Show BLAZING THE WRONG TRAIL one due of the leading farm journals of the south is authority for far the statement tat ement that in the rural high schoola chortle of north carolina seven thousand housand children are studying studs ing T a I 1 tin in while only seven hundred are studying agriculture the significance of these figures are not g rasped grasped until we learn that of the p hupila attending high school in this thia country not met more than one per cent ever reach the college or university miser sity when we assimilate the further f fact ct t that hat the high schools do nol net a and d can not impart a working k knowledge now ledge of the latin language we begin to appreciate ap pp o theetter the utter foolishness ill 1 house of an educational system stand that 1111 forces fince upon up children the study of udd a dead language from which net mt one in will ever benefit r the he above figures may very vary I 1 in other th 1 tala state awe we hope they do but bu it alliev v serve to call forcibly to our at to it clot A glaring fault in the school system of the united states any system that bat requires anya inya lod AW girls girla who he in inday cad caits can a ill ill the too time and means mean to ann 11 a 4 high scho school 0 tu to waste frum from a quarter to a fifth of oe their school I 1 it lite le on ji a ilkiv that will never bene I 1 fit t the ahlai m in HI lifes struggle u lanola 1 beres at blunder it is ih a erm crime C 13 dar aarein w or of the he studying ng latin there are only ady studying lidy ng agriculture these figures also may vary in other states but still any one familiar with the school system of this country knows that the proportion of our rural boys and girls who secure a compe tent education in agrical agriculture tare to la la Is mentally ment ably small and what is 19 the con conclusions conclusion clumon 7 athy by that we are wedded in our schools to a fossilized petrified and anti system that ordains ordain that in a order der to acquire an education one must be conversant with a lan ian guage that is 14 so everlasting everl everlastingly astin g 3 d dead as it has haa not been generally spoken on earth in the last taba thousand ad ears bars and this white while the crying burning needs of the hour are sidetracked as of minor importance it is ia time for the rural pope I 1 a tion of our or country to arise in their might and demand that the schools cease educating their children away from the farm the professions are overcrowded and the tha trades are in 10 even worse condition the farmers job is the only one in this land that promises a couert without the paralyzing corn com petition to be met mother in other lines yet instead of being trained for efficiency fici ency I 1 in this great calling our youths are compelled to fritter away their time on an a course of stud that to be in any sense beneficial must be followed through the col eo lee or sity which the very smallest per cent of them eve overreach reach the day of the antiquarian the dresmer the mummy is ia past in this country the age demands action and the mind that is not trained ty it in capital letters is doomed to be left at the starting store |