Show ABOUT THIS THAT AND By D J G t very Every once in a while I have ex- ex expressed ex expressed pressed the opinion that the dritt from the tho farm to the city was noth noth- noth- noth nothing I ing log to worry worry about that It was an economic mO movement and that sucha such II a movement tends to bring about an equilibrium Farmers will nill get more for tor their products and pay payless payless payless less for those they must buy In Inthis Inthis Inthis this connection Dr J T Harding handed to mo me a copy opy ot of Hoard s a Dairyman a Visco Wisconsin 11 publication in which Mordeci Mordecal of Minnesota has bas written an article which he entitled CIty City- ward City ward Ho Ezekiel contends that tho the growth of cities proves not our deg but our progress He did a little Investigating and found among other things that 40 0 years ago of oC men mon gainfully employed 44 tre ere on the farms producing food for the hundred Today only 26 men arc are needed on ou the thc farms to produce the food tood for tho I he reason is ts more efficiency on tile the farm Furthermore he ho found that 40 years ago ot of o e cry five rive m men n two were needed to produce tho raw materIals for tor food and Clothing hilo hue the tho three others were werl tree free to expend their efforts in mans man's other wants But In 1910 19 for every two farmers six s othe could de oto de oto their time in shop mill and laboratory to produce the tho means of ot existence for tor society Ezekiel argues that the drift to the city Is essential to the w ot of the agricultural Industry lIe says the prosperity of tho the farmer In 1918 and 1919 In great Tent part as due to the tho export trade In tho those e scars cars the tho American farmer produced II a a great surplus over do- do domestic domestic do domestic demands and ond ho sold this at good prices Now this writer points out there thero Is little chance hance of ot selling much farm pro pro- produce produce pro produce duce abroad The American farm farm- farmer farmers er ers 5 Job lob Is to raise ralso enough for tho citizens ens of ot this country It IC he ho cre- cre create creates cre creates ates ate a 0 he ho d pl esse thus Ihus some of the ha farmers who fin I they are not needed on the farm b cause no enough ugh prod produce uce Is grown without them thorn are moving rno to tho city where here there thero Is II a demand for their services liven Even it Ir we do have more moro than enough food says who who will say that we have enough homes or schools or electric light plants or WAshing 1 machines or water systems systems ems or even ra dlo lIo outfits 1 Indians go on the war ar path In southern Utah and later Inter wo we real brigands in China Chino foreigners afUr r wrecking an ox- ox ox rr ss train The Tho cause CAUBO behind both cases ot of o lawlessness is the same same inability to get enough squat o I mUlls meals In Utah the problem has s be n solved by allotting I land d to th the Indians In China the problem Is bs much more difficult the tho more th the pity For lor after aCtor one has read a little about the Chinese ho he begins to ad- ad admire admire ad admire mire Ih their tr many tine fine qualities and sympathize with their sorrows met met- inefficient many ot of o which 1 are arc caused by means of ot productIon and others by the dishonesty ot of their ruling class When the Minneapolis as here I 1 hod heird that the tho il deficit of ot the orchestra is ls about That is the estra runs that much behind each sea sea- though iea-though ea though It gh gics es a great many con con- concerts con concerts all all of ot which are largely at- at attended at attended tended This annual deficit Is guaranteed in advance b by the busi bual- business ness men of ot Minneapolis who ho ho be- be be believe lieve that an orchestra Is a II fine lIno thing for tor their city even though It ItIs itis Itis Is expensive Talking about signs of thc the times The Tho other day a a tine fine automobile moved gracefully up the street One bystander said bald to another My that automobile must have cost a alot alot alot lot of ot money I wonder nonder onder whose it itIs itis itla Is The other replied I don t know but he ho mu must t be bo a bootlegger By the way the Ladies Ladles Home Journal pays quite a II tribute to th the abilIties of the newspaper man as asan asan an Investigator in with its lis expose of ot the bootleg booze In- In Industry Industry In Industry in America America- The Tho editor ad- ad admits admits ad admits mits that when bo ho wanted to g geta t a plainly written accurate and careful article on the sale alC of hooe booe boo eln lin in th these dry United Stiles States bo ho hired a first class newspaper reporter not the 0 owner ner of ot a name whose at- at arI atticks ar articles I ticks usually appear In highfalutin magazines Some mean folks how how- how how-cier er e will say soy the editor knew th that t If anybody could find a bootlegger I It would be a newspaper man |