Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-07

Miss Harper is q former student at the Univer-
sity of Chicago who has been associated with the
Children's Aid society and with night clup LII
boys and girls In Boston; who has taught DOCK
binding in Haverhill. Mass. who has served WIN
the Massachusetts Infant asyum-and VINO hrst
came to deal with cripples in helping Dr. klcharo
Cabot organize the Kings Chapel bureau for the
handicapped at the Massachusetts General nos
pital There at Boston she set group OF cripples
to work making children's clothes; their product
was sold from coast to coast and at good prices.
The work paid the workers commercially as well
as helping to restore their status as independent
self-respectng and respected citizens
The chief of the bureau Of re-education Is
woman, and feminine woman. I think it would
seem to the antebellum American mildly dlVertlng
If he could cast his eye the list of equipment
for the Red Cross farm of re-education when, at
this point Of our talk Miss Grace Harper permit
ted me to see tractors plows! harrows! exur-
pators and Canadians (whatever canadians are
she told me-but I don't remember) rollers
drills, manure distributors, horse hose, moving
machinery--and don't know how many machines
more-6 horses, Is cows, bull, 100 sheep, 20 pigs
Is chicken pens Comprising l rooster and mems
each) 6 incubators (210 eggs each), etc.
"Under war conditions" Miss Harper resumed,
"some mutes are promptly In position to earn
good wages in muntion works at wages Whlch
they will find it hard to equal once normal condl
lions are restored by the return to peace. we
must therefore, walk rather carefully, II we are
interested in the return to peace conditions anu
in what happens to the mutiles in the readJust-
ment What interests us Is that 65 per cent or
farm laborers included in the list of mutiles-and
we must reach them, or at least some OF them'
promptly. We must get these men started on the
road that leads to the land while they are sui
under psycotherapeutic or surgical care For that
reason if for no other the Red Cross must COM
blne its agricultural reeducation with Its surgicai
ENTERPRISES This training for the future must be-
gin during cOnvalescence-that 49, pe1ore uischarse
from the army Is granted.
"Do not think that the American Red Cross, In
its plan for specializing upon agricultural re-eou-
cation, disparages or undertakes the hne work OF
the re-educational institutions which have preced-
ed it in the field. But it cannot overlook the fact
that France Is an agricultural nation and that
after the war, almost all the world WILL for time
be somewhere near the edge of hunger. Dld you
see this last evenings EvenementT concluded MISS
Harper, handing me clipping.
had not, but l read 1t.
1.-THE commission charged to study for the radi-
cal party congress the economic Reorganization OF
France has adopted the following conclusions the
article begins.
ut ia by agriculture that France can, and must
renew itself for this Is the base and source OF
life.
"Too much announcement cannot be given to
agricultural production. :. Henceforth the ut
most possible quantity Of labor should be PROVIDED
TO agriculture by the mobilization on the land OF
the older military classes and Of agricultural spe
cialsts
1.-THE state should encourage the construction
and use of agricultural machinery-especially trac
tors. Scientific agricultural stations should
he created In the principal regions of France
linking the one to the other by means OF central
station at Paris"
"That is a politicians document, and you have
NOT read all of it." concluded Miss Harper, as she
took back the newspaper clipping; "but the prin
ciple is there, and II is justly enough expressed
Here is another newspaper article Edmond
Thery, writing in LIE Matin of Paris, concludes az
article on Our Agricultural Production with stn'
words: - y.
"sThe indispensable agricultural policy Tor us .
nursue from now on has been perfectly defned D,
the order of the day unanimously voted by tn
chamber of deputies at its sitting of October, II
and 1t can be summed up in two clauses; mobiilza
ton Of agricultural labor, mobilization of chemica
fertilizers. y
"So YOU see" concludes the chief of the burea
for the re-educaton Of mutes. that the Amer
can Red Cross In seeking to give France NOR
skilled agriculturists through its scientific an
mechanical instruction of mutile farmers and farI
laborers is only undertaking to express PRACTICAL
what French deputies and French economists q
clare to be vital necessity for France. ana ther
fore for Frances warmest friend IN all tho world