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Show i .'".' Tiiu'inoLs Of Genius ; Had our farmers employed the : same-methods of sowing a'nd harvest-ing harvest-ing 1926 w ie?t as were u:'.?d 100 years ago. it would have required the '-labor of ouj:, lib million pople f l i months, am' the labor of 5 0 million people in addition. By modern methods, the great crop was sowed and harvested by 3 or .4 million farmers farm-ers in a few months. Sta.tis.tic3 also show that had our li iiroads uso.l tame methods of moving mov-ing the grear. .Tmmerce of 1920 as vtre used, biu i0 years Ei'O cost to p;oduce:s, fi'ijfys and consumers would be 3)0 per cent greater and leciuse of shortage of cars and lack of facilities, much c f it would stiH be unmoved in the warehotises or rotting rot-ting iU the lit-1 (I Just as our farmers met the situation situ-ation by using modern methods and machinery, so our railroads met it by providing additional facilities lar,;er engines and cars to haul more tonnage ton-nage per train. Had primitive methods been used in cultivation and transportation of our crops and commerce in 1926, our eondioion despite our brand-less resource?, re-source?, would not be unlike that of China or Russia, .where. modern methods meth-ods are neither used 'nor understood and where both productivity and ' tsanportat!nn 'ai'e 'alike still in the pY'mit'tve stage'.' ' ''l ;; ' As a"jTcrlpIe' -e liav'e had the good ,!" srrnse to!'aVail' of the achievements of ' "t i "i rjnj'.rve genuis," arid have prrnress-J' prrnress-J' "e!J a nd prospered as have no other people in the woiild.'r In regulating transportation and j public utilities, we sln.n'ld see to it lint frrfliKes provided jto accommodate accom-modate otir growing i nd u sa' rial needs like larger locomotives to haul hc.iv- r 'trains, are not wastnfully restric 'it by laws rcduci'i; and 1 i m :i' i n .; either capae'ly to serve the public in mining traffic or to earn a reasonable reason-able amount on their err:!,. We ai" n big country and must do business ia a big way. |