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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19
NORTH
WESLEY

Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore FOssum
and daughter left Monday for Can
ada points to visit friends and
relatives.
Clara Gunderson, Helen Jensen
and Alta johnson returned Friday
after few days visit at Glasgow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Anderson
of Comertown spent Saturday at
the Oscar Helseth home. Francis
returned home with them after a
visit with her cousin Edith.
Irene Bundt is caring for the
baby of Rev. and Mrs. Annie while
Mrs Almlie is teaching Parochial
school.
Mrs. Nellie Leninger is improv-
ing unless further complications
develop. She will soon be able to
return home.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller left
for their home at Columbus Sun
day night.
Ingebrit Haugen of Elkhorn who
has been a patient at the Trinity
hospital the past two months is
still too weak to have his opera
ton.
Mrs. P. C. Peterson of Coalridge
is nursing at the Luther Hultgren
home during Mrs. Hultgren's i'll
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Fossum
and family Of Pelican Rapids is
spending a few days at the Oscar
HelSeth home this week. Mrs.
Fossum is a sister of Oscar.
Mrs. Mary Kronen of Lone Tree
is enjoying visit from her sister
from the Turtle Mountains Of N
Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Herim Of the
Pleasant Valley are enjoying q
visit from their daughter, Mrs. FL
Larsen and family Of Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Hultgren
are the parents on son porn 70
them Monday, July 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Anderson Of
Comertown accompanied Lila Hell.
seth home Sunday after a visit al
the Anderson home.
Russell Kantuer. immigration
officer returned last SATURDAY.
from a vacation spent at Seattle
Wash.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller
Mrs. Burke of Columbus spent last
Saturday at the Peter Miller home
Keith and Dean who have been al
Columbus, returned with them.
Elmer Hultgren motored to Mi
not SUNDAY to brine back his fam.
lily who returned from a visit al
Minneapolis.
Enoch Derseth and niece left the
last of the week on a motor triI
through Minnesota and Dakota II
visit friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Fossun
of Pelican Rapids spen' the last Of
the week at the Edwin Helseth
home at Lone Tree. Mrs. Fossun
is sister of Edwin.
| Helen Jensen and Clara Grinder
son left Welrevda~ FOR Clasoow :
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
MANY years ago when thi

JSsSAo 0SO Wll6u I'LL
IVA country was new, a mum.
Der of people came from Eng.
land and settled along the
Atlantic coast. A few of
them were favorites of the
King of England, who let
them do whatever they wanted in
this new land.
These few chased out the Indians
70 whom the land belonged, or
cheated them into selling great
tracts OF land for few glass beads
Q little rum, and other things like
that.
They turned the land into plan
tations and grew rich. Some
orought Negro slaves from Africa
and sold them to the plantation
owners and in that way became
rich.
They brought coffee and spices
which they sold also. Only a verv
Few. Those who were the m8st
cruel, mean, and crooked made the
most money. The rest of the pcopIe
Who came here In increasing nIIn-
srs had to work very hard to earn
10 living. -
The cost of their voyage was paid
or BY the rich men here Thar
ne worker paid back by working for
sars for the master, bound to him
~ Q contract.
stu this country remained .
colony. 1t belonged to the Kinc -
England and the English lords sns
bosses. These bosses were iealos,,
Of the way the bosses of this count, ,.,
prospered. Their own business wa'
not so good and they wanteA =
cnisel IN on the profits Of the rob.
bers over here. ~
Inc rich men over here got sore
1ney 1elt they were strong enough
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19

with with the widow Of pr-,lI
demanded etal1;9 a trial. i, ' J ,'..3
would be too late f. uAl VIA
husbands lives but 70 o,s sage ID
SIa them of the adis %nlsA ID
the war government 'i I via
against them. nad Miss
The judges had hear,
mOny and have postO oou ! ne !, tssS
cisiOn for 80 DAYS T u The /
streets of Paris, littla ~ On u
workers are discussinoo s,fOOR I
murder of four bovs |, me bsJ
/ ago. - 'uSF ls "a,
Down with imueri.r..
a worker shouts, and t u va
streets Of Paris resOun3 u saos'
cry DIS thousands of Wal Q
it up. "VtEefs ii
=
fore Superior S Cen. at hearing /
Justice At p Par SOG T q ElAr
1894 france, JNe
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19
McELROY

