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

Conssrvs ton on the farmi
Conservation Is not a familiar crop
but quite productive In fact, some
farmers would be winners and not
losers n they practiced conservation.
wiutul waste makes woeful want
hard times on the farm high prices
at the grocery for the dependent city
man. The heaviest tsriff we Will
feel n the waste-tariff. Cut the tarin
of Of this and that import and y
win be nothing as compared 20 what
we pay for in wasted energy, wasted
products wasted opportunities.
Mr.. Non Conservationist Is, OF
course, not stranger to the farm
Indeed not 80 much OF stranger as
he Is 10 other more strenuous lines
OF livelihood Asa farmer he Is in
different TO what comes and what
goes Just 20 no can go on in the old
way forever
MI Non Conservationist needs
nothing so much as a pinch. II
hard and persistent enough he will
come 10 the point where he will work
his wits and contrive 10 put to money
account that which he now spurns
with contempt as too petty and be-
meath his dignity 20 be worth while
Just money crop, and what does he
care about the products OF the poultry
yard the dairy, the orchard, the gar
DENT
What does he care about efficiency
OF time and labor-the conservation
OF energy-so long as he can get along
a BIT Machinery is for someone else
or n he has II, he worries not about
where n H. for he can md II IN the
weeds where he left II when last used.
Rusty? Yes. but there IL oil.
Cares Nothing for Anything.
What does Mr Non Conservation
care about health measur His par
ents lived. He can. POOH" to germs
and flies. What does no care about
the conservation OF soil. There Is
more to be had when this wears out.
Let II wash away. Let the forests
20, the scarcer the timber tho more
the remainder is worth. Conserving
moisture IN tho soil is divine and not
a human job Hook worms as well
as all other Ills vii sucCumb to Dit
ters' or some other cure-all.
Does II matter TO Mr. Non Con-
servationist that the faces OF his chill
dren are becoming blank and hope
less, that their heads are bowling
earthward in increasing FELLOWSHIP p
with the OK?
The conservationist is the man with
the upward look. with good cheer
and hope. He has no snarl in his con-
stitution. lie believes In tho good
ness OF God and the universe He
believes that man, II treated right, Is
the noblest OF fellow creatures.
In sharp contrast 10 tho true CON
servationist is the misery loving an
archist, whose most natural express
sion IS hate and the show OF fangs.
His portentious announcement cries
Ike lOgt soul. He seela I'm the faces
OF the hopefui and the successful only
heartlessness and unholy mirth while
spurning rough shod the tiller and the
toiler OF lowly places
He IL blind TO the good men who
stoop mpathetically 10 look into
tho 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 tho burden OF
the bent back that by instruction az
to how 10 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 a fine ex-
hibition OF the spirit OF conservation,
OF how helping hand can he extend
ed not only to wasted humanity. but
for checking the waste Of humanity:
II you would learn how the conserva-
tionists are serving the world with
how many hands they are reaching
out 10 save, take tip to Knox
Vile. Tenn, and there take time to
study the lessons revealed by the Ma
ional Conservation Exposition It
Is good for the soul, and mighty good
for the purse OF the man with a keen
eye for the main chance.
on, yes, the exposition Is not for
glory alone, II is expected by those