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OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME.
PERNICIOU US PHIL OSOPHY or JOHN
\. INGALLS, FAMOUS POEM
HOW HOME OPPOgTUNE-
TIES HAVE BEEN
OYERLOOKED.

Solution of the Labor Question TO BE-
Found in the Development OF nome
Industries.
Many a beautiful thing is pernicious
in its effect. There Is no telling how
many men have given up Il good fight
ing chance and have literally laid
down in harness because they had alb
sorbed from John J. Ingalls, poem
OPPORTUNITY the idea that they
had had their chance, and that fol-
them at least opportunity would not
return. Here is the poem:
Master of human destinies am |,
Fame, love and fortune on my foot
steps wait.
Cities and fields l walk. | penetrate
Deserts and seas remote. And pass
ing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or
late
knock unbidden once at every
gate.
II sleeping wake; If feasting rise
before
| turn away; it is the hour of fate.
And those who follow me reacn every
state
Mortals desire and conquer every
every foe
Save death: but those who doubt or
hesitate.
Condemned to failure. penury and
woe,
Seek me in vain, and uselessly i'm
plOre.
| answer not. and [ return no more.
\ beautiful pOem-yes. but pernic-
ious as is the theory of fate or the
twin tenet of predestinatiOn. If oppor-
tunity comes but once, where is the
use of striving q
President James of the University
Of IIlinoiS drrinp thp rpcput commence
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operation the Platform Oh the Tails
man. The following is taken there
from:
EDUCATION. EMPLOYMENT Ann
HOMES ON THE LAND.
That children shall be taught
gardening and bOmecraft i'm the puhIic
schools, and that Homecraft and
Garden Training Schools shall be
estapIshed by county. municipal.
state and national governments.
where every boy and every man out
OF work who wants employment where
he can gain that knowledge. can learn
now to make home and till the soil
ana get his living straight from the
ground. and where every boy would
be taught that his first aim i'm life
should be to get a home of his own
on the land.
BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS.
That the New Zealand system of
Land Taxation and Land Purchase
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set
tiers Act, shall be adopted in this
country, to the end that land shall be
subdivided into small holdings I'm the
hands of those who will till IL for n
livelihood, and labor find occupation
in the creation of homecrofts. which
will be perpetual safeguards against
the political evils and social discontl -
resulting from the overgrowth
cities and the sufferings of unem.
ployed wage-earners.
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
ICAN HOMECROFT.
Tbof Dual :
encouraged and the principle OF Pro
lection for the American WageworkerI
and his Home applied directly to the
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
tion of all improvements upon, andN
also of all personal property, not ex-
ceeding $1,000 in value, used on andI
in connection with, every HomecroftI
or Rural Homestead of not more thanI
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home andI
cultivates with his own labor and sol
provides therefrom all or part of the
support for family.
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING.
That the National Government
as part of a comprehensive nation
al policy of internal improvements
for river control and regulation
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent of ths
area of the country available for agri
culture and Homes on the Land, and
for the protection of those Homes froml
either flood or drouth, shall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for the
reclamation of swamp and Overfowed
lands, but shall also preserve existingE
forests, reforest denuded areas, plantI
new forests, and build the great reser-
voirS and other engineering works
necessary to safeguard against over
flow and save for beneficial use the
flood waters that now run to waste
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OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME.

