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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« Manager FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1929 LITTLE GREEN TENTS The little green tents where the soldiers sleep, And the sunbeams play and the women weep. Are covered with flowers today. And between the tents walk the weary few, Who were young and stalwart in sixty-two, When they went to the war away. The little green tents are built of sod, . And they are not long and they are not broad, But they have lots of room. And the sod is part of the land they saved When the flag of the enemy darkly waved, The symbol of dole and gloom. The little green tent is a thing divine; The little green tent is a country's shrine, Where the patriots kneel and pray. old, so few, And the brave men left, Were young and stalwart in sixty-two, When they went to the war away. so —Walt Whitman. A. C. M. 1928 EARNINGS While the Anaconda Copper Mining company made $10,123,258 in 1927, though none of it was Montana as net proceeds, notwithstanding its more than $30,000,000 gross proceeds that year, it made al most two and a half times as much in net income in 1928, or $24,174,780, according to Tuesday report made by it in New York and carried to Montana in the dis patches. The story stated the net income of the two controlled companies, the Chile and the Andes, but did not give that of the Montana mines. The two controlled com panies had net incomes of more than $23,000,000. What share of that belonged to the Anaconda company was hot stated. The news article carried the amount of money spent in the industries here and in Idaho, bulking them to gether, in mining, milling, lumber and the like, but was silent as to the net income from this state and Idaho. The story also carried the statement that the output of the American Brass company, A. C. M. subsidiary, increased by more than 135,000,000 pounds to a record production of 778,397,151 pounds. Much more interesting than the figures given would be a detailed statement of output costs and net returns from the Butte mines, which still is to be received by the public from the offices of the state tax commis sion at the state capitol. Up to the present time, as near as we can find out, the A. C. M. has not disclosed its net income, if any, in Montana for the year 1928, nor has the gross return made in for that year been published yet. This is a morsel of news that would make interesting reading for the readers of the nine company owned pa pers. TO SENATORS WALSH AND WHEELER Your attention is directed to Resolution No. 8, which was adopted and approved at Roundup, Montana, on .Tune 27, 1928, by the Montana State Federation of La bor, in convention assembled. RESOLUTION NO. 8 WHEREAS, it has been clearly demonstrated that operation of public utilities in America is surrounded by deception, corruption and scandal, and WHEREAS, such operation is the outgrowth of gifts of public properties to such operators by representatives in congress, legislatures and city councils, and WHEREAS, the PUBLIC is the only institution that actually gives valuable properties away, and a thereby encourages scandal, and * WHEREAS, such public gifts, like that of TEAPOT DOME, are followed by discoveries of personal interests on the part of public officials, and by discoveries of prodigious campaign funds, created by public utilities owners, for the pur pose of electing and re-electing their privately owned public officials, and WHEREAS, public utilities operators, being only temporarily satisfied with initial gifts from the public, find it necessary, with the consent of public officials, to consolidate these gratuities, that monopoly may be made more complete, and that additional fictitious valuations may be com pensated through increases of already extortion ate rates, and WHEREAS, the continuation of the practice of donating public-owned properties of immeasurable value to monooplists, with privileges of 'consoli dation, is a practice that is inmical to public wel fare and destructive of competition, and WHEREAS, proposed gifts and proposed con solidations are now in the making, but not yet consummated; Therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the MONTANA STATE FED ERATION OF LABOR, in State Convention as sembled at Roundup, Montana: 1. That this assembly publicly declares its opposition to every plan designed to create dic tatorship that enables monopolists to fix the , price and the character of service. 2. That this assembly publicly declare its op position to all future gifts, grants and conces sions by the public to unrestrained monopolists. 3. That this assembly give public expression to its approval of all sincere effort to bring about the operation of public utilities in the interest of the public. 4. That this assembly congratulate the Na tional Popular Government League, and give pression to its appreciation of the effort of the League in, thus far, preventing the private mono poly of Muscle Shoals. 