Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-16

ing good seed grain, better roads.
good markets and the holding Of spe-
cial market days at which an auction
eer should be furnished free to farm
ers desiring to dispose of stock or
produce, should encourage better
farming and the holding Of farmers
Institutes, and also help them to Sc.
cure legislation for the protection of
their interests
Snpt. e. NJ. Mitchell, of the Warren
schools gave an exhaustive and care
fully prepared address on the topic,
The Consolidated Rural School, He
called attention to. the changing con-
ditions, and that the common district
school, though it has done an admir-
able work in the past, is no longer
able to sulply the kind of an educa-
tion that is now demanded by the
farmer boys and girls. He cited
numerous arguments in favor Of tbs
consolidated rural school, such as
better teachers, longer terms, modern
equipment, instruction in agriculture
and other factors, that go to give the
country child as good and thorough
an education as is now furnished to
the child in the cities.
'The County Fair a Factor in Agri-
cultural Development was the sub
ject of an earnest and eloquent off
hand speech by Julius j. Olson. He
started out by saying that we are all
depending upon the agricultural in
terests for our sustenance. The city
people are parasites who live off the
farmers. AS class, farmers are the
most helpless. He deprecated the
fact that of men who have won fame
in various pursuits in life, not one
has done so by reason of being a
farmer. In the past the occupation
Of the farmer has been looked down
upon, and the farm laborer regarded
little better than a serf For that
reason the soil has not been properlc
taken care Of. It requires as much
brain and abilitr to farm, we'll as to do
anything else in life we'll. The love
OF money is the curse of this country
In order to get it quickly we do not
hesitate to squander our resources.
We rob the soil of its fertility, neg
lect and ill-treat it for the sake Of
temporary gain, and as a result cover
the land with foul weeds. The estab-
lishment of agricultural schools. the
coming Of the reaper and binder and
other labor saving farm machinery
and the enactment OF the homestead
law have caused a great development
in agriculture in this country, and the
entire world. Farmers were slowlc
coming into their own. It is to be
deplored that not single farmer oc.
cupies a seat in the u. s. congress
while nearly all other industries are
represented. In our state the state
university is asking for a six million
dollars appropriation that will bene.
fit only 5 out of every 1000 children
in the state, while the remaining 99l
are, many Of them, suffering for lack
of educational facilities 1t is on the
farms that the best citizens are de-
veloped. Our greatest men haye
sprung from the soil. The farm is
the best place for intellectual devel-
opment, living as the farmer does,
close to nature and far from the city's
strife and turmoil From the farm
came the man who reached the pin
nacle of fame that none Of us can
hope to gain--the illustrious Abraham
Lincoln.
Owing to sickness, Rev. G. Wahlund
could not be present to deliver his
address on Civic Pride "A Factor in
Local Development" put he had writ
ten part of what he intended to say
and had given that to Prof. Abraham
son, who kindly read it to the club. 1t
contained many excellent thoughts
Local pride is as necessary as nation
al pride. A community lacking in
civic pride will become sinking pool
where On1v sa1fsh0ass oreod corr,,,,
tion and social death and rottenness
prevails. The civic pride is an ever
lasting power to put in motion and
promote whatever will be a subject
of pride especially the esthetic, ethic
land social we'll being of the communi-
ty.. Many communities are back
ward and far behind the times for
lack of civic pride. AS sunshine is
needed in the hunblest dwelling and
tho ronnOtoot mart ~ tho o1oha or n