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...agrarian economic order is inflexible; while the quantity of its produce is capriciously flexible with the whims of nature. There is no accurate way of forecasting over-production until the seed is long sown. And if the disaster could be foreseen, farmers have no means of effective and beneficial crop limitation at hand. There can be little of the selling out, merging, and re-investing that characterizes industrial fluctuation and enables manufacturers to weather variations in demand without serious loss. Geographically, socially, personally, the farmers are both set and separate...
...crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison the minds of untrained thinkers?especially the young. Again the publishers' "ad" is unethical in that it says, "Send no money in advance," but when the postman comes $2.60 must be dug up in a hurry. This word is written in a kindly spirit...
...impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried to interview Dr. Kirk. In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which he had "worked over and prayed over" whose harvests were "as yet unreaped." He had discovered after the call came that he wielded a greater influence over his flock than he had supposed; he could not sever his intimate ties without a loss, whereas...
...upon Marxian doctrines. An attempt to bring students face to face with "reality" is hailed by the Bolsheviki as tending to fit pupils for the rugged highway of life. The former propertied class who have young children in school, complain that the seeds of a godless irresponsibility are being sown...
With the fortitude of men who have sown for other men's reaping the greens-gang of Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) last week laid away mower, mattock and weeding knife. Their work was ready for its demolition. "One of the most difficult golf courses in the world" lay clipped, combed and manicured for the qualifying salvos the National Amateur Championship...