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Show THE LACK OF WHISKERS An official of a prominent farm organization, who recently made a tour of the agricultural regions of the United States, is said to have expressed surprise after returning from a visit to twenty-five twenty-five states, that he found almost no farmers with long flowing whiskers. This should have been no great surprise to a man who keeps in touch with the farmers of America, but a great many of our people who live in the big cities might find out even more surprising sur-prising things about our rural communities than this newly discov-: ered whiskerless era. Farmers no longer wear whiskers for the same reason that city men no longer wear them because whiskers are no longer the fashion. There may have been a time, in our pioneer, days, when the farmer looked different from the fellow who lived in town. And he may have been a little more innocent in some ways. But that day has gone forever. . . . - , Nowadays when the farmer goes to the city he dresses and acts like the fellow who lives in the city. There are now more "gTeenhorns" living in New York City than in the rural portion of the state. The farmer is fast becoming a suburbanite: Good roads; the automobile, the telephone, radio, rural electric power, and so on, are extending the suburbs to all parts of the country. The farmer farm-er now knows better what is going on in the city than; the city man does. In spite of his long hours of toil he has ', more: time to read and think than the average city man who is constantly struggling for a living. -?, ': Nowadays when the city slicker wants to : sell the .'-Brooklyn Bridge , or the Field Museum to some sucker, he doesn't:pick on a farmer. He tries out his stuff on some city "greenhorn? who has never been more than eight or ten blocks from home. -V . ?'.' |