Oklahoma farmer . The Land,| The Owner,The Tenant. BY DR. A. H. VAXVLEET, University of Oklahoma. sponsibility and transciency tend to lower themoral and ethical tone of the and school are neglected and immor-ality, vulgarity, and low ethical ideals re-place the larger, co-operative activities usual-ly associated with the rural church and school. How can tenant systems be improved? Notalone by enacting laws. Laws mainly pro-tect, and they are not usually construc-tive. They may protect the tenant fromthe dishonest landowner and the land-owner against the dishonest tenant, butt
Oklahoma farmer . The Land,| The Owner,The Tenant. BY DR. A. H. VAXVLEET, University of Oklahoma. sponsibility and transciency tend to lower themoral and ethical tone of the and school are neglected and immor-ality, vulgarity, and low ethical ideals re-place the larger, co-operative activities usual-ly associated with the rural church and school. How can tenant systems be improved? Notalone by enacting laws. Laws mainly pro-tect, and they are not usually construc-tive. They may protect the tenant fromthe dishonest landowner and the land-owner against the dishonest tenant, butthey never can give the latter efficiencynor the former the proper co-operativespirit. It seems to me that the improve-ment must come thru a merging of the in-terests of landowner and tenant; thru aco-operative scheme in which their inter-ests become mutual; thru organizing thefarming operations upon a business business of farming must be divorcedas largely as possible from mere land own-ership. The land is only a portion of thecapital u
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