tendency to draw the manufacturing
interests into the great transportation
centers, the tide has flowed strongly
toward the city and the small town
has had hard struggle to retain its
own.
In this respect, however, the pendu1
lun is swinging back also. The con1
ditions surrounding the workmen in
the cities, the lack of home life and
the presence of accumulated vice. have|
demonstrated to the satisfaction Of
every one that we will never reach our
highest industrial success until the
average workman is placed where he
can have fresh air, a family, and
home for that family. The small town,
everything else being equal, is the
place for industries. A man with a
home, and who spends his evenings
with his family identifying that
home, is not only a better citizen, but
he is worth infinitely more to his en-
ployer than his brother laborer who
has no interest other than that he
finds with his saloon companions and
in ward politics.
When the reformers have settled the
Industrial labor questions they will not
bc calling for less hours of work, but
- distribution of the hours of work.
Six hours in the factory or the mine
and the balance at home working on
an acre of ground may be made
solution of the whole question between
labor and capital. Any man with 9
home and one acre of the earth's suR
face that he can call his own, as
with employment at fair wages durine
FIVE or six hours of the day, need never
fear want for himself or his family.
Under such conditions his family can
DO reared and educated and live under
the advantages OF a wholesome social
afmnSnhere.
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range business. However the more
centralized portion Of society has taken
the matter up, and II is stated that
the most public-spirited citizens of
the towns and cities, together with the
progressive teachers have made school
gardens and rural education success
during the past two seasons and have
aroused such enthusiasm among the
pupils, that wherever it has been tried.
the school garden has become Il fixture.
Let your child plant his own gar.
den, gather his own harvest of fruit
and flowers, learn through his own
small experience something of the
influence of the sun, dew and rain.
and gain thereby remote PRESENT.
ment Of the reciprocal energies of
nature and reverent feeling for the
divine life and law expressed I'm
nature. The child is a plant, a vege-
table, and must live out of doors. or
nearly so, as conditions will permit :"
Froebel realized that health was the
basis and test of all our energies, and
that this was one of the morning
stars Of the new hygiene.
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THE A AGRICUL TURAL HIGHSCHOOL
Successful Examples Described by
Crosby of Department of Agricul-
ture of Local Improvement
ThrouQh Rural Educ alton

ture of Local Improvement
Through Rural Education
In the new Year Book of the DE.
partment of Agriculture, just issued
| is a description by ID. J. Crosby, of tbs
office of Experiment Stations, which
shows, in a number of instances, what
| splendid results are being attained
through the Introduction of common
sense agricultural studies in some of
the country village schools, and how
they directly affect and benefit their
home towns. There is what appears
to be, an almost ideal Pennsylvania
village high school, which the writer
visited. He describes what he saw:
In Erie County, Pa, surrounded by
good general farming and dairy
country, is the village of Waterford.
on the outskirts of which is the size of
Fort lie Boeuf, of FRENCH and India
war fame. At Waterford the first
school i'm Erie County was establish J
in 1900, and here as far back as 1922
was erected Il stone academy build
ing. which is used to-day as the main
part of the high-schOOl building The
township of Waterford has popula-
tiOn of 1,460 and about one hal. re-
borough has its own elementary
ed and controlled Jointly by the bor-
ough and township.
This high school, with its three
teachers and three courses of study
Language. scientific. and agricultuEIh,
has an enrolment of so pupils, and 30
of these are in the agricultural course.
hours n week for four years. The
work of the first year is devoted to
study of plant life-germinatiOn. plant
growth, plant food, reproduction, prop
agation, transplanting, pruning, and
use of plants; the second year to Il
study of field, orchard, and garden
crops; the third year to domestic ami
mails, dairying, and soil physics, a
the fourth year TO the chemistry OF
soils and of plant and animal life.
Text books are used i'm the class
rooms; a small library of agricultural
reference books, reports and bulletins
of this Department and experiment
stations, and agricultural papers con-
tributed by the publishers is in almost
constant use. and lectures on agricul-
tural subjects are given before the
class and before the whole school by
the instructor i'm agriculture. who is
an agricultural college graduate. But
the feature of instruction which
chiefly distinguishes this agricultural
course from the ordinary high school
course is the prominence given to the
laboratory work and the outdoor prac-
ticum. For the laboratory work there
is no elaborate apparatus. The pupils
make much of their own apparatus,
furnish their own reagent bottles, and,
moreover use them. In the plant-life
course the pupils study not elaborate
and carefully prepared drawings, but
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Fresh dir Fairgrounds.

