Dutchmanon the Brazos

Hohn, Ceasar (Dutch); Meyer, Agnes - Foreword

Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1963

About this Item

194 Pages Indexed. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and a decoration on the spine. Beautiful as new book with interior text pages near flawless. Dust jacket has a small stain at the top. $4.50 flap price is not clipped. Signed on the half-title page Signature Only. This book is an autobiography. The author worked for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service during World War 2 studying the War Emergency Program for farm labor placement. Hohn had formulated a philosophy that protection of human resources, in this case migrant and local farm labor, was the surest method of increasing agricultural production. In other states there was a hostility that existed between farmers and the Spanish-speaking American or Mexican migratory families. Dutch Hohn transformed the relationship of these groups by educating the farmer to treat the worker like a human being instead of a commodity, and to give him fair treatment as to housing, living, and working conditions, and by educating the worker to the moral responsibility of giving a fair day's work for a fair day's wage. His was a creative and complex administrative job which mobilized all available public and private community organizations to meet such problems as health, child care, housing, and the construction of reception centers where migrant families could rest, wash, and sleep instead of being driven like animals from pillar to post for weeks on end. The program produced an enormous increase in food which the country needed as much as it needed armaments. It proved that what is sound humanly is also sound financially. Dutch would scramble over canal banks to visit the hideouts of the wetbacks, and make long journeys over the Texas plains to inspect the far-flung reception centers. Thus begun the life's work of Dutch. Contents in 16 Chapters: Hohns Galore, Yorktown Yokel, Girl-Shy, Poor Fish, Green Grows the Freshman, The One and Only Charley Moran, Primitive Football, One Ball and Two Strikes, Close Call with Avogadro, Top Man in a Class of One, A Ranch and a Bride, From County Agent to Insurance Agent, County Agent Again-Washington County, Migrant Labor in War Time, A Fanner Looks at the Farm Problem, and An Active Retirement.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dutchmanon the Brazos
• Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Hard Back
• Illustrator: Schiwetz, E. M. - Drawings
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: By Author - Signature Only