The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-06

education we should widen our aims. IL
Is a good thing TO produce certain NUM-
Der OF trained scholars and students;
but the education superintendent by the
state must seek rather to produce hum
dred good citizens than merely one
scholar, and II must be turned now and
then from the class book to the study
Of the great book boo. Of nature so, itself THIS
been pointed out again and again by all
observers most competent to pass prac-
teal Judgment on the, problems OF our
that education must seek to train the
! executive powers OF young people and to
phrase dignity OF labor" and to pre-
| pare the pupils so that In addition to
bach developing in the highest, degree
may together heln create a right public
| opinion, and show In many ways social
and cooperative spirit. ORGANIZATION has
SsS has sssoph e 1 %Seh for good
in the world of labor, 1t is no less neces-
spry for farmers. Such a movement as
and is capable OF a well-nlgR Infinite fur
kept 70 rs own fegIfimats business The
| OF farmers for mutual advantage are
partly economic and partly sociological.
Moreover, while in the long run volun-
| tRry effort will prove more efhCacious
| than government assistance, while the
farmers must primarily do most FOR
themselves, yet tho government can also
l
has broken new ground In many direc-
tons. and year by year II finds bow 1t
fresh usefulness. It's constant effort is
to give the governmental assistance in
the most effective way; that is, thru as
! sociations OF farmers rather than to or
thru Individual farmers. II is also striv-
| ing to coordinate its work with the agri-
cultural departments of the several
educational, to coordinate II with the
work of other educational authorities.
Agricultural education is necessarily
| based upon general education, but our
| agricultural educational institutions are
wisely specializing themselves, making
their course relate to the actual teaching
to young country people or young city
people who wish to live In the country.
among farmers by the creation of
farmers institutes, of dairy associa
lions. of breeders associations. horti-
striking example of how the govern
ment and the farmers can cooperate is
shown in connection with the menace
offered to the cotton growers OF the
southern states by the advance of the
boil weevil The department is doing
all IL can to organize the farmers in
the threatened districts, just as 1t has
been doing all II can to organize them
in aid of its work to eradicate the cat
tie fever tick in the south. The depart
ment can and will cooperate with all
such associations and 1t must have
their help IL its own work is to be
|
He urges the extension of the irriga-
ton and forest preservation system. and
asks for an appropriation for building a
memorial theater at Arlington.
Marriage and Divorce.
AS means of bringing about national
regulation of marriage and divorce he
suggests constitutional amendment, and
says II IL not safe to leave these ques-
lions to be dealt with by the various
states. Continuing on this subject he
| says:
When home ties are loosened; when
men and women cease. to regard a
worthy family life, with all it's duties
fully performed, and all its RESPONSE
hilities lived up to, as the life best
commonwealth are at hand. There are
regions in our land, and classes of our
population. where the birth rate has
should need no demonstration to show
that wilful sterility is. from the
standpoint of the nation, from me
sin for which the penalty is national
death. race death; sin for which
there is no atonement; a sin which Is
the more dreadful exactly in proper
ton as the men and women guilty
thereof are In other respects. In char
acter, and bodily and mental powers
1t would be well to see the fathers
and mothers of many healthy children
we'll brought up in homes made happy
by their presence No man. no woman
can shirk the primary duties of life
whether for love of ease and pleasure
or for any other cause, and retain hi
or her self-respect.
| The president asks for the enactmen
into law of a shipping bill that Will place
American interests on the seas on a pa
with those OF other countries, and urge
, | especially that something be done tina
,, viii establish direct steamship commu
nication with South American ports.
J Currency Reform.
! Amendments to the present currenc!
| Las. Oh nd aft gI,ntt in,
that present laws are inadequate becaus
> OF the wide fuctuation OF interes
charges. he says
\ 'aThe mere statement of these fact
Z shows that our present system is seri
/ ously defective. There is need of
, change. Unfortunately. however, man
OF the proposed changes must be rule
!, from consideration because they ar
n complicated are not easy of compre
= rights and interests. We must ais
rule out any plan which would ma
s terially impair the value of the Unite
I States two per cent. bonds now pledge
e to secure circulation, the issue c
Il which was made under conditions pe
i culiarly creditable to the treasury.
e do not press any special plan. Variou
+. plans have recently been proposed b
/ expert committees of bankers. Anon
n the plans which are possibly feasibl
e and which certainly should receiv
l. your consideration is that repeated
e brought to your attention by the pres
ent Secretary OF the treasury. the es
approved by many prominent banker
and business men. According to tn
lie plan national banks should be pei
n mitted to issue a specified proportio
r OF their capital in notes of a give
o. kind the issue to be taxed at so hie
r a rate as to drive the notes back whe
l. not wanted in legitimate trade. TIL
Is plan would not permit the issue
/ currency to give banks addition
le profits but to meet the emergency DR.
A. scented by times OF strlngency.
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At Need of Automatic System.
n IT do not say that this is the rig
ST system. l only advance II to emph
n size my belief that there is need 4
SIS the adoption OF some system viii,
J. shall be automatic and open to @
y. sound banks. so as to avoid all po
u sibility of discrimination and favori
ism Such a plan would tend to pr
n vent the spasms of high money al
nc speculation which now obtain in 4
ed New York market; for at prese
le there is too much currency at certa
IN seasons of the year, and its accum
49, lation at New York tempts banke
ly to lend II at low rates for speculate
lg purposes; whereas at other times VIII
O. the crops are bling moved there