ADVOCATE AND GUIDE. 33 



To Modernize the Wheat Growers' Homes. 



Another important contrast between the homes of wheat 

 growers and of city business and professional men that is 

 causing dissatisfaction of farmers' wives and their college 

 educated children, is the lack of home modernizing on the 

 farms. When they experience once the comfort and con- 

 venience of a city modernized dwelling with its ever ready 

 electric or gas lights, furnace heat, hot and cold water, 

 inside toilet, bath, electric washer and wringer, electric iron 

 and fan, etc., they want to go where labor and service are 

 paid so well people can afford them. 



Why not bring those luxuries and comforts to the wheat 

 farms and satisfy your wives and children. Of course you 

 have no money under present conditions to pay for them. 

 But those conditions can be changed to give you wheat 

 growers the necessary income to modernize your homes. 

 The only way you can change them is to unionize to fix the 

 price of your wheat high enough so it will give you as good 

 wages and as good interest on your investment as the own- 

 ers of modernized city homes get for theirs. 



It is up to you to unionize for this reward that will be sure 

 to follow. All other classes of business and most of the 

 laborers have unionized to secure good wages and conditions. 

 Why not you? 



Equalizing Rural and Urban Advantages. 



Owing to unionizing both business and labor in cities to 

 increase their income and enable them to have better homes 

 and living conditions, the urban population is increasing 

 over three times as fast as the rural. While the United 

 States census for 1880 gave the total population as 50,155,783, 

 divided into 29.5 per cent urban to 70.5 per cent rural, the 

 census for 1910, with a population of 91,972,266, the urban 

 per cent had grown to 46.3 and the rural declined to 53.7, 



