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UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 26TH 1934
WASHINGTON TO CHICAGO
Clifford Evans: New York Post
"You can’t help becoming aware of how
effortless and polished is the play of such actors as Miss Keats or Mr
Evans.
As the young movie director who is in love with
her, Mr Evans shows such force and yet such simplicity in his finely played
emotional scenes that he indicates beyond all doubt that he is (if I may
coin a phrase) a young actor who deserves close watching.
Brooklyn Times Union:-
"Some of the evenings finest playing was
provided by Clifford Evans as Toby the cinema director. There is one scene
in which Mr Evans is called upon to portray the deliriums of fever that is a
masterpiece of tortured acting. "I forecast a brilliant career for both Miss
Keats and Mr Evans 1n this country. They’re players of fine ability and they
scored individual successes in this play.
New York Times -
September 26th -
‘As
the enflamed young chap who wants to marry her Clifford Evans gives a superb
performance of a difficult part. One scene he plays with Dame Sybil where he
is portraying a delirious fever patient is a remarkable bit of reticent
anguished acting. It arouses the keenest anticipation of Mr Evans future on
stage.
H.T Sept 26th -
"There
is also real playing by Mr Clifford Evans, a young man about to go to
Hollywood gives a grand exhibition of delirium brought on by love and
influenza".
Roosevelt Radicalism
N.Y. H.T. -
Efforts Now for Entente cordiale between business and the administration.
Since Oct.24, when President Banks administration has given evidence of
desire to impress business and banking with conservatism Secretary of
commerce Daniel C Roper saying there will be "no general and sweeping
application of reform measures."
Roper assured businessmen of the
Administrations faith in private initiative and profit system and promised
review of the NRA -a
permanent program proposed to start limiting the role of the Federal
Government in relief work and discourage Richbergs overhauling of the NRA.
Exception -
Richbergs chosen this identical time to re-energise his drive against public
utilities. All things showing that utilities will be the whipping boy.
President:- What’s happening in the Tennessee
Valley will eventually be duplicated in every state in the union.
Why the Truce? -
Failure of two of N.R.A. and Mon. experiments.
Business declined from the middle of May until
the middle of October and despite huge expenditures of the last 18 months
there has been little real recession in unemployment and relief rates will
be larger than ever.
Bus. -
Realised that the President is in for probably 6 years, therefore have to
co-operate.
Convinced that only alternatives to this is
something worse.
Dem. vote fell off more in the election than
did the Republican vote.
Trade upswing in Oct and Nov -
Industry Sept 71% (1723.5 avg)
Oct .
73%
Steel: Sept 23% of capacity, Oct 25%. Factory
employment
increased, freight carriage decreased.
Mark Fullow. Nov 26 - Progress towards restoration of private
industry and away from Government industry. Moving away from inflation.
Japanese Consul on.Train
"I’m going to Amoy a very dangerous region,
perhaps I’ll be shot. It’s just near Formosa so if there’s trouble between
the Chinese and Japanese it’s Formosa they’ll attack."
American influence is extending very rapidly
near Amoy they were building an aerodrome there. So they are sending me
there because I know English. Then there are the Communists to the North and
it is the centre where the Chinese hate the Japanese most.
He laughed at Araki’s speech. "He’s a
militarist. Business people and intelligent people don’t like him. The
military one in power. Hayashi was nominated by Araki, he’s
got the young officers on his side
the Government patriot.
Intelligent people are very afraid of war with
Russia, communism is spreading rapidly, lots of young people are falling for
communism.
"Now loyalty to the emperor is the basis to our
National life. So that if communism grows perhaps something will have to be
done about it. The Russians will spread communist propaganda in Manchuria,
although propaganda tells us that Chinese in Manchuria are on our side I
don’t believe it. They must hate us.
Out of 300 in the examination I was 4th.
1 hour in New York.
All the ambassadors say "no
crisis in 1935" but in the country they say "Crisis in 1935".
We are afraid it’ll be very
different to have China on our side, US and England are coming to an
agreement. We’ll be isolated, in a war all would be against us.
The English and Americans will try and get
China away from us.
(Millers told of American Diplomats in
Manchuria who started talking French, a Japanese sitting near (spy) got up
and said’ "Pardon me but I am going to get the agent who speaks French)"
Cotton -
3 months ending - Aug 1 1933 1,700,000 bales
Aug 1. 1934 "
1,000,000 bales
Loss of 700,000 bales **** Set Warburg, the
moving middle, it’s up to us.
