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.A Broader Sphere for Religion-New Field for the Rural Church. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union The social duty of the rural church is as much a part of its obligations . as its spiritual side. In expressing its social interest, the modern rural church does not hesitate to claim that lt is expressing a true religious in stinct and the old-tirae idea that the Bocial instincts should be starved while the spiritual rature was over fed with solid theological food, is fast giving way to a broader interpreta tion of the functions of true religion. We take our place in the succession of those who have sought to make the world a fit habitation for the children of man when we seek to study and understand the social duty of the rural church. The true christian re-, ligion is essentially social-its tenets" of faith being love and brotherhood and fellowship While following after righteousness, the church must chal lenge and seek to reform that social order in which moral life is ex pressed. While cherishing ideals of service, the rural church which at tains the fullest measure of success is that which enriches as many lives as it can touch, and in no way cen the church come in as close contact with its memoers as through the avenue of social functions. The country town and the rural community need a social center. The i church need offer no apology for its ambition to fill this need in the com munity, if an understanding of its mission brings this purpose into clear consciousness. The structure of a rural community is exceedingly com plex; it contains many social groups, each of which has its own center, but there are many localities which have but one church and although such a church cannot command the inter est of all the people, it is relieved from the embarrassment of religiously divided communities. Social Needs Imperative. The average country boy and girl have very little opportunity for real enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a vague conception of the meaning of pleasure and recreation. It is to fill this void in thc lives of country youth that the rural church has risen to the necessity ot' providing entertain xnfijat^-as-.well-iis^Jnatruction, to its membership among the young. The children and young people of the church should meet when religion is not even mentioned. It has been found safest for them to meet fre quently under the direction and care of the church. To send them into the world with no social training exposes them to grave perils and to try to keep them out of the world with no social privileges is sheer folly. There is a social nature to both old and young, but the sociai requirements of the young are imperative. The church must provide directly or indirectly some modern equivalent for the husk ing bee, the quilting bee and the sing ing schools of the old days. In one way or another the social instincts of our young people mue have oppor tunity for expression, which may take the form ot clubs, parties, pic nics or other forms of amusement. One thinji is certain, and that is that the church cannot take away the dance, the card party and the theatre unless it can offer in its place a sat isfying substitute in the form of more pleasing recreation. Universal Instinct for Play. In providing for enjoyment the church uses one of the greatest meth ods by which human society lias de veloped. Association is never secure until it is pleasurable; in play the in stinctive aversion of one person for another, is overcome and the social mood is fostered. Play is the chief educational agency in rural commun ities and in the play-day of human .childhood social sympathy and social habits are evolved. As individuals ?onie together in social gatherings, their viewpoint is broadened, their ideals are lifted and finally they con stitute a cultured and refined society. It is plain, therefore, that the -church which aims at a perfected so ciety must use in a refined and ex alted way the essential factors in social evolution and must avail itself of the universal instinct for play. If the church surrounds itself with social functions which appeal to the young among its membership, it will fill a large part of the lamentable gap in rural pleasures and will reap the richest reward by promoting a higher and better type of manhood and womanhood. ! Whooping ough. Well-everyone knows the effect of Pine Forests on Coughs. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is a remedy which brings quick relief for Whooping Cough, loosens tue mucous, soothes the lining ? of the throat and lungs, and makes the coughing spells less severe. A fam ily with growing children should not be without it. Keep it handy for all Coughs and Colds. '25c at your Druggist.-2 WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON LIST OF EMPLOYES. A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS TO PREVENT USELESS TAX UPON AGRICULTURE. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union The farmer ls the paymaster of industry and as such he must meet the nation's payroll. When industry pays its bill it must make a sight draft upon agriculture for the amount, which the farmer is compelled to honor without protest This check drawn upon agriculture may travel to and fro over the highways of com merce; may build cities; girdle the globe with bands of steel; may search hidden treasures in the earth or traverse the skies, but in the end it will rest upon the soil. No dollar will remain suspended in midair; it is as certain to seek the earth's surface as an apple that falls from a tree. When a farmer buys a plow he pays the man who mined the metal, the woodman who felled the tree, the manufacturer who assembled the raw material and shaped it into an ar- j tide of usefulness, the railroad that transported it and the dealer who sold him the goods. He pays the wages of labor and capital employed in the transaction as well as pays for the tools, machinery, buildings, etc., used in the construction of the commodity and the same applies to all articles of use and diet of him self and those engaged in the sub sidiary lines of industry. There is no payroll In civilization that does not rest upon the back of the farmer. He must pay the bills -all of them. The total value of the nation's annual agricultural products la around $12,000,000,000, and it is safe to esti mate that 95 cents on every dollar goes to meeting the expenses of sub sidiary industries. The farmer does not work more than thirty minutes per day for himself; the remaining thirteen hours of the day's toil he devotes to meeting the payroll of the hired hands of agriculture, such as the manufacturer, railroad, commer cial and other servants. The Farmer's Payroll and How He Meets lt. The annual payroll of agriculture approximates $12,000,000,000. A por tion of the amount is shifted to for eign countries in exports, but the total payroll of industries working for the farmer divides substantially as follows: Railroads, $1,252,000,000; manufacturers. $4,305,000,000; mining, $655,000,000; banks. $200,000,000; mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy miscellaneous payroll constitutes the remainder. It takes the corn crop, the most valuable in agriculture, which sold last year for $1,692,000,000. to pay off the employes of the railroads; tho money derived from our annua. sales cf livestock of approximately $2,000. 