Freestone County, Texas
History - News


Dallas Morning News 
November 15, 1940
Section: III; Page: 4


THE STATE PRESS

CORN AND CORN LAND

  State Press is about as uneasy as a man with mail-order teeth.  His 
familiarity with corn, in its grain and cob form, is challenged by his regular
reaer at Streetman, Texas.  "I am grieved this morning to note that you have
slipped a cog in insinuating that East Texas corn is mostly nubbins.  The fact 
that Mr. Russell of Alba, East Texas, grew a multiple corn ear refutes your
charge.  The octuple corn ear was not a freak of nature but just good corn 
grown on a good corn land," it is written and averred by our Streetman rebuker.  
This gives S.P. pause.  His knowledge of corn and corn land is directly 
challenged, notwithstanding he has been fond of corn hominy from his infancy.
The Streetman contender may be, as he declares, growing good corn in Freestone
County but Freestone County is not strictly East Texan.  Also the Streetman 
contender voted for Henry Wallace, who knows how to raise corn, he says.  Mr.
Wallace will be Vice-President next year, succeeding one who grew corn on the
black land of Blossom Prairie in the long ago.  John Garner really knows how to
raise corn because he helped toraise it.  Mr. Wallace knows corn growing only
academically.  He was raised on a farm paper, Mr. Garner on a farm.  A big
difference.  But this might run into politics if pursued much further.  All we
mean to add is that Mr. Roosevelt will discover a big difference between a new
Vice-President who is an editorial farmer as against his predecessor who was a
practical and experienced corn grower.