Show why times rimes are hard A rural correspondent of a southern paper lu in the following letter makes JQ an honest and interesting confession of the distressing predicament in w which lie he brads himself as a result resul t of the worldwide world wide depression there beems to bo be so much tk about our so called Bo publican prosperity I 1 believe itis my duty to write my views ou on the sarae same and help to analyze the situation as far JIB as possible KUB us we can make up our minda that thai sl we e ought to change our ways of and so forth 1 I haye have taken my case for instance I 1 see my mistakes aud and many others have acted likewise 1 boullit a ib ord instead of a farmand farm and it la ili worn out but the farm arm I 1 figured on is ib still okeh I 1 invested in a adlo instead of a cow and tile alie radio gives of milk i 1 am feeding live nice hounds which answer to the names red red bed wing slobber jike jake and bayrum bayrum I 1 in instead of five fire pigs I 1 have our piano tuned of the well cleaned out 1 spent all my cash in 1928 and used my luy credit la in aud and traded up my future wages on en installments in lu so lurd hard times caught we me in bad shape last fall if I 1 iliad had only spent lay last 1000 10 00 for flour and meat instead of gab aab and oil I 1 would have been okeh I 1 built a nice garage last year ear lufi tead of tying uy my barn und loafed in tile the moun talus for two weeks instead of being in the pasture fixing it IL bu that my cow wont get out eulalie Is dry aud and mortgaged to buot bout for two blankets uy my valte ire bought from an agent instead of paying tile preacher 1 I 1 am on a cash basis now but I 1 aint gut got no nc cash I 1 am tied to tile the end of my rope ropa and tile man 1 am work ILI lux fur for is busted on account of nobody wont pay him ard aid ills cotton colton wont sell bell cause nobody wont buy cotton clothes clothe all ail the gals wear near alic k silky stockings and silk under unde rhear v ear right here in the cotton patch 1 lad had S 00 bayed up for a zixie day but it turned dry and I 1 spent it for foi inner tubes 1 I 1 tried hard tu to make inake both ends meet with a turnip patch but when I 1 got my turnips ready to sell ECU everybody everi body elbe was selling sellic tf turnips tu fur for nothing and the market was glutted I 1 lain am worried plum to the bone and my cifes kin folks are coming ovar next tuesday to tc two weeks write or phone it if you ou hear of any relief from tile the government coming down my way 1 I am willing to be a democrat or a republican it if that will help out any contributed |