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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
DANUBE WHEAT HIT
BY DROUGHT

WASHINGTON drought dam.
age to European wheat crops in recent
weeks has been especially severe in the
Danube basin exporting countries, accord
ing to the Bureau of Agricultural EcOnO
mics. 1t is estimated that dry weather has
reduced the Danubian crop 1OO,OOOOOO
bushels below the 1888 harvest of S7O,SSS,
600 bushels. Such a crop would be one Of
the smallest on record for the basin and
would only cover domestic needs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
AGAIN BARRICADES IN
FRENCH STREETS

GRENOBLE, France, June II =
cades were erected in the streets her, ne =
when troops and gendarmes affa m9re today
Communists and Socialists who C 'Sci 800
demonstrated against the lecture I t5a
cist deputy Philippe Henriot was me Fas,
hold. vas about %
The workers had barricadad A.
in nearby church when troOn. themselves
attacked the demonstrations S Hnu police
gendarmes and workers were iniuTeS St 30
the government forces stormaJ i'u ~ Wher
tive barbados; 20 workers wero t NE prini
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
FORD FIRES 5000 AS PRODUCTION

DETROIT, June 5.-Ford Motor yes
terday laid off Is per cent of its workers,
over 5000 in ALL The lay-off is undoubted-
ly only the beginning of the discharge of
thousands of Ford workers as production
declines sharply. Ford like other manufac-
turers is using the lay-off threat to drive
workers still harder in torrid weather. As
a result, workers are collapsing daily on the
job Mass lay-offs at other auto plants
are continuing. During the last htree weeks
the Ternstedt Company, General Motors
subsidiary, laid off 5000 out of 11,O00
workers in four plants.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
CANADIAN WORKERS TO START
RELIEF STRIKE

LETHBRIDGE, Alta.-The anpouD..,
intentions of the Canadian govemm ,aui' =
cut down and cancel unemployment r.r y
is causing tremendous unrest among u nensl
ployed here and in other towns. 4 raa
meeting here voted unanimously for et t-SS
and a strike committee of 40 was als. t.As
City authorities are badly worried 'I Sso
fear bread demonstrations" since tba~ =
fused to give clothing and food to tbS ~ u
employed. VIC u'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
GREEN ADMITS Ia MILLION
ON RELIEF

WASHINGTON according to
the figures of NRA booster William Green,
president of the American Federation of
Labor, there are still 10,616,OO0 without
industrial employment" The report re-
luctantly reveals that 14,172, 400 people in
families, not counting transients, are still
on relief. Of course, the report does not
state how many are cut off relief who are
in dire need of it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
FASCIST FINANCES

RIGA, June 10.-The new tascl:s cit q,
eminent today discovered its tlnan Ca-..,ory
uation was very similar to that OF Ge, -
and ordered an embargo on imports u Suu-
previously authorized by the Currency -
ervision Commission. ovod
Civil service privileges were LS S.,;tting
today by a government order pe, rT am
discharging and removing OF CIVIL
ployees at viii.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
DROUGHT RELIEF is EXCUSE FOR
MORE MILITARY TRAINING

WASHINGTON, June 1O.-Drought ere
lief even is used now as an excuse for
more and more war preparations. 10000
more men are to be added to the army of
the civilian conservation camps, it was an
nOunced here today, and the presidents
drought relief program will add another so,
900 to $4,000 young men.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
TRADE WAR WITH ARGENTINA
FARMER TO FOOT BILL

LONDON, June 10.-A trade war with
Argentina was forecast today by members
of the wheat advisory commission when
they surveyed the present export of wheat
of this South American country. This NJ
course, means that all 1888 commitments
of the great wheat exporting nations will
be repudiated and that as so often tbp
farmer will have to foot the bill
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
AAA SENDS UP PRICE
OF SUGAR

WASHINGTON Roosevelt's starva-
ton program has taken another step on
Friday, June s, when as a result of the pro-
cessing tax on sugar, every worker and
farmer will now have to pay cents more
for each 1O-pound sack of sugar.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
MEXICAN OIL WORKERS

