January 31, 1944 (4 pages)

Page Three ope anime 4 City Nugget — Monday, iehass 31,1944 a. . CITIZENS OF GREGORY, S. DAKOTA, — BELIEVE ‘IT’S TIME TO GHANGE’ Farmers Remember Triple A Benefits but Foal Too . Much Centralized Control !s Unhealthy. . . By BARROW LYONS (EDITOR’S NOTE—This is one of a series of articles written for this i eee by Barrow Lyons, staff. correspondent of Western Newspaper Union. He has Just completed an extended trip through the nation and in these reports gives his first-hand impressions of what rural America is thinking as we enter the third year of war and the first weeks of a . presidential election year. Any opinions expressed are the writer’s and . not necessarily those of this newspaper.) é ' GREGORY; S. D.—This is a young town—even as western . towns go. It was planted by the government in the heart of the prairie—the country of the Rosebud Sioux Indians—39 years ago when the land was opened to homesteaders. With the exception of the lean years of grasshoppers and drouth, when dust storms obscured the sun, Gregory has thrived. It has a population of 1,400, and is the :chief trading center of Gregory county. Usually, the Republicans have carried the county by a slight mar jority. In 1924, year of the Coolidge . landslide, the GOP got 54 per cent of the votes. Again last year the Republican percentage was the same. But in the first New Deal election Roosevelt left the Republi. ux cid = cans only 26 per cent of the vote, i s.D. and in 1936 42 per cent. But in 1940 GREGO >" Re ae a a a Leatherneck Raiders Attack Torokina . . ACCURACY, “PROMPTNESS, . CLEANLINESS, . are now doubly assured in our . newly remodeled prescription rtment. All biologics are refrigerated. Only the finest are used. Fair prescription charges Fs U.S. Marine Corps Photo! A group of Marine Raiders crouch in the dense jungle undergrowth shortly after landing on the beach at Torckina in the Bougainville campoign.Camoufinged helmets and suits make it difficult. for enemy pianes and snipers to spot the junglo-fighting Soldiers of the Sea. WRITES BOOK ON GARDEN PLANNED CHRISTMAS MEAL ~ WAR CAUSES —_’ BYDR.GOODSPEED FORMARINES . a Drives . BERKELEY, Jan. 31:—One South; NEW GEORGIA, BRITISH ‘SOLToward War, new book by Dr. Ed-}american neighbor, Chile, will soon. QMON ISLANDS,’ (Delayed) Pigs ward C. Tolman, professor of PSY-. have a national botanical : garden. is pigs,” wrote Ellis Parker’ Butler, chology on the Berkeley campus of} made according to plans formulated jput if. fate and orders bad’nt interthe University of California, -has. by Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, professor of -vened, a wild porker on a little Marbeen published by the Appleton-! botany and director of the botanical. ine occupied Pacifie island would Century Company as a volume of the. garden on the Berkeley campus cf. have been turkey and drésbing: andCentury Psychology Series. the University of California. Word! cranberry sauce and mince pie, ‘all in Former president of the American. has been teceived of 4 presidential one, to a certain group of Marines. Psychological Association and chair-. decree authorizing actuisition “of the The Wane pie «one ot ee ae man of the Society for the Psycho-. site selected by Professor Goodspeed nosed “atory: ook: tie: Wak logical. Study of Social Issues, Dr. at the request of President Rios, and . ated by ‘the Marines: stonth alee Tolman concludes his discussion of. stating that it should be developed thay: osvupied. tha tamed: aud whale the psyscohological causes of war) according to the specifications Of the’ fiat siigulad wanielcantniewae ban with the claim that wars cannot be. Berkeley professor made during his. ;.46 him immediately. But a fore: — stopped until individuals become. stay in South America last year. stented Mariné intervened Pec seo conscious of, and loyal to, a group The garden will be close to the minding the boys of Christmas 1942. larger than their own immediate circity ‘of Valpariso and will contain wher they hed been eboare whiacan cle. . . 