The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
NO OTHER NAME WILL DO.

issued by the students of the states
educational institution at Manhattan,
declaring that "The Kansas State Ag-
ricultural College" shall no longer be
known by this name that has made it
famous throughout Kansas and the
entire land as well, but that it shall
be called in the future kansas State
College" is little less than a piece of
impertinence. If this declaration has
the support Of Mr.. Nichols. the presi-
him, the impertinence is all the great
err, for 1t Is natural to suppose that he
is man of some intelligence.
In fact, no matter who is respon-
sible for it, the suggested change in
the time honored and most appro-
pirate name of this institution, is
more than impertinence. 1t is an in
suit to the whole people of the state,
the taxpayers Of the state. the great
majority of the wealth producers of
the state, the farmers, who have been
willing and proud, heretofore, to con-
tribute of their wherewithal to the
support of this institution.
They have been glad to support this
seat Of learning in a most liberal way
for the simple reason that its primary
object is to turn out farmers of the
first water; young men who will be
able to take their places among the
foremost farmers of the earth; young
men whose education along scientific
agricultural lines will equip them to
limit of their productiveness; young
- al
wealth to the already bullying and
golden granaries of the state because
of their ability to apply the most.
modern and scientific of methods to
the cultivation of the states wonder
fully fertile soil.
One reason given for the proposed
change in the name, and it seems to
be the potent one, Is puerile in it's
conception. The word AGRICULTURAL
in the name has Handicapped the
graduates and students out in life,
and has kept away many prospective
students and in general has given the
people of the state who are it's sup
porters, as we'll as the people through
out the country, an erroneous impress
sion of the scope Of the school, AS
to the scope" Of the school, regard
less of what some people would like
to make 1t, it Is primarily an agricul-
tural college. 1t was organized as
such and should be continued as such
for Kansas is primarily an agricul-
tural state and needs just such an in
stitution whose graduates, if they are
it a better and greater agricultural
state.
Since when, pray tell, has any man.
in this day of grace. or any other.
been handicapped by being graduated
from an "agriculturar' institution
with an educational equipment which
should make him better farmer
than his father. If any infant or
professor connected with the Kansas
State Agricultural college has an idea
| that IT is a disgrace, a handicap to be
| known as a farmer let him pick up
| the current number of the American
Review of Reviews and read a little
piece on "The New American
Farmer" from the pen of Herbert N.
Casson. This is what Mr.. Casson
says among other things:
eff the American farmer went out
up thirty thousand million dollars.
And he would have to sell his farm on
credit; for there is not enough money
in the whole world to pay him half
his price.
"Talk of the money-mad trusts!
| They might have reason to be mad If
| they owned the farms, instead of
their watered stock. When we re-
member that the American farmer
earns enough in seventeen days to
| buy out Standard oil, and enough in
| fifty days to wipe Carnegie and the
steel trust off the industrial map.
the story of the trusts seems like
the short and simple annals of the
poor
| zone American harvest would buy
| the kingdom of Belgium, king and
all; two would buy Italy; three would
| buy Austria Hungary. and five, at a
spot cash price. would take Russia
from the czar
Talk of swollen fortunes! With
| the setting of every SUN the money
box of the American FARMER bulges
with the weight of twenty-four new
millions. Only the most athletic
imagination can conceive of such a
| torrent of wealth.
place your finger on the pulse OF
your wrist. and count the heartbeats.-
Observation-Disclosures With every
four Of those quick throbs, day and
| night. thousand dollars clatters into
the goldbin of the American farmer.
How incomprehensible it would
seem to Pericles, who saw Greece in
her Golden Age, if he could know thai
the yearly revenue of his country i.
now no more than one days pay fol
the men who till the soil of this infan
. Republic!
J "Or, how it would amaze resurrect
ed Christopher Columbus if he wer
told that the revenues of Spain ant