PAGE TWO ... -|jgs tester-, were If sending oiir young folks away ried on through this spring and summer. FARM .CHILDREN J. HADLER tfi£ :tj|c tfeurg tfe They expect to determine the THE SOLUTION Fortunatelj^boweVjer, farmer* are flp be educated^does not gain ujt anythjng kind who were not ^contented to be awakening to tpie fact' that-/soil must in "our own communities if comparative damage "done before S^V-' poor in the stat^ or the foreign weaning, during' growth, find white M£%',%Acncult|ir«l HM«l Woiid Mako Fiurm be revitalized. JPubliC/opinion for? ignoring the possibilities of education, country from which the^ came. Since bids the burning of straw. Legumes is dangerous,v itf must be tele system the hogs are being finished for market. '•$$ Attractive to All A|M and Tlui— JnUrnational Stat® Bank BMg. ^'Solve a problem That Is Mora Gfaw have been put to making hay and they -were in their new homes to of education that is at fault. In order that conditions may be 1 •'S stay they set about" making their To Retain Color. comparable to those oon th^ farm 20 --T Than the City'Man Even Suspect*. nitrogen. Fertilizer companies are International Falls, Minnesota communities' fit places in which to doing business. Phosphate and lime 1 would not strike from the readers hogs will be used in each lot. A By J. R. HOWARD,,, stone deposits are being, distributed. live. i.|They built school houses and the romance and the glamour of the qhurches- at'the time they! broke Pisesident American Farm Bureau The( hilltop" eighties a?j being rejuvenated^ other worlds, but I would include the sod and put u^ bairns. The next Federation. k, Just asrthe land has been stories which throw a little coloraround. 3k* 4,.*?, generation took up community^ building devitalized ^ere and there a farm the farmers' lives. I .would community has wofn out. The church, atthepoint left off by their parents. -include in the geographies studied in Editors Note, '-r J. R. Howard is -president of the American. Farm, Bureau The old homestead was" kept doQr has been -nailed- shut. The the country schools a bit more of Federation, an. organization of American rural dwellers, of progressive, scjtool house is out of date. The in the family all members of which agricultural detaiL I should- like to 41 thinking farmers. "What he has started out equally. If anything, the see the beginner trace through the children of the old. homestead" have to say strikes a note that may, sound {Harming until one reads bis pilfered moved to town an the- farms are boy whose lot it was to stay at -home copy book some such sentence as, "I CURTIS HOTEL solution. The happiness of children on Th and run the farm was considered to now the abodes of: transient families am proud to be a farmer,'.' or "United the farm is a njatter that is djf vital importance to you. J-, be a bit" better off than thg ,boy who who hope to get .. enough ahead to we farmers stand, divided we fall." 1'" —r f\ had studied pedagogy or medicine,, or \r^ to to a so I would bring the -high schools within fi rjip. it Here and there a hilltop eighty has letters^Fortune had not. overtaken home distance of every country-boy^ TENTH STREET AT FOURTH AVENUE No nation has ever risen above the Minneapolis .- Minnesota J\yorn out and lies beneath the sun the pioneer people yet, but they reasoned an^ girl. I would put rural sociology level £f it? agriculture and the dead indifferent to the -seeds in its keeping, that it was a new country, and in every freshman course and continue communities scattered through the to the hungry who tramp over the future was premising. 1 Tha Northwest's Nmwott, and Largest Transient Hostelry the study throughout the* four United States are comparable to the it. Hills that never failed the buffalo About three generations away years. I would have our agricultural white alkali /patches! on the hilltop One whole city block of beautiful Lobbies, for nobody knows liow many from the pioneers the real exodus begins/A colleges teach marketing as well as eighty. g/igAnd if allowed to .spread Restaurants and Shops. thousand years are gray with the exhaustion little visiting back and forth production ,reaping as well as sowing. will ruin our country ju£t, as sure as Pipe Organ Music during the Noon luncheon hour. fe of extensive production. with the members oft the family who Orchestra Music at night during dinner. blight will wipe, out aft apple orchard. So long as the sod was unbroken ha£ cast their lot in the cities and I wish that there might be instilled Thl worst of it is that the worn A la Carte and Table d' Hote Service the fertility of the soil remained intact. towns makes the, children wonder if in the minds of all country boys and out community is riot necessarily the in the Main Restaurant. The pioneers who broke the the lot of "the brother to: remain on girls a' feeling of responsibility for one where the land is past production. TARIFFS seal found the soil richer than creation. the family homestead is the one to the farm—a feeling that no matter If that were the case the 76 Rooms, Private Baths, Single S2.00, For under the unhampered be cherished. PuT wha,t work they might take up they Double $3.00 building up .cf the soil would bring government of mother nature all A Shadowed Picture. owed a return to their country community a flow of new blood back into the 324 Rooms, Private Baths, Single 52.50, plants give 'back their surplus at the And by this time there is a little in service that they were Double $3.50 personel of the occupants. It is end of every summer. The first less hope for the future. Three or not #free from obligation until they often in our richest sections that the 202 Rooms, Private Baths, Single S3.00 W I wheat fi61d waxed golden on the four generations of unfulfillment is had paid back to country life the interest Double $4.00 human force of agricultural production N legacy of the frugal prairie grass. not very conducive, to the virility of on the capital they took—that Others en suite is at low ebb. The first corn fields spent riotously hope. The old homestead is rented the members of the family who go We are used to thinking when we the compounded interest of centuries to a class of people not quite ^progressive out to be lawyers and doctors and speak of agricultural production, of of the earth's careful savings of plant enough to get away. The merchants and bankers, realize that grain and lifestock, cotton and wool, food. All the farmers fed their community immediately loses much they wer^ indebted for their success lumber and fruit. But the open crops on the soil's store for so many of its stability. There is np community to the training and strength and ideals country has an