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in contrast, one man on the farm feeds himself, four city people, and 

 one person overseas. 



There can be no complaint about the achievements in treatment of 

 many diseases by use of various serums, vaccines, hormones, vitamins, 

 antibiotics, antihistamines, and a host of others. The life expectancy 

 of a child has increased from 50 years in 1900 to 68 years at the present 

 time. With these results already recorded, Franklin's predictions, 

 which relate to 830 years hence, will in large measure be correct. 



Pictures of the past show log cabins, sailing frigates, oil lamps, 

 caravans, and prairie schooners, crude utensils, hand weaving, and 

 the man with the hoe cultivating the fields. Today life is mechanized, 

 electrified, abundant, easy, because of the push-button era. In the 

 future citizens will more effectively farm the land and the seas ; obtain 

 necessary minerals from the oceans ; clothe themselves from coal and 

 oil; keep themselves warm by using the stored energy of the sun; be 

 cured of any ailments by a variety of drugs and medicinals ; be happy, 

 healthy, and kittenish at 100 years of age ; and perhaps attend inter- 

 planetary football matches in the Rose Bowl. 



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