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had first been chased around the
block.
Abraham Lincoln sat at his
desk studying a document a
divorce rate.
seemed reasonably content with one
wife.
• Now divorce is difficult and abor-
tion illegal in Russia and promiscu-
ity politically unfashionable
ILLINOIS HOMESTEAD . . . This is the last farm home built by
Thomas Lincoln, father of the president. Abe Lincoln, then a grown man,
helped his father build the house and visited it often. It is in Coles county,
near Charleston.
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lustrations of a fairy tale.
are tall birch forests and if it were
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house of stick candy.
Now and then we pass a clearing
and a village of logs, with those
beautifully carved doors and win- j
cigarette ads are more skillful than
the monumental masons i *
signed these cigar-store Indians.
One of the British correspondents I
who lives up on the fifth floor of the the farm is an American classic
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KANSAS
Probably the best insurance on
any Kanasas farm against costly
machinery breakdowns is a good
farm shop that c'in be heated and
made comfortable for winter use. A
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little affected by the official preach- ■
ings of church or state, and that |
this is true not only of Russia, but 1
for the rest of the world as well.
Having ^id this, I must add that
the Moscow foreign colony is def-
initely underprivileged in this field.
In part this is due to matters of
taste, tor the legendary Russian
beauty turns out to be mythical in
Moscow; at least she does not exist
in the absence of adequate amounts
of fresh fruit and tomatoes.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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“I have caused the department of!
agriculture of the United States to
be organized to carry out the act of'
congress of May 15th last. The com-
missioner informs me that withini
the period of a few mqpths this de-
partment has established an exten-.
sive system of correspondence and
exchanges, both at home and
abroad, which promise to effect
highly beneficial results in the de-
velopment of a current knowledge
of recent Improvements of agricul-
ture, in the introduction of new
products and in the collection of the
agricultural statistics of the differ-
ent states. Also it will be prepared
to distribute largely seeds, cereals,
plants and cuttings, and has already
published and liberally diffused
much valuable information.”
The department of agriculture
th^s played its part in the Civil
war. Its services to the nation’s
farmers have continued to grow.
Every farm home today feels its
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Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
kidneys sometimes lap in their work—do
not act ns Nature intended—fail to re-
move impurities that, if retained, may
poison the system and upset the whole
body machinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
persistent headacne, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—a feeling of nervoue
anxiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis-
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
too frequent urination.
There should bo no doubt that prompt
treatment is wiser than neglect. Uss
Doan’s Pills. Doan’s have been winning
new friends tor more than forty years.
They have a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
country over. Ask your neighbor I
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same cadence that it always did.
One gathers that these matters are ;
governed by deep instinct and are !
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Relieves pgmandsoreness
Most farmers are well acquainted
with the news and advice sent out
by their state colleges of agricul-
ture. These colleges were estab-
lished under the land grant college
act. Typical storics are the follow-
ing:
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LINCOLN VIRGINIA HOMESTEAD . . . The ancestral home of Abra-
„ . John Lincoln, great-
Here’s One Of The Greatest
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If you lack BLOOD-IRON!
You girls and women who suffer so
from simple anemia that you're pale,
weak, "dragged out”—this may be due
to lack of blood-iron. So try Lydia E.
Pinkham's TABLETS—one of the best
home ways to build up red blood to
get more strength—in such cases. Pink-
ham’s Tablets are one of the greatest
blood-iron tonics you can buy!
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handy to have around the house be-
cause this double-duty nose drops...
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head colds. Makes breathing easier.
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save you much misery. Works fine I
Follow directions in the package.
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and America is,
a frequent offender.
Thursday, February 7, 1946
signed his name to the last
page.
The paper he signed that May day
in 1862 was not an army-shifting or-
der that would change the tide of
battles, but nevertheless its effects
have been felt in war and peace in
the three-quarters of a century that
have followed. The document was
an “Act to Establish the United
States department of agriculture. ’
Thus in the agony of the Civil war
PAZO IN TUBES!
