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Show One Nation Indivisible . ticrf "f v- f Picture L' JVw': Parade ; VTHEREAS young America ' consumed more than it produced, the America of 1938 approaches self-sufficiency as the farm buys from the city, the city from the farm. Each is dependent on the other. When farmers above harvested a bumper crop near Devers, Texas, Tex-as, the implied surplus threatened threat-ened wages of Detroit automo- bile workers at right. And this year, new surpluses brought further complications. The cotton cot-ton surplus alone was 13,000,000 bales. Apple growers had a surplus of 51,000,000 bushels at the start of the year. Milk production pro-duction was higher in the early part of the year than in any corresponding period in the last seven years and granaries and warehouses bulged with lavish nature's excess production. 1 n h f f M I I v ' T'Z' fW 'v."' v gvJTywwtwmww'jm' w w 1 - . r. 1 " . , if- - N s 1 ?f J y t it , Here is an illustration of this "indivisibility." Farmers above deliver cattle and crops to great cities for distribution throughout the nation. And from cities, farm machinery (below) and automobiles flow in steady streams to the farms, from the sale of their products, ucts manufactured in the factori 1 '. A Wages of industrial workers must be paid And the farm is a major market for prod-ies prod-ies of our major cities. r 1 1 1 - - 3 1 I i V. I I I 1 4 1 - S V " ' rr- - f - to. - xiN, v 1 I To enable them to buy factory fac-tory goods, farmers are co-operating with experts in finding new uses for crops, and putting chain stores to work buying surpluses and selling farm products to city workers. V |