The Peter Olson a., =
Griffin families returned AZ =. as's
from an outing at Fish ~ 0' :
ada. -S' Ia
A party consisting of "
Mrs. Robert Mangei, ADd r., y =
pen, Peter Jerde, and NJ NJ ~, 4
ing of COmertOwn left Is q, S S.a
day to visit friends and 49, S..''
throughout the west. Tbs;. ''. y
stop will be at Occur d'AIs,. t y
no, to visit the Oscar ols.o' =. =
Clemetson families and ~
They expect to 90. az e, . = \
coast. "
The Lone Tree and McElro, !,
eeail1s crossed $, bats at McEhuy q
sunday. The csore was n !, :
Of Lone Tree. :" ="
Edwin Helseth and fsmilv A,,,
oeeH ENJOYING visit from his 81
ter and family. The ones, !.
parted Tuesday to visit aDotSs
sister of Mr.. Helsetb's sbor. 'l \,
miles north of here.
Gene Hansen and Mr.. and n.
Elmer Espen attended the 5,,,
in Plentywood SATURDAY. m, 4,
Skarning. Mr.. SkaEning and 4
Hanson are cousins.
o. T. Spoklie who lives with i
daughter, Mrs. A. W Overgss5
getting along as well as could
expected. Some time ago he a.
IDENTIFY broke his leg.
Saturday morning a group
young people which included NJ
ganet Overgaard and Esther !
Clarice Rice left PlentywOOd
truck to go to Fathead Lake
a 10 day session of Bible sch,
Enroute they stopped to see "
ter Overgaard at Havre where
is employed.
Miss Selvig Hove returned fl
a Minot hospital last week VIII
she underwent an operation
appendicitis. Gladys 0gard acct
panied her to the hospital and
, had her tonsils removed.
Chester Rasmussen entered
Plentywood hospital Sunday a
underwent an operation for spl
dicitus Monday morning. He
getting along nicely,
: Henry Hagen is a patient at
r Plentywood hospital. He snt
last week and unedrwent an Op
E ton for gall stones. He is n
}. better now.
s Mrs. johnson Of McElrOy i
e a vacation and will visit her }
: at Grano, N. D., and Mrs. JOr
: son IS visiting relatives at N
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19
A BOY WENT TO WAR

In a sunny village of Southern
France almost 20 years ago a boy
without the sign of beard on his
face kissed his young bride fare
well and left for the army. 1t was
bitter thing, people said, that
boys who should still be playing
hockey from school or splashing
each other down at the creek
should be called to shoulder a
musket and go forth to STAY o'her
mothers sons.
But the call had come. and these
youngsters had no choice, they
thought, but to follow their older
brothers, uncles and fathers, into
the He'll of the western front. Mo-
range was in love. He said that
it would give him luck if she were
to marry him now, before he went,
that it would bring him back safe
to her. So they were married, the
two of them so young that the
mothers standing in the village
church watched with tears in their
eyes and a dull heavy ache in their
hearts.
Morange found himself in a COM
uanv with lads no older than him
self. Their uniforms, made for
bigger and older men than they
bulged and stuck out in so comica
a fashion that the Sergeant cursed
and swore at them, and the young
girls laughed at them. They hac
hardly become accus omed to thell
heavy rifles, knapsacks and equip
ment. before the order came tina
they were to be Transferred to thu
front.
Morange wrote a last letter t.
the girl in the village. my dea
wife" he wrote, feeling that some
how having a wife made him older
made him more able to endure tn
) hardships of this wretched life
Tomorrow we shall join the 65'
| infantry. For days and night
: they have fought at St. Mihiel an
so many have been killed that onl,
| the officers remain alive to form
. new regiment But the new regi
: ment will he made up of us, 'th
children they call US.
"Then we too shall be sent int
the front line, they say. To 20
: / can say that am afraid. Thes
: shells roar and whistle and tn
ground shakes. We see men bt
e ing brought back in ambulance
, and on stretchers. They are a
bloody and dirty, and some {
them have no faces. 1t is horribl
t When a specially big shell burst
S to hide my fear. shall try I
it makes me shake. although I II
: be brave How | miss you, m
n sweet, and my mother, and m
lit lie brother Paul.
| "They tell US the Huns ar
II beasts who torture girls and ki
n. babies. But yesterday we sa
; German prisoners who were ju
Il boys like ourselves. One of the
cried when a sergeant kicked hi
l. hard in the rump. It made me VIZ
S. der why we are here. 1 begin
1t think this war is not for us, Il
y common people. But they tell
;e so much. How do we know?
ce The next day, as Morange HI
I'd heard, the 6Sd infantry. its gapil
d, holes filled with "the childrel
IS. moved into the front line. Mn
re teen years later, Major Dubost d
or scribed the battlefield in the
ce words:
IS 'Tt was a veritable slaughte
house. Bodies Of those killed dr
o ing the previous days fighting l
he so close together that they we
touching one another. One cot
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19
By Rob F. Hall

