Show A Few Pertinent Thoughts During Farm-City Week DURING THE NEXT HALF S. taxpayers will spend on America's most criticized budget the farm FEWER THAN 10 OF OUR laboring force are on and yet this small force can produce equal to and more than our country's Another 25 are engaged in other lines of production closely related to IN 1900 AN AMERICAN FARMER fed himself and six IN 1920 HE FED HIMSELF and seven IN 1940 HE FED and ten others IN 1950 HE FED HIMSELF and fourteen IN 1963 HE IS FEEDING HIMSELF and twenty-five or ALMOST BILLION IN FARM produce is in storage surplus with maintenance cost running about every Technology and politics have been the forces responsible for this increased production and NOVEMBER 18 TO 23 IS THE Ninth Annual observance of Farm-City Week and appropriate to it in the United States is the Centennial of Agriculture the one-hundredth anniversary this year of both the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the land grant IN VIEW OF THIS GREAT agricultural industry with its multiplicity of problems and there is great need for establishing common understanding between the city and the between the farmer whose existence is threatened with controls and the office worker with both of whom have a financial THE MATTER OF OBSERVANCE of Farm-City Week has become a activity over the past nine and this year plans are made locally by the Roosevelt Club to sponsor a fitting observance of the GIVE MORE THAN lip service to the week in the Roosevelt Over these years a dinner has been and each has invited a man who makes his living from tilling the soil to be his guest at the dinner This year is no exception and tonight arrangements are made to again observe the TO ADD EFFECTIVENESS to the Farm-City program which Kiwanis has been the local club conceived an idea a few years ago to recognize some farmer and proclaim him the of the He is announced at the dinner-meeting and presented with a and a brief record of his accomplishments as a farmer is expressed It's a worthy and commendable addition to Farm-City AS AND FARMERS break bread together on they and this great nation should render sincere to God for our abundance of plenty and for our great country with its freedoms that have made this and many other blessings |