MEXICO CITY, June 11.-M e II.
Eagle Oil workers went bcak to WOr4 - -
urday after personal mediation Dy l n,0Ts
dent AbelardO Rodriguez had failed % .f turr
them from their demands for uI sus n.
wage scale and pay while laid up lOi =
juries.
Their demands were granted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
LONE STAR

Mrs. Pete Lee was taken to her
bed he forepart of the week after
failing In health for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Guenther
and children of Coalridge visited a
short time Tuesday with Albert
Ator's enroute to Harrison Idaho,
where they will make their future
home.
Knute Bestland drove into Ante
lope Monday after load OF grass
hopper poison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hjalmer Rude, son
Elmer and Hans were among the
show fans Sunday evening to see
Down to Rio"
Miss Gertie Peterson Of Plenty
wood drove to Howard AtorS to
spend the week end with her Sis
! ter, Ethel.
Ed Lawrence and Albert kas-
mussen were county seat bushes:
callers Saturday.
Elvina Peterson left Wednesday
by car for her summer vacation
with an aunt at Mizpah, Mimi
Miss Peterson was accompanied BY
Mrs. McSnellin of near Medicine
Lake, as far as Warren. Mimi, II
visit her mother. Miss Peterson
has accepted another term as in
structor in the Comertown schoO
the coming year.
! A number of children in this VI
cinity have been quite i'll the pas
i, week from the effects of smallpo'
vaccination.
The school trustees of this dis
trict will hold a business meetin
, at the Lone Star school house Mon
day evening. Parents are cordial
{ invited.
! Mrs. Fredricks had the misfOr
tune to lose a fine heifer one da
= his week.
t Albert Ator purchased som
fence posts from Florence Rich
t ardson and is putting in a hal
r mile of fence on the Peterso
farm this week.
Mrs. Halvor Bestland will 81
S terrain Luther Aid at her far
p home here June IA.
n The John Lee folks called at tt
: A. o. A'or home Sunday evening
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
JOHNSON SLASHES PAY OF COAL
MINERS IN FOUR STATES

WASHINGTON, June 5. = General
johnson yesterday issued an order reducing
the wages of the miners of Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Oklahoma, under the
coal code The reduction takes place June
IL. Johnson reduced wages below the scale
set by the NRA April %.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
POLISH COURT SENTENCES
So COMMUNISTS

WARSAW, June 1.-THE KTzemlenl@
Court today sentenced 6S Communists V
terms of from 10 months to seven years
Charges against "a others were dismissed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
FAITH

Spouter: 1 believe in the Consti-
tuition of the United States.
Listener: Have you ever read i ?
Spouter: No, but I believe in il
all the same.
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June Z. 1884


Little Bobby and Betty, twin
babies of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Rasmussen, have been quite i'll the
past week. Friday they were re-
moved to the Plentywood hospit al.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Stephen
and son Charles, Elmer Hueth and
Mrs. Olson of Coalridge visited on
Thursday and had dinner with the
Albert Ator family enroute to their
home from Plentywood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ator and
family from near Reserve drove
over Sunday to spend the day with
Albert Ator's. Later in the aft
ernoon the Adolph Stephen family
from Coalridge and Oliver Lee
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14
MILK PRODUCTION is LOWEST EVER
RECORDED IN u, s,

WASHINGTON production per
cow on May was the smallest and the con-
ditiOn of dairy pastures the poorest, on
record for that date, according to the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics Condi-
ton of dairy pastures on May 1 was re-
ported one-third less than normal.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-14

