The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17

the annual session. VIII nave nucn " say this year on the uplift movemens inausurated by the President for the farmers of the country. More espe- cially win the Congress take up tne luuestion of the mother and the child on the farm and see what can De done through the influence of It's members 10 give help and encouragement where lif is most needed. This work VIII pc done not 70 much on that bodys own lttn people of Louisiana. who appreci- ate the power of the Congress.
 t is believed that the isolation or sehe average farmers home can be par ifiaily brought to q knowledge of the existence of beneficial things and or their good. The telephone. the rural free delivery of mails and the centrai- ffxation of school houses, have. in thous- .ands of localities made farm life more attractive and have brought its people closer to the advantages onered oy irifies Through the rural South. how ever. the standard of literacy Is gem orally iow--due in part to the Iarse negro population. and intelligent tnink- urs are evolving means of raising tnls standard. whether 1t will be by wise legislation. by awakening public sent sfment. or by a special campaign set on foot by nation, or commonweaitn. or or9anization will be revealed witnin the next few years. . .,.
 Since the President appointed ms farm commission and invi.eo tfons from all points as to the pest means of promoting the good or tne farmer and his family. there have peen many meetings held. and many pians offered. Addressing the members or she rural commission the Presioeht said last fall: 'The farm grows the raw material for the food and clothing
 .... annpOrt4 0tEGcL~ iv almost half of them: and nearly nalf the children of the United States arc horn and brought Cup on farms. .Tzovv can the life of the farm family ha made less solitary fuller oh oppo. itunity. freer from drudgery. more com Sortable. happier and more .,.. .a '. euch a result is most earnestiy " v 5essred How can life on the farm .oe kent on the highest level. and where ft ia not already on that level, pc so imnroved dignffed and brighteneo as fo awaken and keep alive the prioe and loyalty of the farmers poys anu girls. of the farmers wire, anu Ua s inr desire to live on the farm De aroused In the children that are porn cr the farm? We hope ultimately to daunIe the average yield of wheat ana rcrn per acre; # will be a sLeas Achievement, but it is even more Im- portant to double the desiraolil.y' ,sSa :, Snrt and standing of the farmer nAe'
 n the request of the President 2 .,,,,-,,ttee from the National Congress es Nfothars met with the rural commis- ss.r, Isat December, t6 confer with the men in regard to uplift work as
 lated to farm women ana emu emu sx From suggestions and Ideas oLel .ss., e1 'it tr, rommIttee has planned campaign in sIss-.tarsat If the rural mother.
 ma movement Is rather general lo- ..s snd state organizations haVlng nroved their interest In the past r,onths by hearing reports rom sPe
 ctai agents. At country lhe
 ing held in Boston in the iate .a.s, 1,, arenf who travelled extensNe,y 4sronnh New England farm regions n +hA interest of grange work. sugg ~a that it was the duty or the s Ssato sa rrcv,ae institutes for farmers wives and daughters, where they cou.u mees end- be instructed as to the petVeIens ' ef home life. She argued tn@e shsoI. mc ncience be taught in all the scnoo,s sss sna Iand. and she makes the peLSl- nert noint that since money IS InS , E~~t tura that calls the boy or siEi
 s"-s +ha farm to other fields. a con. rerted effort should be made 70 p~s Sarn work on a better paying pAsls. s,
 Another investigator in farm cohois et6ns claims that there is lack oB .,St~bborlIness among the New Eng ;snS rnraI folk, that there is antag. sa,as~u, toward the foreigner, a fact tnal s,lfiIfatea against complete hVlhH. n 9ha South and West the opposse ,frue. for the farmers wives are oseplS s~ro,,ndad in the innate gospel or neap- S,,sraaa and the spirit of altruism is regnant. even when the farms are Tar .rsrf This same worker declares Tbat the National Department or Az riculkuro should have more women un fts staff, that there are not enousn pui- n letins issued in the interest or tne W. men of the farms. a,.4 ,, argues one woman, so that when they sae the need of modern farm tools, thev will also see the need of im- proved methods of indoor work. Still another argues that the emancipation Of the farm woman from an endless round of heavy duties lies through tha doors of club life, through the organization of clubs that will give education and recreation at the same slTna Co-operative laundries and bakeries have been tried in occasional communities with the same success that has attended the establishment or cooperative creameries' ana thls. m m the opinion of many. would be one or the biggest factors in the solution or the question of overwork of the farm CTS wife.
 The Presidents interest in the im- urovement of farm life, and the inves- ffzations made by his commission nave awakened great interest and pro- yoked a wide correspondence among inc rural dwellers. The letters are nsually extremely clever, sensible and rIch in practical suggestions wo- | man of the West writes. Several years ago my mother and I thought If a scheme by which the lives of farm women might be made more bearable. we thought that it might be possible to run bakeries and laundries in con- mection with the cheese factories and creameries of the different communi- ties. As the steam engines were al- ready installed 1t ought to be possible at very little expense, to add the other necessary equipment, and in the 1aun- dry it is always so much easier to get men than women to work" She strikes the keynote of many failures in improving the average small farmer lffe when she quotes the Governor of her, State as saying that he saw no practical difaculty with her scheme sexcept working up the sentiment of she community in its favor" This she adds fs q really hard thing to do.
 From still further West another 'wo- man writes: Coming from half of a life in town to farm living, and from much obRaRyntion In several States as resident, submit the following sug- wegtions: First. governmental loans 6n farm lands at per cent; second, npecial bulletins sent broadcast, upon farm landscape, for beauty and com e.A a. v.yan aa proat. third nChOol