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Why Do They Leave
The Family Farm?
AT LONG LAST, so your home
town reporter believes, some
thing may be done about getting at
the basic and underlying reasons
why American rural life is breaking
up in these United States.
And Immediately I eaa envision
the raising of eyebrows from maify
individuals awl leaders ef farm or
ganizations. "What do yon mean,
breaking up?" they will all ask, and
then they start pointing . . , pointing
to good roads, to 4-H clubs, Future
Farmers organization* . . ?to farm
bnreans and granges and farm
unions, to co-ops, to consolidated
schools, to rural eleetrilleatioa, to
many, many newly won farm con
veniences. They point to all these
things, and more, and they are
aO good for farm life.
Members of the congress who rep
resent the so-called farm bloc
spend their time listening to these
farm pressure groups and pushing
through the legislative mills bills
intended for the advantages of the
farmers. I read their speeches. Con
gressman John W. Flannagan Jr.
of Virginia, one of the outstanding
battlers for agricultural legislation,
made a speech before the American
Farm Bureau Federation in Chi
cago and listed eight "musts" as
necessary to place American post
war agriculture on a firm basis. But
In no place in Mr. Flannagan's
speech are there answers to the
two factors which are breaking
down rural life in America.
What'* the Trouble?
Why, with all these things being
done, is there a steadily diminish
ing rural population?
Why is there such a larger pro
portion of rural youth physically un
fit than in other strata of our na
tional life?
There have been attempts to
make general answers to these two
questions . . . technological devel
opment . . . power machinery . . .
greater yields per acre, but there
has been no basic research up ? to
this point, in an attempt to find the
real answer.
Farm leaders, are concerned . . .
economic, industrial and spiritual
leaders are concerned . . . and as
a result there has been in the proc
ess of formation during the past
year the Foundation for American
Agriculture. Its organization is
now complete, its research under
way in several fields and to steer
its progress it has obtained the serv
ices of Charles Dana Bennett. That
name . . . Charles Dana Bennett
. . . conjures up a long line of
writers, artists, publicists, corre
spondents, publishers ? who have
made history in America.
rood Croctnori Interested
Upon its board of directors, the
foundation has the names of some
of the "Big Business" leaders of the
nation, leaders Interested primarily
in agriculture because their business
is with agriculture . . . Quaker Oats,
Swift At Co., Balston-Purina Co.,
Pillsbury Hills, Sears, Roebuck and
Co., and ethers, but it also has rep
resentatives of the various farm or
ganizations, co-operatives, milk as
sociations and outstanding individu
al fanners and ranchers.
Its work will be educational, based
upon research findings.
"The Foundation for American
Agriculture is to serve as a place
for men and women to think out
their problems, rather than to fight
them out. Its JoV Is to create
through the processes of education,
a hotter understanding between the
people in our cities and the people
la our villages and on our farms . . .
that education win bring this under
standing and understanding will
khg tolerance ... out of tolerance
comes peace and progress," Mr.
Bennett explained.
Why does a farm boy or farm
girl leave home? Is it because the
house is unpainted, because there is
no bathroom in the house, or is it
the lure of better, paid city jobs?
Why do young people in the home
towns n?ve on to the larger cities?
Why do the oldsters on the farm
retire to the smaller nearby towns
and let the farm go to tenancy?
The answers to these questions are
being sought in a foundatioo-bacled
project undertaken at Milford, Ind.,
a small rural town of about TOO pop
ulation in Kosciusko county. Re
search has been started there under
the direction of the Rev. Harry Gra
ham, lecturer tor the Indiana State
Grange.
Softer Educational Monies
Another research program has
created the Rural Film Foundation.
Three important factors are being
kept in mind in the production <2
these 10-mrn films: (1) that they can
not be produced on a five and ten
cent basis such as many cheap rural
films have been heretofore; (2) that
scenarios must have good Holly
wood technique and the educational
angles sugar-coatod or ^rocked into
i the story; and (J) they must con
tain nothing objections bio to term
THIS seems to be as good a spot
as any other to give you the
various champions of 1940. Of
course there may be a slight ele
ment of chance involved in these
various nominations, but if you
combine the past performance op
erations and the future chart you
can't go far wrong. Also we reserve
the right to make a few changes
later on when some of the mists
and fogs have lifted and there is
more light ahead.
These selections belong to the
snows of winter, not the flowers of
April and May nor
the red and gold
tints of next au
tumn. Here is our
prediction for big
league baseball:
American league
? Joe McCarthy's
Yankees with the
Red Sox and Tigers
as leading chal
lengers.
Grantl&nd Rice ^v*'lon*1 f'?'!"
The St. Louis Cardi
nals with Cubs, Dodgers and Giants
close up.
At the moment Joe McCarthy
seems to be more worried about the
Red Sox with Ted Williams, Bobby
Doerr and Tex Hughson back than
the Tigers with Wakefield and
Greenberg hitting, plus the pitching
of Newhouser, Trout, Trucks and
Benton.
