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THE PRODUCERS NEWS A Paper of the People, by the People and for the People By the Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers CONTINUING — The Outlook Promotor, The Outlook Optimist, The Dooley Sun, The Antelope Independent, The Sheridan County News, The Pioneer Press and the Sheridan County Farmer. CHARLES E. TAYLOR, Editor and Manager FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1929 KEEPSAKE MILL Over the borders, a sin without pardon, Breaking the branches and crawling below, Out through the breach in the wall of the garden, Down by the banks of the river, we go. Here is the mill with the humming of thunder, Here is the weir with the wonder of foam, Here is the sluice with the race running under— Marvellous places, though handy to home! Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller, Stiller the note of the birds on the hill; Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller, Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill. Years may go by, and the wheel in the river Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day. Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever— Long after all of the boys are away. Home from the Indies and home from the ocean, Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home; Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion, Turning and churning that river to foam. You with the bean that I gave when we quarreled, I with your marble of Saturday last, Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled, Here we shall meet and remember the past. HUGE SUMS TO BEFUDDLE Huge sums of money are expended annually to tell the people not to do what they ought to do. W. J. Sylvester, of Chicago, testified recently be fore the Federal Trade Commission at Washington. Mr. Sylvester said that he was the secretary of the Industrial Conservation Board, Inc., the purpose of which is to utilize newspaper publicity, the lecture platform, radio broadcasting, the school rooms, and the moving picture screen in a campaign to oppose government ownership of industries in competition with private interests. He said this program, when in full operation, would cost between $500,000 and $600,000 and contributed by big industrial interests of the country. a year TRAGEDY OR TRAGI-COMEDY THE RECENT ST LOUIS-OFALLON DECISION THE INFAMOUS ESCH-CUMMINS BILL, AND „MONTANA'S LACQUEY SENATOR T. J. WALSH TO SENATOR T. J. WALSH: You voted for and assisted materially in the passage of the Esch-Cummins Bill. Because of the smell, the said Bill was rechristened and is now known as the "Transportation Act." The said Bill was passed in 1920. Following its passage, both Esch and Cummins sought endorse ment and re-election in their respective states. Their defeat was almost unanimous. For his per fidy, Esch was rewarded by a lame-duck appoint ment to membership on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Cummins did not survive the shock of defeat and left a record for the indulgent his torian to justify. Unlike Wisconsin and Iowa, the home states of Esch and Street, through its newspaper agency, the A. C. M. Company. This agent company gave you, Senator Walsh, the political support of Wall Street. With that support your duplicity was, at least, partially rewarded, and the beneficiary, Wall Street, is now measuring its gains in billions of dollars. Equally pilty with your eo-conspirators, the entrenched interests saved you politically, in their trust-owned state, while Esch and Cummins, of independent states, went sailing ignominiously, along the calm and imperturbable waters of Plebiscite River, which rises in Wisconsin and flows majestically on and through the great agricultural State Iowa. . of TWENTY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS Now comes a court analysis of the iniquitous Esch-Cummins, Tarnsportation Act, which, accord as to the Wall Street Journal, is worth $20,000, 000,000 to the railway companies. You may have observed Mr. Walsh, that recent decision of the Supreme Court of United States, in the famous St. Louis-O'Fallon case, requires railroad valuations to be based cost of reproduction, as provided for in the Trans portation Act. And you may recall that the the on your friend William Jennings Bryan, in an action at law, many years ago, contended vehemently that repro duction cost should be the basis for public utility valuations. And that, at that time, the courts of opposite views. were It remained for you and others to sustain the theory of the democratic hero of 1896, but under changed conditions. You selected a time when American Trusts had reached the zenith of perfec tion, and a