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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
GASOLINE TAX
AT new HIGH
FOR MONTANA

HeleEa, Dec. 4. - Montana OsS
cline tax collections today reaebsa
an all-time yearly high with Ons
more months revenue yet To h
added to the 1885 total.
Phil Greenan, chief clerk for ths
state board of equalization, reuO1
ed that collections from the Os'
tax source in the first II months
of the current year total s4,3Ss.
404.16, or $180,848.63 more than
was collected in the entire yea,
of 1884, the former record year.
Last month, the clerk reported
the 5 cent a gallon tax brought
the state $450,588.70 as compared
with $402, 1850 for the sans
month a year ago. Greenan point.
ed out that 10 of the II months
this year showed increases over
the corresponding months in 1894
The February collections this vesl
were under those Of the samC
month in 1884.
September, 1885, is the recorI
month, with collections of 1903,
1865 based on August gasoline
consumption.
The gas tax money is used b.
the state highway department il
maintaining roads and in fnanc
ing administration activities.
Greenan accredited the marke,
increase in this years revenue Il
better highways and 70 genera
: improvement in business condi
tions. He said he believed tn
December receipts would bring Ii
1885 total well over four and
half million dollars.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06

1t has been the policy of the Producers News
always to be lenent with it's subscribers in regard to
subscription payments. 1t has never made it prac
tce to terminate the subscription upon expiration
promptly Maybe this has been mistake
The matter is a problem in every country Of
flee. Many subscribers complain bitterly if the
newspaper is strict about collections and remark
sarcasticaly, "Are you afraid won't pay?" Others
take advantage of the leniency of the manager take
the paper as long as it comes reads it every week,
as does the whole family, and then passes it on to
the next door neighbors until it is worn out, and
then when the collector comes about says he didn't
want the paper told somebody else at som indefinite
date to stop the paper and wakes indignant because
the paper was not stopped when the "time was up"
People pull this trick who would resent being
called dead BEATS or would howl their heads off
II some one pullel such a Scurvy deal on them, and
some of the "best people" do it.
Now, every paper likes to keep every subscrib-
er possible. Most are more than willing to go the
limit to accommodate. So does the Producers News.
But the Producers News does not want to send one
issue to any one who does not want it. Those who
take the paper and read it, we have right to be-
ieve they do so because they want the paper
Now it does not cost thing to have your paper
stopped, except the effort to tell the postmaster or
the mail carrier that you don't want the paper-and
that is not much
But it costs us cents for the postage. Mark
your paper refused and hand it back to the post
master carrier: they will notify us as soon as the
mail can reach us, and your paper will be stopped
pronto
Now if you owe the Producers News for hack
subscriptions and want to stop it, please be sport
enough to pay what you owe when the order is fled
The Producers News printed mailed and delivered
costs a little less than cents a week, just little
more than postage stamp 1t is worth this much
OF any ones money, we tell the world.
So dear subscribers, don't be lousy If you
don't want the Producers News, pay up like man,
and order it stopped. If you are one of the tribe
who make it a business to cheat" the newspaper,
refuse your paper right now as we don't give boot
about sending it to you for nothing
The Producers News likes to pay every claim
against 1t upon presentation. When we don't do it.
it's because we haven't the money, and most of the
time the reason we haven't the money is because
there are so many who don't care whether they paw
US or not
If your subscription is in arrears, please remit
or give notice.
The Producers News
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
Advertising Now Showing
Gains In Newsp a pers

New York = Newspaper adver-
tising for October showed a gain
over the preceding month and Oct
tober,l 1884. Printers Ink reported
today.
The publications October index
stood 77.9 agtinst 75.5 for Septem
Der, rejecting the gain in lineage
after the usual adjustments in
Guiding correction for seasonal
change. For October, 1884, the in
dex stood at 72.1.
The compilation uses an index
figure Of 100 to represent the av-
erage of newspaper advertising
lineage for the five-year period of
1928-1932.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
Seaweed Is Used
AS Animal Feed

