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_ „ Save Wilson s Face Wall Street Wants To The gross frauds, and vicious ruption uncovered in the investigation of the Veterns' Bureau and Mr. Forbes lias brought up the whole question of the War Department and its contracts once more. Barron's Weekly, one of the leading financial journals in the country, is panic stricken over the prospects of thorough going examination of the records of the war sales made in 1917 and 1918. This paper take s the po sition that, in order to save the faces of many people who are in high stand ing politically and financially, it would be best to drop all this talk about fur ther investigations. In a recent issue Barron's Weekly put the whole case in these words. "Is there any considerable party in this country which really wants to un cover the financial scandals of the war? It might well be that, in the interest of public decency, a wet sponge were drawn over the slate and the billions lost in sites and supplies for training camps, worthless wooden ships, construction at 'cost plus', pay ment for munitions never delivered, were written off, charged to a great nation's experience. Not for the first a devious trail is uncovered and it immediately submitted that further research in that direction would imply an imputation on the horor of Wood row Wilson. The American workers and farmers have suffered many similar great "ex periences" at the hands of the employ ing class. But we submit that the last one was the most costly. COOLIDGE FARM ANGELS FIND FARMERS HOPELESS The noted banker. Eugene Meyer, and the now famous lame duck, Frank W. Mondell, were appointed by Coo lidge to find out ways and means of helping the bankrupt farmers. How serious these Administration salesmen were in their efforts can be seen from the fact that they have thrown up cor their hands in despair and cannot sug gest any other remedy but an increas ed tariff on wheat. Already on the basis of the present high schedules in the Fordney-McCum ber tariff, the farmers of Kansas, Tex as, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho are losing about $400,000,000. To increase the rates on any of the products, such as wheat, would simply mean increas ing the loss of the farmers. No one should be surprised at the suggested "remedy", Mr. Meyer has long been in the service of the Wall Street bankers and Mr. Mondell has a record which speaks volumes. In his autobiography, page 431, Roosevelt pointed out that the conduct of Mr. Mondell was a bit too rough even for him. Speaking of a bill proposed by Senator Newlands (Democrat Nev.) for conservation of the nation's re sources, Roosevelt pointed out in his message to Congress, December 8, 1901; "My active interference was nec essary to prevent it ( the bill ) from be ing made unw-orkable by the undue in sistance upon states' rights in accor dance with the efforts of Mr. Modell and other congressmen, who consist ently fought for local and private in terests against the interests of the people as a whole. It's just this dass of friends that Mr. Coolidge will appoint to relieve the distress of the farmers and work ers. Mr. Coolidge can and will appoint only agents of the employers. These relief agents" will relieve the farm ers of whatever is left to them after the last three years of depression. BUSINESS FAILURES INCREASE Dunn's Review for October shows a sharp increase in the number of do- j mestic business failures. The business mortality for the montai of October is i the largest report since last March and j is over 36 per cent higher than the September total. Especially unfavor- j abl is the volume of indebtedness in- 1 curred by the collapse. The amount is more than two and three quarter times greater than the September total and has been exceeded only once 1 before in any month.- This was in December 1921. The indebtedness of the failures for October is 180 per cent higher than the total for the cor responding month of last year. All in all there were last month 1,673 failures involving $79,301,741. The manufacturing failures were less than 30 per cent of the total num her 66 per cent of the insolvencies were amongst traders. However, 75 per cent of the total liabilities were suffered by manufacturers. This October record shows exactly which way the wind is blowing so far as the economic conditions of the country are concerned. Soviet Russia Show» Marked Advance A thorough going investigation has led the United States Department of _ed KC-KC-KCKC-KC-KC - KC BAKING POWDER 25 01111065 for 25 * Use less than of higher priced brands. Same Price for over 30 years No