Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 25, 1933 Page: 4 of 8
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Pour weeks axii a group nf Nu
••<#•» County <ottmi farmers pre
pared a Malam*rt expressing ••>■»*
reseat ment against "The Tata*
Weekly*' opposition to certain
features of the Government* pro
|M>sed cotton plan sail requesting
Oils writer, a native son of the
county, to eipress Ills views on
this Important matter Knxnaatlod.
aa It tlld, from Nueces County, this
stataaont Is of significance for
ilirue reasons: Primarily, Nueces
; i'omity has long t>«eii otie of the
banner cotton counties of Texas,
having produced far noire Ilian a
hundred thousand hales per seu
son mi more than one occasion;
i secoudly, It Is the home of the
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toughi In the farm
grown, and self sahsls
farms has long been der
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program, ut ruuri
w, was to dnairny
no crop to he sold for i
money
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a portion of the
'hereby enhance
growing crop nnd
the value of that
lie rnised.
The Urogram coustst
ently
nnd
bourgtniinit* pn'**, or it nitty la* the oncrouchnicnt of tin* radio
and the tulky. (Vrtuinly udrniniMtrution M|Mikennien lm\e sed-
ulously wooed and uun tsith radio and I alky for the spread
of propatrandu. Vet ne\er at any time in American history,
save during the World war, has the American press thrown
its columns as lavishly at the public in the interest of the
advancement of the administration's program.
In that circumstance, it is just as well that the growing
issue of the freedom of the press came to a head and won a, .. . .
decisive reaffirmation in the ease of N. H. Thompson, editor rJ.Ll
of the Tallussee, Ala., Tribune. Mr. Thompson quite properly
nipped the first instance of press muzzling in the bud.
The details are unnecessary. Suffice it to say that a Fed-
eral mediator in a labor dispute attempted to deny Kditor
Thompson the constitutional right to comment on the labor
controversy. A protest to Secretary of Labor Perkins brought
this trenchant order:
“Department of labor agents must not interfere in any
way with newspapers.” _______
As gratifying as that order proves to newspaper pub- hi* conviction*.
Ushers and editors, the very condition which created it. how-| u x t llH unW|M
ever, is disturbing. It indicates tin unhealthy condition in the
American concept; it casts it Hitlerian shadow of tyranny
and oppression that has no place in the American scene.
Free speech and a free press are constitutional guaran-
tees. Nothing less than repeal of the First amendment which
guaranteed them can deprive the people of them. They are
the very keystones of freedom, liberty and self-government,
especially a free press. It is through a free press that the
people may know the truth, and only through truth may
political power effectually assert itself. Let there forever be
hands off the press.
attracted considerable recognition
diirliiit Ita few yearn of operation;
and thirdly, the county ha* been In
the limelight nationally thin year,
one of Ita farmer* having been ac-
corded the honor of receiving the
flrat plow-up check from President
ItooHevelt In a Mpcclal ceremony al
Washington. Consequently, the
siutemuut In worthy of attention
and Impels the writer to express
THEY ARE NATIVE SONS
to plunge
headlot., into this subject without
the detached, unblaaod pernepctlvo
with which a brief nummary of the
pont-wur decade cull equip us. It
muni lie remembered, first of all.
that the depression we feel today
In the "outcome", and not the
"cause”, of the South'n grievan-
ces. Thin -la the premise that In
nearly nlwuyn overlooked. The
South'n plight Ih traceable direct-
ly to the collapse of world trade,
and It in a curloua fact that the
average layman thoughtlennly be-
lleven tllut the 11129 debacle
brought about the collapne of trade
when the very opposite Is true.
Narrow nationalism wan the or-
phan left by war on every nation’s
doorstep, mid the United Staten
nurtured It an carefully an did oth-
er nations. Emerging an the great-
est creditor In the history of the
world, the United Staten ensconced
Itself haughtily on the mountain
lop of prosperity, walled Itself in
by larlffn, estranged the South
from Itn cotton cugfomere through-
out the world by exacting war
debt payments which disturbed the
notion seems to persist, especially in the minds of
super-patriots, that immigration is responsible for the major
share of present-day crime. It has never been so, and it is not
so now, as recent events in anti-crime campaigns indicate.
