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THE PRODUCERS NEWS PAPE); OF tHE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE Continuing the OUTLOOK PROMOTER PEOPLES PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER Entered as Second Class Matter, October 18, 1912, at the Post office at Plentywood, Montana, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CHARLES E. TAYLOR, Editor and Manager, Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESSASSOCIATION Quack, fraudulent and iiresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any reader will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the re liability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923 THE LAST OF THE "PATRIONUTS". The tribe is almost gone! The "Patrionuts", who reigned supreme in the lands but a few short months ago, yapping their jargon, and vicing with fellow "nuts" in their zealous and laudable efforts to become the most dis tinguished and outstanding "nut" in community, county, state or nation— depending upon the width of vision of the particular member of the tribe. A few days since, they swarmed over the land—they infested the streets; they ambled on the highways, they skulked in the valleys—every where you found them, waving their flags, delivering speeches, mobbing people, tarring and feathering, making public nuisances out of themselves. But, alas, a dreadful disease set in—the ertswhile tribe of the "Patrio nut" is deceminated. The few remaining subsided during the passing months, until, it seems, this super individual, is about extinct. The "Patrionut" vanished, the relief of the just ordinary sane man was marvelous. There are two or three of them left, however, as painful reminders of the days of distress. The last of the "Patrionuts". ' One of these, the most aggravated specimen still extentf late lamented Mr. Alvin Owsley. Another one, Judge Kenesaw Mountains Landis, base ball fataer, is now running about "Patrionutting" whenever he can get a fe\y aL the "nuts" together. County. And finally there is one of these "rara avis" left down in Roosevelt This particular "Patrionuts" name is Dan B. Noble. It is said that the school boys of that county are taking pictures of him, so as to be able to show their grandchildren just what a "patrionut" looks like. Last week, this noble Mr. Noble, broke into the headlines of the hectic press with- a lurid tale concerning a raid on the great industrial center at Bainville by a few strolling wobblies who had a meeting in that city and made a seditious talk to a number of harvest "hoes" concerning harvest wages and otherwise demeaning themselves in a manner calculated to inspire terror in the heart cf that "great mofifa" of the usurers union who skins the farmers up for ten-per cent in-, that territory... These "wobblies", as they are called, met and discussed what they considered "a fair wage for a day of labor," and the advisability of setting the wage of the season, just as the farmei-s are talking about doing now in regard to the price of wheat—"Setting it"; and just as the money mongers did long just as the oil profiteers have done; just as am} per ago; the Railroads have done, and just as the farmers will do more effectively wheq they get brains enough to organize and stick together the same way the "wobbly" and usurers" union does. We . hope, that time will come. — The man back of the . "Patrionut" is most always some money lender and ten per cent shark. ' s Let us look for this "usurer" in the wood pile. Bank collections are poor—the crop is poor—the price of wheat is poorer yet. Thé picking for the ten per centers looks pretty small—the wages of the harvest hands jook awful big—for old ten per center knows that the more money the wobbly gets the less he will, so he wants to set the Wages ;fqr thp wobbly, ' - The usurer is so used.to setting things that he can't get -over it. He sets the price of usury without any interference-from the wobbly. He tells the farmer how much he will leave him to eat the coming winter, whether his wife can have any underwear for the frosty days not. mostly not, -and the "wobbly" does not call out the marshal He fixes everybody and everything. So he might be generous enough to let the "wobbly" fix the price of a day's work. .. Mr. small town usurer is now willing to have the farmers fix a price wheat—he wasn't always in favor of the idea' though—just recently. Because he has at last got it into his "nut" that farmers can't pay usury, etfen pay baek principal borrowed, with the price Ije is getting for his wheat. So it may be well to fix a price on wheat as well as wages paid to "wobblies". or mi or Of course when "wobblies" meet the same as Bankers and Thresher do to set the price of usury and threshing, to set the price of their labor power, and distribute literature concerning the perfection of their "Standard ," it is all sedition, and the "Patrionuts" that the usurers siked" onto them, and federal troops and United States men Labor Power Trust keep around are " marshals are called out to put down insipient insurrections. The Governor however, in the case of the Bainville Insurrection did not fall—the thing just fizzeled out, and the Roosevelt County "Patrionut" had the following comical and humorous apology published in the "Small Town Bugles" of Roosevelt County in a pitiful effort to extricate himself from the ludricous and ridiculous mess into which he had gotten himself: "SHERIFF AND U. S. MARSHAL TAKE CHARGE OF LABOR SITUATION OVER AT BAINVILLE "The labor situation in Roosevelt County is probably not as bad as people have been led to believe by the publicity that occurred this last week. It is a fact, however, that during the past few years there has been organized gangs of radical labor agitators who flocked into the local railroad junction town which makes a very bad effect on harvest laborers. It is observed that these agitators each year come in a few days ahead of the harvest laborers, make contact with practically all the men that come in. sell them seditious literature and force them to buy the red card whether they want to or not and they even go further and run un prices on harvest wages that are way out of reason. The influence of this small hunch of agitators when spread on the constant inflow of men who are looking for work in the harvest fields, is very bad and a loss to farmers ot north eastern Montana. "It was after such a meeting at Bainville a week ago last Sunday, hen harvest wages were set by these agitators at $6.00 per day and hoard, and after such actions as explained above, had been going on for a number of years that the County Agent, after a conference with the Sheriff and some of the citizens of Bainville, requested as sistance from the U. S. Marshal in assisting the local authorities to put a stop to this condition. There has been little or no violence at Bainville but the effects of the work of these few men is very serious upon farmers of this part of the state who depend on help in harvest At the present time the sheriff has the situation ♦) ing their ernps. well in hand". So fades from the landscape the "Patrionut". TAX LAW APPEALED. how it got by is not known A law was passed by the recent legislature _providing for the abolition of the penalties on delinquent taxes, and re ducing the interest from one per cent per month or twelve per cent per year to seven per cent per annum from date of delinquency until paid, on all taxes brought bv the county only. . , County Attorney Erickson went into the district court in June and peti tioned for an injunction prohibiting the operaton of the law on the grounds and for the reason of the unconstitutionality of the act because of crass dis crimination between taxpaving citizens prohibited by the United States Con stitution and by the State Constitution under that section which forbids the legislature to diminish, exchange or postpone any an obligation due the state, but Judge Comer denied the injunction, being reticent, he said, to pronounce act of the legislature unconstitutional. County Attorney Erickson perfected an appeal to the Supreme Court this week and forwarded the papers to Helena, notifying Attorney General Rankin to appear and prosecute the same. It is too bad that the act was ever passed and it is regrettable that It surely never would have been passed had its an the Governor signed it. significance been comprehended. . The law was passed as a farmers relief act, but in fact it is an Invest ment Bankers Bonus Bill, not five farmers in a hundred being benefited there by, but constituting an actual gift of several million dollars to foreclosed land holders. > ! Investigation of the facts in Sheridan county disclosed that it means a loss to this county of nearly $100.000; that the delinquent farmers do not number more than five in a hundred, the remaining ninety-five being non resident mortgage holders, and that these delinquent taxpayers, instead paying their due taxes are holding the tax money for other uses; paying the county only seven per cent, it is easier and cheaper to borrow m»ney this wav, than to part with the money to pay the taxes. It is to be hoped Attorney General Rankin will vigorously prosecute this appeal to the end^that the vicious act be destroyed. With every change, Fighting Bob LaFollette looms larger. If either Senator Cummins or Senator Curtis takes Coolidge's place, as president the Senate, LaFollette will move up a step nearer the control of the important Senate committees, or senatorial rule and custom will have to be violated keep him down," says the Alexandria, Minnesota, Park Region Echo. SCHOOL NOTES TAKE NOTICE! The Compulsory Education law will be enforced without partiality this