Calvin Fentress: in train, Liberty Limited,
Washington t Chicago, met him at ****
State Rights -
We must fight for the state rights, what right have the Federal Government
to order people in Illinois to do this, t sell that at such a price. It’s
unconstitutional and the Constitution says that the Federal Government
should only do what the States are not entitled to do. Limit Federal rights
Hamilton V Jefferson (look-up)
Now Roosevelt is smashing State rights, and
people are no realising it. Why should Washington tell me what I should do
in Illinois? What does Washington Economists know about conditions which
vary vastly from State to State.
Take Price Fixing -
Under the code it just can’t be carried out. It’s against human nature.
People have been imprisoned for
selling under the prices. There was
a tailor-presser who go thrown into prison for pressing at 40 cents when the
price under the code was 50 cents.
There’ll be bootleg prices just as there was
under prohibition
Examples: Some auto dealers found out that I
wanted to buy a new car. I live 20 miles from Chicago. One morning I found
fine car outside and a man said, "May I drive you in?" Certainly!
Three quarters of the way the man said "What do
you think about price fixing?" "I’m against it" "Good then we can do
business I can sell you this car for so many Dollars, which was below the
price fixed".
Next day another car 3/4 of the way "What do
you think of the E N.R." "I hate it" good we can talk, offer of a car.
In lumber trade a man wanted to buy, but price
not allowed good, "I like that calendar. I’ll pay you $25 for it if you’ll
do the business."
I have a lumber mill in the State. A line is
drawn from Washington to Atlanta. Under that line the wage under the NRA is
24 cents, above the line 28 cents. The railway line is usually accepted as
the limit, my mill was above the line, but I drew a line and found that my
mill was south of the straight line, so could pay 24 cents.
But what right has any Government to dictate to
me how much I pay to my men?
NRA helps the big business, a friend of mine is
the largest Breakfast food manufacturer in the world. He’s for the
minimum wage and the hours. Why? I give it out that he gets competition from
people who pay their workers less and do not go in for National advertising.
They have small factories and cannot compete if they have to pay full wages
and work shorter hours.
NRS is breaking the fundamental laws of
economics. Now the currency business, it wrecks the whole basis of credit if
you do not know what the Dollars going to be. I know firms who will only
take cash because they’re afraid they won’t get a full dollar.
You won’t get International trade back again
until you stabilise internationally.
Roosevelt -
Courage -
Yes but no principles. He’s an opportunist, one policy after another till
you don’t know where you’re standing. I voted for him, in the beginning he
was fine, banks were wonderful, economy wonderful. Then he veered round,
began spending and spending. It’s folly, he’s ruining the country, as all
business men will agree. He’s only got the mob, the masses, the foreigners
behind him and they are the voters.
He seems to be going to the right, but you
can’t rely on him. A friend of mine was asked to see him, Roosevelt asked
"Would you accept this post?" Yes. "You’ll hear from me tomorrow" but never
heard.
His policy is a mass of contradictions. On one
hand he cuts down production of agriculture by buying marginal land, on the
other hand he extends dams to bring more land into cultivation by irrigating
it. In silver he did not realise the repercussions in China and the increase
in prices there was the growing hatred of America.
Japan "You just can’t compete. Look at wages.
An English Lord who is head of the FBI visiting Japan said, "we have
factories in Poland where the wages and prices are much as Japan’s and our
factories in England the wages are twice as much as in Poland and in the US
the wages are twice as much as in England.
This Lord said that the first
time he came to the US he went to the Mayflower, Washington on
Tuesday. He had an appointment with the President on Thursday. He said to
the porter get me a return ticket and reservation to Los Angeles so that I
can be back in Washington by Thursday!!
But war with Japan is out of the question, for
decades you simply couldn’t rouse the American people to war, they’ve had
enough of it, they’re isolationist. The most farmed nation clause is a great
barrier to the development of reciprocal treaties.
The administration has wrecked the Naval Stores
Trade. They’ve raised the price to 4 pints and bottle stocks. No businesses.
The Bankhead Bill did tremendous harm to the
Cotton Exports.
Child Labour -
You must treat all equally, so are you going to stop the children of farmers
from working on the land? and a lot of children work in the factories to
feed the family.
I believe in our great individualism. In the
old days the people used to move out west without money, just a wagon, wife
and children, spade and gun. Some were shot by Indians, but they had courage
- now the whole mentality is being wrecked. They pay the Government for a
job.
In the South the relief paid is often more than
what a man would get for a job.
My family has been in the US for centuries and
free, that servants father was probably a slave yet he can vote just as I
can.
