The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-06-11


gresham?
If you do, you will listen to this It is the
tales Of two people, very well-to-do
plantation OPERATOR the other woman who
has known misfortune and poverty.
know Oscar Johnston He is the president of the
National Cotton Council agents have been looking
for gossip to FSA-the big plantation
operator who asked that you kill off FSA because lit
threatens disrupt fair and satisfactory system that
has successfully operated in the Cotton Belt for over 100
yearssince before slaves were technically freed, in
other words.
Probably you don't know Mary Olson. She doesn't
get Washington testify in behalf of the agricultural
agencies she likes or dislikes
Mrs Olson lives at Cedar Grove, Ala, with her in
valid husband and two daughters r Dison's arthritis
is better, by the and he will be "haf man" this
year, She is an FSA borrower-one of those people
whom Mr.. Johnston would deny FSA loans and keep in
"fair and satisfactory" status.
Mrs. Olson wrote the Farm Security Administration
and reported that she had canned 2100
quarts of food during 1941, besides running her little
farm She assured them that 81 have Pearl Harbor
down in my hart and that she would output
of canned goods in 1912
Further, she promised that if she could "get the war
for hog paster" would raise SO hogs boys
in service and 1 for myself"
Mrs Olson got the and Mrs Olson has written
again advise agency which helped financially
how she is getting along
She 400 quarts fruits, vegetables and
meats in 1912.
And her hog "paster" contains nine hogs which she
expects to "cover the hog paster with baby pigs
She wrote
Last year (1942) ! canned 400 quarts of
vegetables and fruits made 30 bushels of Irish pota-
toes SO bushels of sweet potatoes, 100 bushels of
rs bushels of dry peas u bales cotton raised
five of peanuts AND STACKED EVERY ONE |
OF THE FIVE ACRES MYSELF"
During the winter months when rains swept across
her fields and dripping fogs swept in from the Black
Warrior river, Olson idle
81 gave 1000 pounds approximately of rubber and
scrap, she wrote 81 got old colored take my
wagon two three days week and just scrape the
country to get all the old scrap he could find He would
average a truck load month"
When the creaking not rounding up sal
delivering Mrs Dison's preserves neigh
bors and friends.
Il gave 100 quarts of vegetable to Brookwood high
school," she wrote, land I gave 300 quarts Glad
Tdings program for the sick and shut-ins furnished
my mother and dad they U.s. and aged couple
that gave their only to country canned enough
to carry them through the winter Every time give
that leaves in the stores for the boys the
service"
Mrs Olson has plans for greater production this
Mr. Dison despite his arthritis, will help this
81 want to do my part altho it isn't much" Mrs
Olson wrote
God will take of boys and bless our leaders.
"Altho have of my in the war 1 feel
as if all that uniform my sons when it comes
to separating them"
The story of the rich, Influential man, Oscar Johns
ton is excerpt from congressional records
Mr. Congressman, printed in Facts for Farmers" Mr..
Johnston manages huge plantation with than 800
families working for him. Mr.. Johnston the
stand before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Agriculture demanding that the agency which such
things loan money to Mrs. Olson forthwith crushed
as a dangerous, subversive thing. h
Facts for Farmers thought this excerpt significant:
REP. DIRksEN: with reference to the 1,4oo acres