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..SNA, 'ONT. HlSTOfilôALsOôl'ÉtY OF MONTANA, HELENA. THE PRODUCERS NEWS and nation man •very moment to decide, of good with falsehood. to Liberty Is Not Handed Down From Above .•Once Conies in the the strife the food evil side." or s for [i polished Weekly A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE Official Paper of the City of Plentywood Sub. Rates: Foreign, $3.76 In U. S. $3.00 Per year Per year Entered as second Class Matter, October 18, 1912, at the Poet office at Plentywood, Montana, Under the Act of March 3, 187ft PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931. XHE UTTLE CHERRY TREE MAN'S LAND grew cherry tree—hut it y- t there any d °* little cherry tree grew by V hrklge—the bridge was built 2 e t îe county on a county road w. Û a., v gay does not belong • h l««nty. H U«» in»ide *%V Limits which they say f nutïide the City Limits. It * and nobody knew just it did prow. lew Hein read about IN NO little the more. The r where Admiral Byrd planting his flag J t he south pole Lew went out !mlorine in no man's land and ffi^eredthe little cherry and he planted his little fi je alongside the little tree and L »id: "This little cherry tree ro ws in no man's land and I L* found it and it is mine." Then some pirate sneaked up little hatchet and cut trfe down the little cherry tree. Who did it is going to be sued jew Hein in the highest jourt for the sum of three hun dr,d dollars—he it the power company: be it the county; be it aoyhedv with three hundred dtol But what a wicked pirate to step forward like our j^hle forefather. George Wash ineton. and say: "Lew. I cannot te || a lie. 1 did it with my little ever b' lars. m>t I Lax. ■» v LONG BEFORE Seth Taylor's old horse died had the city of Plentywood been looked upon as gave yard, but not until the old nap died was the city turned in to an actual burrial ground. When Seth's faithful old horse drew its last breath Seth shed a few tears then he buried the animal below the pigweeds and thistles growing inside the city limits. hurrying dead horses in a dead town is dead wrong so the judge said and gave Seth a $10 fine, hut suspended the fine, which was not so hard on Seth as the $15 he had to dig up to pay for his lawyer. It has not been learned yet if the weary old hones must be dug op and toted to some other rest ing place, or whether they will be allowed to remain where they we beneath the "piaon" weeds on the fair grounds. KG' WILLIAM 1 »/A 1 T GETTING INTO THE MOVIES NOT LONG AGO brotherly Jove and kindness ran away with Bill Hass—he made a special trip over into the state of North Dakota for the purpose of re jjwjng hi» own brother of the h'irien of paying taxes by kind ly taking the land and old home stead away from him. Ml is now performing the »ime kind act, and at the same t'mc expanding his domain, by foreclosing on Carl Hovdcy and fd. York. With thirty thousand ~®fjel of wheat stored up for Bill can handle a few farms yet. His many friends in town will £ dooht enjoy the fact that Haas is also paying his nnd attention to our little town tod has started suit against the ftoduceira News and is foreclos frg on the Orpheum Theatra. Hass will put new life into town and make movies move, "dl is a good manager ,or at ^a?t that is what he says him *lf. MID ENDING OF JOYOUS RIDERS Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 12. — Jwo brothers, one with bloodstains on his shirt, were arrested Tues night as suspects in the brutal urde r early Tuesday of two boys n n tw° Kiris near Ypsilanti. 'he suspects, Paul Keene, 49, no Lawrence Keene, 38, laborers, e 'e arrested in their shanty wag . u mile and a half from the spot killed ^ ^ ou ^ bs and ^ iris were Those murdered were Thomas Wheadey, 17; Harry Ixire, 16; Vi S 1 G ?l d * 15 '> and Anna May Har uj'16- The girls lived in Cleve Hf a cousin of Miss Gold Kv. 1 m ^ P^ilanti and Wheatley V J<J near Denton. Mich. lievp f fVH y r re k Hled, police be Wheati ' ?» bod ' es were tossed into tem, s au tomobile, gasoline plied J? ver . fiiem and a match ap* VonH . he b . 