1HB CITIZEN, AVKDXKSOAY, SKIT. 7, 1010.
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H. B. HAKDKNIiKHaH, - PRESIDENT
W. W. WOOD. - MANAGER AND SKC'Y
BILLIARD I1RUUE - EDITOR
directors:
c. u. dorfunoer. m. b. alten.
BElfRY WILSON. E. B. IIARDESBERQIt.
W. W. WOOD.
WKDXKSDAV, SUl'T. 7, 1010.
KEl'UHLlCAX TICKET.
For Governor
JOHN K. TENER.
For Lieutenant Governor
JOHN M. REYNOLDS.
Secretary of Internal Affairs
HENRY HOUCK.
State Treasurer
CHAS. F. WRIGHT.
For Congress,
C. C. PRATT.
For State Senator,
WINFRED D. LEWIS.
COUNTY.
Representative,
H. C. JACKSON.
FAK.MIXG IX THE SCHOOLS.
The statement of the superintend
ent of the Pennsylvania State Board
of Public Instruction relative to the
plan to teach practical farming in
the schools is printed in a conspicu
ous place In The Citizen today. We
trust every man and woman with
children yes, and every man and
woman that expects at some time to
have any will read it. There is
much food for thought in Dr.
SCHAEFFER'S short but simple
presentation of the reasons for this
effort to teach the essential facts
about soils and crops to the boys
and girls of Pennsylvania.
There is, we grant, some opposi
tion to the farm course in High
school an opposition, we take it,
that eminates principally from the
boys and girls themselves. Some of
the youngsters, as stated in a news
item in one of last week's Issues of
The Citizen, feel that they would
lose their standing as "citified" peo
ple if they studied the work of the
farmer at High school. What ab
solute bosh and nonsense! The
farmer of today in most parts of the
East is not much behind his city
cousin when it comes to "citified"
appearance and conversation; and
we all of us know that when these
two minor qualifications for desir
able citizenship are dismissed and
attention is directed to the more
vital topic of how to get a comfort
able living and accumulate a decent
anchor to windward that can be
counted on for old age, the farmer
is the one man who does not need
to worry, fret, stew or borrow
trouble over tomorrow's victuals.
The fellow willing and able to work
at the only wholly independent oc
cupation mankind has ever known
Is never going to be the fellow out
of a job. No chance for any argu
ment on that!
The cost of living is high. Not
to be pessimistic or peevish about
the matter, we may add that, though
perhaps the rise will be but a tem
porary one, the price of eating meals
and wearing clothes will be- more
before It is less. Here, then, is the
most potent argument that can bo
adduced In support of the effort to
teach farming scientific, thorough,
Twentieth century farming to the
boys and girls now halfway through
those important formative teens
Not all of them have the mechanical
ingenuity to learn the more skil
ful trades that pay ?3 or more for
a day's labor; not all of thein have
tho selling capacity to go on the
road and earn $125 a month dis
posing of goods to retailers or dl
rectly to consumers. Not all of
them, again, have the physical nual
ideations to endure tho close, con
fining work of shop or store or of
flee, day in and year out, without
nervous strain or even breakdown.
But there Is no man or woman In
ordinary health and gifted with or
dlnary industry who cannot mako a
living in the country if ho or she
goes about tho country job with tho
superior equipment of a thoroughly
stJpntlflc training for tho work of
tho field, the orchard and tho gar
den. Tho wonder is that in times
of industrial depression, when Tom,
Dick and Harry cannot find an
hour's occupation in tho city, thero
la not a universal exodus to tho
country, whoro a man with no farm
experience whatsoever can easily
earn his bed and board and where
tho follow with tho farm training
tho schools aro urged to install
could speedily demonstrate "bis
ability to earn much more than bis
bed and board.
Tho moral argument in favor of
the farm is not so powerful In
Wayne county, which contains no
really wide open towns, as It is in
Lackawanna and Lurerne, where
city life in Scranton and Wilkes-
Barre, particularly the latter, is
well supplied with temptations, but
the economic and physical benefits
would be as pronounced hero as
they would be anywhere. Thinking
men in Wnyne county have express
ed an earnest desire for the agri
culture course In High school. In
this they are far-sighted and sensi
ble. It is neither feasible nor de
sirable to supopse that tho whole
kit and boodle of our boys aro to
go to work in town industries or
town stores, or that all of our girls
are to marry town business men,
neither is there any reasonable
reason for the belief that all of
them would bo encouraged to the
most advantageous lives by seeking
city jobs in preference to country
jobs. The nation needs more mod
ern farms worked by trained, scien
tific farmers, and Pennsylvania,
naturally a state of splendid agri
cultural possibilities, cannot afford
to throw away the chance to pro
vide for the ultimate independence
of hundreds of her citizens.
