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Saturday, April 29, 1916 : EDUCATION, COOPERATION, LEGISLATION (1) Educatioa to Derek) Power, 42) .Cooperttioii to Multiply It, and 0) Legislation and Good Gortnu&ent to Promote Equal Rights and Human ProgreM Plain Talk About Men, Measures and MoTxant Ia-volTd -By CLARENCE FOB- CUppings, Conversation and Comment -'-v - r . (13) 597." . Glimpses of Northeast Georgia rrj EE that beautiful apple orchard there? Well, : :j there are ten acres of it, and the owner re- rrr fused $10X)0 for it last year.'V ; . - ' That is what they told us the other day as we , lead. Debates are -also encouraged, a pamphlet went through the country from Cornelia, Ga., to suggesting suitable subjects having been issued, the Ninth District A. & M: Srhnnl at Hark IrS a pity morepf our .farmers and teacherMid wU - Xnd we soon found that Habersham County has - not attend the meeting of the boutnern Lon- . - .--- v , . . - J. -frence-for , Education andl;Industryw in 'New TW recreation, elementhas not been forgotten ! PIenty of other things to boast of besides itsmag- Orleans last week. Here are some of the reports . in'this Texas plan. Plans for celebrating Christ- nificent app'le orchards. The banquet speaker who'; of progress in various sections that we think mas, Washington's birthday, and " grow worth passing on to our readers.- - - been included. Programs for two msicat eyemngs- an thb that grows in the Temperate meT nay - ... have been sent out, one embracing .familiar folk , , - . ,. . The first item concerns the progress Florida is songs and the other patriotic airs. These musical have bee Putting it a little strong, but you can. "There has been 300.000 increase in ooou- numbers may be provided either by local talent or easily understand his enthusiasm. It is good land lation since the last ' census," Prof. H. H. Hume by the Victroia. - Furthermore, the suggestion of for apples, peaches, corn, wheat, truck crops, al- said" and 80 per cent of the increase has gone fo Mrs.X P. Clayton on this page last week 'has been faIfa clover, and is far enough north for btuegrass the rural sections. The increased interest in live- anticipated, in that actual farm sports; have been . f rprmA, tock is especially marked. And -everywhere the suggested in. place , of citified athleticr contests," and far enouSh south for Bermuda. . counties are improving their roads,' $4,000,000 being There ar contests,in-riding, plowing; hitching and V . - spent this year for, this purpose." What Professor unhitching, roping and tying steers, chopping . We have made more improvement in growing Hume says is borne out by reports we get from wood, cornshucking, biscuit making, table-setting, com these last ten years than in 300 years preced- Progressive Farmer subscribers in Florida; It is etc - " . --f . " ing, Mr. J. W. Peyton declared; and hardly less a coming-state. " - g , ; ; . . Pr?f- Harry Clark brought word of thegratify- progress has beenTmade in other' lines, " We rode The Mississippi delegatea.sho'wed.great pride in J! SLL ?lfJV1nin' through the Yonah .Orchard with its 27,000 apple . - t n,..:.n;.Ai rt,i t?:u . A ennessee. , Inree years ago, there were nineteen- . .. . . . rr their system of county agricul organizations. Today there . are twenty- trees ; and a little to the north of us was the Appa- of the eignty counucs .wuw uave sucn scnoois. ine . r - , , , ' . i c n i .--i.. M t iVMtnn it. four, and they, are able to take care of all losses s ateaF"1".- Satisfactorily o;a 30-cet tne COUIUy, Ul y uui og, uvuig -1 tuu cu , IU pi UV 1UC adequate support Or two counties may join to gether in establishing a; school. "I believe it is better to have an agricultural high school ineach county rather than in each Congressional district, as some states have," saidDr. H. L. Whitfield. "The people of the county have a feeling of proprietor ship, a feeling of nearness for their own county school, that they do not have for a district school. Then the county demonstration agent and county rate. . The Progress of Arkansas in crop diversification was emphasized by President Mobley of the Ar kansas Farmers' iJnion. "Not only are the farmers beginning to raise more, food and feed crops, but lachian Orchard with 42,000. "I picked 105 bushels from three trees," v said. Mr. H. P. Staight. In peaches Col. I. C. Wade and his son Phil have scored a notable success. Market gardening is also on the increase. "Three-years ago we shipped less, than 500 hampers of beans," said Mr. Phil we liaye better gardens," he said, ''having discov- Ogletree, "but last year 17,500." Interest in pure, ered that a garden ought to be something more ' . ,. . , . . . . ; . than a place with a high fence around to keep the : bred ;''ytock s increasing; the broad bed or women folks in and the men folks out. The farm- Mangum terrace is taking, the place of the old utilize the school and the school utilizes them, and tlltll wlvef We fe, als0. g1?1 to raise more buying improved machinery; and longer leases are . it becomes a place of developing leadership for; t v: 7 ; T4 1 X I 1 being given to satisfactory tenants. " had a fit. .f-'ain. .it loe tkAa0 hoe a row of cotton. - And while the boll veevii . ...... ... . waking up the county along all lines." The boys in these Mississippi schools are required to do ten hours' farm work a week as a part of their agri cultural course. Then many of them do extra work for which they receive extra pay,, reducing their expenses to almost nothing. . Dr. Whitfield believes, however, lhat :scared us, we have learned that a weevil never milked a cow or sucked an egg." Not only has Mississippi taken advanced ground in the matter of tick eradication, but Louisiana has done an unheard-of thing-by proclaiming and observing "Tick Eradication Day" in all the public three-year lease with the white farmer on my place," Professor Gay told us, "and I am ready to givehimaten-yearleaseifhewants.it." ' ' ' V Perhaps