The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-03-21
Ferris Addresses Farmers.


To make rural life as satisfying
and as complete. educationally. So
cially and religiously. as Is urban
life. was the message of the second
Country Life conference, concluded at
the Michigan Agricultural college.
Clearly the feature ofs the grand
finale was the address OF Governor
Ferris, two other speeches furnishing
anti-climaxes of no mean order, APP
preciated and enjoyed by an audience
which taxed the capacity of room
402 Of the agricultural building Gov
ernor Ferris was in a rollcking mood
as he repeated portions of an address
he has given to various farmers or
CARNATIONS throughout the state dur
ing the past few weeks, but he had
the most fun with some women who
wanted to ask IL he really did say
that "the average farmer nowadays
would rather give his wife gold
watch than a quarter-and God knows
he will not give her the gold watch.
His wife is his slave, working unceas-
ingly and without her share OF the
profits"
What | did say" quoth the gov
ernor. was that modern education
and modern Christianity have failed
utterly to reach much of the women
population OF the country. said that
! knew a woman-and could have
said that the woman was my mother
who was never reached by this mod
ern education and modern Christian
| ity who was a slave. II she wanted
quarter, she had to ask her liege lord
and master for It, My father was a
good man, but when one individual is
! dependent upon another for the ne
cessities Of life, that person is slave.
It's cowardly for a man to say:
Now, wife, II you want any money.
ask for it, Most OF you women here
today have pocketbooks Of your own.
You don't ask your liege lord and
master II you could come here today.
| Probably he asked IL he could come.
/ But there are some women in this
! house who, when. solicited for any
my husband
\ Education has undergone a great
change. the governor said in the
early part OF his address. 1T has ad.
vanced 100 per cent In the last third
of century. But that doesn't mean
that our rural schools can't be I'M
proved. II that which we call big
business was managed after the way
we manage our rural schools, 1t would
| be bankrupt in six months. / stand
! for concentration of our forces.
Give the boy and girl In the coun-
try the education they're entitled to.
! They're entitled to just as good
schools and education as any. Let one
| OF your aims be TO give the boys and
| girls OF the country the same advant
tages given the boys and girls Of the
city. Rural schools with but eight
grades are insufficient. OF the 49,
100000 attending school, seven out OF
eight never see the sixth grade.
! Following the governor, who pre-
sided as chairman of the conference,
come Rev. G.. d. Oberlin of Pittsford.
who spoke about The County
Church" "In the last analysis" said
he. the problems of the country are
religious, and it is the duty of the
church to deal with them and to fur
nish men for the leadership. The
waste Of time and the waste of pro-
| duction on the farm. the individualism
OF the farmer are sins of the country
man. The church must preach against
the sins of the country. ceasing to d.
vide the activities of the farmer into
those sacred and secular, and provid-
ing a pure social life where men may
feed their hungry souls"
Rural Social Centers, furnished an
interesting topic for an illus ad-
dress by Prof. c. ]. Galpin CT 49, Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, who displayed
stereopticon views of various sorts OF
such centers. He pictured the home
as the most simple type, while the
farmers and women's clubs OF given
communities, schools and social center
buildings in Wisconsin furnished con
crete examples OF what the ordinary
people on the farms are doing-enter
prises. not prophecies and hopes. Blu,
facts"