Arizona republican., 1921-01-09

CTS Of such a region as the sat- hlVer valley When you reflect on the prob lem the explanation is easy.
 No one knows or understands all of | the elements of the problem of such l a valley as this; no one knows or fully understands the particular prob lens of even a half dozen farmers; | and no one is able to tell a half dozen | farmers what they ought to do and | then compel them to do what he tells | them to do. You farmers are an inde- 1 pendent lot of men, especially when you are away from home, where each mans wife has a way of making him understand that his boasted independ- ence is more a matter of pride than of actual fact. Consciously or uncon- sciously, all of us render obedience to the powers that be-the prevailing and persuading influence of public opinion or the woosy dreaming that for so many of us becomes a substitute for the hard thinking We ought to do before we decide upon a course of action.
 It does not take much courage to face you with the subject l am called upon to present, because know 1 can not make a program for the valley. Moreover. am perfectly sure that all of us together cannot do so. But we can consider together some of the con- ditions that are conspiring to compel every man of you to try to think out a working program for himself. The important thing just now seems to be to call general attention to a number of facts known to nearly everyone of us-facts that many of us have tried to ignore during the past few years but which we all know in our hearts we cannot dodge or evade for any con- r-s,l ,l,..- 111. 1r., nrf1o Nf ffFVan Lot squarely face a few of these facts! Let us substitute real he thinking for the woosy dreaming to which l have re- ferred. It has been known for some thousands of years that it takes work to make things. The law of work is the law of the land; 1t Is the law of life
 What are some of the facts that are
 well known to most of us? Will you llet me remind you of few of the items of common knowledge that may
 we'll bring our minds together for l thinking as one man?
 First: Consider for a moment what
 would happen to us If every man should become a lawyer. Who would employ
 a lawyer if all of every mans neigh 1 bors should enter the legal profession? 1 The question answers itself. And, if
 every one of the lawyers should aban-
 don the law to raise cotton or alfalfa
 who would buy and gin the cotton and
 make use Of the alfalfa? Do not
 laugh my point away by saying that such a multitude of lawyers would not raise any cotton or alfalfa because law yers are not farmers. The unacceptable l point is that we need many men to do the many kinds of work that needs
 to be done if the people are to be fed
 and clothed and taught and served in
 the thousand ways that men and wom-
 en and children need to be served. It must be every man to his own job. l Second: Consider the waste that
 would result if every man of us should
 change jobs with his neighbor of a
 different trade or profession. The bricklayer and the matchmaker could
 not change places to the advantage oi
 the men who have honses to build and
 watches to be repaired. Of course.
 must make two exceptions. Every mar
 can edit a newspaper better rAan tho
 experienced editor or preach a better
 sermon than the trained clergyman
 but with these two exceptions, VI
 know that the man trained to a trade
 or profession knows that trade or pro- fession better than 1t is known to you
 and me who are without such train q ing. Let us go to the limit in oui [ ] dCCCpldICG Ol kll6 I1SdIlIiS Ol l1llS kdCk
 Let each of us mind his own business
 This means more than the each of u'
 should peg away in the old way at hi. old job; 1t means that we should appl. our minds to our work-to our farm , ing, to our banking to our preaching even to teaching agriculture. In oth.
 CT words, 1t means that we should us'
 our heads. Who does your head work? There Is little danger that an,
 of us will die of brain flag; there Ii
 greater danger that we shall lose th' power to apply our minds to our oTvI
 business because we have formed tn,
 habit of shifting from one thing t another because interested persons ad
 wise us to do things that will brini
 gains to them.
 Third: Consider with me for a fev
 minutes the meaning of few partic
 ular facts that are known by nearl! ] every intelligent man among us ant
 are understood by the majority of an,
 group of American farmers.
 Fact 1: Farming is continuing bus
 mess. In a pioneer country like ours every farm begins to be a farm ant ought to continue to be a farm. S grows and there seems to be no goo s reason why 1t should not grow forever It cannot profitably be farm one year { a brickyard the second year and a farn the third. There must be continuit of the farm as a farm, and there mus be continuity of ownership and man s agement if the best results are to b had. The soil is more lasting tha 5 the solid rocks. At the same tim I 1t suffers like child from III treat 4 ment
 q Fact 2: It takes time for even an ex a perieneed and intelligent farmer t a learn the ways of Arizona weather an s soil as they influence the behavior c \ such familiar crops as wheat and al falfa; and it takes time for the sue J cessful grain and alfalfa farmer [ learn the cotton game. Some of yo know this better now that you did year ago. But you knew 1t a yea 2 to do what you know how to do. W T have learned in the school of expert '4 ence.
 Fact 8: The borrower is servant 1 & the lender. It is strange that men wh a pride themselves on their independent 4 should voluntarily surrender the z freedom. Men who were out of del .4 a year ago and able to continue in tf ' farming business that they understoo x without pledging their crops or the r farms threw their wisdom to the winC N and risked all in the hope of gettin 4 rich fin a single lucky season. I al q not blaming anyone. Many WI & seemed to be among the wisest mao z, the mistake of over-reaching. Do n, % overlook the fact that nearly all goo t.,@