Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1932, Page 19

WEST VOTE T0 GO FOR BETTER TIMES i,Farmers Hardly Satisfied With Sporadic Relief, as They Hark to Speakers. BY MARK SULLIVAN. CHICAGO, September 28—The po- litical color of the West is determined by the mood of the farmer. The mood of the farmer is determined by the depression. To attempt to predict how it will express itself in terms of States likely to be carried by either candidate would be idle. As of this date, the amount of discontent is formidable! A strongly prevailing sentiment in the West is to vote blindly against what is and against whoever is “in” whether Republican or Democrat. In one western community an aggressive exponent of common sentiment cir- culated a petition in which the signers ged to vote against every candidate from Presiuent down to the acuteness of it, 4s still mere present on the farm than in almost any other industry and in the West more than in any other sec- tion. The stirring of recovery that has appeared in some sections and some industries has not vet expressed itself in the West either in sufficiently in- creased pr for crops or in resump- tion of employment. Some Help in Price Rise. The increase in prices has helped some, but as respects about 50 per cent of the farms, there is a fundamental condition going deeper than can be remedied by any ordinary increase in the price of crops. The roughly half of the farmers who have mortgages on their farms are in deep and acute distress. ‘They cannot pay interest or principal with the prices of crops where they now are. They borrowed the money when wheat. for example, Was, Jet us say, a dollar a bushel. They are expected to repay when wheat is under 50 cents a_bushel. From 'their point of view, and in terms of the commodity upon which they depend, they borrowed $1,000 and are now expected to repay $2.000. Foreclosures is the result, and foreclosures gives rise in the farmers to that peculiarly acute resentment which is accompanied by a Jutified sense of wrong, by the feeling that they are being oppressed by a condition which is in no manner or degree their Zfault. It is not merely the foreclosed and evicted farmer who is angered. Some, though by no means all, of the iastitu- tions holding mortgages, are following a policy of cold routine foreclosure, sell- ing the farms at any price they will bring. Inevit; prices of land thus established ridiculously low, even by present standards. This creating of an artifically low price of land angers the whole community. In one of the most_conservative, law-abiding counties in all the West, there has been an incibient suggestion that farmers unite tc picket the court house in order’ to stop foreclosure proce: 25. One of the agencies conducting fore- closures consists of some, though not all, of the joint land banks. Nearly everybody these banks are Government institutions. h in fact they are not. bui are only super- vised by the Government as ordinary banks are. The resuli is resentment against the Govermment, which mean rescniment agail the admin’sirat and that means in many, many casés voies again-t Mr. Hoover. Aid Loan Plan. The jo ock land bank system was foundsd in 1916 an ipstrumentality the farmer: by loaning him a lower rate than private For the first 10 or 12 years of their existence they fulfilled this func- tion of beneficence. Now, very few of the banks or practically none, are mak- ing loans. Due to the change of con- ditions, they cennot make new loans because they cannot raise money to sell their own bonds to investors. Thus the system has practically ceased to fulfill the beneficent purpose for which it was founded. Worse, some joint stock banks have passed into new ownership, not identi- fled with the communities in which the banks function. As to these. the policy is cold foreclosure and sale of the land at any price. The result is justified Sr- ritation of whole commun: So well- balanced and thoughtfully edited a paper as the Des Mol Towa, Register, printed on N r a joint stoc buzzard with sitting on a limb watc proceeging and remarking with well- fed satisfaction, “It's a good depres- ‘That sentiment reflects, as w0 nt stock banks, not the angry emotion of farmers alone, but the de- liberate judgment of a new: fully conducted in the inte community and of the Nation. This policy of foreclosure of farm mortgages is not merely a passing de- tail of the depression. It is a funda- mental thing which in the judgment of thoughtful persons in the West must be remedied. It should be said that some institutions holding mortgages, in- cluding some insurance companies, fol- low a humane and enlightened policy of going as far as possible to avoid foreclosure. Sporadic Leniency Insufficient. Spcradic leniency by some mortgage holders is not, however, enough. It is insisted that either by legislation, o far as it can be done that v which is not far, or preferably by general vol- untary understanding, there will need to be a scaling down of principal of mortgages or rates of interest or both. Senator*Borah believes in the latter suggestion. Reduction of rate of inter- est is the remedy commonly recom- mended. The way the situation appears to common sense and to the average man’s instinct for justice is reflected by cne who said: “If the wages of men must be reduced. why not the wages of capital, money?” The sum of this condition is justified discontent, and the effect of justified discontent is votes against' the adminis- tration. It is not votes for Gov. Roose- velt, though of course he is the hene- ficiary. Nothing that Mr. Roosevelt has said so far has held out the concrete relief that the farmer seel On_the contrary, there is much about the vagueness of Mr. Roos altru- istic generalizations in _his speech on the farm p man_puts it. “there is no meat on Mr. Rosevelt’s bone.” So far has this sentiment gone that there is gossip that Mr. Roosevelt in his final West- ern speech will indorse a specific pro- posal called “crop allotment.” one more in the series of devices which have been discussed for some 10 years under vari- The depression lenders. of agonizing corns. > corn hurts you are fn miser: Why go thr sary torture drop or two of E. Remover and the almost immediately. Al few applications von can lift the corn out easily with your fingers. Don’t suffer another day. £o now to Peoples or anv £00d druggist and et a bottle of E. Z. Korn Remover. It costs only 35¢c. but is worth many sh_this unneces: ho ed with a pain- E.Z.