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THE PRODUCERS NEWS Paper of the people, by the people, for the people By Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers CONTINUING—The Outlook Promoter, The Out» look Optimist, The Dooley Sun, The Antelope In dependent, The Sheridan County News, The Pio neer Press and the Sheridan County Farmer. CHARLES E. TAYLOR, Editor an*d Manager FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928. FARMER'S AND WORKER'S CANDIDATES Monday of this week the names of candidates for every county office are filed at the Clerk and Record er's office to be placed on the Independent Ballot which will come before the voters of Sheridan County at the fall election. The candidates were endorsed by a coalition of the Farmer-Labor and Prgoressive Farmer forces at a con vention held in Plenty wood August 11 and it was de cided to go on the Independent ticket at that time. The delegates present represented practically every voting precinct in Sheridan county. They also repre sented the working people and farmers who feel that they are the great majority in this county and have a right to have in office those who they feel will look after their interest and not the interest of the select few who hope to gain materially by putting their henchmen into office. The men nominated on the Independent ticket are well kown for their integrity and have proven at all times to be the friends of the farmers and workers. They have been drafted by the producers because of these qualities. No one has anything to gain by their election except the farmers and workers themselves. They have no axe to grind. They are not put up by anyone who could possibly have anything to gain per sonally by their eletcion. They owe allegiance to no one but the farmers and workers who elect them. Of course every citizen in Sheridan county will re ceive consideration at their hand, whether he be bank er, businessman or in any other line of business. But when a questionable proposition is put up to them by people who hope to gain thereby they are in a position to turn the offer down flat without fear of other in fluences being brought to bear upon them to close the They will safeguard the interests of out side parties. And after all pratically all of the busi ness of the county is transacted with parties other than farmers and workers. Do not let yourself be fooled on this issue. Study it carefully and then ask yourself who is behind the movement fighting the farmers' government, make it a point to find out. We are satisfied the in vestigation will prove to you that the only ticket to vote in Sheridan county is the Independent Ballot. Vote it straight. other eye. Then OLD GANG HOLDS CONVENTION Last Sunday afternoon, a good representation of the die hards of Sheridan county met in Plentyw-ood to lay plans for the coming campaign. According to all reports the meeting was the personi fiation of despair. Gloom prevailed over the assem blage and private conferences was the order of the day. Leadership was an unknown quantity. The fusion of the democrats and republicans disturbed the atmos phere and the result caused a down cast countenance on the face of those who would control the county for the coming two years after the election this fall. The old gang in Sheridan county is in a bad way in deed. Their efforts bo play both sides of the fence in a presidential election has resulted in discord among the ranks. Supporting democratic candidates in many places on the ticket while trying to still keep up the resemblance of being republicans on the presidential issue and county affairs has borne results that cannot be remedied. The would-be county dictators are hopelessly split and the candidates nominated by the farmers and work ers of Sheridan ounty will go over by the biggest ma jority ever reorded in the last ten years. It is too bad that every voter in Sheridan county could not have been present at this meeting and look ed over the personnel of those present, would have had a real insight into who is who in the ranks of those who are opposing the farmer's and worker's candidates on the Independent ticket, and who after all are the real boys who will take charge of the county if their candidates are elected. Among them were Laru S. Olson, Jack Bennett, Joe Dolin, Banker Bowers, J. W. McKee and Oscar Collins. They then PLENTYWOOD IS PLENTY GOOD Visitors coming to Plenty wood their opinion that they have never seen a city the size of Plentywood with the large amount of business transacted and the number of people on the streets at