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THE PRODUCERS NEWS Paper of the people, by the peeple, f#r the peeplc By Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers CONTINUING—The Outlook Promoter, Tho Out look Optimist, The Dooley Sun, The Antelope In dependent, The Sheridan County Nows, The Pio neer Press and the Sheridan County Farmer. CHARLES £. TAYLOR, Editor anU Manager FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929 SEEING IS BELIEVING The Producers News is making no rash guarantee or false statements, but we claim a circulation larger than all of the other newspapers in Sheridan county combined. The merchant is not asked to take this statement at its face value. Our mailing list is open to the public and it is every merchant's privilege, who plans on an advertising campaign to investigate this list and other lists in the county for the good of his own business. The Producers News is owned by 600 farmers in Sheridan county and goes into practically every home in the county as well as the homes of those bordering Sheridan county in Daniels and Rooosevelt. This is all trade territory tributary to Plentywood, and most of these readers make Plentywood their trading cen ter. The merchants of this city cannot be fooled by rash statements of newspapers claiming as great or greater circulations than the Producers News. They know that this paper has been in circulation in Plentywood for nearly 11 years, that it has taken over several papers in the county with their circulation and that it has held the distinction of being one of the foremost week lies of the state. They have seen the local postoffice filled with sacks of newspapers to be distributed in Plentywood, over the entire Soo line and east and west of this city, ceased. Many small contests put on by this paper have drawn into the treasury over $3,000 at a time in sub scription money in two or three weeks with the terri tory barely touched. It is almost an insult to the mer chants' intelligence of this city to make claims of greater circulation than the Producers News when liciting advertising, giving the impression that contest could build up a circulation from a comparative ly few subscriptions to thousands, when it is already known that the Producers News covered this county in practically every home. But seeing is believing. Look over our mailing lists, see the territory covered, give the matter thought, and you will then understand that another hoax js being perpetrated by soliciors who are either deliberately trying to fool you or are themselves en tirely ignorant of the situation which they profess to know so much about and even guarantee—we wonder what they mean by guarantee and what their tee is worth when the truth is known. Mr. Advertiser, we Its continuous growth has never SO a mere serious guaran again claim a circulation larger $han all the other papers in Sheridan county combined, and we welcome the opportunity to show you our list, and we know then that you will be satisfied. And this is a live list, practically all paid up, covering Sheridan county, and giving the merchant* ppe of the best medi ums in the state for advertising their wares. c_ THE NARCOTIC TRAFFIC Every few days comes reports of quantities of opium, morphine and other narcotics being unearthed by fed eral men and other officials of the law, or of acts com mitted by persons under the influence of drugs. When one considers that not over two or three weeks ago one shipment of the drugs amounted to over five millions of dollars, the habit-forming have gained a large number of victims in the United States. menace must The effects of drugs as stated by eminent authori ties is one of the most deadly human beings have to fight once they become addicts, and the victims go to the lowest depth of degradation to secure the dope. Every crime under the sun has been committed by peo ple under the influence of different forms of narcotics. The users of drugs at the present time seem to come from the rich and leisure classes, who in their desire for excitement become drug addicts, the habit becoming stronger with One reads of use. some of the most pitiful stories ct._ published, coming from the lips of innocent young men and women, led in their quest of adventure to take of the needle ever par pipe, with the oonsequental re sults of a ruined and degraded life, . End with the taking of life—both their or many of which own and others. We are fortunate in the small towns of the west to know very little personally of the narcotic evil and its victims, but in some of the larger cities of Montana, it already has gained considerable headway, as articles in the newspapers of those cities testify to in telling of narcotic raids. The penalty for peddling dope is very severe, and strong efforts are made by officers of the law to pre vent its use, but when one reads of millions of dollars worth of narcotics being captured in one shipment, it is wondered how many millions of dollars worth of dope gets by the watchful arm of the law, to debauch the young men and women of this country. Sometimes we wonder if the life of the idle rich is as pleasant as it seems, if one could see behind the curtains as they fall upon the drama of life. «î MORTGAGING THE FUTURE The other day we overheard a discussion on the merits of the installment