Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1916-08-31
TOWN OR COUNTRY.

| Charles A. Dana was credited with
saying that there were three kinds Of
lies-plain lies, damned lies and sta
of the times Is that longevity is in
creasing; that I'm the past half-cen-
tury the average Of life has lengthen-
ed more than ten years.
closely we find shock. Fifty years
ago the conservation Of child life was
just beginning to receive intelligent
attention. 1t has grown. Today the
babies fare better. Thus the babies
and children, by not dying so early
have projected the life average Of the
American people.
1T has been found, however, that
more people are breaking down be-
tween the fortieS and the sixties
Right in the period when they ought
to be enjoying the harvest Of health
and happiness they are being buried.
Medical experts aScribe it to the in
tensive living and nervous overstrain
of cities.
| Here Is where the farm scores
The man who devotes his life to agri-
culture is usually strong i'm his middle
years. He has found the peace and
comfort and safety of his environ
ment. To the man growing old the
city sings no song of hope. but the
country greetS its kind with Il daily
bcniSOn.
"rhe city man should escape to the
fields before the undertaken gets
him.'-The Country Gentleman.
There is much in the appeal of the
country. but until rural conditions in
our part Of the South are given more
thought, and more attention, look
ing to the actual surroundings Of the
home its means of communication
and its ways of transportation, the
vision of health, happiness and long
life will draw few from the cities to
the fields. The lesson the South must
learn is how to live in the country and
live comfortably. 1t is the life, but
the hardships that are imposed over
balance the advantage to be derived
under existing conditions. The making
of home in the country is the great
problem, and all too few regard COM
forts and conveniences as essentials
while they are the very things that are
not only going to keep the members OF
the immediate family contended, but
are to have an influence upon others
proving to them that life can have its
comforts on the farm.-Spartanburg
Herald.
1t is not now so much the question
OF knowing how, but Of getting oul
people to realize and know what they
can do, if they just would do 1t. II
must be a process of education. The
people will do if they are shown
what to do and have some one to i'll.
spirc in them desire to do. They
will tell you they have not the money
But there are many things they coulG
, / do with their OVID -haadsssAn1a-kn111n
when they are not doing anything
and it would save them much time ant
labor to have it done. 1t is not theor,
or knowledge so much as it is to wake
them UP and show them what to d,
and inspire them with u desire to dC
, it
The first step is to arouse and wake
. up the people, and then the next is t
build the school house and let then
find it, and the other things will come
And you must get sufficient interest
in the people to get them to do the
work. The other things will come
and the farm will lie the ideal place
in which to live. 1t is coming, and
coming very fast, but it is II process
Of education OF the grown people a>
we'll as of the children.
, Take any community in this county
in which there has been good school
built in the last four years, and you
can see Il marked life in that com
munity already. The great work now
is to inspire IN interest in the school
by the people OF the community and
then the Improvement will begin.
With the easy mode Of travel now,
with good roads and with the ability
To have all the modern cOnvenienceS
of the home. one is not 50 far i'm the
rountry even IL he is ten or fifteen
miles from Il town. What we need is
better roads. There are country
homes in This county today with all
the modern convencnccS. and there
could easily he Ilurc If we could. and
Wr can :! we will. just inspire an in
t"rcSt on the part of the people
;hr i'm. rnvrmcmt OF the country home
That mnSt hc largely Il work of the
schools. And it is Il very important
work.
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