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harsh 30, 1930.
0 J. Thompson (whits).
Ashowillo•Leicester highemy,
eorgetown, 1. C.
airy Farmer.
Anne *Ism tArvens, writer.
Douglas Carter, revisor.
Originsi Anima
2)1stasilwala
j. :bompaon Sill Turner,
Arvin(' isiidars Andrews
Mr. Rogers kr. Reynolds
Mrs Anders Mrs. Amami**
(Unknown) Georgia (Tumor)
Clara (rses)
hazel (Tumor)
a
Glen*
Fred
44.1.1.11
°W4 father,* said kill Turner, °owned a cara mill bask
is the mountains. It'e an old...faehioned one with a big water
wheel. One of ay brothers still owns it. As w right proud
of Us meal he ground. he had it put up in bags with his
name stamped on each beg. All the country store* for mile*
around oarried it Po made good money. 'linen I vas skid,
I used to help deliver the meel to to* storekeepers. I ueed
to think rid like to run the mill epeelf wan I brew up. I
did try it for two years after ka died. I made good ammo,
but the nill is locatud in an out...ofwtheisway place, and its
surroundings are imetty wild. It's no place to raise a foully
these dips.
°After I married, I took up deiryinb. My We's oldest
sister vas married to a dairyman. tee ean see his plaae next
door. Se pointed to Lae neat white farmhouse beside the
tree -shaded *tree* near the hignmey, aLid t. a its neat concrete
borne and outbuildinba. 'Two of her -arataera was in tne dairy
businese. lney all live in this aeigno4rnood ,aaturally, I
tried char/L.4. I've stuck to it ri4nt steady over since,
exeept tns two years I tried running t.;;de corn mill.
"The biggest trouble a landowner ailut," mill declares.
Otting den on his place *no are willing to 'lurks how.
last year I bed a 26.4aore tare Juat
a man Ay the nage of Ben Andrews to rua it for se. I got
ben off the **linty. Mats about 60 years old and be's ablei..
bodied., fie has a elf* anz seven children. At that time they
was all on relief. His vif* was workin' La& sewing room,
and they oot commoditlos off the oeumIcy.
"I rented t.so place from a ur. Aoynolde for *200 a year,
and I thaugt I could raise s1.0-4st of my feed there. It's a
good farm. boat of my place here is ?asture Land. and I
can't raise much Zsed. so I go#. Son to move out there and
run it. I furnished that coos a hem**. leads esed, a taut.
and all the tool', and be was to et half the croka. I
ailvsmood blis 403 bushels of CCirA for his family' and we seat
the* 10 gallons of outterailk at s tine."
"fits, sad Bill vent soft," said bis slim &sawn -haired,
blue...0yed wife, 'and was so sorry for on and his family that
for a while he paid bin 41 a day bsaidee."
*bees a bead farmer," eacttinued Bill, "and he started
out well. he put to some good crops' corn, bear.s, peas,
potatoes, csoha6e, cueumbors, arid to is, and he had a
patch of tobacco. hen I put in a wiener/ for s r wits, I
put ime in for Ar4 ',wire's, too."
Georgia. Bill's wife took up tue storys l canned our
lus vootatlos with the help of Don't 6644 -Ater Clara.
bill paid Clara for helping ae, aad sne lived with us. She's
a sloe, eapsble girl, Just the ago Gray demptar Miatl, but
*hilt hazol, who is 16 yews old. it graduatiag this pear
frac hUb eshool as valedietorian, Clara's family has moved
about so mash that *begs Ju$t in the fifth gra4e. I boated
to beep her with us aid send bar to sehool with out children,
but you arm, know how suck people will tura out.
"1 gado an average of 41 a day on the vegetables I ommaed
and *old to this school cafeteria," declared k4orgia, 'but boa
and his wits let their vegotables Nape quantitios of them in
their gardsn.°
"About the middle of the summer," *aid bill, °I found
hen was using my team to paddle vhdeasy. That's the last
thing I'd stand fore so 1 told bon the bootleggiag would
have to stop.°
"After that, bon lost Loterest is the tarn," added
(Atorgia, °and bill had to got a lawyer after him to it the
potato** out of US ground
°Yes, and he lot some of the corn burn up is the fielde
and the tobacco began disappeoring out of the patch,"
interrupted *ill. on was settling it and keoping all the
money. I chased around to all this toosoco warehoutos, but
I never found any of the toilsome* host thing I knowod that
rascal was selling bootlag again. I could's had him arrested,
of °aurae, but I felt sorry for his wife end children."
