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very last day, because we have in our meetings those who are able 

 to furnish us right up to the very latest, tlie scientific truths. Now 

 I want to put this question before this body to think of, whether 

 we have not got the very book we have been asking and looking for 

 this long time. 1 believe with the research that 1 have made and tlie 

 study I have made that this is the very book that ought to be put 

 in the public schools. I think it would supply the want in teaching 

 business, the conduct of public meetings and teaching agriculture in 

 a way that we cannot get it in any other way. I raise this question 

 because we have been discussing the subject up to this time and I 

 would like to hear from some other persons because I think it is 

 time we ought to act in this matter and because we appreciate that 

 boys and girls are worth more than all the products and all the crops 

 we can raise and we ouglit to raise them and prepare them to take 

 our places and be more successful in retaining the productiveness 

 of the soil and raising products than we are because of the knowl- 

 edge they would get and the facts being taught in this way would 

 instill a taste and inclination to stay on the farm instead of leaving 

 it. I say we would teach all that as we go along in the work. I 

 would like to hear from somebody else. 



ADDKESS OF GOVEKNOR TENER 



Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Board, 1 hardly know what 

 is expected of me at this time. You are probably in the midst of 

 your business and interesting discussions and 1 do not want to in- 

 ject my presence here especiall}' or in any way that may distract 

 from that and from your duties and the business of the moment. 

 I do not know whether you want me to attempt to make a speech 

 or extend felicitations or welcome you to the city and extend to you 

 the keys of the government, but I am willing to do most anythiug, 

 Mr. Chairman. 



However, while 1 am on my feet and realizing that you do not 

 expect from me any extended remarks, and neither is it my thought 

 or my purpose to interfere with the regular business of this society 

 today, I am glad, indeed, and 1 am not unmindful of the honor that 

 is mine at this moment in being invited to come down and to meet 

 with you here and to look each of you in the face. 



I believe that we here in Pennsylvania enjoy an unenviable posi- 

 tion and record and that we do not put our best foot front in those 

 things and in those enterprises and industries in which we live. 

 Other states lay their greatest claim to fame perhaps in the things 

 that nature has verv bountifullv endowed them with. Thev claim 

 for their state, perhaps, that it is the greatest state or best state 

 because of the granduer of the mountains or running streams or its 

 climate; but here in Pennsylvania our greatest claim to fame is the 

 accomplishment of our people; what our people do; the achievements 

 of our people and the splendid citizenship that we have here. (Ap- 

 plause) 



I am coming down to material things and what this State has 

 accomplished. It is admitted, of course, that Pennsylvania is the 



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