PRODUCERS NEWS WANT
ADS BEING RESULTS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
BE CAREFUL

TOMORROW a legal holiday will send
l. thousands on a one-day vacation to be
marked with the pleasure and noise that an
nually attends the nations birthday.
Thursday, regrettabe as it seems, newspa-
pers will carry stories of the toll Of life taken
BIZ holiday events.
A program for the Fourth of July, and for
the summer for that matter, has been issued
by the Indiana State Medical Association. 1t
will be well to consider the proposals for the
safety of yourself. your family and your neigh
bors
For the Fourth the bulletin says:
Don't hold frecrackers even the smallest,
in your hands; don't throw frecrackers at any
one; don't shoot them of under bottles; don't
carry them in your pockets; let firearms alone;
don't play with or carry dynamite caps, and
avoid gunpowder and toy pistols.
To that may be added the warning not to
try any foolish stunts with fireworks used in
night displays Some of these are the most
dangerous of festival products.
And. for those of you who won't stop long
enough 10 shoot of firecracker remember
that when you're driving your car tomorrow
you're not the only one on the road. The asso-
citation says that gentlemanly conduct at the
wheel of your car will save trouble in the
long run.
Remember, too, that if you can't swim, keep
out of the water, unless you only want to go
in ankle deep. Don't try any stunts you can't
finish when you get on the diving board.
And there are a score of other warnings to
be given. but these should be sufficient to
guarantee some degree of safety for most of
us For change, observe some of the sane
pastimes of the holiday rather than looking
for trouble
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
BLIND SELFISHNESS

a MORE complete misunderstanding of
the essentials of modern urban life has
seldom been seen than that displayed by the
New York woman who sued for an injunction
to prevent use of public school playground.
adjacent to her home. except at such time as
school actually was in session.
In her bill this lady charged that prolonged
use of the playground by children was "nui-
sance and menace to public health"
Some one who knows all about the facts of
life ought to take this lady on a little trip
some time. She should be shown how children
have to play in the streets, when public play
grounds aren't available; and she should be
shown the way in which the street breeds
crime, degeneracy. and general sll-around
trouble for the community which forces chill
dren 10 play in it.
Then. maybe, she'd see a light, and realize
that a constantly used playground is life
saver and not a menace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03

laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate
that governments long established should not
be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are suferabe, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they are &C
customed But when a long train Of abuses
and usurpations. pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their right, 1t is their
duty, to throw of such government, to to pro-
vide new guards for their future security.
Omitting those paragraphs which recite the
colonies grievances against his royal British
majesty, George III, that is the document Mr..
Fletcher would have you read. Just why Is
mystery, for nowhere could you find more
concise justification for the overthrow OF the
Old Deal and the setting up Of the new.
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VERY GOOD READING

A MERICAs great unseen audience all
hooked-up to hear National Chairman
Henry P. Fletcher view with alarm last night
missed the best part Of his speech and We
propose 70 give it here.
Having explained that the salvation Of
democracy depends on the election Of a Re
publican congress that will oppose the New
Deal. Mr. Fletcher said:
Ny friends. let Us revive the old American
custom Of reading the Declaration of hide
pendence!"
All right. lets:
We hold these truths TO be self-evident.
that al men are created equal that they are
endowed by their creator with certain inslien-
able rights. that among these are life. liberty.
and the pursuit Of happiness. That 10 secure
these rights. governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the con-
sent Of the governed. that whenever any form
Of government becomes destructive OF these
ends it is the right OF the people TO alter or
abolish it, and 70 institute new government,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
HE PAYS AND PAYS AND PAYS

