Show WHY THEY LEAVE THE FARM The appointment of a federal coni com commission mission n to study stud conditions of farm lire life l in this country count has evoked a good deal leal of ot discussion humorous and antI other otherwise otherwise r wise but alt all the contributors agree that life lit lif on the American farm is such that the will not stand It when e cape possible ible A boy bo will desert a good home In the country where he has a certainty C r of a living In comfortable surroundings for tor a place In a big city cit where he h earns e a bare ex existence by 1 hard labor and an spends his leisure time under conditions that would seem to ta be incomparably inco lp l less S desirable than i se he left Girls take takeno takeno no more kindly to farm tarm life than do dothe doth the th boys bos their brothers they ther leave for Cor the towns and cities when escape ls Is possible oss ble bleIn In all an the contributions on the sub subject subject subject the most Intelligent so 0 far is one in the current number of ot the American Magazine from a Kansas I ansas farmer who says sa that curse of ot farm fann farm life Is its loneliness and lack of ot social relaxation Curiously enough his remedy for this trouble Is exactly the idea put Into ex execution execution execution by Brigham Young when he brought his p to Utah The Kansan says sars farming tanning should be carried on o by b communities living in settlement together and farming tile the th lands within a reasonable distance of the settlement That plan Inaugurated bere ere over oer fifty years ears ago has demon demonstrated demonstrated 5 perfectly Its feasibility t this state today toda are large agricultural areas artas cultivated by b people who live Ue In adjacent settlements They are successful Cul In a without sacrificing the pleasures of social life Ufe they have their amusements which are impossible in isolated farming they the have har splendid schools easily easil accessible Their church life Ute Is as well en organized as as In any an city and a d they are enabled by their system t work together In tn the of life to much better advantage tage than if they the were ere scattered on sep separate separate separate arate tracts of land each ea h man living to himself and for himself alone It IUs Itis is true that the younger generation everywhere Js is inclined to desert the ar arduous arduous arduous labor of the farm for the easier Easler if It less independent and profitable duties of oC city work vork but bout we Wa the boys boas and girls of Utah have hae less leIs aver atEr aversion aba sion for lor farm life UCe than thau au Is ia common c In he the the prairie states or In the middle west It If f tiie the Ule federal commission studies con conditions conditions hereIt here it will ill find that the pio plo pioneers were far tar In advance ada ce of oC their day dayn In n the application of or common sense to the he affairs of the world and that they paved aved the way for the bet best contented agricultural communities In the coun Count country t try ry |