Ithaca, N. Y, = The iodine rich
es of the sea are used for a new
method of combating goiter, it was
announced today at Cornell uni
versity.
Hens are made to lay eggs, rich
for the first time in iodine. Cows
milk, ordinarily low in iodine, is
produced equal to oysters, clans
and sea-fish, which are among the
most potent of all iodine foods.
The marine iodine is such an
effective preventive that among
populations subsisting largely on
sea foods goiter is almost un-
known. Practical methods of feed
ing seaweed to put this iodine into
milk and eggs have been perfected
at Cornell in eight years expert
ments by Prof. George w. Cava-
naugh of the department of chem
istry.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
FRIDAY, DECEMBFp 3

dustry and the further -,
ment Of industrial labdp usplacA
Nevertheless it is prstsnA,
the present business ios saoed ths
genuine, healthy restOrss;.s 3 !
normal" conditions. a 400 d
what IS happening TO-DAY -, sTIoay
a much more serious rr;.;u torH
has ever before been faced S Il tsaA
something Fundamental e unless
insure that the productive T rc .
es OF our country are usaS t.eSOOA
ply the people with Tie . t, SUP
which they need. 'mna
BACK TO
HOOVER
At the same time, a hacS,,..
step is being taken in dealinSs~ ,a.S
the relief problem, by plac;S,,s' 70
the states the burden az sn-,ss o
ing those unemployed NOT a ssOt
modated under the Work Don
ress Administration program I Og
economic structure il q nst;o W
structure. Wealth and resor-.
are not evenly distributed beeaUs
national poicies-the tariff. f.. u: :
stance-have constantly exnlo;,1s
some areas in favor of otSaS
Thus communities which NAV L.v
the worst relief problems NAV D'G |.
SO be the least able to cope VI,
them. The present policy is in !,
sense a return to the principle !
vocated by Herbert Hoover, N
relief is a local issue.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06

(WHICH was very reprehensible
w of that genial Mother Goose
characterA but, after all. good
deal of latitude should be allowed
the boys around the holidays.
Perhaps he might even be con-
tent with these
Y&lettde Kisses: Beat the whites
of four eggs until stir but not
too dry. Fold in one cup sugar,
one teaspoon almond flavor and
one cup canned moist cocoanut.
Drop by small spoonfuls on an un-
CREASED brown paper. Decorate
tops with tiny red and green can
dies or with fine candy shot in
mixed colors. Bake in a very
slow oven at $50 degrees for forty
five minutes.
A Holiday Pudding
Steamed Chocolate Pudding:
Cream two tablespoons butter and
one-half cup sugar, and add one
well-beaten egg. Add one and q
quarter squares melted chocolate.
Sift together one and an eighth
cups -four, two teaspoons baking
/ powder and ene-eighth teaspoon
! salt, and add alternately with one
; fourth cup evaported milk COM
bined with one-fourth cup water.
Pour into a well-greased tube cake
tin or a pudding mold, and cover
tightly with an oiled paper or q
regular cover. Steam one and a
half hours. Turn out and serve
with the following sauce:
RoIStA and Nut SG1ce: Cook
one-haH cap Seedless raisins in
one cup water until plump and
the water entirely absorbed
Cream one-hah cup butter with
TIVE cups esnfeetiOnsF's sugar,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
FACT A WEEK

Only 11.5 percent of American farm
homes have access to electricity, according
to the National Power Survey. With the
exception of New England and New Jersey
the most extensive rural identification has
taken place in the far West, where extern
sive publicly owned power plants and trans
mission lines have been developed. Farm
ers in areas where the private power COM
panies dominate the field are largly denied
the benefits of electricity, even in states
like Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin,
where farm populations are relatively
dense.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
Gu RISTMAS
George Porgie, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them or

