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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
velocity Dollars"

104 one cent stamps have been
plastered on its back.
Ludicrously simple and possibly
insane, but it can scarcely equal
IN imbecility our system of limit
ing goods to fit dollars. At least
Mr.. Eberhart is making an honest
effort to produce the maximum
amount of goods in Alberta fac
tories and shops and to see that
they are distributed into the homes
of the people. ALI manufacturers
and other producers are asked to
sign a covenant with the govern
ment, promising to make every
effort to reduce the cost of pro-
duction, whenever possible, and
also to produce as much as pos
slble of goods or products for con-
sumption in Alberta. Maximum
productivity means more idle men
set to work in the factories, in
creased consumption of raw mat
erial, more hauling for the rail-
roads and truck lines, increased
activity among the jobbers, whole
salers and retailers, and increased
comforts in every home.
True, all the conservatives who
feel that our present financial sys-
tenn with its forced scarcity econ
omy is priceless gift from the
gods and like Tennyson's brook
must flow on forever, are putting
every possible obstacle in the way
Of the success of Mr.. Eberhart's
social credit theology. Neverthe-
less a world that has grown
Weary of the destruction or limita-
ton of wanted and needed goods
under moneyed program that has
failed to supply the consumer with
purchasing leverage, is watching
the Alberta experiment with keen
interest and millions suffering with
under-supply in an age Of poten-
tlal plenty are praying for it's
success.
For six years our nation has
been urging people to buy as the
only means of curing the depres-
sion: We have shouted from all
the hill tops the shibboleth, "spend
10 cents a day and keep depres-
sion away" But the little matter
OF furnishing the Is cents to Mr..
Average-man has ESCAPED our at
tentlon. Mr.. Eberhart is creating
money n and forcing people to spend
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
William Eberhart
and his
and his

Even an ignorant sky pilot can
readily understand that the less
we have the more we have, and
the more we have the less we
have. Surely the consistent Secc-
rotary Wallace will importune all
the gods of the summer skies to
give us still leaner crop next
year. The leaner the crop the
higher the prices and the greater
our prosperity. The fact that
hundreds Of thousands of farm
ers have nothing to sell at the in
creased price levels does not enter
into his mathematics; neither does
the farther fact that every con-
sumner must pay prohibitive prices
for food. Why dodge the raw
facts? The few farmers of our
nation with abundant crops will
reap rich profit by the drought.
The many with total loss of crops
have received solar plexus blow.
When will it soak into the con-
Seriousness of the American peo-
pie that prosperity is not measur-
ed by dollars, but in the amount
of food, clothing, shelter and lux
ury that is distributed into the
homes of the people {?
Scrip money! Hot money! Vel
oclty money, what is it? Mr.
EDerhart squirts oil into his gov
ernmental printing press, turns on
the juice, and out streams ESQ. 600
prosperity certificates" in de-
nominations of $1.OO. They ore
used to pay relief and government
workers. They may be exchanged
1 10 wanted goods and services
Ihey are blazing hot. If one is
Kept a week its owner must h,1v
a one cent stamp in Canadian
money and glue it on the hack of
the dollar scrip certificate. Tf f.
Is hoarded two years, or 1O4
weeks, the hoarder has snent
exactly 1O4 cents for the lux,11,v
OF retaining $1.OO. Thereforo
tney are burning evervone's an
gers and the only wav to Uet ,;d
OF them is to spend them. and
wnen they are spent some one
gets a job and the wheels IF in
oustry commence to revoIve Tn
Two years time that velocity dol
lar has purchased 5000 worth ~ of
goods and services; then its own, -
e can exchange it for one dollar
II CANADIAN money, providing chat
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
LAND BANK LOANS
TOTAL $S29,55O IN
SHERIDAN COUNTY

