Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1933 Page: 5 of 8
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THE COOPER REVIEW, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1933.
1C0TT0N PLAN, LANDOWNER CODE
II
“ Their Families in the South and 80 000 in le\as. 1
NEGRO PAIR
GIVEN CHAIR
FOR SLAYING
Employment Chance*
For Ex-Service Men
public notice is bt^ug
Read Johnson, manager
now operating for this district
are Dallas, Ft. Wurth and Wichita
Falls.
Veterans Interested in enrall-
. ; ,» Veterans Interested in enroll-
piven by mrnt should communicate with the
Read Johnson, manager of the Veterans' Administration, Cotton
Veterans’ Administration, Dallas, £xch»nge Building, Dallas, 1 vx
,v...* *w will select approximate- j JIM,M1K HODGES,
Red He
American Legion.
Klondike Baptist
Church
Comes Into Millions
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(From Texas Weekly).
The people of Texas and of the
South may a* well face the fact
that a new social problem of stu-
taken as a whole.
The meeting at Dallas was
made up chiefly of cotton land-
... a new social promen. ox . owners and professional farm
Jndous proportions is being pre- “leaders.” At its beginning ev-
p , , them by the Federal ery conceivable division of the
Cernment and the owners of,, cotton industry, except that of
V ( ^ i.lt1ds On or about the landlords and tenants, was asked
Dallas Court Roses No Time
In Passing Sentence On
Girl’s Attackers.
first of next January, the cotton
landlords, with the approval of
the Federal Government, will
?ense with the services” of
loss than 200,000 tenant fam-
,amounting probably to a mil-
nien, women, and chihldren.
DAY
to stand up to be counted. The
“dirt farmers” were made to
stand up under three different
classifications. But there was no
effort to ascertain how many
i cotton tenants were present. To
iren. he sure, the vast majority of cot-
m airs held during the past ton farmer* In the State* of Tex-
in Dallas, Memphis, and j :is, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and
Atlanta endorsed a plan, drafted Arkansas, which the meeting rep-
i . the Agricultural Adjustment rCsented, are tenants. But, of
4^ministrat*on, b v which the Fed- course, tenants ought not to >e
rGolernmcnt will rent from Rlven a voice is such a matter,
owners of cotton lands some- The object of the meeting was to
thing'in excess of 15,000,000 ac-
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 12.—
Two negroes have been sentenc-
ed to die in the electric chair for
the brutal murder of Miss Kath-
ryn Prince,-21-year old white
that they will select approximate- JIM,MIK HUUUt-S,
ly 165 veterans for enrollment Commander Red Henderson Poet
In the Emergency Conserval ion . American Legion.
Corps before the close of busi- ---
ness on Sept. 30, 1933. i Dallas News and Dallas Jour-
In making the selections, an ^ deUvered in your home morn-
effort will be made to apportion , and cveninK bringing the lat-
the employment opportunities to j ^ news^ Let me deliver them
the counties according to popula- ^ ^ by carrit,r. Also mail sub-
tion. Consideration will be g'w ^riptions taken.—>W. H. Bell,
en to the applicant’s sincerity of
. m ___-1. mi.nl IIP-
purpose, need of emplyment, de-
pendents, character, and physical
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agent.
z. I?S^s=rs p— — -
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country road east of Dallas. quired to report at their own • -
I Juries which deliberated less I nge to one of the three desig-
than five minutes in each case recruitin(? stations in this
convicted Bluit Burkley, 19, an j The recruiting stations
Thurman Burkley, 18. T»egr° area. -
brothers, of the crime. Their I
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E. D. Barlow, Florist
Greenville, Texas
Appreciates Your Flower Business
Cut Flowers for all Occasions.
Mrs. W. D. Hart
Local Representative
Telephone 83 or 86 Coopei
♦♦♦♦♦ev»w***********M
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We, the Baptist Churrh of;
Klondike, have opened our doors
to all sectet organizations for
burial service. The resolution
that was adopted June 24, 1923,
prohibiting all secret organiza-
tions from using the church for
burial service has been resinded.
We called our present pastor,
Bro. R. F. McClung, hack with us
for another year.
There will be some deacons or-
dained the first Sunday in Octo-
ber. Everybody is invited to visit
with us o nthat day.
This was done in conference
Sept. 3, 1933.
MRS. PEARL SIMS, C. C.
