Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1907 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Why Do Country Boys Flock to Big Cities? ( v are short of young men. social and financial considerations he rushes off -fxuaem. *° the great city. Very frequently he finds that ho is lonesomer there thaji at home—nearly always so; and even more frequently he finds that riches do not grow on ten story walls. BUT STILL HE GOES TO THE CITY. In going there the boy simply follows his daddy’s dollars. For years his daddy and his mother and his big sister and his Aunt Mary Ann have been mailing their money to the big city for Mail Order bargains. Result: Home merchants don’t thrive, grass grows in the streets, no jobs are to be had, no opening for a new business, and the young man goes to the city because it is a place where people have traded at home and built up their own community and provided opportunities for outsiders as well as for themselves. IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR BOY AT HOME BUILD UP YOUR TOWN SO THAT HE CAN BUILD UP HIS CAREER AMONG HIS HOME FOLKS.