The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 3, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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THE WEST NEWS
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NewAAA'Alabama Plan'
Promotes Soil Betterment
Crop Payments Based on Land Improve-
ment; Roosevelt Suggests U. S. ‘Loan’
War Material to England.
Nat l Farm and Hernia
Hour Commentator.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
WASHINGTON.—You may have
heard about the “Alabama plan” of
the Triple A which some have said
is an attempt of reversing the pol-
icy of paying farmers for “not do-
ing” and rewarding them for “do-
ing." I find that the department of
agriculture doesn't go that far. Of-
ficials there describe it rather, as
paying farmers less for "not doing"
but assuring them benefits for tak-
ing part in a constructive program.
This is the way one member of
the Triple A tells the story:
Down in Alabama they're trying,
on a state-wide basis, an experiment
in balanced farming that may even-
tually be a pattern for farm pro-
grams in other areas. It's known as
the “Alabama Plan" and it’s simply
a plan based on good farming prac-
tices, which over a five-year period,
provides for building up the soil and
otherwise improving the individual
farm to the point where it becomes
a productive unit.
The Alabama plan is not compli-
cated. It is part of the AAA farm
program. It carries further than
ever before the conservation work
done under the AAA program. As
under previous AAA programs,
farmers will receive conservation
payments for planting within their
acreage allotments of special crops,
such as cotton, tobacco, peanuts,
wheat, and potatoes. However, un-
der the so-called Alabama Plan, in
operation for the first time in 1941,
full payments made to Alabama
farmers will be contingent upon car-
rying out of certain good farming
oractices.
Planned Conservation.
The difference between the Ala-
bama Plan and the general conser-
vation program is about the differ-
ence between going into a cafeteria
and picking out a dish or two that
you especially like and sitting down
to a well-balanced meal. Heretofore,
farmers in Alabama and other
states have had available to them
certain practices which they could
use to earn the payments available
under the farm program. They
have used many of these but natur-
ally they have not always picked out
the best combination of practices
for the land. That was the cafeteria
method of soil conservation. Under
the Alabama Plan, the conservation
program worked out for each farm
represents a balanced type of farm-
ing. That's the well-planned meal
type of conservation.
Not only is the conservation well
planned for each year, but it is
worked out for five years in advance.
The Alabama Plan, like most
parts at the farm program, came
from suggestions from farmers
themselves who have observed the
operation at the farm program and
made suggestions on it from time
to time. Alabama farmers have felt
the need for more planning and
more balance in their conservation
work and the AAA program has
been adapted to make it possible
for this state-wide experiment in
conservation to be undertaken be-
ginning in 1941.
The Alabama farmers who want
this type of program believe that
a farmer who does not take care of
his soil should not receive the full
benefits under the farm program.
Reqaireaieate sf Plan.
Here's what the Alabama farmer
has to do to avoid deductions in his
conservation payments for 1941:
1. Grow erosion-resisting crops
each year on an acreage equal to
at least IS per cent of his cropland.
2. Properly terrace all cropland
in the farm having a slope in excess
of 2 per cent.
2. Establish or maintain perennial
soil-conserving crops on at least one
acre for each IS acres of cropland.
4. Establish or maintain permanent
pasture on at least one acre for each
IS acres of cropland.
Requirement No. 1 has to be car-
ried out each year, of course, but
numbers 2, 2, end 4 are to be done'
over s five-year period. One-fifth of
the requirements under points 2, 3,
and 4 must be carried out each year.
Deductions in the farmer’s con-
servation payments will be made on
the basis of S per cent of the pay-
ment for each 10 per cent by which
he fails to carry out the 1941 require-
The Alabama Plan is resulting in
more co-operation among farmers
In many cases. For example, opera-
tors sf small farms are not able to
Farm Credit
WASHINGTON.—The volume
of financing through die Farm
Credit sdnunistrstioo was larger
in 1940 than for several years
past. Farmers obtained 9460.-
900.000 of credit during die first
nine months of the year com-
pared to $414,000,000 in die cor-
responding period of 1938 A fur-
ther increase may also be ex-
pected.
President Announces
'Loaned' Aid to Britain
It was late as 1 hurried across
the paved space in front of the ex-
ecutive offices. The waiting room
was jammed. Overcoats were piled
high on the huge mahogany table
presented to the President by the
Philippine General Aguinaldo.
We were soon crowding through
the inner waiting room and across
the hall and into the President’s oval
office. The moment I had wormed
my way forward and looked at the
President, I was sure he had some-
thing important to say. He wasn't
laughing and chatting with the men
pushed close around his desk. He
looked very serious.
Finally the last reporter had come
in. The President began to speak.
He spoke slowly, deliberately; in-
formally but seriously, announcing
his long-awaited plan for lending or
leasing implements of war to Great
Britain.
