Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-11-05
IS YOUR BOY IN SCHOOL,

The constant aim and occupation of
large circulation in all the country tri-
butary to Chicago, was to teach
tariff doctrine which stood nthwart
the path of progress and was contrary
to wise political economy. But the
editorial articles in The Inter Ocean
Farmer, which under the management
of james Kelley succeeds the older
Read this inspiring article from the
/. O. r.:
is YOUR BOY IN SCHOOL,
Have you counted the cost Of the
fierce competition he will meet by the
time he is middle aged? Have You
noticed the increasing number Of young
people from the farms who 20 to the
agricultural colleges each termI Do
you realize that their chief gain is not
in WHAT THEY LEARN, but in the
fact that they LEARN HOW TO
LEARN They will go back to their
farms after course in college, and the
experience they get will teach them
more than the same amount OF expert
ence will teach II man who has stayed
at home.
They will make the same mistake less
often They will have larger vision
and will see greater possibilities of
productiveness and profitable market
ing Of crops.
History may seem nuisance, and
arithmetic may seem "A waste Of time.
Hard drills in English grammar may
be tiresome and monotonous, but after
all Is said and done the mental exercise
they give will mean dollars and cents
in after years.
The man who has been through high
school and college sees in every flower,
in every insect, in every beast of the
field the manifestations of the wonder
FIJI works of nature, and the things
which he learned in school come back
to him and lend pleasure and interest
to his work,
For the boy who has left school when
he finished the eighth grade and gone
to work, prompted. perhaps, by the
ambition to do mans work which |
every normal boy has to Il certain ex-
tent, the advancing years bring the |
same monotonous rounds of blowing, |
sowing, cultivating, moving, hay |
making, binding and shocking, thrash
ing, corn picking winter SHOWS.
To the boy who has put in his grow
ing years training his mind and
broadening his mental vision each
springtime is II glory of unfolding
leaves and bursting seeds His
thoughts go out to the wonderful |
changes that nature is working in the
earth and the living things around him.
1t takes that dull monotony from his
work, AS he plows his mind is reliev-
ed now and then by thoughts of other
places he has aeen, the methods he
might use which would increase the
productiveuess of his land.
He has learned that the limit of pro-
duction of any grain, any field, any |
animal, any human being has never
been reached, and 80 instead of cursing |
the luck that made him farmers son
instead of looking across the fields ut u
HdHNlIk lIHl1l anu WlSllIR bHHl ut were |
on it and speeding away to the great
city. this man with an education
realizes that his work is II profession
that his calling is noble; that the re
turns from his labor are his by divine
right and the law of compensation
that he is beggaring no human being
to increase his bank account that no
children are giving their young lives
for II pittance to increase his profits.
FATHERS AND MOTHERS. when
your boy gets restless and tired of his
school, encourage him in every possible
way to continue his studies, do some
thing to inspire him with the desire to
at least finish high school.
IL he looks with longing eyes toward
the great city even ut that early age.
write the INTER OCEAN FARMER and we
promise you to give him II truthful,
unbiased and matter of fact statement
of the conditions that face boy or IA
girl, for that matter, in the great city.
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