Tuurkay, April 22, 1909.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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"tmt to get the most out'of your school it is not
riu ugh merely to get longer terms or more teach-
life. Let us have done forever with the old folly
of shaping the curriculum of the country school
with reference to the high school and the college
........ .Ahi'onHTO nolnt. of the school should not be
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i- e college, to which only one pupil in a hundred
Loes but the every-day life to which ninety-nine
...:i.,'tn o VinnrlrPfl will return. As ranidlv as
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"What's The News?"
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The Educational Conference and The
Work
It Has Done.
GREAT number of Southern educators at-
oppose
ported
Senate
drich's
The Senate Tackles the Tariff,
PAYNE tariff bill passed the House
ast week by a vote of 217 to 61, Austin,
of Tenessee, being the only Republican to
it, while four Louisiana Democrats sup-
it. The fight is now transferred to the
where' the bill as revised by Senator Al-
committee must run the gauntlet of
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tended the sessions of the Southern Edu- discussion and amendment. The Senate bill con-
cational Conference held in Atlanta last tains few really notable changes from the House
week. A small element in the South has very
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ossible agricultural science should have a place vigorously criticised the Conference, but we speak
ssnhnni. and 1 from vprv close observation when we declare that
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whether in the teaching yet or not, it must have nt Uas really accomplished no little good chiefly
Vf n-nA In tlia irianla nf ihf.
a pi aCfc? Ill LLLC lUUU5Ut ft"U iu "' w.
school.
Then we must all of us work together for better
roads: Here again more taxation win De neces
sary, but we must learn that if the tax money is
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bill.
Dingley
Iron ore is again given protection. The
rates: on all agricultural products, includ
ing meats and wool, are restored. The increased
rate on
it now
hosiery has aroused such opposition that
goes tout of the bill. Perhaps the most
in bringing together educators and business men creditable amendment made by the Senate is the
from the South and from the North. Nobody who increase of 15 per cent in the duty on wines and
spirus, cnieny cnampagne. mis increased rate is
understands the situation is foolish enough to
regard the South's great educational awakening
as being in any large degree the result of efforts
it is
mbutmg u,e .com. w 3 .Z. kT been wholly without value, while perhaps the best
Tauan has made ltseu a migniy uanuu ij j . u - '
cause tne peoyie nave " Ii, J cation of Northern men themselves concerning
Lather and tax themselves for all needed public i m.
seiner mu . Sonth and itg t,r0blems. The annual review
of educational progress, as given at this meeting,
is one of the most stimulating and inspiring things
expected to yield $3,000,000 in taxes. The New:
York Outlook (of which ex-President Roosevelt
is now Associate Editor) is by no means satisfied
with the tariff outlook, declaring that the aim of
i Congress "seems always to have been to protect
the manufacturer, not to reduce the cost of living
to the Consumer."
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imnrovements. The average tax raie m jayau m
about 30 Der cent. Perhaps no-reader of this arti-
cle pays more tnan 6 yei tcuu . that can happen to an ambitious Southerner. And
We must stand for a more beautiful South for ,
.. ' . j I vet that there is still very much land to be pos-
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prettier farm homes, iu,uuii, sessed is abundantly indicated by this showing!
painted: glorified by pretty lawns and groves and half our Southern States appro-
j purposes:
School Appro.
Appropriation Per Cap
Florida $1,238,303 $2.34
Texas ...J. 6,462,361 2.12
Virginia.. J ..... . 3,190,221 1.72
Arkansas......!..... 2,251,447 1.72
Louisiana .......... 2,350,035 1.70
Tennessee .......... 2,754,953 1.36
North Carolina . . 2,035,615 1.08
Georgia ..J 2,293.161 1.08
Soutli Carolina ...... 1,321,298 .98
Mississippi.....!..... 1,478.918 .95
Alabama ..!..... 1,488,561 .81
A State University That Leads.
PEAKING of education. Dr. Charles
R.
4,c wa must stand for a more health- . -
uuwci . j " - -r th t priate less than 51.50 per capita tor puDiic scnooi
ful South, for it is aumoniauvcij
every third case of sickness is unnecessary and
everv third death; the result of an unnecessary
disease. We must have the telephone to relieve
,nntrv life of its isolation, and rural free delivery
must spread among us until it covers our entire
section.
These are some of the things for which we
must stand, the necessary parts of that program
of progress upon which we must build a greater
South We should like for all our 86,000 farmer
readers to join us and stand by us and work with
us in the endeavor to bring these things about.
This is the; South of the future, the South as it
may be, which opens itself to our alluring gaze.
Shall we shiftlessly leave it to be realized only by
another- generation after we and our children are
gone, or shall we now gird up our loias ia uig
spirit of ancient Caleb and say to all the world:
"Let us go up at once and possess it, far we are
well able"?