0(bes were burned be Tp r ^°gmtion. ed k. e r , enp brothers were arrest police dancer of the state Ann Ark! W Sberif f Andres at a î aul was scra P ing from » J®. "WA resembled blood »«aV 4 J'v"' v to the At the •mpped at the roadside, county jail both men were a nd their garments l continued were on Last Page) HUNGER STALKS THE LAND * -* SECOND CYCLE OF BANK FAILURES HAS STARTED IN NEW YORK CUV _ _ . Lour Banks Fail Wednesday Last Involving $15,000,000 in Deposits Followed by Four Big Ones in New Will nnlzL u , y 11 b 511.000,000— Banks Close at Omaha as Coi* lap« M.,« Westward. h New ere crashed Wednesday afternoon taÄ We M k Z th .SS are°involved j , depositors fS Ravines Twï 1 l06e thei * Jî! k 3: JIT ° f • ï ' es m the heart of the fi follows T" e ,nlte d s ' at f a Ba k .f II. »•"•* the ed one cent ** «ÄS""'' , Hundred^ o"mob„ i2 ed m front of the banks to keep the thousands of depositors who ed for their money back from the bank. The T banks involved are the American Union Bank. Internation al Madison Bank & TrSt Co, îlmos iTtre c T ?- t n C0 ".. a, ÿ the Times Square Safe Deposit Co. One Big One ..„ lar^St of e tS hanks 1 ^ largest oi tnes^ banks to close, having $7,000,000 in deposits. FOUR NEW JERSEY BANKS CRASH New York.— Four New Jersey banks with over $11,000,000 in de-! posits closed their doors on Thurs-1 day of last week following the clos ^ ] of f°ur New York banks deposits of $15,000,000. There is a big in crease m bank failures .particular that crashed wa !.the Jackson Trust Co., Jersey City with nearly $2,000,000 in deposits. Thousands, of workers and uuea.p.oyeu lost their savings in this crash and face acute hunger. Another bank to close was the Bergenlme Trust Co-, x 9 1 a y ' , aS ?. an ^ W1 ^ b over $1,500,000 in deposits. Worken-s Plead for Money Anxious thousands thronged the New York and New Jersey bank? ly in the important industrial sec tions. Among the New Jersey banks today pleading for their money, many saying they could not get food without it. The armed police in front of the banks just laughed at them and ordered them to move along. TWO OMAHA BANK FAIL Two large banks failed in Omaha Nebraska last Saturday, involving over a million dollars. UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE MEETINGS Following is the schedule of or ganization meetings of the United Farmers League to be held next week: Redstone—School house, Monday August 17 at 8 p. m. Wolf Creek Hall, Tuesday, Au gust 18 at 8 p. m. Rock Springs School, southwest of Reserve, Wednesday, August 19 at 8 p. m. Homestead—school house 4 miles east of town, Thursday, August 20 & t 8 p. m. Coalridge— Haaven school, Fri day, August 21 at 8 p. m, Plentywood, Farmer-Labor Tem ple, Saturday, August 22 at 8 p.m Charles E. Taylor and others will attend these meetings. There have been big turnouts at all meetings and practically everybody is join ing. Local parties are asked to co-op erate and have school houses and halls open on meeting dates. It is desired that men, and all attend these meetings. women THE OUTLOOK MEETING At the United Farmers League meeting at Outlook yesterday P ra ^' tically everybody present joined. John Ladd, Sr., was elected secre tarv, Mrs. O. B. Snuggms, John Lien and Earl Gosper local commit tee. Next local meeting will be m Outlook, Saturday, August 22 at 8 o'clock where all farmers and workers should be present and are invited to join. PARACHUTE DROP AT BRUSH LAKE IS POSTPONED TILL NEXT SUNDAY The paracute drop which was ad last Sunday at vertised to occur Brush Lake was postponed because of windy and inclement weather until the coming Sunday, August 16th, when, weather permitting, Loop Ren, the famous high will leap from a height of 6,000 feet and light in Brush Lake. This is a spectacular performance and will be worth seeing. T»°P Ren - ^ ~ ^ ___ Uakota County Buys 5,000 Tons of Hay for Relief __ W ., M , . Ain. * • r Aug. 11.