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Show STAND ON YOUR OWN LEGS. A federal court has declared that the government's processing tax backbone of the agricultural adjust-.ment adjust-.ment administration act is Illegal. The case will next go to the supreme court, which according to eminent legal le-gal authorities, is almost certain to uphold the decision of the lower tribunal. tri-bunal. If that happens, it fill mean that the present program f government farm rel'.ef has virtually collapsed. And that illustrates rcmething that every citizen would do well to think about that governmental efforts to aid any class or group, no matter how well intentioned, are inevitably transitory trans-itory and instable. For many years, leading farm spokesmen have sa'.tl that, in the long view, the farmer's, salvation will depend de-pend upon his ef forts, fhis own work, his own abilities.'' The bulk of thinking think-ing fanners shen? thfct view. They know that self-help is the only kind of help that can produce permanent results. And they are planning and working accordingly. Better and mtore scicmtifVe farming, plus improved buying and soiling methods, me-thods, made possible by ajTicultural cooperatives, are the yrreat Influences behind farm progress. 4- 1 - |