Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-26
FIRST PRINCIPLES.

studious attc-.ion to their market
that they have bestowed upon their
product. Those who have are the
dominant figures IN he business world
today. and their success Is due 10 hay-
ing discovered where their product i5
needed and IN Developing an organi.
zatlon capable OF finding consumers
for a constantly Increasing output" -
Extract from letter from Matthews
Gravity Carrier Company, Ellwood
City. Pa, in Manufacturers Record.
This Is a good time TO study first
principles.
Trade is an equation
What's the good Of a product which
can't be sold?
And II we are 10 sell a buggy 10
some fellow In Nicaragua, We must
be prepared to take In payment such
articles as he produces bananas, for
example.
II we persist In making more bug.
giles than we can find a market for.
must we not inefitaby come 20 the
time when we dall have idle work.
men in that upe Of industry
Extending tpe inquiry to cover IN.
Vulnerable 'ies, we come 10 have @
vast army Of idle Eorkmon.
Whot does this shoy?
Why. thg we have developed our
industrial organization beyond our
agricultural support
In othtr words. we are top heavy
in our Urban population. and the ex.
listing social structure Is best repre-.
scented by the inverted pyramid.
Agriculture Is the only sure. safe.
sound and satisfactory base for the
social structure; civilization begins
and ends with the pillow"
Any scheme that gets away from
this primal fact-this OF soil support
for the race-is doomed to failure.
II we cannot proftably marke; our
products. then we must concern our
selves with a larger self-support from
the soil
This writer recalls-vividly recalls
+, because he did a good part Of the work
: that his fathers family lived large.
9 ly from a vegetable garden and corn
field and potato patch right in the
!, heart Of the town
;. But in this our day the vegetable
fe Fak Ia
the city Is too valuable for one thing
and stun put up in Baltimore or Buff
:. falo Is what the average family subsists
on. even some who dwell on the farm.
That's all very well so long as we
are capable Of finding consumers for
a constantly increasing output" from
our factories
But when the markets are closed
against us, and we can't eat the pro
ducts OF our mills and factories, we
are brought face to face with the evil
of building up cities at the expense OF
= our agricultural development
Possibly the reader has gone this
fall from Waco to Dallas, and what
did he see?
:, Practically one continuous cotton
" field; no cows, no pigs, no poultry, nc
vegetables no anything save cotton
= Now, that's am unhealthy state Of
y affairs w
- Whatever the underlying cause, Il
means in, the long run an impoverish
ed civilization.
~ II can't be cured by what We here
3 in the city do, for we are only dealing
a. with effects.
u The one and only cure is to put this
"a land into other things than cotton
OIL not abandoning cotton altogether, bu
81 making 1t sgbservient TO food supply
IN for man and beast D.
Napoleon said that an army crawlet
on its belly in other words, 1t mus
be fed or II can't move.
u The Christian Scriptures tell us tha
III Jesus by miracle fed the multitude
sc and the Jewish Scriptures relate how
ef the mama fell and saved the people
~ from perishing.
m The lesson is plain; we must lool
Al to our food supply
n Four hundred skyscrapers in Dallas
OF Fort Worth or Waco wouldn't ado
9 one loaf Of bread to the communit,
]! storehouse.
me We must come to a serious study o
DIV first principles-to the source of ou
it well-being, which is the farm with al
's' abundant food supply,
ie
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