Show I 1 IZ 4 t i r t it L CLAUDE R thanksgiving harvest message by the th secretary of agriculture it is if an honor and a privilege lege to join in with fellow Anne americans ricans in thanksgiving for t the he years rich bar harvests vests and rc dedication to the work which li lies rs ahead for far american to farm families we have had much to be thankful I 1 for in the year that is III ending we have g great r cut need for faith and uc courage age in the year that will follow we are am thankful for our brave fighting men we me are thankful for brave allies we are thankful for our am opportunity to feed the men who are fighting our b battles attles out in the front lines on land and sea and in the am air we owe them a debt we never ever can fully repay it us is the privilege elege ai as well for the farm families of our whole na tic tion n to fight for freedom wing using food as a amen a weapon am it is in one of the most weapons P powerful ful weapons in the whole a armory armary of modern mod war farmers have used it this year on ma a scale never seen are before we farmers are especially thank ful fill that thus far we have bee been able to produce so much this truly has been a wonderful year more food more h hogs og milk and ad eggs more of nearly every cry other product than our mm 11 farmland and ever produced in the post past farmers can look back with satisfaction is ca on an what they have comp lashed W warehouses arc houses nd and granaries would not be filled no now w unless farmers had worked this season deaso fian from up sunup to after sundown the women and girls of farm families have done mens work in the fields an and d with livestock after their work in the home was mas done farm people have done them their duty ud as aa americans but farmers kr know ow that the full credit for this years great production does not belong to them idom alone this years harvests for all of the toil tod that went into their making never would have bren been possible if me ft e had not been blessed with fave favorable rable weather in nearly every part of the country mod modern science he has taken us a long ng way from our beginning but farmers still live leve close to the ele mental forces they know the power of wind sun and ram just as did the farmers who tilled fields and kept flocks in biblical times pam farm people have not forgotten that in time of trouble strength can come from the spirit as well as from frear material things this then is a indeed a tune time for thoughtful gratitude 1 think of what has been done in your own county toward producing food for far freedom and then project that line of the thought aught over the entire nation F farmers at lamers in most of our cur 3 other agricultural daam counties either passed them their goals or came close to them then one can grasp the really heroic size and significance of this years food for freedom harvest tr truly uly at this season we have much to be thankful for all ali of the nations nation 5 farmers are united in gratitude for the blessings of the past year for the abundance of the her har vest t they are firm too in a the resolve never to let up I 1 in the battle of production the road mad ahead I 1 for farmers is long and ad difficult but it is the only road that leads to victory |