Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01

der of the Vocational Agriculture
gh School No. g. brought approx
r feet as he oratorcal con-
3. Eight schools represented
Sc boys contesting on was,
to Retain and Maintain His Proper
he first prize which received
Rhode Island Red pullets and
'tion by which Henderson won the
to Retain and Maintain His
is On the Farm"
onorabe Judges Ladies and
tonight to discuss problem .
zig planters of this great South
tonal problem. What
maintain his proper status
TX to nature and begin at the be-
.ome with troubles and worries
sery and distress around and with
he first time in history we still
lkful for The fundamentals are with
1t is just hundred years since
cyan to wrest this aluvial from
empire builders in all the history of the
red greater hardships surmounted greater
did these and those who followed after
hearts and souls tried in the crucible of
experience known to mankind. They
whined, and they did not run. We should well
opportunity of proving to ourselves and to the
It we are worthy of our ancestry and traditions.
nITy Will never destroy Itself. Its fate rests
of its people
The only way the farmer can retain and maintain his
er status on the farm by his ability to create and
to create something from which existing debts and OBJ
lions may in the future be discharged There is no mid
ground II continued operations assured the stua
is not hopeless The courage the faith and the limit
ess determination of our people, coupled with the natural
resources of our soil and climate need to be given only
fair po tunty to be translated into results These results
can be obtained the farm present by farming on d
|versified plan.
Before the farmer retain his proper status on
ne must learn to grow more than money crop and
at the same time cut production cost This can be done
through farming scientifically and living home We must
learn to bread and at home This means we
must grow the following commodities: Feed crops food
lcrops live stock and poulty These commodities if
taken into our farming SYSTEM would in due time suffice
put the delta and cotton belt whole upon an
Ieven keel.
Let us not forget that the fundamentals unchanged
Ivy Inc pose and canaar Of the complaining world Those
things established by nature and natures God arati with
u.s. as fixed and mistaken the foundations of the earth
soil and climate air and and ran these here be
Used as best may. Whatsoever soweth that shall
he also reap is still rule of material we'll spiritual
life. But we do not show faith by work. AS
ton we have INDUCED for decade orgy of extrava
gance of extremes in every direction of utterly reckless
living, of gambling with both nature and fate.
II Lest we forget may say to you that the only
of escape from the present situation that Of continued op
eratons basis of the very utmost possible degree of
business and personal prudence economy and frugaty
And the situation should be Immediately faced-not post
poned to another Nothing less than three year pro-
gram of recovery will suffice to put this great Delta
more upon keel And we would do we'll to consider
the current year 1884, only period of preparation for
longer pull
j Entering upon such program with the experiences of
1880 and 1881 foundation upon which plant feet
with faith courage and determination we and the of
the south have right to believe that abors and efforts
will in due time bring results.
n FINS