500 acres of hilly terrain near th?) the Pacific. Dinner on that day con-. He outlines a reconstructed S0°-. ., where there is still a considersisted of canhed corn beef, : iety that would save the world from . .4), amount of native vegetation. do the Matines, “with, vivissb ar the horrors of, war. Its features ar2:/ Fifty acres wil receive the more inbarbecued pig for Christmas, 1943, , an Sconomic, orden satisfying the . tensive development of the conven-. instead of the uaual canned rations,.,_ ultimate and basic needs of all i0-l tional botanical garden and will inpostpinad the aimawiiiaok 40 ane “ dividuals; an educational and social} ijqo examples of the most import-. -rney began to carry leftovers from symem encouraging easy indentifica-. ant plant families, particularly thé. iheir own meee 46 the part ‘of the-tion of an individual's traits, abil. species of those families native to. isjand inhabited by Mr. Pig. so that ~ ities and capacities; and a supra-na-:qnije, There will also be an area for he would be properly fattened for— tional state, or world federation, tO. Chilean trees and shrubs, one for the Yuletide, 5 ees e which individuals, whatever they . water plants, another for cacti and Rat, 4%: Bobby” Bares nee athe co may be, can ‘become more loyal than) ginher desert plants. The remainder Pt nytt lath blanecot aes to their narrower national groups. of the area will be a plant preserve men (and Marines) iaft gang agley.” “All this I know, is a Utopian) where future senerations will be. come didere to evacuate tie te dream,” Dr. Tolman writes, “And/. apie to see and study elements Of. iand and move farther ‘north, and yet, dream or.no dream, it of its like. the native vegetation of central the pig wasn: tueluded to theen. must be enforced by the victors of Chile. . pee ; AS present conflict, if our children and I ee OOE Ft pica is a: our children’s children are not 19 : : . Mr. Pig Was aceciiod barhtcued andi. > "i ’ : ag night of savagery is not once again lis : 4 r : eT ate their to descend upon all of mankind. . N. D. ' FARGO @ fetes tetesieries ©. eesert SOU xl ss the voters. véered to the other ‘side, ,and 53 per cent of the votes were tallied under the Republican emblem. z Even though the people of GregOry dislike many things about the New Deal, they do not forget the’ years when the Triple A saved them ‘through ‘seed loans, helped them to hold their produce for better prices and brought new ways of farming that made the prairie soil more profitable. Most of them think today that the time has come for a change. This is true éven of some of the most staunch defenders of the New Deal, ‘who feel that the administration is becoming too entrenched in power, too set in its ways, too far away from the people. Gregory is on the edge of the cattle country, but there is extensive growing of wheat, corn, barley and forage along with cattle, hog and sheep raising. Here is to be found the conflict of social and political trends that underlie the whole fabric of American politics today — the clash between the conservatives and the liberals—the traditional and the new—those seeking safety and those set for adventure. Dramatically illustrating this conflict are the views of two men living on farms that are close together, both of whom took up homesteads 39 years ago when the laiid was openéd, both of whom have had their ups and ‘downs, but are today more pros‘perous than ever before. * One is E. C. Biggins, wheat farmer, who came here from the cattle country along the Missouri: Breaks. He knew the Indians, ranched and SAMA a a ee ie ie ee ee le oe to where we couldn’t get $10 an acre for it. “Today we are again in a boom period, but a man who has reason knows he’s not really making money. There’s nothing that promises you security. The administration has promised good prices for two years, but they can’t keep such promises. _ _ “Now I like a Democrat, but. I can’t stand a New Dealer. They’re trying to do all the things that were never thought of before. They’re trying to shove this farming back to the birth of Christ. When they begin telling you how much‘ wheat to raise and what to: deo—wasn’t that what they did in Egyptian times? “I growed up right beside the Sioux Indians. They’d come in on butchering day and pick up scraps, but they’d never work. The New Dealers, most of them around here, are just like that. The administration tried to rehabilitate them, but they won’t rehabilitate, most™ of them.”’ ' Educational Program Helped Country Now let “‘Bill’’ Sinkular state his case: 3 ae : ‘The New Deal—not the whole setup—gave the farmer an educational program that’s been a life saver for this country. In 1934 this country was a desert. It had been ruined ‘. by dust-storms and drouth. In 1934nied eo be for sted, and it Chinese New Year falls on the “But I don’t think all the subfirst day of the new moon after the sidies they are paying out now sun enters the sign of aquarius; ‘are necessary. All that money thus, it can ‘be any time between January 20 and February 20.: Christmas dinner well — jahead, of schedule. : Giokax Fred Bertola Grass Valley pound. But they have one slim hope for master, has issued a warning that: noyt Christmas. Perhaps there will after today, all dogs found) on the be another wild pig nearer Tokyo. streets without license tags, will be ty? impounded,. and that owners . will then have to pay impounding fees in addition to a license. The casino of San Francisco’s unique shore side recreational center, Aquatic Park,’ resembles a streamlined battleship at anchor. California anglers caught an estimated 16,000,000 trout in state waters in 1942. © ee see Ua sor rgd that’s being paid out now to farmers who are _ prospering "a © 46 . . 8 : old, and farms 400 acres. : was the first around Gregory to join ~ administration. E. C. Biggins Wm. Sinkular Two farmers—two views. ran cattle, broke wild horses and layed poker. Of him a friend recated “He’s the kind of man who’s always been independent and doesn’t want to ‘be told.”” He doesn’t like the New Deal. He is 67 years The other is William Sinkular, who raises cattle, sheep and hogs, and most of the grain* which he feeds them. In the last few years he has netted between $12,000. and $15,000 & year from his 1,920 acres. He Non-Partisan league, one of the Sr te apeek op tor the Mecnevelt “T saw this land come up from nothing. Reople thought they were making money. A man took a homestead, borrowed money on it and made improvements. They drove the price of land up to where one could mortgage a farm for $10,000 Rural Credit Took ‘Land by Foreclosure “Then the deflation came. Steers we thought were worth $50 to $60 dropped to $12 to $14. Rural Credit took land in foreclosure—resold rich farms for $1,500—not a little but a lot of it. When the boom was on we ame period has seen-loans decline were offered $200 an acre for our land. We saw its value go down ‘must be paid in by somebody. I don’t think the subsidies are an attempt to buy votes; but the farmers themselves should know that inflation won’t do them any good. : ‘‘Many farmers would take anything they could get hold of, and yet these same men are the greatest enemies of the New Deal—the men who have profited most from it.’’ H.E. McKee, vice president and director of the Northwest Security National bank, and manager of the Gregory Branch, strongly supports this anti-inflation point of view. He has seen the deposits in his branch mount from $751,000 at the end of 1941 to $1,830,000 today, and in the from $694,000 to $430,000: Farmerspeculators are buying up the land . : today at prices that are too high, he déclares. “In the last year,” he said, ‘‘the Regional Agricultural Credit corporation has been lending money to anyone who would take care of more livestock to increase the meat supply. In 1940 there were 1,632,000 . : head of cattle in the county. Today there are more than three million head. It is the same with sheep and hogs; and it is about the same in other Western states. z “What we are doing is laying up an enermous surplus on the farms. If they let this go on for another two or three years it will wrec soto a WAR LOAN GARFIE l farming. We'll have the same condition that occurred after the last > As Gregory, South Dakota, Views It. . + Aerrecd . ti ath i ie 3 it i . : E i FE i : F f i : g 7 ar 4 swallowed all their radical ideas. artisan league, this friend was one to fall into that; and he ‘ae CAPTAIN: ‘SYNAR OK sTa_ Hotel Clunie — IT’S FAMOUS ae tea a ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP © Excellent 3

