The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-23
CURRENT COMMENT

Twenty Tests OF Progress for Your County.
/. Is every country boy and girl in your
country getting a six-months' school term?
2. Have you a county superintendent of edu-
cation giving his whole time to the work?
3. Have you voted road bonds or road tax :
A. Have you county superintendent OF
health employed for all his time?
s. Does the Farmers union or any other
farmers organization thoroughly cover your
county?
6. Have you good county fair?
7. Do you select for your county officials the
men who will help the county forward fastest
instead of the men who serve the party ma
s. Are your churches gaining in strength and
influence and the people in temperance and
morality?
g. Have you properly supported farmers in
stitutes, and there Institutes for farm wo-
well as men?
10 Have you Corn clubs for the boys and
Tomato clubs for the girls?
H. II you are in the tick-infested territory,
are you doing anything to eradicate the ticks
and get out OF the cattle quarantine?
IL Have you shown sufficient interest In the
farmers cooperative demonstration work to
get it's advantages for your fayUers?
49, Have you rural free delivery everywhere
you might have it,?
Ia Has every school In your county good
lbary?
Is. Can your boys and girls get the advan-
tages of good high school near Them without
leaving their home communities?
t6. Are you cooperating with the State In
the fight to exterminate hookworm disease7
II. Is there good rural telephone system
covering the county?
49, Are you supporting wide-awake county
paper-one that Is more Interested In the
progress OF the county than in partisan politics
and your farmers taking the best farm
papers?
49, Have you abandoned the old fee system
Of paying county officers?
90. Are your citizens and your board Of COM
missioners willing to go down into their jeans
and produce the necessary money, economically
administered, to secure these profitable forms O.
PROGRESS?
These are twenty tests Of progress. Let s
represent good" in each case, then take the
score and how much your county lacks OF
grading up to the desired 100 mark. Per-
haps your county paper be willing to dis
"uss the program and let the reader join in
plans for remedying deficiencies,--The Progress
sive Farmer.
Nobody but the turkey will protest against
President Taft's Thanksgiving proclamation
The whole country will respond gladly to the
dinner bell, IL not to the church bell. And yet
there should be something more In the day
than hurried and perfuncrory grace before
meat The people OF the United States are
sti the chosen people Of the world. blessed
beyond comparison In all the things that make
life worth living. They should not lack one
OF the finest qualities In human nature, the
sense Of thankfulness After the long months
OF political strife we have reason to be CRATE
full that we can come together again like one
big family around the national Thanksgiving
board of American prosperity and patriotism
Accomac News.
The esteemed Danville Register asks, After
victory WHAT" Down this way 1t seems to
he mostly pie. or rather hankering after pie
Newport News Press.
Wasn't Necessary.
Perhaps IT. will he noticed that the Senate
committee didn't venture to attempt any Bull
Moose baiting.-C1eveland Leader.