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...WILLIAMS Lubbock, Texas Sir: . . . Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Plains. "We have to make the patient feel that the staff is interested in him as a person," says Edna Wagner. "We explain that he may have several days of tests before the doctors decide on the treatment for his case. We may remind a wind-tanned cowpoke from Lubbock, who's telling of the rugged old days on the plains, that he may need some of that same courage here. We have to reassure some, like the old Negro who said: 'I ain't afraid of dying-I'm just afraid of suffering...
Feed and Grain Dealer R. C. Young of Lubbock was even more specific. He complained that some of the richest men in Lubbock and Crosby counties were turning up at his warehouse to pay $35 a ton for emergency feed, which he estimated cost the Government at least $70 a ton. "Some of these fellows," said Young, "have more oil wells than most of us have dollars.'' Among them, said he, was Rancher J. S. Bridwell, who is reportedly worth $18 million, and who got a month's supply (21 tons) of cottonseed meal at the Government...
...pauper's oath." Two days later the ruling was "clarified" so that local relief committees were given broad license to decide who could pay and who could not. The allotments of feed were put on a per-cow basis, with little attention paid to ability to pay. Said Lubbock County Agent D. W. Sherrill: "If we approved only those men actually in desperate circumstances, there probably wouldn't be more than a half dozen in Lubbock County to qualify...
...Benson rolled out of Lubbock in a blue Cadillac, rode over roads that had been plowed clear of drifted dust. He gazed at the parched earth, ran some of it through his fingers, then went into conferences with farmers and ranchers. At week's end Benson said he would recommend that the Government do everything it can to give the drought-stricken southwesterners what they want: 1) emergency feed supplies at reasonable cost, 2) a Government buying program to take distress cattle off the market, and 3) emergency, long-term credit...