The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-04-01
HELLO. From THE HILLS.
The Ohio Ind mslriaI School.
Tie Hills the Place to Train Boys
and Raise Men.
LET THE HONE AND School STAND
ON TIE HILLS.

There is n disposition on the
part OF some Of our. 10 doubt well
intending Legislators, to remove
the Ohio Industrial School in
Fairfield from its present loca-
ton. 4or the reason that the hills
composing The Reform Farm are
unproductive, and especially diff
ficult 10 farm. This is very true,
and we can understand the i'm
pulse Of men who move for a
change. The barren hil! side
| never develops the Great Far
| mer, but il grows great Men.
We know the disconragements
Of farming the bIisiering, bare
hills. We know how the farmer
boy, ,foI!owingin the tiresome fur
row, gI addens with delight at
coming 10 bill Of corn, from
some fortnitous fertilizing cir.
cumstance bigger than the rest.
How he swiftly skips the imbe.
cile stalks, leaving them TO the
weeds. and gives extra touches Of
his hoe to%4e healthy and pros
pering plant. Men treat each
other much in the way boys hoe
corn. We can understand why
the idea obtains that boys cannot
be made to love farming by max
ing them work on such unpro.
ductive grounds as are embraced
in tn. Lancaster Reform Farm.
The Institution, as we under
stand it, was established, not to
raise fat cattle nor grow big cab
bages, but to make Men.
Charley Remelin, who is one
of the best thinkers Of the age,
chose wisely when he selected
the lofty hill tops of fairfield as
a Home and School for the err
rant boys of Ohio. II is from the
Hills that inspiration for man.
mood emanates. The Areopagus
was built on the Mars Hill of
Athens. Jupiter's throne was on
the highest mount. Rome, city
of hills, ruled and civilized the
old, and maintains a mastery OF
minds in the new world. Sinai
and Zion give US the Word.
Switzerland produces no far
mers winning first premiums at
Fa,rs, but in William Tell and
John Calvin, lifted up in mind
and soul by Mount Blanc. and
coadj1tant peaks, theie are crea-
tions, which helped to liberty
and independence the farmers of
the universe.
The Highlander, the Hill man,
is the man who in all ages in the
contest OF mind and muscle has
heen the victor.
From the hills of New England
come voices teaching, directing
and determining the civilization
and sentiment controlling this
century.
Let the industrial School stay
where it Is. Build others, when
VIC need them, Oh hill tops like
these. The boys taught here to
propagate a blade Of grass, grow
a spindly stalk Of corn, will, If he
wants TO farm, possess the mead
0ws Of heavy swarths and the
fields fat with luxuriant corn
The thing is 10 learn the boy how
to get along with natural condi-
tons against him. His skill, his
invention, bis genius are necessa'
rly developed, and taught tho
useful lesson Of "working and
thinking he rises in the race,
superior 10 the pets Of the ilat
lands whose plentiful bounty
comes by only tickle.
We want no industrial School
on the Aat lands The fiat land
il either n bog, which ~ savage,
or q garden whose fertility Is Of
Terminate, The one breeds mon
sters, tho other animales Ma
hornets,
The Industrial School has sent
ont into The world many magnl'
iIcent men trained 10 usefulness,
who as boys were serpbhy and
not hopeful subjects, They may
not farm for a living, but what
ever they pursue will he honor
able and their Iife's lebeFs sue
eesstul,
Keep The Industrial School on
The Hills There are more bulls
than falls There are more do
elivIlIes IN life than smoelh
plains Learn The boys how 10
climb hills IN The Journey Of lllei
how 10 make u llvlNg on sterile,
steep aud stony slopea, and oNr
word lor II, they viii no NJ no
disadvantages when 'lhey start
10 g0," llke lhe warm hlooded
hlll fellows, rcd faced lVom Tho
hlnSIH Of WlNlry wind and sum
mer p'Nw,
"reHl.,. .o@lN - Gross ''N'0e AMI The
w Ibis eonneplloN II nnnrda ~
pleasure ~ elNie 'hNl Tho Man
NgemeNl O( Tho Institution NNder
Mr. liIle has heeN most eScelleRh
and no pNmplNinl on roNsoNNhle
gvNNnd can he made lo lhe meth
Nds ol hla administration,
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