TAKER THKOHV IS RIGHT.
CHARLES F. TABER, that ac
tive, cheerful young athlete who
walked through Wayne county the
other day on his way from a York
state city to his home in Philadel
phia, has the right idea of this
tramping business. He is capable,
he says, of hitting the pike at a
good stiff jog of five miles an hour,
and when he comes to a particularly
accommodating stretch of road that
runs through a commonplace land
scape, unprovided with friendly
farmers and other persons congenial
to stop and talk with, the young man
from the City of Brotherly Love
puts on steam and whoops her up
with real EDWARD PAYSON WES
TON vigor for a couple of hours;
but, ordinarily speaking, he Is con
tented with a nominal gait of three
miles an hour, seven or eight hours
seldom more to the walking day.
He rarely hurries, not even when
hostile dogs pursue his well-season
ed heels. He knows better than to
lose half the benefit of his overland
hike by pushing against a stopwatch
for any given distance.
"I'm walking for health, for
pleasure, and to learn things," he
said to the ubiquitous newspaperman
when, on the piazza of a Honesdale
hotel, the fellow who writes as well
as walks for his bread butted in and
commenced to ask questions. "I
can gain nothing by getting up
speed. I am not out for time or
a wager. There is no money at
stake on my performance. The
money is all on the other side of the
fence, for I tell you truthfully it
costs me ?2 a day, sometimes 53,
to go through the country on foot.
When I pick out a route I general
ly pick It through an Interesting
country, where I can learn some
thing about the rocks and the birds
and the best kind of crops to grow;
and I stop a great many times to
ask questions of the farmers and
to take notes that I may some day
need for reference.
''I take all tho time I want.
There are days when I get in 30
miles. There are others when I
may not mako 10. But I see things,
and 1 try to remember what I see.
And I aim to make as many friends
as I can along the road, for somo
day I may take it into my head to
walk that way again."
Tho head of MV. TABER, like his
legs, is all to tho practical. Ho
picks up a splendid fund of infor
mation as well as a. vigorous stock
of health and an infinite quantity
of pleasuro on these shoelcather
rambles that have taken him up and
down tho country, East and South
and Middle West. Ho could mako
swift records between cities 'and get
a largo bIIco of newspaper notoriety,
with dlmo museum and concort hall
and lecture platform offers on tho
side, but ho does not want that. Ho
could earn money, probably, by
wagers on his pedestrlnal Journeys
about tho country, but tho financial
side of this walking gamo makes no
appeal to blm.
Tho TABER argument in advo
cacy of long distance walking is tho
logical argument. Ho is not out
for notoriety or cash. Ho Is tramp
ing for physical and intellectual
betterment ana whan you seo
TABER and talk with him you real
lzo bo is gaining both. Montally
ho is a much more Improving citi
zen to know than tho irascible and
choleric WESTON, who has walked,
shouted, cussed and damned people
all over the country for a half of a
century, and who, despite tho
prodigious suras this unusual old
man has earned by walking and
lecturing, promptly goes broke tho
minute ho strlkeB New York after
one of his periodical performances
for money, notoriety, and an op
portunity to keep tho name of ED
WARD PAYSON WESTON forever
in tho limelight. He has been
walking 50 years, five miles an hour,
eight, 10 and 12 hours to tho day,
and physically there Is no man on
God's green earth more marvelous;
but what real pleasure has ho got
ten out of tho game what perma
nent stimulus has the given to tho
growth of this very wholesome form
of outdoor exercise? He has seen
all the Interesting and historic spots
on Uncle Sam's part of this conti
nent, but what can ho tell you about
them save the number of hours it
took the only WESTON to get
there? He has met more than 1,
000,000 people, personally and in
crowds that Jumped on his toes, the
way they did once in Cleveland, and
who does he know that wants to
hear WESTON howl and brag in his
territory again? It seems a pity
that so vast a flow of physical energy
should be handicapped by so scanty
an allowance of tho brain and de
cency that is needed to dignify the
walking pastime by gaining for it
the approval of people who can see
In it something more than a sttpu
lated number of miles In a given
number of hours. The walking
clubs of the cities, of which there
are more than thero were before
tho WESTON walk from Portland
to Chicago in 1907 started afresh
the craze for country tramping, will
be wise if they emulate the saner
TABER example and walk 25 miles
In a day for pleasure and observa
tion instead of 40 miles for a record
and a bodyfull of strained, com
plaining tendons and ligaments.
