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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, NOVEMBER 8, 1929 OUR LIBRARY Sheridan County deserves to be congratulated on its public library. It is one of the best in the country for a community of its size. There is a fine selection of books and periodicals. The farm ers' administration that governed the county for several years took a deep interest in education and saw to it that the library was well supplied with literature for thinking people. And those who prefer lighter reading material were not ignored. Followers of Zane Grey as as devotees of Dar win and Lenin can find what théy want on the bookshelves. And if they are unable to find what they Want readily Miss Elizabeth Baker, our cour teous and efficient librarian, is only too glad to *ÇëIp, 7 f you are a booster get out your horn and loot for the library. And better still, patronise It. Noise isn't everything. Did you ever hear about the empty barrel? ? 'y WHAT PRICE SUGAR AND HOW Few believe all that is said about the power of big corporations. Yet one is sometimes allowed to peep behind the scenes of a large industry that proves beyond doubt the homely adage that "It is dangerous A company that produces about half the sugar manufactured in the United States naturally looks upon its territory as exclusive. When a rival small er company tried to break into this monopoly in 1925-26 by offering to pay beet farmers a dollar more per ton for their beets, it was easy enough tor the larger fellow to beat that game by offer ing two dollars more. It was just as easy to cut prices in the contested territory, even to the point of selling sugar at 4.2 cents per pound though the average price in the United States for that year was 5.5 cents. Easy, indeed—for in spite of these tactics, the powerful corporation made 16%% on Its inflated capital stock in one year and 16%% the next. After teaching the smaller company a lesson in competition, the winning corporation thought it best to discipline the farmers. Accordingly, the price of a ton of beets was dropped the next year by one dollar, and that price held in spite of the desperate protests of the farmers. The company bought 3,282,000 tons of beets at a saving (to them) of $3,282,000 and a like loss to the farmer. Profits on their common stoc jumped from 16%% to 45<Jfc in one year. The beet sugar people are asking for an in creased tariff in order, they say, to enable them to pay the farmer a dollar more per ton for their beets. That tariff would increase the nation's sugar bill by $65,000,000 annually. Draw your own conclusions! THE GHOST WRITER We learn from the All States News Bureau that almost every president had his "ghost writer.' is quite generally known that pugilists, wrestlers, golf champions, actors, base ball players and some business leaders employ men and women to set • forth on paper for public consumption gems of wisdom designed to show the masses that every Individual can be a success if he, she or it, prac tices thrift, develops ordinary rotarian virtues and makes a habit of getting to bed about 10 P. M. We doubt, however, if the people will take kindly to the alleged fact that our presidents were not the authors or perhaps even the inspirers of some of the famous state documents that have made our Fourth of July celebrations occasions for joy or agony. Hamilton, we are informed, wrote most of Washington's state papers. Roger B. Raney wrote Andrew Jackson's and the historian Bancroft and the great lawyer, Jeremiah S. Black, wrote An drew Johnson's. President Hoover's style is term ed "homely" and considered "foreign to the scien tific mind" but a suspicion exists that there is a writer of unusual ability on the president's staff. It is said by experts in such matters that "they have a sort of charm that one finds in the best of Goldsmith's Chinese letters." Perhaps this explains Hoover's tariff law. We did not know until now that the famous Irish bard went in for Chinese puzzles but that is what the tariff bill looks like to the average farmer. It ♦ - Washington newspapermen say that Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late lamented funda mentalist and real estate salesman, prove a great stimulating influence in Congress and that she is being closely observed. Unless have our congress wrong the lady must have something on the hip. is going to we u THOSE WHO HAVE TEARS 'i When Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior was convicted by a jury of his peers of having accepted a bribe of $100,000 for leasing the Elks Hill basin to Doheny, there was much weep ing in the court room and Mr, Fall was a pathetic figure. sight. Read the story by Charles P. Stewart of the Central Press Association on another page. TTiere was a time when Fall lorded it over the natives of New Mexico. He was a one or two-gun man. There was little democracy