The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19

cate the coming generation not TO 4
leave the farm but to stay on g. U i
the boys and girls born in the country |,
would only stay there, or any consid.
cradle percentage OF them, would not
be here this afternoon making this
talk.
] want some fellow in this room to
remember that i'm the meeting of the /.
educators in the states of Iowa, Wis.
consin, Nebraska, Indiana and other
states, held in Chicago last January,
it was unanimously agreed that the
Minnesota agricultural schools is the
very best thing yet developed to give
the boy and the girl on the farm
practical and scientific education in
agriculture Don't forget that. You
don't have to look any further than
that. 1t has been in existence two
years and boys and girls already are
driving fifteen to twenty miles to at
tend these agricultural high schools.
Are Going Back to the Farm.
The developing of the natural re-
sources and of the educational sys-
TEN are the real needs of today. Let
that sentence stick in your minds. The |
educational system must be adapted |
to the real needs of today-not a hun
dred years ago. We have welcomed
and are receiving the heartiest sup
port of the great business organiza-
tiOns, such as the State Bankers
Association, the Association of Com
mercial Clubs, the Northern Develop
ment Association, etc The agricul-
tural colleges are in close sympathetic
touch with the agricultural high
schools and with the movement TO
consolidate the rural school. We have
sent our educators to every school IN
the state that is teaching agriculture.
We have started agricultural work in
nearly every county and are planning
b to enlarge the work this next year.
The increase in attendance at the
schools at CruXton and Morris has
. been nearly 40 per cent. The plan to
, enlarge and broaden the scope of our
/ states educational institutions, includ-
ing the rural schools, was carefully
d mapped out and a bill was presented
to the legislature, which went through
| almost without modification. AS the
e. result of extension work in our col
! leges and secondary schools, in agri-
I culture, larger percentage than ever
: of the students is returning to the
| farm. The appropriations the next
! two years for experimental work at
I Duluth and Waseca will be about ST.,
, 100000. This is the largest sum APP
? propriated in ten years. We have got
y them going. The country newspapers
S and the city newspapers have been an
A immense help in this proposition.
e have a drawer full of clippings of edi
h torials from the country papers in re
= gard to the work of the Minnesota
[ Bankers Association
: To read from the letter: II want to
= take this occasion to thank you for the
i magnificent cooperation of the Bank
h ers' Association, and especially your
t personal efforts, in the matter of ap
e preparation. Without that co-opera
+ ton we never could have succeeded tc
d the extent we have"
l. Keep Boys on Farms.
r Now l should like to ask you bank
e ers to do this if it will meet with YOU
i good judgment; that is, that you ap
d point a committee of about five, whC
e shall look into the question of educa
r ton as it concerns the future welfare
1t of the children of the State of Oregon
4 and see to it whether or not you car
h do something in this state that vii
IT help keep the boy on the farm, Wher
n he can become a responsible and sell
n supporting citizen, as compared wit
the average who drift from the farr
into our cities. The product OF on
IS grammar schools today in order t
~ make a living is forced to compete, /
m the big cities, largely with the riff-ra
al now coming to us from souther
S! Europe-absolutely uneducated an
n ignorant-because we are not giyin
t! our boys anything practical.
in We are getting too wise in tn
to world. We can't make living off OF
IN wits. Get that into your heads. TIL
DIS people who get a living off their vii
nd are limited. Somebody has got to pr
en- duce the wealth, and that somebody
he the farmer, who today is the most i
in dependent business man in the Unite
nix States. | would suggest that you fc
on low what we have been and are doir
le- in Minnesota We have asked the c
le- operation of our commercial clubs, OF
rs real estate boards, and similar organ
] cations, and they are joining in II
re- work of the Minnesota Bankers ASS