—What is be -1 h" on a large'caUu^te ttfaeo' Âr iJrg commissioners placed an order with tons the first eight carloads to be ^iPP«d at once and the rest at the rate of 50 ears a week begin ning August 20. The purchase is financed by the ««"ty through the revolving fund reunïy' ^t » °t, f ™h wiH ^"aUuî *on -»ill handle purchases here. 1 All hay is to be upland hay, ex-1 f e Pt about 500 tons of alfalfa and ?s to be bought at different points ln the Re d River valley. Further orders will be placed if needed. | - mm i II nriTAI rr* * ^ l\ jri 0 ^ I* VI I ^ ^ " « rt nv\T\n â ÎC ÂÏ1Î 'It lU Ü 1 1VLÜLI11 t\î - Havana, Aug. 13—Early today fighting broke out in the suburbs of the capital as President Macha d « marshalled loyal forces in an e«ort to suppress the revolt. h^ÏÏÏSÏh îL hrS , y , ., ' , , f T J' | aard at Jhe suburb of Luyano. P, ^f atTa°ck'forced the guard to retreat. Reinforcements from nearby patrols were rushed to the bridge In the face of their counter attack the rebels fled Cas .. ua i ties were undetermined ' Havana reraa 1 ne d tranquil thru-1 i out the night but rep orts of the c i asb a ^ Luvano and renewed fight inp re bel bands and gov ernment troops spread uneasiness i in the capital. Rebel force? suffered a severe loss last night when Capt. Rodelfo j Chipi and a platoon surrounded j headquarters of Gen. Peraza, one 1 0 f the seven leading revolutionary generals and after an hour's fight- ; ing killed Peraza, Capt. Mendez, a ide to the general; a student nam ed Jose Hidalgo and four others, Eleven prisoners and large quanti ties of ammunition were captured Forces under Lieut. Diaz were reported fighting rebels near Can delaria, Pinar del Rio province, comanded by Celestino Baizan, a former governor of Havana. Latest reports said rebels had suffered a loss of nine killed and 18 wounded. Army headquarters at Arimao, Cienfuegos, said rebels were met by government troops and that reb els suffered serious casualties. Revolutionists were reported to have killed 29 soldiers and to have captured 25 in a fight in Santa Clara city Monday night. DEMAND JAILING 2 WORLD FLIERS Tokio, Aug. 13.—Patriotic socie ties and reactionary individuals clamored today for the punishment of Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., for taking photo graphs while flying over Japanese territory. As the two accused America^ aviators apeared before the public procurator for further questioning they were smiling but tense. Ex aminers questioned Pangborn bout his flying experience, particu larly that during his service in the American army. Foreign officials were reported to have taken a hand in the inves that the a judiciary show leniency but the war department was said to have adopted quite a different view of the eftsc. Reactionaries sent a delegation to the procurator's office urging drastic punishment for the fliers. The great Japan production party, headed by Mitsura Toyama, widely known partiot, sent delegations to the ministers of war. communica tions and foreign affairs and to staff demanding no len the arm> tency be shown. made this leap in Plentywood a fortnight ago. Prices Cut at Resort In keeping with the universal price cutting tendency, the man agement at Brush Lake has cot the price of dance tickets from $1.00 to 76 cents, and the prices at the fountain and in the cafeteria hav< been reduced one-third, so that re be secured at the anywhere in freshments resort as cheaply as tke county. can TAXPAYERS MEETING SATURDAY, AUG. 22 A business meeting of the iBberidan County Taxpayers Association will be held at Antelope on Saturday after* noon, Aug. 22. Anyone inter " J"**"« this organi nation gomg is urged to at ***"*• —EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE) * ***" H/lflO A TTI^D l ï IH/Ï 1C WlUKAlUKlUM IS . , , , „ VW Asked by Massachusetts IIA „„ nillTI . nn l-lllA/ll* Dî VTDC IlUlVllj 15 U I Li K U * "" U ^p,„'°ed StSe'"table ln letter to Gov. Ely "that the banks a mora torium on mor tgages for two years on rea i estate loans made to those who are unemnloved and are tem-; ™ri,y I? STÏX on such mor tgages as a result «f unemployment." t 1 c ^ ie f beneficiaries of such a who^reTu Tn* ho^ who are buying homes on the in bailment plan. | Mr. Hurley also urges that the ! rate of interest on such loans be > cut from 6% to 5% on the ground that savings