The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-05-22


ION their own, we can discover
instances where statesmen have
been corrupted, instances where
they have blundered, and instanc.
es of downright "damphoolsh.
ness" but as an example of polit-
lcal ldiocy, economic lunacy, and
utter assininity, the "triple A"
wiggle of Fan Dancer Roosevelt
known as the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act has never been euualled
and will never be excelled.
Imagine, if you can, a parallel
case. Farmer U-noits Simple. af-
ter he and his sons and daughters
have spent an extremely industri-
Gus and successfully productive
season, have garnered the grain
into their bins until the ganaries
are Overlooking, their smoke
houses are filled with choice pork.
their root cellars filled with veg
etables. the pantry shelves stock
ed with jams, jellies, preserves and
similar evidences of Ma S-imple's
ability at canning, their fat beeves
cleaning up the nubbins left in
the corn field and ready at any
time to provide steaks and roasts
for the family, take stock of their
financial situation and find that
they haven't a slick dime in the
pocketbook. Farmer U-noits s.
nipple after pondering this awful
calamity with much head-scratch-
ing finally turns to Ma Simple
and says with sigh, Una, we've
raised too many hogs, put up too
much jam, jelly, and preserves,
we've got so dad-burned much |
grub an vittles in sight that it
looks like the whole dern family is
goln' to starve to death this |
winter if we don't do somethin' |
about it."
Now if YOU heard Farmer s.
nipple make remark like that YOU
would Immediately begin to en-
terrain suspicious as to his entire
sanity wouldn't you? And If after
hearing him make the remark. YOU
saw him call in his sons and
offer to pay Sam and John and
Bill and Jake to go out and shoot
every fifth cow, burn every fifth
granary, break every third or
fourth jar of jelly in the pantry,
and haul every fifth ham from the
smokehouse down and dump It in
the creek, you would Immediately
rush to the judge of the nearest
court and apply for a sanity COM
mission to sit on the old mans
case, examine his mental processes
and decide whether or not he was J
2 lit subject for the ''nut-house !"
mat is exactly what you would do ]
t an individual acted in that wav II
and you were interested in the /
welfare and safety of his family II
And further: If the commission
Tnlch was called in to examine the i
'lQ man were not "screWy" them q
serves, they would make short
'nrltt of old man Simple. He G
would stand about as much chance '
q returning to the blossom of his S
.amlly as a ceIluloid cat stands q
= icatcnlng an asbestos rat in pur-
sdGory: He would be in a. padded y
ell within forty-eight hours. {
Yes, that is what would happen e
Q poor old Individual farmer c
,-lnple If he attempted to mt
uch crazy ideas into practice. q
~ mat IS exactly what poor v
~ Loollsh Uncle Samuel at a
and did, under the SEN q
uous' and senseless, influence of =,
ne triple A "wiggle" of Fan +,
ANGER Roosevelt in the greatest n
RESIDENTIAL hootchy-kootchv of ali a
And did our gullible m,bl;c fall i i
Or L! They did, just as hard as d
e walls OF Jericho fell when old 81
JOSH blew blast of halitosis at ~
lem with his trumpet. ~
personally | haven't a single h
OIQ Of condemnation for fbe n,
ian farmer who grabbed ali the
neat allotment money that he r.
, oa get from the program pro- st
'Seu oy M. L. Wilson and 60 moo VI
Carried out by Hog Corn wal IL
&c. Inc idea at the time was for ia
II snlall farmer to get all the in
liars and cents he couId collect NJ
ON ON a senseless program nv NJ
, ,.,.S OF the farmers, the small Ihs
; "e Il and the general public, is an
-. tney failed to realize thai for WI
cry niclSle the small farmer re- co
.veu' the landlords and large mi
s. 4s farmers" got a ten dollar er
twenty dollar bill. as Was di- sb
49,. oAussiAieu Dy the great Fan DR.