The Delta independent., 1915-08-20
Living in Town or Country.

Living in Town or Country.
| The best single thing about farm
life is that one is sure of good liv-,
ing. The city man, salaried or other
wise, may not always be certain about
his income. Business conditions are
complex in these modern days and
just now the country is going through
an abnormal depression which no one
attempts to explain. The individual
in business wears not lightly the
laurel of success. Intense competi-
tion, the warfare of unseen but con-
tending forces, the mighty eXigencies
that suddenly arise, BATTLE and may
overwhelm the city man. Overnight
he finds his mainstays swept from
him despite precaution. His assets
often more liquid than the man with
his coat off in the field-are so quick
ly reduced by some streak of chance
or misfortune that he is unmade and
years of ingenious effort to build up
a competence are lost. The vacant
store rooms in any city today recall
only too sadly the force of these
words.
Living in town means a terribly
high tax on every mans impulse and
energy. 1t is the paramount economic
question throughout the nation. The
cost of living on a farm is ridiculously
low. II is immaterial whether the in
come is 5000. $1,000. s2500. $4,000 or
more annually-the average family in
the city is gravely concerned about
making ends meet and how to work
out their future welfare. Il is not so
much so with the provident farmer
for he makes his acres support him
Every tendency in town life. every
example constantly before man, wo-
man and child is against fruEality and
saving a little piece of money OBJ
tains such goodly means OF comforts
conveniences and pleasures that it is
most difficult problem with the av-
erage family where to draw the line
in expenditures.
Ranch life provides so many more
advantages than it did few years
dEb AiAdA ~ NdA ~ AthStA justly bt
regarded as place of continuous
hard work. dull routine and littleness.
Smart folks are finding the attractions
and are making a great deal out of
ranch life-doing it so well that il is
attractive to other clever folks and
this forms the nucleus of many splen-
did rural communities. Established
upon a farm for the purpose of making
IL a home in the true sense, the coan-
try man does not have to figure what
it costs him to live. He need not
worry about keeping up appearances
His living is sure. He is working to
definite goal. If he has any rea.
sonable regard for the future. which
means calmly preparing for old age
inactivity and the decline of his prime,
he cares for the ranch, improves it in
telligently and when the yellow days
draw near, the farm, the orchard and
field viii shield him and his.
The foundation of the farmers com
petence is composed of assets more
solid and safely entrenched. frecr
IRON chance than the marble-piilarel
hotel ar the stone bank at the corner
good farm property can of course be
destroyed or disipated, but not by
sane. frugal forehanded man. ~He
takes few chances, The country is
the place to rear children. The city
may educate them, but the eNtrava-
gances of the surroundings also har.
Dor in them desires and aspirations
which the great majority may dumbly
hopefully, desperately strive for, but
can not crafty. Denver's automobile
bill alone has exceeded twenty mil
lion dollars and this is only one OF
the innumerable frivolities for eating
up money.
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