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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- 1
dependent, The Sheridan County News, The Pio
neer Press and the Sheridan County Farmer.
CHARLES E. TAYLOR, Editor arid Manager
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928
THE INDEPENDENT TICKET
In this week's issue of the Producers News is pub
lished a list of the candidates running for office on
the Independent ticket and the offices for which the>
have been selected by the farmers' and workers' con
vention held in Plentywood last month.
Every eligible voter in the fall election should study
this list carefully. They are the candidates who have
been selected by representatives from practically every
voting precinct in the county.
Those selected for the various offices of Sheridan
county have been selected because they were consider
ed the best timber that could be found in the county
for the various offices. They are anxious to meet ev
ery voter in the county and prove that they have the
interests of the taxpayers at heart, and as soon as the
fall work is completed a vigorous campaign will be
made over the entire county.
Much is to be gained by the farmers and workers
of Sheridan county in keeping the control of the county
in their hands and it is hard to conceive any reason
why the producers of this county should vote any other
ticket than the Independent Ticket in the fall election.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR
In last week's Producers News a typographical error
was made in the editorial under the heading: Farmer's
and Workers' candidates, which reversed the meaning
of the editorial and which we wish to correct in this
issue. The paragraph in question is as follows;
"Of course every citizen in Sheridan county will re
ceive consideration at their hands, 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
other eye. They will safeguard the interests of out
side parties. And after all practically all of the busi
ness of the county is transacted with parties other
than farmers and workers."
This should have read:
'Of course every citizen in Sheridan county will re
ceive consideration at their hands, 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
other eye. They will safeguard the interests of the
Taxpayers as against the selfish interests of outside
parties. And after all practically all of the business
of the county is transacted with parties other than
farmers and workers,"
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MONTANA'S NEW PAPER
The following editorial taken from the Great Falls
Labor Topics expresses the opinion of the Producers
News and we are republishing it for our readers oi
whom the great majority are believers in a free and
independent press and not under the domination of the
huge and
.
"The Montana Free Press, the new paper which is
about to appear in Butte with its first issue on the
15th of this month, owned by W. A. Clark, Jr.,
ises to be a paper for the producing class. In the an
nouncement of this paper, the publishers claim: As a
city thinketh, so it is. Public thought is the stuff the
city is made of, and day by day year in and year out,
the daily newspaper is weaving the strands of public
thought. Pick out any community with a well posted,
modern minded and right-thinking citizenry. There
you'll find a good newspaper, an independent newspa
per, working tirelessly and ably for the public welfare
and enlightenment; for constant and needed civic im
provement; for efficient and economical government;
for fair and impartial taxation; for larger returns to
both capita) and labor; for an equitable distribution of
opportunity and privileges; for better lives and living
conditions.
prom
When a paper is faithful to these community mis
sions, its readers are faithful to it and respond, freely
and loyally, both to its news and advertising columns.
"Such is the purpose of the Montana Free Press,
its management states. Labor Topics is for any paper
which refuses to wear a "copper collar,
the new daily godspeed and prosperity."
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and wishes
THE COMING SLAVERY ON THE
FARMS
Industrial farm feudalism, with American
peasant
serfs, looms in a brief on farm relief presented to the
senate committee on agriculture and forestry. Robert
S. Brookings, founder of the Brookings Institute,
capitalist research organization, suggests that
tions, larger than U. S. Steel, exploit the labor
great agricultural areas for either farm or factory aa
planned poduction might direct.
Brookings cites the Campbell Farming Corpation in
Montana and Henry Ford's experiments in Michigan as
successful capitalist farms.
Campbell has the backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. In
1921 he organized his corporation like
neering project.
a
corpora
of
a great engi
It operates 100,000 acres and
pro
duces 600,000 bushels of wheat a year from half this
acreage, the other half lying fallow.
"It has been so successful,
says Brookings,
producing wheat in the calculated manner in which in
dustrial corporations turn out other commodities that
not only have substantial profits resulted but remark
ably high wages have been paid the laborers during the
period of low prices. The corporation has even
at
gone
so far as to issue 20% of its shares of stock as a bonus
to the skilled labor on the farm."
