The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-10-24
OUR TEACHERS DEPARTMENT
Edited by Prof Charles d. Lewis
l Am But One, But l Am One

that eggs we're 25 cents a dozen,
and that his boarders would have
TO quit eating them. Now at the
same time there are few hundred
thousand hens within a few miles
of that town which are eating, but
not laying eggs, largely because they
are receiving little or no care. What
do those hens need to make them
lay more eggs to furnish NOR mon'y
to the farm and more food for the
workers in the towns and cities?
One thing only. MORE BRAINS. DO
not make a mistake, my dear read
er. Not more Hen Brains, but more
and better HUMAN BRAINS.
Long ago our fathers had 10 quit
making wagons in the old shop at
the cross roads, for in Louisville and
South Bend and other places mei
were making wagons by means Of
Brains and they could no longer af-
ford TO make them by muscle. Mind
you, / do not mean to say that the
old wagon maker did not have brains
in plenty, but he did not have them
in the form of machines, ald sales
agents, and business methods, 30
he lost out. The same thing happen
ed to the small shoemaker, and mill
er and Is now crowding the small
farmer and the small merchant TO
the point OF failure.
The small merchant may go, but
the small farmer must not for the
sake of the farm home, and there is
but one thing that will save him.
That thing you, the teacher, can
give IL you will. II is Brains to farm
with. / am not saying that the farm
er does not have brains, but that he
does not use them on his soil and
crops and marketing. The children
with the most active minds, the
ones to whom books, and modern life,
and all that twentieth century pro-
gress means have the strongest at
traction, you, the rural teacher are
helping to get behind a counter or
a teachers desk or on an office stool
or a doctors saddle.
You may say that you would like
to do something to help along in
this matter, but do not know what
to do. This may be very true, so |
will tell you how 10 make a start.
II you are to play baseball or ten.
mis- or croquet 1t would cost you
from 81 to $40 to get an equipment.
Can you in like manner spend q
little to get the equipment to play
Right and Reason" in your COM
munity? ct costs nothing to play
Simon" of course.)
Here is your bill for supplies:
Nature Studies on the Farm,
Keffer, American Book Co,
Cincinnati, o. e.. e. =. e. =. =. 40.
Stories of Country Life,
Rradish, American Book Co.,
cincinnati -. :. e. 40.
Principles of Agriculture, Golf
and Mayne. American Book Co.
Cincinnati. :. :. =. =. =. =. 80.
Calfee's Rural Arithmetic, ].
E. Calfee, Berea, Ky. g.. =. E. .25.
Total e. sl.S5.
This is not so much as a good base
ball and one glove would cost, and
yet 1t is enough for you to turn the
minds of a whole school, and thru
them a whole neighborhood towards
better things in agriculture.
You may think, my dear teacher,
that this paper belongs in the Farm
er's Department, but it does not. 1t
is for you and you alone. for you
are the one whose business IL Is
to shape the mental attitudes of the
boys and girls who grow up on the
farm.
You are but one, but remember
that you ARE one. and that IL you
WILL you can help greatly this
Cause that needs assistance" and
help bring about the conditions that
should exist in 1.-THE future in the
distance"