Show FARM CHILDREN THE SOLUTION WOULD PARM T 10 ALL AGES AND THUS SOLVE PRO BLENt THAT IS 18 1 GRAVE TITAN THAN till CITY MAN KVEN 1 1 R howard derti american america n farm bureau federation noto note J R howard is president dilt of tile tho american farm bureau federation an organization of Amo rivan rural dwellers of progress sive thin thinking king armors what lie has hai to say a note that may sound bound alarming until ono one beuls beatts his solution thoi the happiness happl of children on oil the farm is a matter that is IB of 0 vital importance to you frore and thoro there ft hilsop eighty ham hab worn out anti and lies beneath the sun indifferent to lie tit in its iti keeping to tile tho hungry who tramp over it that never fallad tile tho luf bilt fita faal for nobody knows how ninny many thou thousand band years aro are gray with tho the 0 ox ba baustien of extensive production so long art aa tho the sod was unbroken tho the fertility of at tho the eoll boll remained intact the pioneers who broke tile tho seal found tile soil richer than crea lion for under the government of mother nature all plants give hack back their surplus at tho the end of overy every summer the list first wheat flold field waxed golden oa air tile tho log or y of tho the frugal prairie grass th ih first earn corn nold field spent riotously tho compounded compound pd of centuries of tho the earths careful savings of plant too food and tile the fart farmers ners fed their crops on tile tho store tor for so many years ears before it became noticeable that tile principle plo was being touched that the supply was unconsciously supposed to bd inexhaustible wo we rowed intensively reaped bounteously anti and then bernod tho the straw and stubble complacently so long as aa tho the virgin qualities of tho the soil boll under a system of wasteful ful soil eoll mining supported a relatively spare population wo we wore not worried about tile alio future and now many an tio nemic field lots dots the in muto muta reproach there im IH no waste fortunately however farmers are awakening to the fact that soil must lie bo public opinion forbids the burning of straw legumes limo have bee il out i to making hay and nitrogen companies aro are dulnik bussI bussoli busSt VM Li I 1 phosphate and lime itono deposits are being distributed ahe the hilltop eighties are being re juvena ted just as tile tho land has hag been devitalized here and thoro there a farm community has worn out the church door has boon been nailed shut the school Is out of date data the children ot of alid old homestead hava hav 3 moved to town and the farms are now tho abadea of transient families who hope chopo to got enough ahead to giove to town also no nation has over ever risen above tho the dinvel of its agriculture and the lead dead scat scattered tile the I 1 aro are comparably to tile tho bilto alkali patches on oil tile tho hilltop eighty and it if allowed to spread will ruin our country just as sure aura as blight will cipo out alit an apple amplo orchard tile tho worst of it Is ig that thai thol thoi worn out alit colum milty ti Is not necessarily abo arid where the aind Is if past production it that wore tile tho case tho the building up till of the soil boll would bring a flow of now blood back into thu the personnel of the occupants it la Is often lit in our richest sections that the human force of agricultural production Is at low obb wo we are used to thinning when we speak of agricultural production of grain and livestock cotton arid and wool lumber and fruit but the open country has an important product in boys and girls who constantly teed feed our cities Ite plated history the 1 I ho history of the community to is well known the pioneer father who thrust his plow into tho the unbroken prairies was waa as vital as hla his acres ile ho had come to tile new country to mite a home HN hid neigh bors bars wore home homa builders bul the noninterference of outside world need for and common ideals fostor ml social contact they were tho host typo ot of humanity being the kind who wore not contented to bo be poor in tile the state or the foreign country from which they came since they were in their now new homes to stay they sot set about making their cointA 4 t 1 li laces lacca in wh on page six continued from pago one CHILDREN N THE SOLUTION live they built school houses anti ami churches at tile tho same finlo they broke thu lilt soil sod and put up till barns barna tile tho not next generation took up community building at tho the point laft ifft on oft by their par outs outa the old homat cad was kept in tile the family all members ot of which started out equally if anything tho the DOY boy whose lot it IL was to stay lionie homo and run tin tile tho bartil arm was colish considered lored to ie e a bit bettor better oc than tho th boys boya who biad ad studied pedagogy or ined leino or letters lot tora fortune hall had not overtaken tile tho pioneer people yet but they IL M boned that it was waa a nov noar country find and tile llie future was waa promising about three tareo uway away from the pioneers pio neora till tho real exodus begins A little visiting back antl and forth with tho members of tho the fan family illy who nud aad cat cast their lot in tho the cities and towns makes tho the children wonder it if the lot 0 of the brother to remain on oil the family homestead Is the ono one to be cherished A Shadow Ilc turo and by this time there la Is a little less hope hopa tor for the future tareo or four generations of is ia not very conducive to tile tho virility of 0 hope the old homestead is routed rented to a class of people not quite progressive gres sive enough to got away tile tho community immediately loses much of ita it stability there Is no community pride for these people to move again in abear or so and naturally do not feet responsibility I 1 in n their temporary arrangement and where tho the pronta of tile the land must lio bo shared between two families tho the landlords anil and tho the ten tenants thoro there lisi Is nothing loft to devoto to tile tho ideal comm community milty center tho the taxpayers llva live wily away roni tho the land UKI aro are therefore not personally anil interested in tho the church school and social phase of their neighbor load thoro there Is fluell auch a constant trig ing of residents that organization la Is dilli enit thoro theio tire no n local allure ments and ties and as as ab I a mum mcm per rises above tho the level ot of hla his en m lie ho goes to tile tho city where wore more la ili promised him oven if it la is not always given in ili tho the meantime meant tile tho descendants of tile tho first fartura have either lost loat out lit in till tho demands