Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-07-18

and the following articl. tak.n from
their young peopl,.'s sp. la f June
18th, Is worthy of the careful psrusal
OF every reader. A healthy, hopeful
and contentcd suburban population il
the hope of our country and the only eff
fectual check for the discomfort of the
seething masses of our already longest
ed cities. The article follows:
I'VE know that many of cur boys and
girls expect to live on the farm after
they are grown up; but we fear that
there are many others who, deep in
their hearts, are longing for the time
when they can leave the old farm and
try life elsewhere. Now, if the boy or
girl has special talent or special trsir-
ing for some other work, it is the prop
er thing for him or her to leave the
farm; but to leave the farm Just be-
cause one feels that it is no: a pood
place to live argues something wrong
either with the person who wishes to
leave or with the way the farm is man.
aged.
There are farms, of course. which
no enterprising young person could be
blamed for wishing to lesve-farms
where there is ceaseless round of hard
work, little pay. few recreations. a
general lack Of hope and progress and
ambition. Such farms, however. are
becoming scarcer, and the farms on
which the boys and girls are able to
earn money Of their own, to get a good
education, to enjoy the society of their
friends, to live in comfort and to grow
up into well-trained, cultured, purpose
rul men and women are all the time he |
coming more numerous.
Indeed, this is the only kind Of farm
there should be in this land of ours
the only kind there will be when once
we all realize the possibilities of farm
life and set ourselves in earnest to re-
alize them. Some of our readers live in
homes just as beautiful IS the one
shown on this page and have everything
necessary to make them contented and
hopeful. Many others, who have not
yet attained to all these things, live on
farms which are every year becoming
more beautiful and giving to those who
live on them more of the good things of
NE. Still others there may be who see
In farm life only one endless round of
orudgery and who ceaselessly contrast
their conditions with those of the lucky
boy and girl who live in the city.
Wrong as this last idea is, it has in
IL grain Of truth, for it is true that
the country has in the past lacked many
OF the advantages of the city. The
great fact of our day is the new realizs-
ton that the country need not lack
these things. For the farmer to add to
the good things which belong especially
to the country most of the good things
which have heretofore belonged exclu-
sively to the town, is possible-is COM
paratively easy, if once farm folks set
out in earnest to do it.
"And it is the boys and girls of TODAY
who must do this great work and so
make life on the average farm as in
vltlng and satisfying as it is on the verv
best farms of today. Fhey can do il.
too. for the boys and girls of today are
the makers of the future and it is theirs
to fashion and mold it as they will. III
they prepare themselves, by earnest
study, by doing we'll the tasks of TODAY.
above all by living true,> hopeful and
earnest lives, they can bring even the
poorest and most neglected farms of
the south into their rightful heritage
and make them charming and delight
ful places to live. Let it be remem-
bered, tho, that only the boy or girl
with real energy and purpose can do
this, or help to do 1t. The one saws al
cant" and, because present conditions
and circumstances are unfavorable.
gives up, will surely not do it, and is
not likely to accomplish much anywhere
or for any cause. Things worth while
are done by those who have real pur-
pose in life and who prepare themselves
for the work they wish to do"