Show GOOD WORDS ABROAD THE HE Utah Agricultural college needs no testimonial In hi Its own state to Its Us degree of or usefulness This splendid Institution has long Jlong bc been n nJ J known among the leading agencies In Utah for Cor the training of or good citizens Beyond the borders of or the commonwealth commonwealth common common- W wealth th it is Js not perhaps so well known Ino n but is likely to become become so Among tho the In influential journals who whose se attention has been attracted is Colliers Collier's Colliers Collier's Col Col- liers lier's Weekly which said In Its current current current cur cur- rent issue Honorary degrees were conferred last month upon go goodness knows how many novelists lawyers bankers and politicians But what of ot our fundamental Industry and those who practice it What about the farmers In France rance when you ou see seo a man whose face faco or manner manner man man- ner nel bespeaks distinction distinction and and a certain higher power or livelier Initiative than his fellows fellows' yOu fellows you are re likely to find in his buttonhole a little scrap of or ribbon ribbon red red If It he has hag won the Legion of ot Honor as ns a Ii soldier blue blu for tor a poet yellow for tor agricultural merit We have havo no orders In America instead ad we have the fussiness of ot honorary degrees degrees and and one Oe college collese at least boast t Ulan o when hen It came to the annual handout in tho the month of ot June The Utah State College of or Agriculture Agri Agri- Agriculture culture wishing to recognize recognize- the 1 unusual work done b by men without without without with with- out scientific training training- but with a 3 keen love for tor rural life liCe conferred the tho degree of ot Master Farmer Far on five men from tram different parts arts of or orthe the tine State State and and nd this is 18 wh why Ono One of ot them had broken all records in dr dry farming by bringing bringing- tho the production production tion of ot farmed dry-farmed wheat up to three sixty bushels an acre Another Another Another An An- other other- othera a a. breeder of at fine tine sheep had exported stock to Mexico and South America and h had d shown his neigh neigh- bore bors what a model farm home is like A third had been a pioneer in rural civilization by organizing co operative marketing while two others had for tor years led the way In developing unsettled portions of ot the State If It there Is any work in tho the world more important or more richly endowed with wholesome satisfactions than tho the work of ot a progressive farmer tanner we wo shall 11 be glad to learn just what work that th-at is Is and and to tell our readers Colliers Collier's Is Js not likely to be called upon to tell its readers about the work of ot more importance to society tv or nr mm- mm replete with satisfaction to the worker than progressive lve efficient modern farming farming- The farmer is the ono one in In- In who could worry along without without without with with- out serious inconvenience if It a a number number num num- ber of at other professions and nd vocations mo w were ro sud suddenly to disappear Most of or ofus ofus orus I us fancy tancy the tho farmer would be better I oCl off if It no lawyers existed He would probably probably avoid avoid- tho the undertaker just justas justas as ns long if it there wore were no physicians and the theman man who works all day on na no turo's ture's earth under natures nature's sun needs needs' no spiritual adviser to remind j him himot of ot the existence of ot Deity city or of tho the advisability of or fearIng Him and obeying His commands Farming as a Q vocation doubtless needs none none- of at the official dignity collego college collego col- col lego lege degrees may confer conter The horny- horny handed son gon of at toll toU of at a score or even of a a decade of ot years ago would havo snorted with derision at t tho the idea that farming could be taught in the schools The Tho husban husbandman of of- today However knows better Either he is 1 fa a scientific farmer himself applying tho the principles h he learned at college or ho is arranging that his son eon shall enjoy tho the advantages pe he ie himself lacked If It the farmers farmer's wife wire is Js not administering in her kitchen the tices of ot domestic science inculcated at school she the is at least Icat regretting her I lack Jack of t knowledge of at them and is preparing pre pro paring to send her laughter daughter to th the best school to be had of or th tho habit of r spitting In the this streets It is Js not n a n. pleasant plC subject The newspapers would much rather I write about something cleaner clenner and more thrilling than this toilsome crusade crusade cru cru- sade against f a n popular custom Formerly almost t everyone ridiculed ridi ridi- ridiculed the idea of at a campaign against street expectoration Tho The citizens clung clans to fo the habit as if IC It was ono one of or the of-the the choicest liberties for or which the tho fathers COll fought ht bled and died dk-d. If a city council was asked to pass pa-is a n no no- spitting ordinance some omo local orator I was sure suro to denounce such n a tyrannical tyrannical tyran tyran- interference with ordinary habIts hab hab- its Most lost of or the leading citizens did I it and anel people who denounced tho the I practice were ee were called fussy old aunties But Dut when science made it clear that tho the frightful economic waste the sorrow and tragedy of ot this scourge aro are lar largely el conveyed from system to system b by the habit of or spitting In tho the streets elt city governments railroads and other otho forces began to move A man ma may ro say that ho is in perfect perfect per per- health and that he cannot convey convey cone con con- e vey disease in this way Yet If It he persists in the practice some poor wreck of humanity with one foot toot inthe In Inthe Inthe the gravo grave with consumption will sec see him and do cIa likewise thus casting Into the street the baleful pol poison polon on from tram his infection |