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Show Farm Prosperity Depends While there are conflicting opin-iens opin-iens the predominant sentiment a-meng a-meng business prognostioators proclaims pro-claims a coming business advance. Undoubtedly, there is solid ground for the belief that the future holds out brighter prosp.cts for industry generally. Industrial activity for the first quarter of 1935 was twelve per cent higher than in 1934. Moreover, More-over, government expenditures un-d un-d r the work relief program are expected ex-pected to increase the gains. A word cf caution should be uttered ut-tered to the people of this section, however, which applies alike to all sections depending to a large degree de-gree upon agriculture for prosperity. Business and industrial activity may 'record great gains without any cor-rr cor-rr spending improvement in the condition con-dition of farmers. This has been noticed before and may easily occur again unle s those dependent upon ar agriculture safeguard the inter- sts of farmers generally. Along this line, we call the attention at-tention of the farmers of SanptC ecunty to thei vgorous atacks now "b ing made upon the present program pro-gram of ca. ih bnefits to growers of basic agricultural product. We do net pretend to tay that the AAA i? perfect or even, in this article, to suggest that it should be continued 'indefinitely. What should be said!, hvwevK', is that if the AAA succumbs suc-cumbs to the attacks of its enemies, farmers and those dependent upon agrxulture for prosperity should be alert to see that something worthwhile worth-while takes its place. |