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Show LESSON OF THE GOOD FARMER Thero Is one essential in all economic econom-ic life. It is a lesson taught us primarily pri-marily by the good farmer. The wise producer does not consume or waste or sell all of his products. He keeps his best seed for the next year's planting, plant-ing, and if there is any doubt about his needs for the winter he maintains a surplus against misfortune or untoward un-toward circumstances. The trouble or one trouble with the 1 people of the United States during the fat years of the war and immediately imme-diately succeeding was that they spent all of their earnings, or most of them, in riotous living. As this term comes from the Bible it is apparent that human nature has not changed very much in six thousand years. It is no exaggeration to say that during the war in any city hundreds of young men spent from $10 to $20 for silk shirts and these particular evidences of extravagance are now rarely seen. If the entire country had observed as faithfully a nation-wide money-saving money-saving program from 1917 to January Janu-ary 1, 1921, as it observed food saving sav-ing under Mr. Hoover's direction in 1917 and 191S, there would be little or no complaint of hard times and close money. |