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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-22

concern Is not primarily political. but
economic. He must do everything In
his power to prevent an economic up
set.
SO, Instead OF moving swiftly to the
left, In obedience to the apparent man.
date of the voters. the President will
move definitely to the right. In the hope
lof encouraging business and speeding
revival OF prosperity.
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WINK
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-22
GOLDEN DAWN
SYNOPSIS

Theodore Gatlin decides to adopt a
baby In final effort to solve his matri-
monial troubles, But his wife has
never wanted her. and their affairs end
In tho divorce court. Tsn-year-old
Penelope 10 given into the keeping of
Mrs. Gatiin. At a baseball game a ball,
hit into the bleachers, strikes Penelope
on the nose. Mrs. Gatlin spirits the
child to Europe. GatiIn retlres from
business. Wills Penelope all his money.
and In about to begin q search for his
daughter when motor accident ends
his life. Some ten years later, in San
Francisco. Stephen Burt. Is rising
young psychiktr.st
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-22
Money Not Enough

Just continuing to pour out money
Will not be enough. Revenue must be
built up so that balancing the federal
budget is at least on the horizon. In
provement OF business will help In two
ways. 1t will produce additional taxes,
and 1t will take up part of the spend
Ing load 1.-THE government Is now carry
Ing on/relIef.
Roosevelt, as matter OF fact, has
already taken two steps along the road
pr encouraging business. For he knew
the problem before the returns came
In. Nothing surprised him much about
the returns except that the New Deal
majority was bigger than even he had
hoped.
First, WAS his olive branch to the
much despised bankers, even though
the clear intlmation of tighter federal
control was there. Second, was his
statement-for the drst tIme-of what
he thought I fair rate of earning for
capital In moderately safe investments.
1t was per cent
True, this applied to frst mortgages.
But this Ii much better than business
had any reason to expect. Because
Roosevelt does not apply the bankers
percentage OF losses to this calculation.
He figures that with the New Deal
working. losses on nrst mortgages
would be Insignificant. There would
be no terrible dnnrucaiors ord rnurh
more drastic supervision by the govern
ment So 1t means very nearly per
cent net.
Which actually In one of the most
important bits of news for business
that has come out OF Washington for
many day.
And by the same token 1t Ii the
shadow Of the approaching wet blanket
for the more radical OF his advisers
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-22
G. o. p. Reconciled

So far from having definite plan to
revive the Republican party. the plain
truth Is that most OF the so-called
G. Q. F. leaders are actually reconciled
to continuance OF Democratic pre-
dominance for at least three more
years. Down In their hearts they have
very little hope of defeating Roosevelt
for reelection In 1885. II he lives They
have no outstanding leader In mind
who might carry their standard OF vic
tory two years hence. and they have
no particular issue in mind on which
to base the Presidential battle
Half dozen important Republicans,
talking privately to tho writer. several
just before election day. and others n
the returns were coming In, voiced the
same idea-thouEh. not OF course, for
quotation In connection with their
names. Their logic runs about as fol-
lows.
The Democrats have had 4 top-heavy
majority In tho house for two years.
Largely due to the fact that congress
was 80 completely oyershadowed by
the executive branch OF tho govern
ment. this did not involve them In the
troubles which top-heavy majority
usually spells for the party having 1t.
They are now certain to have that
top-heavy majority for two more years.
The extreme probability is that Roose-
Welt will be overwhelmingly reelected
In 1926. That means continuance OF
the top-henvy majority for two more
years, total OF six.
Now. these Republicans contend,
that Is too much for any party to stand
without developing riffs which will tear
It to pieces. 1t Ii the history Of cleo
tive parliamentary bodies that no party
can 60 ahead without serious internal
splits for long period OF time with
top-heavy majorItIes.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-22
SEENs"d HEARD
around the
National Capital
BY CARTER rIELD1

