Show ut LET US TAKE ADVANTAGE contributed I 1 the arthe metropolitan dailies of this and the nearby near by states are reflecting from thad day to day the spirit ol of growth that is taking possession of the west this spirit is also being reflected in our national magazines hamptons Ham tho the saturday evening post and other pub locations licati ons not too busy with muck rak ing are giving more and more attention to the land and the products indeed this movement Is a sence of the teachings of 0 brigham young who many years ago set his people to the tilling of the soil and the trading in hay grain and the produce 1 of orchard and farm sir mr james J hill has set forth the fact that at the present rate of decrease in the farm population of the united states the rate of increase in the population of our cities it will not be many hundred of years before thousands of our people will go to bed the employment of women in so many of the mechanical br branches anches of trade their invading of the ranks of the clerks laundry workers and in so many channels which formerly numbered men only among its skilled and paid workers is making a new economic problem which has for its most serious consequence a decrease in the american birth rate the direct consequence of all these facts now most recently brought to light by the last census is that an organization headed by mr john D rockefeller jr and known as the american I 1 tome home economic league has been formed and the purpose of this thi league d to 0 o induce men and women to go back to t ti 1 ac to the smaller towns and back to rural america any reader of the magazines may quickly note the appearance of 0 all the fiction having to do with the idealization tio of the farm arm and with the peace and rid quiet of domesticity these are being written by m men en of the most renown among the contributors of the day and the most influential magazines are printing them great newspapers are joining coining this movement until it has approached the dignity of a great propaganda whose purpose is to simplify our american life the cry back to the land is being echoed in a thousand homes as you read this being thundered from a thousand pulpits being groa groaned ned from an hundred great presses being taught in a thousand schoos schools the west is in a position to benefit by this movement the great land shows at omaha pittsburg los angeles chicago and new york are beng ing financed and patronized by the land hungry people it Is an indication of tile the great surge that must occur within the next hext few years when the clerks in the stuffy department stores of the heated listed cities the drivers of carts and delivery wagons the sweepers of streets must realize that the time tor for them to make machof their lives has come and that their ir real ephe sphere lios lies in a home with wife with husband and babies and a bit of a farm somewhere in gods great out of doors I 1 the news thinks that the people ot of brigham city should awake to this great fact all over the world other communities and other cities are sounding their own praises let the people of this city get tb together gether let them tell telf the people of the outer world that we have here an asylum tor for the home hungry of every nation kindred and tongue let us invite these people here they will make our lands worth more they will buy more ot of our hats and caps and boots and shoes they will subscribe for more of our papers they will bring with them a degree of citizenship ref refined ined by years of privation and here in these quiet valleys of utah they will found another civilization warm and abright bright and true to the higher meals ideals of that afflatus which made our country the greatest republic that has gladdened the earth since the post I 1 hellenic days f such an urge means better bettell schools for our children churches better supported and neighbors in plenty with the spirit of neighborliness with the expression of hospitality at its finest and sweetest helgoth heigh th it means homes for boys and girls and happy faced children crowding our sidewalks laughing and singing their way to school help brother help |