424 American Agriculturist, December 20, 1924 
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+ therefore, should receive financial help to main- States of America and to foster a spirit of tolera- 
AMERICAN tabl tbe ' r scbocds > an d tbe decision by the Okla- tion in economics, politics afid religion”. 
homa Supreme Court establishes an important Among the founders of this organization is the 
ArRin IT TT JR TSTP precedent for the appropriation of state moneys statesman, Elihu Root, and he is associated with 
^ Ivlvjl^ M~j x UrVlO 1 to help keep good schools in districts where valua- several other prominent men from the ranks of, 
Founded 1842 tions are low. the Masonic Fraternity and the Knights of Co- 
j —— = i -. lumbus. The original idea for an association of 
IS “X-• ::::::: Pu SS The National Tarn Commission *'* k! M d V said to have or!£inally started in EI - 
Fred W. Ohm .Associate Editor Ane - Natl0nai rann commission mira, N. Y. 
Mrs. G. E. Fobbush .Household Editor r HEN President Coolidge accepted the nom- In bis opening address at the organization meet- 
E^cT Weatherby" . *. \ \ \ Circulation Manager W ination of the Republican party, he promised Mr. Charles A. Miller, the first chairman of 
contributing staff ' that lie would call on representatives of agricul- society, said: 
Jared Va n Wagen e n, Jr. „ M.C.BumU tore who could speak with authority on: farm tolera S „f E the°intoleSnf I wmdd hfve V yo/bclie« 
H. E. Cook __ G. . Hughes needs to ser\e on a coinniission to advise him 111 that even those who most thoroughly disagree with every- 
ottd ATw™>rnro™rT.xTrr^ - formulating his legislative program for agricul- thing that you stand for and I stand for are still led to 
OUR ADVERTISEMENT^ GUARANTEED . ture. The commission was appointed and held its th . at . agreement or disagreement with us by the same sort 
lhe American Agriculturist accepts only advertising r; f .• , wi-rifo of love of country, and love of decency in their hearts 
Which it believes to be thoroughly honest. meeting at the White House on November that we have f’ esi)ecia i, y plea d against the modem 
We positively guarantee to our readers fair and honest treat- I/th. Jtoimer Governor Jxobert D. Carey of habit of classifying and generalizing and putting people 
ment in dealing with our advertisers. Wyoming was made the chairman of the cornmis- in a great class and saying because they belong to that 
VVe guarantee to refund the price of goods purchased by g j on p)r R W Thatcher of the Geneva Exoeri- c l ass they must all be treated as one, whether that class 
out tubsenbers from any advert,ser who Ms to make good Jr New York Stateis a memher is madc “P b * common Prescription to a religious creed, 
when the article purchased is found not to be as advertised. ment station OI.iNew I Oik Mate IS a member. an economic theory or to a political party * .* * 
To benefit by this guarantee subscribers must say: “I saw Other members include : O. E. Bradfute, Presi- “Not that I mean for a minute that toleration should 
your ad in the American Agriculturist when ordering dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation, be of the wishy washy indifference. The false doctrine 
romoura ver isers. _Chicago: Charles S. Barrett. Chairman of the that it makes no difference what a man believes will get 
• Published Weekly by 7 “ National Board Of Farm Organizations Union 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, INC City, Georgia; . j. Taber, Master of the National valiantly for them; but let us concede that the other 
425 Caroll St.. Elmira, N. Y. Grange, Columbus, Ohio; R. P. Merritt, Presi- fellow may have strong beliefs, and when he girds his 
, Address ail correspondence for editorial, advertising, or sub- dent of the Sun Maid Raisin Growers Fresno loins to do battle in their faith, let us give him the benefit 
ription departments to California; Prof, W. C. Coffey, Dean of the Col- o£ f ubt Jat he means in his heart to fight square.’’ 
461 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. j of Agriculture and Director of the Exoeri- . We ll0pe that ! h,s . soc,et > r and the P nil pples tnat 
Entered as Second-Class Matter, December 6, 1924 , at the Post ment Station University of Minnesota St Paul* s * ailds ^ 01 " w * b bve and grow. This country 
Office at Elmira, N. Y„ under the Act of March 6, 1879 .' nlellt ptatlOtl, University Ot Minnesota, it. UaUl, i fodnv more than anvthinor P 1 c P n little C’hris- 
—--—- : - and F. E. Bixby, President of the National Live today more than anything else a little Ghns 
Subscription pr.ee payable n advance, $1 a year S(ock Association, Long Beach, California. ,an . » !lt . tle ■'ecogmt on of the o her fel- 
three years for $ 2 , five years for $ 3 . Canadian and . , ., ^ . . ... lows point of view, and a little less Willingness 
fnreis-n $2 a vear At its first meeting, the commission called on , , , ’ , . , .. , . 
a ^ 5 ’. manv different agricultural exoerts and made it to bebe Y e ever y absiird and preposterous lie that is 
, . , ‘ ? . being circulated. In these unsettled times, the 
Our Christmas Message clear that they expected to conduct a conservative nat > n needs the tinited cotmsd aad suppor f 0 f a 
andThorough investigation of the whole agricul- ... it? • xi_ u- t _ 
P ERHAPS the hardest fight which most of tural situation. Among the subjects that will be I 1111 e , P e ®P e * ^ery u ^ . 
