The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-30

the individuals making up
- tie community work to-
yether as one man. For every ser
Vie, done for the good of the whole,
the server himself reaps double har-
vest Whatever tends to bring
ABOUT unity of interests or pleasures
In any community should receive I'M
qualified support from every indl-
vidual member OF it. Concentration
Is as valuable fer a neighbOrhood
rs 1T Is for an individual. In the
development of rural communities
concentration of interests has
brought about system of education
equal to a university extension
course. The farmers who compete
In friendly rivalry as to the number
of bushels of corn or wheat that can
be produced upon an acre are really
teachers. In way. III practical
agricultural course. For if deep
blowing. careful fertilizing is prov
Ell by one man To double his crop,
the next season finds every man IN
tie neighborhood blowing deeper.
fertilizing more. and so the standard
for corn creeps up and up with each
successive year. The standard OF
quality rises with that of quantity,
and without realizing 1t perhaps the
corn growers have begun a course In
science
The knowledge of the country has
been as unequally distributed as It's
wealth. but (paraphrasing) the East
low goes to the West and the West
now goes TO the East. and the best
of 10th are indissolubly blended to
the great good of both. Farmers
are scientists. scientists are farmers,
and this blending of interests and
knowledge rounds out the fuller life
of each
TIE economic and social relations
between city and country are be
coming more friendly and therefore
truer. The city has drained the
country # its best men ami left II
impoverished. but 1t Is now sending
Its best men back into tie country
again. for it realizes that without
the country people cannot exist.
Mutual interests do much 10 bring
PEOPLE together Pursuit of the same
knowledge binds them also: but moth
inc can excel the cohesive quality OF
laughter. To say 1--WE have laugh
ed together" Is to say I'VE are
friends and understand one an
ether: When employer and employ
ed laugh together. become friends,
then are the shoulders OF all set 10
the wheel and progress assured.
There should be more laughter m
work. men should extend their play
time into their life's labor.
This Is one of the great benefits
of country fair. that men can
bring the results of their years
work and laugh and play over it IN
friendly rivalry. Farmers have no
carnival time in this country. nc
cessation of the mOnotonOus round
of work. unless we except the an
nual fairs. They need these oceas-
ions of relaxation that they may
keep more human relationship
with their neighbors and tie some
thing else than toilins machines.
TIE country fair should not be a
market place. but an exhibition
center where every man. woman and
child could take the result of their
best work, products. inventions,
whatever they have made or done
that would contribute TO the better
ment of the community. and show
il end talk it over together. 1t
should be a stimulus toward better
products. spur to economic CO.
operation. social carnival time.
Emerson in an address before
the Middlesex Agricultural Society
spoke elcquently of the Charge and
noble occupation of the men who
till the soil. He said that In Roman
davs a man who BY his vaior saved
an army was given crown of grass
as highest distinction. lie thought
that the Arval crown (crown OF
sraSs) should he given to the tillers
of the soil for the lives of the whole
world depend upon their efforts. Ht
likened the planting of one potato
that in six weeks would produce ten
TO the miracle of the multiplication
of the loaves. He himself received
the third premium of three dollars
for his sage grapes. and one dollar
for q .'plate of pears.
\ little hamlet In Massachusetts
held a fair last fall that proved be-
vond dispute the benefit which sucl
gatherings are to the whole countr,
side. There were no gate receipts
for the fair was held down the mair
street of tie village. but ey@Ty farm
err bad given one dollar to the prize
fund. to be won back with compound
interest if he were fortunate In hav
mo raised a melon larger than his
neiehbors or could show fieete
borsa of a better team of oxen.