Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-05
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WIPE OUT IGNORANCE.
Farmers Union Takes Strong Grounds
For Education.

To the State Union:
Your committee on education would
respectfully report that we have care
fully considered every resolution re-
ferred to us: and indorsed on each our
approval or disapproval as in Jur
judgment was best.
Second. We would especially urge
upon our people the Importance, the
vital Importance, of the cOmmoa
schools; the only colleges that 90 pei
cent of our boys and girls will ever be
able to attend. We would urge that
the buildings and equipment he i'm
proved: let the school house and
grounds he made attractive, for little
children absorb as much education
from environment as from the text
looks; and it is a disgrace to our
buasted Anglo Saxon civilization that
we should let our children be shut up
in unsanitary, uncomfortable school
houses for several hours each school
day. We would urge that our text
Looks and teaching give more atten-
tiOn to agriculture and domestic econ
Omy, at the same time demanding that
the preparatory work be as thorough
as for any of the SO-called learned pro-
fesSiOns.
Third. We commend the boys corn
clul s and the girls tomato and poul-
try clubs, and wish tn see one of each
i'm every neighborhOOd, with central
club in each county. For we realize
that the way to keep the young people
on the farms is to make farming prof
liable and the homes attractive.
Fourth. We feel that the Clemson
Extension Work which is taking the
college To the grown up farmers, is
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vious meetings of the State Union, and
we can not too strongly urge upon our
people that they attend these meet
ings with minds open to conviction,
and with a determination to profit by
the information brought to their very
doors.
Fifth. The U. S. Demonstration
Work, the u. s. Farm Management
Work the Corn Breeders Association
the South Carolina Live Stock Asso-
citation, the Department of Agriculture
and Industries, and the five or six
agricultural societies, some of them
with a hundred years of achievement
to their credit, all have our hearty APP
proval. And our people who are not
making use of some of these agencies
for their betterment are standing in
their own light.
Sixth. We commend the Audubon
Society and the untiring efforts of Mr..
James Henry Rice for bird and game
protection, and urge our people to in
form themselves of the great import
ance of conservation of the insect-de-
stroying birds. In this connection we
indorse the resolutions of Sumter
County Union asking our Legislature
for a gun license tax, the fund to be
used for game and bird protection.
Seventh. In conclusion: Some of
these matters may not seem to come
properly under the head of a report
from the Committee on Education,
but we respectfully submit that they
are all subjects upon which our people
need information; that the informa-
ton these various agencies can, and
do give, is Of an educational nature;
and that the greatest bar Of the prog
ress Of the Union and the development
of our unrivaled natural resources Of
climate and soil, is ignorance; and If
the Union does not stand for education,
for education of the best kind, rom
the child up to the grandfather, edu-
cation in self-help and neighbOrly CO.
operation, it does not stand for any
thing. And the handwriting on the
wall is so plain that a warfaring man,
though a fool, can not fail to read it.:
We are weighed in the balances and
found wanting.
Alex d. Hudson, Chm,
E. w. Dabbs,
]. o. Jaques,
J. Clifton Rivers,
d. f. Efird, Committee.
Adopted by the State Union.