TINE automobile owner is getting tired OF
paying so much taxes, according to the
American Automobile Association. His taxed
automobile. says the association, is propelled
by taxed gasoline, fabricated by taxed oil, rolls
on taxed tires and is fitted with taxed Access
series.
He is, says the association, the goat of the
law makers who frame the taxes for his local,
county. state and federal governments.
The association demands that beginning
with the next fiscal year. the federal govern
ment abolish all of the multitude of dis
criminatory taxes that it now levies against
the man behind the steering wheel. 1t also
recommends that state governments cease di-
verting motorists taxes for purposes other
than highways
The average automobile in operation last
year, the association asserts, was worth only
$1,000, and it cost the average motoriSt $51.29
IN taxes.
Incidentally, if this average motorist also
happened to be an average cigaret smoker,
consuming a pack a day, he also paid the fed
eral government s21. 80 in cigaret taxes, not to
mention taxes for the matches he used to light
the cigarets.
The present high tobacco taxes were levied
back in 1919 to provide revenue that the gov
eminent was losing by the advent of prohibi
ton. But tobacco taxes were not reduced
when prohibition was repealed and liquor
taxes returned. Instead, congress abolished
the tax on corporation dividends.
Federal taxes on gasoline, oil, automobiles
and auto accessories and tires. and most
other such excuses, were levied in 1882 as part
of the Hoover Mills Misunderstanding drive
But the budget never was balanced. Since
then congress has gone through two sessions
without removing the nuisance taxes In
stead. it enlarged the nuisance list and re-
duced taxes on all incomes up to $4,000
year. Thus it nearly always happens that
sales taxes, fastened upon the people in an
emergency. remain to plague the people long
after more equitable taxes have been abolished
or reduced.
Americans, other countries say, don't
know what it is to be taxed" That is true
in respect to taxes on income and inheritances.
But it is not true in respect to the ordinary
commodities of trade, which the poor as we'll
as the rich must have.
To restore fairness to our taxing system.
congress should wipe out or curtail the So
called painless" nuisance levies and enact
laws that Will raise whatever revenue the
government needs on the principle of ability
to pay Fortunately, a congressional subcom-
mittee now is at work on that problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
INDEPENDENCE

UTHEN the revolutionary fathers boldly
w signed their John Hancocks to this
country's most famous state paper 15S years
ago tomorrow, they we're prepared to fight as
rugged farmers and merchants for what we're
then largely political rights. They wanted to
be left unmolested in their new world homes
to win the blessings of life. liberty and happi-
ness for and by themselves.
The bloodless revolution going on today
aims to make these rights secure in the great
est and most complex industrial state in the
world Its attack is economic and social and,
hence. a much less simple affair than throw
ing of the yoke of a distant king.
American independence today means the
restoration of millions of jobless workers to
steady work at decent wages and hours 1t
means taking millions of persons of the dole
and effacing for them the imminent fear OF
economic disaster. It means the right of labor
to bargain by groups OF farmers to the fruits
Of their toll. II means the protection Of the
small and weak against the big and strong IN
industry. IN agriculture. IN commerce and in
finance.
It means the abolition of city and rural
slums. It means insurance against the haz-
ards Of old age. unemployment and sickness.
II means no more child labor and no more
child hoboes. It means the conservation of
the nations natural wealth against waste and
stupid exploitation. 1t means. in short, a So
cial plan so directed BY a peoples government
that there will be no economic orphans barred
from the table OF the earthS richest republic.
These largely, are the goals Of what has
come TO be called the New Deal There are
plenty of powerful Tories who refuse TO go
along. Just as there we're in colonial days men
who prefer to see the very system wrecked be-
fore giving up a bit Of their power or wealth.
The old Tories could not block ultimate victory
for wsshingtors army. VIII their spiritual
descendants be able to nullify the new revolu-
ton now?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03

last, can't help but think of the
horrors OF such a war.
The time has passed when Amer
leans can say, Let Europe have her
wars; we should worry" CONT
nents have been brought too near
by means of transportation for our
country not to be involved in
great foreign war.
The problem of overproductlon
will be solved for some time in case
of such a war. Airplanes will dart
over enemy lines into densely popu-
lated territories and with high eX-
plosives and gases exterminate en-
tire sections in short time.
The one advantage of such war,
that I see, is that the wartime
profteers will suffer the same as
others. 1t would be impossible for
the enemy to spare the home and
life of Mr.. Multi-Millionaire, mu-
lition manufacturer and one of the
local sponsors of the war, even if
they cared to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
ROOSEVELT REGIME
DECLARED FUTILE
BY a Thinker.