all times of the day. Many different business terprises have their eye on this city and an unusual growth is promised in the coming few years. Enterprising merchants have made Plentywood the trading center of Sheridan county. The Plentywood school system draws large numbers to this city to edu cate their children. are unanimous in en In this rapid growth the progress of the city must keep up with the rapidly extending business. Greater attention to traffic rules and building requirements must be paid by the city. The streets of the city have to be kept up in proportion to the increased traffic and the commercial club has to be a busy body with all members participating in order that new ideas for the betterment of the city may be worked out. • Already the city council has passed ordinances re gaiding the biulding of fire proof structures in the main business districts and other improvements are contemplated by the city fathers. In this development every citizen should take an ac tive part. If you have a good idea for the furthering of business activities let it be known. The commercial club will be glad to receive the suggestions and act upon them according to their merits. Plentywood is growing fast and it is going to grow faster. Let every one do his part to further the slo gan, "Plentywood is Plenty Good." REGISTER NOW As election day draws nearer, the matter of who will represent our interests in the nation, state and county becomes of grave importance. Every citizen should give this vital subject much study and know just how he is going to mark his bal lot when he goes to the polls to register his prefer ence November 6th. But every eligible citizen must register before he can vote if he did not vote at the last general election. lt is everyone's Do not overlook this vital matter, duty to go to the polls and show by his vote how he wishes the government of this country to be managed from national down to county affairs. This should be done now while you are thinking about it. In the rush of fall work this may be forgotten and on the big day when millions go to the polls to register their choice of governmental officials you will not be able to join your neighbors in using your right to name who will manage the destinies of this nation. ANACONDA BOOSTS WHEELER AND ERICKSON The Anaconda Copper Mining Company which has a monopoly on most of the daily newspapers of the state of Montana, is coming out strong for B. K. Wheeler for U. S. Senator and John E. Erickson for Governor. The taxpayers of Montana who do not believe in the ruling of this state by that huge octopus will cast their vote against Wheeler and Erickson on general princi ples. They believe that any man that the Anaconda Copper Company supports is a good man to vote against. They feel that the buying up of the publicity organs of the state by the copper and power interests is another step toward fastening the control of big bus iness over state affairs. Naturally the people of this state resent the effort of the Anaconda to gain and hold the reins of govern ment in their hands. The approval of any candidate by that company is sufficient reason for any taxpayer to give that candi date a wide berth on election day when he marks his ballot at the polls. AL SMITH'S ACCEPTANCE (From Minneapolis Labor Review) Al Smith's speech of acceptance is a progressive doc ument. No one who is honest with himself can reach any other conclusion. Hoover's acceptance address sounded like the voice of yesterday; Smith's, like the voice of tomorrow. To briefly describe his criticism of the Coolidge ad ministration he may be said to call it a do-nothing ad minisrtation. That in the guise of lowering taxes it has increased taxes, and under the pretense of pros perity has permitted agriculture to decay and unem ployment to increase. Smith takes issue with the foreign policy of the pres ent administration. He declares against interfering with the internal affairs of Latin-American countries and particularly Mexico. He points out the uselessness of the treaties pre sumed to prevent war that Kellogg is now negotiating because they permit each nation to define what is de fensive warfare. The most dangerous statement President Coolidge ever made was "that the person and property of a cit izen are a part of the national domain, abroad.' even when The democratic presidential candidate calls attention to this and declares "I do not think that the American people would approve a doctrine which would give to Germany 7 , or France, or England, or any other country, the right to regard a citizen of