The Lamar register., 1922-07-12
LISTEN FARMERS.
This Applies To Colorado Also.
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tReprint From Iowa Farm Bureau
MessengerD


mer." But one dinky little screech owl
cen wake up a whcle township and
one professional agitator can do more
, mischief in week than forty good
men can undo in six months. Turn
one of these birds loose in a community
ord after two or three verbal erupticns
half the people who listened to him
VIII be viewing with alarm" and
listening nervously for the crack of
doom.
! The professional agitator is out for
tie coin. He is an adaptable guy. and
can agitate just as well on one subject
as another-provided the coin is forth
coming. With a stock in trade made
ur mostly of misrepresentation, Wilt
f.cGtion, superheated bunk and half
tazed bally hoo. he is the champion
disscmbler of modern times. The truth
isn't in him, and he is as full of lies
ard sophistry as a polecat is Of per-
fumery.
Nothing suits this agitator person.
Nothing is right. Everything needs
fixing Existing customs, laws and
Institutions are all on the blink. Bus
mess is crooked. Society is rotten. The
courts are corrupt. The government
is despotic, the people downtrodden.
and it's heliuva country anyhow-to
hear this bird tell it.
He's down on everything and every
body. He dislikes the banks and
railroads. He detests the highway
commission. abominates the agricultur-
al college. hates the farm bureau.
dcspises the county agent, objects to
the way the county nurse powders her
rose. and insists that pretty much
cverybody-h;mself excepted-should
take a five-year vacation. II he had
the exclusive privilege Of the Big Stick
he would swat every institution on the
earth and reach for the man in the
moon.
Now, it is true that things have been
rather out Of kilter since the big war.
Our economic machine hasn't been
frnctioning as smoothly Us could be
desired. The farm bureau isn't alto
gother infallible, and the county agent
| rray have handled only nine hundred
end eighty seven thousand projects last
year when everybody knows he ought
tc have disposed Of million. And,
twhile we hate like the dickens to admit
il, the county rurse doesn't get her
lose powder on straight.
Still, despite these drawbacks, Iowa
is right good state to camp down in.
You can tell the world it is. We've
got a little more corn on hand than
usual for this time of year. Taxes are
fierce. we've got few debts, and
we've got some of these darned ag-
isators. Outside of that we're pretty
much all right, here in Iowa, and don't
allow anybody else 10 persuade you TO
tho contrary. We can take care of the
surplus corn all right enough. What
Mr.. Hamilton and his Chambers of
Commerce don't eat can easily be con-
vcrted into beef and pork. The debts
will be whacked up to the last dollar,
ard maybe, in the course of time, the
Professional agitator will talk himself
to death.
Yes, Iowa is a great state. There
is so much to glory in and to brag
about that it is sin TO waste time
listening to the agitator bird. For
every shortcoming there is CORES
pc nding blessing to soften the sting.
L: we have the deepest mud it is be-
cause we have the richest land. If
we carry the heaviest mortgage indebt-
edness it is because we have the most
valuable farms and are doing the big
gest business. If taxes are high it is
chiefly because we have the finest
System of schools. And if our flappers
wear the shortest skirts-there's even
some kicking about that-it is because
they can sport the prettiest stockings.
You bet, Iowa's good place to live
Pass the optimism, please. and every