Mr. Strickland pointed out that Indian farmers will consult a lawyer at the drop of a hat. A lawsuit will develop at the slightest excuse. This may happen in China unless it can be stopped before it gets well started. While in India elaborate weddings, with dancing girls, bands, and jewels, often bankrupt a family for ever, China it is the expensive funeral that eats into his land and causes him "to lose it. Mr. Strickland believes that with a ce-operative system this evil could be wiped out, because a man would be satisfied with a $90 funeral in place of a $200 ceremony, providing, of course, all others in'his group were limited to the same amount According to Mr. Strickland, it is possible to snake moral appeal. to Indian or Chinese farmers, which is Impossible in Europe. "So we can encourage also the forming of cooperative better living societies which will work out the funerals and weddings on less expensive scales. Tt ig also possible through these societies to carry out a moral rejuvenation of the country."
'A Comprehensive View All through the course of his analysis, Mr. Strickland mentioned the necessity of looking at the whole Ife of the farmer and not from merely a dollar-end-cents point of view as to how much money a farmer
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