The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-27

revolutionary melnOuS. ne meIeig
pleads for the extension of the ideas
that are already in the minds Of ali
good teachers, and, in degree. are be
ing carried out in the schools.
Children are all interested Ia na-
turc. The growing, living things w
terosi them. Abstract ideas are diff.
fi,ult. and no wonder that punish.
ment has been noted out in tie form
O. study. This will not he so when
VIC maize study pleasura' lie
The state of California has voted
H. .cach farming IN all public schools.
: ua, proposition IT the god moth
~ Aho NrCio 20 the teacher. we
want Johnnie learned so he won't
have to work-he has to work at
home. makes us smile.
No life can-be well rounded where
lie individual has not been brought
MP TO work, ami wory inte,liecntiy,
with his hands Only in this way is
80 tble to sympa lizr with the world
% '.,rkers
The Livin; Ces;
Greece and Rome went down to
lacm tteth whel lhc lJlr.iatl ~ be
came congested in the cities end the
farms we're forgotten
twenty-five years ago la America,
half of our population were directly
interested in farming. Now less than
One-third of our population are farm
ers. High prices of living come as a
necessary result of such a condition.
The farmer is in partnership with ma
ture, and If any mans business should
be respected 1t Is the farmers.
For the federal government to CO.
operate with the states in the edu-
cation of the young is eminently
wise, beautiful and right.
The amount Of money required to
bring about this great betterment is
comparatively slight. Prior to the
year 1915, less than four million dol
lars Is asked for, and this money is
to be used in the education OF teach
ers along the lines of agriculture and
Industrial training.
BY 1915--the year OF the worlds
fair in San Francisco-the project
will be well under way; and that 1t
is already arranged that in Sen Fran
cisco in 1915 the teaching Of agricul-
ture and the trades will be mat
ter of exhibition. -
Doctor Taylor Of Moline. Ill, is one
of the worlds great teachers in an
agricultural way. This nah has de.
voted a lifetime to the scientific study
OF scientific farming. Doctor Taylor
gives 1t as his opinion that through
an understanding of the soil and
right methods our acreage yield in
America would practically beTdoub-
led, This 10 no wild guess, for Doctor
Taylor has taken the average farm
In both the eastern and middle lstates.
and by the application Of scientific
methods done the thing.
Ine HoCncster f'an.
Concerning the necessity of the bet
ter education OF the young along the
line of production, there is no ques-
ton or dispute.
The maximum cost to the govern
ment, as provided in Senator Pages
bill, will not exceed twelve million
dollars a year, which is about the
price of dreadnaught, and When
dreadnaught is built the expense only
begins. And ] trust do not have to
prove that a dreadnaught neither Gre
ates or produces. After 1t is blown
up, II may take million dollars to
remove the wreck.
But this expenditure for a better
education will all come back to us,
ten times over, in both money and
manhood.
One of the most interesting featuI es
about this bill is the fact that 1t pro-
vides that none of the money appro-
priated by the general government
shall be used for the purchase of land
or in building buildings. The intent
is TO utilize the school plants that
already exist.
Money appropriated for buildings
.uords the finest opportunity for mis-
application of funds that can posi-
bly, be imagined,
, II anyone doubts this proposition,
suggest that he read the history O
; the capitol buildings at Albany ant
; at Harrisburg
All over the United States Their,
are towns and cities following tn
r lead of what is known as the "Roch
7 ester Plan" which is simply
A scheme to utilize school buildings 70
the young and old, at such times a
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