| Show IflltlGlTIUN AND ULCATIOV At a meeting held some time ago III ColtKi Cal In the Interest of Irrigation Irriga-tion one of the speakers Mr George i H Maxwell strongly advocated stale ownership and control of Irrigation works He claimed the state could get bock every dollar Inveor1 In Irrigation and that the direct benefit to the state would be enormous III the course or his remark he touched several subjects sub-jects ut general Interest whether his views bo 1 endorsed or not lie said for Inlllne The trouble I with our Irrlglltlan tie vclopmei In California h as been that I Ne have nol recognized the Indtlut able fad that IrrIgaiun for large areas to when or a talle crop will not Iy for the construction or costly Irrigation work 11 California In I to realize the fllll lolhlllll or prosperity mlilch con come for the development by Irrl often ot hr orld or mlarhl land we must recognize the broad fact that Irrigation must go hanG In hood with Inenlve rarmlngth farming or moll tracts tu ltveralnd Products In fact rprmlng for a ham and a living rather than for II business or on a large cole for profit It Is I the mn who want to build up it home un len acres or land front hleh by his own labor On his own land he can produce its own rood and his on living and provide comfort find plenty for his family who needs IrrroUon It Is I true there are comparatively few mn now who know how to do this or realIze real-Ize the Intent possibilities or len acres ot Ian with water for Irrigation But ftsn whole people will And out that this Is I a source of livelihood and comfort com-fort for our millions of laboring men who are now Idle without work In cities because there Is I no work for them to do There are over three mil lion workers Idle In the United totes today The tendency of modern Invention In-vention Is I to do away with the need of human lobo The army ot unemployed unem-ployed t Is constantly Incrolng What are they to doT They cannot starve and there Is I no source to which they can go for food except to go back to Mother Earth and get It with their I own labor directly from the land The problem with them h I how til get food and there Is I no fool for Ibm unls they go direct to natures granary fos I It I Ppeaklng of the necessity of giving men an education that will enable them to becemio their own employers and make them more sure or employment IIa long as they live he mid 1 1 In every agricultural county In Cali fornia there should lie farm training stations where any Industrious man who wtintW to go back to the land and till 1 lll for a living could learn how to dolt I doltOu Our wholo system for the education oC youth I radically rnng It Ignorce I what should be the ultimate object or tell ucllonIo train II boy to earn an honorable livelihood by his labor Th ideal that I now set Irore every boy Is I to home II millionaire All cannot i Ie millionaires anti 1 In this IImhlllon be mull tilde must fall Avnat the state houl < 1 do is I 10 educate pluce farmers nnd nlnraond tral very IDOY me that lie will know how to gt a Ihlng for himself and tamlly treat ten acres of land Then Anlt be recog nlzed and fought to VO boy that an honoratjle Independence IInd II home on the land U I the highest Ideal or mrl can citizenship Ninetenths of the 1ovs wlio are now graduate from our state university are unfitted by their olucollon free earning their living Thy oro trained In theories but In nothing Imclle81 Our ittAto l1nhIt should he II college ot agrlcultur and mining nothing cue There Is I no ra son why the state should educate doc tors and lavvvers we have tot many of them now What we want In OallfornK la rrmers rind ininers anti II mce or people trained to a practical renUzallon of the fact tint a man who has the requisite training with a wife trainee on the name lines can have more or the genuln curnCote and satisfaction or life with the highest culture and re flDeMOnt In N rural I home f ten tore on fertile lands than In Any other occupation occu-pation for ho can produce by his own labor a comfortable living and trradu ally lay by n competence for his oil age nnd nil through his life be build Ing a home where every charm exists which that word Implies Every earnest word In favor of the rational education of our Youth Is timely time-ly A thousand prosperous rural 1 communities com-munities I Is 1 n greater benefit rt to a country coun-try than n IlIg l I city with Its poverty Slums ontl vie rpronding corruption far find wide |
