Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-07-01
Boys, What Will You Do For
Your South?

Manufacturers Record: "Can you
tell Inc of anyone who has job for
my boy" is the question now being
asked by many thousand fathers i'm
the South whose sons are either
home from college foi the summer
holidays or have left academic halls
for good The question was asked by
city man the other lay, and he
made the statement that his son,
who will return to school i'm the fall,
had just answered in person AN adj
vertisement of business firm and
had found n other applicants ahead
OF him His question was answered
with this question What's the mat
ter with "back To the farm" The
son was n husky built lad standing
about . feet 10, and about Is or 10
years old but with a paIeness indi-
eating the use of midnight oil over
his books The anwser which is 40
plicable, perhaps, 10 many young
summer job seekers may be elaborat-
ed
For every job in city Office there
are, at this time of the year especial
iy, about 100 applicants For every
100 jobs on the farms there is about
one applicant If the boys who do not
wish TO be idle during the summer
should turn their faces toward the
country instead OF expecting TO be
cooped up In town, there would be a
better balance between the office and
the farm as TO needed help 1t is
the custom of some groups of college
boys TO migrate regularly mt this
season To the grain fields of the West
and Northwest, where good wages
are offered In harvesting WORK. The
great mass of boys need not wander
so far from home. Many of them can
take n suburban car line to its ter
minus and within half days walk
and application can, il is believed,
find some farmer who would be glad
TO have even their unskilled help for
a few weeks. There may he not
much money in this proposition, If,
indeed the compensation be much
more than board and lodging, but il
is likely that in the majority of
cases the worker will receive quite as
much money as woulde be given him
COR his unskilled work i'm "A town
Office Farm work, to be sure. is
hard, but il is healthful. II the
young man cannot put i'm his sum-
mer holiday in the equally hard
work OF roughing it i'm camp life he
may find no better relaxation and
recreation from the mental work of
the oIner months Of the year than
i'm toll OF the harvest field OF the OF
chard, or around the BARNARD. He
must not be discouraged by the talk
of country bred boys whom he NAV
have met in college and whose pur-
pose In taking college course is 10
train them for some career awaV
from the farm. The latter have their
recreation in books. Some OF them
are sadly mistaken In their aim.
AT any rate, two or three months
In the open air ut steady, productive
work cannot do any healthy lad a
particle OF harm, and it may do him
a world of good, not the least part of
which may be the development of an
inclination on his part TO make his
purpose in continuing in college the
fitting of himself for a life career on
the farm.
If the Southern boys who are look
ing for summer work in their ma
tive cities should get out into the
nearby cotton fields, grain fields or
vegetable tracts, what relief il
would be TO many thousand anxious
Southern agriculturists