R. F. McCLUNG, Mod.
Your flower order is given per-
sonal attention. Funeral designs
and sprays. Call 83 or 86.-Mr«g
W. D. Hart. rc 1
Colonel John Jacob Astor v>|
down with the Titanic, has reached
his maturity and now comes mtof
the Astor millions.
We handle the National pree-
sure cooker.—Home Furniture
thing m CAVVW .
res and retire them from produc-
tion. Under the terms of the
rdan the Government will pay |
rentals ranging from $5 to *H ari ; P’an. drawn so
acre to the land owners, accord-1 interest of
inK to the average production
from the land over a five-year
period. The schedule of rentals
discuses that the average is bet-
ter than the equivalent of one-
fourth of the cotton line that
could be produced on the land
land at 10 cents a pound. And,
of course, the landowner takes no
risk whatever. Where the land
is owned by a farmer who has
hitherto cultivated it himse ,
means only that he will farm les
cotton land next year. But wher
it is owned by a landlord who has
hitherto rented it to tenant fam-
, on a share or cropping basis,
means that in most cases he
,i need fewer tenants. On a
" x- basis we estimate
conservative basis wt
that in Texas the plan will elim
n‘ e "o I... than W>° **“"»■•
Td i» South no 1« ‘"on
200,000. , facetious
Some years ago a
politician proposed as^s■ * one.
f £ Il’ttaCta. h« loaded
1^; barge,. tn«d to tta taddle ”*
♦ Wre Atlantic Ocean and^drown ^
T
retire land from cultivation, and
tenants do not control any land.
It was properly a landowi.?rs
meeting, and consequently the
definitely in the
interest of landowners, was en-
dorsed unanini.tixg.ij bv those
present. Indeed, the details of the
plan, as explained to the meeting,
were received with enthusiasm.
In view of this, it may be taken
for grnnted that nothing can pre-
vent the putting of this plan into
effect. We might just as well (
face the fact that the problem of i
unemployed cotton tenants is one
that Texas and. the South will
have to deal with in tl*9- imme-
diate future.
Moreover, if the objective out-
lined by Administrator C. A. Cobh
at the Dallas meeting is attained,
ers
it
will
the problem will not be merely
TR/r- in
He argued that then ^ the ^re.^^
them could me. e ^ Govern-
plan which the ^ landowners
ment and the effect next
propose to put into ^ ^ u
year is about 200,000
wiU “eliminate but it
farmers and their does
i. diffe;ent f;.°:fVe fat fami-
not “dispose of th ovision
K- eliminated ^ ^ ^
what6VS J! not necessary. They
Sn^tdto^them
from Producing next year
will
that is necessary 15J°J^ cer.
landlords a higher a
temporary one. Mr. Cobb told.
the meeting that there is no rea- j
soa why all the American cotton
that the world will buy at a prof-
itable price could not he produc-
ed on 25,006,000 acres. He point-
ed to cotton-growing records
made by 4-H Club boys and girls
as proof that it is no trick at all
to produce a bale to an acre, to
sav nothing of enough to make
a normal crop of 14,000,000 bales
on 25,000.000 acres. While the
plan provides that the acreage m
1935 shall not he less than •
per cent of the five-year average,
this is subject to change. If the
cotton landowners find that the
25,000,000-acre limit is profitable
in 'l934, there is every reason to
expect that they will favor con-
tinuing «. especially if they can
continue to receive such an at-
tractive rental for the unculti-
vated land from the Government
as will he paid in 1934. The out-
look, therefore, is not merely that
we must find sme way of taking
care of 200,000 unemployed cot-
ton tenants and their families
trials were run off swiftly Mon
day, requiring about twelve hours
for both. District Judge Grover
Adams said he would pass formal
sentences on the negroes later.
Bluit Burkley, tried first, sur-
.V !i;*e Unr nlofldinF not
priseu autuui ixies ^ r
guilty to the murder charge and
repudiating the confession ««
signed shortly after being ar-
rested. He claimed it was ob-
tained from him while he was a-
fraid of mob violence. He tried
to put the blame for the whole
affair on his brother.
After pleading guilty, Thur-
man Burkley told of the crime.
