The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
COURSE ON FARM
PROBLEMS TAUGHT
ATLABOR SCHOOL
-
instructor of Farm School
on Wheels Joins Col
lege Staff

By CARL PARKER
Instructor, Commonwealth
College
MENA, Ark.-A course in farm
problems and organization is be-
ing inaugurated at Commonwealth
COLLEGE, the labor school near
Mena, Ark, and former students
of the Farm School on Wheels and
all other young men ard women
interested in getting thorough
training for farm movement activ-
ity, are urged to attend. The
spring quarter begins April 1.
The Farm School on Wheels dur
ing the past year has been well
known as the institution aiding the
work of the militant farmers
movement by providing over $50
farmer-students with special train
ing in organizational work. The
experiences Of the organizations
which have been served by the
Farm School on Wheels all attest
the valuable and necessary part
which systematic education Of pro-
missing new forces plays in the
strengthening of organizational
work.
I In every case, despite the recog-
nized handicaps Of the short time
-four weeks) allowed for the
course, the expenses of financing
students and maintaining the
school, etc., new life, new methods,
new enthusiasm, new achievements
in erganizational consolidation
have resulted.
At every stop of the Farm
!. School on Wheels, self-critical dis
: cus9ions participated in by the
staff of instructors, students and
leading members Of the militant
farmers organizations have been
!, held with the express purpose Of
making the school more practical,
{ more thorough, improving the
! quality Of the work turned out,
and developing more efficient ed
: ucational facilities.
s Months Course
: In line with the numerous dis
cussions mentioned in the forego-
ing paragraph, the Farm School on
I. Wheels announces an important
: forward step. The farm school in
its travelling form has for the pre-
sent been discontinued. Arrange
ments have been made with Com
: nlonwealth College at Mena, Ark.
. in the southern range Of the Or
arks, for the addition of course
! in farm problems and organization
! to its year-around curriculum. Tht
J course lasts three months, begin
g ming April 1, July 1, October
. and January 1. Carl Parker, fiel,
: representative of the Farmers Ma
= tional Weekly and instructor il
the Farm School on Wheels, ha
= joined the Commonwealth Colleg
: teaching staff and will direct tn
= farm course.
/. Farm students will be eligibl
= for, and attend the other classe
~ taught at Commonwealth-Marz
u ism, Political Economy, Labor Oh
y ientation, Public Speaking, Offic
p Methods (typing, mimeographing
81 etc.,, Journalism, Writing, Dram
y atics, Effective English, Labc
q History, etc.-all taught by e.
perienced teachers.
70 Tuition for the three month
ae course is only $40, including meal
{, lodging, laundry, etc. The e.
~ tremely low fee is possible becaus
- Commonwealth is a workers ar
p =. farmers college, most of the foo
=, !: stuffs consumed being raised {
y its 800 acre farm-campus, whel
students and instructors share
work and play.
' Students and teaching staff
- Commonwealth are alive to Il
q class struggle. The director al
- several students are at present al
ing in the organization of shar
~ troopers against the attacks of e
ia "a, banker and landlord-controll
,,u AAA. Commonwealth is a no
le fractional college for workers al
= an farmers. Students of all polite
-" beliefs. or non-political studen
" are welcome. A short time az
a united front was formed on t
! campus with all politically affi
lu ated and unaffillated studer
mo Joined to support every STRUGGLE
y y unite the working class against I
ICE capitalist enemy.
Send Students
All organizations which ha
supported the Fam School
ev- Wheels in its trail-hlaziro wo
ess and sll other farm organization
the township. county ard etato-vi
our who Eel tho need for etrenpth'
irc fhei~ f;oha o~,;ns+ Tho "A
sio- the ssNTo-v Dealv fo- fro farr,e
zen, are urged to select students fr
en- their membership ard underts
the raising Of the tuition fee