The Road to Dumbiedykes 



as well as a good eye. The only- 

 objection I enter is that one so seldom 

 sees them at it. They would be the 

 better for more of that sort of thing, and 

 their wives and cows and pigs and geese 

 would not suffer either. 



Every hard-working individual re- 

 quires relaxation. It doesn't make any 

 difference whether he be the owner of 

 a farm or factory; whether he be 

 wrestling with a working dairy in 

 the country or a battery of type-setting 

 machines in town. And golf has come 

 to be the accepted physical salvation 

 of those who are in heavy city harness. 



Not every man whose business holds 

 him to the city can afford to buy and 

 assume the care of several hundred 

 acres of favorably-situated, easily- 

 accessible land. And not all of those 

 who could afford to indulge themselves 

 in this luxury care to take on the added 

 responsibilities that are inseparable 

 from the attempted operation of an 

 individual farm. But nearly every- 



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