The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-02-16
TEACHERS help
IDEALIzE CITY
Rural School Pupils Readily
Heed Call.
Dr.. Fred Mutchler, Who Instruct
ed Ohio County Institute,
Makes Statement.

Washington, February 11.-'Run-
ming directly counter TO tho growing
back -tp-;he-soil NOV ment, rural
schooltsachecs are I'm actual force an
the dpopulntion of tine country dis
tricts. They set tine facs Of country
boys and girls toward ihe city, and by
i'd ahzing city life fhey INDUCE move
ment toward the cinters pf populu lpdl
tina. often d.privcs ihe country villags
of aus D. st citizens" This declaration
made by DR.. Fred Mu.chbr and w
J. Craig, two mesmb tis Of ihe faculty
of ahe Western kentucky Stale Nor
nal School, in a monograph which th
Unit.d Saa'es Bureau OF Education has
jus. published for fr7e distributions
The tendency Of the run1 school
20 encourage emiga:don TO the city,
says the government publication, is in
consequence OF the fac. that the cours
OF study in most rural schools is mert,
ly copy OF that givfn 70 oily school
children, without inference TO 'Ihe dif-
fsrlne environment and local msds
of the country child.
As a result of giving fhs counary
child an education mods,ed TN civ
Inns, the au hoss dcclars TINT 'nhch-
e-s tsvcrywhere, with rare excspsLons,
have idalizad city Nfe,and mwhtingly
have bem potent factors In including
young mon and women 10 leave The
farm and move mo the city. This
movement oftcn carI'ks SOME of me
b,st blood and brains OF the cmmuni
ty into sIhe city, oftsn TO b. host, WAS.
ed. or destroyed; osr ainly 10 b. lO1;
from slhe rural community. Ii is pos
plbls and night, indeed duty,. 10 dig
Nifty rrural life and TO save to it an
its int rests the best blood of the
country.
"nhe rural school has not the in
fluence that it should have. One Ut
the uhid reasons lbs in the fact Iha.
the course of study is in-adapt-h TO
rural life In OIL its relations.
Eve are uni,sd i'm hehicving that n
school should train it's puplls Cor life
and its work while tin se pupils are
living and working. The cours, Of
study taught in tine rural school to-
day is entdnsly too much like the
course that is taught i'm hhe city
school; In fac. it has bean mOdslsd
to fit the naeds Ut the latter wimhDait
consulting enough tine ends THAT are
to be a.tadned dn tine hormsr.''
As am indicauiOn of the crash value
of a course OF study. sp,ciaIllzad 10
the needs of the rural community and
Taught by TRAINED normal graduatss,
the monograph says: .
"OhnadRs mraa schools incrased
the average wheat yields THERE dive
bushels to the acre i'm a ndw yars'
time Suppose THAT cur rural heacheas
should sat for hhemsalucss tho problem
of incrsaAng the corn crop five bushel
per acre what would BIO tine rsssuit?
In 1910 the farmers of Kcnnclxy plant
ed and cultivated 3Y630.OO0 acNs Of
corn. An increase of five bushels
Der acre would haNe made the yield
$500, 900 bushels more. Thass 49,
100000 bushels of corn would have
brought, at The average faam price
December /. 1910. approximately $l0,-
100000.
",Nhds money would have gone d.
rectly to the ruIaa communities whee
1t is much needad. and would ha0e
been OF vast Importance In aoawing
the problams that confront Our rural
psople."
SCHOOLS CAN HELP CROPS.
what the r,naa schoOls can do for
improving corn cultnre thsv ram do
Sor amy 0tihar farm crop. II thsy adoN
a RATIONAL COURSE OF study and danlaai
taachers who can teach tham u1fac-
lively and efniciently. Fortamapaly
praotical puinoiples Of agriculture aa'e
nsibhar difficult to learn NOR irluaomc
to teach. The snbtert appaals to nura
pupis hacaalse 1t comes wdtddm tho
SCOPE of thaLr immediate iphseests.
"Ruraa Life can be wOndsuhullv i'm
lmprpved by the unahsd sffords OF
taachers To promote ueaa. genuine. UP
lifting THRIFT taMpush Instruction In
the principals and plactices Of aertcul-