The Grand Design: A Novel by John Dos Passos

Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504015462
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
Published: 2015-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

The Ship of State

6

On main street of a little cornbelt town, in the lunchroom that smells cosy of coffee and toast, we sit over fried fresh country eggs and the war-news in yesterday’s Chicago papers—always the war-news, the headlines spelling death. We can’t pay attention, we’re producers, we’re set to make crops and money, to erect new houses and build up the country—and we listen to the county agent on the phone at the end of the counter checking on acreages, soilbuilding practices, conservation, telling this one to put in hybrid seed corn. this one to fertilize, this one to try some newfangled disking

to increase the yield

per man per acre.

A lanky man in overalls whitehaired wearing glasses pulls a government check out of his pocket he got for not feeding as many hogs as he wanted to feed, passes it round the table for the other men to see leans back and scratches his head and drawls out ‘I don’t get it. Here’s one half the government payin’ us not to produce an’ the other half telling us to get the hell in and root. It makes for confusion. It’s like havin’ a train with a locomotive at each end

pullin’ in a different direction.’

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