Ak0GC tAtSAAt cry sss
Mix until smooth one tablespoon
-four and one tablespoon water,
add one cup boiling water and
cook till thick and creamy, ther
add to the creamed butter anu
sugar. Add the raisins and one
half cup chopped vacuum packed
walnuts, and flavor with brandy
or vanilla, as desired. Serves eight.
MInce PIE Traditional
Minced pie is traditional at
Christmas dinner, so let's give
George this
Delicious MiAce PIE: Line a
pie tin with pastry and pour in
half the contents Of q 1-pound
can mincemeat. Slice two bananas
and spread over next, sprinkle
with one-fourth cup sugar, then
add the rest Of the mincemeat
Pour over one-fourth cup fruit
syrup from canned pears, pine
apple or apricots. and cover with
top crust. Bake thirty minutes in
a hct-425 degree-oven. Makes
one pie.
Or, II George has cast an enVi-
Gus eye on that other Mother
Goose character, the Queen Of
Hearts, who Is addicted to tarts,
he can still get his mincemeat in
these
BrGndied MtmcenteGt TGTts:
Turn the contents Of two 1-pound
cans mincemeat into sauce pan
and cook gently for four or five
minutes. Remove from IRE and
add one-Aalf cup brandy. Mean.
while, have tart tins lined with
rich pastry, an with the het miAce
meat and cover with upper crust
Bake in a hot-495 degree
for from fifteen to twenty Riaxtsa
Makes eight to ten ta<e~.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
MORE ABOUT
CUFFEY COAL ACT

Some weeks ago publicity on
the Guffey Coal Act was circnla-
ted to all coal producers in the
state by Lewis Penwell, Collector
of Internal Revenue, at Helena,
but as there are some operators
who are not on the mailing list in
the Collectors office, it has been
considered advisable to give publ
city to this new law through the
press.
The Gufey Coal Act provides
for tax of Is percent of the sale
price of bituminous and Ignite
coal at the mine. The tax is pay
able omnthly and duplicate returns
must be filed and the tax paid be-
fore the first business day of the
second succeeding month after the
month in which the coal was sold.
For example: The return In dupli
cate and the taxpayers remittance
for November 1885 must be mailed
in time to reach Lewis Penwell,
Collector of Internal Revenue, at
Helena, Montana, before January
1, 1886.
This tax also applies to coal
used at the mines, coal used fol
home consumption by the producer
of the coal, and coal disposed OF
otherwise than by sale, and under
these circumstances the Is percent
tax is computed on the flair mar
ket value of the coal at the mine. "
Amy coal producer or operator
Of a coal mine who has become
member of the Bituminous Coal
Code Commission is entitled t q
credit of go percent of the tax, but
such credit does not apply until
after the date that the producer
or operator became member OF
the Code and no credit is allowable
after the date that producer
ceases to be a member of the code
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
PLUTOCRATS WAR RECORD
TO BE. INVESTIGATED

But there is more tragedy than
humor in the life-and-death pow
er that such individuals, and the
small class they represent, possess
over the destinies of the United
States and its inhabitants.
The Senate munitions committee
for instance, has been digging in
to some of the records of Nor
gan's financial manipulations lead
ing us into the last war. The pride
of American youth were told to
sacrifice their lives to make the
world safe for democracy. They
were not told that the sacrifice
was also necessary, incidentally,
to safeguard Morgan's loans to
the allied powers.
When the committee resumes it's
hearings in January, Morgan is
slated to make another public ap-
pearance. He has done every
thing in his power to block and
limit the investigation and he has
MT shot his wad yet. Many of the
strings of the Washington puppet-
show are in his hands, and who
can penetrate his plans for pulling
| them?
Maybe England ,Morgan's Sec
ond home and financial domain
will object as she has done before.
to uncovering any of the financial
strings that lead from Wall Street
to- international diplomacy. Maybe
the u. S. State Dept. will inter
vene, as has also happened before
Maybe the committee will become
divided or retreat from its an
nounced purpose. Maybe an at
tempt will be made to discredit OF
frame up its Investigators. May
be Congress itself will save Nor
an from embarrassment.
With another world war in the
offing, there's a lot of dynamite
that may explode when you dig
around the roots of the last one
no matter how gently. And there
are many of the powers-that be
besides Morgan who are concerned
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and circuses were the old Roman
formula for keeping the mob in
hand. Now, with bread prices and
wages what they are, all the more
attention has to be given to cir
cuses, to distract attention.
After the Ludlow massacre
Rockefeller had to- hire a publicity
man to start him giving dimes. Il
the munitions committee hearings
actually go thru, Morgan might
humanize" himself with midget
shows and funny talks about the
future of education.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
MORE PETITIONS FILED

