Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-11-03

attractive? II seems to me that Just
now there are a number of things
that conspire to add to the attrac-
tiveness of the farm, Invention has
already added largely to the comforts
and the convenienees of the farmer.
city The telephone enables me to
send and receive kilograms; 1t en-
ables me to call the physician in
moment. | know no one thing that
hung more heavily on the m mother
than the fact when sickness comes,
or accident, it took so long to Sc
cure physician Today with the
| telephone, we cut half in two, at
| least, the time between the accident
and relief. We find improvem ents
that can be carried to the farm. Wat
er in the house, light as good as
in the city. The light that | use in
the country is as good as l ever had
ished in small quantities, so that
even the smallest house may be sup
piled. We find the rural free deliv-
cry grown until now in almost every
section Of our land the country is
supplied as well as the city. The
good roads movement is a growing
| uyf1I
the farmer will not long be content
to have a mud embargo" upon their
| liberty, SO large a part of the year.
1t is not a matter of economy mere
| ly. | believe the good road is So
cial need as we'll as an economic re-
| quirement.. With the good roads
you can have the union school, the
community library; you can have
! place for the farmers and their
wives to meet other farmers and
their wives; where you can have en-
tertainment brought to them, where
more light can be put into the life
and larger opportunity for social
communion be had. Electric lines are
bringing the country and city closer
together. All these things are posi-
BILE. All these things are coming, and
with their coming l hope to see the
tide turn and the farm population
increase rather than decrease in pro-
portion to the urban population
But, my friends, | have saved for
the last the suggestion that l have re-
garded as the most important. I
have mentioned some of these things
that have contributed to the deser-
ton of the farm, some of the things
which | hope will accelerate the re-
turn to the farm / am interested
in everything that has been said by
those of whose speeches I have only
heard and by others to whose talks
| have listened. | believe in all Of
these things, but | believe there is
one thing which we can not neglect.
| am not sure but it is the most
! important factor in this whole dis
cussion, the great need of the hu-
man race, less in this country than
in any other, but a need here as we'll
is a proper conception of the digni-
ty of labor The struggle of man
kind has been to avoid work. 1t has
been to put the drudgery of life on
somebody else, and Tolstoy has we'll
said that as soon as we can make
somebody else do the unpleasant
work we do not want to do, we then
look down upon them and regard
them as a different class. Lack of
sympathy is the chief cause of hui
man injustice and of human misery.
repeat that what the world needs,
and we as we'll as the rest of the
world, though not so much, for we
have made more progress here than
anywhere else in the world is a
proper conception Of the dignity of
labor. Our education is at fault if
1T separates the idea Of intellectual
progress from the idea of moral ad-
vancement Sometimes our children
are taught that they should get an
education in order that they may es-
cape from work that seems unpleas-
ant Education will not be a bless
ing to the world, but instead a curse,
if it lifts man above the willingness
to toll.
The most important thought that
can be put into the mind of any
child is that his education is to en-
largo his capacity for work, not TO
relieve him from the necessity of
toiling. We find in the cities young
men earning small wages in store
where they can wear good clothes,
keep their hands clean and do work
that is considered more respectable,
when they might earn larger salaries