[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II CHAPTER XXIV 36/68
He doesn't want much room for any one thing, but good spaces between. This will be the making of the world.
Talk about fairs? If he fails to get every prize he must pay a fine for every one that goes to anybody else. How we'll live! I can live on these things and nothing else.
But (just to match this home outfit) I'll order tea from Japan, ripe olives from California, grape fruit and oranges from Florida.
Then poor folks will hang around, hoping to be invited to dinner! Plant a few fig trees now; and pecans? Any good? The world is going to come pretty close to starvation not only during the war but for five or perhaps ten years afterward.
An acre or two _done right_--divinely right--will save us.
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