5. That this assembly publicly declares its opposition to further consideration of the scheme involving transfer by the government to lists of the Flathead-Poison power site. 6. That this assembly publicly declares its op position to all monopolies and all consolidations thereof including the proposed merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways. 7. That this assembly endeavor to inform the ex monopo the public in matters pertaining to m°nopo eration of public attention results from consolidations. There have should be directed to expenenc . egs C om been nation-wide consolidation V T j hone panics, and nation-wide co^Mation of Companies. The results change in tions have been increased rates and shoul d the character of the senic •* cons0 Udation of monopoUes e can only me^ ^ater unearned^ those who are afraid to complain. to in 8. That this assembly ^ e ™imd P o|* 1 SÄ SÄffifsi 8 SÄ either the letter or the spirit of the law, th RFSOLVED* T U hat e copies of this resolution he '„"SÏÏài s » smn and to the Dcpart states Attorney Ä Disferof'Montana a Mena with « purpose 1 of SÄÄ and — dations thereof, and for the purpose of restor g and maintaining competitive conditions. Introduced by John H. Driscoll, . Butte Workingmen s Union. James D. Graham, iccco Federal Labor Union No. 15 b»z. recommends the adoption of Charles Cooper Adolph Pfieffer E. F. Klett Homer Whitmore and approved, this 27th day of June, Your committee this resolution. . . j'cnTnvintr esteemed contemporary insisting on msp > g characteristics, last week devoted its ener ,, «f retention from an old bone. and satiating its appetite on these mor , 11 ,- it, „uv of promoting greater harmony sels— this being its *ay of p UK in Plentywood. Passed 1928. News suggests that the above reso reader, and The Producers lution be clipped from the paper by every read at the family dinner table, at least once in ir children of our IN that it be a week until such time as the growing afforded the opportunity of reading an state are STRUCTIVE daily newspaper. The failure of Senators Walsh and Wheeler to dis credit themselves is due to the fact that, the peop e o Montana are not familiar with their official or l torial records. sena Our its canine gies to disinterring cient graves BUILDING PLENTYWOOD Plentywood will be made into a real town when all the citizens—the businessmen and workers and farm of the county—unite behind a real trade-at-home, patronize-home-industry program. It never will be what it can be until that is done—and the policy will be beneficial to all alike: friend and foe will benefit will benefit without regard to politics or religion. ers It is a program that we can all unite on. Such a policy is the actual expression of community patriotism and patriotism, like charity, should com mence at home. The uniting of the people of Sheridan county behind such a program would mark an epoch in the history the community and would be a feat that the commercial club could point to with pride for years to come for would be something to be proud of. In order to accomplish this thing a trade-at-home, patronize-home-indutry slogan must be raised and the propaganda carried on until the idea has conquered the whole city and country—until every living soul in the county understands the benefits of such a policy to him, to his neighbor and his community. The propaganda should pervade the press, emanate from the pulpit, and leaven the schools. It should be consistent and continuous. It is not enough to talk of being constructive, altho that helps. What we want and must have is con sructive deeds backed by a constructive spirit. And the quicker we start putting the policy into practice the better. The sooner will we be reaping the harvest. Now Plentywood has a bottling works, called the Wildwood Bottling Works, Harry DeSilvia, proprietor. The Wildwood Bottling Works puts out as fine a qual ity of soft drinks as one can buy.. Yet a number of the soft drink purveyors import the products that De Silvia makes right here in Plentywood. Let every con sumer of soft drinks in Sheridan county buy Wildwood Bottling Work products, let every soft d^ink parlor handle them, and boost them, let the Wildwood Bot tling Works put out the very best products possible, then watch the little enterprise grow. It will cost deal ers and consumers no more, yet it will build up an in dustry here that will employ several people, establish several new homes, build the schools and make Plen tywood just that much better a place bo live in. •The money that comes to Sheridan county comes for grain, cattle and sheep, wool, poultry, butter and eggs. We do not ship anything else. With this money we must pay for every thing we ship in—much of which is labor and much of it must be done other places than here. The basic source of livelihood is agricutlure and all the people here live by that occupation or by serv ing those who do in one way or another. But some of the work that the farm product dollar goes to pay for can be done in Plentywood and in Sheridan county, and if it were done here it would mean that many more people would live here, and sume here, instead of in other places. It is easy to understand what the policy of doing erything here that can be done here would mean to all of us—besides the dollars and cents it would just that much better a community for us all. And the way to do this is to start doing it today. Once the policy is adopted it will become the source of pride to everyone supporting it. con ev mean DESPOTIC AND ARROGANT It has been the custom now for years for the Board of County Commissioners to call for bids from the several papers before entering into a contract for the county printing. This year the Board dispensed with this courtesy to the other papers, and made a contract with Joe Dolin without notice and without a hearing. When a represenative of the Producers News ap peared and submitted a proposition to those resenting the taxpayers of the county it assumed very arrogant and despotic attitude. We wonder if this is what the