The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-06-01

home, but in foreign countries Win
all rivals.
Agricultural colleges and farm
ers' institutes have done much in
instruction and inspiration; they
have stood for the nobility of labor
and the necessity of keeping the
muscles and the brain in draining
for industry. They have developed
technical departments of high prac-
tica value. They seek to provide
for the people on the farms an
equipment so broad and thorough
as to fit them for the highest re-
quirements of our citizenship; so
that they can establish and main
tain country homes of the best
type. and create and sdStain q
country civilization moro ih1n equal
to that of le city. I he mru they
tram must be able to meet the
strongest business competition. at
home or abroad, and they can do
this only if they are trained not
alone in the various lines of hus~
bandry but In successful economic
management. These colleges. like
the State experiment stations,
should carefully study and make
known Oh, needs of each section,
and shJuld try TO provide remedies
for what is wrong.
"The education to be obtained in
these colleges should create as in
innate relationship as is possible
between the theory of learning and
the facts of actual life. Educa-
tiona establishments should pro-
duce highly trained scholars, Of
course; but IN country like ours,
where the educational establish
lnent$ are so numerous it is folly
to think !hat their main purpose is
to produce these highly tr8,v,I
scholars. Without in n. least
disparaging scholarship ani learn
ing-on the COZ trary. while Civ
ing hearty and ungrudgiug admiri-
ton and support to the compagd-
lively few whose primary ~url;
should be cIearr-e scholarships - it
must bcremambered Ira; the or
dmary graduate Of our colleges
should be and must be. primarily
a man and not a scholar. Educa-
tion should not confine itself to
books. 1t must train executive pow
er and try to create that right
public opinion which is the most
potent factor in the proper solu-
tion of all political and social
questions. Book learning is very
but it is by no means
everything: and we shall never get
the right idea of education until
we definitely understand that a
man may be we'll trained in book
learning, and yet. in the proper
sense of the word. and for all prac-
t.eal purposes, be utterly uneducat-
ed; while a man of comparatively
little book-learning may, neverthe-
less. in essentials, have a good edu-
cation.
"It is true that agriculture in
the United States has reached
very high level of prosperity; but
we can not afford to disregard the
signs which teach us that there
are influences operating against the
establishment or retention of our
country life upon really sound
basis. The Overextensive and waste
ful cultivation of pioneer days
must stop and give place to more
economical system. Not only the
physical but the ethical needs of
the peorle of the country districts
must be considered. In our crun-
try life there must be social and
intellectual advantages as well as
FAIR standard of physical comfort.
There must be in the country. as ip
lhe town, a multiplication Of move
nents for intellectual advancement
and social betterment. We must
Try to raise the average of farm
life and W" must also try 70 de-
1elop it so that IT shall offer ex-
'eptlonal chances for the exception
III man.
''Of course the essential things
after all are those which concern
III of us as men and women. no
natter whether we live in the town ,
II the country and no matter what
'ur occupation may be. The root
problems are much the same for all
# us, widely though they may
llffer IN outward manifestation. =
The most important conditions that
ell for happiness within the home
re the same for the town and The
and their relations be-
ween employer and employee are
Iot always satisfactory on the farm /
my more than in the factory. All /
'yer the country there Is a con-
tant complaint of paucity of farm !
abor. Without attempting TO go /
nto all the features of this ques- /
ION ] would like to point out that
'ou can rever get the right kind.
he best kind, of labor if You Of |,
er employment only few month";
or no man worth anything will
'ermanently accept system which
caves him in idleness for half the
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