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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21508, 22 November 1939, Page 6

In soul as in effort the British nation as never before is one, writes J. L. Garvin in the Observer, London. The same faith works like a leaven through the Empire. For our cause is the true cause of all men, even of those who are marshalled against it for a time by tyranny and delusion. We are in arms for the life of all freedom. We have risen to deliver ourselves and others from a long nightmare of menace. We are out to end repeated and intolerable wrong. We are like Cromwell’s plain soldier “who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows.”

There was a greater danger to American democracy from low farm incomes than from war abroad, declared Dr. O. O. Wolfe, president of the Kansas State Farm Bureau Federation, addressing a farm conference representing eight States. Dr. Wolfe said that a situation under which farmers, who made up 24 per cent, of the population of the United States, received less than 10 per cent, of the national income, could not continue indefinitely. Pointing out that before the European war brought about a substantial boost in prices of farm products the farmer was receiving only 74 per cent, of a “parity” price, Dr. Wolfe said“ The only way the farmer can increase his income with prices is to produce more. But in so doing he is depleting his capital stock—the soil. If it is necessary to continue such practice in this country the day will come when the farmers’ ‘pay dirt’ will play out and agriculture—the nation’s basic industry—will be in a ruined state. To-day that is a far more real threat than most of us will admit—an even greater threat to our democracy than the European war.” ♦ • • • •

The tragedy of our time is that there are no generally accepted judgments of value in our civilisation.— The Dean of St. Paul’s.