The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-25
DR.. OSCAR HAYWOOD FOR
SCHOOL FARM IN MONT
GOMERY COUNTY.
Eminent New oYrk Divine Would
There Put City Boys in Touch With
Nature for Their Own Betterment
and Uplift.

sentiment. 1T is said that there is
coming a turn in the tide of our
civilized life, and that the contested
staSnate social centre called the
city, is turning back to the country.
\ young man, after a brief and dis
appointing residence in the city of
New York. returned to his native
State and declared that it was cas-
Ter to make a living in Kentucky than
to keep from being run over in New
York. Mr.. Thomas j. Ryan recent
~ resigned from the directorate of
thirty corporations in New York pre-
pairing to retire from business, and
declared that he would spend his
remaining years in the sweet hills
Of Old Virginia. DR.. Haywood is
Of North Carolina stock, a descendant
Of Chief Justice Haywood, and is the
pastor Of the Collegiate Church Of
the Covenant, which is a heavily en-
doWed church.
Less than a century ago, this was a
land Of farming and country homes.
Fifty years ago. one out Of twenty
FIVE Of the population lived in the
city; today the showing is one out
Of tire. Imagine a nation of home
less people-a nation deserving the
epithet OF homeless men. We are
dangerously near that when one in
three Of the people live in the city.
h We lost the old fashioned fire
t3oe0, We loSl llIC lott thai
drew the members of the family to
a common focus. The poet says to
the soldier, Fight for your affairs
n your fresdies," Imagine a pat
riot army inspired by the shout,
Fight for your hot air registers,
Your steam radiators and your oil
stoves"
The Almighty designed that every
child should have as a natural inher-
itance, one pair of mothers arms, one
patch of sunlight, one spot OF green
grass and one tree. Many of the
boys in the city Of New York "a
neither, and soon the tenement gives
him to the street. The street has
nothing but surface and it hides
nothing but the sewer
To relieve the. conditions of which
he treated in his address on Thurs
day evening, at Wax Forest, to ZEAL
iZe these ideals for the city boys, DR..
Haywood to dedicate a farm
which he owns in Montgomery county
for the high purposes and n OF the
Kingdom of God in boyhood, to or
ganize there q school and a farm
school for homeless boys. The Tene-
ment House Commission in the city
Of New York found in recent years
that there was one section of the city
in which thirty thousand people lived
whose children had never seen a green
spot OF any kind. DR.. Haywood pro-
poses to open the doors of morning
to the boys born in darkness, and en-
vironed by vice. He to make
the world a home for them and eXis-
tence, life; to give them the inherit
ance of Gods rolling acres; to let them
drink Of the sunlight that fills the
goblet Of the Sky to the brirn.
The advantages Of his plan over
other schemes that have been attempt
ID heretofore, shall be fOund mainly
in the isolation Of his farm Of one
thousand acres in the Piedmont belt
Of North Carolina. The nearest city
is Charlotte-SeTenty-fiNe miles dis
ant, and Montgomery county with the
counties adjoining, are rural and agri-
cultural. Thus the boys brought from
New York city will be far removed
from anything that suggests city life.
1t is proposed hat the institution shall
be not a school of training for h pro-
LESSONS or trades, but of discipline by
experience first hand for farm labOrers
and superintendent as we'll as practi-
cal M To be sure, a primary
school will be carried n to give the
boys the elements of an education and
TO develop their intelligence. They viii
be taught such knowledge Of mechan1
les as is necessary IN the life Of tho
farmer. In other words, DR.. Haywood S
idea is to follow out the lines Of edu-
ction defined by Herbert Spencer in
his chapter on the Kinds of Knowl-
edge that are Useful.
As to the means for h propagation
Of this scheme, we haye first DR.. Hay
woods suggestion that he. United
states government take charge of the
farm and convert it into an experiment.
station of systematic farming ana
wholesale country life. For the dis
cussion of this idea. DR.. HAYWOOD met,
Mr.. d. A. Brodie. United States AS
AGENTS WANTED: MEN OR WO-
men to work in their home our
ty. Can easily make SIS to $25 per