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...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
...between, the reader is familiarized with the current status,--in the nation,--of the tenant farmer problem and,--at Harvard,--of the great Sorokin controversy; with the peculiar and lamentable treatment of Indian students by Indian Universities, and with the more recent developments in fascist circles in Roumania. This is surely evidence of catholic taste and wide range interests...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...
Case Histories: Arnold Berry, Negro field hand and tenant farmer on the Teacher Plantation near Wilson. Ark.. gets 75? a day ("Not seventy-five cents every day in the year, but seventy-five cents a day when there is something for him to do"), earns less than $200 a year, sinks annually $30 or $40 deeper in debt to the plantation store, is of course forbidden to leave the place until the debt is paid off. He considers himself lucky, however, "that he is a tenant on the Teacher Plantation instead of being a tenant on the [adjoining] Harris...
From a Georgia banker: "One of these days the tractor and the mechanical picker are going to catch up with cotton, but by that time it's going to be too late to help the tenant farmer. . . . What it all adds up to is that cotton has ruined ten million people living in the cotton States, and it's going to ruin a lot more before it's through. . . . Some nights I can't sleep at all for lying awake wondering what's go- ing to happen...