Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-01-02

begin with. If he wants to come
to town to wear good clothes,
attend shows, go into society
and have money to spend, he
will do no good. He will find
himself on a salary of $50 a
month-looking big to him in
the country-envying the men
with five and ten times his in
come who ride in automobiles,
belong to clubs and give theatre
parties while he must walk on
the nice side walks and confine
himself to the movies. The man
or boy who takes real interest
in his work and is determined
to be and do something will
succeed, whever he is. using
his brains and energy. The man
or boy who, Just wants to get
through the days work and
then think how. miserable his
lot is, never. will win. If he
comes to town and escapes
liquor and cigarette habits, the
pool playing and gambling habits
and the women providing about
looking for Just such lamb as
he is. he will be working for a
boss to the end of his days and
getting not AN inch ahead. When
he. wants to marry he will be in
a fix, perhaps for bread and
meat by the time the children
begin to come along.
None OF us ever will be salts
fed. All of us who are disposed
to be envious can find somebody
to envy. President Wilson has
his troubles, besides the grip. j.
Z. Morgan had plenty of worries
and, furthermore, is dead. John
d. Rockefeller would be glad to
swap his millions to be of the
age of the Clinch Valley News
boy and have as much life before
him and that boys appetite,
digestion and capacity for sleep.
We are, however, in a transit
ton stage between town and
country. The News boy has
duplicates in every part of every
country of the Union and he and
his sister are recognized us pro-
blems-problems as the slum
boys and girls in the cities are,
but infinitely more hopeful.
More and more the wisdom of
the country is being directed
to the improvement Of the con-
ditions of moral life. The rural
free delivery and telephones and
automobiles are doing much, but
there is much more to be done.
In the doing of it the fathers of
the farm boys must help. If they
want to keep their sons and
daughters at home they must
pay for the luXury-better roads,
better schools, better churches,
more social life and pleasure.
Cities, states and the federal
government will cooperate with
them. The country boy and girl
have enlisted for them, to keen
them on the farms, the very
best thought of the world. Every
thinker knows that the strength
and hope of the country are on
and in the farms and that the
best of the country's manhood
and womanhood must be con-
centrated on them. To do this
there must be pleasure and op-
portunity and hope, conviction
among country boys and girls
that the farms offer real careers
and success and full share of
the happiness of lite. 1t is being
worked out. Conditions in the
country are far better than they
were ten years ago. The i'm
provement in the next ten years
will be twice as great. We will
get, back to the conditions of
which our Newport News con-
temporary speaks, in the article
from which we have quoted a
paragraph, when The farmers
were the real aristocrats and the
monied class. What used to be
done with slave labor will be
done with machinery, technical
knowledge, chemistry and
brains.