The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-11-23
DELAY IN PAYING
COTTON PREMIUMS
come Bows Were Aided by Fathers
IN CuItivating CrOp-Average
Yield 1906 Sc Lbs.
II 8 Mobley, State Organizer of Boys
and Girls Club, Made Fine
Address.
TOP YIELD 1900 POUNDS
t;ttle Chance That Work Will BE
Carried on Again This Year
Many Disappointed.

The Polk County Boys Corn and
Cation Club held a meeting at the
eourt house Saturday, the main
impose of which was to award the
premiums to the winning members
Of the cotton club, and, because of
what appears to have been a mis-
understanding of the rules on the
part of some, this had to be post
poned for a time, or until further
Information could be obtained.
But the day held two real treats
first, a splendid address by H. S.
Mobey. the state organizer Of the
BOYS Corn Clubs and Girls Tomato
and Canning Clubs. and, second, a
dinner at Hotel Mena, given the
BOYS by w. A. Ragland.
Mr.. Mobley is a master of his
subject, and his earnestness is elo-
duent in itself He is in a work
that is with him a work of heart
and love, and his appeals to his
hearers to aid in giving the boys
and girls a chance to live by edu-
eating them along lines that would
make them good and valuable citl-
Gems, men and women capable OF
making and maintaining homes,
we're deep in thought and convinc-
ing in argument. He showed how
the trend of education had for
years been to teach a contempt for
labor, and to take humanity away
from the class that was useful and
lead it into a class of idleness and
He showed how, on
the contrary, the work he was dos
ing was to make life better and
more attractive for the producer
by giving him a knowledge of how
to do things useful, instead of
him to go to the cities
and struggle to live by his wit, be-
ing of no value to humanity or the
world.
He said that the final aim of this
work was to bring
about an arrangement Of schools
each would serve larger
community and each would teach
not only the theory of how to farm
and do other useful things, but
would train the hand in the actual
work.
Mr.. Mobley spoke in glowing
terms of this county as being a
part of the grandest country on
earth, the great Ozark uplift, where
air, water elevation and
soil combined to the best advantage
for humanity.
A brief report of Mr.. Mobley's
talk follows:
I am glad to come to Mena and
glad to note the interest taken in
our work here and to notice the
presence of so many of the young
men who live in the country, the
presence of a good representative
body of your business men and
leading citizens and Of one mother,
for when we can interest the
mothers and fathers of our boys
and girls in this work then, and
then only. can we hope to sIcceed.
It is by the interest we can arouse
in the fathers and mothers in en-
coufaging their boys and girls that
we hope to be successful in our
farm demonstration work.
want to speak to you somewhat
at length without going too much
INTO details from an educational
The reason the effort
IS being made to encourage the
boys corn and cotton clubs and the
girls tomato and canning clubs
reaches into the idea OF education,
and the idea is revolutionary, out
of the ordinary, and to be in line
with the sayings of the day, and
using slang expression, ut stands
IN class by itself"
We are trying to teach the young
people of today and have them see
that side Of education which tends
to look upon the productive side
of nature; which teaches them how
to get the most out of the soil by
proper cultivation and proper
We send out literature
to the boys showing when to pillow
and varaporo Tho rpo,4nd xubau IN