Railroads -
They’re falling behind. The trade unions rate is so high that it’s much
cheaper to dispatch goods by trucks where there is no trade union rate.
Citrus sent from Florida I found along a certain way between two towns went
80% by motor trade and 20% by rail.
Disgust for politicians and economists.
Wednesday November 28th, 1934 -
Wankaha
Mr Hugh Owen, Cymaupa Farm saying at the World
Fair - Cymaupa Farm Wankaha Welsh Chorus. 40 members
directed by Mrs Mary Kilhe Schloen, President Mr Williams, Bradiast, George
Dewi Saint. Mr John B Williams Llanerchmedd’s mother was only 3 years old
when she came over, still speaks Welsh, always speaks Welsh at home. I went
to Seion, hundreds of Welsh there.
Jerusalem chapel in Wales Betharia ?(Bethesda)-
3 miles from Wales -
Nonish near Wales, still have Welsh service from time to time but now
catering to the English as well.
Mr Hugh Owen from here, but spoke with strong
Anglesey accent "Listen to boys praying oh it’s *****. Welsh character still coming out, enthusiasm
for praying. Mr James - Fort Athens. Dr David Roberts -
house.
Wanklaha to Bethesda. -
William Jones lost his farm and was champion farmer of the state of
Wisconsin, pure bred Guernsey Man lost his farm. Roberts’s there they lost
their farm. Here certified milk.
Wern Farm
Nantyca ich
Ochor Foel
Maes Mwr.
Big bleak marsh - Welshmen living on verge.
Hills Cambria, John Jones, Ty Cei’rig, Tom Williams, Blaen Y cae. John Jones
Park. View, black fields Dep***, Hills bleak with scattered black woods.
Welsh marry with Germans, get on well.
Warden on State Prison; only Welshmen yes said
warden But how many out that should be in John H Williams -
Park Farm Guernseys - Farmers co-operative Began 4 years ago, only
Farmers getting on wonderfully, 72 routes, formerly 2 large companies
Guernsey’s 600 pints.
Every farmer puts $50 for each cow he has into
the co-operative. Going to branch out and may go into suburb of Chicago. A
wonder all farmers. Guernsey Milk. They sell chocolate milk, skimmed milk
flavoured with chocolate. Picture in which asked which kind of cow gives
chocolate milk? Serve all customers with pancakes and maple syrup.
Parc cydderch -
Parks Judith Beauty. 2 world records in butterfat known from coast to coast.
International Dairy farm -
Mr W. wanted cup, outright premonition of Mrs Williams not go - fight .
Mr Williams gave in. Cattle led back to fields. Chicago Foot and Mouth
disaster, thousands lost. Used to be all swampy now corn producing.
G. Fight between 2 farmers, straying cattle,
threat to keep it, kept "pay $5 to get cattle back". Gave in and shouted
Dynaddyfade diaweded y glewigi".
Mrs Price -
Dairy labourers in distribution of milk in the town average before raise
$13.00 to $13.50 per month they got a raise. Dairy farming is going
terribly, Corn up 30% feeds up, all prices up. Roosevelt made great mistake
to put up prices, without people able to buy. What we have to buy has gone
up more than our prices. Drought and limitations and Communist propaganda
has led to shortage, eg. ton of hay costs more than ton of milk. Prices are
up but net income is down. People in the town cannot buy the product.
Warchter -
Gwyneth
Relief:- man, Woman & child demanding $24
a week. Farmers here getting $56 milk check for a month, biggest for 3
months.
Average milk check $86 per month, out of which
farmers must pay for labour, feed, machines and livestock costs, taxes,
interest etc.
Purchasing power of the farmers is down.
The old church, 1857 Bethesda part of the farm,
chapel just near.
Bethesda -
Rev. John Pugh Jones, Bethesda station -
Welsh still, wonderful farming, cattle farm Cilmaenyn Thats a farm ***** city near Chicago they called the Keystone. 150
cows, huge roomy stables, no straw but sawdust and shavings, the milkboys
wear white uniforms with little white round caps - clean and new. 16
milkmen, sileage, field corn the smell cows love.
Mr D L Williams y Wen, keen road men 73
working, digging on side of the road, keen crtical eyes, thin face, still
working. Red and black squares on shirts.
Wern, election ***~* "Positives has admitted without permit from
office 380 cows. Ventilating system, 44 air intakes, 3 big fans in cattle
shed to clear the air. 500 wonderful cattle- secret of good milk is to
prevent the bugs, we keep them out.
Using 11 bulls last year, 500 healthy standing
calves. The highest butter fat bill is the US. Now you’ll see lights in a
cow farm. Electric razor for cows, fuzz off just like dippy hairdressers.
