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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH PB3 THE RICtf COUtfTY-REAEntered as second-clamatter Fet 8 1929. at the Randeloh. office pst Btah, under the Act of Mar., 8, 1879. Wm. E. Marshall, Editor and Prop ss IIJID . Desperate Plight of the Share-Croppe- MAY LEASE CITY In gold rush days, the mining town of Columbia, Calif., came within one vote in the legislature of . being named the capital of California. Recently it was revealed that the state may lease the ghost city for $1 a year as a historical site. rs SUBSCRIPTION Per Tear in Advance LITTLE a SggEftSYlWAYl IN ONE-THIR- D LESS TIME WITH THE rolemantvi i? I ro n ... d Reduce your ironing time 1 Iron any place with f your labor the Coleman. Its entirely self heating. No cords or wires. No weary, endless trips between a hot stove and the ironing board. The Coleman makes and burns its own gas. Lights instantly no Operating cost only !z4 an hour. Perfect balance and right weight make ironing just an easy, guiding, gliding motion. See your local hardware or dealer. If he does not handle, write us. The Coleman Lamp 6 Stove Company one-thir- one-hal- -- THE POOR FARMER A farmer was called up before the milk inspection board and a man in glasses asked: What are you giving your cows now in the way of galactagogues? Wall, replied the farmer, their sustenance Is wholly of vegetable origin, rich in chlorophyll and opulent in qualities. H 1, watcher feed yer cows? asked Shell rim. Hay an eawn, replied the farmer. shell-rimme- g. d house-furnishi- Wichita, Kans.: Chicago, IU.f Dept. WU309, Los Angeles, Calif.; Philadelphia, Pa.; oi Toronto, Ontario, Canada buty-raceo- NO WOODSHEDS Above, Southern Cotton Field. Top, Left, Senator Tydings; Right, Senator Bankhead. Below, Right, Edwin R. Embree. of all the farming In the States Is done by HALF farmers. Most of them are in the southern states, and numbers there are some their despite 1,800,000 of them, mostly cotton farmers, In 16 of these states they have of late come to be regarded as the forgotten men of the New Deals agricultural experimenting. VirtualThey are the time prosat never any ly illiterate, unforthese In true sense, the perous tunates have in the last few years been forced Into circumstances every bit as slavery, according pitiable as to Investigations public and private which have been made within the last few months. For cultivating, planting and picking n their landlords cotton, these Twentieth century serfs are given half the harvest from the crop, unless they furnish their own implements, In which case they get of It The income from this harvest is largely spent before they get it Before harvest time they are paid In commissary scrip which Is good only in the landowners store. It is alleged that the usual allowance for a family of five is two dollars a week before the harvest Then if there is any balance it Is paid off In cash. is often Meanwhile the charged prices for his food and essentials which are considerably greater than those paid by his neighbor who owns land and may buy where he pleases. The landowner. In addition, takes a 10 per cent levy in advancing scrip, making $2 worth really cost $2.20. The ordinary food supply for half a week for one family runs about like flour, 55 cents; gallon this: Half-sacof sorghum black molasses, 60 cents, 24 pounds of cornmeal, 60 cents. That leaves little for clothing. And these people simply dont eat meat Villainy of Fate. until 1920 was The able to eke out a fair sort of existence, getting enough to eat In the sense of a sufficiency to keep body and soul together, and having something of a roof over his familys heads. Then prices began to fall. The machine, which had been steadily growing as a threat became a competitor real and overwhelming. Competition from new areas, soil erosion and sterility of the soil from constant production of a single kind of crop added their woeful work to the villainy of what some might call fate. What these had knocked down, the depression trampled upon. And into what the depression had trampled upon, the Brain Trust ground its heel when it decreed that cotton acreage must be reduced 40 per cent AAA crop reductions and processing tax meant loss of income and loss of livelihood to many a tenant farmer who already had little enough of either. Probably the first reiilly comprehensive analysis of the situation was that recently made public by the committee on minority groups in economic recovery, headed by Dr. E. R. Embree of Chicago, president of the Julius B. Rosenwald fund. As might be supposed from Doctor Embrees presence (for the late Mr. Rosenwald was far famed for his sympathy with the black race), the original purpose of the committees survey was to Investigate the condition of the agricultural negro in the South. It found more whites than blacks suffering and reported that the problem was so serious that all racial angles to it were overshadowed. No less than 58 per cent of the farmers of the South and 71 per cent of the cotton farmers are without land. Exports are on the decline, while cotton production abroad is increasing. The Sonth faces a major crisis, says the committee. share-cropper- Cause for Sorrow Is your poor husband gone? asked the colored minister of an aged woman in his flock who had put on heavy mourning. Oh no, suh, he aint dead, she answered. Then why are you wearing black? Case my old man, hes mah second, you know, keeps naggin an botherin me so much Ah's gone into mournin again foh mah fust husband. Cappers Weekly. Qualified Sergeant Which of you have read books of polar exploration? Recruit (book seller in civil life) have read Nansens Through Night and Ice. Sergeant You are just the man. Go and report for snow shoveling. 1 Handsome Lamp Post First Negro Dat sho is a handsome in front ob de post office. Second ditto Sho is. You dont run into one like dat ebery day. Pearsons Weekly. lamp-pos- t Home, Sweet Home Teacher Willie, give a definition of home. Willie Home Is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car. Its Habit Caller May I speak to Mr. Bamm, the boxer, please? Mrs. Bamm He aint up yet He never gets up before the stroke of ten. old-tim- BLOWN FUSE WIfey (during ,the spat) I wasnt anxious to marry you. 1 refused you six times. Hubby Yes, and then my luck gave out Following You have a large following? I have, answered Senator Sorghum. But there have been some low growls which make me wonder what the crowd will do with me if it over- ...... takes me. 1 e poverty-stricke- three-fourt- k share-cropp- cotton-producin- Defined "Mother, I feel so cited! Excited, child? I doubt if you know what excited means. Why, its being in a hurry all over s. share-cropp- g er that of 3,088,-11- 1 farms in 13 southern states, 1,789,-00- 0 were cultivated by tenants. Of these, 1,091,000 were white and 698,000 colored. In certain regions farmed almost entirely by negroes, 80 per cent of the farmers were of the variety. Practically all of the Increase in the number of since 1920 Is accounted for by whites, approximately 200,000 of them, who were unable to keep a hold on their property. A good share of the tenant farmers and others have been released upon the world with no means of support until millions who should be getting a living from southern soil are now on the relief rolls. Last year one family in every four was on relief. Chances Are Slim. According to the report, the tenant farmers chances of recovery are slim under a credit system which enables the landowner to borrow money at 4 to 6 Yz per cent Interest while the tenant farmer cannot secure this cheap credit unless the landowner waives his first lien on the crop. The landowner can seldom afford to do this. If he refuses to release the crop lien to the governmental agency, the Federal Farm Credit administration, the landlord may then secure the loan for all his tenant farmers at 4 to 6 ' per cent, and then advance supplies and furnishings to his tenants at customary prices 20 to 30 per cent above cash prices. Here again the tenant bears the brunt of the risk. If he can repay, his surplus Is wiped out by the extortionate credit charges ; if he cannot repay, he loses his crop and whatever work stock he may possess, says the re- n The committee found C. UTLEY By WILLIAM When I was a lad I was never naughty like you. What was the matter with you, pa? Delicate or somethin?" ng share-cropp- tenant-farme- port So er rs , far the various debt reconcilia- tion commissions have made no attempt to have the landlords scale down the debts owed them from previous seasons by croppers and share tenants. Such proposals would be resented, no doubt by landowners who had just had their debts scaled down by creditors. Doctor Embrees committee says that the United States must reorganize the system of land tenure in the South. The negro problem has long been an obstacle to such a program, but the committee Is of the opinion that the country has seriously overestimated the importance of the negro farmers numerically as competitors, since tenancy in the South has come to be essentially a problem of white farm- ers. The committee distinctly frowned upon continuing Indefinitely to encourage landlords to cut down their