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Scepter of a Cereal
Corn is King and has been since Pharaoh ruled in Egypt. In his unbroken dynasty, grim and despotic,
he has played his part in the drama of the World's progress. Famine fell on the Land of Canaan and the
Children of Israel fled to Egypt for corn. Rome, harghtv in the heyday of her supremacy, was menaced by
the strife of varied elements amalgamated by the - mbitious Caesar. But the apportionment of corn
among the People allayed dismay and established peace. . England wrote her Corn laws upon the Statute
books of Edward III, to become the token of a World Power. The Indian maize was a pioneer of Civiliza
tion out on the Borderland of the New World to which the bold Columbus ventured. Stronger and better
each Scion of the House has come to the throne and mightier and greater the Kingdom has grown. Today
King Corn rears his golden-tasseled crown above Monarchies, Empires and Republics alike. Before his
Throne bow the rich and poor, the high and low, learned andilliterate, praising the majesty of his might
And as the simple worshipers of old wended their way to the Mecca of their faith at Jerusalem, so the
people today come annually to the National Feast of Scientific Knowledge in the Gate City of the West.
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