time when, through trust prices, the re-production cost would be five times greater than such cost would have been during the early days of the Commoner. Indeed, a propitious time for the Esch-Cummins Bill. As to trust B prices, which now multiply railroad valuations, you and other servants of the entrench ed interests have been silent, while the people have been afforded the opportunity to buy outside of he trust, an automobile of American manufacture at a price far less than ever quoted since the be-' Kmmng of auto manufacture. This particular au omobde is the product of workingmen who are paid the highest of the so-called high wages, and the raw materials are not unlife the raw materials of locomotives, train cars, rails and other supplies and equipment used by railroads. These facts prove conclusively, that the trust prices exacted fiom railroads by their silent partner manufactur litiiX F* P . ar A ntS °. f the Scheme ' which ' coupled Es f-Cummins bill, has culminated in a growth equal to more than twenty-fîy e billions fictitious railroad valuation. This additional gift of twenty billions to the rail 111 l y ° U and < : therS ' aS re P rese ntatives of the people, has now a legal standing. Without pecuni itv ?T flCe railroads may now await the abü it* of the people to withstand the pressure of high of ✓ that this created, fictitious reality of er rates, $20,000,000,000 may be compensated through addi tional earnings, to the tune of not less than one billion two hundred million annually. In the creation of this twenty billions of new property not one dollar passed through the chan nels of trade, nor did any newspaper item suggest that there was a decline in the numbers of the un Whither are we drifting?" employed. ERA OF HARMONY CONTINUES Gov. John and Lee Dennis, two stalwart cham pions of popular rights, are in Denver, attending an oil conservation meeting, and Frank Hazelbak er, that sweet Rotarian singer of Dillon, is acting as chief executive. Jimmy Bobbins still sits in the watchtower at Butte and charts our political course. Our homes and our firesides are still secure.—Old Dan Whetston in Cutbank Pioneer Press. CREAM PUFF, JAMIE, EXPLODES The editorial, "County Printing," appearing in Harry Polk's Herald last week was surely a tangl ed skein. If any of that organ's limited number of readers can follow the mental meandering of the flossy James Russel Lowell through the labyrinth of syncopated verbiage that was gorged into the col umns of our esteemed contemporary of the endless chain that commences out where the west begins and ends where the east got tired, he can qualify for the "pig in clover puzzle" contest which will be staged at the county fair this autumn. What it lacked in sense it made up in rhyme. And dear me, such restraint! What a splendid example! And then the cream puff exploded— such a pop! Oh, dear me, Jamie, it was awful how Frankie French snubbed you. He shouldn't be so naughty towards you for you are not accustomed to such treatment and must have been terribly cutup. You "admit it hurts" but were too modest to tell us just where. Anyhow, you are over it by this time and we are sure Frankie will think well before he does such a trick again. It was no way to behave toward a boy like you with such a distinguished name, and we are just positive he will never, never do such a thing again. My, Jamie, the way you did talk about that nasty printing contract: the words just rolled off your tongue like little drops of dew from an oiled board—you are such a spitfire when you are peev ed. Oh! My! Those "two-faced politicians" must feel actually mortified. We are glad of one thing: Joe does not mind if the contract does smell—he eats garlic and nibbles limberger. Joe is not so particular, just so as he gets the contract. Isn't it delightful that you can eat cream puffs instead of "sawdust pudding": for you could nev er, never do it—it would make your "tummy ache." But ah! "Bla bla, dispensary," Jamie, be vuigar. You make mamma feel bad. It is just .v,nj C rA.i that yuu are going to keep on pub lishing the Herald, for several people would miss i*. so if it stopped. Well, weii, isn't it nice % T ravel about frem place to place, nihkin,g onself a »art of ev p >*y communi ty and so n any of them, too. It mast make a per s •• like h mseif fine to hav: Now, don't Yes, the Herald is old, Jamie! Old and feeble! and learns, quickly: he reads the Herald, Jamie, and if you n any glad hind 5 here and there. It would make anyone feel proud though he has to tell it himself—any way its so interesting. 