The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-05-18

Ignite coal of high quality. With the
advance of scientific methods Tor util-
izing this class OF coal, these deposits
will increase in value as time goes on
From the federal government the
state received a large grant Of lands
for the support Of its educational sys-
TEN. These lands have been wisely
and successfully handled and SPLEEN
didly conserved, and make the basis
of a munificent endowment for the
various schools of the state. Enough
Of the lands have been sold to make
cash fund of over $11,000,000, and
about 100000 acres remain unsold
The annual income from these funds
and lands, now over a million dollars
year goes to the support of the
schools of the state, and it is plain that
when expanding population and gen
eral development advances the price
of lands, and SO increases the returns
such increase will in itself go a long
way toward supporting splendid sys
TEN Of schools, and measurably reduce
the taxes required for that purpose
Modern life, business life, producing
transporting, distributing, marketing
! financing, is so complex that no one
can hope to know everything of all OF
| its different sides and phases. This is
especially true Of agriculture, usins
the term broadly; of farming and AMI
NAL husbandry, speaking OF all the
activities involved, of soil, of seed, o
culture, and of crops of marketing
and buying and selling and financing
and safeguarding the business as 6
whole. And so we must learn from
and help one another. More and more
We must lean on and cooperate witt
our neighbor If we are to live a full
and useful life. Less and less can the
individual live to himself alone. Nor,
and more do the circumstances require
that each, in deed and in fact, be il
some measure his brothers keeper
In thus cooperating and wOrkin,
together for the common good, tn,
people should not hesitate to use tn,
mote their purposes. This, in my
opinion, Is one of the important func
tons Of government Government in
democracy is, in theory at least, ant
should be in fact, but the direct agency
Of the people themselves, organized fol
their mutual benefit, to give direction
and expression to their aims and t,
promote the common good and TO hell
each and all In promoting the gener
al welfare, whenever it is found tina
the people can do a certain thing bet
ter through the agencies of their gov
eminent than through private effort
the agencies Of the government shoult
be used. We should avail ourselve,
of the power and authority of our gov
eminent whenever and wherever need
ed to accomplish a public good or t
advance community welfare.
Perhaps the most obvious field foI
the use of the agencies of government
is in the matter of education, usin.
the term broadly and comprehensive
ly. | would have the University, thu
College of Agriculture, and the otheI
state schools, to not only conduc
ments and demonstrations and Civ,
lectures on the college campus, blu
In addition, would have each bring it,
knowledge, its experiments, its dem
onstration-ts education to the homes
of the people and fit them into theiI
daily lives.
AS governor l accepted the act o,
the federal congress known as tn,
Smith-Lever act, providing for agri
cultural extension education, and the
legislature of 1915 made provision fol
commencing organization and worl
Hereunder. BY it the federal govern
ment, the state and the local commu
nifty each are to bear a share of the ex
pense in the development Of a system