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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
RESOLUTION NO. 4

Whereas a most critical situa-
ton in regard to foreclosure by
the Federal Land Bank of Spo-
kane, Washington and other agen-
cies and private individuals upon
the lands of these complaining
farmers, who reside thereon, and,
if Governmental action is not i'm
mediately taken to prevent such
foreclosures, great and irrepara-
bic suffering to the farmers and
their families will result there
from. They state their grievances
following:
I. Whereas due to drought and
insect pestilence some have been
and are unable to make regular
payments on their loans.
II. By declining market prices,
some have been only able to pay
small portions of the acurred
payments.
III. By hail storms some have
lost their entire crops.
w. Conditions of crop market
ing have been unsatisfactory, be-
cause the cost Of production has
been greater than market returns.
v. The Land Bank has and does
demand full payment of delinqeun-
cies, and its officers and agents
have been unreasonable and over
bearing in their demands, al
though dealing with men who are
honest, Industrious, and of highest
integrity, and in many cases the
Federal Land Bank has procured
buyers for mortgaged lands be-
fore foreclosing, thereon demon
strating that the mortgaged lands
are ample. security for the loans
made.
VI. That many resolutions have
heretofore been sent to the FEEDER
al Land Bank and to Government
Officials protesting these forecIos-
ures, but to date all have been ig-
nored.
VII That in many cases the mort
gage has purchased the property
at foreclosure sale for less than
the amount of the foreclosure
Judgment, taking deficiency
Judgment for the balance.
Now. therefore be it Resolved:
that the Sheridan County Farmers
Union at its annual Convention
hereby demand that Governmental
action be Immediately taken there
on for the relief of the conditions
herein set forth and for the aoa1e-
ent of all foreclosure actions now
pending, and be it further resol /,
ed that COPIES of this resolution pe
sent bv air mail to the Presloee,nts
Of the United States and to the
United States Senators end hepfs'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10

Whereas due to drought many
of our farmers will harvest no
crop, and will have no cash to buy
fuel and other necessities of life;
Furthermore that cattle will have
to be sold many Of which are mort
gagged to the Government and that
the money before has been held by
the Governna ent; Be it therefore
Resolved: that the Sheridan Coun-
ty Farmers Union at the eighth
annual convention goes on record
asking the Government to extend
these loans and allow the farmers
to keep all money for cattle to pay
expenses of living and for other
necessary expenses of the family.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
Continued from Page u


the help of Ayres, Monaghan.
Murray and other politicians in
securing the widest possible pub
3. That the committee demand
that the government pay the ex-
penses of witnesses who have
come in from outside where the
charge is made that they were fir
ed unfairly.
q That the committee make its
investigation of the barracks and
cOmmissaries in company with a
workers committee.
8. That the committee attend a
barracks mass meeting and ex-
plain how the hearings will be
conducted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
CHRISTIAN YOUTH AT CON
FERENCE VOTE SOCIALIST

LAKESIDE, Ohio-The largest
vote given any political party was
given to the Socialist party in a
poll taken of the 500 delegates OF
over Is Protestant faiths repres-
emitting over 100000 young peo-
pie. The Socialist party received
l66 votes to the 81 votes given the
Republican party, the 20 votes CIV,
en- the Democratic party, the IL
given to the Communist party,
an dthe As given to farmer-labor
party. Eighty-nine said they were
in doubt. =
seThe present economic order is
anti-Christian; a ruthless, COM
netive profit system cannot be re-,
conciled with the Kingdom Of God
AZ revealed in the life and teach.
mos Of Jesus" was tn opinion Of
432 If the delegates while 8 favor
ed the present system.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
THOMAS ADDRESSES
EDUCATORS Ma
IlONAL CONVEN.

