Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1920 — WELL, DO YOU WANT GO BACK TO THE OLD TIMES? [ARTICLE]

WELL, DO YOU WANT GO BACK TO THE OLD TIMES?

A couple of young men drifted into town Tuesday asking for work. They didn’t have to whisper very loud to find it. They were ‘snapped up so quick they hardly knew they had thrown out the line. A gentleman came in at once and took them to the oats field. Time was, a few years back and not very far back either, when these men would have had to hoof It seven or eight miles and received in the way of remuneration $1.50 per day. Now the farmer comes in his six-cylinder car, whisks them to the field and digs down into his coon-skin for six bucks apiece per day, and mighty glad to get them at that. Things surely are moving at a rapid rate these days, and old Mother Earth will have to speed up a little or the population will get too fast for her. —Remington Press (Rep.)