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CO. COMMISSIONERS
WILL NOT RAISE
LIGHT PLANT TAXES
that the "Valuation of the property of
the Plentywood Electric Light Com
pany forttaxation purposes be raised
from $12,000.00 to $20,000.00, but the
motion received no second.
Mr. Lundeen is sincere in his? desire
to serve the people and he shows no
favorites, Mr. Lundeen stated to a
News reporter that he honestly be
lieves that the Electric light with all
its equipment is worth much more
than $20,000 and that if the Electric
Company does not pay its share of the
taxes it must be paid by some one
else, mostly by the hard working
farmers who are not receiving nearly
the proportion back from their invest
ment that Mr. Fishbeck and his col
leagues are receiving frdYn the light.
plant.
Commissioners Tyler and Ibsen gave
for their wishing to keep
the valuation at the present sum ex
cept that they thought that was a 11
the property was worth and they re-1
garded the $40.000 valuation given to'
the Public Utilities Commission as a
bird of another color.
Commissioner Lundeen has done all
he could in the matter and in making!
his motion to raise the valuation of
the above named corporation, has put
Messrs. Tyler and Ibsen on record
agam. ^^^""thom
County* Assesor Aspelund intends to
appeal the matter to the State Tax
Commission. _._
IOWA SENATOR ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER IMPROVEMENT OF MASS-j
LS 1 NDER SOVIET RI LE.
By JA 1 ! LOVESTONE
Senator Brookhart has just returned
from a trip to Soviet Russia. The
lowa senator is now an ardent advo
cate of immediate unreserved* recog-1
rition of Soviet Russia, and is out to
explode all the lie s being spread about
Workers' and Peasants' Republic by
Gompers, Hughes, Easely and Walling
and their ilk.
Having reached Berlin on his tour
of investigation of the cooperative
* movement in Europe the senator hit
upon the idea of going to Soviet Rus
sia. Here a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune painted such a hor
rible picture of Soviet Russia to
Brookhart that he became very inter
ested and ar^gnged with the "Red*
ambassador in Berlin for an immedi
ate entry. The senator told his story
of Russia before a highly interested
audience at the Co-operative League
auditorium. ,
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no reason
SENATOR BROOK
HART SHATTERS
LIB ABOUT RUSSIA
WANT TO SEE WHAT THE FARM
ERS ARE DOING
Brookhart was especially interested
in seeing what the Russian farmer is
doing. Entering Russia by way of
Poland he found that the Soviet fron
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tier outposts did not at all look as
bloody as pictured in our press. At
the border he was met by the heatLof
and "commissar somebody^or other
representing the Soviet government."
"Being a farmer myself, I did not
need an interpreter to tell me what
the farmers of Russia were doing. I
saw 2000 miles of farm land, planted
as well as in England, France and
Germany, and more than in the Unit
e d States. I reminded myself of the
story of the Berlin correspondent who
told me that the peasants wouldn't
| plant. What is more, I saw these
2000 miles of planted land from a
stage the window of a moving train,
which gives the lie to all the tales of
staging for effect,"
Here the senator took occasion to
poke it hard into old Sam Gompers'
r jbs. Talking of his interpreters who
were given him by the American re
Hef administration, Brookhart said:
I One was a woman whose husbando
was a czarist general who fell in bat
; tie against the Bolsheviki. The sec
' end's husband was still in a Red pris
; on. The third was a baker, « who in
the czar's time, employed 3500 -people.
Now his factory is in the hands of the
j state. It is with such interpreters
! that I undertook to see things as they
i were in Russia.
