The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-27

United States took a prominent part,
the Jordanville public library was pre-
scented to this community. The DON
ors were Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Robin
son and Harriet d. Wolryche Whit
more, Mr.. Robinson's sister. who had
erected it in memory OF Mr.. Robin
sons father and mother, Douglas and
Fannie Robinson.
Speech by the President.
Secretary of State Elihu Root and
James S. Sherman, republican vice
presidential candidate. also were pres
ent, as were Mrs. Roosevelt and two of
the children of the family, Miss Ethel
and Kermit.
President Roosevelt in his speech,
eulogized the farmers wife and advo-
Gated the uplifting of the farmer and
his family. He also spoke along more
general lines of social and economic
problems, in a striking clause declar-
ing himself willing to take any neces-
sary step in carrying out the desires of
the people for the stoppage of prac-
tees that were imperiling the national
well being.
The presidents address. in part. was
as follows:
Il am not only glad to come here
because of the personal relationship Of
the donors, but because the idea rep
resents part of what | regard as being
the most important of the social move
ments Of the century now opening, so
far as our country is concerned. We
1t.
progress our country is making in the
way of population. material develop
ment, etc, but it is not satisfactory to
think that the great cities have gone
ahead so much faster than the country
districts.
You know the old saying that God
made the country and man made1he
town: well it is said that the last is
not yet an Improvement on the first
| am glad to see the cities grow. but
rot at the expense of the country.
Their tendency to grow is not because
OF the opportunity they present to
make fortunes, but because of their
tendency to be more interesting and at
tractive in themselves.
0SCNS StlIdCtiVC SOuItfy Lie.
Il hope. in the course of few de-
.ades. to see the farmers bend their
Energies towards making life in the
country more interesting and more at
tractive and towards inducing our
people to understand how really at
tractive our country life is at present
Il welcome the development of every
hnf IN he at
Effectiveness of country life and devel-
OPP the social side of it. l believe that
more and more buildings like this
could be used to advantage not only
because of the books, but because it
can be used as place for social meet
ings. place where you boys and girls
can meet socially.
Pleads for Farmers Wife.
The hardest worked individual on
the farm" he continued. lis apt to be
the mother or wife of the farmer
believe in the farmer economizing, but
on himself. not on his wife. If you
have got to drop some one, drop one
hired man rather than the hired girl
| want to see buildings like this one
the women a chance to meet each 9TH
er socially and it puts them in better
trim for work
Teach your boy to work, for he has
got to earn his own livelihood, to pull
his own weight No one can pull it
for him. He will be drone and a
drag If you do not let him do his own
part. My ideal of boy is one who
will grow up and be able to support
himself and wife and children To
be fit to be an American citizen he has
got to preserve his self-respect and
conduct himself so as to wrong no one
else.
Now, then. you Will use the wise
father or one that thinks that he is
wise. dwell upon the fact that his boy
is smart. If he means to be able.
quick, to be trusted, then all right, but
il by smartness is meant the kind of
adroitness that sheers off into trickery
or the kind of ability that is just off
the line of honesty. then you should
teach him he is growing up to be an
enemy of the republic"
Root and Sherman Speak
Secretary Root afterwards made a
brief speech, and was followed by Mr..
Sherman, who also spoke briefly.
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