Evening journal., 1904-12-08
EDUCATING BOYS
FOR THE FARMS
President Harter, Of Delaware
College Says the Institution
,Is Doing Good Work
CORRECTS A GENERAL BELIEF
sneclnl 10 MIC Evcning Journal,

Special to Tho Evening Joulhdis
Dover. Dec. s.-Before a large audi
ence IN the hall Of the House of Rep
resentatives last evening, Dr. George
A. Harter. president Of Delaware Col
leee, made an able address on the prog
ross of education I'm Delaware, ana the
relation OF Delaware College TO the
farmers Of this state. DR. Harter cited
from Investigations made OF the soil OF
Delaware and her producing power de-
claring that the soil Of the cultivated
area OF the state demanded the best
attention that an farmers could give IT,
for tho revenues Of the people Of the
state could be increased thousands
upon thousands of dollars by a closer
study and extra effort In developing
the resources.
President Harter. after outlining the
growth of education and dcploring the
cost 10 the state OF supporting so many
ipoorly attended rural schools, when the
consolidated rural school system would
bring so much better results at less
cost. pointed out specifically the abso-
Lutte necessity for the farmers of today
/ 10 educate themselves and their fam
lilies
you may, perhaps, ask what all this
/ has to do with my subject OF Delaware
college and her relation to the farm
ers." said President Harter, and right
/ here i want to answer a generally cir
lculated statement that the tendency OF
! the college is 10 turn boys TO the city
Irather than the country, which reputed
tendency prevents hundreds Of farmers
from sending us their boys This is
exactly opposite from the truth, for
while Delaware College IS making one
of her greatest specialtles that of ed
lucating the farmer, she IS educating her
boys along all lines and many Of them
are turning from other avocations to
that Of the farmer, after spending
weeks and months I'm her laboratories,
experiment stations and coming In con-
tact with the educational teaching
DR.. Harter cited two Instances OF
boys In the senior class who had gone
through college with the idea Of be-
coming mechanical engineers, but who
have decided to take up farming as
soon as they graduate next June.
81 have seen and come I'm contact with
1000 cases Of smallpox" said DIR. Alex
ander Lowber. secretary Of the State
Board OF Health, land 1 have here a
number of photographs of the cases
which I will pass around. They were
taken I'm the rooms by a snapshot, like
that and as the speaker snapped his
fingers there was a noticeable move
ment Of spectators toward the doors.
MANY of the cases which we visited
and they have occurred during the past
five years, were pronounced by the To-
cal physicians to be chicken pox and
before we could get there to diagnosl
the disease 1t was rapidly spreading
Some OF the local physicians had call
ed Il smallpox through fear, while 9th
ers were Of the kind who have reached
that stage whore they know 1t all
Now as many of you know, doctor
whole life, in these days OF remarkabl
development and discovery, IS givel
over TO study and whenever physi
clan gets to the point that he know
Il all, he has simply dropped into
hole deeper than himself
"And today, with the existence o
1000 cases Of smallpox within the pas
five years, there is not a single cas-
OF this dread disease within the con
fines OF this state today and much o
the credit due to the stamping out mus
be given to vaccination"
DR.. Lowber then went on to outlin
the stringent State supervision and new
legislation that is needed along thi
line.
Dr. r. W. Cooper president Of tn
state Board Of Health. added 20 Dr
Lowber's statement concerning the fea
OF local physicians to report conta
gions as long as they could hold on 4
a faint hope that the disease wa
something else was due to threat
made I'm many communities that woul
cut off their entire practice If they wen
In upon contagion. These threats ar
menacing and not founded on an
] truth he said