Millions of people suffering from
simple Piles, have found prompt
relief with PAZO ointment. Here’s
why: First, PAZO ointment soothes
Inflamed areas—relieves pain and
Itching. Second, PAZO ointment
lubricates hardened, dried parts—
helps prevent cracking and sore-
ness. Third, PAZO ointment tends
to reduce swelling and check minor
bleeding. Fourth, it’s easy to use.
PAZO ointment's perforated Pile
Pipe makes application simple,
thorough. Your doctor can teil
you about PAZO ointment.
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Some persons, and many doctors,
prefer to use suppositories, so PAZO
comes in handy suppositories also.
The same soothing relief that
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Russian newspapers and news-
reels carry only small amounts of
news about the outside world, and
never anything which might arouse
internal discontent with the Party’s
rule or the Soviet Union’s standard
of living Now and then, of course,
there is a slight miscalculation. For
instance, Soviet newsreels, which
specialize in strikes or disorders in
the Western countries, ran many
feet showing the Detroit race riots,
- including a vivid closeup of a cop
beating a young Negro. The effect
on the Soviet audience was elec-
tric Some Russians even stood up.
“Look”—they cried—“at that won-
derful pair of shoes the Negro is
wearing!”
Almost never do the authorities
admit any book or movie which
would give a straightforward pic-
ture of American life and the aver-
age American living standard. It
is true that Soviet intellectuals have
read and appreciate the artistry of
“The Grapes of Wrath.”
These curious, insubordinate mal-
contents would arouse little sympa-
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life seems to go on at about the I
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There | Now and then WOuld glance
.. 4 ? i out the window at a blue-clad
distant light !
would appear and walking toward it
— would find the old witch and her lawn.
I Soon he finished reading,
His early days were spent on a 30-
] acre tract near Knob creek about
I 10 miles from his birthplace at
Hodgenville. Ky.
Moved to Indiana.
When Abe was seven years old,
the family moved across the Ohio
river into southern Indiana. Tragedy
was to come early into the young
boy’s life for it was here that his
mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
died. The Lincolns had established
themselves on a knoll surrounded
by low-lying, marshy fields. Abe htd
to walk a mile to haul drinking
water.
Thomas Lincoln had taken an op-
tion on 160 acres of land at two
dollars an acre. He completed pay-
ments on about half of that total,
varying his farming activities with
hunting and occasional jobs of car-
pentry. Seven years after the family
had arrived in Indiana, the farm’s
cultivated area totaled only 17
acres.
The Lincoln family moved to Illi-
nois in 1830, taking up land along
the Sangamon river in Macon coun
ty. Soon after arriving, Abe reached
his 21st birthday. That meant frcc-
sion soils specialist at Oregon State
college. War substitute lining in the
crystalizing equipment failed, caus-
ing the shutdown.
GEORGIA
“In making their 1946 plans,
Georgia farm families should strive
to maintain the gains they have
made in recent years," Walter
Brown, extension director, de-
clared. “The inflation threat con-
tinues and inflation is almost cer-
tain to be followed by deflation.*•
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invasion. ham Lincoln in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
[ grandfather of the martyred president, built the original house. Thomas
Lincoln, father of Abe, was born here before the family moved to Kentucky.
Practical Fanning Advice Sent Out By Agriculture Colleges
complete overhaul of all farm equip-
ment every winter is a goal worth
attempting and it’s impossible if
you have to work out in the snow.
OREGON
A serious breakdown in the Alu-
mina plant at Salem has interrupted
the production of ammonium sul-
phate for distribution to Oregon
farmers, but repairs are being
rushed so that shipments may be
resumed this month if present plans
work out, reports Art King, exten-
Practical Training.
“These colleges equip young
men to apply their training to prac-
tical farm work. Here and in the
agricultural experiment stations,
agronomists are carrying on tests
with crops, soils and fertilizers.
The benefit of this information is
available to any farmer seeking ad-
vice in applying nitrogen, phosphor-
us and potash to his land for profit-
able crop production."
