Life is something more than a matter
of business. No man can make his life what it ought to be by living it
merely on a business basis. There are things higher than business. What
is the reason for the enormous movement from the farms into the cities?
Not simply that the business advantages in the city are better, but that
the city has more conveniences, more excitement, and more facility for
contact with friends and neighbors: in a word, more life. There ought
then to be attractiveness in country life such as will make the country
boy or girl want to live and work in the country, such that the farmer
will understand that there is no more dignified calling than his own,
none that makes life better worth living. The social or community life
of the country should be put by the farmer--for no one but himself can
do it for him--on the same basis as social life in the city, through the
country churches and societies, through better roads, country
telephones, rural free delivery, parcels post, and whatever else will
help. The problem is not merely to get better crops, not merely to
dispose of crops better, but in the last analysis to have happier and
richer lives of men and women on the farm.
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