El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-13
Copyright. 1913, By Frank G. Carpenterl

7 spend so freely on human endowment
! All the riches of France, Germany and
! austria are not equal to that sum, and
| II you should take every dollar in cash
! and in property out of Italy. Belgium.
! Spain, Holland, Portugal and Switzer-
I land, and add them together, they
would not make much more than one
tnlrd of the amount the good red earth
mas poured into our pockets. She
gave Us last year almost ten billions
and at the same rate of production she
VIII within the next Is years spill out
l enough to more than equal all the
wealth We have now. Our total assets
are estimated at 125 billion dollars.
They are only Is percent more than
what We have taken out of the earth
since your daughter or sweetheart who
Is sweet Is first set foot upon it.
me debts of all the nations are less
than forty billion dollars. We take
almost one-quarter as much every year
out Of our soil How IS that for bus
mess, in these days Of big businesses
Is Close Thinker.
Secretary HOustOns life has been one
OF close thinking, and much Of his
thinking has been along agricultural
lines. He was born on a farm, and his
rather was well enough off to give his
children good education. At the same
time he made them learn farming AS
soon as little David was old enough 10
work he followed the plow, and later
hoeing corn to dynamiting stumps and
splitting rails. He had also to plan out
the crop and see that it was taken to
market
At the same time he was going TO
school He left the farm at the age
Of II. He then taught country school
and in certain sense he has been a
school man ever since. The place
where he taught was shell of a
house, situated in a clearing surround
ed by stumps- His pupils ranged in
age from seven to to tWenty-six. and
about the only advantage he had over
some OF them, so he says, was that he
could keep the book in his hand while
they had to do the reciting He was
secretly afraid Of the skill of one bow
in mathematics. of a young woman in
geography and of a full half dozen in
spelling, and still he knows he was not
then below the average of those who
are now managing the rural schools
of our country
always Going to School.
But all that was when David Houston
was II and little more than a how.
He is a well educated man now. for
he has been going to school ever since.
After teaching, he entered the chief
college of his state of South Carolina
and graduated there at 21 Harvard
University made him a master of arts
at 20 and since then he has received
doctors degrees at several big fnstitu-
tons. believe he got one or more
The new secretary of agriculture does
not think that the farmer has a nonon-
oily of the good things of this earth
He believes that the city man has
many advantages over him, and that
his conditions should be so improved
that the two viii be upon nearly the
same plane as to health. education,
business and credit.
Urges Rural Sanitation.
"I want to see the methods of santa
ton which prevail in the cities ex-
tend TO the country. Every ruraI
should have a well maid
expert physician, and should be under /
the charge Of the state board of health /
More attention should be paid to tbe
eradication of typhoid fever and ma |
Laria. and TO the elimination of bad
water and milk.
"A war should be waged upon the
mosquito and the fly and the country 4
schools should be under medical in /
spection. and every boy and girl should ]
have the same advantages that this
children in our most advanced cities
have now. We have been spending q 1