important product in years before it became noticeable that pride for these people except they received from their rural environment FIELD AND GARDEN boys and girls who constantly feed the principle was being touched, that to move again in a year or so and and that even if they are our cities. the supply was unconsciously supposed naturally do not feel responsibility temperamentally and naturally unsuited Replated History, a SEEDS to be inexhaustible. We sowed in their temporary arrangement, And to take the lot of the man who The history of the pulseless community intensively, reaped bounteously, where the profits of the land must stays behind to feed the rest, "they is well known. The pioneer and Hhen burned the straw and the be shared between two families, the have a debt of honor to pay the one father who thrust his plow into the stubble complacently. So long as landlords and the tenants, there is who does, and that to the soil and the unbroken prairies was as vital as his the virgin qualities of the soil, under nothing left to devote to the ideal community they must give back. The acres. He has come to the new a system of wasteful soil mining, supported HUBAM CLOVER AND SEED CORN community center. 'The taxpayers tree takes food and sat) from the a relatively spare popuation country to make a home! His neighbors live awj^y from the land and are ground in the spring, gives service Our stock of Northern Grown dependable high-testing, were home builders, The noninterference we were not worried about the future. therefore not personally and subjectively to the world in the summer, and And now many an aenetnic field dots of the outside world, need interested in the church, schools then in the autumn drops every leaf hardy, recleaned Seed is complete in every detail. Our seed for protection- and common ideals, the countryside in mute reproach. and social phase of their neighborhood. back to the earth. Corn is all grown north of Pine river. You save one-half Thee is such a constant shifting of residents that organization is by buying your garden seeds in bulk. AGE WHEN PARASITES difficult. There are no local ^llurements DAMAGE HOGS MOST and ties and as soon as a member OUR MOTTO TO BE STUDIED rises above the level of his environment he goes to the rity where QUALITY SERVICE SATISFACTION mm Lice and internal parasites of hogs more is promised him, even if it is Write for Price List or Call and are known to cause great losses to not always given. Look over Oyr Stock pork producers, but little is known In the. meantime the descendants River Seed House about the period of the animal's life of the first farmers have either lost when the losses from these causes are out in, the demands of city life and greatest. To clear up this question are finding their mess of potMge as PINE RIVER, MINNESOTA. the Zoological ^Division of the United day laborers,pr they have prospered States Department of Agriculture are and forgotten the farm from tffiich co-operating on a test that will be car­ they received their birthright. And most of them do prosper. It has been said that 94 per cent of the leading citizens of one of our large Eastern cities were brought up on a farm. Of a group of 100 representative men, commercial and professional, in Chicago, I found that 85 per ill cent came from the country. More lUiiJ than 60 per cent of the men and women listed in .''Who's Who" are likewise from the country. The successful ones return to the country and build palatial homes and estates and constitute the highly educated landlord Glass.' is tl^e country slowly differentiating into this and the propertyless laboring classes? If America becomes the LUMBER home of landowners and peasants we will haVfe failed our Pilgrim fathers miserably and inexcusably. A Good Example. I have not been discussing the United States on an average. I have chosen the wornout community and the wornout farm as signals of danger ahead. Like we sometimes go through the/ barrel and pick out Have one of the Marswells Electric Wasting vW certain apples. Machine Booklets sent out with your next order. There is no doubt but that the root bf the evil is the prevailing economic Or, better still, come in and have us demonstrate to HE house vou build will tell the world, in so many words injustices dealt the farming industi*y. you the efficiency of this machine. Special safety, The farmers themselves are the ones —and in the end it will be either an asset—or a liability features, an all-metal wringer and automatic faucet who will have to change this system. a roomy one-piece seamless Copper tub, ihe cone Thy cannot all walk off and leave WT^'i. and agitator—these are features, we can show vpu it.1 Moving to town may solve the It is the decisions you make now, as to materials which go into that problems and better the finances of and which ate fully illustrated and described in house, that will determine whether or not expenses biegin or end, after it! the individual but toll will be taken this booklet, later 6n a national basis. has been lived in a year. For Further Parrticulars Call at The farmers who deny their children SHER BROS.' FURNITURE STORE the emancipation of liberal education likewise drain the fertility of In offering our services to you, we fed we are placing concrete assets the neighborhood. The physical labor is returned with ithe personal at your detposwl, because our experience with all kind of building materials International Falls, Minn interest in the individual farm the qualifies us to advise you judiciously. wheat is usually properly stacked and the hogs well housed. But these are the. farmers who ride the plow in THE DR. BURRILL DENTISTS disgruntled objection to the world market conditions with which they are unfitted to combat. Their, vision is as narrow as their lanes. They SHINGLES Successors to Dr. E. W. Bunco LUMBER are the formes whose blind refusal' MILL WORK to join in co-operative marketing, believe LIME K'Sf'%1' 311 Third Straet JeL 474 IntoMtidbil Fall* in the Farm Bureau, and be independent TIMETOSTOPPAYINGHIGH PRICESV INSULITE NOW is THE in politics, holds back ROOFINGS rural .progress. By the hardest work FOR YOUR DENTISTRY and the closest saving they usually manage to get more or less ahead Fail to Gel Oar Prices First It Pay® financially, but we do not go about & Coal Co. it in the way that benefits the whole ALL OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED FOR 10 YEARS community, vand there is no margin in their profits- for better community conditions. And where silos make Free Extnctfeto* 50 cents proud the landscape whije house and mmm DR. W. C. COVEY, Manager church and school squat apoHgeticalJv*.4n shadows there is tlo^eal -i iiM