Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-19
YOUR BRAIN.

YOUR BRAIN
A BRAIN wizard. Chesley NJ.
4 HutchingS, sits IN a room at
Harvard University. For three hours
Is professors direct al him a rapid
fire of questions in the form of an
examination in Romance languages
and literature.
HutchingS answers every question
promptly, accurately.
1t is such a phenomenal showing
that the telegraph wires carry his
victory to newspapers all over the
country.
Hutchings. it is disclosed, Is an ex-
pert in Is languages. That is in
teresting news, for most of US have
difficulty handling one language.
Without disparaging Hutchings'
admirable feat, few people need envy
him, for the very simple reason that
few people ever have occasion to use
10 languages.
Life is short, 1t is a hard and con
slant struggle for most people to
keep away from the breadlne. The
limited time available to the average
person for study must be devoted
largely to practical things.
Later, if automatic machinery
frees man from slavery of muscles,
concentration and time. purely intel
lectual or cultured pursuits will be
desirable for all
1t used to be that all education
was akin to pumping Is languages
INTO the individual brain. Steadily
we shift to the goal of teaching peo-
pie how to find knowledge when
they need it--whcre to look for il
aud how to understand it-rather
han attempting to cram the brain
with information rarely used.
If some one asks you where Ii
IBERIA IS, it affords thrill to be able
TO answer, More important is the
ability to know how to ascertain L.
berla's geographical location quickly,
when there is occasion to use the in
formation.
Obviously, there are exceptions
the greatest being science. No man
can get into his brain too much
knowledge about astronomy, biology.
psychology, dimensional mathematics
ana other forms of original truth.
Those are the great messages
worth receiving and retaining. Lam
guage IS merely the box that holds
them. Learning two LANGUAGES is
IKE learning penmanship and tvpe-
writing, which are merely two diff
ieIent systems for conveying the
same pieces of information.
Thinking comes with knowledge
But the ability to think and to To-
cate information when it is needed
IS more valuable than having the
BRAIN eluttered with what, for all
practical purposes, is useless ipfor-
nation.
ms IS materialistic philosophy.
but IT'S material world.
From 100000 to 2OO,O 900 pounds
OF wool will be handled through X
10 ~ wool pools formed in Tenpes-
see this year. Woolgrowers in yir-
GINA are also assembling wool for
grading at 8 different points tbis
year. the largest pool being at Alex-
aharla' Va, Woe. classifiers from
he United States Department of Ag-
ileuiture will conduct investigations
N the use Of federal tentative wool
grades by the local pools.
Iwenty-four Northern and W..
Hh states now have 80 specialists
20 devote full time to farm MANAGE
hieht extension work. County aoon+s
m $50 counties report that thew die.
olouted 5l,083 farm account hook
IA 1921; SIG counties reported 10
4ao books kept, and 444 reported
'nat 8'454 farmers were assisted in
summarizing their accounts. Count,
aeents IN 257 counties report that
80. Z farmers made changes in their
BUSINESS as result of keenipo %
counts. More than 500 farm-account
schools with an attendance of 90
w. Were held in 1921, the United
states Department of Agriculture re-
ports.