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Show r ; RADIO AND FARM LIFE I-t A writer In Farm Mechanics gives expression, as so many ethers h&vs done, to tho thought that radio will be of supremo Importance to tho farmer. "With the advent of radlo-telcphony," radlo-telcphony," ho says, "there has been placed In the hand! Of tho rural population pop-ulation a utility which Is fast n vo-lutiontzlng vo-lutiontzlng social life on the farms The high-class entertainments and educational lectures which were previously pre-viously available chiefly to city dwellers dwel-lers are now within th reach of every farmer. He need no longer make a special trip to tho city to 1 1, hear an opera or lecture by some-noted some-noted explorer. The radlotrlepnono has obviated this and now makes It possible for the people of tho country coun-try districts to enjoy tho best of the modern entertainments right in their own homes." An amusing presentation of the same theme Is liven In colloquial style by Abe Martin In Farm Life (Spencer, Indiana), as follows: "Fer years an" years th' most serious ser-ious drawback V farmln', next V th' hard work an' eloment o' chance, has been that It Isolates a feller an' keeps him out o' touch with th' affairs o" I - ah world, ( "For many years most farmers had t manage f git along fer weeks an' months without hearin' from th' outside out-side world. "It -W-US hard fer m f remember who th' president o' th' United . -f Slates wuz, on they didn't know whether ther friends an' relatives wuz dead or alive unless a letter or newspaper wormed thro', or by chance they got t' town. "Then come th' telephone nn' rural free delivery an" th' farmer wuz fairly fair-ly able t' keep u line on his relatives rela-tives Kuropean affairs, and th' price O' eppo "Then th' automobile bobbed up an' is a big factor t'day In brlngtn' th' farmer's relatives f his very door, an' also Ln whlzzln' him an his family fam-ily t' town fer a band I "ncort or a hall show. "But drlvln' t' town ever' night, or havln' th' home full o' relatives soon gits I' bo a chestnut, an' besides It eventually runs Into money. "We bllcvo that next t' harvestln' machine an' a pump ln th' kitchen th' best an' so fer th' cheapest thine that's happened fer th' farmer In many s day is th' Invention o' th' radio 'phone "111' radiophone's performances already al-ready ha e proclaimed th' end o' isolation. iso-lation. Th' farmer no longer has V drive t' town, or entertain a house full o' hungry relatives, or depend on a day-old newspaper fer his nows o' th' outside world "Th seas en' lakes an' continents, burnln' deserts, frozen wastes an' mountain peaks, have nil been over pnssod. "Th' farmer an' his family may now know when a car Is stolen from in front o' th' rourthoiine, or when .a schoolhonso Is burnln" up, or "when a treaty Is signed, nx soon as th' cthor waves kin deliver th' n-ws t' ther vocal vo-cal loud, or speech ampllfti r. "After a hard day o 'toll th farmer, farm-er, without evtn changin' his collar, or rollln' down IiIh sleeves, kin tun-in tun-in nn' tke his pick out o' tver-thin' in th' air. "An" nil about him sits his family fam-ily f hear what's goln' on ln th' world in th' way o' news slnpln', music, an oratory, "If they tire o' th' "Wabrish Rluoa," they kin tune ln a lecture n onion culture, or th' treatment o' hog cholera, chol-era, by some expert ln Detroit." Literary nicest. Uolace' gshU ohancgjB' |