that country or the property of a citizen of that country situated within the borders of the United States a part of the national domain of the foreign country." We declare for the principle of collective bargain ing which alone can put the laborer upon a basis of fair equality with the employer. . This is one of the striking sentences from the portion of Gov. Smith's ad dress dealing with labor. It is clean cut and meaning ful. He pledges himself to co-operate with the judiciary committee of the Senate to end existing labor injunc tion evils. Tili» committee now naa u ivgisiu tion indorsed by the American Federation of Labor. Regarding the coal strike, Gov. Smith, like Hoover, is silent. Like Hoover he promises everything, but nothing specific for farm relief. It is difficult to find any accord between the pressions of the Smith acceptance speech and the prin ciples for which Raskob of General Motors, one of his managers, has always contended. Much more encouraging and definite is the Smith than the Hoover speech of ex reads the Smith speech (and everyone should read it as well as Hoover's) will have any difficulty in under standing what the democratic presidential candidate means. The question is, can a candidate receiving the tre mendous financial support that both Smith and Hoover are receiving be his own master? Millionaries who in vest in presidential campaign funds expect returns. We can't imagine them investing with Al Smith's ac ceptance speech as a prospectus. Among our souvenirs is a little blotter issued by the democratic campaign committee in the last Wilson campaign. There are two pictures on one side. At one end of the blotter the picture of a boy dying on the battlefield. On the other the picture of a boy in a comfortable home reading to his mother. Beneath the Pictures this inscription: "Which do you prefer? Wa or peace? If you wish neacp vntp t* wish war vote "r Hwhe" -- " y °° D wpra , J; r , gnes • tbousand men wk <) voted for Wilson died on the fields of France and Flanders. grew dis anger. To the reporters , say, and indiated that he hoped he would be unmolested by the European press. Even then our newspapermen ?ot în thpir « rocked next "° ^ * Ws CaWn " they ^ uietly * marked next morning. TUNNEY AND POPULARITY Gene Tunney, who by hard work in a popular art made himself rich and famous within fewer years than it takes most artists to get started, has discovered that we exact a peculiar payment for the popularity we be stow. This prize fighter must long ago have become tired of having it said in the newspapers that he read books; but now, what with getting engaged and start ing for a tour of Europe on foot with Thornton Wilder, he seems to realize how deeply he is in trouble. When he set sail from New York the other day he is repre sented as having looked must unhappy. For as he got out of his taxi and approached the dock he suddenly found himself the target for dozens of flash light pho tographers and movie men, whose shots and clicks fol lowed him even U P the Sang plank to the deck. As he moved along behind an escort of police he is said to have frowned unpleasantly at the press of admiring shoulders about him, and when, as he attempted to sign his name to whatever documents one executes at the last moment on shore, hfe hand was prevented from the free movement of a champion's flourish, he tinctly red in the face with he had nothing whatever to With the price of wheat below the tion, the farmers of Sheridan county thusiastic over the presidential timber cost of produc are not very en . , ®Pi on the republi can and democratic tickets. Neither Hoover nor Smith have offered any concrete evidence that they will offer any relief for this condition. The people of Plentywood who derive their prosperity from the prosperity of the farmers might well give this fact deep consideration. s Economic Articles By Leland Olds, Federated Press Farmers' Share Remains Low. Though the gross income of agri culture rose 1% in the crop year of 1927-28 American fanners are still contributing to city prosperity by the low return they receive for their la bor and their investment. According to the U. S. department of agricul ture's annual survey of farm earnings the average farmer received scarcely half the wage paid the average fac tory worker while his return for capi tal and management would be un earned as to profit at all by the aver age industrial capitalist. The department reports the gross receipts of the agricultural industry in 1927-28 was $12,253,000,000 com pared with $12,127,000,000 in 1926-27. For the year 