Conditions Greatly Improved
j I saw Minsk, JMoscow, Kieff. I
; saw a great number of peasants'
houses under construction. " All of
were superior to '.be old homes,
The new buildings showed more ad
vancement than was made in a thous
and vears under Ctarist civilization,
At first the peasants had welcomed
tho counter-revolutionary generals
with bread and salt. But they had the
landlords along with them. These
landlords turned us out of our homes,
i The Soviets gave us our homes and
1 educated us. Yudenich, Deniken, and
i Kolchak murdered us took our grain
! and seed, and were responsible for the
! famine.' This is what the Russian
! farmers told me."
j Senator Brookhart *vent on to sav
that the peasants told him that they
I could not understand how a good conn
, try like the United States could get
j along without Soviets. They "were es
| p ec ially bitter against the counter-rev
olutionists, and punctured every lie he
had heard about the Bolshevist prose
cu ti n g religion.
Describes Agricultural College
; The Senator especially looked into
a g r icultural conditions. "I visited the
aRr icultural college near Petrograd in
charge of Professor Williams, an
American who had been there for for
ty y ears . When the Revolution came
most 0 f the teachers in the school
s t 0 od by the Soviet government. There
were 5 000 students, here, although
t h e school is equiped for only 2,500.In
t he library there were to be found
some 0 f {he latest scientific agricul
tur a l bulletins published in Iowa, Mas
s achusett s and New York. The reg
a j ar CO urse is three years, ifut if a
student fails he is given a chance to
com p| e t e his course in five years,
There are eleven such colleges with
from two to three thousand students
in each.
"Now let me contrast this picture
for you with what I saw in some other
countries. In Constantinople there is
an agricultural college with 45 pupils;
. _ . . . ... .. . .. .
in Buchanst with 40; m Warsaw it is
be orgamzed.
sees real dev element op
H er pl se ® rea , development
tbe real Russian people. I went to see
fbe grounds where the great Agncul
tural Exposition is to be held in Mo»
cow in August, there are set aside
for it 155 acres of ground better than
any even in Iowa. It has 14 acres, oi
foreign exhibitors. A wonderful con
trast is to be seen in the exnioits ot
the old and new houses, i he latter
are remarkedly clean. While the peas
ants wait around for the Exposition
they are given short courses ot agn
culture by the Soviet teachers e.>pec
ially sent there for this puipose.
Speaks Highly of Soviet Law
"Kalninin, the larmer-rresiacnt o
the Soviet Republic was out oi town
when I was in Moscow; so 1 could not
see him. He has great ability ami1 is
much talked of. He is the head of tne
Soviet Court, biear the seat of the
court there are houses * or ®® ver ®' ' ,un 0
dred peasants. It costs them 6 to c
cents a day for staying there while
they wait their turn for nearing,
Also while they wait, they are given
a short course in agriculture,
, Brookhart sited three typical cases
appearing in the Soviet court, «m
told of their disposal. 1 he benavoi
went on to say smilingly: I have no
reason to doubt that the ca^es \\ere
decided fairly and without prejudice,
though they were not decided by law
yers.
Production Increased
The Iowa Senator also nailed tne
canards and lies spread about Kussian
industry. Speaking of his typical ob
servations Brookhart told his much m
terested audience:
Textile factories.
found production better than betöre
the Revolution. The goods turned out
in these factories are as good as 1 saw
anywhere. These mills made _ 3,U0U,
000 gold rubles in net profit after
meeting deprecation, etc. These fac
tories are getting 98 per cent produc
tion on a 44-hour week basis as com
pared with the sixty-hour week before
the Revolution.
Powerful Cooperative Movement
Senator Brookhart had occasion to
see the co-operative movement at work
in England, France, Germany, Den
mark, Norway, Poland, and Soviet
Russia. He was enthusiastic about
their great progress and high degree
of development reached by the Soviet
co-operatives. The Senator met the
manager of the Central Co-operative
and was tremendously impressed with
the efficiency of the management and
operation.
"Thirty per cent of all the business
i 1 Russia is now being conducted by
the Co-operatives. Measured in gold
rubles their produce is worth six times
that before the War. They expect to
organize all the State Industries with
in a few years with the approval of
the Soviet government has extensive
ly helped the Co-operatives which are
now flourishing to such an extent that
they have over seven million active
members.' ~
Brookhart also said that he had
talked matters over with Chichenn,
Trotzky, and the Commissioner of Ag
riculture. They told him that Russia
is planning a thorough re-organization
of industry along co-operative lines.
