1..-is resulting from instability i" uniquely different from those in most other areas of production and consumption. Much of this spring: from differences in the capacity h consume. Many families are very ready to use two or more automo biles a TV for each to -m. a win ter and a summer.home• and so on we might go with an insatiable de sire for these and othc non-farm products. When it comes to food items the situation is quite different. Pew people have a second stomach. Those so unfortunate as to have ex cessive size are generally trying to reduce. As a result a slight increase in the output of food products in ex cess of usual demands causes a many times greater drop in prices to, farmers. The net described above may best function to absorb the -shock of the e temporary and unpre dictable surpluses. The situation wi.h reference to fibers is not quit-* so erratic as for foods, but there is st,11 relatively less stability than in non-fa; m industries. Economic progrest depends upon the extent to which we can promote i fforts to find new and better ways of doing things and muster the cour to take the risk, in putting them into operation. We might appropriately ask our selves whether there has been a meat change in values on the part of the majority of the people, whether v.v are really tired of change, growth, consumer sover ev-.iy and the individual responsi bility's that go with democracy and capitalism, if we have experienced a mv-at change in values and are is .fi ijf the-, tliin. ;. then there is tittle prospect for th.- future of our c- 'iv-my ami the America), wav of life. It is the responsibility of all peo ple to ponder the nature of the choices available and do those things which will, in their opinion, promote the most rational action.

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