Show I Today Kansas Kansa and nd France float Boaz ou V as as Lacking Lukin Harvesting With a Sickle Unfortunate America By ARTHUR BRISBANE Copyright 1927 by The Star Co On either cither side of the Santa S Fc Fe ex express cx cx- press In lu which this Is written the com corn cornfields fields and farm houses housu of Kansas fly past pat It zt Is a country unlike that thai through which the writer drove a a. few see In l France nn on the way from Paris p to totes see In little cottage on the Atlantic at aS Lejard not no far from Bordeaux Bordeau The trip through France made In Ina a II Lincoln automobile was WU as M rapid as this trip by train In France nce you jou OU drive your jOur automobile as fast Zat as IU you jou like but take care you hurt nobody French roads roa are wide and straight The Lincoln car used by this writer came from Nice to Paris kilo kilo- kilometers kilometers dIameters meters miles In one day and did easily the miles from Parts Paris to Lejard between breakfast and dinner French drivers go so rapidly but care ca fully If It they hit anybody the law hits them A member of the chamber 01 os deputies went to Jill jail for a 8 year All the Influence of his friends could no no- save him He struck a child B B. Forman of Rochester N N. Y T. can cantell cantell cantell tell you jou OU of a 0 French chauffeur ac accused at- at accused of Intoxication sent to jail for forten forten ten years yeara He killed a It child Mr For For- Forman Forman Forman man saw the thing happen Here In Kansas you see ee great trac trac- tractors loTs Ion providing pro power machinery cut- cut cutting cutting ting ling and binding corn great engines engine binding winding threshing wheat and tying the grain in sacks all In one oper oper- atlon In France occasionally you would a peasant and his wife cutting their heir grain with sickles In small heIdi of irregular shape Fields were har- har vested with scythes here and there teams earns of horses drew mowing ma ma- machines chines Power driven agricultural ma ma- chinery was not seen between Pars PariS and Lejard Where mowers mowen had passed you might see ec old grandmother and ana her little tie grandchild bending over O picking up wisps of or grain wit the right fight hand han 1 putting jutting them in aprons heid beld by the left eft hand handA A hundred such gleaners were seen I In n a days day's drive They were less for fo than Ruth their gleanings meagre There was no Boas Boaz to com corn command command mand his young joung men saying Let her herlean glean lean even among the sheaves and re- re reproach roach her not and let fall also some of f the handfuls of purpose for her ber berand herand and nd leave them that she the may glean them hem but rebuke her not With WIlh hanl rakes the old grand grand- grandmother grandmother mother and the little girl could have all the gleanings In a short hort time Ime but that evidently was as not al- al lowed loved ed must bs be done by hand and the old body must stoop and anel stoop sloop all day long to pick up stray straws When the grain had gone gon from rom the field an old shepherd would bring ring his little band of oC she these would walk through the stubble stub le rating eating the he ripe over grain that had fallen from rom the heads heids Other bands of sheep led cd by an old man or woman with dogs to help ate the gross grass along the highway edge No sheep ever er onto nto the road before the automobiles Dogs Do s prevented pre 1 that and the sheep hee seemed trained Beautiful animals admirably kept They waste nothing In n France Here In rich America you jou OU ride miles through unending fields of com corn or orre grabs rain pass great herds of heavy re f deep in grass and tens o thousands of acres not used In France they use every foot of ot ground waste aste nothing not food nor human luman labor Men and women work long ong hours work hard bard with patience The peasants' peasants houses are arc beautiful and nd old their animals well cared for Along the coast of Brittany and the Vendee men and women and children work side aide by side Men repair at low lowde tide de their fish nets colored light blur blus The Tie fishermen say Fish like color color- On the flat lands you see little mounds of f salt It taken from the ocean by Im- Im Imprisoning Imprisoning waters In shallow pools tor or evaporation Once Ia la abelle a heavy tax lax on sale dressed the mistresses of French kings and made life lile easy for the three lucky classes cla s royalty clergy and no- no It wa was death dealis to the peasant to o escape H Pt 1 gabelle Iab lle by taking his salt from the ocean Conditions ar better now The Trie kingS are sleeping f In St St. Denis the few cw whose bones were not scattered during the revolution There are more schools than chateaux more snore public libraries than gallows The peasant peasants Is s no longer forbidden to kill klU animals that hat cat eat his s cro-s cro s because lords and ladles ladies wanted the pleasure of riding over ver those crops to kill klU the es I |