Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-12-17
COUNTY PROGRESS DAY.


EVERY civilization has recognized
the fact that the earth is the source OF
Ell wealth. From it we obtain food.
Ialment and shelter. Lord Bacon
taught our fathers that wealth de-
bends upon fertile soils, busy shops
and the means of ready and safe
u transportation, but it has remained
Tor US to discover the laws by which
re conditions may be had All the
sciences bear testimony to the fact
tnat nothing can be created, and, that
nature attempts to supply all our
needs if properly assisted The only
thing that is left entirely to us is the
proper adjustment of all our efforts in
perfect harmony with her laws. This
is to be done by closer study Of
tnese laws, that we may know just
row she acts and reacts in each in
dAV1dual case. For this reason the
tarm-life School presents Physics,
Chemistry, Phsyical Geography, Bot
any, Physiology and Biology as these
relate to growth, disintegration and
econstruction. In this way only can
Nature become our ally, and each op,
erative become an expert in his chosen
field. This knowledge can never free
the human family from drudgery, but
it will lessen its totality by the furth-
FER utilization of mechanical energy and
the more economic and intelligent di-
rect1on OF human energy, and the hui
sn;an machine will be finally liberated
from the last and basest form of slav-
ery-the drudgery that is born of ig-
rGrance..
% The people in this community are
almost dreaming their time away
amidst the most glorious scenery and
climate in America. The farmer who
raises a few bushels of apples, pota-
toes or garden products, and spends
eli entire day. with his team, himself
and one or more members of his fam
lily to market these at a price that
would not more than compensate for
the time thus spent is too familiar to
this audience to merit comment What
matter is it if one does not value time?
Does counting thing so make it so?
Time well spent has value, and the
farmer must learn this lesson before
he realizes the vast possibilities now
latent in agriculture. Another farm
er we'll known to you Is he who knows,
or says he knows all about these new
methods, but continues to cultivate or
ct least plant a field to reap what
night have grown in a moderate gar
den, to feed or starve six COWS to get
the milk that two should produce, and
usually, his stock and farm implements
never realize that a comfortable shell
ter can be provided. There is still
another farmer in most communities
and I presume we have him. He fully
realizes that much has been accom-
pfished and that much more will be
done along the line of intensive farming
but this is only practical for the man
Who lives on his profession and farms
as a pastime. He breaches the doc
trine that money makes the mare go"
and that brain and skill have little
or nothing to do with the process of
adjusting conditions to aid nature.
For these men and their children the
Farm-life School is our only hope, and
think Henderson County Should
Have IT,.
AS to the EXPENSE Of equipment and
maintenance. 1 call your attention to
the Farm-life School at Wakelon, n.
G.. In 1908 the people voted special
tax for maintenance and bonds for the
buildings and equipment of such o
school. Five years later they found
the property of the township so valua-
BILE that they we're able to double their
n1ant, equipment and teaching forc'7
-thout anv additional tax or terri
tory This so fired the people Ct
Wake county that another school was
established 1T Cary with bond issue
OF thirty thousand dollars, and the
second school was opened in Wake
county in September. These schools
have turned out to be the best invest
ment ever made in the county, to say
rothine Of the increased competency
in citizenship, the real object for
which the Farm-life School exists. IT
Grilford needs three and Wake two,
don't we need at least one?
DIR. Kinks Address.
DR.. w. r. Kirk prepared paper on
'sThe Needs of Better Sanitation,
which is considered a very important
subject especially at this time, but was
unable to be present. His paper fol-
lows:
The Committee of Arrangements
might not have intended it, but they
have assigned to me the most import
ant subject of the meeting: at least l
think so, and when a speaker THINKS
lis subject is important he usually
has something to say.
I have a message for you-a mes
sage of facts which vitality concern
each and every one, individually ana
collectively.
If were delivering sermon on
health, instead of f1ve-minute talk
on the needs of better sanitation, l
would take my text from the 18Th
chapter of Proverbs. 18th verse: a
wicked messenger falleth into mis-
chief but a faithful ambassador is
health What more faithful nhessen,
ger dbuld we have at the court OF
every city in the land to plead our
cause than a sound reputation as a
healthfui town? And what have we
gained If we bring ten thousand peo-
lie here next year, and let them see