| Show f 1 TO HELP THE FARMER t The Times of New York has has' hasa a a new new announcement announce- announce t 1 ment which is that the president will immediately i after th the adjournment of congress appoint a commission com com- I mission for the thorough study shIdy of rural life with a r view siew vie c to determine in what way the government can most effectually operate co-operate in iJ its improvement ement and ana I that the names mentioned for this commission are arc 1 these these hese Prof L. L I II If Bailey Bailer o of Cornell university uni Prof I A A. A A. A Noyes Noves of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tech Tech- and Gifford Pinchot head bead of the forestry y bureau in the department of agriculture J The Times gives questions to be be submitted to io this I 1 commission I as follows How can the life of the farm family be made less solitary fuller of opportunity I r l l freer from drudgery more moro comfortable happier hap hap- I l f-l pier and more attractive 1 How can life on the farm M t 4 i J be- be e- e kept on the highest level a and nil where it it i is not alV al al- I I ready that level le to fo be unproved improved ed V t on so dignified and 1 brightened as to awaken and keep a alive ve the pride I i ami nd lo loyalty of or the thc farmers farmer's boys boys and girls of the thc I v farmers farmer's wife and of the farmer fanner himself How low can cana 1 a a corn compelling elfin g desire to live on the farm be aroused Ii in ill children who are born on the farm Y 7 That Flint reads reacts lovely and we suspect that those questions ques ques- were prepare prepared by someone who ho never novel lived M wen minutes on a farm and by bj one who knows I nothing about it Now some of those things would woul come if t the e farmer had more money because the fact is that a farm is very lovely when a man can cun run it but hut about the toughest slaver slavery that a mortal can be he subjected to is life on the farm when the farm runs the farmer And Aud then to realize or 01 to create affirmative aft affirmative t tive ive answers to one or two of those questions it will willbe willbe willbe be necessary to go on the farms and kill off a good many farmers and substitute in their places men and women of high appreciation and refined tastes When Agee a 11 farmer and all his family have to work from early in the morning until late at ut night to live and make a little profit it is iR altogether foolish to ask aMI them how the they can be more free from drudgery more comfortable happier and more attractive because because be uc- cau cause e the simple answer from all nIl sides would be bo Give Gi us enough more moro money moner so o that we can hire help to divide this drudgery and anal to share this ness less And as to the second question about keeping lifo life on the farm on the thc highest level Ic that depends depenIs on what is meant h by the highest level If it is meant the comforts an and delights of leisured society the direct answer is that there is no time tinge for that and no opportunity opportunity op op- because it takes a stead steady struggle to live I at all As to holding boys bos and girls on the farm that depends on the temperament of both the boys hos an anthe and the girls If they ther are arc compelled from childhood to work every day and half the night on the f fj rm it will be perfectly useless when the they reach maturity to try to hold then them there They will answer We Ye have havo had enough If you like it you try it its We Ve arc are through And Andl then a great many children are not adapted to farm life at all and ought not to be hc compelled to remain on the farm and generally the best way that the government go can help farmers I outside o of what the agricultural department is al already already al- al ready doin doing is to accumulate more money mone in the I country which will raise the price of what the far far- farmer I mer rimer produces and give him more profits so that he can give his family more comforts and then the problem will wille e lie solved I |
