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American Agriculturist, August 18,1923 
Editorial Page of the American Agriculturist 
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VOL. 112 August 18, 1923 No. 7 
Ready For School ? 
T will soon be time for the youngsters to 
go to school again. Unfortunately few of 
them look forward with any pleasure to the 
opening of the school year. This may be be¬ 
cause folks are just naturally contrary or 
because the average school is not an interest¬ 
ing place to most children. However, getting 
an education is just about the most important 
job in life. 
Thousands of boys and girls will decide 
this summer for one reason or another not 
to go to school any more. Every one of them 
will later in life regret that decision. We 
never have yet heard anyone say that they 
were sorry they had so much education, but 
on the other hand nearly every grown person 
regrets that they did not have or take more 
school advantages. If education was neces¬ 
sary in the past it will be more than ever 
necessary in the future. Competition be¬ 
tween individuals is rapidly increasing. To 
meet that competition and to make a living 
one must be trained as never before. 
But making a living is not the chief object 
in true education. For a training that fails 
to give its possessor more happiness than he 
otherwise would have is a failure. Happi¬ 
ness is the chief object in life, and true edu¬ 
cation should increase the possibilities of 
real happiness. 
Few of us can give our children all that 
we wish in the way of material wealth and 
advantages. It is probably a good thing for 
the children that we cannot. But all of us 
can do much to help the young people to 
something which is worth more to the young¬ 
sters than actual dollars and cents and that 
is trained minds with which they can get the 
most out of life for themselves and their 
fellows. 
began to show signs of distress. Then when 
he most needed their encouragement, they 
transferred their affections to the other man. 
When Willard was finally licked, the crowd 
hissed him and shouted their approval of the 
victor. 
Every time we hear of something like this 
showing the heartlessness of the mob, we 
think of the Roman crowds two thousand 
years ago whose idea of a glorious holiday 
was to watch the lions eat the Christian 
martyrs. Shakespeare brings out the cruelty 
and fickleness of crowds in his “Julius 
Cassar.” He shows the mob out to celebrate 
a holiday in honor of Caesar. 
But, indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Caesar 
and rejoice in his triumphs. 
Then Caesar is murdered on the Ides of 
March and after a speech by Brutus defend¬ 
ing the act, the crowd loudly applauded the 
assassins. 
Caesar’s better parts 
Shall now be crown’d in Brutus. 
cried the citizens. Then Mark Antony fol¬ 
lowed with that wonderful speech defending 
Caesar which begins: 
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. 
The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones; 
So let it be with Caesar. 
••♦•••• 
He was my friend, faithful and just to me; 
But Brutus says he was ambitious, 
And Brutus is an honorable man. 
He hath brought many captives home to Rome, 
Whose ransom did the general coffers fill! 
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? 
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; 
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; 
And Brutus is an honorable man. 
• • • • • 
Bear with me; 
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, 
And I must pause till it come back to me. 
But yesterday the word of Caesar might 
Have stood against the world; now lies he there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 
After this speech, from which these are 
only a few quotations, the mob switched their 
affections back to Caesar and rushed forth 
to burn and pillage the houses of Caesar’s 
enemies. 
Another expression voicing this same idea 
that has come down through the years is: 
“The King is dead; long live the King.” 
As individuals there is no doubt that we 
have progressed a long ways toward a higher 
plane in two thousand years, but when we 
get together in crowds and mobs, then we 
often show how thin the veneer of civiliza¬ 
tion is and how near to the surface lurks the 
primeval savage in all of us. 
Our Protective Service Bureau 
OR a great many years, American Agri¬ 
culturist has maintained a Protective 
Service Bureau to care for and protect the 
interests of its subscribers. We have had 
little to say about this special help for sub¬ 
scribers, preferring to let our works instead 
of our words speak for us. But in order 
to let all of our people know what this service 
is so that they can use it, we are giving here¬ 
with a brief summary of what has been done 
and what we can do. 
During the month just completed—July, 
1923—American Agriculturist collected $1,- 
097.45 for its subscribers. The most of this 
probably would have been lost otherwise. 
Our claims fall in two classes; those against 
our own advertisers, and those against non¬ 
advertisers. Owing to the careful check we 
keep on our advertising, claims against these 
advertisers are very few; and on the other 
hand, of course they are usually easier to 
settle in a satisfactory way. American Agri¬ 
culturist refuses advertising constantly 
amounting to hundreds of dollars when our 
investigations show that such advertising is 
not reliable. 
During the past six months, ending August 
1, our Protective Service Bureau handled 
2,966 complaints, of which only ten per cent 
were about our own advertisers. Most of our 
cases are against commission merchants to 
whom subscribers have shipped their farm 
products. Many are against mail-order houses. 
Claims against mail-order houses are fairly 
easy to adjust because most of them are will¬ 
ing to take our word for it, and settle at once. 
There is more difficulty with the other houses 
and often a large amount of work has to be 
done in tracing express receipts, filing 
claims, etc. For this reason, the corre¬ 
spondence runs very high, each complaint 
involving many letters. 
In addition to the above classes of service, 
we answer hundreds of financial, invest¬ 
ment and legal inquiries, maintaining on our 
contributing staff a financial expert and a 
staff of lawyers,- the best that money can 
hire. 
One of the encouraging things about the 
work of the Protective Service Bureau is the 
hundreds of grateful letters which we receive 
from subscribers who have been helped. 
Naturally, when one receives his money in 
full on an account he had given up as lost, 
he appreciates the agency which got it for 
him. 
It might be well to mention that there are 
certain types of cases which we cannot 
handle. These have to do with personal and 
family quarrels and difficulties between 
neighbors that cannot be straightened out 
except by someone on the ground. In such 
cases, we can only tell the subscriber to see 
a local lawyer. Where legal advice is neces¬ 
sary, we recommend a reputable lawyer near 
the inquirer’s home. 
If you are in trouble, write us and we may 
be able to help you out. The service is ab¬ 
solutely free of charge—just one of the 
many things which we are doing to help our 
people. _ 
Grade Cattle at the Dairy Show 
HE National Dairy Show is encouraging 
the owner of grade cows to make exhibits 
at the exposition to be held with the World’s 
the exposition to be held with the World’s 
Dairy Congress at Syracuse, October 5 to 13. 
This is good work. Cows do not necessarily 
have to be pure breds to be good; in fact, 
good grades are better than poor pure breds. 
The Dairy Show Committees are getting 
in touch with the owners of grade cows 
through cow-testing associations and other¬ 
wise urging them to enter their good cows at 
the local county fairs. From these fairs, 
county herds will be made up for exhibition 
at the State fair, and from the State fair, 
herds selections can be made for the Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show. This does not mean, as 
we understand it, that one must go through 
all of these fairs in order to get his cattle 
into the National Dairy Show, but it is one 
means of insuring every dairyman who at¬ 
tends the Dairy Show the opportunity of 
studying an exhibit of grade cattle which 
cannot be equalled for quality the world over. 
Definitions fpr Every Home 
“HIGH-JACKER” is one who steals a 
load of booze from an honest bootlegger! 
We understand that it is a growing and 
highly profitable business. 
Ah! the things he might have said, 
Quoting authors long since dead, 
Some epigram appropriate—in rhyme. 
Ah! the hit he might have made 
And the scores he could have paid 
If he’d only said the right thing at the time! 
—Albert Chevalier; “The Orator’s La¬ 
ment.” 
“The King Is Dead” 
FEW weeks ago a hundred thousand 
)eople gathered in Jersey City to see the 
prize fight. When Willard, 
Lentered the ring, the crowd 
idous cheer and continued to 
throughout the fight until he 
