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Show MERITS OF STRUGGLE Sometimes John K wondered if there could be any other than the sheep industry that carried so many related problems regularly. Woolgrowers would not have known how to accept a calendar of trouble-free days. Gearing themselves continually to the solving of current crises at least bound them together in a very real sense even though there was keen competition between them. A few of them dropped out along the way, but as with John K, those who remained and continued to fight for a place in a progressive economy found great strength in their love of working with sheep. That compensation seemed to add fuel to their fervor. No vast fortunes were made in the sheep industry such as were made in mining, but there was a deep satisfaction, a love of nature, a real sense of working with the Creator in order to help provide fiber and food for the radidly increasing human population. And perhaps the greatest compensation was in the satisfaction and knowledge gained through achievement. CONTINUING CRISES The seventeenth National Ram Sale in 1932 reflected the squeeze that had hit the sheep business from so many angles, regardless of editorial statements about conditions looking up. The stated rise in wool values was too recent and had 213 |