Campbell considers agriculture as the biggest in
dustrial opportunity today and predicts that in less
than 60 years we will have a U. S. Farming corpora
tion larger than U. S. Steel.
Brookings uses Ford and the International Shoe O.
as examples of industries which have established small
plants in agricultural communities giving their em
ployees time off for planting and harvesting. Chair
man Johnson of the big shoe trust declares that his
organization by developing specialized small plants in
agricultural regions has "forgotten all about labor
troubles, materially reduced labor turnover, relieved
congestion of living and transportation, avoided com
petition among employers (for labor) and counteracted
the effects of sectional business depression and crop.
failure."
"Why may we not assume," asks Brookings, "that
the agricultural corporations of the future will operate
small local flour mills, and grind and mix their own
scientific cattle foods, and even add to their activities
small specialty manufacturing plants for shipment of
parts to central assembling points, which have become
such a feature of automobile production thus, even
more thoroughly co-ordinating agriculture and indus
try?"
Such a development would bring further changes in
Class lines would
the country's democratic theories.
The credit overlords would rule openly.
crystalize.
They would administer the great undertakings out
lined by Brookings through a managerial class, drawn
largely from the privileged owners or allied to this
class by bonds or shares of stock in the enterprises.
There would develop a class of foremen and skilled
Below these would toil the great body of
workers.
workers, permanently bound to their feudal communi
ties, giving part of their labor to agriculture and part
to industry.
On top the owners would live in luxury off incomes
produced by the workers on their great capitalist es
tates. Underneath would be the producing classes, ac
cepting their position and their allotted tasks in re
turn for the assurance of humble dwellings and a very
meager supply of the necessaries of life, a new religion
of submission and resignation.
!
WHEELER AND RELIEF
(From The Cut Bank Pioneer Press)
Mr. Hoover says that the way to get farm
relief is to build the Great Lakes-St. Law
rence waterway. Joe Dixon, who wants to
go to the United Stàtes Senate, agrees with
Mr. Hoover. And B. K Wheeler, who is op
posing Mr. Dixon, agrees with both of them,
but with this difference: The farmers need
immediate relief from crop surpluses, which
the waterway project will not bring for many
years.
So Mr. Wheeler says that if re-elected he
a
will continue to vote for crop surplus
legislation, which Mr. Hoover opposes and Mr.
Dixon avoids discussing. In this way, Mr.
Wheeler would bring relief to the present gen
eration of farmers and not put it off until
their grandchildren have grown up and taken
the job of operating their farms.
Now this is a characteristic Tribune editorial,
broad, bland generality. Let us see if it will bear an
alysis.
Mr. Wheeler says he will continue to vote for crop
surplus control says his backer, the Tribune. What
form and label will this crop surplus control take?
The vital principle of the McNary-Haugen bill was
the surplus control idea and the equalization fee idea
was designed to compensate for possible loss in mar
keting this surplus abroad. But the candidate for the
presidency on the democratic ticket is opposed to the
equalization fee, so how far will Mr. Wheeler, he of
the heart which bleeds for the farmer, get with his
'relief' idea? It might be said at this point that Mr.
Wheeler's distinguished confrer, Senator Walsh, has
opposed and continues to frown on the equalization fee
idea. So just what has Senator Wheeler bo offer
an immediate relief?
As for Joe Dixon, his sympathy for sound relief leg
islation was manifest long before Wheeler's position
on the matter was made manifest. The McNary-Hau
gen idea had its inception in Dixon's home in Helena,
when he was governor and when Chester Davis was
his commissioner of agriculture. Davis, M. L. Wilson
and one or two representatives of the national secre
tary of agriculture mapped out the McNary-Haugen
idea and Davis was the man who presented it to the
us as
country.
What "Wheeler can do in the way of realizing farm
relief with A1 Smith as president is precisely nothing.
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NEWSPAPERS AND MONOPOLY
(From the Minneapolis Labor Review)
In the past year 90 cities have come into the class
having only one morning newspaper,
number of cities have come into the class having
ning and morning newspapers under one ownership.
