OCR Text |
Show After its long journey the President's Presi-dent's country life commission finds that the farmer will have to solve his own problems. In its report it suggests: "There should be organized organ-ized under government leadership a . comprehensive plan for an exhaustive exhaust-ive study or survey of all the conditions con-ditions that surround the business , of farming and the people who live in the country, in order to take stock of our resources and to supply the farmer with knowledge. Each state college of agriculture should organize, organ-ize, as soon as practicable, a complete com-plete department of college extension. exten-sion. Local, state and even national conferences on rural progress, designed de-signed to unite the interests of education, edu-cation, organization and religion, should be held. There is need for young people of quality, energy, capacity, ca-pacity, aspiration and conviction who will live in the open country as permanent per-manent residents on farms, or as . teachers, or in other useful fields, and who, while developing their own business or affairs to the greatest perfection, will still have unselfish interest in the welfare of their communities. com-munities. The farming country is by no means devoid of leaders and is not lost or incapable of helping itself, but it has been relatively overlooked over-looked by persons who are seeking great fields of usefulness." |