Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-23
NEW LIVES FOR OLD"

AS vital and practical lesson in
patriotism, applied directly to the
farmer and the tiller of the soil,
Carleton, published by the Small May
New Lives For Old" by . William
nard Company, of Boston, is a book
that is eminently worth while to ev-
cry resident of Sumter county and to
every American. 1t is not often that
the American people have presented to
them so simply and so directly the
fundamental principles of sane and
rational living.
The title of this book is admirably
chosen, for it is the story of the res
direction of New England farming
community by the efforts of few men
who were fearless enough to face con
ditions that were rapidly growing
worse and worse in an economical
way for the farmer and to work OUT
with thoroughness and with genuin(
success a remedy for these conditions
The theme of the book is as applica
BILE to Sumter county as it is to the
viJIooo Il, Nrauy L1po1ond
One who has eyes to see and a min 1
to perceive and comprehend can fn1
instances here at our very doors oe
the state of affairs which threatened
the existence of the New England viii
lage where William and Ruth Carleton,
with their little band of helpers
wrought old lives into new ones. The
farmers of Sumter county need to
wake up and make themselves indie
pendent, to live at home, as a current
phrase expresses it. A new insight in
to this process is given by this volume
AS the story has it, the farmers Of
the New England village were lying
supinely on their backs and idling
their time away until their farms and
lands were becoming barren wastes
which Italian and other foreign immi-
grants were eagerly buying and turn
ing into fields that grew rich and fer
tile under their hands and brought
forth crops in abundance. These "da-
goes" as the New Englanders sneer.
iDgly called them, were practicing
et onomy, were going back to pioneer
methods of working and living, placing
money in the bank and prospecting
only as those prosper who are will
ing to get down to making their liv-
ins by :he sweat of their brows.
ca ton cores from the life of the
city and points out their opportu MY
He is clear of vision and practical ill
ordering his HE The villagers at first
sheer 1T he idea of getting down -
wcrk IS he Iasoes", when the vital
necessity. of this process is pointed out
as the surest way of redeeming them
selves. Then Carleton and his friends
take up this work in person. Carleton
works with his hands. He stirs up the
latent pride and patriotism of the vii
layers through the press; through
public meetings and by personal ex-
ample until new life has been infus-
ed into the whole.
The book is written in simple con-
versatioual manner, but it strikes deep
into the heart of the problem of mod
6TH me anu llNIUS. nrOW OH Tile
inertia and compleXity of a false civil
ization and get back to the SOIL" is
the message it would bring to men
The sturdy pioneer spirit of you:
forefathers is being stamped out ty
the deadening influence of modern in
dustrial methods, as they are ao.
piled Get back to the soil as pion-
GERS. There the way is safe, and the
reward is sure"
A stirring call to the farmer to save
himself from his own sloth and care
lessness and to make his home and
country the most independent and hap
by in the world is what the book is 4
brief. Every farmer and every real