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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
CAREY SMITH
CAREY SMITH Jr
.........Owner and Editor
Assistant Editor and Business Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1897.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or any
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
EDITORIAL
Tribune readers remember the edi-
torial policy of the paper concerning
the agricultural program of the na-
tion especially in so far as it related to
cotton at the very beginning of acre-
age curtailment which was followed
immediately by many other plans and
efforts to artificially control and cre-
ate r price or prices of cotton As a
result of the various schemes and
plans advanced by the government
upon the advice of theorists who
know nothing of the requirements of
the cotton farmer and but little, if
anything about the complexity and
many angles of the nation’s greatest
export crop, the industry is in a cha-
otic and frantic predicament which
is destined to cost the South millions
of money, if not the life of cotton
farming itself. Some of the greatest
brains in the South are now appealing
to the president for an abatement of
the Bankhead bill, setting up the same
objections to it now that the Tribune
advanced against it at first. Those
who are weakly defending this great
blunder have but one argument and
that is that cotton is selling for a
better price than it did one year ago.
While 13 cents a pound sounds like
more than 8 cents a pound, a careful
analysis of the spread shows that cot-
ton is not bringing any more clear
money than it did a year ago. In the
first place the dollar worth 100 cents
a year ago is worth about 69 cents to-
day. In the second place all necessi-
ties of life are, at least, 25 per cent
higher than one year ago. Last, but
not least the process tax of 4% cents
per pound is paid by the farmer as
ing, the prolonged drouth has taken
everything in localities while wet
weather, storms and other catastro-
phes have ruined every vestige of
prospect of relief for the farming pop-
ulation. Added to all of this series of
misfortunes congress had to take
upon itself the work of finishing the
farmer, we fear, for all time to come.
When we talk to our congressmen
they tell us the farmers wanted the
Bankhead bill. We don't believe that.
We do believe that if the farmers had
been apprised properly, as they should
have been, of the provisions of the
Bankhead bill, not one in a thou-
sand would have endorsed it. True,
they wanted relief, but the Bank-
head bill is only a bungling mon-
strosity positively impossible to ad-
minister and utterly worthless as a
relief measure. It has and is adding
more woe and loss to the farmer than
all the drouth America has ever gone
through The cutting of acreage, the
resulting taxes neccasary to pay for
the experiment, and it is all experi-
merit, the enormous expense of ad-
ministering the set-up, the meddling
with the farmers, the Bankhead bill
and kindred bungling will all cost the
farmer and the country as a whole,
ten times as much as all the crop
surpluses possible to produce in a
decade could possibly lose the coun-
try. Let the South get after the
Bankhead bill and destroy it root and
branch within the next 20 days, or
put it down as the greatest calamity
the South has ever known.
But in the spring of 1917 we were
in it.
It’s time to reprint what Mark
Twain wrote about war. From The
Mysterious Stranger, which, by the
way, was written before the World
War:
“There has never been a just one,
never an honorable one—on the part
of the instigator of the war. I can
see a million years ahead, and this
rule will never change in so many as
half a dozen instances. The loud little
handful—as usual will shout for the
war Tlie pulpit will -warily and cau-
tiously object at first; the great,
big, dull bulk of the nation will rub
its sleepy eyes and try to make out
why there should be a war, and will
say, earnestly and indignantly, ‘It is
unjust and dishonorable, and there
is no necessity for it.'
"Then the handful will shout loud-
er A few fair men on the other side
will argue and reason against the
war with speech and pen, and at first
will have a hearing and be applaud
ed; but it will not last long; those
others will outshout them, and pres-
ently the anti-war audiences will
thin out and lose popularity.
“Before long you will see this cu-
rious thing: the speakers stoned from
the platform, and free speech strang-
led by hordes of furious men who in
their secret hearts are still at one with
those stoned speakers-as earlier-
but do not dare say so.
"And now the whole nation -pul-
pit and all—will take up the war cry,
and shout itself hoarse, and mob any
honest man who ventures to open his
mouth; and presently such mouths
will cease to open.
"Next the statesmen will invent
cheap lies, putting the blame upon
the nation that is attacked, and ev-
ery man will be glad of those consci-
ence-soothing falsities, and will dili-
gently study them, and refuse to ex-
amine any refutations of them; and
thus he will by and by convince him-
self that the war is just, and will
thank God for the better sleep he en-
joys after this process of grotesque
self-deception."- Houston Press.
