20 THIRTY CENT BREAD 



As long ago as July 15, 1916, Marquis R. Capelli, 

 president of the International Institute of Agricul- 

 ture at Rome, in a statement to the Associated Press, 

 said: 



"Among the ultimate results of this war will be 

 the increasing interest taken by governments in the 

 development of agricultural wealth, namely. By Th^ 

 Encguragemijnt of Co-op]3ration and Associa- 

 tion, by promotion of instruction in agricultural 

 matters, by the creation of many model farms and 

 agricultural intelligence bureaus." 



Wherever we look we see, as we never saw before, 

 our interdependence upon each other. Even as the 

 right hand co-operates with the left to clothe and 

 feed the body; even as the eye and ear co-operate 

 with each other to inform the brain; even as lungs 

 and heart co-operate in silent unison with the other 

 glands and organs that provide the brain with en- 

 ergy to direct the whole, so should every department 

 of our national government co-operate with every 

 other department that the trials at hand may be 

 borne without the accompanying miseries which self- 

 willed folly is sure to beget. 



§ 5 — SHORT RATIONS 



As the minds of men are sobered and chastened 

 by an outlook filled with gravity they instinctively 

 recognize the proposition that no national industry 

 and no single arm of the national government shall 

 be permitted to impose its will selfishly upon the na- 

 tion at the expense of the masses. 



It is my purpose here to point out a number of 

 flaws of great magnitude and significance in our 



