The Washington herald., 1913-08-24
Problem Is Not to Lure City People to the Country
but to Keep Country People Just Where
They Are" Declares Experts

cient men in the United States. Man
wanted reads a sign on door. There
are fifty applicants for the place. Forty
nine OF them are turned away. Nobody
wants them and they sit in the parks
or walk the streets. II the time ever
comes when signs reading, AN employer
wanted are hung up in windows OF
private houses then labor laws by Con-
gress and State Legislatures win be
needless. Two-thirds Of such labor laws
as we have are futile. We have official
scrutiny of factories. No such explora-
tions are necessary in behalf Of college
professors for the reason that the sup
ply of college professors does not equal
the demand. and that being the case
their surrounding are made sanitary by
their employers
IncapabIes should Not Marry.
america is filled with unproductivs
or inefficient men. And they are per-
mitted to marry and become fathers of
boys who will grow up and be exactly
like themselves. The man who cannot
earn 81 a day with some degree OF regu-
larity should not be allowed to get
married. There ought to be law
against II and other drastic laws pre-
ventative of fatherhood on the part OF
incapables. Put white man down by
the side of an Indian. In time the white
man will have the Indians land. He
works or produces. The Indian hunts.
1T was said formerly, believe, that it
required Is,UO0 acres TO support an In
dian and his family with game. That
much land would give 160 white men
farms of 100 acres each. So the Indian
was driven out, not with guns, but by
one of the unrepealable laws Of nature.
The productive life is a moral life. The
unproductiye life is an immoral life.
Energy is wasted by the whirling
dervishes. Religious fanatics who
travel long distances on their knees are
a burden on the rest of the world. So
ciety is hurt when the men who can
best run 4 railroad or a factory are
turned out and the management is given
into inferior hands. Eugenics is physi-
cal Ny philosophy is economic. have
spoken Of it at more length than / in
tended"
Are many farmers getting rich?" I
asked.
"Rich is an elastic word these days"
DR.. Carver answered. 'It means $1,000
in some places and fifty times that
amount in other places I should say
that plenty of farmers have grown rich
in late years, not so much through crops
as By the rise in the value of their prop
erty. Farmers. in my opinion. will con-
tinue TO enjoy good times. The prices
Of food will remain on the present level
for many years to come. They may go
higher still We complain about the dear
cost of living. but quotations, as a mat
ter of fact. are no more than normal
up TO 1880 farmers received good
prices for their crops. The prairies at
that time began to draw settlers from
the East. There were no forests to cut
seed planted. Great crops poured into
the market. Corn was SO cheap that it
was burned as fuel. Production ran
away from consumption. But the coun-
try filled up. and now the old balance
between consumers and producers has
been re-established and prices have
ceased to be abnormally low.
Il can see no new continent waiting
for the plOw. Science, however. may do
something. We cannot tell. Meanwhile
bread and meat will be dear
Copyright. 1915, by James B. Morrow)