Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-12-15

cation and the facts OF life. In all
is a good thing to produce a certain num-
Der OF trained scholars and students:
but tho education superintendent by. the
state must seek rather to produce a hun
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 of nature itself. This
is especially true OF the farmer, as has
been pointed out again and again by all
observers most competent to pass prac-
teal judgment on the problems of our
country life. All students now realize
that education must seek to train the
| executive powers of young people and to
| confer more real significance upon the
| phrase dignity of labor" and to pre-
each each developing in the HIGHEST degree
| his individual capacity for work, they
may. together help create right public
| and cooperative spirit. Organization has
| become necessary In the business world;
| in the world of labor. 1t is no less neces-
/ sary for farmers. Such movement as
| the orange movement is good In itself
| Their extension for good SO long as IL is
| kept to it's own legitimate business. The
| benefits 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 etilcacious
| than government assistance, while the
| farmers must primarily do most for
themselves yet the government can also
|
| has broken new ground In many direc-
| lions, and year by year II finds how IL
| can improve Its methods and develop
| fresh usefulness. Its constant effort is
| to give the governmental assistance in
the most effective way; thg- Is, thru as
| sociations of farmers rather than to or
| thru Individual farmers. 1t Is also strv-
| ing to coordinate its work with the agri-
cultural departments OF the several
| states, and so far as its own work is
| educational to coordinate it 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
| OF the agricultural and kindred sciences
! to young country people or young city
people who wish to live in the countrs.
| "Creat progress has already been made
among farmers by the creation of
farmers institutes. of dairy associa-
| tons, of breeders associations. horti-
cultural associations, and the like.
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
the threatened districts, juSt as It has
been doing all it can to organize them
in aid of its work to eradicate the cat
| tie fever tick in the south. The depart
mert can and will cooperate with all
such associations, and it must have
done done in mt the most efficient STYLE - &c
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 a constitutional amendment, and
| says 1t is not safe to leave these queI-
states. Continuing on this subject he
| says:
men and women. cease to regard
worthy family life, with all it's duties
fully performed. and all its response,
worth living; then evil days for the
commonwealth are at hand. There are
regions in our land. and classes OF our
sunk below the death rate. Surely 1t
should need no demonstration to show
that wiful sterility Is, from ON, the the
standpoint OF the human race, the one
sin for which the penalty is national
death. race death; a sin for which
the more dreadful exactly in proper
ton as the men and women guilty
thereof are b in ether IN no Snar
those whom for the sake of the state
IL would be well to see the fathers
and mothers of many healthy children.
well brought up in homes made happy
by their presence. No man, no woman.
can shirk the primary duties of life.
/
or for any other GAUGE, and retain his
or her self-respect.
| The president asks for the ENACTMENT
| into law of chipping bill that will place
| American interests on the seas on par
with those of other countries, and urges
| 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 fiuctuation of interest
"The mere statement OF these facts
shows that our present system is ser
ously detective. There is need of
| change Unfortunately, however. many
of the proposed changes must be ruled
complicated. are not easy of compre-
hension, and tend to disturb existing
rights and interests. We must also
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 credtable to the, treasury. L
, do not press any special plan. Various
plans have recently been proposed by
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
ent secretary of the treasury. the es-
sential features of which have been
|
| and business men. According to this
plan national banks should be per-
| mitted to issue a specified proportion
| of their capital in notes of n given
| kind. the issue to be taxed at so high
a rate as to drive the notes back when
| not wanted in legitimate trade. This
| plan would not permit the issue of
| currency to give banks additional
| profits but to meet t3e emergency pre-
scented by times of stringency.
Need Of Automatic System.
ct do not say that this is the right
| system. 1 only advance It to empha :
size my belief that there is need for
| the adoption of some system which
| shall be automatic and open to all
| sound banks, so as to avoid all pos
| sibility of discrimination and favorit-
ism. Such a plan would tend to pre-
vent the spasms of high money and
| speculation which now obtain in the
New York market; for at present
there Is too much currency at certain
| seasons of the year and its accumu-
lation at New York tempts bankers
to lend IL at low rates for speculative
purposes: whereas at other times when
the crops are bling moved there is
urgent need for a large but temporary
increase in the currency supply. II
must never be forgotten that this