The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-15
PREPARING
FOR LECTURE
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR
DAWN or PLENTY LECTURE az
FRANK sTockDALE ON EVEN
ING OF OCT. 2s-LEcTURE TO
BE ILLUSTRATED. -

Extensive preparations are being
made for, the lecture of Frank Stock
dale OF Chicago who will appear here
on the evening Of Tuesday. Oct. %.
His subject will be The Dawn of
Plenty.
Mr.. Stockdale will graphically pic
ture to his audience the great strug-
gle to get enough to eat. which since
time immemorial has been the great
perplexing problem.
For thousands of years the world
stood still waiting to be fed, waiting
for cheap bread. Nations battled with
each other, killed and destroyed mil
lions INT millions suffered the pangs
of hunger hat the few might live in
| ease and luxury.
Agriculture, the raising enough to
eat aed the most important OF all &C.
equations, was the last to be develop
ed. 1t is a simple yet wonderful story,
this story of how plenty was obtained,
that MI. Stockdale will tell here, CIV
ing Illustrations with fine s~tereopticon
slides.
His narrative will go back to the
very beginning Of the world and shows
the first problem Of life is food, that
enough could not be raised with a
crooked stick nor harvested with a
reaping hook. He will show the crude
machines that We're invented and
which failed leaving the people still
hungry and spending their time in
search Of food, which led to the in
vention Of the reaper.
Mr.. Stockdale will proceed to point
out that when the farmers found they
could harvest more they planted more
which ave them use for larger farms,
how they pushed westward where
there was plenty of land but no rail-
roads.
The railroads followed, gripping the
continent from n end to the other
so that every community was put in
active touch with the whole civilized
world. His lecture will tell how two
thirds Of the people were released from
the farm and set to doing other work,
how cities were builded, how inven-
tons multiplied and improved, how
the sons and daughters OF the pioneer
generation had time to mir and read,
Of how American progress became the
worlds wonder, all because of the
simple reason that her people were
we'll fed.
America is the first well fed nation
in history, is Mr.. S~tocKdale's conten-
ton. 1t is because all these inventions
ana improvements nave given the peO-
pie cheap bread.
Cheap bread has given the American
people the great age in which they are
living, the railroads and trolley cars,
telephones and telegraph, the modern
cities with their tall buildings and
mammoth factories, the fine fertile
farms where less work is done and
more money is made thar ever before.
Cheap bread has multiplied the
schools, established churches, it has
made INDEPENDENCE a fact. 1t is teach
ing the brotherhood of man. 1t has
lessened the struggle for existence,
given cheap books, newspapers and
magazines, changed houses into homes,
skins into cloths.
Good wheat bread has fired ambi-
ton, created industries, added new
fields of labor, increased wages and
helped the march of progress more
thar all other things combined.
Mr.. S~tockdale's story Of the Dawn of
Plenty is a vital, interesting story, a
story which contrasts the old with the
new, the starving ages with the we'll
fed present. People everywhere are
interested in it.