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 soEHslANgR.

CHICAGO. Sept 27--What Carlyle
called stomach statistics" came out
IN full detail last weel, from Wash
ington IN general sense there was
nothing new I'm 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 is not clear as 10
the cause. There have been expla
ustions many and they continue 10
be printed IN newspapers. magazines
and books The myriads ~ reasons
offered have confused the average in
teillgance ana obscured the simple
snd only possible explanation.
The reason is trite hut true. that
IS. II was trite TN swarm ~ anna
teur political economists went a-neld
for far fetched theories When cit
les populations increase within a
decade from 10 10 200 per cent and
tho number Of farmers remains about
the same there is mo need TO resort
10 statistical subtlenies while the
country's inhabitants rose by 10000.
COO. wheat has Krown on 2t2 fewer
acres with o produce of 1.23e fewer
bushels Taking all cereals, for every
1000 people the average to-day is
about the Same as ten years ago. the
product has not changed and quite
naturally the value ~ 94G0 Rrenter.
Governor Ebsrhart's Experience
Governor Eherhart 81 Minnesota
had an experience that illustrates the
disparity between the food consumer
ard the food producer He went to
Minneapolis IN a harvest emergency
for field hands The city was swarm
Inc with mNn seeking employment
Tho Governor found them on park !
benches IN all sections Of the city |
and overlooking on the curbstones |
Some OF the men were on the verge
Of starvation. The charitable orRaui- |
zations OF the city were taxed 60 their |
utmost capacity TO provide for them
u looked Rs n the Governor was
confronted with nm ovsrsuppy. lie
picked oui his men, telling thpm he
wanted their help They were eager
60 go with him, said they could do
anything.
But when he mentioned farm work
their faces fell
We don't want 10 go 10 the coun
Try. boss We don't want 10 live on u |
farm. There's nothin' for W. there
no life, 40 entertainment. no lights.
nnthln' but monotony ana work. Wed |
rather stay Ia the city and starve
Than 60 20 the country an have moth |
In Go do but work No. we stay
right here
Men Dread Solitude.
The maas % mon are RreRarlnusi
they dread solitude ~ nature abhorp
a vacuum And nine hundred and
ninety nine men out Of thousand
are very easily entertained in q
crowd. They are perfectly content
with seeing something going on. They
Wih live IN serried III smelling
quarters eat and wear whatever thew
can get In order to be with many of
their fellows and With something stir.
ring before their ewes.
The problem Of the farm IL not To
be solved hv improved machinery
by shorter hours and by less hard
work. The solution Is rather To be
sought IN q wider soclahllity 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
~ mere slghtseeinR This individual
must he made TO feel TO he enter
talned He stands between the sight
seer and the thinker The third-the
thinker W the rare man who makes
the Ideal farmer to whom silence
and solitude are welcome. ideal 4
distinguished from the one horn in
the occupation and who can not.
though he would. get away from II
The Rare Exceptions.
But for one imam who seeks soil
tude. who must he made to think In
order to find perfection. there are
the hundreds who shun or nee Il
ON such natures. silent nature eN
ercises an abiding influence There
IS IN mind y londoner who upon
graduating from oxford was sent to
ArChsnEel by his fathers corporation
After being IN the Frozen North ten
wears he was transferred to london
Bo could remain In England only a
month. and returned to the icy re-
gions
Lord Stmthcona. when Ne was
plain Air Smith. represented the
Hudson RaN Company for many YEARS
IN then desolate territory Of Can
ada Although that was over forty
years ago, SuathCoue Confesses he
has not been happy since his hermit
period An instance ia that of the
Austrian general Who accompanied
MAMMALIAN to Mexico. "A NieNncsp
who felt too proud to return jo Aus
tria after hts chiefs downfall For
aearly hp}f century n, has lived
eobteuteiN n tine mountains Of
MeNivu
Livingstone stanley Nausen
pealv. laltvvlsV explorers cop0rm
Abe experience, of their furbcgrs
Columbus NuSyo da Gama--of the
slnxulsrlN uplifting en,yt The grand
slcnve -as Pierre Lott phases it,
Nas ~urou men of Thought
Wisdom, From, Moses
Even igneblc soiituJ. rs beneficial
for men of powerful but dehased
minds Had ~ NOT been for Readine
Gaol Wilde had never written "pe
prafundis"
Unfortunately solitude vau mot
make thinkers Of mon who arg not
f,reaisposed Co thought. ct not TN
herently thouehruI Many people oc-
tupying farms iguore rules ~ farm
ing as old as tine books 81 Moses
Thus la Exodus 80 Is written.
AND six wears thou shalt SOW ,hN
ian6 and shalt gather tine fruits
thcreof but tFe seventh wear fhuu
sfs# tt 10 rcst sad Die sttl.
The modcrn farmer had rather
sliig iafe Us Canada than to FOLLOW an
inspired Injunction.