The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-11
The Sort of NelghbOr Who win Make
Farm Life What it ShOuId Re.

AS a matter of fact. the up to date
! farmers social and business life are
so interviewer that they can't be sep
arated. In any thoroughly wake-up
farming neighborhood the sort OF
comradeship, enthusiasm, and gener-
GUS rivalry that white man wants
can only be found in white neigh
bor-and there must be enough Of
those white neighbors to give this
comradeship and friendly rivalry I'm
| abundant measure.
It's not enough to have the distant,
limited and non-social relations we
can have with negroes. want q
neighbor who will go with me to my
farmers meeting and get inspiration
with me and talk with me about the
things We heard discussed. / want
neighbor who can light a lightwood
torch o. nights and come over with
his wife or boy or girl and sit with
me and mine while we plan for better
Things. ! want neighbor whose
boy will be in the corn club with my
boy and will go to the meetings with
my boy and will go to the meetings
with him and spur up my boy to do
his best. l want n neighbor whose
wife will go to the meeting of the
United Farm Women with my wife
and come over and help entertain
when my wife has the United Farm
Women meeting with her. l want a
neignbor whoseg irl will be with my
girls In canning club work. and who
can be my girls roommate when she
goes off to college. want a neighbor
who will support the school and
church and Sunday school Of my race
and help keep them strong. want a
neighbor who shares all the aspira-
tons OF my race and can cooperate
with me as citizen and voter In
bringing better things to pass. /
want neighbor who can join Lie as a
full equal in starting any sort of CO.
operative enterprise. l want q
neighbor who will join ME in u rural
credit society. / want neighbor
with whom / can sit down and laugh
and talk at my fireside as we talk
over plans for marketing our crops
or doing our work 1 want a neigh
Dor for whom my boy can work
whenever he needs help, and not mind
earning an honest dollar by working
Tor him In his fields. / want q neigh
Dor who can go with me, comrade-
like. to the State farmers meeting, or
join me In some requests l have to
make of the county commissioners.
or comfort me as a brother when
death or sorrow comes to my homel
want neighbor whose fine, sturdy
sons and daughters / can watch
growing up and see In their beautiful
friendship with my own boys and
girls promise OF yet closer ties be-
tween my neighbor and me-a prom
ise OF new home-nests when he and
have passed away.
These are the things that any nor
NAL. healthy minded white farmer
wants to find in as many neighbors rs
possible; and therefore the winter
the neighborhood the better the
chance to develop either q highly or
ganized and profitable type of farm
Ing or richer rural social life. In the
face OF such facts we leave for our
readers to say whether Il Is truth or
q SANDER when DIR. w. D. Weather
ford declares in his article opposing
land segregation that the testimony
of Southern white farmers with whom
he las talked and corresponded is
that
they do not at all object to their
negro neighbors, and IN not a few
cases lave had them say that they
even Lreferred the negro neighhors."
-The Progressive Farmer.