Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-24

In other words, your unframed, in
efficient man is not only a poverty
breeder for himself, but the contagior
of it curses every man in the com
munity that Is guilty Of leaving him
unframed. Whether we will 1t or not
the great God has decreed that you
must rise or fall, decline or prosper
with your neighbor. You will be
richer for his wealth. poorer for his
poverty
And so today every man who Is till
ing an acre Of land in the south, sc
that it produces only half what in
telligently directed labor would get
out Of 1t, every man who is doing poor
work of any kind, every man who Is
creating and earning only SO cents OF
20 cents a day instead of from three
to ten times that much, as intelligent
labor would do, every inefficient man
no matter in what line Of work, Is
q burden on the community.
Suppose you are his fellow citizen
then because Of his inefficiency, his
poverty, because of his failure to con-
tribute to public funds, and public
movements, you must have poorer
roads, poorer schools, a meaneI
school house, court house, a shabbiel
church, lower priced lands; your
teacher will be more poorly paid
your preachers salary will be smaller
your newspaper will have a smaller
circulation, your town will be q
poorer market, your railroad will have
smaller traffic, your merchant smaller
trade, your bank smaller deposits
your manufacturer diminished patron.
age, and so on and on. The rami'
fications are Infinite, unendinS.
On the other hand, every efficient
man. every man trained to do go"j
work whether by the schools or BY
any other method-he is making the
whole cummunity richer. If he 1:
trained or taught by the schools ol
by any other method to double hi:
corn or cotton or tobacco yield, If ht
Is trained or taught by the schools ol
by any other method to do better
work so that he earns 81, SO or S. 6
day instead of 80 cents or so or Il
cents, does not that mean that y"ul
merchant will have more trade, youl
bank larger deposits, your newspaper
better patronage, your railroad heav'
ier traffic, your preacher larger
salary, your lawyer and doctor fattcl
fees, your county and state better re-
sources, so that your roads and school!
and public buildings will all feel anG
show the thrill Of a new power tha
has come to them?
Seeing then that the prosperity ot
every worthy industry and indiVidua
in the state depends upon the ell
cheney of the average citizen. the one
great question for us is: How car
we raise this average Of efficiency?
1t seems to me that there are jus
two basic and fundamental ways: a.,
tiOn for fhp 6pUplnnnInnt Al
our own people, and CD immigration
bringing efficient people from Other
sections And Of these two ways, in
comparably the greater is education.
AS yet we but see through a glas!
darkly as to what education is really
going to mean these next twenty
five years and from then on in quick
enng the industrial efficiency Of tht
people. Not only shall we have Longer
terms and better grading and all that
but for the first time the schools are
beginning to train for actual life
Here in the south, for example, al
ways rural and destined to remain so
the section Of America of which 1t l!
true that there are more people en-
gagged in agriculture than in all Other
occupations combined, and yet unit
now our entire school system has beer
hacked and hewed to fit the procrus
team bed of the urban model. Made by
city people for the city people. the
books and teaching have not beer
adapted to the needs of the country
children. We shall take a long steI
forward when the farm boy has pro-
portionately fewer problems in arith'
metic about foreign exchange anC
latitude and longitude and the metric