taxpayers voted for last autumn—if it they want. men rep were, they are now getting what THE PRODUCERS GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT FARMER AGAINST CAPITALIST FAKE RE M EDIES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press Another field in which the govern ment must protect consumers against wholesale robbery which masquer-, ades as private business is revealed be U. S. department of agriculture report on fake stock remedies. Ac cording to the department, millions of j dollars are still being spent for fake stock remedies although active and persistent prosecution has resulted in practically ridding the market of many alleged cures. "Frequently," says Dr. P. B. Dun-, bar, assistant chief of the food, drug and insecticide administration, "does a the public hear of the government's action in ridding the market of medi cines for human use, when these so called remedies have been proved harmful or worthless. Less often has heard of the important work being carried on to protect farmers from many of the worthless concoctions flooding the market and for which im possible claims are made for the cure and prevention of every sort of ani mal disease." The department refers to an alleged cure for contagious abortion which found to consist of nothing more was than brown sugar and wheat bran. It says: "914 pounds, costing less than 40c to produce, was sold for $5. In terstate shipments of this stuff thru seized out the United States were by federal inspectors with the result that the product is no longer offered for sale. The firm claimed before the, government stopped the sale of the ' product their monthly sales were about $15,000. Obviously the stop ping of the sale of this fraud alone •is saving cow owners at least $180,000 j a year." j Another remedy offered as "the cheapest and best cure and preventa-1 tive for worms in hogs that your j good money can buy" was analyzed by ! government chemists and found to contain absolutely nothing that could ^ use d CO ntrol worms. These are just two of the scores of instances in which the department has 'stepped into protect the farmer a g a i ns t attempts to rob him of mil lions of dollars in the interest of pri vate profit. The department's course is to warn the manufacturer that ship 53GSÎCÏD glj ta • t THE WASHINGTON SCENE E' S3 m H By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press .'i-JL-;". j GREEN AGAINST DRAFTING WORKERS IN INDUSTRY Washington.—After a week's ses s i 0 ns, during which Rep. James of Michigan, chairman of the house com mittee on military affairs, came be fore it to defend the conscription pro gram of the war department, the ex excutive council of the American Fed eration of Labor adjourned. It issued an official statement that, "President Green was directed to oppose any conscription bill that provided for drafting workers in industry." Further inquiry disclosed that the council also objected to the enactment of any draft law that oper ative except when war was declared or was recognized as existing, no protest was raised against the en actment of a draft bill in time of peace, even though this bill was not accompanied by any bill providing for a war-time confiscatory tax on large incomes and inheritances. The coun cil was in a cautiously friendly atti tude toward militarism. it But Council Enteretained at West Point Next day the council was taken to West Point, to be honor guests at a special review of the future command ers of a future army, just as they were guests last summer at the Plattsburgh military training camp. Press headlines emphasized this event as proving organized labor's support of militarism. In various trade union offices in the capital the explanation of the gesture was given, with empha sis on either the practical business side of the matter or on the personal, political, maneuver involved. Recently the question of having all War Department building construction handled by union contractors has been agitated in the War Department and before the military affairs committees of the House and Senate. James, at the House, agreed to get the West Point and other construction jobs plac ed on a contract basis, with an even chance for union contractors to bid. A change has been made in the command at West Point, the outgoing officer having for many years refused to ap prove the contract system, and having employed-union labor generally. Hence the members of the council who are especially concerned with building trades progress were ready to visit West Point in acknowledgment of im proved union status there. Mill tar ist Pleasantly Astonished On the other hand, there is a per sonal approach to the council from the Department which is not generally known to dues-paying trade unionists. Peter Brady, veteran Tammany politi cian and president of the Federation Bank in New York City, is a close confidant of F. Trubee Davison, as sistant secretary of war and member of the Morgan banking family. What simpler than for Davison to have his friend Brady have his friend Matthew Woll arrange for a sympathetic hear ing on the draft bill, and then for a Our shop is fully equipped to do your overhauling or any repair work your old car may need. We are always at Monthly storage rate $6. your service. Kienast Motor Co. Successors to Lang Motor Sales Montana Plentywood ment of his goods is .in violation of law and that if distribution does cease shipments of the goods will seized wherever located. Such seiz ures result in cases before the federal courts, sometimes in criminal