Best cow farm in the US 1933.
Face with wrinkles very deep lines, bony. a 60
foot silo which will feed 100 for 365 days, fermentation corn smell. We got
yeast by airship in order to get order from NY city, Office girls with
typewriters, Rest room for cattle, 640 acres.
Fewer flies here than in ordinary house,
cleanest farm from flies in the state. 53 men and 7 women all live housed
and fed.
7 silos with capacity of 1250 tons altogether,
160 acres of corn. Hay - 200 acres, 3 crops a year at 3 tons to the acre
for one year of alfalfa hay. 400 head of cattle selling 4000 quarts of milk
a day all put in the original containers, from the bottle here to the
customer.
Sell some through dealership in towns we can’t
reach, within 20 miles we deliver ourselves.
Milk strike -
pickets. Wales cruglas, Pensalit Tanyalit. Wales -
Whereever there are hills there is a Welsh settlement in the next village.
Mukiwonago - Little hills with sparse woods. Cemetry, Big
stone with one name - Williams James John, then little stones with
just the first names eg David D 1857 -
1932. Two cemeteries there was a chapel **** in one section set up another church so when in
death separated. Thomas, Roberts, Pugh, Price, Griffiths. In the old stones,
welsh proverbs "Y neb a £ redo a fedyddier a fydd cadwedig.
Goyn en fyd y meirw i rhan sydd yn marw yn yr
arflwydd. Little hills or slopes look down cattle.
Thanksgiving
Old Welsh folk praying in welsh, thanksgiving
from the psalms. Car - home -
Minister, car radio with Honolulu and ball game. Shucks. Singing fervour,
spirit of Wales. Thanks for the US, drove 900 miles to preach. 5 people
tried to introduce saloon here recently in Wales but all failed. Wales had
prohibition before it was ever voted in the US. They voted drink out of the
village. Past Welsh Chapel 1871 Moriah. Grow Tobacco also.
Catholics and Welsh relations are cordial.
Welsh preach to priest, I can do something you can’t do. What? Introduce you
to my wife. Priest "Sometimes’ what? "Places all my family in one
hour feed them with one meal.
Golden lake –
Notice "Here lies Elmer Rush"
November 30th 1934
Fort Atkinson
Mr W. W farms Jamesway. Been on farm for 26
years, very dissatisfied with things. Farm buildings of wood, forests of
virgin timber, *** jack carpenters. We’ll cut timber from the
woods and make barns roughly. A boy asks why no architect. Set ourselves up,
something new and better looking barn. Message -What
the factory is to the manufacturer one born is to the farmer. Engineer to
design farm buildings.
Factories V Barns, industrialising of the
agricultural food factories, the greatest food is milk. Bald determination,
ideal salesman. Milk is consistently contaminated. Cigarette makers wear
white gloves, why not make milk cleanly.
Watercolours of plants -
beautiful plants actually designed, 156,000 farms, every detail we designed
is for the farmer.
One farm -
the Walker Gordon 3000 cows, $1.5 million worth of farm buildings. Sewage
sysytern on that farm is as big as in this town of 3000 people, big
engineering feat.
Wern farm —
designed, cows on two floors.
Ideal job would be a job where lay out,
shrubbery and flowers etc. Wonderful designs, Revolutionised farming -
Panama Exposition.
We’re servants of humanity, a barn goes up in
flames - every 15 minutes annual toll $1001 million.
U.S. -
6 million farms. 37 million farm buildings, value $1 billion.
Wattle -
thousands of cuttings hundred feet of cuttings in long rows like magicians,
high power salesmen. ‘We’ve had 40 wires in this office to say that barns
burned last night. Pictures of burning barns. George Jones 42 hospital, 5
homes, $22,000 losses, burned cattle -
photo head scarred and black.
Annual toll $70 million, $30 million caused by
a bug, spontaneous friction, tremendous, shows hay in the **** as much in the winter as in the summer.
$70 million total, $30 million spontaneous
ignition, $12 million lightning, $40 million wind storms. 4 cyclones in
Wisconsin this year.
Deterioration -
loss $240,000,000 our farmers are not little insured, how solved? We learned
how to can hay. We take the hay out of can. Just like vegetables just smell,
good old summertime. Do you get the aroma? Do you get how the cow relishes
that? The farmer has to cure the hay so that it’s safe on the farm.