better at any price OUR GOVERNMENT BOUGHT MILLIONS OF POUNDS KC-KC-KCKOKC'KC T * a is Agriculture to find that "the most significant fact pointing to Russia re covery is an increase of from 15 to 20 per cent in the ^acreage sown to crop this season. The report goes on to say that "increases as high as 30 to 35 per cent in some of the famine regions have been reported to the De partment. . In its explanation of the improved conditions, the Bulletin points out that "the fact that rye has more nearly approached the pre-war acre age is explained by the department of the fact that most of the wheat was formerly grown on large estates and that since these estates have been broken up among the peasants there has been an increase in rye acreage at the expense of wheat. In the light of these findings it is easy to understand the why and the wherefore of the proposed plan of President Coolidge to send a commis sion to Russia in order to negotiate an agreement for resumption of trade relations. The great advance made by France, England, Denmark and oth er countries in the Russian market is causing every section of the Amen can people to wake up to the fact that it is in the interests of the United .tat es as well as Russia to have norm al relations between the two coun tries resumed without delay. Manufacturers Rally to Support Su preme Court. The open shoppers are showing signs of considerable worry over the various proposals to limit the power of the Supreme Court to declaring the Acts of Congress unconstitutional. The fate which the various child la bor laws and the minimum wage of the District of Columbia have met at the hands of the Supreme Court has caused the various shades of progrès sivism and near progressivism to pro posed scores of bills to remedy the situation. But the big manufacturing inter men of America will soon have a ref erendum on amalgamation, Lodge of Minneapolis, Minn., has in itiated the refendum for amendments to the Grand Lodge constitution which will place the national organization pn record for amalgation of the ex is t m g railroad organizations. The proposal of Lodge -99 also embodies a P* an . tor choosing a committee to enter into negotiations with all other railroad organizations taking similar ac AlPP- . ___ ___ RUSSIAN WORKERS CALL FOR _ X* The All Russian Textile Workers Vpton. The Central Committee, of the -AB Russian Metal Workers Union and the. All Russian Leather workers Union have issued an appeal to the Amsterdam International for a united front against the big business mter es t s , now strangling the German workers. The address points out that the Russian workers have repeatedly sought unity of the working men of a11 countries in order to prevent the s P read of Fascism and to save the working class of Germany from the restoration of military rule, « especially encouraging to note that the well known leadet Edo Fin me . n is '°° P er c ® nt for accepting the } in ity proposal of the Russian work ingmen. At an enthusiastic meeting railroad workers in Prague, Fimmen declared himself in complete harmony of , ^ Russian trade union» and pledg himself to do all in his power to have the Amsterdam International accept the unity offer of the unions in Soviet Russia. ests are not asleep. They are on the job and have already served notice that they will fight to the bitter end to protect their Supreme Court from any and all popular encroachment, in an address .before the Associated In dustries of Massachusetts, at the eighth annual meeting of this open shop organization, Mr. James A. Em ery. general counsel for the National Industrial Council, has thrown down the gauntlet to all the would-be hb erators of the working masses from Supreme Court tyranny. Speaking of one of these remedial proposals, Mr. Emery declared: "Startling as this proposal may sound, 54 members of Congress have publicly approved it, and throughout the country, a considerable body of opinion rallies to its support." Mr. Emery who is a well known apostle of the open shop movement had referencè to the resolution adopt ed at the Portland convention of the American Fedaration of Labor aiming at securing a constitutional amend ment prohibiting the Supreme Court from declaring unconstitutional any law enacted by two third majority of aVt*™ a'v ^ A t> \ AT?XT Tn vnTr rkXi RAILWAY CARMEN TO VOTE ON AMALGAMATION The Brotherhood of Railway Car Lodge No. 299, the Minnehaha THE WONDERS OF RADIO By some ingenious device twen ty round trips of electric impulse be tween New York and Warsaw were duly recorded in tw r enty-five seconds. The total distance which the impulse traveled in that