The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 10, 1943, Image 1
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Farmer Gets It Again
Well the old farmer is again getting it in the neck. He has been
blamed for everything under the sun at one time or another and now he's
the skunk who wants to push food prices up and "ruin the country”—ac
cording to OPA Director Bowles and a lot of societies and organizations
including organized labor. It is perfectly regular and all right to give
labor what it wants but when old farmer wants a little of the goodies he's a
beast who would starve women and children and biring about inflation.
There is of course nothing inflationary about unskilled war workers draw
ing down $200 to $300 a month, and even more. The old farmer with his)
little old bale of 20c cotton is the devil who is trying to ruin us.
Don’t become alarmed over the dire predictions of sky-high food
prices if subsidies are killed. Congress knows that the New Deal idealists
who ruined the country in years past have now turned up in OPA with their
bag of tricks. OPA wants to do politically what WPA did in the last two
national elections. The brain trusters see the handwriting on the wall and
they are trying to hedge by controlling everything and everybody through
OPA. This is the same crowd, you must remember, who killed the pigs and •
plowed up the wheat and tried to take the brand lalbels off the canned goods
you buy.
This is the crowd of idiots who are aided and abetted by Sister Elea
nor whiph lady has also come but flat-footed against a little more for the
farmer. These nit-wits take figures of 1941 to show the increase in farm in
come, never bothering to point out that the farmer has been on a starvation
basis since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary. If you did not have
any bread and someone gave you a loaf your increase would be a hundred
per cent, and that is about the case of the farmer. 20c cotton is a shame
and a disgrace and it can be charged directly to OPA. 20c cotton and
$100 a week war workers!