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Show FARMERS AND THE NATION'S COUNCILS ! DR. BUTTERFIELD, the clever pepful president of Massachusetts Agricultural College has- just published a book on rural community problems prob-lems in the United States which is attracting attention on both sides of the water. One great difficulty in this country, says, Dr. But-terfield, But-terfield, it that the farmers are not, and rarely have been prominent in the councils of the nation ; consequently conse-quently others have desived policies for them. Exactly! It is a world-wide difficulty but particularly par-ticularly in America because of the very superior education and intelligence of our farming element. The American farmers are the backbone of the nation, yet their representatives in Congress and in many Legislatures are lawye.rs, who constitute a very small item in the population and who act, when seated from the convictions of lawyers, not from the convictions of farmers, or of patriots. We don't think it is going to last long. Already there is evidence of a strong get-together spirit a-mong a-mong agriculturists as evidenced by the farm bureaus the grange and other organizations. Tens of thousands of the young men and young women of the farm are entering the nation's agricultural agri-cultural colleges and other schools of learning every year and acquiring the education, the discipline and the ability to lead. They are not going to be satis-! fied to take a back seat to lawyers and mere pol-' iticians; soon they will be taking their places in the, nation's council. The sooner the better, not alone j for the farming industry but for the good of the1 nation itself and all classes of people. ' kin |