The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-27

dignity 10 get the best results \ liz
tle time and money expended IN help
Ing the women as we'll spent When
Z Secretary Shaw lived in Iowa he
I owned a number OF farms. II was his
practice 10 give TO his tenants wiver
. pure bred cocks and turkey toms. \
neighbor demonstrated with him. say
ing: You are making our tenants
wives discontented. We cannot af-
ford to give away pure bred poultry"
Secretary Shaw replied When help
the women with their poultry, I A.
ways get my rent
The organization Of the farmers
has ong been the end desired by
those who are seeking TO promote
the counuy's welfare By reason Of
all bis previous years o. training
when n has been acting on his own
judgment and working alone, the
farmer is not accustomed 10 organ
ized effort, and does not fully recog-
nize its value; hence the influenc..
OF mis- wife in this matter is OF spe
c.al help The farmer knows if h.
leaves home fos any length OF time
that weeds spring up. fences fal
down. cattle get on their feed and
COWS fail in their milk Hence he
stays AZ home year in and year out
getting deeper and deeper in the ruc
unless educational and social priyi.
leges are brought 10 MIN. This the
women can and will do through their
smiling sun made the man remove
MS coat when the blusty wind only
caused him % hold it tighter. Through
the united efforts of the women the
farmer is going TO think Jess OF his
taxes and more OF his schools: ne is
going % be one q an army of coun-
,ry men united to secure conservation
Of tire soil through longer leases, con
serva,iOn OF the child through better
cducatiena, facilities; conservation of
the wife through the relaxation of
meeting with those OF her own sex.
and shall | not add: conservation oil
the few hardearned dollars in the
parse by parcels post? The farmers
wife, IN order 70 conserve to the full
est extent the best Interests OF the
farm, mus, De filled with the conyic-
ton that farming is the most honor
able and most worthy of a man OF
any o,hcr pursuit. and is a ca~Ac-
worthy Of their bes, endeayors and
not merely makesnift until some
thing better offers such a woman
viii impress upon her children the
thought that no calling or profession
is "a worthy Of their best efforts;
she viii see TO il tina. the books and
papers that come into the family are
those that treat farming and the far.
MGR with respect. No one thing prob.
ably has had more iEyGious influ-
enoe in creating a desire among farm
BOYS to leave the farm than the funny
papers and cartoons which make the !
farmer the butt Of their Jokes, por-
raying him as the victim of the gold
brick agent and picturing with the
vacant look and gaping mouth Of an
imbecie.
Cato, the Censor lived Al a time
waen Rome was at its height as a
military power He had held nearly
all Of the great offices under the
Roman republic. yet in his old age
he left this record, that: NO occu-
patton was so worthy of the dignity
Of d man as that OF fIrming," holding
that Farming makes the brayest
men, and the sturdiest soldiers, and
those who are busy with it have tn.
tewest bad thoughts" And all down /,
through the ages the most eminent
Aii"li 44t an NdlhS Vi ne nave lt
similar records Of their high esfima- ,
tion OF agriculture and those engaged .
in it. The farmers rIve should use
ner Influence to see that this kind .
of literature is kept before her chil
dron in the farm nome, in The eurric-
ulum Of the school room, and in the
school library.
In the time at MY disposal I have
been able TO only hint at few Of
the very many and diverse problems.
as well as opportunities which belong
10 our women OF the farm. | have
-ried 70 view them As wife and
mother of the soil, Wnere. indeed. my
.fe IS Cas'. and my energies have :
1een ensrcsseu have endeayored to
.dvance no tine spun theories, but to
suggest a solution which can be and