Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-08-23

al Cash Register company. whose
school gardens and model factory
equipments at Dayton, Ohio, have
awakened widespread interess
George r, S. Tuthill, through Nhas
efforts the ST. Charles home for boys
Al Chicago was founded. g Kern,
smperintendent of schools for Winnie
bago county, Illinois, who has done
a great work in the consolidation OF
aunfry schools and perfected plans
for engrafting on them methods lot
practical teaching of improved agfi.
culture ID experimental gardens; =.
B. Butler, president Of The boara ~
trustees ef the Illinois Trainias
school EARN. and Milton George, the
founder Of that school; Jane Adams,
head president Of the Chicago Hull
House Social settlement and others
of note in this movement.
Teach the Dignity Of Work.
The league Is working for an N.
{E a y N
austrial public school system which
will include the teaching Of domes.
Tic science and both agricultural and
manual training in all the pn9'ie
schools. Is that children shall be
taught Id work with their hands and
farm as they are taught in the public
schools of France and Denmark. II
maintains that every school should
have 4 school garden where every
child should be taught to be lover
Of nature and of the country and
trained toward the land as the source
of honorable livelihood, rather Than
away from II.
Sucn system Of education would
undoubtedly tend to very largely
check the constant movement toward
the cities. Tie farm boy who wv
eaives fair school or high school
education naturally turns toward The
place where he can best apply it..
His training has nnot been suea as
would help him to farm better or or
make Of farming an interesting
ence And so he goes 70 the city.
On the other hand, the city boy as
soon as he grows up and marrles
would like TO have a home of his own
on the land, but he knows only the
trade he has learned. He knows
nothing of farming and he would not
know what to do with piece of land
IL he had it. 1t has often been said
that II is useless to put the poor of
the great cities out In the country
because they will not stay there.
They cannot be expected to, for TO
them II Is a strange and barren story.
The experience of the Salvation ar.
my, however. found In its many irri.
gated colonies, shows that men will
go out from the cities and live on
the land and make good citizens
where they are taught what to do
with the land after they get on It,
The irrigated farms of the west
show the great capacity of land when
well and intensiyely farmed. and that
men can live in plenty and comfort
on five acres and even on a single
acre. Suppose that the $4,000 re-
Gently discharged employees of the
Pennsylvania railroad each had a
highly cultivated acre of rich land TO
which he could turn his attention In
stead Of being drag on the commu.
nifty and the country, instead OF hav-
ing stopped producing and consum-
ing, they would still be producers
and would still be able to at least get
a living from the soil Does not this
instance Of the Unemployment Of 75..
900 men. who might, II they owned
each an acre be getting living
from the soil. supply food for thought
u the man who Ii pondering over &c.
Ionomic problems?