The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-10-17

the church has an opportunity in the South 49,,
as II has hardly anywhere else In the world ana
because upon It's use of this opportunity depens.
In large measure the future rank OF our section
II is not sentimontalism. Is not a mere pious sar
eraiEation, but II ia the truth of history that NO
people can achieve and maintain greatness excen.
by adherence TO rigid moral standards When thu
old Psalmist said centuries ago. Happy IN tia,
people whose God Ia tho Lord" he vas preachinv
an good politics religion.
Their. IN another thing. aa | intimated In the be.
ginning. TO which NO must give attention. and
that ia the thorough education of our people The
surrst Sign of promise for our future in all our re-
cent history ia tho campaign for better schoo,x
~hich has made such wonderful progress In the
South these last ten years. ny tho time reached
italy. after travelling In half dozen other Euro.
poan countries. had been SD much impressed BY
tho ~ay In which education makes itself feis Ia
every limo of commerce aud Industry that q.
claimed: "A careful observer. With few years
of travel. ousht tn DO able TO gacas a counsrys
percentage of llll,oraey. simply by hours ride
through tho .arma or the towns'"
And shla is hardly AZ cxagEcration The hope
OF tho South 10 In tho education OF i,s people, III
lsa people. Every ignorant. inefficient man. whin
ov black. In community makes I, poorer nasa
everybody N tho community poorer: aud II hc a
not BIC o>s1eatcd TO do good work. no ough, to xvs
nay 20 some ~ho DO so trained. IL the
soaiha iilltcrate II your are lllisss.
ate. no other qualities save them from defeat
Ia tho fierce Industrial struggle of to-day. Our
atm should DO go spend ssii more money on our
schools aad to make ,hcm train and more
Tor actual life. ~hilo the work of experiment, sa-
lions. farmers Institutes. demonstration workers
farm papers. cte.. In educating tho older farmers
Who have passed out of the schools. ought also TO
have tho taliea, encouragement people can give.
There IN ono other thing. moreover. TO which
wc can no, give too earnest heed. aud that Ia the
conservation OF our natural resources. l have
mentioned this In previous letter. bu, was re-
minded of 1, again yesterday when a distinguished
Pennsylvania on our boat told mo OF his sons
trip TO Germany las, year tho representative OF
leading American industrial institution that vas
seeking Information TO tho methods OF It's con-
putitora abroad. what the young American foaud
and reported VAS this: that the American factory
had tho advantage In nearneas and chcapncss Oh
raw material. In the thoroughnoss and efficiency
of machinery and equipment. and also In the SKI"
aud Intelligence of its workmon. and there was
| but one thing III which tho European exceled-
| economy. The American factory more waste
| full.
or almost everything the same thing Ia true
Lands foreats mInes-aii are I'M nd led with great
er care and economy In Europe than in America
| aud millions OF people make n living from INDUS
tries that our people would laugh at as imposspe'
| In Antwerp saw tho ragged bales OF cotton from
tho South unloadod at the wharves-cotton boush'