Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-22
GOVERNOR BOOMS
RURAL COURTING
Declares That Boys and Girls
Should Stay on the Farm and
Learn to Spoon

Boys and girls Of Pennsylvania were
told to learn to work and to learn to
cook and to stay on the farm and not
be attracted to the cities by Governor
Grumbaugh in a series of addresses on
the final afternoon of the second tour
of the agricultural regions yesterday.
The Governor did not touch on politics
yesterday. but he did declare against
liquor and Its domination of politics in
no uncertain terms.
At Bloomsbury the Governor made
a ig hit among farmers. Though he
spoke twenty minutes after the diners
had quit the tables, he plunged right
into homilies and let the usual dis
cursive farming go by the board.
IF were young girl smiled the
Governor, II would marry a farmer
and stay on the farm. If 1 were a
farmer boy I wouldn't do any of my
counting in town, but I would pick out
a farmhouse to do my sparkling in.
That is the great trouble with these
rural communities.
We are taking these tours neither
as JOY ride nor jaunt," said Gov
ernor Brum baugh, appealing directly
TO the elders. I'VE are coming here
because we realize that the con-
servation OF farms and farmers is one
of the biggest problems which con-
fronts this administration. We shall
endeavor in every way to learn YOUR
needs, and the one effective way to find
out is to come out and meet you on
your own soil.
The girls and the boys, at least
SO per cent. of them, believe, don't
get a chance to do any courting. They
never meet and the boy goes to town
to spark some woman there, We
ought to have courting going on in
every farmhouse in PENNSYLVANIA. and
they ought to make counting parlors,
II necessary, to bring the eligible men
and the rosy-cheeked 1assies together.
You hear lot about back to the
farm; my slogan is stick to the farm
Town life Is nothing much more than
the lure OF scent movies. and you
have better things right here"
The Governor told about the need
for vocational schools and to get away
from the old system of education and
instruction for the young.
We want to devote our time and
attention now" declared the Governor.
ito the problem of making our girls.
the mothers Of tomorrow. fit to be
wives. Ninety-five per cent of the
girls going to our schools don't know
how to cook an egg and can't tell the
difference between cooked dough and
raw dough. They don't know how to
make batch of bread. and while they
may be strong on multiplication, they
are weak on the addition of bread in
gradients.
"It is for this reason that vocational
schools are springing up everywhere.
People realize that education is to fit
girl for her duties. and as at least
half of our girls marry. the problem
of making them ready for wifehood is
the best problem that faces us to-day.
I realize. too. that education has failed
to provide for this. and the education
of the future must deal with this prob
lem as it's highest, most imperative
duty"
At Danville Governor Brumbaugh
declared strongly for local option. 'I
am opposed to alcohol in every form
rs beverage" he said. land I am op-
posed to putting liquor in any law of
the State"
Workmen in the Reading Iron Com
pany deserted their work and greeted
the Governor on the roadway. He
told them "the happiest moment of my
life was when my hand signed tha
workmen's compensation law"
In his several speeches. too. the Gov
| ernor took occasion to rebuke A.
Mitchell Palmer for his recent utter
ances that these Journeys were JOY
rides