Plentywood herald., 1934-01-11
The Farmer-Social Discipline
Continued from Page Two)


of them to be made this year Tht
problem OF tHRle surplus, the necess
NY Tor combining In a. common eff
Tort. mo doubt seemed wrapped i'm
vagueness; THE offer of cash was
ciear-cut and compelling. | set
nothing in this to be shocked on
surprised at. When a mans child
rem need shoes, when mis- wits
hasn't had a new dress In foalH
years. when his farm may be slipp-
ing Quit of his grasp, he has verry
la'ttle patience for long -winded dds.
sentaaons ON tIhle supply and de-
mamd OF wheat I'm Australia and
Cfana; he wants some sure pros
pect of cash income. because he
| musn have DIT to ldve. And SO tine
Irst nnOught of many growers un-
douboedly WAS, Let's get ALL we
cam out of this. -
Wlnen tine county production con-
hTod associations were organized
and the county and township com
nHttees selected, interest continued
20 CENTER on Who Long lit would be
Denore the Government checks came
aaong That interest was soon com
piacated. however, by tine announce
ment of Static and county acreage
alliotments, and the necessity for
1lguT1ng individual farm allot-
menfs. Checking back over hdf
acreage and production during the
previous three seasons, relying up-
ON memindy or Figures scratched
On the gTanary door, many a grower
had a difficult job ON his hands
Even q thoroughly dfsdnterested
Individual would have had
The first Individual estimaHee
naturaaay, We're not always made
with fhedr relationship ito the conn.
ty alaotments FIRMLY Din mind. There
We're at least five factors operating
20 discourage accuracy. There was
In Iuhe flirat place, THE honsat in
abdhty to recall accurately the pro
ductdon and acreage of former
years; second, In some countries
Romance upon assessors estimates
was unfortunate, for THE reason
THAT THE assessors had accor1nfed
Tor only tihnee- fourths of tine aver
age sectlm OF land din wheat: third
In tine newer parts of the whaaH
belt government staItistics were nnt
as accurate as DIN THE older parts.
fourth, there was the feeling fhaH
since everybody was l1kAly to over
| might as we'll follow
suat. much as the banks, i'm sub.
scrlbang for Government bond lis,
sues, ask TOR two or thHee times as |
much aus they expect to get: and
lNI'tn, an thousands OF instances
alere was the pressure OF a misery
ridden family to consider.
Ilhe rather dntense Mght of pub- !
acnfy was focused ON the inldhyid,laD
estimates when they We're published
n the county newspapers. You can
imagine THAT THAT issue of the
7ounTy paper was read from cover
@ cover. When Bill Jones. who
hds past average acreage
e LUZ acres, saw by THE paper that
I'm Brown, his nRighbor, estimated
ms at l20 acres, when Bill rec
.oned THAT Jim had mo more wheat
and than he did, somebody was
ure TO hear about 1t. That "some-
ouy' proved to be THE county all
1LmAnf commhttee. On an average
here were 100 to $50 complaints
thds sort i'm THE big Wheat-pno-
ucing counties THAT would involve
10 percent of THE Farmers
] THE average county.
Curnolsly enough, this experience !
hes almost exactly with the ex-
eraemce saltwater County, Momta- |
a, mad I'm 1.-THE first year dit tried THE
AN OF letting TANNERS act as theiI
WIN tax assessors. AS M. l.. Wilson 7
as described THAT experiment, a y
Am ram for county assessor irl that 2
'hnlty some years ago ON the pledge u
nat II elected he would eli1ninate Q
le Two Deputies employed ito help 8
10 county assessor and gllve the a
H1mers BETTER assessment as we'll
q THAT popular program he was a
ected, and The immediately set out I'll
make good ON his word. Ait local y
eettngs throughout THE county he s;
esemted a two point program. $.
hst, he explained tllat In order til
lhaWe fair assessments each far p
or must list aa1 of hds propertv. "
cause each taxing unit had desiq- VI
lned a budget and must raise SO T
uch money, amd therefore amy Cd
nmer who failed to turn lin all 50
hds property was dodlging hds tt
xes and they were being paid by m
s maaghboT. Consequently If a "a
rmer who has so head OF cattle m
rms In for tax purposes only rs. rf
en- part OF his taxes are being paid
lnds neaghbor who listed all their !,
operty. The farmers understood !,
q approved the principle inl- = =
ived -
line assessors second point was -. -.
DC tine process of assessment coa,ld ~ ~
simpldfied by lehtdng each far ~
n assess hds own property. When ~ Y.
9 haTmenE' estimates were me- ua
Ived ait THE county courtfhomse nD
viewer, they would he published
the county paper for everyone In ~ q,
county ITO see. Enlightened self ~
crest WOULD thus be given power ~
Support. M
Ian THE first year OF the self ma
plan in Saltwater coa,n- Vo
complaints were Registered o. es
INST $50 of the 1900 FARMERS A. AZ
J county. Some OF the complaints WI
ne Spite work. But THE next ca
II. and ever since then, there po
Te been very few complaints and
" ldttle police work for the conn
assessor to do. I'm fact THE plan tht
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