Actor hands poised, stops, hesitates, hush,
slaps hand puts hand, orator, clenches fist and slams it down, finger up. I
can put water in that hay. Give you green pastures. We build a last metal
container, circulates air. No More Woody. We’re through with wood, now an
all metal barn, that’s the barn of the future, we’ll call the inside
Kropkeepers.
Mr James WD -
Fort Atkinson - New deal with the trade unions. "He’s listening
now, Roosevelt changing you fellows. Milk and Beer. the production of beer
has gone up so much that milk is down. There will be a battle royal between
milk and beer, prohibition.
Since September I will have been violating the
code, working 10 hours full time. Inspector came we admitted it and we’ll
have to pay $3000 dollars.
Uncertainty -
shall we buy 0.5 million tons of steel. No, too uncertain, don’t know what
the man in Washington will do.
Those national labour boards -
people who can’t speak English properly, we have not a trade unionist in
this town. Manpower - $50 million worth. 26 years ago came here $2.5.
$2 for board, 50 Cents to go to look for a Job.. First job $30 as
Stenographer, Blacksmith and myself.
Milking parlour, standardisation of buildings,
next move is to.build metal homes. We’re building a farm now for 12.000 cows
in California. Poultry house patented after the Eskimos Igloo in Iceland.
Research is going to do in the next 100 years
what we don’t dream of. I’m living on top of the world. All we’ve been doing
is obsolete. What’s going to bring US back is confidence, you can never
legislate success. Old father told me outgoings should never be greater than
income, Today is taking the nation, once we go up, we’ll never stop it.
Our hens have a cafeteria, a cinema in the
works to ****, Machine which can make a storm of 45 miles an
hour. Eggs, we’ve improved upon nature, I’ll. bring a better chick out of
that egg than the hen herself. I guess we can beat nature. Hay bottle that’s
dynamite, it’ll blow his farm to pieces, 30% moisture.
T.T. -
Never touched liquor.
Gates of Steel, Thunder, Bay Mr J. Slams Chicks
- those little winners, and will they grow, see
them run, see them eat. If the man takes his 25 cents to the bar he doesn’t
have the 25 cents for the dozen eggs, 33 cents a dozen in New York.
That’s the famous Jones Pork Sausage, famous
the world over, a Welshman that’s the real Jones home.
La Rondle every machine
***** I know all those boys, the **** , Ham. Bob Roberts of
Rhostry Farm near Caern.
Ida born 25 years ago in a little blacksmith
shop on the farm of D D James near Wales, Wisconsin.
Employees own the common stock some of these
own $400 some $1000 stocks. About 1100 *K** employ 650 in these plants. The Ma**net takes
the work of 14 men. "Oh backgen!I* Parents wouldn’t leave the hills Father - Vet, Mothers Father graduate of Oxford, Law.
Wouldn’t go to the *****.
Canada, Madrid, Western Toronto, Bilbao, Spa**.
Greeting is Hello fl workers reply Hello.
6-7000 Open, Welsh Singing, don’t go, Our Welsh are very talented more
ability in a class than the other races, but one fault -
drinking, that’s the trouble of the Welsh in this country, too good natured
put themselves so many that they can’t *** All call me WD nobody Mr, friendship. Run own
printing plant.
Dinner at the 4 T.T.’s Club (Mrs Freehoff)
Heart, Head, Health Hands.
Chamr -
Marion Roberts, Gwyneth Price, Gwendolyn Jones, Rowlands ETC. Fine speakers
trained, laughed a lot.
Mrs Freehoff "What a year! The dust storm swept
down, terrible tornado, crushed the farm buildings, house rattled and
tonight the wind.
Mr Freehoff This country is very much against
Europe. Roosevelt wouldn’t dare enter the League of Nations almost everybody
here would be dead against it.
Mr Pugh Jones "Only about 1 in 20 were for the
cancellation of war debts.
Fr -
But people here are against inflation, nearly all for a sound dollar.
Wisconsin very liberal minded but against internationalism. University of
Wisconsin centre of Liberal thought.
Some Trade Unions just a racket, money making
concern for the leaders. Organisers came to Waikieha, got 2 months strike in
building and then went off with the funds. There should be a law giving
publicity to the funds of Trade Unions and how they are spent.
Mr. J. PJ -
Milk distribution, pretty tremendous amount. In Chicago out of 15 cents for
quart of milk the distributor gets 8.5 cents sold by Mr D Z Williams.
Royal Scot came to Wales. The people screamed
but they roared.
They’d never seen such a tiny engine and when
it gave a little tin whistle sound instead of the long loud shriek of
American
Engines they held their sides.
Saturday December 1st. 1934
Caught 11.10 train from Wales to Madison. Snow
on Ground, freezing Wind, bitter.
