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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
A Paper of the People, by the People
and for the People
By the Peoples Publishing Fompany, Publishers
CONTINUING — The Outlook Promotor, The
Outlook Optimist, The Dooley Sun, The Antelope
Independent, The Sheridan County News, The
Pioneer Press and the Shéridan County Farmer.
CHARLES E TAYLOR. Editor
HANS RASMUSSEN. Manager
Friday, October 16, 1931
SAVING THE COUNTRY
That President Hoover will try his
luck for a second term seems to be agreed
upon by almost everybody who is study
ing the political situation. Millions were
spent on getting him elected once and
millions are going to be spent on getting
his elected a second time. He has serv
ed those with the millions well — they
lenow they can depend on him.
What some of us out here in the
^vide open spaces have been wondering
is what are they going to tell the Ameri
can people when they come around ask
them to vote for Hoover a second
mg
time?
They can tell us about the Farm
Board of course, but by this time the
Farm Board is regarded by practically ev
erybody
people
It was never intended for anything but a
as a flop—more and more
are coming to the conclusion that
flop and that the 3ÖÖ million dollars is
that much of the people's money thrown
away.
That the president stalled off a revo
lution in Germany by giving a morator
ium to the German money lenders is
something not appreciated by the Ameri
can people. The 400 million dollar loan
to England might be another feather in
Hoover's hat as far as saving England is
concerned but there is nothing there
for the ordinary American voter to go
wild over. Neither have the disarma
ment talks given by Hoover made much
of a hit wit hthe public. They have been
taken for what they were — just that
much talk.
That the conditions have grown
worse by leaps and hounds during the
Hoover administration, until about one
third of the population is practically on
the bread line, is something we all know.
finding some way of boosting the
present administration looks to us as be
ing a hopeless job and we have been
waiting for something to happen.
Last week it came. All the leading
papers came out with big headlines. Our
great engineer has saved the day. Hoov
■er has solved the problem and saved his
country. Prosperity is no longer just
around the corner but right before us.
Forming a 500 million dollar Finance
Corporation was the solution, for the pur
pose of buying up "frozen assets" and
saving the little hanks. When a cow is
mortgaged for $50 and the price of the
• cow drops down to $10, that $50 nöte
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becomes what they call a frozen asset.
Buying up these papers is what the new
«corporation is supposed to gro wfat on,
which they might do if they can buy the
papers cheap enough. But selling papers
cheap is not going to save the small
il -
banks.
Wiell, they had to have something
to make a noise over. Between now
and election w ewill have more of it.
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A FULL YEAR'S WORK
Down on the farm, T>out half past four,
1 slip on my pants and sneak out of the door.
Dut to the yard I run like the dickens.
To milk ten cows and feed the ch i cke n s,
Clean out the barn, curry Nance and Jigga,
Separate the cream and slop all the pigs.
Work two hours, then eat like a Turk,
And, by heck, I'm ready for a full day's work.
Then I grease the wagon and put on the rack,
"Throw a jug of water in an old grain sack,
Hitch up the horses, hustle down the lane,
Must get the hay in fer it looks like rain,
look over yonder, sure as Tm bom
-Cattle's on the rampage and cows in the com.
Start across the medder, run a mile or two,
Heaving like I'm windbroke, get wet clean through.
Get back to the horses, then for recompense,
Nance got straddle the barbed wire fence.
Joints all a-aching, and muscles in a jerk
I'm fit as a fiddle for a full day's werk.
Work all summer till winter is nigh,
Then figure up the books, and heave a big sigh.
Worked all year, didn't make a thing,
(Gat less cash now than I had last spring.
Now, some people say that there ain't no hell,
But they never farmed, so they cannot tell.
When spring rolls 'round I take another chance,
While the fringe grows longer on my old pants.
•Owe my 'spenders a hitch, my belt another jerk.
And, by heck, I'm ready for a full year's work.
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HOW PEOPLE LIVE IN RICHEST
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD,
Dr. Ruth Fox, researcher at th eFifth Avenue
Hospital in New York, makes a report on the
health of miners' children in West Virginia. The
average weight is 12 per cent below normal. The
<iiet of pinto beans, potatoes and sowbelly gives
them no resistence to disease. The children are
.unable to go to school so they receive none of the
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free preventative medical service given to school
children. None of the children examined were
given milk since they were weaned and they had
meat only on rare occasions. The only change in
diet was the berries they might be able to pick..
