Show WHAT WE THINK By Frank Dixon The people of of my ray state want their automobile to be the latest model odel but they are content to o r ride d along alone with ith a state constitution that was adopted in the seventies It has bas a completely outlived its a odd odd odel T Ford twenty years ago apo I dont don't believe the is practical practical for country towns In the agri- agri agricultural agricultural cultural cultural section of this country The lowest salary schedule is for towns of oC and under Most of the folks folk who work in country stores dores and shops live at home and their earnings increase the family budget just that much The trade of these stores is necessarily aU all local loca and the proprietors of these these stores and make a living out of their Most of them arc are struggling to hold on If I they raise mise their prices price it sim sim- simply sim- sim simply simply ply means that their customers who are spending all aU of their in- in income in income come coma at present will buy just that much less They have only so much money to spend It is idle to think that merely increasing the overhead of a coun coun- country country coun- coun country try town merchant is i going to in increase in- in increase in- in increase crease the buying power of the thc farmers who make up 80 per cent ot of the customers While there isn't any that the Townsend old age pension bill will pass it has been a u lot of fun figuring what one might do o with an extra two hundred dollars a month that had to be spent pent spent Getting used to some of the re requirements re- re requirements requirements of ot this New Deal areader a areader areader reader of this paper tells teUs us calls ro-calls roo ra- calls entIs the difficulty difficult experienced 1 in braking haking in a new pair of beets bOti in his boyhood days They were reasonably comfortable after hi he got ot used u ed to th them m and he hopes the New Deal al will also be There were motor ye- ye ve hides registered in the th United States in 1933 1833 Of these thes we were trucks and road read tractors 45 buses bu es and school buses It i is 18 estimated d that it would take states state the sizo size of ot Rhode Island to make on one state as ax large as Texas Texa located 1 Another thin thing my town is boost boost- boosted I ed in the tho middle of an I I I section faction tion For For years our Chamber of Commerce ha baa s tried to get indus trieB indus indus- tries trieR It is not ca easy y c we are far removed cd from many sources or of supplies and markets market and arid for the further rca reason on that we do not have an industrially minded people anda and n a class of people who are arc trained efficiently to work on machines of oC any kind Not lon long ago our town succeed succeed- succeeded cd ed in getting a factory Its arrival was welcomed by the widows and single women as an opportunity for employment in addition to that offered offer by the dishwashing de department department department of or the th village r restaurant I None of the women had any training train training 1 ing for the work and were slow low Would perhaps in nil all 1 nev nev- never nevI never nev- nev er cc be fast The management was wa I not of the slave driving type and was content witha with a fair measure measure- measurement measurement ment of production from the wo- wo women women wo women men The women were glad lad of a anything chance to earn something any any thing Along came the N R H A It set seta seta seta a minimum wage which the un- un untrained Untrained un untrained trained slow moving n mo h help lp could not earn The result was the plant had to lay off ofT of itA itaI I help and the on one fourth fourth who were I more inure expert were ere driven to a high hihI nerve wracking speed in order toi to toI earn the minimum wa wage e The Thc women who were laid off have been able abbe to earn am two dollars a bythe week since Th They j were told by the compliance director to go so and apply for relief Here again is irony On irony On relie relief supported by the same go government nt that turned theta them out of ot their factory actor jobs they are unable to earn one half what they received schedule under the old wage dule dub at work wod they enjoyed d and wel wel- welcomed wel- wel corned comedo Ill I'll admit that th t being a 8 farmer fanner I am as dumb as ae a human can get but what I cant can't t figure ure g-ure out is where the situation has been in any wise vise improved but hut I r hope there is some one in the United States smart enough h to explain to tome tome tome me where the N R Ii A has helped my town its it merchants the sin single le women widows and girls and the farmers about the town to |