The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-02-28
Present Fine Opportunity
for Learning
and SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES
For Advancement-Draw At.
tenti0n Away From
the Big Cities.
FINE TOPICS ALWAYS AT HAND


Farm movement, the gravest prob
tenn confronting the farmer is how
10 keep young people on the farm
The lure of the city is felt even
in the remotest rural communities
An young people are pleasure-lov-
ting. They demand recreation, and
If opportunities for social enjoy
Tnent do not present themselves in
their own community, they are
bouad to seek them afar.
The opportunity for helpful rec
rration and enjoyment presents it.
self in the new School Social Center
raDRement.
IN by-goue days, the rural
schools provided entertainment for
the community in the form of SPELL
InR-bees, singing-schools. etc. Grad
uany these recreations died out,
and there sorang up lyceums and
literary societies, both of which
were helpful and inspiring to the
-fOSiS' NNtA lhOuSh INC OldlOlg was
'rvuue, and the knowledge of sub
lc,-" 30 Gi~ov2Sioa limited.
To-day the lyceum is a thing of
the past, and the country school
house usually stands desolate and
deserted during the long winter
evenings, and through the long
yupnfhs pf vacation
Farm children should be given
the most careful and judicious
training in the public schools. This,
hO.ever, is far from being the rule.
IN many cases the teachers them
selves lack proper training, and the
equipment is of the poorest kind.
Every rural school should be pro-
Nided with a good library for the
benefit of both the school and the
community.
The acquisition OF knowledge
from books is necessary, but this
boOR-BnOwledge does not i'm itself
constitute an education; far from
II. We need IN educational system
which tits boy or girl for more
knowledge; makes civic duty plain,
and teaches him or her the funda-
lnental principles of universal
brotherhood.
At present a very large per cent
al the business and professional
men, Including statesmen. especial
Iy through the South and West, are
men who were reared on the farm,
or came from the workshops of
towns and villages. Tho indications
a'e that a very large per cent of the
leaders of the future will come
from the same sources. Therefore
1t is necessary that the children in .
the rural schools should receive
better training than is being given .
them now.
Many Of the ablest men of to-day /
have been hampered by lack of .
ea@ly training, and nothing can
take the place of this lost training. ,
VI the State wants its citizens to be
succecsful, prosperous, and happy
in the futurei must no longer neg (
lect the early training of those who
are to bring about the conditions
which will accomplish the desired
results.
Our best teachers should be sent
70 the rural schools; earnest, pro-
sressive men and women, capable
of introducing into the work quail
ties which will arouse the young
peoples enthusiasm and set them
thinking and investigating along
new lines of endeavor.
The country presents ideal con-
ditions for the study of nature, and
Yea how many children are taught
the real fundamental facts of ma
tnre, unfolding themselves all
about them? The perennial miracle
OF plant life is so common. and so
before them, that they
fail to see or take note of it. An
presentation of this
will arouse in the minds of the
children new lines of thought, and
send them forth with eager feet, to
make new discoveries. ,
The attention of the children
should be directed TO the wise pro-
'ision made by trees and hardy
'Iants for the coming os winter, as,
L the first hint of the changing
eason. they begin to store up car q
ON, vithdrawing from the leaves @
hat the tree needs for its support &
uring the winters cold, and, by S
ne withdrawal of the sap. harden {
" and protecting the limbs and o
ID
Such study naturally leads to the D
I'd &C. fowls, and natures pro-