The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-04-08

N0BgCE COMPANY
ISTEN friends, hOw's the bovs'
and girls club work coins in
- your community? Is there a
pig, calf, lamb, dairy, poultry. gar
den, potato, canning, sewing or other
kind of club? If there isn't, there
ought to be-absOlutely ought tn he
Are your county agricultural agent. vonr
county farm bureau, your county fair as
ISOLATION, your civic clubs, your schools
interested in club work? If they're NOT.
they ought to be. There aren't any grounds
for denying that.
why the need for club work? Think
Here's an Illustration which 1 used in a
talk on club work from this station last
spring, but I'm going to use it again, for
it can't be emphasized too strongly. IistOn I
What is a boy? He is a person who is
going to carry on what you have started.
He is to- sit right where you are sitting
and attend to those things you think are
important when you are gone. You NAV
adopt all the policies you please, but how
they will be carried out depends upon him.
Even if you make leagues and treaties he
will have to manage them. He is going TO
sit at your desk in the senate and occnpv
your place on the supreme bench. He will
assume control of your cities, states and
nation. He is going to move in and take
over your prisons, churches, schools uni-
versities. and corporations. All your work
is going to be judged and praised or con-
demned by him. YOur reputation and vOur
future are in his hands. All your work is
for him and the fate of the nation and nj
humanity is in his hands. So it might he
well to pay him some attention" And the
same thing goes for the girls.
These things are important, not only be.
cause the majority of Americas leaders il
practically all lines of business, govern.
ment, science, etc, have always come from
the farm, but also to increase the efficiency
and maintain the Importance Of agricul
ture.
Farm Is BuIwork
Our nation is outstanding among the ma
tiOnS of the world. AS Americans, we'r
proud of it and we want our nation t
maintain that leadership. But as the farr
is the bulwark and the feed-basket of tn
nation, we are even more interested i
, agriculture. We want farming methods {
be more efficient, we want soil fertilit
+ maintained and improved. we want a higt
er quality Of grain and livestock, we wan
? better farm homes and a more cemfOrtabl
t standard Of living. Above all we wan
farming to be more profitable.
r The lean years that agriculture has ha
5 TO contend with since the war have cor
i WINGED everybody of that. The statemeT
Y that all wealth originates in the soil is n
t longer questioned. We need efficient farm
lers, and we need farm leaders-intelligen
d fair-minded, aggressive men, who al
d SchOOled in business; men of vision, WI
l. will work patiently and judiciously to hay
agriculture accorded its rightful place
r the scheme of American industry; me
who will continue to educate farmers
e standardize and grade their product
l. cheaper their costs of production, to adjui
l. production wherever possible to the d.
d m0nd and to perfect cooperative marke
IS ing, so that the farmer may have more al
~surance Of securing a fair return on his il
# vestment in some other business. The
l. are many things to be solved, but with,
n farm life is the greatest in the world. Ever
k farm boy should be glad that he was boz
ID on a farm for considering everything b
le chances Tor success in life are greater tina
Is had he been born anywhere else.
Is Boys and birls' club work is one Of Il
* nest agencies to equip a man to do Il
le th1ngS 1 have Just enumerated. It mold
ne boys. and girls into healthy, vigorous, pi
trtotic citizens, because under what
called the All banner, they are instructe
to train the head to think, plan, reason
train the heart to be kind, be true, I
sympathetic; train the hands to be usefU
be helpful, be skillful; train the health
N resist disease, enjoy life, make for eff
cheney. And all club members must tai
and live the following pledge: 81 pied,
my head to clear thinking, nv heart
greater loyalty, my hands to longer ser
ice, and my health to better living for n
II club, my community and my country
III There could be no finer dedication Of Sc
e. and service to the community, state al
s. country.
- Club Work Practical
Club work is practical because it tax
boys and girls at the age when they a
e. bundles of undirected energy and direC
- 1 1900 1919 ~ III AHAk q III ELNl
- them to apply in actual practice the pri
10 CtpleS and theories they are taught in +
d. class room. 1t v~italiZeS agriculture TO +
,S. highest possible degree. 1t impresses mn
~ them the value of industry and cOura:
" 1t makes them efficient and intelligent.
TO interests their dads and mothers in bett
farming and better home cOnvenienceS n
he develops a community pride and conscio1
ness that nothing else could. 1t gives tb,
a better opportunity to make money a
ire some of the best prizes annually aV.,rd
FIT are trips to the international livestock :
els position, to Washington and other MIA,
at of interest. There are many instances
NE record where club boys or girls have in
led rev years made enough money from tb
ere club projects to so to college or into Inn
use ness for themselves. Club work undor ,
In proper guidance is the very next thing
on an agricultural college education and q,
bed more practical in some ways.
his Lee county, Iowa, that neat little moo
down along the Mississippi river in SON
eastern Iowa, is one of the best exampIaS
hat what properly organized, aggressive n
work can do for a community. If Is
ust home of the biggest and most Succeso
is single breed pig club in the world Sfor
YES by Z. u. Streeter, a prominent lunbern
ing or keokuk, the county seat, in 1920 II
steadily grown until it had more than
out members in 1928 and 1924 and hos =
der been limited to 100. Each bow and Gil 1
leat it is in partnership with some bTsfr
bod man Of KeOkuk or other town in
mtg county. The Hampshire is the breed he
ting raised. The club is fOstered nv ~
rec County Hampshire Swine Breeders' q,
citation, which is an organization of 70
erS, bankers and other business mon
iteel Noted Hampshire Center
and Five years ago there were very
ing purebred hogs Of any kind in Lee CON
To-day there are more than 1000 nuroI