Page Three ope anime 4 City Nugget — Monday, iehass 31,1944 a. . CITIZENS OF GREGORY, S. DAKOTA, — BELIEVE ‘IT’S TIME TO GHANGE’ Farmers Remember Triple A Benefits but Foal Too . Much Centralized Control !s Unhealthy. . . By BARROW LYONS (EDITOR’S NOTE—This is one of a series of articles written for this i eee by Barrow Lyons, staff. correspondent of Western Newspaper Union. He has Just completed an extended trip through the nation and in these reports gives his first-hand impressions of what rural America is thinking as we enter the third year of war and the first weeks of a . presidential election year. Any opinions expressed are the writer’s and . not necessarily those of this newspaper.) é ' GREGORY; S. D.—This is a young town—even as western . towns go. It was planted by the government in the heart of the prairie—the country of the Rosebud Sioux Indians—39 years ago when the land was opened to homesteaders. With the exception of the lean years of grasshoppers and drouth, when dust storms obscured the sun, Gregory has thrived. It has a population of 1,400, and is the :chief trading center of Gregory county. Usually, the Republicans have carried the county by a slight mar jority. In 1924, year of the Coolidge . landslide, the GOP got 54 per cent of the votes. Again last year the Republican percentage was the same. But in the first New Deal election Roosevelt left the Republi. ux cid = cans only 26 per cent of the vote, i s.D. and in 1936 42 per cent. But in 1940 GREGO >" Re ae a a a Leatherneck Raiders Attack Torokina . . ACCURACY, “PROMPTNESS, . CLEANLINESS, . are now doubly assured in our . newly remodeled prescription rtment. All biologics are refrigerated. Only the finest are used. Fair prescription charges Fs U.S. Marine Corps Photo! A group of Marine Raiders crouch in the dense jungle undergrowth shortly after landing on the beach at Torckina in the Bougainville campoign..Camoufinged helmets and suits make it difficult. for enemy pianes and snipers to spot the junglo-fighting Soldiers of the Sea. WRITES BOOK ON GARDEN PLANNED CHRISTMAS MEAL ~ WAR CAUSES —_’ BYDR.GOODSPEED FORMARINES . a Drives . BERKELEY, Jan. 31:—One South; NEW GEORGIA, BRITISH ‘SOLToward War, new book by Dr. Ed-}american neighbor, Chile, will soon. QMON ISLANDS,’ (Delayed) Pigs ward C. Tolman, professor of PSY-. have a national botanical : garden. is pigs,” wrote Ellis Parker’ Butler, chology on the Berkeley campus of} made according to plans formulated jput if. fate and orders bad’nt interthe University of California, -has. by Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, professor of -vened, a wild porker on a little Marbeen published by the Appleton-! botany and director of the botanical. ine occupied Pacifie island would Century Company as a volume of the. garden on the Berkeley campus cf. have been turkey and drésbing: andCentury Psychology Series. the University of California. Word! cranberry sauce and mince pie, ‘all in Former president of the American. has been teceived of 4 presidential one, to a certain group of Marines. Psychological Association and chair-. decree authorizing actuisition “of the The Wane pie «one ot ee ae man of the Society for the Psycho-. site selected by Professor Goodspeed nosed “atory: ook: tie: Wak logical. Study of Social Issues, Dr. at the request of President Rios, and . ated by ‘the Marines: stonth alee Tolman concludes his discussion of. stating that it should be developed thay: osvupied. tha tamed: aud whale the psyscohological causes of war) according to the specifications Of the’ fiat siigulad wanielcantniewae ban with the claim that wars cannot be. Berkeley professor made during his. ;.46 him immediately. But a fore: — stopped until individuals become. stay in South America last year. stented Mariné intervened Pec seo conscious of, and loyal to, a group The garden will be close to the minding the boys of Christmas 1942. larger than their own immediate circity ‘of Valpariso and will contain wher they hed been eboare whiacan cle. . . 