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Show I LEAVING THE FARM Noting that the last census 0 the T'nitco! States shows over half the population living in cities, an eastern writer on current events, ttsehei the conclusion that the tendency to move from the conntry to the city will ffo tn until an even prrater percentage of Ihr people are urbaniteft. He conclude that no one knows just what the changing chang-ing character of our population nieani And it is changing, he says, "not only in the way of Us life, but in its human makeup. More an-1 more the United Statea ii becoming a country whose people arc of semitn-. Mediterranean and African origin, while the old Nordic trains from England, Germany ami Seandihavii arc steadily declining. declin-ing. Tin-so fact! ire wrcll known tO anthropologists. The America of our pran.lt'athcrs was a land of blond men ef Nordic .r so-called Anglo-Saxon bl I v bo lived outdoors, tilled the soil, herded cattle, hunted, fished an. I tailed the seas from Arctic to Anaretie. The America Amer-ica of onr grandson! will be a heavily populated ountry of short, dark-skinned men, v Ing for the most pari in the most crowded. -om plicated and enormous eitiei the world has ever seen, depending on ityanufaature, tradi mid commerce for their living America is in the midst of transition wbieb is rapid, probably inevitable, and the Pinal c suits of which no man can foresee. That our institutions trill hav ctndergo evrit .hand's to meel these great changes in onr needs almost any fair-minded man could tjruess It seems probable that our leading radicals wdl soon be behind tlv time, just as the rsdiealu of twenty-five years ntro arc beinpr thrown into the discard novi Then asking the question, 'Why do so man country hoys go to the cities?'' the writer answers': "f'hicflv because then- is no other place for them to po. Go into any old. set.-d district, such as eastern Maryland Talk to a farmer who bias four boys. Three of them, he will tell you. are going Hway. The fourth OOJ will fttaj and inherit '.he old homestead. Wh; ilon:t the others buj farms! Por several reasons. In the first place, the good farms are nOl tor sne, and the don'l want the poor ones In the s ml place, t.. buj unimproved lnd and put it under cultivation cultiva-tion takes more i spital than they can command. "So the bovs M tn New York to Philadelphia and henum-automobile henum-automobile mechanics or electricians, 01 else the go west in search of land "There is no mvsterj i" this so called movement of the country population to the cities, qoi doei it r present ah) grsa4 change in the feeling or viewpoint of the people, or anj new restlessm n i. "J he sinr pl fact is thai there sre jusl s many farms in the United States. Kvcrv one of them that will yield a living for hard work is being tilled, and ;i gopd many that will not yield a living in the lone run arc bcine tilled. "It is true thai the population is increasing faster than the food supplv. Nevertheless, the food supplj is slid adequate. Its high price is due almosi wholly i the u.-i it is distributed." |