Nogales international., 1927-10-21
BY Arthur Brisbane

IN - AMA
BY Arthur Brisbane
KANSAS AND FRANCE
- The Difference
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On either side of the Santa Fe ex
press, in which this is written, the
corn fields and farmhouses of Kan
sas fly past. 1t is a country unlike
that through which the writei
drove few weeks ago in France or
the way from Paris to see Ciemen
ceau in his little cottage on the AT
lantic at Lejard, not far from
Bordeaux.
The trip through France, made il
an automobile, was as rapid as thii
trip by train. In France you drivs
your automobile as fast as you like
but TAKE CARE YOU HURT
NOBODY.
French roads are wide and straight
the car used by this writer came from
Nice to Paris, 900 kilometers. So
miles, in one day and did easily thi
400 miles from Paris to Lejard be
tween breakfast and dinner.
French drivers go rapidly, but care
fully; if they hit anybody the Law
hits them. A member of the Cham
Der Of Deputies went to jail for Q
year, all the influence of his friends
could not save him. He struck Q
child. B. Forman, of Rochester
N. Y, can tell you OF French
chauffeur accused OF intoxication
sent to Jail for ten years. He killed
a child. Mr.. Fornan saw the thing
happen.
Here in Kansas you see great trac-
tors providing power, machinery cut
ting and binding corn, great engines
binding, threshing wheat, and tying
the grain III sacks, all in one oper-
alton -
In France occasionally you would
see a peasant and his wife cutting
their grain with sickles in small fields
Of irregular shape Fields were har-
vested with scythes. Here and there
teams of horses drew moving ma
:hines. Power driven agricultural
machinery was not seen between
Paris and Lejard.
Where mowers had passed you
night see old grandmother and her
title grandchiId bending over, pick
ng up wisps of grain with the right
and, putting them in aprons held by
me left hand.
A hundred such cleaners were sea
in a days drive. They were lcA
fortunate than Ruth, their cleaning
meaqre. There was no Boaz to com.
mand his young men, saying, Let hel
CLEAN even among the sheaves and
reproach her not; and let fall also
some of the handfuls on purpose fo'
her and leave them that she may
CLEAN them, but rebuke her not"
With hand rakes the old grand
mother and the little girl could have
gathered all the gleanings in shor
time, but that evidently was not al
lowed. Cleaning must be done b.
hand, the old body must stoop, ant
stoop all day long to pick up stral
straws. When the grain had goni
from the field an old shepherd woult
bring his little band of sheep. Thea
would walk through the stubble eat
ing the over-ripe grain that had fallei
from the ears. Other bands of sheel
led by an old man or woman witt
dogs to help, ate the grass along tha
highway edge. No sheep ever strayet
onto the road before the automobiles
Dogs prevented that, and the sheer
seemed trained Beautiful animals
admirably kept. they waste nothing il
France.
Here in rich America you rid
miles through unending fields of corr
or grain, pass great herds of heavy
steers, deep in grass and tens o
thousands of acres not used.
In France they use every foot o
ground, waste. nothing, not food o
human labor, men and women worl
long hours, work hard with patienct
The peasants houses are beautiful
and old, their animals we'll cared fol-
Along the coast of Brittany and th
Vendee, men and women and chill
dren work side by side. Men repai,
at low tide, their fish nets colore
light blue. The fishermen say "fs
like color" On the fat lands yo
see little mounds of salt taken fror
the ocean by imprisoning waters !
shallow pools for evaporation.
Once ia Gabeile," a heavy ta
on salt, dressed the mistresSes o
French kings and made life easy TO
three lucky classes, royalty. clerg
and nobility. 1t was death to tn
peasant to escape "La Gabelie" b
taking his salt from the ocean.
Conditions are better now. tn
kings are sleeping in St. Denis, tn
few whose homes were not scattered
during the Revolution. There ar
more schools than chateaux, NOR
public libraries than gallows. Tn
Deasant is no longer forbidden to xii
animals that ate his crops bscaus
lords and ladies wanted the pleasur
of ridi.g over those crops to kill tn
animals themselves =
But in every French family ther'
in mourning. Each earnest hard
faced French woman tells you hoy
many sons or brothers she had "lett'
e..
A VOTE FOR PAVING IS !
VOTE FOR A GREATER N0G
ALES.