us have to make as the years come on is to given first and detailed attention are; cooperative ? a re •’ m ° j 1 ai c .^ i.,]* Se „^ ^ ^ , p 6 pr v 
keep untarnished and undiminished the simple marketing, including a study of the cooperative 1 menca , an 0 ^ f o' 11 u /’n- ^ ^ 
faith in the fundamental beliefs and ideals of a bills now pending in Congress; all phases of the movement like that of the Ham.lton-Jefteison 
little child. From our puny heights of knowl- tariff to see what protection, if any, it gives agri- '“XT’for ihe e^ ldeak of° WricatidTor Z 
edge, we grown-ups laugh in tolerant amusement culture; the whole structure of transportation, in- ? undamenta i trutl , s bv Tesus of Nazareth 
at the baby s unshaken faith in Santa Claus. But volving highways, water transportation, freight sl ild b ^ f ostere d encouraged and supported! 
if we think of God as the true Santa Claus, not rates and freight service; and many foolish re- h-, . . \ • r A • , 0 .• j ^ f 
only for the Christmas time, but for the whole clamation projects that are now up for considera- ier , e ^ ^ Ce \ • , - , . « 
year, the child in his beliefs is nearer to the truth tion. ' 
than are we doubting grown-ups. As we have before stated, we do not have much ’ 
One of the sad things of life is that with the faith in agricultural investigations, but if this - 
passing of childhood the belief in Santa Claus commission, whch seems to be composed of men p 
is not the only illusion, the only faith, that is lost, whose views on agriculture are sound, keeps itself Curry W earnerDy ill 
With it too often go also our faith in the eternal clear of politics, and through its recommendations rpHE thousands of friends of Mr. E. C. 
verities, and our love of and belief in our fellow discourages much of the absurd and unsound leg- J[ Weatherby, better known as “Curry,” circu- 
nien. In its place come a striving for material islation concerning agriculture, it may do some lation manager of American Agriculturist, will 
things, a lessening of the child’s acute vision to good. be very sorry to hear that at this writing he is very 
see right and wrong, and a distrust of our fellows. -- . ill a t his home in Ithaca. In some unknown way, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST WISHES P-H-tpc fVvr T^ttprct ^ r - Weatherby contracted typhoid fever, but he 
YOU AND YOURS A MERRY CHRISTMAS Pnzes lor LeUers is do ing as well as can be expected, 
in this year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and jn our December 13th issue, on Page 409, we Probably no man in public work in New York 
twenty-four. And may we also hope that you J[ offered prizes of $5 for the first, $3 for the sec- State is better known or liked than Mr. Weather- 
may slough off for a little time at least the burdens 0 nd, $2 for the third, and $1 each for the next by, and we know that we are expressing the best 
of the wearisome years and become again in spirit best ten letters on what you like and do not like wishes of all of his friends for a speedy recovery, 
a little child, with the child’s capacity for happi- i n American Agriculturist. Letters must be --— 
ness and with his faidi that all is right with the written by men or women actually living on a _ , , p, , . 
world and its people. farm. They should be from 200 to 500 words in Xiastmail S biiestllUtS , 
--- length,, and they should give your first, second 1 am very sorry, but the blight has struck my 
‘Stat€ Should Aid Pool* Districts snd thud choice of articles and features which chestnut grove. I have seen it coming for quite 
- . you like best in American Agriculturist, to- a spell. 
T HE Supreme Court of Oklahoma recently gether with your reasons. Letters may, of course, __ 
handed down a decision of great importance include any other discussion on the paper. We 
ts rural school education. The decision stated are already beginning to get some letters, but we Quotations Worth While 
that appropriations of state aid to weak school would like to hear from a large number of our f f l . 
districts are a part of thefulfillment of the obli- readers, believing that if we have your criticism ^^as . Shor fte mord 
gahon to maintain a system of public schools we can give you a better paper in 1925. worth of a nation.’V-MAURicE Maeteslinck. 
placed upon the state by its constitution, lhe Turn back to last week s issue and read the an- 
limit of district school tax having been reached, nouncement; then write us. * * * ! 
the state must carry on , to give the local school ■ - A man may be strong, and yet not mow well.—* 
equal advantages with other and richer districts. For Toleration Proverbs of England. 
The decision came about through an attempt to ^ ^ * 
stop an appropriation of $650,000 made by the 1A ECENTLY there was a very interesting or- 
Oklahoma legislature last spring to aid poor dis- JLV ganization started in the City of Utica, New “I do consider that music is all the pleasure lj 
tricts. The greater part of these were small rural York, called the Hamilton-Jefferson Association, live for in the world, and the greatest I can ever; 
districts, with weak schools. This society, which is planned to be nationwide in expect in the best of my “life.”—S amuel Pepys. 
It is much more difficult to raise the necessary its scope, is to be composed of an equal number * * * 
ney for maintaining the right kind of a school of Protestants and Catholics, and has for its pur- # ‘ 
y rural district where the taxable valuation poses, “to promote devotion to and understanding A poem ought to be well-made at first, for there 
nail than it is in other districts and in cities of the purposes of the founders of this Republic is many a one to spoil it afterwards.—P roverb* 
e valuations are very high. Such districts, as expressed in the Constitution of the United of Ireland. 
