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Show TIIE UINTAII BASIN FARMER 3 the physical and geographical fact give rise to the problems of rural underlying all that is suggested by life We may list that which I have the word isolation. Inertia is the inertia. Space runs termed like a red thread through all the force that keeps a thing going when fabric of rural society. it is in motion and that keeps it The second factor which gives still when it is still. It hangs like rise to .e problems of rural life a pall over many of the rural commight be included under the head of munities. It is a failing either of By Prof. Lowry Nelson, director of made over into a perfect member rural attitudes. There Is in society hopelessness or indifference. It is no other occupational group entirely a force that is the Extension Division, B. Y. U., making for rural deof society. with form the comparable populacadence. Provo, Utah But we have evidence to show tion. It has been said that farmSome social thinkers say that it that such a marvelous transforma- ing is more than an occupation, It is because the Address given by Prof. Nelson on tion does not take people with initiative Doubtless is a mode of life. The farmer and tend to go 'to the the morning of Aug. 14, 1925, at the you know men in place. own city thus leaving Uintah Basin Industrial convention munities who are yourable to com- the farm family not only work at the rural community without any send agriculture but .they live agricultur- natural leaders. It gets into a rut, at Fort Duchesne. It is estimated their children to fully The farmer is never separatwho are school, and stays there. Just how-tru6500 about therefore, people attended the U. able to provide their homes with all ally. ed wholly from his work. He takes B. I. C. on this date and that this 'Statement is we are not nearly the modern conveniences, and who his family with him when goes to with any statistical evione half of them heard Prof. Nelson prepared if they would, exert a power- work. They work together through dence to could, say, and I am not one of give the address as follows: ful day. They share in the common those who believe that the nativo We 'are approaching the season homeinfluence for betterment in their the but for some income. communities, and mentality of the rural of reaping the time when the rereason is different with, those en- virility is It do not do so. mysterious they being depleted. wards for our stewardship of the The people It has been found in a study of gaged in other occupations. be however, that there land are doled out to us by Mother It may man childto The work. goes is in the statement that Nature. At no other time of the over 400 homes in a prosperous sec- city something of diversified farming in New ren, if ithey be of employment age, in the rural great year is it so apparant that man has tion migration to the go to their several places of work. is skimmed off those cities there fulfilled the biblical injunction, and York state that not more than 50 They take dinner separately flt noon, who possess peculiar endowments in has gained dominion over the earth. per cent of the famers were doing and return to their home merely to all they could to improve the conAnnually, he shears the earth of its ditions and to eat. There the wfly of leadership. The rural sleep occasionally So of we homes. their must fleece. golden Annually, the earth admit that there are other forces is risruption .through disorganiza- community therefore is confronted with the problem of raising itself by to the monarch her tribute yields than money, determining our ideals tion, lack of morals, so that agricul- its own that is, without Man. .to as an occupation, gives rise leave ture, to in come from 'ihe ou,: side anyone But it has not come without cost. and I am therefore going to econpeculiar attitudes of ways of look- and to miracle of the pass It is not a gratuitous offering. It is out of consideration the purely bring ing at 'things which in turn give rise I omic life. of have farm phase and progress. a recompense which has been earned growth in the past and to peculiar problems of rural life. heard much of I say nobody to come form the by the swreat that pulls from rug- I do not for a that What effect does isolation have outside. That is not minute minimize its It is Gods entirely true. ged toil its sweetness. He I am merely attempt- on the mind of the farmer. importance. way of saying to man the bounties ing to show that it is not the whole works out under the open sky away We have coming into our rural com- men and women to inmunities of the earth are thine, if thou wilt . from everyone except perhaps a struct in problem. our schools. These but pay the price. of his own family, but his What then are the fundamental have viduals greater possibilities for which the rewards Unfortunately mind is not idle. It is at work. It have come to the farmers in recent forces which give rise to the prob- is pondering upon the problems of service than any group of which I lems of rural life? Why is it that life. It is know for with the missionary spirit years have been very meagre. Not the forming opinions about and training to prepare of farm the Unnited them for people because he has not applied his enlife and once it has formed an opinid States as social role their aggregating nearly engineers. They on what seems reasonable it stays ergy and husbanded his crops, but of the total have over schools, rural make could population, society if they disof because the world machinery with that opinion because there is institusocial churches and other is of inertia this factor It would. tribution broke down. in .their ef- no other mind near to dispute it. which stagnates community morals. are which inferior tions The farmer therefore, develops fln Econimically speaking, mans life consists in securing wealth and ficiency to those of their urban independent spirit and if you doubt It accounts for the fact that some are able to do so dont imin spending wealth. The farmers brothers? that 'the American farmer is indepen- people 'themselves and their surforemost First prove and wealth-gettin- g undoubtedly, dent then I ask you why is he the activities consist in accounts for that fact It are that the factors roundings. responefamong the process of growing crops, first, last great occupational group to 50 per less that than above stated is of that and second in their successful sale. sible for this condition, fect an organization? of in ,an area of cent farmers the makes .that factor The very The first phase, that is, the growing space. The farmer lives and works in New York state were doing all they on the unprecedentpossible farming of the crops, is