The Prescott daily news., 1909-02-09

state governments might put into the peoples hands the new and right knowledge of school work The task of maintaining and developing the schools would remain, as now. with the people themselves.
 Money For Expenses Asked.
 The only recommendation I submit is that an appropriation of $25,000 be provided to enable the commission to digest the material it has collected and to collect and to digest much more that is within its reach and thus complete it's work. This would enable the commission to gather in the har- from the discussion 1t has stirred up The commissioners have served with out compensation, and I do not recom- mend any appropriation for their sery ices, but only for the expenses that will be required to finish the task that they have begun.
 To impro-e our system of agricul- ture seems to me the most urgent of the tasks which lie before us. But it cannot, in my judgment, be effected by measures which touch only the ma terial and technical side of the sub- ject. The whole business and life of the farmer must also be taken into account Srch considerations led me to appoint the commission on country life. Our object should be to help de velop in the country community the great ideals of community life as well as of personal character One of tho most important adjuncts to this end must be the country church, and In vite your attention to what the com mission says of the country church and of the need of an extension of such work as that of the Young Mems Christian association in country com munities. Let me lay special emphasis upon what the commission says at the very end of it's report on personal ideals and local leadership. Every thing resolves itself in the end into the question of personality. Neither society nor government can do much for country life unless there is volun- tary response in the personal ideals O. the men and women who live in the country.
 Plea For Farmers Wives.
 In the development of character the home should be more important than the school or than society at large. When once the basic material needs have been met, high ideals may be quite independent of income, but they cannot be realized without sufficient income to provide adequate founda- tion, and where the community at large is not financially prosperous it is Impossible to develop a high aver age personal and community ideal. In short, the fundamental facts of hu- man nature apply to men and women who live In the country just as they apply to men and women who live in the towns. Given sufti- cient foundation of material well be- ing. the influence of the farmers and farmers wives on their children be- comes the factor of first importance in determining the attitude of the next generation toward farm life. The farmer should realize that the person who most needs consideration on the farm is his wife. I do not in the least mean that she should purchase ease at the expense Of duty. Neither man nor woman is really happy or really useful save on condition of doing his or her duty If the woman shirks her duty as housewife. as home keeper, as the mother whose prime function it is to bear and rear a sufficient number of hoalthw children, then~she-1S~not-en-