Evening star., 1935-05-14
FARMERS SESSION
BECOMES JUBILEE
Cheers for A. A. A. Throw
4,500 Into Frenzy of
Enthusiasm.
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cotton grower from Georgia, sitting
on the edge of the stage, beloved:
Brother. don't keep anybody from
taking our Governor away from us"
Gov. Eugene Talmadge Is a persist
ent opponent of the A. A. A.
Raps Middle-Men.
Wallace told the farmers that the
processing tax was the planters best
protection from the professors, mid
dle-men and liberty-leaguers. who are
not thinking first. last and always,
about farm income"
Wallace went on:
THE farmers minds are prostituted
by the middle men. We should not
accept them as farm leaders. They
are a good crowd Of respectable men.
but they are leading us into the ditch.
Don't allow our processing tax to
be taken away from us. until the busi-
ness men get rid of all their tariffs.
This is a serious business, but we
must keep on fighting hard for some
thing that will stay with us for our
children and grandchildren"
Carving bronzed plowers of the soil
from 25 States, seven special trains
from the North, South and West be-
gan to arrive in the Capital at 4:45
am. At am eight Pullman cars
loaded with 200 Mississippians. car
rying baked ham, fried chickens, sand
Wiches, fruits and grapejuice, rolled
into lexington freight yards.
Arkansas Has Scar Train.
Less than an hour later came AZ
Kansans and 165 Arkansans on a
nine-car train. Within 2 minutes
nine Pullman cars spilled forth 304
Iouisianans. all wearing pink ribbons
around their straw hats announcing:
Louisiana Cotton Farmer.
Farm the Farmer"
A husky cotton planter from
Louisiana led his fellows down the
platform as he repeated rhythmlcally
a modulated hog call.
Before long more trains brought
Alabamans, Floridians, Texans, Okla
homans. In busses arrived hundreds
from the northwest North Carolin-
ians were already here.
Those arriving by train packed
themselves into taxicabs lined up by
the dozen on the cobble-stone freight
platform and were whisked of to
Constitution Hall
Chester Davis, A. A. A. chief, was
to speak this afternoon when the
meeting was scheduled to move to
the blue and gold auditorium OF the
Labor Department.
At the doors of Constitution Hall
men held out hats for collections
from the farmers to pay for $500 in
incidental expenses incurred in Wash
ington since the delegates began to
arrive Saturday.
Capital Inspiration Denied.
The farmers to a man declared their
meeting was "dirt-farm uprising, no
inspiration from Washington"
1--WE like the A. A. A. We like the
Bankhead act, too. We decided it was
time for us to act. We pushed on to
Washington" said w. M. Durr, a
small cotton grower from Piola County
in the Mississippi hill country.
]. F. Tompkins, from Mississippi
County, Ark, broke in:
I'VE thought Congress was misin-
formed. They only got the letters Of
sore-heads, the professors. They
weren't hearing from the programs
hackers We held meetings, took up
collections, got anywhere from 5 cents
to $40 from each person. We sent
our men up here"
Durr carried a petition signed by
2,700 cotton contract Signers from his
county urging Congress to retain the
adjustment act, with its processing
tax and benefit payments.
While the Mississippians discussed
the situation on the train platform
the Kansas-Arkansas special came to
halt on the neighboring track
Across the rear car in tall chalk let
tiers was scrawled:
"100% Cooperation. KANSAS
We Want 1886 Wheat Program. A.
A. A. Boosters"
The businesslike ~ from the Fal
West plains State were led by o. O.
Wolf, who was ready for the press
with a prepared statement.
| THAT explains our views, boys.
he said, and hurried his group, all
wearing felt sunfowers In their la
pels. into half q dozen Of the long
feet of waiting cabs.
Long time Planners.
The statement said:
This delegation represents picked
group of thinking, longtime
planning farmers Of the Midwest, de.
| termined to do their part in putting
the farm business on q sound hne
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