The mirror., 1919-04-17
PANACEA FOR ALL POVERTY
Back to the Farm the Only Solution for this Grea
Problem. Cause Diagnosed and Remedy Offered

case as follows: II found out that
those intelligent young men. most
of whom were college graduates,
had never given this subject any
thought at all. Some of them ad-
mitted that they would do So All
seemed to love and be welded to
the city, on account of the theatre,
the picture show. the pool room,
the stock market, the ball room
and the society of the so-called
400. Now this state Of affairs
cannot last long. We need these
keen, well-educated young men to
help plan for us and with us as to
the best and most successful way
to farm, for scientists have surely
brought forth many secrets from
their experiments and it is for the
farmer to take advantage of these
things and profit by them.
For after all is said and done
we are here and must have our
three meals each day. We can get
along without the picture show,
the theatre, the pool room, the
diamond ring, the automobile, and
the costly necklace, for none of
these things will satisfy the appe.
tite of a hungry man; it takes food
to do that; it takes wheat to make
-four and beets to make sugar.
The more -four and sugar We have
in the markets ready for US, the
cheaper these commodities will be.
1t is cheapness we are all after.
Sugar should and will be sold for
So per hundred; -four should and
will be sold for the same or less,
and other necessities in the same
ratio.
Nov what we need is for our
young, able bodied men to trans
fer themselves to the country
where God surely intended to have
most of us stay, and use the knowl-
edge and the education that they
have been fortunate enough to re-
ceive, in an effort to help others
who are less fortunate and have
not the bodily strength to endure
the strenuousness of mind and
body that is required in this great
and necessary work of operating
the farm. The young, educated
city man must understand that he
will not be required, as his grand
father was, to sweat from sun to
sun, for with the tractor he can do
all the farm work.
LAS to the other vegetables, l
have not referred to them, for the
reason that a new process is now
being developed where all these
will be dried and preserved and
their original flavor and sweetness
retained. The supply of fresh
vegetables can be kept in the pan
try at all times, much as the -four
is now kept.
Millions of acres of good, tillable
lands are now lying idle in Mime
nesota, the Dakotas, Montana, and
other states that is cheap and is
now waiting for willing brains and
hands to till it. Let the able and
intelligent city man move out to
these broad acres and take posses
sion and show the drones what can
be done to make life easier.
There are several non-producers
that must be weeded out of the
cities before real comfort and
prosperity can be secured. There
are in all large cities many strong,
educated and intellectual men
whose time is wholly occupied in
unproductive lines. These men
belong on the farm and should be
sent there Immediately and
made to work and take their part in
producing something. If man
has piece of real estate to sell he
can sell it himself by advertising
it. What does he want to entrust
it to real estate man FORE just
because he does not think. Well,
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