Arizona republican., 1911-09-26
Farmers Have More Faith in Them Than in Col leges, Says the Presi- dent of the Conservation Congress.
YELLOW JOURNALS
 GET A DRUBBING
Then Noted Speaker Again Takes Fall Out of Farm CTS by Saying They Were Once Robbers of the Soil.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 25.-De-
 claring that many farmers of the
 present day have more faith in moon
 signs than in agricultural colleges
 and experiment stations; more faith
 in ordinary politicians than in col
 lege professors and scientists. more
 faith in yellow journals than in the
 best agricultural papers. and that
 the nineteenth century farmer was
 no farmer at all. but a robber of
 the soil. Henry Wallace, president of
 the Third National Conservation congress, delivered an adress before
 that body today. strongly urging scientific farming as the only means reduced Tn part Mir Wallace said:
 Tt will be my object in this ad- dress not to discuss any phase of the conservation movement exhaust lively. but to outline briefly two drifts of poulation: The drift from the farm to the city. and the drift from the city toward the land and the work of this congress as re lated thereto.
 Even before the daily press had begun the crusade back to the land. the movement toward the land had already begun
 "The land hunger is not peculiar to any class of people nor to any state. The merchant. the banker. the railroad official of New York and Boston, each longs for a farm. pos sibly only as q summer home. but is willing to pay for it in invest ment, in improvements and cost of management. more than it is worth in dollars or ever will be. He, too, is bitten with land hunger. Many small business men of our cities. who cannot hope to secure q farm and live on it. invest greedily in acre age in the suburbs. The workman in the factory aims to secure two or three acres on which he can build himself a home.
 "The growth of large cities has ceased to be in the business or even in the old residence sections. and is entirely in the suburbs. The same holds true abroad. If men cannot have country life in the country. they are constantly aiming to get as much as possible of the country in the city While the steam railroads tend to concentrate population. as they have from the beginning. the trolley lines tend tO lure the people back toward the country.
 Latent in the heart of nearly every man. be he man of business, clerk or other employe. or labOring with his hands, there is a yearning de- sire to have a piece of land to call his own.
 Alongside of this movement back toward if not always tO the farm. the counter movement from the farm to the town, wlich has been going on for fifty years, continues with increasing and accelerated force. Farmers all over the older west move in great numbers or retire to the towns; and notwithstanding all this constant influx of popula- tion from the farms these towns, as the late census reveals, have barely held their own and often have lost in population. the natural in crease of the towns themselves pour ing into the larger towns and cit ies, in which the majority live with less comfort than the farmers who remain on the farms. Vast numbers of boys and girls fall a prey to all turing vices of the city, and many of them eventually take their places with the down and out" Compar- atively few succeed and become we'll to-do. The children of these few become wealthy: their grandchildren annually spend gaily the fortunes they never earned and naturally the fam lily dies out, at least so far as force and power is concerned, in another or at most two or three. The city uses up men and families as it uses up horses. And this is true not only in this but in the older countries as well. All Ire land, for example, except Dublin and Belfast. has lost population in the last ten years. as also has nearly all of Wales and Scotland.
 'I regard it as important that you should understand as clearly as pos this worldwide movement from the farm to the city, as only in this way shall we be able to forsee and describe the conditions that will cause and are even now causing a return flow pr movement back toward the land The movement downward began with the use of improved machinery, or the application of science to the op- erations of manufacturing and dis frihutinp the things necessary for the