Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-04-24

iu,iuieuS Ol collars each year that
IS lost simply from the fact that we
DO not know what to do when o,rr
stock gets sick a great many times
out Just stand and watch it die.
lO. My dear sir, did you expect,
that some of us folks who are want
Ing the Farm School, to be the teach
ers OF it? The teacher who will he
IN charge of the Farm Life School
VIII be a man from which every
farmer OF jackson can get informa-
1on. 1lt he must be a practical farmer
Inc law is mandatory on that point
lie must be one that has made a
success. Ask the State Superintend-
enf of Public Instruction about the
qualltlcation of Farm Life teachers
Ii. Ii the farmers of Jackson
county are making such a success
OF farming as you seem to think
why IS it that every year there are
thousands OF bushels of breadstuff
brought into Jackson County? Whv
is 1T that the farmers of our countv
nave even to buy a great deal Of
the corn that they use. Why is if
tnat every year thousands of pounds
0l meat and lard are shipped into
jackson and large part of it eo.s
on t e table of the farmer? Why is
1t that Jackson County is not max
Ing all this stuff her self? One of the
reasons is that the farmers are not
up IN their methods of work. Thew
are following the old methods, They
are NJ not progressive as they ought to
oe. lheJ are not to blame for if
lhey are simply following the old
taught by our fathers
following the training given them in
their childhood and not departino
from 1t in old age. We want to eet
out OF this rut. How are we going %
co SO unless we get information
from some one. The thing to do as
see 1t, is to make Jackson Conntv
the farm life center of Western
North Carolina. This can be done
IL Will be done. 1t is going to he
done just as sure as the SIN shines
III the heavens. It may not come
TINS week, 1t may not come this
month, this year, or this decade but
1t is Just as inevitable as tn, onward
march of progress.
Il. And lastly, did you not know
that last year. the State of North
Carolina sent into Jackson COUNTY
more than thirty five thousand dol
lars for school purposes more than
three times as much as Jackson
Cou ty sent to the State Trea.urv7
Now the state is asking to let her
put in $25OO. more and we are DO
Ing TO refuse to allow it? tell Won
my friend, that Jackson COUNTY
must wake up to her responsibility
Just as long as we hold to the Al
mighty dollar so hard that the Eagle
has to scratch us loose, we are not
going to prosper. We must be Will
ing to sacrifice for the future well
ldTo OF our children.
We are willing to spend $50 OOO
or $4,000 to remove court house
two or three miles, but when if
comes to voting little tax of &c on
the hundred dollars worth of proDer-
y and 18c on the poll for somethino
nat means far more to the people
u jackson COurty than the removal
II the County Site, it is another
hing. Then the state offers to dive
1ollar for dollar. Surely, our people
iced something to wake them up
Now, you opponents of this school
you will prove to me or show one
olltary school that is not paving
more to its patrons than the monev
hey have invested in it, | will saw
10 more. If you will show one soil
ary school of this kind that is not
'rovlng a success, l will say no more
you will tell the people of Jack
on County that she is losing her
money by investing it in schools I
'lll say no more. If you will cite to
ur people one single instance of
'here schools of any kind do NOT
ay, l will say no more. You cant
Olt.
Now, | wish the gentlemen who
this proposed school
5 A hot air bubble" to answer
ome of the preceding question:
VII you do it? Please explain also