Neutrality-suspicious. thing absolutely
certain In the new congress just elect
ed is the enactment of unemployment
insurance Not only is the President
ID FAVOR of 1t, but apparently there is
an overwhelming favorable sentiment
among the newly elected senator's and
members of the house.
AS a matter Of fact, most business
men seem to favor It. Nearly all the
answers to recent inquiries sent out
wholesale by the Department of Com
merce, which were answered at all. IA
vored the new idea. Though 1t must
De admitted that barely one-ffth OF all
the letters were answered.
Some OF the big corporations are
strongly opposed to any nationwide
piapf They infinitely prefer for each
company or employer to handle his
own. They make the argument that
conditions vary so much that Amy 9TH
er scheme would be manIfestla unfair
not only as between different Indu3-
tries but between individual workers.
me administration, the writer Is In
4 position to state very positively. will
not stand for this modification OF the
plan. The unemployment insurance bill
passed by the next congress will be
national In scope. New Dealers can.
not conceive the advantage to the
country as whole OF several hundred
thousand different unemployment In
surance funds.
But that Is not the main objection
TO the company union" system OF I'M
employment insurance. The main OBJ.
lection Is that while 1t probably would
afford excellent protection to employ
ees OF these same big companies, 1t
would not work we'll In instances where
small concerns fall or curtaIl or en-
counter other difficulties.
In such cases. New Dealers point
out. the employees would become a
public burden at once. and the big
companies and their employees would
all have to help through taxes. SO that
IN the long run, even financially. itsmay
be pretty nearly as broad as it Is long.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-22
Encourage Idleness

Another objection urged by oppo-
nents of the national unemployment In
surance Idea Is that 1t would encour.
age idleness-that men or women who
knew they would draw unemployment
payments would not be much con-
cerned over whether they worked or
not, or at least would not be In too
much Of hurry to get another Job
when they found themselves out of
work
There are two answers to this. One
Is that the plan will very probably
follow the European system, though no
details have been definitely approved
BY the President This provides
waiting period. of from two weeks up-
ward. between the time the Job Is lost
and the payments from the unemploy-
ment fund begin. There were two orig
Inal purposes In this when 1t was
adopted by most OF the countries now
using unemployment insurance. One
OF these was to tighten the burden on
the fund. and the other was aimed at
N'S 'NAI obJIt&tVI luaA immaculate lhy~
ments would encourage loaflng.
There is another answer, but this Is
purely In the discussion stage. 1t is
being strongly advocated by Col. Rob
ert 9. Ebert, OF New York prominent
recently In MIRA. and #ho has close
connections with New Deal circles In
various ways Colonel Ebert would
set up an employment agency In con-
nection with the Unemployment In.
surance administration.
Whenever worker who had been
paying unemployment insurance preml-
ums land having them paid for him In
addition BY his employer) should lose
Job. he would at once file application
for payments, OF course. Because the
payments would not start for two
weeks after such application. This In
sures promptness. But such filing
would automatically put him in touch
with the unemployment bureau OF the
insurance administration. and 1t would
be the duty OF the head Of that local
ONCE TO get the worker a Job as quick
ly as possible.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
STARVING JAPANESE FARMERS
SELL DAUGHTERS no

TOKlO.-The bleeding of the Janou..
population by additional profits wrn p"rI y
the worlds lowest wages and a az nor e oo I!
allotment of the national revenue for ' g'
building up Of huge war machine for a S's
countrys imperialists, has caused the cr ~,'
ping up again Of the horrible custom J,
starving farmers selling their daugbters ! =
to prostitution and slavery. The sse u !,
10000 girls year is reported bv wir -
less dispatch from Akita.
Of the total number of girls in this ii,
trict alone, the dispatch says that snea WI
$4,000 girls have gone in what the Janano,,
call the shameful profession and mo nv,
than 1900 into factories. Girls of Gale
able age range from the ages of 16 10 y
years, and prices for them 20 from s. 4
$500"
The writer points out that the commit,
indifference of the authorities to ant fam
relief whatsoever has sunk the rural Dom
lation p'tc state of perpetual starvation
II pretense Of an allotment Il funds Fl
the suffer ers Of the recent OSAKA tybhou
IS made, Il is only because as Lre write
says, tina. disaster is fan more spect;tcua
titan the sow starvation Jf thcs, itope
whicI, has Jeen going On fC ye9rS"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
Showing Another Co. Agent
Down Our Throat VI on t Work

