The Weatherford News (Weatherford, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1932 Page: 3 of 6
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THURSDAY NOV 24 1932 THE WEATHERFORD NEWS
OKLAHOMA FARMED SEES EQUITY
IN HIS BUSINESS AT LOW MARK
"Tenancy on Oklahoma farms has undoubtedly in-
creased to an extent that is not conducive to the greatest
net well-being of farmers and of Oklahoma" declares J
T Sanders head of the agricultural economics department
of the Oklahoma A and M college He bases his state-
ment on years of study of tenancy and on the present
tenure situation in Oklahoma
Sixty-two out of each 100 farms 0
in the state are now operated by
tenants approximately one-half of -
the land and the land value of KOUnd About
the state is in tenant farms and
only $29 out of each $100 in- Mrs Frank Shields returned tq
vested in farms was equity in the her home at Louisville Ky last
hands of Oklahoma farm opera- Tuesday after visiting two weeks
tors in 1930 he finds with her sister Mrs O J Roesch
Has Good Points
Tenancy as practiced in Okla-
homa has good as well as bad
points It is a ladder by which
the young farmer may climb to
ownership However the climb has
been too difficult in recent years
and Sanders believes the excess
in tenancy now is traceable to
faulty economic conditions
Figures on farm tenancy show
that tenants in 1920 operated 51
per cent of all farms in Okla-
homa By 1925 this had increas-
ed to 58 per cent and by 1930
to' 62 per cent Since tenants as
a rule operate smaller farms than
owners they operated only 39 per
cent of all the acres in farms in
1920 45 per cent of the acreage
in 1925 and 48 per cent in 1930
During this time the value of the
tenant farms was about propor-
tionate to the acres operated by
the tenants
Farmer's Equtiy Is Lower
Sanders believes that a better
measure of the tendency towards
tenancy than percentage of tenant
farms is indicated by the increase
in the percentage of all farm value
that is not owned as equity by
the men operating the farm In
other words the total value of
tenant property plus the amount
of mortgages on owner-operated
farms as related to all farm real
estate value indicates the pro-
portion of ownership free from
encumbrance which farmers who
are tending the land have in the
iland they operate
In 1910 55 per cent of the total
value of all farm property in Ok-
lahoma was owned by others than
the farm operators either as ten-
ant farms or in the form of a
mortgage on the owner-operated
farms In 1920 1925 and 1930
the percentages were respectively
62 69 'and 71 per cent of the
value of the land owned by others
than the farm operators
These figures show that the
farmers of Oklahoma in 1930 had
a net equity of less than $3 out
of each $10 in the land they
operated Furthermore this equity
has declined from slightly less
than $4 in 1920 to slightly less
than $3 or a decline or 25 per
cent in the past 10 years
Condition Widespread
An examination of the growth
of tenancy in the various sections
of the state reveals a wide varia-
tion in the amount of tenancy but
much less variation in the net
equity of the farmers operating
the farms Sanders finds
Although only 34 per cent of
all farms in the five northwest-
ern counties Cimarron Texas
Beaver Harper and Ellis) were
operated by tenants $66 out of
each $100 of farm value were
either rented farm property or
mortgages on owner-operated
farms In 1910 in this district
881 out of each $100 represented
the equity of the farmer-operators
In 1920 it was $54 In 1925
it was $39 and in 1930 the net
equity of the actual farmers in
this district was only $34 out of
each $100 of farm value There
has been a rapid decline of equity
and thus a change towards ten-
ancy in these counties if decline
in equity of operators in the
farms they operate is considered
a movement towards tenancy
Similarly in the north central
district Woods Woodward Major
Alfalfa Garfield Grant Kay and
Noble counties)the decline in own-
ership as represented by net
equity was from 856 out of $100
in 1910 to only $33 in 1930
District three in northeastern
Oklahoma has been an area of
