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Show e. DO CHILDREN LIKE FARM LIFE? ' ta Why do so many farm, boys and girls yearn to migrate li i the cities? Is farm life dull for youngsters? Or does the lehy really offer better opportunities to youth? Can anything ; done to keep the young people on the farms ? These are Nwocative questions which have been interjected into the ething political pot, already overheated with agricultural r-oblems, by Wheeler McMillen, editor of The Country Home, I a remarkable address at the recent Kansas farming con-j con-j ntion. i Mr. McMillen thinks the question of the young folks is ally the paramount agricultural question, beside which all j, hers are small and insignificant. ' "Everybody knows," he says, "that farm life is the most ialthy and stimulating of all methods of living. Farm fath-s fath-s and mothers, therefore, watch with concern the increas-g increas-g tendency of farm boys and girls to leave the home and go ' distant places in search of fame and fortune. "We are anxious to make farm life so attractive that ley will find it possible to live their lives within reasonable istances of their aging fathers and mothers." Not so many years' ago people from the eastern cities ere pouring westward into the newly opened farm lands, hich were then the land of opportunity. Now, unhappily, &e migration has turned in the other direction. Young peo-ym'5 peo-ym'5 from the farms are being attracted to the cities- And nsvis tendency, Mr. McMillen thinks, is not good for the corn ytlt. A Kansas farm father spends an average of $3000 on .Je education of each one of his boys and girls. Then that neestment disappears from his own state or district, and : K3 boys and girls become assets of overgrown and distant "'ies. Mr. McMillen wants all future farm legislation con-j con-j ered in the light of this situation. The foremost problem ' agriculture, he insists, is to find a permanent program Hat will assure to farm children the right to remain on the from which they have sprung, that will insure for them niliitble and prosperous lives, that will grant to them' an equal importunity with that given to city dwellers. A |