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


nothing new in the figures 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 a. TO
the cause. There have been explA-
nations many, and they continue to
be printed In newspapers. magazines
and books. The myriads OF reasons
offered have confused the average in
tellig=nce and obscured the simple
and only possible explanation.
The reason IL trite but true; that
Is It WAS tr1te TIL a swarm Of ANA
teur political economists went a-field
for far-fetchsd theories When cit
les populations Increase within
decade from 10 to 200 per cent and
the number OF farmers remains about
the same. there is no need to resort
20 statistical subtleties While the
eountry's inhabitants rose by 10000
900, wheat has grown on 2l9 fewer
acres with a produce OF 1.2S6 fewer
bushels. Taking all eerealA for every
i 900 people the average to-day Is
about the same as ten years ago the
product has not changed--and. quite
naturally, the value is $3.50 greater.
Governor Eberhart's Experiences.
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 ourbstones.
Some OF the men we're on the verge
OF starvation. The charitable organi-
nations Of the city were taxed 70 their
utmost capacity 10 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
20 go with him; said they could DO
anything.
But when he mentioned farm work
their faces fell.
I'VE don't want TO 60 10 the eoun-
try. boss. We don't want 10 live on n
farm. There's nothin' for US there
no life. 10 entertainment, no lights;
nothin' but monotony and work. Wed
rather stay in the city and starve
than 70 10 the country an have moth
m to DO but work No; we stay
right here"
Men Dread Solitude.
The mass OF men are gregarious.
they dread solitude a. nature abhors
vacuum. And nine hundred and
ntnety-nine men out OF q thousand
are very easily entertained-in a
crowd. They are perfectly content
with seeing something going on. They
viii Tive" In serried, ill-srriellinV
quarters eat and wear whatever thew
can get in order to be with many OF
their fellows and with something stir
ring before their eyes
The problem OF the farm ia not 70
be solved by improved machinery,
by shorter hours and by less hard
work The solution Is rather to be
sought in wider sociRbility that
Will 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 to be enter
tanned. He stands between the sight
seer and the thinker The third-the
thinker-is the rare man who makes
the ideal farmer. to whom silence
and solitude are welcome; ideal, as
distinguished from the one born IN
the occupation and who can not.
though he would, get away from it.
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 fee Il.
On such natures. silent nature ex-
ercises an abiding influence. There
A. t..
graduating from oxford was sent to
Archangel 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 TO the icy re-
gions
Lord strathcona, when he was a
plain Mr.. Smith, represented the
Hudson Bay Company for many years
in 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 10 Mexico. NienneSC
who felt too proud to return 10 Aus
tria after his chiefs downfall For
nearly half a century he has lived
contentedly in the mountains Of
Mexico
Livingstone. Stanley, Nanser.
Peary. latterday explorers confirm
the experience Of their forbesrs-
Columbus, Nasco da Gama-of the
singularly uplifting effect the grand
silence"-as Pierre Lott phases it
has upon men Of thought.
Wisdom From Moses.
Even iguoble solitude is beneficial
for men Of powerful but debe sed
minds Had il not been for Reading
GaoI, Wilde had never written De
Profundis'
Unfortunately solitude can not
make thinkers OF men who are not
predisposed TO thought. or not in
herently Thoughtful Many people oc-
eupying farms ignore rules of farm
ing as old as the books OF Moses
Thus In Exodus II is written.
"And six years thou shalt SOW thy
land, and shalt gather the fruits
thereof; but the seventh year thou
shalt let IL rest and lie still"
The modern farmer had rather
emigrate 10 Canada than 10 follow an
inspired injunction.