Milford chronicle., 1920-07-30
MOVEMENT FROM FARM TO
CITIES Is BEING CHECKED
PASSING OF A CONDITION THAT THREAT
ENED SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES TO
The NATION.

"The movement from the farm {,
the city is ending. The lure of higl
wages in the cities is vanishing. Tn,
farm family's ambition to accummu-
late enough of this worlds goods tc
permit of retirement to the nearby
town or the city is giving way to a
much healthier view" says W. H.
Roberts, general sales manager. OF
the Willys Light Division of the
Electric Auto-Lite Corporation, Toll
edo, Ohio.
"The change is coming about none
too soon. 1t is estimated that there
is a shortage of 100000 farm labor
ers in this country alone. And this
at time when the need for greater
production, especially in the products
of the farm, was never so vital to
the nations welfare.
"The change is coming about be-
cause farm women and young men.
familiar with the standards and
comforts of life in the better class
small town and the city, have
found opening to the country the
means by which to realize these COM
forts.
Farm families are finding the
happiest retirement right on the
farm amidst congeniai surroundings
where they can continue and enlarge
the activities to which they are ac-
customed
"This change has come about
largely through what historians in
a few years will call the electrical
and gasoline age. And truly. that's
what it is. Farm house drudgery has
given away before what might be
termed power housekeeping. Farm
drudgery has given away to power
farming.
"The advent of the automobile, the
good road the telephone, has solved
many of the social problems of rural
life. These have put farm families /
socially in touch with their neigh /
bors and with nearby towns chang I
ing the trip to the city from a matter (
of days to a matter of hours.
"The development of the scientifi- /
cally lighted consolidated school has /
done much to satisfy the farm mo-
ther with rural educational facili-
ties. Increased farm prosperity is
not only holding young men and
women to the farm but it is enabling
them to attend agricultural colleges
and universities.
"And this increased farm prosper
ity has done more than that. 1t has
placed within the reach of the farm
home all of the advantages of the
city.
1T is a peculiar fact that the
chain of modern farm improvements
starts with the farm lighting system.
The wiring of the house and barn
and other buildings for light and
power lines, the installation of
water supply system and modern
oath room and kitchen necessarily
must follow.
Earlier types of power and light
ng plants made little impression
But today they have been improved {
o the point where they are almost !
"The Willys-Light plant, for exam
lie, is operated by a Willys-Knight [
sleeve Valve Engine. It's large bat {
cry capacity means enlarged ser Y
ice. It is so constructed that it
eeds little attention from one years
nd to the other except the ordinary
are that must be given batteries
nd working machinery.
yet, for one cent of cost, it will =,
Irnish electricity to operate a fiat
ron for Is minutes, to drive an
lectric cleaner over 400 square feet T.
f carpet, run sewing machine or
lectric fan for two hours or lift Il
DO gallons of water 100 feet. "
"It is the economy of labor now
ossible nthe farm with the add I,
L conyeniences, comforts and en- q
Urged social life possible that is
ringing about a change on the farm \,
)day that means so much to this n
1untry." q