In Sheridan County, S58 loans
were closed in the amount of
1925, $50 by the Federal Land Bank
and the Land Bank Commissioner,
from May 1, 1888 through June
80, 1886 according to information
received from the National Emer-
gencv Council for Montana.
Of the loans closed in Sheridan
county, 40 for $113,700 were made
by the Federal Land Bank and
300 totalling $715,65O by the Land
Bank Commissioner.
Through the agency of the Farm
Credit Administration in Montana
$48, 352, 1859 have been loaned dur
ing the same period. These loans
include 898 of Federal Land Bank
loans for So, 1872, 900; 5,733 Land
Bank Commissioner loans in the
amount of S13,239,8OO; $3.50 Pro-
duction credit associations total
ling S26,200,647; PASTA emergency
crop loans amounting to 1885,
948 and 6,396 drought relief loans
for $1,672,O64.
In addition to refnancing loans
through the Farm Credit Admins
tration, the farmers in Montana
were benefited also by a reduction
mortgage principal which amount
ed to $6,262, 700. Further savings
resulting from lowered interest
rates are estimated at $872,0OC
annually.
In the period Nay 1, 1895
through June 80, 1896, 1851
mortgage loans, totaling $2,056,
826 were made and 1891, 373, sos
was advanced in loans to coopera.
lives, while $318,878,072 was loan
ed to cooperatives by the agencies
of the Farm Credit Administers
ton in the United States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
Home Demonstrators
Meet In Plentywood

Presidents and secretaries from
ten Home Demonstration Clubs
will meet in Plentywood on We'd
nesday September 9, at 1880 a.
m. in the court room. Miss
Frances Smith, State Home De-
monstration Leader will be present
to assist with the program.
Among the topics which will be
discussed are: ~. A summary
of club program plans for 1886
81 by the presidents; (2). Last
years club activities summarized
by secretaries; 81. Goals and
plans for 1867 by state leader;
az. Suggestions for supplement
tary programs; (5). Club routine
(records, etc.; (6). Election ano
installation of council officers; CD
Music and recreations.
Among the old clubs represent
ed will be Homestead, Reserve
Antelope, Plentywood, Westby anC
Outlook. New clubs from Medi.
cine Lake and Raymond as vel
as several others will also be re-
presented at the meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
Socialist DiSCreditS
Charges Against
Russian Radicals

The Socialist Party of Mime
apolis will hold an open meeting
Friday, Sept. 4, 8 p. m, at their
headquarters, 631 3rd Ave. South.
Vincent Dunno, organizer for the
party, will discuss the executions
Of the Old Bolsheviks, Kameney
and Zinoview. These Bolsheviks,
close to Lenin in the revolutionary
days of 1917, were charged by the
Stain Supporters of trying to set
up a Fascist regime in Russia,
acting in close concert with agents
Of Nazi Germany. To those who
have studied the Russian revolu-
ton such charge is inconceivable,
for Zinoview and Kamenev were
bitter enemies of everything capt.
alistic, and were too good Marx
lists to practice or advocate indi-
yidualistic terroristic acts.
An overflow crowd is expected
at the meeting, due to the interest
Of the subject and the ability of
the speaker. Vincent Dunno is
we'll known to Socialist and labor
circles for his knowledge and un-
derstanding of sociology, econom-
les, and history. Admission will
be 15c.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
Socialists Are Active
In Political Campaign

Minneapolis Socialists have en-
tered into the current political
campaign with energy and zeal.
A series of outdoor meetings have
been arranged. Socialist speakers
present the case for Socialism at
these meetings, literature is sold,
and signatures are being collected
in order to place the Socialist can
didates upon the ballot. Norman
Thomas and George Nelson are
the national presidential and vice
presidential candidates of the
party, while, in the local elections,
it is running, v. r. Dunno, fam
Gus leader of the 1884 Minneapo-
lis Truck Drivers strike, as its
candidate for Secretary of State.
In this election, V. r. Dunno, is
the sole candidate for state office
that the Socialist Party is running
In it's state platform it has called
upon all the workers to give crit
cal support to the candidates OF
the Farmer-Labor party of Min
nesota, except in those cases
where it is running its own can.
didates. 1t is the belief of the So
cialist Party that only it's program
and principles are equal to The
task Of solving the economic
social, and political problems Of
modern society.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
(by R. Carleton, Moore, Mont.)

