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which is concerned primarily with daily bread. 

 Thoughts and desires are legion and men have 

 honest differences of opinion. Differences of 

 opinion are wholesome, but if those differences 

 extend to the ends of action which men regard as 

 desirable, there can be little concerted effort. 

 For instance, generally speaking, of late farmers 

 have simply asked to be left alone. Their ideal 

 was an isolated individualism in which " where 

 ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." But 

 their native intelligence was such that many 

 could not endure the consequences of such an 

 ideal, and we found emerging a new ideal, that of 

 an enlightened agriculture putting its ideas into 

 action. The strife between these two ideals is 

 still going on, but more and more the new ideal 

 is gaining ground. The greater measure of 

 adherence given to the new ideal, the more 

 effectively will the U.F.O. advance. In respect 

 of ideals it is desirable, when a body of citizens 

 is involved, that they think alike. 



The farmer recently has made observations 

 on the basis of which he has reached definite 

 conclusions. The practice of himself and his 

 family is to rise early, to labor at physical toil 

 for long hours, and with a brief glance at the 

 daily paper to retire early to profound sleep. 

 He comes to town and he finds work commencing 

 at eight or nine o'clock in the morning and, 