American cities are far behind
European cities in making provision
for public parks. especially in pro-
viding for the instruction and amuse-
ment of children in them. In modern
municipal equipment in Europe. much
provision is made for the instruction
and amusement of children. and in
most modernized European cities large
sums of money have been expended in
procuring open spaces for them in dis
tricts Of congested population.
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EDUCATION
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
HOMECROETS

We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People of this Nation
should be Every Child i'm Garden
Every Mother in a Homecroft-and In
dividual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in Home of his Own
on the Land" and that until he owns
such n Home, the concentrated purpose
and chief inspiration to labor in the life
of every wage worker should be his
determination to Get an Acre AMI
Live on it,"
We believe that the Slums and
Tenements and Congested Centers of
population in the Cities are a savagely
deteriorating social, moral and polit-
ical influence, and that a great public
movement should be organized. and
the whole power of the nation and
the states exerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Rural Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers of So
cial and Civic Life in Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages, where
Trade and Industry can be so firmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
into the Commercial Maelstrom that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into the Vortex of the
Great Cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Right to an Education
which will train him to Earn Liv-
ing, and, If need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth: and that
he has the same right to the Opportun-
ity to have the Work to Do which will
afford him that living, and to earn not
only c cor Portable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be a
Homecrofter and to have a Home of
his Own, with ground around 1t
sufficient to yield him and his family
Living from the Land as the reward
for his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain
is the most precious heritage of the
people, and the surest safeguard the
nation has against Social Unrest. Dis
turbance or Upheaval. and that the
Cause of Humanity and the Preserva-
ton of Social Stability and of our Free
Institutions demand that the absorp-
tion of the public lands into specula-
tive private ownership. without settle
ment. be forthwith stopped: and that
the nation should create opportunities
for Homecrofters by building irriga-
ton and drainage works to reclaim
land as fast as it is needed to give
every man who wants Home on the
Land chance to get it.
We believe that, as a Nation. we
should be less absorbed with Making
Money and should pay more heed to
raising up and training Men who will
be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the wei
fare of our Workers is of more con-
sequence than the mere accumulation
of Wealth: and that Stability of Ma
tional Character and of Social and
BUSINESS Conditions is of greater i'm
portance to the people of this country
as a whole than any other one ques-
ton that is now before them: and we
believe that the only way to Preserve
such Stability. and to Permanently
Maintain our National Prosperity. Is
to carry into immediate effect and
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This book Is the nrSt or Il Series
that will Chronicle the Progress of the
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
and inform all who wish to cooperate
with it how they may do so through
the formation of local HomecrOfters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town and Village Betterment, stimu-
late home civic pride and loyalty to
home institutions, Industries and trade,
improve methods and facilities of edu-
cation in tie local public schools. and
create new opportunities AT Home"
that Will go far to check the drift of
trade and population to the cities.
The first Gid of the Homecrofters
has been established at Watertown.
Massachusetts. The Gildhall, Shops
and Gardens are located at 143 Main
Street. where the Garden School is
now fully organized and over one
hundred children are at work i'm the
Gardens. The departments for train
ing in Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being installed. The Weavers
are already at work at the looms.
1t is not designed to build here an
Isolated institution, but to make
model which can be duplicated in any
town or village i'm the country.
There is New Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Land in the
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE
HOMECROFTERS' which is as fol-
lows:
peace has her victories no less re-
fhon -
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THE FIRST BOOK 10. e. HOME CROFTERS

Copies Of THE FIRST BOOK HoMEcRoE TIE RS -
obtained
crofter' Gid Main M
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A little croft we owned plot Of corn
A garden stored with peas and mint and thyme.
And flowers for posies, oft on Sunday morn
Plucked while the church bells rang their earliest chi
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BE A HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together.
Give every Man a Chance.
THE SLOGAN OF THE HoMEcRoFTERs is

LEARN by Doing Work TogcIhcr-Give Every Nan a
" Every Child in "a Garden-Every Mother in a Honeer,
viduaL Industrial Independence for Every Works
Home OF his own Land
The Breckenridge news., 1906-07-18

Solution of the Labor Question to BE-
Found in the DEVELOPMENT OF Home
Industries.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
PERFUME MADE IN GERMANY
Growth of Industry Makes That
Country Rival Of France
and England.

