Show the farm wife s complaint A A MICHIGAN farm wife has given the congressman of her district something to think about she complains in a letter which has been printed in the congressional record that the government policy of indiscriminate relief spending has boome boomerang boomeranged ranged cd that should be something for everybody to think about here is her letter in part 1 I know one family case very well and it is is indicative of thousands of families throughout the land this family worked for my family three generations ago today every one of that family except one boy is on some kind of relief and now the third generation is marrying and bringing children into the world as fast as possible in order to get their share of 0 this good thing while it lasts you cannot get one of them now to work on the farms they dont like the farm they would rather work tor for uncle sam and that is just what they are doing the farmers around here cannot got get adequate help any more and if these people do work they want a wage higher than can be afforded on the farm and leave anything for the owners own work and investment most of the old time farm labor the class who always earned their living working on the farm is now on some form of relief there is nothing elaborate in this farm cifes economics nor does docs she submit a maze of charts and figures to argue her case it is a simple sound argument that some people wont work for a living so long as they can live without working |