Arizona republican., 1906-03-13

and who gives no good reason for leaving, may as well go as stay, for
 he will undoubtedly be a failure any
 where. The boy who dislikes the farm, because he does not like to work. will not be a success anywhere. If he is not willing to work as hard upon the farm as he would have to away from the farm, he will not work hard enough anywhere else to earn more than a mere livlihood.
 The boy who does not like farming who dislikes it from his very soul, who has absolutely no love for planting or harvesting, and yet is not a loafer, is not likely to become a good farmer and forcing him to remain there indef- initely is certainly bad judgment and will prove unDrOfitable.
 Any boy has a right to dislike the ! farm, if his dislike is sensible. but many boys, perhaps the majority of them, who leave the farm to go to the city, do so because they look upon farming as inferior labor and believe that the farm offers little opportunity This is too often the farmers fault not the fault of the farm itself Thou sands upon thousands of boys. failures in great cities, might have been sue cessful citizens upon the farm. The drudging farmer, the ne'er-d -do-weI digger of the soil with weedy garden and shabby house, cannot expect his boy 10 respect the farm or to love the 1 farm; and this boy, unless he is broad enough and intelligent enough to see
 beyond his fathers farm, will prob
 ably leave it, even if he has to run away.
 Should the city boy leave the city to hPpn01a 9 f1rT1aTs2 XRG he yR-2Q is fp
 If he goes. the chances are that he
 will become a happier man, a healthier
 man. and a better citSen; but if he , does not want to go, do not force or even urge him. Probably a great many more city boys might go to the
 country if they only knew the mean
 ing of life in the country. However, there are comparatively few city boys
 who turn farmers and it may be a long time before the sense of~the city will be strong enough and broad enough to see beyond it's brick walls and towering buildings. But we have no right to force the city boy into the country. We may assume that because he is born in the city he has a right to give the city first consideration. The truly sensible parent, the one who reaI- ly loves his son, may give the city the preference. but he should suggest to his city-born and city-loving boy
 that he consider the country; and the chances are that if the country is giv- en the consideration it deserves, many a city-bred boy will turn to the open fields and forsake mans city for Gods country.
 Frequently the country boy, educa- ted away from home, learns from his city environment to dislike the life of his boyhood and refuses to return to the farm, even when the home-oppor- tunity surpasses all other opportuni- ties.
 But the country boy, born and rear ed upon the farm, should give the farm the preference, instead of despising his hone surroundings, because his father did not make a success of farming, he would better use his fathers fail ures as stepping stones to success. Let him consider it thoroughly and intel ligently without prejudice, and if this consideration be given, there will be comparatively little migration from the farm to the large city; and those who do go will be more likely to succeed. because they go for a real reason, and
 not because there is no reason why
 they should not go.
 The farm, which gives the father
 mere living may give the son com
 potency. The farmers boy should re-
 ali2e that success is not so much how much one earns in a year, as how much
 one gets out of the year, in experience,
 money. and opportunity, to enjoy life.
 few hundred dollars earned on a good farm may leave at the end of the
 year much more in actual money than than five times the amount of earn ings will leave to the boy or man in the city. True, the city boy may say that although it costs more to live in the city, one gets more that is worth while, and therefore city life Is worth what is paid for it. There never was a greater mistake made. While the city may give more than does the country, even in some things worth having, the