Possibly William Eberhart of
Alberta. Canada, with his "hot
money" is bats under his bald
pate. His unforgivable insanity
seems to be an effort to create
sufficient money to allow the peo-
pie OF the province to absorb all
the goods and services that fac
tory, mine and farm are capable
OF producing. By what stretch of
Christian charity can any one for
give such a fantastic theory? In
classical language he bathos. Whv
doesn't he come across the border
and learn from US. In time of
panic when we haven't enough
money, owing to the withdrawal
Of bank credit by calling in loans,
20 purchase our commodity goods,
we solve the problem by DESTROY
ing the goods. If we were wreck
ed on a desert island with a bill
non loaves of bread and a billion
dollars in currency, we would feed
the bread to the sharks and care
fully cache the money in a noun
tain cave. Such wisdom is almost
Godllke. Any school boy econon1-
lst knows that the MAKING of
money is much more important to
civilization than the distribution
OF goods and services to a needy
people. All industry is based up-
on this assumption, and how could
industry be mistaken? We spill
our brains to make the goods fit
the money, instead of the money!
to fit the goods. Doubtless in orr
simplicity we will keep right on
making the tail wag the dog
When we haven't enough money to
purchase our goods, at capacity
production, it is just too bad. bT1t
nothing can be done about it.
Our secretary of agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, measures nros2
perlty by the yard stick of dol
lars. He continues to blaze IN
black headliners across the front
pages of our dailies that the great
drought OF this year is an undic-
gulsed blessing. It skvrocketad
the prices of farm prod1ce Tba
lean crop of SO will bring more
money than the fat crop Of 20
therefore the leaner the groom &c
richer we are. Why try to con- on
troYert such indispntabie logic !?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
Montana Ranks Second

The annual report of the Bur-
eau of Internal Revenue at Wash
ington showing the comparative
efficiency ratings of the various
collection districts throughout the
United States, has been received
by Lewis Penwell, Collector Of In
ternal Revenue at Helena. Accord
ing to this report, Montana ranks
second in efficiency among the Cd
collection districts in the United
States.
The record is especially satisfy
ing in view of the handicap Mon
tana deputies have in the great
distances and wide-open spaces OF
Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
NORMAN THOMAS
TO SPEAK IN
TWIN CITIES

Twin City Socialists are already
planning for the visit here Oct. s,
of Norman Thomas, the party's
presidential candidate. When he
spoke in Minneapolis in 1892, then,
as now, the party standard bear
er, overflow crowds heard him at
the Metropolitan Theater. In this
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

campaign. with more people than
ever thinking about social prob
lens, the party expects on even
larger attendance. Thomas St.
Paul visit will include a dinner
meeting at 6 p. M, after which
he will come to Minneapolis for
the mass meeting. From Minnea-
polls Thomas goes to Duluth and
Superior where party members are
making arrangements similar to
those of their Twin City COM
rades.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
ITALY DRIFTS
FARTHER INTO
BNNKRlJPIrY
Dispatch sI3s Says lDue.,, .
glme Has ADansSsss,ss. ,
Low Gold RessrVsS 'G =
ISL a Traders Are ' W,sSais,
Against New Deal. ''O'3

!Cd5Iy's latest pieca -,
which she hoped 'I rsDi St butt,
crease the gold ana 1nSaplGly 70 n
change reserves So ~ 5Orei@ =
SAbyssinian war and Ft5Se s byS
y, declares 5Ilal"7 ". tailed led i'asSSoe
despatch in the London l man h
aid. uOA Daily Ba,
:. Instead of achieviD.
diplomatic victory owen Svprs q saSae
ZIONIST Powers, M GlSS Iias SaS
clustering this time 5o o. S&
in such a way as to- las fs000ts
Block effectively anv u
vival of Italian trade ay SpeedyA
Antagonize Italian 49,,
are anxious for any new IsSoS sIV VII
now that the end Of the tbe S Uasll'a
been followed by the e'' iD VA b.
Remove-at least for
cradle period-any poSsibils CoaId
credit from British SsnI,ia.y dl
/ to Italy. ~ INNS
First evidence of the f.a,..
this new bluff was seen I T5os l 3
British trade mission y "u' = u'
packed its bags and ret NJ %a \
London after Italian renrass 1 |.
tlves, acting on Mussolini's l ori...
had opposed any reasonabI s'I h,
for the settlement Of ey, w
debts to British traders ''
/ The Duce hoped that. afts, ~
exhibition of the "strong 6ssi N
the visiting mission would rsni5.
late and accept whatever esS
lions for future trading Itah rn
to offer. wv
Instead, the British represent
tives walked out-and now, 4
Great Britain, opinion has Rsj
ened among business firms sgsiT
any resumption Of normal tsS
until a full settlement of OutStgni
ing debts has been reached.
Even in quarters formerly syn
pathetic to Italy, this latest rus
has caused a sharp reversal
opinion.
EXERCISE CAUTION
It is now disclosed that, en-.
before the British trade misic
went over to Rome, the Board
Trade had advised traders 4
exercise caution in undertake
new commitments in Italy"
This recommendation was mad
because, under the AnglO-laIi
clearing agreement alone son
100000 pound sterling is 8
due to British firms and indTdI
ais for goods supplied man nan
months ago-while private de9
bring the total to substantial
more than 100000 pounds
Italy now, with dangerous
" low gold and foreign e.
change reserves, vaguely mgI
gested that these debts Sn .. J.
be settled at some future time
out Of such favorable balances
as there might be following y.
a big increase in OrOeI' 2"
Italian goods. -, n.
Now those hopes nave !. =" 1
finally liquidated, for ths ERE. ! Il
evidence to suggest that thsisI X \
be anything like a SuOs 13iaai, d I
crease in orders from BRIAN
any other country. -. ,+,nar
For SO poor is Italy's . S.ssu9i
as q creditor that even Peru, "a
imposition Of Sanctions she = ~ vi \
geTionsIv declining marke,t; i ss,' y
worlds goods, and to sell 49,
she must buy from aOrOSu'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04
LABOR LOOKS
AT THE PRESS