‘Konrf ReMoOVER vesthe CORN THE EVENING STAR, W |WHITE WIFE OF RICH INDIAN, 90, BALKS U. S. SUIT FOR $550.000 Mrs. Barnett'’s Refusal to Testify Prompts Request to Washington for A&vice on By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 28.—A woman's deflance today temporarily halted efforts to learn what became of | a large part of the wealth of Jackson | Barnett, 90, multi-millionaire Creek | Indian. | So perplexed was the prosecutor at| i the refusal of the Indians white wife, | | Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnett, to give ) | her deposition in United States Com- | missioner’s Court that he awaited word from authorities at Washington as to | whether 1o proceed with contempt pro- ceedings against her. “We have been persecuted and prose- | cuted and tortured by the Government | since our marriage 13 years ago,” Mrs. | Barnett told the court.” “T don’t intend | to testify a there's nothing you can i do about i Woman's Depositions Sought. The Government sought depositions | from Mrs. Barnett in its suit to restore $550,000 to the estate of Barnett, which | was allegedly given her by the Indian. Other suits to restore approximately a half million more are pending against | { various persons, including one against | | Harold McGugin, Coffeyville, Kans., at- | torney and Congress member, and his | co-defendan Nell’Bird McGugin, the McGugin_Investment Co., and W. S.| Keith. The Federal Government, as guardian of the Indian who has been | adjudged incompetent, is seeking res< toration of the money. Unlike his wife, Barnett took the pro- | ceedings good-naturedly, and testified yesterday. SOCIALIST ELECTOR FILINGS REJECTED | Petitions Bearing More Than 2,000 Names Turned Down in Minne- sota by Attorney General. By the Associated Press. { ST. PAUL, Sentember 28.—Filing of 11 presidential electors in Minnesota for the Socialist candidate, Norman D. Thomas, has been refused by Secretary | of State Mike Holm. | The eJectors were on & petition con- | taining more than 2,000 signatures. Holm turned down the petition ves- | | terday after Attorney General Henry N. Benson ruled no more than one pres- | idential elector could be filed on a peti- | tion, and that 11 petitions would be needed carrying the required number of signatures. | | “As a result electors for Thomas will | not appear on the State ballot unless | new petitions are filed before the last date for filing closes, October 8. |RAILROAD IS .RETURNED [ TO OWNERS IN MEXICO Government Control of Southern Pacific Lines Relinquished as Com- mittee Seeks Wage Solution. ¥ the Associated Press. | NOGALES, Ariz., September 28 —The ]Soulhem Pacific of Mexico Railroad, { which has been under operation super- vision of the Mexican Government. since { last July 22, has been returned to the | control of its owners. it was announced | here vesterday H. B. Titcomb, of | Guadalajara, president of the line. | The Mexican Government assumed | operation of the railroad after a general | strike. | | A committee has been named by the railroad and labor unions to settle the disputed wage and personnel reduction points by conferences under way in Mexico City. | s names, such as “debenture plan,” “equalization fee” and the like. | All this composes the campaign in the West. The next development will | be whatever Gov. Roosevelt says in his | final Western speech at Sioux City, | Thursday night, September 29. After | that the subsequent development will | be President Hoover's speech at Des Moines October 4. FACE HELCNA RUBINSTEIN'S ROUGE— LATEST BIOLOGI ow, Jack,” he was asked. “did you ' | parlors. Contcmpt. want your wife to have your money or not?” “Sure.” answered Barnett. been good to me.” However, he added, if he were to| do it all over again he isn't sure he| would get married. “In Indian tribes,” he said, “the orave just picks out a squaw for his own. ‘Maybe that's a good idea—I don't kmow.” Barnett became suddenly wealthy from_discovery of oil on his land in Oklahoma. His home is one of the largest on Wilshire Boulevard, one of Los Angeles’ most exclusive residential thoroughfares. But he still observes farmers’ hours. He was asked what time he retired and arose. “Bed at 8 and out at 4,” he replied. Helps Direct Traffic. “What do you do between 4 o'clock and breakfast time?” “Oh, I ramble about and help direct traffic. The others get up when they get ready. I go downtown near park then for breakfast.” After the Indian left the stand the Government put a long, hypothetical question to two mental specialists who have been observing Barnett. Dr. Frank L. Long answered that he be- lieved Barnett to have been mentally incompetent and = mentally deficient from a period in 1920, when he was married, to the present time, adding that the Indian did not possess the ability to comprehend, understand or appreciate the nature of the acts he was performing, especially concerning the disposition of his fortune. COLE RITES HELD Masonic Lodge Has Charge of Serv- “She’s ices at Hyattsville. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 28— Funeral services for George W. Cole, 81, who died Monday in the home of his son, Harry O. Cole, West Hyattsville, of | a complication of ailments, were held this afternoon at local undertaking Rev. U. S. A. Heavener, pastor of Memorial M. E. Church, officiated The services were in charge of Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge, of which Mr. Cole was a member. 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