The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-06


of rural civilization. The means ioi
better farming we have studied with
care, but to better living on the
farm and to better business on the
farm the farmers themselves nave
given scant attention. One ot the
most urgent needs of our civilization
is that the farmers themselves sEouiG
undertake to get for themselves a
better knowledge along these llacs.
and then apply it.
Human Efficiency.
AS a people we have yet to learn
to economic. One of the virtues
we Americans most need is thrift 1t
is mere truism to say that luxury
and extravaganza are not good for a
nation. So far as they affect char
acter, the loss they cause may be be-
yond computation. But in the ma
terial sense there is a loss greater
than is caused by both extravaganza
and luxury put together. | mean
the needless, useless, and excessive
loss to our people from premature
death and avoidable diseases. Who'll
~ apart from the grief, the suffer
ing, and the Indebtedness which they
cause, the material loss each year
has been calculated at nearly twice
what it costs to run the Federal GOV
ernment. In addition to the state
and city health officers and organiza-
tions, there is urgently needed a
federal bureau of health. to act, so
far as the national government prop
erly may, to relieve our people from
this dreadful burden.
Pan-American Conservation.
When the government of the
United States awoke to the idea of
conservation and saw that it was
good, it lost no time in communicat-
ing the advantages of the new point
OF view to its immediate neighbors
among the nations. A North Ameri-
can conservation conference was
held in Washington, and the CO.
operation of Canada and Mexico in
the great problem of developing the
resources of the continent for the
benefit of it's people was asked and
promised. The nations upon our
northern and southern boundaries
wisely realized that their opportunity
to conserve the natural resources
was better than ours, because with
them destruction and monopolization
had not gone so far as they had
with US. SO it is with the Republics
of Central and South America. OBJ
viously they are on the verge of a
period of great material progress.
The development of their natural re-
sources-their forests, their mines.
their water, and their soils-wil Gre
ate enormous wealth. 1t is to the
mutual interest Of the United States
end our sister American Republics
that this development should be
.
/ wisely done. Our manufacturing In
! dustries offer market for more ana
more of their natural wealth and
raw material, while they will increas-
! ingly desire to meet that demand III
/ commercial exchange. The more we
bus from them, the more we shall
sell to them Their prosperity is in
seDarably involved with our own.
! state ard Fedora control.
! But while we of the United States
/ arc anxious, as | believe we are able,
/ to be of assistance to others, there
are problems of our own which we
must not overlook. One of the most
imnortant Conservation questions of
the moment relates to the control
/ of water power monopoly in the
/ nublic interest. There is apparent
to the iudicious observer a distinct
/ tendency on the part of our oppo-
nents to cloud the issue by raising
| tba question of State against FED
eral jurisdiction. We are ready 10
meet that issue if it is forced upon
Ms. But there is no hope for the
plain people in such conflicts OF Ju-
risdiction. The essential question Is
one of hair-splitting legal technical
tiles. It is simply this: Who can
hest regulate the special interests
= f.C
| for the public good? Most OF the
predatory corporations are inter-
State or have Interstate affiliations
Therefore they are largely out OF
roach of effective State control, ana
fall of necessity within the Feoeral
jurisdiction. One of the prime OBJ
iects of those among them that are
erasping and greedy is to avoid any
effective control either by State OF
Nation: and they advocate at THIS
time State control simply because
they believe it to be the least ef'
fective. In the great fight OF the
neonle to drive the special Interests