The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-30
FARM LABOR PROBLEM

~ drilled organized city boys boys between ages 6
40?
Admitting that solution comparatively easy the
great farms of the agrculura~ves it adequate on the tiny
isolated and often poorly equipped farms Of New England?
There is evidence for the affirmative The expert
ment has been made in Maine. 1t gave good results.
All of these problems home to the particular locality
Can Connecticut do what Maine did? Now this what
done Maine Some 1900 boys organized into camps
and ntensivey drilled for two weeks under competent nsc
tors They mbued with the spirit Of the need They
stimulated by knowledge of the requirements of the
ton and then they distributed among the farm lands
During the working period the instructors, in Ford
cycles farm, keeping touch
with each boy, and each farmer commencing here Gliding
there, ironing grievances aiding in many ways.
The thing worked in Maine. Why not in Connecticut?
Maine appropriated 100000 the work. Connecticut is
Ter in territorial and agricultural and wouldn't require
large appropriation.
project depends for success as most other things
do upon state of mind Men do rather successfully they
adequately will to do and make sad of projects which
approached with insufficient purpose inadequate under
standing.
From beginning the inventors of Utopas have regarded
the land the necessary foundation for state and the in
ensive and kful age of the soil prerequisite the high
est degree of collective well being
An integral part of the solution lies the transfer ap
proprae periods labor the city the country Every
Utopia pictures such migration Something Of the kind
now, and did occurr before the
There great annual mgraons from the cities to the
western wheat fields and the Georgia peach orchards In Con-
neccut the late Mr. Hale of Glastonbury maintained in his
chards colony of aborers brought for the
from widely scattered communities This colony Gaston-
bury usually included white labor from neghborng cities
from the south and college boys in search of agricultural
lore.
There is no limit movement of labor might
be developed but the people of the mind
organization.
Whenever the conditions permit the city boys
in numbers that they work together it will be compare
lively easy to manage farm labor with city help.
But the lonesome work where boy goes out beside the
farmer and his hired difficult thing to bring
to The drill is not largely present. the spirit of
ulaon apparent other disadvantages which
need not be here considered
Neither peace country consider itself
envey organized until the Of its land adequately
deveoped the adequate development requires
great supply Of easonabe labor which only be had from
the cities.
The economic advantage is not the only gain that will fol-
low from close connection between the city and the land
The modern system of cultural education has got itself al
most entirely separated from the labor which employees muscle
Industry books is of sort industry of muscle is another
sort The well rounded individual needs both kinds.
Education is separated from the facts of e that for
many years young people pursue painfully and
find school work disagreeabe because there link their
minds uniting their studies with the life of the world about
them.
Youth creative Youth wants work with its hands wishes
to shape material things into objects that SEEM handled
and used But modern cultural education denies YOUTH
has denied until quite recently the education Of hand and
muscle which the BRAIN obyng deep seated impulses
Thus many father has boy through grammar
and high school periods boy ercey protesting against the
denial youth rebels school
m by force of resistance Others acquiese by
the time the high school life is done at least at the end
college period have lost the very desire mAnuay
and thus not fully educated. 49,,
complete education unless it carries with the
ducation of BRAIN education Of muscle.
misfortune that millions of entirely
the SOIL having love for it. conception of its
Of its meanings
The war will not be entirely in van if it reintroduces the
ctv dweer to the SOIL Perhaps the future make
o the education every youth that he shall month";
two months year the land Great to him would be the
blessing of such opportunity and great to the state
could then develop breed of educated yeomanry the
f which no civilization yet has
AS fair start in this direction let Connecticut make trial
~ he Maine plan with the view of going until the
Il done but with the purpose of creating institution that
NAV be Of service for uncounted after the
and perhaps after all wars are DONE