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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
PIG ECONOMICS

In 1888, because there was a surplus of
pork in the country, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace asked the New Deal to do
something about it. So the government paid
$40,0OO,000 to the farmers to kill off 600O,-
900 baby pigs The big packing companies
got the pigs, and because most of them were
too small for meat products they were turn
ed into fertilizer. In a word, the land was
so fertile it raised too much corn and to get
rid of the corn the farmers raised too many
pigs, so the government paid the farmers
to kill off the pigs and the packing compan-
les made fertilizer out of the pigs to sell to
the farmers to make the land even more
fertile 1t doesn't sound like sense because
there is no sense to it.
But the price of pork sl1yrocketed because
there was scarcity of pigs and now Uncle
Sam is going to pay the farmers 100000
600 for raising about 100000 more pig
gies in 1886 than they raised in 1885.
In a word, Uncle Sam pays for killing
the little grunters one year and then pays
again to have the farmers raise two and a
half times more grunters than he paid to
have killed.
That's brain trust stuff It sounds like
it also-UniOn Advocate.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
ANOTHER FLAG gag"

Another victory was chalked up for the
"super-patriot" William Randolph Hearst
when the Board of Aldermen of New York
unanimously adopted an amendment to
the citys Code of Ordinances, providing
that an American flag, Sc by 48 inches,
shall be displayed at all meetings where
Is or more persons are gathered to dis
cuss public questions.
This new ordinance is a direct result of
the front-page editorials carried by
Hearst's IN. Y. American" in which he
attacked the Thomas-Browder debate held
in Madison Square Garden under the aus
pieces of the Socialist Call"
That this is only the beginning of drive
against Socialists, radicals, and progress
sives was indicated by Alderman Lambert
Fairchild, when he said, 81 hope this is but
the beginning. l hope the next step will
be the passage of my ordinance against
alien soap-boxers. These reds can and
must and should be restricted. Look
through the rolls of the employees of the re-
lief bureaus and you will see the number
Of communists there. You will realize the
necessity of repression"
The American Civil Liberties Union, the
Socialist party, the Communist party and
progressives are fighting this measure as
a gag law infringing the right of free as
semblage. Every red-blooded American
citizen who believes in the Declare
ton of Independence, and glories in the
fight of his ancestors against the tories or
Bunker Hill, will also join in the fight OF
this tory, fascist act for the protection Of
plutocracy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
JAPAN. THE RISING EMPIRE

The rulers of Japan are busy building an
empire on the Asiatic mainland. They be-
gan this work in 1895 by Selling Formosa
and making Korea independent" of Chi
ma. They are now engaged in establish
ing the independence" of North China.
When this move is completed, the Japan
csc will have under their control nearly a
million square miles of former Chinese
territory and more than lao million Chin
csc besides the 20 million Koreans.
This is only beginning.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27