plan of buying which is now plays such a large part in our mode of living. The argument waxed warm and the more conserva tive speakers voiced their disapproval of the plan, asking the question, where will it end, this mortgaging of our future? The opposition stated that without it, a great many of us would be without the pleasures of life and even some of the necessities. The more con servatives argued that some day we will no longer be young and the result will be a colorless old age de prived of the comforts of life which have been squan dered in youth because of the chance to buy that which we have not the for money to pay because of the easy-purchasing plan. The proponents of the easy-pay ment method of buying said that perhaps we wouldn't have saved the money anyway and instead of fritter ing it away, something is accomplished by buying a substantial article and succeeding in paying for it in some way as the installments come due. Then the radical outsider asked the question: What has brought about this condition that has made it al most a universal plan to purchase on installments and mortgaging the future, when under the proper system we should be able to pay cash for the things we need ? This question was met by a shake of the head and no one answered the quesiton. So the spokesman answer ed himself by saying: Conditions have come to the place where the producer is no longer getting the return for his labor that will enable him to live and buy the necessities of life and some of the more or less luxuries without taking a longer time than he can afford to wait in this short life and still enjoy himself as he desires. He is willing to take the chance of paying for the article together with interest and a higher price because of not paying cash, ip order that he may partake of the spices of life as well as more fortunate friends who are able to pay cash. Of course he knows that he is mortgaging his future, but what of it—he is going to live. Old age must take care of itself. Of course, he said, if the article pur chased is an absolute necessity, such as a home, he is more or less justified as he is making an investment, which w'ill tend to give him, independence in his old age. But if the article purchased is something that will last but a brief period of time with money con tinuously going into it for upkeep, the radical ended with a retort, when he is old, you can bet your last dol lar, the huge investors in partial-payment loans are not going to look after him. At the end of the old man's talk, for he was well along in life, one of the younger generation spoke up and said, well you have a good argument alright, but the partial-payment plan is here and here to stay. I don't know what causes it, but I know we never would have anything if we didn't use it, and the debate broke up as the parties moved away. his HOOVER AND FARM RELIEF Some of the Senators and Congressmen are trying to get through a make-shift Farm Relief Bill in Con gress at the present short session, but it seems to be the concensus of opinion that an extra session should be called by Hoover for the purpose of dealing with the farmers' problems. Those in favor of an extra session cite the fact that Hoover made promises of relief for the farmers during the campaign and that it was now up to him to make good, and that a make shift bill at this time is unenecessary unless it would be to pass the buck to Coolidge, leaving Hoover out of it and the farmers with farm relief of doubtful value. MAKING GOLD FROM BASER METAL For hundreds of years men tried to make gold out of baser metals. They had no success. But the great Krupp works in Germany have just done more than that. They have made a metal that sells for twice as much per pound as gold, out of such cheaper substances as carbon, cobalt and tungsten. Better even than king gold, this new metal is so hard and takes such an ma edge that it will cut through glass like putty, and will drill through cast iron four times as fast as the best tool steel. Widia" it is called meaning "like a dia mond," and the name will soon be as familiar on, that other remarkable modern invention of turning wood into silk. Widia will make for cheaper autos and airplanes by the speed with which it cuts and drills steel. as ray The same day as widia was successfully tested in America, word came from England of the perfecting process of electroplating that makes cardboard or wood as tough as iron. That means wonderful progress in airplane manufacture too. This old world has advanced faster in the past score of years than in all of its previous history in scientific achievement, but we are at just the beginning. In the next score of years even greater wonders will be per formed. WILL THEY DO IT? The history of all nations shows that agriculture is the poorest paid of all occupations. That is how the name "peasant" came to be applied to the farmers of European countries. The word, peasant, means a poor, ignorant and ill-bred person, a boor, a rascal, a sense less hind. Although producing the food of the world they were obliged to eat the poorest of food and the shabbiest of apparel, all because others controlled the prices of their prdoucts and made fortunes from speculating in the aggregate production. They treated with contempt by all other classes, except eral times when