1925-26 gross farm in come amounted to $12,416.000,000 and if we turn back to the year 1919-20 we find a gross farm income amount ing to $157719,000,000. But that was before the New York financiers had decide to engineer the sharp deflation which threw thousands of farmers in to bankruptcy. The net income available for all farm capital employed and for pay ing farmers to manage their industry amounted in 1927-28 to $2,669,000,000. This compares with $2,494,000,000 in 1926- 27 and $3,082,000,000 in 1925-26. On the total capital investment in the industry the yearly return for capi tal and mangement was 4.6% in 1927 28, 4.3% m 1926-27 and 5.2% in 1925 26. But if 6% is allowed on capital borrowed by farmers and 7% on rent ed farms, the average farmer's return on his capital shrinks to 3.4% in 1927- 28 compared with 2.9% the pre ceding year and 4.3% in 1925-26. Expressed as a reward for the av erage farm operator, says the federal report, income available for capital, labor and management amounted to $886 compared with $862 in 1926-27 and $922 in 1925-26. If interest is al lowed for the farm operator's invest ment the average reward per family for labor and manage ment amounted : ,no i Court Kills Curb on Job Rake-off Labor is a commodity to be bought and sold by brokers like a theatre ticket or a bale of cotton. This feat ures the U. S. supreme court's knock out of the New Jersey law to fix fees charged by employment agencies. The law had been upheld by the highest courts of New Jersey. The New Jersey act required per- sons operating employment agencies to obtain a license from the state commissioner of labor and file for his approval the fees to be charged. The federal supreme court considers employment agency not of sufficient public interest to warrant govern- ment price fixing. It says: - "It has never been supposed, since the adoption of the constitution, that the business of the butcher, or the baker, the tailor, the woodqhopper, the mining operator, or miner was clothed with si ch public interest that the price of his product could be fix ed by state's regulation. iiuu -— u_:_ _ to the public use or clothe it with public interest merely because one makes commodities for and sells to the public in the common callings of which those above mentioned are in stances." The court holds that the employ ment agent is a broker whose business "does not differ in substantial char acter from the business of a real es tate broker, ship broker, merchandise broker or ticket broker, ues: an One does It contin "The interest of the public in the matter of employment is not differ ent in quality or character from its interest in the other things enumer ated; but in none of them is the in terest that public interest which the law 7 contemplates as the basis for leg islative price control. Under the de cisions of this court it is no longer « A1 . , , A1 can hand tbe f ar mer a coupie s " b . way slip him a blue print and that's all e ith er one can really deliver," says Will Rogers, the anti-bunk candidate for president. In this week's Life, where the cowboy humorist is making his weekly appeal for support, Rogers discourses on his rivals' shortcom ings as follows: "Now that the notification «cere monies are over, with no refusals, we can just sit down and figure out, 'What was it all about anyhpw?' "The object of these notification ceremonies was to tell Hoover and Smith what the delegates did at Kan sas City and Houston. And what DID the delegates do at Kansas City and Houston? They made a couple of things called platforms, and there is no more difference in the two plat forms than there is ip two musical shows. How could there beZ They are both catering to the same voters. "They both want the farmers vote. So what can they do but promise him in payment for it that they will do something in payment? The only thing about the bargain is that the farmer has got to help them first. "I am the only candidate that is running on either side that has ever looked a Mule in the face (or other wise) down a com row. I know what the farmer needs but I can't give it to him. But I am going to tell him I b ? fore election that I can t give it to him—and not afterwards. 