in New Mexico and little sympathy for the weak. Fall might have been sitting pretty today if he had a newspaper editor by the name of Car! McGee. Editors are dangerous fellows to monkey with. Ask Fall, he knows. Its just too bad about Pall. But Mr. Fall was not always a tearful not run into A fine of $100,000 a 8Tna11 sum But he could have been fined $300,000. One year in the pen is northing to laugh about. But it might have been three, and further more there is little likelihood of his day of it. When you come to think about it, there is reason why honest folks should shed ®ver serving a no any tears for the "Teapot Dome" burglar. We have mem bers of our own class to grieve over; men who have been railroaded to jail because they went to battle for the workers and farmers. Men like Tom Mooney and Warren Billings in California. Men like the I. W. W. prisoners in Walla Walla, Washington. Men like the heroic strike-leaders of Gastonia. Those men of stainless political lives are either in jail or waiting to be incarcerated because they GAVE to the common people of their country the best that was in them. A. B. Fall is convicted, tho not yet in prison because he GAVE to one set of capitalists his country's property which other capitalists wanted. He gave it for a price. BING GOES BINGHAM Capitalist editors are viewing with alarm the action of Senator Bingham of Connecticut in tak ing into the tariff-making committee as an expert, an employe of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut. They are pointing with more or less pride to the action of the senate, which* in its righteous wrath censured the erring senator for his offense against the majesty of the senate. As for ourselves were are not unduly excited over it. The mistake made by the senator was in getting caueht. This is the unpardonable sin in Capitalist politics. There is hardly a senator in Washington who does not serve some group of finance or industrial capitalists. His job is tô lôôt after their interèstâ. As for the masses whose votes enable him to sit id congress, their job is to elect him and keep their mouths shut until the next election. Every fairly well informed person knows that our government is run in the interest of the ruling classes, the lords of finance, industry and com merce. Those industrial lords quarrel among them selves over the spoils but they are all united against the producing masses. Bingham trod on the corns of other capitalits whose interests did not jibe at the moment with those of the Nutmeg State plûtes and those who believe they own the president. They camped on his trail and got the goods on him. We are featuring the story because it helps to disillusion the people of the idea that this is a gov ernment for the people, of the people and by the people. Not yet. Some day it will be a govern ment for the workers and farmers, of the workers and farmers and by the workers and farmers. THE "RUM" ARGUMENT Anti-Saloon Leaguers advance as an argument against prohibition that bank deposits in the United States have increased greatly since the "Noble Experiment" was inaugurated. This is a thin, lean and hungry argument. Of course bank deposits today are greater than they were in 1920, not only in the United States but in Ireland, Polahd and the Island of Yap. Ire land is as wet as the well-known river Shannon. Poland is no more dry than the Baltic Sea and if there is a total àbstainer from alcoholic beverages on the Island of Yap he is a dead one. Oh, the Island of Yap Is a terrible trap. Its hard to stay dry On the Island of Yap. A GOOD CUSTOMER We are reprinting an editorial on Soviet Russia that appeared in the Helena Independent, the most ably edited of the eight Anaconda Company dailies in this state. The editorial contains a good deal of captalist claptrap, but Will Campbell, the editor knows his steak and onions and it would never do for him to let the Bolshevik leaders get by without calling ''attention to their alleged follies. He admits that Russia is making progress and, holy mackerel! if Campbell wants to get excited over "misgovem ment" why doesn't he take a shot at the Teapot Dome government in Wshington? It is refreshing, however, to compare the views expressed by Mr. Campbell with the twaddle weekly sheets, of extremely limited circulation, whose editors think it is still good business to over Bolshevism for the benefit of the main street babbitry. If those nit-wits realized that the Ana conda Copper Company for reasons of a business nature favored Soviet Recognition they would hang out the Red Flag, in the hope that it would attract some hamburger to their famished larders: appearing in some rave A GOOD CUSTOMER The changing atitude of American business men toward Soviet Russia eventually will force the American government to alter the posi tion it has taken in dealing with Russia and Russians. With a volume of trade four times