they rose in rebellion against the ditions that oppressed them. wear were sev con The first great revolt of these slaves of an economic system noted in history occurred in the year 1096 when hordes of peasants along the Rhine, men, women and children, joined in a tremendous revolt, and many thou sands of them were slain by the troops of aristocracy. Another peasant revolt occurred in England in the year 1381, due to heavy taxation of the farmers and other oppressive means used to get the wealth pro duced away from them without giving an adequate re turn. King Richard II induced them to disperse when they first marched on London, by promising to grant their demands. After finding out that his promises were like the promises of present day politicians, abso lutely worthless, the peasants again rose in revolt, but the king was able to crush and disperse the ment with his soldiers, killing thousands. A revolt of the peasants in Germany in 1524-25 over ran that country for a time but the aristocracy and other classes were able to subdue them with military force, and by terrible cruelties. move These revolts show that the condition of the farmers, or peasants, as they were called in derision, was the same in all countries. They were forced down the scale of industry until they were the poorest paid of all. Huge so-called civilizations were built on their production of wealth, yet they shared nothing but ithe hard toil necessary to produce it. They were not even entitled to representation in government. They had no remedy except revolt and with the military power over them revolt proved useless. They are still peasants in European countries. The American farmer is now on the road to the same kind of thing—peasantry. Anybody that understands ehe basis of our economic system knows that it is the same thing that made peasants in Europe and it is al ready starting to bring the same condition to the farm ers of this country. Those that prosper by the very reason of this sinking down of the scale of industry of the farmers of this country will try to flatter them into the idea that this is not so. However, nothing is more immuable than economic law, and under the present system of industry the farmers who cannot see the fate of agriculture in thf light of history is not aware of the facts. Will the capitalists of this country stop the coming of a condition that has been proved inevi table in all past history under the present system of industry? Will they do it? History says, "No." —Mille Lacs Co. (Minn.) Times. A Economic Articles By Leiaml Olds, Federated Press * Robotry Rampant Fewer bosses and many more pay rollers is the forecast of Editor Gris wold of the Chicago Journal of Com merce in a pithy article on ike pre dominant trend of production and db tribution. He feels that this tenden cy probably stifles inti»/«dualism but holds that it is highly essential, pecially to the succès-' of this country in competing with nations abroad. This fits in the pessimistic view expressed before the American Associ ation for the Advancement of Science by A. J. Lotka, mathematical expert for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Lotka contended that there should be no concern oter the difference in fertility between the best and the diccre or bad human stocks because the modern tendency is toward tralizing the management of human affairs in the hands of relatively few highly competent persons. Hence the world's need for exceptionally gifted men tends to diminish. "Modem large scale production," he said, "has brought it about that a rel atively few best minds are sufficient to keep the machinery of the modem community running, not only smooth ly but on the upgrade. The trend is toward an ever increasing concentra tion of the world's significant tasks in the hands and minds of few. Why, then, should we take thought to im prove the proportion of best minds in es me cen Displaced Producers Shift to Distribution extraordinary shift of Ameri ca's working population since 1920 from commodity production to com munication, distribution and personal service was featured in a discussion of unemployment figures at the annu al meeting in Chicago of the Ameri can Statistical Assn. In a paper bas ed not only on government statistics but on data gathered from business and other organizations Lawrence Mann of the New York state depart ment of commerce brought out occu pational changes amounting to a veri table revolution in the use of power. man Mann's estimates place the number of wage earners and farmers in 1927 at 32,188,000 compared with 31,272, 000 in -1920. These figures, showing a gam of 916,000 jobs in 1927 compared with 1920, in no sense refute the fre quently published figures showing heavy decreases in the number of jobs offered by railroads, mines and factories. But they show heavy com pensating gams.' in Employment con nected with automotive transporta tion, telephone service, hotels, taurants, barber shops, etc. Summarizing his results Mann showed 10,030,000 workers employed in agriculture in 1927 compared with 10,953,000 in 1920, a decrease of 923, 900. In the production of minerals, except petroleum, the number fell from 975,000 in 1920 to 910,000 in 1927, a decline of 65,000. In manu facture he included auto repair shops and found 9,960,000 workers in 1927 compared with 