THE VALLEY SETTLER is published
every Friday by the Matanuska Val
ley Farmers’ Cooperating Associa
tion at Palmer, Alaska.
Eng. Editor - Irving Kev/ville
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news of the Matanuska Valley Far
mers Cooperating Associations
work, problems, acc omplisiinents,
also news of local and general
interest and to foster the co
operative spirit of the Farmers
of the Hatanuska Valley.
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In an address toa large .group
of Wisconsin farmers, assembled
in dedication of R.TS.A; steam gen
erating plant at Genoa, Wisconsin,
Grover B. Hill, assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, in calling the at
tention ■ of his listeners to the
future of electricity on the farm
and its influence on farm life,
brought out the need of food in the
fight for Democracy. He said, "This
is a proud day for you hacry Belt
farm people, and I am indeed grate
ful for the opportunity to cele
brate it with you. The splendid
generating plant that we are met
to dedicate is more than an ag
gregation of machinery to increase
the sup: ly of electricity available
in the Northwest for defense pro
duction during the emergency, more
man trio moans ior ouucij.a
fitablc rural life
moi’esaoxsx yxu;j e-.ia ->rv
Qeney has passed. If it were only
to celebrate its completion; tut we
or tne em.jr;
that, we should still have car:
have even greater cause for today’s festivities in the fact that this
plant is a symbol of the very things we as a Nation are preparing to
defend. It is a symbol of the right of men and women, threshing mat
ters out in the
to
:o xn the
time-honored Amorican
way they want to do them.
worn
way,
of American men and American
and of their power to
strength and vitality
Tills plant which
operative electricity
men and farm women to
the inherent strength
local initiative exorcised
k
n to v;cr
end, t
to do the things they want
is a symbol of the ability
together for a common end,
is a symbol of the inherent
attain that
of American democracy. '
we are dedicating today, mightiest source of co
in the Nation, Is a symbol of the ability of farm
work together for their common good, a symbol of
and vitality of democracy in action, a symbol of
to meet local needs in the wav that seems
best to loeal people.
Besides svmbo!
; ? n ~
th.0
tilings wo are preparing to dc
fond
;his
generating plant that wc are dedicating today increases our ability to
defend them. In future years history well may show that the greatest
Ln the world, in this peroid, the battle which decided the whole
Western civilization, was not the Battle of Britain, not
Russia, not the Battle of the Atlantic, but the Battle of
Secretary V/ickard has said,- food will ”'ir. the war and write
battle
future
Battle
Food,
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of
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Our immediate goal — the goal toward which every resource of agri
cultural America must be directed -- is to win the Battle of Pood on
which depends the fate not alone of our own country, but of the whole
of 7/estorn civilization. **nd the Battle of Pood, while it v.-ill de
cide the outcome of the pr .sent war, will not end when the shooting
3tops. If anything, it will become more intense. Neglect of crops
and wholesale slaughter of dairy animals and laying hens in a large
part of hurope, which is not self-sufficient even in normal times,'has
produced an appalling situation. V/hon peace returns,we shall'to food the
human population, now existing far below the safety lino of nutrition,
and at the same time help to restore the population of domestic animals.
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