high percentage of tenancy and
low equity by farmers since 1910
In 1930 58 out of 100 farms op-
erated by tenants in these coun-
ties Osage Washington Nowata
Craig Ottawa Delaware Mayes
Rogers Tulsa and Pawnee) In
1930 the equity of owners was
only $28 out of each $100 of
farm value
Mrs Frank Shields returned tg
her home at Louisville Ky last
Tuesday after visiting two weeks
with her sistert Mrs O J Roesch
and husband
Mr and Mrs W P Hickman
of Elk City are here visiting
their daughter Mrs Ed Mosburg
and husband
Mr and Mrs O J Roesch
spent Friday evening in the Ralph
May home
Louise May spent Saturday
night with Mrs Harry Gates and
family
Flournoy Leonard and family
spent Sunday in Hydro visiting
relatives
Harry Gates and family spent
one day last week in the T J
Hazel home
Mr and Mrs Ed Schultz Mrs
Arthur Taylor and Mrs Howard
Sponhaltz called in the Pone May
home Sunday afternoon to see
Dilly whohas been sick
Mr and Mrs Ed Mosburg and 1
Mr and Mrs W R Hickman
spent Sunday evening in Clinton
in the Dell Harrell home
Mr and Mrs Ralph May and
Mr and Mrs Traylor spent Sun-
day evening in the Pone May
home
Route One
Friesen District
J D Schlichting and family
spent Sunday evening in the Pete
Neufield home
Emma Schlichting spent Sunday
afternoon with Lela Friesen
Peter Friesen and family spent
Sunday evening in the E L
Friesen home
Helen Friesen Lea la Mae and
Louise Nickel spent Saturday
evening in the Henry Buschman
home
Robert Buschman spent Sunday
in the Dave' Bushman home
Those visiting in the J D
Schlichting home Sunday were
Dave Friesen and family Louise
Nickel and Florence Friesen
Mr and Mrs Fred Schlichting
were dinner guests in the Dave
Buschman home Sunday
The home economic girls of the
school canned carrots last Tues-
day Those visiting in the John
Stobbe home Sunday were Henry
Schiichting and family and P E
Friese- and children
Edwin Slhlichting had dinner in
Miss Opal Hanson returned
home from the sanitarium Sun-
day Opal is very much improved
Mr and Mrs W H Boese and
children and Mr and Mrs Levarn
Gaunt called in the Mike Poarch
home in Weatherford Saturday
evening
Mr and Mrs Ralph Cartwright
and children spent Sunday in the
Mrs M E Cartwright home
Mrs W J Lavender called in
the Elmer Dailey home Friday
Mr and Mrs Isaac Bergan and
children were Sunday dinner guests
in the Ted Bergan home
Mr and Mrs Elmer Dailey
called in the Mrs C H Smith
home Saturday
Gordon Dailey spent last week
snapping cotton for Sam Pullin
Mrs W E Meek and son
Ralph were on the sick list last
week 1
Mr and Mrs P A Pascher
and daughter Colletta and Mrs1
C H Smith spent Sunday in the
Hans Hansen home Charley Smith
called in the afternoon
Mr and Mrs Marvin Wilburn
and family Mr and Mrs Lex Wil-
burn and family Mr and Mrs
Garland Stankey and daughter
spent Sunday with their parents
Mr and Mrs Chas Wilburn
Miss Luela Kidd and Miss
Beulah Pascher were Sunday din-
ner guests in the C H Smith
home Joe Harden called in the
afternoon
Mrs C H Smith had supper
in the P A Pascher home Sun-
day night
-
the D H Bushman home Sun-
day Those visiting Dorothy Stanky
Sunday were Ruby Lucille and
Paul Friesen and Esther Schlicht-
ing Ernest Adler took supper with
Adolph Repp Sunday
Mr and Mrs Jake Hambur-
ger visited Adam Sauer Sunday
afternoon
Luella Kiss ler and Pauline Ad-
ler visited Sarah Repp Sunday
Isaac Bergen and family called
in the Ted Bergen home Sunday
Henry Buschman and family
spent Friday evening in the Isaac
Bergen home
Jse visiting in the J E
I Aesen home Friday evening were
Elfreda Arnold Paul Dan and
Walter Sauer
Martha Bergen spent Sunday
afternoon in the Dave Bushman
home
Sam Buschman and family spent
Sunday evening in the H S Fre-
sen home
Merrill Buschman spent Sunday
afternoon with Oscar Curry
Jacky Sauer spent Saturday
with his grandparents
Walter Sauer spent Sunday aft-
ernoon with Archie Rept)
Southeast
and
Plainview
Mr and Mrs Bill Bradley and
Mr and Mrs Bill Patterson were
visiting in the A N Patterson
home Sunday
Mrs Bert Deal who is ill in
the Clinton Hospital is improv-
ing slightly
Grandma Kiker had the mis-
fortune of falling and breaking
her shoulder Thursday