He said he and his brother were
returning to their home near ■
Pleasant Mound community when (
they passed the car in which Miss
Prince and her escort, Mace Car-
ver 27, were seated. He said
they held up the couple with a
1 pistol and climbed in the car
| with them, leaving their own car
1 on the road. , !V
Thurman said he took Carver.
watch and after driving some X
distance stopped the car and fore- X
ed Carver to accompany him into
a patch of wood, The negro
said he was nervous, gripping
pistol tightly, and while trying to 1
decide what to do with Carver,
The
BUY
at the old price
the weapon accidentally fired j
What
is to
cern
or the
code.
ers’
is a vital difference
codes being adopted
NRA.
codes
be©
OM, i
tain rental than these
c0uld possiblyofgUt“rea^ jge no con-
o/Te Federal Government
or the them, but
is no provision to or plan
Th. pita 1. »/r*
landowner.- " e ; landown-
be
from the
under the
tic rehuction ot tn , trV
f them out ot business. Th
six-
landown.,,- cod. Xi»..
consideration to the lan ’'
pot even secondary cons,deratmn
workers it eliminates, me
of the land is enhanced,
the value of iabor ««
There is no provision in
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tenants (]uring the coming year, hut that
jr
them
to the
v ue
a
<
A [1. mere 1
t , code for minimum wages and
n.aximum hours. On the «“
„.„y. „s c,e.tin« X
,ahor Tl - b;;"
minimum, while the
cotton
down to
income from land will be increas-
is a good plan, we say
landowner, whether he
a working farmer or a landlord
But it
ed. It
for the
we must find some way of taking
sorbing them in other economic
activities permanently. How this
is to be done does not appear.
But the problem is facing us, and
apparently there is no escaping
it. ,
What all this means in Texas
in the immediate future it plain.
We are going to have some 80,-
000 displaced tenant cotton farm-
ers and their families on perm-
anent relief during the next year.
There is going to he plenty of use
for the $20,000,000-bond issue
that was authorized at the recent
election for relief. And it is one
of the ironies of the situation that
not one dollar of taxes may be
levied on cotton lands to provide
for that bond issue. And let no
one conclude, as some seem to
imagine, that the displaced ten-
ants will he “mostly negroes.
Even if this were true, it would
be difficult to see how it would
simplify the problem. But it is
not true in Texas, in any ovcn '
because less than 22 per cent of
the farm tenant* of Texas' are
negroes, more than 78 per cent
being white. In many counties
in Texas (and in other States,
too, for that matter) a foretaste
of what may be expected is being
had as a result of the limited
work for cotton pickers, due to
the plow-up. But the tenants' are
sharing in the plow-up money
this year, because they had an
equity in the cotton plowed up
on tenant farms. The eliminated
tenant will have no equity "J
thing next year, and condition I
will be correspondingly worse.
What can he done about it does,
not appear. Both the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration
and the owners of cotton lands
twice. Thurman said he ran
without waiting to see what had
happened to Carver.
Bluit and he then took the wo-
man into a field, Thurman said;
Thurman told of leaving his
er alone with the woman and re-
turned to the car. He sai< ®
not hear the shots which killed
Missv Prince. Bluit’s story coin-
cided with that of his brother, ex-
cept that he claimed Thurman
had shot the girl too. He
he heard the shots that wounded
^Carver was found critically
wounded where he had been shot
down. Since then he has bee
fighting for his life in a Dalle
hospital. Physicians doubt wheth-
er he will recover.
$12*50
A'JD
$19*50
X Pair Pants
Boy’s
Suits
$11.85
4 Piece
£ * rams. - ---- * An assortment ot attractive
| Oxford grays and dark blue j tterns in new • Fall fabrics.
| woolens. Single and double. ^
forested cc^ts.
forested cents. _^
Felt Hats
Mr. and Mrs. Ben D. Martin
and sons have returned to Dallas
after a visit with her father, Dr.
and Mrs. S. F. Blair.
suences to the community as a
whole, and we do not know any
way to stop them. However, we
can at least insure that the true
character of the plan and the pro
able consequences shall he under-
stood. If there is such under-,
standing, we may be able to pre-
pare to deal with the situation.
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Our present stock at last win-
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Mis* Vila Milli. of New York,
d.play.tiw first oyste^;ofJe..e
CTn bcr l «n<l marked the
return to work of 40.000 men in
that industry.
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lo.iOlord and the owners 01 h.xia...
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Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1933, newspaper, September 15, 1933; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth980670/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Delta County Public Library.