Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1914 — ENERGY WASTED [ARTICLE]

ENERGY WASTED

Gov.. Cox of Ohio Would Concentrate Efforts for Agricultural Betterment (National* Crop Improvement Service.] Governor Cox of Ohio recently made the following statement with which we heartily agree, as applied not only to Ohio, but other States as well: “The great problem of the time Is to impress on the farmer the problems of the city, and on the city man the problems of country life. You town and city men are familiar with the problems of the city, but you may or may not realize that unless something is done And done immediately to re-establish the old oommunlty life on the farm, we shall see a decline of production by the farms. We must Increase the interest of Ohio men in Ohio dirt; and you above all others Bhould be familiar with the advantages of the modern agricultural art and what It means to both the farm and the city man. You know the difference between the progressive farmer and the conservatives farmer — between Dad and the boy-—is getting to be 60 bushels of corn to the acre. We must have an agricultural policy that has imagination In It. We have too many experts going the rounds—too great a waste of energy, in this matter of education.’ What we need Is the concentration of labor to cut out the duplication of teachers; and no all our various state bureaus and departments in Ohio should ha thrown Into one and made map# effective,by (he union." . • . • .• ... ;