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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 anti Manager Friday, May 3, 1929 BASE BALL The base ball season having opened, the Producers News now presents and introduces the— ANACONDA NINE M. Standard I. N. Dependent A. Standard G. A. Zette Miss Hculian S. Entinel Bute D. Post L. Enter-Pryse Harold Wreckord G. F. Tribuna • Owner-Manager Pitcher Catcher Short Stop First Base 2nd Base 3rd Base Left Field . Center Field Right Field Bench Umpire Assistant Umpire Ouvenir Gerickson Place of games— Be-diamond Field, just-off-the-square Every player in the Anaconda line-up is a high priced star. The effect of their amazingly deceptive curves, is not realized until after a session, and when the totals are read on the score card. It is a rare treat to witness an (t) errorless game when the Anaconda stars perform on both sides of an engagement, and the public is allowed to peep through a knot-hole in the fence. The copper-platers have a superb (mud) battery, the pitcher and catcher-all needing no special introduction. And Mr, Wreckord throw's a thrilling editorial curve. The Anacondas will play any team West of the Three-mile-limit. But for private reasons the owner manager reserves privilege to change rules. Bawls and Fowls shall count highest in the score; (2) Strikes and Crimson uniforms, barred; (3) When play ing against a nine picked from the general public, all fowls shall be barred, and the pickees must use pen holders or leadless lead pencils for bats; (4) The con duct of umpires may be reviewed only by the Montana Senate or House. With these modest reservations the Anaconda's will meet all comers. (1) NOT FARMERS, BUT BANKERS The State Bankers of Minnesota, facing the fact of Chain banks, and the elimination of the independent bankers, have hurried over to the legislature at St. Paul and caused to be introduced, a bill, providing foi the State Bank of Minnesota. The proposed State Bank of Minnesota would be a bankers' bank; that is it would loan money only to bankers. It would be located in the Twin cities and would be the clearing house of the member banks. The capital stock of the Bank of Minnesota would be taken by the member banks, the members taking stock equal bo 5 per cent of the members' capital stock, thus pro viding ample capital. The member banks would carry its reserve in the State Bank of Minnesota thus providing a loan capital for the benefit of the members. It is proposed that the state bank of Minnesota will provide a sort of "Depositors' Insurance," by levying a small tax on the capital and deposits of the member banks, to be used to assist impaired banks. The bill further provides for the protection of members by long time Loans at a small extra rate say four per cent to tide members over difficulties. The above legislation is no "wild eyed" proposition sponsored by dreamers and socialists. This paternalism is sought by the small bankers—men who have so howled down and ridiculed the program of the nonpar tisan league. What shall we see next? I The small country state banker sees his doom: he now realizes what the dreamer, the visionist, has been telling him is only too true. Now he would save him self by the use of the power of the state. Now if Mr. Banker would propose that the Bank of Minnesota add a fire and life insurance department, operating the Minnesota state fire insurance company, and the Minnesota State Life Insurance Company, along with its use as a state clearing house and depos itory, it would provide available funds to be loaned to the member banks in time of need, and prevent the sending of that money to New York and London to be borrowed back at usurious rates. Some day our bankers and business men may come down out of the clouds long enough to get acquainted with the earth. I/et this good work go on. BURLEY, CITIZEN OF WORLD Poor old Burley is quite peevish over his deportation experience. He thought that he was above the law of the land and it did look as if in some way or other he was privileged. But unfortunately Burley got in bad with his neighbors and someone put in a complaint which appears not only to have embarrassed _ iels county journalist but to have roiled him slightly as well. the Dan Burley is somehow upset because the News published the story of his misfortune, „„ ered his usual tirade against its editor—in which he indulged his penchants for fiction and natural malice. Producers and deliv Editor Bowler, the foreign mentor and political dictator of the benighted county of Daniels takes pride in the fact that he came across the border with his clothes on, inferring undoubtedly that others did Well, it was fortunate that Burley took time to dress before he left his old home in King George's domain on that hot August morning in 1914 just as Downing Street was dispatching those emphatic and final