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“Smacks of Socialism**
Declares One Farmer
A calmly begun - meeting of about 25 farmers and county business men, ended in a bewildered question mark Tuesday evening at the Courthouse, when the Agricultural Administration program was discussed and a tentative study made of the forth-coming Family Farm review and opinion pensus.
With H. S. Barksdale, W. H. Lyne, J. S. Lynch, Tom Jeffries, Caleb Fennock, L. B. Henretty, ' and Mr. White of the F. H.A., the local farmers tried to find out the. purpose of this survey. <
The first question arose when* it was found that a time limit of— 45 days (15 of them already) gone) was set on making the re-., port. The book sent to the local agricultural men contained 121 pages of instructions and must be placed before all the farmers in the county within the stated time.
Upon investigating this 121page book 6f instruction—which was jokingly referred to as the “sears-arbuckle catalog" before the meeting was over—the local farmers wanted answers to many questions before they went any farther.
“What will these recommendation* coat?" was a favorite. —
“Where did this whole pro-/ gram of asking the “grass roots" for their opinions start?" was an-i other.
“How much more taxes frill this mean?” was still another.
When the answer to not a single question was forth-coming, one farmer present stated in disg35t: “How many more votes for Truman will this furnish in 1952?"
The result of the meeting ended in many opinions with a single under-lying thought: “This whola affair smacks of socialism, and we don’t like what little we know) about it.”
The original book of instruct tions, which came from Washington —exactly where from seems vague—calls for a county-wide meeting first, to acquaint the whole . citizenry with the proposition.
The farmers present Tuesday night have sent in a list of ques- . tions which they want answered by the time of 'that countywide meeting, set for Friday night, August 24, at ithe Courthouse.
The purpose of this county-wide meeting is to try to ferret out what’s behind this business. If it’s fair, then the local farmer^ can support it; if it’s foul, Rappahannock will get its chance to "Complain—long and loud!
Toward the end of the meeting one of the county farmers spoke up thus: “America has become great by being a free and independent people, and a question can arise in our minds that unless men do some scratching for them-, selves, America may be lost in socialism and its freedom and greatrfess lost at the same time." „ More definite plans for the county-wide meeting will be announced in time for everyone in the county to know about the
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