Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-27

se who does MT see his way
ar toa college education, can get
kind Of education that will
We him about as well, and in some
|ngs better, when he begins to do
wspaper work.
Remember that education has gen.
lily two purposes-to train the
nd and to store it with knowledge.
I plan for the country boy does both.
Ire it is.
Think OF yourself as standing on
2 side OF an imaginary line, and the
lat world, with all its men and
men and governments and insti-
lions, ON the other. Cross the line
q find out in what way and through
lat things you come in contact with
e world. Then study those ways
d those things until you know all
out them or until you know as
zen as YOU can find out about them.
his Is what a sociologist would call
termining the relation of the
iiyidual 10 the aggregate or the
alton of MAJ To society. Let us
plain the process a little.
Tou will be pretty sure to discover
at you have relations with the
eat world through the school, The
urch, the government, through
ade or business, and socially
rough your friends and companions.
lat is not all, but that will do very
III to begin with.
First get all the information you
d aboat the school system OF your
tie. Ask the teacher all the ques-
ms you can think of. If you are a
,ntry boy, there is probably a
idential committeeman in your
gtrict. Ask him what he has TO do.
ien get at the experimenting com
tteeman and ask him questions.
lind out where the money comes
N to build schoolhouses and pay
E teacher. LII you live in village
re enough TO have graded schools,
! out now the system is organized,
Ia the primary grade up to the
ia school. Let nothing escape you
it you a possibly learn.
hen the churches in your town
dy them. You may not find 1T
~ TO get at the differences of belief
t separate the Methodists from
Baptists and the Cengrega-
lalists from the Presbyterians, but
ir minister or any minister will
badly lend you books that will tell
sething about creeds and faiths.
hen make yourself a master Of the
Eem OF government or control in
various churches. Inquire what
riches have bishops, what ones
PRS, what ones deacons, and what
powers and duties Of these
rch officers ire. In short, learn
how many ways, and go as far as
can, why one church organization
! jfferent from another.
ext comes government. 1t is a
subiect-take IL up in detail.
ar father is a county commissioner
sclectman or a town Clerk. That
capital opportunity. Get him 10
you all he k~nows'about the duties
}wn and county o~fficers-who lays
new roads and closes old ones,
secs TO it that the paupers are
sed and fed, who determines how
e a sum shall be raised by taxes
Ehe town, how much each tax
.r's share shall be and what shall
bne with the money.
one OF your fathers neighbors is
sHlber of the legislature, persuade
to tell you how bills are intro
ID, referred to committees,
| rted, discussed, amended and
ed or enacted as laws. He will
voc that bills, after they have
passed by the assembly oil house
Representatives, must be passed
By the senate and signed by the
rnor, but that only opens up new
for your Investigation.
perchance another neighbor is TO
5 a delegate TO the republican or
y democratic convention to help
mate his party's candidate for
presidency, get him 10 tell you all
ut the party machinery by which
e1tions are assembled and candi-
5 named; about the town ~caHcuses,
county or district convention, the
convention. the national con-
ion and the delegates TO it. their
Der and their duties; also about
Electoral college and its work.
ais win lead you into inquiries and
les in respect to parties and pol
and state and federal govern
Is that will be liz the highest de-
interesting and profitable.
ia regard 10 business. Ask the
we storekeeper where he buys his
~ S;c crocEary his malaSSqS and