THE SEMI-WEEKLY ROBESONIAN.
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"BACK TO
THE FARM"
31. Restoring the Balance.
Back to the Land.
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1 y C. V. QOLGOIRY.
tt'cpyrJght, 1910, by American Press Association.
B have seen how the hich
cost of the necessaries of
life and of foodstuffs par
ticularly is the direct re
sult of the townward trend of popula
tion. The name cause is responsible
jor the terrible congestion of popula
tion in some parts of the great cities,
with the attendant disease and misery.
Such conditions are deplorable, the
jnore so because they are unnecessary.
There is enough food in the world for
all, enough shelter for all and enough
room for all. Men will come to learn
iiidoed. they are already learning
Hat they are paying too high a price
A COMFORTABLE FARM HOME.
for the privilege of living in the city.
The netting of the tide of population
toward the city began when the city
possessed some real advantages that
were not found in the country. To
day this condition is reversed. The
current still flows cityward only be
cause of habit. There is a tremendous
amount of inertia to be overcome be
fore the direction of the flow of hu
man beings will be reversed, but the
day of "about face"' is coming.
You may travel for hundreds of
ailes through the west, where broad
arable fields stretch out on every side,
with a population of not more than
four to the square mile. Even in the
fertile Mississippi valley there are but
twenty-five people located on each
nquare mile. In the east the country
lopulation is more dense, but here
there are thousands of quarter sec
tions and eighty acre tracts of land so
fertile that ten acres properly tilled
mean prosperity.
Contrast this with New York city,
with 12.578 people to the square mile,
or Chicago, with 11.448. 'The cities
boast f their size and greet each add
rd thousand enthusiastically. As well
might a sardine can ask to be parked
more tightly. The city is calling for
men that it does not need, for which
it has no work at living wages and no
room without crowding some one else
a little closer.
The country is calling for men call
ing with the voice of opportunity.
There is room for all and to spare.
Ihere is a good living for all and a
eurplus besides. The decentralization
of the cities, the movement to the
country, means saner, cleaner living.
There is less of strife and sordid self
ishness out in the open country, where
the grass is green and the twitter of
nong birds replaces the city's din. Chil
dren raised in the hayfields make the
men of brains and brawn for which
the world is calling. Out in the coun
iry it is possible for every man to
have a home. The humblest laborer
can be covered at night by his own
cottage roof. The future of the na
tion depends upon the preservation of
a pure and healthy home life, and no
where can this be so surely attained
ttH in the country.
A higher standard of living is pussi
iit to tbe man m the country, lie can
build a house for the price of two or
three years' rent in the city. He can
have fresh vegetables and fresh meat
and fresh eggs dh the farm that make
ihc canned and cold storage products
of be city a disagreeable memory.
Forty cent eggs mean doing without
o the average city dweller. To the
of the more specinc auvamages win
be taken up in later articles. From
the standpoint of the nation an in
crease in the number of people who
till the soil or who live close to it la
absolutely necessary. We might find
temporary relief by letting down our
tariff barriers to the wheat of Canada
and the cattle of Argentina, but sucn
relief would be only temporary. The
inflow of cheaper meat and bread
would but accelerate the growth of
the cities. When the limit of the pro
duction of Canada and South America
was reached we would face another
crisis of high prices, this time much
more serious than we are undergoing
at present. The only Way the price
level can be permanently adjusted and
lasting prosperity assured is by in
creasing the proportion of country
dwellers.
-At present there are too many drones
In the hives of industry. The unearn
ed increment, the rapid rise in real
estate values for which community
growth is responsible, has placed hun
dreds of thousands of people where
they can live from the proceeds of
rents live without working. They are
granted a perpetual tax upon the in
dustry of others on the necessity of
people to live. Legislation that will
put a heavy tax on this unearned in
crement will in a large measure right
this wrong and force the property
owners into productive labor. The
decentralizing of the cities will force
down the abnormally high rents and
help to thin the ranks of the people
whom excessive rents have allowed to
remain in idleness.
Aside from the people who do not
work, there is a vast army of nonpro
ducers who are supported by the men
who work at productive labor. Our
system of getting goods from producer
to consumer is needlessly expensive
and cumbersome. There are too many
middlemen on the way, who through
custom have come to think they have
a divine right to an easily earned share
of the consumer's dollar.
Much of this awkward system of dis
tribution has been made necessary by
the concentration of the manufactur
ing industries in large cities and by
the location of these cities without ref
erence to the markets for their manu
factured goods or the source of their
food supply. It has been estimated
that if Philadelphia were located close
to its food supply the cost of living jn
that city would be reduced 20 per cent.
The time has come for a radical re
adjustment of the system of distribu
tion. The consumer and the producer
must be brought closer together and a
large share of the energy wasted in
duplication and rehandling of products
turned into productive labor. As an
example, there are nearly 100,000 com
mercial travelers in this country.
These men are well fed and well paid.
The cost of selling goods through them
is enormous. The consumer pays this
cost in increased prices. The plan of
telling1 all sorts of goods in small quan
tities by personal solicitors is a rem
nant of the old days of cutthroat com
petition. It has little, if any, place in
modern business. Today business has
been put on a scientific basis. Consol
idation is the keyword of efficiency.
Consolidation has reached its highest
development in manufacture. Trans
portation is not far behind it. It is
time that competition the kind of
competition that fosters inefficiency,
duplication and excessive cost is elim
inated from the unproductive indus
tries. In the very nature of the case there
must always be a class of unproduc-
One of the chief factors in the way
of this enterprise and many others of
like nature is the discriminatory
freight rates which the railroads give
to the large cities. But this is a mat
ter that will be remedied in time. The
era of the open country and the coun
try town is dawning. The great city
has its place, a place which it will con
tinue to hold, but it cannot be the
dominating force in Amerces
can ic mucii lunger attract tne liower
of young manhood and young woman
hood from the country districts.
(Tojbe continued. )
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