PORTLAND, Ore.-"Tbe nr;-
mary trouble is not the old deal
OF new, more money or less
Norman Thomas. Socialist can,
aIdate for President, told the de-
legates to the national conyen-
ton Of the National Education
association meeting in this city.
lou cannot have abundance in
This machine age without DIan-
mig for abundance. You cannot
plan to produce or share album
dance as long as profit for
increasingly absentee own
ers-is your god.
Profit depends upon exhibit
alton of workers with hand and
brain. 1t depends upon relative
scarcity, Planned abundance re-
quires social Ownership-nOt of
consumers goods, the house you
I'VE IN your automobile, but of
the great natural resources and
the principal means of prOduc-
ton and distribution.
I'VE must deliberately set ont
to see that every family must
receive the $1,000 minimum that
modern technology makes pos
sible. Above that, reward should
be according to deed, not owner
Ship"
With marked feeling Thomas
said, "The machinery which might
be used to conquer poverty is used
to make war steadily more de-
structive. In new world there can
be no victory, only degrees of de
feat and misery. Yet the United
which has least cause for
alarm, leads the world in absolute
and relative increase in araments
since 1914 and in military expendi-
lures"
Of the two old parties, he said,
Republicans are nowadays for
some social welfare work, but only
under a program of states rights.
(Big corporations aren't afraid of
the states*) A bottom, however
an inconsistent platform may dis
gUise the fact, the Republican par
Y is the party of special privilege,
the ally of Hearst, and the Liber-
ty League, all Of whom seek to
idntify liberty with the right to
grab what you can and keep
what you grab.
Roosevelt has made the Demo-
cratic party profess nObler
ideals and to try certain re-
forms more or less favorable to
the workers within the capital
list system. But without great
success. The President accepted
nomination in an address full Of
noble ideals unrelated to a speci-
fic program. This friend Of Ia
bOr,' endorsed by many LABOR
leaders, was nominated by Judge
Mack who recently got a sweep
ing injunction against the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers."
He summarized the Socialist plat
form calling attention to the need
for a constitutional amendment
giving Cngress power to legislate
for the welfare of the farmers,
and consumers. He con-
Socialism is the answer to
the problems Of the machine age,
the fullfillment of the hopes of the
patriots and the sages."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
RESOLUTION No ,

Whereas another droutb has
blasted the hope of our farm no mn.
Iatlon and whereas most surelyT .
lot of relief will have to be nro-
y,lded;. Be it therefore Resolved.
that this meeting of the Sheridan
County Farmers Union. in its
eighth annual Convention. 90 on
record in favor of Direct and Work
Relief for all who apply. and be It
further resolved that work and re-
lief should be provided at once
while weather conditions are fav-
orable, instead of waiting until
the cold winter weather. When
conditions outside a farmers con
troll cause him to apply for Work
Relief, he should also be left free
to earn his honest dollar without
the. supervision of Relief shoppers
and case workers. Be it further
Resolved: that where people are
unable to work, relief should be
given in regard to actual needs in
stead Of how little he can be per-
suaded to take as it has been here
in the past.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10

to keep old people from co1Iecfino
pensions due them; Be it thereforee
Resolved; that the Sheridan Co.. Slgr :
ty Farmers Union in the eigbtb
annual Convention 90 on rncol IS LII -
favorlng a pension law thai vi, III
Cake care OF the old people in hon
or or instead OF beggar relief. We are
aIso opposed to the idea of forcing
ola people to sign away their pro-
Perty. This is not a Just nension
Give them an Honorable Dfscharg,le,
at the age of 60 and a cash na =
sion, that will care for ali their
needs and allow them to live in
peace and security to which
good soldier is entitled f or the
rest of their days. Thev have
fought a good fight.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
Red Owl Store Opens

Plentywood's newest business
institution, Red Owl Store, OPEN
ed today IN the new building on
Main street just completed by
Hans Thompson.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
LINERS SyoN, UNION

.-tinued from Page = -
C9 Con y the County from the
ri BED j, u # Representations IN
1 iPointa e. enthusiasm. The dele
@ sil fine fettle were pleased
a,91 u their r respective locals Gals
ned ID % to build a stronger and and
sr1iITs s2n SS Union during the
ss 81! ysff6 for the ensuing c year
Ofie .isa.ts ID as follows; County GId3
... s.eS,s andrew Dahl Of Coal %os,l
.In .,..s reelected; Gan Bs.; Laut-
go was elected Vice-Presld I7
"a "a Secretary was also reelec-
ALLOWING resolutions were
irted:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10

sentatives for Montana and to al
labor and farm organizations. IN
the state demanding Immediate
action hereon.
These foregoing resolutions were
d,1Iv proposed, seconded and IN,
animouslv adopted this 9Th day OF
.Tnlv. 1886 at Brush Lake, Mon
tana.
Committee: nro,+
Dan Campbell, Redstone, Mont
Conius Laursen, Dagmar' NOM
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!, .,sas the present old age
b ..I law is only pauper relief,
,lo 29.T Iea excuses will be made
Evening star., 1936-04-10
BERLIN ASKS COURT AID
TO KEEP USE OF MAILS
Says Work Is Legitimate Despite
Post Office Contention in
Fraud Order.

