Back Patting For Pushers

By EDWIN B. PETERSEN

HELLOW FOLKS!

Have you noticed how some people seem to think that the best way to push themselves ahead is to pat themselves on the back?

Out Ann has another boy friend: he is the fellow that plays the organ in Lawrence Welk's Orchestra. She mentions it everytime she sees him on T. V.

Speaking of Welk — did you ever see such an array of stars performers as he has? Each one if them is a master in his or her own right. That quality combined into Welk's champagne style makes for a most enjoyable show. I especially like the way he takes the old style tunes and dressed them up: then takes the more modern ones and planes them down to make an ideal blend of music.

Welk appeals to me like the kind of fellow I might have gone to country school with or worked with in the hay fields of Dakota. While I have never met him personally I guess him to be the kind of fellow that is solid gold inside. The kind you would want to trust and do your very best for.

The dentist's daughter asked her boy friend, "Have you told father that we want to get married?" The boy was shy. "Gee, Sussie, every time I get into his office I get so nervous I can't talk. Today he took out another tooth."

Then there was the gangling farm hand who approached the window and announced that he wanted a mariage license. "Certainly," replied the clerk. "Where;s the bride - elect?"

"What do you mean bride-elect?" drawled he husband-to-be. "There wasn't any election. She nominated herself."

In speaking to a group of farmers Under Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse had this to say.

"Our country continues to be engaged in a historic struggle between centralized power and individual freedom.

"Agriculture is in the middle of the battle. Will agriculture be directed and supported by government, or will it be managed by free individuals with a minimum of controls and directives? If the forces of freedom lose this battle in agriculture it will be lost also for business," he warned.

Morse said, "There is no substitute for sound and agressive leadership. "In no segment of the economy are the wheels of progress turning faster than in agriculture. New ideas and developments crowd upon us.

"Farmers have become a minority — less than 14 per cent of the population — yet agriculture is a major labor factor in the employment of labor and in our industrial activity."

Mr. Morse predicted that the "big demand in American agriculture for the future will be the demand for brain-power." He said, "Agriculture needs 15,000 new trained people each year, but will get only about 8,500 degrees in agriculture sciences.

"Problems unlimited mean opportunities unlimited. There will be growing responsibilities for agricultural leadership. There will be growing need for men trained in agriculture to rovide local, national and international leadership."