Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-07-03

machinery best adapted to their pc
culiar conditions; that in connection
with this company, which shall be
purely business proposition, without
political party, or sectional feeling,
school be conducted where men who
may not be able to read or write a
word of English may be taught how
to run traction engine, and till these
soils so as to produce profitable crops,
that the women be taught how TO cook
the foods ordinarily raised on the
farm, that they may prepare for their
children as truly balanced ration
as the men are feeding to the cows.
Then send these men and women
out onto the waste lands, where the
teachers have been located, and make
contract with them that if within a
certain number of years they have
followed instructions given them by
their local teachers, who shall be SUI
pervised by someone from the school,
and they have been able to earn
enough money to purchase the md
they have been tilling at p8ce
which shall have been previously es-
tablished, plus the cost of develop
ment, such cost to be based on piece
work per acre, they shall be given a
deed to the land. If during these trial
years they have proven themselves in
dolent or inefficient, they shall be paid
for the actual work which they may
have performed, at the established
rate per acre for such work, and they
shall be dismissed, and this land which
they have partially developed shall be
given to another who may prove more
capable. In this way better class
of settlers could be obtained, and in
asmuch as our cities are largely what
the country makes them, it behooves
the present generation to see that the
farm lands of our state are settled by
honest, Industrious men.
Since this meeting was planned l
have received an offer of 81 900 from
gentleman who believes in the ne
cessity of better food for the country
children, towards the establishment Of
such school, providing others will
join with him in such project, but l
feel that l have accomplished the
work l set out to do, and now it is
for others to take it up, and carry
it on for their own benefit, and be-
cause they are responsible to the gen.
erations to come.
God did not love the lumberman
who purchased these lands at SLIPS an
acre any more than the child who may
be born in 1850, but He gave to that
lumberman the riches that had been
produced by the centuries, and in a
few years the crop of centuries was
gathered at great profit. Is there
no responsibility resting upon those
men who sowed not, but who have
reaped the results of centuries, to
IlOoS WIN oiC ySe W uS pViht GIN
must live by the food produced on
these soils? If by negligence, or ac-
cident, the fires swept over these
lands, and destroyed the humus, is
there no responsibility to the men
who gather the timber to replace it
by intelligent tillage? Is there no re-
sponsibility resting upon the men who
may by foresight have discerned the
great possibility in our rivers for the
production of power, and who have
secured for their own benefit, the use
of those waters for the production of
power? Surely there is. But trust
that nobler spirit than that COM
PEELED by duty, or responsibility, shall
stir your hearts, and that with the
same business methods, which shall
show to you even a greater profit,
there shall be. found the love of a
brother for our brothers yet unborn,
and that because of this love we shall
try to develop these soils for their use,
and leave the world better for our
having lived in it. a. :