An injunction to prevent Post
master General Farley from closing
the mails against him was asked in
District Supreme Court yesterday by
Frederick A. Berlin, executive secre-
tary of the National Board of Trade,
the National Better Business Bureau
and the International Better Business
Bureau, with ofices here.
He told the court he was cited by
the Post Office Department to show
cause why he should not be barred
from using the mails because he al
1egedly was trading on the good
reputation" of the other organizations
with similar names.
Berlin said he responded by point
ing out that his organizations were
incorporated under their present
names and that their work is legiti-
mate. They furnish legislative infor-
nation to members, sponsor fair trade
practices, make researches and answer
queries, he declared.
AS result of the citation, the Post
ONCE mail fraud order was issued
march 10, he stated. He was repre-
sented by the law firm OF Blanken &
Blanken.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

the ability to make the most Of oppor-
tunities offered through attendance at
school.
The keys will be presented on behalf
Of the club by e. Barrett Prettyman.
former corporation counsel of the
District. Winners are Robert Slaugh-
ter. Central High School; Walter
Guthrie, Roosevelt; Thomas Benjamin
Mitchell, Eastern; W. Raymond Wan
kali. Mckinley: William C. Shelton,
jr., Western; William N. Seitz, Wood
row Wilson; Carl A. Hechmer, Con-
zaga, and Donald F. Heaney, st. Johns
College.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools: Stephen E. Kramer, assist
Evening star., 1936-04-10

Century Club. The awards are an
annual event.
George Moore. who has been an
employe Of the District IA years, was
judged the best trash collector in the
city. Elkin Clements received second
prize.
Other winners were: James Wells,
first, and Murray Tobias, second, gar
bage collectors; George Brooks, first,
and Clayton Wanzer, second, ash
collectors: John Bell, first, and Alonzo
Coles, second, sweepers.
First prize winners received S. cash
each and second awards were 81.
Mrs. w. w. Husband, chairman Of
the civic section of the club, made
Evening star., 1936-04-10
ClvITANS WILL AWARD
GOLD KEY ON TUESDAY

The annual award Of the Civitan
Gold Key to outstanding students Of
local public high schools and two pa
rochial high schools will be made at
a dinner in honor of the eight winners
in the La Fayette Hotel Tuesday at
$50 pm, 1t was announced today by
the Civitan Club.
The students are selected for the
award by the principals Of the various
high schools on o basis Of leadership.
good citizenship and
Evening star., 1936-04-10
ARTISTS INVITED
TO Join EXHIBIT
Eight Department Stores to
Display Works in Sec
ond Annual Showing.

Artists of Washington and its vicin-
ity have been invited to participate
In the second Greater washington
Annual Art Exhibit Of oils, water
colors. graphic arts, miniatures and
small sculptures, to be held simultane-
ously in eight local department stores
from April 20 to May 2.
Entries for the show were being
received today at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, the trustees and director Of
which have extended to sponsors Of
the exhibit the courtesy Of use Of the
gallery's large basement for sorting
and assembling the collections. Artists
have until 4 pm. tomorrow to submit
their entries, by way of the Z street
entrance to the gallery.
Each Of the department stores will
collect one Of the selected groups Of
pictures and sculptures for display
during the exhibition period and will
purchase 500 worth Of the works.
After the show the remainder Of the
exhibits will be returned to the
Corcoran Gallery for disposition by
the sponsors Of the show.
Board Sponsors Exhibit.
The exhibition is being sponsored
and arranged by board of directors
Of which Mrs. Eugene Meyer Is chair
man. Other members of the board are
Charles Bittinger, Frank r. Jelleff,
Garnet Jex and Mrs. Samuel A. Swig-
gett.
Assisting are business mems
committee, headed by Mr.. Jellef1; the
District of Columbia Federation Of
Women's Clubs. and an art commit
tee of which Mr.. Bittinger is chair
man.
Serving with Chairman Jelleff on
the Business Mems Committee are
B. B. Burgunder, Julius Garfinckel,
Ralph Goldsmith, J. w. Hardey, j. j.
Hasley, II. H. Levi and c. z. Whit
more.
Representing the federation are its
art division, consisting Of Mrs. Frances
w. Wheeler, chairman; Mrs. Edward
O. Hurlbutt, Mrs. Harry c. Kimball,
Mrs. Mary K Nalle and Mrs. A. Hoyt
Taylor, and its art department, con-
sisting of Mrs. Swiggett, chairman:
Mrs. Lloyd S. Morrison and Mrs. Ruby
Smith Stahl.
Art Committee Members.
The Art Committee members, in ad-
dition to Chairman Bittinger, are Mr..
Jex. vice chairman; Mrs. Lloyd W..
Biddle, Miss Eleanor Gusts, Olin
Dows, Fulton Lewis, C. Powell Min
nigerode, Mrs Morrison, Russell Parr,
Duncan Phillips, A. H. o. Role, E. B.
Rowan. Miss G. Rebecca Sahm, Allen
Sherwin, Mrs. Stahl, Mrs. Swiggett,
r. P. Tolman and Mrs. Frances w.
Wheeler.
!: It is the hope of the sponsors that
the exhibition may be placed on q
permanent and self sustaining basis
and that it may become an asset to
the stores, the community and the
artists. Every effort will be made to
have the show pay its own costs.
The jury Of selection and arrange
fhents consists of Mr. Bittinger, Mr..
Jex, Mrs. Swiggett, Mrs. Wheeler, Mr..
Tolman, Miss Sahm, Mr.. Dows and
Mr.. Phillips.
The exhibition is the joint enter
prise Of the District of Columbia
Federation of Womens Clubs and the
Washington Post. Stores cooperating
IN the show are Julius Garfinckel g.
Co., the Hecht Co., Woodward &
Iothrop, s. Kann's Sons g. Co., Lans-
burgh 81 Bro, w. g. J. Sloane, Palais
Royal and Frank r. Jelieff, Inc.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Laskey's Son to Wed.

