THE PRODUCERS NEWS Published Friday of each week at Plentywood, Montana, by The Peoples Publishing Company, lac. Entered as Second Cltass Matter. October 18, 1518, at the Post Off!«« at Plentywood, Montana, Under the Act of March 9, 1879. OUR PROGRAM 1. N» evictions, no foreclosures. 3. Passage of the Workers Unemployment BiH (H. R. 7if8) 2. Cancellation of all secured farm debts. 4. Immediate cash relief for unemployed workers and desti tute fanners. Subscriptior Rates: Per y«wr, $2; six months, $1; three months 60 cents. Foreign per year, $2.50; six months, $1.25; three months. 60 cents. Advertising Rat*» furnished upon applioaWo«. ALFRED F. MILLER, Editor HANS RASMUSSEN, Business Mutftr FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1934 Continued Efficiency and Economy They Stand On It and Want the Voters to Fail For It ii It IS about time that the Plentywood Herald comes tor ward with the platform of the party and candidates it spon sors this year. In one) editorial in last week's issue, the publisher of the Herald tries to convince his readers that platforms are Platforms What For?" he „ , Une that Here it is : a pledge »7 ridiculous and unnecessary, heads this article, and then he starts tearing down the plat form of the republicans. In the main editorial, however, he speaks of the platform of his candidates, every voter can under&tand," he says, of continued efficiency and u .. Harry likes this 4 'platform" and so do his candidates, It took them a long time, however, to get it in shape so that they could present it to the people. And lacking thing better, it is not so bad at that. For one thing it is short, and to voters who have a short memory or who are economy. too lazy to think, it may sound grand. And furthermore,! this platform does not carry any obligations whatsoever and that is one thing that appeals to the candidates. In explaining this platform, Mr. Polk boasts of the low costs at which certain offices have been administered dur ing the past few years. To the simple taxpayer it sounds great; to the intelligent reader, however, it is nothing • traordinary to spend less money when there isn't any more; to spend. The county is 50 per cent tax delinquent. Times are now much worse than they have ever been before, Everybody had less money to spend and had to economize. It was therefore only natural that the county administra tion should economize also. There was nothing else it could do. And that certainly is nothing to boast about. Now Mr, Polk says that the democratic candidates stand on their record." Let's look at their record from a little different angle than the one from which the North Dakota publisher likes to look at them. -1 We hear that the people around Medicine Lake are quite dissatisfied with the "economy and efficiency" of the county commissioners. They complain that the commission ers have been selling county land around the lake to the if Oovf the value o P f their land LTthàt L" ^ n S ln lld n ° W PnVa îr ï °^? e<î ' they also wiP hat© to sell for $2.50 per acre. Naturally, those farmers and small businessmen around Medicine Lake do not cherish this idea. They simply cannot understand why the commis sioners had to go SO far in their "economy" as to economize for the federal government at their expense. This inability. to understand may cost Messrs. Tange and Spoklie a few votes. Mr. Polk could have avoided that if he would have Mould have been able to. He must have forgotten it for he is really a genius in "explaining" those things. ex 4» We give just one more example of the commissioner^* economy and let it go at that. Last summer the county needed steel culverts. Five times the commissioners bought these culverts and had them shipped in in small amounts, each time a quantity Of less than $500. There is no ques tion that if these culverts had been bought in carload lots they could have been secured much cheaper. The commis sioners would ave had to cal! for competitive bids anTS by secure the best prices and save the county some money r; \ ^ • J eS j u hai ? ^ 50 ? WOrth ' they were n °t ob g d to call for Olds, and buying wherever they want to opens big chances for a rake-off. We are also rather doubtful that the so highly praised economy of the democrats is loved by the aged and sick people and by all the families on relief. 