The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-03-13

FARM RELIEF

As. the North Coast Limited swung
around out of Fargo and headed west
the girl who occupied lower II was
just returning from the dining car.
! That mysterious law known as CEN
trifugal force nearly landed her in the
| lap Of the young commercial traveller
| who was busily engaged in manicur-
Ing his finger nails in the con1part-
ment across the aisle but luckily she
caught herself just in time. She had
| boarded the train the evening before
at Chicago and as she resumed her
seat she exuIted in the knowledge
that on this, her first trip out of the
| city she was really going out into the
great wide open spaces. When he
took her. ticket, she told the Pullman
conductor that she was ON her way
out west to visit her aunt Minnie,
who lived on ranch near Roberts,
Montana.
CHANGING out the window her atten-
| ton was attracted to field of gel
low grain. whats that?" she ven
tured to inquire of her neighbor a.
cross the aisle. Wheat" he an
swered, as he continued to pick. at
himself. 'sAnd what's it good for?"
she asked. ''To make bread out of,
he CURLY answered Really" she
said, Il always thought they made
bread out of flour" The fat woman
in the next seat forward Uttered.
Shaping her seat mate on the knee,
she said so everyone around could
hear, We make bread out of dough
at our house."
Possibly the foregoing is mere fic-
ton. But what's the difference, it
serves a purpose. The point is, like
the stories told by the six blind men
who examined the elephant, it all
depends on the piont of view.
For instance, twenty or more years
ago the farmer and the city man were
almost complete strangers. They
were about as much alike in their
habits and way Of thinking as day
light and dark. The farmer consid-!
cred the ordinary city man slicker,
who was about half way between a.
pick-pocket and porch climber,
the city man was raised in the belief
that every baby born on farm came
into the world with corn tassels in his
hair and a long stem of timothy hay
sticking out Of his mouth. They
thought that when the child grew up
he would wear a crop of long bushy
whiskers and if one threw pebble
into them he was almost sure to scare
up a field mouse and couple of
meadow larks.
But times have changed; now the
leading business men of the city were
raised on farms and vast number
LOT present day farmers first saw the
light of day in one Of our great cities
and became agriculturalists, because
of the independence" incident to rur-
al life with the golden sunshine, the
pure air, the bird song and sweet
wild flowers and all that. But I
won't go into that phase of my sub
ject now. Far be it from me to de-
cry sentimental vistage Of the hap
by days down on the farm. If II
did | fear might smear the picture
with actuality, such as mentioning
milking eleven cows before breakfast,
spending much of the night irrigat
ing the fields, fixing the dod-gasted
fence where the neighbours cows broke
in and destroyed the growing grain
and working seventeen hours a day
to save sufficient of the crop from the
drought, the grass hoppers and the
sheriff, to support and educate the
family.
No wonder the farmer has organiz-
ed unions. No wonder he is raising
the standard of his livestock
and poultry; no wonder he is studying
collective bargaining and pure seed
and crop rotation. No wonder he
asks relief and why shouldn't he de-
nand more equitable freight rates to
market his. products? He has been
forced to do 50. He is simply mani
Testing the instinct of self preserva-