Farming as a Career, 1938

From the Charlotte Observer, Feb. 11, 1938

F.H. Jeter, news editor of the State Extension bureau, addressed some 150 Mecklenburg 4-H club members at their annual banquet last night on “Learning to Serve.”

… “Pick an occupation in which you can be efficient and in which you can best serve humanity,” he said. “High school and college students frequently fail to get adequate information about the vocation they plan to enter. Because a young fellow gets tired of milking cows on the farm, he gets an idea that law would be a fine profession for him. But the chances are his best opportunity for success would be back on the farm.”

Mr. Jeter said that the farm offers one of the rosiest outlooks today of any vocation. He said it offered a great challenge to 4-H members because of the many changes that will take place in agriculture in the coming years.

Mr. Jeter urged the club members to own property. “Owning property carries a stimulant that makes for good citizenship,” he said. “Owning a farm is worth every bit of the hardships and heartaches entailed in the procedure.”

Members of the 4-H club were urged to take up where their parents left off in breeding and raising better varieties of corn, grains, and legumes and carry on by breeding better livestock and raising finer crops.

Other guests present were L.B. Altman and Mrs. Estelle Willis, both district agents of Raleigh; L.R. Harrill, State 4-H Club Leader of Raleigh; Oscar Phillips, county agent; Mrs. Pauline W. Taylor, demonstration agent; Max W. Culp, assistant farm agent; and demonstration agents and club members from Union and Anson counties.

Eugene Berryhill, president of the County Service Club, 4-H Club alumni organization, was toastmaster. The banquet was held in the new Extension building across the street from the courthouse.

The 4-H Quartet composed of Betty Welch, Catherine Hayes, John Brown Neel, and Harold Garrison, and and a Professor Quiz contest was conducted by R.D. James Jr.