The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-27


DO yos erow sheep In your seenkyt
ysnd cut what grade o. sheep - best
su1tsd tor Tile region snd let your
nsaGnhpxs know.
nysrs o Quar- ar. poor layers. Tssi
The people al sbouk this.
Ooss your staes Of Alabama 0row
snoush wheat enough hogs. enough
ooBn and enough hay Tor your own
nsedsf Probably mot You ere %
busy wearing out your land growing
cotton. that you look not Into fnsse
90 yos know thar faHm lsborsr
Ia Wlsoonnkn producss evsry ysax w.
200 worth or produotf Do you know
that the farm iaborer IN South Caro-.
lima produces every year about $500
worth OF product. Row much does
your farm laborer grow In Alabama
I 40 mot know. Il u for you to dnd
out and find the reason for II all ana
put II In the paper.
Alabama IL Q great lumber produe-
ling state. II 10 great iron producing
atats ana a great coal producing state.
we need not worry about the giving
out OF the iron or the coal mines.
That will be the problem for those lov
years hence. But what about those
| that are selling the timber from your
land and destroying your forests 80
| fast that, within fifteen years. II the
present rate OF cutting keeps up. there
will not be an eight-inch piece OF TIM
Der In your whole statef
What are you going to do with this
land after the timber is cut from i.l
win you farm 1t in the old way or In
the new wayf
Let's look after things close to
home.
There Is more In life than mere
work. There IL more in life than the
full stomach. house In wn,cn 70 W. W.
ana clothing upon our backs. men
must be amused. The strongest ma
ton upon the earth today. except the
limited States. is England. England
pays out $50, 100000 pounds sterling
every year for open air recreation. Tor
music and for parks.
| Has your town library If 1t has
! not library. has 1t a reading room
4 Have YOU q local musical cluhf Have
| Won an opera house? Have you even
debating society," All these things
make life in the small town worth
living.
And again, when 1t rains. can man
| out in the country get into town. III
| you have a dramatic entertainment TO-
night. can the young man who hves
out Ave miles and has horse ano
1
| 10 town with her over a. smooth road
| Or wifi he forego this journey with
| his lady love because the bridge across
the bayou 10 broken and the road is
! filed with ruts from the rainT
II these things are so, It is your bus
mess to start out and change them.
| What an astounding amount of good
work country editor can do! The
whole world of endeavor is concen-
i A.. ID M to
highest duty of any man is to serve
| his neighbor. No man Is in better po-
sition to serve his neighbor. to serve
/ his community, and to serve his coun-
/ try than the country editor or the
/ editor of the small town newspaper.
| ~ make these remarks because am
Impressed with the fact that we have
come to a critical time In the eco
4 nomic life of this country. For fifty
| years the population has been drifting
| cityward. I stood in the City of New
| York one day, in one place. for four
hours. where three great streets con-
verge into one and then open UP again
into three corners. Within this time
| 1000, geo souls had passed back and
forth. There are buildings In New
| York In which 5000 people live and
| work. There are blocks in New York
which, II RACED to the ground and the
people living In the houses were stood
in these blocks. they would be so close
together that each could touch the
others elbow.
The great factory towns OF the North
and the cities OF the South even. have
tiured the boy from the farm. In the
second stories of ill-smeiling buildings
he lives with his wife and his child
/ Probably in one of two back rooms
does the country girl who became hi
Il wife ON the farm and followed hin
TO the city, suffer the first pdngs o.
motherhood.
There il a lure in the city for the
Icountry boy The lights and life and
fuur and nusfc-ssraw HIM on. and ther
the competition, the poor food. this
unsanitary dwelling, the dust of thu
factory and the terror of losing his
Il position. drag him down and destroy
him.
why has this boy left the country
Often because the country has held out
to him little inducement: under thu
i old order he was scarcely able to make
| a living on the land.
But within ten years the movement
towards the city has reached its Hood
tide II we lose our country popula-
ton we lose our national life. Back
\ ward they are going. Back to the sol
every man Is drawing. Jim Hall, the
greatest living railroad man. breaches
one doctrine, back to the farm" not
In the old way, but back to the farm
trained for scientific work.
To the front with the agricultural
college. Never mind the oratorica'
contest in the Law Department of the
| state University Go rather to the
AGRICULTURAL school and find out which
boy has written the best essay on how
to make sixty bushels of corn grow