The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-12-14
By HANS RASMUSSEN

Saturday morning l was stand
ing in line at the relief station
waiting for the door to open to
let US in out of the cold. Out
comes ex-banker Burleigh and
without recognizing anybody, he
boarded his swell car and drove
away. For the wonderful" work
he did in Sheridan county, Bur
leigh has been promoted, his sal
airy raised and he is now in charge
Of distributing applesauce in
eight counties.
On one Of the benches in the
waiting room sat a young girl.
She ives wearing the only pair of
shoes she had. You could see her
toes sticking cut and the sOlos
were HANGING down and Hopping.
/ Just Wonder
A woman said: "That Mrs. Cobb
isn't as bad az thought she was,
but that old Mrs. Hansen is a reg
ular she-devil and as mean as she
can be-" Said Gus: "I met her in
the Great Falls Jail and she was
plenty bossy then. I suppose that
IS the rCason SIZE got promoted"
Then someone popped up saying
that she was getting $500 cash
relief per month and that she col
lectcd another S2CO in mileage in
20 days. Others mentioned the
wild parties she had been in at
the Grand View hotel, and l was
wondering how people came to
to know all these things.
George Bolster was also wait
ing. "They have turned me down., -
George said, 'but am going to
try again" Later l saw George
lined up at the applesauce courier
and when I asked him how he
came out, he said: "They turned
me down again and told me coulC
get some applesauce."
Turned Down
Johnson was also there. Hi,
wife is sick. They had given hin
S22 worth of work last month bu-
he couldn't possibly live on it, 81
he was there to ask for more work
When I asked him later if he go
it, he said: "No. All they CAV,
me was can of applesauce."
At the rate of one-half pounc
per person per month, it didn'
take US long to eat up the "sur
plus" butter and and cheese. TIL
lard is also gone. Applesauce i
what is going to save the countr,
now.
When left the relief office, tn,
young girl was still sitting there
the soles Of her shoes Hopping Vi
and down, but nobody paid any at
tention to her.
John Got His
Down town l met John ant
asked him if he got his apple
sauce. "Applesauce, hell" job
said. Ebay is what wanted ant
I got it." John had made half
dozen trips here to get hay for hi
cow, but nobody cared if John
cow starved to death or not. ETH
time I had made up my mind
was either going to get hay o
clean up on the whole bunch" job
said, and he could do it. "Whe,
I told them what I was going t
do, big fellow stood right be
hind me and said IF you start an,
housekeeping, l am right with yor
brother" John got the hay h
had tried half a dozen times t
get in a nice way.
The next fellow I met said
"They took me off the relief be
cause I had a pig. My pig die
Yesterday; maybe it was too col
or mavbe it didn't get enough t
eat. Now I am going up Their
again, and I might take a gu;
along and clean up on the Who'll
hurch-that's just the way l fee
then shoot myself and die feel
ing had done something wort
while for those left behind"
Killing ones self is about tn
last thing a person should do, an
I am not in favor of that kind O
method, even if it would bring re
! lief. Others are advocating caste
oil, and it has been used very e1
fectively before.
The next one had been to tn
, Burleigh farewell party. He sal
Burleigh had told them to tax
good care of the most prominer
people. and if they gave anythin
, at all to the rest, then give thel
some ann1esauco