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Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS How ran farma be mad to ylold more and food b cheapened? Paltlmoro American: "Many . boy, feoin on th farm U looked upon rhlefly a commercial eeeet ; he fs valued. aa.de from natural affection, for what he an proriur. He la early In life aet to work mnnina; erranda, pullinc wed. hoe-In hoe-In a com. and by H or IS la pretty likely i to be doing a man work, when he ran i be epar!, he ia aent to aohool, and the i few monthe a year he spends there ia too often re-earned aa time atolen from I the routine of farm life. Hla existence i la filled with downrlaht hard wurk. ! marked by little pleasure." 1 Ran FVanclaro Post: 'Tnder tho old methoda of aprrtculture the anil would not now feed the population of the 1'ntted Htarea, but new method a alwaya meet the needa created by new condltlnna. Aa population Increaaea. bo doet the production pro-duction of the eutl, made to do so bj. cauae able men jrive their though ta to devlalnur the new and better methods of cultivation. And every betterment of the farmer's condition adda to the welfare , of the city dweller." Atlanta Journal: "Tho one great antl dote ajratnat ttie unwholesome trend of population cityward ia tho creation of a more comely and satisfying home life on the farm. Whenever the nova and jtirla realise tn their very hearta that more happiness and health and opportunities are to be found tn the country than In town they will lose the wanderlust that I has beckoned them In tho paat." I 8t. i-roole Poot-rHapatch: "ft food ! scarcity ever does become real, tho fact l which may bo taken for granted by all concerned la that there will be no puntlr toleration for tho combination of real and artificial scarcity In food prices. The artificial ar-tificial element which now repreoeata the habit of extortion from cltv consumers i will be eliminated by determined public action." Louisville Courier-Journal? "Tho farmer Is not srettlns the benefit of the prices that are being paid by the consumer. 1'nder a better system of marketing It would be possible for the farmer to a-et his; her prices than ho now obtains, and the consumer to buy agricultural products prod-ucts at lower figures than he la paying at preaent to plte up the profits for what tho grangers used to call tho 'middle man-1-" Florida Tlmea-Tnion: "In tho Vnlted Stateo there Is room In the country for half as many people as now live on the whole earth, and there Is no reason why any man In health should not be self supporting If he la able to get to a place where he can find work to do. He can do this In tho country." Clnclnnstl Inquirer: "The middlemen may have suffered, tho middlemen may have had their profits cut down, or even eliminated, but the agriculturists today are tho class of all classes that have the Instant demand fur all thoy can produce." |