Show I 1 P ATT E IRS 6 4 released by western newspaper union AND alleri AMERICAN CAN FARMS SOME 80 years ago james hiu hill proposed a method for increasing american farm production at that time we had a foreign market for the surplus of all of our farm products the hill proposal resulted in the enactment of legislation for the he employment of an agrical agricultural tural scientist in each county in the united states the county agent the plan worked these trained experts placed by state agricultural experiment stations carried scientific agricultural methods direct to the farmer and applied them directly to each individual farm we had a market for our in increased farm production through and for two or three years after the close of the first world war when we stopped lending european nations money with which to buy they stopped buying and the american farmer suffered we will not again have a farm market capable of absorbing all of our potential farm products until we can find new uses for those products or produce those things for which new uses can be found industry must come to the relief of the american farm by a utilization of those things that can be produced on the farm as well as by a utilization of those things that now are considered farm waste it is through the comparatively new science of that these things can be and are being accomplished complis hed thanks very largely to the efforts of one man wheeler mcmillen mr mcmillen is urging the enactment of legislation that will provide for investigations of new crops which can be grown in the united states and also for new industrial uses for crops now gr grown own on our farms or from the present waste from these crops to the agricultural committee of the house of representatives mr mcmillen recently made the statement that of the known species of plants not more than are known to have commercial value he said that of the many vegetable products imported from foreign countries and of which we are now suffering a severe shortage most of them could be produced from crops that can be grown on american farms mr mcmillen sees agriculture as the next great expanding industry in tho united states with opportunities for every small farmer and in this he sees a safeguard for the american philosophy of government 0 0 0 AMERICAN SYSTEM GIVES ALL A CHANCE government CAN PROVIDE as our constitution says equal opportunity port unity for every man government cannot provide equal ability initiative the will to succeed or energy with which to pursue success government can so discourage initiative and ability as to make the achievement of success almost if not entirely impossible by doing so it does not raise the standard of the incapable but by limiting the activities of the capable will lower the standards of all henry ford was born with no more opportunity than were millions of other men but few had the ability initiative the will to succeed c and the energy of ford with these qualities he achieved a success that has been beneficial to the people of the nation directly and indirectly that success has created hundreds of thousands of jobs it has made homes and the comfortable support of families possible it has provided markets for the farmers products it has raised materially teri ally the living standard 0 of f all america when henry ford is gone what he has created will continue I 1 knew two farmers who settled an n adjoining claims in nebraska each had the same number of acres the same soil the same rain and the same sunshine they had equal opportunity one succeeded the ther ather failed one had ability and energy the other did not three men of my acquaintance three brothers were educated at the same university each had equal opportunity one became an efficient successful business executive the other two became clerks there was a difference in the ability initiative and energy one or all af these attributes to success the success of no individual i bene ats only himself it is the cumulative results of success which cause us to prosper as a people it is success that creates wealth and jobs the success of one does not con condemn denin another to the morass of poverty and want it raises the general standard of au all 41 SOYBEANS TODAY WE MAKE alito automobile mobile upholstery automobile ile steering wheels and other parts of the cars we drive out of soy beans in 1914 we produced only 2000 bushels of soy beans but bu t because of a market created by industrial demand that ta increased creased to bushels in 1941 and this year year the government Is askin asking 9 for or a 50 per cent increase to in th that a t v very ery profitable crop that 1 Is a one ne of t the he things the organic chemist has done for american ri agriculture |