The average family of these West Virginia miners
consists of seven persons.
Dr. Fox also reports that the non-union miner
in that state owes the company anywhere from S7
lo »17 for every two weete' work ho puts in.
She also reports that 20 per cent of the ehil
dren die because of lack of nourishment to enable
them to resist disease.
Perhaps John D. might send eight dimes to
these miners if he could read this report.
What gripes us is that they call this civilization.
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RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF
THE NEXT WAR
It seems to have been determined, by the bank
rupt minds that operate the world, that the only
(From the Potrland, Oregon News)
solution for present troubles is "another war.
A new war will, it is hoped, kill off surplus
labor. This is obviously the easiest means of get
ting rid of it, and the "best minds" will, as usual,
take the easiest way.
It is so much easier to start a war than to
apply common sense to world ills.
Well, if we are going to have another war, we
might as well have some rules for it. The last
was fought, as the politicians say "irregardless
of rules—and it was pretty much of a mess. We
offer, for public approval, a model set of rules:
1. That the manufacturers of army raincoats
be compelled to wear their own product, pay their
own doctor bills when stricken with pneumonia,
and defray their own funeral expenses.
2. That all congressmen and senators voting foi
war be given the choice of enlisting in the shock
troops or being shot on the capitol steps.
3. That all manufacturers of war supplies be
hanged when their profits reach the million-dollar
mark.
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4. That uplift agencies, charged with the moral
welfare of the troops, be prohibited from shipping
registers war zone.
5. That all Pour-Minute speakers he shot at
tiie completion of their first two minutes of ora
tory.
6. That all holy men who announce to their
congregations that the Almighty is fighting with
us be dispatched to interview Him personally on
the subject and find out.
7. That each battleship, cruiser, destroyer and
submarine carry, as excess baggage, one or more
stockholders in battleship building concerns.
8. That the secret service be restrained from
the discovery of "enemy plots" every time some
body turns on a light in the parlor.
9. That paper manufacturers be prohibited
from entering the shoe making trade.
10. That restaurant proprietors near concentra
tion camps be enjoined from having two menus—
one for civilians and one, the higher prices, for
soldiers.
11. That college professors be stopped from
delving into history to prove that the enemy al
ways was a low-down scoundrel, anyway.
12. That the cause of war shall be clearly
stated to the people as the reduction of unemploy
ment, and not disguised as "a holy war to save
civilization,"
There are, of course, many more rules needed.
But these will suffice for a starter. We suggest
their adoption by luncheon clubs, sewing circles,
debating societies and other cultural agencies, and
their transmission, with resolutions urging their
passage, to congress.
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HOLY CHRISTOFERÎ
(From Labor)
Christopher Christ, forty-eight, who said
he had lived until recently at 248 W. 48th St.,
collapsed early today on Eighth Ave., just be
low 42nd St. Physicians said Christ was suf
fering from starvation. Christ said he had
spent yesterday walking about the city seek
ing employment. He was taken to Bellevjue
Hospital."—From the New Yiork Post, Oct. 1.
However, although Christ came to Manhattan
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and found no place to lay his head, it was not for
lack of good hotels. While Christ was wandering,
homeless and starving, through the streets, from
Washington the voice of President Hoover was
booming over the air, saluting the opening of the
new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
Why Should Christ have no bed? Here 12,000
guests assembled in the forty-seven storied palace
of exclusiveness, to listen to the fat-head executive
of American capitalism gabble from Washington
as follows:
"Our hotels have come to be conducted in
far larger vision than mere profit making . . .
The opening of the new Waldorf-Astoria . . .
carries On a great tradition in national hospi
tality.*
But Christ held no invitation,
tality" did not register.
