Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-01-06

mo, not yet. You know too little
to be farmer. But you can learn
and while you are earning you can
Twelve under the clear, blue dome
of heaven, in the sunshine where
God intended men in His image
should live. Standing in your own
doorway, on your own land, gazing
over your own fields. small though
they be, you will come to life again
and you will realize for the first time
what it means to be free, to be in
a position where no man can say.
Smith, you're fired We've no more
work for you
There's no money in farming. My
father had one of the best farms in
Kansas and 1t was all he could do to
make living on It,"
rs that so? Listen There are
more farmers than miners driving
their own automobiles, more farmers
than miners living in their own
homes, and on the very best in the
world, more farmers wives than
miners wives taking excursions to
the coast, visiting cities, attending
theaters and leading the lives nature
Intended wives should lead, more
farmers children than miners chill
dren attending colleges. Farms add
more to the worlds wealth than
mines do, ten times over each year.
who are you?"
Opportunity"
Wei. Opportunity, you are
cheat to come hanging around at
this time of life. when you know
have nothing and cannot make a
move"
"This Is the first time you would
give me a chance. Hard times have
aroused you to some extent WIZ
not wake up completely and get back
TO the land?"
How? Where%
II know valley richer in natural
resources than the domains OF the
mighty Solomon ever were. A valley
! where crops do not fail, where the
sun shines more than three hundred
days each year. where the climate
is unsurpassed on earth. 1t is a
valley in which dwell about 10000
happy and prosperous men, women
and children, but which is capable
of supporting a quarter of a million
people. A valley in which there is
no such thing as poverty. A noun
tain-walled valley, river-threaded and
scanned and cris-crossed with modern
irrigation canals. and dotted with
beautiful towns and cities. In this
valley there are factories and mills
and elevators, and theaters and col
leges and churches and the mosl
beautiful homes you ever saw The
VALLEY is all under cultivation. Every
acre of il is producing wealth. Two
great railroads run through it,-ont
! steam and one electric-bringing III
. farms and homes into free and cas-!
} communication with the teemint
, marts of the world. 1t is one of thu
richest and most beautiful and peace
full valleys in the entire land.
a Ten thousand people who hay
e scarcely heard of this wonderful val
e ley will have their attention draw
e to II this year while en- route to tn
0 fair at San Francisco. Thousands Q
i acres Of it will change hands, and I
d one section OF II five hundred familie
u will find new homes and that peac
II and satisfaction for which all norma
o men are seeking"
you are not Opportunity, you ar
j. land shark"
20 And there you are. Smith is onl
one in ten millions who deny Oppo
~ tunity. They will not recognize he
sr They toll and drudge and rustl
at humping their heads against stor
e, walls determined that opportuni
~ can come to them in only one wa
te the way in which they have picture
to themselves as being the prop
to way"
ell "You are not Opportunity" f'
rk are a land shark" ut can't
ee done" "Luck's against me- The
'st are the stultifying thoughts of I
to ten million.-of the men and won
who fight good fortune as though $
zee we're a plague. the ne'er-do-wells
the earth. And all the time Opp
nd iunity patient, determined, smili
il is with them. at their right ha
IRE and their left, giving them ca
minute OF every hour Of all the d.
OF all thc years Of their narrow liz
gh, new chance to make good.
get II was truly Opportunity W