The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-02-10

tie with that which others may claim
as useless and vaIueless. My wife,
but a tiny city woman, is with me on
this to see me thru it. We are going
to see it thru, be it one way or be il
another but Lord help us it shall be
the honest way.
To the eager reader, the little far
mer, who for four years of adversely
found but calloused hands to pay for
his labor, let me state that such cal
lousness is the sign of the noblest of
work. Work that is not so grand be-
cause of the independent life it may
offer as it is because of something
constructive that is really being ac-
complished; something that tends to
increase the welfare of the people
on earth; something that says in its
little way to the world: "Thou shalt
not want nor starve for we are toll
ing that our brethren shall but better
live" By the way, can you think of
a better occupation where your con
science will not have the sting of
living as a parasite on what others
have by hard toll produced? Can you
think of a better occupation where
you get, for hard work done, better
natural compensation, namely, a
quiet, restful nights sleep?
R,1cicacr ur,fl, I'll f%- xxro,,iae J., "
rightly have its worries because so
much of it is usually built on non
productive, non-constructive basis,
and lives a. a parasite on what others
produce by honest labor.
Maybe you want to know, still fur
Their, what farming really means to
me? What a full days work, three
square meals, granting me a good
nights sleep, means to me? 1t means
to me a good deal of vigorous red
blood supplying the system in its red
ness, vitality and clearheadedness. 1t
means to me, as / till the soil, the
closest harmony and communion pos
sible with III creator, unless it be
when man spends his life time in the
search of that, which our creator
wants man to search for to make
mankind wiser.
1t teaches me to be saving, not
only in that which | produce but that
with which production is possible;
namely, myself. Hence it teaches me
me to know myself. By far the most
important thing it teaches me is to
know my vitality, what saps it, and
wherein to save it. 1t teaches me
land that with one hard days work.
that certain things sap vitality on
which, by the way, the world looks
rather lig~htheartedly. That particu-
lar thing is the secret, clouded cor
ners of sexual affairs, made to look
all the darker because of the BIAS
phemous wickedness of it all.
1t teaches me hat continent life is
the most beautiful life and anything
less than that is waste of humanity.
It teaches me all this, in contradic-
ton to the many medical theories
and general foolish notions that so
much of mans sexual wickedness is
essential TO mans healthfulness, for
of work, healthful thoughts, among
these the s~ancity of women, will car
me thru continent HE a consid-
cradle further than anything less
than this.
If such life is unnatpral, then life
in unnatural, for it's this where
Of life first came, endured and grew.
At present, at times we even ques-
ton ourselves as to whether life is
growing.
Do you see then what farm life I'M
to me. Let the wicked man
wish sunless, indoor activities, his
sweets, his drinks, his shows, his par
les, which but undo him physically
md morally.
Now little farmer farmer of lit
lie means) have you gotten the idea
Why to me farming is a blessing. To
Tou then little farmer, that's just
bout on the verge of getting dis
outraged and bent on leaving, I saw:
CONSOLE yourself, for even though
are hard up, many in this world
re worse off. If you stood it thru
he bad you can stand it thru the bet
er, profit by your experience and be .
and if you like farming for the
axe of farmers life you will not, for
eneral purposes, find a better place
han right here.
Let this be an Introduction to what
our years of thought, direct applica-
on and study of this country have
rought TO me. Now then to the an
reader who is anxious to fol-
w me up in the Forum, as a means
identification | will sign as Fool
h Piper"