Vivien Kwong
Year 4
THE AMERICAN TIMES
Depiction of the 1930s Depression
To get a real picture of the 1930s Depression, we must look at the life of the farmers, the effect of the drought, and the receptiveness of other people in states in offering help.
Farmers’ lives were harsh in those days. The demand and the production of crops did not make a balance. It was essential for the government to solve the overproduction. However, that has not been done. A source from Oscar Ameringer gave an evidence of the livehood in Chicago. A man told him that he killed 3,000 sheep this fall. It is because the transfer of a sheep cost $1.10, but he would get less than a dollar for it. So, he decided to cut their throats and threw them down the canyon. It was a tragedy that he could not afford to rear the sheep and he would not let the sheep starve which showed the relations between him and his sheep at that time. The cause of the over production was due to the effects of the Depression. Americans suffered from the poverty which finally led to the under-consumption. This showed that poverty can cause under-consumption and at the end over-production. This had also led to foods being wasted but people being left hunger – a dilemma.