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tempted. Just as our present banking system has proved adequate in 

 the short-time financing of our agricultural products, and has fallen down 

 when put under the burden of long-time financing, just so do I believe 

 that it may become necessary to work out some more adequate plan for 

 long-time financing in connection with the production and marketing of 

 the products of the corn belt. 



Our immediate problems seem to call for some sort of a financial 

 organization (and I do not believe it needs a banking organization, but 

 rather a debenture bond issuing corporation) for the purpose of financing 

 live stock thru the growing period preliminary to the finishing or feeding 

 period, and the organization of another corporation for the physical 

 handling as well as the financing of our surplus grain products from the 

 threshing period thru to the normal marketing period to another harvest- 

 ing. In my opinion, the latter type of organization will function wonder- 

 fully, provided it is not used as a means of withholding grain from mar- 

 ket but simply for the purpose of stabilizing the flow of grain to market. 

 These are problems to be worked out by organization such as the Corn 

 Belt Meat Producers Association, the Farm Bureau, and other kindred 

 organizations, and you will find the banker and his organization ready 

 to co-operate in the working out of this problem on a sound basis. 



One of the aftermaths of war is the creation of a general distrust of 

 one man for another, but out of the general distrust we are going to 

 come to know those on whom we can depend implicitly, and out of the 

 wreck of disappointment in some men we are going to build a monu- 

 ment of faith in other men whom we did not know so well before. 



I ran across a little poem the other day which perhaps typifies what 

 we should do, and it runs as follows: 



"A wood pecker pecks out a whole lot of specks 



Of sawdust when building his hut; 

 He works like a nigger to make the hole bigger, 



He's sore if his cutter don't cut. 

 He don't use the plans of cheap artizans. 



But this much can truly be said, 

 The whole excavation has this explanation: 



He does it by using his head." 



(Laughter and applause). 



So today, if we not only use our heads, but don't lose them, we are 

 going to get thru. In closing I want to read this little poem by that 

 present-day poet, Edgar A. Guest, of whom I am very fond. It says: 



"Stick thru the heat of it, hammer and beat of it, 



Play out the game to the end. 

 Stand to the test of it, making the best of it. 



You have a name to defend. 

 Heart and soul go for it, you have a show for it, 



Fight just as hard as you can. 

 But cherish no doubt of it, you can come out of it. 



Failure or victor, a man. 