0 There is this old couple east of plentywood Both are around 90 years old crinnled half blind and r • re BfeA vf. *~*!P*Z tic b^t U ^ Will • h t Ve \ e TT e ^ get a little bit sarcas " tic, but we just can t help it. Whenever such cases come I up. whenever people are in urgent need of hospital care of special medical attention, the commissioners will act onlv under certam pressure. And this pressure has to be brought I about by the United Farmers League, the Communist nartv ». «û« h But tiiP Qffifndo EU , for beer and whiakv fraai^+ Se - I ^ eT1 ' Wb ° to< ^ ay are spending ^hnidd r.^ h K ky i f ly A° m ? uce people to vote for them TW fU y °, W 06 kn0Wn a11 the people in the countv Ubey themselves expressed it frankly in their letter tn Wheeler, written May 18, 1934, in which they clamor for "a more conservative basis of living" for the Plain that wages on CWA and relief jote hadbe^ too h?gh' They could not possibly have expressed themselves any mfrê frankly about the meaning of their 4 'economy and efficiency " It is also beyond any doubt that the present sheriff ic SdÊrtîSS 1 JJ y ' r 0 doz ® n deputies With shotguns were used .«disposess a farmer of his machine. And most likely the . 1S stlU stan dmg behind the courthouse. But the ^ ^ 1 h- ng COmmiSS1 ® ners ' maybe > will not fail to charge he machine company for storage. Perhaps by that method hey could repay the county the money that was spent for : mllets, deputy wages, etc. 8 Spent t0r • Looking at it from this angle the democratic "platform" • y hich to get innocent voters, a statement that dnil w ;ïî i* ^ 8tend 0D * " d they Want y0U to fal1 i . Farmers and workers who support such a nlatfnrm k ää a « 1 I 1 PENNY SALE SAVES MACHINERY, COWS OF MINN. FARMER t U.F.L. Conducts Sale; 3c 7 Is Bid On Plow, 2c ; on Harrow ' j . By REINO TANTTILA KETTLE RIVER, Minn.—Under ,, . , , . . . TT „ the leadership of the United Far- j mers League, farmers of this ter ritory conducted a Sears-Roebuck 1 sale here Oct. 16 on a part of the chatte, property ol Apdrew Leppioja, a poor farmer of Kala vala township. i This farmer wanted the United Farmers League to save two cows and the farm machinery for him so that he would have some means The ma of continuing farming. chinery and cows bidded in by a* farmers' committee netted the Re gional Agricultural Credit Loan Corporation of Minneapolis, who held the moregage, tbe following: Two dollars and fifty cents for one cow worth $30, and $3.00 for another cow worth the same a-' mount. The machinery bought in brought the following: De Laval cream separator, He, worth $15; plow » 3c > worth $5; harrow, 2c, ^ 3; mower * $3, worth $40. rhe sa e was COT1 duoted success fully although interrputed a couple of times by some of the scabs. I j The farmers will not soon forget these scabs that attempted to break , the ranks of the farmers. This will j i farmers of Carlton county to build i a Ftron s United Farmers League some-1* *££« ; and other exp i 0 i ters | p ' ! ; j I TOOT1 . . , of JLjLÏf wha t Wheeler would promised do for the people of Montana in | general and for us ^ ; county in particular, but we got fooled. He did not promise any : thiri g- He bluffed hi s way out by sayin - he . wasn't going to promise ! us oae slngle tlung ' 1 that ^ hls ; w ^f n ?^ goad enough to, vo tl for him a n 0t W&nt US t0 ! Z to be a banker in the balmy days of Sheridan county, got cat behind the footlights and began motion ! irg with his bands something like an orchestra lea der. Everybody v f as , flabbergasted at first, but t Î! en 11 dawned on us that he want S Ti? d upand ^. bee y,' pre_ cheers or handclaps? Not so you would notice it. There we stood, Wheeler Meeting Was Dead u I By ANNA HERRON Many people, including myself, quiet as mice, it was as if we* were honoring the memory f meone who had cr °ssed the river i S , tyx ' and , not at a11 the warm 1 *^*?%??* that should be S 1 - th two ' flsted > redblood-, thafww£ of i^ s pe t ople K s ngh , ts j SbÄft « What i • convictions? Evidently they had not * 1 could not help but think of I the contrast in the reception given to Far ^ Bro'wder, general secretary ° f the Communist Party of U.S.A. a * bbe Qongress Against War and F . as 0 cis ? 