Salute The Farina's!

Salute The Farina's!

If you haven't Been or heard anything lately that gave you cause to square your shouldera in pride, read the report made by the farmers’ committee in regards to the Family Farm Review.

Some of our forebears, plumb on back to Tom Jefferson, who may have had reason to slump in shame at some of the actions of our nation in the past few years, may stand up straight and hike the regions around Cerberus with a firmer tread.

Take a look at this: “However, ‘ since this program will take probably 20% of the national income for several years, we are twilling to deprive ourselves of other less, necessary things until our defense costs are paid, and until we axe annually making a reduction in our national debt. We are willing to be the first group (farmers) to make sacrifices and urge other groups to follow us unselfishly."

In a country that had looked as if every man was seeing how much he could grab and how quickly he could get it, it is startling to find left something that resembles the spirit that characterized the —men from the history books!

Keep on reading that report. Look at those words: “discontinue ... no expansoin ... tie in and economize . . . curtail 50 % ... - abolish , . . curtail 10% ". Most of us had been led to think that those words in regards to government spending and hand-outs had been dropped from the dictionary. It seems the farmers of Rappahannock have revived them.

All that’s needed now is to see the farmers of the county—100% strong—every last one of them, regardless whether he owns ope acre, ten, or a thousand—come to the meeting September 21 and add his vote of approval to the. recommendations. When that happens, someone should tell ole* J., Q. Public to take hope; there’s a chance for survival of a good, oldfashioned, free 4meriea*