Nogales international., 1933-01-18
TODAYand.
tphMt2|RS&T
ERANtk PARkERA ~
STONBRlO0E N%N NJ
ERAINk PARKER
STOCkBRlO6E

-
think most of our present troub-
les can be traced to the fact that
the rest of the world is unable or
unwilling to buy the surplus pro-
ducts of our farms. do not be-
Eeve this export market for our
wheat, cotton, tobacco, live stock
and other farm products is ever go
ing to come back have myself
seen how Italy is making itself in
dependent of our tobacco, cotton
and wheat, and the other nations
are doing the same thing.
There has been no increase in
the average yield of wheat per acre;
it still stands for the whole nation
at 14.4 bushels. But in the five years
from 1925 to 1880 the acreage sown
to wheat in America increased by
21,0O0,O00 acres.
It is very GEAR to me that the
only solution to the farm problem
lies in reducing the quantity and i'm
proving the quality of farm pro-
duction.
NTTTRPHY Farmer Editor
Ny friend, Frederick E. Murphy,
publisher Of the Minneapolis Tri-
bune, is real farmer as well as a
real newspaper man. He has done
more than any other man to bring
the state of Minnesota up to the
front rank in agricultural prosper
ity. Mr.. Murphy has put forth a
tangible, workable plan for farm re-
lief.
First, he would have the govern
n1ent induce tht farmer to cut
down crop acreage, by providing
money rewards for those who will
do that. Second, steps should be
takkn to protect dairy and live
stock farmers against imported oils
and fats. Third, he wants quick
tariff action against products of
nations whose currency is depre-
ciated. Fiurth on Mr. Murphy's pro-
gram is readjustment of farm mort
cages at reduced interest, fifth, the
reduction of farm taxes, sixth, an
carly revision and settlement of the
war debts, and seventh, intensive
research looking to wider industrial
uses Of farm products.
think Mr.. Murphy's program will
work. My only doubt about it is
whether the politicians who run
our public affairs will see enough in
it for themselves to adopt it.
ILLITERACY Declines Here
There are still more than A.
O00,000 Americans over ten years
old who cannot read and write, the
National Advisory Committee in
Illiteracy reports. That is 100000
fewer than ten years ago. Georgia
has more illiterates than any other
state, some 100000, while Wyoming
has the fewest, only about 5000.
Considering that at the beginning
Of our national life hardly more
than one person in ten knew how
to read and write, that only within
my own memory practically no Ne
gro or Indian could read or write,
and that school attendance was not
compulsory anywhere in America
when was boy, it seems to me
we have gone a long way in rails
ing the standard of education to
the point where ninety-seven peo-
pie out Of every hundred are able
to read.
The important question. however,
is: What do they read?" Having
taught them to read, it seems to me
we might devote the next hundred
years to improving their tastes IN
reading.
SCRIP The Stamp idea
The latest thing in the form c.
money is called stamped scrip
The idea originated in Germany
and has been adopted in a numbcr
Of American cities, to make money
circulate faster.
In Evanston, Illinois, they work
the scheme this way: The local re-
.CTurn To Page Fourl