1 ' beld last th ree days >' September this year in Chicago. SSSSURSSSÄ" weI1 as scientists; even the United States army was ^presented by ? ne offlcar and one private in this uge audience - Just a very small JP mber ™ ÎTe Communists. R.':.T£,",™ mar Lutheran church who also J 88 a delegate, that when Earl ® row der appeared on the platform t0 speak the wll0,e audience rose! *1 the 7 feet as one persOT1 a "d| and cheered and refused to I 1 * do ^ n> and again their "bTÎT ev^dav firfSr fTfr 18 a ff 1 ' da J and /Jot W °^J Thev know p°° 0 k 1 tha 5 ft 1nd Rr o7here: a^f cnTe 1 1 3 ^ 5 days of the year fighting f °l tke everyday ***** of those; n, ° 1 do ? f thp work and ?efc lie ? om ™ nhts ' UT1 - nartî^ wll î °t the capitahst foÆ'n ? better éditions ; ar + tbe Pfople today, tomorrow and v do^wav 5?*, st ° P untfl fit Æ j u ÄSÄrÄ ^ni e S ^orta°p?a y foiT ?. J that represents their interests, and thevïm ' IgÄte on LONGVIEW Mr. and Mçs. Bill Goff and fam ily were Plentywood callers Tues day. Fred Miller was at the home of Commissioner Ed Spoklie Tuesday afternoon. Alfred Johnson Was in Coalridge att " Tuesday. N. A. Ameson was a business Mrs. Math Hovland and sons Morris and Leonard and Andres Olson called at the N. A. Arneson home Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller were Plentywood callers Monday. Melvin Arneson visited with Axel Anderson Tuesday night, ch rist Bu hl and Hovlands were i n Comertown last Sunday, Gust Westrup was in Coalridge Wednesday, M ^ e, ^ h '^ OT ^ " and Morris were in Westby last Thursday. While there they atso visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sather, Sr. Fred Herman and sons Harry and William visited at the Nels Arneson home Friday. Mr. Her man dehorned Ameson's cattle. Word has been received from the Fort Peck dam that Geor ^ e Herman and the Arneson boys are well satisfied with their work out there, work. Andres Olson has caught 22 skunks so far this season, Jake Ronning, Andres Olson and Melvin Ameson visited at the Christ Hovland home Saturday, William Miller had his tonsils taken out Friday by Dr. Hall, Melvin and Mrs. Ed Arneson called at the Fred Miller home Sunday afternoon, Morris, Leonard and Mrs. Math Hovland were in Plentywood last Saturday. They all have government «tended thfagricuHuÏÏêxtcS division meeting at Wolf Point last i week. OUTLOOK Mr - . and Mrs - Chris Lux drove W ® ek ' ^ d - } Vangenn and ^ - Woodburn Ore wbn iusf^iWK caine to Outlook * Several persons drove to the scen e of the smash-up between John Becker and August Westphal which occurred Saturday night w j len Mr - Westphal and a group ÏÏSXÂSÏ : Westphal, were seriously hurt Bernice Carlson, who is roTnem ' bered by many of the Outlook school children, is reported to be i enjoying her new home in Alaska very well, -1 . Mrs - W. Fellon died Sunday eve !* inga t the home of Mrs. Benson ! Mrs. - Klovski who has been visit ing from Omaha, Nebr., with the Kasimir Melley family for time, left for her home Friday. Word has been received from Mrs. Rose Weiss who left for Cal ifornia late this summer that she will stay there all Winter with her sons, Claude and Billie. Lux, Jr., who went to California with Claude and Billie, is staying there also. some Christ i of. This community was erieved to leam of the death of Mattie thr j youngest so n of Mr. and Mrs Jack Barge. The Barges have the* sym pathy of the entire community! e Art and Charles Dress, f/h hol wT^' ^ Whit ' l n< 5 h , ? Wednesday. They trans Mrs. Leo Kazeck and son Bud spent the week end with Mrs Bolens. Nels Thompson helped Ted Flak ne butcher Friday, Joe Whitish and Ole were in Plentywood Friday, Leo Kazeck and Jo e Flakn^ - - i ded^MaTe Bar^foneref 611 * 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. j. Keith were ! shopping i n Plentywood Friday, Walter and Frankie Barge were called home from the Port Peck Einarldam on account of their brother' Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Keith call ed at the Jo§ Whitish home Pri day and presented little Gorton Bolens with a lovely birthdayrift y birthday grit. The school carnival held in the M W H - ^ Friday evening 1W3S ^ a succes3 ' About ^ 125 *'IT as l take . n in which wil! go for | " A cently returned from a thro#» weeks trip. The party camnedln a cabin about 60 miles northwest ° f Kalispell and spent the time huntiT1 P and fishing They brought j home two deer and one bear, in 1 the party were J. Anderson, W FIeskrad > August Beck,' Ä rad ,n8 ' ARCHER Ed Flakne s HOGELAND ; re Coffee an 9 The Helena Independent, leading democratic paper, is kind of throw- ! ing up its han^s and saying: "We do not know if the present