Arthur A. Robertson, mogul and Oscar Heline, farmer

These two articles showed me how far people would go, during the depression, to show their opinion that was not being heard. The farmers were burning their crops, the thing that they worked so hard to grow. The big business men were losing money as if they were constantly being robbed. Each group of people did what was smart, the farmers came together and helped out other farmers, and big business men came together to help each other. What i found to be impressive, was that these men who were so independent, had the guts to ask each other for help. men who own businesses and who work for themselves can be stubborn and turn down any help. But, every farmer and business owner was in a time of major help. Farmers needed to know how to make simple things like clothing from supplies around their house and land. Millionaires who lost all of their money, had to ask other millionaires for money just so they could survive and hopefully get back on their feet. As i read Arthur Robertson's interview, he told of countless amounts of times where men had asked him to barrow money. he had to turn the men down. it was too risky to lose the money, and he did not want to endanger himself even more. From how he spoke of the people, it was easy to tell that it was hard to tell the other men that he would not be able to help them. I could tell that him seeing other men fall deep and quickly in the depression affected him dramatically. The farmers, on the other hand, could not bring each other back up because non of them had money. One by one, each farmer was losing their house and their land to the banks. The loses led to insanity. The economic depression caused these men to have depression. A big time Millionaire business man shot himself because all of what he once had was gone. Farmers went so insane (and a bit tipsy) that they killed a court judge! These men could not believe what their lives had come to, and they did not want to. This shows that working men can not stand being put to shame. not being able to bring home steak dinners made these men feel worthless. Not being able to live their normal lives made them feel that their families did not have hope in them and they felt like less of a man. When business men go from being with the wealthy and high class, to the middle or low class, it makes them feel as if they have not just failed in their business but at life. The violence and problems in the public that happened during the economic depression happened because these men could not stand the feeling that they have failed and would have, and in some cases did, done drastic matters to get their pride back.