Japanese plans call for the "'pacifica-
ton" of all China and the control of Mon
golia and of Siberia as far a Lake
Ball1ial. The more ambitious among the
Japanese are also looking south and west
as far as the Straits of Malacca. They
are also including in their dream of EN-
pire the Philippines, the East Indies and
Australia.
The realization of this dream would give
Japan ample supplies of raw material and
foodstuffs; a wide field for the profitable
investment of Japanese capital; an mex
hauStible supply of the worlds lowest
paid labor; and population of 600 or 700
million colonials as a market for Japanese
goods and as a recruiting ground for the
Japanese imperial army. Should the JAP
anese ruling class reach all of these objec-
tives, it would dominate the most powerful
empire known to history.
incidentally, the Asiatic mainland that
Japan is now opening to Civilization" is
the last important undeveloped imperial
area on the planet. The Japanese ruling
class is therefore engaged in building the
last of the empires in point of historic Sc
quence.
The course that Japan's rulers have
charted for themselves is not an easy one.
To be sure, with the growing economic and
political difficulties in west Europe and
North American, there will be little inter-
ference from any of the western empires
at any rate not for the present The I'M
mediate and pressing difficulties lie close
at home.
Japan is poor in resource and weak finan-
cially. The home food supply is INSULT
10 bU c4rio1
farmers. The standard of living and
therefore the buying power of the city
workers also is low. But it is this low
standard of living that has enabled Japar
to sell her goods across the world and t.
raise production 81 per cent since 1925
compared to drop of % per cent in thu
u S. during the same years.. To offse
its poverty Japan has a high degree O
national solidarity. The ruling class i
well-integrated, energetic, vigorous. TIL
working masses are on the whole, loyal.
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Continued from page one)
for their support of him during
his persecution and urged all to
give their full support to the de-
fence Of these Westby farmers
now.
DEFENCE COMMITTEE
Is ELECTED
The mass meeting elected from
their ranks a defence committee
to take charge of the defence, and
they met and organized and laid
out plans for conducting the de-
defence and raising funds, imme-
diately after the meeting. David
Leininger of Fortuna was elected
Secretary of the Defense Com
mittee, and further information,
collection lists for the raising of
money for the defence fund, etc.,
can be secured by writing him.
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Continued from page one)
county: Three two-panel trestle
bridges, three three-panel trestle
bridges, one five panel trestle
bridge, and one six panel trestle
bridge. --Massman Construction
company Of Kansas City, $24,-
$500.
(16) Grading and surfacing of
"A miles and construction of a
single span trestle bridge on the
Wibaux south road in Wibaux
county. Albert LaLonde Of Sid
ney, $52,919.38.
I'D Grading and surfacing Of
2.3 miles on the Ekalaka-Alzada
road in Carter county,. C. Boes-
plug of Miles City, $38, ALSO.
(18) Grading and surfacing of
7 miles Of the Four Corners-High-
wood road in Cascade and Chou
teau Countless. Birch and Sons
Construction company of Great
Falls, $113,454.88.
! In Cascade ChOuteau
J (19) Construction of q five
: span 186-foot steel and concret
, bridge over Belt Creek on tn,
: Four corners-Highwood road il
= Cascade and Chouteau countless
: Thomas Stanton CONSTRUCTION
0 company of Great Falls, $24,-928
: S8.
: (2O) Grading and surfacing G
: "a miles and the construction Q
= two trestle bridges on the Phillips
t burg Skalkaho road in Grant
= county,. C. Gudgen Of Kalii
n pell, $38,337.23.
(21) Grading and surfacing c
/ SIS miles on the Winnett sout
/ road in Petroleum county-Coll
l. son and Dolvin of Billings, SAG
d 676.35.
n (22) Grading and surfacing (
a 80 miles including a 19-foot tire
u tie bridge on the Fairview we
r road in Richland Countrywide
II Lalonde Of Sidney, $39, 467.45.
y (23) Grading and surfacing
I 2.3 miles on the Opheim SOU
Re road in Valley county. Ca
Ve Braathen Of Malta, $40, 789.40.
; (24) Construction Of the Il
IS lowing structures on the abo'
n. road: A two span trestle bridI
ne and a four span trestle bridge.
Os L. v. Lockwood of Glasgow, s.
223.60.
n (25) Construction Of a concre
p and steel one-beam girder "a
ne road bridge as an undercrossil
II of the Great Northern railro
sh tracks at Bolton, Flathead coun
n- together with the construction
:. .403 miles of approach road.
II Nolan Brothers of Minneapol
1872, 1879.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
WAITING FOR PROOF

The final proof of the correctness of the
Darwinian theory will not be established
until a species of monkeys is discovered
who do without bananas to buy knives
wherewith to cut the threats of each 9TH
er, and who pray to their god to help
them do it-American Guardian.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
FOLLOWS SEC. PERKINS
ADVICE-GOES TO
JAIL FOR PAINS

JERSEY CITY, N. mot Ra
ago, Sec. of Labor Frences PE
6ns said that efforts to stop sht
ments of war materials to the b
alo-Ethiopian conflict zone ShUi
be encouraged. Eight persons u
took the advice seriously, an
helped a striking crew picket b
S. S. Spero at Jersey City, NJ,
were given suspended sentsnm
for being "disorderly persons" N
lettering and assembling. Anon
them were blueblood church men
bers of colonial lineage. The Spa
was recently taken off coastWs
service and loaded with scrap id
bound for Genoa, Italy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
NOW, THE DEBIT SIDE
OF THE SAME SHEET