The third great agricultural
measure which marked Lincoln’s
contribution to the future of Ameri-
can farming was the homestead
act which he signed May 20, 1862,
Since the day this act became op-
erative approximately 250 million
acres of public domain have been
thrown open to farm ownership.
The eflect of the homestead act
in promoting farm production dur-
ing and after the Civil war was tre-
mendous.
By its provisions, 160 acres of
land was given free to every set-
tler who would live on it for five
years. Landseckers rushed to take
advantage of the offer. Before the
war ended 2.5 million acres were al-
located—or an average of 15 thou-
sand farms of 160 acres each.
Railroad lines were' extended to
link the western farm lands With
the markets of the east. The food
these new farms produced helped
supply the union armies, and com-
bined with the agricultural output
of the east, built up a surplus that
found a profitable market in Europe.
Following the Civil war the home-
stead act was instrumental in build-
ing up the farming empire west of
the Mississippi which became the
land of opportunity for the veterans
of that war.
As America hails the 137th anni-
versary of Lincoln's birth, agricul-
ture acknowledges its debt to him.
The progress farming had made in
the past 80 years would never nave
been possible without his help.
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than Russians would be at the bill-
boards which line our highways, j er
However, the artists who paint our jjfe |le was a close student of agri-
culture. He knew its needs and the
I as
few presidents have before or since.
The story of Lincoln's boyhood on
i One of the most notable instances
' historians record of his appear-
ances before farm groups came in
1859 — a year before he was elected
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tiie ratLfor’^usSa’V'a I address the agricultural fair held
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On that occasion he said:
“No other human occupation
MILLIONS ARE GUIDED
these three ways when they buy aapirin.
(1) Purity (2) Speed (3) Economy. Buy
St. Joseph Aspirin, world’s largest seller
at 10c. Get 100 tablet size for only 35c.
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| dom from his father's yoke. So he
bade farewell to his family and
moved on to New Salem.
Student of Agriculture.
As a successful lawyer riding the
I Illinois circuit and visiting neigh-
j boring states occasionally to try
cases, Lincoln was a close student
i of agriculture. He was often invited
freedom in these matters, along with I sPe^rpc^linSs2
legalized abortion and post-card di-
vorce. But even in those days the
reputation was unfounded, for al-
though divorce could be had for the
asking (and some individuals got
dozens), 1
Sore Gums?..........
rhawingLOigcflmforf?. . . . . .
Food Particles Under Plates? .
Troublesome Lowers?.....
Don’t lot thoso annoying looae-plato troubles
make your Hfe miserable another day t Instead,
too guided by tho experience of grateful thou-
sands who'vo found complete dcntal-plato
security and comfort with Staze—tho remark-
able dentist's discovery that does what no
"powder" evon claims!
1. Holds plates comfortably secure—not for
justa few hours, butallday—orltcosts —
you nothing. 2. Quickly relieves and
helps prevent sore gums due to loose /
plates that slip and chafe. 3. Seals
around pinto edges to keen out Irri-
tating food particles. 4. Ideal for 7
troublesome lowers, uppers tool A
Got yourself an easy-to-use /
tube of Staze at your druggist /
today. You’ll bo completely sat- /
lalled, or get your money back I /..
field, plant a crop and cultivate it
as it had in George Washington’s
time. This was particularly true in
the pioneer areas of settlement in
the West.
Reaper Coming Into Use.
The early 1830s had witnessed the
introduction of the reaper but its
use was not universal when the
Civil war broke out. Farmers had
been using the steel plow for about
25 years. The modern fertilizer in-
dustry was not established until
1850, after scientific experiments in
Europe had demonstrated the value
of plant feeding. By 1860 production
had reached only 20,000 tons. Last
year farmers used more than
12,000,000 tons.
Food production was just as im-
portant in the Civil war as in
World Wars I and II. Lincoln and
his advisers sought measures both
near and long range that would
strengthen the position of agricul-
ture. The administration threw its
weight behind three major bills and
within a year they had become the
law of the land. They were: the act
establishing the U. S. department
of agriculture; the land grant col-
lege act to which the nation’s farm-
ers today owe the existence of the
far-flung system of agricultural
colleges in every state of the union,
and the homestead act.
