Show A DESERVED TRIBUTE TRIBUTE The e future tur Farmers of f America Amer ca will be justly honored this week This outstanding organization Is dedicated to developing leader ship abilities in young people and providing them with practical training and experience In the techniques and practices of modern agriculture In the United States today each farmer supplies 41 people with food and fiber while just 20 years ago he supplied only 14 and while our population has grown 56 56 million the number of farmers has decreased from 79 to 37 million As our farms increase In size and productivity much greater knowledge Is required to to run them efficiently and make maximum use of the machinery agricultural chemicals and advanced procedures upon which h growing populations In this country and around the world will Increasingly depend for forthe forthe the sustenance of life The by working to enlist the energies and Imaginations of young people In agriculture performs a life giving giving service of Inestimable value to us aU all These future farmers have adopted a creed which well be read with thought ful interest by those now actively farming This creed follows I believe In the future of farming with a faith born not of words but of deeds achieve ments won by the present and past genera of farmers In the promise of better days thru better ways eve even as the better t things we now enjoy have come up td us from from the struggles of former years I believe that to live and work on a good farm is pleasant as wen well as challenging for I know the joys and discomforts of farm life and hold an inborn fondness for those aliens which even in hours of discourage discourage- discouragement discouragement ment l I can not deny I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly with such knowledge as I can secure and in the ability of organized farmers to serve our own and the public Interest in marketing the product of our toil I believe we can safe safeguard those rights against es and policies that are unfair I believe In less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining In the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make It for so-for others as well as myself in inless less need for charity and more of It when needed In being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me I believe that rural America can and win will hold true to the best traditions In our national life and that I can exert an influence In my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring task |