largely an individual contact with the forces of nature. matter. It is a question of his own ed and tremenduous scale which has By cooperation with these forces he could to improve their homes and initiative. He is 'left entirely free been achieved by the American far- has learned that he can work the surroundings. These are not all of the factors to plant what seed he will, both as mer is the most relentless social foe. miracle of growth and fruitition, and to quality and quantity. Whether The city has the problem of not yet he has learned thflt the very that contribute to the problems of he does poorly or well as compared enough spiace, the county has the forces that make his crop may at any rural life. They are just a few, but The moment permit their discussion. with his neighbor, depends upon probiem of istoo much space. The rain that time will notsflid destroy it. from his been that the problem of individual has It separated inof roots of to the the course, himself, except, brings the moisture of maintaining a from is he is and life that rural separated neighbor fluence of 'the work of nature. plant and which is indispensable standard people on our farm. The social institutions which only co- the its to In the second place, the sale of maturity of the plant, may American farmer is a type far in adwith his neighbor can pro- at the time operation come in such abundance any his crops, or their distribution, the vide him. Not only that, if he be of that of a century ago. He it. The drowth upon vance question is entirely different. In a dweller, as you are, in the type as to destroy in advance of the type which is far this case it is no longer an individual of rural community known fls the which he is dependent for the propmatter but it is a social problem. farm village, he is separated from er ripening of his crops may at any come in such intensity that Whether he does well or ill depends his farm. (Continued from page 6) It is an economic disad- period not upon the quantity or quality of vantage in that case while in the it will destroy it. This inspires in the farmer an his own products alone, but upon case of the man who lives on his SAVE THE MIDDLEthe quantity and quality of the pro- farm and is consequently separated attitude of conservatism. He is loath MANS PROFIT ducts of all other farmers in all from the village it is a social handi- to take a chance on new ideas. He by buying SADDLES becomes distrustful in his nature parts of the world. He is, there- cap. direct from the manulike not does and channge. Again fore, in competition with every other The economic problem to which this influence of the facturer. Send for our weather gives farmer in the world. well is rise free illustrated catalog this factor of space gives farmer a feeling of indecision. When we come to the third phase illustrated by the experience of the the The Western Saddle to one the He from knows never day of the economic cycle, that is, the farmers of the Uintah Basin during Mfg. Co. next whether or not hi3 work is goWhile the government 1711 spending of the wealth secured from the war. Larimer St. .to with be innterfered by the the productive process, wre have at was guaranteeing a price of 52.20 ing - Colorado Denver, at he does The last weather. thing once an individual and a social ques- a bushel for wheat in the market Is to look up at the sky in tion for whether we spend well or ill centers, farmers of the Uintah Bas- night to predict if it is possible, in order our neigh- in were unable to grow wheat with is a matter of concern of WE WANT own that the weather will his bors fls well as ourselves. It is a profit due to no other factor than be on themind, morrow. The first thing concern of society at large. that of space. Nothing could give he does in the morning is to go out Now with this part of expansion economic release to the Uintah Basin and scan the sky to see what the of the field of activity of the farmer, equivalent to the amelioration of weather will be. So he delays the Write for Price List today That is why I wish to propose the idea that after the factor of distance. He delays work. of his planning That is decision as to what he will do next all the problem of rural life is not railroads are important. Charles Friend & Co., Inc. economic entirely. It is not econom why automobiles and aeroplanes and until the moment he does it. 920 Wazee St., DENVER, COLO. other means of transportation are ic primarily, even, but it is fundam These are merely examples of atrace. to .to human the is That a social important problem. entally titude which are developed in the gay, were we to become, as farmers, Space forbids the application of farmer by reason of the fact that his the most prosperous group in 'the the principle of volume of business occupation is what it is. I need nation, we still would have rural in social institutions as well as econ- not call attention .to the application Wong Sing Mercantile problems very much fls we have them omic. Take for example the school. of this attitude to the problems of today. It is difficult to get the ear Farmers who are widely scattereda rural life. You will readily appreThe store with a complete of people when this attitude is taken over an area cannot maintain at the native aversion of the that ciate line of for they immediately counter with reflsonaole cost, a school, as efficient farmer to new ideas has been one Groceries and Provisions, Dry the suggestion that if you solve the as that which can be maintained in factors in his clinging to of the In fact, it is frontiergreat and Goods, Notions, Ladies economic problems of the farmer a larger community. institutions. Gents Roots under and open social impossible Furnishings, problems. physically you will solve the He has been suspicious of book schools to have conditions Shoes, a Furniture, prosHardware, farmer if make country That is, you learning, suspicious of the whiite colSto ves, Ranges, Harness, and perous he will immediately improve as efficient as those of the city. The lar man, and consequently his progSaddles. be would cost opprohibitive. the his home, he will improve retarded. as that ress has been materially same childIs the principle his It You will profit by trading offers he which portunities His urban brother, on the other hand here. ren for education and religious bet- which is so frequently applied in the has forged ahead in the race of civins the FT. UTAH DUCHESNE, terment, he will increase his activi-- ! economic world in which the lization. ty as a member Of the community, quantity of production increases forces the that Finally, among Space is and, in short, will immediately be cost per unit decrease. boot-strap- s, - mdi-memb- one-thir- W I OO L er |