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Article From Farm And Ranch Magazine, 1912 - "Finds A Social Center"
December 14, 1912
VOL. 31. No. 50
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FINDS A SOCIAL CENTER
Reeves Co., Texas.
Farm and Ranch:
Farm and Ranch, with its varied departments of economic and social interest, is a veritable "social center," especially to many who are living in sparsely settled or isolated locations, and its regular week-end visits are a source of knowledge and happiness in many thousand homes. Its bright, clean pages filled to overflowing with the best sayings and doings of a great band of co-workers; the heart-to-heart talks of its many contributors, young and old, on all subjects, from platonic love to the more sordid affairs of human interest, all guided and directed as gently, accurately and potentially as a ship's rudder guided a great vessel through the dangerous paths of the sea, by editors of unquestioned integrity and ability.
This is a bird's-eye-view pen picture of Farm and Ranch as it appears to me. Perhaps few realize the large amount of well-directed effort involved in bringing together face to face each week, for study, recreation, and social intercourse, one the biggest, best and most loyal families of husbandmen in America. Well and good, but why stop here? Farm and Ranch undoubtedly enters many homes of those who only listen and admire, but who could, on occasion, if they would, contribute to the feast, as good as anything on the board.
Newspapers, like governments, should be run in the interests of the people, and the people, by their demands or indifference, make them what they are.
Let us remember that the moral uplift is quite as important as material gain, and take for our motto Rom. 12:11: "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
D.B. Waugh