Army and Navy Review 1915 Panama-California Edition - Balboa Park

The “back-to-the-land” movement has been urged by pen and brush
and oratory. It can be conceded that the country is fairly well aware that
there should be a shifting of population from city to country instead of
country to city. It can be conceded that the city man who has made more
or less of a failure, and his brother who has made more or less of a success
in the metropolis, alike have a longing to get out of the dust and turmoil
and tension of town and into the clear air of the fields. But the land is
not occupied. The government has held land shows, but the movement
to the farm is not a big one.
The failure of these methods is due to just one thing— the lack of
any real information to the possible farmer as to how he was going to
get back to the land and what he was going to do when he got there. The
same is true of world’s fair agricultural exhibits of the past, which have
shown majestic pyramids of oranges and a great array of other fruit and
vegetables and cereals and grasses. None were materially different from
those the possible farmer might have seen in his own city at the grocery
or produce exchange. That is another significant difference between San
Diego’s new type and the old world’s fair.
FAMOUS OUTDOOR PIPE ORGAN. LARGEST IN T H E WORLD. DONATED TO TH E
EXPOSITION AND T H E CITY OF SAN DIEGO BY JOHN D. AND ADOLPH SPRECKELS