for use. Getting the farmers to
do a lot of work and then des-
troying what they produced would
be the task Of a county agent at
this time.
One excuse for bringing a coun-
ty agent in here is that he would
be helping with feed and seed
loans, but it is a very poor ex-
cuse. We have plenty Of people
right here in the county who could
handle that work, people who are
familiar with the local needs and
able to handle it much better than
an outsider. Right at this time
we have plenty Of outsiders hand
ling our business and not doing it
very satisfactorily, either.
Work of that kind could be
handled from the court house just
as we'll as not. It would not hurt
Frank Murray, Hans Madsen and
others if they did a little useful
work once in a while. And II
would sage the farmers the trouble
Of demonstrating all over again ir
order to get rid Of this one the
same as they did with the other
Showing enother courty agenI
down the farmers throats without
even asking them is not making
very much of hit with the farm
ers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
LID. SETS NATL. WEEK FOR
WHITE TERROR VICTIMS IN SPAIN

NEW YORK.-A national week of col
lections for the victims of the white ter
ror in Spain, in which scores of trade I'M
ions and other organizations all over the
country will participate, has been called by
the national executive committee of the
International Labor Defense for December
10 to 16.
Funds are now being collected by the
LID. organizations in scores of countries
and transmitted to the Spanish LID.
which, in spite of the terror and illegality,
is organizing the work of relief to the vic
TINS Of the fascist terror while the Com
munist-SocialiSt united working class front
continues to battle for liberation. The same
week has been chosen in scores of countries
by the LID. for an intensive collection
drive for the victims
More than $4,000 prisoners are in Span
ish jails, prison ships, warehouses, bull
rings, and every other place where they
can be confined. Tens of thousands of
widows and orphans, children left without
fathers and mothers and whole families are
deprived of their support by the fierce re-
action which slaughtered more than $4,000
and wounded more than 10000 men, wo-
men and children.
Contributions for this fund should be
sent directly to the national office Of the
international Labor Defense, Room CLIO, 80
East 18th Street, New York City, for di-
rect transmission to Europe.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Andrew Miller of Crosby, N. d.,
and Rosetta Bieto, also of Crosby,
Nov. 1.
William Ernest Radcliffe Of
Radcliffe, Saskatchewan, to Esther
Tressia Peterson, also of Rad
cliffe, Nov. 1.
Floyd M. Willard Of Plertywood
and Edna Walkeden of Raymond,
Nov. 5.
Clifford M. Olson Of Ambrose,
N. D., and Bertha M. Olson of
McGregor, N. D., Nov. 6.
Arnold Fl. Kienitz of Outlook
and Inez Olson, also Of Outlook,
Nov. z.
Alfred Ehrhardt of Gladmar,
Saskatchewan, and Stella Jorgen-
son of Blooming, Saskatchewan,
Nov. z.
Dave Summers Of Reserve and
Burnftte Rorvig, Nov. IL.
James Jacobsen of Radcliffe
Saskatchewan. end Lilly Psttvsov
Of Tribune. Saskatchewan, Nov. IA
A. Fl. Granlia Of Saskatoon and
Jean Harmon also Of Saskatoon
Nov. II.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
LOSES $50 IN SALE
OF FOUR HEIFERS

TOWNVILLE, Pa.-(By Farmer Cor
we came here and paid $50 for them. We
kept them two years. We took them to
sale and got the same price that we bought
them for.
Just think of that! A person don't get
anything for raising them. We lost about
$50 worth of feed on them. We thought
we would get more than that so we could
have half the money for the team.
The milk here we sell for a dollar a
quart. The profit goes to the big guys and
il is not pure milk. That is ali l have to
say this time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30

