Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1914 — WHO CAN DIG IT OUT? [ARTICLE]

WHO CAN DIG IT OUT?

Farmers today are put to their wits end to know how to keep the young men in the country. No one seems to be able to solve the problem, and yet it must be solved or a few more years will see the farms almost completely depopulated ________ AND THE NATION IS DEPENDENT UPON THE FARMS. Young men are leaving the farms day by day because the life is too dull for them. They are intelligent, ambitious, full of life and spirits, and crave a more active career. They rush to the cities in the belief that fortune awaits them there. But ninety-nine out of every hundred become simple cogs in the great commercial wheel, . making barely enough to keep soul and body together, and NEVER SAVING A DOLLAR. There IS a remedy somewhere—some means certainly exists for keeping our young men on the farms, WHERE THE NATION NEEDS THEM. Who can dig it out?