Lincoln had advocated the estab-
lishment of a department of agricul-
ture in his first message to con-
gress, in December, 1861. Then he
had said'
“Agriculture, confessedly the larg-
est interest of the nation, has not a
department nor a bureau, but a
clerkship only. While it is impor-
tant that this great interest is so
independent in its nature as not to
have demanded or extorted more
from the government, I respectful-
ly ask congress to consider whether
something more cannot voluntarily
be given with general advantage.“
By the time he delivered his sec-
ond annual message, the depart-
ment had been created and Lincoln
was able to report:
land effort, probably dismissed it as
the kind of perfunctory gesture
which all statesmen occasionally
make.
Today another thundering big din-
ner at Spiridonovka to which Eric,
Joyce, and I are asked. This time
only as humble spectators, for it is
given by Molotov and the guests of
honor are the British and American
ambassadors to celebrate the anni-
versary of our aid agreement with
England.
Any artist could draw Molotov
with a ruler—a square body on short
legs, square head, jaw, nose, and
eyes, and there he stands. This
square face is as devoid of expres-
sion as an Indian chief’s.
Litvinov is also present—a keen
face, thinning, sandy hair—intelli-
gent, alert—a benign volcano. The
reporters say he is the only accessi-
ble Kremlin resident. He will give
any of the more serious one hour or
so, explaining Soviet policy and
problems—provided, of course, they
don’t bother him too often.
The dinner is like Mikoyan’s, even
to the climatic suckling pig—or
rather his cousin, similarly shaved
and boiled. I am next to another
Foreign Office boy (Russians appar-
ently keep their wives and daugh-
ters away from ravening capitalist
wolves).
They are tremendously formal
people—not because they are Com-
munists but because they are Rus-
sians. When they throw an official
shebang, everything must be just
so, from oyster forks to medals. No
wonder they were offended when
Winston Churchill, visiting Moscow
during the raids, turned up at Stal-
in’s dinner in his siren suit. A czar-
ist grand duke might be understood,
but not these earnest Socialists. As
Russians they must be spectacularly
lavish; as Communists they must
worry about the forks.
In the middle of the good will
toasts, Molotov breaks a big piece
of news; tells us that today they are
launching an offensive to co-ordinate
with our Anglo-American landing
in Normandy.
In the major drive which present-
ly followed toward Warsaw and East
Prussia, no one can say they did
not keep faith—scraping their man-
power barrel, throwing war-cripples,
semi-invalids, and boys into the line.
Their sacrifices from the standpoint
of manpower have been ghastly.
Back of the front you see no young
men who aren’t either in uniform
or limping with a wound, except the
few who are in high administrative
jobs. And you see absolutely no
men between sixteen and forty at
the factory benches.
Following the Molotov dinner, we
told the correspondents of the an-
nounced attack, since it had already
been launched and, of course, they
filed the story. It was then stopped
in censorship. The censors pointed
out it had not yet appeared in Prav-
da It is a rule of Russian censor-
ship that nothing is officially true
which has not been printed in a Rus-
sian paper. Pravda got around to
printing the news of the offensive
three days later.
“Tomorrow,” said Kirilov, “we go
for ride in private steamboat down
to Volga River and return." He
stops. "There will"—and here his
large sleepy eyes seem to be doing
their best to gleam—"be girls."
Even our Russian hosts realize
thaf after our busy schedule, we
need a rest. Our idea of a program
for this would be a milk toast diet.
Theirs, of course, wins and differs
slightly. It is a trip by boat down
the famous canal connecting Mos-
cow with the Volga River. Some
correspondents are also invited.
We are driven to the landing
place—a huge and almost complete-
ly deserted station about the size of
the Kansas City or the Cleveland
Union Terminals. Its architecture is
pretentious. It is over-ornamented
and built with shoddy materials.
It towers dramatically above the
canal, which is reached by a pre-
posterously wide flight of steps—I
would guess fifty of them—which are
dominated by a titanic statue of
Stalin. At the bottom is our boat,
a streamlined version of a Missis-
sippi River steamer.