WAY IS CLEARED NOW
That Dallas inventor who proposes
to make it rain by turning loose ex-
plosives high in the air should bring
his tank wagons to the coast and get
well as by all users of cotton goods,
for whomsoever buys pays that justa big supply of the sweetest, cutest,
as surely as he does any other tax
But the worst phase of the Bankhead
bill is what it has done for labor. It
has put thousands of cotton buyers
out of business and will break the
others; it has diminished the number
of compress employees by the thou-
lands; other thousands of dockhands,
and others engaged in handling the
ginned cotton have been let out; fully
a million cotton pickers will this fall
feel the sting of the Bankhead bill
while the help at gins will be cut in
half. Such a recital of conditions as
brought about by the Bankhead bill
could be carried on indefinitely with-
out finding one plausible argument in
its behalf A great mistake has been
made and one which will set the
South back 25 years.
nicest, wettest “lil ole” rainfall he
ever saw for nothing Mother Nature
continues to get in her work of cur-
tailing the crops, by burning 'em up
in places and drowning them out
elsewhere.
Congressman J. P. Buchanan has
wired the secretary of agriculture re-
questing that dignitary to secure an
executive order from President
Roosevelt annulling the Bankhead
“cotton) law or abating it to the ex-
tent that it may authorize the imme-
diate sale of 50 per cent of the fa.m-
ers cotton. While almost too late to
do any good, the request is a sensible
one and timely and Congressman
Buchanan’s efforts should be prompt-
Jy endorsed by every Southern con-
gressman. Even though it looks now
as if erratic weather will spell the
Agriculture has been undergoing
three distinct phases of development.
One came with depression, when pri-
ces dropped to rock-bottom, and there
didn't seem to be a single bright spot
on the horizon. Another came with
governmental relief efforts. These are
still going on, but the farmer has dis-
covered that the legislative power, no
matter how aggressively used, can-
not alone solve all his problems and
bring him peace and plenty. The third
phase is characterized by the fact
that an increasing percentage of
American farmers are learning the
doctrine that "he who helps himself
is helped best." They are realizing
that the way to stability and pros-
perity, is through determined, cohe-
sive effort by the farmers themselves.
Futile Priming Of
Prosperity Pump
(San Antonio Light.)
In all candor the question might
be raised why all the extraordinary
federal spending has failed thus far
to prime the engine of national pros-
perity.
With various forms of government
in the United Stales spending 40 per
cent of the national income, the ex-
pected acceleration to business has
not yet been accomplished.
Despite lip service to reflation, dras-
tic deflation has recently been reg-
istered in the principal speculative
market places.
Why has not the program of "man-
aged recovery" meshed?
Those who think exclusively in
terms of the technique of money will
perhaps answer that the banks steril-
ized the process of reflation by piling
up $1,800,000,000 in excess reserves in-
stead of employing the new credit
potentialities in job-creating com-
mercial loans.
But that is merely to record a sta-
tistical fact.
It is important to ascertain the
cause.
Bankers are normally guided by
the profit motive, and it is obviously
more profitable to employ loanable
funds than to keep them liquid.
A lack of confidence and a sense of
responsive to his needs, and he and
his fellow-members make its poli-
cies. It does not represent a tempo-
rary effort to bring relief it repre-
sents long-term planning, in which
doom ot cotton everywhere this yeari the larger issues are kept always in
an dautomatically annul such fool] vain.
The farmer's weapon in this work is
the co-operative. It is not subject to
political considerations it does not
change in purpose and direction with' bewilderment on the part of both
a shit in the political power. It is borrowers and lenders paralyzed cre-
dit activities.
While the administration was
preaching reflation and reconstruc-
tion. the progess was impeded by tall
radical talk of visionary new dealers.
Just at the time when enterpris-
‘legislation as the Bankhead bill. We
have had war and its enormous ex-
pense but that human sacrifice and
■11 it has cost will prove insignificant
Staying Out Of War
when the results of the past year’s "Stay out of it," cry press, pulpit
doings at Washington begin to come and statesmen as the war threat rises
to the surface We have seen misery 20 years after."
and woe plenty of it, but it has not We said the same in 1914 We re-
been anything compared to what is elected Wilson in the fall of 1916 on
coming. In the South, broadly speak- the slogan, "He kept us out of war." ects
ing employers were expected to re-
gain courage and to expand the de-
mand for labor, college professors in
high administrative posts were cast-
ing aspersions on the whole profits
system and on our very competitive
organization of .society.
