The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-03

Tyler, our county agent and Mr..
Tootell from Bozeman, finally got
it the way they wanted it. The
fact of the whole procedure Is
that the Producers News printing
contract was never cancelled.
After a recess had been taken
for supper, a motion was made TO
divide the printing evenly among
the four papers in the county, at
the same price the Producers News
had agreed to do it for at the first
meeting, and the motion carried
The disgusting part Of the thing
is not that the Producers News
lost part of the contract, we are
getting used to that kind and
don't mind it so much. But, hasn't
Secretary Wallace, our county
agent and the newspapers told US
time and again, that this was go
irg to be a farmers organization,
run by the farmers themselves.
And-as soon as the farmers did
something, something they had
absolute right to do, and voted for
it IL to 8, then the bunch who are
not farmers, and not even friendly
to the farmers, get another meet
ing called and get everything done
over again by hooks and crooks
until they get it their way.
This meeting was an insult, not
only to the committee of Is but to
every farmer in Sheridan county.
! Some years ago the farmers in
q North Dakota were told to go
: home and slop the hogs" and that
: was just what this meeting really
amounted to. The disgusting part
IL of it all was that these farmers
le did not have CUTS ard backbone
n enough to run their own business
q and tell outsiders to take JUMP
l. in the lake. The way this turned
out shows that it is not farm
S ers' organization at all. It's rur
e by Mainstreet.
" That mistakes can be made b!
u farmers on parliamentary rules
E. can be excused. But there can b.
or no excuse for men sent there b!
ne the government, sitting there ant
m allowing all rules to be violates
Ill as long as things were coming
an their way. If they had right t
ct be there for any purpose at al
OF they should be there to guide an
no correct mistakes made by tn
ne farmers. These men did not d
un that, and still they want to pos
ed as friends of the farmer.
Their there is Nels Olson of Ou
ed look. The farmers of Outlook ha
st elected him as chairman of the
ne committee, because they though
ne he was a man who had the CUTS
ers stand up and fight for them. Lat
ian he was elected as one of the thr
'ad on the very important county cor
mittee. And Nels was the on
IVY one who didn't show up at til
les very important meeting, where
no. was going to be determined if t
ra- organization was going to be n
by farmers or not. Nels had
dis broke a leg. He could have be
to ut that meeting had he wanted
on But, he also realized that if
res attended the meeting he woU
ing have to take a stand one wav
DID the other, and Nels did not ha
for the CUTS to take the stand, so
Inst hurried around and found sor
The flimsy excuse for not being the
ma Nels wanted to fix it so Il
the he could wash his handp and 3;
ton ct had nothing to do with it. ]
ally neutral" So Nels hunted arou
Ty- for an excuse ard found it.
ne had to drive some cattle to o
look. Something anybody e
con- could have done just as we'll
lght him.
OF Many people think that N
ting had been told to do just what
men did and obeveE orders. But WI
TINS farmers elect men to repres,
lot. them, they expect them to take
o y tive part III the important thin
sec going on, be man enough to t;