Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-02-02
BACK TOLAI|IND'
FORAREIIER
NATION
c. n. S. to Launch Sampaign to Put
Idle Lands to Work Throughout
e. s.
Salvation for Thousands and a New
Wealth for Nation to Be
Reward.

Man is of the earth and from the
earth he will never be free as long as
life lasts.
In seeming recognition of that paren
tage the earth gives to man nearly
everything that he holds dear, certain
ly everything that is required to sus-
tain life. In the modern complexity of
living man has grown away from the
earth and its bounty and gathered in
cities, depending upon the labor of
other men for the actual production
of life's staples.
The greater grow the cities the great
er the demand upon those who are left
to wrest from the soil it's treasures
and the greater the cost of that opera
ton. The wealth of the land is not
exhausted, its power of production not
lessened, but the doctrine of swift
wealth and city luxuries has fallen
upon too many ready ears. Every city
and town today is dotted with men who
are finding both hopes unfulfilled and
the struggle for existence 30 be more
bitter and the strain more intense, and
sustained than ever was known to
those who stayed by the soil
Those Idle Lands.
In almost every section of the Unit
ed States there are areas of idle land
whose total acreage runs into almost
unbelievable figures and whose wealth
lies ungathered, whose possibilities are
ignored and whose very dormant condi-
ton is giving rise to much of the op-
preston of poverty and economic de-
preston that frowns upon our nation.
America found its power and it's pros
perity in the first place in the land and
America must go back to the land to
retain that power and regain that pros
perity.
Community News Service in ta''s;rg
up the problem of the empty lands.
the untitled fields, the ignored posi-
bilities, is following out it's policy of
building bigger and better America.
a happier nation because the family
unit is happier, its policy of construc-
ton and education, the policy that has
brought to its support the finest brains
IN the nation and gathered under it's
leadership as contributors by word
and deed the greatest leaders in indus
trial and educational America. Just as
Community News Service is advocat-
ing and working for better transporta
ton, better roads, home making and
building, community interests, cleaner
politics and more sympathetic indus
trial and labor relationship, So is it
adding the back to the land movement.
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