10,752,000 in 1920, drop of 762,000. " res a But in transporta tion and communication, in spite of decreased railroad employment, the How Wall Street Affects Farming The connection between the orgy of speculation promoted by multimillion aires in New York and the inability of farmers to purchase fertilizer for the coming crop year was revealed in an address by A. W. Sheldon of the National Fertilizer Assn, before the annual meeting in Chicago of the American Statistical Assn. According to Sheldon the fertilizer manufactur ers fear that the high money rate which resulted from this profiteering debauch will mean a material cut in next spring's purchases of fertilizer. . The greatest difficulty of the ferti lizer industry, said Sheldon, was the instability of the farm industry which it depends. In striking charts he traced the correlaton between an nual sales of fertilizer and crop val ues in the proceeding year. The dras tic deflation of the farmer in 1929-21 brought a corresponding drop in the quantity of fertilizer sold, more than 7,000,000 tons in 1920 sales fell 4,750,000 tons in 1921. Sheldon discussed the present situa tion largely from the viewpoint of southern cotton buyers who buy more than 60% of the manufactured fertilizer. Farmer purchases of ferti lizer, he said, are financed to a con siderable degree through the inter mediate credit banks. These banks float their bonds in New York and so the New York money market deter mines the intermediate credit bank rates. High money rates in New York, he pointed out, had forced the Columbia, S. . C., intermediate credit bank to raise its interest rate from 4% to 5% on From niMiiimMiiiinmiiwmniiiWHHiiiiiniitnni iinnnminminnnnnwni/^1 "•HiamiMMMiimii THE WASHINGTON SCENE i By LAWRENCE TODD, Fédéra ted Press à . . Washington—(FP) — Political for tunes are being made and lost in the strange lottery of human caprice which is the favor of Herbert Hoover, president-elect of the United States, as he sits in his well-guarded suite in the Mayflower hotel and listens to the proposals of Republican leaders. Hoov er listens. He promises nothing. But the politicians are not dismayed at his becoming one of themselves. They I ; our midst, barely enough tasks for them to do.' For there are even now Lotka asks whether the human race is not headed for a condition in which a majority of robots, stunted in men tal growth, will do the rough work of the world for a small aristocracy of best minds set aside for the creative function. He sees as the alternative such an arrangement of mass produc tion as will yield a greater surplus of collective leisure. These effects must be borne in mind in any consideration of the long list of mergers which characterized the business history of 1928 and will tinue as important features of 1929. They are far more important to the individual worker and his children than such other effects of rationaliza tion as elimination of waste, reduc tion of overhead, increase in efficien cy or greater productivity. con Control of the economic life of the people is passing to a few great banks administering completely integrated industries. This renders the sociali zation of administration imperative if an age of social degeneration is to be avoided. The increased leisure made possible by mass production must not remain the monopoly of a small mi nority of idle wasters in whose inter est the best minds drive a regimented proletariat. to ! ' number increased from 2,918:000 3,820,000 or by 904,000. The number of workers employed in distribution, according to Mann, practically doubled, increasing from 718,000 in 1920 to 1,409,000 in 1927. On the other hand the number in gov ernment service went down from 1, 025,000 to 804,000, a decrease of 221, 000. The occupations classified to gether under the general head of pro fessional service accounted for 2,530, 000 in 1927 compared with 1,864,000 in 1920, an increase of 666,000. Fin ally there were 2,625,000 employed in personal or domestic service in 1927 compared with 1,864,000 in 1920, increase of 761,000. In highway transportation and tomotive products combined the fig ures show an increase of 1,143,000 workers due entirely to the develop ment of the auto since 1920. The ho tel, restaurant, barber shop and man cure groups added 754,000 to the jobs available outside of productive indus try, according to Mann. These figures were gathered not much for estimating unemployment __ to give business information about the purchasing power within a very short time so that it bought in terms of agricultural products nearly twice as domestic market. They take no ac count of several million potential workers added to the job market by the growth of population. They show how the economic order is develping nonessential services instead of in creasing the number of commodities or the amount of liezure made avail able by advances in the technique of production. an au so as This forces the individual farmer to pay about 8% on the money which he borrows to purchase ferti lizer or other necessaries for year s crops. The fertilizer associa tion has never gone through with money rates so high. The tremendous power on the farm er exercised by the credit lords who control the federal reserve was em phasized earlier in December by ex senator R, L. Owen, speaking in Tul sa. Owen had an important