Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-12-19
! sENsiBLE LETTER FROM


FLORIDA
Dear Mrs. FELTON,:
---.sould like to have talk with you
about the management Of some farms
and see II you and I agree
Never in the history OF the south has
there been such call for help to harvest,
as IN I$AL
Know numbers OF farmers whose
crops are almost all In the field yet and
they cry: Eve just can't get help. the
sorry negroes won't work" and these
same farmers have boys and girls enough
to have kept square up with IN II cotton
and thus enabled them 20 have placed II
on the market IN good condition and
when the price was AT the best
they VIII say: I'm not going TO raise
my children in the field. they have got
20 be educated"
very well. certainly believe IN edu-
cation but listen. harvest time doesn't
last long and the crop has already cost
all that II win ever cost and are you
willing now 70 sacrifice your years Work
sust hv not working enough TO gather III
II you VIII 90 this a few more years
I promise you you won't be able 70 edu-
cate them
Work between school terms makes cnil-
dren appreciate their opportunities bet
l. worth 10 cents something many new
CT learn.
In my part OF the state we have a FIVE
months country school term and the
privilege Of having II at our most con-
venfent time Many schools divide this
time and hive two months in summer
and three after harvest. where others
have run regularly all the fail, patron
he'd wholly By poor people: and in the
afternoon ; boys would hunt or loaf
around and nc they cry. hard times
and help 50 scarce" when they could
easily have gothered their crops. paid
their debts ana have had plenty Of good.
warm clothing and ready Ior winter
term Of school.
But no. their crops are the greater
part In the field in ruined condition and
they are confronted with very unpleas-
ant circumstances but I suppose IL is
for every family to plan out their "own
salvation in a business way
An idle brain is the devils work
shop and give the children enough TO
do Z. occupy their hands and Ii will
soon, occupy their minds and they viii
be better. happier citizens hence.
Your friend.
FLORIDA FAR...ER'S WIFE.
Genoa. Fla. Dec. 1 1871
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CHANCE
Dear Mrs Felton-For many years I
have been reading your good letters N
The Weekly Journal. and find
them SO helpful that would not do
without The Journal for anything. Your
object. 7 know, Is to help humanity in
various ways bring before you a pc
culEar and sad case know Of young
woman that is bright and gifted and
would do much good in the world in
social and financial sense But oppres-
sion Of home life is so great that that
young lady can't do anything. Her par
ents are 50 ignorant and stupid that they
won't give her the opportunity that the
wild animals (and tame ones. tool have.
know that IL Is hard for some people
TO believe. because as a general thing
parents are parents in the truest sense)
anxious to do the best they can. IL
would be useless 70 go into detail about
this matter. but what about parents
that have used tobacco for s. or 40
years. using from so to SIS year and
claim they are not able TO even help
their children get common school edu-
cation, and make out like they are not
even responsible for their children's COM
ing into the worldg think there ought
to be a law made for such children:
believe people that use tobacco soon lose
selfrespect and respect for others: / have
seen its evil effects in the school. room
while there Is a lot of good people in
the world there Is much suffering hu-