production. It advised the raising of crops other than cotton in the Southeast, with foreign competition in cotton growing Increasing and Texas and Oklahoma able to furnish all the cotton needed for the national market at Yet It cheaper cost of production. admits an advantage in the fact that the government having cut down cotton growing by some 8,000,000 acres, is In a position to force a balanced agriculture on farmers who cant get cotton off their minds. No money crops and no crops to be sold can be raised on these 8,000,000 acres. Rather, crops for home use are encouraged, as well as crops which tend to improve the soil and prevent erosion and leaching. In the course of time the government might find the ontright purchasing of certain farming lands less expensive than the payments of rents. Such payments rightly expended would serve to start worthy tenants in land ownership and remunerate large and absentee owners for portions of their excessive holdings, tlte committee ' says. Would Need Help. Of course such farmers turned loose upon their own land, but restrained from raising the only crop with which - TUBES most of them are familiar or experienced would need helpful supervision, but their properties small subsistence homesteads might bid fair to approach the economic state of some of the most prosperous peasant-ownefarms In Europe, the committee believes. Such a program would certainly meet with approval from the thousands s of homeless who have hit the southern roads without food or chattels, bound in most cases for the cities, there to seek what relief they can from the proper agencies. Some of them write to the President In pitiful, hardly readable letters, imploring him to aid them. Some of them have formed the Southern Tenant Farmers union, whose allegedly radical members have been said to be the Instigators of violence in some instances. Designed to give these tenant farmers land of their own, after the manner of European peasants, is the Bankhead bill, proposed by Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, father of the glamorous Tallulah Bank-heathe stage and screen star, and a member of a family which has represented Alabama for many years in the government It is quite In accord with the suggestions of the committee under Doctor Embree. The Bankhead bill, which at this writing had gained a unanimously favorable report from a house committee, would provide legislation patterned after that which has allowed the tenant farmer of Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Germany to become a What has been done for owners of mortgaged homes, It plans to do for the make federal credit available to lift him out of the financial morass. Senator Bankhead contends that the administrations crop reduction and tax on processing were measures adopted In defense of the farmers, protecting them from curtailed production by industries and manufacturers after the crash. In sharp opposition to him has been Senator Millard F. Tydings of Maryland, who claims that the only result of the .whole Roosevelt economics of scarcity program has been to reduce the total wealth of the nation. He demands the end of crop curtailment by the AAA. Bankhead Explains. Senator Bankhead points out that the United States at the start of 1933 was faced with the biggest cotton surplus on record, a full years crop of the effect of which 13,000,000 bales, v was to cause a tremendous drop in cotton prices. Cotton was 19 cents a pound in 1929, but by 1932 it had cents a pound, he fallen off to 5 pointed out, explaining that the processing tax was designed to give the farmers the same scarcity which manufacturers had effected to maintain their prices. Doctor Embrees committee was more Interested In Senator Bankheads proposals to enable the tenant farmer to gain Independence. "Life In the rural South is capable of being lived to the fullest, said its report In our modern scheme of things it has proved much easier to produce a steady flow of goods than to produce a steady Income with which to purchase those goods or their equivalent Of all the laborers and craftsmen, the general or farmer is the only one able to produce the type and variety of goods suitable for Ids own consumption. d share-cropper- land-ownin- DONT NEGLECT YOUR KIDNEYS! your kidneys are not working and you suffer backache, dizziness, burning, scanty or too frequent urination, swollen, feet and ankles; feel lame, stiff, all tired out . . . use Doans Pills. Thousands rely upon Doans. They are praised the country over. Get Doans Pills today. For sale by all druggists. 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