greater under Soviet rule than under the czar's regime, Americans see in Russia a cus tomer of great potentialities. Gradually it is being forced upon Ameri can consciousness that one does not have to love a good customer. And the better custom er he is, or is likely to become, the easier it becomes to comprehend that fact. We can't love the bolsheviks. Their ideals of government and economics do not square with our own, though the soviet leaders have repudiated many of the policies which brought them into disrepute with other countries, notably their attitude toward capital. Despite misgovernment, despite the follies of the soviet leaders, Russia still is a great country. It is making progress. Potentially it has greater resources than any country on earth, not excepting our own. As the people become better educatd in the arts of industry and develop a better government out of the chaos inherited from the revolution, Russia is bound to prosper. As it prospers it will de mand more of the manufactured products only American manufacturers can produce on a scale to satisfy its requirements. Russian busi ^ concerns are becoming better credit risks all the time, even if the Russian government's credit remains open to suspicion. Business is and always has been able to present a strong arm when necessary and all po itical policies are more or less influenced by business considerations. It will not be sur prising, therefore, if within the next year or two a change will come into relations between the American and Russian governments. Our own country never has recognized soviet gime, having taken a "moral" stand in its dealings with Lenin and Trotzky from which it has refused to deviate. The present Russian ness re .. , government, while pursuing the broad principles established by Lenin and Trotzky, should not be confused with the one set up by that decidedly un saintty païr It i s far more liberal in its at. titude toward its own citizens and other coun tries. Apparently it entertains no ideas of world revolution nor is it attempting to !n affairs of its neigh bors. On the whole it is a fairly weP lated and well behaved institution regu The Week By SAM'L HILL. Stamping Out Radicalism. It's Very Strange I Paper Wheat. Very Kind T' Me! Gotham's Gehenna. Progressives in France. Alexander Legge was in earnest when he told Chicago bankers in a speech that something had to be done to stamp out radicalism. He knew or felt that the old progres sive spirit was being kindled anew on the prairies. If it got under way it would be no use for the fat boys to take to the tall timber. It would build a fire under them. So with that ag a prelude the Farm Board announced on October 26th that it would lend a farmer as much on his wheat as it would bring at his local station. That is it will LEND $1.25 a bushel on No. 1 Northern on a Minneapolis bas is, On that day that grade of wheat was bringing $1.10 to $1.21 in Minneapolis. This of course is cash wheat, not the wind that the speculators were playing with on options. The Board will also LEND $1.12 a bush« on No, 2 durum, Duluth basis. _ p The day before, bitten with the madness of the stock exchange, grain gamblers let go all holds, and the price of wheat sagged 12 cents a bushe. But when the Farm Board announced its intention the price crawed up 6 cents. Since then, although the option or gam bler price in Minneapolis has been at times below the Board's figure, the "card price," which is sent out to the local elevators by the Cham ber of Commerce has—oh, it's very strange—been a cent ABOVE the loan value of the or two as j Here is a headline from the news reports: "Avalanche of sell ing swamps wheat mart, of bushes dumped into pits at Win nipeg and Chicago. Takes sudden turn. Wildest trading in 30 years occurs on Chicago Board of Trade. Sounds like all the farm ers in creation were selling wheat. Yet, if anything, the farmers were selling less than usual! They were sticking! They were hanging on to the grain—those who could. Well, what was sold and what was dumped into the pits? Paper wheat my dears! Pure wind and nothing but Gambler's I O Us were falling in the gaming house like snow on Christmas eve. Then the Farm Board intervened. You know what happened. Millions The Farm Board pegged the price at $1.26 a bushel. If that is not price-fixing then nobody knows what price-fixing is. Yet all the pious humbugs of the administra tion recoiled with horror from the McNary-Haugen bill and Coolidge vetoed it because it was a price fixing measure and hence "econ omically unsound." What will burn the farmer up is that this was not done months ago when he was marketing his grain. It might have helped them. It has helped some farmers. But coming at the end of the season—a sort of de layed pass—it has helped the grain gambler who bought wheat for the rise in price. The fellows who profit are those who have the