The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-12

dustry is good for civilization. He
the New York Times:
Tell me what the crops of cour
try are and / will tell you what 1t
people are, whether they are gifte
with the vision to look ahead o
whether they can only see what
beneath their noses, whether the
are practical or idealistic, Individual
istic or communication, whether the
are militaristic or lovers of peace.
1T is written not In the stars
but in the crops whether nations ar
underlings or not"
These are the views of Professo
Patrick Geddes, formerly of Edin
burgh University, but lately of BON
bay University, who Is now in Am
erica for series of lectures before
the New School of Social Research.
Professor Geddes has attained spe
cial distinction as a community plan
ner, architect and botanist. He II
the designer of group of the build
ings of the Indian University headed
by the Hindu poet and mystic
,.abindranath Tagone. He is also
the designer of the projected Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
There were. two great cities in
the ancient world-Athens and Jeru-
salem," says Professor Geddes. Did
Athens rise to its great eminence
because of few giant personalities
an Aristotle, Plato or Socrates
who inspired the Athenians with a
love of culture? Or was Greece's
eminence due to the fact that it COM
manded a serf class which freed
the aristocratic Athenian from the
inks of toll and left his mind and
spirit free to roam and. explore the
fields of philosophy, science and arts?
did Palestine produce Jesus,
Isaiah, Amos and David because
Jehovah took the Jews under his
special tutelage and whispered into
their ears, truths withheld from other
peoples? Did not Amos himself
deny this special favoriteism of Pro-
violence to the Israelites?
What then was the source of
strength of Athens and jerusalem"
"Olives," answers the Scotch botan-
list.
did you ever realize" asks Pro-
fessor Geddes, that the growing of
olives is .civilizing factor of the
first Importance? 1t requires from
seven to ten years to raise crop of
olives. You must plan ahead for
virtually a decade. You must de-
yelop patience and look into the
far future if you are going to make
a success as an olive grower.
THE late President Harper of the
University of Chicago after a visit
to California, once told a Chicago
audience that there were fifteen
idealists in California to every one
in Chicago. DR.. Harper was at first
baffled by this phenomenon but later
explained it by the fact that Cal
ifornia was state of fruit culture.
''The expression-the olive branch
CT peae-is no mere poetry. No
nation growing olives will be mill
taristic. Trained to look ahead, it
cannot but see the frightful conse-
quences of war.
1.-The individual in a nonifruit-
arian section has tendency to con-
slider only that which is Immediately
profitable. The average individual
has only short memory and still
shorter vision of the future. To
ook ahead for ten or fifteen years
IS more than can be expected of
lin.
THE fruit growing peoples al
ways are dreamers and planners of
he future. Plato who provisioned
N Utopian republic, Isaiah who
reamt of the far-off time when ma
ions should beat their swords into
Zamenhoff the inventor
f universal language-all were of
acial stock which at least originally 4
we're olive growers. " ;
Countries such as India, says Pro-
essor Geddes, where rice growing ]
as been the chief occupation pro- {
uce another type of character. S
Rice develops the community t
ense. In the planting or harvesting
f rice, all may join on equal terms,
ig and little, strong and weak. 1t {
equires no particular strength to
lace the seed in the earth nor does /
he harvesting require the exertion C
eeded in wheat harvesting, for ex- C
mple. AS a. consequence, the sense e
individualism Is not developed in S
ice growing, no one being able to p
rrogate to himself any particular n
lperiority. t
'The community feeling on the F
Their hand is developed to a degree S
lat the Westerner cannot appre- u
ate" a
Communities where wheat and e
)rn are the staple crops Geddes S
nds each different They are c
rong in the attributes of individ- t
alism and practically. He explains
thus:
Wheat and corn are produced
thin the year and hence require
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again the planting and harvest h
g of these crops is an individual h