| Show try lit wath gift esy WALLACE CALDER thatis had grown e ua la 18 the cou T sadly exclaimed the min late a large church in new y or r I 1 ity he recognized tho tact fact tha nety per cent cant of successful minte B in america today are dr tho the rural population ito H p knew that alve per der oon donalt Dont lt those who have acht achieved eyed BUff distinction to bavo have their recorded in the current nura barj bere chos who in america we ori rn and reared on an the farm or I 1 aultie nio rural village edi 49 e stream of fresh blood fro from ih country with its cool hr muscles and good habits is tho tile jt ai I 1 force behind business pros o 0 y and the national progress of abhi lea ica all the world admires tho the h ed manhood of rural reared o 0 me e lincoln ou want your daughter to mn ry farmer far morT was the question ruc rece oatly sent out to thousands thou sanda of womb aho vho ho had roared reared their faal 11 alloe es Is q he e country of t be seven til choik answers received ayt b tho the A g ra I 1 liral ral journal ninety fo fourier u or c con bontio on it tio 0 in the affirmative it la is 0 bvm t therefore that tho woman wl ves on the farm is as much conc in the character of our rura libation liza tion as is the man who lives alth he city she Is inhere interested sted in k keiste g on the farm a fair pro f tho best beat people produced ther heretofore it has been large largely e to the splendid efforts ol 01 the tho wifton who livo live in tho country th that at wil libb Is rapidly becoming mora stac torY to those fortunate e h to bo bom born in a country hom 4 on have been too bronts u to re the country simply as a place ua dilvo ive either cheap or cheaply arti ait place pice to make makee a start in ill life as aatmar t they may retire to city life tt alis Is attitude toward life on the fan la a rapidly becoming a thine thing of th tilt to as was pointed out by one olt 4 0 leading packers of chicago 11 dressing five hundred and fiat fitly r bp baand and giris girls who came there f from rom t toaty ty six states in the union as ch chains us in the boys and I 1 girls work until comparatively a ltv years ago he said our boys girls 1 sort of accepted things as hey found them which in a degree pictured farm life as one of hard rork ork and social isolation with 7 little opportunity of laying tw t un und atlon dation for a successful ca career re e erpf it was pointed out that tho the I 1 ration of modern methods an and d the ii stall stal atlon lation of at modern con can ven lenee in n the farm farka Is now attracting buk bat to tho the country soine oi ot the bk bat rained young men and young ti ien en of america today life the he country is in rapidly becoming comi ire re satisfying materially antell ly socially and spiritually I 1 Y hamz anaf re and more of the boys and ho leave home tor Tort their nelt higher in colleges and are willing and anxious 1 to return to the country and pad become factors la in the solution of the th great problem problems that are now thrusting themselves before the american people ale in the matter of establishing more real hames and real life as a well vell as a real faring farms in the country cornell university prepared the record of ilya hundred and seventy three farmers in a typical agricultural district their earnings per adult laborer classified according ito to tho the education of tho the farmer shows that a aliph school trained farmer was wa nearly twice as effective as a a district school trained farmer the high school course accor accordini accord dinc lne to these findings wash waa more than the equivalent of or a endowment rural civilization can not be do by transplanting city life in to the country rural living quick one cus and stimulates the intellect of at boya boys and girls reared in the open country intellectual development culture refinement all that is worth while in human progress finds fertile boil soil for development in rural corn com mun ittes these need not and should not be purchased at the coet cost of that friendliness hat that la Is kindlier and that neighborliness that Is less sophisticated in the rural ruml village than an it ta in in any other place in the world rural lifo should be an expression eft ort the best beat feelings ambitions and desires of at the child of the field told whose vision ie is bounded only by the horizon by day and the starry heaven by night and not of the child of the city whose whoso vision is that of the street by day and the electric lights by night the ideal community that ie Is fast developing in tho the country now pro vides videa for the social wants of the coming generation recognizing that tho the best beat part of humanity manity liu Is the boy and girl filled ailed the joy of alv illy ing whose ideals are yet undimmed the best movements of the world inaugurated in recent times for young people the social center cantor scouting boy boys and girls club work are products of country life that rural community which shall shau amply provide a rich and satisfying home borne alf life and a broad social life which shall elevate the lives of young people and keep them pure and which shall provide for the expression pres slon of tho the religious convictions emotions and spiritual life lit of country people may rest assured that it Is going to have permanent and worth while development for evau eyou though such a community may not attract the speculator bent on exploiting ing its resources it will hold the heart strings of or the splendid young men and women who go tu the larger centers oc at learning with the intention of coming home again to 10 ii haire 1 builders |
