The herald., 1897-01-29

CULTURAL department and exper-
iment station at Charley col
Nge, 1t is deemed expedient to say q
word in regard to the plans of the work
undertaken. although it has been the de
sire and intention of those most inter-
ested to say nothing for the public prints
except through the work 1t is hoped will
be accomplished
The station will aim to be practical and
take up those matters for investigatio
which Will be help to the ranchers in
solving the various problems that con-
front them, such as bettering of the va
rious crops by the rational feeding OF
them. This work will be done by test
plots, both on the college grounds and
among the ranchers Of the seven south
ern counties, as opportunity offers; 1t will
: also take up the matter of fertilizer an
alyses and undertake to inform the pub
lie who are the reliable as we'll as the
unreliable manufacturers and dealers.
Careful attention will be given to irri-
gation-a subject that needs thorough in
vestigation. A portion of the station
grounds Will be devoted to forestry in
terests. The matter of cultivation and
pruning will also receive special con-
sideration. Attention will also be given
to the scale pests with which our or
chards are infested and the best meth
DDS OF determination. A regular course
OF instruction for the students has not
yet fully matured, but series of lee
lures will be given in conjunction with
the work as it progresses that will show
the why and wherefore of doing such
work.
The Importance of this line of work and
the desirability Of undertaking it has
been felt by the management of the col
lege. from the first; but heretofore its
inauguration has not been possible
When the state university was promis-
ing an experiment station for this sec
tion, we made an effort to secure it, but
failed. Plans for such work have since
been proposed, but they have not been
feasible. For some months. however, a
gentleman who is an expert in this de-
partment and who has long been inter
esting himself in the practical solution
or these problems of such vast import to
the wealth of Southern California. has
been in communication with us in re-
gard to this undertaking. From DIR. S.
nj. Woodbridge have come propositions
rendering possible its inception. A def
mite plan of organization for this de-
partment has been adopted by our board
of regents and the work we'll begun. DR..
Woodbridge is placed by them at the
mead OF the department, with general
oversight of the work in all its lines.
The analytical and general chemical
work Will be carried on by Prof. G. w.
Gooch, and his laboratory assistants.
The superintendent, in charge of test
plot experiments, the forestry station
and field work in general, is Mr.. H. F..
Shorting. All financial transactions of
the department and unclassified CORES
Pondence Will be managed b ythe re-
gents through the dean of the college.
A large number of prominent and
wealthy men are interested in this ag-
ricuitural experiment undertaking and
Will give 1t financial aid. 1t is through
generous donations already made by Mr.,
Abbot Kinney and Mr.. l.. Baruch thai
the department is now organized and the
plans of DR.. Woodbridge are being car
ried out Test plots are being put out.
special laboratory has been fitted I'm
and number of important analyses are
IN progress, results of which will be full
ly published before long.
WIN. T. RANDALL.
Dean of Chaffey CoIleee
Ontario, January 27.
THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM
To the EDITOR of the Los Angeles Her.
al0-The letter of Captain Frazier of RI
Good Samaritan Mission to the city
council should rouse that body to the
need OF adequate action in the matter
OF furnishing employment to those who.
uhuer PAD social and industrial condi-
" PROCURE WOTK,
1t is idle to treat this UNEMPLOYED oues-
tlon as temporary or transient disease.
10 be cured by some social panacea like
lree trade, or free coinage of silver. 4"
or protection to American Industries I"
or some financial quackery that is to in
crease wealth by increas sing the vol
ume of currency. The cause lies far
deeper. 1t is due to the introduction Of
labor-savinS machinery, to concentra-
q nj ta1 in, ;pJh
consequent ability of the capitalist class
to dispense with human labor in the
production of wealth. Hardly a paper
comes to hand but what reports the in
PRODUCTION of some machine that dis
places labor, or the formation of some
trust that finds its profit in closing
up useless factories and dispensing with
equally useless laborers. Indeed, the
trust" itself is machine" and a very
efhcient one at that, for dispensing with
human labor. 1t is just as irrational to
declaim against the trust" machine as
1t would be to be to declaim against one
composed of iron, betting. wheels, cogs,
etc The large system Of production is
here to stay. Whether it's manifest su-
periority over the small system will con-
tinue to inure to the benefit of small
capitalist class or be shared in by every
member of society is the problem of the
luture we are IN state of industrial
transition. The army of the unemploy-
ed is a concommitant of a decayine svs-
tenn. 1t throws off supernuous labor as
logical process of the system. This
superfluous labor must be provided for.
not by charity-that is a contemplate
remedly-but by enabling the idle la Dor
to become self-supportng. It is mad
ness and imbecility to treat idle men as
II they were criminals Indifferent to
their condition, hailed into our police
courts and probably sentenced to the
chain gang for the crime of being unable
to procure employment. They are the
victims of a bad industrial system, for
which society as a whole is responsible.
Society should, see to it that the helpless
victims of an iniquitous social organiza-
ton should not be forced to become Grim
inals in their efforts to obtain a subsist-
ance. We must look at this question
as permanent one while the system
lasts.
What is the remedy? Every munich
pallty should own some hundreds of
acres of land, with tools, workshops and
suitable dwellings, where. men able to
work, but unable to procure it, could at
least be able to make living until
better opening was presented. A sub
sistence should be guaranteed. but IL
more than that was mada it should be
distributed among the workers. after
paying the municipality for expenses of
supervision. AS a mere, m tier of dollars