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VOL VIII No. 46.
THE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE GRADUATE
There lias been much general criti
cism of the g adua'es of egriculturil
colleges, but this has perhaps applied
more largely to two points. Too ma
ny of them, it is thought do not go
back to the farm, and they are too
frequently not sufficiently familiar
with actual farm work and practical
farm management.
The first is of little force. Many
of them c n do much better for them
s Ives and for the state by accepting
positions in the numerous lines of ag
ricultural work, such os teaching, in
vestigation. etc. But apart from
these lines of work which take such a
large number of recent agricultural
graduates, we can see no reason why
they should be expected to go into
any sort of agricultural work unless
especially fitted for it. The educa
tion received at au agricultural col
lege is as useful, or as efficient an ed
ucation in preparing the citizen or
the businessman for a successful ca
reer as that of the same grade or oc
cupying the same time in our institu
tions of general education.
But it seems to us the second criti
cism mentioned is well founded. A
young man with a degree from an ag
ricultural college should be familiar i
with farm work and should know en
ough of operating a farm to appreci
ate the basic problems of farm man
agement This sort of information
can only be obtained through actual '
experience... Unless the farm raised
boy gets actual experence in operat- ■
ing the farm on his own responsibility
he may fall far short of that knowl-'
ei’ge which is expected of him.
To exclude from the agricultural’
courses of our agricultural colleges all,
except farm-raised boys will, there- 1
fore, not solve the problem, nor is it
justifiable from the standpoint of the
individual boy or the best interests of
the state. But to require two years
of actual farm work and at least one '
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Mr W. I. Dixon of Toomsboro was
। in the city S it unlay.
Saturday afternoon Mr N. D, Nei
lson and Miss Lily Bell Lavender,
1 accompanied b’y scveiai friends came
to town and were united in marriage
by Rev W. 11. Robinson.
Dr J. T. Mills of Mclntyre was in
Irwinton Monday-
Miss Eloise Hatfield has been elec
ted assistant teacher of the Tooms
boro school.
Miss Willie Davis left for Midville
। where she will teach in the public
school.
Mr Dennis Doke of Moultrie was
' in town Monday.
I
। Mrs J. R. Dixon, Miss Maud Tay
. lor, Miss Edna Earle Raines,- Mr.
j Fleming Bloodworth, Mr Freeman
। Stinson, Mr Lamar Tigner enjoyed a
’ motor piarty Sunday as guests of Mr
I Frank Johnson, “seeing” Milledge
| ville, Sparta, Granite Hill, Warren
. ton, Thompson, and a glimpse at
i “Hickory Hill.'’.
Wilkinson county has about a doz
en students in the Tenth District Ag
i ricultural School at Granite Hill. A
j few from this county graduating from
i this school in the past few years have
j interested others and because of con
tinued satisfactory results the attend
ance is growing larger.^
The revival at the Baptist church
has been well attended and - Rev. J.
A. Bonner has preached some able
sermons. The meeting closes today.
year of some experience in the re
sponsibilities of managing a farm of
all who receive a diploma in agricul
ture from our agricultural colleges
would partly solve the difficulty,
probably as nearly as it can be solv
ed. —Progressive Farmer.
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY GEO
COAST TO COAST
0. S. FOR LEAGUE
MILLIONS ACCLAIM WILSON AS
HE SPEEDS ACROSS
THE LAND.
FEW ASK FOR CHANGES
Majority Feel That President’s Guid
ance Should Be Held—He Regards
Pact As Sure to Come Gaon.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
Aboard President Wilson’s Special
Train —From the Capital at Washing
ton to the far Pacific coast the Presi
dent of the United States has Jour
neyed on the most unusual expedition
ever undertaken by a chief executive
of the nation.
To discuss national questions, many
presidents have toured the land; but
Mr. Wilson is laying before America
a question which affects the whole
world —the question of whether or not
we are to join in the League of Na
tions; whether we are to forget our
former isolation and share with the
other peoples of the earth the respon
sibilities of maintaining civilization
and preventing, as he says we can do,
future warfare.