The N. Y. Times sang thus of the opening night:
"Every dining room has been engaged tor
tonight . . . For the fruit cocktail only, there
will be 10,000 oranges, pears, apples and pine
apples. There will be 200 gallons of soup. 100
pounds Of fresh Russian caviar, and 1200 lob
sters. Vegetables and meat run up into the
tons.*
But Christ was broke. Christ didn't even hear
Hoover's speech from Washington telling how the
Waldorf-Astoria was not at all interested in
profit making." Thus it cam«! about that the pa
pers reported:
"Physicians said Christ was suffering from
starvation.*
Jesus Christ!
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SHERIFF THREATENS TO CLOSE
RELIEF KITCHENS
(From Labor)
Striking coal miners are forbidden to picket in
Washington County ePnnsylvania "to eliminate
danger to children going to schools,
tiue to picket, their relief statics will be closed.
This is the edact of Sheriff J. A. Seaman. Min
ers at Avella greeted the order with derision. The
children Sheriff Seaman says he is protecting from
the miners are none other than the miners' own
ragged boys and girls, they say. The nature of
Seaman's desire to protect them is his threat to
cut off the relief supplies on which they are exist
ing. They are being fed by the Penn-Ohio miners'
relief organization, suported by the Workers In
ternational Relief.
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GERMAN REICHSTAG CONVENES
UNDER ARMED POUCE GUARD
Berlin, Oct. 14.— The reichstag
ji eav fl y guarded by police against
disorder convened today with the
I reorganized cabinet of Chancellor
Breuning seeking a vote of confi
dence to continue the dictatorial
govemment-by-decree. i
The nationalist opposition, fight
ing to overthrow the government
and have a general election did not
appear at the start of the session,
The entire cabinet, frock-coated,
was seated on the government
j bench. Breuning was pale and in
tent. As soon as the session con
j vened, Ernst Torgler, a communist
.
! demanded withdrawal of the police
! forces around the reichstag; Wil
re J m Groener, minister of defense,
I whose police powers were made
1 much wider in the cabinet reorgan
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STATEMENT
of the ownerships management, cdr
culatian, etc, required by the
act of congress of August
24, 1912, of the
Producers News nublished weekly
at Plentywood, Montana for Octo
ber, 1931.
State of Montana
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County of Sheridan )
Before me, a Notary Public, in
and for the State and county a
foresaid, personally appeared Hans
Rasmussen, who, having been duly
sworn according to law, deposes
and says that he is the Business
Manager of the Producers News
and that the following is, to the
best of his knowledge and belief, a
true statement of the ownership,
management, etc, of the aforesaid
publication for the date shown in
the above caption, required by the
Actof August 24, 1912, embodied
in Section 411, Postal Laws and
Regulations, printed on the reverse
of this form, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers are:
Publisher: The Peoples Publish
ing Company, Plentywood, Mont.
Editor. Charles E. Taylor, Plen
tywood, Montana.
Business Manager, Hans Ras
mussen, Plentywood, Montana.
2. That the owners is: (If owned
a
by a corporation, its name and ad
dress must be stated and also im
mediately thereunder the names
and addresses of stockholders own
ing or holding one per cent or
more of total amount of stock. If
not owned by a corporation, the
names and addresses of the individ
ual owners must be given. If,
owned by a firm, company, or oth
er unincorporated concern, its ad-1
dress and name, as well as those
of each individual member, must
be given.)
The Peoples Publishing Company
Plentywood, Montana. Wm. Hass v
Outlook, Mont., O. M. Lutnes, Me j
Elroy, Mont., Jens Gronvold,
Plentywood Mont., Ollie Worley,
Oxford, Nebraska; Rodney Salis- 1
bury, Plentywood, Mont., P. J.
Wallace, Butte, Mont., Charles E.
Taylor, Plentywood, Montana.
3 That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security ■
holders owning or holding j
cent or more of total amount of
bonds, mortgages, or other seenrt
ties are: (If there are none so
state.)
