Show AGRICULTURE TURE AND MANUAL MAlAL TRAINING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS The follow Ing resolutions rl the Introduction Intro ludlon of ot Instruction In farm farmIng Ing and all manual training wore were unanimously adopted at nt the annual of oC the Ihl J 1 Trade association at st fit AI Louis Mo 10 June Juno 23 1904 1901 OR mis Of reported by Mr J 1 K E Northrup of the committee Whereas Wheres U it 1 Is II essential to the main maintenance of ot stable social conditions condition and the permanence of at our national pros pro prosperity prosperity that the lie drift of or to the tIle cities should be checked and that list the of ot the tue of ot tills this country should be Independent amI self lf homeowners tilling their theiron own on acres for Cor a n livelihood and arid Whereas This can only bo ho Ishell through the establishment of ot a f national of at education In both bolh farm tarm and manual training will wi be taught and nn 1 every child chili learn to love lovo nature and the time country and b be trained toward the tIme land 1 ns nl a means of oC liveli livelihood hood rather than away wn from It 1 mind Whereas The public jubito domain Is I the h heritage of the tho whole Wilds people polle of ot the na nit nation n then tion ton and will wil If I reserved reserve for tor ore or afford nn an outlet ou tet for our surplus population and an opportunity for tor or mul multitude lul of I our to get got homes home on the thA land Inn through the of oC the beneficent provisions nf ot the national Ir Irrigation ton act and anti The problem of ot the unemployed ploy to In our cities can best beat be solved by teaching those who are out ot of work to farm larm tar for a living hivIng and creating till the opportunity for tor each man lal or family to get got a it piece nf ot ground large enough elough to yIeld a livelihood for tor a family when tItled tilled tiled by b Intensive methods of at cultivation tion ton and amid Irrigation now nois therefore be tie It I i Resolved That hat tho ho public school S 53 torn tom of at the time United Unite States s should be he 10 en fn hanged lareed to embrace the teaching of at do to science both hoth agricultural anul manual In all 11 public schools so that children rOi could be bo taught to work with wih their hands and to farm tarm ns os they tho are now nw taught In lit II France and Denmark In the schools and to this end school par gar pardons Jar gardens dons dens In connection with wih nil al schools be established and amid that lint manual training school farms tarm aroma should b b be main lathed by b county city cl state slate and amid na national governments In num her to afford to every boy the tho opportunity to learn bath lear how hol to earn his living from the lie land Unsolved Resolved further That should be bo formed In every city cly and au town tOm throughout tile the country to teach amid nd encourage the tho cultivation of ot va sit vacant VI cant rant lots loin and home gardens where dill chil children dren ron and amId city dwellers twel u could bath to 10 cultivate tOe soil sol make things grow grOll to the tho end ond that lISA all 11 might learn to 10 plan ilan towards a 1 homo hOlo In the tho suburbs or at in inUrn IntIne Urn tIne country countr and tho lie unemployed bo be aided to secure a 1 plot of ground for tor such n a homo home our public for Cor It I should ba be b preserved by ly y placing them In lit permanent forest reserves where whore the title tte should forever remain r In Intha tho tha the ot of the matured timber only olly be sold sohl re ro reserving serving the tile young joung timber Ion for future growth and amid use lice and that no public toni land of oC any 01 character should ever per here hereafter hereafter after aCer be he granted t tO tn any amy an one but an ac cc actual a settler who has lived on out 01 the tIme land for tor live tivo lotter yours anti shown lila hla good faith by hy both 1011 occupation and use for tor that period of oC a a homestead of at a quarter see sec lion or lets less In area ton Resolved n further That the lie tle executive be anti and 1 committee of ot tills this association nn they the are hereby Authorized and amId directed to take Ilke such action trem freni time iDle to 10 line lineas as tuii In their Judgment old aid In Ind nd ex ox x 1 tho tue carrying Into effect of oC time foregoing 11 10 resolution as lie 11 wel as al the time association as the coop of the lie thereof j 3 R r I Ii H If M j Executive Committee |