not walk without stepping upon the
corpses with black faces and de-
composing"
Morange and his companions
sickened at the sight and smell of
those CHASTITY bodies. They shiv-
cred in the fog that sifted through
the muddy trenches. Then word
came that they were 10 advance.
The rat-a-tat-tat of the enemy
machine guns was a fearful heart
rending sound. But into this hail
of bullets, the youngst ers were or
dered to advance. 1t was certain
death. The officers knew it. The
boys knew it.
Forward" tie order came.
: But the boys GiG not move. The
officers swore. They turned their
service revCIvers on the boys, but
the boys did not bulge. They
stood with nervous, frightened
faces, whispering to each other.
The officers went into a confer
ence. A short time later the boys
were ordered to pack up and retire
behind the lines.
In village a few miles behind
the front, the boys We're called to
attention. For their "disobedience'
they learned, General L'Etoile had
ordered the whole company court
martialed and condemned TO death
But the General had been dissuad-
ed from this drastic course pro-
vided the lieutenarts designate one
man from each of the six section:
to face the courtmartial.
Lieu enan3 Meineux, 10 years
later, tcld low the victims were
selected 81 could not reproach
any enc of my men more thar
the Others" he said. 81 merely
took my notebook and asked a cor
poral to say a number. H
said seventeen. The seventeenth
man On my list was Fontenaud
+, and | named him."*
= Another lieutenant refused t
designate any boy. But five wer
: named, and one of them was Mo
e range.
. At the trial, one of the boys
!, Coulon, said that he had jumped
. the trench step but seeing he wa
. alone, he did not advance. He wa
: acquitted.
Morange looked the general
Il squarely in the eye. He knew ths
i he faced death, but there was n
p fear in his heart, only longin
), to see the girl he had left in tn
o village-to feel again his mother
y work-scarred hands on his head.
y "It is always the same with me
y who are ordered to go forward
DEATH" said Morange to the un
e formed, decorated generals. "I a
II not ashamed. / shall die but | d
W with knowledge that a week az
st did not have. Then 1 wondere
m why we, who come from the mas
m es, are here. Today I know. 1t
IN to be cannon fodder for vol
10 sinking class"
he The four boys were put again
is a low stone wall and squad sh
them down with rifles. They we,
I'd thrown into a shell hole and on
ig a few shovels of dirt marked Il
4" graves. Into the official record
e. the army went the words, "Co
E. demned to death and executed f
Sc disobedience."
Last week in Paris, before t
= Superior Court Of Military JustiC
r. the facts of how Morange and
av comrades met their death becar
re known for the first time. The l
Id tie widow Of Morange, togeth,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-07-19

baseball story, a story about Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the German
workers, page of jokes, a book
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list, a Science CSIasn :, = :
o other things you win Ike.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
The Essential Contribution

From the MorEantown Dominon-News
The latest reports of the National
Industrial Conference Board showing
q continued business improvement in
the United States and q correspond
ing improvement in many foreign
countries will be referred to by those
who seek to cast doubt on the neces-
sity for the recovery measures pro-
posed and adopted by the Roosevelt
administra ton. Since recovery is
progressing just as rapidly in coun-
tries not enjoying the benefits of the
new deal, the point will be made,
does 1t not follow that American
recovery may be in spite Of. rather
than because of, the Roosevelt pro-
gram?
Those who make the point will fail
to take into account the essential
contribution to recovery made by
President Roosevelt. He took ONCE
to find the machinery Of Government
irnpotent, the banks paraHzed. panic.
misery, rebellion, and despair con-
vulsing the people and destroying con-
fidence in business enterprises. To-
day, after q year Of Roosevelt, recov-
cry Is not fully achieved, but the over
whelmingly dangerous crisis has pass
ed, and hope and confidence have
returned to the mass of the people.
Mr. Roosevelt's great contribution
was that he was able to take the step
which has had to be taken in every
country seriously affected by the de-
preston. He broke the political dead
lock which existed and brought about
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Jaggs Is Lost.

