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Sirs: I am getting distinctly fatigued with all the furor, perpetrated by the well-meaning uninformed and the less altruistic, dues-collecting labor agitators, about the sad plight of the ill-fed, downtrodden sharecropper [TIME, June 29]. Aside from exceptional and infrequent disastrous years of severe drought, floods and the like (and this merely goes to prove the rule), a farmer cannot be starved to death on the ground. Having been reared on a plantation, I know that the majority of tenants absolutely will not raise a garden on the plot always provided free of charge unless the landlord...
...demanding up-to-date government in place of antiquated government, just as they are requiring and demanding Triborough Bridges in the place of ancient ferries." Beginning a three-week vacation as he entrained for Hyde Park immediately after the dedication ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home in high spirits. Four hundred Hyde Park Democrats, members of the 7-year-old Roosevelt Home Club, were waiting on neighbor Moses Smith's lawn when President and Mrs. Roosevelt drove up to greet them. Chatting easily from the back seat...
While President Roosevelt was last week telling newshawks in his air-cooled White House office how he proposed to inspect the drought area next month, a pert newshawk asked if by any chance he would make a few political speeches on that trip. A deep frown gullied the President's face. Drought, he snapped, was much too serious to mix with politics...
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee was bragging: "The entire country is applauding the swift, energetic and efficient manner in which the Roosevelt Administration is moving to the relief of drought victims in the Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace...
Swinging through the Northwest, WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins declared the drought in some areas to be "much worse" than in 1934. WPAdministrators in the five worst-hit States - Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas - were ordered to begin Relief jobs for up to 50,000 destitute farmers at once...