Because I had to broadcast almost
immediately afterward 1 was kept
busy taking notes, but as I wrote
down the words that would be his-
tory some day, 1 suddenly felt that
nothing was real around me.
Roosevelt Tells Story.
It couldn’t be that the other side
of the world was burning up—that
a proud nation which claimed to
rule the Seven Seas was begging
for help—that 1 was actually writing
down on a piece of copy paper a
gigantic plan to bring that help. It
was simply too big to grasp. How
could any one human being hope
to sit down and draw up a scheme
that involved these millions of peo-
ple, that must answer the criss-
cross, conflicting hopes, beliefs, de-
mands and desires of half the globe?
. . . my pencil kept on forming
words and suddenly 1 saw they were
writing down a simple little anec-
dote about a lot of men in a smoking
car making bets.
This seemed still more unreal but
it is the President’s way of trying
to illustrate frightfully complicated
things with very simple, everyday
experiences. He told how, when he
was the young assistant secretary of
the navy back in 1914, war in Europe
was suddenly declared and he was
hurrying back to Washington.
In the smoking car with him were
a number of brokers and bankers—
"the best economic brains of the
country” the President called them.
They were laying that no war could
last long. The bankers could stop
it in two and a half months for no
nation could fight long without
money in the bank.
Meeey Net Essential.
This, the President said, showed
how wrong the accepted beliefs
were. History shows, he said, that
no country ever lost a war because
of lsck of money.
And then he went on describing
his plan for lending or leasing im-
plements of war to Great Britain
instead of lending money. He had
no notes before him but it was plain
he had spent plenty of thought on
his plan, that it was the result at
study and thought
Whatever the merits of the plan
may be, its one merit seemed to be
this: it stilled tor a while at least,
something that came very near hys-
teria in Washington and what might
have been hysteria in England, too.
For while it did not increase by ana
machine gun bullet, immediate aid to
Britain, it promised them “econom-
ic co-operation” and restored their
morale.
And it stilled* too, the angry de>
mands of the pressure groups in this
country which would push us right up
to the very verge at war. They
could hardly complain it London
was satisfied. And yet, on the other
side of the picture, it did not even
imply a single immediate act which
would bring us any nearer the war
then we were at the moment for
the President made it clear that con-
gress would have to pass upon it
He also made it clear that
it would not be presented to the old
congress for any hasty action. It
must await the convening of the new
congress when you folks have had
time to think it over.
The plan may be, as some of the
critics say, the moat bald of subter-
fuges. It may be utterly imprac-
tical. But it has postponed rancor-
04* discussion and diacord in this
country which would have served as
aid and comfort to the totalitarian
nations which aeiae with joy any ex-
ample at the lack of unity is a
janiscruy.
maintain heavy equipment required
in terracing. However, groups of
farmers can form an association
to buy this equipment, and can pay
their share on the basis of the
amount of time they use it.
That is the story—told from the
standpoint of the Triple A. You are
better able to judge its merits than
I am. Of course, if you have any
views you would like to express, I
would be only too glad to hear them.
T OS ANGELES. - The paths of
l j Francis Ouimet and Eddie Low-
ery crossed again at the Bel-Air
course of Beverly HUls. Who is
Eddie Lowery? He is now a suc-
cessful San Francisco business man
and a good golfer in his own right.
But nearly 28 years ago Eddie Low-
ery was the 10-year-old caddie who
worked for Francis
Ouimet in the fa-
mous Vardon - Ray
play for the U. S.
Open at Brookline in
1915.
Ouimet’s finishing
rush and his play in
the play-off is now
one of the main dra-
matic spots of all
golf, no matter how
many centuries you
Grantland Rice ba<*’ B“‘
Eddie Lowery’s part
in that championship also has an
interesting side which in the main
has never been known.
Kathleen Norris Says:
A Country Wife and the New Year
(Bell Syndicate—V/NV Servlce.l
Lowery's Story
“I was only 10 years old at the
time," Eddie said, with Ouimet lis-
tening, “when my older brother and
I used to caddie for Francis. We
both played hookey the first day of
the tournament. My brother cad-
died for Francis while I followed
Vardon and Ray. That night our
mother said we both had to be at
school next day. My brother went
back to school, but I played hookey
again and carried Ouimet’s bag. I
had to keep an eye on Ouimet’s
ball—and also on the lookout for
truant officers, who were pretty
keen.
“I’ll never forget the last three
holes of the last round," Eddie con-
tinued. "Francis had to play these
in 10 strokes, one under par, to get
a tie with Vardon and Ray, who
had already finished. On the short
sixteenth Francis had a 20-foot putt
for a two. This seemed a good
chance to go for that birdie. But
he was too bold, and the first putt
ran eight feet by the cup. But he
holed that one for his three. On the
seventeenth he holed another 15 or
20-footer for the needed birdie and
then through pouring rain got his
par four on the last hole which
resulted in the now famous triple
tie.”
