The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, January 22, 1937 Page: 3 of 6
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By JOHN H. CAUFIELD
Resettlement Administration
Dallas Jan 20 Thirty years
ago Ed Slayden went as a ten-
anjUnvtih his wife and first baby
tomhe Ellis County farm upon
;wliicb they are still living and
'are still tenants During those
thirty years Slayden has paid
$21v000 rent. The farm sold re-
cently to. the Federal Govern-
ment for less than half that
amount. ' The Government will
sell the farm to-SIayden on forty
years. time-and he will pay less
for hV-than the rental he has
paid. during. his thirty-year ten-
ancy. If Congressman Marvin Jones'
arid Senator TomConnally of
Texas and Senator Bankhead of
Alabama' backed"' by the national-administration.-
tret their farm
tenancy bill through this session
of Congress thousands of ten-antfarmers-in'the
United States
will be offered opportunities sim
ilar to-'Slayden's as -rapidly as
the machinery of a land buying
and-J.land' selling trovernmental
enterprise can' lumber into -ac
tion.
' When it undertakes to help
Ed Slayden buy; a farm the Gov.
ernmeht is starting at the easy
end of a long hard line. Slayden
has been ' living on one farm
thirty years ibut more than half
the tenant farmers in. this State
Jhave-'been living on their present
location;-Only one year or less.
Only one in fifteen has "stayed
put" for bhepast four years.
These tenants of the South are
reproducing the" original Ameri-
can stock faster than any other
group in.' the Nation and yet lack
the stabilized home that we think
of as the foundation' of Ameri-
canism Eighty per cent of con-
victions for crime in some coun-
ties of the South are among ten-
ant farmers. These are the sons
and grandsons of men who push-
ed across the Appalachians and
the Mississippi and engraved
theiii'messacre of heroism oh the
walls of the Alamo They are
pushing on today to California
in search of a permanent home
and failing there are turning
fractt again' upon Texas and Okla?
homa. Eighty-five per cent of
transients in -California relief
"camps are from ' Oklahoma.
Along the old Spanish trail they
are leaving their mark from
San Antonio to the San Joaquin
Valley. As they go-West their.
"campfires are marked by empty
"tin cans. As they come 'back
East their fires are-marked' by
rabbit skins.
Why-is it that Slayden has not
bought land as SJayden's father
did? And equally important'" if
he had bought would he still own
it today?
When Ed Slayden had tho
money to make down payment on
a farm and chose instead to send
his oldest boy to Trinity Uni
versity Ed's uncle made an op-
posite choice. He paid7" $165 an
acre for a- farm adjoining that
which Slayden rented. He'ikept
. it ten-years and then had to sell
..it lor ?40 an acre' one fourth of
"What it cost. Across the road
tfrom Slayden another neighbor
owned a farm with -nor debt
against it-When cotton was 40i
cents a pbundi the neighbor mort-
gaged his debt-free farm to buy
another farm next to it. He.lost
bijih of tfcflm. Slayden's neigh-
. bor and hi& uncle bought 'at the
'$&&& time "Hindsight" . now
ftial! that clear."Bue 'tf'Itf'also
jelsar that they bought at tho
only time the average farmer
has had enough money to buy
since before the great war.
Ed Slayden doesn't have the
gown payment to make on a
flatty aft h&had in 1920 when he
HfMtwCDr his con' aduotraort.
i tack of that will keen him from
. buying under tho usual terms of
nipmcte agencies. He would have
I to: pay 6 -per cent interest for a
)-)rtvate loan ' Which ' -would
amount to one half of his cotton
prop. The deal he is makiw? with
th governrhent lets him lease
fee fan for a- five-year urofca-
lumary period wjthodtddwhTJay-l
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wtten contract to pay oatfllofcb
ftwrnld wiloome opportunity of
buying a.tfarm under thBe con-
ditions. Most of them think thoy.
could make good. But resettle-
ment has only 1000 suoh farmB
to offer this year all of these in
the South. Only 105 have been'
bought so far in Texas. Less than
one tenth of 1 per cent of tenant
families in the South will be
chosen the top one tenth of 1
per cent.
This "demonstrational pro-
ject" is seeking merely toprobe
the tenancy wound and find a
practical channel through which
Federal funds might be. invest-
ed for the National as a whole
in an effort at cure.
It has-taken; the resettlement
administration a year to get this
1000-farm demonstration started.-
How long it will take to es
tablish upon their own. land any
large percentage of the Nation's
2860000 tenants nearly 3000
times the number that the reset-
tlement administration' has start-ed-in
a year's time?
In the meanwhile the resettle-
ment administration has been
charged with the task of stabil
izing farmers who; for the near
future at least must continue
as farm' tenants. Longer leas
es are being encouraged
along with guidance in "taking
what you have and making what
you need." ' To tie a family in one
spot" the plan' is help them to
improve the place which they
had -axpected to call Home fo$
only a few months. They are
more loath to leave the haok
whore they have chinked the
cracks and planted flowers.
Juvenile deliquoncy cases in!
Baylor county have declined from
an average of 14 cases in 1933
and 1934 to only one case in
1935 and 1936. County Judge
McDaniel asserted that educa-
tion and work programs of the
National Youth Administration
had contributed much toward
this reduction.
The junior division office of
the National Reemployment Ser-
vice' at Dallas" placed 89 Texas
youths. in private industry dur-
ing its first month of operation;
in cooperation with the Nation
al Youth Administration John I
Beauduy actings supervisor re
ported.
Girls working in National
Youth Administration sewing
rooms that? have never worked
toeforeare learning discipline and
productivity Fenner Roth dis-
trict supervisor has reported to
Lyndon B. Johnson state di-
rector. More than 200 youths working
on National Youth Administra-
tion work projects in San An-
tonio are attending night clas"
ses regularly five nights each
week.
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Fox, W. W. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, January 22, 1937, newspaper, January 22, 1937; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76459/m1/3/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.