The new Welsh in the last 20 years have not
been such a good type as in the 50’s they have been
the scum.
Station conductor shouts London. Photographed "Cwon
Cruglas" hopes. Then a station with scandinavian names..
Thomas -
Agricultural Inspector - the majority of the farmers are satisfied here
because they’ve received $42,000 for not growing hops, farming income has
certainly gone up against hops and wheat etc.
Frank Lloyd Wright House personality Talisien
Sunday December 2, 1934.
Stanley Marcus -
Texas - The one crop system is beginning to come to an
end, mofr feeding instead of buying feed, more attention to livestock. More
diversification, Cotton merchants grumbling because government
**** ****.
Monday December 2nd 1934
Governor Philip La Follette
I returned by car from Taliesin. Saw La
Follette at 4.45, young banker, touch of grey. His children came in all the
time with new boots, very proud, knew Paul Scheffer of Wheeler in Boston.
Radicalism -
Term doesn’t mean the same in America. They are different in the east of
America. But what do Communism or fascism or socialism mean to the
Americans? Nothing, they are European terms. Conservative means something
quite different here.
So whatever happens will be American.
Now the American mind is made up by the
machine. He likes tinkering with the machines, putting it together again,
active. So there will be no destruction of a system but attempts to mend it.
Will there be an end of this civilisation?
I think that there’s enough activity left for
us to go on for a long time, but I think that decline lies before Europe and
before England. Practically no Communising in America.
La Follette :- Moderate, well read, like young professor or
Don, not revolutionary, not doctrinaire.
Indians in restaurant, looked white, one naked
above the waist, feather on head, beautiful green colours in trousers in
plaid, bands white round arm. Play foxtrots, Waltzes, Indian Love Call, very
American. Indians father is German and he was born in Milwaukee.
In Wales I was presented with the practical
Home Veterinaria by Dr David Roberts, Waukeha.
I Read -
Dear Dr Roberts, I thought you would be interested to know that my Holstein
sire, Sir Pieterze Ormsby Mercedes 37th has fully recovered from his attack
of paralysis of the bowelsH
In Brooklyn an old lecture fan, Edward Whitney
Putnam gave me "Heart Throbs" here are extracts: -
Send them to bed with a kiss Mother.
"I should like to die said Willie. The songs
that mother sang me back to sleep. I am your wife, have you written to
Mother. "Pray may I ask you, worthy lad, whose smile no care can smother,
though busy life throbs round about have you written home to mother?
Tell her you love her dearly still, for fear
some sad tomorrow shall tear away the *** soul and leave you lost in sorrow.
And then through bitter falling tears and sigh
you may not smother, you will remember when too late you did not write to
mother. —
Next is Death of Little Nell
Tell her so Amid the cares of married life, in
spite of toil and business strife if you value your sweet wife, tell her so!
Don’t act as if she’d passed her prime as
though to please her was a crime, if e’er you loved hers now the time, Tell
her so!
You’ll never know what you have missed, if you
make love a game of whist, lips mean more than to be kissed Tell her so!
Never let her heart grow cold and richer
beauties will unfold, she is worth her weight in gold. Tell her so!
Nobody knows but mother!
Nobody listens to childish woes, which kisses
only mother, nobody’s pained by naughty blows, nobody, only Mother!
Measuring Baby
We measured the visitors’ baby against the
cottage wall, a lily grew on the threshold and the boy was just as tall.
We measured the sleeping baby, with ribbons
white as snow, for the shining rosewood casket that waited him below.
Always a little boy to her no matter how old he
‘s grown.
In the Miliwaukee Hotel there is a knock at the
door in the middle of the night. It’s the Watchman, your doors unlocked. I
had to lock the door, I heard that the watchman tries every door because of
Gangsters, Thieves and Murderers.
December 4, 1934
Progressives
E*** Central Times -
The government has the duty to give the people the wealth that is here under
our system. You had mass production but no mass consumption. Such a large
proportion was going into the hands of the few; eg Bellon Farming controlled
$2 billion wealth, constant pyramid. 5-10% of the people get 60% of the
income, ability to buy destroyed.
How to Bring about the Diffusion of Wealth?
Biggest Weapon is that of taxation. Too much
taxation is upon general property, income and wealth. Have not got enough
share of Income and inheritance tax; look at England, coming back because
taxes go back in public works etc.
England is levelling down. Big weapon taxes to
bring diffusion of wealth.
2. Public ownership -
This means the favoured few have centralised wealth and that they have got
control of the public needs of the people. So that you have 5-10% holding
controlling
60% of election power.
