Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-12-19
4 TRULY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.

Jac Brynildsen of the Candy News, calls this spirit
of West Central Minnesota "a truly Christmas spirit
THE growing spirit Of altruism say he predicted by
lecturers preached from the pupits and printed by the
the past dozen years large and robust IN
places and taking root here and elsewhere in strong
evidence at Candy last Saturday when about two hundred
representatives from different parts of the county met
for the purpose of organizing county farm bureau The
cold weather rough roads and nconven of coming
here fifty miles forgotten in the inspiration
and fellowship predominating the meeting md all agreed
it good to be here listen President F. W. Muir
ply of the West Central Development Association, who is
politician held political position and assured
his hearers he not candidate for any office He
became identified with his work with the ambition and
motive OF rendering public service for the beterment of
his fellow Untoward conditions among the common
people in and country Enthusiastically suggest response
biIity of citizenship People beginning to and to
ask What shall do to be saved from these condi
tions. and how to be relieved of responsibility
without doing our full duty? Who is responsible for the
boys and girls leaving the farms of Yellow Medicine coun-
ty what you doing toward correcting this serious
mistaken The federal government is spending millions OF
dollars keeping thousand printers busy at turning out
carloads of bulletins which find their way to the
farmers baskets and the spending fabulous
in the Cities but dollar back the farm where
the taxes FROM Our lands growing SO 65 bushels
Of and worth 5000 per being sold at forty
fifty per cent of their actual value by of
which each of in degree responsible.
We have sent half million farm boys and girls to
the cities the past decade, who are actually needed
on the farms to do the work as it ought to be. A
few of them have been successful but many have been
lost and most of them have failed They cannot be
recovered but it behooves find out why they left
in order to stop the stream. The life the farm
should have many attractions that of the cities and
few for good and for drudgeries they
need be no harder numerous The city home of
worth S. 900 $40, 600 frequently has
venences than that of farmer worth $50 OOO but there
is good for this difference. 1t is only matter
of wider vision of duties and responsibilities
selves and fellow Men and in town and
country work eighteen twenty hours day, sometimes
perhaps from necessity but most times through habit
because he wants to accumulate money than his
neghbor. bat it doesn't pay Our rural schools teach
Caesar cruelty Webster oratory Shakespeare fiction and
eighteen ways of figuring interest promissoy notes and
overdrafts in the bank but word about sols seeds
or animal hubsandry Hundreds of these similar pro-
bems in town and country present themselves for our
study and solution and will be solved by making
faces at one another Our interests individuals are the
interests welfare and progress of the community
whole and by cooperation with that aim in view can
reverse the untoward conditions and solve all these
bems for the good. Bury jealousy and selfish.
ness with the yesterdays and work in this movement
for the uplift of the minds and hearts of while
= there is yet time. Tomorrow it may be too Iate.
f ''These and other thoughts suggested by Mr. Muir.
ply Indicate serious business of the forward
ment undertaken by his association. And when such
men he into the work with all their force and
ability great things will be accomplished Mr. Murphy
is splendid type of American citizenship and his ability
speaker and convincing debater has for him
reputation second in the His every action
and sentence carries conviction because he knows his
ground and shows beyond possible doubt that he
every word he says His mention of being politician
was hardly necessary, for politician could fl or I'll
into the place the atmosphere about him. The idea
offering him Mr. Vosteads congress- as suggested
Minneapolis Journal BIS ridiculous unless the
Journal purposey intended to beitte and discred him
Even the chair would have be more digni
fed place than it is and has been in the past to be of
attraction to Mr. Murphy, because he fills place that
higher and harder fill than any political position within
the gift of the people of the We hope to hear Mr.
Murphy in Candy again when place can be had big
hold the audience that would like to hear him.