Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-06-21
TOO MANY PROFESSIONAL NET
But Demand for Educated Farmers
Is StrikIngIy Neglected.

| BUT Demand FOR Educated Farmers
Is StrikIngIy Neglected.
Washington. June 1.-THE Secretary
of Agriculture said today: 1.-THE Depart
ment of Agriculture is organizing just
now To take farm demonstration worl
into different states. Two classes oi
men are required for this work; First. ir
each county first rate farmer who ha.
been success on his farm and who un-
derstands practically. without much
theory except what he may have Incl
dentally picked up, how to handle the
soil. the plant. and the animal; Second
over large di istricts and states differ
ent class of men is wanted, who have ar
agricultural college training combined
with its application to practice in the field
As we read the daily papers and see the
reports of the thousands of young men
who are graduated in law throughout the
country, the reflection naturally comes.
what . pity that the great demand OF the
farm for intelligent men is not being more
considered by our educational institu-
tons. There is not law work for more
than small per cent of these young
men. No doubt the educational and
mental training they have had will make
them brighter men, but there are no jobs
waiting for them. that is for more than a
very small percentage of them. while the
fields are crying aloud for trained men.
Housekeepers are complaining Of the cost
OF living. 1t would seem to be wise for
our educators in their national meetings
to consider these problems. 1t might be
wise to consider about how many young
lawyers will be needed in the next year
to take the place of the older men drop
ping out. That could be very easily de-
termined. Then if the attention of this
class of students were called to the de-
mand Of the industries for educated men,
different direction might be given to
many young men who seem to be draw
ing their bows at venturs.
This applies to more than the lawyer.
There are no doubt far more young ply
sieians being turned out from the educa-
tonal institutions of the country than
there are patients for. Wrong direction
has been given to the education of many
men. and yet there is nothing more diff
cult to change than the old systems Of
education.
SIN his sixth annual report (l9ll) as
President Of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, Or. Henry
S. Pritohett says: According to the CEN
sus tables there were in the United
States in 1900, $4,000 physicians and
surgeons. In the bulletin on medical ed
ucation issued by the Foundation in 1910
it was calculated after careful investi-
CATION. that 1000 graduated annually
from the medical schools would furnish
an ample supply Of new physicians to
take the places left vacant by death and
other causes. and to keep pace with the
growth Of population. Assuming, and it
is evidently an extravagant assumption,
that the proportion Of lawyers to the pop
ulation should be as large as the porpor-
ton Of physicians. l.zoo graduates an
nually from the law schools would be
sufficient to maintain even the present
crowded stage of the legal profession.
As matter of fact. in June, 1910, the
number Of students graduated by the law
schools numbered Abb; and this takes
no account of the large percentage Of
lawyers who are admitted to the bar
without having received law school
diploma. If we place the per capita need
OF lawyer at the same figure as the
need Of a physician, and disregard all
who enter the profession without COM
pleting successfully law school course,
it is evident that the output Of the law
schools Of the present day is far in ex-
cess of any necessary demand
at is certain that the demand for law
yers and physicians is much more than
met by the professional schools today. 1t
is equally certain that the demand for
educated farmers is strikingly neglected"