To entertain us they have brought
three of the plump operetta artistes.
They were better by candlelight.
Now we sec a few double chins we
had overlooked. They arrive in
very formal dresses, but soon
change. It’s like date night at the
Old Ladies’ Home. Yet everybody
is trying pathetically hard to show
us a good time.
The paddles are churning —
through the new, white silk curtains
I see the bank moving so I go on
deck. On one of the long padded
wicker divans, Johnston is already
stretched out, shirtlcss for a sun
bath. Two sailors, under Kirilov's
supervision, come trundling out a
radio-phonograph trailing a cable.
This is set up in the middle of the
deck.
"Now,” says Kirilov, “we will
have American music." Whereupon
its loud speaker is aimed at Eric
and it begins to play, “Oh, Johnny,
Oh, Johnny! How you can love!"
An excited male voice begins to sing
the words breathlessly, as though he
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benefit!;. Farmers everywhere are ;
assisted by county agents in im-
proving their tillage methods, test- I
ing their soil to determine plant food
needs, so as to increase the output 1
and quality of their crops.
The land grant college act or the
Morrill act, signed by President
Lincoln on July 2, 1862, marked a
milestone in the development of sci-
entific agriculture. The act gave to .
each state as many times 30,000
acres of public land as it had sena-
tors and representatives — this land
to provide funds for the establish-
ment and support of “a college
of agriculture and mechanical
arts ”
“Today the state agricultural col-
leges which Lincoln's adrninlslra^-1
tion helped to create are one of the
farmers’ greatest allies,” said a
statement of the Middle West soil
improvement committee recent-
ly. “Their scientists and teachers
are constantly discovering new
facts about the soil and its plant
food needs, crop and livestock im-
provement and better farming meth-
ods.
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Russians welcomed news of Sta-
lin’s meeting with Roosevelt.
thy in the Soviet Union, and the only
possible happy ending would be to
have one of the younger boys join
the Komsomols out in California,
'ally squeal on the whole disrup-
•e tribe, whereupon the NKVD
uld p.ve chase and after excit-
sequences, overtake and liqui-
th^m at the base of the statue
. Stalin. j
Few American films are shown in
Moscow and those are picked with
the greatest care. The American
films best known are Chaplin's
■“Gold Rush” and “The Dictator,”
a Sonja Henie skating picture and
Deanna Durbin's "One Hundred
Men and a Girl,” after the Russian
subtitles were written in to bring
out a heavy class-exploitation angle.
Wh^n I was in Moscow, the most
popular foreign pictures were “Jun-
gle" and "Thief of Bagdad " Both
were heavily attended With the
usual Hollywood skill, the scene of
one is a Hindu village and the other
is medieval Bagdad, neither por-
trayed normal life in the Western
world and so were safe.
I did see, however, one excellent
Russian picture, and did not need
the language to understand and be
moved by it. The story concerned
a green cadet, very much on his
good behavior, who arrives with his
kit bag to join a veteran fighter
squadron. He is at first genially
hazed bv the rest, gradually gets
experience, shows his mettle and is
slowly accepted. It depicted some
highly corned-up and improbable
shots of air fights, but these flights
of fancy were no more distorted than
the ones dreamed up in Hollywood
swivel chairs.
All nations tend to play up their
own batlie exploits and to neglect
their Aines, and America is, in
this respect,
But certainly Red Army advances
•are decently covered in stories,
maps, and pictures both in Amer-
ican newspapers and newsreels.
The Soviet Union, by contrast, al-
most never shows pictures of for-
eign buttle fronts in its popular thea-
ters
Anglo-American landings in Nor-
mandy were shown to the intelli-
gentsia and to high Red Army of-
ficer.?. who might have a technical
interest in how wc handle landing
operations, but thev were nft re-
leased to the general public.