billets to Kaiser Wilhelm-many of the boys who came over with him, we understand, were only scantily clothed, and that Burley and his compatriots avoided a port of entp under the circumstances is not surprising and quite natural. • PrP iT" r !, marke<i that man y better men than he h ave had trouble, about entry papers and we are good natured enough to grant that that Bible. And we also recall that quite jw>d men in April, 1917, became Mexico, and about passports these men, not. may be pos a number of very very interested in we are advised that they did not bother or ports of entry either. Most of we understand, however, had their clothes crossing the at least we have no recollection of any on, line without them. . While Burley did not participate directly m the folds of the Union indirectly did the late unpleasantness under either Jack or the Star Spangled banner, he what he could for his native land by extending _ most unselfish and unstinted sympathy. After Ame a become involved, Editor Bowler did his bit by bidding the boys goodbye, selling Liberty bonds, and effectiv - ly peddling propaganda calculated to arouse the p pe fighting blood of the boys who went across. Since the treaty of Versailles, the Scobey scribe has done a great deal for the cause of his Majesty by way of helping to shape American public opinion. Burley besides doing others good has done consider able good for himself since he left his native heath. of the Daniels County Leader opines that does not have much to be happy about and were really . • * * fnr as sorry for the unfortunate emigrant of Scobey, tor a. another sapient foreigner has said—a Chinaman if we recall—"misery loves company." Being unhappy our selves we have a fellow feeling for his Majesty's selves, we na\e " " . , . , , object in this his hour of misfortune and humiliation. Besides we do not hold it against Burley that he is a sort of a man without a country, a citizen of the world a*, it were We are a sort of an internationalist woiio as ii • . . +n ourselves and they do say birds of a fea The editor this editor he tells some truth—for that reason we gether. Besides it seertis to be a law of life that one person's misfortune is another one's gain, and while America did not gain anything to brag about when Burley came to us with his clothes on, one cannot help but rejoice with King George because of what he got rid of. PROHIBITION HAS FAILED It is now conceded by practically all who are.given to careful observation and study and are willing to ad mit what is obvious, that the 18th Amendment as an instrument for the promotion of temperance has failed: that it is wrong in theory and a farce in practice: that instead of accomplishing what was hoped for it by its ardent and we say sincere advocates, it has nurtured hypocricy, promoted lawlessness, inspired corruption, bred crime, and stimulated intemperance: that in spite of the loud contentions of the prohibition apologists, it has had more than a fair trial. Time and experience has proven beyond the question of a doubt, that the more drastic the theory embraced for its enforcement, the worse confusion is confounded—the more it be comes evident that the remedy prescribed for the dis ease of intemperance, not only is more harmful than the malady, more harmful than intemperance itself, but that prohibition in practice actually promotes in temperance. It is time that positive steps were being taken to if not repeal the 18th Amendment, at least to revise it to put the regulation of the liquor traffic in the hands of congress wTiere it belongs. That the people are wearying of the farce rapidly is demonstrated by the fact that the people of Wiscon sin in a referendum the other day voted overwhelming ly to wipe the prohibition laws off from the statutes of the Badger state, which was followed a few days later by the introduction and passage of bills repealing them all, and by the passing of acts thru the Illinois assem bly the other day repealing the dry laws of that state. Other states are rapidly falling into line. The friends of temperance should organize at once to put into effect a real temperance program, before the public in disgust repeals the 18th amendment en tirely and returned liquor traffic regulation back to the several states with forty-eight varieties of ideas. If the old saloon is not to return it is time that something was being done. V CRIME COMMISSIONERS WILL MEET There is an old story about Napoleon leading ten thousand men up the hill and then leading them down H * a Sam. It's an interesting and exciting story. The adventures of the Montana Crime Commission will probably parallel this experience of Napoleon. The results of the toil of the sapient commissioners will no doubt be of as much consequence. The crime commission act passed by the Twenty-first assembly was one of those joke acts that legislatures