Vice Consul Fuller writes from Han
over that the German perfume indus
try Is now one of the most important
and successful in the world, rlvaling
that OF France or England. He de-
scribes 1t in the following letter:
Some of the biggest factories are In
Leipsic, but Berlin, Carlsruhe and
Hamburg are important centers of the
trade. There has been vast increase
In the last few years in the diversity
OF essential oils produced from plants
and 40 varieties of those plants are
employed in the German factories,
which use as well such products Of for
eign lands as nutmeg, cinnamon, cam
phor, balsams, pepper, musk and am
bergris.
The production OF the essential oil
Is expensive, ranging from about 1927
pound downward. according to the
scarcity of the oil in the plant With
fresh flowers the dlstillation takes
place as near the place of plckiaE as
possible, as the fresher the products
the better. The stills contain about
$500 pounds of flowers and the neces-
sary amount OF water. Great care is
taken as to the amount Of heat sun
pied and to its regularity, the process
being thoroughly controlled, an excel
lent product resulting.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
WOLVES LIKE THE SHEEP.
Kansas Pro-''ors Are Ford of Nut
ton and Show Skill in Get
ting 1t.

The wolves now found in Jackson
county, Kansas, are In size between the
coyote of the western plains and the big
wolves found in the Ozark region In
general appearance they bear resem-
blance to the Scotch collie dog. They
live in unfrequented places, generally
in the timber or along the streams, and
favorite abode is in caves or under
overhanging lodges of stone
1t Is said that the wolf has a great
liking for mutton, especially young
lamhG. which fall an easy prey to IN,
and that he is most frequently found
where sheep are numerous But he will
not turn his nose up at tender little pigs,
and when he canno. find other things
more to his liking he will not scruple to
become common chicken thief. But
his skill in eluding his enemies, espe-
cially human, is remarkable, and this is
one OF the most aggravating things
about him. II a hunter succeeds in get
ting within g'inshot of him the chances
are ten to one that no damage will be in
fiicted, His hide is so thick and tough
and Is covered with such a heavy coat of
fur that an ordinary discharge from a
shotgun has little or no effect. with an
ease that is eXasperating he simply
lopeS out of danger and is soon lost in
the brush.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
TO TWIST A BILL IN TWO.
Would Require More Strength Than
Lies in the Average Mans
Fingers.

The paper that Is used by the gov
eminent in its currency Is manufac.
tuIed by "A secret process and has
characteristics with which the aver.
age man is not familiar says a
Minneapolis man.
Recently | was in small Minneso-
Ia town and witnessed an incident
that demonstrates this. A well.todo
farmer living in the vicinity came in.
to the bank to transact some business.
In the course OF the conversation the
cashier began twisting a IS bill. The
farmer watched him with interest and
finally asked the man back of the
counter If he wasn't afraid of tear.
ing the bill.
Here is an easy way for you to
earn money" said the cashier. Here
is a $1,000 bill and | will give 1t to
you II you will twist the bill in two.
You are simply to twist it and no.
tear it.
The farmer seemed dumbfounded
at first. He was overawed at the
thought of mutilating $1,000 bill.
Upon further assurance by the officer
OF the bank he timidly took the money
and started twisting it in the middle.
He tugged away for some time with.
out being able to twist the bill in
two Finally he gave up and he was
certainly a surprised farmer. 1t is
impossible to twist bill in two. so
firm and elastic is the paper used"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
Notice TO Water Users.

State Engineers ONCE, Salt Lake
City, Utah, July %, 1906
Notice Is hereby given that Eugene
Schaub, whose postot,ice address is
Logan, Utah, has made application
In accordance with the requirements
OF Chapter los, Session Laws OF Utah,
1903, to appropriate two (2) cubic feet
per second OF water from Logan River,
branch OF Bear River, Cache county,
Utah. Said water will be diverted at
a point which bears north "a degrees
81 minutes 10 seconds east 5il5 ! feet
distant from the southwest corner of
the northwest quarter Of the south
west quarter Of Section 1, Township
L north, Range east, Salt Lake base
and meridian, from where it will be
conveyed for distance of 1877 feet
and there used from April lst to Nov.
ember 18th, inclusive, OF each year,
to irrigate about eleven acres of land
embraced In Section 4, Township II
north, Range east, Salt Lake base
and meridian.
This application is designated in
the State Engineers Office as No. 100
All protests against the granting of
said application, stating the reasons
therefor, must be made by affidavit
la duplicate and filed in this office
within thirty 1907 days after the com
P'etion OF the publication Of this
notice, CALEB TANNER,
State Engineer
Date of first publication August
18TH, date OF completion of pubIca.
ton September 18th.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
Not a Lame Senator.