/ announced the new order; our horns wu going to bs a little oasis of perfee-
lion in a world gone mad, and it teemed miraculout to ms dial the transformation
in their own attitudes ss well as mine could to quickly be effected. The change wot
mott noticeable in my husband, he become what he used to be—interested, eager,
a changed human being.
What Happened Later
“You can imagine how tremen-
dous was the excitement," Lowery
said. “Few thought the 20-year-old
kid with the 10-year-old caddie had
even an outside chance against two
famous British golfers who had
played in so many British Opens. A
good many of Ouimet's friends
thought I was too young and too
small to caddie in an event so im-
portant. They insisted on some old-
er caddie, but Francis held out for
me.”
“I’ll pick the story here for a
moment,” Ouimet cut in. “Next
morning, a short while before the
match, Eddie came and got my bag.
’You won’t want to hit any prac-
tice shots, will you?’ he asked, know-
ing that I seldom did. I said, ‘No.’
Eddie then said, I’ll see you in about
half an hour. “Where are you going?’
I asked. ‘We start in a few min-
utes.’ ‘I’ll tell you later,' Eddie an-
swered as he hustled away. As we
were all three ready to drive off I
looked around again and there was
TlMk
’’ Where have you been?’ I asked
him.
“‘I didn't want to bother yon,’
be whispered, ’bat 1’va been hiding
in that ham. There’s a truant offi-
cer after me to take me back to
school so I had to keep out of his
sight. And listen.’ he said, ‘you’re
going to beat these two guys sure.
Yon just keep your eye on the ball
and I'M take ears of everything
else.' ”
Lowery Speaking
"As I recall it.” Eddie said, “the
three were all even as they passed
the turn. I could see a worried look
or the faces of both Vardon and
Ray. They had expected the in-
experienced 20-year-old kid to crack
wide open. But here he was cooler
than ever Ha didn't, watch- their
drives. He just kept playing his
own game. Then on the tenth hole
both Vardon and Ray took three
putts and Ouimet eras out in front.
"They all played fine golf the
•ext few holes, and then big Ted
Ray was the first to break np. This
left the battle between Francis and
the great Harry. And M was Var-
dan who finally cooidn’t stand the
strain and the fast pace any longer
as he, toe, cracked and Francis
wito n birdie picked np two mere
strokes. The kilting thrust.
“Francis was still as cool and %s
unruffled as if he had been playing
a dime Nassau with two old pals.
It was still raining and the course
was wet and soggy, hut Ouimet's
drives continued to find the middle.
His iron play was perfect and his
putter was smoking hot The two
veterans couldn’t stood up against
that finishing 34 under such condi-
tions, especially when they had
looked few a certain runaway.”
“That must have been a Mg
thrill," 1 said to Lowery.
“It was a big thrill I've never for-
gotten, and never will,” Eddie said.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
* I ''HERE is very little that
we women can do for the
great agonized world, this
strange shadowed New Year of
1941.
We long to be of use. We long
to stop war, to heal wounds, to
feed the hungry, to somehow get
over there to Europe and bang a
few heads together and per-
suade all the deluded leaders
everywhere to act for lasting
peace.
We long to write the song, the
essay that shall reach all men’s
hearts. We long to adopt—not
one French or English child,
but twenty. We feel we might
organize great dormitories,
enormous refectories. “Can’t
do anything!” wail the
we
women, from Portland, Maine,
to Portland, Oregon, from St.
Augustine to Calexico.
We ARE doing something, we
women. We have put ourselves on
record this year, and in all the years
to come our influence toward peace
and away from hrainless and pur-
poseless warfare will make itself
increasingly felt. We can go on
working along these lines, through
clubs and parent-teacher organiza-
tions and church societies. And
meanwhile, while our leaders are
making America safer on both great
ocean boundaries, we can make
America safer by sanity at home.
Avoid all this war hysteria and the
ridiculous defeatest attitude many
people have. It is just as important
for us to have confidence and faith
in our country as it is to have a
strong defense. And the home is the
place to build this confidence.
Pats On Heme bs Order.
A country wife wrote me a letter
on this subject, and I quote it al-
most word for word.
"Last New Year,” she writes, “I
was so anxious and upset about the
European war that 1 thought I
would lose my mind. I’m a small
town woman, we have a fruit farm
about three miles from a city of
12,000. I’ve never traveled; never
been to Chicago or New York; my
life has been teaching, nursing a
sick mother, a happy marriage, the
bearing and rearing of three daugh-
ters and a son. The boy, my eldest,
is now II.