In cities where the proportion of foreign-born population is
unusually large, it would be strange if major criminals were
not recruited from that class. Foreign-born, or sons of for-
eign-born, have been found to be the leaders in crimes in-
volved with prohibition, but in the new field of kidnaping and
related crimes one finds the native sons well in the lead. All
of the principals in the Urschel case — Bates, Bailey, Kelly
and the Shannons — art; native-born Americans. “Pretty
Boy” Floyd, who has outwitted Western officers for more,
than two years, is a typical Western American product. I h° j l)orninl flnw of Kold( and other.
members of the gang who massacred the group of peace of-
ficers at Kansas City are Americans. Wilbur Underhill, who
led the Leavenworth prison-break, and a man accused of
many murders, is a native son. McGee, sentenced to hang for
kidnapping the daughter of the city rhanager of Kansas City,
is an American. Even the terrain where organized crime has
been most prevalent in recent months is typically American,
lying as it does between Kansas City and the Mexican border.
The truth of the situation is that native American crim-
inals need no instruction and have nothing to learn from
criminals arriving in immigration quotas. Matter of fact,
they exceed the latter in audacity and ruthlessness.—Mem-
phis Commercial Appeal.
THE PRICE OF COTTON
It is high time for the Federal Government’s machin-
ery to begin functioning in the matter of loans to cotton
farmers, seeing that recent sags in the market have cost
Texas and the South tens of millions of dollars. Government
action advancing 10c a pound on low middling 7-8 - inch staple
and 8c on shorter lengths may help to steady the market.
But one wonders why Federal agencies did not decide to lend
15c a pound instead of a dime, when all the world knows that,
if prewar parity is aimed at the figure offered is inadequate.
The American Cotton Cooperative Association takes the posi-
tion, and with considerable weight of evidence on its side,
“that cotton now is only 59 per cent of its prewar price, while
articles farmers buy are 116 per cent. "Clearly cotton price
is out of line. Any efforts toward farmer recovery in the
South must aim at a substantially higher price.
Directors of the American Cotton Cooperative Associa-
tion also take the view that the Secretary of Agriculture has
legal sanction to bring about prewar parity in line with an-
nounced program. It is unfortunate that, when such powers
have been placed in tlx* hands of Government officials, they
take their own good time to put remedial measures into opera-
tion. In the matter of cotton acreage reduction steps were
taken so late that farmers actually had to plow up whole
fields in full fruit when more timely action could have pre-
vented the planting of an excessive acreage, by far the cheap-
est method all round. As to distribution of Federal cotton
checks, these would have done greater good had they been
sent to farmers early in August as originally due. Coming
largely in October they are still highly welcome and are great-
ly helping business conditions. Better late than never!
In Lynn P. Talley, fhe administration has selected a man
to head the new cotton credit corporation who has had long
and varied acquaintance with cotton banking problems and
who knows not only farmers hut hankers and merchants. His
Texas experiences alone will give him the needed background
of intimate knowledge of a situat ion requiring special talents.
—Dallas News.
A man isn’t old until everything seems wrong.
The hardest time for a man to get up in the world in
every morning.
Every town is a good town to the man who is appointed
on committees.
The honeymoon is over when she no longer sings while
washing the dishes.
wIho blew the pretty iaolai' 4
bubble bigger until It burnt. a
matter nf fact, It Is true that our
prosperity decade was sustained on-
ly by the Investments of American
capital In foreign countries, and
when the prosperity spiral reach-
ed Hiich heights In this country
that American investor* ceased ac-
tivities abroad to speculate in at-
tract Ive domestic Issues, Europe
plunged Into near bankruptcy, drag-
ging Texas and the South — whose
prosperity was dependent upon for-
eign murkels Into the depres-
sion mire. The loss of purchasing
power In Texas und the South Im-
mediately reacted upon the domes-
tic market, and suddenly the na-
tion experienced the collapse of
192#.
This Is slating the case simply,
und perhaps inadequately, hut It
will suffice to bring us to the des-
perate palliatives concocted In an
effort to cure us of the depression.
Southern farmers continued to
produce cotton heavily, despite the
loss of foreign markets, because
tradition and habit unfortunately
left them little else to do. The
sight of unmarketable cotton wast-
ing away in warehouses and fields
rightfully disturbed the public
mind, hul It produced u strange
psychology. Emphasis was placed
on (he assumption that too much
was being produced rather than on
the more relevant fact that too
little was being consumed; this
was an unusual Interpretation of
conditions, since statistics show
there bus been no appreciable In-
crease In (he production of cotton
hut an alarming decrease In It*
consumption. Nevertheless, this
psychology became manifested In
the social conscience, exerted Its
Influence on political policies, and
become embodied In the experi-
ment* conducted by the Farm
Hoard, whose blunders cutapulted
the Hoover "regime" Into polltlcul
oblivion.
