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Show u DRAWING PEOPLE TO THE FARMS. To promote the Back to the Farm Movement, the Farm Settlement Board of New Brunswick is displaying motion pictures depicting interesting phases of farm life. In this country working people are begged and implored to go back on the land and raise food but they are slow to do so. The great majority of citified people look upon farm life with horror. They may be living in some dirty, unsanitary, un-sanitary, crowded tenement. Country life might be cheaper, healthier, more comfortable. But existence under un-der the stars and the wide spaces of the sky would seem horribly lonesome to them. These people miss the companionship of crowded streets. They like the stir and motion and life of it. They enjoy the gossiping with neighbors. There is always al-ways something doing. Encounters with the police, street fights, the rattle of the hurdy gurdy, the cries of the street vendors, the mischief of the kidlets, all these and a thousand thous-and other incidents make slum life pleasant to people who have always lived in it. It would seem as if under the present conditions, the money motive must have some effect. Farm labor bring3 better wages than it used to. The farm hands get high priced vegetables for nothing, it does not cost them much for clothes. Unless they are spendthrif ths, they and their families could have money in the bank at the end of a year. Land is high, yet somehow the foreigners manage to get farms of their own. They rent a little piece of land on shares, sell half their crop for good prices, and in a few years they are ready to take a farm on a mortgage. It is a good proposition for hundreds of thousands of families. The movies and all other forms of publicity ought to be used us-ed to make it seem interesting. |
