The Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 4, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
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THE TRIBUNE
‘For God and Country: Recognizing rights oFothers, we stand for our own!”
_ PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
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VOLUME III.
Hallettsville, Texas, Tuesday, September 4, 1934
NUMBER 70.
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Farmers! Do not sign other
petitions which are clearly use-
less and will do you no good.
Sign your own petition for a
mere change in the Bankhead
law — nothing more — that
next year you be reduced ac-
cording to the land cultivated,
instead of the cotton crop.
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Unite on one demand. Do
not ask for cancellation of
the present law. That
would be hardly wise. And
it is useless to demand a
• new law where the tax free
cotton would be allotted ac-
cording to the size of your
family. For the present,
• such a law is an impossi-
bility.
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The extension of the Bank-
head law is clearly up to presi-
dent Roosevelt. And every-
thing indicates that he will ex-
tend it for next year. Tti®
best for you is to demand some-
thing, the most possible to ob-
tain.
Both plans of cotton reduc-
tion — according to the crop,
and according to the land —
are in the Bankhead law alrea-
dy. One plan is in effect now
and the other should be in ef-
fect next year — provided you
farmers unite sufficiehtly to ob-
tain that change.
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How would the other
plan work? — Each allot-
ment would be based on the
maximum crop your farm
would produce — instead
of average crop, as at pre-
sent. And that would be
governed by the maximum
crop the state could pro-
duce.
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Supposing that our state is
producing an average of 4 mil-
lion bales per year and could
produce a maximum of 6 mil-
lion bales if all the cotton land
now in cultivation should be
used for that purpose. Then
suppose our state allotment
would be 3 million bales, or one-
half of our maximum.
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On that basis, each farm
would be allotted one-half of
the cotton it could produce. If
your farm could produce a ma-
ximum of 20 bales, planting all
of your cultivated land to cot-
ton, then your allotment under
the new plan would be ten bal-
es — or one-half of the maxi-
mum crop of your farm.
It does not require much rea -
soning that such a plan would
be far more reasonable and
just to most of you who prac -
tise diversified farming.
There is no equality in the pre-
sent scheme where one fanner
is allowed to plant cotton on 65
per cent of his land and his
neighbor perhaps only on 25
per cent of the land — just be-
cause one diversified and the
other did not.
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But above all — farmers, be
united in your demand, for —
"United we stand and divided
we fall!”
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If Father Coughlin, the ra-
Aluminum Strikers Picketing a Mill
Textile Workers Getting Ready for
General Strike and Cotton Threatened
l’lcketg of the aluminum (strikers are seen gathered ftt the entrance of the plant in New Kensington, Po.
Richmond Youth
Killed on Highway
have plenty of good land thru-
out the South at least where all
the presently unemployed could
make a living and get off the
taxpayers’ back. And that is
— that will be the only solution
of the present unemployment,
which exist about him.” He is Back to the land.
dio priest, is so effective it is
because he is so simple and
what he says is so self evident.
“Briefly a radical is not born
is created by the abuses
RICHMOND, Sept. 3. — (Sp)
— Alvin Prastick, 22, of Rich-
mond, was injured fatally Sun-
day afternoon on the Rosenberg
highway when he was struck
down by a passing automobile
as he ran to another machine
that had halted to give him a
ride.
Prastick died in Rosenberg
hospital five minutes after ar-
rival in the automobile that
struck him down. The driver
of the machine said the acci-
dent was unavoidable.
Funeral services for the vic-
tim will be held at 4 P. M. Mon-
day in his home here. Burial
will be in a local cemetery.
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Fayette County
Taxes Raised
Schulenburg, Aug. 31. — We are
informed that the taxes in Fayette I
County were raised three cents on
the hundred dollar valuation, over
last year.
Of course everyone hates to see
taxes go up, but we are informed
that the County funds were so low
that this was necessary. We believe
it would be wise for those in charge
to issue a brief statement saying
why it was necessary and what is
proposed.
Mr. C. W. Meyer, Special Agent
of the Department of Commerce,
notified us that cotton ginned in
Fayette County this season up to
Aug. 16th was 4,553 bales, compared
with last year’s crop to the same
day when we ginned 11,141 bales—
Sticker.
Johnson Urges Counties Pay Part of Relief,
44 Millions Needed far Coming Relief Period
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Austin, Sept.l.—(AP)—Adam R.
Johnson, state relief director, Friday
recommended that counties be re-
quired a portion of funds used ih
relif to cut down the excessive relief
load.
Johnson was the first witness in
post $1 for each 32 spent by the
state and federal government.
“Then they would scratch around
to help cut down the load.” Johnson
predicted. He said that without
some responsibility local boards had
no incentive to eliminate unworthy
relief recipients.
Jahnson was the first witness in
the senate’s investigation into the
efficiency of past relief expenditures.
The inquiry was preliminary to ac-
tion or a bill to issue $!1,500,000 state
relief bonds.
