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Show IOVLStttiVteiM AhLD HOLD i jERkSkS - FOR IOWA, SAYS CHICAGO FINANCIER The world menace of bolshevism, whote ehadow is lengthcnmp over! civilization, need have no terror for Iowa, according to Ralph Van Vechten, vice-president of the Continental Conti-nental and Commercial Rank of Chicago Chi-cago and one of the leading finan-l ciers of the West "Any overflow of bolshevism from ! I Europe that may reeh this coun-i try," said Mr. Van Vechlan. "will break against the substantial pros- j perity of the farm population of Icwa like a wave against a rock. 1 have just completed a trip through lowa and every mile- I traveled I was prouder that 1 was born ther 1 have learned that lowa has the i greatest per capita wealth of any state in the union and farm landt, have lumped 50 per cent in value in the lat five years. "Farm mortgages always have highly regarded as an in vestment and the tendency now on ; the part of the farmer to liquidate BJ obligations, Las not influenced J their popularity with the investor. There has been a pronounced increase in-crease in the volume of principal payments with corresponding renewals, re-newals, but there has been at the i same time a corresponding volume ef new business Tenant farmers! to whom high prices have brought prosperity are turning their money into land of their own. "I would Ray that on its record Iowa is the greatest agricultural state in the union. Illinois claims i llrst Place in the total value of land I crops. Texas has the most cattle I i ne!W ork is fir5t In daries. North i Dakota has the irreateet annual! wheat yield. But in balanced farm I lowa tops them all. "t Produces lO.U00.000 hogs o . year and I am inclined to acree with the farmer verdict that there is mort , money in pigs than in banks. It I annual en outnut is worth mon I SSL"1 n u ora,r'1-'es in the Unite. States. The value of its annual hninPr2dnCtS h9 leen more than - ! "illon J'lars for the past thre I Iveara. loe dailv rov.,. XL into the pockets of its farmers is Jose to $3,000,000. "Its stock is hich-jrradc. At the Panama-Pacific expobition. it made agricultural exhibits and won "u5 ?nzes Ninety-nine per cent of the farms in many townships have -dectnc lighting and all the conveniences conveni-ences of city homes, lowa farms :ould pay the war debt of the na-uon na-uon in a single ireneration. I have tound wonderful prosperity and iboundm' optimism everywhere f"2 fecms 10 be the state's key |