The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-15


They light up a. dollar cigar n say, "Wha'C
yer farm cost we last year?" They run {
farm jest like they do yacht. It's wha
the books calls a visible symptom Of
wealth. But it amt any good fer the farm
business, an it amt any good fer tn,
people that lives around sech localities
1t jest makes a lot of buffers an footmer
out of EN-, an they spend their hull eter
nal time figgerin' how they can git some
more O. their boss's money away from him
without givin' nothin' back. Before the
city millionaires took TO farmin' two OF
three thousan' acres over week-ends with
golf sticks an a corkscrew We could git a
country felisr in them sections to do a
days work at a price a farmer could afford
to pay. But not any more. To git any
help to cit yer crops in we've got to com
pete with Wall Street in the labor market
So its both ends ag'in the middle. What's
left is TIE rumnlies from the crossroads
store or the rummies that comes from
somewhere's else driftin' along the road
tryin to keep outa work. So yet see the
new ideas of easy money has upset the
home life an the neighborhood life that
used to keep the country folks content an
happy The city keeps singin' the SONG
OF money to 'em an young folks won't set
around an shovel manure year in an year
out watchin' the hills an wishin' they was
on the other side of 'em. They jest git III
n so to the cities. where they kin see an
hear money bein spent an git the sound
of people.
Ii all runs down the country an makes
farmin' harder an more costly, an cuts
down the acreage that's put to the CROWN
of food. The hull thing seems to me like
a disease that's spreadin' farther an far
Their every year. an every idle acre an
every rusty pillow spells higher prices on
the vittles the city man has to buy II
amt good, an if there don't rise up a
Moses pretty soon that kin manhandle this
proposition without thinkin' of his own
pocket an the pockets of his political party
somebody's goin' to go hungry
Ye can't expect the uneducated poor in
the big cities TO have any idee about the
raisin' of the food or the marketin' of it.
an what it means to them an their
families. when the most of the educated
class is ignorant as cigar store Injuns
about the hull business. i know a man in
New York-a business man who does a
couple o. million dollars in his line He's
a furriner. but he was educated in England
an France, an he was in a bank in Eu-
rope. Altogether he's a high grade Teller
most every way. l was in his store one
day, an he says: Il always ben interested
in farmin. If | kin git this business where
1 want ii, an where l kin leave il. I'm
gonta git myself farm for my old age
The trouble is he says, Il don't know
anything about it. I'd have to git some
body to run it,"
There's where your troublesn begin
L says; you git one o. these here farm
managers an you'll wish you was back
here sellin' carpets an furniture. with bust
ness at a stan'stin an yer credit shut of
al the bank"
But, good Lord, the ignorance that fogs
up the hull business amt all i'm the city and
its slums. 4 lot o. farmers amt more'n
TWO jumps ahead of a jellyfsh when ii
comes to reasonin'. There's Dane Kinnick
that lives back on the erik. He's accounted
quite Teller over there. Fer two years
before the war we had drought till the
meddeIs was all burned TO a cnder an
we had to drag water from the lake to
water the bosses. Dane come down over
the hill one day, drivin' bunch O. calves
he couldn't find pasture fer an stopped
TO water EN- at our spring. that never runs
dry. He was good n ugly. N ranted on
inch high Yes. Dane" l says, Its pretty
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