system has broken down—The question is: Even though the system works, isn't there a better one?" And among the questions the re lief investigators get paid for ask ing is: It you were married by a justice of the peace or a minister. ; And "A Native Son to Serve, You," says a man running for of- I fice by the name of Olaf Aasheim. And five more investigators are expected to be shipped in here by the relief office. That makes 12 brought to Sheridan county to help eat up our relief. Besides our 10 | local people working at the sta tion. And in Phillips county, Montana, 17,500 head of ewes are being de stroyed by the government. And when L. S. Olson told a farmer there was a carload of feed on the track, Burleigh said: "Olson had better be careful about what he is telling." And Wheeler says, by fixing the old machine up with a little silver it might be able to run a while And Roy Ayres says the NRA is good for us and what we need is more of it—but be voted against longer. A , T j . 11 • U ^ 6 .TT" Sa ' S we are gomg from bad to worse wrth, a million more people out of work; now than a year ago in spite of dams and CCC and whatnot And some people dont know enough to admit we are ,n a hell, of a fix and that they don't know, W ° ' it. 4 nS non w* v t. , And no 300 high school students J Rmmon - , d the JndKe Bourqnm meetmg. I a hltteen Negroes Arouse Neighborhood and Are Victorious ! NEW ORLEANS, La.—Necessi- i ty is breaking down racial preju dice to an ever greater degree way down here in the Southland. The workers, both negro and the whites, see their kinship in the ilnes of hunger. Some day, and it won't be long, they'll associate Fill ! iJl FIGHT AGAINST EVICTION OF 5 By a Worker Correspondent race hatred with loW miserable I conditions of life. | The Lemoine family, five and white, were to be evicted. Where were the relief officials? Where were the preachers ? The officials gave their promises and sympathy, The preachers gave their deep un derstanding. An appeal to the Unemployment Council brought down 15 negroes who soon aroused file entire neighborhood. A mass of workers, negro and Whites, assem-1 bled at the Lemoine home. A riot squad Was called which further ad vertised the eviction crowd grew. What could the cops do in view of such mass pressure? They told the Lemoines to get a meeting permit next time. Needless to say there was eviction. The workers were jubi lant over their victory, and a big lesson was learned by all. and the no BEST BANNER The best banner slogan in a hunger march was: "Would a mag got starve because the apple was too large?"—Critic in the London Nefw Statesman and Nation. ^Schillingr^ ees ,Q j 8 Identical in quality nd flavor but each specially prepared for its pose. Coffee satisfaction if use Schillings. Either Kind PER LB. ... Si û£ pur you I FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION Dagmar, Montana I**—***** ******** * 11 » . wml >«»»♦ « When In Town Look Up % Petes Shoe Hospital for Expert Shoe Repairing o V ❖ V V I We sell Men's Standard Dress V and Work Shoes to Rip The Lee Overall Line — Guaranteed Not t o O * 0 V Pete s Shoe Hospital Plentywood, Montana i I V i ❖ V 0 Anti-War Meeting at McElroy Nov. 3 Another Anti-War meeting will take place on Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p. m., at the McEl roy school. Ejnar Dim« of Dagmar will give the report °*> the Congress Against War asd Fascism held at Chicago recently. Arrangements for the meet ing have been made by .the Women's Anti-War League. The league announces that candidates of any political par ty are welcome to express their opisions on the subject of war and fascism after Duus' r epori. CALFIORNIA U.F1. HAS FIRST ANNUAL MEETING NOV. 23 DINUBA, Calif.—The first an nual convention of the United Farmers League of California will be held in Berkeley on Nov. 23 and 24 in Comrades Hall, 1 Program for Struggle Is to Be Worked Out at Berkeley Meet ! To fight the increasing strangle 1 hold the banks, gin companies, t feed houses and marketing mono polies are getti on the small and middle farmers ol California, the ; U.F.L. becomes more and more : necessary to the small farmers. The Agricultural Adjustment Act with its P r„ gram of cr „ p destruc-' tion and reduction must be abol govern ment reports on the milk consump _ «»" in typical American cities fall ing far bdow the adequate stand . ord of living, the AAA program of cutting the production by 5 to ! 