The 86,000 farmers who read these lines can
bring these visions to pass if they will. Let us
set ourselves to the task and work out this glori
ous destiny for our country and for our own
generation.
What about your County Superintendent of
Schools, Mr. Reader? Is he paid enough to enable
him to give his whole time to the work, and is
be a live, wide-awake leader? If not, your county
is cheating itself out of one of its greatest oppor
tunities. Every county should have a man who
gives his whole time to making and keeping the
public schools efficient. Money cannot be more
wisely spent.
A Thought for the Week.
ERHAPS nothing will do so much to has
tan time ' when body and mind will
k, oripn n atelv cared for, as a diffusion
of the belief that the preservation of health to a
duty Few seem conscious tnai xuer "
?y:---r:?? Mmv. Men's habitual words
" P"y! r :rthat they are at liberty
aua acis liiiyiy tu.. . Thnneh the
. , . t-j oo thftv nlease. inougn uo
to treai ineir uuuwo - Q. dents
loorU on th events
ana on iuiuio 6cuC..- - . , .onepd bv
. . oa rrp.at as those causea uy
ture s laws, are uitCu .t,ftniaBiTOa m any
crime, yet they do not that al,
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"This is rfeally doubly hard on the con
; sumep he sees his cost of living increased,
not': only by the duties paid on imported
good$, but by tne extra price put on domestic
goods because of these duties. Hence, in so
far as Congressmen would increase the cost
of liying by giving to the manufacturer a
greatjer protection than that involved in the
difference in the cost of production between
this country and 'abroad,' the people are mis
represented at Washington. As .regards the
particular tariff proposal now before the .
House of Representatives, consumers all over
the cpuntry are protesting that they want all
the taxes on food, clothing, and shelter de- .
creased, not increased, and that revenue
shoul d come by taxing, not these absolute
neces sities but the comparative luxuries."
The Democratic Senators are practically unani
mous in favor, of an income tax amendment, and
will fight vigorously to force its adoption.
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Other Matters of Interest.
OUTH CAROLINA lost one of her most
distinguished sons last Wednesday in the
keath lot Gen. Matthew C. Butler, a major-
Van Hise. of the University of Wisconsin general; in the Confederate Army who afterwards
who is now 'making a tour of the South, is illustrated tne reunion of the sections by becoming
at the head of an institution which ought to be a a major-general in the United States Army in the
model for all other State Universities in the coun- Spanish-American War. General Butler, how
try. In Wisconsin the University does not think ever, was perhaps even more distinguished for
f i.cpif o- nn isolated institution created for the his service in civil than in military life. A promi-
purpose of training a few lawyers and teaching a nent figure in the political revolution in the Pal-
a iac laniiaffes. but as a University of All tne metto State in 1876, he was elected to the unitea
Peonle an institution to promote useful learning I states Senate that year, in which body he served
among all classes of the State's citizenship; and it for eighteen years. Always interested in the de-
has done a marvelous work in carrying out this velopment of the South, General Butler gave espe-
ThP whole ! storv is well told by Lincoln ciai attention to the good roads movement and aid
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Steffens in the February American Magazine under much to develop sentiment for better highways.
the significant title, "Sending a State to College. Re was 73 years old.
Not content with teaching a few hundred two- 1 .-
year and four-year course men. P. Xloa' Crawtord, the novelist, and Alger
instituted short courses for a.flumber of trades , fSwinburue, the English poet. Swln-
fiXLPnSlOIl CUUlOCSi WWfcOtwuuvuvv ww v! , , 1 . . 1
trains etC. JliSpeCiaiiy BUi;v,caoiui xxa,y wwv". vw
Two-Weeks' Farmers' Courses given in mid-win
ter. The attendance has increased year by year
from 175 to 227, to 410, to 061, and last year 701,
while this year the( attendance reached 1,300, in
cluding 400 women. Of course, In most States in
degree criminal. . . Dnysical sins
breaches of the laws of health are pnysicdi
almost matchless melody of his verse. Much of
his poetry Is open to serious criticism from both
a moral- and a literary standpoint; but when, at
his best, hei was a master of musical effects un
pnnalleA: nerhans. in his Darticular line. We are
w yy X T
a flrtfh t.h TTnJvu.v i r.rto from the reprintijig one of his beautiful lyrics on page 8
A. & M. College, and it is for these last named Anothe death of note is that , of ex-Secretary of
a(,flimitMi ei,f the Interior Hitchcock, who rendered the country
courses, but there is much need for our Univer- good servicejby his prosecution of the land fraud
sities also to make themselves more potent factors cases
in the life of their people. It is gratifying to see
that the idea of reaching the women is beginning
to take root in the South, it having been recently
announced that Dr. Barringer will introduce at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute courses In domestic
science for farmers' wives and daughters.
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The ' Missouri House of Representatives has
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voted tp submit the Prohibition question to popu
lar vote! next year.
In the Michigan elections a few days ago, the
Herbert Spencer.