Sun | 1920-09-17 | Page 5 | Most of Our Presidents Are from the Farm

MOST OF OUR PRESIDENTS ARE FROM THE FARM. This country's next premdent will he cilliir the mui of a fanner or the wm of a country doctor He will alo have the pleasure of knowing' that n fwd deal of his earl.v experience in ife was sKnl right around n town no larger than Price For he it know that the farm and the small town have produced more presidents than have the cities. Of the twenty -seven men who have been elided to the head of our government sixteen were horn on the farm. The list Includes (leorge Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jifftrwin, James Madison, James Monroe, John Qtiiucy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Huron, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierie, Abraham Lincoln, I S. (Irani, James A. Oar-field Oar-field and Henjamiii Harrison. Twenty Twen-ty -one have lived to complete their terms of office. Twelve ot them retired re-tired to the farm. Twenty-two have belonged for a iwrt of their lives to the great agricultural class. Only five, Arthur, Cleveland, MiKiulcy, laft and Wili-011, have not .it some time earned tluir living hy cultivating the soil. Senator Harding was horn mid nil rul in 11 village. Oov. James M. Cox wan born on a farm and today owns and oversees tho cultivation of that same place. Ptrhnnidov. Thomas Hickctt of North Carolina had all of this in mind when he once said: "The small farm, owned hy the man who tills it, is the best plnnthcd in the world in which to grow n patriot. On stiili a farm it is jKiMihle to produce anything from two pecks of ivotatoc to the hill to a president of the Unhid Unh-id Stoles."