LOS ANGELES, April 10 R.-
Jesse L. Lasky, jr., scenarist and son
Of the motion picture producer, an
nounced yesterday he will be married
April 10 to Miss Frances Drake, whom
he met three years ago in Mexico.
Miss Drake is not the motion picture
actress.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
STAR WASHINGTON,

the awards at the District Building.
Col. Dan I. Sultan. engineer commits
sioner, congratulated the winners
and thanked the club for It's interest
In the cleanliness Of the city.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
TRASH COLLECTORS
GET CASH AWARDS
Eight Employees of District San.
itary Force Rewarded for
Efficiency.

Cash awards for excellence and
efficiency in carrying out their duties
as employees OF the Districts sanitary
collection services were made to eight
workmen yesterday by the Twentieth
Evening star., 1936-04-10

ant superintendent of schools; prin.
cipals of the schools represented and
parents Of the students will be guests
Of the club at the dinner.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
DERBY DRINKS BOOSTED
Consumers Tax Goes in Effect
for Turf Classic.

1. FRANKFORT, KY, April 10 P1.-
Kentucky Derby visitors this year will
pay more for their drinks.
A legislative act signed into law yes
terday by Gov. A. B. Chandler, provid-
ing a consumers tax on liquors, goes
into effect April 30-two days before
the turf classic.
The new levy on whisky Is IS cents a
pint,
The Arizona gleam., 1936-05-16
Notes of Science

Sow bean cultivation in the United States has adv
an rapdy in recent that about 100000 acres
were devoted to ii last year.
Electric apparatue has been invented in Germany
destroying documents grinding the paper nts bits 80
small that they cannot be reunited. AA
wise adjustable to pipes Of all standard sizes has
been invented that contains slot to guide saw to In
sure that pipes cut sQuarely.
An Ensshman has invented q plane that produces
the notes of composition in different colors on white
disk. each nete having its own coLor.s
The Arizona gleam., 1936-05-16
Clean Copy Must Rsachthe Office Not Later
than Tuesday at6oclock p. NJ
Texas Centennial Exposition

Dallas The first State wide Negro Amateur Boxing
tournament staged the Southwest will be Texas
Centennial Exposition June This date is Negro
Dav at the S5 OOO 900 Worlds Fair and the Hall of Ne
gro Life and culturs will be dedicsted at that time.
The athletic program includes fights at all weights
for the State championships 1t ls hoped that Te
xas Negro NAV be found who may be able cope with
Joe Louis Detroit The winners in all amateur classen
which scale from heavyweight flyweigh. will be gives
gold medals and trophies Elimination contests being
held in Negro Athletic Clubs in all parts of the state.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-05-16
lcroppers who make up great part farm labor in the

