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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Things To Think About 
Fair Deals for Florida 
Tourists 
Subscribers write The R. N.-Y. for in¬ 
formation on all sorts of matters. We 
thought you might help us out on this. 
There are in the North many men like 
the writer, of moderate means, on the 
sunset side of life, with home ties broken. 
We would like 'to spend the Winter out 
of the snow and cold. California is too 
far away and too expensive when you get 
there. We think of Florida, and we 
know The R. N.-Y. has many subscribers 
there. Will not some of them tell us 
what conditions really are there? Of 
course we do not expect to go to Palm 
Beach or any of the other fashion cen¬ 
ters. Bu't what can one live for in the 
more modest towns, living modestly but 
not miserly? Not expecting to belong to 
any golf clubs or bridge whist clubs, ex¬ 
pecting only a comfortable room, good 
food and a chance to be in the open air, 
getting, let us say, such board and rooms 
as we would pay $10 a week for here in 
Michigan. H. 
If any of the plain people in Florida 
can answer these questions we should 
like to ihave them do so. The average 
Florida man seems to think that the 
Northern tourist is his natural prey, and 
he will get all he can out of him. On the 
other hand, many people in the North 
think thy can go 'to Florida for the Win¬ 
ter, get a job at a high figure, enjoy life 
in a pleasant climate, and come back in 
the Spring with considerable money. Both 
points of view are wrong. Florida strikes 
us as a most agreeable place for a Win¬ 
ter vacation, but if you expect such a 
pleasant vacation you must go prepared 
to pay for it. The Winter work in Flor¬ 
ida does not usually amount to much. In 
recent years there has been a surplus of 
labor. We should really like to have the 
truth about Winter in Florida from the 
standpoint of such men as “H.,” who 
writes the above letter. We should like 
to get in between the boomers and the 
pessimists, so as to give a fair statement 
of what a man of ordinary means can ex¬ 
pect in that country. 
The “S. L. M. Club” 
Young people of a certain rural com¬ 
munity were desirous of greater recrea¬ 
tional and social advantages. Explana¬ 
tion of how they achieved this object is 
offered with the hope that the example 
may be of some benefit to others. 
Ordinary parties had grown tiresome. 
Children’s games offered inadequate 
amusement. Dancing was impracticable 
because facilities were seldom at hand, 
and some could not dance. Agitation for 
an organization was started, and a meet¬ 
ing was called. At this meeting the situ¬ 
ation was discussed, and all were agreed 
that a club might offer a solution. Com¬ 
mittees were appointed and at a second 
meeting a constitution was drawn up for 
the “Social, Literary and Musical Club,” 
abbreviated to “S. L. M. Club.” Officers 
were elected and a program was arranged. 
At the first regular meeting of the “S. L. 
M. Club” the program, consisting of 
songs, stories and recitations, occupied 
the early part of the evening. Sand¬ 
wiches and lemonade were served. A few 
games were played and the meeting broke 
up at a reasonable hour. 
Many meetings have since been held, 
and ideas for improvements have occurred 
as the club progressed. Members volun¬ 
teer, in turn, to let the club meet at their 
homes. The group is divided into two 
sides, which alternate between giving the 
program and supplying the refreshments. 
New members must be initiated, so addi¬ 
tional fun is often at hand. Annual pic¬ 
nics are held. Plays are sometimes pre¬ 
pared for public entertainment in the 
local church. At one such entertainment 
enough money was raised to purchase an 
inexpensive tennis outfit, which has sup¬ 
plied a great deal of enjoyment at odd 
times. 
In addition to that already mentioned, 
there has been abundant program ma¬ 
terial in dialogues, original stories, char¬ 
acter sketches, debates, papers, mock 
trials, stump speeches and special pro¬ 
grams. Everyone was required to attend 
one meeting dressed to represent some ad¬ 
vertisement. At another time a darky 
program was prepared, and only “dar¬ 
kies” were admitted. A fee of five cents 
per month is charged to cover incidental 
expenses. 
Members are of ages ranging from 15 
to 25 years. The club is growing in size, 
and its popularity is indicated by the 
fact that it has been in existence nearly 
10 years, and has gained the sppport of 
several surrounding communities, into 
which the membership has been extended. 
