The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-06-26

Vie hungry Such as 1T war, or Jobs
at which they could earn enough
to keep body and soul torether
but even the Hoover administra,
ton was beginning to realize that
| something of this sort had tn he
done or a bloody revolution was
inevitable. Readers will recall that
the Hoover administration had in
its closing weeks made half
hearted and reluctant gesture to-
ward providing food for the suf-
terlng masses, although Hoover
and his advisers could not be con-
WINGED that the great depression,
heralding the final "crack-up" of
the profit system, was anything
but a TEMPORARY condition.
The frantic activity of the
Roosevelt administration however,
indicates more thorough under
standing of the gravity of the
situation but practically every ac-
tlvity, every wiggle of the Fan
Dance, indicates an attempt to pre-
serve the old system rather than
to inaugurate the new.
Consequently we have the num-
erous alphabetical bureaus, at
tempting to discover ways and
means of carrying on the old pro-
fit system under changed condi-
tions to which it was not and
never can be adapted. We have
the numerous "made work" pro-
grams in which the useless activi-
ties carried on ranged from ra1ing
leaves and spreading gravel by
hand, to the construction of rural
privies and municipal dog-pounds,
all carried on for one purpose
alone, to give back to the masses
a portion of the purchasing power
which had been taken from them
by the old profit system of some
thing for nothing. Many of these
projects" useless, all of them in
efficient, and because they we're
inefficient they cost the govern
ment almost double the amount
they would have cost had they
been efficiently operated. For
example one local project en-
ployed about fifty men and seven
or eight teams in crawling q
stretch of road for about mile,
when efficiently operated, these so
men could have been paid their
dailv wage for sitting around a
fire, one power shovel, three dump
trucks, and one man on a four
horse blade or tractor patrol could
have accomplished three times the
work and saved money for the
government. Need anything more
be said to convince the reader that
such useless and waSteful actlvl-
ties were only a smoke screen fol
the purpose of creating the I'M
preston that the administration
was making a sincere attempt al
bringing about recovery, while II
reality the purpose was to pre-
vent revolution and maintain the
status quo while the capitals
minded advisers of the administra
ton devised some method of pre-
serving the old profit system o.
something for nothing.
In preceding issues l hav'
pointed out the futility of the &C
} tions of the Republican party an'
! the utter uselessness of hoping TO!
anything substantially construC
tive to come from the promises o
the Democratic party to "save tn
, nation" Both old parties are cap
italist minded, intent only on pre-
serving the profit system of some
thing for nothing and every can
didate who in the present or III
ture aligns himself with either o
: the two old parties, by that yer,
7 alignment confesses either that n
desires to preserve the profit sys
! tenn of something for nothing
that he has not the initiative to
2 strike out for the Inauguration 0
a new system in which profit, o
E something for nothing will b
!: eliminated, or that he simply de
+ siree public office and takes tn
I old party method Of getting it. ;
q long as the voters continue TO .
= taken in by the meaningless
e mouthings Of old party candldate
Y lust that long will the great gan
e Of Pooling the Public continue
: be profitable to politicians an
detrimental to the public.
y In future articles / expect to d.
: vote more attention to the mar
y ner in which the great game
! Tool;-,o. +he PuhIic Is carried O