Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1940 Page: 6 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
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Washington, D. C.
GENERAL PERSHING
General Pershing's solemn warn-
ing that unless aid is given the Brit-
ish fleet to resist Hitler, the United
States laces certain attack, was not
cast of Colonel Lindbergh. When the
A. E. F. commander decided, after
a study of confidential military re-
ports, to come out of retirement
and speak to the nation, he did not
know that the flyer also planned to
talk.
Also, Pershing wrote his speech
without any knowledge of what Lind-
bergh would say. However, Persh-
ing did tune in on the latter’s broad-
cast. But it was only for a few
minutes.
The General of the Armies be-
came so incensed at Lindbergh's
views that he turned off the radio
and snapped, "That's outrageous.
I’m saying nothing about thnt young
man in my talk tonight, but I shall
make it my business to do so on
another occasion.”
• • •
TENANT FARMERS
Despite all the good intentions of
Henry Wallace regarding the share-
cropper and tenant farmer, the in-
side fact is that both have been in-
creasing in numbers and decreas-
ing in security, year by year. For
anybody who wants to write an-
other “Grapes of Wrath," there is
more abundant material than ever.
It is not being shouted from the
housetops, but between 1930 and
1935, the number of farm tenants
increased at the rate of 40,000 a
year to reach the staggering total
of 2,865,000. The 1940 census, when
the figures are out, is expected to
show a still higher figure.
Privately agriculture department
officials admit that they are just
about licked, and have almost aban-
doned their drive to reduce ten-
antry.
There are three reasons for the
increase in tenant farming:
1. Increased mechanization. Best
index of this is the mounting sale
of tractors. Technological unem-
ployment, which long ago hit the
factory, has now come to the farm.
2. Reduced acreage. To prevent
price-depressing surpluses, AAA
contracts with farmers to plant less.
This means fewer tenants are need-
ed to plant, tend and harvest the
crops. Meantime, the rested land
next year gives higher yield, neces-
sitates further reduction of acre-
age.
3. In spite of AAA efforts, how-
ever, tenants and sharecroppers are
not getting proportional benefits of
AAA payments. The money goes to
the landlords, many of whom are
insurance companies and absentee
owners. AAA officials, headed by
Cully Cobb, have insisted they can’t
make an issue of this or they will
lose landlords' compliance.
Sharecropper Security.
Economists in the department are
now making a drive for security for
tenants. This represents a radical
shift of direction. For until recent-
ly, the drive was to convert tenants
to owners, with government aid.
Instead, realizing that many ten-
ants are incapable of owning and
operating a farm, AAA planners are
not trying to decrease the number
of tenants but to increase their in-
come and security. It is pointed out
that tenantry in England is much
higher than in the United States
<80 per cent against 42) but that
the English farm tenants have a
degree of protection unknown here.
First step in this direction is to
formalize and legalize the relation
between farmer and tenant by
bringing in a simple, uniform lease
to bind the relation between them.
Over 80 per cent of all tenants
and sharecroppers have only ver-
bal agreements with their landlords.
Conferences in the agriculture de-
partment are preparing for such a
drive. Preliminary material has |
been drawn up, under Economist
Dover P. Trent. The country will
soon hear about the "flexible farm
lease.”
Approximately a million tenant
families (5,000,000 persons) move
every year. Benefit payments,
poured out by the billions, never
touch them. They are the big un-
solved problem of the New Deal’s
agricultural reform.
« • •
ME RR Y-GO-ROUND
Rep. Joe Martin, new G. O. P.
national chairman, has added to his
staff Dave Ingalls, campaign man-
ager of Sen. BoB Taft.
The famed Indiana Two Per Cent
club is virtually broke and practical-
ly defunct. Harshest blow was the
new Hatch act. This is costing the
club hundreds of "dues” paying
members.
• * •
G. O. P. TROUBLES
The campaign organizing difficul-
ties of the faction-scarred Demo-
crats have been widely advertised.
Little has been said about it. But
the Republicans are having their
troubles too.
, Real reason for that gathering of
party chiefs at Colorado Springs last
week was to clear away a batch
of inside snags which have caused
the Republican machine, after more
illttll a ii.Onth C* wCtiVltj*; to be
than one-third organized.
THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
Clean Comics That Will Amuse Both Old and Young
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CLASSIFIED
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Friendship is a plant of slow
growth, and must undergo and
withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appella-
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That is a good book which is
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WITH THE SEA-
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TEACHING A CHILD
VALUE OF PENNIES
A child of a wise mother will be
taught from early childhood to be-
come a regular reader of the adver-
tisements. In that way better perhaps
than in any other can the child be
taught the great value of pennies and
the permanent benefit which comes
from making every penny count.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1940, newspaper, August 15, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725954/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.