proceed ings. In most cases, however, the results are obtained without recourse the courts. Recently about 20 so called abortion remedies were remov from the market with only a single case having been brought to trial. As a warning to farmers not to be taken in by the next adroit salesman who attempts to raid their pocket books, Dr. Dunbar makes the flat statement that "there are no known drug remedies for contagious abortion in cattle, hog cholera, influenza of hogs, horses and other animals, tu bercutosis of cattle and poultry, dis temper of dogs, cats and foxes, heaves of horses, bacillary white diarrhea of chickens, fowl cholera, roup or dip theria, chicken pox, and blackhead of turkeys." If this statement got wide enough publicity it would materially cut the profits of fake remedy producers and would save the farmers large sums each year. But the facts should also be recognized as a commentary on the basic theory of capitalism, that pur suit of private profits produces the desirable results, The history of the last generation shows that there is no limit to the profiteer's willingness to defraud the public except his fear of consequences, Why, it was some of oi>r biggest cap italists who tried to feed the Spanish war soldiers with embalmed beef and then tried to get away with it again in the world war. Social control alone has prevented capitalism from selling the people bad food, poisonous candy and soft drinks, worthless and even harmful Remedies; ^ goods masquerading as virgin wool which was never related to a sheep, tobacco as a remedy for various ills, 1 etc., etc. in a list too long for any 1 article. Details of the enforcement of . the pure food and drug act, coupled. with the federal trade commission cease ami desist orders present a pic ; ture of capitalism which unfortunate-1 ( ly never gets adequate publicity. .UUUU^J pilgrimage to West Point to admire .-ii-i the future military officers ? It appears that Brady and Woll— the latter now combining his presiden cy of the Union Labor Life Iiisuamce Co. with the acting presidency of the National Civic Federation—are dis posed to look upon the draft as a real ly good thing, so long as the admin istration does not insist on militarizing factory labor. And they see the prac tical gains to certain unions in get ting War Department approval for the A. F. of L. They re going to "go along" with the militarists, who are astonished but delighted at this vic tory over anti-war sentiment in the labor movement. Conscript Wealth" Fraud So far has the army staff visioned the next war that it has drafted a new bill to "conscript wealth," which upon examination proves to be a fraud. It merely provides for condemnation and payment to owners, for properties tak en over for war uses by the govern ment in time of war. In other words, lays a basis for militarizaton of factories and railways, with guaran tees of adequate payment to stockhold ers, but with no guranty that the workers will not be put upon military wages and under military discipline. This draft was in the hands of the council before it adjourned. The army crowd explained to the council that private property could not be con scripted, as man-power can be con scripted. Nobody, seems to have chal lenged this thinly veiled taunt of class discipline. FARM SWINDLE HURTS HOOVER By LAURENCE TODD Washington—(FP)—President Hoo ver, by his declaration that a meas ure which raises the price of farm products will cause overproduction and thereby make the condition of the farmers worse than now, has loosed the storm which for weeks has been hovering over the capital. Veteran correspondents say that the resentment now shown by farm senators toward Hoover is as bitter as that exhibited toward Taft when the latter had been six months in the White House. Hoover has held office less than two months, but the Con gressional Record already bristles with denunciations of his failure to stand by his campaign pledges. That this farm revolt is not a mere grumble, but a struggle that will make Hoover's term one of the storm iest the country has ever seen, is the belief of a great many senators— despite the fact that the House has passed the Hoover-Haugen bill, shorn of any measure to meet this yearns emergency of surplus wheat. What is stirring up the revolt is the prospect that American farmers will soon be forced off the land, and that the banks will administer the foreclosed farms through a chain-operation scheme, with cheap labor secured through let ting down the immigration bars. ty Sen. Frazier explained this prospect during his speech in support of the ° f y &U banker to the Question as to what the in inkers would do with the land when the farmers had eone broke 1 g "When we get this land," the t banker said in substance, "we will i have to get the immigration laws repealed and let in some of those i foreign people who are good wtoirk- f e rs, who are willing to get out and work from daylight to dark on the f arm s. They can make a go of it. i That is .all that is necessary." . „ ' Rmkier said he had endorsed H«v er last year "as the lesser of two; evils, since I took into consideration the dry issue and other things but , that he had a hard time ^quarœg him self with the North Dakota farmers who had been shown their place by the police" when they went to Kansas City convention to lay their case he fore the Republican platform makers JSLSSSFS&SgZSSZ tee, he had "allowed them to talk as long as they pleased." He did not claim, however, that the farmers got the platform pledge or