Messrs George Nelson and
Taylor Patterson spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Carl and
Louis Chody
Mrs Chloe Brewster and chil-
dren were visiting in the J A
Chody home Sunday
Mr and Mrs W E Chody
were visiting Sunday in the John
Payne home north of Hydro
Mr and Mrs Ralph Cartright
and family were visiting Sunday
with Mr Cartright's mother Mrs
Mary Cartright
Sam McDougle has been assit-
ing Ralph Cartright with his work
this week
Mr and Mrs Floyd Anderson
and little daughter Alma are
visiting in Oklahoma City Mr
Anderson was called there on ac-
count of the sickness of his
mother Mrs W A Anderson
Mrs J B VanDuyne visited
Sunday with her sister Miss
Blanche Johnston
Byron Chody is visiting in the
J A Chody home this week
Jimmie Anderson visited Mon-
day night with Russell Chody
a
Betwixt and Between
a a a
Jack and Eugene Strong are
helping Chas Pitzer gather his
crop
Frank Pitzer Chas Pitzer and
Mrs Frank Barber drove to Alva
last Tuesday returning Friday to
see an aunt who is ill in a hos-
pital at Alva
Marion Miller and son Gerald
Ernest Triplett and son Ernest
Jr cut wood on the HenryHast-
ings place Saturday
We are sorry to report Grandpa
Bahney seriously sick Bill Bah-
ney and family were at Thomas
Saturday and Sunday and report
him no better
Most all in this locality attend-
ed the singing convention at Clin-
ton Sunday
Richard Hastings is shucking
1
corn for Marion Miller
Paul Johns and Ernest Triplett
cut poles on the Billie Birden
farm Tuesday
Ed Herndon had a crew of
hands helping pat up his hay
Monday
Mr and Mrs Earl Blough Miss
Miller and Everett and Bernice
Fry of Weatherford Ernest and
Charles Triplett were callers in
the G H Fry home Sunday
Ball corn sheller outfit shelled
corn for Sam Stutzman Thursday
Junius Miller butchered a pork-
er Wednesday
J A Triplett Maud Triplett and
Mrs Jessie Collins were business
callers in Clinton Thursday
Byron Spain was a caller in the
E C Triplett and G W Fry
home Sunday morning
Emery Miller and family were
guests in Frank Barber home Sat-
urday evening
Don't forget pie supper a
Cedar Friday night November 2F
Proceeds go for a Christmas tree
Sun- I Lucian Dunnington and family
Roy Pitzer and Mr Baker were
anky callers in Byron Spain home
and Sunday
icht- and treats Everybody come and
1 help us out and enjoy a good
with I program
Pleasant Hill
A large crowd attended the
box supper at Pleasant Hill school-
house Friday evening The pro-
ceeds amounted to $513G
Mr and Mrs M M Deming
and children spent Sunday after-
noon at the Bill Blagg home
W H Weese was a Sunday
dinner guest of Mr and Mrs J
A Lawter
Mrs Jay Lackey returned home
Friday after a week's visit with
her daughter Mrs Vincent Shur-
lock of Oklahoma City
Mr and Mrs G W Green were
Sunday visitors of Mr and Mrs
Henry Green
Mr and Mrs Bert Zwiefel spent
Sunday in Clinton visiting rela-
tives Mr and Mrs Jim Settles are
visiting relatives in Colorado
Miss Mildred Walsh spent the
week-end with her parents Mr
and Mrs E A Walsh
Lester Babione and family spent
Sunday at the Dan Babione home
Mr and Mrs1 Edgar Lawter
called at the Ott Simpkins home
Sunday evening
Mr and Mrs Art Herring and
son were Sunday visitors in
Thomas
Mr and Mrs Arthur Lawter
and daughter visited relatives in
Thomas Sunday
Mrs 011 Harrell called at the
D H Teeters home Sunday
Gerry Deming attended the foot-
ball game at Norman Saturday
VALUE OF TERRACE
IS SHOWN IN USE
"Terracing as a means of con-
trolling erosion is not just an ex-
perimental or theoretical proposi-
tion" asserts C V Phagan as-
sistant extension agricultural en-
gineer at the Oklahoma A and M
college
On the contrary Phagan says:
"It's just a good sound farm
practice that is being used by
thousands of farmers throughout
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our price
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6x9 $240
9x12 $475
18x24 10c
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Table Lamps
New styles
From $195 Up
11
Living Room
Suite $2500
Three-Piece Bed Suite
used but a real bargain
the country The rapidity with
which the practice of terracing is