BY Thinker.
Your editorial captioned THE
President Reports" is just lot of
ballyhoo and an insult to the Amer
lean people. The questions pro-
pounded by the President to the
American people can re answered
truthfully as follows:
The American people are not any
better off at this time than they
were before Mr.. Roosevelt took Of
flee and surrounded himself with
dozens of useless committees, COM
missions and brain trusters."
Unemployment is on the increase.
Millions of impoverished farmers
and their families have felt the
mighty claws of the New Deal just
as keenly and sharply as the middle
class, such as doctors, lawyers and
workers in general.
For the vast majority of the farm
erS the Roosevelt administration has
brought foreclosures, rising costs of
manufactured goods, eXtortionate
taxes, and the insanity of the Wal
lace acreage reduction program,
while millions of men and women
are hungry.
The American wage-earner has
suffered tremendously under the
Roosevelt New Deal and the NRA
codes. These codes actually cost the
American working class about 20
per cent Of its weekly wages through
the simple expedient of fixing wages
at low level, and increasing prices
on food and other essential COM
moditieS.
The truth is that the President
knows he can not cope with the sit
uation, and, furthermore, he does
not care much, so long as he pre-
serves the dying capitalist system
and enriches the owners and stock
holders of the large monopoly con-
trolled industries.
The fact is that the present adj
ministration controlled by brain
trusters" is a menace to the whole
nation. and, for the welfare Of the
majority of the population, the
profit system must go, and it will CO.
and a new system of society, a new
form of government in the interests
of all the people must be set up in
its place. Mr.. Roosevelt could re-
main in Office the rest of his life
and at the end he would have moth
ing to show for his efforts. 1t
would be just waste of time and
energy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03
TUESDAY. JULY 3 1898
FORLORN GERMANY

A DICTATORSHIP, in this modern world
n is an effect rather than a cause. There
fore. the news that the seamless fabric OF
Hitlerism is developing a split right down
the middle, and that German monarchists
are looking forward hopefully to Hohen-
zollern restoration. is important for the light
that it throws on the past rather than for
what it may foretell OF the future.
For while We can not tell what Hohen-
zollern restoration would do to Germany
any more than We can chart the future Of
the nation under Hitlerism. II the Nazis re-
main in power-the mere fact that mon
srchist sentiment is reviving tells lot about
the said things that have happened in Ger
many since the war.
Go back. for moment, to the fall Of 1913,
and remember what took place
Germany had lost the war. Her allies
had crumpled up. her armies had been pushed
back her resources we're gone, the endurance
Of her people was at an end.
It was too plain for any one to miss that
gigantic series Of plumbers on the part of the
government had. first, got the nation into the
war. and secondly had made winning of the
war impossible
Then, TO cap the climax, Wilhelm II
skipped out fitting across the borders by
night and leaving subordinates to face the
music.
The monarchy had discredited itself, by
revealing its own incompetence and weak
ness. about as thoroughly as was humanity
possible.
So Germany turned to democracy, or to
semblance Of it. and tried to get along. The
venture wasn't very successful. The heritage
Of the war was crushing burden even for
the victorious countries to carry; for a nation
which had lost everything. it became abso-
lutely intolerable.
Ruhr invasions, imitation, industrial crises,
flights of capital followed one another in
dreary succession.
At last the democratic government, like
its monarchist predecessor, proved its inabil
ity to cope with things, and Germany turned
TO Hitler.
Today Hitler is having his troubles. 1t is
reported from Berlin that the days of the
Nazs are about numbered; military dicta-
torship which would eventually bring a
Hohenzouern back to Berlin is confidently
predicted.
How dreadful must Germanys lot have
been. If a regime as completely discredited
as the one which took to flight in 1918 can
look, now. like savior!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-03

burned, water soaked and cut to
pieces, it still stands today!
I do not know the age Of Frank
Cummings, but 1 do know barring
nothing, that he has not ex-
perienced the real depth of hap
piness, the greatest thrill a person
can have, and he hasn't taken upon
him to do what a real man or
woman would say who has had the
experience of which I am speaking
would be the biggest thing a person
could do, and that is, to humble
himself, mere man that he is, and
ask Gods forgiveness and accept
Him as his Saviour. Then he will
know there is a God. He will know
that Christ lives. He is coming
again because He said He would. He
already has fulfilled other. promises
so why doubt this one?
Here's hoping you will come face
to face with this Christ you so pub
licly deny, before it is too late. Take
a dare and try Him OUT You can't
lose!