1 JÂjî Vote for either of the other two WILL ROGERS PROM ISES AN EARLY D1SAP POINTMENT IF WINNER Says Farmer Needs Punch in Jaw if He Believes Either Party Will Care About Him After Election. can you recent farmers. , , "1 can tell you in a few words what the farmers needs. He needs a punch in the jaw if he believes that either of the parties cares a dam about him after election! , That's all the fanner needs, and that's all he'll get." Montana now has 18 refineries, producing 25,900 barrels of gasoline a day. Capital, labor After de & management duction of * Farmer's income 1919-20 1920-21 1921-22 1922-23 1923-24 1924-25 1925-26 1926-27 862 636 1927-28 886 667 By adding a small figure for the average rental value of the farm home the department gets $717 as the average annual wage per farm family in 1927-28 and compares this figure with the average factory wage of $1301 for the same year. It also points out that while the average fac tory worker's wage is now 2% higher than in 1919-20 the average farmer's return is 27% lower. The department's report also re fleets the tremendous shrinkage in farm values since 1919-20. It esti mates the total value of all farm cap* ital used in agricultural production Jan. 1 192P at $58,431,000,000 compar ed with $58.299,000,000 the year pre vious and $59,712,000,000 on Jan. ij 1926. On Jan. 1, 1920 the figure wasj $79,459,000,000 so that farm capital has shrunk about 2614% since 1920. Deducting borrowed and rented cap ital the department figures the in-, vestment of farm operators at $32, 191.000.000 in 1927-28, a shrinkage of more than 3114% from 1929-20 when their investment amounted to $47, j 065,000,000. The actual farm opera j tors have home the heaviest share ! of the deflation. to $657 compared with $636 in 1926 27 and $690 in 1925-26. The average farmer's income for capital, labor and management, and for labor and management after de ducting interest on his investment in the years since 1919-20 was: $917 $1246 397 684 270 514 440 682 533 766 624 854 690 922 fairly open to question that, at least i in the absence -of a grave emergency, ' the fixing of prices for food or cloth- 1 ing, of house rental or of wages, 1 whether minimum or maximum, is be ' yond the legislative power." Here is a striking exhibition of un-. social capitalist legal theory. If the I people want to eliminate profiteering in certain fields they must change the basis of the constitution from protec tion of property to human welfare. ! Justices Stone, Holmes and Brandeis i dissented from the decision. Stone "Ticket brokers and employment brokers are similar in name; in no other respect do they seem alike to me. To overcharge a man for the - privilege of hearing the opera is one thing; to control the possibility of earning a livlihood would appear to be quite another. And I shall not stop to argue that the the state has a larger interest in seeing that its, workers find employment without be ing uxipvova ~ r — 7 ù _i„ coam« that its citizens are entertained." ] In a sense the majority of the court is more consistent than Stone. Once let down the bars and it will be rea lized that the state has a large in- i terest not only . in employment and wages but also in what those wages will buy in food, clothing, housing ■ and even entertainment. The com plete regulation of all business as an all-inclusive service would follow. says: MSS THB WÇB.ZP HAS A W1W AND FINER MOTOR CAR Special Six "400" Sedan •1349 (• •> fe. fac t «* 7 tmily equipped 3 I jm «fWnu' 'M à (g - Nash 4oos A DAY I 1,000 August Sales 21,000 Cars —the greatest month in Nash History Higher and higher goes the nation wide demand for the new Nash *'400". Sales returns for August are in and, by tho usa nds of cars, it was the biggest month in the entire 12 fears of Nash history. The three great Nash factories now producing over 1000 cars a day, to supply the avalanche of orders for this new and liner motor car. The country hat gone Nash! In the oigbt short weeks since its introduction. approximately 55,000 Nash 400'» have been delivered— as many Nash cars as in six full months of 19271 There's only one conclusion to be drawn from these facta and figures— this is the car of tbo yearl This is the car with the new Twin-Ig nition motor— more power, more speed, loss gasoline . The easiest steering» easiest riding car the motor car indus try ever has produced. And the car with exquiaite new Salon Bodies of surpass ing beauty. art NAB H "400 Leasts the HWld 4ft Jflator Cost 1 *atur ▼? OTHER NASH FEATURES—jfo OTHJBU C«4JS HAS THEM AEt Short turning r*dl°* Vanity c*M ing «at, leather mounted Twio-lgnldon motor High compraaaion IS Aircraft typ« spark Naw doubla dropfiram« Ona- plaça Salon srHsi 1 *" Salon Bodies 116-ioch wheel baa« Body, rubber insulated Nash Spacial from frame front and rear bum pa» 1 THE FARMERS GARAGE M. E. Hill, Prop, Plentywood Montana ( tie ) Friday, Septembe rl4 .l92« : Ji ■«•MM .. THE WASHINGTON SCENE By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press . . w 0 Washington.