The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-10

n CNtii anu men are
coming from for and nesr To- 49,
o laHu bloom along those roads
Gnu Moore county has authorized tho
uulid1ng OF a parkway-a continuous
uaroy garden, if you please-alone
,nese tnoroughfares. Now nobody
INV elther the natural beauty Of the
.ouHlfy or the possibilities Of gardens
IN IL was made possible to drive over
ne county IN automobiles. Planting
. pupllc garden dong roads that RIM
a Wilderness Of pine stumDS
ana biackjacks-that. ladies and GEN
yemen, gives a hint of what mean
ny caring for u Ian and preserving
1t. And what will YOU plant in surb
arden Of endless sand? They go
~ the swamp and find Towering
SHRUBS enough to make gardens that
may famous the world over.
way a survey Of North
aroma that shall show the chances
" uolns SUCH things on every mile
.! our SOIL? Such q survey as an en-
elneer or a landscape architect would
make Tor q park? We have a bark
that is all that the whole State is.
we nave come to a place in u
development where We need to make
Sure mat our whole land shall be
wisely cared for. That is one way to-
ware a great literature.
DO you know how much good litera-
lure mas been written about Devon
shire, in England? Go there and Won
VIII see Why. And you will discover
mat hedges and lawns and roads and
lanes nave had 1000 years to increase
in beauty since English men first be-
gan to use that that land we'll.
Now the next way to the production
or literature, in my audacious prcdic-
ton, is to care for our people: and
our people are country-pcople. We
ma We no njtiac vynf onI n~o 49, Vital,
TO nave the great evils Of great cities
Tor many a year to come. III this,
also, God is very good to us.
Our fundamental task here IS to
make the countryman, the ma in the
nelos' prosperous, care-frce. and
change our life and the spirit CT orr
life that some effervesccnce Of 10Y
would be bound to find fit express
sion. II h seem a long and Indirect
journey, pray your patience while
explain certain things that you IL
ready know; and let as see where We
ma land after a little adventure,
which at first may weary YOU, as most
promising adventures do.
L now come TO my mutton by a
different path liz the pasture, if you
will follow me-:
The two great economic far:s O!
the last century that affected lie in
NAA tAAANNN CT "C1t tIltSc.
First, the unprecedented rash CT
men to the farm which was caused
by the homestead acts. The govern
ment~ gave away a domain of vast
extent ON conditions, easy without
parallel in human history; and mil.
liens OF men from every part OF tn
older states and from the Old Woril
settled our great agricultural area
There never was before such IL rush
OF men to the land. They grew {
great deal moro surplus wheat anG
corn than we needed. Decade after
decade u chief export was foo(
products. In a word, they overdi(
the business of farming. There were
far too many farmers in proportion
to our population. There was, there.
fore, in the next generation and the
next a reverse mov%enrcnt-a move
ment Of the young fellows from The
farms to the towns Farming wa;
too poorly paid d business for them
AT the am time it s 0 happened a..
first that the towns had a use 10
these young fellows: it was the frs
great era Of our city building. Rail
roads had brought great business
chances in the towns; and soon W,
run against the second great econolni.
fact of the century.
This second economic fact was tn
development OF all the great new
machinery Of mode-H H1c-rI:lrOads
telegraphs, telephones banks, chain
Of banks, great corporations, trusts
all the vast machinery Of doing bust
ness quickly and in great volume
which has made our methods so dif
ferent from tho methods OF our grand
fathers.
Recall a fact like this: My fathe
as a boy went with my grandfather
caravan of wagons, loaded with cot
ton, all the way from Wake count,
to Petersburg. Va. to soil i.--ove
miserable roads, camping by the road
side at night and taking a week t
make the journey either way; an
in those days hogsheads OF Tobacco
we're rolled from Granville county t
market at Petersburg. Now thtnk o
al, the organization OF business tina
came between that primitive time an
our own day. That is what I meal
ty the modern reorganiZatio. OF tn
:, WOrld.