The cities of Detroit and Mllwau
kee were almost equal In population
10 years ago 285,704 for the former
and 285,315 for the latter. Now they
stand 465,766 for Detroit, a gain of
03 per cent, in 10 years, and 373,857
for Milwaukee, a gain of 31 per cent.
Tho Michigan city's record Is rather
remarkable, and is explained by the
fact that the automobile manufactur
ing industry has largely centered
there. That has flourished even more
than beer brewing. Springfield Re
publican.
So automobiles are to "make De
troit famous!"
They have started a "Charlie club"
In Connecticut and it is really sur
prising the number of men of promi
nence who have already qualified. A
few of the prominent members are
CHARLES S. MELLEN, CHARLES
F. BROOKER. CHARLES HOPKINS
CLARK, CHARLES M. JARVIS
CHARLES A. GOODWIN, CHARLES
F. THAYER. CHARLES W. PICK
ETT and CHARLES E. SEARLES
Who can do as well for the Henrys
and the Johns? New Britain Herald.
Two big railroad men, two in
fluential editors, three gilt-edged law
yers Including two that long to boss
the state from Hartford after Jan. 1,
1911 and one man who has made
the famous Berlin Iron Bridge com
pany a tower of strength financially,
offer a fine selection for president of
the Connecticut Charlies. But, after
all is said and done, for real warm
weather enjoyment and diversion, wo
should vastly prefer to go out with
the congenially simple Willio club of
Honesdale than with the richer and
inoro ponderous Charlie club of Con
necticut.
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GINGERSNAPS.
The county fair, with Its big
pumpkins and its tall corn and Its
pink lemonade and Its pretty girls
and all tho other "cheerful trifles"
that work together for gopd to make
Wayno county fairs, is coming
nearer.
In the opinion of a few married
men as well as cynical old bache
lors tho tree salcstnan worth $5,
000 who is offoring ?2,000, not less,
to the woman willing to become his
wife Is paying $1,999 to much. But
he Is old enough to know his own
business!
An intelligent and rational woman
discreetly holds her poaco and lis
tens, tho way the Apostle once told
all women to do, when tqjjlcs that
pertain only to tho men aro up for
discussion. An ignorant, bullhead
ed woman, who feels cocksure sho
knows it nil on every subject, in
cluding somo that aro as far from
petticoat comprehension as tho great
dipper is from tho private Bowers
In tho river opposlto Glen Dyberry,
always insists on butting In, what
ever the nature of tho conversation,
even though her opinions on tho
subject are not within bailing dls-
tanco of tho facts pertinent to the
question at issue. If the dress fits,
put it on.
And still there are bold, bad au-
tomobubblclsts who insist on speed
ing up and down Main street nt 20,
25 and 30 miles an hour, for all
thoso conservative borough fathers
have had boards stuck up at all tho
borough lines to notify tho drivers
In black and white that they must
slow down to a safe nnd sano gait
for 10 miles an hour!
Now listen, Bill. The more fact
that you own a buzz wagon that can
skim tho clay roads of most any
Nebraska county at a mllo a minute
by no means proves you aro mak
ing equal haste toward the fourth
nomination you openly swear you
don't want and which you aro se
cretcly laying all sorts of pipes and
plans to capture. There's a man
In Columbus, the busy town in the
heart of Ohio, that has to bo reck
oned with in that little 1912 under
taking; and there's a convalescent In
a nearer state a pivotal state who
may, probably will, be heard from
two years from now, when you have
business more important than buzz
wagons and Chautauqua lectures at
$500 per and royalties on phono
graph records of "The Crown of
Thorns" and "The Prince of Peace"
to engross your attention.
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t KEYSTONE PRESS.
