The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-21

peer to be now. It was nuthing un- usuel for substantial citizun of the rurel district to rise about 5 a. m. and feed the stock, milk the cows, cut enuff stove wood to run the phase week-then eat his breakfast and fol- low a dun colored mule ovver and undulating landscape for the rest of the day-in fact, til the sun sank into the golden west without enny thought of Union hours.
 It is not thus now-that is not so thus that you would notice it. Most of our populasion used to be out on the farm-now they ain't that way. They air gradually going to town wheere they can see Mary Pickford and Dug Fairbunk and uther leed- ing lites and work ate hours per day for reguler pay. They don't seem to regard rising at daylite and cutting bryers out of fense cornur till the hoot owles start a consurt as enny Verry attractive occupasion as com pared with being a street car con ductor at SI cents an hour time and a half overtime and being at one and the same time in possission to sass the mannagemiht.
 The trubble is that the guvvermfnt has not dun enuff to encourage agg- ricIlture-aggricult if encorra ged. 9s charming occupasion. Theere can De nuthiDg moor attractive than butiful country estate with a large house and sellur liberelly stocked with hard sidur and uther luxuries, but lful red barn with a wind indicatur on it. and a litning rod on top, and large Seelds of waiving grain all reddy to be garnured as soon as you can get your garnurer working. It is nice to feel that you air free and indipindint with credit at the store and plenty of chickens and eggs and buttur. It is reel plesure to go forth on Sunday morning and milk the fammerly COW with frolicksum new calf who playfully chews the tails of your Sunday coat returning them to you in rathur moist condision but otherwise in good shape. It is genuine joy to go out on holiday when the boys air playing baseball at Tompkins cross roads, and annoy the innosent and affectionate boil weevil. or the fuzzy tobacco wurm, or the chinch bug or varus and sundry uther Of the insect life which delite in giving the farmur good time and seeing to it that he has plenty of useful and fnturresting exercise.
 It is a pleasent memory too. aftur one has passed into middle life. to look back ovver the past when he was a small lad on the farm He recalls how he used to get up early in the morning at the earnest and emfattick request of one or both of his parents and sally forth in the dew-and how fine it was to stop and lingur on his way to work in the turnip patch and tackle the well-known ruta bega in it's native lair. The ruta bega is not held in esteem by the arristocrasy, but i. is fovvorite in it's raw state by goats with good strong eonsti- tusions and the small boy Sumtimes it is conclusive to cramps, but not to an extint that uselly proves fatel.
 Then of corse enny boy born on the farm has much bettur chance to becum President than enny uther boy, born in enny uther way in the United States, unless he is actuelly born in the newspapur bsnezz in Ohio. It does seem that yung and ambisious married peepul would take | that into consideration; if they have enny pride whatever Tn theere posterrity--it does seems that they would arrange for it to be born in the rurel districts far rum the blzzy narts of trade. It seems to me that tnlS IS gOOO proper SdnuuT .oI the departmint of agriculture to use in it's campaign of Back to the Farm
 If the guvvermint would get bizzy and tell the peepul of the various and sundry advantages of which menny of them air ignorent, no doubt, we would be abul to stimulate an ,inturrest in rurel life which is se- riusly threatened by the white lites and the moovies. Unless sumthing is dun it is becumming apparent that peepul who have been brought up in lxury and refnmint will actuelly be compelled to go to work. Sumboddy must raise fresh vetabulls and con densed milk or we perish; if all of us air going to get jobs with the guv- vermint and ware good clothers week days it is obvious that corn on the cob and cabbage will continew at a prise that makes Liburty Bonds pix ,irst
 Let us hope that this immigrasion toward the towns and cities will ceese Our peepul air rong-life in the country is moor conclusive to long evvity-and to peese and tranquility city life IS a delusion and snare beware of tableware now. before lots evverlastingly too late. I know lots of peepul who refused to beware. To- day they have a jobsas floor walkur in a. ten sent stoor. and pay 15 each for ovver-ripe tomatows.
 YOllrS trODlv BIJ.Jy WINES.