year, beginning with the first day of school. Here are quotations from it: "Every parent, guardian, or other persons having charge of any child be tween the ages of eight and sixteen years, shall send such child to a pub lic, private, or parochial school for the full time that the school attended is in session; provided, however, that children fourteen years of age or over who have successfully completed the school work of the eighth grade or whose wages are necessary to the support of the family of such child may be employed during the time that the public schools are in session upon making the proof and securing the age and schooling certificate; provid ed, also, that the County. Superintend ent may excuse children from attend ance upon such school wherf#, in his judgment, the distance makes such at tendance an undue hardship. Any parent, guardian or other person hav ing the care or custody of a child be tween the ages of eight or sixteen years, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five nor more than twen ty dollars." * "No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or be in the employ ment of any person, firm, company corporation during the school term while the public schools are in session in the district in which such child lives unless such child shall present to such persons, firm, company, or corporation an age and schooling certificate; pro vided that in case the wages of any child over fourteen years of age are necessary to the support of the family of such child, the County Superintend ent may, upon production of satis factory evidence that the wages of such child are necessary to the sup port of the family, issue a certificate permitting the employment of such child, even though the said child may not have completed said eighth grade. Any person, firm, company or corpor ation employing any child contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not less than twenty-five dol lars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offerse." "In districts not appointing a tru , or ant officer, it shall be the duty of the county superintendent to act as tru ant officer. The truant officer shall be vested with the authority to serve warrants, and have authority to enter workshops, factories, stores, and all other places wherfe chihfren may be employed, and do whatever may be necessary, in the way'of investigation or otherwise, to enforce the provision of this chapter. The truant officer shall institute proceedings against' any officer, parent, -guardian,* person corporation violating any .provisions of this chapter. or - V ■: The personnel of the Outlook teach ing foi-ce for the coming year is: F. A. Lundahl, principal; Miss Mary A. Craig and Mrs. Jessie Cox Séger, High School; Helen Bergan. 8th grade Mary Huddleston, 6th ana 7th grades; Ruth Schultz, 4th and 5th grades; Hannah Johnson, 2nd and 3rd grades; and Mildred Mills. 1st grade. Miss Milderd Wallace of Cheney, W-ash., has accepted a position as teacher in the Homestead High School: James McClean of District No. 31 was m August 20th to loog oyer ap plications, relative to hiring a teacher for the Rocky Spring School. A. A. Brenteson of District No. has resigned, as Trus.ee in that district ami Mr. Carlson has been -appointee i^KG ills plS-C6> Nearly all of the schools of the county have engaged teachers foi the coming year. Carl Jacobsen has ac cepteii the Daieyiew ^ °°, ' Gassman and ^ Mv^F Men sin o- in No 66* pJlvf TVTnrlan in' Nn Holm' SriS J&müdÄ N?T in No 64* Osta Mad sen and Stephens in No 22* Ve1 SS cïawfoïd and 20; Gertrude Shinners in No. 39; A! ice | ?en d inVo n <n° and M^f'Mafkuso^ a°nd ! sen m No.-1, and Mrs. Markuson ana ; coun-1 tv on 1 Plentywood Westbv and Homestead 1 PI ÄÄ;UmghsSin tww tivic M nr y F MM 4 TRONF EMMA lkumej, County Superintendent. 346 PERISH ÎN TYPHOON More Than Thousand Others are Miss ing—25,000 Houses Submerged— British Steamer Reported Sunk at S e a Reaches Port Tokio. Apg. 20.—Advices received here today from Seoul said that 346 are dead and more than a persons thousand missing as a result of the recent tidal wave and storm in the four western provinces of Korea. Tbe damage to houses and other pro perty also was great. The storm was heaviest along the Yalu river on the west coast of Korea. The first report of the storm, received here on August 15, said tidal waves submerged 25,000 houses along this nver. SHIP REACHES PORT Manila , Aug. 20. — The British steamer Ming Sang, which was report ed sunk in the Hong Kong harbor during the typhoon Saturday, arrived here safely this morning after a tu multous voyage. Her officers reported that the vessel seen to sink in Hong Kong was probably the British steam ship Loong Sang. The Loong Sang is a ship of much the same type as the Ming Sing, and might have been mistaken for her. Many lives were lost with the steamer whose identity