According to Brookhart, Lenin in his
last message outlined this plan as the
new economic policy to be followed by
the Soviet Government.
For Russian Recognition
In closing, the Senator contrasted
the order and steady improvement of
conditions in Soviet Russia with those
in some other European countries.
Brookhart is strong for American Vec
ognition of Soviet Russia in the inter
ests of our own farming masses. as
well as in the interest of the Russian
farmers.
"I saw four State
In one plant I;
OUTLOOK HOSPITAL
NOTES
Dorn to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fawcett,
a daughter, at the hospital, August 5.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jens Tenge, a
son, at the hospital August 6th.
Dick, the four year old son of Amos
Westphal, who received a severe
I crushing injury of the nose by the
kick of a colt, is a patient in the hos
pital.
Fern Morin, the 10 y 7 ear old daugh
j ter of J. A. Morin of Redstone, who
had an operation for appendicitis com
plicated by peritonitis has returned to
her home.
Mat Ocb of Westby operated on at
the hospital for appendicitis has re
turned to his home.
Mrs. H. Bureau of Whitetail who
had an 'operation at the hospital has
retvu nod home.
The young son of H. Christiensen of
j Dagmar who had an operation at the
j hospital has returned to his home.
Mrs. J. A. Noll of Raymond who
I gave birth to a son at the hospital,
i July 18th, has returned to her home.
Earl, the son of J. U. Buelslin of
! Redstone is undergoing treatment at
j the hospital for an infection of the
1 face.
London Letter
By EVELYN SHARP
(Federated Press Staff Writer)
LONDON.—Although officers of the
Dock Strike committee and Transport
and General Workers' union told the
men to return to work the dock strike
continues in the ports of London, Hull
and Manchester and Salford. This un
usual defiance shows how deeply
felt the impossibility ^of accepting
wage cut of a shilling (22 cents)
day, based on a technical-fall in the
cost of living which is not reflected in
the actual articles bought by the dock
er's wife with her husband's earnings.
Whatever the result of the strike,
will probably lead to a revision of the
methods by w r hich the official figures
of the cost of living are arrived at.
The strike is beginning to affect
food supplies, and the employers,
trading on this, are calling upon the
government to intervene. Any at
tempt to use blackleg labor for the
purpose will be met with violent op
position from the strikers.
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In the house of commons,
sumed debate on Socialism reached its
foregone conclusion with a ^vision
that chronicled 121 votes for and 368
against the "gradual suppression of
the capitalist system by an industrial
and social order based on public own
ership." Speakers on the other side
did not defend the capitalist system,
but merely attacked Socialism.
Little was gained by » debate that
belonged more to the academic plat
form of a private debating society
than to parliament, where its effect
was rather to discourage those who
hope for something more from the La
bor party than such a very gradual
change as the one depicted in the res
olution. .
Lady Astor's bill for prohibiting the
sale of intoxicants to persons under
age of 18 had received a gratuitous
advertisement from the "scene made
by its promoter when, indignant at
Sir Frederick Banbury's action in talk
ing it out on a previous occasion, she
is alleged to have shaken him. It
passed in the house by a majority of
247.
the re
resolutions
Besides international
passed by the annual meeting of the
Transport and General Workers un
ion, a resolution passed unanimously
to bring force to bear on the govern
ment to bring in a statutory eight
hour-day-bill. It was pointed out that
this was vital from an international
point of view, that the British repre
sentative at the Washington^ confer
ence had been instructed to tins er*
fect*_but the government had gone
back on its word. Other countries,
which had given effect to it, were
withdrawing from that position be
cause Great Britain had not honored
its word. The remedy is more Labor
members in the house of commons,
where the government had been press
ed in vain upon the subject.