Johnson said high lack of authori-
ty in the state director to control
local units and discharge inefficienct
personnel; to “red tape” require-
ments of the federal and to a high
wage scale fixed by federal officials
for agricultural and other projects.
County administrators, appointed
by county boards, over which the
state has virtually no authority, are
responsible for keeping persons on
the rolls not entitled to relief.
The senate late Friday began its
probe of relief fund handling in
Texas after a 100-page report was
submitted from the relief commis-
sion, saying $44,390,000 will be need-
ed for relief work through April and
predicting that relief costs will
rise steadily to January, the peak
month, when, it was estimated, 6,-
600,000 will be needed.
Meanwhile, the house spent a
good part of the day wrangling
over how to get its relief investiga-
tion started and finally quit at noon
until 10 a.m. Saturday, when its
steering committee promised to have
a plan of action.
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Many Should Be Off.
Twenty-five per cent of the per-
sons now on the relief rolls ought
not be there, the senate was told
by Charles Braun, assistant state
relief director.
Second Free County Fair Will be Held
in Hallettsville Within Another Week
simply the other extreme of evi!
which created him.
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Democrats in California have
as their gubernatorial nominee
a "radical” which will be worth
while watching. It is no one
else but Upton Sinclair. He
says that it will be simply im-
possible for that state to feed
the unemployed and poor for
another year as heretofore.
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And he strikes upon what he
calls an “epic plan.” “We say
there is no possible remedy but
to put the unemployed at pro-
ductive labor and let them pro-
duce what they are going to
consume, and thus take them
off the backs of the taxpayers.”
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Sinclair may be a socialist
but there is nothing specially
socialistic in his plan. We
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Another week will see the
coming of the second annual
Free County Fair which will o-
pen in Hallettsville, Thursday,
September 13th. Indications
are that the fair will be car-
ried out on a larger scale in ma-
ny respects than last year. A
grand parade will open the ev-
ent Thursday, shortly before
noon. Floats, “Kiddie parade,”
new cars, comic characters, will
move in the parade to the tune
of several bands, the Yorktown
Drum and Bugle Corps among
them. The carnival of J. G.
Loos, so satisfactory last year
will again be on hand furnish-
ing merryment to thousands,
especially to the children. A
big rodeo will be a daily attrac-
tion. And also dancing every
night to the tune of some well
known musical organization.
Schultz’s 20 piece orchestra, A-
merican Legion Band annd Wor-
thing Band will furnish the con
cert music during the day.
Friday afternoon will be de-
voted to athletic exhibition of
Catholic Sokols with the fol-
lowing clubs expected to be pre-
sent: East Bernard, Fayette-
ville, IJpstyn, Moravia, St. Ann,
Wied, and Hallettsville- This
exhibition proved of great in-
terest last year. You will find
it even more advanced than last
year. You will see some of
the finest gymnasts here thi3
state has.
If the agricultural exhibition
last year, both in cattle and
farm products was such a suc-
cess, this year’s is to be even
better. Last year’s event was
simply a sample showing what
can be done in this county with'
such an exhibition. This year’s
exhibition should profit by the
success and experience of last
year. We have a fine agricul-
tural county, and it will pay to
advertise it. It is up to our
farmers to co-operate with both
our County Agent, Mr. Parks,
and the Home Demonstrator,
Miss Pfluger, in order to have
the exhibition as large and as
interesting as possible, so espec-
ially the visitors from other
counties may leave with the
best impression of what this
county really can accomplish.
Following are some instruc-
tions for the fair exhibitions.
(See Fair on page 4, column 3)
Banker Uses Shotgun
To Foil Bandit
Byron, Minn., Aug. 30. — (AP)—
Grabbing u shotgun that lay be-
hind bullet-proof glass, a 44-year
old bank president today ignored a
bandit’s pistol and frustrated a
holdup of the State Bank of Byron
by capturing two men.
Using a shield a Rochester
man, who claimed he was kidnaped,
the youthful gunman walked into
the bank, pointed his gun at F. M.
Williams, president, and said:
“This is a holdup; get your hands
up in the air.”
‘Oh no, this isn’t,” Williams re-
torted, ag he reached for the shot-
gun beside him. “Better get your
hands into the air.”
The gunman who gave his name
as Charles Leight, 28-year-old na
tive of Pennsylvania, surrendered.
The shield, Clarence Doty, 39
employe of the Curie hospital in
Rochester, said he was lunching in
Mayo park at Rochester, when at
pistol point, he was told to get In-
to his car and "drive on,” Doty was
jailed while authorities investigated
his story.
Nationwide Poll
To Decide Crop
Control Future
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — (AP) ]
— Preliminary moves in a nation-
wide quiz of 3,000,000 farmer.-- as
to their views on crop adjustment
in 1935 were drafted Friday at the
l AAA, but the actual method of con-
ducting so huge u poll caused offi-
cials some puzzlement.
Chester C. Davis, farm adminis-
trator, who insists that “the farm-
ers run their show,” told reporters
it was unlikely an individual ballot
system would be employed. The
exact plan for garnering the farm
views, he explained, has not yet been
devised.