banks have lowered the interest rate which they pay I depositors : _j - - P! PHV CAPMPPQ 111 CrLllv/l i Alllïllj.liu wwww ^ „„„ HF! D RE! IEF MEET llLtLtU llJuLlLil Ü1L.1L 1 TUHDCn A V M 1 C T InUKMlAl N I \J H 1 U1UlW1,1U - The farmers of the McElroy *re emet held a relief meeting at the school house Thursday evening, August 6th to discuss their prob lems. Attendance was small on account of the rain that morning and the fact that many had al ready made application for their federal feed loans since the previ ous meeting. The meeting was unanimously in favor of the ef fort to get the government to a mend the loans law to provide for six months' feed instead of three as it does now, and also to include the work horse s and hogs as they I are as necessary to the farmers as ; the rest of the stock. A petition was circulated pray ing for this amendment and for further appropriations and alL present signed. Questionaires were also circulât ed f or the purpose of securing def i n j te information a s to the amount 0 f hay and Krain needed in the p rec inct to carry ove the winter, All were instructed not to sien for more th an each could pay for or needed, at a price all were assured by the committee f 0 b McElrov> Emm the information at hand, supplied by the county agent, the commissioners of Divide county, North Dakota, the local Soo Line | agent and the North Dakota Agri- ; cultural college, with the reduced freight rates granted by the rail road on feed and hay, it was dis closed that oats can be laid down here at 33 cents per bushel or less; barley 38 cents or less and hay at a cost of approximately $11 per} (Continued on last page.) SOVIET IS THE ONLY WAY OUT OF CAPITALIST MISERY SAYS SHAW REPEATS THAT ONLY SOLU TION TO MISERY FOR MIL LIONS IS WAY OF PROLE TARIAN DICTATORSHIP. London, August 10.- Scarcely back at his home in Hertfordshire, George Bernard Shaw continued to teU his impressions of the soviet union and his enthusiasm for the workers' republic. "AU the other nations are play-', ing the fool." Shaw said in refer ring to the capitalist countries, "We had better foUow Russia's ex-: ample as soon as possible. On the whole I should advise a young man to go to Russia and settle there." Contrasting the sitaation at ... "I had no idea Russia had gone so far. We are staggering about and we are getting near collapse, We may get over our difficulties, but it will be by following the ex ample of Russia." Hitting at H. G. Wells' recent declaration that the five year plan would fall through because the so* viet union could not train techni cians and skilled labor, Shaw said; Ithink they are training the civil service as fast as they can. When you consider what they have gone through and what they have got this far under the most des perate disadvantages, including armed intervention by ourselves, home Shaw goes on in the same vein; « LAW CODE BODY /tVX/VII V III I V flÜÜflHiÜ U UL 1 nI'll FT A I IT17H /\ri KK | | I /I I I I Y lip UIVU I ilLi I 1 VII M A TIA ARC AAHC IMAISlIlMV I | IKS iixlllvfli 0 \A/1 0 _ Washingten, Aug. U.-A tale of reoor d of illegal law enforcement i«* barbarous "third degree" m eth ^. S T Wa f folded today by the Wickersham commission. Tell of Beatings Actual cases were cited of pro-1 loI1Ked sleeplessness; severe beat with a robber i^se. sandbag , « "l S-ÄST admWsÄ tta wl ' h tear * as - . .. . , : e f0me of th * '"stances, re P° rted - .... £ boy m Arkansas was, whipped over a penod of six or '"** d » y J »"til. he eonfesyd to the Tv ,7un1 dto^'ed ^ A Si i^ S Angeles arrested - t v . l witbl a Policeman, was beaten with bra^ * , a-, , ^, In El UI Paso C ° V a r young Mexican WQm charged with having killed her chnd , se tting fire to its bedi relav-auestioned for 35 hours untj j v e confessed ^ Negro Strangled In Clarks d a le, Miss , a negro charged with murdering a white man was tied up to the floor and water poured up his nostrils,) strangling him until he confesed! - A f ^ hinese ' «f murder mg three members of the Chinese ^ uaitlona i " ls " on in Washing ^ n L? s held mcommumcado for eight days m a hotel room, and tho P h y sl cians reported him acute !y iU > ^ as .questioned almost con n .'