ot at city lite anti and nio aro finding their moss mess rt of pot potage a go as lay laborers or thoy they havo have pro 9 P I 1 and forgotten foi gotten tho the farm front which they received their birthright A anil na must ut of thoin them to do pro prosper it hau haa said that 94 per cont of tile tho 1 loading citizens of ono one of our largo large cities were up on all a aarin of a group of tivo mon commercial and professional in ili chicago I 1 found that 85 per cont cattle caino avolia the country more than GO 60 por per cont cent of the mon mell and I women listed hated in ill chos who 1 are likewise from the country the 1 I lie successful ones onea return to tho the und and build palatial homes and a und tile tho high highly landlord class ly 10 tile tho slowly differentiating into alila and aal tile property less laboring L llanas Lla I 1 alws it if Ar america becomes the lionil of landowners landow nera and peasants wo we all have failed our pilgrim fathers miserably and inexcusably A Rh chample ample I 1 have not been discussing title the united states on oil tin an average ave iago I 1 have chosen the workout community und and tho the workout worn out farm as signals of danger ahead like wo we sometimes go 90 through tile the barrel and vick pick out cor cortilli apples there Is IB no bobbt but that tile the root of tho evil Is the pre falling economic injustices dealt tile the farming industry tho ilio far farmers thom fR are tho onos who will havo have to chango change this system cannot all walk oft off and leavo leave it gloving ma to town may solve the pro blonts and better tho the finances of tile tho ill individual but toll will bo be talvia inter on oil a national lut lonal basis the far farmerr who cleny their chil inn din tile tho a a lion of lit liberal c ral education edua likewise drain tho the fertility of tile ilio neighborhood the physical labor la Is returned with tile the personal interest st in ill tho individual farm tile tho i WIlt wheat lat la Is usually us illy properly s tacked stacked and the hogs bogs well holi housed sod hut but cheso aru aro tho who ride the pow plow lit in atagi untied objection to the world continued on paye page eight bringing much better prices and so BO are cattle in bulto ot of the fact act that a few mouthy months ago political orators were predicting that tile packers would 10 lo 10 everything in ili their power to koop prices town with grains and mothr furin farm products selling nt at their present levels farmers will realize realign much moro front ruthi their 1922 croch than thoy they could have when this year agall in III till turn 11 thoy will bo be bettor better cu s to m u I 1 for things which in ili their period of adversity they refused to buy the paid to tho r havo have boon eon going tit ni tho the of othor othir commodities have boon been c coming down tho the bartner can call buy a good tractor to lay day for as aa computed cotil pal ed with practically twice that mount sonio ago of farmers fari nors coming into tho the mache ciarko to by all tile things tor lor many months thoy havo sono gono gitil out lit buying form tools toola clothing everything 0 which thoy and their farn fam files need and uso use will havo have a far 1 reaching effect on our factories and alli 1 our retail stores confidence in ili tho the future has to a considerable extent been restored while tile tho relative values 0 of f tile tho price pric 0 I 1 tile tho farmer receives and tho price lie ho I 1 pays for tile the things thing s lie ho must buy Is still unsettled much progress pro gresH la Is bo be 1119 duade in ili the alio right direction continued from page six FAURI CHILDREN THE SOLUTION I 1 colela jilia 0 xii x ii iam abo 10 ill is us as I 1 nan aw is their lanes I 1 I 1 hoy cy tiro are the farmers tari nera choso whoso blind refusal to 1 join jin J in tit in co c por alivo marketing believe in ill tho paim llurba and bo be in lidell t in politics holds back rural progress hy by tile hardest liar dost work aill tile closest saying paving thoy tile usually manago manage to got moro more or losa less ahead financially hut they 10 lo not go about it in tile the way wai that benefits tile the whole community and thero there is no margin la in their profits tor for bettor community conditions condi tlona and where silos alleq mako proud tile the landscape while house housa and church and school squat apologetically tit in their shadows is no real wealth if sending our young folks avay away ji to tc bo be educated ted does not gain us any ally 1 I thing tit in our own communities it lending ignoring tho the of la Is dang dangerous orous it must lie be tho the system of education atlon that Is IN at fault to color I 1 would not strike from tho the readers tho the romance and the glamour of tile tho other worlds but I 1 would include storied which throw a little color around tile tho farmers lives I 1 would include in the geographies studied stu diel tit in all A country schools n nit more of agricultural detail f r ifould uko like to soo tila the beginner trace through tile copy book somo s its as 1 I un am proud to bo a farmer aimer or united wo we farmers stand divided wo we fall I 1 would bring tile tho high schools within homo home distance of every country boy and girl I 1 would put rural sociology in every freshman course and cina cnn tinna the study throughout tho the four I 1 would havo our agricultural il colleges teach marketing i well aa production reaping as well bif aai sow ing ine I 1 wish that thre might ho be instilled la in tho the minds of nil all country oos anti ami girls a feeling cecline of responsibility for or tho the farm a feeling that no mattir what work they might tako take up thoy they owed a return to their country community in service that they were not free from obligation until they had paid back to country life the tha interest terest on tiro oro capital they took that the hie members of 0 tho the family who go out to be lawyer and doctors and merchants and bankers realize that thoy they were indebted tor for their success lo 10 0 o tile tho training and strength gand and ideals thoy they rev revolved elved front from their rural environment and that even it if they are temperamentally temperament tempera ail A a aid od naturally bulled to take tho the lot or of tho the man who stays behind to teed food tho rest they have a debt of lionor honor to pay the ono ino who does ind and that to 0 o tile tho soil and uio tile community they lioy must give back tho the arco takes food and sap from ho file ground in tho the spring gives servi efi to tho the world in tile tho summer slimmer ani and then in tile tho autumn drops every civery kat cut bick back to tho the earth |