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The farmer failed to see just hpw ability to sleep on windy nights could qualify a man to be a good farm hand. However, he was so badly in need of help that he hired the man.
To the farmer's agreeable surprise, the new hand more than ‘ measured up. He was a hard, tireless and efficient worker. Not only did he do all that the farmer told him to do, but he undertook a lot of extra jobs on his own. -' Then, one night came a big wind. It awakened the farmer. Remembering the damage done by previous winds, he sprang out of bed ready to go into action. He called to the new hired hand to get up. Getting no response, he went to his room, shouted at him, shook him, but all he could elicit* " was a grunt. That hired hand hadn't been kidding when he said, “Well, I know how to sleep on windy nights.”
Disgusted, the farmer went out alone to the barn expecting to find doors burst open and things blown hither and yon. To his delighted surprise, all was shipshape. Some of the odd jobs' the hired hand had done on his own had consisted of fastening securely anything and everything that the wind might damage. At long last it dawned on the farmer that being able to sleep on windy nights was proof positive of farming ability, not to mention evidence of foresight And wisdom. He switched from inwardly cussing out his hired hand to mentally praising him.
Now, there is a lesson to be learned from this simple story that applies to the present sad state of our national affairs. Over the past 20 years our economy has gotten into a sad state of disrepair, because we have not been too careful in selecting our hired hands—we have put too many on the job who haven’t the faintest^ idea of HOW TO SLEEP ON WINDY NIGHTS.
Next November 4th, we, the people, are going to hire a large number of new hands, including
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