* ht and day - , . Miami a man accused of mur denn K bls Wlfe wa " chained to the ^°? r . a m ° s °l U1 ^ 0 la ^ e f^ ed a ™l later questioned with the scalp i °f J} 18 dead 7 bls u ^ t- a .. aT Former Chief Fiaschetti of the 1 Ne w ^ork City Italian squad was d u °to d as follows: I went to the Tombs and got myself a sawed off baseball bat and walked in on a those - — and they came t ru i with everything thev knew. ^ b ® ponce point of view mus. u^o er stood, the repojt^ ^saicb Uospite the occasional influences politics and corruption, most po hcemen are to be conceived as con scientious and hard working. The general situation in Minne *°ta was stated to be that force " questioning is not tolerated In J 1 ^ waS had heen ex , press ® d . t ï e -wLihfr was . not practlced * A was , ™ ad f n „ kntfl R both North and South Dakota - .. . ...... Duke Mussolini Will Visit German Officials _ Rome, August lO.-Premier G. Mussolini today accepted Chancel lo r Bruening's^^invitation to go to Berlin for a return visit with Ger man officials at a date yet to be determined. it will be the premier's first for mai vi s it outside Italy since he wen t to London in 1922 shortly aft er became head of the Italian sta te. He himself will fix the date for the trip to Berlin. the notion that they are going to break now seems to me to be simp ly foolish." In all the prophecies of Rus sia's failure the wish is father to f be thought. We have a lot of fool lsk .people who want the e *P " wmnt to fad. They may tak me it is not going to. Rus S1 ° nght and we are wrong. Shaw further declared that he bad so much to say about-the soa let unwm that he mtends writing a book about it and that one m temew could not possibly exhaust all he would like to say. Be fore entraining enroute from « „ . Moscow Shaw wrote the following m the visitors' book. "There is not a more interesting country in the world today .to visit > than Soviet Russia and I find tra veiling there perfectly safe and very pleasant. No wonted traveler will have difficulty or complaint, To be in a country where there are no ladies or gentlemen but every one is a friend is as rare as it is refreshing. "I can promise the most harden ed advocate of private property that he will never regret a visit to Russia and his personal possession 3 will be far safer than in Chica go, Paris or London. Tomorrow I leave this land of hope and return to our western countries of de spair." Attorney General Rules on ^ Use of County Equipment Helena, Aug. 6.—Attorney Gen eral Foot this week held that coun ty commissioners may not lease or rent oount y equipment and chinery for use by other persons, l^ less th€ co ™ ty J no lo ?? er need ! the equipment and machinery and sale for it cannot be had. The opin ion was requested by M. R. Wood, " f ofX? Croydon EnT^Aug 8 l^e^Te" ! gérs enr«?e to Park None w«e *." "" " Pam ' mi GREAT ENGLISH AIRLINER HANNIBAL FALLS The 1 The crash was the result of si ^ a failure of Iwo of the ; " iai 2j^ 01 J£e s Z5Jd 1 The lineAad been hailed as one I of the costliest and largest in reg u ^ ar transport service. Its estimat ed ^ as $176 ' 00 ° and ita wei ^ ht was 13 tons. ! An eye witn ess described the , thrillin K landing of the Hannibal, sayin??: ' <The big plane J " ust ; ed a h °use in landing. It knocked idown a telegraph pole." YEGGS BUSY AGAIN; THRFF RARRFRIF^ IN rm im a COUNTY IN A WEEK - The sheriff'si office reports three ; burglaries in the county during the past week with a !oss of about $90 in cash and approximately $200 in merchandise. j The places robbed were Rorvig's pool hall at Rescue and Hanson's PJ o1 balî a t Antelope which netted the thieves about $100 worth of cigarettes and tobacco, and Spar hng*s hardware at Medicine Lake w here •. 