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Show THE CITY OFFERS FEW ADVANTAGES Chicago Banker Gives Some Sound Advice to Young Men and Women. SHOWS RURAL OPPORTUNITY Farmer Has Greater Possibility of Comfort in Old Age, With More Wholesome Pleasure and Real Cultivation. (By FREDERICK H. RAWSON, President Presi-dent Union Trust Co., Chtcaso.) UNLESS the young man is specially spe-cially trained by education and practice for some particular particu-lar kind of work to be found In the city, or has capital to be invested in-vested in some legitimate enterprise, he will be better off in the country or small town. Cities are all overcrowded. Jets in r11 ordinary lines of industry are scarce because there ase generally more job-hunters then jobs. With so much competition for work, labor is cheap and wages are low. It costs much more to live in the city than in the country. If a man receives low wages he must find shelter shel-ter in low-class lodgings crowded, dirty, garretlike places in poor neighborhoods neigh-borhoods where fresh air is at a premium pre-mium and the constant noise maddening. madden-ing. He cannot buy good, nourishing food but must get along on what he can afford to buy. Consequently his health suffers. He cannot afford to buy clothing of good quality, so he must wear shoddy. He can save nothing noth-ing out of small earnings, so sickness or any other emergency need for funds finds him in serious circumstances. And to live as he must live is a constant con-stant invitation to sickness. City Pleasure False. There seems to be an impression in the country that life in the city is one continual round of entertain ment and pleasure. All such so-called pleasure is expensive and all of it becomes be-comes quickly tiresome. There is the saloon, the low-class moving picture show and the dive, as forms of entertainment enter-tainment not found in a majority of small towns. But in the city men who cannot afford better things have a tendency to drift to these places and get acquainted with people and habits that wreck character. City .entertainment .entertain-ment is false, artificial. I have been up in the Dakotas quite a bit. I have found that farmers and small town people usually are better read than the average city person better informed about worth-while things than I am. They get good newspapers and good magazines in the rural communities. They can heal the world's finest music on the pho nograph. They get as much dramatic entertainment as the majority of city people get, for in every village and town there is at least one moving picture pic-ture show. They are always within a few hours of the city's rush and bang for the express train and electric in-terurban in-terurban limited penetrate every cor ner of the nation. The Unwary Girl. And the young woman who wants tc leave the old home town or the farm Sor the city? It is much harder foi her to get along than for the young man. Wages for women in the Indus tries are very low and jobs are scarce. Decent living conditions arc beyond her reach unless she gets good pay. Pitfalls for the unwary or unfor tunate young woman are everywhere Even if the girl must work as a do mestic hack in the home town Bhe gett as much pay likely as she can get without special training in the city Living conditions are healthful, phys ically and morally, in the rural com munity. Recently I watched a large crowd of girl workers enter a factory. Nearly every one wore those high French heeled shoes. I venture not one had a bank savings account. Suppose Sup-pose one of those girls gets sick, or the factory shuts down. What can she do? The whole nation -will be vastly better bet-ter off when our young men and young women of the small towns I include cities of ten thousand population in this description decide to make the most of opportunity at home. |