Davis County Clipper | 1937-11-26 | Page 5 | University News

University News i- i iNot Not many man years ago the aver aver- average average age farmer raised enough to feed 18 people Part of this he and his family used themselves and the rest he disposed of in order to get the necessities he did not raise Due to technical developments especial especial- especially I ly the application of p power ma- ma machinery machinery chinery to farm work it will not be long until the farmer will raise twice that much or oren oren en ouCh to feed about 36 people stated Dr William Villiam Og- Og Ogburn Ogburn burn professor of sociology at the University of Chicago speaking be I fore the Utah state conference of Social at the inauguration I tion of the Un Uni erst of Utah's new school of social work Saturday N November 13 This increase in n tIre productive power of the thc and the fact that the population of tire the country is tending to become stationary means that fewer farmers will he be needed Tire The farmers themselves cannot coUpe cope with such problems so tire the federal government has en- en entered tIre thc field because Lecause of the need that exists It is likely that tire the government will stay in th field fied of social ocial work or some said Dr Ogburn who served as of research for Hoovers Hoover's c on socia soda and is now a mem member ber of nation national resources resources ces