We permitted an absentee crowd in New York to
drain Madison of $780,000 per year in electric and gas power. Public
ownership will diffuse wealth.
3. Agriculture
Cooperative movement. Private interests have
formed legislation. Farmer is being exploited by big private interests. Eg.
Bordens (Milk Trust). They own the company here in Madison with result that
the farmer gets less than 2 cents a quart for milk which is distributed here
for 8-9 cents a quart. Eliminate this and work out a co-op system.
We’ve tried to combine idealism with practical
policy. These socalled Liberals down East -
they’ve got about 48 fr***.
We’ve got 2 or 3 fundamentals, charges,
taxation, public ownership. Limit public ownership to public utilities,
light, power, heat, water or possible milk, never advocated taking over
industries.
Railroads -
Won’t need political boost to bring public ownership. Railroads are f**sted,
ultimately the government will simply take them over. Complicated with truck
system. Government could unify the system, eliminating the competition.
We can’t put it across here, we can in
Wisconsin for lead in the thought of the county. state rights have
disappeared, we should have a Federal Income Tax instead of state
hodge-podge.
You’re up against the holding company
development - inter—state. We started out with the idea that
local community could cope with relief burden, local tax giving out, state
steps in state financing shake, then Federal government steps in. I don’t
like centralising but it was made necessary for the moment. 95% of business
by credit, 5% cash. US Central bank should be formed, Federal reserve system
is dominated by the private bankers. Surplus funds of the people should be
looked after by Uncle Sam. All banks should deposit reserves with the
Central Bank, then the government has control if credit in public ****..
Dec –
Christia **?? 4 Agriculture
Spring Wheat Hay Dairy Corn and winter wheat
Cotton,
Grazing rights Fruit
1.Family size farm
2. Commercial type -
for market capitalisation in farm
Farmer has to pay interest, taxes etc.
Financial outgoings big
3. Specialisation.
Wisconsin & *** - Crops essentially for feed, Iowa come for grain
Wis. 2 milk and corn (maize) 48% goes to silos
14% to *~* crop
scheme is for ***.
We have evolved type of agriculture in which
prosperity depends not only on industry actually but indirectly with welfare
of other belts, because cotton
*** which are also specialised farmers.
They buy our cheese and butter. If cotton set fair they buy dairy products
here and products of industry, butter price falls or rises with the payroll.
Export -
Cotton 50%
Pork -
exports
Wheat -
20%
*** bushes in excess
Tobaccco are **+: only 60-65% of the tobacco grown. Rice, Apples,
*** also on export basis.
Became Creditor -
tariff heightened - mistake. Wheat surplus, cotton piked up to,
proices dropped.
Price -
Milk
1929 -
$2.41 CWT
1932 -
$1.26
1933 -
$1.25 1934 some improvement, also drought.
American Agriculture is moving industry
22-23% of farm income in the US comes from dairying on domestic basis.
Beef and veal are on domestic basis, Poultry on domestic basis.
We import -
Wool, Sugar, Silk, Rubber, Tea, Chocolate.
We must either reopen foreign markets or
increase imports. Get stability in monetary problems.
(We exported 12-13% of the agricultural
production)
Cotton plantations took 15 million acres, we
dairy producers ask "what are you going to do with that idle land?"
They’ve put the 15 million acres into grass and
forage, that means more cows, more milk, more dairy, Wheat Just the same,
the Kansas Wheat farmers will produce more milk, more butter.
Same with tobacco, corn programme took away 20
million acres in area well suited to cattle. Danger that will increase
production of dairy products.
Which will create overproduction for these
products which are on domestic basis. We must dismantle some of our industry
or some of our agriculture. If we reduce imports -
some factories must go. If we do not permit imports then we ‘11 have to
dismantle 50% of the cotton industry, tobacco etc. etc.
We’ll move towards a situation where we have a
higher domestic price than world price. That’ 11 restrict our exports,
that’s where the administration is wrong.
Last year the AAA tried to cut down dairying by
15%. now that’s on the domestic basis. I say that that is against the
original plan of cutting only the export agriculture industries. If we
reduces dairy by 15% we would have created a scarcity and that would have
resulted in higher prices or consumers would have to
buy substitutes.
There was a suggestion to restrict imports.
If you continue AAAA permanently you will reach
a policy of national self-sufficiency, we’re taking ourselves out of the
world market.
Self -sufficiency
We’ve worked off our excessive stocks, doruth?
mainly.
Major cause of cotton price increase is giving
off the $.