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The Laborparty have tabled a mo
tion for discussion in parliament, de
ploring the "enormous and growing
expenditure" on the naval and air
force and other military preparations,
and urging the government at once to
cal! an international conference to
consider a program of national safety
based on disarmament.
Sleeping Sickness Claims
Another Victim in Butte
BUTTE, Aug. 6.—-Sleeping sickness
claimed another victim here when
Charles Stevens, 23 years .of age, re
siding at 1053 Colorado s.treet, suc
cumbed to the peculiar malady after
an illness of six weeks.
For more than a month and a half
specialists battled with the disease
that threatened the young man's life,
only to fight a losing battle. Stevens
the son of Charles Stevens, form
erly of the Stevens and Manley Groc
ery company of South Butte, who died
several years ago. The young man is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Maude
Stevens, two sisters, Julia and Ger
trude Stevens of this city, and an
uncle and aunt in Colorado.
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NO EXTRA SESSION
OF CONGRESS SEEMS
ON COOLIGE'S LIST
PRESIDENT RESERVING DECIS
ION, GOMPERS SAYS AFTER
INTERVIEW.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—President
Coolidge apparently has no present in
tention of calling an extra session of
congress, but those who called on him
today received the impression that he
had not made a final decision.
The possibility of an extra session
was discussed by the president with
Samuel Gompers, president, and Frank
Morrison, secretary, of the American
Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers
said the president appeared to have
no intention now of calling congress
together ahead of time, but was re
serving any r definite decision.
The subject was brought up by Mr.
Gompers because of his desire to sub
mit legislative proposals on behalf of
organized labor. He made an engage
ment to see President Coolidge early
next month, to submit labor policies
which are to be discussed at a meeting
this month of the federation's execu
tive council.
The labor leaders spent more than
a half hour with the \president in
discussion of industrial matters. The
situation in the coni industry was
taken up but without mention of any
threatened strike.
TWO TREATIES
J SIGNED BETWEEN
TURKEY AND U. S.
PACT OF COMMERCE AND ONE
ON EXTRADITION ARE AP
PROVED BY DELEGATES.
LAUSANNE, Au^. 6.—Two treat
ies between Turkey'" and the United
States, one of amity and commerce,
and the other of extradition , were
signed without ceremony in the pres
ence of a small group of Americans
this afternoon in the salon of the ho
tel at Ouchv, where the American del
egates have had their headquarters.
Ismet Pasha, Turkish foreign min
ister; Riza Nur Bey and Hassan Bey
signed for Turkey, and Joseph C.
Grew, American minister to Switzer
land, for the United States,
the point signatories, Ismet Pasha
and Minister Grew, read short addres
es voicing mutual satisfaction at the
conclusion of the conventions.
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Great Falls—Recent contract enter
ed into by Standard Oil company with
California Petroleum company will
materially affect production in Kevin
Sunburst field.
Broadus—Butler Oil & Gas Co. drill
ing at its test well on Williams place
in Coalwood structure.
Try a Want Ad—It Pays.
BUTTE JUDGE KNOCKS
OUT TAX COMMISSION
IN 1 HOUR HEARING
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legislative journal. The senate jour
nal, he pointed out, contained the aye
and nay vote, and he declared that the
enrolled bill had been signed by the
presiding officers of both branches 01
the legislature, had also been S1 ^j e<l
by the governor, \nd had been filed
with the secretary of state. That was
sufficient, he argued, in view of the
fact that the amendment bad been
published in the newspapers, and that
the people had been given sufficient
notice that such an amendment was
to be voted upon. The senate journal
contained the aye and nay votes, and
also contained five references to the
proposed amendment, he said.
