Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-02
united States Forester Writes
Interesting Letter to Prest.
Irrigation Congress.
R R INC l SHOULD UNITE.
Farmers, lie Declares, Arc Only Great
Body of People Who Are Unor-
sanized in America Today.
Special Correspondence

Special correspondence.
Washington, Sept 29.-Jrnited
States Forester Clifford Pinchot has
written a letter Of regret that he Is
unable lie to attend the National Irrigat
ton congress, which opens at Albu-.
querque, N. NJ, on Sept 20. The let
ter, which has been made public here.
ss as follows:
Hon. Frank g. Goudy,
President, Sixteenth National 1rri
cation Congress, Albuquerque, N. NJ.
MY Dear Judge Goudy::
As 4 have already written you,
regret more than l can easily saw.
that cannot be with you at Albuou-
cirque this year. For number OF
years. past I have attended every SEES
sion of the National Irrigation CON
gress, and at the more recent ones
/ have been honored as the bearer Of
a message from the President. whose
interest in irrigation never flags. This
{ fall, under his oders, am trying to
do certain work OH the National Con-
scrvatlon. and the Commission on
Country Life, and that is why I am
unable to come.
Ever since / came to have first hand
. knowledge Of irrigation, I have been
impressed with the peculiar adyant-,
ages which surround the Irrigation
Taneller. The high poductiveness of
irrigated land, resulting in smaller
s tarm@units and dense settlement, as
! well as the efficiency and alertness Of
the lrrigator, have combined to give
the irrigated regions very high rank
among the most progressive farming
communities of the world. Such
rural communities as those or the ir-
/ Tigated west are useful examples for
( the consideration of regions in which
Z life is more isolated, has less of the
benefits of cooperation. and general
~ has lacked the stimulus which has
sent the men whom this congress
q represents SO far along on the road
to the ideal country life. 1t is for
e this reason that 1 ventue to send you
the following considerations bearing
mission on Country Life-because
you% have gone so far on the road he
wants others to follow.
OBJECT OF EDUCATION.
The object of education in general
is to produce in the boy or girl, and
so in&the man or woman, three results.
First,$a sound. useful, and disable body:
second, a flexible, well-equipped, and
4 wen-organized mind; alert to gain in
terest}nnd assistance from contact with
nature and cooperation with other.
minds: and third q wise and true and
valiant spirit, able to gather to itself
thes higher things that best make life
worth while. The use and growth Of
these three things, body, mind, and
spirit, must all be found in any effect
i've system of education
Tllessslme threshold activity is equal
~ necessary in u group of individuals.
Take for example the merchants of a
town, who have established a cham.
Der of commerce or board of trade
They have three oiects: First, sound
aud profitable BUSINESS; second organ
lied cooperation with each other to.
their mutual advantage, as in settling
disputes securing satisfactory rates
Z from railroads, and inducing new in:
tlustries to settle amongst them. and
third, " to make their town more beau
8tiful, more healthful, and generally
b better place to live In. Take Il labor
union as another example, and you
will find the same threshold purpose.
A good union admits only good WORK
men to membership in its sound body;
the members get from the union the
advantages Of organized cooperation.
In selling their labor to the best adj
vantage; and in addition they ENJOY
certain social advantages often OF over
whelming Importance,
TTNORGANIzED FARMERS.
The practical value of organization
and cooperation is obvious, and they
are being utilized very widely in nearly
every branch OF our nottohal ute BUT
what is the case with the farmer? The
farmers are the only great body of our
people who remain for the most part
80 ~. n
chants are organized, the wage work
ers are organized, the railroads are
organized The men with whom the
farmer completes are organized to ger
the best results for themselves in their
dealings with him. The, farmer is en-
gagged, usually without the assistance
4 of organization. in competing with these
organizations of other groups OF clti-
zens. Thus the farmer, the man on
whose product veal live, contends al
most single banded against his hlghly
organized competitors