The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 14, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
considerably less effort tb??u by the
old method. The old wash-borfTtt is
a back-breaker. Mr. Allen Benson
thinks that "If the men had to spend
one-seventh of their time for Just ono
week at wash-boards, the next week
there would be more washing machines
ordered than there are automobiles
in the country." Why is it
that the men on the farm will readily
buy expensive labor-saving machinery
for the field, and yet not secure
for the home any labor-having appliances,
although costing much less
than the field machinery?
It can hardly be from a lack of
desire to lighten the burden upon
their wives. It must be because they
do not see the way, and do not realize
what the drudgery of the farm home
is without labor-saving devices and
modern conveniences.
Let us remember, however, that it
is not sufficient to give tho farm woman
running water in the house and
all the conveniences of a model
home. Country life must be trade
socially satisfying. Clarence Poe,
editor of The Progressive Farmer,
truly says, "The rural problem, in
its last analysis, is nothing more nor
less than the problem of developing
a satisfying country life?and such
a life must respond both to the so-:
rial and material wants of man. It !
must be both financially and socially!
satisfying."
In order for country life to bo'
financially and socially satisfying the
people must have education and own
their homes, and must co-operate
with each other in rural community
activity, and must have rural community
organizations for the promo-j
tion and support of an educational,,
religious, social, business and intellectual
community life. Some are:
of the opinion that the whole rural
problem is "Practically the problem,
of the country schools." The start-]
ling exodus from the rural district.;
to the city all over our country is at-1
tributed to the lack of proner educational
and social conditions in the
country, which the properly organized
and conducted country school!
might have supplied. Front social
and economic surveys, it has been
found that in Illinois about !t."? per
cent of the land owners who move
to town do so because of the inade(111IIPV
nf tho pnniif rv* ur?lw?r?l Thit
indent country school, which is to j
improve agricultural conditions and
keep good citizens on the farms and
make good citizens on the farms
must relate its work to the communi-;
tv life of the people served by it,'
must educate the children for country
life instead of awav from it, must ;
teach, therefore, agriculture and
must relate universal elements of
education to country community
needs, must train the children for
their future work In the hoino, on
the farm, and in the social life
around them, must b a "community
center of education, in trenting both
children and adults in terms of coun
try life and pointing the way to community
prosperity and welfare."
must concern itself with the busims
and social life of the people, promoting
helpful and profitable cooperation
and neighborlincss. Some
one has called the lack of sociability
In the country (the tendency of the
countryman to live to himself?
country "individualism,") the tuberculosis
of American farm life."
The etlleient country school cannot j
neglect the health, the recreation,
nor the social ideals of the people.
The redirected course of study
needed for the efficient country school
must be determined by the needs of
the social and economic life of the
community as determined by a social
and economic survey of the community.
You cannot "bitch up education
to life" without knowing what
that life is. The prevailing separations
of the community?its economic
and social resources and possibilities,
its deficiencies and needs." It
is not to bo understood that it is I
proposed to discard the fundamental
studies; it is proposed to relate these
studies more closely to agricultural
life.
It is proposed to put new leaven
into old essentials, discard some subjects
of the old traditional carrlculum
which fail to express the activities
and needs of the community, and add
new subjects that are needed for agricultural
progress, such as nature
study, agriculture, manual training,
domestic science and art, farm man agement
and marketing, rural sanitation.
Mr. Frederick T. Gates, of the General
Education Board, til a publication
of that board under the title,
"The Country School of Tomorrow,"
pla&fc attention to health of the
pupils and sanitation of the homes
flrsC'araong the duties of the country
school of tomorrow. He sums up the
work of the efficient country school
to be to make rural life. Just where
it is, healthful, intelligent, efficient,
to All it with thought and purpose
and with a gracious social culture not
without its Joys.
The efficient country school preupposes
an efficient teacher, and
that means a teacher trained es-'
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pecially for teaching in the right way
a country school?one who is in
sympathy with rural life. The efficient
teacher of a country school
must be not only a fcood teacher of
subject matter, "giving instruction in
terms of local environment, of the
ejiild," but also a good community
leader. She must be able to stimulate
local campaigns for rural progress.
