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...when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from them...
...thing King Carol wants. It took him just 14 hours to figure out the answer. Rumania has a National Youth Movement (ages 7 to 18) containing 4,000,000 boys & girls. These children will be released from school for staggered two-week periods, bundled into overalls, put behind the plow...
...Fight for Life is a grueling picture to watch. Possibly women should not see it at all. Pare Lorentz made it from Paul de Kruif's book, The Fight for Life. In The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, Lorentz showed the effects of human waste and abuse on U. S. soil, forest and water resources. In The Fight for Life he shows the human waste caused by eclampsia, infection, hemorrhage-the three great killers of women in childbirth. Because childbirth kills oftenest where poverty is greatest, The Fight for Life was shot in a slum clinic...
...documentary films, "The Plow That Broke the Plains," and "The River," will be shown tonight at 7:30 in the Lowell House Common Room. It will be open to members of the House and of the American Civilization Groups in the other Houses...
...Lloyd George's contention is that the Government farm subsidy, passed last June, awarding ?2 per acre to farmers who would plow up their old pastureland, is not stimulus enough. He railed: "There are 2,500,000 acres less tillage in this country than in 1914. ... You must not be like the German delegates [in 1919] and come to the peace table with empty barns...