Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-30
COOLIDGE PICTURES
|DEAL|SM OF FARM
Calls Its Uninterrupted Product
a Shining Example
to Industry
KEY TO REAL PROSPERITY
BY the Associated Press

Great harrington, Mass, Sept. 30
Governor Coolidge. the scion Of New
England farming family, today set the
farm before. the country as a shining
example OF the way industry, trans
portation and mining should follow to
work out the nations economic future.
Contrasting the uninterrupted produc-
tion Of the farm with conditions In other
lines. the governor said grave re-
sponsibility rested alike on managements
and employees to bring their activities
up to the farm standard of continuous
operation.
"There is before u.s." he said, "a
prospect the most promising that ever
lay before a nation in all history. We
can put forth our honest efforts and
reap great reward. We can act the
part of economic slackers, of conscience
less prohteers and reap corresponding
harvest Of destruction. The farm of the
nation is setting a shining example. Let
the rest Of the country look at It., ap-
preciate it and initiate 1t. Apd let
everybody remember that SO ldhg as
the farm prospers the nation can pros
per and that when the farm fails the
nation fails with it."
Governor Cooliuge-addrcssed coun-
ty fair crowd at the Housatonic Agri-
cultural Society's grounds.
Agriculture is the basic activity of
all mankind" the governor said. I'm
the nation the yearly value OF its prod
ucts reaches the stupendous sum of
S25 .000. 900 900, sufficient to, pay the
national debt. The Importance Of ag-
riculture lies in the fact that 1t is the
source Of all human activity and the
af ~ aNA IL ~ /.
plenishes the nation. Without 1t our
country would perish in day."
Massachusetts, an industrial rather
than an agricultural state the Cover
nor continued, depends on three great
| dustries-leather. wool and cotton,
the staples Of each of which are sup
piled by the tillers Of the soil. On them
we depend not only for food, but fol
the raw materials that are wrought
into finished products as the result oi
the industrial life OF the commonwealth
These products of the loom, and tht
bench, these shoes. and clothing. fine
their way back to the plantation ant
the ranch, illustrating the intcrdepend
ence of one class Of industry on an
other.
Into this manufacturing process
there goes, of course, the products o
| the mines of coal, or steer, OF copper
all of it illustrating and exemplifyinl
the dependent relationship of one clas
Of activity on another.
Modern civilization has been de
veloped by this dependent relationship
1t has been brought about by the di
versity of industry 1t IL known t
economists as the division of labor. b.
It and BY machinery production ha
been greatly increased. This is grea
blessing, but it imposes corresponding
, duties.
.The production cf the farm is neve
interrupted. 1t never closes down. Tn
fortunately. this is not the case in in
dustry.
There is nothing our industrial lif
so needs at present as poci6cation. w
cannot prosper without 1t. With it W
cannot fail. Our whole future is de
pendent on it. This can be secured b
the administration of economic justic
so far as possible, and by timely an
mutual concessions by all parties i
interest when necessary. we need
broader public recognition of thcs
duties -