department is sending a definite
sum-altogether too small at the
present time-to the prisoners and
their families.
But at Christmas time, a period
that has come to signify time
Of giving gifts, the LID. feels that
many thousands of people brought
face to face with the plight of the
political prisoners and their fami-
lies would be willing to contribute
money, clothes, books-as messag-
es of solidarity with our comrades
in the jails.
THIS IS NOT CHARITY. It is
not merely gift in the form of
money, clothes, books, letters. 1t
is a definite pledge of those on
the outside to those on the inside
Of the prisons of American capital
ism. 1t is a token to show them
that they and the sacrifices they
have made are not forgotten. II
is pledge that the fight for theil
freedom will not stop for a mo-
ment until they are back where
they belong-in the ranks Of the
working class and reunited will
their families.
All contributions should be sen,
to the Prisoners Relief Depart
ment Of the International Labo-
Defense, Room 61O, 80 East It'll
Street, New York City. Contribu
tons Of clothing, books, toys, etc,
if not mailed directly, should b
brought to the Producers News of
flee within the next two week
from where the shipment will b
sent to New York. The drive last
until Jan. 1, 1885.
: Organizations that are intereste
in helping in this work of solid
! arity should send for material. fol
ders, booklets, lists, ETC., to tn
! Prisoners Relief Department.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
CAPITALISM NEVER
FORGETS IT'S OWN

CHICAGO, Nov. 24.-Samuel insult,
former utilities magnate, who had robbed
the American people of some hundred mil
lion dollars and who had used among other
things the U. S. mail to get his claws on
the money, was acquitted today together
with his 16 associates. Now he is happy
again. He really did not expect such a
verdict" else he would have tried to bring
his iluStrious personality in safety by flee
ing to Greece.
No further charges will be preferred
against him, it is reported. The cost Of
the trial was estimated to amount to a
quarter million dollars. Soon these robber
barOns will be at liberty again looking for
more suckers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
MUSSOLINI TO SCATTER
JOBLFSS ON WASTE LAND

COSSENZA, Italy, Nov. 14.-That an
early consequence Of Mussolinis COOPER
tive state" will be the scattering Of the
unemployed on unwanted barren plots in
the countryside, there to scratch what they
can from poor soil, was indicated this after
noon when the Podesta of San Lorenzo De
VALID ordered that $50 acres Of land owned
by the municipality be given away to i'm
poverished peasants. The Podesta how.
ever, demands that certain amount Of
rent be paid in cash or produce for The
privilege of owning this useless property.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
'Brilliancy' of the Idea Puts
Him In the Brain
Trust Class

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. o.
The idea to legalize bull fighting
to support the cattle destruction
program of the AAA was defin-
itely advanced today by State Sen
ator R. E. Written Of Boise coun-
ty, Idaho, The senator suggests
that cattle slated to die at the
hands Of government butchers be
turned loose in an arena and that
unemployed farmers on relief be
used as bull fighters to kill the
cattle.
"Any unemployed person could
fend off a condemned cow" said
the senator. "Not only would the
COW be Tended off but would also
surely be killed"
The project, according to Whit
ten, would not only give employ
ment to a large number Of work
ers in constructing arenas, but al
so a certain number could be stead
lily employed as bull fighters. Be-
sides, the meat of the dead cows
should be distributed to uRemploy-
ed families in order to relieve the
I need in the cities.
Unemployed AS MatadOrs
| The senator does not propose tc
make the bull fights entirely one
sided. "The more skillful the mat
adors become, the more sprightll
and fierceful opponents can b.
selected from the nations cattle,
he explains.
Together with entertainment
provided, large number Of cattl'
would be killed." the senator sum
up his plan.
Undoubtedly Senator Whittier
has the right idea. It is not en-
tirely new since it has alread,
been used to the fullest extent b,
the old Roman caesars, who provid
ed circus and bread for their slave
in order to keep down dissatisfac
ton and unrest and have them i
good working condition. It is onl
surprising that Henry Wallace
secretary of agriculture, did nc
hit upon this idea when he starte
to kill 100000 of the nation
cattle. IF this Wholesale slaugf
ter would have been coordinate
with bull fights. we would mos
likely have achieved recovery
long ago. The newly baked ser
ator certainly shows tremendor
ability and should be at once a
copied by tho president as a men
her of the brain trust, or bett'
still, he should be placed in flu
charge Of the department of ayr
culture instead of Henry A. We
lace.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
RELIEF MEAT
POISONS CHILDREN

TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. PA large num-
Der of children here became sick after they
had eaten of the canned meat issued by
the local relief agency. Doctors found that
the children had contracted an infection
Of the digested system from contaminated
meat" The meat had been canned by fed
eral agencies. Sixty thousand cans of the
meat which had already been issued to
families on relief were returned to the state
relief commission.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
By HANS RASMUSSEN