With growing speed the combination and merging of
newspapers goes on.
Chicago, as an example, used to have several
An enormous
eve
morn
Now it has only two, the Examiner and
mg paper,
the Tribune—Hearst and McCormick.
So large a city
as Cleveland has but one morning newspaper. Minne
apolis, of course, hase had but one morning paper for
the past 20 or 25 years.
Monopoly of the news field may or may not result
in what has been aptly called a "kept press
may or may not result in loss of enterprising editor
ship, but it cannot fail to produce that feeling of as
Riirpd TmiH * , . ,, ,
sured hold that tends at least to make for flatness.
Uf course, it may be said that there will be a fear
of competition to keep the monopolists from endanger
ing their holds by becoming venial or flat but that
g«* » - * very expensive proposition
to emoark in the newspaper publishing business today
and not many people have the money to "buck" a
chain paper or an old established publication that has
a, Th?fiïTo h f ed t r , b r ht up a11 ° f
the labor paper is enlarged and made
much more important by the daily newspaper monopo
ly. In many American cities today, the trade union
weekly stands out as the only paper through which the
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issues vital to the masses can get an adequate hearing
and presentation.
A big daily newspaper, monopolizing its field, is a
big business enterprise. The labor paper remains a
human enterprise. Therein is its opportunity
and it
WHAT IS SUPPLY AND DEMAND?
(From The Republican, Mitchell, S. D.)
A drop of seventeen cents in the price of wheat in
two days last week shows again how the farmer is
beaten out of a part of the fair price cf his crop by
the simple device of putting down the quotation when
he had the grain to sell and putting it up again when
he is out of the market.
What possible change could there be in the relation
of supply and demand in two days, to justify a slash
of fifteen per cent in the price?
The farmer is told that he is paid in accordance
with the operation of the law of supply and demand
But neither the supply nor the demand could change
m two days. It could be altered only in the course of
months. So manifestly this price cut
millions off the value of the 1928 wheat
justified by either supply or demand.
For the past three months
a*.
which takes
crop, is not
newspapers opposed to
farm relief have been quoting prices offered for wheat
and com and hogs and cattle, in contending that
farmer need no belief. Let them instead use the
prices that are actually paid bo the farme, when his
wheat comes on, when corn comes on, when hogs
on; let them not use the prices charged to
by those who have bought from the farmer.
the
come
consumers
NEW BOOK TELLS OF
ADVANTAGES OF THE
TREASURE STATE
14 resigned to fur
readable facts for the prospec
^- ve c j^j zen losing toward the state
as a place of residence and for those
who seek a field for m
vestment, 'Montana, Resources and
Opportunities," 1928 edition present
ing a comprehensive picture of Treas
ure State development, is now ready
for distribution, according to the
state division of publicity.
In the years it has been published
the "Montana" book has become
something of a standard authority on
the state. The last issue was used
by the school in this and other states
text book. That it filled a need
is indicated by the fact that the sup
ply was exhausted within less than
six weeks after the date of publica
tion.
as a
The book is broken into eight sub
divisions; history, geography, climate
and transportation, recreational areas,
people and institutions, the industries
and the counties. In practically every
part of the book the scope of the
material handled has been widened.
New features include: a more com
plete historical sketch of the state
with a bibliography of Montana his
tory and a directory of historical
points of interest; a discussion in the
transportation division of air ways,
bus lines and water ways, in addition
to railroads as in former years; a
section on highway development with
a descriptiove list of all trails and
highways in the state; a recreational
directory giving lists of dude ranches
hot springs, and summer resorts, in
dustrial points of interests, state in
stitutions, places of interest to the
hunter and fisherman, Indian reser
vations and national forests; and a
section on art in Montana with short
biographical sketches of Montana's
leading artists.
Agricultural development and re
discussed by state and
federal department of agriculture of
ficials. A story of every county in
the state covering history, surface
and soil, crops, drainage and water
supply, industries, mineral resources,
timber, land values, transportation
and highways,eduation, cities and
towns, climate and assessment fig
ures, written in most cases by a resi
dent of the county, makes up the fi
nal section.
