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Show offers to the young man or young woman preparing for life, can be seen and understood by the teacher, and the pupil's interest can to that extent be enlisted from the beginning. Further, i ; the pupil can be taken with the teacher, ! in the study of th"se conditions, much better, indeed, than in the study of remote re-mote peoples; the teacher will no longer j need to collect examples showing how I this or that great man began life as a mere farmer. Ic will begin to aopear J that there is much needful, profitable and noble work, .v titing for th ; m in of j ability and character, right there inhix own community. The pupil will begin to see that he owes a special duty to that community, and that the reward for his sei-vice will be at least as g.iod and as certain as he could hope for elsewhere. else-where. The rural schools may not be able to overcome the movement from the farm to the city, butthey certainly can check it; and by the simple method of educating for life in the country, instead in-stead of for life in the city. The great question in Emery county today is: Do we want to enlarge the population and wealth? If so, what are the essential preparations to make. First of all we must learn of our own resources and then advertise them in some way or other. It is not a good policy to overdraw the advantages, but be fair with the man who comes here and never fail to tell of the good things. The clubs of ther county are going to petition the commissioners to maintain an exhibit of the products of the county in the Vermont building at Salt Lake City. Nearly all of the counties of the state are represented there and they all report that their exhibits have paid exceptionally ex-ceptionally well. The commissioners have the right to levy a tax as high as a half of one per cent for the purpose of maintaining the exhibit, This county coun-ty could produce products that are inferior in-ferior to none in the state, anj there can be no question but that such a move on the part of our county would mean much to this people. We'are all anxious for the county cluos to meet an 1 ascertain what is to be done regarding the advertising. |