The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-14

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young couple OF capacity may in
! time own many farms. but they will
have only one life to enjoy. and their
| youth Is but a part of this. Use It
| freely enough to mako the children
apprcciative OF the refinements and
better things of life a boy that has
| good hot bath before going to bed
! Will plow mono the worse next day.
but he will dream better dreams and
have higher ideals.
And now let US hope that with good
i planning and hard work our young
couple are little ahead-they have
little money to Invest. Shall they
lend 1t at interest, buy more land or
divide the surplus between the homo
and the business? 1 put 1t this way
In order to emphasize the TACT that ON
every farm the home and the business
should keep separate accounts. The
banker keeps his home account and
his business account separate. So does
the merchant. and So in measure.
does everybody but the farmer lie
seems to think that because his home
Is on the farm. home and farm must
be run on a common account. The re-
suit OF this Is that quite often the
all "A bsorbing business-the farm
/
and all.
1 II the young wife Is wise she Will
say at the beginning. Let us lay off
clearly the bound OF the farm, then
the home and then give me reason
able sum to run the homo, and with
Gods help we will never let either
cross the line Of the other Have
your work place or den, or simply
your desk, and then for my sake and
your mind when you come in the rest
of the house.
Social Life Needed. M
The lawyer, merchant. doctor and mi
except the farmer. have some real
social life Let the farmer get into
line also, for lie Is badly ut and tho
pity of 1T is that he need not be. 1t
IL MS money that runs the banks Of
the United States; he is the real power
behind the throne but he seems
ashamed to make any show OF power
until he Is in his coffin. II is wrong.
me greatest mockcry of all gifts is o
fortune that comes too late to prevent
intellectual and ethical starvation.
Returning to the best Investment for
these first savings: from the stand :
point OF a young farmer. the wife and
the children TO come, what will bring
the most certain returnsc
1 Ilti Wpuiu ne wei II farmers would
sometimes take counsel OF the other
professions in making investment. A
| physician, the best educated man In
his section, with several wears at col
iesc, -FOUR years at n medical school
ana ono or more years in a hospital
VIII not hesitate even IN the full
/ swing OF his practice o take the time
70 run OIL ana brush up on his work
every few years.
. la troo, .rta.l
arc prepared to tell him and show him
| me latest things in his profession ana
ne is willing to pay, and pay royalty.
10 get the latest Idea. He goes aguin
ana again. and each time he comes
phck more capable In his calling. broad
er In mind. and more humble in spirit.
| II is great pity that farmers DOM
do this know they would be more
capsbie and broader in mind ana
am sure they would be more humble
In spirit. l would. therefore, advise
any young farmer starting out In life
10 invest his first earnings as the doc.
| tor invsts his-in improving his know.
ledge of his calling and his chances
\ for the future. I'
! would advse him to spend his first
savings in taking short course. il
not longer. at some a. q NJ. college,
pre- ferably In his own State. and. If
possible, he should for n time 70 oii
l..
II course in domestic science is avail
! able al the college. let him by all means
| take his wife With him.
No matter what the previous pre-
paration of man has been. lie viii
be benefited. have known men at
these courses who could hardly read
and write. and yet they have started
mat In addition II what they picked
up In the classroom, tho benefits
| derived from n close association for n
| month or more with other farmers In
| terested in varied forms OF the same
business was In Itself OF value too
great to he measured in money. Re
| CARELESS of how he farmcd before or
| how he farms afterwards, a man once
given the real fundamentals OF his call
! Ing viii! have deep down in his heart
| a respect for It's philosophy and he
| will love II and Will study ii hence
| forth. He will, moreover, in varying
| degree, become student OF the great
economic problems of his State-its
social and It's agricultural rroblcms-
| and he will awake from the apathy
which hangs like pail over the man
OF his calling in the South, and drives
It's best from the ranks; the apathy
which has brought Virginia down from
| first 10 fifteenth In the list OF States
Hopeful Changes Tnise Pince.
And this brings me to the hopeful
| changes which have taken place in the
past decade making for better life In
/ the country With the present as
surcd future good price OF produce.
| the farm can now be made to pay, but
with It's certain dividends in health.
happiness and comfort. don't ex-
poet too great a return in morey. You
can't have II all. Be satisfied.
| Our young couple will not be maroon
ed; for better roads. better rural mail
! delivery and teeph ones can now put
! them in touch with the world about
them, but the great point OF contact
with the world, the only one which
counts, is the reading habit Get it.
Young men. If II has to come as an ac-