Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-10-03
Bic CITY A BIC TRUST
an Observer Sings the Superi.
GRITTY of the Smaller Town.
KEEP YOUNG PEOPLE AT HOME
fvery Dolar Sent to the Great City
helps to Draw Population Away
from the Country to the MaeIstrom
Of Humanity. Where Many Co Down.

From the Country to the Maelstrom
Of Humanity. Where Many Co Down.
One of the most pronounced tenden-
mes OF the present day is observed in
die movement of the rural population
toward the cities. Day by day the big
sties ARE growing bigger. They grow
bigger at the expense of the smaller
eities, the towns and the farming coun-
Try. Naturally some Of these must
grow ees Did it ever occur to you to
reflect upon what it means for the big
sfties to expand at the expense of
shrinkage to the towns and the agri-
cultural sections? The situation is Sc
cious, both in relation to those who
pour into The cities and to those who
pmain outside.
On every hand one hears nowadays
If fights aeainst the trusts, against
great const Iations and combinations
ii restraint OF open competition in trade.
What is great city but a great trust?
This novel theory was put by student
Of sociological tendencies the other
day.
81 don't catch your drift" replied the
nan addressed.
Il will explain said the observer.
SIN the first place, why do people from
the country flock to the city? 1t Is
Because they imagine that they can bet
Der their condition. They believe that
they can get rich, or at any rate can
sarn more money and be happier than
obey are in the smaller town or on the
Farm. Now, this is u mighty mistake
in most cases. Take. for instance, the
Young man who goes to big city In
these times of great commercial COM
BinatIons. He is without capital. Does
L. 20 into business for HIMSELF OF
course not How can he? What
Ahance is there for the little pup in
tie big puddle unless he ties on to the
1lfr of the big pup? Well, that is just
what the young man does. He finds
Ills big pup and ties on to the tail there
If. He gets Job. That is merely
mother may Of putting it, leaving the
Jup smile aside.
"The young man gets job, If he
San. 1t is by no means an easy job
% get job, any kind Of a job, and
L is the hardest thing in the world
ID get jolt that is really worth while
that is to say, a job that pays some
thing above bare living. This young
man gets job in some big concern
wholesale grocery, a large dry goods
house, great factory. Very we'll.
What then? Why, he works. He
works from eight to twelve hours
dry, and lie works hard. The work
is tedious and combining. He must de-
vote all his energies Of brain and
body to the toll in order to hold his
fob. There's always another fellow
right at his coat tails ready to step
In his place. you may be sure.
"How many of the young fellows
who go to the cities and get jobs ever
work up to the big dog in the puddle
Instead Of the small pup tying on to
the big dogs tail? Oh, yes, few.
You read about the few in the newspa-
6ers from time to time. John Jones
has succeeded. Certainly. But how
about Bill Johnson? Bill Is still tied
to the tai, Of some overgrown cor
poration or concern that is pulling him
along, Just keeping his head out Of
the water There are hundred Bills
where there is one JOhn--yes, a thou
sand of them. Have the Bills achieved
their ambition? Are they happier than
they were on the farm or In the coun-
try town or small city? Not bit Of
It. Half Of them would go back home
If they weren't ashamed to admit their
failure, and the other half would go
GnyhoW il they could rake up the rail-
mad fare or the walking was fairly
good.
but the Bills are not to blame.
Modern commercial society is so con-
stituted that he few big dogs must
Have q myriad of small pups tied to
Sheir train. That is how business is
carried on in the big cities. Not one
man in q thoUsand is independent He
fb an appendage, cog in wheel, an
tnfinltnelr'"l particle mixed up in
scramJling mass of similar particles.
This IS t'Ie case oven though he re-
ieives q salary every month as big
rs hi yo2r's earning back home. He
Ls still, nan with job, a working
man, whether he works with spade
1r q zen. r produces-the other fell
iow. Che lis pup, gets what he pro-
iuces.
''As I have remarked a great city
Is n rro0t trust. 1t is a combination
N. resl0.Lt OF human liberty or action
It suci-s into IS maclstrom and de-
YOURS human lives by the millions.
But there is no law against the city
We cannot 0gLt this sort of tI%st with
statues. There is another way. We
Yn light II 10y sticking to the home
llace and building that up by gradual
srowth.
"OuF town, we may say, will not be
N da-9-. o. bccoming an overgrown
city. Bur II we keep the farming pop
1ation around it and the proper town
spirit within Il the place will develop
gradually and BEAUTIFULLY. Now, here
is one highly important point. 1t is
taken for granted that we want to
seep our young men and women at
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