Helena, Dec. 8. - Two more in
itiative petitions for a vote ON the
question of replacing the present
state controlled liquor system with
a private sales system were filed
today in the office of the secre-
tary of state. One from Missoula
county carried So signatures and
one from Lincoln county had SO.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
ADMINISTRATION
TO DROP SELF-HELP


Washington, D. c. With the
adoption of the Works Progress
Administration program, the Ad-
ministration has dropped all plans
for expanding the self-help coop
eratives, the ORGANIZATIONS in
which the unemployed banded to-
gether for the purpose of .produc-
ing goods for their own needs.
The official reason for this is
that the WPA is taking care of
the situpation and there is no fur
Their need for any more ''produc-
ton for USE"
Unoffcially it is admitted that
the abandonment Of this type of
project, like the abandonment of
production for use under the FE-
RIA, was in response to the pres
sure of buhiness-particularly big
bcsiness-which wants all the un-
employed cared for with cash wag-
es or doles SO that business can
continue to control the production
and distribution of all goods. I'm
der the security wage" substitute
for production for use, the oppor-
tunity Of the unemployed to raise
their standards of living through
their own efforts is denied.
The governments Relationship
with the self help co-operatives be
gan with the extension of financial
helm to these projects. Conditions
were attached to this aid which
seriously rehtricted the scope Of
the co-operatives, but they have
continued with some success, anC
according to official figures were
| providing employment to 225,00(
| persons in January, 1885. What
will happen to them in the neal
future will depend, it is believed
upon their ability to enlist public
support. -.
OTHER SCHEMES
HAVE BEEN DROPPED
If the self4help co-operatives ar
eventually liquidated, they vii
only be meeting the same fate tina
the production for use projects u
der the FERA suffered. The mos
famous project under FERA wa
that of understanding. The u,
employed were put to work max
ing mattresses for their own US
out of surplus cotton. The matt
ress makers, through pressure O,
| the Administration, put a stop t
this. They said it was destroyin
| future potential markets.
The most ambitious productio
for use scheme, that of the Obi
Relief Commission, died under al
bigious circumstances. Official
it was ended by the state commits
sion, but this occurred immediate
ly before the federal governmer
took over the relief problem
that state. Officials admit ths
business pressure played a bi
part in the termination Of this pr
ject.
The entire record of prodcctio
for use under the present admins
tration points to interference {
high government officials to GU
tail or kill such activities.
BUSINESS. JOBS.
AND UNEMPLOYMENT
The fiction that business is n
, absorbing the unemployed ar
that the country is returning to
normally of jobs, profits. and PR
perity for the uppercrust suffers
a jolt recently when it was pointe
! out that production is increasir
faster than payrolls.
This is not surprising to person
who follow industrial trends clos
ly, and know the extent to whis
labor displacing machinery h,
: been installed in the mills and ia
+. tories. Informed engineers s:
that the business increase toda
, is based on a vast program f,
the further mechanization of i
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
BANKER MORGAN WINES
FORTUNE WILL BE
WIPED OTTTW

BANKER MORGAN WINES
FORTUNE WILL BE
WIPED OUTp
The public appearances and ut
terances of J. P. Morgan are as
surprising as they are infrequent.
Wall Street personified, lord of the
dollar and pound, master of count
lehs human destinies, ruler of the
industry holder of the worlds
purse strings for war or peace, he
seems hardly human to most peo-
pie. He is finance-capital in
frock coat, to the masses, a car
toon money-bag with a silk hat on
top.
Portentious is the silence of this
potentate. Mysterious are his
movements from Wall Street to
London's "city." Seldom, if ever,
will he speak to reporters. Like
the Bank of England's Sir Monta-
que Norman, Morgan is a Greta
Carlo among the worlds omnipo-
tents.
Once he was exposed unwilling
ly to the full glare of publicity,
before a congressional committee,
and a midget was placed upon his
lap! The effect was sensational,
colossal
Now for the second time Nor
an. the man has been barred before
the masses. This time it was a
voluntary exposure. He actually
spoke willingly to the reporters on
his recent return to the United
States.
What was the message, SO full
of import, that it burst through
the bounds of his reserve?
ALI private fortunes will be wip
ed out in 80 years unless taxes
and governmental expenditures
will disappearI =.
Henry Ford, more garrulous than
Morgan, has frequently revealed a
similarly surprising contrast be-
tween purse power and mental pu-
Gritty. His ideas, about the Jews,
about the depression being only
mental, and so forth, are a match
for Morgan's conception about col
leges and Libraries disappearing
when there are no rich people to
endow them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
JUST IN TIME