On the the negative side of the
legislature there has been 70 real
Improvement during the year
with reference to unemployment.
The pickup in business has left
the 1900, 900 idle workers out
side the picture Of progress. Re-
lief conditions were getting worse
as the year closed with the FEEDER
al government pushing the re-
sponsibility back upon the states
and cities which cannot use the
means Of taxation exercised by
the national administration. Child
labor has increased rapidly during
1885. The deaths Of Senator Cut
ting and Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes have been a real loss
Organized labor is close to dis
ruption because Of the struggle
between craft and industrial un-
ioniEm, although this conflict may
finally result in a labor move
ment stronger than eVoI.
The slaughter by automobiles
has increased. Fascist tendencie.
are more marked through the pas
sing of legislation in several stat
es requiring teachers oaths Of
loyalty, the growth of vigilantes
and the increasing display of vi
olence against strikers, the unem
ployed, and progressive and -odi
cal leaders.
DARK SIDE
OF INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
On the international side, tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
LAUGH OF THE WEEK

William L. Ransom, president, Ameri-
can Bar Association: can independent
and sef-governing legal profession that
cannot be commanded by retainers, caiol-
ed by public office or inundated bv
threats and charges against lawyers indi-
vidually or against the profession as a
whole is one of the best safeguards of
freedom in the United States"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27

1000, coo; Butter, 81, 142, 0O0, 900,
$2,3S1, 900, 600; Cheese, 1920, OOO,-
OOO,1 S37S, 900 900; Fresh fruits,
1856, COO, 900, $148, 100000.
In the face of this record, we
! have a situation where the farm
ers are being forced out of pro
duction by bankruptcy or govern
ment pressure or other factors
while the industrial worker, anx
ious to start producing thing
the farmer needs, must be i'd,
and 60 improperly fed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
CRISIS FOR 1885,
WAR AND FASCISM

The year 1885 has been IeadA,
as toward a crisis through wb1
we shall probably pass Dunn
the New Year. The dice are lOas
ed for war and increased dictstm
ship throughout the world in Ia
At home our presidential elecia
will decide in which direction n
shall go. Never did the vOkH
need to do more Intelligent thin
ing and more aggressive organin
ton Of their forces to avoid va
and dictatorship, and to achisT
an economy Of abundance. m
alone can make 1886 a Haw
New Year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
THE FATE
OF WORLD ACTORS

During 1888 the pathetic Pa,
sey Macdonald has passed ont !,
the active British picture: n.
greatly beloved President W.
aryk has resigned in Cheko-S,
vokia; Gomez, the dictator. |
dead in Venezuela and Preid1,
Mendieta is out in Cuba.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
Wings
OVER
IWashingtn
RIDEING THE GIFT HORSE"

RIDEING THE GIFT HORSE,
The deliberations of the Natl. |
Assn. of Manufacturers in conven-
ton assembled suggest number
of good reasons why our male
factors of great wealth" usually
prefer to delegate their political
interests to lawyers and other
trained politicians rather than to
take the busting themselves. Ev-
erv speech of the million-dollar
masters of auto, steel, munitions,
and other industries against the
New Deal will sway at least a few
thousand votes for it.
Professional Republicans in
Washington have regarded with
mixed emotions the present
"ganging-up" against Roosevelt on
the part of large and prominent
sections of big business. 1t cer-
tainly means golden days for party
fund collectors. But they have
decided misgivings about the pro-
posals of the N. A. M. for Gin
dustry to center the political ar
ena" and "carrv the fight to the
public-beginning with it's OWL
employees and stockholders"
Practical politicians Of the ole
parties make speeches about there
being no classes in America bu'
take class factors carefully int
consideration in their activitleI
2 and appeals. The official pro
! nouncement Of the N. A. NJ, tn
: Chamber of Commerce Of the I'm
tied States, the American Liber
ty League and other obviousl,
f capitalistic outfits against nue.
+ of the Roosevelt program hav
: presented the Democratic part,
IS with a gift horse, whose mouth
It is now carefully examining.
Roosevelt has cautiously finger
ed the horses bride in the cours
of his Atlanta speech about tn
= gentlemen in well-warmed an
te well-stocked clubs" and til
le mass of the people with the
IN third-class diet. Harold Ick'
= more daring, has tried to jun
N right onto its back, in his Detro
s. speech about the cruelty ruthlei
j exploiting class. And there a
IF others in the Democratic can
If who are ready to ride this git
s. horse for all it is worth, as su
te winner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
POLITICAL REVIEW n 1895
By Howard Y Williams Executive Director, Farmer 1.
Political Federation OOr

