Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
TALK BECLOUD5
SIMPLE ANSWER
To HIGH PRICES
Boersianer Says the One True Ex-
PLANTATION Is 0bscured by Too
Much Argument
BY RoERsIANER.

nothing new IN The nEures SHOWING
how edible commodities for man and
beast had risen. Everybody has had
practical and intimate information on
the subject for several years.
But everybody 10 not clear 40 20
the cause. There have been expla-
nations many. and they continue to
be printed IN newspapers. magazines
and books. The myTiads OF reasons
offered have confused the average in
tellig.nce and obscured the simple
and only possible explanation.
The reason Is trits but true; that
Is. II was trite TIL a swarm Of anna O.
teur political economists went a-field
for far-fetchsd theories, When cit
les populations increase within a
decade from 10 to 200 per cent and
the number OF farmers remains about
the same, there is no need to resort
20 Statistical Eubtletes While the
eountry's inhabitants rose by 10000
900, wheat has grown on az fewer
acres with a produce Of 1885 fewer
bushels Taking all cereals, for every
900 people the average to-day is
about the same as ten years ago, the
product has not changed-and. quite
naturally. the value IL s4G0 greater.
Governor Eberhart's Experience
Governor Eberhart OF Minnesota
bad an experience that illustrates the
disparity between the food consumer
and the food producer. He went to
Minneapolis IN a harvest emergency
for field hands. The city was swarm
ing with men seeking employment.
The Governor found them on park
benches in all sections Of the city
and overlooking on the curbstones.
Bone OF the men were on the verge
OF starvation. The charitable organi-
nations OF the city were taxed 70 their
utmost capacity to provide for them
II looked as II the Governor was
confronted with an oversupply He
picked out his men, telling them he
wanted their help. They were eager
TO go with him; said they could do
anything.
But when he mentioned farm work
their faces fell.
we don't want 20 20 to the coun-
try. boss We don't want to live on
farm. There's nothin for us there
no life. 10 entertainment no lights.
nothin' but monotony and work We'd
rather stay in the city and stArve
than go TO the country an have moth
m to DO but work No; we stay
right here"
Men Dread Solitude.
The mass OF men are gregarious.
rhey dread solitude a. nature abhors
vacuum And nine hundred and
ninety nine men out OF a thousand
are very easily entertAined-ln a
crowd. They are perfectly content
with seeing something going on They
VII live in serried, ill-smellinE
quarters eat and wear whatever they
can get In order 70 be with many 81
their fellows and with something st,r-
ring before their eyes
The problem OF the farm Is not to
be solved by improved machinery
by shorter hours and BY less hard
work. The solution is rather to be
sought in a wider sociability that
VIII have something going on after
the days work II is an exaction OF
the primitive instinct.
A little higher UP. with the semi
educated man, feeling takes the place
OF mere sightseeing. This individual
must be made TO feel 10 be enter
tanned. He stands between the sight
seer and the thinker. The third-the
thinkers the r5tre man who makes
the ideal farmer. to whom silence
and solitude are welcome, Ideal. as
distinguished from the one born I'm
the occupation and who can not.
though he would. get away from II.
The Rare Exceptions.
But for one man who seeks soil
tude, who must be made to think in
order 10 find perfection there are
the hundreds who shun or flee II.
on such natures. silent nature ex-
ercises an abiding influence. There
is in mind a Londoner who upon
graduating from Oxford was sent 10
ArchanEel by his fathers corporation.
After being in the Frozen North ten
years he was transferred 10 London.
He could remain IN England only a
month, and returned 10 the icy re-
Eions.
Lord Strathcona, when he was a
plain Mr. Smith. represented the
Hudson BAY Company for many years
I'm a then desolate territory of Can
ada. Although that was over forty
years ago. StrathcOna Confesses he
has not been happy since his hermit
period. An instance Is that Of the
Austrian general who accompanied
Macmillan to Mexico: Ntenntsr
who felt too proud TO return 90 Aus
tria after his chiefs downfall For
nearly half a century he has lived
contentedly in the mountains of
Mexico
Livingstone, Stanley. Nausen.
Peary latterday explorers. confirm
the experience Of their forbears-
Columbus NasCo da Gama-of the
singularly uplifting effect "the grand
silenCe"-as Pierre Lott phases it
has upon raen of thought.
Wisdom From Moses.
Even ignoble solitude is beneficial
for men of powerful but debased
minds. bad il not been for Reading
Gaol, Wilde had never written DE
Profundis'
Unfortunately solitude can not
make thinkers OF men who are not
predisposed 10 thought. or not in
herently Thoughtful Many people oc-
Cupying farms ignore rules of farm
ing as old as the books of Moses.
Thus in Exodus Il is written.
And six years thou shall SOW thy
land, and shalt gather the fruits
thereof; but the seventh year thou
shalt let il rest ana lie still"
The modern farmer had rather
emigrate TO Canada than 10 follow an
inspired injunction.