Evening star., 1932-08-21

Machinery has struck MIN. STRUCK MIN Istai
blow-so the poet says SO the theorizing senti-
mentalist says IS he drools over lost hand
craft, and the community center that every
farm in itself used to be, as he gorifies the old
"self-contained" institution, the farm. NO
use Hereafter, that will be just poetry. and
nothing more. Just a sitting down by the
waters OF Babylon in tears of futile lamenta-
ton
Machinery has come The farmer has got
to meet it. Hard for him. These long years OF
isolation of grlling Summer toll and long
Winter idleneSs with mostly self for company
have bred a conservative, Sef-opinionated fei-
low not easy to move, almost impossible to
work into cooperation of mind or action. Ma
chinery has come. And farmer boy, you'd
better get busy to meet it! Mechanize your
farm Mechanic yourself to be screw, or a
bolt or driving piston in an infinitely COM
plex machine. Such a machine is driving
every factor of industry outside your own
domain Mr. Kile is professional in the
field of agriculture In the economies of agri-
culture which is, after all, the ultimate queS-
ton of that field.
He draws here most graphic picture of the
workings of a mechanical agricultural COM
munity 1t commands miles where acres only
were of former accounting 1t organizes the
business of crop production and distribution.
The huge farm is factory. Here IS the general
manager. the departments each uncer its own
head With systems of accounting, with steady
supervision against loss or waste of man-power
or grain power Most interesting and if as
child you lived the old farm, called big
with its 200 acres, you will find this hard to
believe
The farmers do too and they resist it. indie
pendent sons of the soil are mighty hard to
move Mulish folks. know. I'm one of em.
Here, however, is a progressive business man.
Patient but not all-forgiving and overlooking.
Mot
genuine enthusiasm, he shows these huge land
acres actually at work producing the worlds
food on gigantic scale exactly in the fashion
Of big industry everywhere.
And here the economist occasionally pushes
the farmer aside for few minutes of easy talk
on the economies of this big business. Ques-
tions of supply and demand appear with the
effect of this sequence upon prices and the
profits of the farmer. Talks ON the distribution
of farm commodities. efficient distribution and
the relations set up thereby between farm
areas of this country and remote regions. Now,
a question of trade, intercourse, of the rhythmic
balance toward which all trade moves, upon
which it directs itself. big and stimulating
outlook that brings the farm and the FARMER
out into the great community OF the Worio'
where both belong
And then in simple and straightforward ap
rrech Mr. Kile deals with the present dilemma
of the farmer. Perhaps ore likes MN pest OF
all here He does not make-beHeve anything
He admits that the situation is terrible one
and daunting one. Then he proceeds 10
strip away hopes of artificial help. Such busl-
ness aid as the Government can give in this
hour of distress it will give and is giving. Any
desire however to have the Government pay
grandfather to the country permanently OF
play Santa Claus to it the year round, may as
we'll fade away Nothing doing that way. The
prime resource of any body in any difhculty Is
himself And so it is right here with each
ISOIy Cot
into the feel of big business. Get into the spirit
and modes of cooperation. Work both of these
to their limit both as individuals and communi-
ties as promoters of the biggest industry en-
earth
Now to be sure there is a great deal OF
expert opinion here and of technical detail as
we'll There is also the broad and waywise out
line upon agriculture in both its direct and
economic bearings. All this fer the student
For the farmer himself the constructive farmer,
and for special students of the subject along
various lines. For instance, along the line OF
Government functionings in this respect. OF.
say the political significance OF the farmer IL
he has any political significance, ether tnan
good citizenship and intelligent behavior toward
his country.
Made for students here Is book that the
other man-you and will take up and keep
in hand till all of its prime substance on the
conversion OF the farm from pastoral scope to
a world business is thoroughly in mind. 1t mas
a way with it. you see. And even the deepest
themes profit generally, by having "A way
with them.
A GOOD MANS LOVE. BY e. M. Delafield,
author of DIARY of Provincial Lady" etc.
New York: The Book League OF America.
Trade Edition, Harper & Bros.
low to dispose of that female child.
! problem stretching from savagery on
through civilization With murder and the
marriage altar offered respectively in tentative
and partial solution
Could the biological use of this female child
have been set of to some other agency OF