Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-28

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waste and ineficiency." Such were his
convictions before Woodrow Wilson
asked him to become secretary of az
riculture.
What is the most important agri-
cultural question of the day." Secre-
tary Houston repeated. Let me an
swer you in my own fashion. So far,
the state and the national government
have been giving attention to problems
Of production. We have wanted to know
how staple crops might be increased.
| More and better corn, cotton, wheat
and hay on the same acreage has been
the aim of scientific agriculturalists.
The results which have been accom-
plished in that direction are wonder
full. We have learned how to produce.
Now we must learn how to market our
crops. Therefore, organization is nee
essary
Cooperation is a word | dislike.
Many cooperative enterprises are
fakes. They are no more than private
combinations run for personal profit
JuGf: is another misused and o or
worked word. Besides, it is offensive
Any man resents being told that he
needs uplifting Cooperation, there,
fore, as it is often practiced, and is
coming to be understood, is not to be
applied descriptively to the movement
we are about to undertake. Organiza-
ton is the term to be employed, in
connection with our efforts-not or
ganization which looks toward holding
crops back from the market and in
fuencing prices, but which promotes
potentiality and improves conditions OF
rural living.
The Marketing of Farm Crops.
"The problem is very large and COM
pick. Many things are to be done. l
have found the man, however, l am
sure, who can successfully initiate TIE
work. He is Dr. Thomas Nixon Car
yer, professor of political economy at
Harvard university He was born in
Iowa Needing money to pay his way
through college, he started a milk
route, which he sold at his graduation
to some one else who had to earn al
education. He won degree at Cornell
Johns Hopkins, Oberlin and the Uni
versity of Southern California. Har-
ward has loaned him to us, might say,
and we are immensely pleased to get
his services.
Our first attention is to be given
to the marketing of farm products.
was glad on coming here to find that
congress had taken as quint at that
great question of making an appro-
priation of $4,000 with which the sec
rotary Ct agriculture is to carry
an investigation and to acquire and
diffuse among the people of the Unit
ed States useful information on sub
jects connected with the marketing
and distribution of farm products But
the sale of produce is only one aspace
of the movement toward rural organi-
cation.
Rural Schools Are Failure.
Il have said more than once, and
publicly at that" Secretary Houston
declared, that our rural schools are
a national failure. More Americans
live in the country than in villages,
towns and cities Seventeen million
children are enrolled in the schools OF
the United States. SiXty-seven per
cent. of the enrolment is in the rural
regions. The expenditure for each
pupil in the city schools amounts to
$s3 a year The expenditure in the
country is only $13.
County school lack funds, compe.
tent teachers and equipment. Besides,
the buildings are small and ugly and
the surroundings unsanitary. Usually
the schools are politically controlled.
We often ask why parents are will
ing to have their children leave the
land on which they were born AMI