The man who looks upon religion
as foolishness is very likely to be
lieve In a number of things that aro
much less creditable. Butler Citi
zen. Bryan's announced hostility to
Gov. Harmon as a presidential can
didate probably is Mr. Harmon's first
assurance that he ha3 a chance to
win. Erie Dispatch.
By all means let us have that
school for waiters. After a man ac
quires a fortune from tips ho flnd3
it inconvenient to be an Ignoramus.
Harrisburg Telegraph.
Things that possess a real senti
mental value are worth a whole lot
more to their possessor than things
that possess merely a commercial
value. Punxsutawney Spirit.
The sound of tho hammer is heard
in Palmyra but it's not that of the
"knocker," for everybody is a boos
ter down there just now. We refer
to the tap-tap of the decorator tack
ing up bunting. Harrisburg Tele
graph. They have direct legislation In
Mexico. Diaz directs it, and it is
made directly just as he orders, and
without bothering the congress or
any other except those who are mur
dered, robbed or banished. Frank
lin News.
The Wall street financial Journals
have been complaining of the farm
ers of Kansas spending $30,000,000
for automobiles. That is quite a
hot pace for the farmer, but wait
until the Grange picks out their
brand of aeroplane, then you'll see
the money fly. Stroudsburg Jeffer
sonlan. A panic occurred at Narragansett
Pier the other day when the consta
bles raided a fashionable gambling
resort and arrested a number of
wealthy society women. Tho names
of the women were not published
because of the "shame and mortifi
cation" It would give their families.
But the women did not caro much
about tho shamo of gambling, with
them the shame was in being found
out. In all probability. If the
women had been wives of working'
men and farmers instead of wives
of wealthy society men, no such con
sideration would havo been shown
them. But why under such cir
cumstances should a distinction be
made between the woman In a print
dress and one in silk? if ono is an
offender so Is the other, and no par
tiality ouglit to be displayed. Bris
tol Courier.
With the tremendous increase in
the use of tho automobile and the
incursion of the aeroplane Into the
field of transportation, much is be
ing heard nowadays about tho pass
ing of tho horse. But tho horse Is
not "passing," let It be understood.
He may be changing from ono ser
vice to another, perhaps, but ho
is in as much demand as ever.
And It is altogether likely that tho
quality of tho horses raised in tho
future will bo higher than tho va
riety that heretofore has plodded in
front of tho white man's burden in
field and highway. Motors may bo
adopted In country life, traction en
gines may be found in the field,
whero thoro will bo plenty for them
to do, nnd airships may soar above
our heads with passengers and
freight, but thero is a fondness for
tho fnlthful horse that will abide
with peoplo whorovor civilization
maintains Its sway. Lancaster Now
Era.
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RIGHT OFF THE BAT. f
Ytili-havo queered mo In this town
with four yarn about tho youngest
man in Honesdalo at 03. Thero was
a tlmo when I cut somo Ico with tho
ladles because they never mistrusted
I was that far along in life, but now
it's all over. Tho other day I met
ono of them and sho greeted ino
with, "Hello, 53; how aro you to
day?" That's pretty tough. I ad
mit I was born in 1857 and went
to work in 1872, but all tho samo I
hoto to have people subtract 1857
from 1910 and tell me tho result
out loud. It isn't a squaro deal.
Buel E. Dodge.
A trip to Pleasant Mount and re
turn in one of thoso largo touring
cars Is pleasure in tho extreme.
Michael Kearney, Carbondalo.
Tho Democrats in tho center will
have a Dutch ticket on their hands
next election if they don't go slow.
Too many Dutchmen on tho ticket
nnd all living in the center Is not
going to get Irish and American
votes. Give the Dutch their share,
but don't forget tho Irish and the
American Democrats and don't
bunch them all in the center. Ex
Couitulssloner John M. Rlckard.
I am not a newspaperman, though
I've sometimes sold papers and In
that way got an idea of what peo
ple like to read. Let mo ask one
question: What good does It do for
a local paper to 1111 Its columns full
with a lot of stuff that everybody in
town knew about long before the
paper went to press? The mission
of a newspaper, as I understand it,
is to print things people might not
hear about without the help of that
paper. I like to read a paper that
tells me something I never knew
before, not one which simply re
cords knowledge I possessed at least
as soon as tho paper. Frank W.
Schuerholz.
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