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...Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart (The Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow) got in a political argument with Constable Amos Allen, Democrat, said he was beaten over the head while his back was turned, threatened to leave the State for good...
...sound films in connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still remains to be done in soil conservation efforts. Here is a new approach in campaign methods, it appears: education and good manners in place of muckraking and maligning the opposing...
...cotton South's 1,700,000 tenant farmers live by The Book, and The Book is not the Holy Bible. It is a ledger where "furnish" is entered. Furnish is credit for "side meat" (salt pork), molasses, corn meal, seed, sometimes for a mule and a plow. Landlords, or merchants dependent upon them, run The Book. Without furnish, few tenants could live through the winter, or plant in the spring...
Four years ago a poetic gusher called Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, which consisted of 703 sonnets written in eleven months, called attention to a new U. S. poet: a six-foot, 207-lb., 30-year-old Kentucky hillbilly named Jesse Stuart. In those poems, as in his book of stories that followed two years later (Head o' W-Hollow), Jesse Stuart wrote prolifically, ingenuously, sometimes amazingly well about his mountain kinsfolk, neighbors and scenery...
...divulges that working in a steel mill made him decide that Carl Sandburg's poems about the beauty of steel were phony, and that he went away cured of wanting to imitate Robert Burns. In the end he confesses what readers of Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow long ago guessed: "I was not mastering poetry but it was mastering...