Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-12-26
|RN LIFE DEBATE,
|. usshcds Discussed Before
c~mtrv Life Commission.
.oOrRu SYSTEMS FAVORED.

....k.r Believed Farmers Should
T..oh. to Depend More on Them
..-postaI Circulating Library
suoo.s.sd - Demonstrate" Stations
=, ssautHyins Homes.
U.. d,sDosition of many farmers to
- apewfangled" ideas in agri-
-. VAS encountered several times
:. DALLAS TEX meeting Of Presi-
:. pooseyelt's country life commits
= hald a few days ago. This feel
wos overcome, however, says the
.r.as City Star, in the evident desire
.ho majority to learn everything
..,bls of modern systems.
TT McGalliard Of Cara, Denton
,n,v said he had never attended
saOi q minute in his life, but he
.,,Sad that scientific methods are SUI
.-,or to the old ways, and because
I rosIized it he had helped for sew
Il Years to make the Sherman corn
~ a success. He believed scientific
rrm,ne ought to be SO arranged that
rmers could begin with the rudl-
roDts of it. as children do with the
inches Of knowledge at the common
.hools and learn to apply a little
are Of it each year. He had little
nh in the ability of any one to teach
in the lump, as was so often at
mpted. He further believed it would
4 good thing for farmers to be
night to depend more on themselves.
hIs opinion, the farmers needed no
kher help than the placing Of q
nowledge Of scientific farming with
their reach, along with the infusion
enough enthusiasm to make them
pply it.
Another speaker suggested q book
Ost that would enable rural districts
get books for reading and return at
mall cost. He also favored the par
is post. Merchants, he said, opposed
but If they couldn't afford to ship
tuR BY the carload and sell 1t as
heaply as the man who would send
by the parcels post then the mer-
hants should go under.
This speaker favored an agricultural
apartment in all high schools, with a
bOratory for agricultural chemistry.
that farmers might improve the
uality Of their soil. Henry Wallace,
member Of the commission, said he
eleved that with competent superln-
endents the county farms-"pOOF
hrms," some call them-could be made
Eperiment stations without any cost
Vhatever.
Walton Peteet, a farmer, said the
Ovenment should establish demon
ration homes to show how to beau.
" homes and surroundings and ar.
ange cOnveniences, drainage and 9th.
features. He believed, too, In ma,
l0nal help and advice in the interest
good roads.
Professor S. e. Ellis said money
lone could not uplift the farmer and
3 family. For thirteen years." hi
u, Il worked in the asylums for thu
hsane in this state Texas), and
now that more farmers wives go In
me because Of the mOnOtony of farm
e than any other class. Farmer
hemselves have access to free fresl
4 and sunlight all the time, but the,
fe far from being the healthiest clasl
people. They lack proper sanitation
I'd health conditions.
The condition in the rural school Il
@ satisfactory. What I wish to pleaO
Of Is that, while we do need a juste
reatment in financial matters, WI
ave to have a system OF education
nat Will broaden the lives Of the pee
ple In the rural communities. w
Mould make the rural schools a socia
enter. In the country we want to de
eiOp school suited to the needs O
he farmers.
Next year 5000 teachers viii hav
Z zach agriculture, and there are no
snt OF them who know anythin
OOut 1t. Then the schools ought to b
~ open twelve hours day, and a
Otu OF clubs and organizations fc
ne parents should be organized an
el there, with a lecture course q
sht. Have domestic economy, mar
- training, literary training and
~ library in your schools"
" Munson of Denison though
= FEDERAL government should devot
- attention to the fight against II
~ 'uiOSis' from which, he said. 5000
people now living in the Unite
Aaics. die.