was in c/ror. Of those aboard only two, European officers, were saved. ' A minor typhoon has been raging here for the last three days. With it came a heavy rainfall that flooded many streets. There has been no ' damage, though shipping is suspended. T of of to THE PRODUCERS NEWS i LOW WAGE DESTROY HOMES j i _ECONOMIC NEWS SERV1C I BY LEI.AM) OLDS, FEDERATED PRESS INDUSTRIAL EDITOR. i Destruction of the home by capitalist industry is revealed m a study of the status of women workers recently completed by the Womans Bureau of the Department of Labor. The study shows that one-half of the women and girls forced into wage-earning by our economic system are or have been married and thfit nearly that proportion are mothers. It shows further that young children are left at home to care which is in great measure casual ana inadequate. i ' , • , . , The bosses of the industrial order have secured the supply of cheap labor they require by forcing 8,549,511 women and girls over ten years ot age into becoming biead-winnefs. Ü. S. census figures for 1920 bear witness that fact. The Woman's Bureau has taken Passaic, N. J. as a typical in dustrial center in order to find out just what this figure means in terms of the children. . i , It finds that of the 10.000 working women in Passaic, four fifths are working outside the home. Nearly 40 per cent were found to be mothers. Of these mothers 60 per cent had children under 5 years of age and 20 per cent had children between the ages of 5 and 7 years. The report says: "These percentages are not mutuallly exclusive, as mothers with chil dren under 5 years may also have had children between 6 and 7 years, but the table present^ the strikingly signMrcpnt fact that all of these breadwin ning mothers had small children hdnie requiring care." , . Prevous investigation by the Department of Labor have shown high infant de^th-thfe where mothers are breadwinners and have remarked that high infap.t jhtftrtalitv' means,a high death rate of children up to the age of 20 years. According to the present report the following facts showing inade quate care of the children of wage earning mothers challenge attention. (1) More than one-fifth of the mothers worked at night, caring for the children in the intervals between indispensible rest taken during the day. (2) Less than one-fifth left children with neighbors, landladies or boarders. (3) Another one-fifth left children with relatives, (4) More than one-tenth of the mothers going to work left children at home to the care of husbands who were night workers, unemployed, or working at home. (5) More than one-fifth left children virtually without care in the home. The great majority of these bread-winning mothers did all their house keeping including washing and ironing. According to the report, "with such inadequate provision for the care of young children it is not surprising that scarely more than one-fifth of these bread-winning mothers had any help in the performance of household duties; that the number having hired help even for washing and ironing regularly or irregularly was negligible." Low wages paid husbands and fathers appear to be responsible for this disruption of the home. The report points out as a striking discovery the fact that it is not widowed mothers nor other women \tfith disrupted mar tial relations who are winning bread apparently at the expense of the care of young children, but the married women living with bread-winning husbands This study shows clearly that the average wage paid men in industry today is inadequate to the support of a family. With hundreds of thousands of able bodied men earning $1,000 and less a year, and millions earning $1,300 and under the family income must be supplemented by the labor of women and children. The bosses have learned that low wages enable them to exploit the labor power of the entire family for the price of a bare sub sistence. But the result is rapidly undermining the system which the bosses want to preserve. It cannot go on long if only because it is destroying the moral and physical strength of the population. to ...iiWf L THE LIBRADO RIVERA CASE By F. W. LEIGHTON Federated Press Staff Correspondent. Mexico City.