farmers' wheat in their terminal elevators. They are singing now: "The Board was kind to me, very kind to me. very kind to Me-he!" in delightful harmony. Need anything be said of the Republican deflation in Street? Nothing much except to point to Senator Brookhart's statement that the effects of it will slowly penetrate into the country and reduce in some degree this Republican prosperity. It can't be done. You can't take breeks from a Highlandman! But here is this thought Senator Brookhart gives: The country banks that have been sending their spare cash Wall Dress Up With a SMARTLY TAILORED SUIT ! ■ $30 (t mm. Y I Our tailored to measure suits are accepted as the standard of good dress by well groomed men of this town. They value our care ful tailoring . • ■ Hie perfect fit and smart style of our garments. You will appre tailoring service, too. Select one of the new fabrics and let us prove to you the satisfaction it s pos sible to buy here for only $30. date our V. « s': NELSON the tailor Flovd B. Olson of Minneapolis decided he will run on the Far T a bor ticket for governor and leave the Senatorial fight to Tom Schall and Theodore Christianson which will be one lovely scrap. He than made public his when Samuel B. Wilson, . . York because of the high 9 l 0 f interest the gamesters naV may be stung. Lending W0U Vf- a gambler is in the class "centrerons occupations and some ôf ttabSS that have backed di ê^Tloaa» "ay lind themselves nnVionnilv situated as soon as the returns come in from that modern Æna or place of perpetual taS that is called Wall Street. has had no more chie? justice of the State y Supreme court J indicates that he is willing to take the Republican nomination and run against Olson. A Supreme iudge knows more than most folks and still can learn that it is one thing to occupy the bench and another to be benched. In France the spirit of progress is stirring- For years the old guard has been running things and mak ing deals with big business. The international bank how being form ed to control the chain banks of all countries was evidently the last straw. You remember the double-play combination of the old Chicago Cubs: "Tiner to Evers to Chance." That was the way it worked in France: "Poincare to Herriot to Briand.'' One er ether was always Premier. Briand was kicked out as soon as the French parliament met. The progressives voted him down, being unanimous Then a country school teacher, the son of a village baker, Edouard Daladier was called to 'form a government. He tried it, but gave it up. There are too varieties of progressives yet They are split up too on that. many in France, badly into factions to get any where until they learn better. That is a tip of Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota progressives. They have the votes and the power and only factional differences and dis agreements over minor Issues keeps them out of the power they should be exercising. But your progressive is by nature independ ent, individualistic. He is prone to quarrel as sparks are to fly But.for that he would have made this a better world in which to live. If he could only be brought to take his fighting out on his enemies he would have them groggy all the time. An X-ray of the mummy that was Pharaoh who tried to keep the Israelites slaves in Egypt shows that he actually had a hard heart. That is the way with these big business industrialists. They think) they are being hard-headed when it is a case of hard heart for which the sea of revolution over whelms them and their host. DOOLEY Mrs. J. J. Schons went to Plen tywood Wednesday to be with her d aught ft*, Patricia, who is ill at the hospital with pneumonia. Roy Mitchell left Thursday for Lambert to visit friends. He re turned Monday. Matt Eaton drove to Plentywood with the roads in very bad condition. Duffy Brightsman of Plentywood is spending a few days at the Frank Brightsman farm. H. M. Nelson drove to Plenty wood Friday. The Degree of Honor lodge held their business meeting at the Sten seth home Friday evening. The pupils in Mrs. Potter's room enjoyed a Hallowe'en partv Friday evening at the school. ' The time was spent at games appropriate to the season and a delicious lunch was served at the close of the ev ening. Olaf Johnson and Reuben King of Comertown were in Dooley be tween trains Friday evening at tending to business matters. William Corcoran of Comertown was a Dooley visitor Friday. