Show I PROBLEMS MS FACING AGRICULTURE D By Br CEO GEORGE CE RUSSELL Agricultural 1 HEN EN city populations can no longer draw upon rural peoples W for leadership timber civilizations such as flower in Great W Britain and the United States become endangered TJ The e probe i i lems of agriculture and rural life are alike the world over City people must realize the importance of maintaining more than Uan serfdom serf serf- 1 dom door on the farm Good living conditions must prevail in rural ar areas 08 for at least one-fourth one of ot a nations nation's population to insure economic and racial well i I This is not to be gained by governmental subsidy as some nations t including the United States are arc attempting nor by Communistic endeavor or as in Russia The only way drawing upon twenty-five twenty years of organ organ- organ 1 zing izing effort and study in Ireland and other European countries is by bye voluntary action to organize country men into a rural civilization such as has haa never been seen before There should be no conflict between urban and rural citizens because they are fundamentally one Organization makes the farmer a better better buyer for what the city produces Farmers as individuals arc are generally too oo poor to buy all al the expensive equipment which they could purchase il if f organized Four fundamentals may be bc listed as necessary in building this rural civilization The building of not only economic but spiritual and ond cultural cul cul- tural tura knowledge among farmers sound business practice and preservation of in individual identity in organization devel development of other agricultural industries than food production and the federating of buying and selling power of farmers to creat create f national consciousness among individuals I i |