| Show FACING REALITY in june of 1914 we predicted the greatest international war ever know will break upon tile the world on august 6 5 and last until the kaisers keisers Kai sers flight into holland on NOV 10 1918 it did again on labor day 1929 we wrote vr ote notwithstanding the present boom in wall street it will collapse within 60 days YOU yo know what happened on oct 29 of that year and n tiny may of 1933 it was written we are facing three years of calamity and drought the culmination of the rule of gold greed and selfishness ness the world has witnessed halt half of that ind and wonders why the farms of the old world have been producing crops for ages and since the practice of crop rotation fields cultivated for centuries are yielding better than ever for de cades america developed and prospered thru her agriculture as ag long as the farms remained what they were intended to be homesteads to teed feed their owners but when individual far meers no longer content with modest prosper ity acquired 1000 and more acres of virgin soil and planted it in wheat with the help of power machinery then trouble began when tile the discovered this costly mistake in buying up millions of bushels of wheat to taise raise tile the price in an effort to beat the law of supply and demand it took steps to curtail the growing of crops and to shorten the production of livestock for years experts had bad taught farmers how to produce the largest yields but suddenly the farmers discovered that the more they produced the lie worse off they were and the cry went up overproduction is choking prosperity despite the fact that I 1 millions could not get the necessities of life it was prosperity that amer lea ca wanted at all costs believing that money alone was the solution of all our problems to make more money is the effort off of every individual and tile effort of the present administers tion and under ader the circumstances they are all doing the best they can but that best is not enough for the farmers troubles and america america s andl and I 1 all the worlds troubles lie not in having too much food and goods of every description but in producing these commodities FOR THE AMASSING OP OF HONEY tile the earth eart is the lord s and the fullness thereof but our greedy and i materialistic age stairs scoffs at them the idea j of god being the cause of our ex istance and well being and belie believes vesi that the wealth of the fields of the forests and of the mines is there fo for exploitation of him who downsi owns I 1 the lind land thus men turned go gods ds providence I 1 and bounties into a curse those who have food cannot sell it and those who need it cannot buy it for money is the barrier and there is yet it a year and a half until september 1936 before man will learn his lesson |