500 acres of hilly terrain near th?) the Pacific. Dinner on that day con-. He outlines a reconstructed S0°-. ., where there is still a considersisted of canhed corn beef, : iety that would save the world from . .4), amount of native vegetation. do the Matines, “with, vivissb ar the horrors of, war. Its features ar2:/ Fifty acres wil receive the more inbarbecued pig for Christmas, 1943, , an Sconomic, orden satisfying the . tensive development of the conven-. instead of the uaual canned rations,.,_ ultimate and basic needs of all i0-l tional botanical garden and will inpostpinad the aimawiiiaok 40 ane “ dividuals; an educational and social} ijqo examples of the most import-. -rney began to carry leftovers from symem encouraging easy indentifica-. ant plant families, particularly thé. iheir own meee 46 the part ‘of the-tion of an individual's traits, abil. species of those families native to. isjand inhabited by Mr. Pig. so that ~ ities and capacities; and a supra-na-:qnije, There will also be an area for he would be properly fattened for— tional state, or world federation, tO. Chilean trees and shrubs, one for the Yuletide, 5 ees e which individuals, whatever they . water plants, another for cacti and Rat, 4%: Bobby” Bares nee athe co may be, can ‘become more loyal than) ginher desert plants. The remainder Pt nytt lath blanecot aes to their narrower national groups. of the area will be a plant preserve men (and Marines) iaft gang agley.” “All this I know, is a Utopian) where future senerations will be. come didere to evacuate tie te dream,” Dr. Tolman writes, “And/. apie to see and study elements Of. iand and move farther ‘north, and yet, dream or.no dream, it of its like. the native vegetation of central the pig wasn: tueluded to theen. must be enforced by the victors of Chile. . pee ; AS present conflict, if our children and I ee OOE Ft pica is a: our children’s children are not 19 : : . Mr. Pig Was aceciiod barhtcued andi. > "i ’ : ag night of savagery is not once again lis : 4 r : eT ate their to descend upon all of mankind. . N. D. ' FARGO @ fetes tetesieries ©. eesert SOU xl ss the voters. véered to the other ‘side, ,and 53 per cent of the votes were tallied under the Republican emblem. z Even though the people of GregOry dislike many things about the New Deal, they do not forget the’ years when the Triple A saved them ‘through ‘seed loans, helped them to hold their produce for better prices and brought new ways of farming that made the prairie soil more profitable. Most of them think today that the time has come for a change. This is true éven of some of the most staunch defenders of the New Deal, ‘who feel that the administration is becoming too entrenched in power, too set in its ways, too far away from the people. Gregory is on the edge of the cattle country, but there is extensive growing of wheat, corn, barley and forage along with cattle, hog and sheep raising. Here is to be found the conflict of social and political trends that underlie the whole fabric of American politics today — the clash between the conservatives and the liberals—the traditional and the new—those seeking safety and those set for adventure. Dramatically illustrating this conflict are the views of two men living on farms that are close together, both of whom took up homesteads 39 years ago when the laiid was openéd, both of whom have had their ups and ‘downs, but are today more pros‘perous than ever before. * One is E. C. Biggins, wheat farmer, who came here from the cattle country along the Missouri: Breaks. He knew the Indians, ranched and SAMA a a ee ie ie ee ee le oe to where we couldn’t get $10 an acre for it. “Today we are again in a boom period, but a man who has reason knows he’s not really making money. There’s nothing that promises you security. The administration has promised good prices for two years, but they can’t keep such promises. _ _ “Now I like a Democrat, but. I can’t stand a New Dealer. They’re trying to do all the things that were never thought of before. They’re trying to shove this farming back to the birth of Christ. When they begin telling you how much‘ wheat to raise