*Bill diaebargod bin then,* said Georgia.
sehot became of am?* I *eked
Bie was arrosted for bootlegging, aid they bound hta
over to the Bay tem of court. Sea out au bond.'
*And his fanil,2* I queried.
"deseven knowei" said Go is. back an relief, I reckon.
*Did you ever get a astiafsctory tenant?*
"I didn't try,* bill replied. coeldiet afford to lose
any awe aohod fooliO4 with tenants hen cost as enepugh. I
put out a lot of savoy on that plans, and lost plant. I
didn't rent it this yaw. It'll be cbaaorr for as to buy
whatever feed I bays to have. Mr. Be3ie0145 couldn't get
good sharecroppor, aither, and nobody wanted to rent the
plane for cash, so he got disgusted, tore do= the house,
and pulp the land in grass.
"I lost so ouch an that place last year that I don't
believe I can send aasel to college this fall unless she
can sot aone work to help Ay her expenses. *7 wife had
to hews an operation last sumer, and that took a lot at
64100Y• tool.
Of sours., I hem to have a tenant hers to help as with
the dairy, but there's as chance of losing mai/ on him like
I did on Ben. Anyhow, he's rigiAt bar, where I can watch him
every day.*
The Turners live in a tr.sab cottage on a n111
fronting a paviA highway and comeal nt to both school sad
toga. Fran the cottage porch mmy be seen field*, scattered
dwellings. and a wide panorama a wood* and mountains.
°This homes." said kielergie, *need to be up on the mountain
until three years ago. Then Bill moved it down in esetiens
to be near to tAis highway and the school balsas.*
behind tne cottage ere ti.se consrete stalls for the
settle, and the bottling and refrigeratimg plants. for bill
does a retail business, delivering grad. A milk from door
to door at the county seat. His hard and equipment emit
the state specifications. Qom the grimily bills at the rear
of the cottage, the nerd of 17 come may be emu grazing.
"I'd rather have a small nerd and nave every cow in it
geed, said Bill *then born a large herd of poor ones, is
get 34 gallons of milk a day.*
Bill sells milk at 13, a mart, or two quarts for 2b#
;be price agreed on 4/ the retail dealers. but all the
dairymen don't stick by the agreement,* bill said. °Some
of them cut prices so as to undersell the ot.ner dairies
and baid themselves a longer milk rout*.
Bill has trouham, also, in collecti4g Just the other
day one customer td se," bill rwitar,Adio "that he couldn't
pay se till fall, becsuas AC aas two children oredi.mting.
°rot ain't got nothin° on ages I told his,. got twii
children gred,4atil.g myself. bat'sI the r-ase I at to
collect from joust°
h411 is interested in impr,v or
I got titwo, I'm .4.oins to torre‘e t-ls front jard Id
concrete steps down to the road," he declared.
Sov, a trail apprwiemm the eottaiie dirkeetAY from two
highway, at,d a well-aept road euellftlee the hill to the
garage and barns. :a the roadside. halfeaY iik WA all: is
the hew two...room cabin for tag tenant family who aslp with
the dairy. It is a victuresque structox* of peeled leo.
4olden in color. iUa its tiny porch and clay animas, it
might have been tai,Jen out of the page* of a mgrimult sagesine.
*gill was putting it up fr the boy who helped with the
detr said Georgia, "but the boy quit Lefore the cabin was
finivied 1
The walls of the cabin are cainAke it clay; but until
the craeas are filled sort carefully, tam new tenant and his
family would be just as socfortable am a sleeping porch.
boy who quit several **skis ago.* said Amnia,
via* a young, atlap-bodied man. bill got him from the city
hall. ae was worang on ttas *PA. Is has a wife and two
children, and a third child oin the wadi.*
by did he quita4 I asked.
"He 4ust didn't want to work l hours,* answered Georgia.
He wanted hours like those 011 tflsAPA. Sow, on a dairy farm
work begins at four -thirty and last* till dark. It isn't so
hard. lhere isn't much to be io trin the 64/0 bUL this
worker must stag on two place, where ts4 ean be found if he
is hooded. If a cow got sick in to* middle of the aftsralson4
he couldn't be found. bill told him he must stiy on the
piano, so be quit. And he nad the nerve to ask Bill to
recommend his for another WPA Job.°
"hat were you Avila.; hinl° I tusked.
