The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-31

were used to insure a favorable
outcome for the election.
Local Triple-A workers were
hired to canvass the territory,
making misleading statements
and emitting important facts.
Many of those voting for it are
now bitter over the outcome, as
they had the wrong conception
Of the whole thing at election
time. as they failed to do their
own thinking and took Triple
A statements as facts.
For instance, nearly everyone
was told if the election failed to
| carry, wheat prices would drop
Immediately to SOC per bushel;
an absolute falsehood, as no
body could foretell if it would be
81 per bushel or zoe per bushel.
They had no right to assert this
to anyone. Most of them were
! also told that the penalty would
be 15c per bushel.
To give an example as to how
this program is being run, I will
cite my own case. Last fall I
seeded approximately ITO acres
of wheat on a 32O-acre farm.
I abandoned all but 43 acres,
whereas my allotment was SO
acres, as figured by Triple-A,
with a yield of 10 bushels per
acre. Both of these figures be-
ing entirely too low in the first
place. as I have had many 40
bushel yields. Neither is SO &C
res an equitable allotment on
a half section of land that is
all tillable but the rather large
feedlots.
Now, for my own satisfaction,
+ contacted two of the heads of
out Otoe county AAA officers
and they figured out to me that
by Just laying out four acres
of soil depicting crops I would
be eligible to collect something
over $500, since I had complied
with all soil conserving practices
as I seeded a lot of bronze and
red clover, which 1 always do
and have never been in the
program.
I was assured the abandoned
or replaced acres of seeded
wheat would not count against
me, in other words, if I signed
on the dotted line under the
present marketing plan with SO
acres and had I had a 40-bu-
shell yield, I could have market
ed 2,12O bushels of wheat. I
| didn't sign and have a crop that
will probably average 10 bushels
per acre and 43 acres of 43O
bushels, and now they ask me
to pay a 49c penalty, why
| shouldn't a man revolt?
This spring I added 240 acres
to my operations, making $50
acres. I will probably raise 400
bushels of wheat, employ two
men steady, pay each So per day
| and furnish them a AZ -acre
tract of land equipped with
| barn, poultry house, granary
and a home equipped with tele-
| phone, electric current and run
| ming water. I have a family -
a wife and three children-yet
I am not allowed to sell 400
!, bushels of wheat without pay
ing a 49c penalty per bushel. Is
this America?
In many of these meetings I
think they are making a mis-
take by merely insisting that
the penalty be cut from 49c to
15c per bushel. Why should any
farmer pay any penalty as long
as our administration admits
competitive SURPRISES from for
eign countries?
I am afraid most of us are
unaware that a communistic
form of government is slowly
but surely creeping upon us.
America, wake up. Take a note
of what is going on. Let us pay
less attention to settling the
quarrels of Europe, but instead
devote all our energy in build
ing a defense strictly for Amer
lea and set about to save our
own liberty and constitutional
government. Should we sacrifice
to save foreign democracies and
thereby lose our own?