselves, ard that she saw no
evidence of immortality in the
camp except nudity" There was,
however, much "whooping and
yelling" she added.
Another witness was Sheriff
Fred Miller, who told how he used
field glasses to watch activities al
the colony before raiding it.
Judge Miles instructed the jury
of gray-haired mer, mostly farm.
ers, to find Ring guilty if they
determined he had Exposed him,
self naked to persons other thar
his wife. They returned a guilty
verdict in so minutes.
The charge carries a possible
penalty of $500 fine ard one yeal
Imprisonment. but Ring was no
sentenced today, at his request
His personal bond of 500 was con
tinued and he said he planned al
immediate appeal.
Editors Note: Some peopl'
would probably ask what this Il
all about. If grown up people ar,
really running around in the opel
~stark naked" And the fact i
that this has been going on TO
quite some time, more and NOR
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03
NRA CODES CHANGE

That the NRA is rot working so
good is shown by change in reg
ulations.
In towns with a population of
$500 or less the retail merchants
no longer come under the NRA.
However, if they are part of a
chain store system they still come
under NRA rules.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03

DES MONIES, Oct. 26.-Thirty
Iowa national guardsmen were uti-
lized as deputy sheriffs tonight as
growing opposition to the strike
Of the Farmers Holiday associa-
ton developed in western Iowa.
In uniform and fully armed the
guardsmen with four officers left
Glenwood shortly before 8 p. m. to
establish headquarters at the Iowa
end of a bridge across the Mis-
souri, river into Plattsmouth, Nebr.
Sheriff William de Moss of
Glenwood, who deputized guards
men, said they would clear high
ways of pickets and escort trucks
to Omaha markets.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03

by TIE IldLCeE OF the ESLdVe Ol
Jens Christensen, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given BY the
undersigned, Executor of the Es.
tate of Jens Christensen, deceased,
to the creditors Of, and all persons
having claims against the said de-
ceased, to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers, within -four
(4) months after the first publica.
ton of this notice, to the SAID
Executor at the law offices Of
Howard NJ. Lewis, Esquire, at
Plentywood, Montana, the same
being the place for the transaction
of the business of said estate ID
the County of Sheridan.
WILLIAM CHRISTENSEN
Executor Of the Estate
of Jens Christensen
Deceased
Dated Oct. 2Sth, 1888.
First Pub. Nov. 8, 1888.
Last Pub. Nov. "a, 1888.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03

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LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Ilt the matter of the Estate Of
Jens Christensen, Deceased.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
NEVERTHELESS, HE DID 1T

NTHEN Franklin D. Roosevelt announced
w during the campaign that if elected he
would cut Is per cent from the governments
operating budget, he was greeted by loud
chorus of derision.
Long articles were written to prove that the
job was simply impossible. His foes laughed
at him; his friends uneasily wished that he
would think before he spoke.
To date Mr.. Roosevelt has been President
a little more than a month and the IS per
cent reduction that he promised has been
made. with little margin to spare.
To make it, of course, he had to tread
heavily on some very sensitive toes and beat
down influential opposition in his own party.
But he didn't seem to mind doing it.
Today his couhtrymen are confronted by
the novel and agreeable sight of President
who believes that campaign promise means
just exactly what it says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
COX ON RIGHT TRACK

THE thanks of every bank depositor in the
u city should be accorded to Circuit Judge
Earl Cox for his courageous course in clear
ing up affairs of certain closed Indianapolis
banks.
With depositors in at least three of these
institutions suffering total loss of their money
the law should go to the bottom in it's investi-
cation of every case.
Judge Cox apparently is determined to do
this. If misuse of the peoples money is
proved, every bank official guilty of violating
the confidence placed in him should be pun
iShed
There is no occasion for maudlin sympathy
to work against justice no ground for the plea
that bank officers already have suffered enough
for their faulty judgment. overoptimism, or
whatever other term could be used to gloss
over their actions.
They have not suffered one-tenth as much
as have the poor day laborer and the woman
with the shawl who have been deprived of
the pittance that stood between them and the
loss of their homes between them and the
wreck of the cherished dream to educate their
children, between them and actual want
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
REVENUE FROM BEER