Howard M. Lewis, Plentywood,
Mont., John Lindblom, Raymond,
Mont., Selmer Espeland, McElroy,
Montana.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names of the
owners, stockholders, and security
holders, if any, contain not only
the list of stockholders and secur
ity holders as they appear upon
the books of the company but also,
in cases where the stockholder or
security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee
or in any other fiduciary relation,
the name of the person or corpora
tion for whom such trustee is
acting, Is given; also that the said
two paragraphs contain statements
embracing affiant's" full knowledge
and belief as to the circumstances
and conditions under which stock
holders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books of
the company as trustees, hold
stock and securities in a capacity
other than that of a bona fide
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deration of poHcy; Z™"
ware that the government's fate
might be decided by a narrow mar
gin, he spoke earnestly and in a
quiet voice. The new cabinet, he
said, would pursue a policy of
world wide peace and deconcilia
tion in the same spirit as in recent
international negotiations, espedal
ly the Franco-German conversa
tions. At home, the cabinet would
press for economic reconstruction,
un
He remarked that the army was
able to cope with all possible
emergencies, an assurance that
the government was prepared a
gainst a "ptsch" by the Hitler-Hu
genberg nationalist forces.
owner; and this affiant has no
reason to believe that any other
person, association, or corporation
has any interest direct cr indirect
in the said stock, bonds, or o*her
securities than as so stated bv him.
HANS RASMUSSEN,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 15th day of October, 1931.
(Seal)
Arthur C. Er.ckson,
Notary Public in and for the
County of Sheridan, Montana.
My commission expires Dec. 31,
1981.
RUM WAR IN CHI
CAGO FLARES UP
Chicago, Oct. 12.— A bullet
sweetheart, Marian Miller, police
expressed conviction the turbulent
district is again in the throes of
bloody liquor war.
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Quigley was suspected of killing^
Fitzgerald. The chauffeur was
dragged from a saloon and shot
down on the sidewalk by a tno of
torn body, identified as that of
James L. Quigley, arch foe of
Frank McErlane in internecine
gang strife for south side beer
privileges, was found in a drain
age ditch near here today.
Linking the assassination with
the killing of McErlane's chauf
feur, Eddie Fitzgerald, and his
men, one of whom was identified
as Quigley. When these witnesses
were called into court, however,
they refused to repeat the identifi
cation and the case collapsed,
A few days later a machine gun
crew drove past Quigley's home
and poured a stream of bullets in
the front of the house. The next
night the gunning crew returned
and aga in sprayed the house with
i U g S . Police called to the scene
by alarmed neighbors, arrived just
time to witness a third machine
gunning but the assailants escaped.
McErlane and his henchmen, Ed
,. S ike „ ^ thoight
by police to have perpetrated the
Thu tll " £. ed weight
Thursday when McErlane's buUet
scarred car containing the bullet
riddled body of Miss Miller was
found near his stronghold. The
female had been shot to death as
had her two dogs.
Neighbors told police that Mc
Erlane had left an apartment with
Mites Miller after hurriedly pack
ing their belongings and the sup
position was that the pair waa
fleeing from their enemies.
No trace had been found of Mc
Erlane.
Quigley, according to police,
withdrew from the McErlane-O'
Donnell combination several weeks
ago and after recruiting a gang
of hoodlums, began muscling into
the territory controlled by his
former associates. The McErlane
O'Donnell alliance also was being
harassed by a group headed by
Danny McGeorgehan, Joe Cainsld
and George Downs. As a result,
police said, a reign of terror ex
ists among liquor dealers of the
district while the three factions
strive for the upper hand.
Jewish People Contribute
to Mooney Defense Fund
Mooney Writes Letter to Jewish
Leader Thanking Him for Ser
mon Wherein Mooney's Case Is i
Referred to as "Outstanding ex
ample of Social Injustice in Mod
em History."
San Quentin Prison,
Oct. 1, 1931.1
Dr. Jacob J. Weinstein,
San Francisco, California.
My dear Dr, Weinstein:
1 thank you heartily for your
Yom Kippur sermon in which you
refer to my case as "an outstand
ing example of social injustice in
modem history.
I think o fyou, Dr. Weinstein, as
truly representative of a great
people whose devotion to even
handed justice has been tradition
al through the ages. And it can
be said to the credit of the Jews
that you demand justice for all
men regardless of race, creed, or
station in life.
Outstanding Jews thruout the
United States have protested my
prolonged imprisonment with full
knowledge that I am the son of
an Irish mother.