divenification in population is respon sible somewhat for the diversification in product ion. At the banquet of the Habersham Chamber rnany crfinnl nf the statp. Thnrstlav - AnrH 2fl. was the schools have spent relatively too much for build- day named by Governor Halt The State Sanitary of Commerce (held at the school) we heard speak- w& me uegmmng-a wetness wmpn uwen Livestock Board issued 120,000 circulars giving Crs who had come to Habersham from Nor.th Da- Wister recently said is xharacteri the . ticks must go,' and the tota nh?n nHn nnd mher rZ nH ill colleges and universiUes, ; too.;; '.Too 'much for state Superintendent of Equation directed trat in kota' th.10 I1.lm0s other sections and all brick and too little for brains," is the way he puts alLschools an hour, be set apart for instructing are working mightHy for development.. Thispartof . it, pointing out that.many a college spends lavishly pupns m this matter of such vital importance to Georgia is almost wholly white in population, and "uiii6a ouu ucu pajra aucu meager saxaiics the State S progress. 10 teacners tnat men ot real ability cannot be had. Which reminds us to say that the cost of living has increased so much in the last few years that despite some increase . in salaries, probably no state is paying its teachers more adequately than a decade ago. :' How4o organize the rural communities was one A. & M. District. School frrClarkesville, Ga., last of the big questions discussed at the Conference, year Principal Gay. inaugurated a special course- There was much -interest in Superintendent Joy- for teaching grown men and women. Thirty-one ner's explanation of the North Carolina plan for of them came, most-of them fathers and mothers, "Community Leagues", as' heretofore described in- and the progress they made in six days' time was The Progressive Farmer. In Alabama Mr. J. almost amazing. Lectures on agriculture . and Sterling Moran has organized fifty. "Community health were given; Banker J. A. Erwjn gave quids', tnese being scattered over a.dozen coun- instructions in writing cnecics ana Keeping sun- all over the South it is noticeable that it is easier - , ; . ... t. . . to, get good settlers from the West to come to MWe must keep on learning till we die, is the - J. . .. . A . . common' cry now heard in all educational gath- whlte wctions. than it is to attract them to mixed erings. .The ; wonderful' record of Kentucky's communities. This is partly due to physical fear "moonlight schools" wakea up the whle South to of and aversion to the Negro and partly to the the possibilities of educating grown-ups. At tne knowledge that in wholly white communities it is easier to develop strong schools, churches, social life, etc. Moreover, in such communities there is likely to be a wholesomer attitude toward manual labor. There is less ol the "boss" habit. . A man won't spend an hour hunting a Negro to do a half hour's labor, which is one failing some sections of fftfA A - J Progress, marketintr'and rural credits, as well as Reader." Here is a letter written August 30th by health, education and social life. . a man who on August 23 couldnt write his name : pf.he plan as described by Prof. A. Caswell wiis has never been put before our Progressive farmer readers, we believe. .Professor Ellis dis covered frop experience that except in very pro gressive neighborhoods community clubs are not likely to live without a good deal of aid and super vision from some central source; and he was in crested m reaching not only the communities wide enough awake to organize and maintain ciubs of their own volition, but also the communi ties where such leadership was lacking .Conse ?oi ? y he t00k adTantacc of the cotton crisis in ivh to get 'schoolhouse meetings" called all over iexas to discuss the cotton situation, programs 5 ' f fur.ni5.n. The people responded, the idea pea, and now over 4.000 teachers have inter. 1 country; ana it is gratifying to find that they have an eye tor beauty ri A o U.ort f rr nfmen W a i r 1 r vrvKu1v eetn to know Lanier's "Song of the Chattahoochee." When Mr. Staight got up to speak on "Apple.Cul ture" he.couldn't'help saying something about the wealth of beauty in the'spring blossoms as well as it.. . . lit. .!.. it. (t! Tk. people are painting their houses .and planting nowers aoout almost every nomc. ine smanesi 0fi- "?v. CtU (AM J 01 they arc incorporated. With the coming of longer Lf (sl leases instead ot the old one-year system, even tesrClSZ lTjJr ' the tenants are beginning to bcautify their places. . And whether or not her fight was wise you can't In 1906 Georgia established one of these A. andx help applauding Mrs. Helen Longstrcet, widow t rit(tpS irliftr1t ?n arh rf hr flwn Con. -- it J t - '.!j.l..i......J X mse,vcs lr this plan for fortnightly meet- gressionat Districts, and if all are like the one. at wAAlnff - to save Tallulah Falls from 'nn hoolhouse. The University sends out Clarkesville, the state is receiving untold benefit even her wedding ring to save TalluIah laHs trom . r...v. mcraturc in advance. Here are from them, incy are supported, oy tne leruiizcr iu.uw j ...w v.w...w r Fa?5 r 1 jC rcccnt suiccts: "Cover Crops," ?The tonnage tax, and tuition is free to boys and girls, haps the power plant is worth more to Georgia vcnUn GardeiiVFarnl Paltry" "Household Con- The only difficulty is in getting enough dormitory than was the majesty of the thundering cataracts; niences and Libor-savinir rwWt " "A ttiUnrrl. 'rnnm All hnv utiirlv agriculture, all cirls domes- ... . . .i.. s on for the Farm Family,' etc' These are sub- tic science; and ail boysre required to take turns cusiift j 3Clucnuy it is easy to arouse dis- in tnis way icaaers ire Dang irainca who win SDefUran "e." nearly always either a local make this part of Georgia one of the finest Sec- ur a urm demonstration agent ready to ,tions of the bouth. Tlm vtjttd U tslsttace; Ula. Bdwftrd Twe.
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