Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-13
MORE EDUCATED
FARMERS NEEDED
Too Many Doctors and Law
yerSi Says Report by Secre-
tary of Agriculture

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WASHINGTON, Cd. c., June 90.
The secretary of agriculture says IN
a recent statement: THE department
of agriculture is organizing just Eow
to take farm demonstration work into
the Northern states. Two classes of
men are required for this work: First,
in each county a first rate farmer Who
has been a success on his farm and
who understands practically, without
much theory except what he may
have incidentally picked up, now to
handle the soil, the plant, and the
animal. Second, over large districts
and states a different class of men is
wanted, who have an agricultural col
lege training, combined with its appl
cation to practice in the field
AS we read the daily papers ami
see the reports of the thousands of
young men who are graduated in law
throughout the country the reflection
naturally comes, what pity that the
great demand of the farm for INTEL :
gent men is not being more consid
cred by our educational Institutions
There is not law work for more than
small per cent of these young men
No doubt the education and mental
training they have had viii make them
brighter men, but there are no lor
waiting for them-that is, for more
than very small percentage Of them
while the fields are crying aloud
for trained men.
"Housekeepers are complaining OF
the cost of living. 1t would seem TO be
wise for our educators In tleir M
tional meetings to consider these
problems. 1t might be wise to co.,
slider about how many young lawyers
will be needed in the next year to
take the place of the older men who
are dropping out. That could be very
easily determined Then, if the atten-
ton of this class Of students were
called to the demand of the industries
for educated men, different direc-
ton might be given to many young
men who seem to drawing their lows
at venture
This applies to more than the law
yer. There are no doubt far more
young physicians being turned out
from the educational institutions or
for. Wrong direction has been given
to the education of many young men,
and yet there is nothing more difficult
to change than the old system of elu
cation
I'm his sixth annual report (19fG
as president of the Carnegie Folnda-
tiCn for the Advancement of Teaching
DIR. Henry s. Pritchett says:
According to the census tables
there were in the United States in
1900 10000 physicians and surgeons.
In the bulletin on medical education,
issued by the foundation in 1910, it
was calculated, after careful investi:sa,
ton, that 1000 graduated annually
from the medical schools would fur
nish an ample supply of new physf
clans to take the places left vacant
| by death and other causes, and to
keep pace with the growth of poplla-
| ton. =
Assuming, and it is evidently an
! eXtravagant assumption. that the l.rc.
| portion. of lawyers to the population
/ should be as large as the proportion
of physicians, 100 graduates annually
! from the law schools would be sub
cient to maintain even the present
! crowded stage of the legal profession
AS matter of fact, in June, 1910 the
! law schools numbered 41S3; and this
! takes no account of the large percent
! age of lawyers who are admitted tC
] the bar without having received a law
/ school diploma. If We place the pei
capita need of a lawyer at the same
+ figure as the need of a physicians and
disregard all who enter the profess OF
without completing successfully a law
school course, it is evident that the
| output of the law schools of the Pres-
ent day is far in excess to any necess-
airy demand.
1T is certain that the demand for
I lawyers and physicians is much more
than met by the professional schools
today. 1t is equally certain that The
demand for educated farmers is strik-
ingly neglected /.