The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-10-28
BACK TO THE FARM.

Inc nation is racing Crisis, thou
sands of men are without work and
an unrest is felt throughout the entire
country. We are in need of great
men with constructive minds and
craftsmanship, who will be able to
cope with the present situations.
The Republicans have chosen as
their leaders two of Americas great
est minds, one is the Secretary of
State and the other is the President
Today We are nation that is trying
to live upon past glories and tradi-
tons.
We are the richest nation In the
world and therefore the most powerful.
The War created a demand for men
to work in the shops of the city. 1t
was their patriotic duty to do so if
they could not enlist. The War de-
manded production and without pro-
duction we could not win the War.
The farms were vacated because there
was more money to be made in the
factories which were paying absurd
wages. But now there Is no need Of
this excess production. The War is
ended and the market Is gone.
Travelling through the country, farm
house after farmhouse is found vacant
and the fields growing rampant with
weeds. Naturally people must live
and to live we must have things to
live on.
The War and it's aftermath have
caused conditions of economic malad-
justments which are glazing defects in
the nations machinery and methods
which obviously call for an immediate
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to market their products. Potatoes
rot in the ground, corn mildews in the
field and live stock are worthless as
!, an investment on account Of the small
profit which the farmer derives from
his sale. During the war people in
gs.tM 'qn bsttng exefything and any
]. C 5HmrrSon iaborersadsessed IN better
clothes than. those of the educated
classes, and now With the factories
closing and thousands of men being
thrown out of work, makes condition
arise which seems to the average
mind, almost conundrum. The high
cost of living, the spread between pro-
ducer and consumer is the direct cause
of our present situation. If most of
us should again return to the farm or
the little village from whence we came
and again take up that life which we
left in the days before the war, Civ
ing our best to that work to which we
are suited and being faithful in the
performance of earning an honest
livelihood, we would find that condi-
tions would gradually adjust them.
selves and the, unemployed of today
would be the producer and the en-
ployer of tomorrow.
The Government has spent millions
Of dollars irrigating the arid lands of
the west and has spent millions of
dollars sending people to farm these
lands when hundreds of thousands of
farms throughout the east and south
and middle west are lying vacant and
uncultivated 1t is an unbeatable
fact that the farther we have to trans
port our foods the more It costs and
as the greatest part of the population
OF the United States Is throughout the
east and central part, why not have
our own farms reinhabited and again
cultivated by the people who with
their patriotic spirit, left their lands
when their country called, and have
them return with the same spirit of
patriotism with which they left, be-
cause the fight that we now face is
greater than we have ever faced before
Without the farmer the nation will
perish.
Let us remember that we are living
Tor the present and the future. Let
us forget the past, put our shoulder
to the wheel and keep this nation from
chaos and ruin and prove that we still
are the offspring of generation that
mas stood for liberty and justice for
all.