The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1489 
Things To Think About 
The object of this department is to give readers a chance to express themselves on farm 
matters. Not long articles can he used—just short, pointed opinions or suggestions. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You might 
call this a mental safety valve. 4 
Are the Railroads Playing Fair? 
I want to call your attention to the 
way in which the public in general and 
the farmers in particular ore being made 
“the goat” in I Im war now going on be¬ 
tween the railroads and their employees. 
I find that the roads are using every 
possible means in im reuse their expenses, 
as jin excuse before (he Interstate Com¬ 
merce Com mission, for maintaining their 
high rates, pointing to labor as the cause 
of it all, with the hope of so angering the 
public with the high rates that ' public 
opinion” will shoot labor unions clean off 
the map. 
We, as farmers, have no sympathy for 
the unions, but of the two, roads or 
unions, we believe the roads the greater 
sinners. They are employing all the labor 
they can get to do perfectly useless work. 
The men understand this, and, of course, 
sit down on the job, 1 have talked with 
several, after seeing their work could in 
no way add to the efficiency of the roads, 
who said their unions understood it only 
as the roads’ way of proving a political 
theory against labor. Whichever may be 
right, we are the ones who have the 
freight to pay, and there should be some 
way of preventing the roads from carry¬ 
ing on such a warfare. 
New York. manson l. smith. 
of the teacher, who must control from 10 
to 40 different children, all with differ¬ 
ent ideas and dispositions, from 9 a. m. 
to 4 p. m„ five days out. of seven, are the 
ones who will punish timir children for 
many lesser offenses than the teacher, 
and in most cases much harder than any 
teacher would ever think of doing. 
Try to get your child to tell jou a fair 
story, then take it with a grain of salt, 
and in 9% out of 10 cases you will find 
that the teacher is doing what is best for 
the one who l-~> years hence will by his or 
her vote rule our land. 
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Neglected Dirt Roads 
What is the law governing the town 
board, relative to some dirt roads in the 
town which have been neglected or al¬ 
lowed to go without repairs for years, 
while the road tax has been collected an¬ 
nually? One road in the town has had 
a oncy appropriated for its repair three 
different times, and no one has been able 
to answer the question as to where the 
money ever went to, and we know the 
road has not been repaired. R. d. ii. 
New York. 
Closer co-operation between the town 
board, the town superintendent of high¬ 
ways and the taxpayers of the various 
towns in New York State would make bet¬ 
ter harmony in the town and also better 
roads. We believe that there is hardly a 
town superintendent, in the State of New 
York who is not doing his utmost to make 
good roads. There are a great many peo- 
tde outside of Oswego County who con¬ 
tinually complain about their dirt roads, 
without stopping to consider that the 
traffic at the present tirnp is greatly in¬ 
creased over what it was two or three 
years ago. and that the town superintend¬ 
ent is trying to keep the roads in condi¬ 
tion with scarcely any increase in the 
amount raised by taxes for highway pur¬ 
poses. A road placed in condition foi- 
horse-elrawn vehicles so that it would 
last for many weeks, may now be entirely 
ruined in one night by a truck passing 
over the same, following a heavy rain. If 
the taxpayers would realize this and. if 
necessary, each donate a little time in as¬ 
sisting the town superintendent, there 
would be better roads without increase of 
taxes, and without so much grumbling. 
Of course, all of this applies to coun¬ 
ties outside of Oswego County, but it is 
possible that it may be read in Oswego 
County 16 good advantage. What we 
have said does not apply to any county 
where the town superintendent does not 
try to do his duty. Our advice would 
be to get tie! of a town superintendent 
v ho does not do hits duty as soon as pos¬ 
sible. 
Your uuestion asking for the law gov¬ 
erning the town board relative to dirt 
roads is so broad we could not cover it. 
It might be well for you to consult with 
your county superintendent of high¬ 
ways, who can give you such advice as 
you may need. N. T. 
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Let the Indians Alone 
Will you give me a little space to ex¬ 
press myself regarding some things that 
are said about the Indians, in the articles 
now running in TiUC It. N.-Y.V For in¬ 
stance, mention is matte of the fact that 
Indians persist in dressing themselves 
the Indian way. Now. why does not the 
white management of those schools allow 
the Indians to dress just as they please? 
Whether the little Intliau girls wear lin¬ 
gerie or not, is nobody's else business. 
And as to blankets, wbat harm is there 
in letting the Lmlians have their own way 
—just letting them alone? It should 
never be difficult to let people alone. 
In this day and generation, the white 
race is determined as never before to 
foist its thought nnd its so-called civil¬ 
ization on everybody, everywhere. Aud 
if this were an all-around good, there 
might not be much objection. But who 
has given the white race this prerogative? 