For many years Sheridan coun-
ty had county agent, and it took
a lot of work on the farmers part
before we finally got rid of him.
Farmers held one demonstration
after another in the court house,
each demonstration much bigger
than the one before. The demands
were persistent, until the county
commissioners finally had to give
in and fired the county agent,
much against their own wishes and
the wishes of the town people, to
whom a county agent was a social
asset and political helper paid for
by the county.
The county agent at that time
was supposed to be here for the
purpose of showing the farmers
how to raise bigger and setter
crops, more cattle, hogs, turkeys
and what not. For this the coun-
ty paid him around $4,000 per
year. What he really did was
that he served as sales agent for
outside hi-iackers who cashed in
big, skinning our local farmers by
selling them full-blooded" stock al
outrageous prices. He mixed with
the most exclusive set, ard the av-
erage farmer never got acquainted
with him and certainly had no use
for him
The "New DeaT' now tells us
that what the county agent il
those days tried to teach us was
all wrong. By following his in
structions we have ruined" the
country-by raising too much fooC
we have brought the country tt
the starvation point. And that
what we paid $4,000 a year for
until the farmers refused to stanC
for it any longer.
Now they are trying to show,
another county agent down Oul
threats. Living IN to the advanc
ed ideas of the New Deal, this ag
ent will row be advocating new
and better methods Of raising NOR,
and bigger grasshoppers and cut
worms and ways by which cattle
hogs, chickens and turkeys can b,
poisoned so the meat will be unfi
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30

Again Christmas is approaching,
an occasion on which most people
make special effort to bring joy
and gladness to the hearts of their
friends and relatives. Gifts are
presented and help is given more
willingly than at any other time.
This Christmas again a number
of workers and farmers find them
selves behind the bars as a result
of the struggle of the working
class for bread and freedam. These
men have been placed behind pri-
son walls for their loyalty to the
working class, for their fight for
the right to live, victims of ma
tional oppression. The burden of
long, dreary days cut off from the
outside world is in many cases
made more difficult to bear by the
thought of wives ard children
cold, hungry, homeless.
To Tighten this burden and to
bring little joy to our comrades
in prison and to their families, the
international Labor Defense has
again organized a Christmas drive
for political prisoners and theil
families.
The drive, conducted by the pri
soners' relief department Of TIT
! LID, started on Nov. 1. It hal
as its chief aim the raising Of /;
sufficiently large fund to enabl,
the department to send a substan
tial gift to each Of the 62 long
term political prisoners and hun
dreds on shorter terms behind tn
bars at the present time, and :
their wives and children.
The International Labor Defens
considers the work Of raising re
lief for the victims of the elias
war and their families as one 0
its most important duties. Al
year round the prisoners relic
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
GERMANY READY WITH ARMY OF
FIVE MILLION. SAYS FRENCHMAN

PARIS.-Leon Archambaud, reporter Of
the budget, when asking the French par
Lament for a huge increase in the French
war budget, explained that Germany will De
stronger on land within few months than
ii was in 1914. He asserted that accord
ing to information furnished him by Mar
shall Petain and other sources, Germany
now has an army of 100000 men and re-
serves numbering 100000 men will p
ready for service in 1885. With this a l5o
ment, Archambaud asked credits OF 5,O0@'
215,000 francs for the war budget
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
ANOTHER BANKER EN-
ROLLED AS NEW DEALER

WASHINGTON.-M. C. Eccles, former
assistant to Secretary of the Treasury
MOrgenthau, was appointed last week as
governor of the federal reserve board by
President Roosevelt. He was chosen be-
cause he can be trusted to carry out Wall
Streets orders without having its OdOr at
tached to himself. He comes from Utah
where he exploits both farmers and work
ers as the owner of chain of banks and
the head of big industrial enterprises.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
Last FERA Training
School For Teachers
Starts at Havre Mon

The last FERA training school
for teachers who expect to teach
in the emergency adult education
program will be held in Havre on
Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 8 and a.
All teachers who are eligible for
employment in the FERA should
take notice of this. They will be
paid for the two days the school
is in session. Attendance at one
of these schools in no way assures
teachers of employment, J. E. Nor
der, director of educational relief,
states, but it will make them en-
playable if other requirements can
be met.