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county. Unfortunately they overlooked something one year, a few 

 years ago, and we had the institute three miles, or less than three 

 miles, from our county seat, and had the county institute just at the 

 time court was going on, and had a murder trial, and you may know 

 that that took the people away. That is the only institute that has 

 been held where we have had a failure. 



MR. CLARK : Mr. Chairman, we have now had a pretty thorough 

 discussion along this line, and I move you now that this part of the 

 program be suspended, and the lecturers be given the last half-hour. 



The motion being duly seconded, it was agreed to. 



On motion, it was ordered that the speeches be limited to two 

 minutes each. 



PROF. WATTS: Mr. President, 1 was very much impressed by 

 a remark made by our representative from Elk county that we should 

 have a systematic school at our institutes and have some new topics 

 for discussion. I think w T hat we want is some of the old topics dis- 

 cussed with new vim and in a new way. We cannot dispense with 

 discussion on the important topics that effect every farmer, even if 

 they are old, and I hold to the* theory that it is not so much new 

 topics that we need, as it is new light on the old topics, and the 

 creation of a new interest in them by discussing them with new 

 vim and new enthusiasm. 



MR. SEEDS, Huntingdon County: Mr. Chairman, I can't get time 

 to stop in two minutes. I want to say that I have traveled over the 

 State of Pennsylvania and if I have said anything I am sorry for, I 

 am glad of it. Every now and then they rub it in on me about my 

 stories and I want to defend myself along that line. I havn't got any- 

 thing to apologize for. When I go into a county like Kahler's county, 

 they say, ''Don't you tell that story in this town. A man in Lan- 

 caster told that story here, and the audience wouldn't accept it." 

 Now I want to say, if a man steals my story and tells it, it is not my 

 fault. I want to say another thing. I never tell a story unless 

 there is a moral back of it. I am in the habit of telling some stories, 

 it is true, and among them I have told a story that illustrates the 

 idea that w 7 e have got to get away from home, and if the institute 

 don't do another thing but get the farmer away from home, it is a 

 success. The trouble with a good many is, they don't get away from 

 home, and they don't come in contact with the world. They don't 

 know what kind of people there are in the world. 



There was an old farmer up here in the country near Scranton, 

 and he went to hear Sam. Jones lecture, and before he went to hear 

 that lecture, he didn't know that he didn't love his wife, and he sat 

 in the hall in Scranton, and in that lecture, Sam. Jones ripped the 



