The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26

I 900 municipalities in Alabama, with a swim
ming pool and dance hall in each one.
'Ee's also built a water works and a sewage
system at every crossroads, provided the in
habitants had Incorporated. He has given the
town people 10000 miles of sidewalks, and 5000
miles of paved streets, and provided employ.
ment to all who wanted to work, at wages
higher than prevailing wages. He likewise has
built a schooolhouse, with a basketball court
and dance hall, on every hill designated by
county and city school boards.
"An governing bodies of counties. cities,
towns and school systems claim credit for them,
and therefore, owe the President a debt of
gratitude.
president Roosevelt cut the hours of labor
from Y to 40 per week and raised wages from
10 to rs cents an hour, and also provided va.
cation money for employees when they wanted
to rest, with pensions for them when they get
older. He has prohibited the boy under Is
from working and stopped him from working
at the age of IS, with the hope that these two
ages would some day meet.
Our great-grandfathers robbed the indians
of the ricn lands and timber, grabbed woods
and streams filled with game and fish. Our
grandfathers then bought it from the Federal
government. Our fathers in turn, sold it back
to the government by way Of the Federal Lane
Bank.
'Now, when President Roosevelt took office
Illc IlIIlDSI, SuIllS liz "SIS SoIS ana Lie
rains had washed away the top soil, Some per
sons had moved to the city, so the President
had the Fl to provide homes for them.
ITO the farmer, he had the Federal Lane
Bank give him a farm and the Resettlement
Administration to build him a home; the Farm
Security Administration to sell him brood
mares; the Triple-A to keep a JACK in the com
munity; the CCC to terrace his land; the Sol
Conservation to plant grass in his pasture an6
the C to set out trees on his farm; the
Game Department to stock his woods with
quail; the CCC to build him a fish pond; the
Fish Department to stock it with trout ant
other fish.
IF it became dry, the drouth relief paid the
farmer for crop lost, and if it was wet. the
flood relief paid rain damage. The Triples
pays Is cents per 100 running feet of terrace
that the CCC builds; the Forestry Department
pays $3.50 for each acre of land the CCC sets
out in trees; Soil Conservation pays 81 al
acre for pasture lands.
THE National Youth Administration send.
his children to school, the Welfare Department
supports his widowed sister and children; thu
Old Age Pension Department pays his Pa an(
Ma a pension.
THE Rural Identification Authority has bull
electric lines to the farmers houses on the op
posite side of the road from the Alabama Power
company lines. And neither utility can cut
consumer off until his bill is more than 81,
months past due and cannot refuse to cut
the consumer back on, if the bill owed is more
than six months old. This is the law.
Thus, the farmer lights up his barn, woods
and fish pond on REA power for six month!
Of the year., with Alabama Power compan!
furnishing the juice the next six months, ant
he alternately goes from one to the other.
with a mans children in college, his Pa
and Ma drawing a pension, widowed sister
cared for, brood mares and colts around him
he spends his time fishing and hunting anG
we frequently find him sitting at his fish pond
with an electric fan cooling him in summer
or an electric heater warming him in winter.
Now, if there is any man who does not be
lieve President Roosevelt can be elected a third
time, 1 want him to come to see me. I will
have his mind examined and get him a pen.
sion or other benefits, because such a person
undoubtedly is crazy, and therefore, is en-.
titled to a pension or other relief"