In any event, farmers who parti-
cipated this year in production V:on-
trol plans will be asked within two
months to express in some fashion
their views on next year's crop ad-
justment program.
Change of Procedure
The plan is a partial departure
from past procedure. Then the ad-
justment programs were drawn up
and submitted to groups of. farmers
for approval. Henceforth, Davis
said, sentiment will “bubble up from
the crossroads and from conversa-
tions across roadside fences.”
During the past year, because of
the AAA, he said, there has been
“more study of applied economics a-
mong farmers than ever before in
the' history of the country and 1
know from conversations I have had
with them in recent months that
they are anxious to express them-
selves.”
To Distribute Data
Within the next few weeks ad-
ministration economists will assemble
data on the economic background of
the whole farm problem and prepare
it in readily understandable form.
Then a series of questions on which
the administration wants reactions
from producers will be drawn up.
Each of these may furnish material
for considerable debate, Davis de-
clared.
Such information will then be dis-
tributed thru county production con-
trol committees to individual farm-
ers and the latter will be urged to
discuss the problem among themselv-
es and at township and county ga-
therings in open debate.
Questions Cited
The plan will be tried first on
corn-hog farmers since next year’s
corn-hog program must be set up
within the next few months. Ques-
tion which the AAA will ask them
include:
1. Do farmers want a corn-hog
program in 1935? v
2: Should the program apply to
both as it did this year or only to
corn?
3. Should county production con-
trol committees continue to admini-
ster application of the program to
individual farmers?
Prices Still Problem
“There have been many difficul-
ties during the past year,” said Da-
vis, “in working out our programs
and many irritations have occurred.
However, I believe farmers generally
consider themselves much better off
than th£y were a year or two years
ago.
“The problem before farmers now
is to hold prices at a more or less
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90 Per Cent Textile
Industry Paralyzed
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Strike To Stai t Day
After Labor Holiday
Washington, Sept. 2. — Indu
stry and labor dug in Sunday;
night for a grave industrial con
flict — the strike in the na-
tion’s textile mills, which la-
bor leaders say will clip the na-
tion’s purchasing power some
$7,000,000 weekly and which
threatens violence and suffer-
ing for thousands of workers
and their families.
A flood of trlrgrain, the
strike headquarters «f the Unit
ed Textile workers reported,
brought assurance of wide-
spread support, not only from
textile employes, but from other
labor units as well.
The success of the strike com-
mand can not be computed until
Tuesday, when mill gates open
as usual for the workers to en-
ter. But strike leaders said
they expected few of the 407,
000 cotton, 103,000 woolen and
worsted and 150,000 silk work-
ers would be on the job when
whistles blew.
There was no evidence, mean-
while, of a renew attempt by
the government’s labor rela-
tions board to compose the long
standing differences between in-
dustry and labor. That board's
last effort collapsed late Satur-
day without averting the strike
order, which became effective
at 11:30 Saturday night.
Within the next few days,
Lloyd Garrison, chairman of
that board, is expected to at-
tempt again to intepv$ne.
Will Ask Support
Before then, strike leaders re-
ported, local unions of crafts
outside the textile industry will
lie asked to vote on whether
they wish to give financial as-
sistance to the -strikers. It
was predicted at strike head-
ouarters that the support from
these unions would be almost
unanimous. President William
Green of the American Federa-
tion of Labor already has ap-
proved the strike.
The ordered walkout brought
two issues near definite settle-
ment- One was the govern-
ment’s policy of supplying re-
lief to strikers, already bitterly
denounced by Henry I. Harri-
man, president of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United
States, and other industrialists.
The other was the possibility
of forcing code amendments
thru strike. Gorman predicted
that the textile industry, as a
constant and fair level and eliminate result of its first general strike,
the violent production swings with, would be ‘“crippled by Wednes-
their consequent wide variations in day and 90 per cent shut-down
by the end of the week.”
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Texan And Wife
Are Shot to Death
FORT WORTH, Sept. 2. —
(AP) — John Kadleck, 42, was
found shot to death and his
wife fatally wounded on the
front porch of their home Sat-
urday. Mrs. Kadleck died a
few minutes later in a hospital.
Mrs. J. L. Strawn, who lives
directly across the street, wit-
nessed the shooting. She said
that Mrs. Kadleck ran out of
the house screaming and Kad-
leck followed. Mrs. Strawn
said four shots were fired.
prices.”
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New England Gets
Frost And Snow;
New York Shivers
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Aug. 30. — The temperature was
below freezing at Owls Head, N. Y.,
today, and there were snow flurries
in parts of the Adirondacks.
A thin carpet of snow covered
the vicinity of Crystal Lake, in
Maine.
Elsewhere in New England kill-
ing frosts and near freezing tem-
peratures were reported.
Boston’s suburbs registered as
low ag 45 degrees.
New York City at 52 degrees, was
colder than it had ever been on
any previous August 30 bf record. .
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Malec, Walter. The Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 4, 1934, newspaper, September 4, 1934; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037025/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.