Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-04
VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS;
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Fasting Of the Livery Stablc-I.ond0n-
Richmond Prtccs-The city Gnr-
dcn-Idcal Father.


At public sale of a livery stables
equipment in an Indiana town tho
other day. SO the indianapolis News
tells us. some fine examples Of the
coach builders art. which IL few years
ago cost more tl!an 4 good ;,utomobilc
costs to-day. were Knocked down al
5: apiece. y sleigh which originally
cost $500. sold for 80 cents. and a r,lb.
ber-tircd buggy. which was $1,000. was
sold for $40 Things like this arc han
poninE nearer homo than Indiana. and
10 close observer IL looks like tho
passing OF that great Virginia iusti
tuition. tho livery stable where tho
Wise men used to gather to discuss
horses. men. women. politics and
crops. hut especially horses. The timc
was when the town or village livery
stable was the best place to 60 to oci
an insight into public opinion. and ar
course. Was the place the ambitious
politicians sought. Now the ancient
institution must 20 and the long
luhScd automobi!c is TO blame for il.
Just think of tin this day OF hich
prices for everything tho consumers
in war-racked England are paving loss
Tor FOOD than arc the consumers in the
AZ
cordins To the latest reports I.ondoncrs
arc paying only cents a mound for
potatoes. and for butter thcy have
never paid over it cents Il pound They
set milk for less than II sells in Eich-
mond. and all the cabbage they want
at and cents a head. The agitators
IN this country can make much CAPT
tai ont Of these facts
III this city. for instance. were plant cd
this spring to onions. cabbage. pota-
toes and some other things that might
be mentioned. few people would worry
III tho summer and next fan about the
high cost OF food. Supplies from va
cant lot gardens would naturally re-
licrc tho demand upon other sources
OF garden products. and prices would
got back to normal before til" SUM
NOR is far advanced. How many city
people are going to Try this"
Farm and I'iresidc. an agricultural
journal as lis name implies, has found
somewhere q farmer father. who. after
Il icw days absence from homo. always
makes a tour of thu barns. stables and
fields in search nf features and things
done that he can praise. These points
for praise arc then brought to notice
in the presence of tho family circle. at
evening. Under such trcatmen, tho
spirit of tho boy or boys who have
charge of things i'll fathers absence
and whose good work is thus rccoG-
nizcd. glows. Ills heart warns towards
his father. and also toward his praise
worthy activities. In da! or so the
mistakes. IL amy have been made. arc
brought UP and kindly discussed aud
corrected privately. with much better
effect on tho boy and with far less
rch"llious mood in the boys breast.
Such u policy on the part OF all faith
crs. aud employers ia lines of other
than farming. would hasten tho mill
lonniulu.
TIL" ,in,o was" says tho Atlanta
Journal. when The affairs OF business
men and farmers were regarded as IL
they We're wholly unrelated il not AN
taS"niStic. except in rather marrow
province Of buying and selling. The
idea or town folk and country folk
interest ana working together for the
whole country's wcll-bcinG was once
as strange rs now il is familiar. The
forward looking merchant or banker
realizes to-day that the conauc., OF the
boil wc"vil, the production 90 food
Stuffs. the building and maintenance
III good roads AMI All else that pro-
mote. farm prosperity are nu less i'm.
portant TO the city than 10 Tho country.
"AH for the farmer. he waits u market
"a, what he produces conducted along
safe and substantial lines: he wants
proper attention given to the roads
over which he must travel: he wants
co. operations in tho educational system:
nc wants :: place TO hitch his horse or
park his ear when he comes to town. .
These things arc being looked after
bN tho modern town. and - Is bringing
about a cooperation that Will result
in finer spirit between tho town and
tho country"
Virginia is learning the value of this
Il ind OF CO. operation. and the more Of
il We have tho hct'&r.