Accordingly, instead of proving a
net increment to total economic ac-
tivity as intended, government proj-
became to some extent more
Feed At A Premiun
NEVER in the history of the nation have farmers faced
a feed shortage to compare with the present situation. It
is an emergency that borders catastrophe!
Feed is already at a premium. It will go higher —
much higher. There will be no excess of feed in any coun-
try even if it rains in August.
Every blade, stalk and straw that can possibly be sal-
vaged must be saved even if it must sometimes be done
by hand. There is a responsibility on every farmer to save
first for his own needs then for his neighbors.
No more hay should be sold to other states. Hay
can’t be bought later on to replace shipments now going
out. The nation is short. After nearby supplies are gone
—stock must go. I here is no other answer. Money can t
buy a thing that dosen't exist.
Firing of prairie, stubble or straw stacks is now a pub-
lic offense. Let us try first to prevent them—fight them
where they do break out. it is a patriotic duty now to
save and conserve every available pound of feed and for-
age. Survival of our livestock industry depends on it.
The Editors.
Crowley Signal
The famous Dixie Rice Mill case has been settled.
The compromising of that case clears the way for the
rice section to go ahead with its plans fo rthe aid and help
the farmers if it really intends to aid and help them.
A rather interesting fact was brought out in this case
about which little has been said. That fact to our mind is the
truth although it was vigorously denied by the past adminis-
trator of the rice section.
The secretary of the control board declared the hearings
and meetings held were millers’ meetings. That was our con-
tention after attending the last one at Lake Charles.
He was honest about it in his testimony.
The past administrator of the rice section on the witness
stand declared that the meetings were farmers’ meetings. He
even admitted if the secretary of the control board said they
were millers' meetings that he was mistaken.
Someone was deviating from the path of the truth.
Everyone has a right to his own opinion and idea. We be-
lieve that the secretary was right—they were millers’ meet-
ings. The past administration was right in saying they were
supposed to have been farmer’s meetings.
But we are glad the case has been settled. We believe
the Dixie Mill deserves to be commended for showing a de-
sire to settle the case and avoid a long drawn out trial, which
might have required many months before it could have gone
through the United States Supreme court.
They showed a willingness and a desire to help the indus-
try. They showed they were interested in their own vindi-
cation and they felt they had proven their case that the agri-
cultural adjustment act in so far as the rice industry is con-
cerned had been misapplied in many cases.
The little miller and the rice farmer were forgotten. We
repeat what we have said many times before—the agricultu-
ral adjustment act was drawn up to aid and help the farmers.
It was used to benefit the millers. They did only what every-
one else would have done if given an apportunity—they took
advantage when given the chance to make it help them. The
mistake was made by those charged with its administration
in permitting them to do so.
But they were permitted to do the very thing, which
helped them and which hurt others.
The fact that this case went to court brought out the
fact that perhaps everything had not been as it should have
been. We believe that was brought out clearly.
The opportunity is again offered for the proper applica-
tion to be made of the marketing agreement and behind that
the agricultural adjustment act to the rice industry for the
greatest good for the greatest number.
It it is not—well there may probably be other suits and
there should be other suits.
The large interests have too long forced their desires
down the throats of the majority. This little thing we have
learned about a minority being able to rule has proven dis-
astrous to other things than the rice industry.
It was the little Dixie Mill, however, which fought this
thing alone. They proved their case.
They have done something for all other small mills and
we believe they have done much for the rice farmer.
replacements for withdrawals or calls for making a seedbed out of
avoidance of private spending and hard, dry clods. To do so is not a
private investment, ‘pleasant task, but it must be done.
An irrelevant zeal for long term Land designed for wheat for fall and
social reform interfered with single winter pasture should be set aside
and plowing begun, right now!
Likewise, the insensate demand at The clods must be rolled around
Washington for taxes designed to until they are beaten into a seedbed.
economic recovery.
“soak the thrifty” has thwarted re-Once a seedbed is prepared wheat
should be sown at once following a
covery.