This brings us to the amuv.ing
spring and *uiumer of 1933. The
Government lends cotton farmers
money to plsni a huge crop and
then pays them exhorhltant sums
to plow It up; with millions In
need of work, millions are paid for
working lesa; with thousands in
need of < lothl 'g to survive bitter
winters, potential clothing ia turn-
ed under by the plow; with thoua-
and* hungry and on relief rolls
that ran not adequately car* for
them, potential bread Is similarly
destroyed, pigs ar# bought and
slaughtered by the Government,
iHirtlou remaining In Nueces Cmuii
ly, rollon farmers signed 1310 run-
trails, plowed up an estimated 40,-
000 hale* on 77.000 acres, lost ap
proiluiately 36.000 bales In Incle-
ment weather, ami prialuced so.Ooo
hules. These 1320 contracts brought
the farmers $970.ooo ami 26,000
Italea of option cotlou. Now this
much, It seem* to me, can be said
in favor of the Government pro-
gram: It avoided the mtatake
which doomed the Farm Hoard. In-
aarnuch as It permanently remov-
ed the mo cm 1 led surplus from the
market whereas the Farm Hoard
merely purchased It and permitted
t to remulii In warehouses und
fluctuations In the market;
U ll brought thousands of dol-
lars of welcome cash to prostrate
farmers These achievements were
praise worthy, hut l he by-products
of the experiment, which pal riots
Ignore with difficulty, huve be-
come disturbingly real. The 40.00U
bales of cotton plowed up In Nu-
eces county, for example, mount |
Just that much less business for j
the pickers, (hat much less for tho
gins, that much less for the trucks
and railrouds, that much less for
the Port of Corpus Chrlatl. and that
much less for tho spinners and dis-
tributors In this country und
abroad. The little rock dropped In-
to the pool produced an ever-wid-
ening circle which caused distur-
bances far from Its radiation. When
the great goal of the national re-
covery program is that of Increas-
ing employment, it is strange that
the Government should commit the
South to u program which will un-
deniably decrease employment. It
does not appear likely that the gins,
trucks, railroads, ports, und mills
can operate satisfactorily under
shorter hours and higher wages, to
Huy nothing of the hurdonsome
processing tax, when the Govern-
ment, In another phase of the same
program, destroys a great portion
of their Income by plowing up cot-
ton.
It soon became obvious that the
same plan would not work next
year, since every cotton farmer
would plant cotton us heavily uh
possible In the assurance that the
Government would puy him for
plowing It up, so from a multitude
j of tired minds emerged Ihe Gov-
ernment cotton plan for 1934, which
"The Weekly" criticized ns a "land-
owners' code".
If "The Weekly" Is correct In Its
opinion that the proposed plan will
work Injury to the tenant farmer
If unmodified, then Nunces County
should he more concerned thuii the
average Texas county, for more
thun 71 per cent of Nueces Coun-
ty farmers are tenants and only
(il per cent of Texas farmers «re
tenants. The first objection to tho
cotton plan, and thut which makes
It virtually a "landowners' code”,
Is that the Government is Interest-
ed only In seeing that 40 per cent
of next year's crop Is eliminated
nnd has muilo no restrictions as to
what portion of each owner's land
Is retired. In other words, If a land-
lord has ten fumllies on his land,
each cultivating an equal portion,
he muy fully comply with the gov-
ernment program by forcing four
families off the land und permit-
ting the remaining six to produce
Just us they hnd been. Nueces
County, for example, according to
the 1930 census, has 389 landown-
ers, unit these landowners could
force 40 per cent of the county's
1410 tenant families — 5414 fami-
lies or approximately 2200 persons
—off the laud und on to relief rolls.
This Is a dark picture, surely, and
1 do not mean to Imply that tills
will he the result. Hut it could he,
nnd s government program which
bluntly outbids tenant farmers for
their land and casts them on the
mercy of their landlords Is not a
fool proof program.
Two objections likewise present
themselves. The statement prepar-
ed by Nueces farmers defended
the progrum as “designed to pre-
vent an Increase of tenants". It
certnlnly Is so designed, hut not
only does It prevent an Increase
but It provides for a decrease of
tenants without provision for their
livelihood. One of the great prob-
lems In the South, and In Nueces j
County because of the predomln
once of tenants. Is to lower the
percentage of tenants by encour-
aging them to own their own land.
The proposed program places an
obstacle In the path, however, since
ftw landlords would care to sell
their land to tenants when they can
rent It to the Government at at-
tractive sums. Another reference
tirelessly advsneed by “The Week-
ly” Is so vital to Ihe prosperity of
Corpus Christ! ami Nueces County
ibat It Is remark ible that farmers
of Ihat county are not leaders In
the movement How many farmers
ol Nueces County kuow that nine
out of every leu hales of cotton
they normally produce are sold, not
la Ihe United Stales, but In foreign
countrlesTIlow many reallte that
Texas Is mil only the greatest ex-
porting State III Ihe Union hut prob-
ably occupies that slalus among all
economic subdivisions of the world?
