Show 11 i SOIL BACK BA OK TO THE Back to the Ul soil sailor or we wc perish Is the tho warning sounded Sound d by James J Hill Hili In his hla Highways wa of or progress just j st limed I JIm Jill says the United States must radically change its Ideal of ot being a 1 manufacturing country Tho rapid I destruction of or natural resources which cnn can never be restored to tho the I I earth will torso force the change j Within twenty years ears perhaps wo woj j shall s have nowhere east cast of or the Rocky Rock r I Mountains b a n timber Umber product worth J t i recording I i By tho the middle of or the present con cen ceni lury i r our best and rind most convenient i t I coal J will havo hmo Mon boon so far consumed that tho the remainder can only be ap applied api i plied to present uses at an In I cost Ost which would probably compel compol compel I tho tro entire rearrangement rC of or indus industries IndustrIes tries and revolutionize tho the common I lot t and common life UCc In tho the year car 1950 wo we will approach ah in onless h age Our home supply of i Iron will ill have retreated almost to tho thor r company of or the tho precious metals lt I Not No merely our OUI manufacturing in industries 1 but hilt our whole complex In ln Industrial life so intimately built upon 1 I Iron and coal will feel the tho strain and must t suffer realignment enL H Tho The peril I 1 evil is not of oC o remote geologic time but hilt of or this generation gen Uon J And Is there thoro a sign of ot prep preparation 4 f oration for It fl Whore r amidst st our sa sta and aud flourish of trump thump trumpets W t I ets els with which the tho rise ilse Ill e of our manu manufactured 5 t st l f product In It always announced d 7 1 I ell ed do we wc hear henr PO so much as a whisper of cart caro about tho Iho lh nerds needs of f tho the limo Um 1 1 f marching RO so o swiftly upon up upHill t I Hill points to lu England where th the 7 i Treasure pressure JI of oC too hw much to toil I il IJ l manufacturing at the tho expense of or I 1 i x I farming is already being boing felt fell S 1 I h I i From a million to a million and a L LI I half of men aro 1110 huddling together in 1 1 I her h r cities uttering that most moat pathetic t 1 and much awful ultimatum Damn f 1 your charity give gho us liS work J J Our one on resource 1 Is la the I of tho the roil soil II Hill declares d tl fes the United d States St tes has hM i I done with Its Ita soil soH what It has hns dono done I 1 r with its coal and iron wasted It Il by bytho bytho bythe L tho the destruction wrought by b rivers and by deliberate soft eoll exhausting by growing single big moneymaking I J j crops year rear after year car without thought thou ht t of fertilizing or by b crop I Il l rotation rot Tho The soil once so rich now produces tout but twelve bushels to tho the thoI ih I 11 acre acra cropped for a thousand J ye yeara t produces pro seventeen so teon bushels I t per nero aero France Fran o twenty Germany 1 J and England thirty I t J two foI Mt u |