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PAGE TWO Rev. W. T. C. Briggs Continues Attack On A. A. A. Program , # Says Crop Figures For Chowan County Are Ah-. w surd and That Farmers Are Robbed of Their Liberties; Compliments the Herald I'. * , • ' f Editor’s Note: The articles appearing by Rev. W. T. C. Briggs does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Herald regarding the AAA. The Herald is anxious to present both sides of any question Effecting readers, and will be just as generous with space to anyone who desires to present their side of the AAA. According to “crop figures” which the Elizabeth City Daily Advance correspondent seems to have been furnished by County Farm Agent N. K. Rowell, which appeared in that paper of September 30, one who knows no better might infer that the AAA has made Chowan County farmers immensely rich. It seems to me I have read or heard of a young surgeon who was asked about an operation he had recently per formed. “It was a scientific suc cess: the operation was perfect,” was the nature of his reply. “How is the patient?” the inquirer con tinued. “O, well, the patient just couldn’t pull through—the patient died: the operation was perfect, though.” Now, these figures which Mr. Rowell has furnished the press remind me of that operation. To look at them at first glance they look scientifically accurate, and they seem to reflect that Mr. Rowell and his highly paid office force have this farming business figured down to a gnat’s-bristle. But where the rub comes in is, those figures are like the young surgeon’s operation: scientific ally accurate and perfect as they may seem, still they do not help the situ ation whatsoever. These figures of Mr. Rowell re mind me of the story of the Negro and his opossum. Sambo put his big nice opossum on to cook, and while the pot boiled Sambo fell off to sleep. While he slept another Ne gro, smelling the ’possum, crept in, and finding Sambo fast asleep, this visitor decided to “put one over on” Sambo. Whereupon he ate the ’pos sum himself, but very carefully greased the fingers and lips of Sam bo with a little of the grease and gravy which he had left for that purpose. He also left the bones, and; took his departure. By and by Sambo awoke, but to his consterna tion his ’possum was gone. He saw the bones, but the meat was gone. He saw the grease that was on his fingers, and began to taste a bit of the gravy that had been smeared on his lips, but when he felt of his stomach he found that it was even emptier than when he fell off to sleep. Yet, because the ’possum’s bones were before him, the grease on his fingers and the bit of gravy on his lips, in spite of his empty stom ach, Sambo very reluctantly con cluded in his mind that the ’possum was in his stomach—that he had eaten it in his sleep. Now, these flattering figures of Mr. Rowell re mind me of the grease on Sambo’s fingers and the bit of gravy on Sam bo’s lips; they do not relieve the craiint. fpplincr in t.hp stcimaoh nor gaum reeling in me swmacn, nor put any more clothes on the back— they do not help nor change the real situation whatsoever. As I feel my self over I find that I am very much emptier, as it were, than I was be fore the inauguration of the AAA; but I refuse to be deceived as was Sambo by the grease on his fingers and the gravy on his lips; 1 refuse to be deceived by these unreliable figures of Mr. Rowell when said fig ures are so utterly foreign to my own personal experiences and to my ob servations of others. For instance, Mr. Rowell says that in such and such a year there was a total of such and such a number of bushels of corn raised in Chowan County, and that it sold for such and such a sum of money. Now, a sec ond thought will show the absurdity of these figures. I know they can not be relied upon because I raised corn that year myself, and what 1 want to know is, how does Mr. Rowell know how much corn I raised that year and how much of it I sold when I don’t know myself, nor does any other man living know. And what can be said about myself can be said about untold numbers of others who raised com that year, is my opinion of the matter. Then if I took my peanuts off to another state and sold them that year, as did many others, and if I told Mr. Rowell nothing about how many bags I sold, nor what I received for them, what I want to know is, what does Rowell know about it, anyway? Yet he talks about the total number of this or that raised, and the total sum received for this and that sold from the county with the air of the omniscence of the all-wise God Him self. In all these years I have been farming in Chowan County only one time do I recall any man coming to me for a census of my farming, and I was unable to giee that man any thing accurate or satisfactory as to the sum total of my business. This 1 is just one illustration of how empty and unreliable are these figures these farm agents are bluffing out on the people. But what if these figures were ac curate? There would still be the other and the worse side of the pic ture that he has not turned to the public; for what would it profit me and many another man Ts peanuts l at ten cents per '>- pound when the AAA movement made it impossible for us to find suitable land upon which to raise even so much as one pound? And what does it profit me even if cot ton were selling for 40 cents per pound when this contemptible AAA forbad me to plant one seed of cot ton on the place I live? And what does it profit other farmers when 1 they are forced to pay from 50 tc 75 per cent of what they do get for their stuff back to the government tc pay county farm agents fabulous salaries, and for advanced prices on supplies and other attendant taxes and evils. It reminds one of pouring water into a bottomless jug—what have you got left in the end, any way? Besides that, there is a ter rible “hereafter” to this AAA mess; for it is being operated to a large extent on borrowed money which is helping to plunge the whole nation on into bankruptcy. Time will tell yet a far bigger tale than has yet been heard, if a stop is not put to this frenzied tyranny; and some of these farm agents, in boosting the accursed thing, are just building up a gallows upon which to be hanged themselves in the end, for when a deceived people once get their eyes really open to the deception which has been practiced upon them, it is then, “Woe unto those men who have deceived them.” Again I cry, this obnoxious thing has robbed us of our liberties. As someone has well said, “Here is a form of servitude or slavery—a slip ping back toward the middle ages. Even in America, where liberty blazed brightest and by its glow shed light on all the others, it is besieged from without and challenged from j within. But it were better that we j sacrifice something of economic effi ciency than to surrender these prim- j ary liberties. In them lie the spirit- j ual rights of men. Wherever in the world the system of individual lib erty has been sustained, mankind has been better clothed, better fed, bet ter housed, has had more leasure. Above all men and women have had more self-respect. They have been more generous and of finer spirit.” 'That silver tongued Southern statesman, Henry W. Grady, with eloquence, long ago defended our rights to exercise human freedom in our sowing and reaping and the sell ing of our crops. Here are some of his words: “When every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from his own pastures, and disturbed by no credi tor and enslaved by no debt, shall sit among his teeming gardens and or (Continued on Page Three) • • ; -- j* AB - B =i " Jk. _ for Better Taste © 1935, Liggett & UYBtfi Tobacco Ca ••.*•. • r ■ . THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C-, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1985. 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