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Saturday," May 25, 19 17 7E5UCJTI0N9 COOPERATION, legislation (U EucUoa to DYe!op FcW 0) Cooperation to Multiply 1 and 0) VttfdtUomd Good Government ' to Promote EqusI Rfebts end Ilomaa Progress-Plain Talk About Men, Measure and Movement. Involved By CIARENCE FOB How, a Tovm Xlzz 'Rcicni:. A Lesson fcr COUNTRY communities need more organiza tions and committee? charged -with the duty of 'doing " sorethmffon getting something; done for the commuaity. " Perhaps-you may need "Since the war the bulk of the Negroes have . been working on a bare living vrage, a wage ' .that permits. them only a very low standard of living; and the white , man who produces the - same product in competition with them can y hope to get a better return only in so far as. , - he does better farming.?- . . Xn. other words, the white tenant or farmer who average Negro farms thereby forces his. family to live on the average Negro's scale of living. The way to be able to live differently is to farm differ 'ently for the white tenant to use his superior' brain by doing superior work.. Let us see then what are . the characteristics of typical old-time (11) 635 i$ superior to Negro brain. , - "Don't hate the Negro; excel him, s our adyice. But we would also remind our .white, farmers that one of the best ways to excel .the Negro is through cooperative effort getting together as far as possible in all-white neighborhoods- so as -to. have cooperation in making all farm products . as well as marketing them cooperation in getting and using improved machinery and pure-bred live stock; - cooperation in buying fertilizers and sup plies; cooperation in marketing all crops; and co operation in getting, credit and avoiding "time prices." ( . '- ' , y . Give Farmers Representation cn OScial Boards one-crop or -, "all-cotton" system; better roads, or;a school library, or an auditorium; - - .... . ... --. , DC"C1 , - . : . - V ' - C -j has na morc ambition .than to farm the way the as a COmiuuimy wcuug iimvc; ;nuu iwjfuuujr ui the community may know and acknowledge that; the need exists. vStill if no"orie person or group of , persdns is named to move in the matter, in other words, if it is a ca s 6 of ."What's everybody's busi-, ness is nobody's business,' it may be years be-. fore anything is done. On the other hand, if you NgrQ farmig. community league, yuu well planned diversification putting ."food, feed . sha go on snch boards and comraittees are city ' the members of that committee will feePthat they A fprf:t:fv firit - -B , , c , v - t ulJ 11 j ' r. - aM ;;it - ty hrst " ' ' - men and do not know the ablest farmers of the aic vauvu ::- . V - r.. ' " " "f; - z. Wo mw methods. No tarm papers.. Laughs other citizens for cooperation. 'Very soon some. at "book-faramgdeWw thing will be accomplished Moreover, community . instiiutes, etc.,"and says that Gran'pap, "ole Mars spirit will develop, .and one form of progress will terf tne moonand tne aimanac are good enough lead to another.- : .C . v . . V . ' C . f or'him. " . - S tT t 1 u 3. ,Shiftle methods. Dbesnt break land well, trs of ability and education have not been recog- , proof of UWtS; mhlr ciUel ds ' WhUy n " coramercial fertilizers ; uses . !zed as their number would justify. ' In proof one . backward,: S tcW' 'a " 0WIt:: er ci ies ,0ashione(i toois and no machinery; lets-grass has only to look over the list of , members of his " ooked fun at :t. They didnt. believe it would ever . . , t . . . f , A . . . 1 , 1 Pokcu mi ai jr, ".i'.i f- 8et aflead of him; ignores peas, clovers, and feed party committees or of the various state boards, wake up. It was a state capital, and rival cities crops for hogi and cattle; is late picking hiscot.. and sec what a small proportion of'the men are - even talked of taking the capitol away W it. - - r Still the town slept on. men came a movement . . - , TT t. - nr i . 4 . . ,r t ' j oiiii mc iu u k - -c- . 4. Buy everything from the store. "He lives We are glad to find that Mr. Roosevelt has called to erect a Y. M. C. A. buuding. Expert organizers out of a canned garden and milks a tin cow," as Dr. attention to this situation, and members of all, from a distance... came an and helped the lo cat ....... political parties would do well to study what he forces Soliciting ."teams" of men were organized. -. Do If he has anything leftls likely says. We quote: TTTE BELIEVE that in every Southern state ; VV an carnestcn?ort should be made" to put a greater number of worthy farmers on party executive committees and on official boards ap-; . pointed by governors and legislatures. It too state.- Of course, we do not think that a man should be given official position in a party or a state Just - Ann .A - f n aVI A -- T? lli tlAVAiAA.. ill. f.A . ucAuac lie: ja lai iiic:i .- . jj ul iicitluiuic liic i al l that a man was a farmer has often kept him from being known to bur political. dictators, and farm- did work. And old men who had never before given anything for the public good loosened their purse-strings. .And men who had - never given time and effort to the public good founda new, sort v of happiness the ' happiness that' comes - through ? cooperative comradeship' with .'other workers in swindlerMnstead of for ", pigs, cows, tools and -horses. - ' ' ' - Thousands of Negroes, of course, are doing, ex cellent farming now, but these, we believe, will be recognized as five characteristics, of the shiftless will keep any white farmer poor who follows in the same path. ' " The"wh"ite farmer must sell his products in com petition with Negro labor. If he farms like the Negro does, he must live like the. Negro 'does sooner or later. The only remedy is for the white farmer ta use his brain and show that white brain COUNTRY COMMUNITY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE CO-OPERATIVE w rta"-.nf