Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-20
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

A very great forward step has been
taken, this week, in the much talked
about farm relief" Agriculture has
farmers have complained and politicians
have echoed their complaints. Many
plans have been proposed for farm
relief" One was adopted by Congress
last week, by which half billion dol
lars was authorized to pump prosperity
into crop selling-like oxygen into a
drowned victim. President Hoover
signed check for $780, 900 OF that
amount last Monday, which ought to
help some" Political opponents of
the administration wonder what will
come after the whole $500,000,000 has
been spent, for 1t will not make two
blades of grass to grow in the markets
where one Jimson weed had grown be-
fore. Still, half a billion dollars is
$500, 900 00o-and that is something.
even II it abnormally stimulates produc-
ton instead of markets.
But something very different in the
way of farm relief" really did blossom,
yesterday. in Washington, and it opens
up a mighty interesting story of prog
ress-a story that is likely to increase in
interest, each successive climax becom-
ing more thrilling until the grand cli-
max and denouement wherein the laugh
lain of the plot'-the chap who was a
pessimist about how to be farmer and
smile.
This "relief" differs from the half
billion-dollar scheme in that 1t actually
will make two ears of corn or two blades
of grass grow in the right way, where
the weeds had flourished, and the
greater the expenditure of the capital,
the surer will its inexhaustibility be
demonstrated.
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For centuries, the Englishman has
been dropping his HIS around promiscu-
ously. Wherever he drove his 'orse or
worked is arrow or s zoe, there fell
H's-absolute waste. He tried to pick
up some and tackled them onto curious
places, but they never looked natural.
E just couldn't understand wy e
'ad ed; his cart was 'efty in its nor
NAL beat, and Is 'ands were andy at
many undertakings, and, thanks to
roast beef from Hamerica, S 'ealth was
usually robust; e is 'ealthy.
Now the trouble is discovered to be
just like that caused by diet lacking
certain vitamins. 1t is only in recent
years that science has discovered that
no matter how much we eat, and no
matter about the chemical analysis of
our balanced ration, If the food does
not contain proper vitamins. we get
the ricketts, or something. The English
man dropped most of his HIS but
American agriculture lacked HIS all the
time and did not know it until a few
years ago. So the Department of Agri-
culture is now undertaking to put H
| into farming.
There are four principle vitamins:
! there are four principle HIS essential to
farm relief" The stunt required is to
put Vitamin H into farming and vitalize
| agricultural prosperity.
| OF all the despicable pledges the
| Slacker's Oath Is the worst, not only
In its treason, but in its negative dec
larations. But the Pledge of the "A HIS"
Is just the opposite in that 1t forecasts
| great citizenship by doing something
constructive. Here it Is: Attention!
II pledge
MY Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
MY Hands to larger service,
My Health to better living
for my club, my community and my
country. Salute!"
It has long been recognized by farm
| institute workers that an audience
composed of old farmers is sterile soil
for growing modern crops of progress
| oAbCLlCbc, DuO buhC W new
| ideas like duck to water, or like virgin
| soil to good seed, and more than half
a million embryo farmers, male and
female, have raised their right hands
and taken the Pledge of the HIS. In
fact. the total number, from the be-
| ginning, exceeds 100000, but some
| how they grow up and marry and live
| happily ever after and now the chill
dren Of the original members are
| crowding into the camps-more than
half a million strong and growing.
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None is eligible to join a All Club
unless he or she first proves worthiness
| by doing something worth while-raise
pig, knit dolly, make pudding or
grow prize winning acre of corn. 1t
might seem that just which of the
stunts was done by girl and which by
boy would go without saytng-but 1t
won't. Some Of the girls have won