Outside of the Cardinals, the
scramble to finish in the first four
teams will be terrific, depending
largely on the elnbs that get the
| pick of Sam Breadon's $100,000 or
maybe $150,000 worth of pitchers, in
fielders and outfielders. I don't
mean collectively, but individual
ly. Sam Breadon has already sold
over $200,000 worth of talent and he
has something like $700,000 in the
way of talent left. Owner Sam Bread
on will have a big influence on the
next National league race.
Joe McCarthy, one of the top
managers of all time, is too con
servative to make any predictions.
"Why I haven't even seen such men
as Dickey, Gordon, DiMaggio, Riz
zuto, Johnson and others in several
years. How could I know what they
have? All I know is what they were
?not what they are. Remember that
old song of George Cohan's ? 'It
isn't what you used to be?it's what
you are today.' "
Anyway, our first prediction
stands ? Yankees and Cardinals,
which is no wild dash into the un
known. It is no long shot selection.
Army on Top in Football
Ai br as football goes, our top
nomination is Red Blaik's Army
team. This Army team has been
the high spot of college football for
the last two years. For 1946 It will
still have most of its stars on hand,
including Blanchard, Davis, Tucker,
McWilliams, Coulter, Foldberg,
Poole, Fuson and several new addi
tions. Army's 1946 team may be
even better than her 1944 and 1943
squads that outclassed the country.
I know Oklahoma A. and M., In
diana and Alabama believe they
could have given Army an even
scrap. Notre Dame and Pennsyl
vania felt the same way this last
fall. Result against both: Army 109?
Notre Dame and Pennsylvania 0.
And don't forget Army was under
wraps.
Fd pick Alabama in the sooth
next to Army. Frank Thomas had
I a ine squad last fall and he will
have a much better team next fall.
He has more than a few outstand
ing stars coming back, pins the
sqaad he already has.
j Oklahoma A. and M. won't be far
; away with another big, fast, rugged
and experienced bunch. Bo McMil
lin believes his Indiana team could
give Army an even game, but I
doubt Indiana could beat Alabama
I or Oklahoma A. and M.
I Michigan, if the draft doesn't mow
down Fritz Crisler's freshmen, can
be one of the best. So can St.
I Mary's with new and bigger men
coming in. Navy may rank close to
Army?but not too close. Navy will
certainly be the second best team
In the east. Pennsylvania won't be
far away, the top of the Ivy league,
I in a much closer run.
What about Notre Dame with
Frank Leahy back? Good, but hot
great. The South and Midwest will
both be strong. The East, outside
of Army and Navy, won't be much
different. The Far West still has a
wide gap to close. The best pick
?long the Pacific will be St. Mary's,
where Jimmy Phelan gave out one of
the best coaching jobs I've ever
; seen and where Herman Wedemey
er will again be a vital factor. What
about the two pro leagues? We'll
turn that over to the Delphic Oracle.
What about boxing? The two tups
la the eeuatry should be Joe Louis
la the heavyweight division and
Sugar BeMasse among the welter
weights. They should remain the tare
best rtagmen sf the year. Beau
Jack wffl remain the best club lght
er and (he most popular entertainer.
Grastaae won't be tar away. A
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Era an aid funnel can be (1am
oroua. Paint it to match your
kitchen color scheme and hang it
on the wall as a holder for a ball
of twine.
To remove old fine from furni
ture easily and quickly, wash it off
with hot vinegar. Let wood dry
thoroughly before applying fresh
glue.
Before replacing a broken pitch
fork handle or anything similar,
boil the end of the new handle for
about five minutes. Then the fork
is easily driven in.
No squeaks if you make oiling
your sewing machine a habit. To
oil a sewing machine properly, put,
the oil on every place where one
part rubs against or turns within
another.
Grandma
speakin'...
THE SHJENOE when gossipy
women pause far breath la the
most delightful part o' their con
versation.
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THEM TWO WORDS ? 'Table
Grade"?sure tell a heap o' things
Txjut Nu-Maid Margarine. Yep,
Nu-Mald Margarine is made
'specially fer the table. Am fine a
spread as money can buy.
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DON'T TRY to mend the ways o*
others til you've mended yer
own. You'll find that's a full-time
Job.
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?ROUND OUR HOUSE, every
body's plumb crafcy 'bout the way
vegetables taste when they're
seasoned with Table-Grade Nu
Maid Margarine. It don't surprise
me, 'cuz anything that tastes as
good as Nu-Maid all by itself is
bound to make other foods taste
better, too!
Beware Coughs
froa coma mMs
That Hang On
CrabmuMon rrileres promptly b?
a?j?elt g^rtgh^tojte ajg gjhj
to iftnOw and heal raw. tender. In*
flamed bronchial mucosa mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell yoa
? bottle of Creomulskin with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
qtdcfcly allays the coach or you ara
to hat* your money bach.
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