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Madden of Bowbells, N. D., have been spend ing a few days at the J. J. Schons home. Dorothy Rupert went to Crosby, N. D., Saturday to spend the week end with her parents. She return ed to Dooley Monday. Hilda and Esther Larson housekeeping at the M. E. beck home and attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Torgrim drove to Plentywood Saturday afternoon. Mrs, Earl Potter was taken seri ously ill with pneumonia Monday evening. Edna Eaton is substitut i n g in the upper grades during her absence. Mrs. Potter's many friends hope for her speedy re covery. Dr. Storkan made a professional call in Dooley Tuesday, Mrs. Olof Reitan and children returned Tuesday from Eugene, Oregon, where they spent the past six months. They made the trip from Oregon by truck. The Rei tans will occupy the H. A. Bretzke house. Mr. and Mrs. and daughter Billie came .up from Comertown Tuesday evening and overnight guests at the M. W. are Ler son Frank Shilling were Markuson home. rv COALRIDGE The regular C. L. F. Club bers failed to meet Thursday with Mrs. Samuel Torgerson due to the bad roads. Where the next meet ing will be held hasn't been an nounced by President Hueth, yet. ' mem as Oscar Thorstensen, mail-carrier on route two, south of town, has resorted to the use of a team and sled since the snow storm on Mon day and Tuesday. A goose festival was held Sunday at the Holmes farm southwest of town. Adolph Stephen, son Chrles and John Murphy accompanied Deb Chapman to Grenora Friday. Mr. Murphy had some dental work done while in town. 'You Save in buying \ > I KC ► < ► ; - - — ; Baking Powder : i < ► ' ► | > ► - Same Price for over 38 years < * ■ < < ; 2$ ounces for < < % ► - I You save in using 1 it. Use less than of high priced brands. ' MILLIONS OF POUNDS >USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT < < < » V5fT3«îr3rf3»fÎ5fîjÇ3i Special Bargains {M&pAüvi * that Our Pricer 8 Are Lowest!! A FEW OF THE MANY BARGAINS TO BE FOUND AT OUR STORE DUR ING THE NEXT TEN DAYS: Heavy Duty, 45-volt Radio B. Batteries ÇO ÂO During this sale. Ever Ready Hot Shot Batteries A Real bargain at... No. 7 Dupont Ducco Polish, in 1 pt During this sale. No. 7 Dupont Ducco Polish in /i pt During this sale. OCedar Furniture Polish, in big bottles During this sale. OCedar Furniture Polish, in small bottles During this sale. Sunday Cleaner (Steel wool) An exceptional value. 3 pkgs. Peters High Velocity, 12 Guage Shells They get the ducks. Now only per box.. All Welded 30x5 Truck Chains. Just the thing for these roads. Per 13-Plate Car Battery (Fresh Stock) For easy starting in cold weather, only.... Heavy Galv. 12 Qt. Pails During this sale. $2.18 87 C . cans 47 C . cans v'vr. 1 j *3 48C £ * 24 C i * i_i * IOC * * 98 C * m ..i, $7.75 m m $825 * * 57 C m * Come in and »ee the These pails are not the light material—and have the wood grip handle. m m other special» w® are now showing. many m Our dish department now offers a 20% Discount ÄS" * *: * Mr. and Mrs. Harold Guenther entertained the B. R. Guenther and Albert Ator families together with Mi^s Miller at their home Saturday evening, were the chief diversion until mid night when the hostess served a dainty luncheon. Glen Chapman is suffering with the measles this week. The Clar ence Chapman and Menno Harsh burger children are also ailing. It was reported last week the Mrs. Jacobsen's school, where the above children attend, was closed because of sickness among the pupils. The highway between Antelope Coalridge was blocked with snow that fell here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Ru dolph Stephen attempted a trip to Plentywood Thursday and after 3 hours of road breaking with his Ford, was satisfied in turning back. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lobdell had as their Sunday afternoon visitors the Harold and B. R. Guenther families. new Cards AU Star There are groceries and groceries—some "cheap gro-! ceries that sell cheap, and then there are quality gro-' iceries—that sell for a little more, but worth a whole' lot more—they go so much farther and are so much I more satisfactory—the best are the cheapest in the' long run. If you want the best, STAR VALUE GRO CERIES, call Phone No. 100 and we will send right over. them SPECIALS FOR THE WEEK tTAPLEi * Puffed Raisins, 2 pkgs. Home Brand Pancake Flour. 3 lbs. Cookies, fine quality. Washing Powder (Swift's Pride) Large pkg. Home Brand Pure Maple Syrup 98c Queen Olives, quart jar. Imported Lingonberries Tillman's Coffee (It's delicious) 29c 38c 58c 19cH file« SERVICE IS ALSO A PART OF OUR BUSINESS# S0REM & CO. PLENTYWOOD 5 The Soren Johansen t « putting on a turkey /°5* their farm home next <& Val Miss Elly teaching a school near' tv ho U Lejçge farm, spent the » , with her parents here anT** en d ed Monday morning by te return ' sled. Mrs. Emil GrhLJS® a teacher of that vicS ^ 4o ed to spend Sunday S \ tteni Pt atives at Antelope; b, "if rred Sn Ce ,0r Miss Bernice Mathisen , n -2 ? IS We f k for HarÄ D„ with her uncle, Mr Oise«' ?• has been visiting for the Ä ! ho weeks at the Mathisen home with relatives at the Writin! ^ Hills. Miss Bemiee wirfeJt* winter term of school at Arne Lodahl was ™afc* errand a^ the H. R. Guenthm Monday morning. Bert Guenther took a truckle of feed to Grenora Friday Ä back some freight for Bud " ® man. ate at ess UM Chap,