The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-21
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

at the Easonville cafe that used to be in the Watts building. I have wondered about the dairy farm where the good milk and cream came from.
 So, recently, when friend asked me to motor with him to Easonville, I im- mediately accepted and mighty glad am I that did. for, as interesting as Is the plant, I found a young man who ap- pealed more strongly to me than did the registered cows.
 My guido was Pat Roberson, a class mate of Hugh Roberts at the University of Alabama, who was anxious to show me what George Waite, another university man, was doing. We found him at the dairy in his work clothes, and as T looked into his frank face. and saw the alert way in which he got about knew that I was up against real man.
 Now. his Is the case of young man with an education who is having the time of his life in fooling with pure bred stock. A Rosa Bonheur painting of 8 cow appeals to my aesthetic nature and I would enjoy having one over my mantel, but it would bore me stiff to have a real live COW In my backyard. I have a neighbor who has one and it tires me even to see him milking her.
 I have never cared for milk, only drink ing it under compulsion, except when favored or doctored. Butter is to me unbearable as food, and there is no odor so offensive to my nostrils as the smell of dairy, but George Waite wouldn't give a thrip for Rosa Bon heur COW picture, but gets his greatest joy out of fooling with sure-enough-to- live cows.
 
 It IS refreshing to come in contact with a man who is in love with his business and goes to 1t each day with joy. I like to hear horse lover talk about horses; it's music in my ears to listen to Pat Roberson enthuse about bird dogs; I can even appreciate the rapture that fills the soul of my friend Dunnaway of Orrville when he descants on the beauty of pedi- greed pigs, and therefore I was in tune when George Waite began his rapt ode on COWS.
 Happy Is the man who has found his lifework and who goes about 1t with a song in his heart There may be others but I have found only two graduates of the University of Alabama who have gone back to the farm. George Waite is one and young man down in south Alabama who. when his father wanted to set him up in the mercantile business. is the other He said on gradu- ation: Father give me 100 acres of land and see what I can do with it" and because he loved to farm he Is revolu- his county. He showed fns peo- pie what could be done in this state in raising other than a cotton crop
 George Waite has a little over 300 land, but in six years he has built 1t up, and today, with Its varied and growing crops, it is a pleasant sight to his eye and g comforting one to his pocket. Cat tie and enthusiasm. system and common sense worked the transformation. It to me is the most heartening thing I have run across in a long time, for 1t shows that the COW can save Alabama if we will give her the chance.
 Now, don't let any stuck-up city man waste any sympathy on George Waite for ourying himself in the country. He doesn't need 1t and would resent 1t. He lives in homelike modern bungalow. The dairy Is over bold spring, that forms limpid three-acre pond, the water of which is almost too cold for bathing purposes, yet the lure. of 1t makes many risk the chill of it.
 Now this young young man by improv ng his herd cut it nearly in half and increased his amount of milk, thereby showing his neighbors that there was money in blooded stock, and so all around athe grade of cattle has been inn proved. I looked into one nearby pas- .ure at a heifer for which $500 was paid oy It's proud owner. Another neighbor has a 5000 bull. And so the good work goes on.
 Alabama needs young men on her farms with energy, training and vision. take the spring and it's harnessed up and doing he work of many hired hands. It is made the means of furnishing power to propel motors in barns, milkhouse and silos, and furnish lights. It turns grist- mill that helps to utilize the stuff grown ,n the farm and serves the community. A ram lifts water into the barns and home.
 All over the state there are farm sites lust as tempting if our young men only had eyes to see, and brains to use, and push to develop them. It's the old story of Russell ConwelPs famous lecture on Acres of Diamonds" and yet hordes of sons are rusing into our crowd ed cities in search of opportunities to make living or fortune. I hope this story of George Waite and Ms success will be read by many young men in the country who will try to follow in his by seizing the chance that is 1t hand without trying to find pot Of gold at the foot of the rainbow.
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