| Show Q k I 1 jw u L IRO will rogers BEVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know is just what I 1 read in the papers I 1 got back home and am working in the movies and have a little 5 time in between f scenes to kinder see what is going on here and there you know that king of spain is is quite a fel fellow lo 10 NN they been trying to oust ous t him t these h e s e republicans have for years and a just when it looks like lie he was a goner why he comes up again they hey aint going to 9 get et rid of that f fellow ello nv I 1 in n fact fac t I 1 doubt if they could improve on 0 n him governments dont dent have much to do 10 with nations a anyhow their importance is greatly greata v overrated overrate a the real business of a country is i on no matter what king or emperor look at the frenchmen they look like to us they do everything cockeyed their house of deputies looks like a keystone comedy company yet with all their excitement they have made the finest ze recovery covery from the war of any of the others the staid old that we think does everything just about right why lie he is having his toughest sledding right now who would think they could ever mishandle their affairs so its not really intention on the governments part that they dont dent do better its ignorance you see every fellow looks at things from his particular part of the country now take this drouth affair down south those people were called farmers well they were farmers they made what little living they ever got out of the soil so they are certainly entitled to be called farmers but they were not the farmers that the east and north have been accustomed to look on as they drive by its not the big red barns the cows the pigs the chickens the big fat work horses during all this hardship its the renter farmer the share cropper f A man that on a cotton plantation tends ten acres that is if he uses one mule he is called the one mule cropper or the two mule cropper he lives in a little box house generally two rooms and a lean too they are i eternally in debt to the land owner who generally owns the store or if he dont the local merchant Moir chant that one share of that one little crop has got to keep them for the whole year they buy everything they eat they are going too the red cross and the county agents are of making each land owner give them about a half acre and put in a garden that will help a tremendous lot there is nothing they can work at during the time they are not putting in or tending their cotton those little few bales of cotton that he gets as his share Es has to pay his whole previous y years e a rs grocery and other mercha merchandise ase i bill now how in the world can he have a cent left he dasent lie he is in debt then add a drouth to that where he dont dent raise anything then what happened the store man was p practically broke along with his the re land owner who also deals just from year to year he was broke so picture the condition yourself now whose fault is it it aint fault if it is it aint his he has done the best he knew how he is tending to his business t the h e I 1 same as his fa 1 1 ther and grandfather did before him rich men educated men 0 on n wall street and in all big businesses were per laps C carrying on their fathers business in what the they y had elways thought was vas a safe anc an sane wal et look what happened hap to them look what happened hap to very body the smart the crafty the ewd they all got it oily they had somebody who would help em these people had nobody their friends were the same as they were I 1 was raised on a farm and ranch combined was raised where they had renter farmers and I 1 have always conscientiously believed that a poor share crop renter was the poorest and least provided for man in this or any other country and the cotton renter is just half again poorer than this wheat or corn renter so you see what shape he is in the man in the city that has to live in the slums with his family but he gets something every day for his work he has so something methin to show for it every week he e knows what he is making he knows what he is spending he has his little money he can buy where he can find its the cheapest this poor renter has to stay with the same merchant for the year even if he is overcharged over charged then they tell me some of you raised your red cross quota well all I 1 hope is is you are never a renter farmer |