VXTHEN the beer bill was being put through
w congress- it was estimated that the taxes
accruing from the sale of the beverage would
bring the federal treasury approximately $780,
100000 year. 1t begins to look now as if this
estimate were far too low.
To yield that much revenue. the beer in
duStry would have to sell 100000 barrels a
year-an average of slightly more than $4,000
barrels a day.
During the first twenty-four hours of legal
beer, reliable estimates put the total sales at
between 100000 and 100000 barrels.
To be sure, sales will not continue in any
thing like that volume. But even if they go
on only at tenth of that rate-which surely
is conservative estimate-the tax revenue
will be far greater than s15o,OOO,OOO year.
1t looks as if the beer tax will be far more
important revenue producer than any one had
dared to hope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
A Womans Viewpoint ::

ITO keep up the roads We already
l. have is not going to be an easy
task in most states. To be sure,
we must have all that the traffic
warrants. But how much do you
think the traffic warrants right
now? Answer honestly, please.
We speak of paved highways as
improvements and evidences of
progress, which, of course. they are.
They have been vastly profitable for
large cities, which are central trad
ing points. But so far as I have
been able to see, they have not put
any money into the pocket of the
small town merchant or the farmer
And excellent as they may be, 1
for one, am more concerned about
the improvement in human beings
in human welfare. in happiness. We
may have a land. honeycombed With
fine highways, but if We rear litter
ate, careless, uncultured individuals
to go bowling over them, we shall
not, l fear, live to boast this policy
Progress does not consist alto
gether in building more and Better
machines or tracks to run them on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
PEoNAGE ON THE LEvEES

CENAToR ROBERT F. WAGNER of New
~ York is about to begin the long sought
congressional investigation of alleged peonage
conditions along the Mississippi food control
project
1t is probably fortunate that the Hoover
investigating committee, appointed just before
the last general election, never got into action.
1t also is fortunate that the new senatorial
inquiry starts just as the Roosevelt admins
tration is about to launch its public works pro-
gram.
Senator Wagner, whose friendship for la
Dor is undoubted will be expected by the
workers and the country to get at the bottom
of the complaints made by the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie and others that virtual slavery exists in
some of the contractors camps along the
levees
The air should be cleared of these COM
plants before congress authorizes the expendi-
ture of more money on this great project
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
A SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF INFLA-
TION

TNHERE is much talk about imitation at the
L present and little real understanding of
what the process implies Economic conserva-
tives approach the initiation problem much as
primitive man does that Of taboo spon-
taneous and irrational fear possesses the re-
dictionary when imitation is mentioned
When however any reasonable plan of in
fation is examined, it is more likely to be open
10 criticism on the ground o. caution and in
adequacy For scientific analysis by dis
tinguished economist, one may recommend the
article on Sound Imitation by James Harvey
Rogers in the Economic Forum for the
spring of 1888
Professor Rogers correctly points out that
in any scheme of imitation the increased pur
chasing power thereby brought about directly
and certainly must find its way into the hands
Of spenders. During 1892 a large volume of
hank credit was piled up, but no adequate de-
mand for it appeared, because producers
could see no prospect for the profitable mar
keting of their products
In the past new security flotationS usually
have provided the capitalistic system with its
most available. speedy, and direct method Of
producing recovery But the experience of the
last year has shown that at present it is WE'LL
nigh impossible to bridge the disastrous gap
hatween lenders and spenders through hota-
ton of any large volume of private securities
supplementary efforts to bridge this gap
have been made by the government through
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, but
this organization has been too cautious and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
The Messare Center

youngsters whose fathers haven't
laid a brick, even on the Perry sta
Gium, in a couple of years Of sun
Gays.
BY An Old-Tmer.
Didn't I see something the other
day about how much better this
80 beer is for us home brew drink
ers?
Phooey!
1 tried eight bottles the other day
and all 1 got was a tummy-ache.
On two bottles of good home brew
I would have been yodeling Sweet
Adcline." You can have my share
of three-two. You're welcome to it.
BY Working Wife.
1 rather resent the "StagnatiOn'
charge tossed at stay-at-home wives
by the learned ladies who trot
around to civic club meetings.
have not worked since I have been
married and I do not think my
mental faculties have become stag
nant"
If anything, I think that the civic
club ladies' brains have been torpid
for some years. They seem to know
nothing about less than any one I've
ever heard Of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
Second Turn to Left