being adopted by farmers in Ok-
lahoma should be convincing of
the value of such work"
More than a quarter million
acres were terraced in Oklahoma
in 1931 and indications are that
an even greater acreage will be
terraced in 1932
"This may sound like a fairly
large acreage to be terraced in
one year" Phagan comments
"but when we think of the 13000-
000 acres that need terracing we
see that our present rate of ter-
racing a quarter million acres a
year is entirely too slow
"Even if our present rate were
doubled it would be 26 years be-
fore the job could be completed
and by that time several hundred
thousand more acres would be
abandoned"
The regular annual meeting of
stockholders Of the Weatherford
Building and Loan Association of
Weatherford Oklahoma will be
held at the office of the Secre-
tary Eugene Howe at 103 West
Main street on December 8 1932
at 7:30 o'clock p m sharp for
the purpose of electing a Board
of Directors and an Auditing Com-
mittee for the consideration of any
amendments to the By-Laws of
the association and to transact
such other business as may be
legally brought before a stock-
holders meeting
R C EVERTS
President
EUGENE HOWE
47 2-t Secretary-Treasurer
Notice of Sheriff's Sale
In the District Court in and for
Custer County State of Okla-
homa: The Weatherford Building and
Loan Association a corporation
Plaintiff
VL
B D Tansey N Pearl Tansey
his wife L M Pyatte and Lola
Pyatte his wife Defendants
Notice is hereby given that pur-
suant to a special execution and
order of sale issued to me by the
court clerk of Custer county state
of Oklahoma I have caused the
lands and tenements hereinafter
described to be appraised accord
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ing to law and will on the 19th
day of December 1932 at 10
o'clock A M at the east front
door of the court house in Arap-
aho custer county state of Okla-
homa offer for sale and sell sub-
ject to appraisement which ap-
praisement is fixed at $300000
the following described real es-
tate and premises situated in Cus-
ter county Oklahoma towit:
Lots Twenty (20) Twenty-
one (21) Twenty-two (22)
and Twenty-three (23) in Block
Fifty-three (53) in the orig-
inal town of Custer City in
said county and state which
property will be sold to satisfy
a certain judgment rendered by
the district court in the above
entitled cause on the Ith day of
November 1932 in favor of the
plaintiff the Weatherford Build-
ing and Loan Association a cor-
poration against B D Tansey
N Pearl Tansey his wife for
the sum of $201400 with inter-
est at 10 per cent from May 31
1932 until paid and the sum of
PAGE - SEVEN
25000 attorney fees and costs
of said action the court adjudg-
ing that the plaintiff has a first
mortgage lien upon said real es-
tate for the amount of said judg-
ment and a decree foreclosing said
lien and ordering the property
sold to satisfy said judgment
Witness my hand at Arapaho in
Custer county Oklahoma on this
9th day of November 1932
(Seal) J R GREER
46-5t Sheriff
Eugene Forbes Attorney
FRIENDSHIP
IDEA
Who is ill just now? Scatter
Sunshine into every corner of
that sick room with Greeting
Cards A card from you each
day will help in bringing about
a speedy recovery
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Cards for Every Occasion
Here are the Facts about
your telephone rate
T N HARD IM ESit is only natural that the tch-phone subscriber
may wonder why rates are not lowered It is therefore the
duty Of the telephone company to place before him the reason
telephone rates do not rise when commodity prices rise and do
not fall when commodity prices fall
The telephone business is fundamentally different from most busi-
ness in that we sell a service rather than a commodity To meet the
public demand for telephone service we have had to erect an ex-
tensive system of poles wires cables buildings and equipment
that reaches into every part of town Thii is thO "plant"
New plant installed at public demand
As Oklahoma grew and developed this telephone plant grew
to keep pace with the demands for telephone seryice Towns and
cities were spreading out Factories were expanding New build-