will indulge in from time to time. Not a lawyer in the Senate voted for it but all strenuously opposed it. How ever the cowboys and sheepherders together with a few reformers mustered just enough votes to put the thing across. The Montana Free Press editor made the following sarcastic remarks about the crime commission and the assemblymen that passed the measure a few days ago: "The legislature of Montana is nothing if not original. During its latest session it cre ated a crime commission to study crime, crim inal law, the prosecution of criminals, and kin dred subjects, and to report to the next legis lature recommendations for supplemental and amendatory criminal statutes to make the sup pression of crime in the Treasure state more effective. "The governor lately created the sion by appointing its five members, and pre sumably they will set about their duties short ly. From the meager treasury of the state the legislature appropriated $3,000 to meet the expenses of the commission. "Since the libraries of the country are filled with the reports of state and national crime commissions embalming exhaustive data specting the subject under investigation gath ered in other individual states and in the na tion, the commission will be at the outset sup plied with material for general conclusions respecting crime, criminal law, prosecution of criminals and all kindred features. All that is left for original investigation - re the particular phenomena which may ex ist in the field of Montana and are unknown elsewhere, if any. State prison statistics and data from the board of pardons should supply information relative to the number of crimes committed over any period of years since the state was organized, and actual and average terms served for the same by all offenders. An analysis of these facts should provide basis for the conclusions of the respecting punishments inflicted. "Comparison with statistics from other spates and the state of criminal affairs in the S f? rie ' , to ^ e ' t " er with conclusions formed by other temporary and permanent crime commis sions, and recommendations they offered for improvements, should enable the Montana board to formulate and present to the next Dooy of learned and sapient lawmakers of the «£„i/r°ïï. me , ndations on the subject that sftouw be the last word in criminology and fit Afwdf 1 ?^ 1011 Ä mathematical precision. le « isI * tor probably fiai k l 1 hl L ln the 1 commendations and the whole matter go into the discard.' commis re a commission We feel that the Free Press Is maybe falling into the popular pastime of periodicals of lampooning legis latures an attitude that is not the least bit originS ahW g * ?" COntempt for the crin >e commission is prob M k if great " that of the ^ Press Editor. Maybe the crime commission can provide a formula K™/ effective as the fa ™us recipe for catch away. Is There 'Farm Prosperity Ahead?' By 0. M. Stucker (and Member of the Board of > Directors,, North Dakota Division j Written in answer to an editorial car ried in this paper under date of April 12th, under the head, "Farm Prosperi ty .Ahead." . . u I sincerely hope there is agncultur al prosperity ahead, and perhaps it may be, but 1 do not believe us ap pearance in the near future is sub stantiated by many of the arguments that are being introduced, nor do I believe it will appear with any degree of stability, until agriculture obtains position that will enable it to con trol its products and dispose of them ^ a pldce eq ua i to the cost of produc ^ on p j us a reason able margin of pro fit. Many people contend that this can never be done, and if it can not, then mv heart bleeds tor the uixoorn ^ a / d daU g b ? e rs of other genera tiong wbo will bave to till the soil, j want to comment on a few re-, marks from the article in question, fullv realizing- that all who wish to reason otherwise have a perfect right to do so. I have only selected a few lines, for if I could find space, I could write a volume from the entire ar ticle. In part he said: a "It was a number of years be fore farming become profitable AGAIN and farm lands commenc ment there is some value attached to the land, invites the homesteader to ed to rise in value." May I ask the question, when was farming (as a whole) ever profitable, with reference to a series of years? To the average farmer, thiough a se ries of years, Xarm'ng has always oecn a losing game. This statement is sub stantiated by the following illustra tion, which is true of all agricultural communities from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. A young man, possibly accompanied by a wife, answers the inviting call of the waving prairies and leaves the congested districts of the east to hew his fortune in the west. He settles on a half section of land in its rich est state of fertility, erects a struc ture to break, away the winter's