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Negro Farmers Have
Prospered Under
Farm Credit Act
Now York — Negro agricul
tural leaders from eleven south
ern States . recently vinited tho
tHrni Administration
Bureau, Wa)#iinn*^n, as goests
of ComoHug Kingr, Special Ai»tii
tant to the Governor of that or-
firanization. They werp accompan-
ending: December 31, 1939, Mr.
Kinif diaclosed there were 4$
all-Netfro Federal credit union*
that, under Federal Buperviflion,
had made loana. to farm members
of the group, totalinfr nearly
$350,000. In 1980, Nejfro farm
ers borrowed |12)5,804.00 ;fr iin
credit unions of their own jfTOup.
Tlh« .intfrest wamtnjr »n>ountod
to almost ^,000.00 of which
11,5154.00 wa« rMurned t° the
mem'bers of these, union* in the
form of dividends.
8,167 Negrro faimers of Geor-
Ria, Florida, North and South
ied by W. !4. Elam, of the D> i
IMirtment of the Interior and en- Carolina, borrowed $1,798,9 .0 'oklahoma, hag
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husiastically receivr>d by Gov.
Hill and other menibors rf tiie
F€A bureau and Prodttction
Credit Associations.
Governor Hill explained that
tfhe Farm Credit Adimindstration
was a “New Deal" system under
which the Federal Government l®tock, for
was educating and training the tiona and
throutflb the production credit
associations undor the supervision
of the Farm Credit Administra
tion Bureau. Loans ransred from
$60.00 to $15,000.00. They werp
obtained by the borrowers to bu;
seed, fertilizer, equipment, live-
repair work, altera-
farm bvrildingg and
district. It’i a grand thing *or
u» black farmers." farmo’’-
borrower in Louiiiana declared
that, “I’ve been with the associa
tion aince they firs gtarted hero
and lAifiy have alwaya treatsd me
fine and helped in solving my
problems. President iloosevelt has
the thanks of all us farmers for
his New eal farm program.
Questioned as to specific casf*
concerning some of the Color’d
member-borrowers of FCA ser-
▼ices, Mr. King c*H;ed the follow
ing examples selected from the
Oklahoma territory:
Robert Partridge of Boley,
1160 acres if
Dr. Brown Speaks
AtS.C.StateCoDege
important i nthe plant for our
national defense.
The Honorable Gov. Olyde R.
■Hoey recently iRtued a state
ment, of much import on this
timely top^ic, throwing a hint to
county boards to include repre-
gentativca of th« Colored race,
who ■re rufficientlv qualified,
on Buc-h boar)«.
Orangeburg, S. C, — Doctor
Charlotte Hawkin* Brown, presi
dent of Palmer Memorial Institute
Sedajia, North Carlina, told
students here st South Carolina
A and M College >this week, thatj Disregarding tlie facte
students came to college ‘‘for the local picture, it was indubitobly
purpose of developiiig sound jagsumed that out of approxi/n
character” -when she spoke to
eight hundred at a special pro-
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farmers to help themselves. He
assured the visitora that he ap
preciated Ijhe splendid work they
were doing among their own peo
ple and was elated with the
splendiid re«?ulbs to date. He
home furnishings.
The applicats for Uhese loans,
colored ag well ag white, are
members ^f their local associa
tions, have a voice in the mar-
agemertt) and control of the unit, Yower of the
concluded his welcoming address share equally in the distri-jpj,j.jjj Loan Association at Oke
with, “Yo'U teachers have a rsalibution of dividends. The produ> jjjah, Okla. owns 120 acres, of
land with more than 80 acres
under cultivation. He has 38
very fine Hereford cattle, 138
Poland China hogs, and ample
poultry and turkeys. Even at
thig season he *till haa on hand
gome 1500 pounds of cured pork.
The place is managed by Mb two
"ns and worked by eleven te^i-
ant families. Mr. Partridge is a
member of the County AAA Com
mittee and is also a meber of the
State FSA Committee.
P. L. Anderson, member-bor-
Farmers National
gram.
Dr. Brown, who spent two days
at the college lecturing to groups
on etiquette as found In her
new book “The Correct Thing to.
