The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

looks toward holding crops back from
market and influencing prices, but whicn
promotes potentiality and improves con-
ditions Of rural living. .
The Markcting of Farm Crops.
'rhe problem is very large and COM
plex. Many things are = to be done. !
have found the man, however, / am sure,
who can successfully initiate the work.
He In Or Thomas Nixon Carver. profess
sor of political economy at Harvard Uni
Iversity. He was born In Iowa. Needing
money to pay his way through college.
he started g milk route, which he sold
at his graduation to some one else VINO
had TO earn an education. He won de-
grees at Cornell. Johns Hopkins, Oberlin,
/ and the University of Southern Cali
fornia, Harvard has loaned him TO US.
| I might say, and we are Immensely
pleased to get his services.
| Our first attention Is to be given TO
the marketing of farm products. i was
glad on coming her to, find that Congress
had taken a squint at that great ques-
ton by making an appropriation OF >ooo"
with which the Secretary of Agriculture
/ is to carry on an investigation and to
acquire and diffuse among the people OF
the United States useful information on
subjects connected with the marketing
and distributing of farm productA But
the sale of produce is only one aspect or
the movement toward rural organization
| Many things have been done In spots
throughout the country TO better condi-
tons among asriculturists. These are 10
be studied and knowledge of them carried
| to the farmers of all sections. The vision
that comes into the minds OF those work
! ing to develop the rural organization
service includes good schools. competent
doctors, places of amusement facilities
for borrowing money at reasonable rate
of interest systems of sanitation, and,
4 indeed, all the advantages and con-
veniences found in our cities and large
villages. We see, also, centralized
church for each farming center, and not
three or four weak congregations bat
| Ting for existence and starving their
| ministers"
President Charles W. Dabney, Of the
| University OF Cincinnati" / interrupted,
says that although eight-tenths of the
preachers and teachers are reared in
| the country. the State puts its best
| schools in the city. and the church usu-
ally sends its dullest preachers TO the
country"
Rural schools Are . Failure.
'T have said more than once. and pub
licly at that" Secretary Houston replied,
| that our rural schools are a national
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 en-
| rollment Is in the rural regions. The ex-
penditure for each pupil in city schools
| amounts to $50 year. The expenditure
in the country is>only sls.
Country schools lack funds. competent
| teachers. and equipment. Besides. the
buildings are small and ugly and the
surroundings unsanitsry. Usually the
| schools are politically controlled. We
| often ask why parents are willing to have
their children leave the land on which
they were born and move into town. The
rural organization service will attempt TO
show that country boys and girls should
have the same opportunities for as good
an education as city boys and girls re-
celve.
Three things, / have said in discuss
ing the school phase Of rural life. con-
stitute a constant source of wonder to
me-first. why most teachers continue to
teach; second. why communities continue
to employ them on any terms. and. third.
why a man who has any regard for the