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Show H GOVERNMENT OWES IT TO YOU. ' IT is peculiarly true that the average citizen has been so far removed from his government so H long a time that unconsciously he has drifted into Hj the belief that the government is something apart, M a great organization of power with which he has no M concern except to obey. The thought that the gov- 1 eminent is the servant rather than the master of the H people has been largely eliminated, or at least for- H -gotten. This state of affairs is largely because there fl has never been a proper contact between the govern- M ment and the people that create the govcrnmnt. M The taxpayers give to the government thousands H of dollars for research. Perhaps no country in the M world spends the amount of money or applies the fl i same energy and skill to gather for the people through H its government information of value. The experi- M ments conducted in soil improvement, the research H into scientific agriculture alone and the results at- H tained would amaze the world if the world knew1 H anything about them. But having gathered facts of H value to the people at the direction and expense of H the people no proper means is taken to sec that the H people are acquainted with the facts. H There is only one way the government can keep H in touch with the people, and that is by advertising H in the newspapers the people read. The newspapers H are a multiplication of the human voice, The day of B the town crier has gone by. His voice is not loud H enough to be heard except by a few small gatherings H IBBBlH of citizens. Modern methods demand the spreading of public information through the newspapers, and surely the people are entitled to the information for which they put up money to collect. For example, i the government has spent a good many thousands of dollars to learn how to kill the boll-weevil. The government gov-ernment knows all about killing the boll-weevil. The people have paid the government to get this infor-h mation. But the farmers know little about killing t the boll weevil. The information rests largely in official of-ficial pamphlets published in Washington and for the j most part kept there and forgotten . If these facts were advertised by the government in the country newspapers the benefit to the farmers would be immeasurable. im-measurable. As a matter of fact the farmers should write to our Senators and Cosgrccssmen and interest inter-est them in this ma'ier of government advertising by the Agricultural Department. ,. |