'it But it is just too splendid that it is going to stay with us a while yet—that will serve Frankie and Eddie right. Yes Frank, is smart give him time he will pick the proper policy every trip. Martin Luther and old Ed. Iverson, old pals, they do say. And James Russell Lowell we just know you and those naughty prune peddlers are so irresist ible at the dances—you are so deucedly cute even the daisies just go wild over you—you must be are patient with the auri-eyed lads—you are such a fox-trotter. That was a nasty slap on the wrist that you gave Pat Wallace—Pat who used to punch cows over the Big Muddy flats with the Lazy Z outfit and on the reception committee that welcomed C. S. when he came in with the ox team and the old Washington handpress— those were the days, says Pat. was And of all things, the taking of the contract That was from the Herald—how did they dare? the cruelest cut of all. —and seriously, we don't just get how Ed Iver is under any obligations to the Plentywood Herald, and how they are justified in referring to him as "two-faced." The Producers News might have some cause for complaint b,ut surely not the Herald. French just naturally had to go for Joe. Of course Anker's action was a surprise to many —in fact, to most everybody. The Producers News was entitled to the tract: it is a newspaper: it has the facilities to do the work: it has the circulation son con -none of which any other paper in the county has, and it can do the work right here in Plentywood; and the law says that the commissioners must give the contract to a newspaper and the Producers News is the only newspaper in Sheridan county. And from what we can learn, Joe Dolin is al most as good a citizen as Harry Polk—and when Harry Polk s outfit calls anyone "two-faced" "double crosser"—well, it is to laugh! or HIRE MONTANA TEACHERS The State of Montana has gone to great expense in the establishing and building of Teachers' leges at Dillon, Billings and Havre. These institutions Col are attended by Montana peo ple, daughters of Montana taxpayers, who are ed ucated at great expense to the State. These in stitutions are second to none in the country and they turn out teachers familiar with Montana his tory and conditions and imbued with the ideals of the people who are making the state. They know how to teach Montana people. Every year Montana teachers have to seek tions in other states because posi . some school boards insist on importing teachers from other states to eac in our schools, in order to give religious and race prference; or to favor some Normal or College m the esteem of some member of the board, giv ing jobs to foreigners, employment that by rights bekmg to the daughters of Montana citizens. This policy is a bad one—it is unfair to Montana institutions, Montana teachers, and Montana tax payers: it is a base betrayal to Montana. Place should be adopted the policy of hiring tana teachers first, if there are not enough Mon ana teachers to fill the positions, then applica tions from other states could be looked over and enough selected to make up the shortage. Let us make it a policy to hire Montana teach In its Mon first—mother teachers after ers wards. Does it not seem simple for us to spend our money to educate our young people, then give' the jobs to others, forcing ours to emigrate in order to secure employment ? The idea of patronizing home people and home enterprise prehend the merchants as well as the farmers: talk against mail or der business sounds brassy coming from merchants who boycott home enterprise because of some super ficial short-lifed benefit; or from corn Money System Near Crisis By LE LAND OLDS, Federated Press Capitalism is rapidly approach ing a cross roads where neither way offers the prospects of its get ting through intact. One way in volves declining prices leading al most immediately into depression with increasing unemployment. The other means temporary easy going along the lines of the present de ceptive prosperity, but ultimate catastrophe threatening the very existence of the present economic order. The choice lies between contrac tion of the present oversupply of credit with the resulting decrease in the demand for goods and con Mnuation on the path of inflation, expanding bank credit to whatever extent necessary to maintain the demand for the products of indus try. The economists of the world are divided on this sorry choice. One group clings to inflation as a cure for the periodic depressions of the old capitalist cycle, group sees that artificial stimula tion must eventually end in col lapse. The whole trend of banking his tory has been toward enabling hankers to pyramid a constantly The other Strikes Gain Higher Wages In Germany By LELAND OLDS, The struggle for world markets coupled with a steadily rising cost of living produced an almost in cessant