The Washington times., 1917-12-23
Toward the Rising Sun of Prog
resS-Via the Land
This War Will Put Men to Getting Out of the Earth the Un
limited Wealth That Is Within Her-and
Dividing 1t Wisely.

On this page is picture of man. work this earth
Man works nature drives. Mans intelligence, the SOIL
fertility and the wealth of mines give everything.
The old German law gave the farmer everything that
he turned up with his plow The idea to encourage him
to plow deeply in the hope turning buried treasure his
deep plowing increasing the crops.
All that lay below the plows depth belonged to the EN-
peror mines hidden wealth. everything down to the earth
center.
The trouble with the present of human beings is
this: It has to look upon things as ready made
Deers in cities forget the earth and its fertility they
hardly ever the sky and the stars The sun rises while
they are in bed and the sunset is hidden by big city build
ings.
Men are dweers paved Streets their horizon is made
I'D of brick walls with occasional glimpse OF park
They forget that they out of this earth rising up
through every form of life They lose 80 per cent OF Life
happiness which consists in close contact with nature
Thomas Jefferson said The chosen people of God
the people who till the soi-and do their work well
Hitherto the people that titled the SOIL whether they
chosen people of God not had rather hard time
Of it.
They got less for their hard work than any other class
They were always surrounded and cursed with uncer
tainty-uncertan weather uncertain crops and above all
uncertain price-pus the absolute CERTAINTY that job
bers and others would rob them the full aided by rail
roads.
But the war has changed the condition of the the
can sell for two dollars
And governments that once talked kindly to the farmer
but taxed everything he bought put tariff on everything he
needed begin realize that he is important part OF
the nation and work with him.
There are millions upon millions of neglected unused
acres near the big Cities fertile asking only Tor labor and
Scientific methods have done away with much of the
uncertainty farming Irrigation does sCl more 10 o1
ish the uncertainty ,
The farm tractor and other farm machinery plus the
gas engine electric light all sorts OF substitutes for man
power multiply the farmer INDIVIDUAL energy 10 away WIFI
much of the drudgery.
Men were huddled cities formerly because transpora
ton was slow Man had to live where he worked Now the
automobile makes man independent OF distance:
Soon the flying machine will increase that independence
and soon also the railroads and the suburban street car
lines owned by the Government will reduce cost OF trans
portation to the vanishing point
More and more human beings will go to the land A
few of them will the central spots work in cities The
majority will stay the country and work upon land
Today the tendency is all toward the city away from
the land Tomorrow will be away from the city back TO
Life in the country is no longer life of isolation. Tele
ones rural mail delivery good mghroads centra meetng
Farmers pranges unite the farmers for self defense
The farmer of fifty longer man bent over by the
owner of HIS piece of the United States
in the real sense the word that may well be enVled by
that artificial product, the city man
Think about the possibility of getting away from the
tv h stones the bricks and cement the days that are all
alike except when it rains the life that is made up OF long
office hours huying back and forth to work. making up
lost sleep at night.
Man is product of THE EARTH, not product OF cob
b stone or asphalt pavement He stands erect that ne may
look mn at the sy and out the horizon He might as well
he shaped like cat built for running along the edge gut
ters dodging in and among automobiles ne mad peen
intended to be forever city dwener
Don't think about this picture for somebody else
Think about it for yourself. Work and plan for the
day when you will live in sight of trees sky and running
water green fields about you, OF them your own with
your children living the life of human beings.
1t takes no longer hundreds of acres to be weLtodo
man IN the country. -
Five under intensive cultivation Is as mucn as nan
. dozen men can attend to properly
There hundred ways of being comfortable, happy
ufuIi in the