picture is very dark. The H..
Ethiopian war has NM r uaiaa,
despair. An armament ~ .ulope b
The League Of Nations 80 Is u
back some Of ~ .lp,rstiSg.a ln'd
ing the year besg zcD az ~ ~ dN
mination to hsga <Naiv h. uetes
gresslve war. As iaas a.
however. the League searC 10Stt
have come to an impasse 0S b
debit side Of the internat;onOoI3 10
ger one also finds Janan ', r''l, ID
forward its imperialism ~ CCS1g .Nt
and Hitler threatening ~ - A. ANA =
same in Europe. " u
THE CREDIT SIDE
: OF THE WORLD BALANCp
On the credit side tbera :, .;
formation of the Peoples fro = u'
France uniting the Socialis. ', 2
Communist parties against y
ciSm, the debacle Of the IA
Laval program for part;tio';1I
Ethiopia, the progress Of the ' p.3l
ish Labor party in the recer Oh !
ection, the opposition to the III,
. 49,. - ~ 0i---,-,sc gan1as 80 :. LON
, eist Germany, the Chineses' F .
dent uprising against Jans0.,
, aggression, the freedom 81 :
, Philippines, the progress in p,l.
! tine, the coming into power ~ b
: Labor Socialist government
. New iceland, and the rev II,
: levels Of economic progress :.
: ieved during the year By Pn'.
What our trade treaty with :.
I ada and the Social Credit M,
/ in Alberta will accomplish n,
: be left to 1895 to decide.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27

Progress toward catastrophe
with the imminence of European
War is the outstanding impress
sion as one surveys the political
field at the close Of the 81
1885
s home the decline Of -
popularity Of President Roosevelt
due to his trying to carry water
on both shoulders until now he is
attacked both by business groups
and progressives, and the collapse
of the NRA are most noticeable in
the turn Of events, although the
President has lost two Of his chief
critics in the deaths Of Senators
Long and Schall.
CREDIT SIDE
OF NATIONAL LEDGER
On the positive side Of the led
ger there has been a very evident
pickup in business conditions due
to government subsidy and the
increased efficiency of the mach
inc, an improvement Of farm in
comes through the AAA, the pas
sage of neutrality hsgiaL[ Glssssszs;, II.
beginning Of a social securit!
program, the munitions investiga
| ton, the splendid growth Of tn,
) cooperative movement, the success
/ Of progressive political movement
, in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Bridge
8 port, Toledo and ether place
: with the organization of Farme
e Labor parties in several commit
: ted to a production for use PFC
= gram and opposed to the pref
y system. The remarkable growt
h Of the Townsend movement ind
e Gates that the voters will not b
' satisfied with the meager pre-
( gram for social security sponsor
ed by the administration and th'
, something really socially secuI
= must be adopted. The Townser
= program strengthens the hands
4 those working for the economy
"a abundance.
ir, It Is very Indicative that du
IS ing the year the State Federation
lp Of Labor of Oregon, Utah, Co
it necticut, and Rhode Island; Z
IS United Textile Workers, the Al
re erican Hosiery Workers, the Al
lp algamated Clothing Workers, t
t. International Union Of Mine, M
re and Smelter Workers. the Anne
lean Newspaper Guild, and t
National Farm Holiday Associ
ton have declared for a new I
eiAl order and national new -
~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
FLIRTS WITH POOR
HOB-NOBS WITH RICH

