Evening journal., 1920-08-04
J.. 5.
MUST Have AID
Throw Open Doors to the
Hordes Of Asiatics, Other
wise, Says DR.. E. Mead
RURAL DISTRICTS
LOSE TO CITIES

BERkLEY, Cal. Aug. 4.-"Either
let the American farmer live on the
land In security, comfort and pride.
OF unroW open our doors to hOrdes Of
olaNs or Asiatcs with living stand
ards OF the sixteenth century
Here is the alternative for Amer
lea today. ID IS no longer an aca-
demic problem. but one Of economic
life or death for the nation, and the
crisis is now upon us"
These are the words OF Or. Flwood
Mead professor OF rural Institutions
OF The University Of California. father
OF me TWO colonization ventures In
thls state, and acknowledged the big
, es' au,t,n9rliy on agrarian matters in
Or Mead is not given 10 hysterical
language, and he does not talk idly Of
crises.
we are at The parting OF the ways" e"
ne said. "Our land is being depOpu-
lated and our farmers are hooking to
the cities.
For the last % years conditions in
The cities have been steadily becom-
ing better and in the country steadily
more unbearable
Henry Ford declared a S. and an
e-hour factory day Today there are
1900 untitled farms In Michigan. and
mechanics sleep In tents in Detroit.
In New York City people sleep in
crowded tenements and there are
2fOOO vacant farmhouses In New
York State. Last year $500 men and
boys left their farms for the cities
there.
Rural Iowa has less people than Il
had 20 years ago, and rural New Eng
land fewer men and women or sheen
and cattle than 10 had 30 years AGO.
California. where we've only made
a beginning In scientific colonization.
Is in desperate need Of farm labor. and
owners are pleading for coolies or
Mexicans or any sort OF hands as long
as they are str0ng-backed"
with millions Of acres utilized. the
overworked and insecure farmers
threatening reprisals on the cities by
planting less next year. what is the
situation on the surrounding shores
"A restless East Europe and Asia.
Keen for migration as never before"
answers Or. Mead AT Vladlvostok
are 5000 Slavs awaiting passports 10
American, and immense number OF the
tJOOOOOOO Russians and Balkans
looking longingly at our shores: un-
rest and a migratory fever stirring
the SOOOOOOOO Asiatics OF India and
Japan
"They will come inevitably n we
DO not keep our own people on the |
soil
They will out work, out breed. un- |
derlive and eventually displace our |
own splendid farmer classes; they |
Will stop the flow OF the best Norih 1
who come because thew 1
love liberty and morality. Read the /
reports Of the immigration Commits /
sion and note that where Poles.
Hindus and Japanese colonize. their \
American neighbOrs sell out. and Inc
eenters OF backward life extend.
We can feed the nation without
lowering rural standards. To do n
we must spend the same amount on
rural as we have on urban develop-
nent. Germany did 10 30 wears ago
Denmark saved herself from decay al
.he end Of The nineteenth Gentry. and
Australia and New Zealand. by low
ring farm credits. helping co-opera-
i've ventures. and colonlzing millions
" acres have repeOpled their lands
With prosperous, self-respecting Will 7
nen.
1T means quick action. and mil
ions where we have spent thousands"
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