The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-20
Superintendent Hoover
Principal S peaker at
Lumbermen's Banquet
Well Known Fargo Educator Said Industrial Education Is as
Important as Book Learning
Secretary Hardy, Mayer Sweet, Secretary Cooper and Others
Also Addressed the Meeting


, commented editorially on 1t. He
thought that Mr.. Lutz was right in
saying that legislation should be SO
plain that 1t wouldn't require a SUI
preme court to decide when a bill was
proper or not. He had introduced a
bill when he was a member of the
house which would have required the
publication Of each bill proposed to be
introduced thirty days before the
meeting of the legislature met. so that
1t could be discussed by all, and he
thought If such a measure had passed
1t would have reduced the number of
bills to 200 or 800 instead of the 1000
or SO that are presented at present.
He said his bill was lost in the COM
mittee. but he still believed the idea
was a good one.
Thomas Cooper Spoke.
Themes P. Cooper. secretary of the
better farming association. gave a
short talk on farming. but before TAX
ing up his subject told several humor-
Gus stories that were heartily ap-
plauded. He said that the lumbermen
are much interested In the work of
the better farming association. be-
cause two Of them had been the, first
to take a financial interest In the
question. Il want the lumbermen to
be interested in our work." said he.
Il want them when they go back
home to talk about what we are do
ing, for We want their cooperation.
North Dakota has the distinction of
being the first state in the union to
engage in the better farming ideas
and sent men out into the fields to
train the adult farmer in his work.
and since We have begun this work
many states have followed our exam
pie, but we still have the largest num-
Der of men at work. During the past
winter We have held farmers short
course agricultural schools which
have been attended by 1900 people.
In fact there were 332 of these schools
from towns, right out in the country.
we organized 140 farmers clubs in
which no less than 1900 farmers fam
lilies were interested" Mr.. Cooper
then talked for a short time on the
corn contest and the pork production
contest n was given hearty APP
plause.
The Other Speakers.
Toastmaster McCulloch then called
on the new president, MI. Putnam, of
Darlington, who complimented the re-
firing president, George Lutz of
jamestown on the work that he had
done In the past TIVE years in the po-
sition and told how the association
was many times larger than when he
aSSume the control of it. He asked
the hearty cooperation for himself.
Mr.. Lutz also spoke for a few MIN
utes and reviewed the work that had
been done since he was president.
There were one or two other short
talks n there was "soul-inspiring'
music by the lumbermen's quartet un-
der the direction of Professor" Wal
lace, who promised that the boys
would be on hand ext veal and will
have something new. One of the songs
were rendered to the tune of GLORY,
Glory" and it was original and CON
tanned many local hits.
The banquet and meetings were all
voted to be the best ever and the dele
gates very generally left for their
homes this morning.