The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-04-15


published herewith will undoubtedly
be of keen interest TO all Kenoshans
who are interested in the vital prob
lem of making the community life of
young people in town and country
more congenial and happy. The letter
is written by young man who for
merly lived on farm and thoroughly
enjoyed the outdoor life and the work
but found the social phase so utterly
unsatisfactory that he was driven TO
the city to seek work that was less
congenial. but was Offset By vastly
more congenial surroundings intellee-
tually, and socially. The heart TO
heart message from the city lad who is
yearning for the open fields, the flow
ers, the woods, and who rebels against
the city's smoke and madly hurryinl;
crowds, is as follows:
Dear County Agent: Maybe this viii
interest you; you may smile, you may
scorn, you may wonder, But if your
farmers need help as reports say they
do, you won't find too much fault.
am, aged so, 100 pounds, feet
nine inches, have no defects, and en-
Joy good health. ordinarily. / have
good habits, and live quietly.
am ami experienced and successful
farmer, an unfortunate (smsu collegel
teacher, and somewhat of writer
Farming is really my "trade," for in
that could be sure of economic ex-
istenee, while in the others l might
likely starve. AT present am getting
a living by sorting mail in the Chicago
postofaee. Lately worked for the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber company
in Akron, Ohio.
Average Pay in CITY Is Low.
/ cannot find any city work that is
not physically more exhausting than
work on the Northern dairy, grain or
fruit farms. am more tired from
sorting mail for eight or nine hours
land going and coming to work. than
l ever was after milking twenty cows
by hand night and morning, and draw
ing manure through the day. However
twenty cows are too many for one man
30 milk. AT present average wages out
side Of the monopolistie unions (hrick
laying, ete,l in Chicago are about fifty
cents an hour; most ordinary workers
doing work that is not inhumanly ex-
hausting set less than Sit0 month
After paying board. room rent, clothes
bills, care fares etc, one cannot have
more than $50 Of this left, if he has
that There are few we'll paid pest
tions and few higly paid trades; but
the rings don't allow many outsiders
10 get into she profits of these.
haven't gotten in yet.
II one is farm worker by the month
he will probably have an easier time
and set as much money as NEST city
workers. who must always be on the
edge Of existence. IL he is farm
propristors, and at an able. ne Will
SO far ahead 81 the city worker.
Considers Farm Work Joy,
have often done farm work when
I thought il i JOY, the ,sxhilisrsting
beauty Of the sunrise landscapes, the
pleasing variety Of work. always differ
ing from hour 70 hour and from day
20 day, the rich fulness Of the fields
with their myriad plants and flowers
&nd listle seeds on fruits, the dunk
but appreeiative e0mpsnieRship Of
horses and cattle and sheep, the eeas,
less panarenas Of nature that puts on
5 new screen every day or two, to the
observing nature lover, the visible
I results Of work wherein one's efforts
seem actually to count in productive
ways these and . thousand other
Thugs about q farmstssd are q source
of endless Joy, Sometimes in THE
ReeaEse Of the lepgest haying period
on a northern farm, have thought
such Invitations frora nature were sui,
6eiant 10 hold me among themselves
through life, Yet This need did not
last. Why2 Well, two thousand years
ago Cicero spoke raUeA truth when he
ssi6 thst all tbs beauties ef the uni
verse sud those Of heaven itself, wealG
be dreary If enc cid not have . friend
with whena to share his Joys.
Wants Yeang Companions
In The serenity &c an evening on !
farm three rafles from any real GEM
maaity center. Que has s lonely feel
ing that books viii not asSasge. There
/ are people i'm tbs household. sometimes
couple well along in yssrs, kindly
honorable. Sympathetic in their way
able to give one q good n1eal out q
gratitude, but enable 70 feel SOU
ehst hangers for certain kind Of cora
partnership, Or 1T may be young
couple absorbed III paying for then
fsrna. weary ey caring for two babies;
they nean wen. but they cannot Ga6st
my longing for coed talk, or tbs
desire to know what ether men airs
doing. Once III q while there is :
yeoag man, say twenty yves he is wei
disposed, but he has the only girl u
the aeighbQrhee8 and perhaps i'm the
scwaShip On hls a5n5, and rasee sny
way his interests srs different from
n1lns that be is ne companion There
May be nefgAeerfng boys. bat thers
are ne girls for the1a. 50 they sc Il
3 erosS-rcads store an6 smeke and tsls
18lyS can eae ~eemm0nlcate the joys
cs bis l}fe to them r. my it and see
Nesrs ago there used to be. SO it {.
sa1e, see0t IS 1asRy yaaGg 1gcnaen il
the country and I'M SnaaGl villages 3:
there are young naeas that was eeSOre
every she2 s@a factory ard store q
the large towns and cities h9ng OF
siga sglras wanted Sat row "a
unmarried girl past n1nstsen I'M the