The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-15

chemistry, IN engineering. in cleo
tricity, IN one or more OF scores o.
special subjects. The big business
man. the big railway man. does not
ask college-trained experts 10 tell him
how 10 run his business his business.
but he does ask numbers OF them
each TO give him expert advice and
aid on some one point indispensable
10 his business. He finds this man
usually Is some graduate OF a techni-
cal school or college In which he has
been trained for his life-work.
Farmer Needs Education.
Farmers should learn how TO
combine effectively, as has been done
In industry. | am particularly glad
10 speak to the Grange, for ! heartily
believe in farmers organizations; and
We should all welcome every step TAX
en- towards an increasing co-opera-
ton among farmers. The importance
Of such movements cannot be over
estimated; and through such intelli-
gent joint action II will be possible TO
improve the market just as much as
the farm.
County life should be as attractive
as city life, and the country people
should insist upon having their full
representation when 1t comes to deal
ing with all great public questions.
In other words, country folks should
demand that they work on equal
terms with city folks in all such mat
tiers. They should have their share
in the memberships of commissions
and councils; in short, of all the or
ganized bodies for laying plans for
great enterprises affecting all the
people. | am glad to see on such
bodies the names that represent f.
nancial interests, but those interests
should not have the right-of-way, and
ia all enterprises and movements in
which the social condition Of the
country is involved, the agricultural
country-the open cOuntry-should
be as we'll represented as the city.
The man of the open country is apt
! to have certain qualities which the
! city man has not. These qualities
Offset those which the city man has
and he himself has not. The two
! should be put on equal terms, and
the country talent beg iven the same
opportunities as the city talent to ex-
press itself and to contribute to the
welfare of the world in which we
| live.
The True Social Center.
THE country church should be
made a true social center, alive to
every need of the community, stand
! ing for a broad individual outlook
and development, taking the lead in
work and in recreation, caring more
| for conduct than for dogma, more for
ethical, spiritual, practical better
ment than for merely formal piety.
The country fair offers far greater
possibilities for continuous and heal
thy usefulness than it at present af-
fodrs. The country school should be
made vital center for economic, So
cial, and educational Cooperation; it
is naturally fitted to be such center
for those engaged in commercial far
ming, for those who live on and by
the small farms they themselves own.
The problem of the farm is really
the problem of the family that lives
on the farm. On all these questions
there is need Of intelligent study
such as marks the books of Profess
sor Bailey, of Cornell, and of Horace
Plunkett's book on the Rural Life
Problems of the United States
"One feature of the problem should
be recognized by the farmer at once
and an effort made to deal with it
It is our duty and our business te
consider the farm laborer exactly az
we consider the farmer. No coun
try life can be satisfactory when the
owners of farms tend, for whatever
reason, to go away to live in cite!
instead of working their farms; and
moreover, it cannot be really salts
factory when the labor system is S.
managed that there is for part of tn,
year demand for labor which can
, not be met, and during another par
I of the year no demand for labor a
3 all, SO that the farmers tend to rel.
on migratory laborers who come GU
to work in the country with no per
manent interest in it and with n
3 prospect of steady employment. I
e is exceedingly difficult to make
: good citizen out of a man whe can
: count upon some steadinsss and cen
e tinuity in the work which means t
e him hisl livelihood. Ecsaonie COZ
q ditions on the farm-in variety an
d kind of crop growing, especially a
/ distributed in time, and in housin
I for the men-must be SO shaped a
A to render it possible for the men VIII
n labors for the farmer to be steadil
a employed under conditions which fol-
Is ter his self-respect and tend for hi
l. development.
Woman and Her Duty.