Father Coughlin SEE: 1 believe
In observation-disclosures a fair
profit of course.
l bet he believes in Social
ism tOO-just 50 long as the
bosses still own the factories.
Headline from the Springfield
Republican: Politicians to Concen-
trate in Drought Area.
Sure-anything that's all
wet goes over there.
Garet Garrett, Saturday Even
ing Post economist: To talk of |
hunger in America is absurd. We
do not know what hunger is.
Upton Sinclair: It is a part
Of the thesis of every Satur-
day Evening Post article that
In all other countries they
have starvation and misery,
while we in the u. S. A. have
security, abundance and peace.
Boast of the Scripps-Howard
newspapers: For over half a cen
tury we have fought for the right
of labor to organize and choose its
own representatives and to bargain
collectively.
And then the American
Newspaper Guild asked the
World Telegram to recognize
them. But that's something
else again.
Herbert (Grass-in-the-street
Hoover: Governor Landon will be
elected President. Inside of six
months after his election every
man in the United States who
wants work will have work.
Yah, workers in Fascist
Germany have work tOO-wOrk
In labor concentration camps.
Besides, we don't want work
50 much, we want the right to
be lazy-lazy without worry,
lazy in the midst of plenty.
That's what America can give
to all her people. But Mr..
Boss says no.
Thomas Lamont, Morgan part
ner: There will be no general war
~ Er1vsOr,o konoT1Co OK mar aoYf IF
the people do not want to fight.
But remember, Mister, in
1916 the majority Of Ameri-
cans didn't want war either.
That's why they voted for
Woodrow Wilson. But we got
war. It's not what the people
want, it's what their masters
want that is real.
Stephen Leacock: For forty
years I've taught economies. Now
that I'm retiring, 1 admit I've
been teaching bunk. The old econ
onic theories throw about as much
light on our social problems as a
glow worm.
And glow worms are of no
use today. What is needed is
the searchlight Of Marxism
as more and more workers
are discovering.
Headline: Marlene Dietrich Pays
$500 for John Gilbert's $50 bed
sheets.
Some guys would pay $3.50
for Dietrich's bed sheets-if
Marlene we're In betwe-Oh
well.
Dorothy Thompson, in the Her
ald-Tribune: The Communist Party
members in America have recently
decided that their ancestors all
came over in the Mayhower, and
their credo is expressed not in the
Communist Manifesto but in. {.
the Declaration of independence.
Earl Browder is about as inf1am-
nnatory as David Lloyd George.
It's come to the point where
it's a race between the C.. p.
and the ID. A. r. as to which
one enrOlls the most blue
blOOds and waves the flag the
hardest.
From an editorial in the Mime
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

From an editorial in the Mime
apolis Star: No ruler has been
more consistent in his regard for
the less fortunate people and more
insistent in his demand that some
thing be done about it (than King
Edward Of England).
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

The sympathy of the rich
Cor poverty never preserved
the pOOr from humiliation and
need.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

