The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-13
Letters To Editor
Who Dunnit

Editor of Herald:
hope you will publish the en-
closed editorial. Whoa. ThereH'.
from the Halifax Gazette. in the
interest of fairness and truth"
Sincerely, Edward T. Janney. ex-
ecutive secretary, Powhatan Coun-
ty Farm Bureau.
WHOA, THERE
I'VE have observed that the
Virginia Farmers Union and its
county chapters are never the
least bit bashful over their re
presentation" Of the farmer and
their accomplishments" for the
farmer. Nor are they disposed to
back up their claims.
Take last week for instance.
Publicity bluros appearing in a
number of county weeklies in the
area we didn't get the hand
out. and which were obviously
prepared by a central office al
though purporting to quote
county VFU leaders in every in
stance we saw, made the naked
statement that the Farmers
Union in winning this fight to
prevent another cut in our flue-
cured tobacco allotment. has
saved Virginia tobacco growers at
least 100000 in 1856 alone"
Taking it at face value. one
gets the impression that the
Farmers Union alone is respons-
IDLE for killing the Cooley bill
and 20 percent quota cut for
1856. and that the Farmers
Union alone saved Virginia to-
bacco growers $7.O0O,00O.
That. of course. is a lot of
marlarkey and an insult to the
intelligence of the reader.
The Virginia Farmers Union.
small voice that it is, did protest
the 20 percent acreage reduction
at House Agriculture Sub-Com-
mittee hearings in Nashville, N.
c. on February 10. But by the
time the hearings were held, the
Colley bill was dead pigeon
anyway, as the Farmers Union
very we'll knows.
The Halifax County Farm
Bureau at a meeting at Halifax
on January 81 voted unanimously
against the 20 percent cutback
and so informed Fifth District
Representative Tuck. The action
came at time when the Cooley
bill was still touch and 60, and
some three weeks before the VFU
showed up at Nashville to pro-
test.
Yet. we haven't heard the
Halifax County Farm Bureau or
the Virginia Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton make such extravagant
claims as that they had won a
fight, or had saved Virginia
farmers so much money.
I'VE have caught the Farmers
Union Judging before. Only last
week certain couriers seeking
support for the Farmers Union
were trading on the name of
Congressman Tuck. claiming that
Mr.. Tuck was a Farmers Union
member and was urging farmers
to join the Farmers Union. Mr.
Tuck promptly denied that he
was a member and that he was
interested in the Farmers Union
membership campaign.
"Of course, no responsible per-
son, in or out of Farmers Union,
would make such a claim in the
face of the facts. but the whis-
pering. undercover exploitation OF
Mr.. Tuck's name goes on just the
same.
But just short of this UNI
pardonable distortion of the facts
is the presumptuous statement
alluded to earlier and that APP
parenly came from higher-up.
| When the Farmers Union can
lay solid and unchallenged claim
to killing a Congressional bill
and saving Virginia farmers ST.
000, 900. we'll be one of the first
to congratulate the membership.
Until it does. in the name of
fairness and truth. well simply
have to nail such misleading and
uncalled for Statements
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