10 per cent becomes criminal. With 1 many school children in the land without adequate clothing and with millions of workers and farmers in need of new suits and other cloth ing, the AAA program of cutting the cotton production is criminal. These acts of the Roosevelt ad ministration must be defeated. The coming U.F.L. convention will take up tbese and other vital Problems of the farmers and build a milit an t program for the ensuing year. United Fanners League locals are entitled to one delegate for every five members. Others may come as fraternal delegates. Oth er farm organizations and workers organizations are encouraged to e * ect fraternal delegates. Send in for f UTt her information to the state °f fice °f the United Farm ers Dinuba, Calif, Mont. U.F.L. Sends Greetings Unable to send a delegate to the California convention at this time, the state committee of the United Farmers League of Montana has advised its secretary, Hans Hard ersen, to send greetings to Dinuba, headquarters of the California league. A letter will be sent plaining conditions of farmers in Montana and illustrating what work has been done here. "Our California comrades may well pro fit from the suggestions we have to make and from the mistakes experienced ex Vv*e said. —___ | W ant Ads WANTED—Young woman house-1 keeper on farm by widower with i one son. No objection to two small children. Good home, some wage.s Postoffice Box 52, Flaxville, Mont. one or 2tp Communist Candidate In Motor Accident Saturday J August B. Westphal, Communist candidate for state representative, and John Becker, Raymond, clash-1 ed with their cars in a head-on ' collision on the highway two miles north of Raymond last Saturday night. Both cars were badly wrecked and the daughter of Anton Mel ley, riding i n Westphal's car, was 9 , WE DO CUSTOM WORK—Card ing wool batts, and Weave bed blankets, camp blankets, and auto robes. We also ae-card old wool batts and sell blankets to those who have no wool. We also wart - - I a local agent. I FERGUS FALLS WOOLEN MILLS & CO. Fergus Falls, Minn. We Must Re-elect I S Lars Angvick Ptate Senator REGARDLESS OF LOCAL POLITICS BECAUSE He has built up a wide personal influence in the legislative halls, as well as attained VERY VALUABLE SENIORITY RIGHTS in the Senate. He has gained very important positions on that all-mighty TAXATION-AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE, as well as on other important committees. These are KEY POSITIONS Which have taken several years to attain. They are of great im portance. Sheridan County CANNOT ÀFFORD to lose this prestige. We will lose this, and more* if a new man is sent to the Senate Senator Angvick has been very influential in securing the pas sage of laws favorable to our schools, our farmers and tax payers, including the many replacement taxes, which are in danger of repeal at the first opportunity. A WATCHFUL EYE, a MAN ONTO HIS JOB, and one in a KEY POSITION, like Senator Angvidk, is most indispensible at this time, in saving what we taxpayers have already gained, curing additional remedies his services are mighty valuable. Senator Angvick is OUR man, a REAL farmer representative of an agricultural county, a tried and proven farm legislator. Farmer and labor organizations have given him a 100 per cent rating on his past record in the Senate. We all know that. He has given us many years of faithful, unselfish public service. Also in se And, last but not least, he's an OUTSTANDING PROGRESSIVE Sheridan County surely CANNOT AFFORD a change We MUST retain this influential representative in Helena now. This is not intended as any reflection on the opposing candi dates, but rather a frank statement of facts and the inevitable results of a change at the present time. Paid for and circulated by Angvick for Senator Club. ELECT EDGAR I. SYVERUD — for — Clerk and Recorder A PROGRESSIVE *I» e Well-Known Champion of the Taxpayers. Has Been Loyal to YOU —Paid Pol. Adv. QximiiiiminiiMiii. 5 FOR YOUR NEXT County Attorney — ELECT — Arthur C. ERICKSON : REPUBLICAN ticket General Ejection, Nov. 6 —Paid Pol Adv. i m niw i 2, 19J4 quite seriously i n j Ured the hospital Westphal's car wors t of it. The Melley, also riding received cuts on the arm Mrs. Westphal and otlT Pants of the cars escar^H ° Ccu ' minor bruises and injuries* ^ and i 8 at Plent apparently »0% ywood. got tim son of Ka