and what to: deo—wasn’t that what they did in Egyptian times? “I growed up right beside the Sioux Indians. They’d come in on butchering day and pick up scraps, but they’d never work. The New Dealers, most of them around here, are just like that. The administration tried to rehabilitate them, but they won’t rehabilitate, most™ of them.”’ ' Educational Program Helped Country Now let “‘Bill’’ Sinkular state his case: 3 ae : ‘The New Deal—not the whole setup—gave the farmer an educational program that’s been a life saver for this country. In 1934 this country was a desert. It had been ruined ‘. by dust-storms and drouth. In 1934nied eo be for sted, and it Chinese New Year falls on the “But I don’t think all the subfirst day of the new moon after the sidies they are paying out now sun enters the sign of aquarius; ‘are necessary. All that money thus, it can ‘be any time between January 20 and February 20.: Christmas dinner well — jahead, of schedule. : Giokax Fred Bertola Grass Valley pound. But they have one slim hope for master, has issued a warning that: noyt Christmas. Perhaps there will after today, all dogs found) on the be another wild pig nearer Tokyo. streets without license tags, will be ty? impounded,. and that owners . will then have to pay impounding fees in addition to a license. The casino of San Francisco’s unique shore side recreational center, Aquatic Park,’ resembles a streamlined battleship at anchor. California anglers caught an estimated 16,000,000 trout in state waters in 1942. © ee see Ua sor rgd that’s being paid out now to farmers who are _ prospering "a © 46 . . 8 : old, and farms 400 acres. : was the first around Gregory to join ~ administration. E. C. Biggins Wm. Sinkular Two farmers—two views. ran cattle, broke wild horses and layed poker. Of him a friend recated “He’s the kind of man who’s always been independent and doesn’t want to ‘be told.”” He doesn’t like the New Deal. He is 67 years The other is William Sinkular, who raises cattle, sheep and hogs, and most of the grain* which he feeds them. In the last few years he has netted between $12,000. and $15,000 & year from his 1,920 acres. He Non-Partisan league, one of the Sr te apeek op tor the Mecnevelt “T saw this land come up from nothing. Reople thought they were making money. A man took a homestead, borrowed money on it and made improvements. They drove the price of land up to where one could mortgage a farm for $10,000 Rural Credit Took ‘Land by Foreclosure “Then the deflation came. Steers we thought were worth $50 to $60 dropped to $12 to $14. Rural Credit took land in foreclosure—resold rich farms for $1,500—not a little but a lot of it. When the boom was on we ame period has seen-loans decline were offered $200 an acre for our land. We saw its value go down ‘must be paid in by somebody. I don’t think the subsidies are an attempt to buy votes; but the farmers themselves should know that inflation won’t do them any good. : ‘‘Many farmers would take anything they could get hold of, and yet these same men are the greatest enemies of the New Deal—the men who have profited most from it.’’ H.E. McKee, vice president and director of the Northwest Security National bank, and manager of the Gregory Branch, strongly supports this anti-inflation point of view. He has seen the deposits in his branch mount from $751,000 at the end of 1941 to $1,830,000 today, and in the from $694,000 to $430,000: Farmerspeculators are buying up the land . : today at prices that are too high, he déclares. “In the last year,” he said, ‘‘the Regional Agricultural Credit corporation has been lending money to anyone who would take care of more livestock to increase the meat supply. In 1940 there were 1,632,000 . : head of cattle in the county. Today there are more than three million head. It is the same with sheep and hogs; and it is about the same in other Western states. z “What we are doing is laying up an enermous surplus on the farms. If they let this go on for another two or three years it will wrec soto a WAR LOAN GARFIE l farming. We'll have the same condition that occurred after the last > As Gregory, South Dakota, Views It.. . + Aerrecd . ti ath i ie 3 it i . : E i FE i : F f i : g 7 ar 4 swallowed all their radical ideas. artisan league, this friend was one to fall into that; and he ‘ae CAPTAIN: ‘SYNAR OK sTa_ Hotel Clunie — IT’S FAMOUS ae tea a ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP © Excellent 3