chill ing blasts, and in the spring begins to plant the seed and till the soil. He follows this system until at the end of a series of years, he finds his per sonal credit exhausted, his money all gone, and the financier from the east, realizing that the homesteader now has title to his homestead through re linquishment or otherwise, and that by reason of settlement and improve take a loan on his land with which to liquidate his personal obligations, i This he does, and perhaps may have : a small amount of the loan left with j which to purchase a cow, a horse, a \ wagon, or many other things he needs on his farm. In a series of years, he finds himself in exactly the same con dition, and nothing with which to li quidate. # At this time the financier realizes that more improvements nave been added to the country, mote settlers hav ecome in, and while lie realizes i there has been a loss to the producer, he also realizes there has been an in- ; crease in the value of the soil, and | therefore says to the producer, rf y nij will renew your mortgage, * will in crease your loan. And so it has gone on from one series of years to an °fber, with land values inert.using ju c t loss . e *' unt!l he has reached that period, or senes of years, when t»ie| land values Swill not increase, and finds agriculture practically bankrupt. The agricultural producer can r. 3 t ir.-'l crease his loans further, and lorecios ure is the result. We have drifted through this sy= tern of borrowing to liquidate with, until today, we find the agricultural soils in the United States, wven reck oned from the law of averages, mort gaged for more than they can be sola for. For instance, the entire state of Iowa, is mortgaged for $9o.25 for ev ery acre of land within its boundary lines; Minnesota, for $47.50 per acre; North Dakota for $12.80 an acre; and South Dakota for $36.91 for every man, woman and children within its boundary lines. The state of Wiscon sin, for $67.00 an acre, and many of the older states farther east would be glad to bargain the entire state for the mortgage they have on them. All this we find in the various states all through the Union, where our fore fathers started out, in man> states less than a half century ago, on land in its richest state of fertility, free from any and all encumbrance. When I 19 m This Practical Cook Book ^O^cbntaining more than 90 excel lent recipes—bread, muffins, cakes and pastry—will be mailed on request to users of K C Baking Powder. The recipes have been prepared especially for SmeTriceforomJSymrsy 25 ounce$fdrl5t / Millions of Pounds Used by Our Government ' c>' r 7_. V .o°V° c v , 07 * I* of ing the a Now just what was it that caused the land values to rise during the period of time above mentioned V Ac cording to the very face of the above_, statement, because of the demand, created by an emigration of people from Europe into the Uniteu States, and not by any reason of the earning power of the land in question. This condition does not exist today, and can not exist. First: for the reason where did farming EVER pay the average farmer, through a series of years ? I pause for a reply. "During the administration of Andrew Jackson, a period of com parative peace in the world, and great emigration of people from Europe to the United States: land values rose rapidly in the United States. The sale of public lands in the west paid off the public debt." that the inducements for emigration as it once was, have been exhausted, They only way to give a stabilized in creased valuation to land, is to in crease its earning power which can not be measured by a temporary de mand. Second: The sale of public lands may have once paid the public debt, but we have no more public lands in the west with which to pay the public debt, and therefore can not compare our present conditions with those of a hundred years ago. Our forefathers than said to the young man, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country." But today we have no west to send the young man to. The west has met tnc east and our government has no mare free lands to offer, and I question whether it would be of 'any material benefit in the long run if it dia, for at some time or other every foot of. land ly ing between the Atlantic and Pacific has been a gift. Men begin its cultivation in its richest state of fertility with no en cumbrance upon it, and besides the real estate mortgages exisiting today, the year of 1927 saw 131,000 farms foreclosed under mortgage. Or an average of 401 farms for every work day of the year because of a lack of earning power of the soil, other words, because the average ag ricultural producer, insteal of selling his products at a price equal to the cost of production as all other pros perous industries do, sold his product at a price below what it cost him to | produce it, thus reducing the earning 1 Or