Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-12-10

/ cation and the facts of life. In all
education We should Widen our Am aims SIT II
Der of trained scholars and students;
| but the education superintendent by the
state must seek rather to produce He,S nun ons
/ scholar. and it must be turned now and
! then from the class book to the study
! in especially true Of the farmer, as has
! been pointed out again and again by All
observers most competent to pass prac-
i country 1 life. All students now realize
| that education must seek to train the
| executive powers Of young people and 70
D DSls dignity Of TABOR" and to pre-
pare the pupils so that in addition to
each developing in the highest degree
may together help create right public
| opinion, and show in many ways social
and cooperative spirit: Organization has
and it has accomplished much for good
| in the world Of labor. It is no less neces-
sary for farmers: Sucn a move m it.s as
| and is capable of q well-nigh inAnite fur
| Their extension for good so long as It IS
Dement'S to be derived by the association
of farmers for mutual advantage are
partly economic and partly sociological
Moreover, while in the long run volun-
tary effort will prove more eff1cacious
than government assistance while the
farmers must primarily do most for
themselves, yet the government can also
do much. The department of agriculture
has broken new ground In many direc-
tons. and year by year IT n nd now II
fresh usefulness. its constant effort is
to give the governmental assistance IN
sociations Of farmers rather than to or
thru Individual farmers. 1t is also strtv-
ing to coordinate It's work with the agri-
states, and SO far as it's own work is
educational, to coordinate 1t with the
work of other educational authorities.
based upon general education, but our
agricultural educational institutions are
wisely specializing themselves, making
their course relate to the actual teaching
of the agricultural and kindred sciences
to young country people or young city
Great progress has already been made
among farmers by the creation of
farmers Institutes, of dairy associa-
tions, of breeders associations, horti-
cultural associations, and the like. A
striking example of how the govern
ment and the farmers caG cooperate is
offered to the cotton growers of the
southern states by the advance of the
boil weevil. The department. is doing
all 1t can to organize the farmers in
the threatened districts, just as it has
been doing all it can to organize them
in aid of its work to eradicate the cat
ment can and will cooperate with all
such associations, and it must have
their help II its own work is to be
done in the most efficient STYLE"
He urges the extension of the irriga-
ton and forest preservation system, and
asks for an appropriation for building
memorial theater at Arlington.
Marriage and Divorce.
Az q means Of bringing about national
regulation of marriage and divorce he
suggests constitutional amendment, and
says 1t is not safe to leave these ques-
tons to be dealt with BY the various
states. Continuing on this subject he
When home ties are loosened; when
men and women cease to regard
fully performed, and all Its response
bilities lived up to, as the life best
worth living then evil days Th for the
regions in our land, and classes of our
population. where the birth rate has
Soa ps nss ss' a s to so
sss ss pi d 't the nation, from me me
standpoint Of the human race, the one
death. race death: a sin for which
there Is no atonement; a sin which is
ton as the. men and women guilty
thereof are in other respects, in char
acter. and bodily ana mental powers
those whom for the sake of the state
and mothers Of many healthy children
well brought up in homes made happy
can shirk the primary duties of life
whether for love of ease and pleasure
or for any other cause, and retain his
or her self-respect.
The president asks for the enactment
into law of a shipping bin that will place
American interests on the seas on par
especially that something be done that
will establish direct steamship commu-
nication with South American ports.
Currency Reform.
Amendments to the present currency
laws are asked for, and after showing
that present laws are inadequate because
Of the wide nuctuation of interest
charges, he says:
shows that our present system is seri-
ously defective. There is need OF a
change. Unfortunately, however. many
of the proposed changes must be ruled
complicated, are not easy of compre-
hension, and tend to disturb existing
rule out any plan which would ma
terially impair the value of the United
States two per cent bonds now pledged
to secure circulation, the issue of
culiarly creditable to the treasury. I
do not press any special plan. Various
expert committees of bankers. Among
the plans which are possibly feasible
and which certainly should receive
your consideration is that repeatedly
brought to your attention by the pres
emit secretary of the treasury, the es-
sential features Of which have been
approved by many prominent bankers
and business men. According to this
plan national banks should be per-
nttted to issue a specified proportion
Of their capital IL notes OF q given
kind the issue to hS taxed A& 20 high
q rate 40 to drive the notes beck when
APT waated in legt0mate traae. Thi.
plan wsuld not psfwit the Issue Of
profits, but to meet the emergency pre-
scented by times Of stringency.
Need Of Automatic System.
ST do not say that this is the right
system. I only advance it to empha-
size my belief that there is need fcg
the adoption OF some system which
shall be automatic and open to all
sound banks so as to avoid all DOS
sibiIity of discrimination and favorit-
ism Such plan would tend to pre-
vent the spasms of high money and
specula ton which now obtain in the