The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1908-09-18
UPLIET FOR FARMERS
Work Mapped Out For President
Rocsevelt's Commission



I'm Coming investigation Of Farm Life
cenditiens--To Study Many Subjects.
Literally # may be said that the
work Of President Roosevelrs farm
commission is already mapped out.
Clifford Pinchot and Liberty II. Bailey,
who IL president Of the commission,
have prepared a large drawing OF the
subjects which win be taken up, and
the map IL now displayed upon the
wall OF the chief foresters inner ONCE.
In less than a minute q visitor to the
room can discover everything that the
commission IL bent on discovering
about the farm and the farmer.
The map closely resembles a family
tree. II Il like one Of those creations
which abound In books Of heraldry,
full OF ramlhcations, perplexingiy CON-
pick at flrst glance. yet after a mo-
ment's study wonderfully simple. It
illustrates how the work Of commits
sions has been systematized under the
Roosevelt administration and particu-
larry under the expert hand OF Mr..
Pinchot. To begin with, the student Of
the map learns that the popular term
farm commission" IL a misnomer. IL
should be the commission on social
industry" which, az the name signi-
mes, implies a much broader field Of
activity. The perspective Of this COM
mission really involves the entire 90
eial structure, but the farmers por-
ton Is by far the most heavily empha-
sized and II to receive the main eonsid-
Grafton.
The main headings OF the map are
the rural urban and suburban. The
two latter classincations have to do
with those other fields which the COM
mission intends to survey only when
they enter the domain Of the farmer
and have an intimate bearing on his
life. When the commissioners have
completed a study Of all the things
which may be included under the term
rural" they viii, II time allows, make
q cursory study Of the thousand sub
jects that come under the other head
ings, says q Washington correspondent
Of the New York Tribune. Upon the
theme rural the map has much to
say. It's travels almost defy descrfp-
ton, but the first generalization -
mapped out as follows: Land supply,
organization, communication, corpora
ton, control, education and labor sup
ply.
Each Of these subdivisions has nu-
merous other subdivisions and those
subdivisions other subdivisions until
the visitor is lost In a labyrinth OF
systematic classification. From the
subdivisions OF 'land supply" one Is
able to discover that the commission
intends to discover the kind and guam
tiy Of the land now being Tiled in
the country; to obtain information as
TO the location, quality. price. facilities,
laws and tenures; how much Is public.
how much private, how much Is rent
ed and leased, the rates OF renting and
leasing, the terms OF acquisition, the
amount OF taxes, the wage paid to the
farm laborer, the acreage OF humid,
arid and riparian lands and the amount
OF arid land which is irrigated and
suited to dry farming.
After CiispOslng Of the land supply"
the map takes up the question Of ''or-
ganiEation" On this subject the map
shows the vast amount OF study which
was done to bring In every possible
subdivision which might require atten-
ton. The first subdivision Is the 'in-
dividual:' The commission Will In
quire into the different types Of farm
ers, their health, their stature, their
strength. their habits and their intelli-
gence. After that facts as to their
housing, their outbuildingS, their diet
the food produced and the food pur-
chased. their water supply, whether
well or stream; their clothing and the
care they take OF their children Will be
inquired into.
The second outgrowth Of "organiZa-
ton" Is the community. The commits
sion wants To know about the public
institutions. the schools, the civic halls
the hospitals, the cemeteries OF the
farmers. the extent OF cooperation
among them for profits or mutual bet
terment and the efforts made for So
cIal hetterment. A third subdivision Is
homestead" under which falls the
household, the garden, the kitchen, the
lawns. the orchards. the hothouses and
the attempts at OrnamentatiOn. Lastly
under this head the word farm" Is
used. and here there Is an intricate
network OF radiation on the map. One
line leads TO Indoor domestic econ
omy" and another to outdoor farm
economy" Indoor domestic economy
"a given three es-"aesthetic," in