When progress was made between good rain, a ter September 1. 11
March and July of last year in nar- rains in August before sowing time.
it
. • , Whoever is elected presi-
that it suggests, without saying so, e fort to reduce agricultural producistration demanding of congress
that international relations between tion to domestic demands, dent inprizes for larger
the United States and other nations] ---authority to offer I France, Italy
are not all that they should be. No- WASHINGTON. Aug 2.—This time families. Suter European countries.
Body mentions Japan when talking of year used to be called the "silly and SomSons for the decline in the
about the next war--not for publi-, season" „, Washington, because noth- The I, ulation are two-fold,
cation at any rate—but a lot of peo-ling of importance ever happened in -. moniaten
pie are casting more attentive eyes August and the news correspondents Firstusut
toward the Pacific than at any time had to entertain their readers and
in our history. The president’s "ami-learn their own wages bv writing
ty" broadcast from Honolulu may or trifling gossip about nothing in par- are not reproducing -
may not have the effect of convincing ticular. Times have changed jn that ican parentambers enough to replace
Japan that our intentions toward her respect. Nothing very new and start.; kind in umthe figures here in
are entirely friendly. Everybody in line is happening, with the president the deaths. The 8 the average
official circles in Washington knows on his vacation and congress back Washington Mn th less than one
that there is a strong war party in home mending its political fences, but woman gives Dir . 1 1--
Japan that would like to get into a we have got so uscd to discussing se-
scrap with us.1 rious and important things that it
Tariff Under Study. , seems to have become a habit. Even
That situation is not allayed by in the “silly season” we find it hard
the growing restiveness of business to be frivolous
men and manufacturers, expressed For example somebody asked the
in some rather hot communications ever-present question: "Who is go-
to administration officials, over the ing to pay off all this new debt the
continuing invasion of our markets government is piling up?" at the Na-
by cheap Japanese goods. The admin-tional press Club the other day, Tlie
istration believes in letting reason- usual answer was given. "Our grand-
able quantities of Japanese goods in children, of course.” But one inquis.
without raising the duties on the itive reporter wasn't satisfied with
theory that that will result in the that answer. How many grandchildren
strengthening of the Japanese mar-are there going to be, thirty or forty
ket for American goods, . years from now? He wanted to know.
The whole scheme of the tariff is so he put in a lot of time studying
under intensive study, by the state; records of lhe census office and
department and other federal offici- his conclusions are so startling and,
als. Secretary Wallace is working in the long outlook, so important, that
closely with Secretary Hull in plan-some administration officials have be-
ning where and by how much to re- gun to notice of them and won-
duce tariffs: Not much publicity is der whether in some ways there has
being given to their discussions with] not been too much banking upon a
future that does not seem likely to be
realized.
| The reasons
growth of population are
restriction of immigration,
which began to take its present dras:
tie form in 1924 Second is the de-
cline in the domestic birth rate. Amer-
cline in not reproducing their
woman Kiwi M......- - that
prospective future mother. And that
condition is causing considerable con-
cern among the socially-minded mem-
bers of the administrtaion—of whom
there are plenty. They see their vis-
ion of a brave new world of their
own creation being shattered by the
refusal of American parents to co-
operate in providing future taxpay-
ers
HOU
other nations. They are keeping a
great deal of the discussion secret
because they do not want to stir up
a storm of opposition from American
manufacturers who fear their busi-
ness will be injured. When the final
agreements are announced, however,
it is likely the storm will burst.
The policy on tariffs, so far as any
part of it has been disclosed, is to
Facts About Population.
The plain fact seems to be that the
population of the United States is
rapidly approaching the stationary
point. By 1950, and probably sooner
than that, there will no longer be an
annual increase in the number of
people in this country. Before the
ditch the old "protective" tariff prin- i-—-
ciple entirely, or almost entirely, and] war we added about 1,800,000 people
by letting foreign goods in free of a year to the population, by birth
duty or nearly so, create reciprocal and immigration. That was the aver-
markets for American surpluses in, age over a long period of years. As-
the countries so favored. In one sense] suming that they earned and spent
it is the old "reciprocity” scheme , a thousand dollars a year each, which
fathered in the first instance fifty is about the right figure, that made
years ago by James G. Blaine, and nearly two billion dollars a year of
later strongly advocated by President; new business for American industry
McKinley. Because something of the and trade, to say nothing of the de-
mand for half a million new homes
sort was sponsored by those two stal-
wart Republicans, the present admin-
istration thinks a good deal of the
course will be taken off.
The Trade in Goods.