series of wage disputes in Germany during 1928, according to a report on the present position of German labor by A. F. Rockwell of ; tbe U. S. department of commerce, ' Rockwe11 notes that on the whole the workers ■ged successful, vfcraging 07 c jor emer gaumig ijicreases a skilled workers and about 8% for unskilled workers. In the majority of cases the gov ernment was compelled to settle the dispute by arbitration of a more or less compulsory character but before agreements there were strikes and lockouts causing the loss of a total of 10,450,478 work ing days. This is the third high est figure since the réintroduction of normal conditions following the stabilization of the currency. In 1 1927 strikes and lockhouts caused a loss of 6,005,950 work days while in 1926 only 1,404,875 work days were lost on account of such dis putes. . A single dispute which paralyzed the Ruhr iron and steel industry for five weeks beginning Nov. 1 RECENT RAINS IMPROVE RANGE CONDITIONS: STOCK GAINING FAST Helena, Mont.—Continued cold weather throughout April and the greater part of May with precipi tation much below normal in most sections of the state retarded range growth and prevented livestock from gaining much in flesh, but heavy rains during the last week in May and the first week in June have practically reversed these favorable conditions, according to the latest report of the Montana crop un stockmen to the State-Federal reporting service. On June 1st, lambing operations were nearing completion in all sec tions of the state, and the lamb crop is reported to have been duced somewhat by the unfavor able weather conditions at lambing time. Breeding ewes are in good shape. There has been some loss of old ewes. Cows are reported in good condition'with a good calf crop. Few sales of cattle, lambs or wool have been reported. RANGES: The prospects for range feed were reported as un favorable due to cold weather and lack of moisture until recent gen eral rains have relieved the moist ure situation and greatly improved the outlook for summer range. The condition figure for ranges on June 1, 1929 was placed at 99 per cent normal compared with 100 test month and ICfc on June 1 * 1928. ' CATTLE: With the exception of the extreme northwestern and western part of the state where cattle were reported to have made some gain, the weather and range conditions which until recently have been unfavorable caused cattle to lose slightly and resulted in a drop in condition of one point compared with a month ago. Condition on June 1, 1929 placed at 97 per cent of a normal compared with 98 month ago and the June 1 condition of a year ago of 97 per cent. Cows are in good condition and the calf crop is reported as being normal better. re SHLLP & LAMBS: Breeding ewes are generally reported in good condition but frequent men tion was made this month of the oarly loss m old ewes. It now de velops that the spring storms and general cold weather during most of April and the first half of May w C /T ed v. a ®° mewha t higher 1 SÎ lam »l than was thought probable on May 1. Lambing !p S T,n^+? Une P 1 Were com Pleted m the northwestern sections and a or from Minnesota instead tana. All of us realize that patroniz ed home industry" or "institutions," like the "weather" is something to be "talked about, "do anything about," but the Pro ducers News in order to actually do something to build up Plenty wood, Sheridan County and Mon tana, intends to harp about this matter and pester its readers the subject, until words are made into deeds if it takes a decade. but never to on ) increasing mountain of credit on a small gold base. It is the secret which has given the bankers preme power. The pooling of gold reserves in central banks like the federal reserve is the most recent invention for increasing this bank ing power. The proposed world re parations may prove the basis for a world bank reserve which will give the bankers their final fling. After the possibilities of world centralization have been developed to the limit there will be no next step. Capitalism will have rushed headlong to its climax and the in flation inherent in its nature will burst. The resulting disorganiza tion will mark the end not of a cycle but an epoch. The widespread acceptance of theories which advocate increasing inflation as a permanent cure for capitalist instability forecasts an approaching crisis, tificial su Resort to ar-, stimulation has passéd j from an occasional habit to a per-1 manent necessity. The only road j to health involves alteration of the system in the direction of giving the workers a bigger share. Profi teer madness is unlikely to permit such a change. Federated Press was responsible for about