"We got down on our knees," said John D. Rust last week, "and picked cotton when we were boys. We decided then that we would try to invent a machine that would do this back-breaking toil. We have that machine. It will do the work of 50 to 100 men. Thrown on the market in the manner of past inventions, it would mean, in the share-cropped country, that 75% of the labor population would be thrown out of employment. We are not willing that this should happen. How can we prevent it?"
For nearly a century men have tried to work out...
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