The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-19
AFTER THEY'VE SEEN PAREE." "

Broadway cynical Old Broadway, the boasted White Way" of New York lined with lobster palaces and fanked by gn-mills, is asking one of its cynical questions through a cheap and cynical questions through a cheap 'and cynical little
 It is question flung careessly, sneeringy, at a hundred thousand farm homes. In year from now :. VIII echoed in different words and by breeding fathers and mothers good many lonesome farms
 "Howya gonna keep em down the farm
 After they've seen Paree?"
 That is what careless, painted Broadway is ask ing, and after all, Broadway and all that Broadway stands for has good many generations come and go.
 "How-a gonna keep em away from Broad
 Jazzin' aroun'-and a-pantin the town?' Huskily sings the cabaret singer" in atmosphere that is redoent of high-balls and rouge-an atmos phere that vbrates to the beat of jazz music and the clicking of heels
 "Haw-ya gonna keep 'em away from harm?
 That's the mystery;
 "HOw-ya keep em down the farm
 After they've seen Paree?'
 Every report following demobzation in this coun- try refers to the number of farm-bred boys who lingering in the already congested big cities trying to md work trying to stay with the crowds looking with confessed uneasiness the prospect going back to the fields. Broadway has asked a question that is going to take lot of solving One that can not be passed by appointing Investigating Committee of well-fed Congressman junket around all summer and finally make voluminous report meaning nothing at all
 Farms are calling for men now. Farmers organ izations petioning for early demobiizaton that there may be men for the blows and the tractors And while the farm calls, the nations White Ways" and "Broadways are calling and the boys making haste back to the long white lanes and widc green fields.
 Secretary Lane has hopes of his plans He woulc draw the youngsters back the lands again. by giant reclamation undertakings, by little village com munities of farmers living together and lightning the loneliness that is the hated and feared and criticised feature of farm life But Secretary Lane can't reach them all
 What is the farm itself going to do to hold these wandering lads? Is it to go in the old ways, tLc old traditions? Are roads to be better than they were in the days of the ploddng oxen? Are the schools to remain as they are, poorly equipped badly housed starving the teacher d miserable sal ary? Is there always to be a difference between the value of the education given the boy and girl who live in the fields and those who happen to live inside the limits of aa incorporated town?
 Are the schools to 80 on, as tEey have done from the time when the memory of mar runneth not to the contrary educating the youngsters of the farms away from their birtbrights? Giving them that slant" away from the fields and the sun and to- ward the professions and the asphalt streets? Mak- ing them ashamed of the calling of their fathers?
 Is the farm community to forever hold back from granges from clubs, from community meeting houses from community effort, from getting together and pooling its collective brains toward solving prob lem of holding its blood brains and brawn? From better roads and community and consolidated school buildings, boys clubs. athletic games and the hundred and one other ways that been found worthy and valuable in interesting and women and bettering them and theirs? That Broadway songs inquiry is not one The thing that is back of it has been pulling farm Doys and girls the cities for generations. That pull has now become dangerous-dangerous to the