Show PRESENT PRESEN T AMERICAN ECONOMY ily secy li city A INRE Is as much need today for T it ii declaration of independence as there was for a declaration ot of independence pen dence in the typical new england farming comia community nalty of the eighteenth century w was is 05 per cent economically economical ily independent ot of the rest ot of the nation and the world the rest of 0 the colonies might have suddenly disappeared and the community could continue to function ot of how ninny many communities in america could that lie be sald said today merely to ask the question Is to answer it and it if farmers with the help of government should today achieve even a GO 50 per cent economic self sufficiency as combar compared ed with their present 20 to SO 20 per cent the result would be the starvation of many millions in our gities cities A change of this sort might be brought about slowly but brought about rapidly it would proe a catastrophe |