75 was taken from the safe, which was left unlocked and $10 ( from the cash register. Until a. check up is made it is not known i just what the merchandise taken ( from the latter place consisted of. but a quantitv of ammunition and several guns are reported to be unaccounted for. .... , No trace of the culprits has been discovered. ' __.. ORNERY THIEVES rjR'AIN HI TP F P AOTK I^IVAIIN riUVxEa LINE TANK SAT. A.M. Early gaturday mornin ^ thieves broke the lock on the main gate of the Continental Oil Company's bulk station and after driving their car inside, bored a hole about wa i s t high in the big center gaso line tank. They were either fright ened away or 6 } e were of a rather "ornery" disposition but at any rate they left the hole unplugged. When Manager Viggo Petersen came down to work Saturday mom ing the yard was flooded with gas oline and the liquid was still run ning from the hole at a good rate, He estimates that at least about one thousand gallons was lost He says he intends to leave a light burning in the yard in the future to forestall, if possible, any similar attempts. Three Inches of Rain Fell At Reserve Friday Nighl A three inch rainfall in about three hours last Friday evening at Reserve, accompanied by a very severe thunder storm gave that village a real thrill. The coulees west of town were running several feet deep and one torrent washed out the county bridge on the grade a mile south of town. Another down the H. C. Riley coulee and tore out a section of the rail road. However the section crew got busy and repaired it in. a couple of hours thereby causing delay to the trains. The management of the City Ca fe has found it impracticable to continue the use of so much elecr trie equipment due to the exorbi tant cost of "juice" and has substi tuted a gas burner for the electric heater under the coffee um and gas lamps for some of the electric lights. no pils will take place on the opening ■ day of sc bool ' G. P. FREISLEBEN, Pnncipnl WESTBY SCHOOL TO OPEN SEPT. 8 The Westby school will open on Tuesday Sept. 8, 1931. Registra tion for high school pupils will he held dnring the afternoon and eve ning of August 29th at the school house. Registration can be made by mail. All interested in attend ing high school should register at this time. Registration of elementary po Gov. J. E. Erickson Must Call a Special Session of Montana Legislature By Attorney JESS H. STEVENS, Great Falls, Montan» Ÿ**********.**#*** A- ********♦♦ » * The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.—-Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. * * * * » ************** *************** on its assessment rolls. Reports of county assessors, the last of which was received today by the state board of equalization, show $780,236,155 in real estate, ^i ^2 459 m personal property divide, ed among the 66 counties 1^ addition there is $246 823,31! in mtercounty property of public utilities, assessed by the state board and allocated to the coun t,es m prepcrtion to the amount of lines within their borders. .... Mineg and Royalties .... About $4,500,000 will be avail a bl e from the tax on net proceeds • 0 f mines and royalty inteests. The aggregate is about 000,000 less than last year. There, is a decrease of $69,911,845 in real property, $14,620,267 in live stock ! ; j Helena, Aug. 11.— Montana this year, has approximately $1,308, 000,000 worth of taxable property MONTANA TAX VALUATION IS NOW COMPLETE and $18,765,719 in personals in the junty lists. Mine proceeds assess ments are expected to show a heavy drop. The same utility properties as- \ sessed by the state board last year decreased about one-half of one P 61, cent but this year the board took oyer a]1 po wer distribution lines. For this reason, the total of its allocation shows an advance of $4,284,271 over last year's fig ures. , Earnings are Lower | . Very drastic decreases in earn mgs of utilities for the year ac counted for the lower assesments «f that class of property, Judge J. J. Greene, member of the board explained. "The heavy losses in valuation s will mean restncted ftoance« public use but the taxing bodies, can ^ along if they watch their expenditures and curtail their ac tivities as individuals and private concerns must." Judge Greene said, - Budapest, Aug. 8.