ings were being erected Real estate subdivisions Were rapidly
developed and sold
"Give us telephone service" people said
When the depression came what happened? Many of the 50
families in ono section of town who had been so eager to in-
stall telephones a few years before moved away Other Jana-
lies "doubled up" with relatives and took out their telephones
But many families remained still wanted telephone service
And so today the cable serving that neighborhood is working at
much less than capacity Many of the lines are used a large num-
ber are unused Our revenue is seriously cut but our expenses
cannot be reduced proportionately anti it is up to us to continue to
furnish service Furthermore we must be ready to serve these
former customers when they want service again
The expenses keep on the income goes down
Maintenance costs continue A pole rots and a wire rusts whether
it carries many or few messages The plant still wears out at the
same rate We must still pay the people who have provided the
money to build the plant The tax bill for this property still comes
due each year These are loud charges virtually impossible for us
to reduce
what is true in one instance like this is true in many cities
aml towns throughout Oklahoma In all of them we hare lost
telephones The expense of Wring telephone service goes
right along in good times and tad Taxes for example take I
H art average of about 50e a MOntil from each telephone in the
state This expense op to now has shown a steady increase 4
These things make it welbnigh impossible so reduce expenses
to the point where we could lower our rate to you as a tele
phone user
It might seem that good business judgment could have prevented
sue! a situation The fact is we are obligated to meet requests for
service We have little discretion in the matter In the days I:lion
requests for telephone service came thick and fast we had to meet
those requests In many cases it meant additional construction
additional plant Even during the depression we have had to ex-
tend wires and cables into sections of cities needing additionzl
telephone facilities
We have lost 34000 telephones
Like most businesses we are having a difficult time making ends
meet Our revenues Lave decreased sharply We have lost tele-
phones more than 34000 in Oklahoma since January 1931
But we have tried to keep our people at work At present every
one is working part time Our expenses have been cut to bed rock
We cannot cut them further without impairing service
We have pledged oarselves to keep tewphotte charges low Our
rates in general did not r o up in boom times Many other prices
soared We are a regulated industry Would it not be an incon-
sistent law which one year says "You can't Igo up with everything
else" and another year says "Yon must go down everything
else has"?
Many are under th ? impression that this company is guaranteed
a certain return This is untrue We are not guaranteed any
MUM To the comrary we only are permitted to earn a fair
return if possible Of course in times like these it is not pos i
saie In Oklahoma for the lan 22 years we have averaged
slighly less than 7"10—just about the cost of money For this
year 14AI will fail by more than $2000000 of earning the cost
of money
It is noi that we are unwilling to reduce rates The facts prove we
are unable reduce them and still keep up the service Whenever
reductions e an be made they will be made voluntarily not only
because that is the policy to which this company is publicly com-
mitted lyat Lcause it is fair and because it is good business for
the telephone company
Thus four reductions in long distance rates have been made by
the telephone company voluntarily since 1926 They have already
saved Oklahoma users more than 151 million dollars
It is to our avantage as well as yours to make possible the wide
usage of telephone service which has come only throurrh low rates
Oklahoma telepno“e users have the benefit of rates among the
lowest in the United States
C MITCHRICII
District Alanager
SOUTHWESTERN BELL ® TELEPHONE COMPANY
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