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Show BUT ONLY A DREAM During the summer months millions upon millions of city people will rush off to the country for their two weeks of vacation. vaca-tion. They will work hard at play, spend their money, and go home dead tired to face another year of hard work. But suppose they varied the proeeedure for one summer as rn experiment. Suppose each vacationist spent the two weeks t il some faim where labor is scarce, and men are hard to get, and crops are light or wasted because there are not enough linn to till or ha. vest them. A couple of weeks of moderate work on a farm wouid he vastly more beneficial to health than the .same peiiod spent in tearing around doing nothing. Ami millions of dodars of additional produce would be added to the btore in the warehouses of the country, the wealth of tin h.nd would be ( nlianei d, brawn and muscle would be hardened, brains would become clarified, and humanity would be elevated. Of course if is only a dream and will never be realized -but then dreams are often sweeter than the reality." |