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Organization Is Answer 



Says Secretary Hyde 



(Continued from page 1) 

 tional aspiration. America believes that its 

 hopes and its purposes will be soonest achieved 

 through a guaranty of equal opportunity to 

 every man, leaving it to each American to climb 

 as high and achieve as greatly as his merits and 

 his industry will permit. The sum of the 

 achievements of our citizens is national ac- 

 complishment. 



Have Been Blessed 



"This nation, under God, has been blessed 

 beyond the dreams of avarice. The smoke 

 plumes of its factories write upon the sky a 

 story of busy industry and of prosperity. The 

 average man enjoys a higher standard of living 

 than was ever enjoyed by any nation in history. 

 The good things of life are more broadly and 

 less unevenly distributed. The creative indus- 

 try of the nation is more widely owned than 

 ever before. Buyers and borrowers of other 

 nations throng our markets and draw upon our 

 stores of goods and of accumulated capital. 



Can't Be Complacent 



"In all of this, there is, there must be a 

 place of economic equality and opportunity for 

 the American farmer. His is the most creative, 

 the most vital, and the most serviceable of all 

 occupations. There are, happily, many thou- 

 sands of prosperous farmers, but agriculture as 

 a whole has had too small a share of national 

 prosperity. This nation cannot afford to view 

 with complacency any inequality among its own ' 

 people. 



"We have poured out our wealth with quick 

 sympathy for the stricken among the other 

 nations of the earth. We spent billions of 

 money and oceans of blood and tears in a strug- 

 gle across the sea, to defend our conception of 

 political equality, and it is worth whatever ex- 

 penditure of effort and national treasure may 

 be required to guarantee equality of economic 

 opportunity for all American citizens. 



"There was a time in history when the cry, 

 'I am a Roman citizen', brought to the aid of 

 the distressed citizen every other Roman within 

 earshot. I appeal to this association in the 

 exercise of its great nation-wide influence, to 

 aid, by precept and example, in soundly and 

 constructively answering the equally compelling 

 cry, 'I am an American farmer'." 



He Don't Even Listen! 



Saddest Story of the Month — ^A man 



put an ad. in a matrimonial bureau 

 paper and received a reply from hii 

 fiancee. - .■■, s^. ■■■■.. ,. 



What's Wrong Here? 



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Hail Storm Hits 



Jo Daviess County 



A HAIL storm hit the northwestern part of 

 Jo Daviess county on June 27 and de- 

 molished field crops, stripped trees, and dam- 

 aged farm buildings over an area of several 

 miles in width. In the neighborhood of East 

 Dubuque and Galena, hailstones one inch in 

 diameter were reported by local residents. 



Growing corn in fields adjoining Route J 

 was knocked flat, small grain was battered into 

 the ground, and windows shattered in many 

 farm houses, barns, and other buildings. The 

 loss will run into thousands of dollars. Com- 

 paratively few fields were protected against loss 

 by hail insurance. 



Cora A Total Len On Thb WhIteaMe 

 Cooatir, ni. Farai 



IVIPED OUT BY HAIL 



How often have you heard the expression, " Wiped Out By Hail," Few 

 Illinois farmers have missed seeing the terrible destruction wrought by a 

 hail storm in mid-summer. The following report from a recent issue of a 

 daily newspaper tells a story that is all too familiar: 



FARMS DAMAGED BT 



HAIL AND 'l-WISTER 



While a heavy gale swept Columbus 

 shortly after 7 o'clock last evening, and 

 swirling greenish yellow clouds threatened 

 ominously, many farms north of Humphrey 

 and south of Creston were experiencing a 

 destructive hail storm and a wind that at- 

 tained the proportions of a small twister in 

 several places. 



The small grain on the Barney Lohaus farm, 

 a mile north of Humphrey, was wiped out 

 tmd the com hurt considerably by the hail, 

 and Louie Kosch, living a mile north of the 

 Lohaus place* reports a similar loss to his 

 crops. 



On the Mrs. Minnie Gorman place in the 

 same neighborhood^ tops of all the trees 

 along the road were stripped, and the oats 

 crop was destroyed. George Daniels, also in 

 the same area, lost all his oats, and a large 

 cow shed was blown from its foundation. 



New House Damaged 

 Ernest Wurdeman's new large bungalow, 

 nearing completion, was badly damaged when 

 hail broke in all the windows, which had just 

 been placed in position the day before. 



The com field at the Wurdeman farm has 

 the appearance of freshly plowed ground this 

 morning, and it is difficult to tell what variety 

 of crops were planted in any of the fields, as 

 they were all beaten into the ground or 

 mowed off short by the hail. 



You Can't Stop a Hail Storm, But You Can Protect Your yaluahlc 

 Crop and Buildings With Insurance at Cost in the 



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