The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
The Producing Outlaw
By REV R. CARLETON Moore Mont

Under our price and profit
lem cGm' pr productivity is no longer Ss VS.
Glal put anti-social-a vicious SO
IA" against society. Millions ~, Ou1
De coId' hungry, destitute snS may
"a out profit necessaril1~ fd naA-
The curblng of productio5 P toices
be. our gods and how can an r. FTlces
prices prices up unless supplies are LEI 1Coat
uo 20, Modern economics f,no AGpe
oilly IN scarcity and when ther elG -
no zeal scarcity we enact ia1I Is
create artificial scarcity. Tvs ~
~, Fran kiln D. Roosevelt and hi.
oraln stormers are perfectly Io ms
cai from their Point of view Tbee;,
ratlonallzation is superb 0rr Ne" 81
onomIc status quo must be nr re-
eo. That is their premise IT,
tore-quOd erat demonS+rottInl'ee mere
tne only possible method bv Which
price levels can be kept IN is -
hlre farmers, factories and noineS
70 produce less. Conner cine l-'--i -
all modern inanciers do VIII as -
Postulate,, money is the princinie
thing; therefore get none PIE
with all thy getting, get a little
more proht"" the ratiocination #
thelr syl!oglsm is perfect. The arcb
angels OF God could find no faw in in
But some of US dare to think
that furnished food, clothing. shell
ter and comfort to the teeming
millions has a more Christian an5
humanizing flavor than the niIin@
up of vast fortunes for the borae
Mt of the predatory beasts that in
habit the jungles of wall street
NO, we are not "reds"; lust Learn
ing to think in terms of the Great
est humanitarian who ever moved
across the slopes of time VIZ
IN His infinite compassion said
Feed the hungry, cIothe the naI-
ed minister to the reedv: mas.
much as you do it to Others VIM
minister to Me-" In all the realms
OF history you can find no move
savage onslaught against the whole
racketeering system Of modern f.
nance than those that fell from the
inspired lips of the Carper ter's son
who never owned $500 that He
could call His own and was so
poor at death He was buried in 2
borrowed tomb. Yet, who has he.
queathed to posterity a legacy 50
rich in humanizing impulses as the
One who said, ''tKe foxes have
holes, the birds of the air nests.
but the Son of Man hath no place
to lay his head" That the worlds
greatest humanitarian views with
complaicency the vast inequalities
in the distribution of wealth is a
libel upon His teachings and the
whole tenor of His life.
Production For Use! Anv ten
year old knows that such a caption
is eminently christian in its mo-
tivity. production for PrOftw
Who has to be instructed, if he has
a grain of decency in his makeup,
that such motto is pure jungle
ethics-a survival of the atavistic
red tooth and claw" method Of
the Niandirthal man.
If goods are not created for the
use and benefit of man in the name
of high heaven what is the purpose
of their creaotion? If the farmer
does not raise wheat, corn, potato
es and livestock to feed the teem-
ing millions of earth, then what
valid excuse can he find for his
productions ? If clothing, shoes and
housing material are net manufac-
tured for the purpose Of shutting
out the icy blasts of winter and
making people comfortable, then
let some wise Daniel tell US the
object of their manufacture.
If we are honest we would be
obliged to say that under our pre-
sent social order they are made
to sell at a profit. Verdabilitv is
the big word in modern economics
Everything in use by man, from
tooth picks to flying machines
must be translated into money be-
fore it can be distributed to the
people. If you haven't the pun
chasing leverage it is just too bad
but nothing can be done about it