As a result, the average Russian
firm!v and logically believes that his
government has until recently borne,
not rxst of the war burden, but all
of i1
From time to time Stalin makes
statements which are both realistic
and generous to his Allies. Rather
recently he predicted that Soviet
soil would soon be cleared of the in-
vader and the armies could then
proceed to follow the Fascist beast
and crush him in his lair, adding
that t‘ is would not be possible with-
out t e combined efforts of all the
Allies
This was, of course, printed in
Pi jvda but the average reader, sat-
urated with news of the Red Army,
overburdened with personal prob-
lems and ignorant of the extent of
the Anglo-American sea, air, and
REPORT ON
RUSSIANS
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Metropole invites me and half a doz-
en other correspondents up for a
party, and I take as a contribution
my Bolshevik factory cake.
The party starts about 10 o’clock
with sandwiches and black coffee,
brewed over an electric stove—and
my cake. The host has persuaded
the Metropole maid, an old lady
of seventy named Nina, wrho has
looked after him for several years,
to serve and wash dishes afterwards
in his bathroom. At about ten-thirty
a couple of Russian girls arrive. One
is touching thirty, with the usual
sallow, pimply Moscow skin and
shabby clothing. The other is about
twenty-four and the prettiest Rus-
sian girl I have seen. But the amaz-
ing thing is how in Moscow she has
found enough vitamins to clear her
skin.
Our host calls for Nina to bring
cake plates and coffee cups for the
girls. Nina eyes them with intense
disapproval, shoves the plates into
their hands and goes out banging
the door.
Our host laughs.
"She’s adopted me. When, now j
and then, a Russian girl does spend
the night, Nina puts the picture of
my wife and kids where it's the
first thing I’ll see when I wake up.”
Now for a note on sex in Russia.
In the outside world Russians have
an awe-inspiring reputation for pro-
miscuity. It is unfounded. It grew !
up in the days when the Bolshevik
Party denounced fidelity as a bour-
geois fetish and proclaimed the new
Of Agriculture 84 Years Ago'.
opens so wide a field for the profit-
able and agreeable combination of
labor with cultivated thought as
agriculture. Every blade of grass
is a study; and to produce two
where there once was but one is
both a profit and a pleasure. And
not grass alone, but soils, seeds and
seasons, saving crops, diseases of
crops, what will prevent and cure
them; hogs, horses and cattle;
trees, shrubs, fruits, plants and
flowers—each is a world of study
within itself.”
His words were prophetic of the
research conducted today by plant
breeders, animal husbandmen and
soil scientists at state agricultural
colleges and experiment stations.
There was great room for prog-
ress in agriculture when Lincoln en-
tered the White House. Farming was
still being done with horse power
although an impressive start had
been made in mechanization. But it
still took about as long to plow a
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was born an organization which to-
day serves six million of the na-
tion’s farms.
Americans remember Lincoln
best as the Great Emancipator
whose principles have stirred men
the world over. Few citizens, per-
haps, realize the profound effect
Lincoln and his administration had
on the agriculture of the United
I States For not only did he foster
took off his steel-bowed spec-
tacles, reached for a pen and
dow frames characteristic of Old ;
Russia. Occasionally ’naked gir
swimmers duck down as we go by.
This canal probably isn’t quite a«
wide as the Panama but two of these
great steamers can pass. About ev-
ery fifteen or twenty miles there is
a loading station almost as big as
the one where we came aboard—
but no towns are in sight. At each
station a mammoth metal statue of
either Lenin or Stalin commands the
canal. They hold the same poses
here and throughout the Soviet
Union. Stalin, in his heavy overcoal
and cap, strides along, swinging his
arms; Lenin* always gesticulates
with arms outstretched.
How was the canal built, I ask.
By 3,000,000 political prisoners,
working with picks and shovels, and !
it took them only a little over two
years. j
We float for a while through soft ^e act establishing the U. S. de-
birch forest and sure enough, anoth- | partment of agriculture, but he pro-
For us they | moted other legislation that gave
disfigure the Russian landscape but ‘ farming an impetus that has speed-
I suppose we are no more annoyed ■ ecj development to this day.
Lincoln was farm bred. He nev-
lost the feel of the earth. All his
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