The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-12

# securing wealth is shrewd trading Il
n dollars. Certainly would not have
,ou understand me to say that every
nan in the United States should be-
come a. farmer, but zone-half of the
entire population ought to be engaged
In agriculture. Nicholas M. Butler
on this problem, but he made
the mistake Of attributing the evil TO
the scarcity Of land. There Is enough
land An these United States. If proper
" titled to support q population Of
four hundred million people, Yet we
permit much of this land that Is farm
ed to be cultivated in a way that the
fnii product Is not secured, because
our whole system Of education has
been toward the development Of good
lawyers, doctors, civil engineers, cleo
tricians, accountants, mechanical en-
gineers, business men and merchants.
Ninety per cent. OF the money
spent for education heretofore
has been toward teaching these sub
jects. Ten per cent Of the money
spent for education has been toward
Agricultural studies. We know prac-
tically all about the billion Of bacteria
in milk. We are classifying the tril-
lions of germs in the human body,
but none Of us can take a hand full
of dirt which has in 1t the elements, |
which produce material that supports
life, and tell anything about how this
dirt utilizes its life-giving properties.
The greatest birth right that Provi-
dence bestowed upon any man Is the
billion Of acres Of land in these United
States, yet a vast proportion Of these
acres remain sterile and are not being
utilized, because education necessary
for its development is all but aband'
oned. The United States must send
one-half Of her population back to the
farm or within the next half century
we will have famines as often rs we
have poor crop seasons. When these
people do 20 back to the farm they
must have a knowledge of what they
are doing. We must put knowledge
behind the pillow as well as In the
brain of the man who presides over
our law courts or sits at the bedside
of the sick and dying. And hope you
will think Of this when you 90 out
In the rural communities to teach.
Not only this but in every walk OF
life there come a bekoning call
for volunteers who will throw every
worldly desire to the winds, step out
on the side of right regardless OF
policy, sex or self interest, and enter
the battle for truth with courage that
knows no defeat. The call comes also
for men and women who are determin
ed that our social, political, and re
ligious evils shall be checked, and who
will demand that all worthy institu
lions shall receive equal protection
y and bear equal burden, and who, abov'
all things, will demand that the home
the most sacred institution on earth
one created by God Himself, that plac'
Oh in which the lives Of men and womel
d! are moulded, the foundation rock o
tn civilization, must and shall be protect
'r- ed and held sacred in the spotles
&C. purities Of its divine influence. hav
ne often said It, and repeat It here, tina
n! above all things give me home stair
nut less, give me a motherhood, sister
to hood or a womanhood, II you please
ed, whose pure lips and scented breath
re- and voice prayed to the Savior, and
sh, fear no Ill coming to the nation. Civ
Dol me a religion born Of the Ten Con
ain mandments and the Sermon on th
Mount, and I predict the indestruct
no bility of the republic. No DANCE
threatens us from without our onl
danger can arise from within, onl
ur, from inner weakness is there possibl
alarm. Our land is equal to EuroI
with Asiatic-Russia thrown in for goc
measure. Our armament on land an
on sea can repel and conquer the 70,
of allied adverse nations. We ov
Is forty per cent. Of all the railroads
foe' the world and fifty per cent. Of Il
en- bank deposits Of the world. We ha'
ent twenty-five per cent Of the world
ave gold, and only three per cent Of Il
orst worlds Indebtedness Failure, II
evo- comes at all, will come from With
the Let us guard the inner cathedral al
In all is safe, and let us as teachers sta
ople with the very first unit of our CT
nral government-The Home.
en- Here, my friends, is the noble wo
and that God intended for woman. He
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