Martien Did Not Attack Law
The attorney general contended fur
ther that Martien was attacking the
pav of the members of the commission
and had not made a direct attack on
the law. The possibility of a multi
plicity of suits had not been shown,
he said. He also contended that Mar
tien was not the proper person to
bring this suit, was not the proper
person to clog the wheels of . this
branch of governmental machinery
and that he was not a taxpayer who
should bring the action. He asked
that the action be dismissed on the
grounds that Martien, the plaintiff,
was not entitled to the relief asked,
and that the complaint did not state
a sufficient cause of action, arguing
that the courts were without jurisdic
tion to go behind the enrolled bills for
other than to determine
any purpose
the roll call vote.
Spaulding Argues His Side.
C. A. Spaulding, attorney for Mar*
tien, argued that the people them
selves had fixed the method by which
the constitution could be amended, and
that one of the provisions must be set
the legislative
Otherwise, the people have
a proposed
forth "in full" upon
journals.
no right to vote upon
amendment.
When the suit was first filed friends
of the state administration advised
disqualifying judges because of
tain friendships that might exist, and
for the reason that certain prejudices
were apparent. > M .
When Judge Poorman was disquali
fied the administration hoped that a
judge from a district where the Ana
conda Copper Mining company and
the Montana Power company, and also
other large corporations were not so
largely in control, would be asked to
hear the case, but for some reason
Judge Poorman called a judge from
the great mining county of Silver Bow
one who was appointed to his position
by former Governor S. V. Stewart.
It is at the state capitol that the
judge last called was not challenged,
because he too would call a friendly
judge, and thus the only thing that
could be accomplished would be an
other delay, and it w r as considered that
in the end the matter would have to
be decided by the state supreme court.
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FEDERATED F LP.
ASKS UNITED FRONT
CHICAGO.—The Federated Farm
er-Labor party has released to the
press a letter of July 31 to William
H. Johnson, chairman Conference for
Progressive Political Action, appeal
ing for a united front of the two or
ganizations. It is proposed that a
negotiation committee of five and five
meet to consider ways and means of
launching an immediate nation-wide
campaign among farmers and workers
preparatory to the 1924 elections.
"The final bankruptcy of the farm
ers, the robbing of the workers of the
right to strike, and the victory 7 of a
third party (in Minesota) show clear
ly the necessity and possibility for the
organization of a powerful Federated
Farmer-Labor party which would em
brace all the xvorkers and farmers.
"We have brought together for :n
dependent political action not less
than 600,000 exploited farmers and
workers. For that reason we call up
on the Conference for Progressive Po
litical Action to unite its efforts with
our efforts, for the creation of a
Farmer-Labor party 7 which will em
brace the whole working class and the
exploited farmer masses.
"The Conference for Progressive
Political Action, in its first convention
of February, 1922, made the decision
that the time is ripe for progressive
political action, but not as yet ripe
enough for creating an independent
political organization. But the second
convention, on December 11, 1922, at
Cleveland, instead of going one 'step
forward went one step backward. It
did not organize the independent pc
litical party of farmers and workers,
* but decided to take part in the prim
aries of the old capitalist parties.
"The two million workers and
million farmers xvhose organizations
are affiliated with your conference,
are dissatisfied with this eternal post
ponement and hesitation. They are
just as much dssatisfied with eternal
splits in the laboring masses. We are
therefore convinced that we are ex
pressing wishes of the masses behind
the Conference for Progressive Polit
ical Action when we propose joint ac
tion for both big organizations."
NEW YORK.—New York City has
62 represenatives in the state assem
bly—the lower house of the legisla
ture. Of these 62 just nine have made
good or excellent records in fighting
for good and opposing bad legislation
according to the Citizens' union,
fairly nonpartisan organization of this
city.
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LOS ANGELES.— W. E. Townsend,
notorous professional witness in crim
inal syndicalism trials, who when he
is not "on circuit" sending men to
«. n employed as a police
officer here, has arrested a local news
papermen and three citizens. The
leporter had stopped in Pershing
Square to get these persons decisions
'J? , a , straw vote on presidential
(delates being taken by his newspaper.
I own send charged the four with
vagrancy and they have been held
er for trial on $50 bail each.
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