A phrase is current in publics ton
Offices that names make news" The
doings of notable characters are of
interest 10 the reading public, some
times trivial incidents and sometimes,
in fact, quite unimportant people. So
also 90 dogs make news, for dogs are
liked by almost everybody, and what
happens 10 them, If out of the ordi-
nary, is interesting. Here is a case
in point. A dog named Jaggs is lost
London, The entire police force OF
the County Of Surrey is hunting for
him. The matter becomes the subject
Of a cable dispatch. Why? Because
Jsggs is the fsvorite Cairn TERROR of
the Prince of Wales. If Jaggs were
the property and pet of almost any
other one Of London's millions of
people mis- disappearance would not
be a matter of news interest, nor
would his recovery, II he is found, be
worth mentioning Jaggs, it seems, Is
veritably a companion of the Prince
sleeps in his bed chamber whenever he
can gain access to 1t. To him are at
tributed some rather extraordinary
capacities of intelligence and enter
prise Now he is gone out Of the
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Random Spring Notes Suggested by
Meeting Children on Way to School

bring, if she neglected the opportunity
OF youth. That conscientious work, 3
determined. cesseless devotion to duty,
10 study-(to grammsr in Particular
was the only satisfying foundation
for future happiness.
Once more / resisted the temptation
But I scanned the faces of the stu
dents that passed me. found my
unexpressed advice becoming as vsri-
able as the changing April sky, and !
pondered upon the difficulties that
must be encountered by the earnest.
unselfish men and women who have
in charge the training Of these young
lives. And grew almost as serious as
Gentle Annie" for a moment But
deep in my heart I knew that one
should not reflect. nor advise, nor be
advised on q Spring morning, but
should think only of this first efful-
sence OF glorious NE giving sunshine,
the gladness and happiness OF mere
existence.
/ saw one of the high school teach
ers yesterday and mentioned that ]
had overheard a curious grammatical
Soisti uStiOli uLtCkc0 Wy Onc OL nci
pupils. She Indignantly protested
personal responsibility in the matter,
claiming that their most earnest effort
for perhaps only 80 hours in the week
could not counterfeit the influence of
the 1913 hours spent beyond their
jurisdiction where the effect of en-
vironment, heredity and an unculti-
vated home was too potent. She told
me the following story in illustration
OF the result of a teachers we'll in
tentioned effort to reform q long
INDUCED habit OF incorrect speech.
The boy in her school had persisted
in saying have went" until in
despair the teacher told him to remain
after school and write the words have
gone" 500 times.
Alone in the deserted school room
he wrote faithfully for an hour, and
left at the bottom of his slate a
message full OF encouragement for his
teacher, guide for future punishment
in similar cases Of misapplied par
ticles-"Have written have gone 500
times and have went home"
HELEN WRIGHT.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
The No. Parking Experiment.

The Commissioners have wisely linn
tied their no. parking ban on F, G and
Seventh streets in The downtown area
TO an experimental period of thirty
days. with the understanding that it
will be made permanent II the Trial Is
successful. There has been, of course,
opposition from those who feel that
such prohibitions will take automobile
shoppers TO some other neighborhood
They may have in mind a similar ex-
pertinent some years ego when park
ing was prohibited in the downtown
streets and that section Immediately
took on the appearance OF a quiet
Sunday In 1892. This led TO an i'm
mediate removal of the restrictions.
But II Mr.. Van Duzers statistics
and conclusions are correct the ban
against parking will improve condi-
tions that everybody will agree are
becoming intolerable and will not
materially affect shopping habits Mr..
Van Duzer points out that no. parking
spaces reserved by merchants for their
own use now consume a third of the
space on Seventh street, about one
half the space on G street and about
tWo-thirds the space on F street
The remainder is available for limited
parking, but this remaining space ac-
commodities a maximum of only 784
cars during a business day. and thai
Is providing that the cars are changed
every hour. At the same time. some
1850 automobiles. in addition to the
street cars, use these streets during a
day. with no place to receive or dis
charge passengers unless double
parked. The fact that so many of
them do park double, If only for a few
minutes, Is one factor that accounts
for the added traffic confusion on
always busy streets.
1t Is inevitable that with the mount
ing increase in the number of sutomo-
biles further restrictions against park
ing are to be placed in effect. The
more gradual the extension of such
restrictions, the less hardship they
will cause. 1t is the immediate re-
adjustment on the part of automobile
drivers, who use their cars in going to
and from work, that brings greatest
protest against parking restrictions
But it Is generally realized now that
when the Federal buildings in the
Avenue triangle are all opened to occu-
pancy, and thousands of employees are
concentrated in one part of the city
other trsfic regulations than those
applying to parking will have to
undergo radical revision. 1t is just as
we'll TO begin experimenting now.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Silent Men.

