Show F a FRAN WP roo roon D ile henry n ry fords order that every married nian man employed in his iron mountain plant must in IS t plant a vegetables garden next year 1 Is al an 1 interesting experiment which v hlll ill be c criticized by several different kinds of people commission men and dealers in garden produce will see in it a possible loss of good markets and the people who think that an employer has no right to dictate to his 1115 employees about anything except their actual work in the factory will regard this order a as a an invasion of tho the individual workers rights my own view Is that the results of 0 the iron mountain experiment it if records tire are carefully care lully kept as I 1 assume they will beo tie may prove to bo be the most powerful stimulus to the general movement away t from roin the cities and back to the economic independence of the small email landholder who raises most ot of what he and his family consume 1 l ORK in my home county berkshire massachusetts sch achu I 1 etts there are three important industries dus t tries ries one of the general electrics manufacturing plants is at pittsfield the county seat or as the old timers call it the shire town nearly all the writing paper used in america is made in the mills along alone the housatonic river including the paper on which the federal government prints money and bonds and the limestone quarries of lee adams and west stockbridge in good years pay the new haven railroad a quarter of a million dollars in freight charges on building and agricultural lime ilme none of these industries Is running on lull full time these days but we see and hear little evidence ot of anything approaching real distress one of my nearest neighbors has eleven children at home three more married he works in a paper mill when it Is running sells the milk from ten cows through the local branch of the Dairy mens league grows teed feed tor for the cows and a pen of pigs in his hundred acres besides cutting enough cordwood every winter to keep his house housa warm he Is a lot better off than the city worker who has nothing to tall fall back on ENGLAND the fall of the labor government in england and the desertion of the labor party by ramsay macdonald and other leaders does not necessarily mean the end of the socialist movement in great britain but it does mean that the effort to force social and economic changes faster than they can be paid tor has failed the trouble with almost every movement tor for social reform Is that its proponents want to change everything instantly great britaina Brit Brita ains lits new government is 1 pledged to balance the budget that Is to cut down governmental expenses to a point where the income from all forms of taxation will meet them that will slow up such reforms as employment in 1 I 1 aurance and the national housing program I 1 but it will keep england out of of bankruptcy and help restore world trade which in the long run probably will be just as beneficial tor for the workers it takes more than one generation to change the course of social progress THRIFT the president ol of the largest savings bank in america Is advising his bis depositors to stop hoarding up their money to draw it out and spend it tor for things which they will need later and which they can buy cheaper now than I 1 at any time since the war that Is good I 1 advice true thrift consists not in hoarding boarding cash but in spending wisely there never was and probably will not again be lor for a long time a better opportunity to buy a home for example or the equipment and furnishings of a home or any ally of the other necessary things which do not lose their value with the passage ot of time arid and every dollar spent now hastens the day when the dollars will again circulate freely AGE the average american is older than he used to be twenty years ago our average national age was about abo ut twenty three r now 0 w it Is about twenty seven not so m many a ny children grownups grown ups upa living longer this change Is bound to be reflected in very every phase of life we will tend to take k a more rn reasoned less emotional view of social political and economic matters for or example we probably win ill lose as a nation some of the pioneering adventurous spirit of youth we will grow to value va lue security more than excitement there were re boys of twenty one among the leaders ot of our revolution the signers ot of our declaration ot of independence the drafters ot of our constitution today we look on EL a man of thirty as rather too young lor for the serious responsibilities of government we are in danger of becoming stodgy and conservative as a nation unless more young men forge their way to the front as political leaders |