Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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Agriculture If a new day is dawning for the agricultural popula- tion of the United States it is the brighter for the intelli- gent direction and leadership which the institutions of agri- cultural education have made possible. If that new day con- tinues bright it will do so because our Agricultural and Me- chanical Colleges throughout the United States shall have willed it. It was with wisdom that the people of Arkansas planned four state agricultural schools to offer instruction in agri- culture and home economics. The people of the state acted wisely in enlarging these schools and raising them to the rank of colleges. In this state there has been a conspicuous need for scientifically trained agricultural leaders and for a higher level of general agricultural education among our rural people. This institution is coming to play an import- ant part in satisfying that need. In no one single enterprise can the State of Arkansas do more to guarantee the future prosperity of its people than by supporting liberally agricultural education.

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' lllllHIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUniHUIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIUIIIHIIHIIIIIMI ' llllirHIII ' i ' BALANCED brY- Home economics Bulwer-Lytton has said that civilized man can live with- out painting, music, or art but not without cooks. He seems to have overlooked the fact that dressmakers in the final an- alysis are equally as important to man. So man, presumably becoming more civilized, is not allowing his interest in what educators call home economics to wane. At any rate state legislators — still composed chiefly of men, we believe — are providing home economics courses in the state colleges and universities. Such courses are becom- ing more comprehensive. Our legislators hope that through these courses our American women will learn to do the busi- ness of keeping house scientifically and find an opportunity for self expression and self determination. Thus they hope the worst excesses of the Women ' s Revolt will be avoided. Better Breakfasts and Law and Order may yet become a rallying cry. IIIIIIIMIIIIIIMIIIIIIHIIIIIIIMIIHIIIlMIMUIIIIMIIIIIUIIMlllltllltHIIIMIIItllilllll.l Patjc twenty-eight