The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 25, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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with grateful hearts that the members
Houses of Congress adopted a joint Reso-
requesting the President of the United
to recommend to the people a day of public
anksgiving and Prayer.
The year was 1789.
The president was George Washington.
In the first paragraph of his official Thanks-
giving Proclamation, Washington said:
“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to ack-
nowledge the providence of Almighty God, to
obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits and
humbly implore His protection and favor; and
whereas both houses of Congress have, by their
joint committee, requested me to recommend to
the people of the United States a day of Public
Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by ack-
nowledging with grateful hearts the many signal
favors of Almighty God, especially affording
them an opportunity to establish a form of gov-
ernment for their safety and happiness.”
When this Thanksgiving Proclamation was is-
sued, our country was yound and weak and poor.
Its four million people were beset by trials and
tribulations. Life was rough and rugged and
hard. The task of providing even the bare nec-
essities of life was a desperate struggle which
taxed the strength and the courage of the pio-
neers. Hut even though these hardv pioneers of
1789 were poor in material goods, they were rich
in flaith, in courage and in gratitude. And thus
it was they joined together, with humble and
grateful hearts, to give thanks for their blessings,
meager though they were.
Today, one hundred and sixty-four years since
the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation was
issued, our country no longer is weak or poor, al-
though it still is young by comparison with the
nations of Europe and Asia.
Now it is a powerful and prosperous nation.
Its one hundred sixty-odd million people today
enjoy more of the good things of life than any
other people on earth. In all of history, no other
people have been so well fed, so well clothed, .so
well housed, or enjoyed such a high standard of
living. Materially, we are the richest people the
world has ever known.
Of the two billion people who populate the
world today, those of us who live in the United
States are the most fortunate. . .and the richest
in material blessings.
>fhe hearts of all of us on our railroad. . .and
everywhere. . .should be filled with a spirit of
gratitude on Thanksgiving Day, for a Divine
Providence ha? been good to us. —Reprinted from
November. 1953, issue of the Texas and Pacific
TOPICS.
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: The Department of
Agriculture on Soil Conservation
BY NEIL HABLE
Editor Grand Saline Son
The number one problem facia*
American farmer* today and in
the future ia not price supports
or expanding markets but is con-
servation of OUT bud and water.
The ability of the land to produce
high yielding crops and pastures
must be maintained, and at the
same time land which has been
worn out must be re-built to high
fertility.
In the past 15 years American
farmers have made great trains in
soil conservation, thanks mainly
to the Soil Conservation Service
which has provided the know-how
and technical assistance necessary
to build ponds and lakes, terraces,
stake out contour lines, and the
planting of adapted grasses and
legumes to restore fertility to the
land and also to prevent land ero-
sion.
world-wide attention. For the
farmer it has made ooaaible con-
tinued high yield* and increased
income. For the city dwoller*. it
ha* meant increased harness in-
come and plentiful food tuppliea.
Yet, today the Department <4 Agri-
culture under Exr* Taft Benson ia
determined to kill the Soil Con-
servation Service.
The American people arc entitled
to know exactly what is behind
this move to reduce the effective-
ness of the Soil Conservation Serv-
ice. The main reason stems from
jealousy which the Extension
Service and the. Farm Bureau have
for the Soil Conservation Service.
The extension service wants to
control the soil conservation pro
gram. And, the Farm Bnreui,
which largely controls the exten-
sion service, wants to extend its
power.
The Farm Bureau has long been
■the extension
IP II
dividual..
Service hi
The Soil
ha* been just UJ
never involved in politics hut do- as
log their work out in the field
with the individual farmer, and
U» Soil Con- ^ ,.m
servation IDistricts. working in co-
operation with the Soil Conserva-
tion Service technicians, millions
of acres of worn-out land in A-
merica have been raised to a high
level of fertility and untold mil-
lions of acres more have been sav-
ed from water and wind erosion.
Of all the progress that the
United iStates has made in the
past 20 [years, certainly one of the
most outstanding has been the
work oflour soil conservation pro-
gram. lg’s success has attracted
organizaiton pays part of the
county agents’ salary in some
states, and in return iiie county
agents solicit membership for the
Farm Bureau. The latter is done
in most counties where Caere is a
Farm Bureau, according to re-
liable reports.
The control ot sob. conservation
districts by the extension service
and the Farm Bureau is dangerous
for the individual farmer. The ex-
tension service has long been too
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work —not with high sounding
talk.
The big man behind the whole
scheme to do away with the Soil
CoBseivation Service is President
Elsenhower’s brother. Milton Eis-
enhower, president of Penn State
College, which is a land grant
college and thus part of the ex-
tension service. The opinions of
Milton Eisenhower concerning the
Soil Conservation Service were ex-
pressed on Nov. IS. U>5i^ when he
spoke to the Association' of Land
Grant 'College* in Houston as fol-
lows t
“I have fell for some vesrs that
the Soil Conservation Service
should be consolidated with the
extension service. This should be
done at the federal, state, and local
levels. Specifically, I believe that
the federal Soil Conservation Serv-
ice staff should become a special,
though small, division of the of-
fice of the federal director of ex-
tension work. The State Soil
Conservation Staff should become
a special unit in the office of the
State Director of 'Extension, serv-
ing as subject matter specialist
for the state-wide conservation ef-
fort, just as specialists in livestock,
dairy, poultry, and other areas so
serve in their fields of competence.
At the local level, the conservation
president, be turned to hi* brother
as hi* number oae agriculture
advisor. Ears Benson, a man known
to be in aymmathy with the views
through field of brother Milton, was selected
as Secretary of Agriculture. To
select Benson’s assistants, they
turned to the extension service and
the Farm Bureau. The extension
service in California gave J. End
Coke a leave of absence so he
could be Benson’s right hand man.
Almost without exception, other
assistants of Benson have been
either extension service or Farm
Bureau personnel.
Congress was tlien persuaded to
"ive Benson the right to re orga
ize the Department of Avri'*"!
ture as he saw fit. Benson waited
ntil Congress had adjourned to
begin his re-organization so he
wo'dri have a free hand.
First, the grass nurseries were
taken away from the Soil Con-
servation Service and offered to
the extension service. Next, thel
regional offices of the Soil
nervation Service, incl ding I
one in Fort Worth, wore abolished.
The end view of Bensott’s re-
organization of the Department of
Agriculture is to turn over control
of the Soil Conservation Service
to the extension service. It will be
ia pay-off cf a campaign promise,
lo the Farm Bureau for delivering
farfoi votes to the Republics
party last year.
There is much more to S o i 1
Conservation besides passing out
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» be mad* •*
in order to
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jealousy and political
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farmer is, “®e patient, I a
going to hurt you." 1/
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but ail
be hurt,
service
morally
equ
which
not only the
America ia
r neither the ex
the Farm Bureau is
mentally, or phyalf
to carry on the Work
being done bf the 9
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Harle, Neil. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 25, 1953, newspaper, November 25, 1953; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017114/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.