the candidate they wanted, nor that Hoover had kept the pledge made in the plat 1 form. the . tor gathering. H Those in attendance at^the g were: Editors D'elger and P of the Poplar Standard Editor H er of the Valley Jnbune, 1 Banville,] | °Ed it or* 1 Butler of The Froid Tribune. The Wolf Point Herald was Culbertson Searchlight Editor Entertained Roose velt County Press Gang Froid. —The editors of Roosevelt county were entertained last Saturday at Culbertson by Editor Edgar Erick of the Searchlight. The meeting convened at about two o'clock and continued the balance of the afternoon j when the boys were treated to a six; o'clock dinner at the Evans Hotel. Re freshments were also served during the afternoon at the Erickson home 1 and were greatly enjoyed by the edi- 1 son I not represented. All the boys agree that Editor ! Erickson is a royal entertainer. LABOR GAINS IN JAPAN ' - ! Tokio —(FP)—The labor parties are ; showing big gains in the municipal i j elections in progress throughout Ja pan. The Socialist party has returned ! 95 assemblymen out of 175 candidates. More than 10,000 laborers took part i in the May Day demonstrations in the capital despite rain. 3,000 policemen 1 were mobilized as it was reported that j the anarchists were to head the par- ; ade. Every worker was searched by i the police before entering the parade ground. Twenty one of the 45 scheduled speakers were denied the right to speak. In all, 106 were arrested, in cluding a boy of 15. Several Korean women were jailed, because they ap peared in men's clothes. I Years of service in Model T Fords THE Model T was so strongly and sturdily built that it is still rendering reliable, economical service to motor ists in every section of the country. Millions of these cars can be put in shape for two, three and five more years of use at very small cost. So that you may have this work done economically and satisfactorily, the Ford Motor Company is still de voting a considerable section of its plants to the manu facture of Model T parts. It will continue to do so as long as they are needed by Model T owners. The follow ing list gives the approximate labor charges for recon ditioning the Model T Ford ;— Engine Tune motor (including replacement of commutator case, brush and vibrator points if necessary) Grind valves and clean carbon - Overhaul carburetor - - - - - Reline detachable car transmission bands - Install new pistons or connecting rods Tighten all main bearings .... Overhaul motor and transmission $ 1.00 . $3.75 to 4.00 1.50 1.50 MO (,.00 $20.00 to 25.00 Rear System 2.50 Replace rear axle assembly - - - . « - Install universal joint • - . Reline brake shoes ........ Replace rear axle shaft, drive shaft pinion, or drive gear_ ^ Overhaul complete rear axle assembly ... $5.75 to < Rebush spring and perches - Oil and graphite springs ....... 3.00 1.50 5.00 1.75 3.00 Front System 11.00 lo |;®j . Overhaul front axle ..... Rebush spindle bodies and arms (both sides) Replace or straighten spindle connecting rod Tighten radius rod or steering ball cap - Tighten all sockets and joints of front end Replace front spring tie bolt or new leaf - Straighten front axle - .75 .60 1.50 2.50 3.00 Chassis 1.75 Replace rear fender Overhaul steering gear Repair muffler Overhaul radiator > Repaint Coupe • Repaint Sedhn Repaint Touring Car Reupholster Runabout 3.50 1.00 7.50 25.00 25.00 20.00 15.0® Reap holster Touring Car Replace top deck (Coupe Overhaul starting motor Overhaul generator 4,00 or Sedan) - • 3.00 2.<>0 for labor ooty These prices are approximate and are - J . because the need and number of new parts dep the condition of each car. The charge for these is low, however, because of the established Ford p° ^ of m a n u f acturing and selling at a small margin of af Ford Motor Company June 7, 1929 Increased Duty on Sim* o ^ u & ar JUSUneo oays (Jong. Leavitt - Washington, June 1.—Thp sion in the tariff bill to ra ;,' .Pö on imported Cuban sue'!, A 1.76 to 2. cents a pound is fun froni tified, and will benefit consum ^ uävi« response to attack hv tbe ^° as « tives from large centers of Present * tion. ° f P°PuU Mr Leavitt cited «tat! f port of his contention th t ' ong . per iod of time protect! " American sugar industry t the ower ra ther than increase «T* > or sU g a r to consumers tv cause the United States prod* 1S ^ part 0 f t he sugar that it a with the home industry fost<ÎÏÏ n îî L protection, foreign concerns d by have the controlling monoolv ?v 0t market that has otherwUe L? S' case The ekmcnt from within the country w Sj tltl0 " ari({ makes |, re "™ h sumers from beinK entire i , mercy 0 f importers, sugar beet industry i. D „ ti . , , important t0 Montana, whSu 1 > refil , eries and acres lucin beets. Ä - •**«">» * JOB. - m % over th con the mittee of members of congress frot 20 manganese producing states, & Leavitt has appeared before the Re! publican members of the ways and means committee, urging a committee amendment to increase the duty 0D manganese to lM>c a pound. Mr. Leavitt is also on an executive committee of house from west which is seeking to secure a tariff on hides and a higher duty cattle. OR Vi The Best In Poultry! Delicious poultry, fit for the Queen's table, fresh and of the highest quality, obtainable here at all times at the lowest pos sible prices. Eat more poultry! Health ex perts are agreed as to its bene ficial value—• And everybody likes it! This is the place where yon can get the best poultry in town—try us! All other meats too! Forman's FRED FORMAN, Prop. Plentywood Phone 17