stood in the Florida bar in Ha-
vana with a 15-year-old teetotaler
who is a relative Of mine and
watched him Writhe while the Ella
borate rites of composing a daiuuiri
we're carried on with proper sloth
and reverence. But the end result
can not fail to satisfy the consumer
for what he gets is half beverage
and half seductive sherbet.
I do not think that 1 ever shall
look upon its like again. The more
serious things of life are to concern
me from now on. But still I'm glad
l had that cocktail.
Even after 1 get the hair shirt
down below my ears, one lovely
taste will remain. And perhaps I
should not say one. There was
nothing wrong with the sixth or
seventh.
To the left of me stood a typical
American tourist. She was on a
eighteen ports in thirteen
days and could not afford to
linger. If you can't get that ready
in two minutes, I don't want it,"
she cried. My boat sails in half
an hour"
The bartender regarded her coldly
and went on shaving ice. He was
not going to let his art become con-
taminated because some perturbed
stranger was i'll fidget to get from
one place to another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

T GOT quite a scare in Haiti. The
4 steward on the Conte Grande woke
me suddenly at II in the mornirg
and said. The police are wait
ing to see you in the dining saloon
III go quietly" l told him and
proceeded to dress as quickly rs pos
sible, but in three minutes he was
back and reporting with evident
satisfaction, The police have sent
for you again
My pas. swan rapidly before my
eyes. 1t wasn't murder. OF that
I was fairly certain. Indeed. any
crime of passion must be pretty we'll
outlawed at my age through the
statute of limitations.
Obtaining money under false pre-
lenses seemed the most likely Of
Tense. but never had supposed they
could indict a newspaper coIumnist
20 that.
And when I arrived breathIess and
fc-lant before the authorizes. I
1ound thai il was jdso a friend who
-ad SEM a launch to carry me into
9ort au Prince.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14

too restricted in its loans to produce an ade-
quate transfer of purchasing power to ready
spenders.
Further the treasury deficit, which has re-
suited from the work of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and similar efforts, has
implied future extensive fotations of govern
ment securities, thus discouraging the fiotation
Of private securities
When one speaks of imitation he usually
refers to currency imitation, but Professor
Rogers does not believe that this would be
the desirable method of procedure. Suppose
issued one billion dollars in greenbacks.
In the first place we would have to put these
in the hands Of spenders, to obtain any eff
fective results
This would require a dole soldiers bonus,
or gift TO some other class or group. Such
procedure would give rise to dangerous eco
nomic and political precedents and controver-
sizes
Professor Rogers believes that the best mode
of procedure is TO float government securities
supported by purchases by the Federal Re-
serve banks. Taking as his basis the Situa-
ton which existed in the prosperous years of
1926 to 1929 and during the first year of Amer
ica's entry into the World war april to De-
cember, 1910 he believes that the desirable
results could be brought about through pur-
chaae Of government securities by the Federal
Reserve banks to the amount of twenty-five
million dollars week. This would produce a
member bank expansion of approximately
seven to ten times this amount
But the money secured thereby would have
to be put directly into circulation through
government expenditures Here is where Pro-
fessor Rogers goes beyond the Hoover Mills
program.
In 1917 we bought munitions of war. To-
day we should buy munitions of war - but
munitions for the war against depression and
misery.
Why not say to the unemployed, We will
give no doles, no bonuses; but we will give
job to every one willing to work. Wages will
be at minimum All the government offers
is sanitary, healthful, active living until
private job reappears
For this purpose. the young might be
gathered into army camps. The forgotten
boy could leave the highways. Instead, how
ever, of giving him training in the arts of
war, he could be set to planting trees, to
building parks, to removing railway crossings,
to clearing out slums, Or to doing anything
else found desirable by group of patriotic
citizens charged with the duty of finding in
each community the most fruitful projects
THE older men would be employed similar
ly, but allowed to live at home with their fam
lies who would be provided with ample
clothing, food, and shelter!
"As money flowed into the hands of
SpenGers, private industry could be stimulated
and the fiotation of private securities could
resume. Just to this degree, the issue of
further government securities then could be
restricted.
In this way, not only would the irony of
starvation amidst plenty be promptly and
safely eliminated but the stupendous loss of
idle labor and machines would be ended" he
says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
YOUTH SPEAKS UP

