Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-06

objects 10 put the mechanic. the
wake-worker who works with MS
! hands, and who ought to work in
constantly larger degree with h:s
head, ON a higher plane or efficieac,
and reward, SO as to increase his eff
Iectiveness In the economic world
and thel cfore the dignity, the remu-
ne-ation. and the power of his posi-
ON in the social world To train
boys and girls in merely literary &C.
conpiishments TO the total exclusion
| OF Industrial. manual, aad technicai
training tends to unfit them for in
dustrial work; and in real life mos.
work is Industrial
Waseworxer Welfare is Vital.
There S bur one person." said
&c -4es-de-t, whose welfare is as
vital To Tue welfare OF the wnoIe
country as is that OF the wage-worker
VINO does manual laoor; and that is
the u Ter OF the soii-the farmer. Ii
.nefe l., one Lesson taught by history
II Is that the permanent greatness OF
any state must ultimately depend
more upon the character of its coun-
Try population than upon ANYTHING
eise- No growth of C ties, no growth
or wealth can make up for a .oss in
either the number or the character of
the FARMING populat on In the Uuitei
states more than in almost any other
country we should realize this and
shou prize our country popu,at,op
when this nation began its independ-
ent ex stence it was as nation of
.armers'
Inc president said that there is
nothing in the way of scientific work
can ever take the place of business
management on farm. We ought
all or us to teach ourselves as mucn
as possible; but we can also all of
US learn from others; and the farmer
can best learn how to manage mis-
farm even better than he now does
by practice. under intelligent SUPER
Vision, On his own SO in such way
as t. increase his income. This is
the kind of teaching which has been
carried on in Texas, Louisiana. and
Arkansas by Doctor Knapp, of the ma
tlonai department of agriculture
Field Of Usefulness Ahead.
But great as its services have
oeen in the past, said Mr.. Roose-
Yelt the department of agriculture
nas still larger field OF usefulness
ahead. 1t has been dealing with
sfoWlhg crops. 1t must hereafter
/ zeal also with living men. Hitherto
agricultural research, instruction. and
agitation have been directed almost
exclusively toward the production of
wealth from the SOIL 1t time tn
adept in addition a new point of view
hereafter another great task before
the national department of agricult-
ufe and the similar agencies of the
various states must be to foster az.
flcu ture for its social results. or. in
ptler words, to assist II bringing
ABOUT the best kind of life on The
farm for the sake of producing the
best kind of men,
Inc chief executive urged the need
CT cooperation among the farmers and
larger support of the farmers inst.
tute and agricultural colleges. He
said that the education to be obtained
IN these colleges should create as in.
innate relationship as is possible he.
tween the theory of learning and the
facts of actual life Educational es
adjustments should produce highly
ira ned scholars. OF course. hut in a
country like ours. where the educa.
tional establishments are so MINER.
Gus, 1t is folly to think that their
main purpose Is to produce these
mighty trained scholars Without In
the least disparaging scholarship and
iearning-on the contrary, VIII lie Civ.
ing hearty and ungrudging admira-
ZION and support to the comparatively
Few whose primary work should be
creative scholarships must be re.
ihembered that the ordinary graduate
OF our colleges should be and oust
be. primarily man and not a
schoiar. Education should not con.
fine itself to books. 1t must train
j executive power and try to create
that ght public opinion which is the
( most potent factor lin the proper So
luton of all political and social cues
TONS
Duty of Homemakine.
The president said that the FIRST
duty of the normal man is the dutv
OF being the homemaker and that OF
4 the normal woman the home keeper
4 He said that he had hearty SYM
pathy with the learning which viii
I make her good housewife and
i mother. But ~ does not mean. :
ne said that she should be an over
worked drudge. | have hearty SYM.
pathy with the movement to better
The condition of the average tiller of
the soil of the average wageworker.
and ! have am even heartier sym.
PATTY and applause for the move
ment which is to better the condition
OF their respective wives.
The best crop is the cron If cb;i.