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essential that leaders give close attention to the 

 conduct of the company to make very sure of 

 its success. 



But, after all, the business appeal is nothing 

 more than the basis for a higher appeal. Were 

 there no U.F.O., farmers would still continue 

 to secure daily bread and to live. We must 

 search deeper therefore for what is further 

 implied in the term "equal opportunity." Not 

 only is the farmer to live, but, with equal oppor- 

 tunity, he should live well. Certain, connected 

 passages from a well known book by Carlyle 

 will bear quotation here as illustrating further 

 essentials. 



"Two men I honor and no third. First the 

 toil worn craftsman that with earth-made 

 implement laboriously conquers the earth and 



makes her man's Toil on, thou are in 



thy duty, be out of it who may; thou toilest for 

 the altogether indispensable, for daily bread. 



11 A second man I honor Him who is 



seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable ; not 



daily bread but the bread of life 



These two in all their degrees I honor. All else 

 is chaff and dust which let the wind blow whither 

 it listeth. 



"Touching is it, however, when I find both 

 dignities united ; and he that must toil outwardly 

 for the lowest of man's wants, is also toiling 