half of all the days lost on account of in dustrial conflict throughout the year. Other serious encounters be- j tween capital and labor occurred I in the shipyards and in the textile industry. The average weekly wages of German industrial workers on Jan. 1Q9Q in industries covered by government repons « _to $12.46 for skilled workers and $9.56 for unskilled workers, beginning of 1928 the figures $11.84 and $8.54. "There are further indications," says Rockwell "that German labor is still seeking to improve its wage levels. The railroad personnel is now asking for increases which, it claimed would add nearly $36, 000,000 to the payroll. Difficul ties in the Ruhr coal mines also have been apparent. Bank employes are negotiating for higher compen sation." A cable to the department nounces that government arbitra tion in the Ruhr coal dispute has granted a 5.4% wage increase to remain in effect until Sept. 30, ' 1930.' i At the were IS an 90 to 95 per cent complete in the remainder of the state. Sheep and lamb condition placed at 93 cent of normal the June 1, 1928 condition and the five-year aver age condition of 102.6 per cent. SALES: Cattle sales have been slow. per A few reports have been made of choice steers selling from HV 2 to 12c. Lamb prices range from 11c for wethers to 14c for ewes with few sales reported. To date practically no wool has been reported sold. „ , . . ., _ ,, „ a11 P roduc £s of the Reynolds To bacco Co. Unfair to Organized La ^° r " MIS WHY CAMELS AND PRINCE ALBERT COMPANY UNFAIR Winston-Salem, N. C.—(FP)— "Average Wage in The Reynolds Factories $11.00 Per Week; Mini mum Pay $2.65 Per Week; Net Profits In Five Years $127,369, 99 This is one of the bits of infor mation carried on leaflets now in circulation throughout North Cat alina, bearing the union label and announcing "Camel Cigarettes and 244 . The middle of the leaflets dis plays a camel with two humps, one of w r hich is labelled "Long Hours, Low Wages, Industrial Slavery, Homes of Poverty, Misery, Suffer ing, Despair." The others carries the legend "Five Years Profits More Than 127 Million Dollars." The body of the beast is labelled "What Price Camel?" Underneath this drawing it is recited that W. N. Reynolds, chair man of the board of directors of the company speaking to Edw. F. McGrady, representative of the American Federation of Labor, said: "We are not interested in any contractual relations with or ganized labor." At the left side of the picture is a list of the Reynolds brands of cigarettes, smoking, chewing, and scrap chewing tobacco. Red Kam el and Reyno, as well as Camels, are Reynolds cigarettes. Prince Albert, Stud, R. J. R. Advertiser and George Washington are smok w mixtures. Red Apple and Brown's Mule are two of their nine brands of chewing. COMMISSIONERS' _ _ _ PPnrül<niWlX 1 IV U t Cl t U I 11 U O _ 1 At 9 rt o 1 QOQ Knor/t ! SSÄjtesA&SSätta Several parties apepared before the hoard and discussed road mat -1 ters and the board promised to consider the different projects. A couple of architects appeared before the board and discusesd the proposition of building a new court house, but no action was taken by the board. cn/iTmrmTTrr, . SECUMTIES APPROVED .— 1 he following securities were ap proved, as security for county funds on deposit with the follow , Riba State bank, certificates of mdebtedness, $10000.00 County warrants, $5,068.35. ïo oio o Eank of Reserve, $3,363.22. Farmers & Merchants State bank, $4,515.15. . i Bank of Medicine Lake, $3,003.56. At 6 p. m. the board adjourned. At 9 a. m. June 4, 1929 the board resumed pursuant to adjournment made, all members of the board and the clerk present. TOWN LOTS SOLD— On motion the following town lots at Archer were sold at the ap praised value. Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11. 12 of Block 1, and lots 1, 12, 6, 7, Block 6 to R. E. Morris. Lots 5, 6, 12 of block 5 to M. J. Mangen. RESIGNATIONS AND APPOINT MENTS APPROVED— On motion the following resigna tions were approved; S. C. Faaborg as justice of the peace for Medicine Lake judicial township. W. Shirtliff as pubilc administra tor. The appointment of Gordon Pe tersen as clerk in the Clerk and Recorder's office was approved. The appointment of Haakon Christensen as justice of the peace for Medicine Lake Judicial town ship was approved. RE: PRINTING CONTRACT RESOLUTION Whereas, the contract for county printing, in effect for the past two years, has expired and it is desir able and to the best interest of Sheridan county that a contract for the county printing for a period of has submitted to the Board of County Commissioners an offer to do the two years be made, and WHEREAS, Jos. F. Dolin n ts * m * MyORMICK-DEFKlNir. * l * * Bi ■I * .