—What international complication is there between the U. S. and Mexico that Librado Rivera, comrade of the ill-fated Ricardo Flores Magon, remains a prisoner in Leaven worth despite official requests for his release from the Mexican government, the Mexican Federation of Labor and from groups and individuals in both countries interested m justice and hu manity ? Rivera and Magon were convicted in 1918 under the espionage act for the publication of a manifesto against the world war printed in California in their paper, Regeneration. There was no overt act of any kind proved against them. Their case was a sim p i e question of freedom of speech and the press. . f tba ^ tbe Mexican government fearg the rcturn of Rive ra as a dang orous labor agitator and has quietly j n tbe f asb ; on 0 f. governments allowed the American state department to know that its pubiic prote sts have been ma( j e mere iy to stem the tide of iioniil/ir Hpudhu] in MpyiVo ^ reasons th d ig is un i ike ly. Rivera . g flft ine years of age and much worn by five * yearsof pris on. Accord ing to recent medical reports he is suffering acutely from rheumatism, py° rrhea an(l minor ailments, j A funeral at public expense was of f erC( * the martyred Magon by the ! Mexican congress and the government i made no to su PP ress the huge workers'demonstrations held in all ^aSw^TSpther ^Enriîpl^ who wa « recently deported from Cali f j h the pres tige of his SSd brofher's namo Kd &ic end "<1 T 56 f e to anarchists thought and action to such an extent that several times the military authorities have brought charges against him and finally had For sev ---:-— WHEAT PRICE FIXING By JAMES C. LODAHL I see in the papers, that the four Senators, Magnus Johnson, Shipstad, Brookhart, and Frazier, want the President to call an extra session of Congress, because the present condi tion of agriculture threatens a nation al calamity, and to meet this emerg ency. All agree that the condition of agriculture is deplorable, and that something should be done, but what? is the question? Some think that the farmers do not get a fair deal, when Congress, m the war, put a price on wheat, as it would have gone much higher if left alone, and that it now is the duty of Con gress, to fix a good price on wheat. never be made right, But a wrong can by another wrong, it would not be right to ask 1 the government to pay the farmer more for his wheat, than he could get for it, it would not be business, but charity, Townley wants the farmers to or ganize, put a price on their wheat, and hold it till they get it. That sounds good, but it can't be done, be cause of the surplus, as we live in a free country, and know, that not all will join the alliance. When the or ganized farmers have forced the price up close to the agreement, all the un organized farmers will sell their wheat, and the organized farmers will keeo the surplus, The president of the Farm Bureau, wants the government to recognize the farmers granaries, as public ware -, r — him arrested. On the lauer occasion President Obregon himself ordered Magon's release. It is unlikely that the present firmly established regime of President Obregon fears the réturn of a bowed old man from a cel! in Leavenworth. Or is it perhaps that the U. S. con- siders Mexico not as a soverign state but as an unconfessed though actual zone for its domestic police activities The secret report of the American Trade Commissioner in Mexico, pub- lished last autumn in the New* York Call, which with the resulting recall of its author, John Bushnell, after mentioning consultations with the em- bassy and the consulate referred to "other offices" of the U. S. govern- ment in Mexico, These offices, accord- ing to-latcst estimates from Mexican sources, employ over 2.500 agents and spies in Mexican territory. A little over two years ago when the number was calculated to be over 3,500 the Mexican government deported from the country a score of radicals, anar- chists, communists, etc. It is com- monly charged in labor circles not only that the U. S. state department forced the expulsion of these men, but even went so far as to present the list of those considered objectionable. The Italian ambassador requested the release of Giovanni Baldazzi 'and Baldazzi came out; the Spanish am bassador asked for Manuel Rey and Manuel Roy walked free. H. G. Wells, the British novelist, wrote an article AsMBiJhT^i2 0, A^^i* b JSLed ar h1| freedom. Yet on July 6, Manuel Tel lez Me^an charge d'affaires m Wash I^hÂT ft," HaSV the state department had refused his government's latest reouest for the freedom of Librado Rivera. Why? houses, so the farmers can loan money on their wheat and keep it on the farms, until the price goes up. It will take an army of Inspectors to look af ter the farmers granaries, and to take care of all the many thousands of loans and mortgages, and if the price could be forced up that way, the farmers would still have the surplus unsold. -, Then there is the Wheat-Pool, who who with orderly marketing will sta hilize prices. Yes, the Pool can sta bilize the price, but it can force the price up very much, even if it controls two-thirds of all the wheat, because of the surplus, is very doubtful, any way it will take years, and it is now, this year s crop we need a paying price for, and not five years from now. i 11 J? criticize. We want a plan that will give the farmers a •Vu VV- Ce for , their wheat > begnning with this years crop, and conditions, discriminating anybody. • y . w< t l on t j av ,® that condition, rnVîL • at g(> A dS fa J mers bu y» is made in an American factory, by raw« ca n w°rkers, payed at American wfS' v th an . Am ® nc an price, pro v W ai !i An ] encan A tar î ff - The } ' be ?t is produced *on American sod, ^Lchh!eïv an t]wîpd S ' " : ll h Amer ! can rtactVîr ^ lth Amencan Sft Am ®, nca j m . ar - keted b> Amencan railroads, charging Amencan freight rates, a nd at last (Continued on page 8.) ATTHECHURCHES 4 LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. C. J. Tjomsland of Scobey will conduct services in the Plentywood Lutheran Church next Sunday, Au gust 26th, at 8 o'clock in the everting. Services will be conducted by Rev. Tjomsland the same day at Dooley at 11 o'clock and at Outlook in the af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Exhibition and Union Service Program End Vacation School For This Year. after the On Friday afternoon, Church School closed on Friday noon, there will be on exhibit at the Con gregational Church, the finished pro ducts of all the hand and craft work that the children have been working during the school.-■ Every parent and frier *' the children will want to drop into the church sometime Fri-, day afternoon and see what a splen- t did lot of worthwhile things the chil dren have made. Nothing will please the children more than to have you come and see their work. Everybody is welcome and urged to see this fis play. ! Then on Sunday evening at 7:30 j promptly there will be another Union j Service at the Congregational Church in which the children will give the pic gram of some of the things they have learned the past two weeks. You will want to be there early if you de sire a seat. There will be the regular morning worship next Sunday at 11:00 o'clock. The sermon will be the last on the Lord's Prayer". We welcome all of you to all of these services. on ü EVANGELICAL CHURCH MAX O. SIEWERT, Minister. Services for Sunday, August 26th, are as follows: Sunday School at 10 a m. * Morning Worship at 11 o'clock. Union Meeting at the Congrega tional Church -at 8:00 o'clock Sunday evening. A program of the Church Vacation School will be rendered by the pupils -of the school. You are invited to be present. -<■ uV RESERVE BANK 1: MAGNUS JOHNSON SAYS OPER ATIONS GIVE MANUFACTUR . ER9 ADVANTAGE OVER FARM ERS. f I Austin, Minn., Aug. 20.—United States Senator-elect Magnus Johnson, addressed a gathering at the Christ- gau farm, 10 miles east of here yester- day on the subject of co-operation, at- tacked the operation of the federal reserve bank system, declaring it fa- vored the manufacturing interests to the detriment of the farmer. - Johnson declared that the farmer, business man and laborer must operate in politics as well as co-op- erating in business undertakings. ' He branded as "lies" reports that, he said, misrepresented his policies and declared his intention to fignt to the end for the system of cost plus reasonable profit for the farmer^ in m.-rketing their product on the same basis as the business man. "Not more ci-edit but cheaper credit is want- ed by the farmer of the northwest and this will soon be brought about." co j I i * I COST UF LIVING FIGURES MISLEAD -ECONOMIC NEWS SERVICE j BY LELAND OLDS, FEDERATED PRESS INDUSTRIAL EDITOR I i ^ C ° St ° f living fi *' ures of the u - S. ^ev^hoffid he T , mislea K din . g J ey , shou,d be ih.-reganlcd as a basis j ""î 11 . >Sed° latarVT ""„Tta"' Mnnthlv nnhiinoH«« î i * U i noting cost oi living increase since 1913 is playing directly into the hands ot employers. The June figures show living costs 70 per cent above the prewar level and only 2 per cent over June, 1922. With wage index numbers 15 per cent over a year ago and over 100 per cent above 1914 ! ployers contend that em wage earners have received more than justice quires. re The cost of living basis of wage ad justment was a wartime expedient. It was agreed by employers and employ es in the Council of National Defense that neither would profiteer out of the ' emer gency. This agreement delayed wa & e advances to such an extent that tb e standard of living fell below the P rewar level. On the other hand cor potations, not limited by wage boards, jacked up prices until their profits were double and triple the ^ eveb -j~ L> . ■ Y ■" I That average wages in industry to ! day are slightly more than 100 per cent over the 1914 level is due entire ly to the pauper wage paid unskilled and semi-skilled labor before the Large increases to these groups were recognized as necessarv to prevent the physical and moral deterioration of the ; neople. Skilled labor has only recent 1 ly regained something like its prewar 1 standard of living after years in which xt s purchasing power has been badlv depreciated. The disgraceful level to which the i vages of tbe majority of workers had fallen prior to the war was revealed by numerous investigations. Robert Coit