The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-08-07

An watched rs the world went by"
The trouble with the economic theory of life is that it isn't So
People don just naturally do things to their economic advantage
they're swaycd much more by sentiment aud folly and idcalrsm and
love aud pleasure than they are by money.
And that's why you can't get the people of the swarming tcne.
mcnts to go to the farms They'd have more money, better food,
stcadier employment-but they wouldn't like it, Aud they wouldn't
like it because they be lonesome. And if YOU consider The life of the
average Stun dwelcr in any big city you1l understand that
In a crowded block of tcncmcuts in New York, for instance, there
will be from one thousand to ten thousand people Without ever 20.
ing out Of that block-and hundreds of those people never do-a
tenant in one of those rookeries is part of a continuous drama of
hrobbing life.
Life is intense, dramatic. colorful, vivid. It's ever changing and
ever new. And in spite Of the ovcrcrowding, the undnpaying. the
dirt, disease and CRIME and dire poverty, the tone of it all is gay!
Don't forget that-gay!
Then why marvel that when a family from such q maelstrom Of
life is transported to the devastating loneliness of a farm or a TINY
hamlet it is miserable. that it pines for starvation aud company, that
it fairly witlcrS up without the tonic of human contact. What is a
filled stomach and a warmly clothed body and a clean bed if you're
loneyi
What are you going to do about it, thcn' Take the city to the
land
With the development of the automobile aud the truck there is no
longer any need for dinky, drab country towns. Nor is there need
for the isolation Of farms.
Take a. community of five thousand people right out of the tcnc.
mcnts Of New York; organize that community under the direction of
able agricultural experts plant it in the center of a great farming
area; and you would make that land to blossom as the rose while the
people of the community enjoyed nearly all the human society and the
color and excitement of thronging life that characterize the cty'
Every morning from that little city the motor truck, could take
their laborcrs to til" farm lands within a radius Of - mile, Ever
evening those trucks could bring them back.
City people commute from the farms, why shouldut farm people
commute from the cnyG
Such a community could farm ON q great cooperative scientific
scale that would make our present methods look a]utcliluyau #
|could own tractors, thrcshcrs, binders gang plnwS aud machinery Of
every sort-rn It's own elevators, ITS own cattle yards It's own can
IucricN
with plenty of capital and proper handling this sort Of enter
prise would succeed financially and humanity It would be tn" greatest
Iadvancc IN economic proc"Iur" IN " hundred year, of agricultural
history.
For it would recognize the fundamental fac, that man is q con,
pauyluyug creature, and instead oi taxing for It, would convert ihi
quality into comfort, happucs, aud wealth for tho." who now must
choose bctwcon, starving physically in the city o starving for com
lpauonship on the farm.
For folks H folks and aumra R sumr# when ,I uH said and done
And when II romcs tu company the fuka be- better fun"