twenty-five seconds | was 4,500,000 miles. Nobody knows what electricity is. We seem only beginning to know what it does. That controllable quantities will move railroad trains up heavy grades, we know. It may control the movement of the stars in their courses. The Einstein theory of rela tivity, whose correctness is being ac cepted by more and more scientists, seems likely to change many of conceptions. Already there is scien i tific opinion that wrat Newton called gravitation is really something else. The effort to know' what is already straining the human mind. With the field that radio is opening up we may yet be only on the edge of electrical possibilities. our The biggest advertising medium Northeastern Montana—Take advant age of it. The Producers News. MONTANA RAISES LARGEST CROP OF corn in its history SMALL CROP OF POTATOES— LARGEST CROP OF FLAX SINÇE 1918—APPLES YIELD GOOD. The j ar gest crop of com in the state ' s history, the best flax crop s i nce 191 g. a nd a much stnaller pota cr0 p than last year, are shown in the November crop report issued to day by the Montana Co-operative çj rop Reporting Service, CORN—With an average yield of 26 bushels per acre for the state, the preliminary production estimate for the state is 9,700,000 bushels, as a g a j ns t 5,475,000 bushels for 1922, and 4 , 934,000 bushels, the average for the 49 C .21 period. The yield last year was 25 bushels per acre, while the 5 _y ear av erage has been 13.9 bushels, It ig estimated that 77 per cent of ^e t 0 ^ a i crop matured w^ell this year, compared to 80 per cent last year, and 39 4 ^he 5-year average. Much corn was pi an ted late last spring, and w hji e ne arly all matured well in the i mpor tant eastern and southeastern counties, some in the north and north C etral counties was caught by frost, p rom a f eed standpoint, the crop has ma t es f or this state are based upon b een very satisfactory. (Cora esti ma t es f or this state are based upon the assumption that all is harvested f or g ra j n and should be interpreted accordingly). FLAX: ' The flax crop is estimated at 1,246,000 bushels, based upon average yield of 8.2 bushels per acre, compared to 889,000 bushels for last year, and to 1,096,000 the 5-year av erage production. The average yield last year was 7.0 bushels, and 3.0 bushels for the 5-year period. The quality of the crop is below that for last year. POTATOES: Based upon an aver age yield of 110 bushels per acre, production of 4,070,000 bushels of po tatoes is estimated for this year, corn pared to 5,796,000 bushels * for last year, and to 4,449,000 bushels, the 5 an year average. The yield in 1922 was 126 bushels per acre, and the average 105 bushels. APPLES: The production for the state is estimated as 90 per cent of a normal crop or 990,000 bushels, compared to 610,000 bushels for 1922, an d to 893,000. the 10-year averâge production. While the total crop is large this year, the quality is rated a t 55 per cent of normal, which means j that probably over 50 per cent of the 1 crop will go to waste. It is estimated I that about 35 per cent of the crop will be shipped and trucked out of coun ties of production, while a little will be used for cider. Hail injury and disease account largely for the poor quality and low market demand adds further to the cause of heavy waste HAY: The quality of the state's hay crop averages very low this year, due to much rain during the haying sea SO ns. and to hopper injury. There is some hay, however, which was put in excellent shape, principally in the western counties SUGAR BEETS: The harvesting of the large crop of beets was further delayed by more rain, but it seems ^ at the great effort s being made to «ret all of the beets out of the ground before hard freezes will be successful. Beets continued to grow late *|to October, which added materially the total tonnage, but it is reported to have lowered the sugar content. GENERAL NOTES: Heavy rains fell in the southeastern and south central counties during Oct%ber, and lighter rains and snows in most other sections of the state. Temperatures tended downward during the latter part of the month, zero temperatures being reported from some of the Higher mountain valleys, while hard freezes were had in all parts of the state, moderating towards the end of the month. Considerable late threshing remain ed to be done, chiefly in the central and south-central districts. Grains yet in shock deteriorated in quality. Much grain hauling was done in October. The com harvest was well along by November 1, with the bulk of it cut and in shocks, or being fed off by stock. Considerable loss has been re