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FSA COMMUNITY 18 STEP TO MEET

TENANTS’ NEEDS

‘Arkansas Project Promotes

Common Ownership of Farm Land.

° By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer LAKE DICK, Ark, March 25— We sat on the steps of the co-opera-

* tive store in the Government's new-

est type of resettlement farm community, warming in the genial sun and gazing across a shining lake at the neat new houses which fringed the placid water. : The. serenity was. disturbed by a

- truck which stopped, with a spray

of dust, before the store. The back was piled high with furniture. A

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serious-faced young man, tan, spare| °¥

and lithe, went into the store behind us.

the yourig man who runs the store. “I just wrote you this morning to tell you to come on.” “Well, here I am,” was the reply. They are the 54th family of farm tenants to move from patches of ground on big Arkansas plardtatiohs to try a new life on the” Govern-

- ment’s latest experiment.’

Each family has a house, with a couple of acres of garden space behind to raise vegetables, and a chicken house. They are purchasing the property from the Jovernment on 40-year terms: rg

Ownership in Common

The novelty of this Lake bick project is that the tenants: are to work in common on a huge acreage,

also owned in common. They will be paid a daily wage equal to the

prevailing plantation wage for the:

| * particular tasks each will perform.

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At the year’s end, profits from the farm and from. the ‘co-operative store will be divided. A council, selected by the community, is to have general charge, under Govern"ment supervision. Boards, subject

. to the council, will operate the store,

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barns, warehouse, machine shop, meat-curing plant, potato, house, sorghum mill and school. This is the first project of this type sponsored by the Farm Security Administration of the Agricul-

ture Dep, . It is a prospect far different from that to which thousands of farm residents in this region have been accustomed—bleak acres and a. tumbledown, unpainted shack. When filled up the Lake Dick community will care for 80 families. The land lies in the alluvial basin of the Arkansas River and is very rich. It fd be planted in cotton, corn, pot s, soy. beans and hay. - Plow Night and Day

Tenants supply their own furniture dnd hotisehold equipment. The: families—all young—were carefully selected. All were tenants on big plantations. The average age is around 27, with none over 35. They are a sturdy-looking lot. Plowing was going forward briskly as we rode around the fields. Thirty mule teams were busy, and two tractors. The young supervisor has equipped the tractors with lights, and they are going night as

" well as day.

The. community plant is splendidly equipped. The community house has eight rooms for school, a kindergarten, a chemical laboratory, a large auditorium, a kitchen, and an outside concrete stage for meetings and entertainments. A representative of the Farm Security Administration from Washington has arrived to work out, with project directors, a practical educational ‘program.

Absentee Landlords Hold Land

: Basically, the immediate objective |

of the FSA is to show, through this and other. projects, what tenant farmers may do for themselves if properly encouraged. A The ultimate objective is to get the land, huge blocks of which are held by absentee landlords,” back into . the hands of small, independent farmers and to restore economic democ-

racy in the Southern farm country. | |

President Roosevelt recently has been trying to convince big businessmen of their interest in solving the tenant problem of the South. Successful independent farmers will furnish a market not now available, as tenants who live’ on a pittance

dc not contribute to the stream of |

purchasing power. The tenant porblem_ is a ree one. In 10 Southern states there are now 1,790,783 tenant families, of which 1,091,044 are white. last decade the number of' white tenant families increased by 200,000, while the number of Negro tenant families dropped by 2000- (due to migration to Northern cities). Estimating each family at five persons, the South- has a tenant population of nearly: 9,000,000. " The Federal Government can only guide and advise in solution of this problem. Fundamentally it is a Arkansas has led the way in the South, and a commission appointed by Gov. Carl Bailey will meet aagin next month to iry to work out a concrete

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program. “This will probably involve utilization of lands returned to the State for failure to pay taxes, purchase ‘of new lands, some forms of tax exemption ,and a standard contract between landlord and tenant to protect the latter.

EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF DELAWARE DIES

BALTIMORE, March 25 (U. P.).— Bishop Philip Cook, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Delaware.

died early today at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 62 years old. Mrs. Cook was:'with him when he died at 12:50 a. m. Bishop Cook was operated on several weeks ago and before then had been under observation at the church home and infirmary here. Dr. Walter E. Dandy, brain Specialist, (#gnosed his ailment as a tumor of the brain.

N.Y. C. WON'T SHUT BEECH GROVE SHOPS

Official Is Mystified at Origin

of Rumors.

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today had the assurance of New k Central Railroad System officials that the railroad will not discontinue operations at its Beech Grove shop. \ F. E. Williamson, an official of the system, said in a letter to the Chamber, that he was “at a loss to understand the origin of these rumors.” He added that-general conditions have made it necessary from time to timé td reduce activity at the

the photo above, while the workers in the forbatausil seek victims immediately after an explosidh, smoke, debris and more human bodies shoot skyward in ‘background as another missile” explodes.

} sncion, but that curtailments at Beech Grove have not been greater than at other principal shops of the company:

SEEK CHANGE IN ROAD

i LA PORTE, March 25 (U. Py — Two hundred La Porte and Starke County Farmers today had filed a

petition with the State Highway Commission asking a direct route for establishment of a state road from lLa Porte to North Judson. The route previously proposed is through Wellsboro and Hanna. :

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Judge Baker Denies Writ to ‘Emmons but Suggests Plea for Parole.

Attorneys for Thomas Emmons, 29, plan to seek: his pardon from a 10- to 25-year seritence imposed for a $15 robbery, they said today. Emmons was sentenced about two years ago when he entered a plea of guilty to the charge in Criminal Court. The action came after Judge Frank P. Baker of Criminal Court denied a petition for a writ. of error, but suggested that Emmons make application for a parole. Judge Baker declared that, in his opinion, a 10- to 25-year sentence

for robbery is too severe in many

cases, and that it should be “2-to-50 | years.’ “Many cases justify a heavy

penalty,” he said, “but I believe that justice would be served in a greater number of cases if the courts could fix terms as low as

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