The history of the American Indian
Is being revised. and the process Is
serving the purpose of breaking down
numbers of legends gray with age.
The notion that the Red Man habitu-
ally practiced a philosophical silence
is one of the myths which have fallen.
Quite the contrary, latter-day suthori-
ties declare, was the case. The In
dian liked to talk, was an excellent
conversationslist and tsle-spinner;
and his feasts and ceremonies were
noisy affairs. The phrase "pow-wow"
Is synonymous with chatter.
On the warpsth or when tracking
game. silence might have a pragmatic
value, but at normal times speech was
,Intrsmmeled. Indeed, there are in
dications that individuals who did not
talk freely were abundantly distrusted
by the Indian peoples. The theory
was that the honest man bares the
workings OF his mind through the
ntterances OF his tongue. Horace. the
poet. illustrated the point in his re-
mark: "Commonly e modest man
Evening star., 1934-04-14

a concentration Of authority. Where
this has not been done, Walter Lipp-
man wrote IN his recent apprs isal of
the frst year under Roosevelt, the
consequences lave been serious. The
President achieved this at once and
demonstrated it by three actions
which only a powerful government
could have taken. He closed the
banks. He reopened them almost
Immediately. He demonstrated his
control over the budget by the econ
omy act. The net result of all this
was to establish q center of order and
power in the midst Of panic and con-
fusion"
Debate as to the wisdom OF sep
arate measures Of the recovery pro-
gram cannot affect the main point.
Recovery began when authority was
concentrated and thus, by its demon
strations, infused hope and confidence
into the people. The rest has been
only incidental.
Evening star., 1934-04-14

obtains the character of being re-
served. and a silent man OF being dis
agreeable"
The Indians never heard OF Horace,
but they concurred with him. The
theoretical prototype Of the strong.
silent man" OF modern fiction had no
special honor among them. Braggsrts
also they held at discount, the
bosster and the misanthrope were
bracketed In their displeasure. But
the too much tslker" was less to
be feared than the too little talker."
They believed, as their unknown
European contemporaries did. that:
Silent men. like still waters. are
deep and dangerous"
Perhaps a competent analyst one
day will make study Of the psychol-
oey OF pathological reserve. The
degree to which certain unhappy per-
sons retire into their own egos cam
not fail to have an attraction to the
psychiatrist. Not long ago q woman
died In New York State, and her
obituary had Nationwide publicity
because it was said that she had
not spoken for more than thirty
years. The man who married a dumb
wife might have found her interesting,
but the average husband would rather
know what his mate is thinking.
so you won't talk, en-" Is a COM
monplace in the lexicon OF current
jsrgon, but it represents a funda-
mental reaction OF the average citizen.
The Supposition is that the willful
mute has something to hide. But
police officers, dealing with GRIM
inals, are almost as skeptical OF the
wordy rascal who promises to tell
all"
Moderation in speech, as In other
things, appears to be a standard
generally approved. But, alas, the
rule is not invariably obeyed. 1t
would seem that the whole population
of the world might be classified under
the two heads of those who talk too
much and those who talk too little.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
1t Night Have Been Writ.

The Presidents unusual and highly
amusing speech at the station yester-
day suggests that as the dsy wore on
toward the time Of his flrst post -holi-
day cabinet meeting he NAV have
become punnier and punnier. BY the
time his cabinet arrived it is possible
that he commented on one of the
most extraordinary home Cummings
that any President has enjoyed. He
may even have gone so far as to re.
mark that while he was In the blue
waters Off Florida, smooth as Glass
this time Of year. trying to Garner fish
Washington was experiencing the
usual spell of Rsiney Spring weather,
which he was glad he missed. He had
already made, earlier in the day, in
considerate references to the Dern hot
weather Of Washington's Summer. but
any good city booster could have told
him that in such illusions he should
have stuck TO the truth, the Hull truth
and nothing but the truth, in which
case he would have said it was no
hotter here than anywhere else, which
would not have been Farley wrong.
The unfortunate members OF Congress
who have had their noses to the
srindStone here In the past two weeks
were. however. happy to see the Presi-
dents fine coat Of sun -Byrns. making
his cheerful countensnce almost Black
and they hope he will retain his
health and high spirits now that
things are SO noticesbly PeIkinss up.
AT any rate, from the foregoing. 1t
is comforting to think that the Presi-
dents pun at the station yesterday
might have been much Writ.