Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-06-22
WESTERN WASHINGTON
SUMMER SCHOOL

Editor OF the Washington Standard:
Just line to call your attention to
the Puyallup Summer School session
of 1920, which Will be held at Puyal-
lup from June 21st to July goth in
elusive.
am sure you appreciate the advis-
ability of intensiiying the farming %
Western Washington. Our acreage
is not sufficiently large to warrant
grain growing, except in certain por-
lions of the western half of our state.
therefore, if Western Washington Is
TO be permanently successful we mus
help develop the many acres that are
now available but are at the present
time standing idle.
am sure you appreciate that q
hungry world today faces high prices
and shortage of food. The children
of today will be the producers of to.
morrow. Cheaper food can come
only through better agricultural
methods. Trained farmers are the
only farmers who can profitably pro-
duce cheap food. We have on QUE
farms in Western Washington today
many men and women who have hal
very little farm education with the
result that they are not making good.
In fact. the unframed farmer in the
future will not be a farmer at all:
on the other hand he will be only a
day laborer, as the present methods OF
training our men for successful farm.
work are going to push the unframed
farmer out Of the job.
With land at $4,000 per acre we
must mix brains as part of our fer
tilizer in order to make good. We
people of western Washington cannot
60 west and take up farms because we
have reached the limit of he route.
We must either make good here or
turn around and face the music.
What we need is a school that will
enable father and mother, big brother
and big sister, who did not have the
right opportunities when young or
possibly did not take advantage Of
the best opportunities when offered.
However, we must have a short
term school SO as to fit men and
women on the farm to make good.
They should also know:
How to make and trim hat.
How to raise chickens.
How to design and make or remake
q dress.
How to landscape the home
grounds. t''
How to do interior decorating.
How to make fireless cooker or an
iceless refrigerator.
How to can and dry fruits and
vegetables by old and new methods.
How to lead children in music and
games.
How to grow garden.
How to plan house, barn or other
farm building.
How to make shelves, ironing board
and other necessary household fur
niture.
How to lead boys and girls clubs.
How to operate an automobile.
All of these things can be taken up
by the grownups at the summer school
at Puyallup.
1t is wonderful what this school
has accomplished. It is too bad that
more of our people do not attend.
You Mr.. Editor, can render a wonder
full service by urging the readers Of
your paper to take part in this school:
If not for the entire period of six
weeks. five weeks will do. four weeks
won't be bad and even one week will
be helpful.
The subjects that will be taught
are as follows:
Farm management, gardening,
horticulture, agriculture, live stock,
dairying, poultry, crops, shop work,
physical education, sewing and dress
making. cooking and food preserva-
ton, shorthand and typewriting,
music and folk games, millinery.
Yours very truly.
w. II. PAULHAMUS.