FOREWORD xi 



We might add, it's never even half done naturally. A 

 donkey engine can work like that, but then it hasn't any 

 brains. No man can work from sun to sun all summer and 

 think at all or be good for anything at the end of it. 



Above all things don't work long hours, even in learning, 

 with the idea of saving that way. All up-to-date employers 

 are agreed that an eight-hour day produces more and better 

 results than a ten-hour day and that a twelve-hour day brings 

 sheriffs and suicides instead of profits. 



That's just as true of the individual worker as it is of the 

 factory "hand." Yet most men and a few women proudly 

 say that they "work like a horse" (it's usually not true). 

 They don't ; a horse won't work and can't work over eight 

 hours a day steadily. Neither can you : you may keep 

 buzzing around much longer but the best work requires 

 the best conditions and the best hours. You think, or you 

 flatter yourself that you think, that it is necessary; but 

 nothing is necessary that is stupid and wrong. It is hardly 

 too much to say that when we are tired out or ill either we 

 have been doing the wrong thing or doing it wrong. 



There is besides, as an anti-rusticant, railroad discrimina- 

 tion in favor of long hauls, but the main reason that the small 

 farms of the Eastern Coast are less settled than those farther 

 west is the great difficulty in getting farm loans or loans on 

 farm buildings. New York companies and others hi the 

 great cities will loan on farms west of the Alleghenies, but 

 even the otherwise excellent eastern Building Loan Asso- 

 ciations usually restrict themselves to places within twenty- 

 five miles of a city. The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial 

 Aid Society will help approved Jewish farmers to buy and 

 build : and there is a Federal Land Bank in Springfield, 

 Mass., which lends to some Fanners' Associations, of which 



