The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-01
Back to the Farm.

Darn it," says Editor Orange
Harrington, of the Ellisville Miss. J
Local Guide, 'if you mean what you
say, get out between the plow han
dies and hop clods."
Editor Harrington is referring with
some asperity to the cry, "back to
the farm" which has sounded from
many literary and journalistic van
tage point in recent years. He as
serts that he lis "everlastingly tired
of the eternal cry, keep the boys on
the farm" from "a class which has
quit the farm and looks upon honest
toll in the fields as degrading" He
wants everything in the city moved
back to the farm, except the city it
self, which he does not particularly
want.
There is much in Mr. Herrington's
point of view. We, as a race, are
very, very fond of giving excellent
advice to others. 1t is true that many
OF those who sound the loudest the
cry OF back to the farm" are the
persons who look with adherence
upon the manual toll necessary to
NOW front lawn in spring. But
the old, old problem OF moving the
city to the country is not so awfu1ly
far off, after all A beginning has
been made, out in the irrigated coun-
try, which may well spread the nation
over.
In those lands of marvellous fertil.
ity which are now being redeemed by
the magic OF the irrigation dam and
ditch into lands flowing with milk
and honey, the people group them
selves into system of townlets sur
rounded by farms. The towns are con
nected with one another by roads,
all OF which will eventually be ira
yersed by trolley lines. Al proper
places there are centers of distribu-
tom which form the nuclei for larger
towns.
This system gives all the advan-
tages Of country life mingled with all
the advantages and a few of the de-
fects of city life. The farmers come
into town to sleep and eat, and go
out to the site of their daily labors
by bicycle or automobile, or by trolley
car. Machinery of the most improved
style is used in all cases. Mechani-
cal aids to labor are used In every
possible place. The towns supply Ii
braries, schools, churches, hospitals,
and stores; the country supplies fresh
air, inVigorating labor in the open,
fresh vegetables, fresh farm pro-
ducts, and health.
Such a combination is not far from
ideal, say those who have tried it.
Nor is it an impossible thing for this
part of the country With the de-
velopment of telephone and trolley
and with the further developments of
wireless transmission of energy and
airShips, there win be no more cities.
The country will be one great SUI
burb, in which every family shall
own, or lease from the State, its own
holding, and fair division of profits
with division of labor shall enable
man to dwell under his own vine
and his own fig tree.
If Governor Sanders public-doads
programme works out, better school
houses, with libraries in them, will
be used, more telephones, larger earns
ings and easier communication be-
tween neighbcrs will make country
life in Louisiana much more attract
i've than it is today.-New Jleans
ITEM.
Many of the town people who cry
black to the farm know nothing of
the hardships of country life of today.
Some, reared on the farm who now
live in the cities, see the mistake
made and really wish to warns others
from committing the error of quit
ting the farm for the smarter look
ing clothes, but skimpfer meals of
town or city.
There is a change coming, and com
ing fast, that will make rural life
more attractive. Daily mails, tele-p
phones, better roads, conveniences in
stalled in kitchen and improved farm