He had been hanging around the
desk of hotel in Washington for
ten minutes before the clerk asked
what was wanted and mentally sized
him up as an oflice,seeker from the
Wild and woody west.
Senator Blank stops here, don't
he?" was asked
yes. sir, he does"
Was that him that come along a
few minutes ago and took a tooth.
pick from the holdor?"
II don't think So"
He walked with. stiff knee and
didn't look at all like fighter"
Then 1t wasn't Senator Blank. He
has no stiff knee and You have only
to look OF him to see that he Is a
lighter Do you want to interview
him?"
NO, | guess not--not if he ISM a
lame man"
What difference does that make?n
"A heap, my friend | wanted to
ask him what corporation owned him
but If he's got two sound ;egs and is a
fighter | guess I'll let II go and write
him postal Baltimore Amer.
lean
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
BEET SUGAR IN ENGLAND.
Experiments in Essex Last Year
Showed That Beets of Best Quail
ity Could Be Grown.

In nearly every county In England
Wales and southern Ireland 1t has
been demonstrated that beets OF high
sugar content can be grown. IL has,
however, yet to be satisfactorily
shown that sugar can be commercial
ly and proftably manufactured from
these beets. The failure of an at
tempt at sugar production In England
some 30 years ago would seem to an
swer this in the negative. But 1t ap-
pears that beets used at that fai,u
contained only ten per cent OF sugar,
and that farmers found It more profit
able to feed them to their stock than
to sell at the price the factory could
AFFORD to pay. In the present Essex
experiments, however, the average
percentage of sugar in the beets Is
placed at 1917, and even this has been
exceeded in several recorded cases In
other counties. This striking i'm
provement In quality has been pro-
duced by careful selection and by
close attention to other details OF cul-
ture.
The experiments In Essex last year
showed that beets could be grown
equal to and in some cases better In
quality than those raised In sugar
producing countries. While this Is
the first thing to be Investigated, the
committee says ut does not follow
that even when this is established be-
yond any possibility OF doubt the I'M
dertaking Is one that would necessar-
lily be commercial success The
business side Of the questionable cost
of production, the cost OF working a
factory and a host OF similar points
needs careful and experienced consld-
Grafton"
Figures are given showing that the
cost per acre in these experiments
was about is per cent. more than In
similar experiments in the United
States.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-08-18
That Is Startlingly
Unique.

They're Oslerizing the workers on
dictionaries as we'll as in other caH.
ings," said man who for years has
been writing definitions. "The young.
er men are doing the work, and the
old Fellows, the men of ripe experience,
trained In the earlier school OF accu-
racy, are being showed to the wall.
Il have held down good Jobs on
several cyclopedias and dictionaries,
among the latter being the Century
and the Standard In those Offices
| was one of the youngest staff work.
ers, with any number of learned gray.
boards ahead of me. Now, at 54, |
am the patriarch OF the office. and the
stan Is made up of young fellows,
masters and doctors of arts of Sc.
ences, Just out of college.
They like easier hours, and dom
believe in crowding too much work
into them, either. | am used to a
longer and fuller day.
The other day the boss came to me
and said: Mr.. Soandso, aren't you
doing too much work? You turn in
more than any other man in the Of.
fee
Il was dumfounded but managed to
ask If anything wrong had been
found in the work itself, for | have
always prided myself upon my pains.
taking accuracy
Well. no. the chief admitted. 4
haven't found any error so far, but |
fear for the quality of your work
when the quantity so far exceeds the
requirement. You're doing twice as
much as our best workers. It's all
right, TO be sure, but
Now, what do you think Of that?
Now I'm waiting for the ak to fall"