Meetings are ordinarily held every other 
week. neie c. doren. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
Let Children Be “Country 
Minded” 
We appreciate your editorial on the 
proposed child-labor amendment to the 
Constitution, and earnestly hope the va¬ 
rious legislatures will recognize the evil 
that will undoubtedly arise from such a 
law. If all work and no play make Jack 
a dull boy, certainly there seems to be 
plenty of evidence that all play and no 
work make him a vicious one. We have 
a little adopted son, 10 years old, who, 
when he came to u« four years ago, was 
weak, scrawny, subject to colds and va¬ 
rious stomach disorders, and who now 
is rosy, tough as a hickory sapling, happy 
as the day is long, and never sick a min¬ 
ute in the last three years. We accom¬ 
plished this result by the plentiful use of 
fresh air and sunshine, sufficient sleep, 
milk, butter, eggs, green vegetables and 
fruit, play and work. He is at present 
helping his daddy with the construction 
of the poultry-houses on our recently pur¬ 
chased new place. He helped put out the 
strawberry plants in the Spring, and on 
the Fourth of July, when he could have 
stayed home and shot off firecrackers, he 
chose to go w r itli daddy to hoe strawber¬ 
ries, and he put in as many licks as dad¬ 
dy, to his great delight and pride. In the 
last two years lie has accumulated a bank 
account of nearly $45, every cent earned. 
He likes to play, but he likes equally well 
to work ; lie thinks it fun to cut and husk 
corn, to pick strawberries or help with 
haying. Our new home, our “Hope 
Farm,” though we call it Peace Acres, 
will it not be home to him in a much 
deeper and more enduring sense because 
he has helped to prepare it for occu¬ 
pancy, to make o<f it a home indeed? I 
do not know if he will become a farmer; 
what I am trying to do is to make him 
country-minded, to thrill at the sight of a 
waving green cornfield, or later, the or¬ 
derly rows of shocks; to see beauty in 
■well-sprayed _ trees or a weedless berry 
patch, to enjoy, with Jim Lawson, “the 
society of the hawgs.” I want him to see 
more than lumber in an oak tree, and 
more, than a dinner in a hen. And, if 
the city khould claim him, I want him to 
retain a profound respect for the pro¬ 
ducer of food. Whatever he does, I want 
him to be a worker, not a shirker, and I 
am convinced the proposed amendment 
will not help me to attain that end. 
We do hope P. P. of Connecticut will 
not 'load himself down with such a large 
farm and big debt. Easy does it, at the 
start. We have made our success with 
poultry and berries, but not everyone has 
the temperament to succeed with hens. 
We were city folks, and in our late for¬ 
ties, when we started here seven years 
ago. We have lived well, paid $300 per 
year rent, saved $1,000 and learned the 
poultry business in that time. We are 
starting now to make a little piece of 
what is practically wilderness blossom as 
the rose. How dull and uninspiring to 
our minds now seems the life we used to 
lead in the city. Never again ! 
Virginia. ellen selin. 
Farm Labor and 
Immigration 
The California letters, page 1006, show 
that the immigration act of 1924 has 
caused no farm labor shortage on the Pa¬ 
cific coast. The Asiatic exclusion clause 
will prevent the growth of another race 
problem, with its social, economic, relig¬ 
ious and political sides. Although Chi¬ 
nese and Japanese immigrants are not 
eligible for naturalization, their children 
born in this country are citizens by birth. 
If Asiatic immigrants were not excluded 
their children would soon become numer¬ 
ous enough to hold the balance of power 
in many districts, as non-Nordics do in 
the East today. 
The immigration law has caused no 
farm labor shortage anywhere. The agri¬ 
cultural States of North and South Da¬ 
kota have a combined Italian population 
of less than 500, which fact refutes the 
plea that the rough farm work is done 
by the Italians. The negligible farm work 
done by Hebrews is shown by the fact 
that 90 per cent of the race live in cities, 
50 per cent living in Greater New York. 
The way to relieve farm labor shortage, 
where it exists, is to restrict or exclude 
Asiatic and non j Nordic immigration, and 
encourage the natural increase of Amer¬ 
ican farm boys and girls. The present 
immigration law, although the best so far 
enacted, is not perfect. The combined 
quota for Italy, Russia and Poland is 
10,000, but the law exempts from the 
quota the wives, children and parents of 
naturalized aliens. Millions may enter 
through this loophole. There are in the 
United States today 5,000,000 Russian, 
Italian and Polish immigrants, the ma¬ 
jority of whom have at least one near rel¬ 
ative in Europe. If 10 per cent of the 
number were to go or send to Europe for 
a wife, over 500,000 alien women would 
enter the country. If 10 per cent brought 
over a single parent, another 500,000 
would enter. The law should be amended 
so that the relatives of immigrants, 
whether naturalized or not, would be 
counted in their country’s quota. J. j. 
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