.A Broader Sphere for Religion-New
Field for the Rural Church.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union
The social duty of the rural church
is as much a part of its obligations
. as its spiritual side. In expressing its
social interest, the modern rural
church does not hesitate to claim that
lt is expressing a true religious in
stinct and the old-tirae idea that the
Bocial instincts should be starved
while the spiritual rature was over
fed with solid theological food, is fast
giving way to a broader interpreta
tion of the functions of true religion.
We take our place in the succession
of those who have sought to make the
world a fit habitation for the children
of man when we seek to study and
understand the social duty of the
rural church. The true christian re-,
ligion is essentially social-its tenets"
of faith being love and brotherhood
and fellowship While following after
righteousness, the church must chal
lenge and seek to reform that social
order in which moral life is ex
pressed. While cherishing ideals of
service, the rural church which at
tains the fullest measure of success
is that which enriches as many lives
as it can touch, and in no way cen
the church come in as close contact
with its memoers as through the
avenue of social functions.
The country town and the rural
community need a social center. The
i church need offer no apology for its
ambition to fill this need in the com
munity, if an understanding of its
mission brings this purpose into clear
consciousness. The structure of a
rural community is exceedingly com
plex; it contains many social groups,
each of which has its own center, but
there are many localities which have
but one church and although such
a church cannot command the inter
est of all the people, it is relieved
from the embarrassment of religiously
divided communities.
Social Needs Imperative.
The average country boy and girl
have very little opportunity for real
enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a
vague conception of the meaning of
pleasure and recreation. It is to fill
this void in thc lives of country youth
that the rural church has risen to
the necessity ot' providing entertain
xnfijat^-as-.well-iis^Jnatruction, to its
membership among the young. The
children and young people of the
church should meet when religion is
not even mentioned. It has been
found safest for them to meet fre
quently under the direction and care
of the church. To send them into the
world with no social training exposes
them to grave perils and to try to
keep them out of the world with no
social privileges is sheer folly. There
is a social nature to both old and
young, but the sociai requirements of
the young are imperative. The church
must provide directly or indirectly
some modern equivalent for the husk
ing bee, the quilting bee and the sing
ing schools of the old days. In one
way or another the social instincts
of our young people mue have oppor
tunity for expression, which may
take the form ot clubs, parties, pic
nics or other forms of amusement.
One thinji is certain, and that is that
the church cannot take away the
dance, the card party and the theatre
unless it can offer in its place a sat
isfying substitute in the form of more
pleasing recreation.
Universal Instinct for Play.
In providing for enjoyment the
church uses one of the greatest meth
ods by which human society lias de
veloped. Association is never secure
until it is pleasurable; in play the in
stinctive aversion of one person for
another, is overcome and the social
mood is fostered. Play is the chief
educational agency in rural commun
ities and in the play-day of human
.childhood social sympathy and social
habits are evolved. As individuals
?onie together in social gatherings,
their viewpoint is broadened, their
ideals are lifted and finally they con
stitute a cultured and refined society.
It is plain, therefore, that the
-church which aims at a perfected so
ciety must use in a refined and ex
alted way the essential factors in
social evolution and must avail itself
of the universal instinct for play.
If the church surrounds itself with
social functions which appeal to the
young among its membership, it will
fill a large part of the lamentable
gap in rural pleasures and will reap
the richest reward by promoting a
higher and better type of manhood
and womanhood. !
Whooping ough.
Well-everyone knows the effect
of Pine Forests on Coughs. Dr.
Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is a remedy
which brings quick relief for
Whooping Cough, loosens tue
mucous, soothes the lining ? of the
throat and lungs, and makes the
coughing spells less severe. A fam
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for all Coughs and Colds. '25c at
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WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON
LIST OF EMPLOYES.
A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS
TO PREVENT USELESS TAX
UPON AGRICULTURE.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union
The farmer ls the paymaster of
industry and as such he must meet
the nation's payroll. When industry
pays its bill it must make a sight
draft upon agriculture for the amount,
which the farmer is compelled to
honor without protest This check
drawn upon agriculture may travel to
and fro over the highways of com
merce; may build cities; girdle the
globe with bands of steel; may search
hidden treasures in the earth or
traverse the skies, but in the end it
will rest upon the soil. No dollar
will remain suspended in midair; it is
as certain to seek the earth's surface
as an apple that falls from a tree.
When a farmer buys a plow he pays
the man who mined the metal, the
woodman who felled the tree, the
manufacturer who assembled the raw
material and shaped it into an ar- j
tide of usefulness, the railroad that
transported it and the dealer who
sold him the goods. He pays the
wages of labor and capital employed
in the transaction as well as pays
for the tools, machinery, buildings,
etc., used in the construction of the
commodity and the same applies to
all articles of use and diet of him
self and those engaged in the sub
sidiary lines of industry.
There is no payroll In civilization
that does not rest upon the back
of the farmer. He must pay the bills
-all of them.
The total value of the nation's
annual agricultural products la around
$12,000,000,000, and it is safe to esti
mate that 95 cents on every dollar
goes to meeting the expenses of sub
sidiary industries. The farmer does
not work more than thirty minutes
per day for himself; the remaining
thirteen hours of the day's toil he
devotes to meeting the payroll of the
hired hands of agriculture, such as
the manufacturer, railroad, commer
cial and other servants.
The Farmer's Payroll and How He
Meets lt.
The annual payroll of agriculture
approximates $12,000,000,000. A por
tion of the amount is shifted to for
eign countries in exports, but the
total payroll of industries working for
the farmer divides substantially as
follows: Railroads, $1,252,000,000;
manufacturers. $4,305,000,000; mining,
$655,000,000; banks. $200,000,000;
mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy
miscellaneous payroll constitutes the
remainder.