Throughout the book the aim has
been, as stated in the foreword, "To
etch in strong lines the achievements
of the past, space has not been spar
ed to point out the possibilities of
the future."
sources are
NAME OF BUTTE MINER
HAS CHANGED TO
MONTANA STANDARD
Butte, Sept 14.—The Butte Miner,
established in 1876, and known over
the country as one of the state's
leading dailies today lost its identity
in the Montaria Standard. Within
the past month, the newspaper was
purchased with several other proper
ties including mines, mills and an
electric street railway from the heirs
of the late W. A. Clark, mining mag
nate, by the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Co. Announcing its new name
the paper says it takes over the cir
culation of the Anaconda Standard
in Butte and that the Anaconda pa
per henceforth will confine its at
tention primarily to its home city.
WORLD'S LARGEST
BANK FOR CHICAGO
Chicago, Sept. 7.—Chicago will
have what is claimed to be the larg
est bank in the world under one roof
as a result of the consolidation of the
Continental National Bank & Trust
Company, and the Illinois Merchants
Trust Company, aproved tonight by
directors of both institutions.
In financial resources of America,
the new bank will rank second only
to the National City Bank of New
York.
new institution, to be known as the
Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.
will have resources exceeding a billion
dollars, with a capital of $76,000,000.
A surplus of approximately $65,000,
000 and a reserve of $110,000,000.
The nierger plan provides for a se
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will be owned pro-rata by stockhold
ers of the bank under a trust agree
ment * Stockholders of the Continent
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capital, share for share of stock in
the consolidated institution and also a
dividend distribution the investment
£ t} * e Continental National Bank &
Trust Comnanv in its present bank
building P y
Stockholders of the Illinois Mer
hants Trust Company will receive for
t t eir pr !r sent $15,000,000 capital, two
shares for each share "° W Md ' "
More Than Billiton
Both banks have figured in consol
idations involving smaller banking
houses over a period of years. The
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30 million dollars of the capital stock
of the consolidated company and also
a cash distribution of $16,000,000, rep
resenting the proceeds of the sale of
the Illinois merchants building to the
consolidated bank.
Reynolds at Helena
George M. Reynolds chairman of
the board of directors of the Conti
nental National will be chairman of
the executive committee of the merg
ed bank and Arthur Reynolds, presi
dent of the Continental National, will
become chairman of the board of di
rectors and chief executive officer.
Eugene M. Stevens, president of the
Illinois Merchants Trust will be pres
ident of the merged bank, remaining
officers of both banks will continue
in the combined institution.
The consolidated bank will own and
occupy the building now owned by the
Illinois Merchants Trust company.
FARMERS' PRODUCE
ASSOCIATION MAKES
4 PER CENT PROFIT
Williston, Sept. 14.—A surplus
fund of $873.04 is shown for the first
three months of operation by the
Farmers Union Produce Association
the surplus representing about 4% of
the total business done by the associ
ation during the three-month period.
This surplus, after deducting $194.
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Plentywood
26, which is one-half of 1%, for the !
sinking fund, is being distributed to
the patrons at the rate of 3 l A%
sales made,
The total payments for cream dur
ing the three months were $13,890.68,
John Lindblom and Ernest Scott ty
ing for first place in individual sales
of butterfat, each having marketed
butterfat to the value of $576 dur
mg that period and receiving a divi
dend check of $20.18.
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Great Falls—Milwaukee will build
half mile spur to new high school site.
Shelby—Sunburst Griffin No. 3 well
is 7,500,000 foot gasser at 1210 feet.
Nashua—Montana Power Co. is sur
veying for new power line here.
Radersburg—Joe Dandy mine
covers rich ore vein at 700 foot level.
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^elope, Mont.
Editor of Producers News- 9 ' 17 ' 28 '
Rumors are that Mrs. Van p u
Comertown was taken aw»v f Pelt of
itarium but the fact isTwV *«•
taken to the insane asyfi A»«
Springs, Montana. at War m
I a rewriting this so the nen*i
know the facts and not ÄW
false rumors. misle d by
Yours truly.
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