Ncrrnf tb ' rhflrnrtpristics , that keen; an unselfish cause. '.They got the $70,000 Y. M. C AI ' them poorand the chatacterWt.es therefore that r.ver since tnac lime ims lawn nas uccn a uiuci ent sort of place. It got a baptism of grace, gen erosity and comradeship-it hasnever gotten over. And many a country ; neighborhood needs . to go ' through .the same sort "of experience. Get. your , local organizations a Local Union -or ; farmers' club, a farm women's . club, and t a community -league if . . possible-pan v,then , get lV strong committees' to make plans in :. i behalf of - whatever : form' of com-- i munity progress you need most. Then let all the people come to the help of the committees. ; And . very soon you will not only have. many, tangible and material improvements to boast of, ; - but will have something still . more f important. You will have a spirit of comradeship and brotherhood in your neighborhood Hhat ' you have'; never ' bad before, and life : for, everybody will be made- infinitely -richer and joyous. , ; .?( - ' y - And in holding up this' vision, kind ; readeras 'to the - organisations that: should 6e formed, arid ast'o the work : that should be done in your nefhbor-' hood, Jet us. again repeat '.wfcat we have of ten said : before : rSomeboay , aust led; Why not you?'' - r; ' 'i ! Don't Hc tocegro ; Excel 0 A thinking man it is as plain . I as "the nose ';on;yourliace of ,v,.j . it r f in.i .' wmsc,. xaax . xv- u. vyacson,: thoughtful Northern 'if ajrmfr 1 who vis ited in the South ; sometime ago; was . right when he" reported inWatlace's' Farmer' on his ' return North : V ' HERE a 'dozen families are. planted near each other we are able to secure cooperation in industries apart from agricul- ture. In other words, we establish a community instead of a family. Two families -going out together and intending to occupy twenty acres each can build their houses in adjacent comers so that .'their neighborliness' may he felt, especially in times of sickness. It is 'the woman who suffers most, "and by this sort of building she i not v cut off from a daily chat with her neighbor. ' ; v ' . .;:v.'l have seen this scheme carried out on a larger scale by four famil- ' ies, each building on the comer of a sixty acre lot. " Their lines ran into each other, and their fields were separated only by a line of wire. These four families had a common kitchen, with breakfast room and broad Veranda in the center of the 'plot. There is no reason why every family in the' world should have its own food laboratory. By com- ," bihation the-labor is - greatly" reduced and the cost, of feeding four families is cut right in two. I am not so sure, out that the future coun- . try home will lose its bams, as I have suggested it may also lose the kitchen and its cellars This would certajnly contribute greatly: to esthetics, as well as to .the sanitary side of country borne' making. There would be no lack of individualism if social life should go even 'further.; -''",'' - ' v " ' '- ' One thing is assured: the dream of the farmer has greatly changed of late. " His vision is no . longer that of an isolated house, quite dis tinctly severed from association with his neighbors, and while in one sense complete by itself, seriously lacking in its power to move with- - the world's evolution! He begins to think of a parked farm commun ity, raymg out from a. central school and library and closely asso ciated In almost all conceivable ways through' miles of extent. The :vision does not as'yet go beyond the' rural free delivery ef mail and tne use of automobiles for market purposes and for tillage, but be has f an enthusiasm over something that is to make country life marvelous Iy beautiful, and rob it'of its most severe features of isolation: and -toil-E. P. Powell,' in mow to LiveJn the Country." : V "Country life should be as attractive as city, life, and the country people should insist on p having a full representation when it comes to dealing with all the great public questions. In they work on equaL terms with city folks in all such matters." They should have their ' share in the membership of commissions and -councils; in short, of all the organized bodies -for laying plans for great enterprises affecting all the people. I am glad to see on such bodies . the names that represent financial' interests, h but those rintefests should not have the right- . of-way, and in all enterprises and. movements , in which the social condition of the country . is involved, the agricultural country the open country should be as well, represented as the city." ; . r , If this situation is to be remedied, farmers themselves must take action. Why not cut out this clipping there fore and mail it to your Governor or i to the chairman of the stafe execu tive committee of your party, 'naming, some farmer you believe would re flect credit on the profession and the state if given official recognition? . ; A Thought for the Week 4 ' ' ".f . "-' ' " : ' "' ' - '- V' f ' A MAN . passes for what he is -worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light Concealment-avails him nothing; boasting nothing. , Men know not why they o not trust him; but they do nt trust him. . His vice glasses his-eye, cuts lines of mean expres sion in his ' cheek, pinches the nose. and sets the mark of the beast on , the back of the head. If, you would not bp known to do anything, never do it. A man may play. theJool in the drifts of a desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see. He. may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep plexion, a Swinish look, ungenerous acts, and the want" of due knowledge all blab. Emerson. . ' Our anger and Impatience often prove 'much, more mischievous than, the thlnfft about which we are -angry or Impatient. Marcu Aurellua." , ; :
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