Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-04-09
rid of their present holdings. One

es let alone the interest on the
investment. If one has farm
and can do ones own work it is
alright; but if you have to hire
the work done, it won't pay out.
|That is fact; but it does not
1signify that land is not valuable
property. 1t is valuable and you
can buy it at your own price; that
/ is land not farmed by it's owner.
Now is the time to move away
! from that soulless city job out
/ into the wide and lovely country
and invest your money in a farm,
where you may enjoy life and
rear your family and grow indie
pendent. | say, now is the time.
Values are down lower than they
lshould be and lower than they
will be for a very long time. A
man that buys a farm now can
succeed if he has Suitability
and a few other qualities re-
quired in the man that tills the
soil. Many went out farming in
1919 and 1920 and bought land
at unwarranted prices, twice its
intrinsic value, they gave away
or worse, their lifes savings.
They lost everything and are now
down and out. Land suitable for
tillage on this sphere is limited,
only small percentage of it's
surface is habitable, and the hum
an race is increasing in number
very fast. The man that owns a
farm, owns something worth
while. We think that gold and
precious stones are valuable and
SO they are as long as the tiller
of the soil will trade his products
for them. Should he ever decide
that he didn't care for these
things their value would be gone
at once. Their true value lies in
the fact that they are scarce and
in the fact that all mankind is
more or less vain. But land has
an intrinsic value because it will
produce the sustenance of life.
The man who leaves his heirs a
piece of land, leaves them some
thing that is of real value, some
thing that insures them their
daily bread, all they have to do
to obtain the blessings of life is
work; and work is an essential
element in securing the state of
happiness, the state of being we
all long for. And he leaves them
something that cannot be lost or
squandered or stolen, unless his
heirs deliberately elect to do so,
and against that he can guard
them by giving them an educa-
ton along the right lines. They
should be taught to work; they
should be taught to beautify their
surroundings; they should be
taught to love the farm, their
village, their county, their state,
and this great nation of ours, and
they should be taught to embrace
all the world and its inhabitants
in their love; and that which
tends to better conditions of the
whole also will prove most bene-
fetal to themselves. They should
be taught that it is better to live
in a log cabin in a primitive way
where everything is paid for with
no liens or hypothecation attach
ling than in palace mortgaged to
the top of the chimneys with a
big library Uttered with unpaid
bills. They should be taught that
it is far more happy to walk
through the surrounding woods
on a Sunday afternoon than to
ride miles and miles over bond
ed highway in car for which
you have given your I. O. u, COM
ing continually due and the pay
ments of which are continually
worrying you and stealing all the
JOY lest you should fail to meet
them. They should be taught
that joy, contentment, and the
really big things in life are found
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