Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The decrease of population in some tural tu- tu ral ml sections is considered D Des s Moines Register and Leader There Is no occasion to be depressed over the returns of the census On Oh tho the contrary it is likely that this official recognition recognition rec rec- of tho the depopulation that has been going on will be tho the very thing needed to induce e intelligent cooper oper co tion to develop and make the state what it ought ough t to be be 1 Leader A long time ago a distinguished d wesl westerner asked the matter with Kansas Ills memorable memorable able answer was Jt It raises too much helland hell helland helland and not enough corn Now is a good time for Cor the politicians who have been keeping Iowa in a state of ferment to consider this answer and its possible ap application ap- ap to their own commonwealth Buffalo Commercial the tho matter matter matter mat mat- ter with Iowa That great m mid d state actually shows a small d decrease crease in inthe inthe inthe the new census The reason given by Director Durand for the present poor showing showing- seems sufficient It Is Is tion Thousands of Iowa farmers have hae moved on into other western westernS states and Wand territories to secure cheap cheaper r r. r lands Chicago Tribune One need not look took for a marked marled change in conditions conditions' as long as Iowans lowans devote themselves so o as asSIduously assiduously assiduously as- as and successfully to the raising of corn and oats I. I Probably with them there Is greater economy In large than thanIn In small farms But assuredly the day will come conic when there will be a turn In Inthe Inthe Inthe the tide and the population of of Iowa will begin to increase Louisville Journal Courier The back to the farm movement evidently was not begun soon enough to do Iowa much good Also Iowa seems to have been a little oblivious to the warning notes that have b been en sounded by the advocates of oC the them m movement It is a question whether Iowa's bigger farms and smaller farming population will be be- beable able to hold the tho state In Its present high position as a pro pro- S ducer S N New Nw w York m- m As a west C ern n. n agricultural st l Ic a will have forced on It a 3 i comparison Ison rather with Vermont than with Massachusetts Something Something Something Some Some- thing is certainly very wrong Indeed If after ten years the whole great group of central northern states Is found reactIng reacting react react- ing Irig to toward ard the c conditions of Vermont with Iowa ya showing a larger area of abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- farms than Vermont Itself Washington Post Lands rands for farm Carm purposes pur pur- poses both In Iowa and In Missouri are high in price six or seven times as dear as they were forty years ago Then what more natural than the young fellow oung fellow with no capital but brain and muscle Industry integrity integrity- integrity and and high purpose should seek seEl a ahome home homo in Kansas in Nebraska in Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado In A Arkansas rl ansas in Texas in Washington Washing Washing- ton in Ore Oregon on and even in the Canadian west |