The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-24
TEDDY TALKING
TO THE FARMERS
Continued from Page One.

NOu lIUn aye oHt.
for the permanent benefit OF the whole
people. the waters and the forests, and
Of adding to the fertility of the soil +;
although in each case there is n great
secondary use both of the water and
of the forests for commercial and in
dustrial purposes. In the same way
it is essential for the farmers them.
man who lives in the open country; to
make it more attractive, TO give it
every adjunct and aid to development
which has been given to the life of the
man Of the cities. Thcrcfo ore, friends,
the conservation and rural life poll
cies arc really two sides OF the same
policy; and down ut bottom this policy
rests upon the fundamental law that
neither man nor nation can prosper un.
less, in dealing with the present, be
steadily take thought for the future,
In one sense this problem with
which we have TO deal is very, very
old. Wherever civilizations have hlth-
erto sprung up they have always tended
to go through certain stages aud then
to fall. No nation can develop a real
civilization without cities. Up to a
certain point the city movement is
thoroughly healthy: yet il is a strange
and lamentable fact that always mth-
crto after this point has been reached
the city has tended to develop at the
expense Of the country by draining the
country OF what is best In it and max
ing an insignificant return for this
best. In consequence. in the past, every
civilization in its later stages has tend
ed really to witness those conditions
men decay There are ugly signs that
these tendencies arc at work in this
nation of ours. But very fortunately
we sec now what never before was
seen in any civilization-an aroused and
alert public interest in the problem. a
recognition of its gravity and desire
to attempt its solution.
Problem Of the City.
"The problem does not consist mere.
ly in the growth Of the city Such a
growth in itself is good thing and
not bad thing for the country, The
problem consists in the growth of the
even where this Is not the case. in so
great an inequality of growth in power
and interest as to make the city more
attractive than the country, and there
fore apt to drain the country of the
people who ought to live therein.
me nlfil1 III sluc OF lUS IurIl III
problem is to make the career Of the
farmer and the career of the farm la
borer as attractive and as remuncrative
rs corresponding careers in the ciUy.
| Now, | am well aware that the farmer
must himself take the lead in bring
ing this about. A century and a quar-
ter ago the wise English farmer, Ar
prove French wool: a cultIvator at
the head of sheep farm of 5000 or
1000 acres would in few years do
moro for their woods than all the
| acadcmicans and philosophers will eff
feet in ten centuries. 1t is absurd to
| think that any man who has studied
the subject only theoretically is fit to
direct those who practically work at
the matter, But, friends, | wish to
insist to YOU hereto you practical
men, who own and work your farms
that 1t Is a pcTDIcious absurdity for th"
practical man to refuse to benefit by
the work Of the student.
"The English farmer ] have quoted,
| Young, was Il practical farmer. but he
was also n scientific farmer One rca-
son why the great business men of to-
dnv-the great industrial lcadcrs-have
| gone ahead, while the farmer has tend
cd to sag behind the others, is that
they are far more willing, and indeed
eag ger to profit BY expert and technical
knowledge-t knowledge that can
only come as a result of the highest
education. From railways to factories
no great industrial concern can nova
days be carried on save by the aid of
Il swarm Of men who have received a
high technical education in chemistry.
in engineering, in electricity, in one
or more of scores of special subjects,
The big business man. the big railway
man. does not ask collegetrained cx.
perts to tell him how TO run his bust.
ness; but he does ask numbers of them
! each to give hun expert advice and aid
! on some one point INDISPENSABLE to his
business. He inds this man usually in
some graduate Of n technical school or