The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-06-16
FARM DEPARTMENT
Items of Interest.

tions, this week, to your excellent
paper, are as follows;
Farming, Schools, Education,
Roads, Society, Cooperation and the
Social Spirit. But, before | write
about these several topics, | wish to
impress the fact upon the minds of
every man and woman, and of every
boy and girl, also, in Ohio county, of
the absolute necessity of reading and
of investigating all social, industrial
and economic matters. in order to be
intelligent, and by intelligence to
benefit themselves and the communi-
ty in which they live.
Farming.
Agriculture, or farming, is the
chief occupation of mankind, without
which life itself and no other occu-
patton, could exist. 1t is, therefore,
of paramount Importance that ag-
riculture should be fostered by state
and nation; that it should be scien-
tific; that the farmers should be pro-
tected from the merciless encroach-
ments and robberies of organized
capital, and that all the farmers
should labor together jointly, collect
lively and comparatively to have bet
ter farming, better prices for farm
products, more cooperation in buy
ing necessities and in selling their
crops, and in promoting social inter-
course among themselves.
Schools.
The schools should be social af-
fairs in which all the teachers, par
ents and trustees-in fact, the whole
community-should take an interest,
and mutually labor OF make them
efficient in educating, not only the
children, but also the adults, how to
gain a livelihood, how to perform
the duties of life, and how to live
better lives. Consequently, school
houses should be social, educational,
agricultural and economic matters or
questions, not ony for personal i'm
provement, but also for the common
good.
Education.
Education, according to my con-
ception, should not be for purely
materialistic purposes. nor for de-
yeloping the cunning of a parasite,
nor for improving the shrewdness
for exploiting ones fellowman, but
for teaching every one how to live,
and how to live rightly.
Roads.
Roads are public necessities. Good
roads save time, teams, temper, make
travel pleasant, marketing easy, and
progress.
Moreover, the loss from accidents,
and the loss of time, caused by bad
roads, is tax. 1t is tax on patience
pleasure, profit and people. 1t were
far better to issue bonds for the
building of good roads, than to suffer
all these things.
Society.
Where there are classes and COM
petition society is inconceivable.
Society is not made up of warning
factions, or of antagonistic groups
having different economic interests;
but 1t is composed of social equals
having economic interests in COM
mon, and maintaining peace and
harmony among themselves by that
unity and cooperation which begets
love, and which proclaims y united
and cooperative brotherhood, which
can never be found in a so called
individua}istic, capitalistio and COM
petitive society, but which is to be
found only in a cooperative COM
monwealth under the auspices Of
Socialism, & T..r,p.,
Cooperation. - - -
Cooperation is the antithegis, of
competition. Competition is strife,
war, waste and woe. (See Europe).
Cooperation is unity and peace,
conservation of wealth and life and
resources, and increased production
OF wealth through the employment
OF all working jointly together for
the Common Good. '~s'~ a"S"~
y'~~ The SOciid Spirit.
It were more beneficial to Ohio
county to have that social spirit
which is born only of Socialism,
which alone can reclaim the worn
out land, beautify the waste places
OF life and country, and dispel power
ty and ignorance, than to have the
individualistic, selfish and competi-
tive spirit which prevails now, under
the motto: Every man for himself;
devil get the hindmost," and which
leaves the country to founder on
burdened with poverty and ignor-
ance.
Yours for better farming, efficient