ported in the southeast quarter of the State from moulding in the shock. Potatoes are rug, and some frost injury has been reported from the unexpected freezes. Shipments have been very light, and most of the com mercial crop is going into storage, mainly field pits. Yields were uneven and generally low, while the quality also has been disappointing. The apple harvest is completed, and in a few cases were stopped by freezes. Packing and shipping con tinue, but total shipments will be com paratively light on account of poor quality and low market prie®. Winter wheat seeding continued throughout October under favorable conditions. Early seedings are up to good stands and are making satisfac tory growth. Rye seedings are light but condiitons are generally favorable for fall growth. Much more fall plowing and discing than last year has been done. to GOOD CIGARETTES c GENUINE WVi "Bull" DURHAM TOBACCO p °pkr F-arniCT Crushed **,. .. v.H« S.S'SäSS coal mine in which he was digging o 0 ^ 1 'n- He u SU ? ered a b ^fv and his chest was severely crushs^, Following the accident he was brough. to his home in this cty and is now under the care of Dr. J. L. At^ibon, who states that, although•• painfully injured, Mr. Vorhees is now on the road to recoverv Mrs. Vorhee? accompanied her bus band to the coal mine Saturday and her presence there undoubtedly saved his life. The slide of earth complete ly covered Mr. Vorhees and only af-i ter frantic efforts was his wife able to uncover his head. She then se-i cured help and he was released from the cave-in nAAnm.mrn n A mrmmv T m TFRM vulj Y jjL 1 vv* 1 IjlVlll up riAfinT PM AO III* mi IR I rNll\ v/1 vl/vlil Llil/u D . . T mmmÊÊ Poplar, Nov. 16. The term of dis ^tcourt in session here since Octo her 23rd, was completed at noon to day and sentence was pronounced on the men convicted on criminal charges at 11:30 this morning. A. L. Goer, was given a sentence of from 20 to 45 years, as recommended by the jury upon conviction of a statutory crime against his young daughter. Gordon Colbrook was given a sentence of from two to four years the minimum for the charge upon which he was convicted. Theo. Ricker was also giv en two to four years, but owing to extenuating circumstances the sent-il ence was suspended. The case of Saunders vs. Eastern Montana Security company was com . , . , „ ., .. . , , pleted last Friday after the jury had been dismissed by Judge Comer, owing " a tyre of the case. The plain-, tift was given until December 15th to file brief and argument and the de fendant until January 15th to file a brief in answer. The plaintiff has ten days from that date to reply and the case then of the judges. In the cases of the First National Bank of Williston vs. Beiseker & Mar tin and the Poplar Lumber and Imple ment company vs. Beiseker & Mar tin. in which Judge Borton of Glas gow presided, the action against T. L. Beiseker and A. L. Netcher was dismissed and a default judgment en tered against Beiseker & Martin. Court adjourned Friday night and reconvened Tuesday, owing to the fact that Monday was Armistice Day. The case of Roosevelt county vs. H. A. Carnell and J. A. McCann, involving the road to a coal mine, was settled out of court, as was the case of the Diamond Lignite Coal company vs. McCann and Carnell. Jessie Caldwell was granted a di vorce from Cleve Caldwell in district court Tuesday. The Caldwells reside in the Culbertson territory. Dalphina Clark of Wolf Point was granted a divorce from W. Clark. Adeen Bain vs. J. L. Walker wp^ the next case called on Tuesday and occupied the court until today. The suit involved, it is said, a breach of contract in the leasing of a section of Indian land. The partie» thereto live in the vicinity of Froid. Upon the completion of the case the jury found for the defendant. The case of Mrs. Slette vs. Review Publishing company was taken under advisement by the court.' Judge Comer and Court Reporter Layhe will leave today for their homes in Plentywood. FOREIGN MONEY HITS TOBOGGAN New York, Nov. 9.