EOR ages old men have made wars young
men have fought them. Now appears
sign of a day when youth will refuse to offer
itself as glorlfied cannon fodder.
In England, $50 students of the Oxford
Union issue manifesto declaring that under
no circumstances will they fight for king and
country
In Providence, R. l., the student daily of
conservative Brown university announces a
campaign to align the students of las colleges
and universities in a pledge not to bear arms
except in case of invasion
The men of Brown students lead off with a
declaration that civilization will not bear the
shock of another war, and, hence, it is up to
youth to serve notice of non-co operation with
war-makers.
In New York poll Of 92O Columbia STU
dents reveals that only eighty-one are willing
to fight for country, right or wrong while 485
will fight only to repel an invading foe Nearly
300 say they will fight under no conditions
In Palo Alto, on the Stanford campus, an
intercollegiate conference representing seven
resolution: This group, believing it unneces-
sary and absurd to settle political and eco
nomic disputes between nations by violence,
will refuse to be conscripted into any war serv-
ice whatsoever
With all of sciences deadly inventions, ma
tons can not fight without young men for
soldiers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
FRIDAY. APRIL IA. 1888.
TOPHEAVY

ME administrations railroad bill is antici-
pated by progressiyes in and out of con-
gress as the means for carrying into effect the
intelligent program announced by President
Roosevelt during the campaign at Salt Lake
City.
Mr.. Roosevelt proposed a means for scaling
down what he called the "topheavy" financial
Structure of the railroads He recognized this
as fundamental. 10 protect not only tie car
rers but also savings hanks and insurance
companies investing in their securities, and
to make railroad obligations sure and safe,
their fixed charges must be reduced.
The administrations bill should contain
some stch provision for scaling down these
"topheavy' capital structures if it is to sue
coed. Perhaps the power to order these reduc-
tons by way Of the new bankruptcy act should
be lodged in the co-ordinator whose appoint
ment the bill will authorize.
Or, maybe it should be carried out by max
ing further federal loans to carriers contingent
upon their financial reorganization. Either, if
the interstate commerce commission continues
to exercise its present powers, would serve the
purpose.
In any event, the powers of the I. c. c.
should not be abridged. The co-ordinators
orders for elimination of wasteful services and
practices should be renewable by the commits
son otherwise, the public will have no re-
course to any public body.
The bill also should protect the rights of
labor. To throw more railroad workers out of
work reduce their pay would deepen the
depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
PRETZELS AND PROSPERITY

IF beer be here, can pretzels be far behind?
Hardly. One plant in st. Joseph, Mo-,
reports a 100 per cent increase in business, a
pay roll increment of sixty eight new pretzeI-
benderS, a daily turnout of 100000 pretzels.
Pennsylvania which boasts the greatest works
in the world, announces that one factory is
turning out 100000 daily. A dizzy pretzel
boom seems to be on.
One enterprising statstcian estimates that
America now is consuming at the rate of
twenty billion small glasses Of beer year. If
only every tenth beer drinker is a pretzel-
eater and if eacn beer drinking pretzel- eating
American takes four pretzels for every glass,
then we should be consuming 5000 900 900
pretzels annually.
If these were uncurled and Strengthened out,
they would reach around the world ten times.
But who wants an uncurled and Strengthened
out pretzel?
A boom in one industry might start us
back to good times, they say. Well, maybe the
beer and-pretzel boom will do it, yes?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-14
What's Your Hurru?

FORTUNATELY the spirit of the
Il tropics is stanch, but we tourists
nave done much to break it down.
Into many lands where people
manage to make Father Time sit
for company with the wolf outside
the door, we have carried our
schedules and announcements that
the last tender will leave the dock
at AIS precisely"
L sometimes wonder whether get
ting from one place to another is
really so frightfully important.
stood at the Gatun Lock down in
Panama and watched the steamer
5. I. c. Dodd climbing the steps
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and
abreast of her was the Atlanta City
going east.
It's nice trick by which they lift
the boats up and let them down
again. They tell me that it is one
OF the greatest engineering feats in
the world. And a lot of labor and
planning and sickness and death
and land grabbing went into the en-
terprise.
But suppose there were no canal
and the S. T. c. Dodd had to stay
in the Atlantic and the Atlanta City
remain in the Pacificl SO what?
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