As it is figured out here, we must
lure in about $200,000,000 a year more
of foreign goods than we now im-
port, in the hope of selling more
than that volume of American goods
abroad. There are about 600 manufac-
tured commodities very highly pro-
tected by present tariffs. Rates on
many of these are expected to be re-
duced. There is where the shoe will
pinch hardest. At the other end of the
scale, there are about 400 commodi-
ties which we do not produce, on
which tariffs we do not produce, on
or abolished without protest from
anybody. And in the middle are about
every year to house this increase.
And, from the government's point
of view, that rate of population
growth meant a corresponding in-
crease in the number of persons who
could be taxed, directly or indirectly,
thus enabling the nation to increase
its governmental expenditures every
year and to pile up a growing load
of interest-bearing debt without real-
ly bothering anybody very much.
But—this is what the census fig-
ures show. About 1924 the rate of pop-
ulation increase began to decline
sharply. In 1910 the experts estimated
that the census of 1930 would show
a population of 150,000.000. Instead,
the count was only 126,000,000. And in
the past ten years it has dropped so
rapidly that the estimates of the cen-
1000 commodities, of which we don't ] sus bureau—among the most reliable
import more than 5 per cent of our'of government statistics—show a
own domestic production. Lowering
growth of only 6,000,000 in the past
the tariffs to let in ten or fifteen per] year.
cent of our own production won't Prizes for Large Families?
At that rate of decline in the an-
nual growth of population, it will on-
ly be about 1945 when deaths will bal-
hurt anybody—so the negotiators be-
lieve.
As those who are watching this
matter closely believe, agricultural
Cause of Decline.
The reason for the decline in the
birth rate is figured by some of the
smart figures here as a change in
the social value of the child in the
nome. In a principally agricultural
country, such as ours was in its ear-
lier days, every child was an asset.
In an industrial ration, however, with
compulsory education and anti-child
labor laws in force, children are a 11-
ability to the average family.
Government economists and theor-
ists look at these facts with mixed
feelings. Some of them point to them
as just ration for the movement to
curtail aguct ltural production; some
say the remedy will be to get more
people back io the land All are
agreed that the great markets of the
future will be in goods for middle-
aged and elderly people, for before
long there will be more people over
40 years old than under twenty. In
agriculture, for example, one result
will be a steady decline in the de-
mands for milk, in industry the de-
miands of the future will be for a
higher proportion of goods appealing
to middle-aged tastes.
What Would
Happen Should A
Newspaper Stop
rowing gaps between various groups
of prices, business moved forward
with unprecedented rapidity.
But the benign process of relative-
ly raising agricultural income was
checked a year ago when the NRA
was thrust forward with its program
for increasing industrial costs and
prices.
The adverse effect was to widen
price disparities again, and to make
it impossible for the great social class-
es to re-employ one another in nor-
mal manner.
It has been computed that, if we
are to support a 1929 wage level in the
cities, genuine economic balance
would call for $1.75 a bushel for
wheat; $1 a bushel for corn, and 16c
a pound for cotton.
Disparities in the price structure,
especially between agriculture and
industry, and political business bait-
ing. which has been hurtful to con-
fidence, have prevented the priming
of the engine through government
spending from taking hold.
Moreover, the extreme timidity of
the PWA leadership resulted in poor
timing of the public works outlays,
which should have been rushed to
the pick and shovel stage much earli-
er in order to give business the ne-
cessary lift.
At this juncture, realism, rather
than ballyhoo, is necessary.
The president should review the
measures which make for prosperity,
and those which do not.
Once the maladjustments are cor-
rected, prosperity will again be the
normal state of the country, which
will attain new and unprecedented
peaks in respect to average living
standards.
Before It Is Ever-
lastingly Too Late!
so much the better.
If we wait until it rains to prepare
a seedbed, it may be too late to get
good fall pasture. Two weeks time
may mean the difference between al-
most no pasture and good pasture.
Let us not delay! Wheat pasture
may mean the one and only chance
to keep the milk cow giving milk,
and the team in work condition and
the chickens laying a few eggs.
Tlie situation borders on the des-
perate. The individual must act to
help himself. The least he can do is
to prepare a seedbed for a liberal
acreage of wheat for pasture—and do
it now!
Then get your seed wheat ready.
