Show k MAIN STREETS ETS OF U S DOMINATE AMERICA SOMEWHERE I 1 have read a statement to the effect that the main streets of america eire are more powerful than the broadways that Is f avery f very very true the hard bard horse sense bense of our main streets dominates america from them are recruited tho ahe larger proportion of oui our college students a great proportion of our industrial and political leaders from the main maid streets are aie elected I a trifle more th than ati 50 percent per cent of our representatives in congress f progress is found on our mal main t streets quite as much as on our broadways the hitching rack and watering trough of a generation ago have given place to the automobile parking place the gas station and the garage tho the kerosene lamp has been replaced with the electric light bulb the wash tub anthe in the kitchen for the family Satu saturday iday night both bath s Is no more in its place is a modern bathroom every convenience that broadway has known is also found afi on main street there there are a larger number of automobiles per main street etrest homes homei than per par broadway homes hames yes there Is progress on main street but with the advance in ma f te terdal rial things there has wen been reth retained ined that hold on cultural and spiritual things which makes the main street perspective so different from that of broadway main street gives serious consideration to the problems of life and of the nation its social life is built around the school and tho the u church broadway is largely frivolous 1 L its social life is isthan that oi of the night spots the bright lights and the country clubs it is not easily 13 brought ht to a se serious rious consideration of national or governmental problems the main streets of america represent the future of tho the nation they havo have the virtue of progress without the frivolities and the bright lights ft 0 V from them thein coi comes most of the sane lu thinking of the rit nation liin ua f FARMERS REACTION ato pl TO AID PROGRAM evo ON A RAILROAD TRAIN between ts chicago and the west coast I 1 had 0 i among others seven farmers as fellow passengers four of them got on at chicago one was from michi gan bonef one from wisconsin and two from illinois one got an in iowa and two one from missouri and one t from kansas boarded the train at kansas city of the seven ilya were definitely 6 opposed to 16 government bonuses to agriculture although four of the live were accepting government pay merits the farmer from wisconsin was not nol he was operating a dairy farm and was 69 bitter in his 1 tion alon of the governments effort boin to induce american people not to cat ched cheese seso BO there might be a greater supply for england tho the wisconsin j r operatives cooperatives co had spent a million dollars in an advertising campaign ts ja to create an increased market for cheese cheese rii the man from iowa expressed the views tot iho five opposed to govern ament payments ay menis 7 If farmers are not mendicants mendi cants any lit imore more than are arc merchants he said some farmers lar ar mera mers fall at forming farming because iiii iise they are not capable farmers some merchants fall ail at keep ing because cause they are not capable merchants but the government does not subsidize merchants beca because tise of the jai failures lures As farmers we want a protected american market we do not hot want to compete with farmers in countries with a much lowey lower standard of living than that hat of amer 1 ica that protected market and new s markets through the development IN adf fhe scientific application of agriculture to industry la Is all we wont I 1 if with that wo we want to stand on our own feet the government should save the more than a 0 billion dollars fa a year now being paid as farm bonuses 11 the two farmers who favored the bonus plan were equally definite in their insistence of the necessity of its contini continuance ance the farmer said one is en titled to a standard of living he can not achieve without government help it is what I 1 get from the gov crement that makes it possible for rne me to make this trip to california and my wife and I 1 are entitled to such a trip did those seven farmers represent aa cross section 04 0 the tha formers farmers ot of a america ido I 1 ido not know I 1 give d douthe you the story ry as I 1 receive dit and attl without comment other than it it w does ri represent present the attitude of a i majority of american farmers the tf billion dollars would aid materially in financing the war 0 GOD MAY BLESS AMERICA with lectory lc tory in this war it if each of us does his part to assist Is q ull hu Is PROFITS FITs AND PRICES wartime kit ethere ARE SOME THINGS that lii a cannot genormal be normal in war wartimes times it ila not normal for our boys boya to be dying on the battle fields fielda or to be r serving i their country all around the 5 7 globes globe there are three things that should never be above normal in war times and they are prices profits Profit sand and wages we should inot not F isk ask codr our boys to fight and die for 1 us s and wo we take advantage of the conditions to increase the wealth of those who stay at home |