Icroppers make up great part Of farm labor in the
South.
1 Undertaken by the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
minstraon, now consolidated into the WPA. the
found Alabama sharecroppers be in hopeless finan
cia situation Sixty of AAA benefit payments
received by landlords, the shows. and only
40 per by tenants And Of the tenants VIII, did
ceivs AA checks. go cent forced to turn
the whole amount to their landlord in payment Of
debts
The report said that the sharecroppers had pro-
fitted little financially from the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration payments, since in 90 per cent OF the
cases bulk of the money had passed to the land
lords 1t added because of their indebtness and the
peculiar relation hip to the Ian 1ords maj ory of
the tenants were unable profit from government
grams other than relief.
The 'peculiar social relations referred to are the
semi euda remnants which have been merged into es
ptalsm in the South. and under which the tenants are
bound to the landlord by debt slavery. Ku Kux Kan
terror and landlord control the Tne and
his family work all year. but at the end OF the year h9
the landlord m money than at Cne oeglnnlngs
according to the landlord reckoning The must
buy his supplies landlord, ex 'roant p'
ces and must market his share of the crop through his
landlord at any price the latter fit to offer him.
Landlord Forced Payments
The chief creditor was the landlord the report says
and in about the third of the the relief family
claimed that payment had been forced In one Of the ten
counties studied ths amount paid to the land
the forty four sample households that received
gov aid $48 The amount received
bv the farmers of this county under the reduction
the chief of aid $5. 1t therefore
clear that greater part of such funds passed at
! into the hands of the landlords.
SO bad conditions that 'over 80 per cent OF the
OO2 relief households questioned considered they
better relief than working for the landlords the
ranort said This in spite of the notorious low rate of
relief paid 10 Southern communities especially to the Ne
gro families
| With the A.A.A handing out fat checks to b .
landlords in payment reducing their tho
of choppers been thrown off the land and de-
prved of their Of existence In Southeastern Ar
100 Negro Negro families have been forced to
out In tents during the bitter cold OF last winter.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-05-16
Landowners Hogged AAA Checks
To Choppers

Washingten- government survey OF landlord
tenant relations in the South shows that AAA payments
which hsve recently been disclosed including checks In
six figures number Of landownerss have been
of very little financial benefit to Negre and white share
The Arizona gleam., 1936-05-16
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We array ourselves the parties of No lnlvldual
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Races religions aod prtie5 Asserting to the self
evident truth m ntained in the American Decara-
ton off Independence, that all created equal
and endowed by their creator with certain 1nalenabe
rghts-among which life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness We shall strenuousy contend for
equality Of Justice. and the right of life liberty and
happiness unhampered by petty preJudices. and tor
the political freedom of the Negro
OUR PLATFORM
l. The employment of Negroes in all public works
supported by public utilities from any tax fund from
which Negroes not exempt -
2. Race employees in all businesses which are
patronized largely by our group.
g. Aid and encourage Negro business enteprlses
d. Broadcast facts of the health restorative facl
tities of our climate
s. Encourage and advocate the buying OF homes
and the creating Of bank accounts among Negroes
g. To fight prejudice and discrimination.
7: The advancement Of the race educatonaly
m1rally aai spiritually.
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-12-18

Pole lines represent substantial
part of a telephone company's out
side plant investment, and Of this
investment poles represent a con-
siderable proportion. The problem
of conserving pole timber becomes,
therefore, one Of Importance.
It is a problem involving many
factors. One Of them is the span
length, or the distance between
poles, which is governed principally
by two requirements. These are that
the line must be strong enough to
provide a reasonable factor of safety
against being blown over during
storms; and that the poles be spaced
closely enough to provide against
the breaking Of the wire or cable
span which the poles support.
"Forty Poles to the Mile"
For the types of copper and iron
wire which have been used almost
since telephony began, the span
length meeting these requirements
was about 100 feet. Use of this span
length for many years made it a
sort of standard, accepted so gen.
orally that "forty poles to the mile"
was almost always correct assump-
ton.
Even with the advent Of telephone
cables, with their stronger support
ing strand and low wind resistance,
this figure did not change much, be-
cause most cable lines were built on
old open-wire lines or, sometimes,
cable and wire were carried on the
same pole line. Also, early cable
lines were primarily for distribution
purposes and poles had to be located
close together so that the wire en-
tering houses would not be too long.
With the coming Of toll cable lines,
however, with their long stretches
In the open, studies of materials
showed that spans could be in
creased above the usually accepted
limits without affecting the service
value Of the line.