* *1 I *• M * * * =J>SS' m McCormick- Deering * * * WINDROWERS ARE MADE IN TWO SIZES selling at $250. selling at $350 * * The 12-foot The 16-foot * * * The Pickup * Attachments ARE ALSO MADE IN TWO SIZES Selling at $85 and $95. * * Sl a^° Ve mac ^ ne ® gave such good service and satisfaction last year that they are generally admitted as being the best on the market today. McCormick-Deering HarversterThreshers ARE MADE IN THE FOLLOWING SIZES: No. 8 10 foot cut selling at $1395 No. 8 12 foot cut selling at $1495 No. 11 12 foot cut selling at $1910 No. 11 16 foot cut selling at $2000 above prices are all f. o. b. factory that ^ 3 ° ve machines such good service and satisfaction last year ,v.™ big «Jemand for them this year. Therefore to insure de livery we should have your orders i in at once. W f, C . a / ry , a Iar 8 e stock of repairs on hand here, and i w.th the International Harvester Co. branch house liston, we are in a position to give the Combine Harvesters as well as addition to this, located at Wil* in now very best of Repair Service on all other machines. on Give this matter some consideratio in buying your machinery. n m Also the new 22-36 McCormick-De#»»*;«« . i i * n n i • £ A , . eerm 8 1 ractors have ample power to pull any make or size of Combine if i i . F n „«nr v,™ f *° lt you lack power to pull y° ur • Combine, arrange now for one of these Tractors for Harvest * * * * P ,£®® ley ,m P | ement Company m * * as county printing for Sheridan Coun ty and furnish supplies at a price which is deemed by said Board to be ver y reasonable and just as low or even more so than the county has been paying in the past under. con tract with The Plentywood Her-1 » AND WHEREAS, it appears ure * ess to advertise for bids as no ad vantage is gained by such a proce dure î NOW THEREFORE, be it re solved that the said bid or offer, made by the said Jos. F. Dolin, editor and manager of The Medi cine Lake Wave be and it is here by accepted and adopted as a con tract by and between the Board of County Commissioners of Sheridan County, State of Montana and Jos. F. Dolin, editor and manager of the Medicine Lake Wave, at Medi cine Lake, such contract to extend over a period of two years from July 1, 1929 and to become effec tive on July 1st, 1929. 0 n motion of Commissioner V. E. Anker, and seconded by Com missioner Edward Iverson, the foregoing resolution was adopted. Commissioners voting as follows: Commissioner Frank French vot jng yes; Commissioner Edward lv erson voting yes; V. E. Anker vot j n g y es< Signed Frank French, Chairman, Board of County Com. V. E. Anker, County Commissioner Edward Iverson County Commissioner Attest: Niels Madsen, County Clerk. I hereby agree to the terms of the foregoing resolution. Jos. F. Dolin, Editor and Manager of The Med icine Lake Wave, Medicine Lake. The Board having appraised certain pieces of property on which the County held a Tax Deed, the following Resolution w T as intro duced and adopted: WHEREAS, Sheridan County has obtained Tax Deeds to the following described property, and the same have been duly appraised, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Clerk be instructed to have the property advertised for sale in the official paper, and to have Notices of such sale posted according to law: BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this property be sold at Pub lie Sale at the County Court House on July 3rd, 1929 at 2:00 o'clock P. M. The property to be sold is dpscrihed as follows: A one acre j tract located in SE 1 /! SW%, Sec. ; 32 Twp. 36, Rge. 52 and adjoin the 1929 town of Redstone, ed value of this land i At 12:00 o'clock nonr. — recssed until 2;G0 o'ch,.b e ^ (Continued ">■ "eek) ' —_ The v - Peerless, June 15.—p epr i 0 three years „Id. is fet'&SI one of the most important 5 "'ft | points in northeastern m pplr 'S Already 600,000 bushels rS raised in 1928 has been ~ ***** and shipped in 399 place. The residents get a high school bility is that this will plished this autumn. Re rP i n T the Great Northern railwi? ceeded all previous record^ l station here this spring April and again in May. 1 ™ car. , mark ^| car * fr °m th£| are now ami the''*'*** proba be accom. °f ;n LIVE \ LEARN À V \o \ BAN 7 o „ □ flHC* Wasted Worry SaiU big-hearted, generous Jess "I'm really quite free to con. fess "The worry and stew "That a miser goes thru "Don't burden tress." my soul with dis M isconceived values make more misery than pauper ism. Money is of no earthlv use except for its buying po*. er. Money in a bank serves its owner and his community as well. If it isn't working, it isn't serving. Thrift is a means to at end. Is Your Money on the Job; Farmers and Merchant State Bank