The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

When 30 million or even 10 mil
lion Americans declare for a rad
lcal change in government dis
bursements and method of taxa
ton it is high time for the rest
to study the plan. Opponents of
such a number can no longer rest
the argument with dognmatic de-
malls of its feasibility. 1t is not
probable that such a large num-
Der of Thoughtful literate citizens
are aiming at something beyond
the attainable. Perhaps they
have studied the figures also.
Almost so years ago the best
seller for many months was
Looking Backward" by Edouard
Bellamy. Critics then called it
utopian. It would now be called
communistic. Having read it then
must at least class it as mar
1velously prophetic. Many of Bel
lamy's dreams have become true.
He visioned the machine age, it's
powers of production of wealth.
he coupled with it a just division
Of that wealth, elimination of the
waste incident to our present day
competition and A RETIREMENT
FROM ACTIVE WORK WITH
PERMANENT GOVERNMENT
SUPPORT OF ALL PERSONS
ABOVE as YEARS OF AGE.
Briefly he pictured in poetic prose
not what are the present conji-
tons in Russia but what the
Communist Party in the Soviet
Union aims in a generation or
two to bring to actually. While
he did not conceive of wireless
messages he did mention music
sent by wires from a central sta
ton into every residence and
many other recent inventions of
public comfort and education. The
book is said to have been inspir-
ed by Tennyson's immortal poem
.Lochslv Hall" which spoke of the
Aerial Navies and the Federation
of the world.
Bellamy's fondest dream of the
amount of wealth that could be
produced by modern machinery,
human ingenuity, division of la
Dor, have been proven true by
such cold cold blooded arithmeti-
clans as the Technocrats and even
by the report of the Committee
appointed by President Roosevelt
some years ago to compute the
annual capacity in dollars of the
United States to produce wealth.
The optimistic or disappointing
report of this committee was that
though our national production of
wealth since 1929 due to the lack
OF mass purchasing power had
not reached so billion dollars
the year, yet in the year 1929 it
mad reached the magnificent peak
OF SO to So billion dollars. The COM
mlttee estimated that by means
OF the IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY ARISING SINCE
1929 if everybody were put to
work 8 hours a day, this figure
could easily be raised to produc-
ton of 125 billion dollars of
wealth the year, and steadily in
creased. This would provide 1000
dollars a year income for every.
man, woman and child in contin-'
entail United States. Had the pres
ident used a million dollars of the
6OOO millions at his disposal to
print 2 million copies of this re-
port along with the chairman's
analysis of it and placed enough
copies for every high school and
college student in the county ev-
erybody would now know the
truth and in the words of the
greatest agitator ever born, the
truth would now be making them
free. The report has gone to the
forgotten archives of Washing
ton; 20 thousand copies have pos
sibly been printed: The corpora
ton owned press has damned it
to oblivion by silence about it. It
Is taboo. A hundred years from
now some historian will dig it up,
tell the world of it as evidence of
the lnferiority complex of mass
America of this day and age and
assert the strange, almost unbe- |
hevable fact that 80 million Am
erlcans were intuitively, blindly
working and voting for a plan
demonstrated by a report of a
committee of 100 sapient econo- |
mists to feasible, and beneficial,
directly to a class, indirectly to
the industrial life of all, and |
none Of the 80 million forfeited |
themselves mentally with study of
the report or spread it as propa-
ganda among the electorate at
large.
The opponents of the Townsend
plan proclaim that the magnitude
Of its annual expenditure of
CURRENCY is a bar to its be-
ing put into practice. Note well |
said CURRENCY. Our so-called
money is already vastly inflated.
The initiation is causing the Incl
plent stock boom which will get
beyond reason and in another
year or two burst and put hack
where we were in 1888. THERE
IAN BE NO PERMANENT
PROSPERITY OR SOCIAL VEL
FAKE WITH Is MILLION UN-
EMPLOYED AND 40 MILLION
PEOPLE IN DISTRESS.
The amount required to es-
say the payment of pensions
OF $500 the month to all above
6O years of age in the nation
Is IS billion dollars of the pre-
sent inflated currency.
If the forceful distribution and
compulsory present spending of
ms additional purchasing power in
ne masses would restore our
wealth production of SO to SO bill
ION dollars of 1929 from the high
ISL annual production since then
u 0O billion dollars the procrust-
IAN distribution would be well in
cured. Even a Morgan House
bank clerk can figure it is good