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L EGIN KEEPING ACCOUNTS NOW 7 ' ' .' J$r' -r. in A Farm and Home Weekly for " ,Pr'' The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia. and Florida, Vol. XXIX. No. 52 RALEIGH, O A 'FTTH T A X T -w-v . . l ujkxja i, uuufcMlSfcK 26, 1914 $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy The Man Who Reads Is the Man Who Leads -r 1 tWUIMllliUIIVII,1'"V I w f ' J 1 ""N 1 II LEARNING -TQ. READ WITH THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AS. THE TEXT-BOOK The above nhototrranh which aDDears in the new Annual Report of the Harnett County, N., C: Superintendent of Schools, shows a "moonlight school" or school to teach grown people to fead 7 aDOVePnot rapnwn lcn appe and write. In this school there were thirty-eight adults, the oldest one 65. years of age, leaniing to read. - j kHE man who reads is the mari who leads. AVatch it .where :or..Svhen vou will, and vou will find this the rule, and with mght fewex- - ceotions-.vNow and then you will find a nori-reaiiig:mahbhas made some money, but he is usually such a failure as the "Fdrmer Grind" described in last week's Progressive Farmer a man whose mind is not broad and who has missed the joy of living by working for self alone. : The man who reads is the man who leads. It is natural that this should be so. 'The an Tcestor of every action is a thought," says Emerson, and the richness or poverty of a - man's reading usually determines t'e rich- - hess or poverty of his thinking. The man .who doesn't read gets his thoughts only from iT6m, bick,:Harry, and the others in a little narrow neighborhood right around him. The riian who reads gets the thoughts of the fore i'rqst; miriidsjn his cpiiiity, state, nation, and world. ; ' v T he photograph on this page, is a reminder ; of oijQ of the most inspiring movements any Vhere in 1 the pSouth today the' -moonlight school" movement, whose purpose is; to I , ieach .eyej-y, maand vpmah, no matter how old, to read. These people were neglected in their youth,- but for them the uoor 01. hope is now about to -swing open at last, so that they need,' no longer hang their heads arid say, i can't read and write. " Let everyone who can join in this blessed DON'T FAIL TO READ- Avoiding Wild Onion or Garlic Trou bles . . . . V I . . . A Wasteful One-Crop System . . . Call the Women Today . . . . . Cotton Exports Increasing . . Farm Bookkeeping . . ... . . Go Slow With Perishable Crops . . Important Livestock and Horticultural Meetings Keep Up the Fight for Rural Credits 10 Livestock at the Georgia State" Fair . Put Your Cotton Under Shelter . . . Reclamation of Swamp Lands in North Carolina .' . . . ' . '. ; " ' Repeal the Crop Lien Law . . Report of the Hereford Cattle Breed ers' Association . There Is No Best Breed . . . Write Your Member of the Legislature 10 fcfusadel and jet lis at the" same time carry on a crusade to get all who (n:read to red educated, if they only, know hbw';icre4dUn goes id school veeks arid months, 'year 'after" year learning howto read, and then doesn't read, if he is then too short-sighted to pay a few cents a week' for good papers and books he is like a man who spends days and weeks break ing a piece of land getting it in shape for planting and then is too foolish or stingy to buy enough seed corn or cotton seed to plant it. Learning how to read, prepares the mind, cultivates it, makes it a -fertile seed bed, but then a man must fill it with seed-thoughts. Bookstand papers furnish the seed corn for, jthe mind. : When a man says he is' too poor to r pay two, cents, a week for a paper for inspiration, help, in tellectual f pod, seed-thoughts for his whole : family, ask him if he ought .not to spend; as much for brain-food as he spends for tobacco. . Make your neighborhood a.reading neigh borhood find youj-will make it a leading neighborhood.- Join in a movement to teach all grown-up illiterates to read next year if you can, but in any case bestir yourself to ' get all who can read to read more If they read papers that stand for progress they will eventually join with you in all the progressive movements you are interested Page 8 16 12 10 7 4 10 6 6 5 8 9 3 in. - : . ' . r
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