The bosses will do every
thing, in fact-but get off our
backs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

It's come to the point where
it's a race between the C. P.
and the ID. A. r. as to which
one enrOlls the most blue
blOOds and waves the flag the
hardest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

Dorothy Thompson, in the Her
ald-Tribune: The Communist Party
members in America have recently
decided that their ancestors all
came over in the Mayfower, and
their credo is expressed not in the
Communist Manifesto but in. /.
the Declaration of independence.
Earl Browder is about as inham-
nAatory as David Lloyd George.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

And then the American
Newspaper Guild asked the
World Telegram to recognize
them. But that's something
else again.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

Herbert Observation-Disclosures
Hoover: Governor Landon will bC
elected President. Inside of si2
months after his election every
man in the United States who
wants work will have work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-09-04

Some guys would pay $3.50
for Dietrich's bed sheets-if
Marlene we're In betwe-Oh
well.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-06
SECRET FLEET
IS BUILT BY
RUSSIA

MOSCOW, Oct. 6 UN.SO.
Under the startling headline, THE
Soviet Union is Now a Sea Power"
Russia today revealed through the
official newspaper Pravda that the
u. S. S. r. has MADE long strides
towards building a fleet strong
enough to compete with Germany
and Japan.
Details were kept closely
guarded, as all concrete informa-
ton about the Soviet fleet has
been since the revolution, but
Pravda let it be known that not
only has the Union a formidable
submarine array, but battleShipS
are being built and the vast Russo
Siberian coaStline is being heavily
fortified.
The news of the Russian naval
coup, a bombshell parallel to the
announcement a year ago that the
Soviet Union has a standing army
of 1900, 900, dealt a hard blow to
Britain'S hopes to bring Moscow
into a naval limitations pact broad
ening, as in the case Of an Anglo
German treaty, the 1886 Anglo
F'ranco-American treaty.
RusSia'S action now puts teeth
in her demands. voiced in naval
discussions in London, that she
will submit to no limitations to
which Germany and Japan are
not parties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-06

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6 Q.N.S0.
Spencer Tracy was congratulating
himself today on a narrow escape
from death by drowning, result
of a collision between two boats
off Catalina Island while he was
on location.
A studio boat crashed into the
small dory occupied by Tracy
and Dave Thursday. technician,
throwing them into the water.
A heavy smoke screen. laid
down previously to simulate fog,
prevented a rescue for some 20
minutes, during which Tracy and
Thursday held on to their over
turned craft.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-06
Cuban Police Seize
Revolt Plot Suspects

HAVANA, Cuba, October 6.
Police today continued their drive
against persons suspected of COM
plicity in the iSland-wide uprising
allegedly scheduled for October
IL by the Young Cuba revolution
airy organization. A ditional
houses and other buildings were
searched for hidden arms.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-06
PAY roll OPEN,
HOPKINS SAYS

International News service
Works Progress Administrator
Harry l.. Hopkins today labeled
charges made by John Stutz, Kan
sas relief director, that Works
Progress Administration refused
to reveal it's payrollS, as another
one of those red herringS.' He
said:
"Stutz makes it pretty clear
that he has put himself into the
hands of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. AS q matter
of fact, our records are open to
John Stutz or to anybody who
has a legitimate reason to see
them, but we won't allow these
records to be abused by indiVid-
nails who would exploit them If
they got their hands on them.
"Mr. Stutz' complaint about
Federal agencies forcing local
communities to share in the cost
of relief is a thing we have been
up against in Kansas all along.
THE State of Kansas has never
been willing to pay anything to-
ward the aid of the unemployed.
Other States seem to think that
it is only fair that the cost of
unemployment relief should be
Jointly borne by local, State and
Federal governments"
VOTE AMERICAN
Hops for Bagdad
NICOS1A, Syprus, Oct. q.
N.S0.-Jean Batten, New Zealand
school teacher-flier, arrived here
this afternoon and hoped off
again for Bagdad on her at
tempted record flight from Eng
land to New Zealand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-06

Complete furnishing for
your guest room. Con-
sists of Dresser, Metal
Bed, Steel Spring, Com.
Portable Mattress, 2 Pill
lows, 2 Sheets and 2
Pillow Cases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-06

'OTE AMERICAN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-15

Answer to Tuesdays TwIxxIer You are the taxi-driver." How old are your
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