part in framing the federal reserve act. Re ferring t ô the deflation of agriculture in 1920 and 1921 he said: "By the process of contracting cre dit the gold dollar was increased in much as it had done on the 1st of January, 1920. Under the policy of deflating credit the value of agricul tural lands and property, including stock, lost a value exceeding $20,000, 000,000 within about 2 years, bank rupting hundreds of thousands of peo ple who were debtors and had to pay back the debt in dollars which had nearly twice the purchasing power. Owen makes very clear the inter est of all workers, whether on the farms, in the mines, on railroads, stores or offices, in the control of the credit system. By implication the financiers who now control the sys tem can manipulate credit to the point where it virtually gives them power to confiscate farms, factories and business enterprises. As has been pointed out, banks and insurance com panies will own more land as the dol lar becomes more expensive. per cent. next a season > » ......„uQ feel that he is perfectly safe for the old game of trade and stealth. The chips in this game are patronage— federal salaries. Now that his trip through Latin America is ended, the new chief of state is picking his cabinet, calculat ing the price he must pay for the help of various vested political and fi nancial interests, and planning the courses he will follow in the coming four years. He is, of course plan ning on re-election in 1932. So he â ?als with the Jim Watsons and Dave eeds and Doctor Works will be on a long-range basis. First of Hoover's callers, when he returned, was the lame-duck reaction ary Lennoot, counsel last winter for the power trust before the Senate in terstate commerce committee. Len root was Hoover's personal counsel before the credentials committee of the Republican convention at Kansas City last June. His name has been whispered in connection with the job of secretary of state, but that is ab surd. Hoover will keep Lenroot on retainer as a lawyer; he will not try to appoint him to any office where the Senate may refuse confirmation. Hoover, according to the present opinion of men who traveled with him to Buenos Aires, wants to be his own secretary of state. He will name a man for that post who will answer his summons by push-button, and who will explain away any difficulty into which Hoover may fall. Mellon seems to have forced Hoover to keep him as head of the treasury, while Donovan is practically sure of the Department of Justice, with its endless possibili ties of choosing injunction judges and federal prosecutors» who will satisfy the big employers. Selection of a chief for the Depart ment of Labor has not been discussed in the early interviews between the president-elect and his advisers. There is unwarranted talk of W. N. Doak, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railroad trainmen, in newspapers that are attracted by his record of hostili ty to public ownership and his friend liness to big business. Doak is in ill health and could not perform the work required of a new head of the depart ment. Southern politicians, includihg Sen. Simmons, veteran corporation Demo crat who led the anti-Smith movement in his party, are asking Hoover to name a man from the South as secre tary of agriculture. The "Hoover crats," as the anti-Smith Democrats are called, have three candidates from North Carolina alone. There is Hugh McRae of Wilmington, a wealthy banker and real estate speculator; there is David Blair, Republican and federal commissioner of internal reve nue, who is by marriage a member of the Cannon family, largest owners of cotton mills in the South; finally there is Stuart Cramer, mill owner and for mer president of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association. 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The cooling surface of the Ford radiator is large, with four rows of tubes set in staggered position so that each receives the full bene fit of the incoming air. The fan is of the airplane pro peller type and draws air through the radiator at the rapid rate of 850 cubic feet per minute at 1000 revolutions per min ute of the motor. The hot water around the cylinder head is drawn to the radiator to be cooled by a centrifugal water pump of new design. The entire cooling system of the new Ford is so simple in design and so carefully made that it requires very little attention. The radiator should be kept full, of course, and drained once each month so that sediment will not collect and retard the free passage of water. In cold weather, a reliable anti-freeze solu tion should be added. As owner and manager of this important water plant you should also see that the water pump and fan shaft are properly lubricated and the packing around the pump shaft kept in adjust ment. 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He has been rich b* warded by Harding and Coolie Hoover has now complimented The score is settled. Fletcher ° L turn to Rome. Jim Watson, majority leader in «. new Senate, calmly waits for Ho 0 v to bid for his co-operation h* ' r * r will bid. ° Ver as Press cor. r* f A Tip for the Wise Housewife! For The Best Meats At th eLowest Prices Come to FORMAN'S Where Quality Prevails And Service is Prompt and Efficient Forman's FRED FORMAN, Prop. Plentywooé Phone 17