Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-25
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conservation cQngfeSS mere today IN
pointing out that the continuation Of
present day farming methods will re-
suit calamitousi for the country.
Not only change in the, treatment
Of the soil but the country people as
well was urged. Only by bettering So
ciaf conditions sah the farm, it was de-
clared, could tiles young person be kept
there About $500 delegates ATTENDED
the opening sesllon.
Henry Wallac3.sof Des Moines. presi-
dent Of the coniHess. assailed the far
n1ers as soil robbers and pleaded for
more scientific farming. He cited that
land in the United States produced
crcps hut one.kaK the size Of those
grown on poorer land in Europe. In mis-
plea for back TO the farm" move-
ment and betterInent OF social condi-
tions in the country he said the city
uses up men and families as 1t uses
up horses" Thes solution OF the high
cost OF living problems lies in better
farming methods, he said.
Governor Hadley, Of Missouri, urged
advanced Agricultural methods. The
afternoon program included an address
by. John Lfndsey,*of Denver. on Tho
Country Child Versus the City Child. !"
Kansas City. Sept 25.-DeclsrtnK
that many farmers Of the present day
have more faith in moon signs than
in agricultural colleges and experiment
stations; more faitl, in ordinary poll
|ticians than in college professors and
scientists. more faith In yellow Jour
rails than ID the best agricultural pa
sirers, ~. tfiat the aiAstsenth century
farmer Wan Saa farmer at all. but = rob-
her OF 4ihcls sSoil, Henry Wallace, of
lows, president, of thca third national
conservation congress. delivered an ad-
dress before that body today, strongly
urging! scientific farming as the only
means by which the cost Of living can
be reduced
popuiatien's Drifts.
hi part Mr.. Wallace, said:
1T will be my object in this adj
dress not to discuss any phase Of the
movement exhaustively
but to, outline briefly two drifts Of
The drift from the farm
to the city, and the drift from the city
toward the land and the work Of this
congress as related thereto
Even before the daily press had be-
gun to crusade back to the land the
movement toward the land had already
begun.
tThe land hunger is not peculiar to
any class OF people nor to any state.
The merchant, the banker. the railroad
OFFICIAL Of New York ana Boston, each
longs for a farm, possibly only as a
.sunmer home but is willing to pay for
II in investment. in improvements and
cost OF management. more than 1t is
worth in dollars or ever will be. He.
too, is bitten with land hunger. Many
small business men Of our cities who
can not nope to secure farm and live
on 1t, invest greedily in acreage in the
suburbs. The workman in the factory
aims to secure, two or three acres on
which he can build himself home
City Suburbs Grow.
"rhe growth OF large cities has
ceased to be in the business or even in
the old residence sections. and is en-
tirely in the suburbs. The same holds
true abroad. II men can not have
country life in the country. they are
aiming to get as much as
~
While the steam railroads tend to con-
.centrate population. as they have from
the beginning, the trolley lines tend to
lure the people back toward the coun-
try.
Latent in the heart OF nearly every
man, be he man of business. clerk or
other enploye. or laborins with MS
hands, there is a yearning desire to
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~ Increased Movsmsnt to Cities.
Alongstde OF this movement back
toward II not always to the farm. the
counter movement from the farm to
the town. which has been going on for
fKty years. continues with increasing
and accelerated force. Farmers all
over the older west move in great
numbers or retire to- the country
towns; and notwithstanding all this
Constant influx Of population from the
3afms these towns. assthS late census
reveals, have barely. held their own
aud often have lost In population. the
natural increase OF the towns them
.sslves pouring into the larger towns
.xnd cities. In which. the majority live
with less comfort than the farmers
who remain on the farms. Vast num-
hers OF boys and girls fall ! preytto Al
Turing vices Of the city. and many Of
them eventually take their places with
the down and out
:. Few Sueesed t. s7Sssn.
- few sueceed ana be-
come well-to- Go. The children OF these
few become wealthy: their grandchil-
dren usually spend gAIly the fortunes
they never earned; and naturally the