The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-10-31
Fourteen
NATIONAL FARM SCHOOL FESTl-
VAL SHOWS BIG GAINS.
Weather Alone Mars Annual Assem-
blage at Jewish Institution Near
DOylestOwn.

IWeHIy years VI nioIoly VI Vic Nooioh-
al Farm School near Doylestown, a
rainfall interefered with the conduct
of the harvest festival, a pilgrimage
that for years has attracted crowds
numbering at least two thousand, all
with a direct interest in the institu-
ton. Fewer than two hundred persons
were on the special train that ran
from Philadelphia to the Farm School.
Governor Sproul was prevented from
participating because of trouble with
his motor. The extensive work accom-
plished by the school and its influen-
ce on the present day problems of
high living, labor and other economic
conditions were emphasized, as in
every other festival. A Philadelphia,
who summed up the history of the
Farm School in one sentence-Morris
Jastrow, Jr., of the University Of
Pennsylvania-declared
"The National Farm School has
demonstrated it's vitality. 1t has resist
ed every disease to which infancy and
childhood are subject-the measles Of
ridicule, the chickenpox of indiffer-
ence, and now it must enter upon the
rightful heritage of public accalim.
When the special train, with the
speakers and visitors arrived, the en-
tire delegation walked between the
two lines of students, standing at at
tention to Segal Hall, where the festi-
val was held. Isaac Johnson, president
judge of the Delaware county courts,
and president of the Pennsylvania
State Board of Public Charities, was
selected by DR.. Krauskopf to preside.
after Rabbi Heller had delivered an
invocation and an address was made
by Felix Adler, founder and president
of the Ethical Culture Society, and
professor in Columbia University. Pro-
lessor Adler's talk was a resume Of
the Importance of agriculture as a
worldwide proposition, discussion Of
the present spirit of national unrest,
an appreciation of the Farm School and
its purposes, and an Endorsement Of
the life work of DR.. Krauskopf. Strik-
ing points of his address were;
agriculture is PROFESSIONALLY the
stabolizing influence and occupation in
this time of countrywide unrest. The
more men who can be drawn back to
the field Of agriculture, the stronger
is the ballast given to a vicillating
population.
Agriculture is a vocation, while
manual labor in the factories is a mo-
notonous occupation-this, because Of
the splendid opportunities afforded in
agriculture for a man to be a scien-
fist, to apply chemistry and biology,
and in the genius Of creation in the
development of new breeds and varie-
ties.
zone thing to be urged is the estab-
lishment of cooperative community
centers-to emphasize the social side
fthe farmers life, ii eliminate the
one remaining drawback to agriculture
and this is the loneliness of conditions
in certain farming sections. d not per-
nit the farmers to live a lonely life"
Wartime Accomplishments.
Prof. Jastrow's address was a re-
sumo Of the wonderful accomplish
ments Of the wartime period, the re-
counting of the history of agriculture
from ages ago, and its present CORE
lation to world conditions.
Agriculture forms the perfect
eounterbalance to pure materialism,