Let's Call a Spade a Spade!  The biggest fool in the world is the man who kids himself. Personally I do not believe that it is possible for one to actually kid himself, but many of us are trying to do so in thinking that we can bring days of prosperity by sending out of our own community for the things that we need in our household or on the farm.
To me it is time that our country was waking up to the true situation of things and to view them in the light of circumstances as they actually are.
1st: The farmer who today is enjoying the privilege of saying that he is living four miles from town, in a few years if things go as they are going now, he is still going to be on the same farm but he will be living sixteen miles from town, which will be the second town until you come to the county seat, because the little town four miles from his farm has dried up and blown away.
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He will enjoy a few years possibly of driving sixteen miles to town until such time that this local community will dry up and blow away and then he will drive forty miles to town, which will be the county seat.
The county seat today is bidding strongly for the local trade regardless of the other towns and the farmers, many of them at least, are forgetting that by trading away from their local community, they are only hurting themselves because when that little town does dry up, school privileges are going to be less desirable, taxes are becoming higher, no positions left for the children to take between school terms as were in days gone by and the young man or woman when finishing school is forced to go to the larger center, following the arrow of the almighty dollar, which unthinkingly he has sent to the larger centers. Let's trade at home. -- Exchange.
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