Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-03

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thing that is now lacking in our school
system would be established.
/ 1t is all very we'll TO disSect flower
| in the classroom and TO demonstrate
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run through its heart. bnt such educa-
ton is useless unless the student
knows what the smell Of the earth is
/ like and unless he knows what it is to
! wade up to his knees in the cold mud
! and dig for clans
Fundamental training is the necessa-
~ thing that is lacking today.
Even the trade school lacks these
fundamentals. The boy studying TO be
a carpenter would be a better carpen-
ter if he first lived in the woods and
understood just how much a tree will
do for man. In the trade school the
boy makes something out OF what he
has. He does not think back of that.
He does not realize that the wood
makes fire for him, that the fire can
be used as tools, that the tree even
produces food. He would learn val
ue of woods such as be could never
learn in the schOOrOom, and. knowing
that value be could work more eco
nOmicaly and produce better work
] never realized until after | came
from the woods how very little the
average person seems to know about
the forest and the things therein. The
constant deluge Of most ordinary cues
lions which | have every day makes
me marveI at the ignorance that eX-
lists concerning this vital subject. |
have come to believe that the average
man and woman has no conception of
the forest life
Men Of the woods who know do not
think my accomplishment 50 wonder
ful. Yet there are hundreds who are
constantly telling me what d wonder
fill thing it was Together with these
there are those who not understanding
wood life disbelieve my stories out
right
For the benefit of this last class !
propose in the near future to make a
second experiment in the forest like
the first Just as did on Aug 4. 1918,
I will enter the forest naked and with
out food or implements of any kind to
aid me and will rehearSe my expert
ment all over again so far as living or
my own resources is concerned.
However. on this second trip | will
add something In order to convince
the people who cannot understand at
present | will allow q dozen represent
ative men to accompany me and watch
me live the primitive life. These men
may enjoy the comforts Of camp life
and observe me constantly.
OF course if | am to get d deer with
my hands as did the last time these
men must let me go and get it undiS-
turbed. A dozen men couldn't lie
around watching me do this. But with
such freedom of hunting as would be
absolutely necessary the observers
would be able to keep strict tabs upon
me every day of the experiment.
Such trip will be conclusive proof
| will guarantee on this second ex-
pertinent to get myself in a condition
to meet any change OF climate in
spring, summer. fall and winter.
| If the Maine game and fish commits
siOnerS refuse me a permit a second
time to kill what game need for the
experiment | will demonstrate the life
in Canada, where shall have no trou-
BILE in this respect.
| made up my mind to try this Sec
Ond experiment even before | reached
Boston on my way from the wilder
ness after my first one. 1t was at
banquet at Portland that man came
up and, shaking my hand, said:
| "Mr Knowles. want to congratu-
late You on the remarkable thing you
have done" 1t was the same thing
over again, and couldn't help inward
~ smiling at the word remarkable"
II want you to know" the man con-
tinued. that / believe in you. but
there are some at this banquet tonight
who are skeptical."
well, that is their privilege" an
swered.
This phase of it hadn't come to my
mind before. and the idea of the Sec
decided then that | would make
it in order to convince everybody, and
| will.
In the meantime | have not forgot
ten my art In the rush of many du-
ties this lifework of mine is only
neglected, but not forgotten. | look
forward with new spirit and feeling
TO getting to work again in my studio.
In conclusion let me appeal to every
man. woman and child to take advan-
tage Of the wonderful bounty that ma
ture Offers Let them study the great
est textbook of all-the open book Of
nature Let them find health and char
acter and happiness among the trees of
the forest and i'll the great outdoors
Let them understand the Wild crea-
lures who have souls like themselves.
Let them abandon all things artificial
and really live. Let them answer the
coII of tha natural mOthHr-She has