Delta Weekly, The (Newspaper) - February 28, 1938, Greenville, Mississippi WEEKLY A Journal of Fact and Opinion VOLUME 1 FEBRUARY 28 1938 NUMBER 2 The Delta Weekly Is published each Monday by the Delta Publishing Company 107 Walnut Street Greenville Mississippi Subscription price in the United States and its dependencies is two dollars a year payable in advance single copies five cents Entered as matter October 26 1937 at the post office at Greenville Miss under the act of March 3 1879 IF IT were not for the findings of these public polls conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion we'd com- lose faith in the reasoning power of the American people Ordinarily we only the blatting of the organized groups the lobbyists and the entrenched politicians The Institute polls and similar painstaking efforts to ascertain real public attitudes so often contradict the stands taken by the arousers of the public that we are heartened For instance two announcements of the Institute this week attest to sanity among the majority though the majority is narrow in one instance per cent of the people of the United arrived at by the pose the payment of pensions to widows of world war veterans if such payments are made regardless of the way the veteran died or when he died But sixty-eight per cent are against such pensions if they tate additional taxes Another result shows seventy per cent of our citizens against lic ownership of the railroads on the grounds that they would be less efficient and that the precedent would be dangerous Please allow us to cheer at these two votes It is wicked impractical and unpatriotic to ask for pensions for the widows of every man who served his country in time of war by draft or as a volunteer We have almost for- gotten as a nation that the citizen owes more to the state than the state owes to the and that the debt can and should be called in time of national peril It is freely granted here that the widow of every man who died in conflict or as a result of injuries or illness directly attributable to his service should be awarded a pension But that ery wife of the three million draftees who were married at the time of the war or since should become a ward of the government when the husbands We ize that it is fashionable to take from the lic till as long as a single cent remains But it's about time to begin making it unfashionable Pay every widow of a training camp veteran and the next thing we'll have demands from the Boy Scout widows the bereaved loved ones of the Benevolent Order of the hungry squaws of Redmen We hope the fifty-six per cent stands pat and that Congress will listen to them instead of to the organized gougers THE nationalization of railroads is er objective at which we look with ticism At present our political ers do not represent the top fringe of ica's intellect or honesty or we say this with due regard for that minority of splendid and efficient public servants who are to be found principally in the public service categories Instead the public em- ployes represent political pull and the spoils t i system in the main To turn over as ant a national asset as the railroads to the politicians seems to us suicidal We think it was H G Wells who said that the visions of the New Deal implied a strong civil ice but that the politics of the New Deal prohibited it Until socialization of our lic utilities can be accompanied by the esty and efficiency that only a true civil service can bring we want none of it The railroads may have got themselves in a pickle but we think that a lot of the vinegar for the pickle was brewed during government time operation Contents THEY'RE WEARING Frontispiece Joy Smith EDITORIALS 3 STORY OF THE COVER Page 4 THE APPOINTED PLACE Page 5 Barber ANALYSIS OF FARM Page 6 Oscar Johnston DOWN ON THE FARM Page 8 Claud COAHOMA SYPHILIS Page 8 TOWARD A GREATER DELTA Page 9 The Delta C of C RECOLLECTIONS OF 1890 Page 9 Don DELTA Louise Crump THE Comprehensive News Resume four as I am an and as as American blood runs in these I shall hold myself at liberty to speak to write mid to publish whatever 1 please on any subject being amenable to the laws my country for the same Lovejoy A THIRD report of the Institute isn't particularly important as concerns the American scene but also attests the greatness of heart of our people Seventy-five per cent of Americans ing the poll favored the Spanish Loyalists and their support is overwhelming despite an accompanying belief that the opposition will win That's one thing which is gratifyingly American We'll pick the underdog especially if we think he's right and the money angle doesn't matter America is for Loyalist Spain and America is for China though our pocketbooks point the opposite STATE Commissioner of Agriculture J C Holton sees at least one beneficial provision in the new farm act That is the authorization for laboratories to de- vise and prove the practicability of new uses of farm products Mr Holton comments this week on the remarkable progress in the field of chemurgy through which hundreds of new agricultural by-products have found their way into industry He points out that like are vitally necessary to the future of cotton Consumption of American cotton has declined despite consumption within America at record heights because of reduced export markets Mr Holton says The South is cotton country must produce cotton in reasonable quantities and minimum production can be continued indefinitely only at terrific final cost markets for American cotton must be expanded by new uses and by extended uses in present fields of limited usage This isn't a new sermon Mr Holton was among the agricultural com- missioners who urged six years ago that the government enlarge its experimental fields through the formation of cotton products laboratories Such men as Oscar Johnston Will Garrard David Cohn and many others have been preaching expansion of cotton uses and experimentation with new uses for years We hope that a cotton laboratory will be in the Delta Certainly one should be established in Mississippi the heart of the Cotton Belt The government can serve its people better through the certainties of scientific research than through the less de- finable experimentation with economics SPEAKING of new uses for we hereby proclaim with pardonable pride that we inveigled our better half this week into buying a couple of pairs of lisle hose We were converted by last week's article but she wasn't until talked at greater length Now she likes them We pass along this bit of personal history so that er Delta males may become heartened The stockings look good we avow as a connois- seur THIS week we publish the first parl of a two-part analysis of the cotton by Oscar Johnston This interpretation js the most complete yet made and the Delta and the Cotton South are both indebted for Johnston's understanding of a which isn't understood by three-fourths of the con- gressmen who voted for it The second part will be printed next week We urge every Delta planter who receives the Weekly to read the articles carefully and then submit it to a friend who is now a reader As one There's nothing like knowing what it is thai hits you These articles will interpret w h a t is hitting the Delta and cotton in general Read it then pray Tenant Farmers Union is to affiliate directly with the C I O We cannot sec that they or the South will derive any benefit from a tie-up with an organization which is primarily industrial M f 1113 I i j'S II J S rjS if Sf 5 n 35 5 1 51 U 3 5 JS
