I2O FLIGHT FROM THE CITY 



have stumbled upon your book only after most of my 

 capital had been sunk in the sheer cost of keeping my 

 family alive this past year. I have been torturing my- 

 self ever since thinking about what I might have done 

 to maintain them if I had worked in a garden of my 

 own instead of just tramping the streets of New York 

 trying to find jobs under conditions such as prevail at 

 present! 



"Now, Mr. Borsodi, the question I would like to ask 

 you is this: Should I take a chance with my last $500 

 and try to get to the country, where we would have 

 a chance at least to partially support ourselves, even if 

 we couldn't do it completely right away, or should I 

 take a chance on finding work before my $500 has all 

 gone to the milkman, the grocer, and the landlord? Is 

 it possible, with only $500 cash, to make a start 

 toward the independence of a job which you advocate 

 in your book? This is the question which my wife 

 and I have been debating night after night ever since 

 I read your book. What do you think? I am perfectly 

 willing to work. I think I can make a success of such 

 a homestead as you describe; my wife is willing to 

 work just as hard as I am but will $500 enable us to 

 make a start toward independence?" 



The terror, the suffering, and the tragedies of my 

 young neighbor, of the Segerstrom family, of the 

 Smythes, of Jones the accountant, and of most of the 

 millions of men and women who are unemployed to- 

 day, are consequences of that mysterious phenomenon 



