The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-16
Better Educational Facilities for
Agriculturists Urged by
New Secretary
URGED M'NARY.HAUGEn BILL
Appointment Of Missourian to
Cabinet Post Caused Sur
prise Among Friends

Washington, March TO- (NEA)-
Arthur M. Hyde, new secretary Of ag-
riculture, believes hard work Is the
salvation Of farmers who arc seeking
relief from present economic condi-
lions.
Hard work and education-those
are the things he stressed Is COVER
nor Of Missouri.
Hyde, one Of President Hoover's
surprise" appointees to the cabinet.
devoted much Of his four years rs
chief executive Of the middle western
state to urging before the legislature
and advocatin.: in speeches and In.
terviews the importance Of better ed
ucational facilities for farmers.
While governor he worked ardently
for better rural grade schools.
by educating the farm youth Of
the land. We will enable them to
better their condition economically
and the entire country will benefit"
he said many times.
During the Hyde regime In Mis-
souri, the state agricultural college.
which is part OF the University Of
Missouri, received only moderate fl
nancial support at the hands Of the
state, but 1t was hardly the fault Of
the governor. Political exigencies de-
manded that state expenses and state
appropriations be kept to q minimum.
AS q result the agricultural school
did not receive anywhere near the
amount asked by its officials.
Bucked BY LeRiSlature
But Hyde continued to stress the
importance Of educating the residents
Of the rural sections. Children Of the
cities and high school and college
students Of the larger towns already
were receiving liberal cducations at
the hands of the state, he pointed
out.
! One Hyde measure was consolida-
ton of the school districts In each OF
the ia counties of Missouri into dis
tricts analogous with the county
boundaries. That, he argued, would
help the rural schools.
But the legislature, of which one
house was Democratic, rejected the
governors suggestion. Residents Of
towns objected to helping support
country schools to a create, extent
than they already were supporting
them through system Of stat'
school taxation.
The new head Of the department
of agriculture has been called farm
cr himself but his farm experience
has been only as owner of three
farms in Grundy county. Mo. III
either employed managers for tn
farms or rented them to tenant farm
ers.
Law and Insurance
Attention OF Hyde during the las
four years since he left the governor
ship of Missouri has been givel
chiefly to the practice Of law and or
ganization OF life insurance com
pany in Kansas City.
During q part Of those four year
his family lived with him in Kansa
City. Last winter his daughter, Car
oline, attended q private school TO
girls there.
But Mrs. Hyde desired to bring VI
her daughter in the small town at
mosphere OF the Hydes' home town o.
Trenton, Mo.-a town of less thai
10000 population. So In the fall o
1928 Mrs. Hyde and daughter re-
opened their home In Trenton ant
the daughter las been attending tn
public high school there.
Hyde never has advocated sucl
farm relief measures as the McNary'
Haugen bill. He never has beer
quoted to any great length on agri
cultural relief except to the effec
that he did rot approve of fe
method OF aiding farm relief market
ing
Specific views of Hyde OH farm
measures and farm legislation neve
have been given out by him, most o