The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-19
BILLIONS DO NOT SATISFY THE
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Reported that there is much dissatisfac-
ton and unrest in the country districts of
the nation, among the farmers The po-
litical program for relieving the farmers
has slipped cog-several cogs IN fact
conditions on the farms and in farm mar
kets, all the problems which confront the
agricultural producers, appear far from
solution; and in spite of the vast program
of relief and vast expenditure of public
money, the American farmer still is not
appeased or satisfied and his clamoring
fills the atmosphere with raucous criticism
and protest which is source of great con-
Germ to the radical politicians who want to
keep the farmers in line for the November
voting and for future elections.
Study of the situation may justify the
comment which is being freely made
throughout the country to the effect that
the number one new deal failure has been
the failure of Secretary Wallace 8 expert
ments in regimenting and running the bust
ness of the nations farmers. That, how
ever, is not the particular fact which today
is especially impressive from the stand
point of this newspaper.
We hear that the country districts are
full of unrest and that the cultiyators of
the soil are seething and are demanding
more and more relief from the government
through the process of passing out tax
money, and we are made to wonder just
how much squandering of the hard earned
dollars of the tax payers is necessary to
appease the countrymen. So we pass along
for the information of the general public
and, probably also for the information of
many farmers who are uninformed-state-
ments made by The United States News,
recognized authority in position to obtain
and disseminate accurate information. The
News presents the figures on government
relief for period of twelve years, extend
ing into the future far enough to cover the
period for which appropriations have al
ready been planned and appropriated.
In this period, beginning in 1929 and ex-
tending into 1910, the amount for the last
year of the period being estimated, the fed
eral government will relieve the country's
farmers with gifts of public money total
ling
Eight and One-Half Billion Dollars.
OF course, new deal spending and ex-
perimenting is on such scale that the
country has entirely lost its sense of values,
and the foregoing statement will not Gre
ate ripple in the thinking of millions OF
our population; and, of course, as matter
Of fact, few American citizens have the
smallest comprehension or understanding
of the meaning of these figures.
There they are, however, the stupendeus
total of 815 billion dollars of public money,
wrested from the producers and earners
and tax payers of the nation and freely,
even gaily and joyously, scattered among
the farmers to finance the tricks and
schemes of the new deal agricultural de-
partment and its chief dreamer, Secretary
Wallace. $3.50
with all of these aids, however" saws
The United States News, American farm
ers remain dissatisfied" 80 aF $751;.
The American farmers get 80 billions
of cash, (perhaps hundreds of millions adj.
ditional by the end of 194O) handed TO
them for not working and not produciny
or for some proposition for improve
ment of farming which any progressive
farmer ought to be making at his own ex-
pense as a part of his common sense plan
for the conduct of his own business and
yet the farmers are alleged to be dissatis-
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