Under her leadership, there
will be road improvements, good
farmers* clubs and institutes, country
church progress, and improvement
in the rural borne. She must
be imbued with the spirit of civic
service.
In addition to the rural school organized
and conducted for rural be?
lerment, there are other ageiuies at
work for rural uplift, especially of
the rural home, which may be
strengthened and extended and made
to reach and benefit more fully the
farm women. After the farm woman
has been given a good, attractive,
convenient home, equ'eped v'th !? bor-sivin<?
appliances, she will have
to be shown how to manage the home
in the best way. Of greater importance
than the question of "the
high cost of i'ving" is that of ".!;<>
high c st of ignorance." One of tin
best remedies for the poor lioui
the teaching of home economics in
all of its phases. The farm woman
of tomorrow may be taught home
economics as pupils of today in the
efficient country school, and through
(Sirls' Canning Clubs, and in other
ways, the present farm woman will
get some help from these sourcesthrough
their children, who should
be given credit at school for house
work done at home in accordance
with directions given at school, but
movable schools of home-making,
the visiting household demonstrator,
home institutes for women, home
making clubs, housewives' bulletins,
correspondence courses, and the
rural school teacher trained in home
economics who will give instruction
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? lists. You sec, we as retailers sell
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Btance, a good fountain pen
straight to a man's heart?it isei
In that line, you will parti
Conklin's Self-Filling Pen. It fil
not leak, 13 very strong and is \
simplicity. Exchangeable after
point doesn't suit. Ask us to sh
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f month of December at
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if; BETTER DISCOUNTS
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ji those good discounts and of
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in home making to mothers' clubs |
seem to offer the most promise for |
the women of the open country. Of j
all these agencies, the neighborhood!
teacher, with agricultural and homej
economic training and the right.
epiiit of civic service, ought to be
the most effective. 1 rejoice that, j
two-thirds, at least, of our normal
schools are contributing effectively to
the solution of this farm woman and !
rural life problem, by giving their
students training in home economics, i
Over 2 50 colleges and universities'
are giving definite courses of in-1
si ruction m Household science. I be-1
lieve the visaing supervisory teacher I
of home economics for a county]
could render a service of inestimable]
value in improving rural conditions.
The home economic extension work
of normal schools and colleges for
rural communities is producing gratifying
results. The Smith-Lever bill
offers great promise for the develop-1
ment of home betterment work for
the country. On the whole, I think
the outlook for the betterment of
rural life conditions is promising.
Our people are waking up to the vital
importance of the rural problem to
tli<? welfare of the whole country a>
never before in our history, and argirding
themselves for a great, Intel-',
'igent. and united etfort to give help
where it is most needed. I think we
an thank Clod and take courage. I ^
Contraband.
Contraband refers to the goods that
a neutral is prohibited by the laws of <
war to furnish to either belligerent. <
I'lider this comes such articles as are
used in prosecuting hostilities, as
arms, ammunition, etc. <
The Greater Need. i
"1 am very busy," said the inventor. <
"devising a range finder which?"
"Good Lord, man." said the suburbanite.
"what a waste of time! What the 1
world needs is not a range finder but *
a cook finder that will stay when .
found by the ranges already located."
ils itself, will HS^mL3a(^^ <
the acme of <
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en a great many of the fac- J
money and we got
THAN EVER BEFORE. J
five the people the benefit of "
our good fortune in buying
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ticket office of the Southern
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DECEMBER 14, 1915.
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ahead of the rush and should real
vest nieni.
1 have some exceptionally entiei
* I would like to show you. They a
attractive terms.
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NO CHRISTMAS IS COMPLETE WITH
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market. W
THE CREAM OF CONFECTIONERY. ?
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Jacobs' of New Orleans. J
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Van Lindley's of Greensboro. We take J
orders and have Flowers shipped direct 0
with your card enclosed if you wish. A
Make This a Sweet Christmas.
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