The Harrison times., 1920-02-07
AWAKENING is NEEDED
IN BOONE COUNTY.

will offer a few suggestions that
i feel sure are in the interest OF ouI
county.
What are We doing as a county
Is our progress what it should be!
No. We are just plodding along, as
a rule. in the same old ruts. 1t is
true We have many live, wide-awake
citizens. but inactive There are sc
counties employing demonstrating
agents in our state, and the govern
ment pays one.third of the amount
they receive for their labor.
Ben f. Greer is serving his sixth
year in Carroll county, with $500 in
crease in salary, and Carroll county
is moving up. He has been purchas-
ing registered stock for them, cattle,
sheep, and in fact all lines of stock.
The flint ridges are being cleaned
Up and set to orchard grass, making
fine grazing land. In fact, there is
a general wake-up among the farmers
which is catching over in our county.
l notice Searcy county is also doing
a good work.
The District Short Course met with
great success at Marshall: beginning
the third week in July and extending
until the first week in September, with
122 boys and girls in attendance. Did
your boy and girl attend this course?
Whose fault was it? Searcy county
has two demonstration agents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. l.. Watkins, who had the plans
well made for the short course
The meeting was pronounced by the
county Judge to be the biggest affair
that Marshall ever had. Seven of
these district short courses were held
in the state with one thousand and
one boys and girls in attendance
There was fifty-fve club rallys in the
state, with seven thousand club mem
bers in attendance. Was your son or
daughter in attendance?
Total number of clubs, 1263 boys
and girls clubs, 764; girls clubs 149;
Girls and womens clubs 1902; Womens
clubs 1875; Community Clubs 124;
white girls enrolled 1852; white wo-
men enrolled 1859; girls at club
rallys, 4,017; number of canning de-
monstrations, 1,547; colored girls en-
rolled, 6003; colored women enrolled,
3,13S.
Not only mothers, girls and boys,
but fathers also stepped in behind
them and were delighted with the
interest manifested by their families
and will put up money willingly to
back this work.
Our government will put up 500 for
every 5000 our county puts up. Bank
ers favor it. Merchants favor it. Doc
tors favor it. In fact most capitalists
favor it. | think we all ought to favor
it. | have favored it all along and
expect to be for it in the future, be
cause | am sure it is one of the best
things in our reach and | am sure il
won't be long before the county will
blossom as the rose
l can't expect it to benefit me di
rectly as | am now rs years Of age
and not able to work You man, wake
UP. Put pep into you. Farming is q
business and you have to run it on 9
business basis. You can not run the
farm as | have and as our fathers
have. If the farmers qualify them
selves and apply themselves as busi
ness men do, all will be we'll but il
the rising generation fail to do this
they will be left far behind and car
only fight the battle of life without
that necessary qualification to success
to fully compete with those who have
taken advantage of all the opportuni
ties to fully prepare themselves.
Fathers and mothers, we cannot af
ford to let our children become "hew
ers of wood and haulers of water,
when our influence, encouragement
and help is just what will make a sue
cess of this great awakening move
ment, that has been worked out by
state and national government, and
thoroughly tested and offered us.
Can we resist the help that is offer.
ed our children?
Your well wsher,
b NJ. ESTES.