—The govern ment issued an emergency decree tonight forbidding transfer of cur-1 rençy abroad without permission of the national bank. Attempting to bolster the na tional financial situation, which recently has been endangered, the decree prohibited export of Hun garian bank notes, bonds or stocks and placed a ban on removal of credits in Hungarian or foreign currency to foreign countries. HUNGARY FORBIDS CURRENCY EXPORT SHIPPERS PREPAIRNG FOR BATTLE AGAINST RAIL FREIGHT INCREASE Hearings Reopened in Washington—Farmers, Lumber men and Manufacturers Oppose the New Proposed Schedule—Judge Bars Wage Discussion. Washington, Aug. 11.—Opponent of the railroad's fervent plea for the 16 per cent freight rate in crease are busy marshaling facts and figures to meet statistics pre sented for the raise. Farmers, lumbermen and manu facturers are finding plenty of da ta available for the hearings which resumed in Washington today. Fifty-cent wheat. 9-cent cotton, lumber lower than it has been for years and cheap steel, coal and manufactured articles generally supply arguments for those who oppose the blanket raise. Yet those who insist it would be a further hackling of the already lame legs of industry and agricul ture to boost rates do not deny the railroads need more money. "But so do we all." they say. "We are in the slough together. are collecting from Germany more than they are paying us? o*viNr NATION WE SAVING NATION WE ThfnkTor a moment of the irtmy. all! Just a few yearg this nation was spending fifty b ii Hon dollars and drafting foui, wilUon Q f the flower of American. to die jf need ^ to destros. Sr many Now, we ar7 trying tes save Germany. We have already* cancelled two-thirds of the war> debt other nations owe us, largely - so they can free Germany from » larger reparations. Our bankers have actually loaned Germany $8» $100,-1000,000,000 and now they most ■ loan her more in the hope of sav ing what they have previously loaned. The nations which became ; »INA RECENT ADDRESS, Se®» I tor Dill said: "We need havft ■ no fear of Bolshevism if we sat our own house in order and gin« all our people a fair share of the 1 profits of production." Senator Dill began by reviewing: the international situation. He predicted that Germany would soot.» Suspend all reparation payments "except such payments as loans by the Allies make possible. Whan Germany stops paying reparations what chance will the United States have of getting payments from other European countries which allies to reduce Germany to imped* ency are allied again to keep hsj* world power and a member of the» family of nations, Europe. But one thing seems cer tain, namely, ^hat unless ^ statesmen and business men of the nations of the western world 1 c» manage trade and economies •* to satisfy^the rowing demand for better conditions for .he poor, com ^ a y ^ p read beyond the National^ and world ^condition^ T/Lr™ 0 ""J* more seriously of our ow» ST Europe ^ ba T € . ^ are teejnost tion hasjmown m a generarwm More and more of People h* b ^ that ^ u ^ aye a Jâ Ai^nc^s mu^ have^bigg « and ™ TTl<l t enjoy DARK DAYS AHEAD— Nobody knows what is ahead fo WHAT HAS HAPPENED! TO THE FARMER— ..„ Let us remind you what' has happened to the farmers: Wheat in 1920 was $2.87 pe* bushel, now it is 50 cents, Rye in 1920 was $1.90 per busfl el» now 86 cents, Oats in 1920 was $1.00 per bu«h el, now 26 cents, Com in 1920 was $1.02 per trash el, now 60 cents, Butterfat in 1920 was 74 cents per pound, now 22 cents, Wool in 1920 was 65 cents per pound, now 15 cents, (Continued Last Page)» Don't tramp on us in trying to geft out." Nor do the railroaders deny that some commodities should not have - their transportation charges io creased. "We know that," said W. R. Col«, massive-framed president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. "Give us the raise. It would take too long to consider each rate sep arately. We will make adjustments. later." Commodities Side of It That did not stop the questions ; about particular rates on particu lar commodities. The opponents, through cross examination, rented their case almost as much« as the railroads and security hold Pit ers. Railroad attorneys will have the (Continued on Last Page ), _