Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

Conservation on the farm.
Conservation Is not familiar crop
but quite productive. In fact, some
farmers would be winners and not
losers If they practiced conservation.
Wlllful waste makes wOeful want
hard times on the farm, high prices
at the grocery for the dependent city
man. The heaviest tariff We will
feel Ia the waste tariff. Cut the tariff
OF n this and that import and "
viii be nothing ne compared to what
we nay for In wasted energy wastc1
products. wasted opportunities.
Mr.. Non Conservationist Is. OF
course. not stranger to the farm.
Indeed not go much Of stranger as
be "a to other more strenuous lines
~ livelihood. As a farmer he Is in
different 10 what comes and what
goes. just 50 he can go on In the old
way forever.
Mr. Non Conservationist needs
nothing 40 much az pinch. II
hard and persistent enough he will
come to the point where he win work
his wits and contrive 70 put to money
account that which he now spurns
with contempt as too petty and be-
meath his dignity to be worth while
Just a money crop. and what does he
care about the products Of the poultry
yard. the dairy the orchard, the gar
den?
What does he care about efficiency
Of time and iabor-the conservation
of energy SO long az he can get along
a bit Machinery Is for someone else.
or " he hRs II. he worries not about
whore II IT, for he can find II in the
weeds whore be left It when last used.
Rusty7 Yes, but there IN Oil
Cares Nothing for Anything.
What does Mr. Non Conservation
care about health measures His par
ents lived He can "Poohl" to germs
ana flies. what does he care about
tho conservation OF soil. There Is
more TO be had when this wears out.
Let II wash away Let the forests
go, the scarcer the timber the. more
The remainder f. worth. Conserving
moisture I'm the coil In divine and not
a human job. Hook worms as well
as all other Ills vii succumb to bit
ters" or some other cure all.
Does ~ matter TO Mr.. Non Con
ycrvAtionist that the faces OF his chill
dren are becoming blank and hope
less. that their heads are bowling
enrthward In increasing fellowship
with the ok
The conservationlst is the man with
the upward look. with good cheer
and hope. He has no snarl In his CON
stitutlon. He believes in the good
ness OF God aud the universe. He
believes that man. II treated right. Is
The noblest or fellow creatures.
In shnro contrast to the true con-
l.. 1.
archlst whose most natural expires
sion ls hate and the show of fangs.
His portentlous announcement cries
like lost soul. He seels in the faces
OF the hopofun and the successful only
hoartlessncss and unholy mirth while
spurning rough shod the tillcr and the
toiler Of lowly places
He is blind To the good men who
stnop SNmpathetiCally to look into
the eyes Of the bowed. They are deaf
to the good words OF cheer They re-
fuse to observe that good advice and
kind help in Tightening the burden of
the bent back that by instruction as
20 how to waste less and save more.
stepping stones have been laid for the
upward way and that faces have been
turned TO high hopes
Lesson at Knoxville.
II YOU are looking for fine ex-
addition OF the spirit of conservation.
OF how helping hand can be extend
ed not only to wasted humanity. but
for checking the waste of humanity;
n you would learn how the conserva-
tonists are serving the world. with
how many hands they are reaching
out to save, take a tIip 10 Knox
vile. Tenn. and there take time to
study the lessons revealed by the Ma
tional Conservation Exposition. II
is good FOR the soul, and mighty good
for the purse Of the man with keen
eve for the main chance.
oh. YES, the exposition is not for
glory alone. Il Is expected by those