Cause of dairy impr*(**, beef, hogs (millions
of pigs were killed) mainly the drouth? and average taken out.
Law of Zoning -
12 counties in Wisconsin where land has been zoned for forestry and
recreation, other parts zoned for agriculture.
We forbid agriculture in certain areas. We’re
trying to relocate farmers.Poultry on domestic basis.
President Glenn Frank On Wisconsin University.
I don’t think the US is going towards communism
or fascism. Roosevelt seems to be going more gradual, more to the right.
The mistakes that he made were:—
1) That he did not reorganise the bank more
thoroughly, still kept some faults, not enough centralisation in banking.
2) That NRA did not depend enough upon the
area.
Really the US is Just going where Europe has
been for a long time. That’s nothing really radical in the Progressives it’s
all been achieved nearly in Great Britain.
I’m against the restriction of crops.
Myself by John R Commons
The Wisconsin Idea by Charles McCarthy
A Theory of the Labour Movement Delia Perimany
Industrialists wanting price fixing
Chicago -
Wednesday December 5, at night.
Glaring loud city with thousands of blinding
lights vulgar and cheap, toughest thugs i’ve ever seen, no peace, change
from philosophies of Madison.
Thursday December .6th
Snow on the ground, Chicago slush and snow.
Barber Federal Government has taken over
dealing with kidnapping, they’d copied Scotland yard. If they want a man now
they’ll get him. The gangsters have gone down in power after prohibition.
They’re in the penitentiaries.
Bootleggers have devoted their energy to
kidnapping which I guess is quite as rife. The corruption is terrible. I’m
supposed to pay £36 on this property. But will I pay it? I’ll go to the
politician I know and he’ll fix it. He’ ll go along to an office and get
someone to cross it out.
The assessors just put down any sum. The
machine is too powerful and the people too indifferent. Any politician or
judge who doesn’t get away with $100,000 after 4 years in office is just a
sucker thats all.
They shouldn’t elect the judges as they do, a
judge has to spend $60,000 to get elected.
Lunched with Llewellyn Williams, Field Museum
of Natural History.
O’Flahertv
Federal Bank in Chicago. The majority of stock
is held by the
Recom. Fin. Corporation. Govt. owns and
ccontrols hundreds of
National banks. Continental and Illinois 2/3rds
owned by
Government. Growth of Federal Political Power.
Tower with Ceres Bank recognises that they’re
dealing with the government. Absolute control.
Chicago Daily News -
Carroll Binder - Who’d been to the Far East.
Uncle Sam will be in heaven when the $ goes to
hell. Inflation
"As thousands cheer amusing skit of Queen Mary
(Helen Broderick) Kind George, Ramsey and Prince of Wales.
Friday December 7th
Chicago Tribune:- Illinois paid ‘162 millions
in internal revenue taxes and the federal government spent 85 million of it
in the state. Idaho paid in £900,000 and the federal government gave it
nearly £7 million. S. Carolina paid less than $4 million and got £20
million.
The Illinois money is
keeping the shipyards going in Brooklyn. It is building power plants in the
Tennessee valley, the Colorado river, the Columbian basin and in a dozen
other places. It is building bridges in San Francisco, irrigation works in
the desert and gin factories in the Virgin Islands. It is scattering doles
from Alabama to Idaho but it is not coming back to Illinois.
Chicago Tribune. The use of Federal Relief
money to resurface 200 miles of streets in some of the poorer neighbourhoods
of Chicago has been proposed by the city administration to the Illinois
relief commission.
Chicago Tribune: Japan, America and England at
the cross roads -Headline.
Bet Japan gets the crossroads, England gets the surrounding country and the
US gets a swift kick in the pants.
People often wonder why more folk don’t claim
to be of Indian blood. Because if you’re Indian or even part Indian you
can’t buy hootch in these United States. You never hear anybody bragging
about being a linear descendant of Pocahontas any more. Years ago I used to
brag a little about being a descendant of Pocahontas myself, but when a
bartender said I could never have a drink in his place again and I couldn’t
even come inside that door, because the government said that anybody that
sold likker to an Indian would go to jail, then I quit. I swapped Pocahontas
for Queen Elizabeth for a while and when I found that caused considerable
unfavourable comments I just stopped saying anything about my ancestors.
Lack of Legal Sevices in US
Harry Long -
income tax not paid.
State Senator Jules Fischer is one of 15 who
signed a round robin in 1929 saying that regardless of what evidence was
brought forth in the then current attempt to impeach Long as governor, he
(Fischer) would vote for acquittal.
New Mexico
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