"Restless and distressed because
I couldn’t seem to do anything for
the misery of the world, I deter-
mined last Christmas to get my own
house in order. On New Year’s day
I announced the new order; prompt-
ness at meals, orderliness in bed-
rooms, no complaints or quarrels in
the general group, and one evening
a week for hospitality and home en-
tertainment. I stopped fretting my-
self, alluded to the war only in
the most hopeful terms, and offered
weekly prizes to the child who
brought borne the most encouraging
or enlightening bit of information, or
found the best historic parallel to
our own tiroes. I told the children
that our home was going to be a lit-
tle oasis at perfection in a world
gone mad, and it seemed miracu-
lous to me that the transformation
in their own attitudes as well ae
mine could so quickly be effected.
Whole Family Resets to Change.
"The change was most noticeable
in my husband. He had been get-
ting old too fast, coming in exhaust-
ed and silent at night, listening in
quiet depression to the youngsters’
half-baked talk of war, communism,
revolution. But when we all went
hopeful and confident, and he re-
turned to find my Eleven struggling
with the national anthem at the pi-
ano, my Fifteen eagerly reassuring
me as to America’s outlook an the
basis at Napoleonic triumphs and
i my Thirteen ready with a cup of
HAPPY HUMES
Instead of vainly wishing that they
could slop the war and heal the world's
wounds, Kathleen Norris udvitet wom-
en to bring harmony and happy tw»
lentment into their own homes. Ska
tells ol one young woman uha took a
lot of worry off the thoulden ol her
family......
Uy by making their home • happy
refuge from talk of war, communism
and world revolution. In their places
the substituted reassurance md happy
contentment.
hot bouillon for Daddy—an hour be-
fore dinner, (this was entirely her
own idea, and I pass it on for the
benefit of other tired men,) he be-
came what he used to be—interest-
ed, eager, well-informed as to his-
tory and political movement,—in
short, a changed human being. Aa
for our son, when the entire family
had threshed out certain burning
questions of bunds and isms, he
quite suddenly decided to enter poli-
tics as his profession, and began to
take us all to meetings. His essay
on what desirable changes could be
made in the American social sys-
tem without any change in our mag-
nificent Constitution won a $100
prize.
Oat si the R«4.
”1 accompanied thia reconstruc-
tion with several homaly domestic
reforms. By the slow paying of bills
we got out of debt. By the study
of government charts and booklets,
I learned how to feed my family
thriftily and wholesomely. Head-
aches and billiousness and indiges-
tion are no more necessary than a
dirty face and hands; diet and ex-
ercise worked a general miracle.
“And all this," ends this most
inspiring letter, which is like a tonic
to me, "arose from your New Year's
editorial, which began and ended
with a reminder to us all that any
life is lived on wings, if it is Hved
on prayer. You said not to worry
about details, but to do the thing
nearest at hand and trust God for
guidance on the next. And that is
exactly what I did. I couldn’t go
overseas and be heroic, eo I ap-
plied my general plans for welfare
to my own home. And now it’s in
order, end if a etray English qhild
or an additional war expense of any
kind comes my way, I’m ready for
it.”
What a younger woman docs for
an older woman’s heart when she
pays so genuine a tribute to a word
of advice, nobody but that older
woman knows. This letter put wings
under my life-for many hours after
it arrived, end was perhaps a small
indication of the great and widening
good that one life splendidly lived
can be to us alL
h
A Worthy Program.
There ere thousands of homes in
America that need spiritual and
mental and actual renovating in this
New Year. They neat more com
akietatton from Dad; more patience
with the boys. They need more
conscientiousness from Mother, less
reckless spending, more care for
the budget They need politeness
from children; thought of what that
constant request for dimes and quar-
ters means to Dad. They need clean-
er kitchens, hotter, more sensible
meals, comfortable chairs, well-
placed lights.
They need more laughter, more
friendly talk, more general interest,
more games. They need less com-
plaining, less self-absorption, less
saying of the stupid and unfriendly
things that are sure to hurt and to
cause trouble. They need a reso-
lute campaign against fear, and a I
constant steady holding to the truth !
that anticipated dangers and trou- !
bles rarely materialize, and that if |
annoyances, losses, griefs do come, I
they bring with them the strength to :
bear them.
If hundreds—thousands—in U lions J
of our homes were so rebuilt during ;
1941, we should become a nation to 1
strong and so united that more titan |
ever we would be the marvel aid j
the envy of the world.
Everybody Likes
This Smart Apron
TPHIS design was so extremely
popular, when it first appeared*,
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time. Of course you can easily
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head and ties in a jiffy—no but-
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Send for It right away, because
your home work will seem much
lighter and pleasanter when you've
half a dozen such aprons.
Choose cheery percale prints,
gay gingham checks, or colorful
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dor to:
Creating Happiness
A world full of happiness is not
beyond human power to create;
the obstacles are not insuperable.
The real obstacles tie In the heart
of man, and the cure for these is
a firm hope, informed and forti-
fied by thought.—Bertrand Russell.
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