Between the capital and the coast
the president made fifteen speeches
and half a dozen brief talks. All of
100,000 fellow citizens listened to him.
Several millions had the chance to see
him, and apparently everyone wanted
to see him, from those who thronged
the streets of the cities and towns
where he stopped, to those who came
to the railside or stood at little flag
stations In remote places, knowing
their only reward could be a fleeting
glimpse and a wave of the hand.
He has met and talked to all types
of citizens —to men big in the busi
ness, financial and professional worlds,
to farmers and mechanical workers,
to Indians and cowboys and foreign
bom herders and rangers, to soldiers
and to mothers who lost soldier-sons
in the late war.
What do they all tell him? unani
mously they say they want peace
definitely settled, they want no more
wars, they want the League of Na
tions, and most ot the American uo-a
sia. if mav ha fairly said, tell the
GIA, FRIDAY, SEPT 19, 1919.
Hresment tney -want tne ueague just
as it is, without the reservations or
amendments which certain senators
have Insisted upon. The majority of
citizens say to those who interview
them on this tour:
“Woodrow Wilson guided us rightly
before and during the war with Ger
many. We entered that war, every
one agrees, to end all wars. He says
the league can do that. We want to
do that, so let us keep on trusting him
and get the league into operation as
soon as possible. Forget politics.”
Most Americans encountered on the
tour have forgotten politics, Repub
lican Governors and Mayors have in
troduced the President to his audi
ence; the Major part of the local com
mittees which have met him have
been Republicans. They have all said:
“We are nothing but Americans, Mr.
President.”
Mr. Wilson’s arguments for the
league, briefly summarized, are those:
I There can be no peace, either now
;or in the future, without it. There
| can only be a regrouping of nations
' and a new “Balance of Power,” which
' is certain to lead to war. There can
I be no war In the future, with the
i league in existence, because no single
J nation would defy the united rest of
mankind, and if It did, it cculd be
! brought to terms by an economic
boycott, and without the use of arms.
There can be no reduction in the
cost of living until the league Is es
tablished, for nations will not go
ahead with peace time production un
til they know that peace is definitely
assured and that production of war
material Is no longer necessary.
There can be wonderful prosperity,
with the league in existence, for rel
ations of labor and capital all over
the world will be made closer and
more friendly, and the worker will re
, ceive a fairer share of what he pro-
I duces.
These declaration of the president,
' logically and eloquently put, have left
■ his hearers thinking and thinking
deeply. And then Mr. Wilson has
pointed out, the people themselves, as
differentiated from senators and politi
cians, seem to want Just what the
president wants, which is America for
leadership.
Quite is unusual as the purpose of
the cross country tour is the manner
in which, it is being carried out and
the completeness of the arrange
ments os the nine car train which is
bearing the party.
At the rear is the private car May
flower, occupied by the President anc
Mrs. Wilson. Next is a compartment
rar for the secretary Tumulty. Ad-
Vt. •-* * »» — — —•-» — -
clan, four stenographers, the chief
! executive clerk and seven secret ser
. vice men. Byond are three compart
-1 ment cars which house twenty-one
! correspondents, five movie men, and
I a telegraphic and a railroad expert.
I Thon there is a dinner, a club car, am
| two baggage cars, one of them con
verted into a business office. The
' train was exactly on time at every
"-top between Washington and the
Coast.
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NOTICE.
Notice is lien by giv. n that cn the
Glh day of October ,919. in the c cirt
house in the city or Ir vintou and the
county of Wilkinson. Ga. will lie
heard the cause entitled Sta'c of
Georgia vs. the Gordon School Dis
trict of ilkinson Cpnnty, <t al. be
ing proceeding fi r validation of the
School Ronds proposed to Lc issued
by raid Gordon School District, pur
mant to the result of the election
held in said School District on the
Gth day of September 1919, and pur
suant to an order granted by Hon.
James B. Park, Judge of Superior
Court of said county, on September
17th, 1919.
I. B Stinson,
Clerk Superior Court, Wilkinson
County, Ga.
This Sept 17tb. 1919.
