Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-09-03
DR. JOINER ADDRESSES MILLS
RIVER PEOPLE ON FARM SCHOOL.
Campaign Launched for Henderson
County Farm Life School, Work
ings of Which Are Explained.

& i ENlNOT GCAOC4sJ
An unusually fair day gave large
crowd in attendance at the school rally
/ on Friday of last week. The follow
ing schools had wagon loads of repre-
sentatives: Smokey Hollow, Piney
Grove. Etowah, Maple Gap, Holly
Springs and Mountain View.
The program was conducted by
Supt. w. S. Shitle and devotional SER
victs by Rev. WIN. Whiteside of Spar
! tanburg, S. C. Rev. G. F. Wright was
one of the good speakers from Hender-
sonville. His address was an appeal
| to thevalue Of country life. He spoke
OF the needs of the country schools
mentioning that, sonly about 20 per
cent of high school students go to col
| lege and still about so per cent of
| elementary grades never enter the
| high school, the country farm life
| school should meet these dificits. He
made reports on farm life schools he
| had visited in Georgia and left an in
teresting book with the schools to aid
those interested in the study of farm
life schools
Prof W. H. Gale, Superintendent of
the Hendersonville graded school. in
troduced State Supt. j Y. Joyner as
| the greatest man North Carolina af-
fords. Supt Joyner delivered a strong
address which is in part as follows:
ct wish to congratulate the people of
this county and especially of this Mills
River valley on having the most beau
| tiful country that have seen not only
| In North Carolina but in many states
Newspapers and writer's have spok-
en- of the undeveloped resources of
this country; the varied mineral
wealth hidden in the mountains; the
boundless forests extending far and
wide; the embarrassed water power
rlppling on to help swell the oceans.
These with the climate and scenery of
sun-kissed mountains are great, but
cannot compare with the inestimable
value of a child whose worth cannot
be estimated in millions of dollars.
"The farm life school," says he, els
the medium for mixing brains with
dry matter. The existing natural re-
sources are valueless unless there is
the trained mind to profit by them. To
teach a person to make more money
where he is already making money is
the object of the school in question.
Ii is not question as to what a school
o. this type costs but a question of
what it costs to do without it.
"This kind of education is a coupling
pin. The developing power is coupled
to the material resources. Not taking
away what we have but adding to what
we have to make more out of it. To
teach pupils to be efficient in using
what we have is the purpose of farm
life school.
"The town and country each have
SEPARATE needs which should be met
by different kinds of schools. The
surroundings give each a different
need. The mission of the city school
is to meet the needs of the environ
r1ents peculiar to the city. In the city
is a demand for commercial courses;
in the country that of domestic
science, dairying, efficient farm work.
These demands on farm life are met
by the farm life school.
"The farm life proposition is some
thing of long tried experience. Many
countries of the old world, as Ger
many, France, Switzerland and others
have seen the needs of these schools
and adopted them long ago. have
visited and examined thoroughly
schools of this kind in the middle west
In the States of Indiana, Iowa, Wis
consin and Michigan and not only find
them needful but practicable ant
adopted to needs of the country. Six
schools of this type exist in this state
and have shown that their work is al
together practicable and beneficial.
Guilford county is leading the state in
farm life school work. Ten new
schools of this type are on foot to be
established this fall. One school is in
progress in a small town in BERTHE
county. This school was made up by
the people who saw it's prime import
ance. The money and requirements by
law coming directly from the people
and not by voting tax as bonds.
"My desire is to see school of this
kind in each county of the State and
it will be less than 25 years until they
will be statewide. l am anxious to
have a school of this type in Hender-
son county as an object lesson for the
other counties in the mountains as
mountains as there is no farm life
school in any county of Western North
Carolina. The piedmont section is
using them to advantage and the wes-
tern counties need only take these as,
proofs of practicability. and adaptia-
bility. The State in the ten schools
coming in now has as many as can
rlghtfully be supplemented this year
but we would take Henderson in Or
der to start the movement in the wes-
tern counties. Why should we not
make Henderson a great mecca for the
ether counties of the western part?
"In outline / wish to speak of this
farm life movement in somewhat OF
detail. 1. If you folks desire it hero
ct Mills River it is to be hooked on
to your high school work. You are
to- retain your! high school in order !,
to meet demands of those who de-
sire to go to college. 2. This school
means together with the high school
to bring out the efficient along with,
the cultural The proper farm ma
chine needs a cultured man to work
it 8. Under the requirements of the
-, oro ~ ho cnoaio1lv frainnd