Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-09-10

etiHe5J, lHHueHllal men ana women than
to sacrifice children to save money? DO
you want the rural schools in your coun-
ty to be stimulated and encouraged? Ii
so, provide this school in order that the
boys and girls may have better oppor-
tunities to look forward to when they
complete the course of study in the rural
schools.
You will appropriate money for
bridges, good roads, court houses, jails,
courts, ETC., and this is right, but why
not appropriate money to be invested
in the childhood of your county2 You
believe with all thoughtful people that
the only intelligent and logical system
of education is that which carries the
best school advantages to all people.
VIII you not help develop such sys-
TEN? Are we not educating our people
away from the life around them? Are
we not training our children to become
lawyers, doctors, preachers, school teach
ers, orators, politicians and statesmen
only? More than 80 per cent. of our
people are engaged in agriculture.
Would you reach the many as well as
the few! Do you not think the time has
come to give intelligent direction to the
hand as well as The mind? Do you not
think we ought to give dignity to labor2
Shall We not develop our agricultural re-
sources through these schools as other
States are doing? Finally, SHALL NOT
THE CHILDREN OF MISSISSIPPI
HAVE OPPORTUNITIES EQUAL TO
THOSE IN ANY OTHER STATE?
q beg that you will give this matter
the serious consideration it merits, and
if your county has not already estab-
lished such school, will you not use the
influence at your command and the
power placed in your hands to give to
tie struggling children of your county
a better chance in life?
Fifteen counties have already taken
advantage of the splendid opportunity
the State offers. Why not yours 2"
The Agricultural Census.
Early next summer Uncle Sam will
send his enumerators abroad for the pur-
pose of taking stock, as it were, listing
he inhabitants of the whole country, as
yell as the State of Mississippi The
thirteenth census is expected to be the
,1ost complete ever taken since the work
was begun, and this article is written for
he specific purpose of calling our peo-
Pies attention to the Importance of hav-
i1g the work in Mississippi show to the
fullest extent what we have. OF course,
he Department Of Agriculture and Com
mercc is more directly interested in the
agricultural, horticultural, live stock,
Pyaltry, bees, ETC., and it is the inten-
Cion OF the writer within the next few
months to publish the lists that will be
carried by the enumerators, and make
suggestions concerning the getting to-
cether of the information to be asked
for, so that the enumerator will have lit
j!e work to do and save time when he
gets to the people.
It is almost a certainty that Missis-
siI pi has never had census that gave
10 our people what they were entitled to.
This was partially the fault of the peo-
pie themselves and partially the fault
of the enumerators. Assurance has been
given that intelligent and competent
enumerators will be employed this time,
and it is the duty of our people to pre-
pare for their coming and be ready to
make a full and complete report in an
swer to the inquiries, insuring to our
great State showing to which we are
justly entitled. To aid in this prepare
ton and help the people to get ready, is
the reason for the series of educational
articles that will appear in the official
papers of the department.
This information, if freely and fully
given, will not be used for any purpose
to injure the person giving it in, but,
on the other hand, will give to Mississip-
pi her proper showing among the States
of the Union. There is a mistaken i'm
preston among many that the informa-
tion may be used to raise tax valuts and
for other like purposes. This is mistake.
1t is for the explicit purpose of gaining
information concerning the products of
a State and placing this information be-
fore the people. Then comes the import
ance of having a full and complete re-
port.
The complete list of inquiries will be
Published in The Bulletin at one time,
ard in the other publications as space
viii admit. The people are respectfully
requested to preserve these lists as they
appear and fill them in after carefully
considering the proper amounts that
should appear. Then when the enumera-
tor comes, they can be handed in and
his work will be greatly expedited and
of more value because correct. The
various lists will be accompanied by ex-
plicit instructions as to how to get to-
gether this information and filling the
blanks.
Let every person begin now keeping
count of the various articles that come
under the different heads, and jotting
them down for future use. We do not
wish to see our report padded or too
large, but we do desire to see complete
and fair census made of our agricultural,
horticultural, live stock and kindred pro-
auctions.
The East Mississippi Alfalfa Associa-
ton was formed at the annual roundup
last month. Those interested in this
splendid crop got together and perfected
an organization, with the purpose of get
ting together for their general good. A
list of the members has been asked for,
and this department will cooperate in
every way possible. Let's have articles
on alfalfa for the purpose of acquainting
those who do not know, concerning it..
The association has the means of doing a.
good worl, and will doubtless prove all
that its friends expect.
Mississippi produces pork for three
cents Der Mound Then WHY nav Armo.,r