Show THE DROUGHT while the AAA officials were busy curtailing the nations crops they did not perceive that li lature was working along the same lines linea as a warning and punishment for mants mans misuse and abuse of her bounties the magnificent forests of wisconsin and other states had been cut down to make a thousand millionaires the pasture lands of df the west wes t had been grazed beyond their capacity to feed the herds of cattle barons the prarie land land that once fed millions of buffalo were broken up to satisfy the greed of the wheat kings with the coming of tractors western sections were plowed under that normally had only a scanty rainfall as the rising price of grain lured more and more farmers to golden west all america knows that story the story of the west is a story of human greed and selfishness such a wholesale destruction of natural resources could only have happened in america the land of the free where everybody could help himself from natures els store and by so doing turned the land into a desert today millions of acres e a I 1 are blowing away every time man breaks the laws of nature those laws will react on him it is pe significant that on M may a y 12 the birthday of the AAA our country experienced a dust storm that will never lie be forgotten forg ottea T of tors tons ot of soil were carried as far fast east as N tv av yok and was agton covering the dome ot of the capitol and the desks of the president heralding the worst drought in the nations history altho there are large and plentiful forests in russia germany and britain their rivers dried to little streams as the heat took its toll of crops in poland over plentiful rains deluged the plains inflicting nearly pi illion dollars worth of da damage niage I 1 people are looking to scientists to explain the drought and other of mans ills but the scientists are puzzled there is a limit beyond which they cannot go those benighted b e scientists remind me of the anatomy professor who told his class one day gentlemen I 1 have bisected bodies for thirty five years and 1 I have never found a soul in one of them 1 i no they hav hadj never found a soul with their microscopes nor or god with their telescope an ani vc uc must look I 1 beyond science to fin binl the fhe cause ani and remedy for our ills which first of all are the result of a blighting I 1 SPIRITUAL DROUGHT I 1 it he wat ereth the hills from his th chambers ambers mauseth cau seth the grass to I 1 grow for or the cattle and herb for the service on of mn in in t thai bat I 1 he he may bring forth fool food out of the e earli ethl should we not learn to look lock to him as the giver and be willing to comply with his laws not forgetting that it is HP that liveth L and away for decades ba lacfi the scientists 1 i and edua educators equators tors have placed placed science above god and education above faith developing inventions and making material progress at the expense 0 of duality to ay mil lions of jobless college g are and wondering riny villy their education cannot give them what they trove strove for having havin lott lost faith in god they are wandering about like sheep heep without a shepherd and legislation I flon can never put rain in their fields money in their pockets nor love and faith in their heir hearts |