| Show THE TUC 1931 CLOSES PI I 1 HI begh 1 QUO 1931 closes it closes with a world wide depression still on champions of one thing and another din the press with their ideas for relief all the way from the five year plan down the gamut through farm relief a moratorium more bond issues a higher tariff sounding in turn the notes prohibition the crime wave and every other ill III that besets us owing to this being an agricultural community dependent largely upon crops the depression in delta can continue late in the fall of 32 although we sincerely hope not many I 1 ji those h Os e coin competent detent to pass judgment think that we locally can aea reach e h bet better t er conditions until near the harvesting of a new as cr crp p and maybe much worse than it is now before spring and again as to that we also hope not and 1931 1911 closes with the ten dollar racket utterly cited people can how now view it with some sort of sanity and discuss it without personal onal animosity arising in the discussion sometime during 1932 or 33 we intend to write that move up damning it as the most hurtful disgraceful dishonest thing ever attempted to be pulled in millard county and doing us more damage than any one factor to our hurt it is now conceded so and can be discussed dispassionately just the same as any ancient bit of long past history 1931 closes with local values shrunk beyond justification water is too low sheep are too low cattle are too low land is stagnant but the crisis and following depression is more acute in the industrial centers than on the farms living is better where food is grown upon the land for the family s mimed late consumption and heretofore herto fore every crisis with following period of stagnation caused by lack of confidence has result ed in a back to the farm movement should general conditions bring about that phase here the first task for us locally is to direct that movement to our lands we will then see the necessity to maintain an ux unimpaired impaired credit and will condemn any past policy which has impaired our credit prom from 1922 to and including 1925 we had good years in 1925 we had a fourteen million pound seed crop in 1919 and over through 1921 we had ample water for ALL our acreage today s thought is fit the land to the water we cannot overcome nature we can have a good small country rather than a poor large one we have had good crops we have made big money we have been the foremost producing section in utah ranking so high as to have attracted envy from many sources and based on actual fact and profits from good chops got many to come here the conditions then seemed to be as we view it now ample water for irrigation of crops not too much land for that water duty soil conditions climate conditions rainfall heat and frost all these favorable to a seed crop lots of its ifs if water is ample if frosts don t kill hill if fly doesn doean t get it if weevil do not injure if nematodes leave any root if all these conditions fit exactly then we make a haul it s chickens one year feathers the next but still henry asks that each payment on the buzz wagon be met the credit corporation wants the radio notes paid for the railroad company stills asks for cash when we go to california there s no its ifs as to what we pay out but a lot of ifs as to whether we get it in or not in the meantime the good old dairy cow stands by contentedly chewing her thoughts maybe she s saying eliminate Eli more than half those its ifs and lets do a little team work farming asked for the opportunities of industry that it be placed upon an industrial basis and the holders of the trails of men replied granted but you get the bumps that business gets along with it too so in 1931 fanning farming got a wallop but no harder a wallop than business got and the only farmer who paid his little bills in 1930 and 31 was the prudent farmer who did it with the milk pail no one can predict what 1932 and 3 will bring but we can hope and that hope finds expression in water ample for needs on the best land land worthy to be kept and farmed but not robbing good land to be put as a losing game on worthless land under non economic losses on ditch hauls climatic conditions favorable to diversified farming not a specialized crop on a one crop basis and a better morale of the farmers 1931 and 2 might bring a crystallization of a thought something like this if general business conditions warrant it and the movement back to the farm takes concrete expression then if any man upon productive acreage will not or cannot make that land pay the debt he himself imposed upon it whether that inability be from wrong farming methods thin equity or any other cause and a man Is 16 available with more inore coin familiar with best farming proceed ure put the one off and the other on replace the one with the other 1931 closes with a general condition which we brought on ourselves by our own actions some few have learned the les leg son but most have not there have been other periods of depression what we those days called panics and we got over them witness 1837 1857 and after the civil war and its boosting of prices the tumble of 1873 again the panic of 1893 in which slump sheep went lower than today then the spanish american war kept things on a level keel over 1902 and 3 but in 1907 bang clearing house certificates and a tempest in a teapot then it was due again about 1912 to 14 except that a world war upset all prices and made a demand for everything at an immense profit we would have had a panic in 1914 but for that but we did get it in 1929 30 31 and well into 32 with all trimmings we have gotten over everyone of them heretofore and we will get over this one just as we got over them the blass mass of us will neither know when nor how we got over this one nor will its lesson register for 1932 the Chron chronicle lefe wishes you WATER it wishes that your leaders will cut land to that water it wishes you an in values to your HAY your CROPS of all kinds your LIVESTOCK your WATER SHARES it wishes outsiders will forgive and largely forget your errors we hope each man who really wants to save his home can do so we hope that you will forgive us for endorsing the TEN DOLLAR RACKET and championing repudiation we hope that you wont hold it against us because we were WITH the when they wern t sustained by the courts or even by corn coin mon sense we hope you 11 forgive for if we had championed that piece of tommyrot tommy rot we never would forgive ourselves we re with the tile laemers when they re right that is when A er their move or attempted move is right we will support it ten wrong we 11 oppose it just as we have opposed the dwindling li ig returns of a system in a hay country we wish you a prosperous new year we hope values find a level with a profit to you we hope your water troubles grow less to nothing we hope the dairy owner and the sheep man can afford to pay you a good price tor for your hay we hope you can stay a further drop in your values and correct whatever wrong impression Impre sion ill advice got you to commit in the past may 1932 be the turning point to a betterment locally to to the adoption of corrective measure to meet the necessities of a changed condition with water not too much land laud and proper tanning farming under favorable conditions we can gt along we hope those conditions bome for us all in 1932 7 if f tf f H |