000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued at $920,000,000; the wheat crop, which is worth $610,000,000, and the oat crop, that is worth $440,000,000, are required to meet the annual pay roll of the manufacturers. The money derived from the remaining staple crops is used in meeting the I payroll of the bankers, merchants, | etc. After these obligations are paid, the farmer has only a few bunches of vegetables, some fruit and poultry ; which he can sell and call the pro ceeds his own. When the farmer pays off his help he has very little left and to' meet these tremendous payrolls he has been forced to mortgage homes, work women in the field and increase the hours of his labor. We are, there- j fore, compelled to call upon all in- | dustries dependent upon the farmers j for subsistence to retrench in their i expenditures and to cut off all un- , necessary expenses. This course is i absolutely necessary in order to avoid | a reduction in wages, and we want, if possible, to retain the present wage i scale paid railroad and all other in dustrial employes. We will devote this article to a discussion of unnecessary expenses and whether required by law or per mitted by the managements of the concerns, is wholly immaterial. We want all waste labor and extrava gance, of whatever character, cut ont. We will mention the full crew bill as Rheumatism Yields Quickly to Sloan's. You can't prevent an attack of Rheumatic m from coming on, but you can stop it almost imraediitely. Sloan's Liniment gently applied to the sote joint or muscle penetrates in a few minutes to the inflamed spot that causes the pain. It soothes the hot, tender, swollen feeling, and in a very short time brings a relief that is almost unbelievable Illustrating the character of unneces sary expenses to which we refer. Union Opposes "Fulj Crew" Bill. The Texas- Farmers' Union regis tered its opposition to this character of legislation at the last annual meet ing held in Fort Worth, Tex., August 4, 1914, by resolution, which we quote, as follows: "The matter of prime importance to the farmers of this state is an ade quate and efficient marketing system; and we recognize that such a system is impossible without adequate rail road facilities, embracing the greatest amount of Service at the least pos sible cost We further recognize that the farmers and producers in the end i pay approximately 95 per cent of the expenses of operating the railroads, and it is therefore to the inter?s^ of the producers that the expenses of the common carriers be as small as is possible, consistent with good ser vice and safety? We, therefore, call upon our law-makers, courts and juries to bear the foregoing facts in mind when dealing with the common carriers of this state, and we do espe cially reaffirm the declarations of the last annual convention of our State Union, opposing the passage of the so-called 'full-crew' bill before the thirty-third legislature of Texas." The farmers of Missouri in the last election, by an overwhelming ma jority, swept this law off the statute book of that state, and it should come off of all statute books where it appears and no legislature of this nation should pass such a law or similar legislation which requires un necessary expenditures. The same rule applies to all regu latory measures which increase the expenses of industry without giving corresponding benefits to the public. There is ofttimes a body of men as sembled at legislatures-ai.d they have a right to be there-who, in their zeal for rendering their fellow associates a service, sometimes favor I an increase in the expenses of in dustry without due regard for the men who bow their backs to the summer's sun to meet the payroll, but these committees, while making a record for themselves, rub the skin of the shoulders of the farmer by urging the i legislature to lay another burden j upon his heavy, load and under the I lash of "be it enacted" goad him on to pull and surge at the traces of civil ization, no matter how he may sweat, foam and gall at the task. When legislatures "cut a melon" for labor they hand the farmer a. lemon. The farmers of the United States are not financially able to carry "dead heads" on their payrolls. Our own hired hands are not paid unless we have something for them to do and we are not willing to carry the hired help of dependent industries unless there is work for them. We must therefore insist upon the most rigid economy. _ ^ Legislative House-Cleaning Needed. While the war is on and there is a lull in business, wa want all legisla tive bodies to take an inventory of the statute books and wipe off all extravagant and useless laws. A good house-cleaning is needed and econo mies can be instituted here and there that will patch the clothes of indigent children, rest tired mothers and lift mortgages from despondent homes. Unnecessary workmen taken off and useless expenses chopped down all along the line will add to the pros perity of the farmer and encourage him in his mighty effort to feed and clothe the world. If any of these industries have sur plus employes we can use them on the farra. We have no regular schedule of wages, but we pay good farm hands on an average of $1.50 per day of thirteen hours when they board themselves; work usually runs about nine months of the year and the three months dead time, they can do the chores for their board. Ir they prefer to farm on their own account, there are more than 14,000,000,000 acres of idle land on the earth's sur face awaiting the magic touch of the plow. The compensation is easily ob tainable from Federal Agricultural Department statistics. Tho total average annual sales of a farm in the continental United States, amounts to $516.00; the cost of operation is $P?40.00; leaving the farmer $176 per annum to live on and educate his family. There is no occasion for the legis latures making a position for surplus employes of industry. Let them come "back to the soil" and share with us the prosperity of the f?rm. I When honesty is merely a good I policy it is a poor virtue. Lazy farmers are just as useless as dead ones and take up more room. When the soul, communes with the spirit of nature the back to the farm movement prevails. There are_two kinds of farmers. 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