RURAL SCHOOL CHILDREN HELP THEIR PARENTS

...He whote to the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs: "The Department sees in the plan a two-fold advantage, the opportunity for developing a large trade with South America, which is not practicable for private vessels under the United States flag, and for the gradual development of a large auxiliary fleet which would be necessary in time of war and which would be built up and maintained in time of peace without cost to the government, as it will pay for itself after having been once established...

...The lessons taught can be applied year after year and constantly improved upon, until the time will come in Oklahoma, as it should come, when no seeds of any kind whatsoever will be planted until they have first been tested...

...If the schools, through their teachers and pupils, can bring this about, they will have fulfilled one of the greatest missions for which they are supported by public funds—that of making bread-winning easier...

...It will not only be a financial benefit to the farmer by teaching him to plant none put good seed, but it is of distinct "educational value to the children...

...It furnishes one of the best lessons that can be taught in botany or agriculture, and affords the opportunity to come in closer contact with every farmer in the community, a thing which all good teachers are anxious to do...

...If the tests are properly made and the information followed by the farmers, the results should be remarkable...

...Should the development of the business warrant, the cruisers used for this service would be gradually replaced by auxiliary vessels vastly more suitable and economical for the service itself as well as for the use of the navy in time of war...

...Throughout the state the teachers and pupils have been systematically testing seeds for the planters in their respective communities...

...Superintendent Wilson's experiment in Oklahoma is an important example of what the schools can do to make the contact between education and the real life of the community in which the school is located...

...Every teacher in the state has received from State Superintendent Wilson a scoring sheet on which to record the tests...

...No movement has been started in our state which can result in as much good with so little cost to the people generally," declared Mr...

...Seed from last year's crop is reported to be particularly unreliable, and agricultural experts say there is special need this -year for some such direct service as the schools have offered...

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...Daniels Wants Old War Vessels Put to Work Secretary of the Navy Daniels advocates the enactment of a law providing that obsolete war vessels be used for the establishment of a line of mail, freight and passenger vessels between New York and New Orleans and Valparaiso, Chile...