—Organized labor may determine the immediate fate of the Kellogg treaty for renunciation of war, when that measure comes be fore the senate for ratification, in December. In the struggle between the big navy lobby and the advocates of the treaty, as to whether the pact shall be ratified at once or shall be shelved until a naval construction Bill shall be enacted, the forces of la bor unionism may hold the balance of power. And because the early rati fication of the treaty involves funda mental changes in the diplomatic and political situation around the world, this balance of power is more impor tant than any that American workers have ever dealt with. T , , , .. B L î bor s 2,?£°ft u JJ, lty ' ". l ' y /PS* .,° C !" ne ft ft? Trades department of the A. . ° f ar,se ® ft?* ft! pending naval construction hill ha. been saddled by the senate aval af fa ' r *. committee with an am »dmen r« bbln * the u ™ ns , of balf ft e , *° rk x . n government yards, promised them JI 1 , tb *j bl1 aP H aPse(i b > T , , tb , e P*e House measure provided that al ternate vessels of the 16-ship pro * ram should be constructed in gov ernment -! ar<lp ; The senate commit ^ ee amendment permits the purchase j P riva te plants of all engines and | otber equipment for these S vessel? i whose construction is allotted to gov ; ernment plants This means that less j "î a " aw0.000,00 ) of the proposée $276.000,000* appropriation for new nava ' construction would go to plants w here union conditions prevail, val promoters since public opinion in ! all parts of the world has seized upon the Kellogg treaty as a text for de manding that naval expenditures be cut down. If the naval lobby is to induce congress to spend all this money on new ships, it must act i quickly. It must not let the treaty be ratified first. Now comes the labor Panic has struck in among the na unions' suggestion that organized la bor is inclined to peace and it sees reason why a bill that has been robbed of material advantages to na vyyard workers should be passed. When that suggestion is made the senate committee headed by Hale of Maine may turn a somersault and come down anxious to give even more than 8 ships to the union workers in government yards. , 17 , .. . , While the Hale amendment contains c aase re Q u # iria g that naval officers buy , Flom private plants only such d ul P™ e nt as can be so secured at advantageous terms the union spokes men , kn ™ b y lon *? experience that the na . val officers are eager to serve the private and to neglect the govem ment plants. They 7 look to future P nva to employment in private con ? r 1 n "' aml they enjoy so clal ^ X0 J m s . trom sources enriched by P rlva te dividends. The few who are a Y al *° government construction are ; . ® exceptional men. By force of the. ln Huence of the majority, goveni- ) rn 5?,^ establishments lie almost idle, wblle hundreds of millions of dollars annua Vy, according to O Connell, are s P en t by the government on private cunt, act wurx ror various depart ^ ents wh f n tbe Pam ® work could be done as caea Ply m the government's: own p a°ps and yards. * * * * Since all nations are adhering to i the treaty—contingent upon its com- i ing into force when the American ' senate shall ratify it—President Cool idge has discovered that he has in his hands a more extensive responsi E * * ( -- - bility for world peace have had if the^United joined the League of Nation* 6 * ^ now most other nations . 5, F <* . weak and put-upon count** 0 * 11 * I look and appeal to the Unhid o' I J' ot £ • war. As the sponsor of the and as the richest, most secure '» least involved empire on *2? *4 United States become arbiter^# tlle pûtes in every direction Ï e ï to overflowing investments have IL** One exception to the Ion! governments that will seek !J lst . supprot in time of stre* will be the Soviet Union Eft be that of critic of the folly of l * ^ ing to abolish war while keeniî^ heavy > armaments. But the \ • condition will be that of a W®*® quarrelsome family claiming W Sam's especial favor. This will be argued against early ? a ti? Ct tion. The metal trades mÄ & et . into the peace fight, their own gains but mindful of wide consequences. I ! tr«*^ of ■ car. 8 up *orld Subscribe for the Producers News. Dear God, I need You awful bad I don't know what to d My papa's cross, uo. my mama's dek 1 got no friend but You Them keerless angels went and brung Stid of the boy I ast, s A weenchy, teenchy baby girl; I don't see how they dast! 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