The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
been laid upon the affairs of Hunger and
Success and Failure

One has starved, and another has sue
ceeded where failure would have been
better. One has achieved where losing
would have been the greater glory. They
have merged into the massed millions
year by year faded into the average.
Tenement and boarding house have en-
quilted them. Poor food, poor air and ex-
element have Slapped their vigor And
always the crowd keeps growing greater
and the struggle harder, the contest
longer, the problem more and more one
Of existence-the scheme for riches cheap
ening into a search for bread and meat.
And now the revolt
The reaction has begun, a mighty leaven
Is at work, a new era is In the dawn, a
new America is in the making; the tide
Is on It's ebb the soil Is remembering It's
absent sons and daughters and Is lifting
Its voice in a promise of better things.
From cape to cape and coast 10 coast
the nation is restless. The people are
hungry, the millions are podr-worn with
the struggle against a lessenlng wage and
a. rising cost Of sustenance The second
great continental emigration has begun
to the open places of the west ana soutn-
west. The spirit of the pioneer is once
more stirring. Family tieS are oreakine'
the old trails to the west are crowolng.
But now the trail is a line OF steel ana
the prairie schooner tourist car Inc
rigors and the hardships OF 40 are buried
in the past which met and conquered
them. The new landlust exacts no toll oil
hunger and of thirst. Every DAY he
horde swells the migration grows
mightier. Two thousand families a week
passed through Kansas City alone lasl
year. The plains are peopnng. FROM t .ne
Bio Grande to the alkali deserts, the
great field of American fiction, Is chang-
IN. into a vast field of Bermuda onions
ana corn and cane and forage ana iruit
and garden truck .uo h.s
The killer has gone and the tiller mas
come. The cattle baron Is retreatihs pc
fore the lettuce king. me eighty
...rs+shla match is Understanding the
r,i1I,on-acre range. The irrigation pump
sings through nights that hitherto sonneo
with the lowing of herds. where mes
cutie and prickly pear fiourished' tne
nlowshare ia now demanding the pho"
share. +ha mid
From out of the east and the inio
die west and the north-from cry
fror, atronhied farm, the best and the
sturdiest type of the continent Is com
ing to found towns and to break
ground farmers and builders, cream
ers and schemers, young and DID, CLERKS
and college men-breadeaters turned
Observation-Disclosures their suilen
fight against the odds that face DOCK
keeper, shopgirl. floorwalker. and can
men ready to develop with the country.
preferring a hundred per cent oppor-
tunity in towns which they will help
| to create to the meager certairties OF
| metropolis.
Modernism ON the Farm
The rigors and hardships of agricul-
| ture are disappearing before modern
conveniences. Sequestration has ceased
to mean unutterable loneliness. The
telephone, cheap but good periodicals,
the rural delivery routes, keep the
household in contact with the world at
large and Danish the feeling OF isola-
ton that once sent women mad.
The gasoline engine, operating min
iature water works. turning the churn
and the cream separator, grinding the
tools, running the pump the hay baler.
and the feed mill. relieves the wife and
the boys of hundred and one manual
tasks that aged and numbed the moth or
and drove the children into the towns.