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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the poutoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
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PROTESTS SENT TO BRISBANE
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Twenty Texas Christian University
students have sent letters to Ai’thu'r
Brisbane protesting .against state-
ments in his column, “Today,” say-
ing that the 200 Columbia Univer-
sity students who had made declara-
tions that they would not go to war
under any circumstances were show-
ing the white feather. .
The letters from T. C. U. students
approved the action of the Columbia
students and protested against war
propagfan^a they said Brisbane is
spreading. One letter stated that
Brisbane was “behind the times.”
“The youth of America,” it said,
“would be willing to sacrifice for an
ideal and in some cases die for that
idea^ but under no circumstances
would they kill for it.”
Another letter, referring to the
movement for peace that is spread-
ing among .college Students, said:
“But in light of these facts; that the
movement does not enjoy popularity,
that it does not have the support of
‘big busines,’ and that its demands
are for a system that would be a
complete revision of our economic
order, we see no reason why you
think it a cowardly movement.”
T. C. U. students who sent letters
were Misses Ruth Cowan, Loraine
O’Gorman and Louise Glass of Dal-
las; Louise Cauker, Fort Worth; Paul
Wassenich, Beaumont; Joe Carpen-
ter, Roswell, N. M.; Nat Wells, Dal-
las; Joe Findley, Shreveport, La.;
Jack Langdon, Cleburne; Eugene Cox,
El Paso; Fred Miller, Ennis; Arle
Brooks, San Marcos; Johnny LeBus,
Electra; Dean Harrison, Wichita
Falls; Keith Pickett, Dallas; George
Cherryhomes, Jacksboro; Lester Rick-
man, Billings, Mont.; Otto Neilson,
Mansfield; Lynn Brown, San Antonio,
and Hubert Stem, Fort Worth.
FINDING 250,000 JOBS FOR
WOMEN IS 30-DAY, GOAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Work
for. 250,000 women in the next thirty
days was the goal set Monday before
the conference on emergency needs
of women by Harry L. Hopkins, re-
lief administrator.
Introduced by Mrs. Roosevelt to
the conference of women leaders
which met in the east room of the
White House, he estimated between
300,000 and 400,000 women are in
need of work projects, such as those
that will assimilate the male unem-
ployed under the Civil Works Ad-
ministration.
Hopkins explained that the $400,-
lected but was to have his share.
The most “forgotten man” of all of
course was the farmer. When Presi-
dent Roosevelt assumed office the
dollar, as measured by the things
which the farmer buys, was exactly
100 cents, on the pre-wiar parity
basis. And where was the farmer’s
dollar—the dollar with which he was
paid for the things he produced? It
was exactly 50 cents. These are the
official government figures; they are
not figures invented by the Pathfind-
er. The Pathfinder has received
many letters from business concerns
and others asking where we get such
figures, as they have never been
stressed before. We get them from
the Department of Agriculture at
000,000 available to the Civil Works | Washington. We have no monopoly
Administration could be used only jon them. Anybody can get them for
on projects that are legal under the , the asking.
public works act. | But of course you have to know
As illustrations of some such proj- ^how to handle figures when you get
ects available to women he mention- j them. There are many different ways
ed the United States Employment | of stating them, and the different
Service’s branches in between 2,500 j ways to not always check up. For
and 3,000 counties and estimated be- j example General Hugh S. Johnson,
tween 3,000 and 4,000 women could in his address at Des Moines, Iowa,
be given employment therein.
To the women themselves, he is-
on November 8, stated that the na-
tional average of farm prices shows
sued the challenge to figure out how an increase of 37 per cent since the
this work could be done. j low point last spring. The Depart-
“We have found almost a complete ment of Agriculture, on the same
lack of imagination on work proj- date, released a bulletin which stat-
ects for women,” said Hopkins. “On ed: “In general, farm prices at the
the fingers of one hand I can count end of October and a purchasing
the States where there has been power about 22 per cent greater than
imagination.” they had last March, wljen it was
He complimented Mrs. August only half as much as in the pre-war
Belmont of New York State who was years. The general level of farm
present, saying the imagination she prices advanced from 50 per cent of
had shown in her work was “amaz- pre-war parity last March to 61 per
inf?-” cent as of October 25.”
j How does the Department of Agri-
culture figure a 22 per cent increase
LAND NOTES FOR SALE
$250 note at 10 per cent intei’est for the farmer since last March when
on $1200 worth real estate. Good its own figures say that the farm-
improvements and covered by insur- er’s dollar was woi-th 50 cents in
ance. This is a safe loan. I have 'March and 61 cents on October 25?
some nice homes in Lampasas to sell Well, an increase of 11 cents is about
on very easy terms. Small payment j 22 per cent—if you take the farm-
and monthly payments like rent. For j er’s 50-cent dollar as a basis, isn’t
anything in the real estate line see ' it ?
Fred Peeler.
(d)
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are charged or any money considera-
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sertion.
UNCLE SAM’S TABLE
HAS ENOUGH FOR ALL-
BUT DIVISION IS UNFAIR
(From Pathfinder)
President Cleveland once remarked
that “gratitude is a lively sense of
benefits expected.” The United States
is the richest country ever known to
history. We have such a super-
abundance of everything that we all
ought to be imbued with most heart-
felt gratitude—not for benefits “ex-
pected” but for benefits actually real-
ized. Nobody would have to go hun-
gry or cold if the wealth which is
produced by all were divided up on
some just basis. The good things of
earth should not be just dangled be-
fore 'our eyes to whet our appetites
and make our mouths "water—we
should be able to enjoy them.