WITH RlCH
But there are certain real
difficulties confronting the
Democrats in taking full adj
vantage of the gift offered to
them. It 30 happens that
many Of ROosevelt's best
frieMds, political as well as
personal, not only belong to
well-stocked clubs but may
not uniustly be classed as the
'rudhlessly exploiting class"
They might misunderstood if
too much election talk is di-
rected against them, with even
the friendliest intentions.
After the Presidents much
publicized visit to the poverty
stricken people who have
been rurally resettled at Pine
Mountain Valley, Ga, he
drove directly to make a
much less pubIicized visit TO
his friend, CasOn Galloway,
wealthy owner of a number
of textile mills, who has long
been credited with much influ-
ence at the White House.
, Galloway happens to a Bit
ter enemy of union labor in
south, who had the militia cal
led out against his striking
mill hands, evicted them from
their homes and resOrted to
every kind of intimidation
when they objected to speed
up and wage cuts, which the
United Textile Workers saw as
the entering wedge for a ma
tion-wide wage-smashing pro-
gram.
Too much stress need not DC
placed, of course, on the pei
sOnal friendships among the
wealthy of a man who has
been raised in their class. But
Galloway is just a sample of
the more ruthless of the
southern employing and plan
tatiOn owning class, whose
political instrument happens
to be the very same Demo-
cratic party whose election
Filtration with the masses big
business is now playing the
part of Cupid.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
PORTMANTEAU PATRIOTISM
GREAT "CARRY-ALL"

GREAT 0CARRY-ALL"
Patriotism is one of those
pOrtmanteau words that can
be stretched into a carry-an
for its owners. Hitler sa::.S
grabbed the bag in Germany
and includes in patriotism hat
red of Jews, a new religion
and many other curious re-
quirements. In the United
States there is an American
Coalition of Patriotic SOcie-
ties which claims a similar
monopoly over patriotism.
Meeting in Washington,
this coalition of professionally
patriotic bodies passed a res
OlutiOn against the child la
Dor amendment, for a big ar
my and navy, against giving
any relief to iOblese fGresg
born workers, or 70 eaGAe0x
and for careful restriction g.
what the schools may. teach
IN social science courses.
But even a professional pat
riot may turn if patriotism is
stretched too far, and one of
the affiliated bodies, soon
squelched, protested at sup
port of the Republican party
being included as one of the
proofs of patriotism. r. L.
Holmes of the Natl. Patriotic
Council objected that anti
Roosevelt and anti-New Deal
propaganda put out by the
Coalition had made it into
"some sort of Republican club
whose main puorpOse is to dis
credit the national administra-
| ton"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
FAR-SIGHTED REPUBLICANS
FEAR LEFT SWING

Some of the more far-sighted
Republicans in Washington are not
only afraid that the loudly pro-
claimed support of big business
reaction may lose them votes, but
are even more afraid of success
under such circumstances. They
fear that a reactionary adminis-
tration of the Hoover tvpe may
be followed by a violent swing to
the left, such as the New Deal
has so far been able to avert sx
its efforts to salvage the Capital
list system.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-27
ROAD CONTRACT

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RALLY TO DEFENCE

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-03

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The English in Virginia
Lost Settlers.

far distant, and was believed to mean
that the settlers had gone there.
Sad was the next event, for a fierce
storm arose and kept the two ships
from reaching Croatan Island. One
ship lost two Of its anchors. and the
food supply was found to be running
short. Although White begged the
captain in charge to keep up the
search, he refused and set sail for the
return journey to England.
White never learned more Of his
dear ones, but 16 years later Indians
told settlers at jamestown that the
people left on Roanoke Island had
gone to live among the Indians. They
made special mention Of seven white
persons-four men, two boys and a
young woman. The young woman
may have been Virginia Dare.
These whites we're not located, but
George Percy. who helped start
jamestown, told of seeing "a savage
boy of about the age Of 10 years. with
a head of hair of perfect yellow
during his voyage up the James
River.
(For history section Of your scrap
book.)
Seven Wonders of the World! Do
you know what they are? Would you
like to know more about them? If
so. write to Uncle Ray to ask for his
Seven Wonders" leafiet and inclose
Scent stamped envelope, addressed
to yourself. UNCLE RAY.
(Copyright. 1881