It takes the corn crop, the most
valuable in agriculture, which sold
last year for $1,692,000,000. to pay off
the employes of the railroads; tho
money derived from our annua. sales
cf livestock of approximately $2,000.
000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued
at $920,000,000; the wheat crop,
which is worth $610,000,000, and the
oat crop, that is worth $440,000,000,
are required to meet the annual pay
roll of the manufacturers. The
money derived from the remaining
staple crops is used in meeting the I
payroll of the bankers, merchants, |
etc. After these obligations are paid,
the farmer has only a few bunches of
vegetables, some fruit and poultry
; which he can sell and call the pro
ceeds his own.
When the farmer pays off his help
he has very little left and to' meet
these tremendous payrolls he has
been forced to mortgage homes, work
women in the field and increase the
hours of his labor. We are, there- j
fore, compelled to call upon all in- |
dustries dependent upon the farmers j
for subsistence to retrench in their i
expenditures and to cut off all un- ,
necessary expenses. This course is i
absolutely necessary in order to avoid |
a reduction in wages, and we want,
if possible, to retain the present wage i
scale paid railroad and all other in
dustrial employes.
We will devote this article to a
discussion of unnecessary expenses
and whether required by law or per
mitted by the managements of the
concerns, is wholly immaterial. We
want all waste labor and extrava
gance, of whatever character, cut ont.
We will mention the full crew bill as
Rheumatism Yields Quickly to
Sloan's.
You can't prevent an attack of
Rheumatic m from coming on, but
you can stop it almost imraediitely.
Sloan's Liniment gently applied to
the sote joint or muscle penetrates
in a few minutes to the inflamed
spot that causes the pain. It soothes
the hot, tender, swollen feeling,
and in a very short time brings a
relief that is almost unbelievable
Illustrating the character of unneces
sary expenses to which we refer.
Union Opposes "Fulj Crew" Bill.
The Texas- Farmers' Union regis
tered its opposition to this character
of legislation at the last annual meet
ing held in Fort Worth, Tex., August
4, 1914, by resolution, which we quote,
as follows:
"The matter of prime importance
to the farmers of this state is an ade
quate and efficient marketing system;
and we recognize that such a system
is impossible without adequate rail
road facilities, embracing the greatest
amount of Service at the least pos
sible cost We further recognize that
the farmers and producers in the end
i pay approximately 95 per cent of the
expenses of operating the railroads,
and it is therefore to the inter?s^ of
the producers that the expenses of
the common carriers be as small as
is possible, consistent with good ser
vice and safety? We, therefore, call
upon our law-makers, courts and
juries to bear the foregoing facts in
mind when dealing with the common
carriers of this state, and we do espe
cially reaffirm the declarations of
the last annual convention of our
State Union, opposing the passage of
the so-called 'full-crew' bill before
the thirty-third legislature of Texas."
The farmers of Missouri in the last
election, by an overwhelming ma
jority, swept this law off the statute
book of that state, and it should
come off of all statute books where
it appears and no legislature of this
nation should pass such a law or
similar legislation which requires un
necessary expenditures.
The same rule applies to all regu
latory measures which increase the
expenses of industry without giving
corresponding benefits to the public.
There is ofttimes a body of men as
sembled at legislatures-ai.d they
have a right to be there-who, in
their zeal for rendering their fellow
associates a service, sometimes favor
I an increase in the expenses of in
dustry without due regard for the men
who bow their backs to the summer's
sun to meet the payroll, but these
committees, while making a record
for themselves, rub the skin of the
shoulders of the farmer by urging the
i legislature to lay another burden
j upon his heavy, load and under the
I lash of "be it enacted" goad him on
to pull and surge at the traces of civil
ization, no matter how he may sweat,
foam and gall at the task. When
legislatures "cut a melon" for labor
they hand the farmer a. lemon.
The farmers of the United States
are not financially able to carry "dead
heads" on their payrolls. Our own
hired hands are not paid unless we
have something for them to do and
we are not willing to carry the hired
help of dependent industries unless
there is work for them. We must
therefore insist upon the most rigid
economy. _ ^
Legislative House-Cleaning Needed.
While the war is on and there is a
lull in business, wa want all legisla
tive bodies to take an inventory of
the statute books and wipe off all
extravagant and useless laws. A good
house-cleaning is needed and econo
mies can be instituted here and there
that will patch the clothes of indigent
children, rest tired mothers and lift
mortgages from despondent homes.
Unnecessary workmen taken off and
useless expenses chopped down all
along the line will add to the pros
perity of the farmer and encourage
him in his mighty effort to feed and
clothe the world.
If any of these industries have sur
plus employes we can use them on
the farra. We have no regular
schedule of wages, but we pay good
farm hands on an average of $1.50
per day of thirteen hours when they
board themselves; work usually runs
about nine months of the year and the
three months dead time, they can do
the chores for their board. Ir they
prefer to farm on their own account,
there are more than 14,000,000,000
acres of idle land on the earth's sur
face awaiting the magic touch of the
plow. The compensation is easily ob
tainable from Federal Agricultural
Department statistics. Tho total
average annual sales of a farm in
the continental United States, amounts
to $516.00; the cost of operation is
$P?40.00; leaving the farmer $176 per
annum to live on and educate his
family.
There is no occasion for the legis
latures making a position for surplus
employes of industry. Let them come
"back to the soil" and share with us
the prosperity of the f?rm.
I When honesty is merely a good
I policy it is a poor virtue.
Lazy farmers are just as useless as
dead ones and take up more room.
When the soul, communes with the
spirit of nature the back to the farm
movement prevails.
There are_two kinds of farmers.
One tries to take all the advice he
hears and the other won't take any
at all
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