Honolulu, Nov. "a. - YESTERDAY
William Prohme, IS, widely Known
newspaper man, mailed his obih.
airy to his editor and lifelong
friend, Ray Coll, managing editor
of the Honolulu Advertiser. It
began: "Dear Boss-Put this away
for use when necessary" Today
he dropped dead of heart disease
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06

The successful politician is the
fellow who finds out what the peo-
pie are for before he takes a stand.
The strange part about it is that
nine times out Of ten he 10 able
to get away with it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06

Il IL always dangerous to clan
clothing with gasoline.
Strong tea is q splendid first aid
to burns.
A submarine can dive from The
surface and submerge to a depth
Of fifty feet in so seconds.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
WALLACE
GOES BOLSHEVIK

AOANAO AAA
Sec. of Agriculture Wallace
has gone Bolshevik on the ad-
ministration, it seems. 'HOw
can you feed and clothe and
maintain the health of a family
of four or five properly ON SIS
or $40 a week?" he asked in a
recent radio speech, and himself
replied: "The answer is that you
can't"
For how many families of the
unemployed does the security
wage" of SIG a month up a.
mount to as much as SIS, let
alone $40 a week, Mr.. Secre-
tary? How about turning over
some of the surplus farm pro-
ducts for the support of strikers
against this disgraceful wage?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
State Land Brings $11.60
an Acre at Helena Auction

Helena, Dec. 8. - Bidders paid
an average of $11.60 an acre for
public land auctioned here today
by the state land department.
1. M. Brandjord, commissioner
of public lands and investments,
said it was the highest average the
department had received in its last
10 sales, most of which were held
in northern and northeastern Mon
tana.
Of the 5000 acres offered, locat-
ed southwest of Augusta, 2,275
acres were sold for a total of $26,
395. The land was auctioned in
five-acre plots. The high price for
a single acre was $1,000.
The department also sold TO
acres of mortgage land for S6,035,
an average of $50 an acre.
Why not subscribe for the Pro-
ducers News, so you won't have
to borrow it from your neighbor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06

Entered as Second Class Matter, October
IS, 1918, at tho Post Office at Plentywood,
Montana, Under the Act Of March Q, 1877.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-12-06
THE PRODUCERS NEWS

Published Friday of each week at Plenty
weed, Montana, by The Peoples Publishing
Company, Inc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-29
FISH PATROL IS MADE BY
 CORST, PLANE

Two Bureau of Fisheries offic-
 ials, LemueG GA WingaEd, Alaska Agent, and Donald S. Haley, War den, Juneau district, were pas sengers- aboard the Gorst Boeing flying boat piloted by, Frank Knight on chartered tour of Southeast Alaska points on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. % "a
 Thursday afternoon the flying
 boat visited Hoonah and Todd, and remained overnight in Petersburg.
 On Friday, Wingard and -Ffafey
 were taken to WrangeH and later Econtacted a. fisheries patrol boat in Wrangell Nafrows, after which they set out on a patrol ofitraps (which took them along Wrangell tIsland to Fools Bay and back to Wrangell. Upon their return from
 the patrol. William Newcomb was flown from Wrangell to Ketchikan !, and return a
 1 On Saturday the Bureau of Fish
 eries, officials set out from Peters burg on patrol of Farragut Bay Fybus Bay, Gambler Bay, Seymour Canal and Hole. Harbor. and re- burned to Juneau cas ptssr