Do,” stated that the basis of good
manners was a sound moral
character.
The special topic of her lec
ture at the aseembly on Thursday
was “The Price of the Bert.” In
ately 4'6,0OO Negroes in Meckli’i-
brg County not a one was suffici
ently qualified to act in such an
important capacity.
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opportunity to further assist injtion credit members are requir-
improving the business end of tp purchase shares to the ex
farming and placing it upon a|ten.t of $5.00 for each $100.00
rnudh sounder basis. And by of his loan. In this way the
work*ing together in this direction j farmer borrowers are gradually
we can go places.” iincreajring their Investment in
In his report for the yearjt^iese associations which Is In
full accordance with President
Roosevelt’s New Deal aims that
these farmer member borrowers
shall eventually have complete
ownership of Wie whole co-opera
tive farm credi^t system now
under government eoipervlsion.
which 72 acres are in cultivation.
He has a 5-acre orchard com
posed of apple, peach, pear, and
plum trees, and aibout one acre
in grapes. Hi* orchards consider
ed one of the best in that se'i-
tion. Over 300 chickens, seven
beef cattle, and 1« hogs serve
to supplement the income from
the orchard and cotton crops.
Mr. Anderson’s gon is in partn^sr
ship with him.
The most iwfceresting member
of the Elastern Oklahoma Nationil
It must be admitted thatjParm. Loan Association at Tahle-
President Roosevelt’s Farm Cre- qah, Okla., was a widow, Mr^.
. j. x_-x. _ ^ 1 . operatimg a
Dr. MacLean Says
Negro Girl And Her
DoU Are Symbol
thia world as few* of her parents
or teachers know it. She kn«>w
geography better ithan i had ever
learned it in school; better in
fact, than I knew it until 1, too,
began to fly. As the states flow
ed past far below su, wc knew,
Olaudia and I, .that they weren’t
different colors as our maps
showed. thom; that ntlbody fan
»n thejreally leli where Penj\ailvania
leaves off and Ohio begitJs, and
that perhaps it ia foolish for us
to think much, aay more, about
one state and another instead of
about Just America.
“And Claudia and I knew a ?ot
from both >thc pilots and the
nurse hostess about how weather
is made upstairs, how the winds
breed, and what makes the air
bumpy, sometime* like a country
road. We saw the glorious clouds
not a» one does from earth, drift
ing through the sky, but fro,n
r,
f'
Hannpton, Va. — “The little i«*t below them so that they
.. . . Negro girl «nd her doll ^«-e like a warm, gray ceilina
developmg this topic. Dr. Brown ^ that we could almost touch by
emphasiied the importanec ofl^^ ^ symbol of thi« New World. ’ lifting up our hands. And wa
developing a sound character j dramatic sentence comes |Saw them from the sides wh.n
'T®?,, ^!^on» thejeading article in theltbe plane drove through * giant
discipline of^the mind Parent-,canyon between two towerin,?
thunder breeders. We saw them
aga'in from the top, massed
“the elevation of the gpirit.”[
I Teacher Magasine, “It Is a Small
I World,” by Dr. Malcolm S. Mac-
Lean, mewly elected president of
Haqi'pton Institute.
®i.
Dr. MacLean, who will be
cially inducted i^ito offWe
Novemfcer 215 ag tHanip'ton’s sixth
president, met Claudia, a little
Negro girl of ten, aboard an air-
‘There must be long hours spent
at serious work which is the
price students must pay for the
best.”
Group conferences vlere held
witih the various classes and or
ganizations in the college. Dr.
Brown’s schedule for lecture?
and conferences were:
October 17, address to student iHner e« route tt> Minneapotis
aasemibly, lecture in the after- from New York. Her reactions
noon to senior young women at jto this vayagre inspired Dr. Mac-
the campus YWCA Hunt, and in Lean to tel\ her story to parente
the eveing a lecture to senior and teachers all over the nation.
heavily and pouring a rain down
dit Ad>ministration Program has
be?n a blessing to the Negro
Gordon, who was
160 acre farm with the help of
farmer. It has protected him fromi}]er tivrcg boyg, ranging in ag»
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eploitation and loan sharks and
brfng forced into peonage ser
vitude. It has done wonders in
building good will and the spirit
of cooperation among the farm
ers of the iSouth—^who are no’v
living In ^ much friendlier atti
tude toward cne another.
