The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-09-12

Educated workers with degenerate Spain VIII.
tree thought has been stihed for centuries 80
sducation neglected. There YOU fnd the rsa,
Man With the Hoe whom Markham depic,ea =
his matchess poem: hopeless workers ''bro,ha
% the OK" who cultivate narrow patches wi,hon,
horses. breaking tho land by digging 1t I'm wI,h
ghort-handled back-breaking mattock- like yrnh
Ding hoes: and the land going 10 waste for laet
II intelligent attention.
Spain. with more than half her people illisr.
tc. bankrupt poverty stricken. despised: Ger
many with her magnificent trade schools and
General system OF education. progressing mora
.apidly this last generation than possibly any
Jthcr nation in the world. IL due allowance be
made for the difference In natural resources be-
,wcen Germany aud America during this period
Small wonder that when Germany whipped
iumbfounded France with such astounding celer-
- In 1870. France proceeded to make inquiry a
o tho secret of CcTmany's wonderful strength
md at once adopted the German idea of thor
ugh and compulsory public education for all her
swu people. the effects Of which are now also
4cen In tho uncramplod prosperity OF Franco
Ahnao people have become the richest In all Eu.
cope.
Education In Germany has been made TO train
tuv actual lilo and work: that ~ tho secret and II
~ a lesson which In tn. South not take
.on acroualy TO heart II German authorities had
avon In charge of Southern education. should
cave had spondidiy equipped agricultural high
chuoa in every county or Congressional district
swcnty years aEu. and the elements OF agriculture
md of domestic scienco would be taught in every
rural school. whether elementary school or aead-
vmy.
To mc 1t 10 positively painful To go out into ths
academies In our coaa,ry districts In the South
aud girls who are going to be farmers wives
struggling wi,h tho coniagation OF Latin verbs
@hilo they learn never thing abou, the ehensis-
try of uad-snaking and do not know when
a meat should DO put into tho water after II u
boiling aud when IL should be put In while The
~at1T ia cold. Their husbands aud children VIA
have their lives saddonci aud shortened BY indl-
s~atIon aud improper nusriton-bu, of course
wuuld DO unai gnIa-d and therefore unthinkable
for swcci college girls To learn anything about
cooking
And Tho boys ~ho arc going To- be farmers
they also studying Caesar and latitude ani
longitude aud the metric system OF weights and
measures while they learn nothing whatever OF
how 10 compound feeding ration TO Set
milk OF butter cheapest. and nothing whatever OF
soil fertility and i,a management. by which the
feo.ooo.ooo a year apoat by farmers In Georgia
aud adjoining States might DO largely saved but.
of course. that. too. would b. undisnincd. and II
might nhock your professor II you TO brins
The matter to hin attention
Tho whole tragic system f. an outgrowth OF
our idea that labor In degrading. and this 10 the
fallary must put forever behind before we
can ever measure up To our opportunities. When
man had once fallen. had eaten the forbid
don fruit. th. only way the Lord Himself could
nnd To keep him from going utterly to the Devil.
~aa To put him To work. and IL ia high time TOT
uA 10 come To SEQ that roots and cotton re.ts
ar~ just -. honorable and legitimate subjects
at istrr-st and inquiry Greek AMI Latin
roots
Take my Own case now I'm connection with ms
very European trip: When Was In n country
echool spent considerable time studying about
English money. but when | reached Scotland the
other week didn't know the worth of shilling
nor how many pence II tskcs To make one. also