During the past 15 years, Jewish
people of extensive means have
frequently made generous contri
butions to my defense committee
notwithstanding that I was a foun
dry workman most of my life, and
labor organizer at the time of
my frame-up in 1916.
My long drawn out imprison
ment has been brightened by many
manifestations of Jewish tolerance
generosity and fealty to justice.
The late Dr. Jacob Nieto, Rabbi,
took an active part in the move
ment to effect my release by
means of an unconditional pardon.
Dr. Louis 1. Newman has fre
quently raised his voice in my be
half.
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Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New
York I count among my staunch
est friends.
Considering the fullsome sympa
thy
ed to me by Jewish people thru
out the world, including a warm
letter from Dr. Albert Einstein, I
was somewhat amazed by the re
port that your courageous utter
ances in my behalf have drawn
criticism from some members of
your congregation,
true, I'll venture to say that the
critics are in conflict with tue
well-known traditions of Jewery.
I'm hoping a day will dawn
when I shall emerge alive from
this tomb of stone and steel which
has held me these many years.
And if the time ever comes when
can face the world and express
gratitude to those to whom
my thanks are du6j j will rap .
pinjç on j ew i sh doors till my
knuckles bleed.
My 15 years of unwarranted
penal servitude have convinced
me that love of justice is univer
sal, for I have received countless
expressions of confidence and sym
pathy from all races and all
creeds.
Thanking you again for your
courageous words in my behalf, I
If this be
remain
Sincerely yours,
TOM MOONEY,
(31921)
Over-assessment Reported
Washington, Oct. 12.— An
over assessment of $169,309
against the 1920 and 1921 in
come of W. A. Clark, Jr« of
Butte, Montana, was reported
to the jqlnt Congressional tax
committee today by the treat*
ury.
Idaho Wheat Crop
Boise, Idaho, Oct. 16.— Wheat
production in Idaho was estimated
today by J. H. Jacobson, federal
crop statistician, to be 22,197,000
bushels this year, compared with
83,787,000 bushels a year ago.
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should be.
saying this, I am thinking b
terms of comfort, safety, driving
pleasure, ease of control and
economy. My next car will also be s
Ford because it will give me whet I want
at a price Ï can afford to pay."
When you get behind the wheel of
the Ford and drive it yourself you wiD
know it Is a truly remarkable car at s
low price. You will like it when you
first buy it. You will become more and
more enthusiastic the longer you drive it*
After thousands of miles of driving
you will say "it's a great car." Its econ
omy will save yon many dollars.
There is, too, an added something
about it that brings enthusiastic
ments from every one who has
driven a Ford .
motoring.
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a cap owner continuously
for nearly 20 years," writes a motorist
connected with a leading university.
"During this period I have bought
eleven new automobiles. Eight of the
eleven were in the middle-price field
one cost three thousand dollars, and the
last is a Ford I purchased thirteen
months ago.
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tmj in all sincerity that I have derived
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of Chicago's first world's f
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He Was Getting 16 Gents at the
Time When the Farm Board was
Opening Up Shop.
Sir Sydney Campbell, British
economist, criticizing the farm
board writes:
The main object of the board
was announced as securing a larg
er percentage of the consumer's
dollar for the producer. At the
time of the board's inception only
sixteen cents of every dollar paid
by the Chicago housewife for
bread was getting back to the man
who grew the wheat,
"After more than two years of
striving toward that end the Unit
ed States wheat grower its getting
only six cents of that dollar. Bread
in Chicago, center of the world's
largest producing area, which at
this time has an unprecedented
glut, is dearer than it was in Eng
land at the worst crisis of the
war.
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Having reduced the famer's
share of every dollar paid for
bread, from 16 cents to 6 cents,
why should the farm board be call
ed a failure? Ota the other hand,
the suspicion is growing through
out the west that it has been an
unqualified success in increasing
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blind director of Yerkes Observa
tory.
Above, Gordon S. Fulcher, who
is In charge of the exposition'»
exhibits in physics. Is seen hold
ing a photo-electric cell.
the profits of millers, grain gp*
ulators, and the bread trust. Any
body thinking this statment far
fetched kindly put it away in tin
family Bible—until congres» take»
the lid off what may be the Tea
pot Dome of the Hoover admin»
tration.
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