Mr. King reports many interest,
ing talks he had with memfcer-
borrowers of the Farm Credit
AdminisStration’s produc^tfion cre
dit associations. One farmer In
Georgia proudly exhibited his re
ceipt showing final payment on
hig loans and happily exclaimcd,
I borrowed $150.00 to .finance
m!y crop and the interest was only
$3'.5|6. Another said, “I saved
$37.00 on interest last year by
borrowing through the produc
tion credit association
froan 12 to ’28 yeare. The county
agent, A. H. Furii of Mugkogee,
had assristed 4n helping her to
secure the loan and was there
fore intensely Interested in In
structing them in the proper
management of the farm 9o a'* to
support the family, meet the
semi-annual payments, and ^Iso
keep up operating expenses. Mrs.
Gordon proudly showed ug her
turkeys, chickens, hogs, and beef
cattle she was raising to supple
ment the cotton and small grain
as major cagh crops. IShe stated
that the income from her poul
try met! the Spring note.
Consumer protection is aim of
anti-trust drive, Arnold sajrs.
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., left an
of niyestate of $2,318,65L . ,
young men. Oetober 18, freshmen
young Women at a morning sess
ion and a lecture to the freshmen
young men followed. A lecture
was given to junior and sopho
mores Friday afternoon. Tho
final conference was with all
young men Friday night.
Presiden.6 M. P. Whittaker a»>-
nounced Jtfiat several outstanding
leaders and lecturers will come
to the college this year. Dr. Browr
was the firsife of this group invite.1
to the college thi^ year.
Local Draft Board
Ignores Race
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Draft Board Icmore* Race
Charlotte — The recent publica
tion of the membership roll of
the MeckWnburg C/Ounty draft
hoard reveals the fact )hkt no
representative of the local Color
ed population was appointed a
member of this body, w>hich iS: all
on folks in Cleveland while we
were up in clear sunlight. And
sometimes they were scattered,
tiny, and just floating with a
breathless stillnes*, like a paint
ing that) always stands still,
Claudia said. /
“And finally Claudia, holding
her small doll up ta the window
to see Lake Michigan, the
doll softly, but »o that 1 could
hear, how glad she was the two
of them lived in America where
they could fly, instead o^ in ,
England where little garls and'
their doll* had to run into bomb
shelters and hide when -planeg
flew over. To me the little fly
ing Negro girl and her doll will
gftiand to the end of my days as a
symbol of this New Yorld.”
“In more than one hundred
thousand miles of flight on com
mercial airlines, going about my
edudatlpnal businee*,” rwrites
Hampton’s president, the former
Dean 0 fthe Gej^i'jil College at
the Uniiversity of Minnesoca,
I have sat ibeside many children,
but the moat striking of all, the
moat symbolic, perhaps, of what
is ahead, was Claaudia,
“Claudia i» a Negro girl of ten
years. She was flying alone fro’.i
New York to Minneapolis. Her
moither, a social worker, and
three little friends saw her off at
the LaGuardia Airport, New
York, at eight in the morning.
Two hours later, at Pittaburgh, York — The Minton amend
she spent fifteen minutes with to the Ramspeck Bill (H.
cousins while the plane refueled to substitute the finger
and tooi^
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on a few pa»engers.
At the lAiicago field she .passed a
happy hour and a half with her
grandmother and four children
print for the photograi^ as a
means of identlficatioTiv, will be
supported by 3i5 Congre^wncn
and 6 Senators, according to
she had lairt seen in Georgia. And early returns 'from an ‘t^peal
at four thirty that afternoon by the National As-
aihe landed in the arms of her ^goclation for the Advancement «f
aunt an>d unde *nd anolher group Colored People.
Something: New!!!
Something' Different!!!
of cousins in Minneapolis.”
“But 'in the hours betweenj
when Claudia and I gat side by
side, in a twenty one passenger
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up, at 1®0 miles an hour, I caught Sgnate conference committee.
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