The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05


 the theory of education and the facts of life In all education we should widen cur aims. It Is a good thing to produce a certain number of traine4 scholars and students; but the eduea. seek rather to produce hundred good citizens than merely one scholar, ana it must be turned now and then from book of nature itself. This is espe- cla1ly true of-the farmer, as has been pointed out again and again by all observers most competent to pay prao- aI,- country life. All students now realize that education must seek to train the executive powers of young. people and the phrase dignity of labor" and \to prepare the pupils so that in addition to each developing in the highest de gree his individual capacity for work, public opinion, and show in many ways social and cooperative spirit. Crgant. zation has become necessary iE the business world; and 1t has accom-. plished much for good in the world of labor. It Is no less necessary for farmers. Such movement az tht is capable of a well nigh infinite fur ther extension for good so long as it kept to its own Legitimate business The benefits to be derived by the as
  vantage are partly economic and partly
 Moreover, while in the long run vol untary effort will prove more .efficay cious than government assistance, while farmers must primarily do most for themselves. yet the government Agriculture has broken new ground in many directions, and year by year 1t finds how 1t can improve its meth ods and develop fresh usefulness. It's afFOrf qiUR tha fnVaFm- mental assistance in the most effective way; that is. through associations of farmers rather than to or through in- dividual farmers 1t is also striving to coordinate It's work with the agri- cultural departments of the several States. and so far as its own work is educational, to coordinate 1t with the work of other educational authorities. Agricultural education is necessarily based upon, general education, but our agricultural educational institutions making their courses relate to the ac- tual teaching of the agricultural and kindred sciences to young country peo- pie or young city people who wish to
 Great progress has already been made among farmers by the creation citations, of breeders associations, hor- ticultural associations, and the like. A striking example of how the govern ment and the farmers can cooperate
  nee offered to the cotton growers of the Southern States by the advance of the boil weevil. The department is doing all it can to organize the farm CTS in the threatened districts, just as 1t has been doing all 1t can to organize them in aid of it's work to eradicate the cattle fever tick in the South. The with all such associations, and 1t must have their help If it's own work is to be done In the most efficient style.
 
 Much is now being done in the States of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains through the development of the national policy of irrigation and | forest preservation; no government pol | ley for the betterment of our internal ' conditions has been more fruitful of good than this. The forests of the lachian regions should also be pre- served; and they can not be unless the people of the states in which they lie, through their representatives in the Congress, secure vigorous action by the national government.
 Memorial AmphitheateF at Arlington.
 I invite the attention of the Con- If War for an appropriation to enable him to begin the preliminary work for the construction of a memorial amphi- .heater at Arlington. The Grand Ar my of the Republic in its national en- has urged the erection of Iuch an amphitheater as necessary for ne proper observance or NlemOFlHl DdY md as fitting monument to the sol Her and sailor dead buried there. Tn his I heartily concur and commend the natter to the favorable consideration
 Marriage and Divorce.
 I am well aware of how difficult # 8 to pass a constitutional amendment. Nevertheless in my Judgment the whole question of marriage and divorce should )e relegated to the authority of tha , national Congress. At present the vvfE F. Tav AF he lifferent States on this subject result n scandals and abuses; and surely here is nothing SO vitally essential o the welfare of the nation, nothing lround which the nation should st ,end itself to throw every safeguard. IS the home life of the average citi- en. The change would be good fror. very standpoint In particular It would be good because 1t would confer m the Cong the power at once to eal radically and efficiently with poly samy; and this should be done wheth- IT or not marriage and divorce are , lealt with; It is neither safe nor 'roper to leave the question of poly samy to be dealt with by the seYer'l States. Power to deal with 1t should 'e conferred on the national govern nent.
 nen and women cease to regard worthy family life. with all its duties ullv performed. and all its responsi- lilitles lived uD to. as the life best are at hand. There are 'egiOns in our land, and classes Of our population. where the birth rate has iunk below the death rate. Surely 1t should need no demonstration to show that wilful sterility is, from the stand point of the nation from the stand point of the hum@m race, the one sin Tor which the penalty is rational death, race death; a sin for which there Is no antonement: sin which is the more exactly in proportion as the men and women guilty thereof are in f other respects in character, and bodi-