President Roosevelt, when he set
the New Deal in motion, had this
noble ideal as his aim. The “forgot-
ten man” was no longer to be neg-
Geneiral Johnson correctly stated
that general commodity prices had
risen only 17 per cent since March.
But the general commodity dollar
last March was already worth 100
cents. Since that time it had gone
up 17 cents—which is 17 per cent on
100 cents. In other words the farm-
er’s dollar was worth 61 cents when
these figures were compiled, while
the general dollar was $1.17. Hence
the “gap” between the farm dollar
and the general dollar was 56 cents
This is six cents more than it was
at the low point last March, and is
16 cents more than it was when we
prepared the special table which we
published in the Pathfinder of Sep-
tember 30. In that issue we said
that “the huge gap between what the
farmer gets and what he pays out
must be closed”—and we showed
why this was so. Instead of being
closed it appears, from the govern-
ment figures, to have been widened.
It looks now as if the general dol-
lar is likely to be stabilized at about
the point mentioned by General John-
son, namely $1.17. The government
figures for the last month or so show
this level is being maintained with
only a very slight variation. In plajn
English the general dollar has jump-
ed 17 cents since March—which
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LAMPASAS LEADER
S. W. Phone 121
Rural Phone 93
means that all prices have advanced
on an average 17 per cent. Some
things have advanced much more,
some things less—and a few have
gone backward. These facts are also
included in the government figures
which the people pay for and are
entitled to have.
The Agricultural Department says
on this subject: “Prices of wheat,
cotton, tobacco, wool and dairy pro-
ducts (which are mainly fixed by
the world markets) are now higher
than they were last March because
of the depreciation of the American
dollar in foreign exchange, specula-
tive activity, reduced supplies and a
high air level of industrial activity
and consumer purchasing power. The
prices of other important farm pro-
ucts, particularly livestock and live-
stock products, which depend so
largely on domestic demand, have
not shared the speculative effects ac-
companying the new monetary poli-
cies.”
Now, if Uncle Sam will only “hog-
tie” that commodity dollar at the
$1.17 post and stop it from going on
up to $1.60, where it was just before
the 1929 crash, or still farther on
up to $2, where it was just before
the crash of 1920, all may still be
forgiven and another crash avoided.
The farming industry and the com,
munities which depend on it are the
biggest single buying element in the
United States; the leaders of organ-
ized labor have just pointed this
vital fact out. Now, if the prices
of what the farmers and their de-
pendents have to buy are kept with-
in reason, so that these consumers
can know what to count on, the buy- i
ing will start and start right. Clear-
ly, there is nothing fair in handing
the farmer a 50-cent dollar or a 61-
cent dollar—that is, unless the busi-
ness and industrial world are hand-
ed the same sort of dollars. Giving
the farmer a dollar which will pur-
chase only 61 cents worth of goods'
is hardly just when he has to pay
out a $1.17 dollar for everything he
purchases.
It is plain now that the Recovery
program got off on the wrong foot
when the big business interests and
their supporters took advantage of
the situation and made it their main
purpose to boost prices, instead of
putting people back to work and 1
! building the consuming power up '
from, the bottom. As a leading Eng-
! lish economist has just pointed 'out,1
it is impossible to raise wages un- j
less the goods can be sold. And it is
the masses of the people—the farm-1
ers and wage earners—who musts
buy the products which are produced
by mass production in the factories.
If this buying power is absent, the
entire structure falls.
We may as well face the fact—
and the fact is that unless the gap
between what the farmer sells and
what he has to buy is closed, there
is going to be a very insistent de-
mand for positive inflation, of the
old “greenback” variety. Uncle Sam,
by passing out greenbacks freely—
not to those who don’t need it but to
those who do need it—can i*aise the
prices of the things which the farm-
ers sell until there is real parity.
Then the farm dollar will be worth
100 cents and the general commodi-
ty dollar the same. The products of
the two great divisions of America—
urban America and rural America—
will then begin to flow freely and
without interruption, for the ex-
change will be based on a fair valu-
ation for the products of all con-
cerned. So the Pathfinder says just
what it has so long said—that “the
grower must get more” and the gap
between the farm dollar and the city
man’s dollar must be closed up and
kept closed.
President Roosevelt already has
the power to start the printing pres-
ses on those “greenbacks.” He
doesn’t want to stai't them, for there
are a lot of very good people who
don’t believe in “printing press mon-
ey”—but he has given fair warning
that he will do it if he is forced to
| in order to insure the “forgotten
' man” a fair deal. The Pathfinder
! therefore says, as solemnly as it can,
with the weight of national distress
on us—that there is hope and se-
curity and prosperity ahead—not
disaster.
We don’t know just how we are
going to get there, and we don’t
have to know—but we are going to
get there. The farmer, who raises
the turkey, is not going to have to
put up with the neck. Nor is he
going to be assigned a seat at the
second table or made to eat in the
kitchen. If the people who labor to
produce the things which business
must have to live on are not entitled
to an honored and well-paid position
in the human family, then there is
nobody who is.
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