The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-06-06
CONSERVATION
Abstract Of Address by Dean Perisho
Before the Corn Growers AS
ISOLATION at Mitchell Last
January.

A his lOuutlOlN ftIlldIhS IJcdu
Perisho paid a tribute to the hos
pitality Of the people of Mitchell, in
which he said that conventions and
associations Of all kinds were delight
ed to hold their meetings in this city.
Mr.. Perisho also spoke in the highest
terms of the mayor of Mitchell, who
preceded him on the program. Among
other things he referred to the SPLEEN
did work Regent Hitchcock was doing
for the educational interests of this
state. 1t was a great thing he said
to give a city municipal plants and a
government that is progressive and
sane and %asolutely honest, but it is a
far greater achievement to give to an
entire state an educational policy
that will not only save the people
large sums of money, but will, through
all the years from now until many
decades have passed, give to the
young men and women Of South Da-
kota such educational advantages and
opportunities that no one need leave
this state to get the best normal
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versity education. The time must be
we'll nigh here when no person need
send his child outside of the state to
be educated. If it is a denominations
al college one wishes to attend, we
have them. There on the hill is
your own splendid institution, and in
every direction from this city are
other excellent colleges under church
control.
The state schools must be as good
in their class as are our denomina-
tional colleges in theirs. The chill
dren of South Dakota are entitled to
the best. They will go to school but
once. | understand the people of this
state we'll enough to know that they
will never be satisfied until the u
try schools are better. the high
schools are at least approaching the
excellency of the one in this city, the
normals as good as those of the neigh
boring states, and the state schools
whether located On one campus or
more than one. rank favorably with
the Sldle ulllN olllCo vi NNpioohot
Iowa or Minnesota. May | sound a
note Of warning to those lei who
are always wanting office, but VINO
think that their children are too good
or too something to attend the educa-
tional institutions of our state. If a
state is good enough to give a man an
office it is good enough to educate
his children.
Referring to the importance OF the
Corn Growers Meeting and its rela-
tionship to agricultural interests,
Dean Pertsho said:
The progress of the nation and the
developm snt of the state depend more
upon the economic improvement and
industrial advancement of the people
than upon the election of any candi-
date to office or the retirement of any
party from power. A discovery that
will double corn production or an in
vention hat will feed many more peo-
pie marks a greater step in the ad-
vance of civilization thar that pro-
duced by the making of any sort of a
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battleships.
More corr and wheat and alfalfa,
more hogs and cattle and sheep. more
land under successful cultivation,
more scientific methods of farming,
more care of the soil and the materials
of fertilization. these are the things
we wan in South Dakota, they are
the needs Of the natiOn-many times
more than We need a miscellaneous
lot of unscientiic legislation.
It is all very we'll to boast about
the greatness Of the nation, OF the
Primary, the Initiative. the Referen-
DUN and the Recall if we have rich
soil and plenty Of water and enough
timber, but what are all the blessings
of the most progressive government
even under the administration of the
most progressive party if the people
are hungry and thinly clad and poorly
housed because there is not enough
or else what there is, is too dear for
the masses of the people to purchase.
No greater subject. except that OF
human life, can be studied or become
the recipient of state or national leg
~islation than the problems involving
the conservation of u great nation
al and the better use OF
soil, water and forests.
In South Dakota we should spare
no effort to conserve these great re-
sources. After giving g~eologically
the history of the many thousands of
wears it took nature to make the rich
soils of the state and how migrate
fully and c~riminally careless Is a
people who will in a few decades de-
stroy what it took nature centuries
to produce, Mr.. Perisho explained
that of all the foods OF our farm
crops. nature, without none or with
out price, gives to the farm
er in unlimited quantities all
but the tiniest part of these foods. 1t
merely insists that three ingredi-
ents. nitrate, potash and PHOSPHORUS
be furnished. The nitrates he can
easily get from leguminose plants, the
potash, where it is not furnished by
tha coil has IN he suDplied from the