Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-17
RUBINOW SAYS
CLUB WORK IS
OF REAL VALUE
Believes Leader Should Be
Retained in This
County.

S. G.. Rubinow, general manager of
the Red River Valley Sweet Clover
Growers Exchange, Inc, in a state
ment to a Herald reporter this after
noon, voices the belief that boys and
girls club work in Grand Forks
county, should be continued. The
board of county commissioners at
their last meeting voted to discon-
tinue the work, beginning on May i.
Mr.. Rubinow, says:
Because l happen to know very
personally the great and real value
and worth of Agricultural Boys and
Girls club work, not only so far as
it affects Grand Forks county, but in
its national significance, I deeply re-
gret and deplore the recent action of
the county commissioners of Grand
Forks county, in voting out on May
l the present county club leader, Miss
Elva Cronk, and the fine work which
h ha done during the past year.
Il sympathize and agree with the
county commissioners in their anxiety
to curtail and reduce county expenses.
All work which is inefficient. unpro-
ductive and useless should always be
stopped. In fact. useless, u%nproduc-
tive and inefficient work, which con-
sumes wealth instead of producing it,
should lever be started. But work
that does produce wealth, and that
educates and trains for future wealth,
and that brings about progressive
changes. should not only be contAued
but even enlarged in Scope and eff
~fectiveness.
I'VE are living in a peculiar time,
in which the popular cry is for
economy. retrenchment, saving and
elimination. That comes as an aft
ermath of a period of splurging,
nv, et1 r;@t1,,1 s;-~ -~l ->-1l1-1
spending. But to suddenly plunge
from one period into the other or
vice-versa, is, in my humble judg-
ment, wrong. And to curtail anything
that is educational and productive,
is, in my opinion, not good wisdom
and does not speak for the best and
greatest development of any COM
munity, county, state or nation.
w have not come to the point, in
agricultural North Dakota, where we
can afford, in terms of dollars and
cents, to reduce and curtail and stop
any of the various phases Of agricul-
tural education.
Nationally speaking, organized
Agricultural Boys and Girls Club
Work, has been the forerunner OF
successful county agent work. 1t
has been recognized everywhere that
it is possible to educate the boy and
girl, where sometimes. nothing can be
done with older people, because OF
settled habits and notions. For this
reason, Agricultural Boys and Girls
Club Work has been looked upon as
the most valuable type of agricultural
extension work, producing not only
valuable types of future citizens, but
actually adding to the wealth Of the
communities in which such work is
promoted.
North Dakota and Grand Forks
county need more agricultural educa.
ton, not less. We need more agri'
cultural workers such as Miss Cronk
not fewer. We need more country
boys and girls engaged in organized
club work. Is there anything more
important to agricultural North Da'
kota than that the country boys anC
girls of North Dakota should receive
an education in agriculture and home
economics?
ITO vote out such work is not il
keeping with h progressive atmos
phere of North Dakota. We might a:
well recommend to stop county agen
work. the state fair the schools, thu
churches, all good road movements
the commercial clubs. the farm blu
reaus and everything hat tends t.
make up educational and social lif'
and stands for progress.
1.-THE county commissioners o
Grand Forks countv should recon
slider their action. and viewing Mis-
Cronk's work from the perspective
of the best and the most profitable
type Of agricultural education. II
which future citizenship is developed
and wealth is produced, should re
instate this work. From the view
point of economy, i'm terms of actua
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club work in Grand Forks county i
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