The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-05
.CO-OPERAT|ONTHE
WATCHWORD NOW
Efforts in the Interestof
GreaterAg gricultur to
be Consolidated.
VIRGINIA. IS GOOD
ISTHE AIM OF ALL
Under the New Act of Legisla-
ture Great Things Are to Be
Accomplished for Rural Vir-
ginia-A1l Departments
Must Pull Together
From Now On.
BY FRANK s. wooDsoN,
Industrial Editor.

BY EIkANH >, MOODSONs
Industrial Editor.
dropped in under the dome Of the
Capitol last Tuesday at kind OF
preliminary meeting OF the co-ordi-
nate. or co-ordinating boards of the
State. 1t was an Informal meeting
called at the instance OF the Governor
of the State, the object being, ap-
parently, to get busy along the lines
of bill passed by the last Leglsla-
ture.
The local department and Its array
OF reportorfal genius has already fully
covered this wonderful meeting In the
holy OF holies, and while I would not
for anything in the world encroach
upon the local grounds, I am rather
inclined to the opinion that may
have picked UP some points at this
meeting bearing upon the general In
dustrial and agricultural development
OF Virginia that may have escaped the
eagle eyes of the boys OF the handy
pencils This Is my excuse for making
an Industrial chapter of that meeting
OF last Tuesday morning. And won
derful meeting 1t was.
C1awinG in the Dark
It was developed by DR.. Eggleston.
Superintendent OF Public Instruction.
who called for a showdown or rather
a SHOW up by the raising OF hands.
that less than half OF those present.
and something like a hundred men and
women. mostly men, were present. had
never read the h:r,, and therefore did
not know pretty we'll why they had
been called together.
1t may be that considerably more
than half of the people of the State
are as densely ignorant of the bill IN
question as was the crowd who as
sembled in this Star chamber and
therefore II may he Well enough for
- u - Lat 1t
| 1t is rather lengthy, but intensely in
teresting The title and the "'whers-
/ ass" are nearly as long as the bill
itself. and they explain that there
| has been heretofore a lack Of harmony
/ among the various State departments
! that ought to be overcome bv better
/ cooperation. collaboration. etc. and
| that all of the State departments ought
/ to get together in the interest OF as-
! riculture and collaborate with tho Ag-
| ricultural Department of the United
| States on the broad platform OF Col-
| onel Mulberry Sellers, which called for
the "old flag and an appropriation,
especially an approprle tfon.
Comparisons That May BE Odions.
1t is wonderful. very wonderful. that
a Virginia Legislature has never be-.
fore found out this kind OF thing.
Lack of harmony has been n trouble
with the Virginia State government for
10 these many years for. as a matter
of fact the departments have never
been able to harmonize on but ore
point, and that is a division OF the
| pay roll Harmony in the matter OF the
| most good to the greatest number has
| been like the tail of Halley's comet.
| little obscure and nightly scat
| tered, and also like Halley's comet In
| that 1t Is scattered In gaseous sub
| stances, that is to say. in stunlu
L N
/ campaign hard to be redeemed after
| the oath of Office has been duly ad-
/ ministered.
Passing by the title and the where
ass" which. by the way. do not fail
to vigorously rap the Agricultural De-
partment. the demonstration depart
ments. the Educational Department.,
me virginia Polytechnic Institute. the
i test farms and all the other depart
4 ments and things supposed to havs
been instituted for the betterneut OF
4 Virginia, for their way OF pulltns
/ apart, each man or each department.
being for itself. and "the devil taxa
the hindmost' the bin as finally
passed by the Legislature and signed
by the Governor is interesting reading
. matter, and The Tlmes-Dispatch here
by gives 1t the publicity which DR..
Eggleston confessed the State had
4 failed to do. and gives 1t free of cost
A to the Comm monwealth. but at the sans
time warns its constituents that It ia
. rather long and no law requires Its
reading in full. Here 1t Is:
The Bill ms 1t Is.
1. Be 1t enacted by the General AS
sembly OF Virginia That a board tn
be known as the united agricultural
J: board be. and tho same is hereby es-
tablished, to be composed Of the Gov
i ernor. the State Superintendent OF Pub
/ IT fAr IA fnt q
Board OF Education: the Commissioned
of Agriculture, and two members OF
the State Board OF Agriculture, to be
selected by that board: the president
of the Virginia College of Agriculture
and Polytechnic Institute; the director
OF tho Virginia agricultural experiment.
| station, and one member of the board
of visitors of those institutions to bs
selected by the said board; the super
visor OF the district experiment sta
tons; the general director of demon
q stratlon work OF the United States De-
, partment of Agriculture. and the Vir-
( ! ginla director OF demonstration work
OF tho United States Department OF
!, ! Agriculture.
The members OF said board shall
hold office during the term Of lncaH-
bency OF the several Offices, which rem
a der them ex-ottlcio members OF this
j, board: except that the State hoard
i OF Agriculture and the board OF visf-
! tors ot tho Virginia CollegeNof Agrt-
, culture and Polytechnic Institute. and
!. Virginia agricultural experiment sta
tlon, shall have power to elect a.
Z successor TO its members OF the board
a for two-year periods. beginning March
:, i. 1910 or in the interim wheneves
it's member of tho board Is incapaci-
tated from serving on said hoard by
: death resignation or otherwise 1t Ia
= further provided. also. that the offieIa1s
OF the United States Department ot
! Agriculture, herein designated as mean