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come so keen that the artist who would practice his profession 

 may not have merely a keen eye for color and a skill in handling 

 his brushes, but he must know the actual anatomy of the animal 

 which he would paint. One of the greatest artists of the medi- 

 aeval times, and because the greatest artist of that time the great- 

 est of all times, spent more years in the study of anatomy, in 

 order that he might know how to paint the flesh upon the human 

 frame, than nine-tenths of the physicians that are practicing 

 medicine and have your life and my life in their hands. He 

 studied anatomy although he was to be a painter and a sculptor, 

 and thereby he surpassed other men who did not follow the same 

 method. 



We could pick out an illustration from almost every walk in 

 life where the demand of a man of superior mind for a superior 

 training has resulted in the eclipsing of all rivals in the field in 

 which he worked. Competition is constantly growing in every- 

 thing. We have heard it talked here this morning and this 

 afternoon in the dairy business ; in the making of butter, in the 

 production of milk, in the making of cheese, in all of those lines 

 in which this conference has assembled to give instruction. 



And it is the same in every assembly of men who meet 

 together to discuss those problems which come up because of 



the close and keen competition in all the lines in which they are 

 occupied. Nothing but the sharpest wits and the best training 

 of those wits enable a man to win success at the present time. 



But after we have granted that something is good we are 

 often asked, or are apt to ask ourselves, does it pay? How 

 many good things there are that we think at first do not pay. 

 There are two kinds of "pay," possibly more than two. We 

 educate our children ; misfortune comes to them, some accident 

 makes a cripple of one and dire disease comes to another. We 

 watch patiently for weeks ; we are weary through their suffer- 

 ing ; we employ skill ; when our own strength is exhausted we 

 employ professional nurses to watch over the little sufferer ; and 

 the disease, perhaps, passes or the misfortune is overcome, and 

 the child grows to maturity. We have spent our life and our 

 energy and our money in the rearing of the child or the group 

 of children. Are we looking for pay in cash ? When the child 

 has reached his maturity do we immediately demand that he 

 shall earn money and pay us back and pay us double time for the 

 nights we have worked during his illness? How many of you 