How many understand that a pro-
grain to conform cotton production
to a market Hist takes Ih per cent
of I heir crop will force I hem to
sacrifice a market that tukes 90
per coot?
Perhaps (his will serve as a
striking example: If a Nueces Coun-
ty farmer produced 100 hales of
cotton und he were forced to lose
the services of buyers, shippers,
und distributors, und make the
sules personally to 100 Individual
consumers of his 100 hules, his
sales tulk would have to he con-
ducted In English 33 times (and
yet he would he talking to Hrlt-
tshers twice as often us to Ameri-
cans), In German 23 times, In
Japanese 16 times, in French 12
timeB, in Italian 10 times, In Rus-
sian 3 times, in Chinese 3 times,
und in some other language once.
If this procedure could he observ-
ed In only one season, every Nu-
eces farmer would realize how bo-
wllderlngly International Ills prob-
lem is and how impossible ft is to
attain recovery in Nueces County
without uttnlning recovery through-
out the world.
Hut if this approach to tho prob-
lem has not suggested Itself to
Nueces farmers, the same conclus-
ion enn be reached by considering
Ihe plight of the Port of Corpus
Chrlstl, This port wuh one of the
major developments In Texas of
the past decade. During Its first
complete calendar yen*- of opera-
tion In 1027 Its expo vere val-
ued ut $21,234,6112, auu its peak
was reached In 1929 when oxports
wero valued at $46,788,020; Inci-
dentally, the economic Importance
of tho port is Indicated by tho fact
that Texas exports declined nearly
$100,000,000 In 1929 whereas those
of Corpus Christ I Increased more
than $12,000,000. From IIs peak
year of 1929, exports declined with
nlnrmlng rupldlty, the value of ex-
ports from Corpus Chrlstl Inst year
being only $16,483,496, about one-
third of the figure for 1929 nnd Al-
most $5,000,000 less than for Its
first year! And It Is significant
Ihal cotton exports represent about
three-fourths of the value of total
exports. Thus, the economic set-up
of Texus being as It Is, the pros-
perity of the Nueces County farm-
er Is directly governed by the num-
ber of ships docking und loading at
Ihe Port of Corpus Chrlstl—and this
number of ships Is determined by
the economics conditions, not in
Texas or the United States, hut In
the world at large.
With the dependence of the Nu-
eces County farmer on foreign
markets unquestionably establish-
ed, It seems logical that he should
bend his every effort to the task
of restoring those markets. Tills
would Involve the setting in motion
of a broad International policy de-
signed to undo the economic trag-
edies of the post-war decade. Tar-
iff harriers must come down; the
disadvantages which Eastern man-
ufacturers might suffer In compe-
tition with manufactured goods
sent from abroad will he more than
offset by the restoration of pur-
chasing power to Texas and the
South. War debts must he settled
once und for all; persistent at-
tempts at collection under Impos-
sible conditions have disturbed
operations In International finance
and disrupted commerce. The cur-
rency must he stabilized, primarily
to provide a workable basis for
concerted International action to-
ward recovery, and secondly to
avoid (he perils of Inflation, which
produces a gossamer prosperity
soon dissipated by run away prices.
In criticizing "The Weekly" for
Its opposition to the 1934 cotton
plan, the farmers’ statement de-
clared that "The Weekly” "must
know that the failure ot any one
department .... will weaken the
entire administration program". If
tears are to he shed each time an
experiment falls, the reaction to
the recovery program will often be
lacrimal. During mid summer, for
(Continued on page 6)
Minister of War Von llloudierg (right), head of Germany's land force*,
and Admiral Itaeber, bend of the naval and marine forces of th* country,
photographed recently when they attended tho o|ieulug of e new Herlln
parade ground.
O’Duffy Exhorts His “Blue Shirts”
Eg
General O’Duffy, leader of the ‘‘Blue Shirts” of the Irish Free State,
keeps up Ills enmpuign to oust President J >e Valera, although his followers
have been disbanded by the government. He I* here seen addressing
■omo of hi Jherenta In Cork.
Wiais Trophy With a Perfect Score
Sergt. H. H. King, the "dead eye” Dick of the United States nmrinei
squeezing the trigger for the fiftieth bull’a-eye out of a possible fifty t<
win tho National Ride association members' mutch at Qiumtlco. Va.
La Guardia Maps Out His Campaign
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