Milford chronicle., 1926-11-19
MILFORD, FRIDAY, NOV. l9, 1926
THERE is A GENERAL lnclina-

Z :. tonic get away from farming anu
some of the professions. existing
among the youngsters who attend the
public schools. In several places at
tempts have been made to get data
and facts as to why and to how
great extent this inclination has
place in all parts cf the country
The New York Times analyZes the
problem editorially and says: That
California has made survey of the
high school boys and girls of hve
States and deduces from his figures
that students of that age contemplate
almost any other occupation after
leaving school than farm work or
the ministry. Although he found
that many of the children came from
rural districts or were still living on
farms, they had every intention of
getting away to the city to "gen-
tleman's job" Among the $4,000
who were questioned, only seven
boys announced plans for entering
the ministry.
Yet to judge from the statements
of these children that in short time
our farming population will be re-
duced to the extent indicated seems
hasty. Lists of candidates for the
ministry, which may be seen in cat
alogues of theological seminaT1es'
show that many youth who may
have thought of some other life
work while he was in high school
must later have changed his mind.
Adolescents, tasting for the first
time the comparative freedom offered
by the high school, are often day
dreaming of the wonders they are
going to accomplish after school
days are over. If they are ambitious
their imagination leads them to
pinnacles of fame and fortune such
as they have never been able to Wis
ualize in the everyday surroundings
of home. But after few years of
actual struggle with the beginnings
of life, their aims become, not nee
essarily lower, but more practicable.
1t is idle to expect lad of 16 to have
his mind fixed unalterably on the
goal of lifetime of work.
Another point makes the infer
ences from this survey questionable.
The States selected for the inquiry
were California, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Re-
suits tabulated from group in
which New England, the South and
the Middle West are unrepresented
should not be taken as characteris-
tic of the whole country. In such
States as Indiana, where school gar
dening and farming are done by
boys and girls of the elementary
grades, and where a strong interest
is felt in the scientific agricultural
work of the universities, a similar
canvass might yield different con-
clusions. Great changes have taken
place everywhere in agricultural
production, and others are constant
ly being planned to make farm work
and farm life more attractive. But
the need of greatly speeding up the
process simply because the youngs-
ters of five States think they prefer
city jobs cannot be so pressing as
this particular educator thinks.
SO@
A NOTABLE CHANGE may be
seen in the trend of advertising now
adays. Not so many years ago, the
really big advertisers were patent |
and baking powders. To-
day, financial advertising is featur-
ed because the public has more mon
ey to invest; wage-workers who in |
the old days barely existed, today |
have a surplus. Prosperity is gener-
al; there is at least a little money |
and the public has the
desire to invest. The old day of in
dividual ownership Of every business
is passing on. Men buy and sell col
lectively; they invest collectively, to
get collective service that no indi-
vidual capital could provide. They
buy as corporations, where the very
volume of the investment, and its
creed of universal service, makes it
more safe from radical forays of
every kind.
The corporations of today are
our" corporation; we-everybody-
finance their building and buy their
products from ourselves as owners.
Public ownership" is here in its
deal form. Railroads, big buildings,
oublic utilities, factories, improve
nent districts, schools, canals-a
things that used to be
nore or less exclusive picking for
he few political or financial giants,
20 today for the many without re-
ard to wealth or position.
america was never as truly Am
-;can as today, with almost every
.r,ily owning some form Of indus
,o1 security that pays profit This
aafe and sane condition. u