The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10
THIS WEEKS ~PAPER-SOME RANDOM COM
MENT.

sou, sends a very thOugnGIu ana GhOught-prOvOk-
ing article on cotton growing. There are two
sentences in it that every cotton farmer should
clio out and paste in his hat: ut takes the
same labor for an acre, whether the yield is 300
or 1 200 nounds. x X x Plant the best ground
and let the wornout grow pine timber for future
generations" We hope Mr.. Johnson will not de-
lay sending the promised "points on other cropso
AS we have said before, we are just as DESTROYS
of bringing about a more attractive and beautiful
farm life or a more profitable farm life, and we
should like for our correspondents to write more
of this subject. There is an article "Beautiful
Surroundings in Reach of the Poorest" on page
6 that deserves attention, and we hope that the
men on the farms, as we'll as the women, will read
it. The lawn, the flower garden, and the grove,
should not be continually neglected for cotton
and tobacco fields. While planning the money
making crops, do not fail to plan for beautifying
the farmhouse and surroundings. If our Social
Chat correspondents are waiting for a subject
to discuss (and we do not know how else to ac-
count their prolonged silence) we commend
this to their consideration.
We are too blind, anyhow, to the beauty that
is around us-common, everyday beauty. Strain
ing our eyes for distant glories, we neglect those
right at hand-as is shown, for example, in the ar
ticle by Mr.. Greaves on page 7. As Mr.. Emerson
says in his essay on Nature: owe e~xaggerate
the praises of local scenery. In every land
scape, the point of astonishment is the meeting
of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the
first hillock as well as from the top of the ALE
ghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the
hrOu0oC4 hO0op1ioC+ common with oil tho CTirit19I
magnifcence which they shed on the Campaign,
or on the marble deserts of Egypt. The uproIed
clouds and the colors of morning and evening
will transfgure naples and alders. The differ
ence between landscape and landscape is small
but there is great difference in the beholder."
There is in all America no more uncompro-
missing champion of democracy (our meaning is
clear, of course, for we hold with William CuE
len Bryant that it is misleading to refer to any
political party as "the democracy') than DR.. Wal
ter Fl. Page, a native of North Carolina and now
editor of the Worlds Work. His address at
Trinity College two weeks ago was only an ap-
peal for a wider application of the democratic
idea. He believes that America has forged
ahead of other nations solely because here the
common man can rise to his natural place in So
clety and business, with no aristocratic fetterS
to hinder his progress. He believes in universal
education because States are not made great by
developing a few men of overshadowing ability
but by the development of the latent power in
every child of every condition, the power of a
commonwealth being measured by the average
efficiency of its people. He believes that democ-
racy is but another expression of the great law
OF 1.-THE survival of the fttest," and that every
aristocEatic privilege is an arbitrary interior
ence with that natural method which would as
sure the fullest development of every man and the
greatest good to all the people. But we are ez-
pressing his idea but poorly, while it is clearly