Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-17
NO TRouoL.~ TO KEEP "HiRED
MEN, WHERE CONDITIONS
ARE PLEASANT.
CAV OF sHAcks TO HOUSE
HELPERS FAMILIES PAST
Farmers Gcttirg Ready TO Find Places
Fer Returning Soldier Sons--'land
Owners Near Iowa Falls Finding No
difficulty in Sasurine Tcnanta--c.
e. Wilson's Chscrvatioas.

Spcciai to Times Rcpup iccn.
iowa Falls, Dec, lon a certain
farm few miles from Iowa Falls the
owner has built a house TO be Occur
pied by his hired man" and family.
sis "a small house to De sure, per-
haps o; four rooms. but II has com
flr.aoie looking little perch, is prop
erly painted. S surrounded by shade
.rses,-in short is a tit place in when
TO I've. No ordinary man would re-
WV 10 WORK tor that farmer because
NscS Of suitable Twins quarters. Nos
J y bnant houses on Iowa farms are
H. .ie class III the ole described. An
az raaary II barn moved out in the
o.Isii or on ihe oshcr side OF the road
Without pa. porch, CT shade or
any other ieCtures looking TO somfoit
o., app arancSNis frequency offered 10
the applicant Cor farm job as home
for himself and family. NO wonder nc
No often would rather remain In town
where he can find at least Il suitable
pace 10 five even tho he lives up his
searninSs as he goes alons. improved
tenant houses on the farms ought IL
and would help sotve the farm labor
problem that unsolved, is driving a
good many farmers from their farms
10 city or town.
1t will not he necessary for any
government action to be eXerted in be-
half of the returning sons of farmers
from training camps tr army life II
one case that came to notice is any
criterion. A GARNER had leased a small
farm for next year. Boys gone to war
and ne didn't want to enter the labor
market with all its attendant trials
and tribulations. He would rent IL
small place and do all his work him
self. That however, was previous 10
Nov. II. The boys are coming back
and the father is trying with all his
might to find someone that wants 10
trade big farm lease for a small one.
He evidently knows what his boys ex-
pect to do when they come home.
-
Owners Of farms are having no diff
ficulty in iinding tenants for next sea.
son SO far as this part of the coun-
try Is concerned. One man whose lease
expires next March has been searching
for a farm for weeks and declares he
is always day or two behind some
other man who heard of the opportu-
nifty first Hardin county farm land
will not grow up 10 weeds next year
because of lack Of tenants.
49,
In a week OF driving over this sec
ton Of the state one generally notices
anywhere from a dozen to twice that
number of new houses and barns in
process of construction. One new
house appears to be all that is being
built in territory Of some thirty
square miles traversed last week.
Walter Cox, regardless Of labor scar
city and high priced materials, is fin
fishing first class residence on his
farm west Of town.
When the doctors of 4 town answer
ing the calls Of farmers condition their
visits on the furnishing of transpor-
tation two facts are evident: First,
that the roads are impossible for au-
tomobiles, and second. that horse live
ry in that town has passed entirely out
of existence. And. such certainly is
the case in this locality.
December is not usually considered
QUO of the months Nr field work In
noEthern Iowa, nevertheless many
acres in this section have been up
turned within the past two> weeks in
iliis part Of che country. As late as
Nov. 81 one mar finished stubble
field while another not FAR away was
using six horses on a gang turning
over pasture tract Of sod. The lat
ter was working for another man and