The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-12
INDIVIDNALS BEATING THE DEPRES
 SION FOR THEMSELVES.

One hears lot these days about each individuals sbeating the depression" for himself, and of the movement from metropolitan centers to rural sec tions They one, for the movement back to the soil is the result of the purpose of individuals to escape the non employment of the cities, the desire to beat the depression Down South, in the State of Washington and elsewhere in the country there is some semblance of organization in the movement of people to the soil where individuals might make living for themselves and watch the world go by It does not require great deal of cash to exist if one land where he can raise vegetables fruit etc. and produce poultry, eggs, milk, butter and other foodsuffs.
 This is probably the behind the fact that movements industrial centers to the land have followed practically every depression the country has had Overcrowdng in the cities has sent people into the country.
 One reads lot about the return to the soil in Southern papers, and the pictures they paint of the movement are attractive. For instance, the fol- lowing from the Miami Fla, News:
 Tn the woods north of Waycross Penn syvanian with one leg and a wife and two babies bought 10 at $25 acre, front ing the speedway miles from town He built an up-and down board cottage with porch. Beside it he built little up-and-down board store He set up gas pump and stocked up with paper shell oceans and chocolate bars He clears his 10 acres while his wife tends the babies and the business. Three or four tlmeS a QaY IaVeler grows aTxlOuS
 at that particular point about his gasoline supply. While already stopped for fuel, he is apt to fulfil his gathered resolve should he ever have the chance without special application of the brakes, to take home sample from Georgia's empire of oceans.
 The net for the day will be dollar or so. With the help of the COW in the woods and the crop from the 10 acres by the road, that is wealth The investment of the trans planted Pennsylvania farm, home, store and all, is about $1000 While yesterdays multi millionares lie awake this Georgian, econ- omically dug in, sleeps the sleep of security. Another movement to the country that is being encouraged is that of those of modest means spending vacations travelling in motor along the fine country roads that traverse the Nation and where one may live in comparative comfort. Again quoting the Florida paper
 In Florida Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio alike, from southern to northern lake the brands of candy bars, gasoline oil, hotel soap, automobiles, dentfrice and everything AS an economic melting pot the United States is homogeneous perfection. AS to language, there is still of local sovereignty. The lady in the way side restaurant sells northern choclate bars but complains because her who lived in the North for awhile, persists in talking that queer northern brogue." She had quit farming for town life. In the country, she says you work hard and don't have any money but you have plenty to eat. In town you work hard and have lots of money but you spend it all for something to eat
 In Georgia, for your delight, you almost anywhere, in the neighborhood of meal time, find hot cornbread to dunk in your milk.
 Hotels the big ones, have stopped charging a baby's ransom for a square meal The low cost fair-t good food of the way side inns may have something to do with that And the hotel with bath bids vigorously in price with the tourist cottage. Food everywhere is cheap and, if you have little money plentiful, in the resort towns It is buyers market. What with roadside stands at every jump, the compet- ton is fierce.
 However, this sort of speculation does not in Alaska particularly in Juneau and vicinity, what it does to those in the East. All JuneaueS and those of Southeast Alaska need do to beat the de- pression is to stay at home and live normally. By doing that they may keep employed and support local industries and activities and help to give employment to others. People in this country some times do not realize how fortunate they are to be Alaskans.