Chapin, who made the first thor ough investigation of workers' living costs, wrote in 1909; "An income un ! der $800 is not enough to permit the maintenance of a moral standard." His investigation showed that incomes under $599 meant 76 per cent of the j families underfed, 88 per cent under clothed and 68 per cent overcrowded. Incomes between $600 and $699 meant prewar wai*. The reduction by McMaster of South IW^S line prices was depredate* k ,** speaker, who said that theaA *e have been 3.3 cents th« e-Iii . s Nd of 6.6 because "too ra ,lS * permits the Standard Oif «JÎ. u «iori kill pff the independent dg& to GRAND VIEW Borin SETTLED^- L(k , atiox The Grand View Hôte! w l-, been moved to Main Strè^ l ^ lowered to its foundation ÎS front glass in ,he „ffi" ^ g 4, in. °Wi put ALIAS SUMMONS NORTHWESTERN N A T 10 V a LIFE INSURANCE C0 MP\\a corporation, Plaintiff, i versus OLIVE AMANDA SWEETEN < merly Olive. Amanda Lossingi ' JOHN W. SWEETEN, her hu*h.î STATE BANK OF REDSTONT C corporation; J. D. FRANKLiv '* SHERIDAN COUNTY COMPANY, a corporation, Def^I ants. THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends greetings to the above defendants and to each of them You are hereby summoned to swer the complaint in this action wfe is filed in the office of the Clerk of th Court, a copy of which is heiwfo served upon one of you in each Countv wherein any of you reside, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiff's attorney within twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of sen vice; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will ho taken against you, by default, for the relief demanded in the complaint, This action is to foreclose a mortgage executed by the defendants, Olive Amanda Sweeten and John W. Sweet en, on November 1, 1915, to T. L. Bej. seker to secure a $2500.00 first mort gage note with six per cent interest thereon, covering the SWNiSEÜ an« SEUSWH of Section 7, the WHNÉi NW^4SE%, E%NWU and Kl\ SW 1 ^ of Section 18, T. 34 N.. R, g IN THE DISTRICT COURT THE TWENTIETH JUDICU. J* TRICT OF THE STATF np L D,S * TANA, IN AND FOR THF OF SHERIDAN. mon. county . I-A.VP named E. M. M., which said note and mort gage was by the said T. L. Be seker sold, assigned, endorsed ami de livered over to plaintiff. Plaintif prays judgment for the principal and interest due, with cost of abstract cost's of suit, attoméy's fees*, taxes paid, and expenses of sale: thatsaüB® lands be sold at sheriff's sale and the proceeds applied toward the payment of the full amount due; for a deficien cy judgment if any exist and execu tion thereon; that the defendants 1« compelled to set forth the nature anc amount of their respective interests in said real estate, and to have !i*| same adjudicated and determine« herein; all as more fully appears frei plaintiff's 'verified complaint herein. to which reference is hereby made foi further particulars. WITNESS my hand and the sea! of this Court this 23rd, day of Aupf. A. D., 1923. C. B. PETERSON. CI« (Seal of the) (District Court), By D. C. PETERSON, ■j- Deputy Gert Howard M. Lewis & James G. Wagw Attorneys for the Plaintiff. Plentywood, Montana. First publication, August 24,1923. Fourth publication, Sept. 14, 1923. . 32 per cent of the families underfed ! 57 ; Der cent u ' ,d f cent overcrowded. Serious undent jovercrowding for all ft* $ 1' i. During that pre-war period raijw* section men were averaging , ■ year and common labor in the si» industry $530 a year. The f an ^ !e Y these hundreds of thousands of * ers were thus in the group m three-fourths .of the families , derfed and seven-eights un ^ erc . - During the same period tne a' bituminous coal miner was k $ 615 a year. Which meant the p bility that one-third of the Ç oa nf , families were underfed and o\ half underclothed and .avercro 1 Weekly earnings of the a ' e '|; tgj( torv worker brought him « a year if he worked without lay '■ weeks. Industry was gomR 0 .. a in which one-third of the fa ^ wage earners were c \r° n1 ^ fed and over one-half clothed and housed. ■ This shows the injustice oi ^ tempt to arrive a l a JU r cent incre^ now in terms of a (0 To brinf in wages prevailing in 1- * a level the standard of worker-' > f« r which could have been P $840 in 1914 the following in 1914 wages wouId 0 J L centA Railroad section ^ tuminous miners '3. P all b* - common labor 16.' P^ ' cen t, and shoe workers 1-' P n per building and repairing c o:>', men's clothing P 1 t ir° n 8 j manufacture 230 P er ki ,j e( j com bl L steel skilled and uns m il!s - The average weegly ^^actu^ workers in Ame!1 v p nor ted t° ^ e a *i establishments as P , ^ partment of Labor - ^ m to a k 117 per cent to enable tn ^ «p tain the $840 ] staT,d f th e L we / t Sr was admitted . t0 , e xDtenc® ol .u e *• which the physical e. ßut the fly could be maintain ^ haS tual increase as » P , ■ only 114 per cent. ten'-