"bill gave him a house to live in, all the firowood he
needed, all the milk he and his family could drink. and $1
a day.'
"I an dsternined.4 contInuAd C;Ilorgis. "that our children
shall know haw to work, &Id ha willing to do so. My Ample
were farmers. uts were poor, but we all lemrned to work.
ur brothers are all self-made men vitt.* good Jou/. rue of
them can dairg farms, one is a survoyor with the govornmout,
and one is a machinist with the posse' company. I keep ay
children at home afternoons. After they come in from school,
I give each of tams a task.
Thor* are six children, the oldest 16, the younoest fix*
years old
*hal and ine help with the milkii *he oxplained,
in the summer taay help bill with the =sops of corny
hay, and lespedema hi relived for 1.40 oattls.°
Hal. 13 yoars old. and 44kaa, U. aro wall mannere1 aad
intalligeut. Hal is graduating this year from remear *shoal
and is oalutatoriea. They belong to 4-H lobo and have
definite vrcoticts to work upon
oill tosou64it 44all a full-olowed salt last 'oar for his
to ralaa as hie 011+ect,* 4eorgia *aid. *Ibe salt cost 460e
Bill paid for it. After al raised it wed +exhibited it at
the jtat* *Apartment etstian, be sold it at *profit. Then
be paid 3111 back the 460. His father wants to Leath Us
to be businesslike+ and manly.°
As reward for working well, the !urger boys are
61vien thine* weeks vitiation is mummer caaps. Ons mak of
this time tZiey spend at the soap for boils at tne tats
lexperimant fern. i.von nino-year-old irsd is to have a turn
at camp this year. L-dith, seven years old, and us, five,
have ti..eir chores, too.
Hazel, just in frost school, looked very pretty in her
atilish noes spri4g coat that matched parfeotly Aar tawny
hair. her mother mad, Niazel'a bun vary good about going
to school omen *Le had to wear suabby clotues. am said
she had to stud/ so *Ara, clothe* didn't worry biliTip aay
after day m4a wore tue sae" old skirt aud seeeter. Z=ba's
made such a good r cord we are galas to give her a business
course. Zibe wants to be a secretary but first we want to
egad her to *aloe to take imglisho apoolally, beoauss
gniglish is neglected in the public Wools. I dropped set
of school in the IOU grade. I uss the youngest or 10
children. ky mother was so hardw.workid she didn't bother
to make as go. aut I know, now, I should have stayed in
school longer. A mother needs all Us odusatica she can
get.*
Georgia is jueUy proud of her house. The living roan
is pleasant said tastefully furnished. Immaculate net ourtaime
are hung neatly at the windows.. Dark green cushion* in the
wicker chairs, aad bright sofa pillows on the upholaterod
davenport give an air of comfort. The floor is newly wamod.
A white calfskin rug Use before tLe open firoplaos, and
smaller rugs harmonise with the goneral color *chem. In
an alcove la a piano and a new radlt4. There are a nog
picture* on the balls, and a photogrsph or two. All is in
good tests, and the color **Wm* suggests that Coeorgia is
influenced bi the current women's aegazinss. Through an
open door can be 4,40,14 a polished table in the room,
and ferns in tas *iadowo.
Georgia beriself is very sttrctive in ap,earauce.
Indoors she wears long, modish housocosts that deepen the
blue of her *OW. Her brown hair curls softly around her
face, and is drawn into a knot at the bask of mar nook.
M is tall and rather willowy, but looks rather worn for
her 36 years. "I just can't get rid of this cold," *be
said huskily. "I guess Illve been working too bard. Next
weak and I'm si;c4ng to et 40M4 rest."
'he is glad that am ll now has a oa worker in this 141
cabin. *10411 were lucky to coit hie," shim coacludod. "NA was
a famous in a cotton mill, and his young wife worked there,
too. After the mill closed down, toe,' lived for a while
on their unemployment ineuraLoe. :hey have two little
children. Sill pays his store then be usually pays because
the nen is industrious and reliable. gut I don't see bow
his wit* stands livina in our little tenant cabin. I Gould
never stand it, miself.*