Just as soon as enough moisture has
fallen, following copl weather in
September, sow. If cool weather ar-
rives without moisture enough to
bring up the seed to a stand, sow in
the dust and take a chance.
Don't put it off; put it in. The wel-
fare of your family is at stake. Act
to protect them. It is the least you
can do.—Clarence Roberts in Farmer-
Stockman.
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
products will not gain anything in]
export trade by any scheme of inter-]
national agreement, and that belief]
is largely back of the administration’s
| ance births, emigration balance im-
migration and, perhaps, from then on,
there will be an actual decline in the
EDSON R. WAITE
II. B. Muir, general manager of the
Gingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard,
says:
"Did you ever stop to think what
would happen if the newspapers sud-
denly stopped publishing? Gossip and
rumor would run rampant. No clear-
ing of the air every day with the facts
and the truth. Just when the news-
papers have made it possible for us
all to get acquainted with the peoples
of the world and renew contracts ev-
ery day, we would find ourselves cut
off.
“Fear grows in the dark.
"Fancy trying to do business with-
out newspapers—with people afraid
and suspicious.
“Did you ever stop to think that
the newspapers—news in both news
and advertising columns—have made
possible our boasted standard of liv-
ing in North America—highest in the
world. Stop that force, encouragement
and guidance in co-operative effort,
and our highest standards would soon
tumble and crumble.
"Fine to stop to think—think how
number of inhabitants of this country.Ito use the great power of advertis-
It is possible to imagine the admin- ing for the good of all the people.”
fy^tfSIf***—*^
“Uarenu
Leesneeltenenu
The Sulphur Industry
is one of Texas’ many outstanding assets. Three mines
produce practically all of the nation’s supply
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The Unit-
ed States has more aircraft than any
other nation, more than twice as many
miles in its regular air routes for pas-
sengers and merchandise and its avia-
tors fly more than 50 million miles a
year, which is more than twice the
mileage flown by the airmen of any
other nation. Our government spends
twice as much money as any other ini
promoting civil aviation. Our navy
has superb flying equipment and a
magnificent record. Our army, how-
The last chance for feed during the ever, is poorly equipped in the air,
both in material and personnel. Some-
fall, winter and early spring months
is pasture from wheat, oats, rye and
barley.
If it rains in time, and in sufficient
amount, to bring up any of these
small grains, feed may thus be pro-
vided for stock which otherwise will
have to go to the slaughter house.
Let us remember that it is a long
time until glass next May. Let us, al-
so, remember that stalk fields won't
j amount to much if it doesn't rain.
J Let us remember, again, that feeding
of a normal supply of feed doesn't
usually begin until along in Novem-
ber or December.
] In just a week or two or at best a
] month or two, we must begin our
: feeding our meager supply of feed
because of the total failure of pas-
tures.
thing ought to be done about that.
That is the summary of me report
of the war department's special avia-
tion committee, headed by Newton
D. Baker, former secretary of war.)
and including ten other distinguish-
ed men, civilian and military.
No scandals were uncovered by the
committee, nothing but the refusal]
of congress to give the army the'
money it asked for to buy planes and
train its officers an denlisted men to
fly. Tile next great war, the report
says, is likely to begin with an en-
gagement between aircraft of oppos-
ing nations, and we ought to be ready
for it.
Dirigibles and Planes,
Nothing is said in the report about
dirigibles. There is a lot of talk go-
The situation we face is hard to ing around that the great dirigibles,
picture. We never before faced any-like the Los Angeles and the Macon.
, thing to compare with it. Yet we must are failures Navy men don't admit'
I not forget that in the absence of rain that. The Los Angeles is being re-
we will have to feed our livestock | tired from service because of age; she
I all the winter—and the winter will be was built in Germany and flown to
■ long one. to this country in 1923 as one of
For these reasons we must make our prizes of war.
the most of our last chance to growl It looks now as if the next congress
feed. Seed of rye and barley are too
scarce to count on. We must depend
on wheat, maybe also some oats mix.
ed to make better pasture.
But if we get any real fall pasture,
we must sow early—if the rains per-
mit. To sow early we must prepare
the land and prepare it now. This
will be urgently requested to auth-
orize the building of 2320 army air-
planes. the number that the Baker
committee recommends as necessary.
Not that anybody expects the United]
States to engage in a war with any-
body, but just in case.
This Baker report is significant ini
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1934, newspaper, August 9, 1934; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696508/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.