The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-12
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SiuDo uIluCI lllo SUPERVISION has
been closely connected with and
related to the vocational agri-
culture work done under the
county superintendent of educa-
tion. Both branches of the train
ing are being carried forward
on basis calculated to furnish
the greatest amount of real
training to fit the boys of the
county for success in their
farming and rural life endeav-
ors.
While the All Clubs are train
ing the boys for a well rounded
citizenry, the boys under the
vocational agriculture system are
also receiving instruction and
guidance along other lines than
class room and work projects.
The Young Tar Heel Farmers,
which is the state organization
of future farmers of America, is
furnishing recreation, fellowship
and organization work. This or
ganization has a branch in each
school, with its regularly elect
ed officers and its meetings are
conducted according to accepted
parliamentary rules. The or
ganization has its ritual and a
formal initiation for its men,
bers. While it's business is con-
Quoted in regular sessions, its
program meetings are always
open to all who wish to attend,
and special attention is given to
enlisting the parents interest and
in getting them to attend the
meetings. Baseball, basketball,
dramatic clubs, and many other
forms of sport and activities
are encouraged as means of
broadening the rural boys inter-
ests, and realizing for them an
aim once expressed by former
Secretary of Agriculture Hous-
ton:
"The former has a right to a
joyous existence"
For several years, the Young
Tar Heel Farmers have owned
and operated a summer camp at
White Lake. in eastern Carolina.
Here the boys spend many happy
vacation days each summer.
Under the leadership of their
teachers, and packed into some
capacious truck, groups from
each county go down to camp for
a weeks stay. Food supplies,
vegetables, fruits AMI even live
chickens are; taken from the
farm, so the cost of the trip is
reduced to a minimum. The
contacts made between boys from
different sections of the state
during these weeks spent at camp
are cementing bonds of fellow
ship between these future farm
ers which promise valuable re-
turns in the years ahead.
Mr.. Poe, in closing his article
in the Progressive Farmer, says:
"In almost every rural school.
the right sort of teachers, back
cd by alert and intelligent pa
irons can make the school a
far more powerful factor than
ever before in the enrichment of
country life"
Those interested have only to
familiarize themselves with the
opportunities at hand to realize
that Henderson county, working
with the State College, has pro-
vided the machinery whereby
the rural schools can meet the
farm needs. Just how much
these opportunities are being uti-
lized. and whether every section
of the county is receiving bene-
fit from them depends on the
patrons and citizens.
People in the county not al
ready in touch with these edu-
cational factors should visit the
county agent and learn about the
preparatory work being done I'M
der the extension department
with the younger boys and girls,
go to the schools and among the
pupils and see how they are
meeting and solving the practi-
cal farm problems in their school
work, and see how much interest
is manifested among older citi-
zens in carrying on through the
adult group instruction. A lit
tie time spent in this way will
not only broaden knowledge and
interest concerning county school
work, but will encourage the
feeling that Henderson county
must shortly come into its own
as a farming centre.