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Show MACHINERY NEEDED ON SMALL FARMS Concern over the shortage of farm labor is being expressed by a number of congressmen but, so far as we know, none of them has taken the obvious step to increase necessary farm production. While many farms in the United States are highly mechanized and geared for capacity production, there are thousands of small Of course, there are farmers, B just like industrialists, who are B worrying about what will happen after the war. This concern seems a little premature to us, but, just the same, there will be a tremendous tremen-dous demand for manufactured and farm products after the war. All that will be necessary will be some I form of international cooperation I to make possible the easy flow of trade between all the peoples of the world. ! farmers in the nation who are unable un-able to purchase the machinery necessary ne-cessary to increase production. Doesn't it appear obvious that if the government wants greater farm output, it should assist farmers farm-ers to buy necessary farm machinery? machin-ery? This idea will seem radical to the metropolitan business boys, including in-cluding industrialists, bankers, and capitalists, but it represents nothing no-thing but an extension of the assistance as-sistance that the government is rendering to industry. Demanding increased production of war weapons, wea-pons, the government has readily made available capital to industrial indus-trial companies. It can make similar simi-lar capital available to farmers to increase farm production. |
