Miracles Ahead! 



raise and harvest his crops with fewer man-hours of labor, 

 and therefore at less production cost. We have already voted 

 the jeep "the vehicle most likely to succeed" when it is grad- 

 uated from the Army and goes to work for the farmer. 



Prefabricated farm buildings and dwellings, which can be 

 assembled and demounted in a few hours, will bring better 

 living and working conditions within the reach of many more 

 farmers, as will the advance in radio, television, "walkie- 

 talkie" phones, and other electronic devices. 



The revolution in transportation will also aid the farmer. 

 No longer will his market for perishable products be re- 

 stricted by distance from urban areas. Air-transport lines, 

 using light cargo planes and helicopters for feeder-line service 

 to isolated sections, will pick up his products and deliver 

 factory-made goods to his door. Then, too, the dehydration 

 and quick freezing of farm products, plus speedy air delivery 

 to faraway lands, will broaden the farmer's market and help 

 banish the fear of price-depressing surpluses. The paradox of 

 surplus crops and starving people will be banished by lower- 

 cost production and lower-cost, speedy transportation of 

 farm products. 



All the above factors should add up to a shift of more peo- 

 ple from crowded cities to "family-size farms" near urban 

 areas. Two Harvard architects, Dr. Walter Gropius and Dr. 

 Martin Wagner, envision a postwar America in which urban 

 congestion would be relieved by new townships of five thou- 

 sand persons, ranged along a network of superhighways. 

 They contend that these tiny, factory-residential towns, sur- 

 rounded by individual farm belts, would help empty the city 

 slums and inaugurate a new era for millions of industrial 

 workers and farmers. 



The National Association of Manufacturers comments that 

 "the rise of small factories in rural communities has helped 

 in some areas to provide work for farm labor needed only at 



