Gunnison news-champion., 1914-02-06
BY EDWARD kEATING
10nzro..man Al Large iron Coioraao

A0ias- as-ressTasE ~ Large tfoin Aaior aliu
'-Aiare money for peace Less m0ney
Tor varl thai seems O. be the shIi-
boieth of this Dcm0cratIc admiuiatra-
tion. The iingo still clamors for fieets
Of suEer-sirsadnaughts aHd standing
army of i've hundred Thousand men. hgt
his appeal has lost II sPoteney. Con
gress Is too busy 10 listen o. him. q has
othar work o. o.. Ii must extend NOR
al and financial encouragemeuf t. good
roods movement, II must complete the
Reclamation PROJECTS IN the Nest. Il
must construct ieves to redeem the
sRiississippi delta, II must open Alaska
to land hungry millions. 81 must assist
the agricultural colleges in their great
campaigns Of education. 81 must bat
why continue to enamerate2
Q Congress has decided that it Is more
Interested in conserving men than in
destroying them. II would rather give
an American boy chance to follow
pillow on bis own farm in his own eoun-
try than 10 afford him an opportunity
to chase half naked savage through
tropical Jungle.
so Congress is disposed to be very
generous in It's appropriation for home
building projects and very niggardy
in its allowance for man-kilhng projects
W. will give more TO agriculture and
the like and less to the army and navy,
AID AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES
To ILLUSTRATED The other day the
House passed the Lever bill to provide
, for cooperative agricultural extension
work between the various agricultural
colleges of the states and the U. 5. De
partment of Agriculture. 1t provided
for an appropriation of $3.50, 600 Sl0,
900 for each state and directed that
this appropriation should be increased
from year 10 year until at the end of
ten years it should amount to 81, ago, 600
and thereafter should remain at that
figure. Not more than six votes were
east against il.
This cooperative extension work shall
CONSIST, according to the bni, of the
giving of instructions and practical de
monstrations in agricultural and home
economics to persons not attending or
resident in state agricultural colleges,
and imparting to such persons informa-
, ton on said subject through field de
monstrations, publications and other
wise.
Mr.. Lever said. in submitting the
bill;
''In this country it is to an extent a
new method Of teaching. but in the old
world the same system has been so pre-
eminently successful as to become
fixed and recognized method Of carrying
the truths Of agriculture and home
economics 10 the door of the farmer 1t
is a system which frees the people from
the slavishness of the text books, which
makes the field, the garden, the orchard
and even the kitchen and parlor class
rooms. 1t teaches to learn to do by
doing As President Wilson said; it
constitutes the kind of work which il
seems TO me is the only kind which gen
crate real education, that is to say the
demonstrative process and the personal
touch of the man who does the demon
stratng'. This method of teaching is
in operation in practically every civiliz-
ed country in Europe, the British En-
pire, Austria, Denmark, France. Hol-
land, Germany, Belgium and Russia.
1t is pointed out by authorities in agri-
culture that the farmers in Europe are
producing two and one half to three
times as much per acre as American
farmers, and this in the face Of the
fact that European lands have been un-
der cultivation for many centuries and
were perhaps originally not so fertile as
ours
Under the Lever bill, Colorado's Ag-
riculturai College viii receive $40, 0,0n0
next year and thereafter the sum viii
be increased from year 10 year until at
the end Of ten years it viii amount to
So 600. In order 10 secure the maxi
mum amount the state must contribute
SZ4. 900 year to the fund making the
total amount available SIS. 600 a year. a
sum sufficient 10 enable president L0ry
70 achieve results Of vast benefit 70
COIdraf0 farmers.