Show DIRT FARMER ASKS THAT HOOVER FIGURE IT OUT Duchesne Utah July 20 1932 Mr r. Herbert Hoover Washington D. D C C. Dear Honorable President I am just a Uintah Basin Farmer Farm Farm- er and dont don't know much about anything except what I DONT DON'T read in the papers but according to what I can find out there is something wrong down there in Washington as well as out here heren hereon on n the farm As I remember the way you dished out food to us during the war I really cant can't find any particular particular particular par par- fault with your brand of prosperity You remember you used to give us a half haIt teaspoonful teaspoon- teaspoon ful of sugar for each quart of coffee coffee coffee cof cof- fee and when the wife made madej madeI j I bread she had to use a pound of flour along with three or four pounds each of bran shorts potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- barley rice birdseed and sawdust to make her dough and then bake It she could without it igniting and burning up I remember one time when my wife was baking a batch mixed from your famous recipe it became became became be be- came ignited and almost burned to a crisp However we got it extinguished and made an attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to eat it but couldn't so sowe sowe sowe we threw it into the pig pen to our old sow that was nursing a litte of pigs I dared not tell teU this during the war because we could not waste anything you know Well the sow saw eat the bread and died leaving died leaving the little of pigs to tobe tobe tobe be reared on a bottle The wife she complained a lot about it said it-said said she didn't mind rearing children on a bottle but she drew the line when It come to playing ma to a litter of pigs I told her then not to complain as we just doing our bit to save democracy and when that saved we could eat aplenty Of course I know what democracy democracy democracy de de- was and neither does anybody else as fur as I have am amable amable amable able to find out But what I am interested in now is How is-How How in I am going to pay year-before-last's year taxes When I harvested my crop I last fall faIl and sold it and got the money I lacked just of having having having hav hav- ing enough to pay for the seed I had planted I paid a bushel bushel bushel bu bu- bu- bu shel for the seed and I got a bushel fur my crop I never very good at figures but they tell I me that you a great engineer or and I am just won- won derin 1 if you you would figure it out fur me They told us during the war warthe warthe warthe the you was economizing because the soldiers couldn't fight and lick them Germans unless they had plenty to eat I never realized before that the Germans killed so many of our boys or so It seems as there Is no demand any more for to eat Then they say Bay that what few of ot the boys is left are down there at Washington demanding the back pay or bonus or whatever that is What's the matter Is the coun coun- try busted too or just onery and wont won't pay the boys fur fight- fight in they would eat cat more bread if they got their pays pay so they could buy it And then the baker would buy more flour and the millers would buy more of our wheat and we would get a little more than a bushel bushel bushel bu bu- bu- bu shel fur it this fall My wife just come in and says that wheat must be gettin a lot cheaper cause the chickens chickens chickens chick chick- ens wont won't eat It any more A man come along yesterday and wanted to work for his board and clothes I couldn't give him hima a job because I cant can't even buy clothes for tor me and the wife and two kids so BO I couldn't see how I could buy any clothes for the man manso manso manso so I had to let him go without a job I cant can't help but appreciate our bankers some even if it they wont won't lend me any more money to buy seed with They aint foreclosed on the old homestead yet and the mortgage should have been paid two years ago Now Mr Hoover Hoover between between me and you you there there aint nothing in inthis inthis inthis this talk about prosperity prosperity pros pros- peri ty and war-time war being the same thing is there Well good luck to you in the election but if you happen to loose your job at the election this fall you will know what it like to be out of a Job too Well Vell I must close now and go out to milk my two old cows but C honest the cream Is so cheap that it dont dent pay for the wear and tear on the old cows cow's udder Yours at the polls A DIRT FARMER |