in poW er of the soil to a nonentity, Again the writer said>'After 1876 1 a griculture commenced to revive and 1 conditions improved until the panic of 18 92, Cleveland's second administra According bo the best statistics ava ilable, there was but little improve ment the agr icultural conditions throughout the years mentioned and f 0 r several years after. If our con ditions i mpr0V e in agriculture, it is because we are receiving a price for our products nearer equal with the cost of product i 0 n, than we were for j^ierly receiving. I here submit a few statistics taken from the year book as compiled by the United States Je partm ent of agriculture for your con sideration an d then ask that you draw your own conclusions. I am using the tion. ten period as a law of aver ages. the price of wheat, as paid to the average farmer a11 over th / Unit ' gd gtates during that terms of year s; nmT , A ™ WHEAT ! sfi 9 to le <9, average. ; 1879 to 1889, avetage . i 1889 to 1899, average ... 1899 to 1909, average ... CORN Per Bushel $0.959 . 0.875 . 0.661 . 0.727 Per Bushel ..$0.427 . 0.414 . 0.317 . 0.442 1869 to 1879, average. 1879 to 1889, average .... 1889 to 1899, average .... 1899 to 1909, average ..... CATTLE Per Head .$17.51 ...... 19.81 ...... 18.44 . 15.69 1869 to 1879, average .... 1879 to 1889, average . 1889 to 1899, average . 1899 to 1909, average. HOGS Per Head Jan. 1 .$4.73 1869 to 1879, average . 1879 to 1889, average . 1889 to 1899, average. 1899 to 1909, average — In the particular case of wheat, suring the years 1869 to 1879, which includes that cycle of time mentioned by the writer that agriculture was im proving, the average price of wheat 6.17 6.37 5.95 was 95.9 cents per bushel, then up to 1889, which includes the balance of the cycle except two years, the average price of wheat paid to the farmer was 87.5 cents per bushel, or an average of 8.4 cents per bushel, less than he received during the other cycle. Then from 89 to 99 there was still another decrease of 21.4 cents per bushel, bringing the average down to 66.1 cents per bushel, or 29.8 cents per bushel less than he was receiving dur ing the period from which the writer indicates that agriculture began to ' improve. j Com sold for a less return to the producer along the same ratio to wheat. Cattle made a small gain during the first ten year period after j the time mentioned, but at the end of I a forty year period had lost all they had gained and almost two dollars per head to the producer besides. Dur ing that cyc l e of years, hogs made the . . . • r.,* __i v a er, ia ii most subst<mtial.galll, but onlysmal margin and not enough to equal the loss sustained on other products. All, an of to III lll-^-ö. The 628 kitchens in the MARSHALL FIELD GARDEN APARTMENT HOMES will be equipped with FRIGIDAIRE A letter from Mr. Rosenthal, President of O. W. Rosenthal-Cornell Co., Builders: "We are enclosing signed copies of contract for six hundred twenty, eight (628) Frigidaires for the Marshall Field Garden Apartment Homes. "As you know, this is a non-profit project, providing apartments to rent at cost. Because of this, we were particularly concerned not only as to the quality and character of equipment, but the operating and maintenance cost, that the occupants of these apartments may have the very best possible service at the lowest possible cost." Come in and get all the facts about Frigidaire; also two new and interesting books that we want to give you — ( ree. L> O. M. DONALDSON, Dealer Plentywood, Montana in 2320 III •=^-•=^■1131^=-^=» III-Co-O fiTMT("iTi"iT?"iTi"iTi"tTi W | Tj"» Ti"iTi M iTmTi"i X | Announcement ! Our Store will be open evenings until 9 o'clock during spring work. Peterson Company PLENTYWOOD * ( Va < W--' » • 1 »7 {(, m y~ * l •N rON pA^- you ^ BET HE'S MAD Had to stop in the middle of Spring work to grind valves and scrape out the carbon* That's something you avoid when you de - pend on Dura tractor oil. Dura doesnt form hard carbon deposits in the motor* That's a special patented feature. Try and see. RACTOfl OI US mu Westland Oil Comp other products of the So ;i , about the same proportion Ä * mentioned, and since only improve by the profits able to make from the n r0f i„ M have to sell, and since we had stantial advance in the products during the time nw - I feel the writer of the a W^ tioned article is indebted to lie for an explanation ter 1876 agriculture revive and conditions the panic of 1892. ICTr ... _ vViLJLIij IUIN PLANNING TQ PAVF 40 Rl rvo. L ™ BLOCKS _..... . Williston, Apnl.29 —-Forty block. paving will be laid this year, acc^i |Fig to present plans, petitions havU f^^^pTving of eveT/ hlnT^ Iar tne P dVin K oi every block { Broadway to and including Erf | street north from First i avenue uK Third avenue east, both inclusive, our We are i* sub. v alue ot out Fr.tr> t«w ft commenced ,, improve as untü \ nottl