May 11, The American farmer is supposed to be the richest plougher of the soil in the world. No? only has he all the mechanical devices which steam and electricity have bestowed upon a suffering mankind, but he driv to town in a high-powered moter ear; he sends his sons and daughters to state universities; tunes in on his radio and has the wisdom and culture of the great cities at his elbow. No other farmer, not in the Argentine, or in the steppes of Russia has such advantages and comforts; yet, the American farmer is dissatisfied and wants rel He has for years been besieging the Congress of the United [States for relief; both candidates for the Presidency, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Smith promised it him.
It is sometimes difficult for one who does not live in the United States to know exactly what it is all about, for farmers, in most countries, seem to get along fairly well without government assistance. It would appear, bowacer, that laze Scale wheat. ig, sch as exists Gnited States and Canada, whi
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.