Now. do not try to liud it iu Scripture, 
because it is not there. l>ocs the present 
status of so-called civilization bear the 
white man out in his course? Just the 
reverse 1 Instead. Ibis so-called civiliza¬ 
tion is rapidly taking the whole world to 
ruin. All this talk about “phenomenal 
progress.” “moral improvement,” etc., is 
plain “bunk.” 
Who iu his mature reflection will not 
readily admit that the world today would 
be ioliuitely better off if the first auto¬ 
mobile. moving picture machine, airship, 
submarine, poison gas. rapid-lire gun. etc., 
had never been made? As to the Indians, 
these outraged people ought to be encour¬ 
aged to live their natural life as near as 
this decadent “civilization" yet allows, 
and not taught too many of the white 
man’s ways. For the white man’s road 
is so beset with devious wtudings-iu and 
windings-out, that the uilgrim. alas, is 
extremely unlikely to reach its end (ihe the RURAL NEW-YORKER. DEC. 23, 1922 
end of his life) without finding that he 
has been led into a place where he "sold 
his birthright for a mess of pottage.” 
Pennsylvania. HARRY hoover. 
It. N.-Y,—Our friend thinks it would 
le easy to lei people alone! 1’liat would 
mean close to death to some people we 
1 now. Their only apparent business in 
life is to regulate the business of other 
people Some of the habits of Indians 
laud white folks, tool are clearly insan¬ 
itary aud unsafe, and they ought to be 
corrected, but iu general one should be 
permitted to lead his natural life. 
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CONTENTS 
FARM TOPICS 
A "Blight-proof Potato Variety. 
"A Night on the Market" Brought to Day. 
light—Part IV.. 
A Good Farm Gate. 
Hope Farm Notes... 
Prices for Farm Products . 
Forecast of the Bean Market. . 
The Farmer and His Ballot. 
Legislative Needs of New York Farmers. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Boy's Aberdeen-Angus Heifer.......... 
Cabbage in the Silo... 
Dairy Ration; Pomace.................... 
A Georgia Ration.... 
Rearing the Dairy Calf. 
THE HENYARD 
An Early Bird.... . .... . 
Pullets’ Eegs; Hot-water Heating. 
Effect of Breeding for Good Hens. 
Copperas for Poultry... 
Egg-laying Contest ... 
Balanced Ration .. 
HORTICULTURE 
Fumigating to Kill Whit* Fly. 
Notes from New England. 
Notes from b Maryland Garden. 
Late-blooming Roses .... 
Apple Markets in Texas... 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day u Day.. 
Sour Cream Filling for Layer Cake. 
The Rural Patterns., , ., . ... 
Excellent Bread by the Easiest Method.... 
Two Old Favorites. 
Notes from Vermont..1498. 
Partnership .... 
Day by Day in a. Busy Home....-. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Further Discussion of Rural School Prob¬ 
lem ...1485. 
A Talk on Scarlet Fever. 
Keeping Cider Frozen. 
Are Railroads Playing Fair?. 
Let the Indians Alone. 
Neglected Dirt Roads... 
Mliul the Teacher. 
Countrywide Produce Situation. 
Radio for Every Home. 
Sawing Wood with a Ford.... 
Ashphnlt to Repair Leaky Tank. 
A Deer-tight Fence. 
Editorials .... 
Miners aud Their Wages... ... 
Occupation of Pennsylvania Legislators.... 
The Middleman Takes ft All....... 
Publisher's Desk . 
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I was very much interested in your 
comment on school law and punishment 
in a recent issue, nlso your comment on 
page 1290. 1 am sending a girl of 1“ to 
a district school with three rooms, one of 
two we have in school. For two years 
the children have run the school. This 
year the teacher is trying to undo ihe 
evil of the past two years In order to 
shame them for not studying be made a 
class kneel on the floor for almost half 
a hour, the children said; the teacher, 
five minutes by his watch. In another 
instance, in the same school, two parents 
were talked to kindly by the teacher be¬ 
cause of lock of interest and misconduct 
on the part of their children. In one 
case the child was told by the parent to 
get his lessons, behave himself and settle 
down to business, or the teacher had full 
power to see that he was punished as he 
thought best, with the res lit that the 
child is improving rapidly and doing good 
work. In the other case the parent 
strongly resented intoreference on the 
part of the teacher, with the result that 
the child has the impression the teacher is 
all wrong, and it is much harder for both 
child and teacher, and the child is doing 
nothing at all. 
In nine cases out of 10 the parents who 
so strongly reseat puuishuieut on the part 
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