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straining every nerve to solve the material problems which beset those 

 Avho create wealth from the soil. It is its chief duty, however, to 

 develop those methods of agriculture which are of greatest benefit to 

 society. The College of Agriculture is not primarily interested in 

 whether the profits of agriculture enable the ranchman to substitute 

 for his $3,000 automobile a $5,000 motor car, but it conceives its 

 chief concern to be a prosperity that leads to the proper economic, 

 social, moral and spiritual ideals in the community. 



When the interests of the individual and those of society become 

 opposing forces, then here as elsewhere in the history of the human 

 race, individual interests must be sacrificed for the benefit of the common 

 good. Lest I be misunderstood, permit me to moralize for a moment. 

 While the trait which we honor most in any individual, the trait 

 which has made all truly great heroes, is sacrifice, it does not follow 

 that there is no virtue without sacrifice. In the new conception of a 

 successful life, we do not have prosperity without morality, but we 

 have prosperity because of morality. Efficiency and morality may not 

 be sj^nonomous terms but they are mighty good chums. 



This, then, shall be the keynote of the College of Agriculture. Those 

 M^ho shape its destinies will never forget that it was formed and con- 

 tinues to exist to promote the material welfare but they will always 

 recognize that this material welfare is for the sake of a successful 

 human existence and that primarily this is based upon human 

 efficiency. Five thousand years ago, the natural resources of these 

 hills and valleys were, so far as we know, as great as they are today. 

 The Aladdin-like development that has occurred from Imperial to 

 Shasta during fifty years is due to a hardy and efficient race of people. 

 This race must be perpetuated. Once more I wish to repeat that the 

 faculty of the College of Agriculture invitas the co-operation, support 

 and guidance of all agencies which believe in this program. 



If now we take a hasty glance into the future we cannot fail to be 

 impressed by the fact that the two great problems before California are 

 to stabilize its water supply and humanize its labor supply. A few 

 simple concrete illustrations may be better than much abstract dis- 

 cussion. In the Salt River Valley, Arizona, approximately ten million 

 dollars have been expended, including the great Roosevelt dam, to stabil- 

 ize the water supply over 130,000 acres of already irrigated country and 

 to bring 100,000 acres of the desert under the irrigation ditch. It was 

 expected that this greatest reclamation enterprise in the United States 

 would furnish about two dollars worth of water per acre. In other 

 words, a gross income per annum of about one half a million dollars was 

 anticipated. Although the enterprise has scarcely been completed in 

 all its details, already it has contracts for one million dollars' worth of 

 electric energ}-. It is said that there is nowhere any more livable region 

 than in the foothills of the California mountains. Here can be devel- 

 oped unlimited power without the loss of any natural resource except 

 the oil required to lubricate the machinery. In developing the power, 



