The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-28

well. But your boy is learning to crafty every
want and wants more. The mortal has never lived
who gratifed every want and did not want more.
Read Rasselas if you have forgotten that story
and it's sequel. Again the law of nature must as
sert itself and reaction follow. Your boy spends
the money you accumulated and his children iii
turn must toll and labor and rise to the top in
their old age. And so the mill grinds on. Only
a few well-balanced families escape such vicissi-
tudes.
harm OF FREE TUITION.
Our Legislators demand of our State ~institu-
tions numbers in proportion to the dollars ap-
propriated, and by the law of political economy
the demand creates the supply-the institutions
are filled with pupils whether prepared or unpre-
pared to enter; and overloaded with material that
cannot be digested, the whole body suffers. When
the demand comes for better scholarship our in
situations will supply it. But the question of the
hour is, how are we going to create this demand?
The masses are now being educated, indeed they
are about to skip high schools and colleges and go
to the university. To be a leader in your COM
munity, you must then secure a better scholar
ship than the masses. You must put aside ease
and extravaganza and grind and grub, if you
attain learning. 1t is harder to-day to do this
than ever before in our history, because it is
hard to find a place where one can grind and
grub, free from the allurements of ease and ex-
travagance. Then, too, endowed institutions and
gifts of the wealthy are making paupers of the
masses. Education is now in reach of all at a
small cost. Free tuition and cheap board is of
fered to nearly everyone, rich and poor. The
dollars of the boys are spent in learning ex-
travagance. When tuition costs the boy nothing,
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him.
THE BOY MUST WORK.
The amount of improvement a boy gets is di-
rectly in proportion to the amount of mental work
he does. Every facility provided to relieve him
from work does its part in l~essening his improve
ment. Every dollar spent in extravaganza is
more than wasted. 1t develops new wants, it
furnishes diversion, it prevents the tastes. This
evil of extravaganza is a difficult one to over
come. I once heard a talented and very devout
preacher say that he sent three-fourths of his
salary to his son at college, and supported his
family on the other fourth. That college son
turned out a failure and the other son never went
to college, but has been more successful than his
brother. Both went to school to me and the col
lege boy was far more talented.
A GOOD CHANCE BUT No E~xTRAvAaANoE.
What is the lesson TO De learned! give your
son Il chance for an education, but restrain his
extravaganza. Let him know that it costs you
something, and that he must not waste his oppor-
tunities; that he must meet and overcome diff
~culties, not shirk them; that he should seek schol-
arship and not simply to go to college; that the
difficult curriculum develops the mind, and the
course which requires little work gives but little
improvement; that his weak faculties should not
lie idle and waste away. Urge your son to study
and apply himself with zeal. If he fails to do
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