—Foreign ex changes toppled at the opening of today's market as a result of the sit uation in Germany. Demand sterling dropped more than three cents to $4.40. a new low record for the year. New laws for the year were establish ed also by Spanish paestas, Norwegian and Danish kronen and Holland guild ers, while French and Belgian francs declined sharply. Keep Your Boy at Home m wir aa /a ilk If there is one thing in the world that will keep your boy interested and at home, it is a Radio. He can experiment with it in a hundred differ ent ways—keep in touch with the world and what is happening and entertain not only him self but the entire family. Price Depends Upon Size and Quality of Your Machine A VERY EFFICIENT RADIO OUTFIT, $125.00 COMPLETE FOR SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY Plentywood Machine Shop L. S. SMITH, Prop. CAR STOLEN FROM WOLF POINT IS LEFT IN CITY OF POPLAR _ Had No Connection With County Seat Ficht But Was Thought to Have Left By Robbers On Account " ^ Roa( £ r^cirWahle in Poplar Standaid. Comict. . terest was centered in the Buick car standing at the curb near the A. E. Jeisey residence Tuesday monu g, finally developing that the car had been stolen from \V. A. K ogers oi Wolf Point the night before, driven to Poplar and deserted, P re sumably be cause the roads were so heavy from the rain that the thieve.' be lev e< there was no chance to make a get away. Someone recognized the car as the Buick sport model recently purchased 5 y Rogers, and the sheriff's office call ec * ^ r - R °ß' ers b im to identify his car. He did this by several dif tinctive marks and by the engine number, stating that he had no^flis covered the theft as he had placed the car j n bis garage the day before an( j u £h a t time had no occasion to ma {; e use of it It ig believed the thieves drove p op lar and took No. ^ out 0 f here as the car was first no ticed a b ou t ten o'clock Monday even , ; I | j j Mr> and Mrs . ik e Ray and nephew, Louis Pierce, moved into Plentywood for the winter . Needless to say they w j|j be missed during their absence, | mg. McELROY J. G. Noon finished installing his radio receiving set Tuesday. Every body come to McElroy for the news. The four-year-old son of Mr. and 1 Mrs. Pete Gerde living northweft of , 4 ^ pj ace j s reported seriously ill. Xhe Wm. Vandemark family is P i c ^ with the contagious cough preva j en t Nile Vandemark has been out of school the last week. TT]7 r f After Every Meal Have a packet in your pocket for ever-ready refreshment. Aids digestion. Allays thirst. Soothes the throat. For Quality, Flavor and à the Sealed Package, get m y! A** AUCTION SALES GET THE BEST RESULTS FROM YOUR SALES LET ME CRY THEM FOR YOU Satisfaction Guaranteed * « -The Hyde Auctioneer PLENTYWOOD, MONT. release of state POLITICAL PRISONERS BY LIBERTIES UNION In connection with the campaign to get action on the release of state po litical prisoners serving terms under crimial syndicalism mid other state laws penalizing expression of opinion, recently announced by the American Civil Liberties Union, the organization has just made public figures showing that there are 114 prisoners in the six states affected. Eighty-seven of these are in California alone. All are members of the Industrial Workers of the World except four in Pennsyl vania who are communists. Seventy of the California prisoners are in St. Quentin Prison, 13 in Fol som Prison, 1 in the Preston Reform School and 3 are in county jails await ing the outcome of appeals. The oth er states affected are Washington with 17 political prisoners, Idaho with 4, Pennsylvania with 4, and Oklahoma and Kansas with 1 each. The campaign for the release of these 114 men is independent of that conducted in behalf of the remain ing 32 federal political prisoners by the Joint Amnesty Committee with headquarters in Washington. D. C. A pamphlet dealing with the state They AI! Lost It— Mr. A. HID HIS money in the house and it wa accidentally burned up. Mr. B. CARRIED his money in a secret one dark night within robbed pocket and was a block of his home. Mr. C. LOANED his to a friend who for fot to pay it back to him Mr. D. INVESTED in oil wells. Mr. E. THOUGHT he could win on the Board of Trade. (He knows better now.) Mr. F. PUT HIS money where rats ate it up. Mr. G. WENT INTO a business that he knew nothing about—and it failed. Mr. H. was a natural spendthrift. None of these men thought it was worth while to talk with their banker about their business affairs. 1 THE First National Bank Member Federal Reserve System PLENTYWOOD, MONT. ' r: : ; ' I V WA r 1 / 4 A niii n wan ^ Special Thanksgiving Dinners will serve, in our us special Thank*«"* econoffi} Thanksgiving Day we satisfactory manner, a to Dinner. You will find it is an well as your guests here bring your family as rather than to prepare the dinner yourseu if TRY ONE OF OUR DELICIOUS ANY EVENING DINNERS CITY CAFE HARRY KOIKE, Prop political prisoners ù v. by the Civil Liberties tribut ion on a nati 0n i m ° n the co-operation of the organization in ft volved, a s well as ** staj.< groups, will be enlisted. ° ther 4 tember, 1923: °Pr^duct^ fields St oil fields for the 1923 based upon the pipe line companies oft 20 '.»1T^ ! T'TTfl r *j & iæ r