The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-13

Roosevelt, Bankers, InduStrlallStS
and Brain Trusters, all and sundry,
who have occupied, or still occupy
the tents of the mighty fail to pro-
duce the magic formula that will
permit pauper to pay out more
than he takes in.
We live in an age of political
wonders, with financial ledgerde-
main the order of the day. None of
it turns the trick wherein a poor,
misguided, and sometimes dissatis-
fled, human whose assets are o,
adds $4,000, secured by labor or
from the dole, ard then subtracts
$4,000 cost plus $1,000 profit,
while paying for the article his
labor produced. Two plus two,
minus three simply will not leave
two. The wisdom of an Einstein
cannot change this mathematical
law; no more can the juggling of
the administration change the
basic laws of a profit system, or
bring permanent prosperity thru
such a system.
The House of Have cannot sell
to paupers and make money there
from. With daily blessings by the
administration they do the next
best thing from their standpoint,
which is, to curtail production to
a quantity that acn still be sold
at a profit. Insofar as possible
they pass up the paupers and do
business only with those who still
have some wealth from which to
contribute an ante. We shall pres
emily try to portray the net effect
of all this.
Thus far, these Fascist policies
have kept the national production
machine moving, but at con-
stantly retarded speed. Up to date
Mr.. Ford has filled only a couple
of states with human products OF
his financial genius. If he was the
only pauper maker our economic
junk pile might creak alone fol
several generations yet. Unfortun.
ately, other Goliaths, of industry
and money, have been equally dill.
gent and effective. Messrs. Nor.
gan, Rockefeller, Dupont, Guggen.
helm; Raskob, ct al, have created
enough more of paupers to popu.
late half the remaining states
Still the story is but partially
told. Not all pauper makers office
on Wall Street.
Mr.. Getmore is a leading either
OF Centerville. By hard work, long
hours, thrift, good judgment, reti,
cience as to personal affairs, ultra.
conservatism in tax reporting, E
few transactions not wholly on the
up and up, and a seldom credited
| dash of blind luck. he has accumu.
lated one million dollars worth Of
worldly goods and created six hun.
dred twenty-five additional pau.
pers, who cannot then purchase
products of our economic system
at cost plus. There are some three
thousand Centervilles; in each
from one to several hundred lead
ing citizens engaged in profit and
Ipauper making.
Assuming total national wealth
as two hundred billion dollars and
population as one hundred twenty
i've million persons, then each in.
dlvldual who has more than $1,000
worth of tangible, tradable, taxable
wealth is pauper maker to the
extent OF his excess holdings. Or
a family basis flour and one-thirC
persons per family an equal share
of the total is $6,933.33. When one
family has more some other family
must have less, or none.
Inc precise extent of pauperism
is not within my knowledge. A
complete and accurate census
would be enlightening, and posi-.
bly, a bit disturbing, so it hasn't
been done. By way of rough ides
we may head the list with twenty
million on relief and then throw il
ninety percent of all workers ano
their dependents, about twenty
million of the farm population
two or three million small business
men now on their way out tc
bread lines, and few million more
not otherwise classified.
We cannot always pick a pau.
per by his rags. Some are MOI
down to that yet. Millions are still
on payrolls and will continue tC
1--we and look prosperous until fur.
Their curtailment of production cuts
off the job. Then credit hides Z
multitude of poverty stricken
cases. Mr.. Four Flusher lives il
an $4,000 home, under a $4,000
plaster, and keeps up with the
Joneses. His financial balance
sheet is in the red and constitutes
the real test regardless of chrome
plated cars, freshly creased trous
ers, or indulgence in Afternoon
! cocktails. The victim is dud wher
II comes to permanent maintenance,
Oh an economic system that mus
continually concentrate wealth, III,
cannot keep up the ante to tn,
House of Have.
80, If a hen and a half laws al
egg and half you should be abb,
to figure out how many eggs on,
men lays. Likewise you have prob
ably reached some conclusions q
to why there can be nothing HI,
nard times" in a country that ha
q handful of billionaires hnn
dred million paupers and abou
one-fifth of the population some
where in between. Possible wo Ca 90,
get a little clearer picture @o an,
better idea Of the situation b,
casting up to lind out hog man
A definite and nationwide uar
per making Process was Iaunche
with the advent of a machine 40
|, IN 1880. The machine age develol
! ment has moved by acceIeratio
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